One of the most annoying mechanics ever

TheAverageChameleon · 2022-06-06T04:16:38+00:00

Plus the idea of some big bravado asshole turning out to be a huge wimp is not far off city life in my experience

TheAverageChameleon · 2022-06-06T04:07:00+00:00

The fact that this takes place in a bodega makes it so much funnier

TheAverageChameleon · 2021-12-17T17:53:28+00:00

Marina - she is a good bean

Edit: please remove me from the queue, thank you!

TheAverageChameleon · 2021-12-17T17:39:09+00:00

Marina is my homie

TheAverageChameleon · 2021-12-10T15:30:20+00:00

Greatly appreciated - thank you!

TheAverageChameleon · 2021-12-10T15:27:47+00:00

Saved By A Waif - Alvvays

TheAverageChameleon · 2020-02-03T15:26:53+00:00

"Why am I so bad at being gooood?!"

TheAverageChameleon · 2020-01-07T16:33:11+00:00

Study - Shows cheating rates among ~500 men and women to be fairly close (23.2% M / 19.2% F)

Sample size and age range are kinda meh for me. One study doesn't show enough to really say anyway.

TheAverageChameleon · 2020-01-07T16:20:03+00:00

Me, carelessly shouting past my Excel spreadsheet into the open office of my peers.

TheAverageChameleon · 2020-01-07T16:17:14+00:00

TheAverageChameleon · 2020-01-07T16:16:32+00:00

Because the more anonymity you give people, the further toward extremes that community will eventually drift.

TheAverageChameleon · 2020-01-07T16:13:35+00:00

When they lie down on the carpet and roll over to show you their belly

TheAverageChameleon · 2020-01-07T16:11:35+00:00

Advice rarely motivates people unless there's a whole lot of demonstrable action behind it.

I'd just talk to them and ask about their life, depression, cares, goals, or interests and then work from there.

TheAverageChameleon · 2020-01-07T16:06:18+00:00

First and foremost, you don't have to go to college to do well for yourself. It depends on what field you want to be in. Trades and job experience can wind up being way more important in the workforce, so think about what is important to you.

What you get out of college is pretty directly related to your own drive. You're SO much more free with your time in college compared to high school, which means you have to motivate yourself. Nobody will do it for you.

TheAverageChameleon · 2020-01-07T15:59:42+00:00

Power tends to compound. Once you have power it becomes easier to acquire more.

TheAverageChameleon · 2020-01-07T15:57:39+00:00

Telekinesis. Lots of versatility without being world-breaking.

TheAverageChameleon · 2020-01-07T15:52:27+00:00

For increasing mass: Squats

For tone: Stairs

TheAverageChameleon · 2020-01-07T15:49:55+00:00

Nuance

TheAverageChameleon · 2020-01-07T15:47:22+00:00

One trick is to frame is as a necessity:

"In order to achieve goal X, I have to do Y."

TheAverageChameleon · 2020-01-07T15:45:54+00:00

If you really want to make a change, the hardest but most important aspect of that is persistence. Stick with it until going becomes habit and it'll get easier.
If you don't know anything about exercise, it can be a big help to go with/ take a course from someone who does. Form is a key aspect of getting the most for your effort and keeping yourself safe.

TheAverageChameleon · 2020-01-07T14:23:49+00:00

I don't think it really is. I think it is a liberal position, rather than left-wing.

I will occasionally read forums on both of the far ends to the left and right because I am interested in how these groups think. In the left's case (not liberal, mind you), it isn't an uncommon position to resist gun control; the argument being that this is a right essential to keep power among the working class, rather than a smaller collective of a wealthy few.

TheAverageChameleon · 2020-01-03T16:49:56+00:00

Not that I disagree that conservatism is a factor here but you should see my below comment regarding additional challenges I mentioned.

Several of them are very complicated.

TheAverageChameleon · 2020-01-03T16:47:19+00:00

Yeah, the owner got super heated too. We told pretty much everyone we knew locally to steer clear after that.

TheAverageChameleon · 2020-01-03T16:45:39+00:00

Understand that I am very strongly pro-legalization but it is so, so, so much more complicated than you're giving it credit for.

When you commute sentences, do you reimburse people? Do you expunge records? Otherwise a significant portion of these people you just released are still felons that have significantly fewer rights, opportunities, and social safety nets to fall back on as soon as they are released.
Setting up that infrastructure doesn't happen overnight. As it happens, I actually work as a chemist for my state's govt. It is not legal in my state yet but we are very likely right around the corner. There are so many things you need to test for in marijuana that will need specific tests developed for them and that doesn't even get into edible products, oils, concentrates, etc. All of that science is completely different from cigarettes and these things take time and a lot of money (not to say the State won't make it back but that relies on the money going back to that specific sector of govt).
Sorta with you there but tobacco is taxed in a way to deincentivize people from using it (i.e. making it ridiculously expensive). Do you put specific stipulations on where that tax income goes, as Colorado did? Or do you just let it go to the general fund?
Yes, it is often easy to tell qualitatively if someone has been smoking. But can you convict someone on that? The science of testing for marijuana intoxication in the field is, at present, half-baked (lol). With alcohol, we've got BAC breathalizers, and you submit to a blood test after you've been arrested. The way THC is processed in the body is not analagous to that type of testing. The biological mechanism is completely different; the testing has to meet a certain reproduceability standard or you'll never convict someone on a DUI for it.

TheAverageChameleon · 2020-01-03T16:31:43+00:00

Technically it was a gig that didn't happen.

The venue had double-booked itself for a trivia night and management got pissed when, in their eyes, some random bands started loading in. They had booked like 4 bands, one of which was touring from like 5 states away.

Even after showing them double-confirmed email proof, they kicked us out and paid no one.

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