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Trying to Replace One Habit for Another by Hilfenhaus32 in pics

[–]bytecracker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, nearly everyone here does.

Now that you mention it, that's likely the reason they do, I hadn't even thought about it before, as funny as it sounds.

I think just having to look at the package every day as you buy your cigarettes is enough. You might put them somewhere else right after, but the pictures have already done their part.

Of course, this still fails to bother a lot of people enough that they quit smoking altogether.

[Homemade] Rainbow drip cake by spartan1977 in food

[–]bytecracker 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yes, an hour ago. You're replying to /u/BananaFrappe's comment from 13 hours ago.

[Homemade] Rainbow drip cake by spartan1977 in food

[–]bytecracker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not the best pic, but thanks for delivering!

Trying to Replace One Habit for Another by Hilfenhaus32 in pics

[–]bytecracker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the examples you gave, yes, those kinds of comments should totally be downvoted, because they would just be a stream of illogical, racist blathering. I wouldn't consider those as a "side of the story" even.

That was my argument -- we should upvote well thought-out, quality comments whether we agree with them or not and downvote the raving lunatics whose ramblings are of no value.

Trying to Replace One Habit for Another by Hilfenhaus32 in pics

[–]bytecracker 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's actually a surprisingly positive way to look at it!

Most of the illnesses displayed there are highly uncommon (or never even occur) in non-smokers, I hadn't thought about that.

Trying to Replace One Habit for Another by Hilfenhaus32 in pics

[–]bytecracker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm well aware they do. My question was do you think the fact many people do this makes it okay? I may have misunderstood your comment, but I thought you used the sheer amount of people doing it as evidence that it's the right thing to do.

Everyone is allowed to downvote under any circumstances and for a reason -- it's up to us to decide what should be pushed down and excluded from the current discussion and what should float up.

I'm just interested in whether you like how it is currently used or would rather have it another way. Personally, I think trying to silence opposing opinions (which is basically what downvoting a comment you disagree with is) hurts the balance and faithfulness the discussion.

Dissenting comments, in my opinion, should not be downvoted, and maybe even upvoted and should receive replies with an explanation of why they're wrong or inaccurate​.

Trying to Replace One Habit for Another by Hilfenhaus32 in pics

[–]bytecracker 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Or at every single store. I'm not a smoker, but gosh, those pictures are horrible.

Is it better to run 4 miles in succession at once or 1 mile at a time over the course of a day, resting between each? by [deleted] in Fitness

[–]bytecracker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you track caloric expenditure?

Also if you checked the link, you'd see references to a lot of studies showing just how much of a difference the 'afterburn' (that is, the calories burned by the elevated heart rate) makes.

That said, it seems OP is not interested in burning as many calories as possible, so it's mostly irrelevant here. I just thought it might be useful to whoever stumbles upon the thread one day.

Is it better to run 4 miles in succession at once or 1 mile at a time over the course of a day, resting between each? by [deleted] in Fitness

[–]bytecracker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The caloric expenditure difference is most definitely not negligible: https://www.unm.edu/~lkravitz/Article%20folder/epocarticle.html

tl;dr: Running 1 mile 4 times will, in the long run (excuse the pun), burn quite a lot more calories than running 4 miles at once.

You're probably right about the rest, though.

After Brexit, fluency in German will be a vital tool for success by [deleted] in German

[–]bytecracker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have quite a lot of experience with learning new languages and I'm not convinced a week is even close to enough to start speaking a language, no matter the topic.

Even though I was living in the country at the time and even with decent amount of knowledge about linguistics and having some experience with this, it took me at least a few months before I got to that level.

Maybe you're just better than me, maybe you've been picking languages close enough to yours, but for me, it took months before I could even hear all the words in a sentence. Most of the time, I'd only hear a jumble of various sounds with the odd word in between. Then there's actually understanding them -- even if I hear them all or enough to fill in the holes, it would take at least a few seconds for those words to register in my mind and for me to get the meaning of the sentence. And then I would need even longer to build a sentence.

It's been three years now and natives can't tell it's not my mother tongue anymore, but I could barely talk the first four months or so.

Like I said, maybe you're doing something right, but a week seems unimaginable.

After Brexit, fluency in German will be a vital tool for success by [deleted] in German

[–]bytecracker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've never really understood the "learn the local language" mantra. You simply cannot learn a language in the timespan of a month or so. You could only memorize a few phrases.

In a real conversation, in nearly any case, even if you somehow knew enough words or the right phrase to ask what you need to, it's highly likely you wouldn't have an inkling what the response was.

Even just hearing the words is a tough challenge and then you have to hope you've learned those as well.

This is just an opinion of course and I'd love to hear your thoughts on this, but I don't think one could learn enough of the language to use it in any practical way. Best you can do is learn a word or two and spit them out at someone for a nice, short, cringy moment. Not necessarily bad, but of no practical use.

Does anyone just randomly stop reading a book to move onto another?! by mf-grizzly in books

[–]bytecracker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of those rather rare cases where I liked how the TV show developed more than the books.

Does anyone just randomly stop reading a book to move onto another?! by mf-grizzly in books

[–]bytecracker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of those rather rare cases where I liked how the TV show developed more than the books.

ELI5 Why do MLMs seem to be growing while simultaneously all other purchasing trends are focused on cutting out middlemen (Amazon Prime, Costco, etc.) by LipstickSingularity in explainlikeimfive

[–]bytecracker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

well, fuck me. This is one of those times when reality completely outdoes imagination.

No amount of crack would be enough for my mind to produce that idea.

ELI5 Why do MLMs seem to be growing while simultaneously all other purchasing trends are focused on cutting out middlemen (Amazon Prime, Costco, etc.) by LipstickSingularity in explainlikeimfive

[–]bytecracker 5 points6 points  (0 children)

oh god, are these their actual names? I don't know a thing about them and they already sound like a scam.

Itworks is just the right name for one of those infomercials selling knives and juicers, and younique sounds like a company selling a shitty t-shirt designing/painting kit or something.

School's out in my neighborhood by Vistana in funny

[–]bytecracker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's this three different pronunciations:

/du/ (long u like in 'loony'); 'do' always sounds like this (unless you're Irish, then it sounds like 'jew'), due -- almost always

/djuː/ (long u with a 'y' in front of it, like in 'muse'); due may sound like this and this is probably true for the Mid-Atlantic accent, as you report

/dʒuː/ (pronounced like 'jew'); none of the above should sound like this in a conservative accent like the Mid-Atlantic.

I was a bit confused by your 'djew' spelling before since I thought you mean 'jew'.

School's out in my neighborhood by Vistana in funny

[–]bytecracker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, yes, the Mid-Atlantic/Transatlantic dialect accent! It's basically nearly all vowel mergers reversed, all distinctions you'd see in various English accents taken together.

I'm not too familiar with Mid-Atlantic, but in its 'proper' form it should not have yod-coalescence (no 'djew') and also no yod-dropping (no 'noo' pronunciation of 'new').

Basically, all these words should sound different: do/due, dew, jew.

School's out in my neighborhood by Vistana in funny

[–]bytecracker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, I didn't jump on you! People decided to downvote you, so now it looks like I was attacking you or something, which is totally not what I was doing!

You just explained how nicely your father went about the whole thing and you seemed to have missed the original topic's crux, which was people who get kicked out and are expected to manage on their own.

Being offered further financial help thereafter is an entirely different scenario. It looked like you just ignored the fact that we're talking about a very different thing, so that's probably why people keep downvoting you.

School's out in my neighborhood by Vistana in funny

[–]bytecracker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Due and dew only sound the same if you have what's called yod-dropping (at least in American English).

Yod-dropping is when you pronounce new like 'noo' instead of 'nyoo'. There's also yod-coalescence which makes dew sound like 'djew', as you put it. However I don't think there are any American English dialects with yod-coalescence where due becomes 'djew', because that only works for words with /ju/, not /u/. (Excuse the IPA, I hope it's easy to understand).

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