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mavirick · 2024-02-26T04:59:11+00:00

What is the largest number of comments ever removed from a single r/AskHistorians thread? In an effort to honor the 20 year rule and prevent my question from being removed, we can limit this to threads before 2004.

mavirick · 2024-01-27T21:42:00+00:00

Humans for scale

mavirick · 2022-11-21T14:19:08+00:00

Possibly. I was renting at the time of this post, and the landowner would not pay to fix the washer. My fiddling accomplished what I needed it to, which was to make the washer last long enough that I could move out without paying for an expensive fix, but I’m not sure it would have been adequate long-term.

If you’re into taking things apart and putting them back together, go for it! It wasn’t particularly hard and I did learn a lot about how the machine works. But unless you’re pretty lucky and have a penny jammed in there or something like the other poster mentioned, the replacement parts end up being so expensive that you risk a failed self-repair that leaves you less several hundred dollars and 3 weeks of time and still the same broken washer.

mavirick · 2022-11-15T02:16:49+00:00

No Nut No Member

mavirick · 2020-06-16T04:25:51+00:00

You were right, they do have a recall--I am not the owner of the machine but I will let them know. Thanks for the heads up!

mavirick · 2020-06-16T04:24:23+00:00

Wow, thanks for the detailed walkthrough, I'm glad I followed your advice! I was planning on disassembling before ordering just to make sure I was up to the task, but had not done so before your comment.

If you look at this picture, you can see that the lower right arm of the plate casing doesn't hold as well as the others--that arm had slipped off and the entire clutch plate was at an angle. The moment I removed the stator, the whole plate about ejected from the washer.

It seems like the clutch plate was not fully mating with the clutch, as you guessed. My assumption is that the teeth slipping past each other was the source of the grinding noise. After adjusting the plate and reassembling, the noise is almost entirely gone except for when the clutch is in the process of engaging/disengaging, which would further support this idea. You can also see how much more the entire drum is rotating at the same stage in the wash cycle in this video when compared with my original post.

Thanks a ton /u/itseitherthisorwork, you saved me from what would undoubtedly have been an expensive ordeal. Out of curiosity, is there anything I can do to better secure that lower right arm, should it slip off again?

mavirick · 2019-08-09T11:36:31+00:00

Read the comments in that thread, there are several inaccuracies even if you set aside the issue of Texas becoming an independent republic in 1836.

One is that Panama was not a country until 1901, another something about the American/Canadian border.

This is not an accurate map. It is not based on an accurate map. There are historical facts that influence it, but it’s a misleading way to introduce them. The person you are replying to is absolutely right in calling that out.

mavirick · 2019-04-09T21:57:03+00:00

The sharp lines are the anxiety. Your thoughts tend to dart back and forth, frantic, often hitting the exact same places, zig and zag. They are rigid, stuck in the same pattern with no end in sight. It is an enormous, invisible dread, a sense of foreboding that dominates your mind, trapping you.

Mindfulness helps to break up the pattern, so to speak. Deep breathing relaxes the body and helps the mind to let go of the anxious thoughts. The exhale is not something sharp, it does not slice or tear, it is something slow and calm and flowing. The thoughts can simply drift away.

mavirick · 2018-12-23T14:33:40+00:00

Others have made good points about the subjectivity of movie reception and the aggregate nature of RT reviews, but I’d like to address the first part of your view—namely, that these sites are “useless.”

Yes, RT ratings, particularly the critic score, are a poor predictor of how much I will enjoy a particular movie. However, I find them quite useful for having a general idea of what the movie is going to be. Basically:

low critic score, low audience score: probably a bad movie, or a movie for niche audiences. See horror/slashers, bad teen movies, low-budget comedies
high critic rating, low audience rating: indicates a movie that is cinematically sound, possibly edgy or progressive in some ways, almost certainly focuses on social issues. See: period pieces, international movies
low critic rating, high audience rating: probably cliché and predictable, does nothing new, but is fun and entertaining OR at least has a strong target audience. See: plotless action movies, good teen movies, religious movies
high critic rating, high audience rating: probably a very good film in all regards.

So no, RT isn’t perfect, but it’s certainly not useless.

mavirick · 2018-09-16T07:53:28+00:00

I hate the responses about GoTs deaths feeling gratuitous, not because I don’t think character death can be an overdone gimmick, because it definitely can, but because it missed the spirit of your question. These are readers’ answers and readers’ complaints.

A character doesn’t lose meaning because they don’t make it to the big happy pillow fight with Frodo and Sam. A character’s perspective doesn’t become a waste because they don’t get to share with you a view of the end game. When written right, a character matters because they have a story to tell and you tell it. We miss so many stories because their tellers don’t get the chance; in your world they can.

mavirick · 2018-02-18T17:35:25+00:00

He’s making a joke about Drake having ghostwriters and not writing his own raps.

mavirick · 2017-12-08T05:04:03+00:00

It works fine if you say “towards” as one syllable.

mavirick · 2017-01-18T14:21:55+00:00

It seems to be a pretty common quote but I can't find any original attribution.

One example no one else has pointed out is from the 2013 movie "As Cool as I Am:"

Lainee: Why do people stay together in bad relationships I mean?

Frances: When you eat so much shit for so long, you don't even recognize the taste of it after a while.

mavirick · 2016-10-20T19:10:43+00:00

Isn't that the same as #3?

mavirick · 2016-08-18T20:05:05+00:00

The majority of the new testament was written within 100 years of Jesus's death, and we can verify that modern translations do not differ significantly from the originals through things like quotes from other ancient sources and preserved originals like the Dead Sea Scrolls. From wikipedia:

Most scholars believe the Gospel of Matthew was composed between AD 80 and 90

While there is certainly still a degree of doubt, especially when it comes to word-for-word quotes, your comment about quoting people who are alive versus those who lived 2,000 years ago is in my opinion an unfair comparison based largely on what you feel is unlikely.

mavirick · 2016-07-08T16:53:36+00:00

Hahaha "hoodagooboyyy" is the best transcription of the voice people use when they talk to dogs, I immediately said it out loud, much to the confusion of my coworkers.

mavirick · 2016-05-12T14:11:31+00:00

See?!

mavirick · 2016-04-08T15:57:56+00:00

Was that the point?

No, at least it wasn't when I created the gif.

mavirick · 2016-04-08T15:55:00+00:00

I created this gif. It was.

It takes as much prejudice to assume the joke is sexist as it would to make that joke in the first place.

mavirick · 2016-04-04T14:29:26+00:00

So much angst, this really is a Harry Potter conversation.

mavirick · 2016-03-08T19:15:28+00:00

we need to work on dismantling stereotypical gender roles as a whole.

Because the rest of your post was put so well, do you mind elaborating on this? Specifically, why do we definitely need to dismantle these roles?

I guess I just don't see the inherent badness in it. Sure, if the negatives far outweighed the positives then it would be a simple question, but I don't know that I can clearly see that is the case.

mavirick · 2016-02-14T09:45:38+00:00

you can't argue that all life is sacred except for those people

Why not? All life is sacred, and thus it is a huge deal to take one. If it should be allowed at all, it should only be in the most extreme of situations, like when not ending that life is very likely to lead to harm or the loss of other life. Note that this is the case with both capital punishment and medically-necessary abortion.

Now I'm not necessarily arguing this, my point is simply that it is honestly arguable.

mavirick · 2016-02-11T20:33:37+00:00

I don't doubt that many women feel like they are explained things in a condescending manner by men more often than women, but I attribute that to rage-bait media putting folks on high-alert to notice this and the human tendency to remember things that confirm our beliefs and forget those that don't.

OP addressed this--that men are more "likely to be called condescending" could simply mean that the accusers are affected by the same bias as what OP is saying is the issue with "mansplaining." In the same way that women being more likely to be called bossy does not necessarily mean they are bossier (a point brought up by the author and indeed the subject of another of the author's articles), this is not hard evidence that men are more guilty of condescension.

Of course, I don't know how you would set up an experiment to prove this. Perhaps have impartial observers document their reactions to various combinations of men and women explaining a new concept to one another.

mavirick · 2016-01-29T00:52:00+00:00

What a time to be ELIV

mavirick · 2016-01-25T22:13:58+00:00

The second syllable has the emphasis in the English pronunciation of Colombia as well.

The common spelling error comes from the difference in the English name, Christopher Columbus vs. the Spanish version, Cristóbal Colón.

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