Recent content by Aldarion

Aside from divorces with shared kids, etc., there is just nothing good to be gained from staying in touch with exes. I'm skeptical its ever done innocently. "You used to suck my dick but I'm totally not thinking about that right now we're just chatting and being friends". uh huh. sure. 8...

Thats where GRRM got addicted to sniffing his own farts about "subverting expectations". Obviously the whole series was leading to an epic showdown between Jon Snow and the Night King, so GRRM had to do something different and subversive. It really would have fixed a lot to just go ahead and do...

Nope, thanks! Looked it up. Arent they still bolted on? Are these floating houses dragging around big chunks of concrete? Again, I'm not arguing, just trying to imagine how a house goes from attached to its foundation to floating intact down the river

I thought that was code everywhere. Note, I'm not saying ytou're wrong, just that I'm surprised. So what, the frame is just like sitting on a gravel base or something?

Wild. We keep seeing videos of whole houses floating downstream. Every time it blows my mind. How is it that the nails hold the frame together better than the big ass bolts hold it onto the foundation? I'm not saying its fake or proposing some conspiracy theory or something, just saying...

Just look on the bright side. When an adaptation is announced there is always the question, will it suck? When they release casting like that it answers the question without wasting a single second watching it. I just file it away like The Dark Tower: a book someone should have adapted to...

Absolutely. I'm not a big advocate for rules like this, but if we're already requiring companies to list all that shit on the label, the portion size needs to be realistic. Your muffin example is a good one, but really if you pick up almost any package thats obviously a single serving, it'll...

I think you make some reasonable points. Certainly exercise is healthy for a lot of reasons, and fat fucks should absolutely be encouraged to exercise. We should just be clear that its not whats causing the weight loss, which is specifically and directly caused by the amount of food shoveled...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-brain-on-food/202507/i-keep-exercising-but-im-not-losing-weight Good article does a nice job of summarizing the data we've known for a while

You wouldnt need the third if the medical establishment hadnt cut off part of your penis

I know lots of people who consider it perfectly normal to just drop by the store literally every day to pick up food for dinner or whatever. We can debate the cost benefit tradeoffs of adequate prep for real SHTF scenarios of months or years, but a hell of a lot of people are literally not...

For what its worth my kids did too, on that particular question. But I did discover that one of them had a whole row or two of the table they hadnt memorized My comment was based more on my experience with college freshmen

You don't seem to get my point. Youre acknowledging that most advances are accomplished by a small fraction of the population. But you're still trying to use those advances as "evidence" that the population isnt getting dumber. Whats 7x9?

Thats an interesting argument. What fraction is humanity is contributing to those advances? You don't think its possible for a tiny number of people to make advances while the rest of humanity gets rapidly dumber? If not, why not? Also, have you interacted with any people in the last 20 years?

Absolutely. Same here. Now think about how many times over the course of your life you've done math in your head, using that ability. Uncountable numbers of times. Now imagine a life lived without that ability. Imagine that adding up, over the course of a lifetime. All the errors, all the "I...