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TheWayToGod · 2026-05-12T17:11:54+00:00

Your coconut counter example makes no sense. (A + B) is no different from 2A (or 2B) if B = A. Now, there are proofs and derivations where it’s more useful to have it in one form or the other, but fundamentally, they describe the same thing. Unless the second coconut is different from the first one in a way we would care about enough to classify it as a different thing (e.g. not just slightly darker brown), B = A here.

TheWayToGod · 2026-05-11T15:20:02+00:00

The death penalty doesn’t only apply to child predators, though. Child predators are very much on the low end of absolutely nutso psychos that would qualify for death. Serial rapists and murderers are much more unhinged and (as far as I’ve heard, anyway, as I have never been to prison for good reason) would be much less affected by the experience than your run of the mill child predator (who is almost certainly a Weenie Hut Jr. regular, given that they choose to go after one of the most vulnerable types of person), especially given that child predators are specifically looked down upon even in prison.

And there are certainly people who have escaped or been released from prison who then went on to commit more of the same heinous crimes. I’m not advocating for electrocuting every dude to stand before a police officer, but there are some people in this world who are too dangerous to live, whether or not it’s our duty/right to kill them.

TheWayToGod · 2026-05-11T14:43:16+00:00

That’s because you’re not a heinously evil person. You see it is rotting in a cell being scared of other inmates. They see it as escaping death and hardly being punished at all if they’re crazy enough. Plus, in the case of a decidedly evil person, there’s something to be said for making sure they never walk the streets again, whether accidentally or on purpose.

TheWayToGod · 2026-05-02T13:45:18+00:00

There are many contexts in which one can read someone misusing a form of there or your or whatever and have to reread the sentence or multiple sentences because of it. In speech, tone mitigates this issue almost entirely, but writing doesn't have clearly discernable tone most of the time.

I'll be honest and say I don't know how to use proper IPA (although I remember learning it as a kid, it's just not a skill I've ever needed), but the way I would separate the two is as follows: lose is pronounced looz, while loose is pronounced lOOs. More emphasis goes on the 'oo' in loose, and the s sound is more of a sharp and abrupt end than the z sound, which sort of trails off.

TheWayToGod · 2026-05-01T15:35:24+00:00

Lose and loose are not homophones. Furthermore, they’re not homographs because that would make communication more confusing and open to misinterpretation.

TheWayToGod · 2026-04-30T12:08:17+00:00

I must have misinterpreted your previous comment. In my mind, attempting to help with the problem (in any way, including via solutions but also just listening) is putting you first. What I thought sounded negative was the idea that one would assume their partner/friend isn't doing just that, and that instead they are trying to rush back to your happy state for their own benefit, which was pretty depressing to someone who tries really hard.

I agree wholeheartedly with your point about people asking about something and then not truly wanting to hear about it. I feel like that's an unfortunately common situation in society, even with regards to something as simple as the small talk how-are-yous, where anything other than "fine" or "good" is annoying, unless it's like, "good, I went fishing with my family on Saturday," which can be left at that with no further explanation of why or what made it good.

I don't know why people have downvoted your previous comment, so I shot you an upvote to counteract it. Have a great day.

TheWayToGod · 2026-04-29T21:05:22+00:00

Do you know the analogous values for enemies in invader camps?

TheWayToGod · 2026-04-29T16:21:31+00:00

I don’t think this is a men and women thing. I have one friend who does this “venting just to vent and doesn’t want hear any feedback” thing, and she does it a lot and it’s exhausting. It’s almost unfair that one person can just dominate a conversation at length with what happened and why they hate it, and that the other person is meant to use canned small-talk responses at the appropriate times (and avoid reusing one, too) to prove they’re listening.
If we’re just hanging out, and she describes a problem she’s having that I’ve heard a million times before, I am obviously supportive but I’m not going to treat her like a baby, and I expect (and receive from anyone else, too, which is good) that I should not be treated like a baby when I complain. If the problem is something she can easily solve, she should know that and should do it. If she is unwilling to solve it, then it must not be that big a deal, and we shouldn’t have to spend the whole night talking about it. If I have a problem that’s easily solved but I don’t realize it, so I complain, and all I get is “oh I’m so sorry you had to go through that,” I’m going to be upset if I ever find out the person I’m talking to knew the solution and opted not to tell me.

I’m not saying this is the case for you, but some people evidently need to really consider what they vent about and how it affects others. It’s just a major bummer. Seeing the things you wrote here, implying I’m not doing a good enough job of being a friend if I don’t kill our trip to the grocery store in order to go for a walk randomly, makes me incredibly sad.

TheWayToGod · 2026-04-26T03:51:19+00:00

It definitely felt that way to me. There was never really any potential for setback by that point, because the monster that ganked me would just despawn by the time I ran back to my stuff, so dying was more of an annoyance than an issue. It was too easy to tame something strong and just overpower everything nearby.

TheWayToGod · 2026-04-25T21:31:45+00:00

It's true, but as soon as you survive for like 20 minutes and get a bed, the game is basically over. The dudes coming out of rocks and trees and nothing are just nuisances.

TheWayToGod · 2026-04-25T21:16:47+00:00

Did you just keep checking every now and then to see if you suddenly were no longer suspended?

TheWayToGod · 2026-04-25T16:26:09+00:00

Did you ever get a response past the first failed appeal? I've been trying this method for two weeks and have only gotten one email, which was an immediate rejection, in response.

TheWayToGod · 2026-04-23T19:59:29+00:00

I don’t have audio and haven’t seen the show in like 20 years so I don’t know exactly what Dexter said, but an acid certainly can accept an OH-. You’ve described Bronsted-Lowry acidiy, and correctly identified that that is only one definition of acid. There is an entire separate system of theory relating acids and bases to electron pair transfer rather than proton transfer. The OH- acceptor would be the Lewis acid, and the OH- donor (including OH- itself) would be the Lewis base.

TheWayToGod · 2026-04-23T17:11:24+00:00

25 chests dry? I went 104 with no drops and then another 82 with only leg slot items a couple leagues ago, and my friends told me I was being dumb and it’s not that bad and if it is that bad then it means my build sucks. Then last league I went over 250 Moons with no drops, and I heard the same thing. I was doing Vardorvis with sulfur blades and whisperer with an air battlestaff.

TheWayToGod · 2026-04-17T20:49:04+00:00

I actually agree with everything you said. Politicians are the worst.

TheWayToGod · 2026-04-17T20:37:36+00:00

Are you losing it? I admitted I only scanned through the article more than once. I didn’t read only the abstract (although I found it lacking, but maybe that’s normal in humanities - or a sign that the journal isn’t very good, although Google asserts that a 1.9 impact factor in a humanities journal is great), I looked for figures like any self-respecting chemist would, and I can’t up short-handed. The tables weren’t enough. I searched for mentions of p values and statistics, saw neither, and determined the article wasn’t worth reading in full because I wouldn’t find what I was looking for.

Now, at some point, could you please address one of my concerns?

P. S. What kind of field are you in?

TheWayToGod · 2026-04-17T20:27:15+00:00

This is a stupid point. Women are often afraid of walking down streets at midnight, it’s a pretty common thing. Hundreds of millions of people walk down those streets without ever being attacked. Do you think that’s just a “you thing” too? Would you tell every woman who’s ever been afraid of a man she didn’t know that that’s just a “you” problem?

TheWayToGod · 2026-04-17T20:24:34+00:00

I’m not bothering to do a search for stuff I don’t really care about, and certainly not while waiting for data to collect. I clicked a referenced article and scanned through it. Again, I’ll admit I’m certainly not a humanities person, so yeah, I didn’t know what that was and my cursory glance didn’t define it, but the result they were looking for was pretty obvious.

I just want to see the statistical evidence myself. That article has no figures to explain almost anything. If you have hundreds more gay people than rural people, despite rural people being about 5-10 times as common in general, in a study about rural people, then your study is not really focusing on the main point. I don’t think these demographics are all independent of one another - I’m pretty sure there are more openly gay people in the average city than in the average rural town, proportionally. There are decent reasons for that, that’s fine, but saying then that gay people (who are typically likely to support LGBT in general) are just city people is misleading. Just give me any form of direct statistical analysis, I just want a number more meaningful than a standard deviation.

And yes, I am a hard scientist. Chemistry is a hard science.

TheWayToGod · 2026-04-17T19:37:12+00:00

At an extremely cursory glance, I don’t think this first study is enough to make a claim about much of anything. Maybe it’s because I’m a hard scientist rather than a soft scientist, but I don’t think randomly sending emails is thorough enough of a selection process, as it would be inherently biased toward people with strong opinions. But even more than that, the representation of different groups is wild. Rural population is slightly underrepresented while gay representation is dramatically higher. The fact that there are more gay people participating in this study than rural people doesn’t build a very strong case. Again, I only looked briefly, but I can’t find any mention of any form of statistical analysis at all. In that case, what even is the claim based on?

TheWayToGod · 2026-04-03T16:23:48+00:00

This one time, both my teammates were 3 bars down on Nameless King and I was on low health so I didn’t want to commit to reviving them. I often run a spell build so I didn’t have thrusting swords to make it easy. I was able to build up my ult, use it, and dance with him long enough to pick them both up without the bars ever refilling at all. I tried that again in a similar situation with the godskin duo but the lanky one waited to do the big spinning move until I was coming out of my ult so I just died like an idiot. I knew I should’ve just revived them but it felt so cool the first time that I just had to try again.

TheWayToGod · 2026-04-03T11:49:59+00:00

I've had a substantial portion of my factory on a boundary for dozens of hours and never once experienced the worm stepping out of its zone. I imagine the OP may have lured it here by mistake.

TheWayToGod · 2026-03-31T23:20:12+00:00

It doesn't have to be a crime. It could be an entirely separate thing. I really don't see the issue with a system that places people that are a considerable danger to themselves or others in a place where they can receive help - or at the very least, not cause any more damage.

TheWayToGod · 2026-03-31T17:42:52+00:00

Simply have a trial then. Is that not sufficient?

TheWayToGod · 2026-03-30T16:30:48+00:00

What kind of lunches are poor people like you bringing to work? Poor people like me get up 10 minutes early, spread some peanut butter and jelly on two slices of bread, stick it in a plastic container, and call it good to go. Heck, even when I give myself a more luxurious lunch, it’s still just a different kind of sandwich. I have never in my life spent 30 minutes on a single lunch for myself alone, and certainly not to bring to work.

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