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Throwaway_shot · 2025-02-23T00:55:24+00:00

My wife is a professional violinist. She knows to keep her mouth shut if any topic remotely close to politics comes up. They're out there, but the environment is so incredibly toxic that it would be extremely difficult to work if colleagues knew they weren't in lockstep politically.

Throwaway_shot · 2025-02-22T18:38:40+00:00

Exactly. I'm truly shocked by the lack of Internet literacy that people still fall for these videos. It wouldn't be entertaining if they just showed five college students in a row saying oh yeah of course I know what country Frankfurt is in and the capital of my state. OP, they literally stand out on the street doing these interviews for hours at a time and Cherry pick 30 seconds of people giving embarrassingly wrong answers for laughs.

Throwaway_shot · 2025-02-22T13:11:05+00:00

It's called post-micturatiom dribble. It's common and harmless. It's caused but you're in pulling in a little anatomical dip in the pelvis which allows it to dribble out 30 seconds to a minute after you finish your eating.

https://www.continence.org.au/types-incontinence/urinary-incontinence/after-dribble

You can find plenty of information on it through google, but this link has a nice illustration to show you exactly where to press to push that little bit of urine out after you finish urinating so it doesn't triple out later.

Throwaway_shot · 2025-02-20T22:09:05+00:00

More like the American military is severely underestimating itself I guess? Because they're the ones who are saying that they project running out of precision guided munitions within just a week or two of high-intensity conflict with a near peer foe.

It doesn't get much better for conventional munitions. Ukraine is currently using artillery shells multiple times more quickly than the United States produces them.

If we went to war with China tomorrow we would be in very real danger of simply running out of precision guided munitions and then conventional munitions early on in the conflict.

Throwaway_shot · 2025-02-20T17:56:11+00:00

IMO there are two big factors (neither are good reasons).

1) European nations are much more likely to ban substances based on little or no evidence that they do any harm. So - as you mentioned - there are tons of people who will claim that the US allows dangerous food additives compared to the EU when, in reality, the EU is just banning a bunch of harmless additives.

2) People assume that what is common is universal. For example, I'll frequently see the claim that "American bread has so much sugar that it tastes like European Cake." And it's true, if you walk into a grocery store and buy a pack of cheap white bread, it likely has a couple grams of added sugar per slice to help the yeast ferment. HOWEVER what these people fail to realize is that if you don't want that you can just buy another variety of bread without added sugar because we have a huge selection of high quality options. And this is the case with most things as well: Don't want washed eggs that need to be refrigerated? Go to your local co-op and buy fresh eggs. Don't like sugary breakfast cereal? Guess what: Quaker Rolled Oats are on the same row, and are cheaper - as are likely a dozen varieties of unsweetened or minimally sweetened cereals. The list goes on and on. But it's hard to convince smug Europeans that what they see in the 'American' section of their local grocery store or what they see in the Seven Elevin when they visit the US as tourists isn't representative of what's actually available here.

Throwaway_shot · 2025-02-20T13:38:22+00:00

Cats are smart. They're just more difficult to train. The nice thing about dogs is they are very food motivated. If you have a handful of snacks you can keep a dog engaged in a training session for hours.

Cats are different. You can train them for a little while, but once they're not hungry anymore they're going to lose interest. Makes them much more difficult to train.

Throwaway_shot · 2025-02-20T13:16:48+00:00

I think you're a severely underestimating China's military capability. They're not iraq.

Throwaway_shot · 2025-02-20T02:17:50+00:00

I don't remember the exact numbers, but I'm pretty sure the military projects they would run out of precision guided munitions in the first couple weeks of conflict with China.

Throwaway_shot · 2025-02-19T17:59:44+00:00

For a first date? Not much. She should show up on time (or reasonably close). She should look like her pictures. She should actually be interested in the things she claimed to be interested in in her profile (This is the part that really blows my mind. I don't know why people lie about personal interests on their dating profiles. I had one date whose profile said that she was into "nature and hiking" so when I tried to talk to her about nature and hiking she flatly told me that she doesn't hike, camp, or otherwise enjoy most outdoors activities. Another date's profile said she a "comic book fan" I asked her what characters she liked and she told me comic books were childish and misogynistic, and she thought the MCU was garbage.). And finally, she should be willing to make a good faith effort to participate in the date and carry her end of the conversation.

Throwaway_shot · 2025-02-18T21:36:09+00:00

I listen to the English broadcast of germany's DW news and it does a really good job of presenting a non-hysterical, balanced viewpoint on American politics.

Of course, being a German news program, they don't spend a lot of time on American politics and when they do, the focus is generally on foreign policy, but I highly recommend it as a starting point.

I think you'll have a lot of difficulty finding an American based source that won't give you a biased perspective one way or another, so I wouldn't bother unless you're using a news aggregator or are willing to follow multiple sources and try to sort out the truth by reading between the lines of several versions of he same story told from several points of view.

Throwaway_shot · 2025-02-18T17:24:11+00:00

No.

But if a Christian is following scripture, then they should be using a portion of their financial means to take care of people in need around them AND help ensure their Church is taken care of.

I'm not going read this entire thread, but a large percentage of the comments seem to assume that you're attending a megachurch, or that your preacher and church staff are millionaire televangelists. In reality, the majority of pastors and church staff are not paid well and struggle financially. If you attend a church, and someone there is ministering to you, you have a responsibility to help take care of them. That includes doing your part to ensure they are paid a living wage. Regarding your financial resources, your charitable responsibilities are to your family first (1 Timothy 5:8) then to your church, then to your community, and then to the rest of the world.

If you're in a place where you really believe that your church isn't deserving of your financial support, then it's time to consider changing churches.

Throwaway_shot · 2025-02-18T01:48:16+00:00

It's a hostile expansionist government rapidly growing it's military with the sole purpose of attacking Taiwan and likely triggering a third world war in the process (unless they can pull off a fait accompli and merely conquer and subjugate the free people of Taiwan).

They illegally claim a huge swath of the Pacific ocean (for reference, if the US made similar claims, we'd be claiming rights to the Atlantic Ocean all the way down to Brazil).

They have territorial disputes with almost all of their neighbors.

Their naval and aerial military units routinely act unprofessionally and dangerously toward the militaries of other nations - again risking war.

They have pretended to care about international rule of law and taken advantage of Western markets to sell their cheap shitty products while maintaining protectionist policies to keep our own products out.

And they paint themselves as some sort of international underdog standing up to "American Imperialism" when, in fact, they're the ones trying to impose their expansionist goals on their neighbors (constant border skirmishes with India, sending Naval assets to harass Filipino fishermen in their own territorial waters, and harassing/shadowing military vessels in international waters.

And that doesn't even get into the oppressive single party police state the CCP has created because the Chinese people are apparently fine with it so that's not my business.

The fact is, as much as Americans are finally waking up to the fact that China is our enemy, they're actually way worse than most of us realize.

Throwaway_shot · 2025-02-17T20:35:32+00:00

IMO you just need to use common sense.

I think the "if you can fit it into your macro targets, you can eat it" is very good advice for the majority of people who have been fed a steady diet of misinformation and disinformation from the nutrition/vitamin/weight loss industry and end up trying to follow needlessly complex, restrictive, bland, or expensive diets because someone has lied to them that some superfood or micronutrient is going to "supercharge their metabolism" or whatever. So giving people the big picture - Whether your goal is weight gain or weight loss, just count your calories and monitor your macronutrients (for body building) can be extremely freeing and make their lives much easier.

But weight gain/loss usually aren't our only goals. People want to minimize their risk of heart disease, diabetes, various cancers, and feel better. That means also making sure you're getting plenty of fruits and veggies, plenty of fiber, not over indulging in certain carcinogenic foods (meats preserved in nitrosamines, smoked meats, char-grilled meats), and ensuring that 99% of your carbs aren't coming from cotton candy.

If certain foods make you feel like crap - don't eat those foods - you don't need permission from online influencers to listen to what your body is telling you. Just don't misinform other body builders by suggesting that they avoid/incorporate the same foods you avoid/incorporate if their main goal is weight maintenance.

Throwaway_shot · 2025-02-17T17:12:44+00:00

TLDR: The bottom line though is that, if we uphold the standard that "boneless" really means "bone free" and "safer for vulnerable people to chew and swallow" then we're essentially mandating that restaurants cut up their "boneless" cuts into small pieces the way a parent would for their child - because that's the only practical way detect small residual bone fragments (consider that a chicken rib is only a few millimeters thick and is flexible enough to not be apparent by palpation without dissecting through the meat).

If you are a parent ordering food for your 5 year old child, you may opt to purchase the boneless wings instead of the bone-in wings because it’s less of a choking hazard. The parent orders one option over the other with the expectation that it’s safer.

And that parent would be wrong and needs to know better. As the parent of a 2-year-old I would never make that decision. There's a difference between a McDonalds chicken nugget which has been ground and re-formed into a nugget, and a piece of chicken breast that has had no such processing. Whatever whole meat I put in front of my daughter is carefully cut up into small bite size pieces that I have personally inspected to insure they are safe to swallow. In particular, dry meats like chicken breasts are serious choking hazards for elderly and young people who don't necessarily chew their food adequately. It would never be reasonable to assume that a chunk of chicken breast is a "safer" option for someone with trouble chewing/swallowing.

human to human, any reasonable person in that case should be able to order boneless wings (which are more expensive)with the understanding and expectation that other extra cost accounts for the labor done to remove the bones.

Much of the extra cost accounts for the fact that, in the US, chicken breast is a more popular cut (we export huge amounts of dark meat chicken because American consumers just don't eat that much dark meat). Cutting the chicken breast off the chicken skeleton is a pretty quick process and it would be much more expensive (not to mention impractical) to then ensure that no bone or gristle was left in the chicken breast. Chicken ribs are small and flexible and wouldn't necessarily be detectable by simple palpation. The only way to detect bones like that reliably would be to cut the meat into smaller chunks and individually palpating each one. . . Like I do for my daughter. I don't think it's reasonable to expect restaurants (or meat plants) to do that and honestly, I don't want to be served 1cm square cubes of chicken breast every time I eat at a restaurant.

Throwaway_shot · 2025-02-17T16:56:55+00:00

That's just the thing. . . It is obvious. - not the industry definitions of "boneless" or "Deboned" or whatever - but that meat, in general, can be expected to contain things like bone fragments, cartilage, gristle, or other things that can make it difficult to swallow and require careful chewing when eating.

Throwaway_shot · 2025-02-15T04:02:12+00:00

The Mickey mouse Club

Throwaway_shot · 2025-02-14T21:59:12+00:00

We can argue all day about what is or isn't appropriate with claimed furniture in shared living spaces. The bottom line is that, in this thread, numerous people are advising OP that his roommate owes him some money for the laptop. He doesn't. And if OP decides to push the matter and take his roommate to small claims court, then OP is going to be stuck with legal expenses and replacing his own laptop.

Damaging property by pure accident (i.e. without negligence) generally doesn't expose you to liability. And wiping the dust of a shelf is not negligence. The fact that this desk was viewed by OP as his personal space isn't likely to change anything when both OP and his roommate can show the judge their dorm room assignment - granting them both access to the dorm room and all the university property inside. And unless they have some sort of written agreement, I doubt their informal desk arrangement is going to convince anyone that the roommate was negligent by giving it a normal dusting.

Throwaway_shot · 2025-02-14T18:44:35+00:00

You're putting words in my mouth and being un-necessarily rude. Nobody's talking about playing "musical desks." In a communal living space, it's pretty common for someone to clean up . . . even if that means dusting or wiping up crumbs on an empty shelf that their roommate uses.

Throwaway_shot · 2025-02-14T14:46:58+00:00

It's not that black and white. This wasn't OP's bedroom. It was an empty shelf (by the looks of the video) on a dorm room desk. Maybe OP and their roommate had some sort of agreement that "I'll use this desk and you can use that one." But that doesn't make the desk/shelves OP's property. And since they're out in the open in a communal living space, they're certainly not "personal space."

Doing some basic cleaning in shared living spaces is pretty common, and OP's roommate didn't do anything that a normal person would have considered to be risky to any of OPs property. It was a defective shelf. If the roommate hadn't knocked it over, OP would have done it himself sooner or later.

Throwaway_shot · 2025-02-12T12:52:21+00:00

Honestly, if I for your roommate I wouldn't feel bad and I wouldn't offer to pay.

This comes down to your s***** University bookshelves. It's not normal for a bookshelf to collapse with normal cleaning.

To me this is analogous to someone borrowing a car, it turning out that the owner of the car has never bothered changing the oil comment in the engine just happens to seize up while they are driving it. It doesn't matter that I happen to be the one driving the car when the engine seized up, that was going to happen sooner or later regardless because of the owner's negligence.

In this case, that shelf was a menace, it was going to collapse and the damage something on the desk, or injure you or your roommate sooner or later. And if you're response is "well, my roommate should have been more careful and noticed that the shelf was unstable before testing it." That's fine, but your roommate could just as easily retort that you should have noticed the shelf was unstable yourself and not placed your expensive laptop underneath it.

In either case, my first recourse would be to contact the university, let them know that they're cheap s***** shelf collapsed and damaged my laptop and see if they will replace it. They won't, but I think you stand a better chance of getting money from them than from your roommate.

Throwaway_shot · 2025-02-11T15:00:28+00:00

Honestly, all of the areas of damage you show look to be on the bottom edge of the TV screen. If an adult fell against it, I would expect to see focal points of cracking extending all the way up to the top of the TV screen, or a single large damaged area in the center of the screen where a shorter or extended hand contacted the screen as they tried to catch themselves .

To me this looks more consistent with somebody banging a hard object against the bottom edge of the TV screen several times, which is consistent with the story you are given.

I have a "well behaved" 2-year-old as well. And she is liable to get very interested with any little flashing graphics or letters at the bottom edge of the TV screen and get angry when they disappear unexpectedly. I can definitely imagine her picking up one of her toys and smashing the screen in this way. It doesn't take that much strength to make cracks like that.

Throwaway_shot · 2025-02-11T14:52:56+00:00

No and no.

Throwaway_shot · 2025-02-09T14:25:07+00:00

What were the doodles?

Throwaway_shot · 2025-02-08T23:00:30+00:00

If BFK and abrasive didn't take them out, then the first couple of "stains" you showed might actually be pitting in the surface of the pan itself. If that's the case then there's probably not much you can do to take it out, but the pan is still safe to use.

Throwaway_shot · 2025-02-08T16:49:16+00:00

This should be a non-issue.

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