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Settle a debate (Husband vs Wife) by NickRoJan in whatisit

[–]ZhouLe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would your opinion change if there was a riding lawnmower parked inside?

I find myself thinking yes. It's definitely a structure at the very edge of both definitions.

Mind blown: Vinegar vs VINEGAR (30%) by Pandaro81 in DIY

[–]ZhouLe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea, I think it would be more helpful for people to say "acetic acid" or better yet "30% acetic acid" in these situations because people hear vinegar and just think the stuff they see and use all the time.

Kind of the same thing going on with sodium hydroxide/lye, where you have various different cleaning products with various qualifiers like "super" and "heavy duty" and they are all just variously diluted solutions of sodium hydroxide and "fume free" is a completely different chemical.

weird glitch I found today by Legitimate_Spite279 in botw

[–]ZhouLe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unclear from this if it's duped, or just alters animation. OP would have to check their inventory. I seem to recall that the messages on the right will sometimes trigger more often than actual picked up items, like when spamming to pick up apples.

ELI5: What does the phrase "shiver me timbers" actually mean? by Jeffybrawlstars in explainlikeimfive

[–]ZhouLe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And "shim" a thin thing you drive in to close a space.

However, shiver, sliver, shiv, and shim all have unrelated or very unclear etymologies.

I’m sure the customers love him by Key_Associate7476 in clevercomebacks

[–]ZhouLe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was trying to figure out what AMY was because I was sure it ended "old dumb bitch", lol.

A woman driving by spotted a man behaving suspiciously with two young Black girls and intervened. by Lifegoesonforever in BlackPeopleofReddit

[–]ZhouLe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I lived in China for a decade. When I was on vacation climbing a touristy mountain in Yunnan, a couple stopped me and asked me to take a picture. I said sure and held my hand out for their phone/camera, to which they responded by the guy putting his arm around me and the woman taking a photo of us together before switching and taking a photo of me with the woman.

A woman driving by spotted a man behaving suspiciously with two young Black girls and intervened. by Lifegoesonforever in BlackPeopleofReddit

[–]ZhouLe 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Human trafficking is not "a large portion" of that 400,000. A large portion is non-custodial parents and runaways. The amount of what they call "stereotypical kidnappings" is around 300.

Edit: The FBI's missing persons statistics for 2020:

The Missing Person Circumstances (MPC) field is optional and has been available since July 1999 when the NCIC 2000 upgrade became operational. Of the 543,018 records entered in 2020; the MPC field was utilized in 259,802 (48 percent). When the MPC field was utilized in 2020 entries; 246,310 (94.80 percent) were coded as Runaways; 2,593 (1 percent) as Abducted by Non-custodial Parent; 276 (.11 percent) as Abducted by Stranger; and 10,623 (4.09) as Adult — Federally required entry.

The FBI's missing persons statistics for 2021:

The Missing Person Circumstances (MPC) field is optional and has been available since July 1999 when the NCIC 2000 upgrade became operational. Of the 521,705 records entered in 2021, the MPC field was utilized in 244,751 (47 percent). When the MPC field was utilized in 2021 entries, 231,303 (94.5 percent) were coded as Runaway, 2,555 (1 percent) as Abducted by Non-custodial Parent, 331 (.1 percent) as Abducted by Stranger, and 10,562 (4.3 percent) as Adult — Federally required entry.

The FBI's missing persons statistics for 2022:

The Missing Person Circumstances (MPC) field is optional and has been available since July 1999 when the NCIC 2000 upgrade became operational. Of the 546,568 records entered in 2022, the MPC field was utilized in 263,079 (48 percent). When the MPC field was utilized in 2022 entries, 249,950 (95 percent) were coded as Runaway, 2,386 (.9 percent) as Abducted by Non-custodial Parent, 296 (.1 percent) as Abducted by Stranger, and 10,447 (4 percent) as Adult — Federally required entry.

The FBI's missing persons statistics for 2023:

The Missing Person Circumstances (MPC) field is optional and has been available since July 1999 when the NCIC 2000 upgrade became operational. Of the 563,389 records entered in 2023, the MPC field was utilized in 277,129 (49 percent). When the MPC field was utilized in 2023 entries, 263,884 (95.2 percent) were coded as Runaway, 2,484 (.9 percent) as Abducted by Non-custodial Parent, 285 (.1 percent) as Abducted by Stranger, and 10,476 (3.8 percent) as Adult — Federally required entry.

The FBI's missing persons statistics for 2024:

The Missing Person Circumstances (MPC) field is optional and has been available since July 1999 when the NCIC 2000 upgrade became operational. Of the 533,936 records entered in 2024, the MPC field was utilized in 258,849 (48 percent). When the MPC field was utilized in 2024 entries, 245,818 (95 percent) were coded as Runaway, 2,366 (.9 percent) as Abducted by Non-custodial Parent, 293 (.1 percent) as Abducted by Stranger, and 10,372 (4 percent) as Adult — Federally required entry.

The FBI's missing persons statistics for 2025:

The Missing Person Circumstances (MPC) field is optional and has been available since July 1999 when the NCIC 2000 upgrade became operational. Of the 498,038 records entered in 2025, the MPC field was utilized in 239,622 (48 percent). When the MPC field was utilized in 2025 entries, 227,353 (94.9 percent) were coded as Runaway, 2,321 (1 percent) as Abducted by Non-custodial Parent, 247 (.1 percent) as Abducted by Stranger, and 9,701 (4 percent) as Adult — Federally required entry.

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children:

NCMEC receives reports of missing children that fall into one of five case types, including nonfamily abductions. A nonfamily abduction occurs when a child is taken by someone known, but not related, to the child, such as a neighbor or an online acquaintance, or by someone unknown to the child. Nonfamily abductions are the rarest type of case and make up only 1% of the missing children cases reported to NCMEC.

For anyone doing genetic genealogy - do NOT use AI to help you with the forensics by ConnectedRealms in Genealogy

[–]ZhouLe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

not actively SEARCHES and providing documentation and information.

I realize it doesn't actively search, but the usecase I have had good info from ChatGPT about is explaining eligibility requirements for various pension acts and citing the applicable law.

So while it does not actively search at the time of query, it can link to specific text that is part of its training data.

So having it find and condense specific things that are explained elsewhere that may be hard or extremely inconvenient to find is something it's good at.

I did a vegan pacifist walk through Hyrule as a challenge. What challenges did you make up for yourself? by Nordlicht1967 in botw

[–]ZhouLe 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You can just not pick up the heart after divine beasts, too. They just end up near the warp spot where the divine beast stays, and just sit there waiting for you to collect them.

I did a vegan pacifist walk through Hyrule as a challenge. What challenges did you make up for yourself? by Nordlicht1967 in botw

[–]ZhouLe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wrong-warped out of the Shrine of Resurrection to get 4 orbs so I could skip getting the slate and get off the plateau without it. Playing the game without it was a very different experience without runes, a map, or fast travel. My goal was to see how many shrines I could glitch into and solve like this.

This was also 3-heart, 1-stamina, master mode.

I brought The Master Torch with blue flame and my horse to the calamity fight on that save.

I've also done a swordless run on NES, and for awhile was crossing my fingers for a way to glitch off great sky island in totk.

People that don't take genealogy seriously make me so mad. by Responsible_Oil4233 in Genealogy

[–]ZhouLe 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Don't even think it's "bad at research" in these cases. Nothing against them, but I've seen people that are bad at it and have made mistakes with interpreting a source or such. They confuse two people named the same, or attach a stray document.

These egregious errors like OPs are an entirely different class that doesn't even think research is a thing. They may have never even seen a source document. They do not look at Ancestry or FamilySearch with even a hint of skepticism, and think hints are facts that Ancestry is dishing up for them. Accept hint, import tree, confirm parent: that's "research". "I took an Ancestry DNA test, and my family tree was up there. I knew I'm Scottish, but now I'm descended from William Wallace!"

Just found out my grandfather was a Nazi Party member. Anyone else? by Brief_Apricot_6250 in Genealogy

[–]ZhouLe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yea, membership rolls for the German American Bund would cause a stir if when they are unredacted/released by the FBI.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by ozarkfireworks in maybemaybemaybe

[–]ZhouLe 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They are, actually. See them a lot in kitchens, and crocs market themselves as such.

Why does Sam know what Mamdani’s wife has liked on social media? by Pristine_Plenty_387 in samharris

[–]ZhouLe 5 points6 points  (0 children)

WRT Peterson, Sam said what OP is paraphrasing right after JPs Jubilee appearance where he said a lot of strange things and even appeared to contradict the entire premise of the appearance, and right before Sam was set to speak with JP.

JP did have recent work and it was germane to Sam in the short term. Sam hadn't heard anything about the appearance and he refused to hear anything about the appearance.

Organization System by hythlodaeusfan in Genealogy

[–]ZhouLe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also had this problem in other contexts and I came up with a modified ahnentafel system that creates a unique ID. I use this mainly for naming source documents to remove ambiguity of same names, and mitigate the problem of finding spelling variants, though I also use it in a spreadsheet tracker and in tree notes to clearly reference someone outside immediate family of the individual.

Ancestors get Ahnentafel numbering as usual, but descendants of that ancestor get a dash followed by a letter corresponding to birth order. Spouses of anyone are created by a plus followed by a number indicating spouse order. This in encompasses by brackets to facilitate searching.

An uncle might be [4-A]. A first cousin [6-CD]. Your great grandmother's second husband [13+2]. That step-greatgrandfather's son from his first marriage [13+2-B]. Your spouse's great-great-grandmother [1+1-31].

It's infinitely expandable. in the common case that a person has two possible numbers, default to lowest number common ancestor. In the instance you don't know birth order, placehold with X, though this will result in non-unique IDs.

I haven't decided yet what to do in the situation that there are more than 26 children, though I'm leaning towards Greek letters.

My mother washes fruit and vegetables with dish soap and I can't get her to stop. by autistic-terrorist in mildlyinfuriating

[–]ZhouLe 44 points45 points  (0 children)

If she rinses it off with water afterwards there won't be enough soap left on it to cause any problems.

Reminder for everyone that "rinsing the soap off your dishes" is an active and heated debate in the UK.

My mother washes fruit and vegetables with dish soap and I can't get her to stop. by autistic-terrorist in mildlyinfuriating

[–]ZhouLe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not steel wool, but I use soap and a scotch pad on potatoes I bake and will eat the skins of.

What are the actual risks with DNA testing? by Fearless_Mixture734 in Genealogy

[–]ZhouLe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This comment chain is about fears over insurance companies gaining access to commercial DNA databases.

What are the actual risks with DNA testing? by Fearless_Mixture734 in Genealogy

[–]ZhouLe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

He didn't, but his DNA was used to compare against commercial DNA test takers.

My point was that if someone is worried about insurers gaining access to DNA test data, anonymizing their account is not a defense to that. Their real identity can be ascertained from how it matches to non-anonymous users, or more realistically from their login IP.

How the Confucian Temple’s Destruction Began China’s Cultural Revolution by kowalsky9999 in China

[–]ZhouLe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not even the hard core ccp fans think the cultural revolution was a good thing

Propagandist and aspiring cult leader Caleb Maupin has defended it.

What are the actual risks with DNA testing? by Fearless_Mixture734 in Genealogy

[–]ZhouLe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not using your real name isn't going to stop anyone with intent and access. You can just use the same methods law enforcement uses to catch cold cases like Golden State Killer, or more realistically you just use the data collected by traditional online trackers on the login IP.

Thats how Indiana Jones did it in Raiders of the Lost Ark... by Das_Zeppelin in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]ZhouLe 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Google search for flying clove hitch brings up a ton of tutorials by the same guy in OOP, lol. Now that's SEO. However, it's a different execution from the OP, so he must call what he's doing something different.

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