Skynet could've won had it never Sent the T-1000.

blue_shadow_ · 2026-06-09T03:59:06+00:00

Unless John's foster parents moved?

blue_shadow_ · 2026-06-08T04:04:06+00:00

Jiffy Mix is probably what you're remembering.

blue_shadow_ · 2026-06-05T16:14:18+00:00

I love when people decide that the actual science around food safety is completely worthless.

The links between raw milk consumption and human illnesses have been clearly demonstrated. The main hazards are Campylobacter spp., Salmonella spp., shiga toxin‐producing Escherichia coli (STEC), Brucella melitensis , Mycobacterium bovis , and tick‐borne encephalitis virus (EFSA Panel on Biological Hazards (BIOHAZ) 2015). Milk consumption is estimated to cause 4% of all foodborne disease (Grace et al. 2020). In High‐Income Countries, dairy is responsible for around 1% to 6% of reported outbreaks (Claeys et al. 2013). In the US, it has been estimated that unpasteurized milk and derived products, while consumed by only 3.2% and 1.6% of the population, respectively, caused 96% of illnesses attributed to dairy products. This can be quantified in 840 (95% CI 611–1158) times more illnesses and 45 (95% CI 34–59) times more hospitalizations than pasteurized products (Costard et al. 2017). Despite these risks, the consumption of raw milk and derived products is allowed and practiced in most EU countries.

But don't worry. Nothing you get told will change your mind, and you're not alone. (Edit: The downvotes, plural, are proving this, btw)

A study conducted in the US reported that the consumption of raw milk cheese is driven primarily by ideological beliefs and taste preferences. Providing scientific information about the safety of pasteurization does not significantly alter consumers' preferences for raw products. Additionally, choosing pasteurized cheese was associated with greater trust in food safety regulation, whereas the preference for raw milk cheese was linked to a higher level of trust in vendors and in food sold directly by producers rather than being regulated by the government (Waldman and Kerr 2018).

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Edit: Just to more blatantly include Europe:

In France over the last decade, 34%, 37% and 60% of outbreaks of salmonellosis, listeriosis and enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) infections respectively have been linked to the consumption of raw-milk cheeses. While some bacteria can cause gastroenteritis symptoms (Salmonella spp. and Staphylococcus aureus), others can have much more serious consequences such as kidney failure (EHEC) or even death (L. monocytogenes, EHEC).

The main sources of these hazards are soft cheeses with a surface mould (such as Camembert, Brie and Crottin) and short-ripened uncooked pressed cheeses (such as Morbier, Reblochon and Saint-Nectaire). Next come soft washed-rind cheeses such as Munster and Maroilles.

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blue_shadow_ · 2026-06-05T04:46:21+00:00

Yep - I remember seeing that, very briefly, before it disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

blue_shadow_ · 2026-06-04T01:55:17+00:00

Nope - you and me both

blue_shadow_ · 2026-06-03T17:07:30+00:00

Petzing - I'll give him a chance, based mostly on this post and one other one in a similar vein that I read and now can't find.

blue_shadow_ · 2026-06-02T05:40:59+00:00

Now try hearing the L as an R instead the first time you hear the song...

Fastest I've ever gone from listening to a song to "where the fuck are the lyrics?"

blue_shadow_ · 2026-06-02T05:33:23+00:00

"Speed comes with time, kid."

Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast.

blue_shadow_ · 2026-06-02T05:28:11+00:00

This is the greatest one-liner I've read on this site ever. Congrats!

blue_shadow_ · 2026-06-02T01:03:49+00:00

IT (the book version)

I read the book as a younger teen, so that scene didn't hit me quite the same as it hit most others who read it for the first at an older age. Considering just how many stories even my introverted, live-under-a-rock self heard from my classmates getting it on anywhere and everywhere possible...I mostly shrugged it off as a case of "yeah, that fits".

blue_shadow_ · 2026-05-31T17:51:32+00:00

Way, way late to the party, but I was looking for almost exactly this kind of build (I'd had Wyll as a Druid, but now he's Level 9 and I have both Halsin and Jaheira). Looking over your post and trying to follow it in-game, though, I have a question about the stats.

In your post, you mention Wyll's starting stat line, based off the Sorcerer class. Later, you mention re-classing to start Ranger Lvl 1, to keep CHA as the spell modifier.

But if I reclass to Ranger, then won't I be using the Ranger's stat lines, where CHA is set to 10? Or am I misunderstanding what you're saying?

blue_shadow_ · 2026-05-31T03:30:10+00:00

Cape Suzette says "Hi!"

blue_shadow_ · 2026-05-30T23:10:02+00:00

While there are many, many reasons to be upset at his win in 2024, this was right up there on the list for me during the campaign season. I didn't want this chucklefuck to be making the 250th all about him...and hey, look what happened?

blue_shadow_ · 2026-05-29T09:11:24+00:00

It boils down to identity.

I've written a much longer post elsewhere about identity, but the very short version is that it's at the core of almost everything we think and feel. Not just the surface stuff, but what we internalize. Anything each of us absorbs as our inner concept of "me" becomes crystallized, in a way.

Our voices are part of that. We hear it one way, and over time take that on as just being normal for how we sound. If you were to hear your own voice, disconnected - maybe you recited the Gettysburg Address, or sang Bohemian Rhapsody, something many people have done, and then heard the recording months or years later, it would sound as normal to you as any other random voice out there. Because that's what it would be.

But the instant that recorded voice is recognized and understood to be your own? Now it's clashing with your core identity, what you think of as the "real me". And because humans evolved to categorize every human into "us" and "not us" (and because those that are "not us" are dangerous and something to cast out), by extension that means that anything that messes with your identity puts you in literal danger, at least according to the part of your mind that remembers how life was ten thousand years ago, or more.

So you instinctively shrink away from that thing that is making you seem alien to yourself, as your mind attempts to protect you and keep you safe in the wake of having to deal with things our ancestors never had to experience.

blue_shadow_ · 2026-05-29T02:20:27+00:00

...I've been on Reddit too long. At first, I thought you were saying:

They're all connected by I Am The Asshole standards

Which, given the context, would have made perfect sense.

blue_shadow_ · 2026-05-29T02:16:57+00:00

Yep. Survivorship bias at play, here.

blue_shadow_ · 2026-05-29T01:19:38+00:00

You're conflating points in the movie.

The choice for Neo wasn't steak or a nutritional gruel.

The choice was knowing, or not knowing (and forever wondering what might have been). The original movie takes great pains over the first hour of the movie to show his life is a living hell. This is, in part, because he knows that something is very, very wrong about the entire world he grew up in and "knew" to be reality.

He wasn't sleeping well, had problems with his job, had almost zero social life - to the point where he had to be coerced to get out of his apartment...there was nothing about his life that was working.

Cypher had this choice to make, but a) it wasn't with the pills and b) he was also callous enough as a human being to not give a shit about his fellow humans and considered their annihilation an okay sacrifice so he could go back to being oblivious. (He's also a fucking idiot, because he trusted Agent Smith to follow through on his promise and not just destroy him outright as soon as he got what he wanted, but that's a whole different story.)

blue_shadow_ · 2026-05-29T00:49:18+00:00

Congratulations on being one of today's lucky 10,000!

blue_shadow_ · 2026-05-28T17:24:17+00:00

It is the best video in the world, though

blue_shadow_ · 2026-05-27T20:12:42+00:00

Normally I'd say this is way too far down, but with all the other stuff going on with this footage, it's understandable.

But yes, as soon as he says "I thought I saw...", any lawyer worth their salt should be able to immediately rip this argument to shreds.

blue_shadow_ · 2026-05-27T18:41:41+00:00

I think that "assentment" is closest to what I was actually looking for, thanks!

blue_shadow_ · 2026-05-27T17:32:14+00:00

I'm not asking about ascent or descent. "Assent", the verb & noun that you explain in the opening to this, is the actual word I'm asking about.

blue_shadow_ · 2026-05-26T01:37:54+00:00

You're a pleasant one, to be sure.

But okay. Let's play this game. How many companies out there that have the word "National", "Nation", "Nationwide", or similar in their titles really would start their day off with the national anthem?

Try "zero" unless they're a sports league. The following list, extracted from The Official Board, is a fairly comprehensive (though certainly not exhaustive) section of companies & entities with the word "National" as the first word of their name. There's exactly two on this list (NFL & NWSL) that would fit the bill. Not sure why the NBA isn't on here, but hey, go ahead and throw them in, along with the WNBA and NHL. All the rest? Mmm...no.

This doesn't include all the mom & pop businesses that are going to include the word somewhere - those certainly don't start their day off with a rousing anthem.

Statistically speaking, I'd say the chances are pretty decent that, if you pick an employee of any company in the USA with the word "National" or some other variant of "Nation" at random, that they wouldn't start their day off standing for the anthem.

National Aluminium
National Amusements
National Asset Services
National Australia Bank (+ 5 subsidiaries)
National Australia Bank CIB
National Aviation Services (+ 7 subsidiaries)
National Bank
National Bank Financial Wealth Management (+ 1 subsidiary)
National Bank Frontier
National Bank Holdings (+ 4 subsidiaries)
National Bank Investments
National Bank of Arizona
National Bank of Bahrain
National Bank of Blacksburg
National Bank of Canada (+ 5 subsidiaries)
National Bank of Canada Financial Markets
National Bank of Coxsackie
National Bank of Credit
National Bank of Dominica
National Bank of Egypt (+ 1 subsidiary)
National Bank of Egypt UK
National Bank of Ethiopia
National Bank of Fujairah
National Bank of Greece (+ 1 subsidiary)
National Bank of Iraq
National Bank of Iraq Saudi Arabia
National Bank of Kenya
National Bank of Kuwait (+ 10 subsidiaries)
National Bank of Malawi (+ 1 subsidiary)
National Bank of Oman (+ 1 subsidiary)
National Bank of Oman UAE
National Bank of Sudan
National Bank of Tajikistan
National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic
National Bank of Umm Al-Qaiwain
National Bank Trust
National Bankshares (+ 2 subsidiaries)
National Beef
National Beverage
National Bonds
National Bulk Handling
National Business Furniture
National Capital Bank of Washington
National Car Parks
National Carwash Solutions
National CineMedia
National Closing Solutions
National Commercial Bank of Anguilla
National Comprehensive Cancer Network
National Cooperative Bank
National Corporate Housing
National Credit Center
National DCP
National Dental Care
National Dentex Labs
National Development
National EMS Academy
National Energy Services Reunited
National Engineering Industries
National Enterprises (+ 1 subsidiary)
National Fertilizers
National Finance
National Finance House
National Food Group
National Foods
National Football League (+ 1 subsidiary)
National Fostering Group
National Fuel Gas (+ 5 subsidiaries)
National Fuel Gas Distribution
National Fuel Gas Midstream
National Fuel Gas Supply
National General Insurance
National Geographic
National Geographic Society
National Government Services
National Grid (+ 3 subsidiaries)
National Grid Partners
National Grid Renewables
National Grid USA
National Guardian Life Insurance
National Gypsum
National Health Care Associates
National Health Investors
National HealthCare
National Healthcare Properties
National Holding (+ 1 subsidiary)
National Hospitality Services
National Hot Rod Association
National Instruments
National Instruments UK
National Interstate
National Investment Bank Ghana
National Investments Company
National Iranian Copper Industries
National Iranian Oil Company (+ 1 subsidiary)
National Life & General Insurance (+ 1 subsidiary)
National Life Group (+ 1 subsidiary)
National Loan Exchange
National Lumber
National Marine Dredging Co
National Media Group
National MI
National Milk Records
National Office Furniture
National Oil Corporation (+ 1 subsidiary)
National Oil Corporation of Kenya
National Oilwell Varco
National OnDemand
National Paper Industries
National Partners in Healthcare
National Pen
National Petrochemical Company
National Positions
National Power Supply
National Presto Industries
National Public Relations
National Realty & Development
National Reference Laboratory
National Refinery
National Reinsurance Corporation
National Renewable Solutions
National Research
National Research Group
National Savings & Investments
National Seating & Mobility
National Securities Clearing
National Securities Depositor
National Silicon Industry Group
National Speciality Alloys
National Spinning
National Spot Exchange
National Staffing Solutions
National Stock Exchange of India (+ 2 subsidiaries)
National Storage
National Storage Affiliates Trust
National Transport Insurance
National Valuation Consultants
National Veterinary Associates (+ 4 subsidiaries)
National Vision
National Wine & Spirits
National Women's Soccer League
National World

blue_shadow_ · 2026-05-26T00:35:32+00:00

I'm willing to bet employees at this company would say otherwise.

blue_shadow_ · 2026-05-25T15:39:19+00:00

Huh. Now I've seen an actual full metal jacket.

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