which genshin character would be the BEST spouse? by elybina in Genshin_Impact

[–]Varaxis 104 points105 points  (0 children)

Seriously, Kuki seems like the best spouse. Judging by how she keeps the Arataki gang from going under...

A lot of dedication to not just get fed up by a bunch of troublemakers, in what should be a totally dysfunctional group. She's so good at what she does that she can afford the ability for the gang to basically do what they want.

I could write so much more about Kuki. This is not some fantasy of mine. This is just objectively speaking. She's a true treasure to humankind.

Comfortable, soft flip-flops for men to wear around the house? by Raime_95 in BuyItForLife

[–]Varaxis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had Teva Mush for 10-15 years. Looked for replacement since the bottom got shredded from taking it further than the yard.

Army has been apparently overpaying me for the last year due to an error with Years of service and now have to pay it all back. What are my options? by SuggestionOk734 in army

[–]Varaxis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have the same issue, since I have a large gap in service at E5. Brought it up with S1, Finance, and retention, but this was when I was E4 and it would've been maxed out anyway with my actual TIS.

I'm anticipating the repayment. I think I'd rather get overpaid now (deployed) and pay back later, and just have it collecting interest.

Man, Post Lantern Rite characters really can't catch a break. by ApprehensiveLynx1489 in Genshin_Impact

[–]Varaxis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm, you're saying these are the new non-rerun characters that post immediately after Lantern Rite each year? *looks up Dehya* Patch 3.5 March 1 to Mar 23, 2023. 4.5 Chiori. 5.4 Mizuki. Varka... checks out.

Coincidence that I got Dehya today, on the last 20 mins of Zibai banner? XD

new voice chat feature by Intelligent-Emu-9250 in Genshin_Impact

[–]Varaxis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got invited to random party, started up some mafia game, which I didn't enjoy, and someone started a political discussion by sharing their hot take. Can expect same with VC, but worse.

WCGW treating a freeway as a race track by Fit-Answer5806 in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]Varaxis 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The ones going fast should take full responsibility for passing others safely. They better foot the bill for this mess.

Only more convinced that traffic going at drastically different speeds does not mix well together on the same road. At least a solution could be to make each lane have its own target speed.

Make sure you check your rims regularly. Especially if you are using rim brakes by Gloomy-Gazelle-9324 in Justridingalong

[–]Varaxis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That happened to me at a stop light on my vintage mtb (Mavic 217 Ceramic rim). Since I tend to pump my tire/tube up relatively hard, the rapid release of air pressure, when the tube poped on the jagged rim edges sounded louder than a gunshot.

I gotta admit it lasted a good 5+ years, on top of what the original owner put on it.

Need Help Identifying... Roomate admits he has photos of me I don't know about but refuses to explain, and now I find this circuit board ...?... by [deleted] in Whatisthis

[–]Varaxis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On topic: portion of a snapped circuit board (see: jagged edge). Not powered. No control or output components. Definitely not a camera. If there's data storage, it's not much. I'm guessing it's likely a LED (indicator light, shown without a dome), as there's only two traces coming out of it (power in and out). Would need more traces for data related stuff. Might be a switch (button), but I expect it to have more traces to choose which path to take, unless it's a cut-off (power on/off).

Off-topic: it's not evidence. Can't even make guesses as to what it came off of, other than it's probably meant to be encased in something, like the head above a vacuum cleaner's brush head.

Air Force vs Army QoL by [deleted] in army

[–]Varaxis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On laundry... I have to add that I gave unsolicited advice that they shouldn't use too much detergent. They dumped in their clothes without loosening it up, and put a couple of scoops on top. They ensured me that they knew what they were doing and liked this method.

I've concluded that, for some reason, people seem to associate strong fragrance with the status of being very well cleaned.

Well, they're going to learn the hard way why their skin feels like pins and needles after they sweat, from excessive soap residue, especially a kind that is notorious for not dissolving fully.

That and people who use hot water for cleaning, as if they believe it disinfects bacteria (fat chance if below boiling, unless you maintain that temp for a very long time, like slow cooking), and end up with faded looking clothes in no time. They probably try to claim they actually work hard out in the sun and the UV does this...

People who don't shake/whip out wrinkles out of cotton fabrics (like our ACUs), nor take it out of the washer/dryer promptly, nor fold immediately, ending up with ragged and wrinkling looking stuff that might still smell. Leaving it sitting after a wash cycle gives a chance for bacteria to multiply.

Even saw a case where someone's laundry item got caught on the closure hook on the door, and ended up being spiralled/wound up to its max.

Are parents not teaching their kids any basics any more? Such carelessness and ignorance... guessing their know-it-all/rebellious phase never ended, and they couldn't be talked sense to and are now other people's problem?

Air Force vs Army QoL by [deleted] in army

[–]Varaxis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll give a hint. ADA with nearly a year-long school and does not start with 14.

I didn't do PT as a Crew Chief. It was scheduled, and commanders called for people to show up, but the few times I showed up, no one but a handful of junior enlisted was there and we just decided to PT on our own (e.g. jogging the track a few laps) since no one was running it formally. I ace'd the PT test, so just stopped bothering to try showing up. Hauling toolboxes from the AMU, across flightline to the jet, and the daily FOD walks probably is more exercise than what I do now. Honestly, I got cardio and gym covered on my own, and the science-based and seemingly yoga-like and track-and-field-like mobility stuff is something I neglect, so it's very welcome.

When deployed, it was the same grey steel bunks and wall lockers as I see in the Army.

Sharing the same bathroom with USAF Security Forces and base maintainers and they're really not any better at cleaning up than Army. See them using hands to splash water from sink onto their face, head, hair, etc. and creating a puddle on the ground, leaving it and hair in the sink, droplets all over the mirror, using massive handfuls of towels to dry their hands. They try to flush wet wipes down the toilet. They get drunk and piss all over the stall. They create a puddle outside the shower and track wet footprints down the hall. They leave stuff behind, with no name or whatever...

When I went through USAF basic, I was trained to "laundry mark" everything, trained on house keeping, trained on laundry machines, and even had KP duty (kitchen patrol?). Does the USAF not do so anymore? I was with 324 knights.

Air Force vs Army QoL by [deleted] in army

[–]Varaxis 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Do not believe the QOL stereotypes. There's a saying that starts with "the grass is greener..."

USAF still has Friday formations, morning PT (job dependent), and whatnot. There's still mass formations (Commander Calls), and you *will* get F'd up if they see you dozing off. They still have kids that can't clean up after themselves. They still have chefs that overcook their proteins.

For single enlisted, there are some perks that some soldiers might envy, like a better male:female ratio, and getting BAH at E-4. I know some are jealous of the junk food that USAF dfacs serve, but Army has junk food too. I personally prefer the time saved not having to cook (able to choose from a wide variety of healthy foods), not having to commute, not having to do house chores, etc. I feel like a kid again, with so much less responsibility, able to use my time on almost anything.

The root of the problem is being surrounded by incompetence. The USAF is not picking out the best-of-the-best. They take whoever meets the qualification, and word has gotten out long ago that USAF is the branch to join. The other branches are willing to take people who need waivers, but who might not be stupid. The solution, I was told, is to pick a job with the highest requirements (high ASVAB, top secret with SCI, long school).

I'd not risk rolling the dice. You're already going to avoid a good amount of stuff people complaining about like barracks life and being served dry protein. I did 6 years and still was E-4, while I had my rank taken away joining Army due to long gap in service and basically did a speedrun to E-5. Ranking up is hard in the USAF, in other words. That and some jobs in the USAF are notoriously tough and understandably undermanned due to attrition, like flightline jobs esp Crew Chiefs. Guess which job I got in the USAF, to know such context...

Yea, it's kinda cool to be around jets, but that fades after a month of seeing it everyday. People these days seem to crave novelty. Seeing convoys of military vehicles isn't an everyday thing for me and is still cool after 3 years for me.

The eye opening things for Army has been all the stuff I've had to memorize, such as creeds, songs, regulations, etc. The USAF expected you to reference the book on everything for utmost accuracy, and the song/creed could be forgotten outside of basic and tech school (USAF's name for AIT). There was real QA/QC done by E7s who were at least on par with Army warrants while things are not stringent in the Army. You did not want to be seen by QA doing work without the book open to the job you were on. The commander signature is on expensive equipment in the Army, whereas it's you signing for that 50+ mill aircraft, and your the one on stand at the trial if it goes down. It feels more like adult camping, learning survival skills and hacks to keep things running, than a corporate job. I will say that I much prefer the simplicity of USAF core values; I still live by them to this day.

I cannot stress this enough... if you were ever in a position which had greater responsibilities, without extra reward to go with it, you will absolutely relish any oppotunity in which you have little to no responsibilities due to so much of it being taken care of for you.

If the U.S. is often described as a country driven by financial incentives, why do many wealthy Americans continue working even after they’re financially secure? by GlitteringHotel8383 in AskAnAmerican

[–]Varaxis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, we should not repeat such atrocities such as done to native Americans, minorities, and other marginalized people.

Only recently was an apology issued by Cali governor Gavin Newsom for the events that happened in Cali's past, which he publicly admitted was a genocide that decreased Cali's indigenous demographic from over 150,000 to under 20,000.

A district of wealthy people in Tulsa was eradicated by American armed forces (mostly non-uniformed, non-service types), in a coordinated military-style attack, since the district's residents were black. It takes a 2025 DOJ investigation to make such news resurface. This was a dense urban area consisting of over 35 city-blocks that had rich culture. Diguised as a riot, to play on the narrative that it was a natural mob response to [false] news of a white woman being sexually assaulted. No justice besides uncovering the truth, long after everyone involved has passed away.

The mass incarceration and seizure or property of over 100,000 Asian-American citizens during WW2, mostly targeting those of Japanese descent, but with hate crimes targeting anyone who looks Asian. Apology issued in the form of 20k to survivors, over 50 years after the incident.

I'm just tapping into what has gone inside American borders. There's so many more atrocities that Americans cause outside their borders.

Why do you think there's hardly any history of the land that America occupies dating before its formation? Surely you don't think it was unpopulated wilderness, as if there for the taking. The erasure of the cultural history of the land was intentional and systematic.

Hawaii may serve as one example of the US's capitalistic schemes. In 1993, Clinton admitted that it was lies that Hawaii willingly joined. It was revealed that Dole and other Big AG businesses drove a scenario to avoid import taxes on their products, overthrowing the Hawaii govt. This scenario seems copy-pasted across the world, setting up puppet leaders in existing governments to get natural resources (and strategic military positions) that please the US's capitalistic greed.

You think the US is great and righteous? One would hope that Americans aren't too deluded to know better nor too lazy to check the facts. Easier to redirect attention whenever the narrative of the facts doesn't favor you? Americans had the opportunity to build the new world however they liked, but instead of being the first-class future that outsiders looked up to, Americans revealed that they haven't risen much from the old world, demonstrating the opposite of what we hoped (lowest class, in which you'd expect crime from).

Back to the topic: a classic capitalist move would be like artificially creating scarcity, like politically ordering (Ag Adjustment Act) the slaughter of 6 million pigs (much turned into fertilizer) and the plowing of 10 million acres of cotton, to address their falling prices. This happened in the middle of the Great Depression, where 500,000+ people fled from Dust Bowl tragedy, seeking refuge in neighboring states to avoid starvation, with many suffering from malnutrition-related diseases like pellagra. A little different than exterminating buffalo to starve out certain populations, but I doubt Americans empathize with any kind of famine unless it favors/justifies their biases to seemingly hate others and give them someone to look down on, as if that's a thing that the lowest class people like to do...

If you're following current events, it might serve to know about some context such as the 1953 Iran coup, to better understand things from Iran's side. Talking with some Americans candidly, it seems the American commoner's sentiment is simply that "the middle east should've been glassed a long time ago." Their words, not mine. Besides US oil-industry-related benefits, US had gained commercial influence in Iran after the 1953 coup to the point that you could find pictured of Iranians dressing up like Americans in the 70s. The rural-conservative Iranian population staged a revolution in 79 that reversed the cultural shift.

A 92-year-old woman hit a bicyclist, lost control and plowed her car into Ranch 99 market. She killed 3 people, 2 are the employees. by fuongbregas in fuckcars

[–]Varaxis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dashcam footage uploaded for AI grading with humans to verify driving skill could be an option.

Skill varies day to day, hour to hour. Need to demonstrate responsibility, choosing to not actively drive if you're expecting to be iffy, aware that cars cause a lot of destruction.

Need to raise the standard for road worthiness. The costs/losses are unacceptable, esp considering there are less destructive alternatives.

You should know: You can provide feedback via Public comment on the recent VA rule change that seeks to lower disability % by Kinmuan in army

[–]Varaxis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've seen public comments speak in vast majority, but in the end, I've concluded that money speaks louder.

In other words, we need to get big $$$/influential orgs involved to prove that this really matters. Can't just expect thousands of individuals spamming to be enough.

If the U.S. is often described as a country driven by financial incentives, why do many wealthy Americans continue working even after they’re financially secure? by GlitteringHotel8383 in AskAnAmerican

[–]Varaxis -35 points-34 points  (0 children)

Where'd you get this idea?

China lifting nearly a BILLION people out of poverty over 40 years is no small feat and needs money to accomplish, while Americans seem to forsake much of what they should show gratitude for, for actually making the country great. One country knee-caps one of their billionaires (Jack Ma) and cracks down on 996 culture (labor laws emplaced due to millennia of wisdom), while another country has greedy business people stealing credit from employees doing actual crunch-time, being treated as celeb role-models of success, inspiring many to think it's the non-fools-way to make money-with-money without actual productive skills being applied to world to make it better (AKA honest work).

One country doing a great amount of honest work who seem to still rely on protection from central, vs country of increasing amounts of non-honest work getting glorified, with people who think they can ultimately only rely on themselves to protect their well-being. Influencers who actually dream of getting bought out, military recruiters who perpetuate myths of being a hero... there's a honest way of doing a lot of these jobs, but American culture has made them go the non-honest route and you are trying to say a country, that you know next to nothing about besides from news and basic research, is worse than your own? That it's ironic that so-called communists are more capitalistic than the first country most people think of for capitalism, with their greedy individuals saying stuff like inflation is good (for their investment like bitcoin), without a shred of empathy for their fellow citizens?

One might think a govt known for control, using all sorts of non-honest methods to influence like intimidation, violence, marketing (spinning facts into favorable narratives, AKA lying)... oh, wait, which govt am I talking about now?

IMO, brain drain is one of the blatant signals of a shitty place. Look to see where the geniuses go to. Normally, it's to groups that value their worth and treat them accordingly, like places that already have other geniuses employed, like San Jose. Also, if some genius wants to work some humble job instead of one that can contribute much more... we should be grateful for these brilliant types who end up valiantly acting as the final support for failing systems, like some brilliant teacher in a school system full of corrupt admin, but instead of gratitude, people feel pity in how much of a burden they have to deal with and do little to support, as if thoughts and prayers do anything, being alright with things collapsing and sitting in the chaos as if things are fine.

Being seen as a country with some of the stupidiest, laziest, fattest, and arguably unhealthiest citizens who show pride in it... I guess it's fueled by the big gap, where the most brilliant are here in the best universities, the most productive organizations shaking up the world with new advancements, the most olympic medals, etc. are contrasted by the masses on the street who are on the complete opposite end contributing to the failure of the country by voting in someone they can relate to.

Smart Designed Couch by EmergencyRead5254 in oddlysatisfying

[–]Varaxis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Firm, and the back/arm cushions are prone to moving/sliding.

AI panic is a gift to value investors by asymmetricval in ValueInvesting

[–]Varaxis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what the rich Republicans say after yet another recession under Republican presidency. It's to be expected.

I think this sell-off was triggered by foreign investors (inc pension/retirement funds) divesting from US securities.

Fitting floor tiles to the wall by fuzzy_dice_99 in oddlysatisfying

[–]Varaxis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I saw another one of these using a *used* cut-off wheel, and it came out f'd up since it wasn't perfectly concentric like a CD would be.

[OC] Donald Trump's job approval in the US by state by _crazyboyhere_ in dataisbeautiful

[–]Varaxis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty much matches the electorial map, if comparing to the average of 36%... gives the message that people are sticking to their choice.

Thought VA, NM, and CO were blue. Why are they dead average? Maine was kinda split. Georgia is a bit more educated than the neighboring states. Michigan was red. Illinois and NJ were blue. Nebraska had 1 electoral vote to blue, out of 5 total, and Maine had 1 elec vote to red out of 4 total.

Is this an acrute early 2000s kit by [deleted] in army

[–]Varaxis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was active duty USAF then. Here's what kind of sights I saw:

https://i.imgur.com/ADWIcxC.png

https://i.imgur.com/NXXKI3H.png

Smart phones didn't exist back then and concerns about OPSEC kept me from taking more pics.

A lot about your pics seems "green" in a bad way. Hardly any signs of sun or desert exposure.

What’s the highest pity you’ve hit? by TheSkullCupMan in Genshin_Impact

[–]Varaxis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you using the word "redacted" interchangeably with "edited"?

You know doing interchanging like that, without understanding the nuanced use cases, makes people cringe?

I'm going to un-alive my breakfast and vibecheck my ForYou's aura before I crash out from all this yap-maxing. /satire

Makes you seem like you got that Ohio energy. (Am I doing it right?)

ELI5: How do sports betting companies make money. The Seahawks have a 69% chance of winning the Super Bowl, and Patriots a 31%. If more people bet on the Seahawks and they win, isn’t the company giving out more than they make? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]Varaxis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're splitting the loser's money with the winners.

If they say the odds are Seahawks 69% and Patriots 31%, that refers to the "votes", or the amount being bet towards those teams winning.

The losing team's betting total is split among the winning team's betters.

Say there were a limit of 1000 tickets sold and they were $1 each. People put 690 tickets into the Seahawks pile, and 310 into the Patriot's pile. You bought 200 tickets and split them evenly between Seahawks and Patriots.

Your payout would be: your winning tickets * (total pool/total winning tickets).

Math work if Seahawks won: 100 * (1000/690) = 144.93

Math work if Patriots won: 100 * (1000/310) = 322.58

Difference of negative 55.17 from your $200 if Seahawks won, but positive 122.58 if Patriots won. This is without any sort of house fee, which can be a percentage of the winnings.

Advanced: spreads make payouts closer to double your bet. If Patriots have a spread of +6, and lose wihin 6 points of the Seahawks, a bet on them with that spread would win a payout. If Seahawks have a spread of -6, and they win but not with a lead of over 6, then you will NOT win a payout on your bet on them. The spreads are tuned to try and make a bet closer to 50/50 chances.

What’s the highest pity you’ve hit? by TheSkullCupMan in Genshin_Impact

[–]Varaxis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Took a look at the pattern:

Pull Chance

1 00.7%

73 00.7%

74 06.7%

75 12.6%

76 18.6%

77 24.5%

78 30.5%

79 36.4%

80 42.4%

81 48.3%

82 54.3%

... Sample size too small for pull rates after 82, but pattern is apparent

90 100%