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No, I was unclear, the coons got into the coop at night and killed like a dozen of them. We have a lot of predators around though, I am sure this varies from one location to the next. We've seen lots of big hawks and eagles hunting in our fields, a bobcat walked through our front yard a couple...

If you want to keep your chickens, I suggest giving up on the free range thing. Our average loss was 3 a week til my wife finally agreed we needed to keep them inside 24-7 Hell, even in a coop we've lost 12 in one night to coons. Not my new coop though, nobodies getting into this thing. At 2...

Plot twist: The Hulk comes out as trans and calls herself She-Hulk, and Mark Ruffalo plays Banner who still identifies as male but when he gets angry becomes She-Hulk now.

We're not arguing here but its an interesting discussion about how memory works. And maybe it works different for different people. But I actually think numbers are even easier to memorize than the strict comparison of bits accounts for; the comparison of bits was just a way to illustrate it in...

You're still memorizing. Except instead of memorizing 144 numbers, arranged in a symmetrical and regular pattern (276 characters), you've chosen to memorize a set of 599 characters arranged in irregular prose. Personally I find your solution bizarre, because why replace a regular array of...

Well, until the devices goddamn RIDICULOUSLY short battery life runs out. Then, its Flowers for Algernon time and we can sit around drooling on ourselves until it recharges. (Seriously, I don't do smartphones but I use one as a camera sometimes. I don't know whats funnier about smartphone users...

See, this is a good example of what I mean by vague, fuzzy, subjective standards being brought into education. How exacty does one measure the extent to which a student "thinks about multiplication in a more intuitive way"? Is this binary? Do we attach a score to it somehow? What test do we...

Look, another person falsely conflating VOLUNTARY SPENDING on one's own health care versus MANDATORY SPENDING on other peoples' healthcare. How shocking that these arent the same number. In our next post we can explore how housing costs are cheaper in HUD than the average cost of a new home...

No, seriously - you and a couple others have denigrated the idea of being math competent as being "human calculators". "Just use your phone dude!" I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.jpeg Yes, that was precisely the point. Somewhere in elementary school we used to train people to do math in...

I get what you're saying. I'm a scientist as well but after teaching for this long I can no longer delude myself into thinking the educational system is about scientists. We're training cashiers, baristas, administrators, and journalists here. The kids who are gonna become scientists are bored...

"understanding" is a vague and subjective term. How do you prove someone understands something? Its not a very useful metric, even though it gives educators warm fuzzies to talk about it. Whether you're calculating the dosage of a drug to put in my IV, or calculating the change to give me back...

Dont be too hard on the guy. I mean, even the people in charge of casting this movie are apparently unaware of this so-called "book version of Dune". How is a random fan on the internet supposed to know about it?

LOL I didnt realize there were people that did this. Why do you hate flavor so much?

Thats what I'm thinking. If MMO gold has to be reported then arent the computer, the internet connection, and all the mountain dew you can drink deductible business expenses? I suck at taxes and dont play MMOs anymore anyway. But its funny to think about.

How to best teach anything is a complex subject without obvious right or wrong answers. So I could be entirely wrong here. But what I do know is that when I meet an adult who obviously failed to memorize the multiplication tables it irrevocably affects my opinion of their intelligence...

That thing ruined an entire season of top chef. I still get mad every time I see her. Somehow she developed a successful food TV career after that. Single most unwatchable contestant on any cooking show, ever.

Important paperwork that can only be returned by postal mail or fax. Its 2019, I can upload documents online to *buy a goddamn house* but THIS little piece of trivial bullshit, THIS requires such high security that only a fax will do! Private entities can do what they like, but I propose it...

Democrats in 2019: selling parts of dead animals is murder, but cutting up babies to sell their parts is a constitutional right.

And I'm gonna add a second one, inspired by the example I gave in the previous post which reminded me. If you are speaking to me in such long, rambling sentences that I cannot mentally diagram your sentence and find the subject, verb, and object, I immediately and permanently label you in my...

Nobody takes more than 2 minutes to take a shit. Its just that while you're sitting on the toilet is one of the few times most people will leave you completely alone and not bother you. My latest rustle. People who talk to me while I am obviously doing something. Sure, I'm currently suspended...

No shit, that is the best purported UFO vid I've ever seen. Since its on Youtube I am 100% sure its fake, but it is a really good one.

The last time I did edibles was literally a Grateful Dead show in high school. This tells you a few things. It was absolute dogshit weed (probably 5%). I'm an old mother fucker. And I havent had any urge to do edibles for >25 years despite living in Oregon where candy with THC costs about the...

What an amazing campaign. Whatever marketing executive dreamed up the idea to spread rumors of incel violence around this movie was a damn genius. Can you imagine any better publicity for a movie than tactical police squads everywhere? "What are those cops there for?" "Joker" "Oh, want to see it?"

I'm not talking about a learning curve. I agree with you, there isnt a lot of skill or training required here lol. Puff puff give, pass to the left. No, I'm talking about potency. I've been smoking for a long time and even I dont want this 30% high end weed. And I'm talking about buds here, not...

I'm not saying no one should ever eat it (although subjectively I think youre nuts; the smell is one of the great things about pot) I'm saying advising a new user to start with edibles is like advising a virgin to start with triple anal penetration.

Good lord there is a lot of bad advice in this thread. 1. If you are newish to weed, don't smoke fucking chemicals and don't eat it. Get a glass bowl, get whatever weed smells best to you (look in the low end of the price range, because you don't *want* 30+% THC!), and smoke a little bit of it...

Fixed that for you! This raises a point worth adding to the mix. Assuming humanity continues to allow the Tlielaxu to develop (and we will because humanity is dumb), by the time Earthlings make a serious effort at space travel there will be not one but two competing sentient species trying to...

There is a fundamental difference between a force that prevents an infinite number of different hypothetical species from coming into existence , vs a force that drives an actual species to extinction. The former affects hypothetical species. The latter affects actual species It's a semantic...

It sounds like you're suggesting that postponing your elderly existence by a couple extra years is worth denying yourself French fries. Denied

I agree. I just find it an important semantic distinction. The filter metaphor only makes sense for factors that end species. But no disagreement about its impact.

I didnt explicitly say it in my post, but when I propose "we're the first" I am really proposing "life is exceptionally rare in the universe, bordering on unique". If the emergence of life, or the emergence of intelligent life, are sufficiently rare that would explain the observed state without...

What in the actual fuck, indeed. Is this a discussion about not washing your jeans for 3 years and doing some weird shit in the bathtub with them, in order to make them look broken in? And then describing the specific patterns as "honeycombs" and "whisker fades", implying that somewhere there is...

So shall I assume you prefer your spaghetti without marinara, your salad without dressing, your gyros without tzatziki? And if the server handed you plain noodles after you ordered spaghetti you'd be completely OK with that? I realize there are some people who don't eat fries properly, with...

Why cant it be "We're the first" and "there is no great filter"? Not saying thats my position, but wouldnt that also explain the observed state?

Cause I've also had ketchup out of a bottle, so I know what it tastes like. Eating fries without ketchup is like eating Buffalo Wings with goddam ranch dressing. Its like deliberately cooking non-crispy bacon. Its like eating pizza with a knife and fork, or cooking a filet minon well done and...

Lol, wait til you see how I apply that ketchup while driving! /immune system

My fast food jimmy rustles: Would you like a straw? (after handing me a cup with a hole in the lid for a straw) Why are you fucking asking me this? I am not gonna answer, I am gonna sit here til you figure it out. Did you ever ask that question and somebody said "Ya know what? I'm just gonna...

Why, is Bruce Wayne a black chick now too?

On the plus side, they can get as woke as they want in casting without any problems. All women, any race, lesbians, no problem. I really liked a lot of things about the Bene Gesserit philosophy, and many of them are relevant for today, but I'm 100% confident theyll fuck all of those up based...

I think you nailed it exactly. They genuinely think they need to make it better. A good screenwriter gets the fuck out of the way and just translates the story from book to film. A good screenwriter is invisible. A bad screenwriter "has something to say" and wants to "update the story for 2019...