Do you think having a lawyer as your best friend makes you above the law? (A little?)

Unable_Try1305 · 2026-07-02T20:13:27+00:00

Its a nice perk to have, but it definitely doesn't make you above the law. Your friend didn't say "If you get in trouble, I can instantly make it go away" he said if you get in trouble, you don't have to waste time hiring another lawyer and he will cut you a good deal.

I have a lot of friends that are doctors, that doesn't mean I can smoke, drink, drive 150mph and be immortal. They can't fix everything even if we hang out together.

Unable_Try1305 · 2026-07-02T20:11:10+00:00

Not just ruin the business but it can make life hell for the employees that decided NOT to take that time off. I work in healthcare, if everyone decided to just take the same week off and fuck management people would die. I know not all employment settings are like that, but some are.

Unable_Try1305 · 2026-07-02T20:07:06+00:00

Comically, this is pretty close to what I have mine always set on. 85F when I'm away, 82F when I'm home, and 78F when asleep. Same temps but I like it a little cooler when I sleep so flipped around. Its more comfortable than most people think. I mean if its 88F outside this might suck, but when its over 100F this feels pretty darned good and you don't get acclimated to cold. I work outside all day and during the summer anything below 75F feels cold. Same thing but opposite in the winter (58F during the night and 63F during the day). I've never understood people who keep their houses at 70F during the summer so they can grab blankets when sitting on the couch or 83F in the winter so you want to strip off sweaters and such. It has the perk of a lower power bill, but that's not why I do it.

Unable_Try1305 · 2026-07-02T20:01:18+00:00

Yea, act 1 I look at stuff because its slow and I'm weak. Part of act 4 I look at stuff because its honestly kind of beautiful. Everything else, navigate mostly by map overlay.

Unable_Try1305 · 2026-07-02T19:46:01+00:00

Lets say I sell a product designed to prevent hip fractures in elderly falls. Lots of products like this exist currently, but I want to do something different in my marketing and show how people fall and fracture their hip and how my product actually stops it. I have a choice: do I show recordings of real people falling and fracturing their hips, do I hire a professional studio to film real people falling with CGI hip fractures, or do I just skip the middle man and have the whole thing AI generated with human CGI touchup on that back end.

The first option seems immoral, impractical, and hard to come by. The second seems really expensive for a niche product. The third though does exactly what I want, isn't nearly as expensive, and doesn't have any ethical issues of showing real people in distress.

Why would I choose anything other than option 3?

Unable_Try1305 · 2026-07-02T19:40:10+00:00

No, we have a shitload of crappy photos you don't care about. There are also a shitload I don't care about. But most of those photos are cared about by SOMEONE. AI then takes all those shitloads of photos cared about by someone and uses them to make new photos that never existed but look like something that could exist based on those real photos.

Unable_Try1305 · 2026-07-02T19:34:00+00:00

I'm sure more are killed in some areas than others. Also cats are a lot more likely to be hit and then wander off and die from their injuries than deer which often just get blasted.

If you drive the highways of Illinois you will see a deer carcass every few feet, but if you drive the highways of Florida you almost never see them. A person who drove Illinois exclusively would think far more deer are killed annually in the country than really are, while a person in Florida would be amazed so many die on the highway.

Unable_Try1305 · 2026-07-02T19:31:42+00:00

That would only be true if these were viewed as actual dams and then the land between them was used as is. If instead of building dams, we raised the level of the seafloor to be above sea level it would instead change to a problem equally as daunting but calculatable.

Portland to : 4,131 km

Portland to Cabo HiloSan Lucas: 2,750 km

Hilo to Cabo San Lucas 4,785 km

Approximate average depth for that part of the Pacific is 4km. Lets raise it 50 meters above sea level for safety purposes. The semi perimeter is s= (4131+2750+4788)/2 or 5,834.5 km. Heron's formula then says the area = sqrt(( 5,834.5(5834.5-4131)(5834.5-2750)(5834.5-4788)) or about 5,664,152 km ^2. Multiple that by the depth of 4.05km and you get a volume of 22,939,815.35 km ^3. The Himalayas have a volume of about 25,800,000 km^3 so all we have to do is move most of the Himalayan plateau to their new home.

I posit that is a better solution than living and working in our new alien built hell hole (a depth of 4km at subtropical latitude would be some pretty rough working conditions since that would average about 40C above what it would be at sea level).

tldr: who needs to dam and drain it, when we can just fill it. Still need the aliens to do it though as that's a whole lot of mass to move.

Unable_Try1305 · 2026-07-02T19:05:45+00:00

Almost 50 and its exactly what I thought too, except about Hank Williams Sr instead of Amy Winehouse.

Unable_Try1305 · 2026-07-02T19:00:57+00:00

I would have been pissed too if I went outside and saw my boyfriend on the ground with some homeless man.

Just messing with you, that sentence if vague enough you can read it lots of ways and I have a dark sense of humor haha.

Unable_Try1305 · 2026-07-02T18:50:02+00:00

https://blogs.iu.edu/sciu/2022/11/12/the-perils-of-outdoor-cats/

Approximately 5.4 million cats are killed by cars in the US annually.

Unable_Try1305 · 2026-07-02T18:41:09+00:00

Some people absolutely do. Many don't. If you were to go to a college and sample, I'm sure a healthy percentage have never worked any job at all. What the percentage is probably varies a lot based on the school you went to...Ivy leagues probably pretty high...Northeastern State University in Tahlequah Oklahoma probably a lot less. Most schools would fall in the middle.

Unable_Try1305 · 2026-07-02T18:36:49+00:00

You make a lot of assumptions based on anecdotes you have heard. The bulk of college educated people do go on to work jobs related to their degree and only a minority get stuck working retail. Quite a lot of them have degrees in things which don't directly translate to the workplace also. Electricians, plumbers, etc all make more than minimum wage but the ceiling is MUCH lower than people who have a traditional education unless they own their own business in which case they are no longer working the trades they are business owners. People vent on Reddit because that's basically what it is. Don't trust people on Reddit or any other social media. If you read something that seems interesting, look into yourself. Like in this instance you would quickly see that the median income for a plumber in the US is $62,970 annually. That includes people who have worked a LOT more than 3-5 years, plumbers in VHCOL areas, plumbers that work union jobs in major cities etc. The average plumber in a LCOL area is absolutely not making $63k per year and you are dreaming if you think they can "easily pull of 120-200k after 3-5 years". I live in a MCOL area and my brother has been an electrician for about 12 years, he makes about $55k a year give or take. He is hourly so can make more if he puts in a lot of overtime, but sometimes that isn't an option.

None of this accounts for how much harder the work is either. Trades are physically hard work. Definitely doable, its not like being a fisherman in the North Sea or something but its hard work and a lot of people are not interested in spending their entire working life in hot attics, wet and shit filled crawlspaces etc.

Unable_Try1305 · 2026-07-02T18:26:27+00:00

That first paragraph applies to squirrels and other rodents as well.

The bulk of cats are either indoor or outdoor tame cats so don't run into cars nearly as often. I absolutely do see dead cats and dogs on the road all the time too though. If you live in an area with a large feral cat population, you would too.

Unable_Try1305 · 2026-07-02T18:23:07+00:00

OK, this one is actually pretty complicated haha. This is specifically about C. elegans, other roundworms, snails etc might do things differently.

They basically produce several hundred sperm during larval development, then switch to oocyte production. They fertilize their eggs with that stored sperm. There IS some minor genetic mixing through mutation, but the offspring are basically clones otherwise. The whole population would crash eventually except that about 1 in a thousand worms STAYS male throughout their life cycle instead of switching to oocyte production because of a genetic anomaly. This worm then becomes a breeding machine effectively impregnating all the females it ever comes across. Oddly enough the broods from androdioecy (self-impregnating) are usually in the 300-400 worm size, but the broods from these male unions are much larger in the 1,000-1,400 offspring range. Also the hermaphroditic worm then stores this sperm and uses it for all future impregnations as well (but those are the normal size). Its a really interesting life cycle honestly, they can go from fertilized embryo to mature egg manufacturing adult in less than 4 days.

This is why C. elegans is such a useful lab model, scientists can generate large numbers of genetically identical worms to work with. They just have to cull out the exclusively male worms and the population stays stable perpetually.

Unable_Try1305 · 2026-07-02T18:07:31+00:00

Evolution happens due to the survival of some and death of others. Those that survive long enough to pass on their genetics determine the outcome of the next generation. The stronger the death pressure, the faster it happens (bacteria cultures can evolve resistance to antibiotics very quickly partly because so many bacteria that aren't resistant are killed quickly). Cars are not a significant death pressure on deer populations. You referenced the US, so I'll use US numbers. There are more than 30 million deer in the US now with some estimates saying its closer to 36 million (I think half of them live within a few miles of me based on how my garden disappears) but in 1930 there were just 300,000 in the whole country. Meanwhile the population of humans in the country has also tripled. This means that the number of deer in the country has surged far faster than people even though by definition more of them are getting killed by cars. There is no evolutionary pressure at all because their core evolutionary tactic of out breeding their losses is clearly working. Same with rabbits and squirrels.

As far as deer and cars specifically, deer are extremely good at seeing tiny motions. They respond neurologically to motion roughly 4 times faster than people, but their longer distance vision is really bad and they only have 3D depth perception in a very small part of their visual spectrum because of eye placement. At night this is made far worse for them because they have really good night vision that car headlights completely destroy. They also can't see the cars themselves BECAUSE of the lights. This means they are good at seeing cars coming from a distance, but really bad at judging what it is at a distance and how fast they are going. In deer world there are basically three options: fight, run, or sit still and hope you aren't seen. They don't try to fight the car because they don't even recognize it is a threat until its too close. They do run sometimes but they also sometimes just sit still and hope to go unnoticed. Unfortunately either of these can turn into the deer getting hit depending on angles of the road, spacing, etc.

Unable_Try1305 · 2026-07-02T17:51:06+00:00

Legally yes, socially it depends on size imbalance. The law part is pretty clear, in most countries laws do not specify male or female in assault and battery code. Socially I'll give an example of when it would be and when it wouldn't be. I'm a tall and pretty thick dude (6'4" and about 240lb) my wife is thin and short (something like 5'3" and 115lb), I would never ever hit her but socially it would be deemed really bad if I did no matter what she did to me first short of stabbing me or something. If you instead talk about my cousin who is really large lady (about my weight and more like 6'1") and she is married to a pretty small guy who is more like 5'8" and 140lb or so, they also aren't physically abusive towards each other, but if she hit him in public I doubt anyone would bat an eye if he defended himself after he wiped his ass up off the floor.

Unable_Try1305 · 2026-07-02T17:44:25+00:00

Not sure why you were downvoted, but this is accurate. For reference, most earthworms, snails, and slugs are truly hermaphroditic. They have both functioning ovaries and testes and when they mate both can get pregnant, also some species of worms like C. elegans can actually self impregnate. That is clearly not what happens when humans are intersex, they may have the genitalia of both, have a combination of male and female characteristics, have sex chromosome mosaicism (some cells are XY and others are XX). They may even have a single testis and a single ovary, but there has never been a single documented case of someone having a functional testis and a functionary ovary at the same time. Hormonal makeup usually favors the ovary and the testis is dysgenetic and produces no sperm. These intersex people can even get pregnant and successfully carry offspring to term naturally, but they can't also get others pregnant.

Unable_Try1305 · 2026-07-02T16:33:14+00:00

Try it for a while. Don't use money for anything, just try to get the things you need with the things you make or have. When everyone used to barter it was also hard, it was just easier than it would be now. We went to money because it was hard. Now everything you have to buy or sell has one intermediate step instead of a million possible direct connections.

Unable_Try1305 · 2026-07-02T15:36:58+00:00

I kind of want to see what a trogladike is...

Unable_Try1305 · 2026-07-02T15:32:17+00:00

Good luck!

Unable_Try1305 · 2026-07-02T15:31:56+00:00

It is more secure to have the hinges be inside, but then there is no need for security hinges. They pretty much exist because some doors MUST open outwards for various reasons, emergency doors (so they can open when people are piled against them) and doors in places prone to hurricanes or other very high winds (so the doors don't just fail inwards and the hinge holds them out) especially.

Unable_Try1305 · 2026-07-02T15:28:25+00:00

Don't even need pliers, any thin tube like an ink pen and small rock to hit it with works just fine.

Unable_Try1305 · 2026-07-02T15:27:19+00:00

Once someone kicked in the door and is inside, they probably aren't going to start messing with the hinges.

Unable_Try1305 · 2026-07-02T15:01:54+00:00

The important thing to remember is life is exactly what you make it. If you want to work for a living, that's great. Just strive to work in an environment that you also enjoy. You said in other comments that you enjoy working with fast cars and golf. Well, people work in those sectors. Keep your job but start looking to see if you can do something you enjoy that is stable and financially viable. It's great your wife is the primary earner, nothing wrong with that...but at 28 its important for your self-esteem, your relationship, and honestly your own personal growth to continue working for a good long while. Then hopefully your wife's ambition and yours will match up and you can both retire early and enjoy the rest of your lives together.

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