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Hell, they're paying extra to have that thing delivered.

Its 2023 and we still have autists who complain about "threads getting derailed". Particularly on a forum that has taken the odd and perplexing moderating decision that all political talk gets crammed into a single 80 billion page long thread, all race talk into another 80 billion page long...

I dont disagree with you in this case about what should be. I'm just pointing out the compelling interest of the universities themselves. You didnt address my point, that all businesses want to sell more and more of their product each year. Universities are no different and I don't see how they...

None of your examples are even close to the same thing. You can order your fast food by speaking out loud and handing the dude your money. You chose to instead download some special software onto your mobile device and give it access to all your personal info, for a $0.50 coupon off some...

This is absolutely true and its one of the top 3 problems with the modern educational system. It will also never change. Try telling any business it needs to sell its product to fewer people next year, and even fewer the year after that.

I specifically took five English Lit type classes (don't recall their exact titles) because they counted toward whatever bullshit category I needed to fill, and I find that kind of class to be the easiest zero effort A. Read a book and have some opinion about it, versus other bullshit...

If youre downloading and using those apps you're part of the problem and deserve every bit of what you get.

I learned sometime in the early 2000s that milquetoast middle of the road posts are useless, generate no discussion, and are generally a waste of time for the writer and the reader. I'm not gonna bother posting unless its something I have a strong opinion about. I mean, why bother?

Some of us don't need an electronic device to remind us we need to get up. I literally havent used one in something like 20 years, and I wake up at exactly the same time every day (5 AM in my case) Imagine being non-functional, unable to do basic things like get out of bed by yourself, and then...

Its amazing anyone could look at the educational system in the US and conclude the general non-subject-related courses arent a complete fucking waste of time. Even funnier coming from a committed leftist like Mist, since this is a US centric thing. Canadian and European systems are almost...

Fair point on the 17 year olds. Didnt realize that cause I didnt get mine til 18. Not sure I can agree on the socialization being a difference. People are socialized into all kinds of purchases. Socialization is the reason people buy new cars instead of functionally equivelent used cars...

I'm not watching any anime shit but this has been an ongoing problems for a few years now. Read about something that people enjoyed watching with their kids. Watch it myself, and get horrified at what people are watching with their kids. Its really not complicated. Sex, nudity, and gay shit...

Kids? We're talking about adults who sign legally binding contracts. I don't disagree with your characterization of the universities' role in this. But lets be honest about the "victims" here. If that same young adult gets saddled with debt from other stupid decisions, like buying a new car...

Certainly if we found an organism using a different set of bases, or encoding amino acids with different codons, itd be proof of aliens. Its worth thinking about how DNA sequencing works, though. Any base that base paired with C would be read as a G, even if it was chemically different...

You mean the bag? You couldnt think of the word "bag"? And failing to find that word, you came up with "produce sleeve thing from the rollers they provide"? I'm not rustled and I'm not trying to make fun of you. Its just that I have never met an extraterrestrial before and would like to know...

umm yeah thats exactly what I was commenting about. Its bizarre that such a dogshit movie did better financially.

Besides, nobody gets to opt out of taxes they disagree with. In that system, why would anyone choose to opt out of the occasional benefit they might qualify for? Itd be one thing if you could opt out of both ends, but if I'm paying when they say I have to pay, I'm damn sure collecting my check...

This is exactly what let me get 100% of mine forgiven early this year (PSLF program). I think theres a cap in place now but I got all mine wiped out. >60k Sometimes clown world takes your money, sometimes you eat the bear.

What a crazy chart. The Incredible Hulk was waaaay better than that chart would suggest. And The Eternals was waaaaay worse. Fuck, Eternals was way worse than The Flash. Even with the pedo freak playing the Flash.

I dont really understand this gag. If they were 30% unknown species whats the other 70%? If they were aliens theyd be 100% unknown species. Are they like trying to make it more believable or something by using a lower number? It ends up just making no sense

Yes, thats my conclusion too. All the saturated fat, cholesterol, and red meat correlations turn out to be caused by diets without enough fiber.

That "go vegan to live longer" thing is such bullshit. the data are very weak on the subject. On the other hand, we have exceptionally strong evidence that you can live longer by eating a particular diet. Cut your total calories by about 20% and you'll live like an extra 10 years or some...

It starts off like youre disagreeing with me but thats exactly my point. Every version they've shown us is completely unintimidating. Compare that vs the first shots of Thanos. And its still a dumb take that the Kang who defeated all the other Kangs would be completely nonthreatening. I get...

Yeah, I said it when Kang showed up in Loki S1 with all the gravitas of Theo Huxtable. "This guy's supposed to be the next big bad?" People got all uppity about how "but this version isnt supposed to be intimidating!" (the version that defeated all the others. is not supposed to be...

Well, theres two ways to go with that tweet. 1. A bunch of millionaires are calling themselves middle class, but they're obviously wrong and we should make fun of them 2. A bunch of millionaires are calling themselves middle class and acktually, technically, heres how they really are middle...

I'm pretty confident we'd get the same results if we polled this forum. "I've got a couple million in the bank, own a half dozen rental properties, and drive an 80 thousand fucking dollar car... I'm super middle class and inflation is really hurting right now!" As someone who grew up poor and...

If pie crust is too much work, you're doing it wrong. Almost the whole trick is to do it quickly. If you've been working at it for a while, that pie crust is gonna suck. This year I've been exploring the wonders of slow roasting meats of all kinds. Turkey was no exception. 250 for 8 hours was...

Imagine its the year 2023, and you still think Thanksgiving had anything to do with Pilgrims and Indians, instead of being invented by Abraham Lincoln mid-Civil-War. Tell me you uncritically accept made up fake history without telling me you uncritically accept made up fake history

Pics. Every goose roasting video I've gotten to the end and thought it looked inferior to turkey and pretty unappetizing all around. I keep thinking it sounds good, but the pics keep convincing me otherwise. help a brother out!

Mists lending money to friends? Its fucked up you guys are giving my friend such a hard time about this

I understood some of the words in those explanations

When real AI emerges and wipes out humanity this is why I wont blame it even a little

yeah, obviously they'll CGI surfer like Colossus. The question is just how much fro they'll CGI, and just how fat and sassy will the Section 8 Surfer be.

Really anytime youre interested in buying something, and theres someone in between you and the seller collecting some fraction of the sale price, that person is a parasite who shouldnt exist. I don't just mean their job, I mean the individual. Fuck all those people and anyone who chooses to...

Agreed, but I think you misunderstood me. Yes we have good evidence that Jesus existed. Less so that he was the son of God, that part is a matter of faith. But I wasnt making some knock against religion. I was saying its foolish to make fun of religious reports while simultaneously saying...

Why? You have equal levels of hard evidence for aliens as for gods. And if we include secondhand accounts you have orders of magnitudes more people claiming encounters with gods than aliens.

if they cast a female silver surfer shes definitely black.

My impression is 1 to 2 yrs in OR, without any major shortcuts available. Second hand info but that's where my impression comes from

I wasnt being clear. The certificate isnt hard, of course. You're absolutely right, all one has to do is look at the people who get it. Its not at all a test of ability or knowledge or anything like that. What it is, is ridiculously time consuming and 100% busywork. The kind of program no...

"mostly" is doing a hell of a heavy lift in that sentence. So you are not disputing that they were there to root out Thought Crime, just saying they were "mostly" responsible for other stuff?