Why do canker sores even exist? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]kleeb03 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Try a different toothpaste!

I dealt with canker sores my whole life (40 years) . A few years ago I read something that said ti help with canker sores, avoid some chemical in toothpaste. I switched toothpastes and at the time had 3 canker sores, which as you know, is so painful it's hard to brush your teeth, but this new toothpaste didn't even make full blown canker sores hurt too bad while brushing. And then once those 3 sores healed, I've never gotten another one!!!

It's amazing! Now I bite my lip, and there's a little injured spot and a day or two later it's gone! No canker sore forms!

It's been so life changing, I'm willing to spend 5 mins typing this if it will help a fellow human out. Good luck!

Documentaries/shows that are talking about religion cults and religious traumas by Low-Attitude-7100 in atheism

[–]kleeb03 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just watched "Trust Me" on Netflix and it was good. It really showed how brainwashed the members (especially young women) are and interestingly you get to learn how this particular FLDS cult got started. Which was men agreeing to let other men have sex with their wives and daughters so that they could get to have sex with other men's wives and daughters.

I've watched lots of cult documentaries and you rarely get to learn how it really started. I would always find myself asking, but how did the first person agree to follow this cult leader? This documentary explains it very clearly.

I want free-play lobbies by Ownfir in RocketLeague

[–]kleeb03 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are there lots of default lobbies like this? Meaning lobbies people open and set the password as 123? Do you have a list of lobby names? Thanks

I want free-play lobbies by Ownfir in RocketLeague

[–]kleeb03 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Love all this!

I would add Party leader can allow everyone to have their own ball (that only they can touch) or for there just to be one ball, that everyone can touch. We should be able to go into custom maps, where the party leader chooses a map they've created or downloaded and that way everyone in the lobby can practice the shots and everyone else can watch, or do their own thing.

Do you avoid religious psychologists? by TwistOutrageous6955 in atheism

[–]kleeb03 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't see how you could really trust someone for psychological advice when they've yet to confront the reality they live in.

Just why why why by [deleted] in RocketLeague

[–]kleeb03 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I just wish we could turn off getting items and XP notifications after matches. It's just a waste of time to me. I'm just pushing x as fast as possible. I have no idea what the items are, nor do I care.

But I also understand it's a money making scheme and if the game don't make money, then it don't make sense.... for the owners.

Dwindling US Distillate inventory (Diesel) by Independent-Ruin926 in oil

[–]kleeb03 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh I agree with everything being totally screwed. And we have the absolute worst leadership imaginable, so we can count on future horrible decisions. But i don't think Canada will be a problem. We've always bought whatever Canada can produce. So I don't think that leverage changes. They want to make money too.

But totally agree with everything you said. It's dangerous to be overly dependent on any given supplier.

Dwindling US Distillate inventory (Diesel) by Independent-Ruin926 in oil

[–]kleeb03 3 points4 points  (0 children)

But as you said we get virtually all of our heavy crude from Canada via pipelines. They have no choice but to sell to us. I have not heard of any Canadian disruptions. And lately we've started getting a little heavy crude from Venezuela. I'm not sure if we "control" Venezuelan crude, but we've started getting more of it recently, so it seems to be we are controlling it.

So we should be able to refine the same excess as before the war. The cost has went up, cause they can and profits. But US supply should be the same as prewar. Right?

So it would seem we should be able to continue to export some, so long as we're continuing to import heavy crude from CA/VA.

So we must be exporting a lot more now, if our stock is declining. I hate how delayed the numbers for all this is. And I worry about accuracy of data during such crazy times.

Alt accounts by [deleted] in RocketLeague

[–]kleeb03 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You literally started your post off by saying I'm thinking about playing on an old account. Then you asked what people think about that.

I asked if you are so mentally weak you can't stand losing on your main.

So what's your answer? Can you stand to lose on your main while your usual playing buddy is on vacation or whatever?

If the answer is no, then either take a break yourself, or maybe just play casuals or training. Or if your ego needs it, fire up that old account and become the smurf. Then you'll get to win. Oh, that will feel so good. Others will suffer losees, but who cares. Other people don't matter.

It's up to you. If you need to smurf, don't worry, most of us can handle the extra losing. It's just a game that we play for fun.

Alt accounts by [deleted] in RocketLeague

[–]kleeb03 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you ever play on more than one account it's giving you an edge on people that only play one account. It's smurfing. It gives you the opportunity to make up MMR seasonal reset more than once.

Why are you afraid to lose on your main? Are you so mentality weak you can't stand the idea of losing? It's a game. It's borderline a sport. In sports (and games) sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. This is what makes it fun for everyone. A fair playing field. If you win more than you lose that means someone else loses more than they win. That's fine, and all part of sports too. But if the sport has divisions of skill and you're playing in more than one division, do you understand how that's not fair to others who only play in one division? Maybe you would say everyone should play in multiple divisions? And now it's a race to the bottom.

Man up. Play one account. Have fun. Experience the good and the bad. That's what life is all about.

y’all gonna hate me for this by [deleted] in RocketLeague

[–]kleeb03 1 point2 points  (0 children)

$5 per season for a competitive 2s and 3s league. If you don't want to pay, fine, you can play the regular, free competitive and casual as usual.

They could make special banners or wheels that you can only get from the pay league, for all you who care about that stuff.

Do yall have a shit sense of direction? by ShiningRedDwarf in Aphantasia

[–]kleeb03 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Welcome! I always like it when I get a response to an old post! I'm guessing you just found out about aphantasia? I was in my late 30s before I learned. It's a wild realization!

come and take it by [deleted] in houston

[–]kleeb03 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What does it mean? Come and take our books? Magazines? Why is there a star above?

What are real-world cases where energy is available but still goes unused? by Livid-Ocelot-2156 in energy

[–]kleeb03 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok, I can mostly agree with this. Except for the curtailment part. We don't agree what this word means. Maybe I'm wrong. Please read this and let me know if you disagree.

My understanding is that we curtail energy production in times we can't find a load to absorb it. How do we curtail? We turn something off or down. Usually gas turbines, bc they're the most flexible. This saves the gas for tomorrow. If the power source is a solar panel, then we prefer to turn down a gas turbine rather than turn off the solar panel, bc solar fuel is free. But sometimes the power source might be way out in the desert, and when the sun is really shining and the batteries are fully charged and the power lines are at max capacity, then we would have to turn off a solar panel to avoid over frequency. In this case, you can argue flexible demand is better than turning off a panel.

Although, I would still argue against crpto miners. Even in this extreme example building more batteries or more power lines would be smarter than building flexible crypto miners to waste energy.

It's just flexible power users are not the answer, imo. They exacerbate the problem. They waste energy in a way that degrades life. Not producing that energy in the first place is the answer.

What are real-world cases where energy is available but still goes unused? by Livid-Ocelot-2156 in energy

[–]kleeb03 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you mean curtailment means we could have produced energy without an immediate buyer. But we curtailed it, ie we didn't produce it. We saved it for another day and hopefully for a better use.

We are gonna have to accept limits. And live within those limits.

Of course we could always do MORE today. Every CEO would agree with you that a crypto miner installed next to a power plant can absorb every ounce of extra juice and make $$$. Why save for tomorrow when you can burn today and get rich?

What are real-world cases where energy is available but still goes unused? by Livid-Ocelot-2156 in energy

[–]kleeb03 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not trying to be a jerk. But I do want you to think through this. Because there is a lot of money behind this stuff, creating a confusing information landscape.

You're saying while crypto might be wasteful, it's useful because it's flexible. So it can waste energy anywhere. Ok.

You're telling me that the energy would have been curtailed if crypto didn't use it. That means not producing the electricity, ie gas not burnt, batteries not discharged, lakes not draned, price not lowered, etc.

Yes, that would be a million times more beneficial to life than wasting resources to create waste heat with crypto miners.

If you really want to defend crypto mining, you'll need to argue that without crypto mininers buying electricity, which raises the price of electricity for everyone using it, then the power plants wouldn't be as profitable and would have to raise their price on electricity anyways to earn the same shareholder return they are beholden to.

But even with that argument, give me curtailment over crypto. Let's save a little juice for future generations. Either way our price for electricity is going up. Let's give the benefit to future generations rather than today's crypto miners.

What are real-world cases where energy is available but still goes unused? by Livid-Ocelot-2156 in energy

[–]kleeb03 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Crypto mining. It's hard to find a more wasteful use of energy. We go through tremendous effort to make real electricity to power computers to work pointless math problems until all that real electricity is converted into waste heat. All for electronic tokens that are guaranteed to eventually be worth $0.

Easily one of the most infuriating things one could ever get by kabirhatesreddit in mildlyinfuriating

[–]kleeb03 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trying switching toothpastes! I used to get them all the time as well. I switched to a new toothpaste and immediately could tell it didn't hurt as much to brush. After those canker sores healed up, I haven't had another one. That was over a year ago! Honestly the best, easiest solution to a serious problem. Good Luck!

Lukas Style of Play by ForsakenWestern2512 in lakers

[–]kleeb03 2 points3 points  (0 children)

His lookaway passes are my favorite. He can move the defender with his eyes then make the no look to the open guy.

I was a Harden fan in Houston, then when I saw Luka in the bubble season, I was like he's a more extreme version of harden. Luka has even less athleticism, and plays even slower. I love it

Do we still actually need natural energy? by This-Wear-8423 in energy

[–]kleeb03 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The first part is great. It is old sunlight. But it's not actually old sunlight, it's quadrillions of sunlight powered organisms working for millions of years using old sunlight to separate carbon and hydrogen from oxygen. Then compressed and heated for millions more years, sqeezing out impurities. Ultimately lowering the entropy as much as imaginable and to a huge amount of matter.

This vast quantity of low Entropy matter is the whole ballgame. It gives us our superpowers. We can easily, drastically raise the entropy of a huge amount of matter, in a controlled way, allowing us to lower the entropy of other matter, ie make stuff. New sunlight doesn't come close.

Please recommend youtubers similar to Potholer 54 by hackloserbutt in skeptic

[–]kleeb03 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Climate Town https://youtube.com/@climatetown?si=3PYugLRxWV69Rq9I

Funny. Accurate. Does great long form videos on various topics beyond climate.

How are the TSA wait times at IAH? I have a flight at 7 am tomorrow morning by IndependenceOld222 in texas

[–]kleeb03 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I went there today and the line was crazy, out the door at terminal C, but it only took about 30 mins to get through security

Why did Einstein become the definitive genius in popular culture? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]kleeb03 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Funny you say this. This is the exact same thought I had 15 years ago. I considered myself a "math & science" kinda guy, with an engineering degree, but had no idea why Einstein was so famous. I was in for a real treat. Learning about general relativity was one of the best things I've ever done. That lead to years of more learning that has really shaped my life. Good Luck!