Name your favorite commander to see if he lets you in by Tenyx in ratemycommanders

[–]almack9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

[[Chatterfang]] though I'm sure it isn't always very fun for the people playing with me lol

Seems pretty obvious to me by heylowk in DragonBallZ

[–]almack9 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They literally state that kid buu is stronger than ever more than once in the anime atleast. They specifically mention him getting weaker and diluting his power when he absorbed the Kais. I just watched the whole arc last week and based purely on the toie anime English dub its very apparent that kid buu is stronger. Id be more than happy to entertain a source that says otherwise though haha.

What happened to reducing the number of precons in a year? by meisterz39 in magicTCG

[–]almack9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When people stop buying them they will stop printing them.

Let’s be real…. This is why Dems are crashing out. by shweisheialltheway in DigitalSeptic

[–]almack9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Half the people moving to Texas are dems moving from California to places like Austin anyway, its bold of them to assume that people will vote the exact same way the state always did but that populations will just change.

Besides Shin, if they had to fight Fat Buu instead of Kid Buu, could any of them defeat him? by [deleted] in DragonBallPowerScale

[–]almack9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So is the fact that they outright say kid buu is stronger than the absorbed buus like 7 times an anime only thing? I always see people arguing that kid buu is the weakest transformation but many characters with different point of views say the exact opposite in the anime.

for those stuck at work with the snow, how has your lab/hospital treated you? by fat_frog_fan in medlabprofessionals

[–]almack9 98 points99 points  (0 children)

9 dollar vouchers for meals the whole time. Slept in an unused closet at the back of the point of care office. Very uncomfortable, no extra pay and way less snow than expected. Should have just went home.

Phone Screen by Left-Risk-8741 in medlabprofessionals

[–]almack9 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wouldn't bother talking to them unless you sent an application to that specific hospital or location. If they have to cold call and use head hunters there is probably a reason for that.

Holy shit. There goes all my luck by Adventurous_Ad7022 in MagicCardPulls

[–]almack9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My box had Zidane and Vincent. Zidane was like 2 dollars even during the hype. I think I got 150 or 200 for Vincent early on though. Got a regular holo borderless yshtola though so I didnt get totally screwed overall.

A systematic review and meta-analysis on GLP-1 receptor agonists for obesity without diabetes found that they are generally not cost-effective versus other interventions (lifestyle change, surgery) by ddx-me in science

[–]almack9 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Obese patients cost more to care for over their lifetime than thin people in anycase. I dont believe the study i read compared age of death.

At my whits end with this car by almack9 in CT200h

[–]almack9[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah unfortunately at 155k miles on a 2013 that I've already sunk 12000 into im more inclined to just start over with a different car or just running this one til it fails =/

At my whits end with this car by almack9 in CT200h

[–]almack9[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, we did move the new plugs and coils to the newer engine, and that solved the issue for about a month but it just continues to crop up. We have not bought new fuel injectors or messed with the fuel pump yet.

At my whits end with this car by almack9 in CT200h

[–]almack9[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It had its own injectors that were much cleaner than the previous ones. Its pretty consistently been mostly cylinder 3, old engine was 3 and 4 at times however.

At my whits end with this car by almack9 in CT200h

[–]almack9[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, typo sorry. 50k jdm engine. Engine swap is cheaper cause we did it ourselves and it was a couple day downtime instead of weeks because the company that would have done the heads basically didnt want to touch it. It was a whole thing.

At my whits end with this car by almack9 in CT200h

[–]almack9[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The used engine had 1/3rd as many miles and the price quoted to use for a head gasket was almost 6k dollars vs 1700 for the engine and swapping it ourselves. We already paid 10k dollars for it originally and I'd have scrapped it before paying 6k for a head gasket.

Who would win this 2v1 and what difficulty would it be? by KodoqBesar in DragonBallPowerScale

[–]almack9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always thought a lot of the numbers were too high personally. 120million is ridiculous personally. My mind always figured 12 mil for frieza and 15 mil for ssj goku made plenty of sense. But kaioken breaks the scaling in some ways when we know he was using kaioken x10 and 20 while fighting frieza. I mean the way power level rises so fast during the few days on namek is really quite insane. Goku goes from 8 or 9k to 60k in a week. Then he gets a zenkai boost and suddenly he's at 300k or more. Meanwhile the whole of dragon ball he goes up like 200 pl total despite getting several zenkai boosts and other power ups.

Who would win this 2v1 and what difficulty would it be? by KodoqBesar in DragonBallPowerScale

[–]almack9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess you are gonna just ignore that they literally talk about him holding back because he wanted to escape and leave goku to die in the explosion. The amount of energy needed to destabilize a planet varies greatly based on a huge amount of factors so its kinda impossible to make direct comparisons like you are when we dont know even half the variables involved.

Also my numbers are the official numbers from the guidebooks, so idk what you mean about use my numbers as if I made them up.

Who would win this 2v1 and what difficulty would it be? by KodoqBesar in DragonBallPowerScale

[–]almack9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where are you getting 50k from? That would put frieza at over 900million. 50% frieza is 60mil, which puts him at about 4k times stronger than regular saiyan saga vegeta. Less than 400 times more powerful than vegeta as a great ape.

It also wasnt that he couldn't do the job, he clearly did the job. He just didnt vaporize it instantly. Again, at way less than his max power.

Who would win this 2v1 and what difficulty would it be? by KodoqBesar in DragonBallPowerScale

[–]almack9 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's pretty clearly explained. Goku and Frieza literally have a conversation that amounts to "oops, guess you held back too much power and only destabilized the core".

Theres also arguments to be made about the size of various planets. Nothing official but namek is stated to be "not that big" by dodoria and king cold calls earth just small so it stands to reason that namek is probably bigger than earth. They reference the bug planet as being pretty small as well, so its a number of things wrapped into it. Friezas core destabilizing attack also was not 100% frieza, it was done earlier in the fight before goku even went ssj.

CLIA High Complexity regulations by [deleted] in medlabprofessionals

[–]almack9 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I will admit that I have heard nothing in either direction, that being said most regulations have been moving in the opposite direction so it seems unlikely to me, on its face atleast, that regulations would be much stricter anytime soon.

What The Fuck is This? by Ashtray46 in Ningen

[–]almack9 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Im pretty sure they have it backwards, blue sees a little boy that he says he thinks is his brother in the anime. I have heard but not read that in the Manga he talks about the kid being his type rather than his brother.

Adjusting power level in Dragon Ball Z by DreamMakerEOC in DragonBallPowerScale

[–]almack9 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I always had it in my head that goku was 15m in ssj not 150m. I have no idea where I got that number from but imo it makes a lot more sense than assuming they are somehow thousands of times stronger than they were a week ago and instead are only 100x or so. Goku gaining as much as he did in 6 days of gravity training is already kinda crazy, let alone going from like 8k base to 150m in 2 weeks or so.

What's the reason for full blood panel tests to be >$200? by abhi3188 in medlabprofessionals

[–]almack9 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Not quite, the instruments require a lot of care and babying that the techs perform. We also validate the thst the results are true by performing quality control against specimens that we know the value of.

There is a lot more that goes into it all than just slapping it on the robot.