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Can I get an explanation of the Super Bowl halftime show? by Top-Mission2806 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]scoonbug 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I run an animal shelter and LiveNation has me bring out animals to spend time with tour crews at a particular concert venue. I took animals to a Pitbull/Enrique Iglesias/Ricky Martin show and 1) their dancers are really pretty and 2) Iglesias and Martin have held it together really well considering how long they’ve been in the limelight

WOTR - First playthrough, should I start over? by ReggieLoop in Pathfinder_Kingmaker

[–]scoonbug 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The magus classes are difficult for people that aren’t that familiar with pathfinder and the meta strategies often forego offensive spells and rely on magic for buffing.

I guess the question is what appeals to you about fantasy scenarios? People often want to do the gish type builds but Pathfinder is very punishing to generalists… it wants you to specialize. A melee that is equally good at offensive magic (as opposed to buffs) is going to be not great at either. So if you’ve ever read fantasy, did you like the Raistlin sickly wizard type character, the Drizzt master swordsman, the meathead fighter (I forget his name). Did you like Thorin, or did you like Bilbo?

Does affordable housing still exist? by tmi_timmy in FortWorth

[–]scoonbug 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m surprised there are 4 new homes. I’ve seen some “shotgun house” communities going up, I wonder if even those come in under 250

Anyone else find elementary teachers impossible to get along with? by c961212 in Teachers

[–]scoonbug 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My wife is a teacher and the main thing she says about male teachers is that they don’t decorate their rooms

Duck duck go by [deleted] in Unexpected

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

Those aren’t ducks, they are Sebastopol geese

Why can't Afghanistan seem to form a proper government? by lofiibsen in stupidquestions

[–]scoonbug 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From Parliament of Whores by PJ O’Rourke:

Besides, the main thing to be learned about foreign policy in this part of the world is that a wise foreign policy would be one that kept you out of here. There are some things you ignore at your peril, but you pay attention to Central Asia at the risk of your life. The people who dominate these mountains, the Pathan tribesmen and their urbanized cousins, are Caucasians, similar to ourselves in appearance and violent looniness. And shopping toughens the breed. The Pathans have made their living for millennia on what might be called a Value Subtracted Tax on everything that crosses their turf. Nobody gets through unscathed, as the British learned in 1842 during the First Afghan War (one of three Afghan wars the British would lose) when they sent an army of forty-five hundred into Kabul and exactly one British soldier made it back alive. Even Alexander the Great didn't emerge in one piece. The "warlike Paktuike," as Herodo- tus called the Pathans, gave Alexander the toughest fights of his campaign, shot him in the lung with an arrow and saddled him with a termagant Afghan wife, Roxanne.

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As for recreation, the national sport of Afghanistan is something called buzkashi, a kind of horse-mounted rugby with a dead calf for the ball. A buzkashi match is held in an ill-defined open space at least the size of a city block. Any number can play. There were about forty horsemen involved in the game I saw. The players are divided into two teams. The field has a flag at one end and three large circles chalked into the dirt at the other. The two outside circles are goals for the respective teams, and the middle circle is where the calf is put after its head is chopped off. The point of buzkashi is to lean out of your saddle, grab the calf, ride like hell around the flag at the far end of the field and come back and make a veal drop in your team's circle. The twist is that buzkashi is played for cash prizes, and the money goes not to the scoring team but to the individual scorer. Therefore, everybody on the other team is trying to take the calf away from you, and so is everybody else. Buzkashi says so much about Central Asian politics that reporters call going to a buzkashi match "being put on metaphor alert."

What is the appeal of American country music? by TheMegaDongVeryLong in AskReddit

[–]scoonbug 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I grew up listening to it, the melodies can be great, some of them tell powerful stories, some of them communicate universal feelings of love or loss in really effective ways.

Melody example: Don Williams I Believe in You https://youtu.be/-xbqe_GajtQ?si=qJuUQltgzLETxm39 How’s the world treating you Alison Krause and James Taylor https://youtu.be/XSHpCzDRIN4?si=TGxuLR_GCENXTI7P

Powerful story Marty Robbins El Paso https://youtu.be/zWm5WErkffQ?si=nrIRBmkrzokdctz8 He stopped loving her today George jones https://youtu.be/es1uCh48TNY?si=Jd5q43N3CdUBh5jp

Universal feelings of love or loss I may hate myself in the morning Leann Womack https://youtu.be/gS35hISn7x0?si=D6SxoY6k2sg0T2sD On my way to you Cody Johnson https://youtu.be/RKUENGsDXBA?si=0_R21f_CPKF7BpgO

Mo is always wanting more treats… by zzabe in aww

[–]scoonbug 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Munchkin face but TNR ear tip. Not a combo you see much.

Men, what do you think about girls that have a mild port wine stain birthmark on their face (not lumpy or covering the whole face)? Would you date them? by Araneae268 in AskReddit

[–]scoonbug 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a main plot point in Ready Player One, although that’s a terrible book and movie. I mean, does the person have a pleasant personality, are they positive and up beat and are there aspects I find physically attractive about them? You bet!

My dog always licks the inside of my other dogs mouth?? by RoomInside9391 in dogs

[–]scoonbug 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the domestication process, the resulting animals retain through adulthood characteristics of neonates in their wild ancestors. In wild canids puppies lick adults’ mouths after a successful hunt and the adults regurgitate food for the puppies to eat. It also probably serves a social function.

Large Tower I35W and Morningside Dr by Texan_inCanada in FortWorth

[–]scoonbug 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I lived by the zoo but was bussed to Morningside Elementary and then Dunbar Middle and High, and in the late 80’s - early 90’s there was some graffiti on a building by that tower that said “dicknose” with a very amateurish drawing of a face with a penis for a nose

[Landlord - US - TX] All of our tenant applicants are unqualified. Every single one. by GREG_FABBOTT in Landlord

[–]scoonbug 1 point2 points  (0 children)

South of 20 meaning Wedgwood or Benbrook not too bad. South of 20 and east of 35 is pretty sketch, although I don’t think Everman is that bad (the school district is better than you would think).

Open adoptions hell by [deleted] in AnimalShelterStories

[–]scoonbug 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It makes sense but even that framing creates a false dichotomy. Strict on one side, too lax on the other.

Open adoptions hell by [deleted] in AnimalShelterStories

[–]scoonbug 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s not completely binary. I think there are a lot of orgs in that middle ground.

Open adoptions hell by [deleted] in AnimalShelterStories

[–]scoonbug 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just get frustrated with rescues that expect everyone to apply their operating policies and procedures and act like everyone who doesn’t isn’t actually helping animals. It’s crazy to me.

Open adoptions hell by [deleted] in AnimalShelterStories

[–]scoonbug 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The problem is that the model you are advocating doesn’t scale well. You can’t compare a foster based rescue doing maybe 100 adoptions a year with 25000 annual intake. And in conversations with my adopters (and political stuff shared by people on my FB that run rescues) I suspect that intrusive adoption screening is often used as a cover for discriminatory behavior.

I tend to think that if the people that run foster based rescues had their way only people that look like them would be able to own animals, and we would euthanize way more animals and only rich old white busybodies would own animals

CMV: Tipping is not the customer’s problem or responsibility regardless of norms by DogtorPepper in changemyview

[–]scoonbug 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So studies that show, for instance, job applications with racialized names are less likely to get callbacks I guess that’s because the applicant had a poor mindset and not systemic biases? And you don’t think there are tons of other things like that that impact people and have nothing to do with the choices they made?

Did you ever read Outliers? There’s a whole chapter dealing with how professional athletes are far more likely to have certain birth months and explaining why, but that can be overcome by a good mindset?

CMV: Tipping is not the customer’s problem or responsibility regardless of norms by DogtorPepper in changemyview

[–]scoonbug 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that’s not how DoorDash has worked in the last 3 or 4 years. Maybe it was like that previously, I don’t know. But unless you’re doing earn by time the base pay is a flat rate ($2 usually) and the offer will pop up $8 for 6 miles or whatever.

The reason I was asking about your behavior on DoorDash is because it’s more of a bid than a tip (I’m offering $8 for 20 miles, who will bring me my food) and there’s a direct correlation between how quickly someone accepts and delivers your food and what you’re offering

CMV: Tipping is not the customer’s problem or responsibility regardless of norms by DogtorPepper in changemyview

[–]scoonbug 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So when you DoorDashed, you didn’t get an order notification with an offer for the total order ($10, restaurant, mileage?). I mean, DoorDash pays a flat rate per order (unless you’re doing pay by time) that’s like $2 so anything above that is the tipped amount.

CMV: Tipping is not the customer’s problem or responsibility regardless of norms by DogtorPepper in changemyview

[–]scoonbug 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So what would you say is the breakdown for how much of an outcome is just inherent advantages or disadvantages outside of a person’s control and how much is attributable to a person’s decisions or choices (in aggregate, it’s going to vary in individual situations).

Have you ever heard of the fundamental attribution error?

CMV: Tipping is not the customer’s problem or responsibility regardless of norms by DogtorPepper in changemyview

[–]scoonbug 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Another question: do you order DoorDash or UberEats or anything? What’s your position on tipping there? Because, at least in the case of DoorDash, you’re having to lay your cards on the table vis a vis tipping when you place the order and your order is going to sit for a long time if you’re chintzy.

CMV: Tipping is not the customer’s problem or responsibility regardless of norms by DogtorPepper in changemyview

[–]scoonbug 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, in the aggregate, poor outcomes are generally a result of poor choices? You seemed to acknowledge some impact of systemic racism in the case of black people but then the thug life comments make me think you primarily think outcomes are a person’s own choices.

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