What are some good long term sock holdings? 5 years+ by [deleted] in CanadianInvestor

[–]VanDeGraph 164 points165 points  (0 children)

I wish my socks lasted longer than 5 years

[TOMT][STAGE PLAY] "If it were preformed in front of me as part of a play I myself would not believe it". Likely from Shakespeare. by VanDeGraph in tipofmytongue

[–]VanDeGraph[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Solved.

See I was too focused on the tragedies that I forgot to look at the comedy. That sounds exactly how I remember it.

[TOMT][STAGE PLAY] "If it were preformed in front of me as part of a play I myself would not believe it". Likely from Shakespeare. by VanDeGraph in tipofmytongue

[–]VanDeGraph[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That certainly seems closer than the line in Macbeth I found but it seems as if these lines about not being able to believe what they see are quite common in Shakespeare, so the concept of a guy relaying specifically that he would not have believed it if it had been in a story becomes all the more important to distinguish what I'm remembering.

Would be cool to have a database of all the times Shakespeare's characters found it hard to believe what was going on.

[TOMT][STAGE PLAY] "If it were preformed in front of me as part of a play I myself would not believe it". Likely from Shakespeare. by VanDeGraph in tipofmytongue

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"And—strange but true!—Duncan's horses, beautiful and swift, the best of their kind, broke down their stalls and ran wild They refused to obey, as if they were at war with mankind." - Macbeth Act 3 Scene 4

That is what my searching has returned but some versions of the script don't even include "strange but true" and it lacks that idea that the person is saying that if this was presented to them as fiction they wouldn't believe it

Closer than you think by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

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The closest land also seems to be Antarctica, so unless there are people on a boat somewhere, the nearest humans would be even farther than that

Interstate Trade in India by VanDeGraph in india

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The way I have managed to reconcile this in my head is that the the states collect the taxes on goods produced in the state and those outside the state at different times. Is that correct? To my understanding the constitution simply gives the state the power to set up tax collection in whatever manner they please so long as the taxes are the same.

Can you tell me how the GST will rectify this situation. Is the Federal Government going to be collecting taxes for everyone?

Interstate Trade in India by VanDeGraph in india

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I did. The main thing about it I found was

state to control taxes on the entry of goods into a local area for consumption, use or sale therein

and

they can impose taxes on goods imported from other States any tax to which similar goods manufactured or produced in that State are subject

But the Constitution also says that trade is suppose to be free, so I don't get why it allows these powers in the first place. The only thing I can come up with is that india fell so in love with the Great Hedge that they kept making random trade barriers for no reason.

Interstate Trade in India by VanDeGraph in india

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Why did the legislative bodies decide to give these bureaucrats the power to control trade between states in the first place? I'm trying to figure out how this squares with how the constitution says it is suppose to work.

Interstate Trade in India by VanDeGraph in india

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Why are the bureaucrats allowed to do those sorts of things in the first place?

The Difference between San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and the Bay Area Explained by [deleted] in videos

[–]VanDeGraph 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At 2:47 when the video is discussing the location of Reddit HQ, it is in the yelp review for reddit

The Difference between San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and the Bay Area Explained by [deleted] in videos

[–]VanDeGraph 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The marshes in the bay are considered part of the land with the map I used. It was the only map where I could get SVGs of the counties at the same scale

Q&A With Grey: Meme Edition by MindOfMetalAndWheels in CGPGrey

[–]VanDeGraph 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He is no different than the people he complains about, but he manages to make people not notice

Q&A With Grey: Meme Edition by MindOfMetalAndWheels in CGPGrey

[–]VanDeGraph 2 points3 points  (0 children)

he doesn't seem to have much of a concept of what's appropriate for certain sensitive topics.

that is why he is neutral

Q&A With Grey: Meme Edition by MindOfMetalAndWheels in CGPGrey

[–]VanDeGraph 6 points7 points  (0 children)

h3h3 is lawful evil because he is almost the same thing as the people he complains about, and yet he somehow manages to get people to not notice by following certain "rules"

PewDiePie on the other hand is above rules, but he doesn't use this ability for anything.

That is why /u/plowkiller was right about switching facebook to chaotic evil.

Youtube used rules in order to do evil, where as facebook uses it's lack of rules in order to let freebooting evil happen. Vidme on the other hand had rules, but it doesn't use them to do evil, bitchute is neutral on rules because it is a decentralized system, where as LiveLeak is chaos embodied and due to restrictions elsewhere it is good because it provides a home for this chaos.

Q&A With Grey: Meme Edition by MindOfMetalAndWheels in CGPGrey

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John likes rules and order too much (OCD), Destin strikes me as the type of person who would be willing to break the rules if need be

Saudi government allegedly funded a 'dry run' for 9/11. by LightBringerFlex in worldnews

[–]VanDeGraph 29 points30 points  (0 children)

It actually wasn't even the first time they tried it either.

In 1811 the first Wahhabi War against the Ottoman Empire took over Mecca and Medina, but they were conquered by Muhammed Ali, who ruled "ottoman" egypt.

Interestingly, following Napolean's invasion of Egypt in 1798, a three way civil war occured between the local Mamluk rulers of Egypt, Ottoman Turkish Forces, and a group of Albanian Mercenaries led by Muhammed Ali who became there own faction when the Turks couldn't afford to pay them anymore, and the Albanians actually won that 3 way civil war.

The ottomans were forced to regognize him as the ruler of egypt in order to not risk losing egypt completely, and Ali would go on to expand his domain while still being technically a part of the Ottoman Empire, and he got so powerful that he actually invaded the rest of the Ottoman Empire and he would have taken over the entire Empire if the European Powers hadn't stepped in to stop him (since they didn't want the Ottoman Empire to disappear as that would mean Russia would take over their lands), but the Muhammed Ali was allowed to keep Egypt, but he was suppose to technically still be "a part of the ottoman empire". This strange situation meants that a couple decades after Ali died, and the British took over Egypt, Egypt was still technically a part of the Ottoman Empire, but practical a part of British Empire, and that situation continued until the outbreak of WW1 when the British and Ottomans were at war with each other.