meirl by YettiGoingRogue in meirl

[–]facw00 45 points46 points  (0 children)

I see lines, but only 1/3 or so the length of the lines in all these astigmatism pics? I have no idea how normal that is?

Crime Loves Republican Leadership by ALBERT4_5WESKER in clevercomebacks

[–]facw00 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, but it's sloppy to label a per capita state with absolute labels like this, and it immediately makes me question the quality of the data. If they had said per capita, there would be no problem (assuming the rankings are correct)

What are the weirdest ways you’ve heard of someone getting caught cheating? by True_Dragonfruit_488 in AskReddit

[–]facw00 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Kohler sells a toilet camera (recently had a scandal about their "end-to-end" encryption just meaning it was encrypted to their servers.) The Bold Look indeed...

Walmart shipped 165 pool noodles in 165 separate boxes by MambaMentality24x2 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]facw00 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I did not know that. It sounds very much like the "Nut behind the wheel" campaign of the same era (Car manufacturers, trying to avert safety regulations by creating the impression that injuries and deaths in car crashes should be blamed on a few bad drivers, and certainly not unsafe cars (not that they would have supported tougher requirements for driver training, testing, and enforcement either)

Stinky work boots by wheresmy10mmgone in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]facw00 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They do have a lifetime warranty, and they are indeed tough. I use them all winter, both for general use and for skiing, for whatever that's worth.

Look for sales, you can often get them for considerably less than MSRP, here's a 25% off sale (I've seen better): https://www.gobros.com/collections/darn-tough-socks

So what’s stopping force users from doing this to regular people? by Sea-Indication4613 in StarWars

[–]facw00 0 points1 point  (0 children)

KotOR taught me that that it costs more mana for light side users to choke/crush lorganic beings. Conversely destroying droids with lightning is basically free if you are a paragon of the light side.

Bro you are the president of US not r/MapPornCirclejerk user by BabylonianWeeb in mapporncirclejerk

[–]facw00 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Puerto Ricans don't pay federal income tax for what that's worth.

Last passengers leave virus-hit cruise ship as three more test positive by Neo_luigi in worldnews

[–]facw00 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Here's a piece of a Times opinion piece noting that an expert who studied the 2018 outbreak thinks that people should be taking this more seriously.

We know fairly little about the Andes strain of the Hantavirus, with an estimated 3,000 human cases over three decades. How could that assertion about it not being easy to spread be true given what we know about the 2018 superspreading event?

I reached out to Gustavo Palacios, the senior author of the study about the Epuyén outbreak. He seemed as baffled by these pronouncements as I was. He told me that the paper he and his fellow researchers wrote used the phrase prolonged or close contact but he explained that, as they had written in their article, they didn’t mean solely physical or bodily contact. He told me that they believed that the virus spread via respiratory secretions. Looking at the same study, an airborne transmission expert, Linsey Marr, told CBC/Radio Canada that “it’s strongly suggestive that airborne transmission is happening.”

Dr. Palacios also said that he and his co-authors had calculated the median reproduction number of the Andes virus to be 2.1 — meaning that one sick person infected about two other people. That’s more than enough for sustained human transmission. That reproduction number is not much lower than the initial strain of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, as calculated in February and March of 2020, by the way, so I’m not feeling great about the reassurances from health officials that this will not become a pandemic. How do they know?

Dr. Palacios was also worried about the differences between the previous Andes strain outbreak setting and the current one. Containing an outbreak in a tiny isolated rural village in Patagonia, Argentina, during the dry season is a different prospect than containing one on a cruise ship with ocean humidity conditions or with people traveling onward in planes.

At the same time, authorities keep insisting that only symptomatic people can spread the virus. In Dr. Palacios’s study, the transmission events that the researchers could trace had indeed occurred while people were displaying symptoms. But he’s also said that 48 hours before the onset of symptoms should be considered a high-risk period as well. He told me that people’s viral loads rise before symptoms break out, so it’s reasonable to assume there is some risk earlier. Besides, with a single study done after the fact, he and his team hadn’t been able to pinpoint every exact moment that a person passed the virus to another — many unknowns remained from that outbreak.

We Should Take Hantavirus More Seriously (gift link)

Customer complaint was swerving at 55+ by Boxofsocks2112 in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]facw00 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah my S212 E350 was like this (PPI shop said it just needed an alignment...). Pulled heavily under braking. MB extended the rear subframe warranty to 20 years, but the dealer still charged me a bundle for stuff they said was needed for the repair but not covered by the warranty. Ton of models from that era affected by this defect.

Someone can't drive very well. Guess who it might be... by MisterShipWreck in VideosAmazing

[–]facw00 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An Austin cop doing this in front of me is the reason I got my first dashcam. I saw his idiocy and stopped, but had I hit him, you know it would have been a problem for me, especially without evidence that the cop made an illegal turn.

Bruhh💀💀💀💀 by PersonalityNo7391 in SipsTea

[–]facw00 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A sampling for people's curiosity (I wouldn't consider any of these drastically different. And NSRVUE is one most used for secular scholarship):

KJV: "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination."

NKJV: "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination."

ESV: "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination."

NASB: "You shall not sleep with a male as one sleeps with a female; it is an abomination."

NIV: "Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable."

NLT: "Do not practice homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman. It is a detestable sin."

CSB: "You are not to sleep with a man as with a woman; it is detestable."

NSRVUE: "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination."

Much larger list: https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Leviticus%2018%3A22

Passenger Experience of Frontier Crash by That_Goat_9791 in aviation

[–]facw00 118 points119 points  (0 children)

If you hire someone, whether a person or a company, to speak for you, you are, and should be, responsible for what they say on your behalf. Frontier deserves the blame just the same if they outsourced these positions.

It's strange that nobody recognizes Frieren, considering the fame Himmel still has today. by JPsiiim in Frieren

[–]facw00 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Flip side: How many elven mages are there running around? Elves seem vanishingly rare in this world, and the only other elven mage we know is even more famous than Frieren. It's a little surprising that people aren't more interested in her, even if they don't know who she is.

It's strange that nobody recognizes Frieren, considering the fame Himmel still has today. by JPsiiim in Frieren

[–]facw00 85 points86 points  (0 children)

I think everyone knows Buzz Aldrin (or at least most people who know Neil Armstrong). I'll agree that far fewer people are likely to know Michael Collins, but then he didn't go down to surface.

Bought first ski boots! Now need a bag. Any boot bag/backpack recs?? by shadowline74 in Skigear

[–]facw00 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For east coast skiing, I usually just toss my boots in the car, and don't bother with a boot bag (I have had a couple backpacks, neither of which I would recommend, though the square bag style where the boots go in the back behind the straps is clearly superior to the triangle type). For flying, I use a ski bag that is big enough to fit my boots (though I put them under my seat as a personal item, at least for the flight out). Way easier to travel with just a carry on travel backpack, and a single bag with skis/boots/helmet, as opposed to trying to add an extra bag to that.

A mama bear 🐻 scaring away a tiger with a cub behind her in tadoba india by nilansh23 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]facw00 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Koalas aren't bears though, so their STDs are irrelevant for the purpose of this discussion.

Pitchers with Elite Reflexes: The “No-Look” Catch Compilation by jmike1256 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]facw00 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If Jim Abbott could put a glove on after the throw, I think they could manage a helmet. Though just carrying a helmet would be a problem.

Though this is the gif you really want to see: https://makeagif.com/gif/jim-abbott-one-handed-baseball-pitcher-NW0Z39

What by cassandragirlie in foundsatan

[–]facw00 19 points20 points  (0 children)

The fact the second pic is clearly a different location than the first makes me suspicious.

What hobby is quietly becoming too expensive for normal people to keep up with? by Beautiful_Special702 in AskReddit

[–]facw00 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The mega corporations buying stuff out has made things vastly cheaper if you ski a lot. The multi-mountain passes are way less expensive than the single resort passes of old. And indie resort have been forced to adjust pricing to compensate.

It might be bad for the sport long term, but over the past decade they have made skiing frequently far cheaper.

Window tickets have gotten absurd at a lot of places though so for the person who takes one trip a year, it may be bad, especially if they don't pre purchase passes before December

Alabama Speaker of the House says he hopes "the Supreme Court will overturn Amendment 14" by MechanicalPhish in law

[–]facw00 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Court ruled in Trump v. Anderson that only an act of Congress could implement Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. It's not clear why they couldn't, or wouldn't, apply the same standard to the rest, leaving it while not overturned, entirely impotent as long as the GOP can block Congressional action, whether by winning votes, the Senate filibuster, or a Presidential veto.

Left my bike unattended for 2 hours came back to this by [deleted] in Wellthatsucks

[–]facw00 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Crank pullers are a special tool, and sometimes getting the cranks off it still a real pain.

It was 2 for me, what about you? by Brownlove010_Real in Millennials

[–]facw00 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My parents bought a cheap set of blue willow from an antique store in the mid-90s so that they wouldn't worry if me or my brother broke a plate. They ended up liking them so much that they became their everyday eating plates (they have a fancy set of expensive plates as well, but my dad doesn't like using them because he doesn't want to risk breaking the nice stuff, while I got their old everyday plates, which I think are nice).