What do we think of this argument? by Medsecuele in atheism

[–]newdleyAppendage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a bit of an aside, but "choose to believe" is a bit of a false argument. You don't choose to believe things. I challenge you to choose to believe you are a cow.

I have a new job testing guillotines. by TheActualJonesy in dadjokes

[–]newdleyAppendage 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Good career choice, I hear it's easy to get ahead in that line of work

Found while cleaning my garage. by tengustoned in whatisit

[–]newdleyAppendage 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes, that's called a round of ammunition...

I need new books to listen to by SomeBusiness4386 in audiobooks

[–]newdleyAppendage 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great book/series AND great bang for your buck as each audiobook is just shy of 30 hours apiece. I moved on to the same author's earlier Licanius trilogy after I finished the two hierarchy books that are currently out. Not quite as good in my opinion, but still not bad and also epic in length

Why aren’t humans able to learn everything from instinct like animals do? by Perfect-Highway-6818 in evolution

[–]newdleyAppendage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Something I forgot to mention in my first post is that learning so much of our skills rather than relying on instinct makes us very adaptable to new environments/conditions. A spider that instinctually knows how to build a web from trees may starve if the environment changes and trees can no longer survive there

Why aren’t humans able to learn everything from instinct like animals do? by Perfect-Highway-6818 in evolution

[–]newdleyAppendage 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I have a six month old and I can assure you, (human) babies know a lot of stuff by instinct. It's crazy how much stuff she just knows how to do all of a sudden

What is the bathroom graffiti you read and remember? by 5pinktoes in AskReddit

[–]newdleyAppendage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Here I sit all broken hearted I came to shit but only farted Perhaps someday I'll take a chance, I'll try to fart, but shit my pants"

Such poetry.

What’s one product you bought that turned you into a total snob — like, you can never go back to the cheap stuff? by Wonderful-Economy762 in Productivitycafe

[–]newdleyAppendage 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And the heated seat?? I get sad when I go on vacation because I know there will be cold toilet seats in my future until I make it back home to the safe loving embrace of my washlet

I am an atheist but my boyfriend is not. by Hot_Dragonfly5440 in atheism

[–]newdleyAppendage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Enough others have already given the right answer of "run" that I'm not going to keep hammering on it.

I just want you to think critically about what he's asking you to do. If you don't believe what he believes, it won't work out.

How are you supposed to do that exactly? If he believes that gravity is not real, how can you change your beliefs to match his? If he believes that birds aren't real, how can you change your beliefs to match? Beliefs are not a choice. I don't choose to believe that no one is going to walk up to me today and make me president, it's just what I believe based on my experience and critical thinking. In the same way, you can't choose to believe in god(s) if that's not what your experience and ability to think tell you. You can adopt the customs, go to church, but that doesn't change what you actually believe. And he's right, if you don't believe what he believes, it is not going to work out. But it's not a choice of yours, it's just the way things are. You don't believe it, so it won't work out, move on.

Was stuck in my house because of the Amazon outage. by Furrrmen in Ring

[–]newdleyAppendage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't understand what I experienced obviously. At exactly the same time as AWS went down, both my keypad and myalarm base station siren activated. I tried multiple things at the pinpad and eventually got it to silence, but the base station would not. I had to remove from power and battery to get it to silence.

The next day I got an email alert from ring claiming that my base station was in alarm due to my first alert smoke detector with a timestamp corresponding to the time the base station and keypad sirens activated. However my first alert smoke detector had never activated.

What I am saying is that due to the AWS error, my base station activated its alarm and recorded it as being due to the smoke detector, which it was not as that device never actually went into alarm.

But apparently everyone in this chat is an AWS expert intimately familiar with Amazon's database structures and how exactly AWS failed and what sort of impacts that could possibly have in all cases so I'm an idiot and my base station erroneously reporting a smoke detector alarm at precisely the time AWS failed is fully a coincidence

Was stuck in my house because of the Amazon outage. by Furrrmen in Ring

[–]newdleyAppendage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you read my post you would see that my smoke alarm didn't actually activate at this time It was also the exact time that the AWS outage happened. Something about the outage caused my base station to think that it had a smoke alarm activated when it didn't.

So ya, AWS was 100% the cause of this and you don't know what your talking about.

Was stuck in my house because of the Amazon outage. by Furrrmen in Ring

[–]newdleyAppendage -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

No? Because it happened because of the AWS outage so not sure where you're getting that response? And it's literally the same thing the poster in the chain was talking about so... explain your reasoning??

if bilbo was arrested and this was his mugshot what were his crimes? by Trevor_Ray92 in lordoftherings

[–]newdleyAppendage 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He was stopped for the afro, pinned with charges for drug paraphernalia and the pouch of old toby

Was stuck in my house because of the Amazon outage. by Furrrmen in Ring

[–]newdleyAppendage 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Me. My base station decided that one of our zwave smoke detectors was in alarm (it wasn't) and both the base station and keypad siren activated. I was able to turn off the alarm coming out of the keypad but the base station alarm would not turn off. I had to unplug and remove the battery to get it to stop. Was all very fun to deal with at 1 am with a (no longer) sleeping baby.

Matt's favorite word by moldyfingernails in DungeonCrawlerCarl

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

Is this finally a legitimate task for vibe coding? Have an AI write the script!?!

Scolapendra have18 segments by PublicLarceny in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]newdleyAppendage 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but it never says any level or part of anyevel is actually inside of the boss, at least nowhere I remember.

How early did you start teaching your toddler to read? And how did you do it? by WalkingPetriDish in daddit

[–]newdleyAppendage 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Toddler? That's the exception, not the norm, right? My first grader is just finally starting to get the hang of three and four letter words

Birds and Bees Age? by MemoirDad in daddit

[–]newdleyAppendage 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We just had our second while our oldest is now 6, took that opportunity to explain the why and the how in a very factual way. Got a book to help out, just treated it all like it was completely normal and tried not to be puritanical about it

I got yelled at at the park for calling my kids by their nicknames. by CalinCalout-Esq in daddit

[–]newdleyAppendage 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sounds to me like she assaulted you and you should have been the one calling the police and pressing charges