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[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Learn to shift based off the sound of the engine, don't stare at the tachometer.

Unless you're like my grandpa who had his engine replaced at 20k miles because he revved the engine until he could hear it running before putting it into gear. Between quieter modern engines, and his hearing not being as good as it once was, that meant he redlined it in the driveway every time he started the engine.

He only got a couple more years out of the new engine, but that was because he couldn't turn his head very well either so he didn't bother looking before changing lanes.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I, personally, have no issue with being gay, agender, or affectionately or sarcastically referring to oneself as a faggot, but none of that is relevant to the particular usage that got you in trouble.

You weren't talking about yourself. You tried to bait another party into using hate speech to escalate a dispute. You wanted to weaponize a slur to play the victim and get someone else in trouble. And you did so in a public place where your behavior caused offense to bystanders.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Fraternal service association, like Elks Club or Rotary Club? They may have traditions, but not a theology. They're nominally harmless, if not beneficial, both to members and to the community at large. They're easy to leave, just stop paying your dues.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

If you fry them with enough butter and garlic, even bugs taste like food.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Some affiliate marketer running A/B/C/D analytics on a fake review site. Maybe one of the sites gets better SEO rankings, or a higher click-through rate on the payload. The data will be duly noted and applied to the optimization of future reviews and review blogs.

None of the "reviewers" reviewed anything, or was ever in the same room as any of the products "tested". No effort was made to provide value to you, the reader. Everything on those pages is committed to a single purpose: defrauding Google into defrauding their user base with bad search results. Probably LLM co-authored too, but I've seen similar things before the recent AI boom.

Marketers will destroy anything of value if allowed. This is why we can't have nice things.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wilt Chamberlain claimed to have fucked 10,000 women. Maybe he was embellishing, but it's not a completely unreasonable number over a career. And it was a good era to be going for the record: after effective antibiotics for syphilis, before AIDS and paternity testing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I've found it amusing when bestiality laws explicitly exempt artificial insemination and other 'customary' animal husbandry practices. It's completely legal to fondle your livestock when your motive is profit. Do it for love and go to prison, sicko. It's almost the exact opposite of human-human prostitution laws.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Some do, and inter-library loans are a thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I now see that the body part in the penultimate image is an eyelid. The first one still looks like pink fuzzy penises to me. What do you think it is?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So don't poop in the kitchen sink. Got it!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

There are, and my state would have banned those too it they'd heard about them when they were banning RCV. They weren't making principled objections like monotonicity failures. They likely noticed that most of RCV's loudest advocates were from the wrong party (and some of the were the wrong color too!), and figured that was a good enough reason to shut it down.

 

The proposed bill, primary link, would ban use of both approval and ranked ballot methods in local elections. Currently no ND municipality used ranked choice, but Fargo has used approval since 2018.

 

Not every student needs a rigorous scientific education. Not every parent will demand one. Not every public school will require or offer one. My claim is that Christians absolutely should. Likely other religions as well, I use Christian merely because it's what I'm most familiar with.

The mission of a public school is to graduate students intellectually fit to participate in civil society, which in my opinion does include at least a cursory understanding of evolution. At least enough to know how to look up the details later if needed. A Christian school must do similarly, but carries the additional objective of raising students confident in their faith, which requires a more detailed and rigorous treatment of the subject.

If you want your children to be able to defend their religious beliefs against scientific encroachment, then they better know exactly what science they're defending their faith from. Although evolution presents a credible alternative to a literal interpretation of Genesis 1, it isn't inherently incompatible with Christian education and doesn't prove atheism right. Even when the belief in evolution is optional, understanding the scientific basis for it is critical.

When Christian parents neglect their children's secular scientific education, they grow up to say stupid shit like, "If Darwin says we evolved from monkeys, they why are there still monkeys?" They'll think they cleverly debunked all the atheist scientists, even though neither Darwin, nor any evolutionist since, made that claim. This makes them a disgrace to their faith and to their educators.

 

I understand that the bite test was used by frontier merchants as a low-tech way to assay gold, which worked because elemental gold was softer than some of the less valuable alloys that might otherwise be mistaken for gold.

But Olympic gold medals contain less than 10% gold. They're exactly the type of forgery the bite test is intended to root out. I've even seen athletes breaking their teeth on silver or bronze medals which makes even less sense to me.

Is it all just a big fuck you to the IOC, mocking them for being too cheap to spring for real gold?

 

Because if it ices over, your furnace will stop working on the day^1^ you most needed it.

Flushing it out from the outside with a bucket of hot water and a pump similar to this one ^2^ will melt the ice and open up the drain and you will get heat again.

^1^ Day because if your freezing weather lasts much longer than that, your homebuilder probably engineered a house that could handle the cold. Unfortunately my house was built by southern rednecks who'd never heard of insulation.

^2^ Not an endorsement of any brand or retailer. Just make sure it has a long enough hose. That's what made it work better than some of the things I tried first.

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