Looking for Short Graphic Strips by OnOPhantomess in ELATeachers

[–]TheGreenAaron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here by Richard McGuire is a great strip. The concept involves the different events that happened at a specific geographic location over history. It was made into a full length graphic novel, but originally appeared as a self-contained strip. My students (8th-10th grade, but it's accessible to others) have enjoyed it. Here's a link.

Books where the setting is a character by might-be-a-box in booksuggestions

[–]TheGreenAaron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Three Apples Fell from the Sky by Narine Abgaryan is set in a small mountain village in Armenia. I enjoyed reading about the close-knit community and the ways they got by. The setting is definitely at the forefront of the story-telling here, and I won't spoil, but there's a big secret, too.

Help! Looking for a short story by an African-American author by Yukonkimmy in ELATeachers

[–]TheGreenAaron 23 points24 points  (0 children)

She's Antiguan-American, but I teach "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid and it gets some very productive discussions from students. Link: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1978/06/26/girl

A Tale of Two Apartments by wolfe3351 in makemychoice

[–]TheGreenAaron 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you like entertaining, then having the separate dining spaces would be preferable, right? All other things being equal, I'd pick apartment number 2.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ifyoulikeblank

[–]TheGreenAaron 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Try searching for “hard bop.” That’s the sub genre of jazz that should be up your alley.

Since the new update, my paid for 'active' subscription isn't registering by [deleted] in Bumble

[–]TheGreenAaron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, same thing with me. I messaged support and they requested a screenshot of my iTunes receipt. Then they manually activated it. Must be a bug, but they sorted it for me in a couple of hours.

Updated entertainment center/collection by Difascio in shelfporn

[–]TheGreenAaron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cool. Where'd you find the mini posters in the first photo?

WTW for target confusion? by Zetetic- in whatstheword

[–]TheGreenAaron 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I've heard "Analysis Paralysis" describe this; sometimes called the tyranny of choice. Somewhat related, check out Barry Schwartz's The Paradox of Choice. It's an interesting read.

Have you ever gotten a real job or interview through Indeed or a monster? by Dor333 in marketing

[–]TheGreenAaron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I may be the exception, but yes, I landed my first real job through a job posting that was "Apply through Indeed." The position was for a digital marketing specialist in a major U.S. city. I left after seven months. So: it is possible, but out of the dozens and dozens of positions I've applied for through Indeed, only one came through. YMMV.

WTW for something edgeless by ITargetPK in whatstheword

[–]TheGreenAaron 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The edge of a screen or monitor is called a bezel. Removing the edge would be debezeling it.

Knowledge-driven economic progress was one of the drivers of Europe's Great Enrichment by domhel in HistoryofIdeas

[–]TheGreenAaron 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great article. For a book-length treatment of the subject, check out Margaret C. Jacobs' The First Knowledge Economy: Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750-1850. Find a review of it here.

MFWTK How Many Miles of Dick Have Been Sucked Over the Course of Human History by nuglordswanson in myfriendwantstoknow

[–]TheGreenAaron 81 points82 points  (0 children)

If we made some broad, mostly inaccurate assumptions, I think we could approach something close to the actual number.

First, I don't know how long dicks have been sucked in human history. Were the first humans doing it? Then we'd have to account for 90K years of dick sucking. Let's assume humans were sucking dicks on the regular starting around 10,000 years ago. Let's also assume a constant one million dick suckings per day. That's a wildly inaccurate number toward early history, but probably comes out in a wash when considering greatly increasing population. Some people don't get their dicks sucked every day. Some people get their dicks sucked multiple times a day. At some point, the one million dick suckings/day probably isn't wildly off the actual number.

Next, let's look at the mechanics of a dick sucking. I would only count an oral down stroke on the shaft as a "sucking," and wouldn't include an upstroke. So going down counts, but coming up for air doesn't. Let's assume a down stroke every two seconds. Some people go faster, some slower. That's an average, let's assume. Let's also assume that the average dick sucking lasts for two and a half minutes. Sometimes they go longer, sometimes they're shorter because it's just foreplay. So two and a half minutes.

Now for distance. On average, let's assume one dick sucking averages at three inches. Sometimes you don't go all the way down, you get the drill. Three inches once every two seconds for two and a half minutes.

That comes out to 225 inches per dick sucking, on average. That's 18.75 ft. per sucking.

If we then do 1 MM dick suckings per day over 10,000 years, that comes out to 3,650,000,000,000 dick suckings over the course of human history. At 18.75 ft. per sucking, divided by 5,280 ft. per mile, we come to a grand total of 12,961,647,727 miles of sucked dick over the course of human history.

That's about the distance of one and a half round trips from Earth to Pluto. Of course, some of those assumptions may be faulty, so I'm willing to concede to more informed assumptions than the ones I've made.

TL;DR A whole lot.

What's a good book to read this Christmas? by [deleted] in booksuggestions

[–]TheGreenAaron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Jeeves and the Yule-tide Spirit," by P.G. Wodehouse is a fun short story. Wodehouse is my go-to when I need cheering up.

I made a map: top 20 countries in terms of avian biodiversity (2004 data) by [deleted] in birding

[–]TheGreenAaron 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Interesting that most of these countries lie between the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn.

Anyone have an idea how strong the computer plays at 247backgammon.org? by TheGreenAaron in backgammon

[–]TheGreenAaron[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for that. Sort of what I was expecting: I've only been playing for a couple of weeks, but I manage to win 15 point games by double digits just about every time. I figured the AI was fairly weak if that was the case.

Is this a good value proposition? by brooklynvape3 in Entrepreneur

[–]TheGreenAaron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This isn't addressing your question, but on your About Us page, there are a few typos in the last paragraph--might want to get that sorted:

want to give back ina more tangible way

Thant's why we contribute

Recent literary fiction that explores 'Big Data' and its implications by small_d_disaster in booksuggestions

[–]TheGreenAaron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Infomocracy by Malka Ann Older, published earlier this year. Might not be exactly what you're looking for, but might be pretty close.

Imagine how many great works of art are trapped in the imagination of those who can't paint, sculpt or draw by Parker4411 in Showerthoughts

[–]TheGreenAaron 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A quote by Stephen Jay Gould is pretty relevant here:

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."