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- Comment on Why don't police use rubber bullets instead of live rounds? I get if someone is holding a loaded weapon. But wouldn't a rubber bullet have the same effect with out putting holes in another person? 11 hours ago:
When you don’t intend to kill rubber bullets are still very dangerous.
If you have to kill (armed and attacking) they are not dangerous enough.
Then you have the issue of less than lethal weapons having a much lower threshold for when they are used and then accidentally killing or maiming someone.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Depends more on what octave you hit when moaning.
- Comment on If a girl asks you if you're big, are you supposed to lie or not? 3 days ago:
You’re not supposed to be insecure about it.
You can be honest , you can joke about it. I’d probably just tell them it’s so boringly average, I measure every day and compare to the wikipedia article on penis size.
- Comment on Inspirational 4 days ago:
In a frictionless vaccuum 45° would be max range.
- Comment on I do it at least 35 times just in case 5 days ago:
The key is gentle teasing and then a sudden switch into a resolute, vigorous finish. Keeps the wear and tear down.
- Comment on I do it at least 35 times just in case 5 days ago:
Okay what about going extreme at thethe other end? I need to know what happens to the 60-90 times per month group.
- Comment on Aight. Let's be honest. How many of you dress for yourselves, and how many dress for others? 1 week ago:
The only reason I put pants on is because it’s be arrested otherwise.
That being said, comfortable has priority over good looking and I don’t think I’ve ever had a compliment on how I dress since grandma saw me in a suit when I graduated 20 something years ago.
- Comment on For a while Microsoft was the King of PC stuff. How come they didn't just cozy up to the PC but had to do the XBOX and pretty much lose their ass with all the cash grabs? 1 week ago:
Because when you make the console you get to charge anyone who wants to publish a game for it anything you like. Microsoft made money on every pc sold with windows, but not every game sold for PC.
Same reason EA, UBIsoft and every other big publisher tried to launch their own Steam competitor. To ideally make money from someone else selling their game on their shop, but worst case just to be able to make negotiate a better deal from Valve.
- Comment on Does free healthcare access increase or decrease the need for medical personnel overall? 1 week ago:
Living somewhere where the healthcare is not free but heavily subsidised people do not go to the doctor for minor issues because when I tried to call and book an appointment I got an answering machine telling me that they don’t have time to answer the phone today, try again tomorrow. And of course the online booking did not work.
- Comment on Why doesn't anybody get notified about warrants for their arrest? 1 week ago:
So that they don’t run, hide or destroy evidence.
- Comment on Do boycotts work? 2 weeks ago:
In case of a country at war you need a lot more than a boycott.
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 2 weeks ago:
Because it takes quite a lot of effort to eat a huge amount of sugar in the form on fruits and berries. They also have some vitamins, fibers and other stuff in them too.
- Comment on Can someone fact check this 2 weeks ago:
Biggest owl weighs up to 10 lbs. (Blakiston’s Fish Owl)
300kW has dimension J/s and calorie has dimension J. It’s like saying that you would walk 5km/h equivalent of over 200m.
I will not entertain the notion that they were sloppy with what units they used.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 weeks ago:
There are plenty of small companies that don’t grow. Think mom and pop shops and self employed tradesmen.
I’ve you get a bit bigger and you’ve already got the hassle of employing lots of people in multiple places you can’t really balance it to be neutral, you will grow or shrink and it’s a lot more pleasant to grow than shrink.
- Comment on I balance my checkbook every day. I manage my bank acount . Why does the goverment have so much problems with this? I get large payouts and such but it always seem they are in the neg?? 2 weeks ago:
Their spending is someone else’s income that is then taxed that is then spent that is then taxed.
Responsibly used some government debt is good. It helps growing the wealth of it’s people both now and in the future.
Irresponsibly used it’s a headache for the next generation.
- Comment on In which ways the dot com craze of the late 90s and the current AI market differ? In which ways are the same phenomena? 2 weeks ago:
Pretty much the same as any other bubble. Everyone knows its a bubble but putting a million into a 1% chance to make a billion makes sense for anyone who can afford it.
AI will probably be useful for something. Noone knows exactly what so there is a huge amount of risk taking.
I’m not old enough to remember the sentiment during the dotcom bubble but it seemed more optimistic.
- Comment on If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.? 2 weeks ago:
You would not want to use AI anywhere it matters. Only in places where it does not matter if you get it right the first, second or even the third time, like customer support.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 3 weeks ago:
I mostly listen to music when I’m driving and 4G connection is spotty as soon as you’re outside of town, so I’m still copying the files around. If spotify pisses me off I’ll probably make a media player that syncs mp3s over a vpn. If there is not one already.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 3 weeks ago:
I used to move around a huge library of mp3s. I just can’t be bothered anymore and spotify does a reasonable job for a reasonable price.
If only could easily access most movies and TV with one subscription. But anyway this was about music.
Price has gone up 30% in 10 years or whatever since I started. But then so has every fucking thing else.
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 3 weeks ago:
You battery operated trilobite would not recognise an offensive sentence if I typed it at you!
- Comment on In the long ago past, people needed to do THIS 3 weeks ago:
Remembering what password and username goes where.
- Comment on Which career to pursue? 3 weeks ago:
A mediocre engineer makes more than a mediocre artist.
If you are good at any STEM and any creative profession you should pick STEM.
- Comment on What would happen to the Earth if it got booped by a giant asteroid going super slowly? 3 weeks ago:
Pick up a tiny asteroid and drop it from 1m. It hit the ground slightly faster than a reversing truck.
Pick up a bigger one and drop it from orbit it’s going to go faster.
Whatever you drop won’t be an asteroid because it’s already on earth.
So if you pick up corsica and drop it on florida from less than a meter up (they had it coming) there would be a mass extinction in florida. Everything under corsica would die, buried under a mass of rock, mud and whatever. If it did not die already because it could not squeeze into the less than a meter gap between the masses. There would also be an earthquake, maybe a tsunami if some of it fell in the ocean.
- Comment on Is communist idea of base & superstructural bullshit? 4 weeks ago:
Famines due to incompetence or mismanagement.
- Comment on Is communist idea of base & superstructural bullshit? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t care so much what the underlying thought is. Millions died when either got into power. Learning from history neither should get another opportunity.
- Comment on Is communist idea of base & superstructural bullshit? 4 weeks ago:
The difference between Nazis and communists is that one of them lost a world war. You should not give them the time of day.
- Comment on Do drug cartels let the US and other countries "catch" their shipments? Like the US caught 1 billion of drugs over here while we ship 6 billion worth of drugs over there? 4 weeks ago:
Why would they? It’s not like the customs guy clocks out early because he found one package.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Could be many reasons. I can think of two.
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Some prefer older women.
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The reality for men is that you approach a dozen or two women and you still don’t know what time of day it is.
He is 24. He is not in a rush to think about the future yet.
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- Comment on Become who you were meant to be 5 weeks ago:
In the US that seems to get you shot nowadays.
- Comment on what can I do at my workplace during downtime? 5 weeks ago:
Chess puzzles