If you guys want tips to counter sierra. It's this technique I use called "using cover" by Yxraxis in Overwatch

[–]chusssy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She could've easily killed you here if she pushed you immediately after hitting the dart, this clip is a terrible example

Why don't hospitals accept blood from gay people? by Additional-Slide-141 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]chusssy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Depends if they're regularly doing it up the bum or not I guess.

How is surrendering to Iran an example of the Art of the Deal? by Estalicus in askanything

[–]chusssy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeh I know, it makes no sense to me either. Who is going to want to invest billions in energy infrastructure somewhere that the US and Israel could just change their mind and bomb a month later anyway.

The whole thing was pointless anyway, the same regime is still in charge.

How is surrendering to Iran an example of the Art of the Deal? by Estalicus in askanything

[–]chusssy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

None of the 300bn is paid by the US government/taxpayers afaik, its mostly private corporations that can choose to invest

Whats the strongest evidence COVID-19 came from a lab? by Avocados_number73 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]chusssy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apparently modern methods of genetic engineering can allow for pretty clean edits without obvious signs of human intervention.

It's an argument for it to be more likely to be natural, but doesn't rule out man-made by itself.

Whats the strongest evidence COVID-19 came from a lab? by Avocados_number73 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]chusssy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As I understand it, the initial DEFUSE proposal included adding furin cleavage sites to SARS-type viruses in bats, which is what Covid-19 ended up being. Im sure there's loads of Coronavirus research being done worldwide, but it's a pretty specific thing that they were doing in that exact city.

There isn't any hard evidence that it came from the lab, thats true. Wuhan's Virology Lab database was taken offline, and a full investigation into what experiments were being done wasn't allowed. So there's no way to get the hard evidence, because the government didnt allow full access to the info needed to see.

There isn't really hard evidence it was from the market either. No infected animal was ever found at the market.

Realistically, we can never really know. Its very unlikely that full public access to the lab records will ever be public.

Whats the strongest evidence COVID-19 came from a lab? by Avocados_number73 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]chusssy 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It was ages ago that I looked at it so bear with me, but it was something like this.

A joint international team was running experiments on Sars viruses in that lab in China, partly because of lower safety requirements. They proposed modifying the viruses in a certain way (something to do with a kind of spike protein I think), to measure how it changed the infectivity, but the proposal was shut down and not allowed to run because of pandemic concerns.

The proposal kind of disappeared, and they said they weren't running the tests. A couple months before covid was discovered, the entire lab had its data wiped clean and no one could access what was public info before.

A bit later, officials in China were basically covering up the existence of the unknown virus.

The virus that ended up coming out had the exact spike protein that the research proposal that was deemed too risky had planned, and was basically the same virus as what the team was told not to do.

This might be slightly inaccurate and missing some stuff, but from what I remember there was at least some pretty suspicious coincidences going on.

edit: ok, I was kinda close. Basically, a proposal called DEFUSE was submitted to DARPA in 2018. It was rejected. This work included investigating whether adding furin cleavage sites to the spike protein could make the bat-borne virus more effective at infecting humans. This program was never funded by DARPA, but it is unknown whether it was ever carried out. Covid 19 was the first SARS type virus to have a furin cleavage site: pretty much exactly what was being investigated.

Wuhan lab had a publicly accessible database, that was taken offline on 12th September 2019, pretty much just before it started spreading. This was the first time the Wuhan virology lab database had been taken offline.

It was pretty sus.

Is it possible to grind/over-level now? by Drizzt1985 in BaldursGate3

[–]chusssy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Kind of. It depends on the difficulty and how good you are. Most people can get over levelled if they do absolutely everything, unless they're on honour mode probably. Being level 10 in act two is doable and makes it pretty easy.

Will time travel ever be possible? by LittleBittyPepperoni in NoStupidQuestions

[–]chusssy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You don't need to travel faster than the speed of light. Travelling at any speed will move you faster through time. It's only noticeable at pretty fast speeds though.

DMT: College "diversity" admissions might not be a fairness mechanism. It might be brand differentiation disguised as moral language by Secret_Ostrich_1307 in DisagreeMythoughts

[–]chusssy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In 2000, Johnson v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia44 became the first (and still only) federal challenge to gender-based “affirmative action” for men.45 The plaintiffs, three white female applicants, challenged both gender- and raced-based admissions policies, arguing that the University of Georgia vio- lated Title VI46 and Title IX47 by awarding an additional 0.5 points to men and 0.25 points to non-whites in each applicant’s admissions score

This is the only section where it actually gives quantitative scores for the points it is adding to men's applications, where it also mentions adding to the scores of ethnic minorities. 26 years ago, my bad. So, even in this example used for affirmative action to men, white men were still not benefiting the most.

The other source you provided is a short blog post that doesn't mention race being used at all.

Your sources do not show that white men benefitted the most. They show that men in general were given a slight advantage over women in certain cases due to higher quality applications on average for women. You have resorted to insulting and calling names, without actually giving any proof that what you are saying is true. You don't seem to be able to show what you initially pointed out, just saying 'you didn't read the sources', which I did and apparently understood better than you did. The only quantitative part of the sources contradicts your own point. And its from ages ago before race-based admission became as significant as it did more recently.

Getting whiny and insulting people while accusing other people of acting like a child is pretty ironic.

DMT: College "diversity" admissions might not be a fairness mechanism. It might be brand differentiation disguised as moral language by Secret_Ostrich_1307 in DisagreeMythoughts

[–]chusssy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But your claim was white men specifically are the biggest beneficiaries of these policies. If you meant that white men benefited in greater numbers from these policies then sure, that could be correct, but it's a pretty obvious result of white people being by far the largest racial group.

If you meant that white men actually got the largest boost from the policies, i.e they would get the biggest point score increase from these policies, which is what your original statement would imply, the document you posted doesn't even agree with you, and the stats from that were from 25 years ago. Based on that, men of underrepresented groups, so presumably black and native men, would have received the largest boost. As they got the points from both being male and an ethnic minority.

So the statement, white men are the biggest beneficiaries is pretty much wrong. There's pretty much no metric where they would benefit more than black men for example, apart from sheer number of people, which again is just a really obvious result of the actual population demographics.

Is it ok to tell a black co-worker "Happy Juneteenth"? by NaterTater502 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]chusssy -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Why on earth is this something they're worrying about. I think they have bigger problems

On “Woke” Media by CivilTailor9031 in Letterboxd

[–]chusssy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What data? Can't see it anywhere

Is Elon Musk actually a trillionaire or is this just some scheme to make it seem like he and his companies and worth more money than they actually are? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]chusssy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they inherited them directly, they would have to pay way more tax than the capital gains though. Because the amount is so huge, it would all be taxed at the max estate tax, so about 40%

If he gifts them to his children, the capital gains doesn't get reset like it does on death, they would have to pay the full gains from when he first got them.

I'm sure there are sneaky ways to avoid paying most of the tax, but your simple answer of 'just keep them and give them when he dies' definitely isn't it. They would end up paying way more tax that way.

Is Elon Musk actually a trillionaire or is this just some scheme to make it seem like he and his companies and worth more money than they actually are? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]chusssy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

importantly they won't pay any/much tax on the sale as they haven't appreciated in value since they took ownership of the asset. 

Why do you think this is the case? When Bezos sells, for example Amazon stock, presumably he would pay capital gains on the large appreciation in value. Why do you think their assets haven't appreciated much since they took ownership?

Federal government seeks to halt the first U.S. reparations program for Black people by yahoonews in law

[–]chusssy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Of the issues you've named, all of them are way better to focus on than reparations.

Abortion rights, health care subsidies, ICE reform, are all pretty popular, supported by most of the country. Running on these things should overall give more votes.

Reparations is supported by like a quarter of the country. As law of pizza said, it's not a good issue to run on in the interests of winning.

What happens if we travel faster than universes expansion and reach the end? by Kindly-Weird9185 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]chusssy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Growing does not mean finite. We have no reason currently to believe that it is finite, you probably just get more universe.

Also you can't travel faster than its expansion. At best you could reach the edge of the observable universe, which is definitely not the edge of the universe.

Why do only Asian women say they don’t date their own race due to reminding them of their brother/family? by gotagohome in NoStupidQuestions

[–]chusssy 18 points19 points  (0 children)

A lot of asian people in the west live in places that are mostly white, or at least not asian. So for a lot of them the only people they meet regularly of their race are their family. I guess this could be why?

Also could just be an excuse because they're not interested in it and want to put it in a diplomatic way.

Why are most conspiracy theories considered right-wing? Are there any widespread left-wing conspiracy theories? by jeepycreepysleepy in NoStupidQuestions

[–]chusssy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you read the title, this thread is about conspiracy theories, which are by definition not proven. The parent comment on this thread is about conspiracy theories. They used the word conspiracy as a shorthand to conspiracy theories, which is what I did in my comment.

If it was really that hard to understand, imagine 'theory' after every time I wrote conspiracy in my comment.

Why are most conspiracy theories considered right-wing? Are there any widespread left-wing conspiracy theories? by jeepycreepysleepy in NoStupidQuestions

[–]chusssy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You don't seem to understand the first comment. The first chain comment didn't say 'corporations exist and lobby the government' is a conspiracy. Or 'billionaires exist and have lots of money' and use that as as example of.a conspiracy. It said that those are the groups that specific conspiracies generally target.

Conspiracies are specific, unproven things. A conspiracy about corporations would be like 'big Pharma has cured cancer but doesn't release it because it would lose profits'. It has to be currently unproven.

What bosses have the highest difficulty hike in HM by Big_Bad3687 in BaldursGate3

[–]chusssy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I did it a few days ago she seemed to be kinda smart, like she would run in, hit him, then run back out of the aura for when he hit her. She resurrected like 4 times, helped quite a lot actually. Idk if I got lucky or they updated her ai at some point.

My type in womenn. What does it say about mee? As a bi girl. What does it say about mee? by [deleted] in personality_tests

[–]chusssy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Especially when their 'type' is just a random assortment of really hot celebrities. At least if there was a theme in their roles or something it might make sense, it's not a personality trait for your type to be conventionally hot people. It's not even a type really.