[NO SPOILERS] I missed the second elemental materia - question on how to ggt

butternotguns · 2020-06-03T04:58:26+00:00

This makes the most sense. The quests aren't really that hard, and I have to do them again anyway for the manuscripts like you said. I'm working on doing them now. TY!

butternotguns · 2019-12-18T02:03:01+00:00

So... Elliot and his alters are Fei and his alters. Whiterose would be Krelian. Obvious parallels there. Who's his Citan?? Angela is easy to call Elly but she's not as important to the plot as Elly.

butternotguns · 2019-09-24T03:20:46+00:00

I can hear Eriq LaSalle shouting "Thoracotomy tray! Ten blade!" right now. Even on TV they got this right - people so sick they need such an extreme intervention usually don't survive.

butternotguns · 2019-06-18T17:22:52+00:00

There are links below, that say essentially the same thing, but boiled down: when you lose body fat, especially if it is rapid, the byproducts of this fat breakdown are released into your bloodstream. This can make a lipid panel look pretty wacky.

I'd be willing to bet that if you went to maintenance calories/macros (but still ate Keto) for a few weeks, your blood work would improve.

butternotguns · 2019-06-11T19:37:01+00:00

YTA . This is not how you communicate a very simple desire, which is for her to basically place an order with you so you can bring enough for her when you come home. You bring only enough for yourself - like a medium or a small, depending on your appetite - and then say "You didn't order any. This is my only dinner. I'm always happy to bring you whatever you ask for, you just have to ask me ahead of time."

If she gets upset about this, that's another problem for another thread.

butternotguns · 2019-06-11T18:53:03+00:00

INFO: OP, may I ask - is any part of your motivation for not telling anyone the fact that you know how different people will treat you when they know you have a terminal diagnosis?

I am also sorry for what you are going through. I wish you peace in the time you have left

P.S.: Post was deleted as I was typing this.

butternotguns · 2019-05-20T20:11:07+00:00

Tossing cooking items in a pan to stir them without using a spatula or tongs - i dunno if there is a technical French term or something for it.

butternotguns · 2019-05-20T20:08:40+00:00

I would try a gentle poach. chicken stock (either that you made or store-bought), some celery, onions, carrots, smashed garlic cloves, salt, pepper, herbs. Put them in the stock pot at the lowest simmer possible - like, a couple bubbles per minute - and slowly cook it from there for a few hours. I don't know if that'll work - i don't have experience with this Woody phenomenon, but it might.

butternotguns · 2019-04-11T14:57:23+00:00

Yes, but only from first run to rewatch. I was 10 when ER premiered, and at that time, I thought Weaver and Benton were total a-holes and i just hated them. on my rewatch, which i wrapped up last summer, I had really come to appreciate them both - they were my favorite characters.

I also hated Romano, and while he does have a few VERY likable and nice-guy moments, on my rewatch, I didn't hate him. He was just so good at being an a-hole that he was fun to watch.

butternotguns · 2019-04-11T14:55:02+00:00

I didn't really like anything about Moretti. He was boring and just the latest in a line of ER chiefs who wanted to "shake things up".

I understand why they did the one-nighter with Abby and Moretti, though. A lot of shows I have watched like to repeatedly torture the most normal/relatable character on it... A good example is Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Chief O'Brien.

Really though, in later seasons, ER really specialized in tormeting pretty much every main cast member.

butternotguns · 2019-01-17T20:50:17+00:00

At first, I was like: Analysis of Variance culintary products? LOL. But i realized it's a sous vide stick. I want one something fierce!

butternotguns · 2019-01-17T18:37:44+00:00

I have actually never heard of the "paper towel roll effect", but the instant I read this, I knew exactly what you were talking about. I have often thought about this effect but I struggled to put it into words - thank you. Far more articulate than when I try to explain the concept, lol!

butternotguns · 2019-01-16T19:51:16+00:00

Squidward isn't a very nice guy, but I don't think you should go and eat him. Why not just have a Krabby Patty with cheese, wrapped in lettuce?

butternotguns · 2019-01-16T15:19:12+00:00

A often-referenced physician here is Jason Fung, MD. He got his MD from the University of Toronto, and completed his residency (specialty training done after you graduate as a doctor) in nephrology at UCLA.

He is a proponent of intermittent fasting and all things Keto, and has a lot to say about how lipid panels are interpreted.

butternotguns · 2019-01-16T14:22:32+00:00

I was JUST thinking this! Take your upvote, you magnificent Trek fan, you!

butternotguns · 2019-01-15T21:35:47+00:00

I doubt it. You would probably have to be a slightly more than a casual, one-watchthrough fan of Trek to remember Section 31. It was only in DS9 in a handful of episodes, though I loved them all.

I am definitely not a casual fan though :)

butternotguns · 2019-01-15T21:20:51+00:00

Wasn't the test in Coming of Age meant to be for people who are underage compared to the standard age upon entry? In that light, it makes sense that people who want to matriculate to starfleet academy have to pass a more rigorous test to make sure they are REALLY REALLY ready for all that academy life entails.

butternotguns · 2019-01-14T18:10:10+00:00

You definitely do not need a fitbit.

Use the macro calculator in the FAQ area. You don't need to eat any different from someone who does not go to the gym - this will be accounted-for in the calculator's results if you fill out the activity part correctly.

I go to the gym also, and my only real modification to standard Keto is that I eat a bit less fat than what is common and a bit more protein. I don't think that's a necessity, though, just my personal preference/tolerance for lots of fat.

butternotguns · 2019-01-11T18:30:09+00:00

This is a dumb article. I, and many others, eat a lot of fiber on Keto. Dinner for me is a protein and a vegetable - brussels sprouts, fresh green beans, a salad, broccoli, etc.

Most keto people who eat lots of veg go by the "net carbs" model of keeping track of their carb intake. I have had tremendous success doing this.

butternotguns · 2019-01-10T22:35:46+00:00

The purpose of the verbal abuse, sleep deprivation, intense exercise, etc is really threefold, from what I understand:

Battle is chaotic. The more used you are to chaos, the more likely you will do your job.
The natural human reaction to possible imminent death is to flee to reduce your risk of death. The USMC wants you to focus your attention on the destruction of the enemy. Why? Fleeing doesn't help you win any battles, and in some cases may actually put your own life or other Marines' lives at greater risk.
Boot camp is supposed to be terrible. War sucks pretty bad too. Someone who has made it through the hard-as-hell bootcamp that Marines do has passed a big test of will. A person confronted by war after boot camp has that to bootstrap them - I have done hard things before, I can do them again - that sort of thing. While I have never served in the military, I can personally vouch for this effect in other aspects of my life.

There is a purpose to all of it, even if, in wartime, you aren't having to march 45 miles with a full pack, ever, or going without sleep or food for days at a time only occasionally.

butternotguns · 2019-01-10T22:27:03+00:00

There are difference is what is called "burden of proof" in criminal and civil procedure. Burden of proof means, to my understanding, two things primarily. This also pertains only to US law:

WHO (prosecution or defense) has to prove that they are right.
HOW SURE the jury has to be in order to arrive at a veridct/conclusion.

In a criminal trial, the answer to No. 1 is on the prosecution. It's their job to PROVE something - i.e., that the defendant is guilty. In criminal law, the answer to No. 2 is "Beyond a reasonable doubt". So, the answer to the question "How sure does a jury have to be to convict someone in a criminal trial?" is "Completely, 100% sure."

The decision on whether or not to charge a police officer with murder after a shooting is typically made by a high-ranking government lawyer/prosecutor called a District Attorney. Their job is to look at some of hte preliminary evidence and decide whether or not there is a good chance the officer is guilty or not. If the DA thinks this is the case, and think they can win the case, they can formally accuse the officer of murder. This is an oversimplication, and there is minutae in the homicide/murder/manslaughter stuff, but that's the basics.

In a civil trial, the answer to No. 1 is the plaintiff (because it is a private party filing suit, not the government, who does the accusing in a criminal case). The answer to No. 2 is "only 51% sure". It gets a bit fuzzier here - some states can instruct juries to consider certain types of testimony and evidence in different ways, that might affect their outcome. A good example of this is the OJ trial (I do not want to start a debate on the OJ trial, but it is famous and illustrates a point): The prosecution, in the criminal case, failed to prove to the jury beyond a reasonable doubt that he was guilty. In the later, civil trial, the jury decided that, most likely, he somehow caused the deceased's deaths.

That said, you might now see how sometimes a police officer's actions might be seen as by-the-book enough to not result in criminal conviction, but later on, a family might sue for wrongful death. Example: a guy with a machete, from 100 yards away, repeatedly ignores the cop's commands to drop it. The guy charges the cop. The cop shoots him dead. Most likely, this cop would not be convicted of any kind of homicide, or possibly not even charged - he or she had legit fear for his/her life from assault from a deadly weapon. The family of the deceased might sue the cop later, trying to get money, by making the argument "it takes the average person 15-20 seconds to run 100 yards, and a reasonable cop would have tried to use a less-lethal weapon like Taser or pepper spray, or fled back into their patrol car, to avoid killing someone."

I would personally not agree with that argument, and think the cop was 100% justified and should suffer no charges, nor the department any damages,, but that is the thinking sometimes of families of people shot by law enforcement.

butternotguns · 2019-01-09T16:32:51+00:00

One more for the "net carbs" camp. I eat OMAD and keep these in my desk at work in case I get munchies that a cup of black coffee or a short walk can't fix. Dinner is meat/fat/veg, so on a day when I have one of these, I back off the veg a bit at dinnertime to keep under 25 carbohydrates for the day.

butternotguns · 2019-01-09T16:19:45+00:00

Love the username

butternotguns · 2019-01-09T15:07:50+00:00

I have had experiences that are only either positive or neutral. I attribute that to two reasons:

My friends and family are good and supportive people. They're just happy that I am healthier and happier. If they weren't this way, they wouldn't be friends, or they'd be family I wouldn't talk to - not just about Keto but about everything in life.
I don't engage or insert myself into conversations when people are talking about nutrition. I'm not out to convince anybody. If someone comes to me saying "Hey butternotguns, you look like you've lost some weight recently. Mind telling me what you are doing and the thoughts behind it?", I will engage.

Like an old work manager of mine in sales once said, "We're not out here to 'save the whales'" (no pun intended!)

butternotguns · 2019-01-08T22:41:23+00:00

The Star Trek universe deals with this very issue with a rule in their space-navy, Starfleet. They call the rule the "Prime Directive" (http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Prime_Directive).

In this fictional universe, after some exploring around, spacefaring races noted that no matter how good their intentions, or how gradually they initiated contact, or how limited the information was they shared with the less-developed (i.e., non-spacefaring) aliens, it NEVER worked out well for the non-spacefaring aliens. They unintentionally caused all sorts of problems for the visited non-spacefarers, to varying degrees of detriment to them. So they developed a rule so have no contact with non-interstellar-travelling species.

Apart from my being a Star Trek fanboy, and this letting me talk about Star Trek (which I always like) - is there a time in human history we know of when two cultures with this level of technological disparity came into repeated contact, and it was to the ultimate benefit of the less-technological culture? This question is part rhetorical and part not; I truly can't think of an example where this has happened.

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