BlameThePeacock

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not disparaging the dead or anything. But why does it seem in the US we are expected to feel sorry for a person who overdoses on illegal drugs? Didn't they make the choice knowing the outcome?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The second part of your statement is pretty weak, those are very rare situations.

Far more useful to point out that a lot of people do it out of despair, peer pressure, or even just for fun. Someone who’s massively depressed, being pressured by “friends”, or trying opioids for the first time at a party while already drunk are not in their right mind in terms of making an informed decision.

However, the first part is spot on.

We don’t usually blame people who become addicted to things, because it often isn’t as intentional as the OP is making it out to be in their question.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can harmless viruses be engineered to deliver vaccine payloads for different actually harmful viruses?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I’ll enlighten you, It’s a bad idea. Engineering intentionally contagious things is far too likely to go wrong.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨who is part of my family and who isn't??⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
If you turned up at their door randomly, and they’d feed you and let you sleep at their house for a night while you’re passing through, they’re family.

In some ways, friends are family too.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
This it the real answer. It’s usually just easier to do it because it’s the expected situation.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It absolutely can lead to people treating you poorly, so yes it can hurt you if you do it.

Not using profanity doesn’t tend to cause the same issue, even in workplaces where its common.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Learn to code switch better. Profanity is almost never useful in a professional environment.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Want to buy jewlery as a gift for the girlfriend, I know nothing about jewlery, where to start?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
With your price point, I’d highly suggest looking at Swarovski crystal jewelry. You can get much “nicer” looking jewelry at much lower prices, but obviously it’s just crystal rather than gemstones. Almost nobody can tell just by looking at it though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does hair in food carry any health risks?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
From a technical perspective, yes, there could be health risks from hair in your food. There may be chemicals in the hair from various hair products or there could be bacterial contamination, though that’s a low risk unless you’re consuming a lot of hair that hadn’t been cooked.

In reality, it’s unlikely a few hairs are going to cause any sort of issue other than texture/mouth feel.

That being said, Trump’s hair could be made from asbestos for all we know. That shit doesn’t look natural at all.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you call your first cousin's child?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
First, Second, Third Cousins have to do with how far up the tree you have to go to find a common ancestor. So someone with the same grandparent as you is your first cousin, someone with the same great grandparent is your second cousin, etc.

Once, twice, thrice removed is how far down they are in relation to your generation. So if someone is your cousin, and that cousin has a child, they would be the same type of cousin but once removed.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That depends on which flavor of Christianity you’re looking at, but even the Catholics don’t think they go to Limbo, the pope had an entire study done on it, and the result was “we hope they go to heaven but we don’t know”

A lot of the other denominations don’t subscribe to the original sin shtick, and therefore babies would go to heaven even without being baptized.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Except clearly any aborted fetus would immediately go to heaven based on what’s written in the bible. In fact, heaven should be absolutely completely full of dead babies based on miscarriages, stillbirths, etc. if you believe that they get a soul at the moment of conception.

So that logic doesn’t really make sense either. Which is par for the course.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
In this case, any money the person receives is money thay another person who needs it does not receive.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I was selling a bag of flower and sugar to a CI who thought it was meth or coke can I get in trouble? How or why when I am selling a legal substance?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
A) Flour

B) Fraud
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has "Self-Driving" devolved?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The public honestly shouldn’t be allowed on roads yet either… they’re fucking terrible at driving.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At what point when learning a new language do someone become bilingual?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
As someone who never quite reached this level myself, I feel like it’s when you start being able to think in the second language inside your head.

I only got to the point where I had flashes of this happen for specific topics that didn’t translate well. For everything else I kept thinking in English, even if I then needed to convert it back mentally after.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was the creation of the universe politically motivated or was it done for other reasons?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It’s from hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, which should be mandatory reading in schools imho
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
That’s just basic marketing at this point, hardly evil.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Why Nintendo?

If you’re referring to the way they handle copyright, that’s more of a problem with the Japanese legal system than Nintendo’s fault.

I can’t think of much else they do that’s mean or evil.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was the creation of the universe politically motivated or was it done for other reasons?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Wow, some people clearly need to read more books. It’s a reference.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Favoirte indepth youtube channels?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Yup, multiple hours of dishwashers and detergent.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Favoirte indepth youtube channels?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
If you want a deep dive on how fridges, christmas lights, or oldschool pinball machines operate, you need Alex at www.youtube.com/@TechnologyConnections

You will never get your hours back, and you’ll still be happy about it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the difference between a proxy and a VPN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Wrap it before they tap it?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the difference between a proxy and a VPN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
This isn’t quite the right analogy. The traffic between you and the VPN is quite visible, so it’s more like the windows on the vehicle you’re using are blacked out so that nobody can tell what’s inside while it’s moving between those two points.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the difference between a proxy and a VPN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The big difference is that VPNs encrypt all traffic between your computer and the VPN computer, while this is usually not the case with a proxy. The lack of encryption and decryption can make a proxy slightly faster, but obviously less secure if you’re tying to hide what you’re doing.

ELI5 version:

VPN - You write a note in code, pass it to your friend who then decodes it, and then gives the decoded note to your crush. Your crush doesn’t know it came from you, and if the teacher caught you passing the note, they wouldn’t be able to tell what it was.

Proxy - You just pass a note to your friend, who then hands it to your crush. Your crush doesn’t know if came from you, but If the teacher catches you, they can read it. It’s faster than having to write in code and decode.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come drug dealers seem to have a messed up house or at least a messed up car with a bunch of trash in it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The correlation between people who deal drugs and people who make poor life choices is pretty high.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Russia takes out all the Internet cables like the news is saying. How much of that traffic can be re-routed to satellite?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Piracy has nothing to do with global supply chains.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Russia takes out all the Internet cables like the news is saying. How much of that traffic can be re-routed to satellite?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Almost none of it.

The amount of data flowing through undersea cables around the world is insane compared to the inter-satellite links available.

That being said, a lot of data that you use as a consumer on a daily basis doesn’t pass through any undersea cable at all. It’s more of a business problem than an individual problem.

The majority of the websites or online services you access are locally hosted on your own continent. Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, etc. all have local servers. Even for video games, most of the traffic is local just due to lag issues caused by too much distance.

What would break? Banking and financial institutions transferring money to or from overseas institutions to complete investments and loans, Supply lines communications (Like e-mailing or calling a factory in China from the US), International shipping, Flight tracking, etc.

While the satellites could take over for some of that, what would likely happen is specific companies would bid up the price for that limited capacity, and less financially valuable uses like being able to call or e-mail your grandma in Thailand just wouldn’t work.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was Elvis Presley a pedo?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Actually, that’s exactly what age of consent is. The age at which you’re allowed to do things with an adult of any age.

Romeo and Juliet (or close in age) exceptions are for the situation you’re describing, and are usually tacked onto age of consent laws as an exception.

In Canada, there’s a pair of these. At 14 and 15 it’s less than 5 years older, and at 12 and 13 it’s less than 2 years older.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was Elvis Presley a pedo?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Canada only changed the age of consent from 14 to 16 last decade.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Biden died tomorrow and Harris took over? and she won the election also. Could she work full two terms or would it count as one when Biden died?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Technically the state reps and congressional reps need to be voted in too, so the voters have some power, even if gerrymandering makes it less than it should be.