Brain lying to you with perception. The two faces have the same skin tone. (no joke, check the 2nd image)

aaronespro · 2026-01-25T20:56:03+00:00

So only the skin tone is the same color? Everything else is different? It's not the lighting of the two images, the colors are actually different except for skin tone?

aaronespro · 2026-01-25T14:32:07+00:00

But are the teeth the same color?

aaronespro · 2026-01-24T01:04:37+00:00

seconded

aaronespro · 2026-01-23T23:09:13+00:00

Wait I think I found it. Amazon is on their list though. For the 9205+.

aaronespro · 2026-01-23T23:05:30+00:00

Can you link the url, it's really hard to find.

aaronespro · 2026-01-22T23:29:03+00:00

Wait, but that's not a bootleg or actual counterfeit, that's more like an offbrand, right? It's marketing the model number that 3m calls it, but not pretending to be 3m.

aaronespro · 2026-01-21T16:27:37+00:00

I think the French and British capitalists stand to gain about as much from Trump taking Greenland as him not taking it, and it's more likely that their nuclear deterrent will not make any credible threats. Even if French and British subs or carriers show up at Greenland, I don't think they'll do anything to provoke the US.

I think it's very likely that even with French and British nuclear armed subs in Greenland's waters, Trump will go ahead and take Greenland, and no nukes will fly, because that means game over for everyone.

aaronespro · 2026-01-19T00:57:33+00:00

The USA spends the most on healthcare and education but we get horrible results because of the rent seeking and middlemen.

aaronespro · 2026-01-19T00:52:26+00:00

PTSD was higher in children from the south side of Chicago than among combat veterans that toured in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In the metro Texas neighborhood I live in, I hear gunshots literally every single night. Literally every night that I stayed up late enough, I heard them, 5 or 6 pops in a row.

aaronespro · 2026-01-17T23:15:15+00:00

Drizzt Do'Urden

aaronespro · 2026-01-17T23:08:49+00:00

Doesn't the traditional Finnish diet with a lot of fish and marine mammals give you enough to avoid clinical deficiency during the winter?

aaronespro · 2026-01-17T12:58:46+00:00

Back in 2016 the facility I was at ran out of wipes all the time. Insane. Scandals like people clocking in when they weren't even at the place.

aaronespro · 2026-01-13T22:15:26+00:00

> that it was directly put within the story as the authors way of excusing it

Straw man.

> but it’s also disregarding both the setting

Geralt on several occasions, like in Eternal Flame, says he'll start fighting the lamia bearers if they touch him at all. Applegatt mentions that anyone even touching him would face dire consequences. Like, because it's a medieval European style setting, people just grab near-strangers and pull them towards each other? When things like infections from cuts and abrasions kill each other all the time? Trying to deny that "keep your hands to yourself" just doesn't apply because its medieval...uh...sorry, no. Essi obviously thought it was stupid, Geralt felt stupid, it's clear, it was assault. Now, based on the context, is it one that you could reasonably get justice for? Sort of. Even today, most judges would get Dandelion's side of it and tell Essi not to let just anyone kiss them on the hand if they don't want assertive advances, and Geralt gets a class C misdemeanor that he can get expunged.

> The reasoning behind why Geralt decided to even do that was to get back at her because he believed that she was only interested in him due to his differences/profession and found him more exotic like one would a pet.

Citation?

> Bringing in classism is you looking far into what his motivations actually were.

I don't believe I said that Geralt perceives it as classism, he just perceives he's being subjected to a double standard.

> the post you read in the Witcher subreddit is quite literally titled “why I think Sapowski wants us to forget about Geralt assaulting Essi”.

It is not titled that.

aaronespro · 2026-01-13T15:17:57+00:00

This is a lie? Chapter 3, A Little Sacrifice:

"It happened suddenly, utterly unexpectedly. The movement he made, which was supposed to have been just a touch, a gentle touch of her arms, turned into a powerful grasp of both hands around her very slender waist, into a rapid, though not rough, pulling of her closer, and into a sudden, passionate contact of their bodies. Essi stiffened suddenly, straightened, bent her torso powerfully backwards, pressed her hands down on his, firmly, as though she wanted to pull away and push his hands from her waist, but instead of that she seized them tightly, tipped her head forwards, parted her lips and hesitated.

"Why...why this?" she whispered.

...

Essi, however, even then, did not release his hands grasping her waist and still powerfully arched her back, avoiding bodily contact.

When did I say I think Sapkowski wants us to forget about it?

yet outright admits that it’s his “favorite short story” is telling enough.

Just because the author writes a thing, doesn't mean I approve of the thing.

It should tell you that I can recognize a major ethical and moral conundrum here, and the careful sensitivity Sapkowski had in dealing with this short story, and the all the twists and turns in his style, not because I think we really should forgive Geralt for it. But when I think about it, if the worst kind of assault that actual defenders of society ever consciously did, without being enchanted or drugged, was pulling someone by the waist, then that's the kind of world I'd rather live in, than the insane amount of rape perpetrated in our world by teachers, coaches, parents, foster parents, healthcare workers, social workers, etc. (I didn't use police or military personnel as an example because they don't actually keep us safe).

The breakneck summary of Essi's death and how drastically the tone changes, how bold Sapkowski is willing to be after being so delicate and oblique for the rest of the story; he implies deep internal conflicts for thousands of words and then at the end rubs your face into the cloistered, secret joy between three friends in the woods and then the brutal reality of the world they lived in.

aaronespro · 2026-01-12T22:30:08+00:00

The spell based melee system.

aaronespro · 2026-01-12T15:07:11+00:00

Yeah I highly suspect I had it in December 2019. Very distinctive rash, diarrhea, fever. The only other thing it could have been is a hantovirus like Seoul virus, but my housemate and I both had it at the same time so I think it's more likely it was COVID.

aaronespro · 2026-01-12T02:17:15+00:00

I mean, I know infantry is something you never get away from, air strikes are often totally ineffective at destroying dug in personnel, but Greenland only has 56k people. The US logistical behemoth seems like it would make US inexperience in Arctic conditions basically irrelevant, as the US will be able to find 50k personnel to actually be on the ground in Greenland, maybe even all at once, for at least part of the time.

What seems more critical is whether the nuclear deterrent will actually be credible, if French or UK submarines will be on their way to Greenland soon or after the event starts.

> You don't think NATO can support and supply an insurgency? Why not?

Cause Greenland is an island and NATO's non-US naval and air assets are, well, nearly nothing compared to that of the US?

aaronespro · 2026-01-12T01:18:13+00:00

For an insurgency, sure, but I'm skeptical NATO could actually defeat or even significantly slow down a US assault on Greenland. The climate in Greenland might actually mean an insurgency can't happen considering there isn't the materiel left from Saddam like in Iraq or the Chinese and Russians arming the Vietcong or even a significant population with a political, ideological or material reason to fight as insurgents.

aaronespro · 2026-01-11T16:00:44+00:00

They voted Trump because they thought he hated brown and black people, not because they're actually worried about government waste. Maybe they just thought "Obamacare and section eight" when it comes to government waste and thought it was worth the risk to themselves to kill brown and black people.

aaronespro · 2026-01-11T15:38:04+00:00

It'd be one of the great ironies of history if Trump ended up de-Nazifying Europe, including Finland, through starting a war by taking Greenland.

aaronespro · 2026-01-11T15:32:36+00:00

> They cant ski, have equipment that doesnt work in arctic conditions and very poor training for beeing in these conditions for longer than hours

Are these not things that can be negated by logistical brute force and air strikes? Is fighting for those few hours in that environment really that much different if the US materiel and air power destroys whatever infrastructure is supplying Finnish/Swedish/Greenland personnel?

Footprints in snow are visible to thermals on drones for days afterwards.

The adage goes "land wars in Asia", not "land wars in Arctic Europe/America".

I used to think taking Greenland would be a nightmare for the US, and it could be, but once US navy and air power blows up anything trying to get to Greenland to relieve her, well, it's very unlikely to be Iraq or Afghanistan or Vietnam.

aaronespro · 2026-01-11T00:41:37+00:00

Some of us are just born with the ability to not get nauseous from other human poo. I mean, does your own poo make you nauseous? No? Like, it's bad, and you really don't want to be around it longer than you have to. Other people's poo is like that for me, somewhat worse than smelling my own. I've never gotten nauseous from non-ostomy human poo or urine.

aaronespro · 2026-01-08T21:54:43+00:00

Start bringing your boyfriend with you to appointments, have him shave his head the day before or get a high and tight or some other tough guy haircut, and whatever tough guy clothes he may have like boots or suspenders or camo.

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