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Recorded dinosaur fossil discoveries go back ~2000 years, but they didn't recognize them as dinosaurs. The idea that the bones belonged to an extinct species of big lizards was not widespread until British scientists popularized it in the 1820s. Prior to that, they were usually believed to belong to giants (typically in Europe, b/c of the influence of the Bible and/or Greek mythology), or dragons. 1842 is when the term "dinosaur" was first coined. The first American dino discovery was in 1858.
#16 White Sox fan here: This is a form of abuse. /s
#36 They don't "reflect blue light;" they refRACT the light being reflected so it looks blue. Being snide about science you don't understand and belittling people that get excited about genuinely interesting stuff doesn't make you cool.
These are really fun! I'm a big Digimon fan, only know a little about CareBears.
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/37/I do this with evrything. It's tied with https://xkcd.com/90/ for "Ways the Internet Has Influenced the Way I Parse Language."
Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 specify which animals are considered unclean. Monkeys do not chew cud or creep along the ground, have cloven hooves or walk on four paws, are not scavengers or bottom feeders, are not insects, birds of prey, or scaleless, finless fish, and are not camels, rabbits or pigs, so they're implied to be okay. Disclaimer: I am not a rabbi and have never been to seminary, so I am not an authority on the implications of the Torah.
#26 He forgot him ciggy
This seems like circular logic. Why bother dressing up your ideas as leftist if the only people who will agree with you are also nazis? The whole point is to trick naive leftists into parroting you without scrutiny, which was what I interpreted OP's post to be warning against. It seems like you're interpreting it as a criticism against progressiveness as a whole, which is kind of a jump from the original text.
He never claimed the image was of Corn Flakes, he said he found it whole researching the history of Corn Flakes. The inventor of Grape Nuts was a patient of the inventor of Corn Flakes and later became a competitor. It would be totally reasonable to find information about Grape Nuts while researching Corn Flakes.
#13 Except it's a noun, not a pronoun.
#36 No you don't. You literally started this dump with #1.
Sending you love, OP.
#25 Everybody look at me! I'm SO COOL for not liking the movies that other people like! Aren't I SO CLEVER for infantalizing media targeted at mainly female audiences? Surely, I am a true intellectual and not some kind of enormous dickhead.
To be clear: I did too. I was referring to the incels in the comments that were implying that having a normal and healthy amount of body fat was some sort of moral failing.
#17 These people have never seen a woman in real life.
#5
That doesn't change the fact that the screenshot is a bunch of techbabble nonsense that doesn't check out. It's a lazy fake aimed at people with low tech literacy, designed to take advantage of the current discourse surrounding Twitter. I'm not defending Twitter or Musk, and I think it's probably reasonable to assume they do something similar to what is claimed in the image. What I AM saying is faking evidence to prove your point destroys credibility. I'd also like a source on your VXUG claim.
Of course Twitter and Okta would deny it. That's not what I was talking about. The original image is a doctored screenshot that was submitted to an unrelated cybersecurity education group called vx-underground that started investigating it. A member of VXUG posted the image publicly while the investigation was still ongoing (maybe because they jumped the gun on breaking the story, maybe to intentionally cause controversy). After further investigation VXUG determined it was faked.
#6 Just to be clear, this is fake. The screenshot was being analyzed by a cybersecurity group and someone leaked it before they could confirm its legitimacy. They ended up deciding it wasn't real and were pretty pissed that somebody went public early.
#17 This, like most D&D "hacks," requires you to ignore how the rules actually work.
It's implied in the first film that he's verbally abusive.
Some hospitals have a financial aid department. If you prove your income is low, they'll sometimes reduce or even forgive your debt. I've done it a couple of times while below the poverty line. See if you can get an application. Worst case scenario, you kick the can down the line a bit. It isn't as big of a deal to hold medical debt for a while as it is, say, loan or credit card debt, so you can stall if you need to.
It's difficult to describe. It's not a cramp, it's not pain, it's not nausea. It's just kind of a signal my stomach sends my brain that says "I'm empty." Unfortunately, it seems like my version is a little broken, so I feel it constantly. It's less like "I'm empty" and more like "there's still space." Which is obviously not the relationship you want to have with food. Makes it difficult to know whether I'm actually hungry or if I've just stopped tuning out that constant hum of "there's room."
#31 Absolutely bonkers that this would be anyone's takeaway from this character. She's an abuse victim that struggles to find work in a world that determines her value based on her appearance, and (from her perspective) Peter is a huge flake that is never there for her, but expects constant support. Also worth noting that there's no problem with her pushing Harry away or leaving her fiance for Peter, but when he rejects her, she's a slut for not being on standby in case he changes his mind.
Time to re-watch The State!
But a killing curse is an instant, efficient, consistent method of killing. The things you described take varying levels of time to achieve the desired result, and require skill and intelligence to perform. You have to know anatomy and operate with precision. Plus, they're not really "death spells" so much as really creative applications of telekinesis. A widely replicable spell specifically for killing would logically work exactly as Brennan described: you just shut someone off. Lights out.
#43 Yeah, actually. It's a big issue I've seen many times firsthand. Older generations refused to learn, our generation learned by osmosis, and then everyone just assumed that young people would continue to naturally acclimate like we did. That assumption led to a lack of interest in teaching tech literacy in schools and education budgets were slashed to the point that the resources and equipment aren't available. Younger gens are far more familiar with iPads and phones than they are computers.
Recorded dinosaur fossil discoveries go back ~2000 years, but they didn't recognize them as dinosaurs. The idea that the bones belonged to an extinct species of big lizards was not widespread until British scientists popularized it in the 1820s. Prior to that, they were usually believed to belong to giants (typically in Europe, b/c of the influence of the Bible and/or Greek mythology), or dragons. 1842 is when the term "dinosaur" was first coined. The first American dino discovery was in 1858.
#16 White Sox fan here: This is a form of abuse. /s
#36 They don't "reflect blue light;" they refRACT the light being reflected so it looks blue. Being snide about science you don't understand and belittling people that get excited about genuinely interesting stuff doesn't make you cool.
These are really fun! I'm a big Digimon fan, only know a little about CareBears.
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/37/
I do this with evrything. It's tied with https://xkcd.com/90/ for "Ways the Internet Has Influenced the Way I Parse Language."
Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 specify which animals are considered unclean. Monkeys do not chew cud or creep along the ground, have cloven hooves or walk on four paws, are not scavengers or bottom feeders, are not insects, birds of prey, or scaleless, finless fish, and are not camels, rabbits or pigs, so they're implied to be okay.
Disclaimer: I am not a rabbi and have never been to seminary, so I am not an authority on the implications of the Torah.
#26 He forgot him ciggy
This seems like circular logic. Why bother dressing up your ideas as leftist if the only people who will agree with you are also nazis? The whole point is to trick naive leftists into parroting you without scrutiny, which was what I interpreted OP's post to be warning against. It seems like you're interpreting it as a criticism against progressiveness as a whole, which is kind of a jump from the original text.
He never claimed the image was of Corn Flakes, he said he found it whole researching the history of Corn Flakes. The inventor of Grape Nuts was a patient of the inventor of Corn Flakes and later became a competitor. It would be totally reasonable to find information about Grape Nuts while researching Corn Flakes.
#13 Except it's a noun, not a pronoun.
#36 No you don't. You literally started this dump with #1.
Sending you love, OP.
#25 Everybody look at me! I'm SO COOL for not liking the movies that other people like! Aren't I SO CLEVER for infantalizing media targeted at mainly female audiences? Surely, I am a true intellectual and not some kind of enormous dickhead.
To be clear: I did too. I was referring to the incels in the comments that were implying that having a normal and healthy amount of body fat was some sort of moral failing.
#17 These people have never seen a woman in real life.
#5
That doesn't change the fact that the screenshot is a bunch of techbabble nonsense that doesn't check out. It's a lazy fake aimed at people with low tech literacy, designed to take advantage of the current discourse surrounding Twitter. I'm not defending Twitter or Musk, and I think it's probably reasonable to assume they do something similar to what is claimed in the image. What I AM saying is faking evidence to prove your point destroys credibility. I'd also like a source on your VXUG claim.
Of course Twitter and Okta would deny it. That's not what I was talking about. The original image is a doctored screenshot that was submitted to an unrelated cybersecurity education group called vx-underground that started investigating it. A member of VXUG posted the image publicly while the investigation was still ongoing (maybe because they jumped the gun on breaking the story, maybe to intentionally cause controversy). After further investigation VXUG determined it was faked.
#6 Just to be clear, this is fake. The screenshot was being analyzed by a cybersecurity group and someone leaked it before they could confirm its legitimacy. They ended up deciding it wasn't real and were pretty pissed that somebody went public early.
#17 This, like most D&D "hacks," requires you to ignore how the rules actually work.
It's implied in the first film that he's verbally abusive.
Some hospitals have a financial aid department. If you prove your income is low, they'll sometimes reduce or even forgive your debt. I've done it a couple of times while below the poverty line. See if you can get an application. Worst case scenario, you kick the can down the line a bit. It isn't as big of a deal to hold medical debt for a while as it is, say, loan or credit card debt, so you can stall if you need to.
It's difficult to describe. It's not a cramp, it's not pain, it's not nausea. It's just kind of a signal my stomach sends my brain that says "I'm empty." Unfortunately, it seems like my version is a little broken, so I feel it constantly. It's less like "I'm empty" and more like "there's still space." Which is obviously not the relationship you want to have with food. Makes it difficult to know whether I'm actually hungry or if I've just stopped tuning out that constant hum of "there's room."
#31 Absolutely bonkers that this would be anyone's takeaway from this character. She's an abuse victim that struggles to find work in a world that determines her value based on her appearance, and (from her perspective) Peter is a huge flake that is never there for her, but expects constant support. Also worth noting that there's no problem with her pushing Harry away or leaving her fiance for Peter, but when he rejects her, she's a slut for not being on standby in case he changes his mind.
Time to re-watch The State!
But a killing curse is an instant, efficient, consistent method of killing. The things you described take varying levels of time to achieve the desired result, and require skill and intelligence to perform. You have to know anatomy and operate with precision. Plus, they're not really "death spells" so much as really creative applications of telekinesis. A widely replicable spell specifically for killing would logically work exactly as Brennan described: you just shut someone off. Lights out.
#43 Yeah, actually. It's a big issue I've seen many times firsthand. Older generations refused to learn, our generation learned by osmosis, and then everyone just assumed that young people would continue to naturally acclimate like we did. That assumption led to a lack of interest in teaching tech literacy in schools and education budgets were slashed to the point that the resources and equipment aren't available. Younger gens are far more familiar with iPads and phones than they are computers.