Rev3rze

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Rev3rze ,

Following this logic there would be no evil in the world to crusade against. If god thought it unjust then he would just resurrect the victims and smite the evildoers.

Rev3rze ,

I'll answer this, I always drop them to my ankles. As a matter of fact, that's exactly how I'm sitting here writing this right now. My pants don't touch the floor at all, neither does my belt. Resting them on my knees just won't do, I just can't sit comfortably on the toilet with my knees more or less pressed together like that.

Rev3rze ,

Day! Me say day- me say day- me say day

Rev3rze ,

Same thing goes for the second part. It's a roundabout way to block federal representation of certain groups of people. This is why automatically being blocked to vote because of a conviction shouldn't be a thing. As you say that would (and does) lead to a clusterfuck.

Rev3rze ,

I'm fairly certain she didn't lose the ability to laugh. I don't think that's entirely possible. Either you weren't as funny as you think or she was awkward and nervous and that suppressed her real laughter. Or, hang on, there's a third option which is she's rotted her brain by being terminally online to the point where real experiences lose their meaning. Actually now that I think about it, that's probably what you're getting at here.

Fuck, wait a minute, am I losing my touch with reality and human connections?

Do you clean the opening on your glass bottles?

Spouse and I have a discussion on what to do after you pour a sauce out of a glass bottle. I do nothing but my wife takes her finger and wipes the excess from the bottle before she puts the lid back on. I think touching the food is disgusting and she thinks leaving it there to gum up the lid is disgusting. What do people do?

Rev3rze ,

Dish rag sounds like it might be dirtier than an unwashed finger to be honest.

Rev3rze ,

Purely from description I'm sure that they meant Neil deGrasse Tyson. No self describing scientist should ever be as smug and full of themself as he is.

Rev3rze ,

Kids these days fr going "the olds these days" unironically 💀

Rev3rze ,

(Pre-edit: this became much longer than intended. You struck a chord in me it seems.)

You've articulated this so very well. It's a lesson that took me many years to learn and comes with the prerequisite of respecting yourself and respecting your partner to such a degree that the relationship comes second for both of you. Each person's first priority should be themselves. Both parties need to respect that to the point of accepting that staying together is not a given and is contingent on both parties being fully satisfied with the direction your lives together is heading.

The funny thing is that I've never felt more confident in my relationship since learning that. I used to think that's putting the relationship second to yourself is antithetical to commitment but actually it's the other way around. The only way to fully commit to a relationship is to make sure that maintaining it is a concious choice rather than an expectation or given.

The way my dad illustrated this lesson in my youth (and I took the advice but only recently learned the full meaning of it) is like this: life is a journey down a road with many crossroads. Should you find a partner, you walk together. If you hit a crossroad and can't agree on a direction then thank each other for the lovely journey together but let them follow their own path. Find that partner that is going to the same destination and you'll have found happiness in love.

Rev3rze ,

Not to be pedantic but that looks like a teepee, not a yurt.

Rev3rze ,

Hakuna matata!

Rev3rze ,

My biggest takeaway from the article is that he's 75. Holy shit, I would've guessed 86.

Rev3rze ,

I'd feel bad for the many people that will be economically trapped there. I can imagine even in that scenario that people will stay put simply because they can't afford to up and move to a different state. The alternative would be to live in their car with their whole family in a neighbouring state, I assume.

Imagine the housing crisis when 50% of texans try to find a home in nearby states. And I'm being very conservative with that percentage, as I can't imagine half of the population of texas would even support secession and would want to stay in their doomed state.

Rev3rze ,

I'm not from the US but I always assumed "at-will employment" works both ways. You're telling me it doesn't?

Rev3rze ,

What happened in those years and why were they omitted? It's odd that they just leave it out with (as far as I could tell from the linked source) no explanation for that.

Rev3rze ,

Don't know what the 2019 yaris is like but my 2006 yaris with 335.000 KMs on the odometer regularly sits in the drive for a week, sometimes two at a time without moving. I had a battery die on me after towing a caravan in 38°C weather with it for a whole day. This was in 2018, that battery lasted me until last year when the mechanic told me it was going down and needed replacing. All this to say that unless Toyota has gone to absolute shit over the years then I'm guessing something isn't quite right with your mum's yaris.

(okay yes, I also wanted to put my trooper of a yaris in the spotlight. My first car ever and the best deal I will ever make in my life).

Rev3rze ,

You sound like a great boss. The best managers I've had are the ones that looked at every employee separately and matched their work to their skills and ambitions. I don't want a promotion, I'm happy in my role. That doesn't mean I don't have any ambitions, it just means that I know what I want to do, and a promotion will put me behind a desk writing reports and having meetings instead of the technical work I enjoy doing the most. My ambitions are to grow within my role, not beyond it.

Rev3rze ,

A bike centric city would be just as, if not more, wheelchair friendly as a car centric one. There's detachable front wheels that can be attached to wheelchairs and pedalled by hand so wheelchair users can use bike infrastructure just as well.

Rev3rze ,

Oh sure I get what you mean. In my idea of bike centric cities decent public transport is assumed by me simply because that is so ingrained in my experience with living in a place where the car has the lowest priority. Streets are disappearing and turned into bike paths where cars are explicitly "guests" and have to give way for cyclists. Public transport gets dedicated lanes and even roads and bypasses stoplights entirely by tunnelling under crossings. The result is that driving here is an absolute nightmare, you'd really have to have a good reason to justify taking the car into the center instead of taking the bus, tram or bike.

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