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This has nothing to do with being awkward.
The damage is done. You can either cap off this bad experience with a harsh criticism of the stylist (which is a difficult thing to do, even for extroverts) or just go home, live with it for a few weeks, and never go to that stylist against. What benefit will you gain from c... | Germany and Japan were on the "front lines" of the Cold War.
Germany literally was *the front line*, as it was divided between The Western Allies and the Soviets. An economically strong and stable West Germany was a top priority for this reason. The stronger and more successful 'free' West Germany became...the weaker... |
They knew it was fucked up. I was over there for my brother's birthday party and they just happened to mention that something was wrong with it. It was a complete pain in the ass just trying to download avast in the first place, pop-up after pop-up after pop-up.
I'm not really super technical when it comes to comp... | It's all about habits. It is pretty fucking hard to go running after a bowl if that goes against every habit you've set up for yourself over the past 10 years.
Don't let your habits control you, always be ready to break out and make new, awesomer habits. |
>No one should be blaming you if they got stolen
Can you actually *read* my original comment? I'm not victim blaming, but that doesn't mean we should defend people's ignorance. They don't know how insecure the internet is, but why do we allow that to be the norm? People should be aware by now, especially with the N... | >Social experiments such as Bitcoin, are testing this very question and seeing the benefits and huge drawbacks of this model.
What drawbacks? Sure, the stability of Bitcoin is questionable, but nobody is being *forced* to use it. I think there's a stronger argument to be made against the US Dollar, which people *ar... |
>Are you actually trying to fucking argue that things that are considered racist CAN'T be culturally ingrained into a society?
Yes. Racism as I understand it means prejudice on the basis of race. Prejudice is not possible unconsciously. If you think it's awful when cultural biases lead to unfortunate outcomes for p... | >You don't need absolute certainty, but I think when levying accustations against someone for being racist, sexist, or whatever, you should reserve judgement until some more concrete evidence is available.
Why? It's not like this is a legal proceeding. Nothing happens after you call someone racist except that they... |
Yes, this was done secretly by <PERSON>. Because of the secrecy surrounding the program and <PERSON>'s grant of amnesty, the world was (to some extent) uncertain what had happened in the case of Unit 731, and who had done it.
Only when Soviet and US archives were published did the world really get confirmation of what... | Probably not exactly the same, but in Soviet history, <PERSON> fills the same shoes. He was a distinguished officer in the Red Army even before the Great Patriotic War. When the war started, he was successful in a number of engagements, and played a key role in the defense of Moscow for which he was awarded Order of Re... |
Free speech is a necessity to any democracy.
For the people to have power, the people have to have the right to speak and to be heard.
The only reason to need guns in a democracy is if you ultimately don't trust the democracy, or if you believe that your voice should be more equal than others. | Without artificial barriers to entry for small business that are historically introduced by governments, a monopoly can only exist by providing a superior quality of service, disincentivizing the creation of such a business.
Government is an institution of violence that only has authority due to it's ability to use fo... |
>If my friend likes tender, juicy meat (many if not most people who eat meat do), BUT still eats his steak well done, I might say he’s just deluding himself by preferring his habitual practice rather than changing ways.
I don't follow. Wouldn't this prove that while he is open to eating juicy meat, he simply prefer... | >The whole point is that you can't be disadvantaged without a baseline to compare to. And being white or male is by no means some kind of baseline state: if we call anyone who isn't a white male "disadvantaged", then we're assuming that the norm is to be white and male.
Can you elaborate on this? If you can't be di... |
> "God creating all living things"
[John 1:3 MSG] All things came into being through God. Natural selection was designed by a designer, and easily explains the diversity in organisms. I don't see a problem with this in relation to "God creating all living things" if he created the life and the material world, and p... | >if someone says that believe that God will save babies they should also believe in obeying Him and not try to outsmart Him.
If someone believes that adults risk hell in their choices, but children are spared due to their innocence, then it would be a loving sacrifice to burn in hell for killing your children befor... |
I understand the reasoning completely but the same thing could be achieved by putting harsher punishments on drunk driving such as a zero tolerance rule (I don't actually know if this is in place already) but as a 19 year old who can legally drink in my own country but doesnt drive, i would feel a little bit indignant ... | I don't wanna start some political stuff here , but whoever tries to break my country apart and whoever wants to take a part of it for his/her benefits is my enemy and i will fight it until I die. I can agree that the large part of the military action in the world is for money but i will fight for my countries benefit ... |
He used the German word for "Aryan" ("arisch") in several speeches. Had he meant "Nordic," he would have used "nordisch." Examples:
Speech to the Reichstag on 30 Jan 1941 [German](http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Hitler%20Speeches/Hitler%20Rede%201941.01.30.htm) and [English](http://www.worldfuturefund... | > If preferences are ordinal …
Traditional economics doesn't just assume ordinal preferences. It also assumes that you can order differences.
For instance, say you have four planks of wood, each a different length. Let's call them A, B, C, and D with d() being the difference in length. Since you can say whether d... |
> It's relevant with <PERSON>'s history of fanning the flames of white resentment.
If you want to establish that <PERSON> has "fanned the flames of white resentment", by all means try to do so. But the use of the phrase "civic society" won't help you do that.
> He was a cabinet member when this article was w... | > Is the granting of continuance at the sole discretion of the judge
Yes, within reason.
> or can my friend's lawyer force the prelim to continue without the witnesses, thereby giving an advantage to my friend?
Your friend's lawyer can't force <PERSON>.
He can argue against the motion, especially if doing ... |
The tuition is 2000 euros in total and we'd be getting 1000 euros back if I de-register by the 1st of February so it's 'only' 1000 euros going down the drain. The money isn't the problem. The courses I've been looking at don't share any modules with my current course so I can't carry anything over. It's just a shitty f... | This won't work in your later year courses where you must read the papers and books assigned if you're going to have a chance of properly answering essay questions and do assignments. The good thing is that a fair amount of the reading is available for free through your library but not all of it. The occasional annoyin... |
Yeah, I was picked on for a very long time, to a very bad extent. I ended up leaving the school in ninth grade because I was having glass bottles thrown at me, being pushed down flights of stairs, had my life threatened, threatened to rape me, etc.
The school did nothing, so I had to leave once my friend was physical... | Wipe it off and say sorry.
(My uncle told me this joke when I was five. I didn't get it at the time, and he knew I'd get it someday. That makes it kind of funnier. One day when I was like 14, I suddenly remembered that joke and went, "Oh! Now I get it!" and laughed my ass off.) |
The point is that you are where you are because you left your plans hanging in the wind. She is clearly moving on so if you want her to not do that then you need to let her see your plans - you need to express your hope, faith, and love to her. That's where you need to start. If she expresses disinterest then you shoul... | She's got some brain issues bro - maybe postpartum depression undiagnosed. It sounds like she's got some manic tendencies. You are making the right choice to keep her away from your boy. He will need to be older and she needs to be mediated before they can have even a slight relationship. |
There are risks associated with casual sex. These include STDs, pregnancy, or even rape. STDs can be lied about easily, as can birth control. A really obnoxious person might even use an intentionally faulty condom. These risks are relatively low, but I find that someone who's careless about their health where just a li... | There are certain standards of beauty for women today. Women have to wear makeup, not to look hot, but just to look neutral. It's like how a frumpy one piece bathing suit would have looked super immodest in 1900, but looks really plain by contemporary standards.
The goal of a hijab isn't to look absolutely hideous, b... |
Lol adverse possession. You need to utilize the property like its actually yours. Fix it up, get utilities to it, actually use it. You need to do this for 20 years. As for the back wall of the house, it needs one. Think of it as this is really gonna be your home for the next 20 years. | And here's your problem though. The law doesn't work in grayscale. Everything is cut black and white, its the way laws have to be to function. Otherwise who do we have that determines where on the grayscale it should be? It would have to be done before the court case because you have to be charged with the crime first.... |
I agree that you should not shame a person for being fat. It doesn't directly affect you in any way. But if that person wants to spread **potentially harmful** misinformation and falsehoods that could ruin the lives of impressionable children and teens, then yes, they should be ashamed.
It is no different than if I ... | If we do treat livestock totally humanely, I guess I'd be okay with that. But just because we are biologically designed to do something doesn't mean we should. Human males are biologically designed to be able to start mating in our mid-teens. That does not mean we should. |
You shouldn't ever really lose that drive to create. You haven't lost it. You're just in a slump. Get out in the world and have an experience, then draw or write about it.
I've felt the same way that you do, many times throughout my life (over 40 now) but it's always come back. Get out there and experience things. Yo... | Sure, they have "won" if they have a lot of money, or have subjugated others to their will, etc. But do these people have inner peace? Are these people truly happy? Can they find true inner peace and happiness from material objects and other people's suffering?
If you look at a lot of these cheaters, exploiters, corr... |
How widespread is holocaust denial though? I don't encounter it very often. I have only once met a person who could be said to deny it, and even then, she was clearly just a crazy, slightly racist old lady, and it was more like she hadn't *heard* about the holocaust than that she was denying it. She believed us when we... | I don't understand - and perhaps it is partially because I have never heard this term before - but I would think that "feminist biology" would just be looking for biases, and questions results when biases are found?
We have a huge body of research, and we can go back and look and find clear errors in older studies. T... |
You said "development". Human life will develop if you get a fertilized egg to attach to your womb, so to prevent a fertilized egg from attaching to your womb, either by getting rid of a fertilized egg or by preventing it from being fertilized in the first place, or by not enabling a fertilized egg to attach to your wo... | Apply basic reasoning and logical skills.
If you have to pay all of your workers more money, you have to raise the cost of goods to keep making a profit. If costs for goods go up, then wages across the board must increase to stay "the same" (buys the same amount of goods and services), which would further increase the... |
> No, but if part of perfection is to desire another will that is not your own and also perfect, it would require creating something like myself.
So is part of perfection creating the imperfect? Creating something evil? Creating beings that you knew you'd have to kill with a flood?
To me, nothing about <PERSON>/... | > So ive noticed in alot of these posts you guys ask loaded questions to the christians and I know its probably just for shits and giggles.
And I've noticed that nearly every Christian proselytizer asks loaded questions. Just look up <PERSON>, or answer the door next time a JW knocks.
> But these post seem to... |
You aren't allowed to use deadly force to defend property, only to defend the safety of a human being. If there is no human being there, only a turret and cameras, the law doesn't consider the stakes high enough to allow killing.
Two problems w/ booby traps: 1)indiscriminate and 2)often kill intruders when there is no... | More like they don't realize an abortion is what will happen. When people think abortion, they think teenage girl with no condom. They don't think grown, married, settled woman who doesn't want kids. They think she will change her mind, or worse, have a happy accident she loves.
My hypothesis is that it is unconscious... |
If that is happening?
Why can't you admit that mass transit is being used by men in those situations to prey on women who are forced to be near men who want to prey on them. You make it sound like women aren't being groped on mass transit. Or that feminists created this evil plan to screw over men.
Women who pay to... | You making odd claims how computers would work when talking about tech that you are only speculating on.
And if experience is just information entering the brain a brain having information entering it will be experiencing things.
There really is no difference.
And if we were all billions of users plugged into one... |
not the guy you replied to but
>Phil <PERSON>'s opinions have no real effect on his job.
Yes it does if he publicly says them. His job is to attract viewers to his show and network. If he says something that causes viewers to not watch his show or his network then he is effecting his job and their employers. An ac... | >Since the basis for your view is that the taxes go to things that are beneficial, would that mean your view would be changed if you were convinced that tax money is going towards things that are not beneficial?
well many people see wars and bailouts as not beneficial yet it never changed their views on taxes. So m... |
As a medievalist, when I tell people that's my specialization, they assume that I know all 1000 years of history. Saints preserve me if I get something wrong, about something that happened in X location at Y time.
I usually distract them by talking about illuminated books or heavily decorated saintly remains.
I als... | A teacher is impartial if they grade people without regard to extraneous characteristics like religion and politics.
Everyone (except infants too young to grasp the concepts) has religious and political views, however wishy-washy some people's may be. If we assume that no one with any religious or political identit... |
> maybe vandalism, or other types of destruction or harm
corrupting the youth was a reference to socrates; but whatever
may i suggest that u follow the non-aggression principle, since u have been following it up till this point? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-aggression_principle (for i really indeph defence of ... | I am not an expert on North Irealnad troubles, but they dont strike me as being on the same magnitude as the arab-israeli conflict.
It is true however that big conflit with a lot of ressentiment were also overcomed, and i think the German-French history might be a better representative of that. However, this has nee... |
>Well with only 21 variables the results were dramatically reduced. Their might be more variables that could explain the difference.
Well yeah, there can **always** be more variables. That criticism is sufficiently ambiguous to apply to any study but not strong enough to really mean anything against any, unless you... | They don't have the identical same meanings. I'm not even sure the difference in meanings are similar enough to generalize them as all having the same meaning.
>*Thou* shalt not kill
*You* shouldn't kill. Being this is presumably demanded of humanity and not a specific person or group, then it means nobody in the ... |
Right- i sort of meant people going to food places and reviewing them- there's a series on Youtube called 'worthit' (by buzzfeed) and they go to three different places with three different price points for a specific food. (E.g. ice cream, taco.. hot dogs)
Its pretty fun just to sit there and watch that sorta thing. N... | I think what OP and many others find offensive... is that a person can be paid so much more than the amount of money needed to survive and live in full comfort.
I dunno exactly how many dollars per year someone needs to "survive and live in full comfort"...
But salaries of 20,000,000+ are clearly well beyond that line... |
That's all to the good, then. My worry here was if they found out after you moved, they'd likely fire you for concealing it.
Given the nature of your question, it might be a good idea to call a defense attorney in the city you'll be moving to and find out the procedure for transferring supervision with your condition... | Talk to an attorney. Beyond the cost of possible fines, a conviction will be on your record and could cause trouble with jobs, housing, public assistance, and a host of other areas of your life. An attorney may be well worth the expense.
It is possible you'll lose your job. That is regardless if you're guilty or not.... |
You may have to get a loan and go into debt. You may not like this, but the alternative is going to jail. And if you dont have a lawyer representing you this is a very real possibility even if you are innocent. It takes just one wrong thing said. | You need a lawyer and to file for custody. If there is no custody agreement he has just as much legal right to the child as you do. If you absolutely cannot find a lawyer you can afford than waiting until September may be the quickest you can get things done. Him cutting of contact will not make him look good in the ey... |
>Your entire premise is apparently based on the idea that people who aren't reporting are too stupid to weigh for themselves the pros (chance of the rapist being convicted) and the cons (chance that accusing the person will ruin their life).
No, that's not what I'm saying at all. It's not that people are too stupid... | >And when you're considering judging someone for minor spelling and grammar errors, it's worth considering if the errors you see are actually hindering communication, or if you're just being fussy.
Fussy? That's not the word I would use at all. We have a standard way of using language not just because that makes it... |
This argument is a little like arguing that prostitution is bad in itself because of sex trafficking. This might sound far fetched, but hear me out.
People who argue against prostitution on the basis of trafficking are really just arguing that slave labour is bad. Burger flipping trafficking or quantitative finance t... | You lie about whatever you need to lie about, but usually playing devil's advocate is a lot more difficult when you have to play with words to avoid a direct lie. That kind of talk makes it a lot easier to spot someone "playing" a side.
If I actually thought lying was wrong, and that you should always stick to your si... |
"Subreddits" is way too vague.
There are subs with all sorts of different goals. Some are general purpose, some thrive with debate, some... are really meant to be for one specific thing.
A sub for mental health to try and stop suicides should absolutely ban anyone from a large range of subs. Do you want to risk someo... | I think you and perhaps some of the people you have been talking to have a few misconceptions about what it means to be gender fluid.
People that identify as gender fluid don't say they were born as both boy and girl. They identify at some point in their lives that they feel themselves to be a dynamic mix of both girl... |
Do you know which friend she's referring to when she says you raped her friend? Is she talking about the frat guy? Or someone else you haven't mentioned?
Unless you are contacted by the police, the only thing you can do is save your text messages, etc. If you're contacted by the police, the most important thing is to ... | Ironically, if you had left all your shit after lease expiration throughout the house, then throwing your property away would be an illegal eviction. But leaving shit in one unused storage area probably gives the LL protection under IC 32-31-4-2(b), as you surrendered the lease completely. LL's defense is simply, "OP s... |
>I'd question the statement that they weren't rare in the context of wider Catholicism
That depends on your frame of reference, of course. I don't know any numbers, but the heretical movements had only a small fellowship. On the other hand, their role in "preparing" the reformation can't be overestimated. They were... | The role of the pope is also to define the doctrine of the Catholic Church, guided by the Holy Ghost (in unspecified and imperfect ways, of course, it wouldn't be fun otherwise). Liberal catholics usually present the pope like you do, like just a representative, but <PERSON> said clearly that this kind of cherry-pickin... |
A few weeks ago i had a pretty bad week at work, lots to do and no time to do it. Usually i came home pretty late, ate whatever didnt need any preparation at all, watched some tv and went straight to bed.
On saturday i was helping my sister with some stuff because she bought a house together with her husband recently,... | The problem is that there is no one best thing, but only what is best for the situation.
If the situation is that you have a bunch of enemies that you would really like to not be there right now, sure, a mage with a fireball is the thing you want.
But if the situation is that you have a bad guy charging towards you a... |
> It sounds like a personal problem that those individuals are having, much like my getting exasperated with traffic yesterday. Traffic wasn't MORE of an issue yesterday than any other day. I just chose to make issue with it that day.
Well no. It's a systemic problem in our society that results from the interplay o... | > UNICEF followed up to find out what those children were doing - you can see their report here. They found that the laid off children were, almost to a man, not in school, but working jobs that were far more dangerous. They were working as street grifters, stone crushers, or (most horrifying) as child prostitutes. ... |
But there are no other restrictions on employers to have requirements related to political beliefs. Are you in support of restricting jobs from making any requirements that may conflict with political beliefs? This seems like a case where you have a very specific political problem with unions, but you are unwilling to ... | It is not rational to believe in something for which no one has ever been able to provide evidence. Just like there is no evidence for unicorns and big foot, yet some people claim that they have seen him. Their anecdotal claims are not evidence. I can not tell you what evidence I would find acceptable for the existence... |
You're the one making claims. How about proving yourself. Link to a time that you supported a religious claim with "scholarly material" and were ignored or tossed out?
My guess, is that you have no such exchange in your history. Show me one claim that you clearly proved and were ignored, and I will concede. But the ev... | I think you mistake it for a requirement. I'm suggesting a flat tax, with no loopholes. Except in the case of public works. Which you could send in for credit. Clearly actual work flow would have to be outlined, but its not getting rid of the taxes entirely. Just giving the businesses the option to remove government fr... |
First of all I don't suggest that you "comfort" her. Be there for her and let her be as bad as she needs to be around you if you want to be a good friend.
One mistake people tend to make is to make other people's pain about themselves. So, again in order to be a good friend one needs to suspend his/her ego during such... | >I am not familiar with the concept of graces, does this mean that everyone is not equal in heaven?
We are all equal in dignity, however the more graces one earns in life the more revealed the beatific vision becomes so that heaven becomes "better" for you.
Basically, the more righteous your life is the more you ... |
This s definitely a your mileage may vary thing. A lot of people do look at them like parks. A lot of people don't. The atmosphere feels different to different folks. Sort of like the big Battlefield Parks, a lot of people don't like to go there unless they intend to pay respects either, some people don't give the monu... | No, I see what you saying, I too find it fascinating. It has some core tenants like the Wiccan Rede and the belief in a God and Goddess, at least with the language, not all people see them the same way. If you interested you could as this kind of question over on /r/wicca, you'd get more varied answers there. |
> Contempt of court, such as was shown here, is a violation of a law.
This would not be contempt of court in most jurisdictions. Contempt of court is usually defined as rude or disrespectful behavior while in court, or failure to follow court orders afterwards. This type of criticism of the judge, who is a gover... | > We want to appeal the case but we're not sure what to do
You need to find legal help. Filing an appeal is difficult, and nearly impossible to do on your own.
Note, by the way, that you can't appeal solely because you think the judge is wrong. You need to appeal a specific legal or procedural error. It's unlik... |
A man’s wife had just bought a new line of expensive cosmetics guaranteed to make her look years younger.
She sat in front of the mirror for what had to be hours, applying the “miracle” products.
Finally, when she was done, she turned to her husband and asked, “Darling, honestly now, what age would you say I am?”
... | Polish peasant digs up an old lamp, rubs it, genie pops out—the usual scenario—and offers him a wish. <PERSON> scratches his head, says, “I think I’d like the Chinese to invade Poland.” Genie does a double take, shrugs, and wham! The Chinese roar across Poland, burning and bayoneting everything in their path. But this ... |
If anyone is liable here for <PERSON>'s bills (besides <PERSON>), it ought to be whomever went to town on his face.
As a driver, your primary responsibility is the safe operation of the vehicle. <PERSON> was seriously getting in the way of that. Also, it sounds like <PERSON> left the car voluntarily, which, if nothin... | In general, you can only argue inadequate assistance of counsel if it can be shown that, had you had a different defense attorney, the outcome would have been different.
Since you took a plea, likely not. Feel free to consult with another defense attorney if you're worried. That's your best bet. |
>While the reasons could seem malicious to you or me, they wouldn't be malicious, since <PERSON> came up with them. It would be a logical contradiction.
I'm saying that God could self-describe something as malicious and you'd still call it good. I don't know why you even use the word good or bad. They have no rele... | >Yes, I see what you mean. But why would "expected justice" not also be "to love being with God" ?
Because those are two different things. If someone owes me something, loving them doesn't necessarily follow. If God is just, love can't be a prerequisite for said justice. He must be just regardless, no?
>Is wha... |
Here's my modified version for football:
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Three football fans walk out of a bar. They turn a corner and see a pair of legs sticking out from behind a bush. They push the bush aside and find a woman dead and completely naked. They call the police and as they wait, they decide to cover the woman up.
The Panther... | A blonde and a brunette are going up in an elevator. On the way up, it stops and a man with dandruff boards the elevator.
The ladies notice the dandruff and quietly giggle. The elevator stops and the man with dandruff gets off.
As the elevator continues up, the brunette says "Someone needs to give that guy some head ... |
OK. Well, you can *try* pro se (going it yourself), and family courts are supposed to be more helpful to pro se litigants than other courts.
That said, "supposed to be" and "are" aren't always the same. If you cannot afford a lawyer, check out the forms on OKLaw.org, contact [Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma](http://ww... | In addition to calling the police, which you should be doing NOW (get to that), you may also want to contact the Missouri Department of Corrections: Division of Probation and Parole, since the boyfriend is on probation.
When you call the police, be as specific as possible. Tell the police when you exactly how you kno... |
> I really would have the gall to have <PERSON> stand by his words-- Christians believe <PERSON> will judge the world-- that he told me to live by to get into heaven.
And, according to these verses, God will only let in those who have clothed and fed the poor, took care of the sick, and visited criminals in prison? | > We do have a thorny problem in that there are people who self-identify as Christians but do only one or neither of the things in that verse. This would lead me to question whether or not they are actually Christians in the proper sense. Of course, if self-identification is the only requirement then they are by def... |
>Telling people to *$#% off if they don't debate religion the way the subreddit was intended is mature and appropriate and those of us who can't see this need to leave.
I fixed that up a bit for you. Now you're good. And for the record, OP was defending the subreddit, not his own personal agenda (although I'm gonna... | >Liberals always think they're smarter than everyone else, they feel they should tell others how to live their lives and raise their kids because most people aren't enlightened.
I was right with you up until this random tidbit. Fun factoid, liberals (in America, at least) tend to be for individual freedoms, while ... |
Okay first, chill. Second, SJW is ill defined since I've been tagged and screamed at for pointing out racism and sexism both online and IRL. It's something I won't ever stop doing so telling people to disengage is poor advice since SJW means anything people don't agree with right now. | 1. It depends on what type of incest you're talking about. Incest across generations will always have a power imbalance and therefore be abuse and rape.
2. Incest within a generation can still involve abuse given age differences and the extremely young age at which the pair was introduced.
3. You are arguing from mor... |
> as soon as a corporation would behave in such a manner they would lose out to any competitor that comes
That's not even true in our current society, much less a libertarian one. You can't think of a single corporation with shady business practices and no real competition? Want to meet my ISP?
>The only way in... | > As opposed to the Government system that resulted in populating the earth with tyrannical warlords? Your fear has already come to pass with States running the show. How is that a serious objection?
The funny thing is, all of this was already argued thousands of years ago. We did have a "libertarian" world with no... |
If you want to change one person's mind, you have to listen to them first.
If you want to change *a society's* mind, ridicule and disparagement is a valid tactic.
This is because societal change is mostly generational. Making these views and ideas the subject of mockery and derision makes them 'uncool' for teenagers... | If I may try to change your view back, it's not just conditioning. The purpose of the sex drive is to produce healthy offspring. Your brain has tons of ways to assess that that you don't even notice. This is why men find women more attractive when they're ovulating, and women who use hormonal birth control less attr... |
This is such a slippery slope.
Right now the bidding value for college level labor is 0 dollars for these unpaid internships. Many more places would also join in on this if there were some laws in place to protect these workers.
I predict in the future (or even currently) our children will have to BUY their first few... | I hate to say it but, when you're a college grad you don't get much leverage.
A "great" offer that requires you to fork over your password is a pretty easy pill to swallow when you don't have a job or you're looking to go from McDonalds to much better paying pastures.
The problem here is that if there is no law preve... |
Ireland joined Britain with an act of Union in 1801 creating the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1921 Ireland was partitioned between Southern and Northern Ireland with Northern Ireland remaining within the Union and the Southern part gaining autonomy but swearing allegiance to the crown (something simi... | The Burgundian inheritance. Essentially in the 1477 the Duke of Burgundy died with no heir and so he had his Burgundian possessions given (probably more of a take than a give to be fair) to France. However, to balance out the French he gave his possessions in the low countries to Austria as his daughter <PERSON> was ma... |
Do you feel superior to or more skilled than <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON> or <PERSON>? Will you change the world more or give more to help more people? I'd imagine they would all prefer to have been fit all their lives but if doing it required them to shift their attention away from accomplishing their achievements and... | I saw the title and my first impulse was to support your point. I love words and poetry has never been my favorite. After reading the entire OP I'd reconsidered. Poetry isn't my thing. I enjoy finding the beauty in larger pieces which often require supporting passages that lead up to great things but I suppose others c... |
>Purely anecdotal, but I had to rely on the government for money for a year. I liked it. I didn't want to give it up. If it hadn't been for the fact that I moved up in life I don't know if I would have bothered. I'm content with being lower class, and it's literally free money. Why would I say no to free money? Many... | >Well I didn't say this yet, but what if everyone got free money from the government each month? What if you give everybody $300 per week regardless of how much they make and just have a slightly higher tax rate on other income? Would there be any less incentive to work? Well yeah, the people who are really opposed ... |
I've had attractions as well to boys and girls, ever since I was little. However, I believe it was learned. Somewhere and somehow.
By fetish, I mean something that you use to get off on. Like, if a person masturbates every time they eat paper, they will eventually develop a fetish for eating paper.
Nobody is born wit... | Yep. I feel like I have a respectable amount of karma for having this account for a few months, obtained through respectable measures. I still don't give out my username, I like being able to speak my mind.
But wait, I'm a girl. I must not have a mind, just boobs and an ass. Therefore, all my karma must be from gonewi... |
> are you really arguing that corporate donors don't drive the agendas of our politicians?
No, that's why I said what I did at the end. I think that donors do provide a conflicting incentive. My point was just that, in response to your specific statement which I quoted, it's only one piece of the puzzle. Fixing it ... | Here's the difference. You sometimes can get loans with just a stable income. But, you are of a much greater risk and thus your APR will be extremely high in comparison. As /u/straighttoplaid said, your credit score doesn't show that you pay back your loan but that you're a low risk of default. Someone who pays the min... |
I love this sub too!
How cool that you're writing a novel (I think being a writer is the absolute fucking best career imaginable) - who are your favourite writers? And what kind of writing do you do?
I'm a Brit - how have you found moving here?
I wish our population was more welcoming to foreigners but at the moment... | > There's also quite a bit of city specific vocabulary. One thing which is pretty interesting is that the dialect changes *drastically* as you leave the city.
My city (Hull, England) is the same! Like for instance most people here (not me, because I'm posh :p) don't pronounce a h at the start of a word, so e.g. har... |
I'm curious what your position is on all of this.
> I explained my view, or I tried, would you like to explain yours? You said you think we differ on what evidence is, wanna explain your view?
I tried to explain how we could build off of what we already know. The idea of a resurrection seems to contradict what we ... | > In other words, I am an apatheist because I am not convinced that a relationship to god (or lack thereof) has any significant impact on my everyday life.
If a god exists and cares about the things you do, there could be eternal torment in your future. Additionally, a god that answers prayers and gives blessings c... |
Yes if you're aiming for college GED isn't the best option. I don't know the rules for everywhere. For me, I had to wait until my 18th birthday, or the graduation date of my class before I could take the GED. 2 years off of school isn't the best way to start college.
For those who do want a degree, leaving high school... | I've seen walmart and 1 person handles about 10 self checkouts. You should definitely be worried unless you work in a specialty market.
The checkout systems are only going to get better and better. Amazon stores have the capability where you walk in... grab what you want, and walk out of the store and your credit card... |
No, that video is incredibly oversimplified.
Basically you hash a number and if it comes out below a threshold value (which is the difficulty of the problem), you win and are rewarded a bitcoin prize. This number you just guessed is used to verify the blockchain, which is the list of transactions.
So you are solvin... | It takes several hours to cook beans from dried state (which is the cheap way of getting them). So no, going to the fast food store is much faster.
Vegetables are expensive. There are some on the burgers as toppings, but you would have to buy and add them to the rice and beans. |
I've only been once. Returned home from Army orders and was with a large group of underage servicemen. We all decided that we could per sway the doorman/bouncer to let us in. He did and we all sat around feeling uncomfortable. I was the only one to get a lap dance, and I only did it because I knew I wasn't coming back.... | I can't speak for Army basic, but Air Force basic was the exact same. The most fun I've had that I never want to go through again. Number 3 works even after basic. I work on the flightline, so I always have forms and tools nearby. If you appear to be doing something, no one wants to bother you. |
>"Man can do what he wills, but he can not will what he wills."
Yes this is a description of free will, which is how our minds work.
> If you commit an unforgivable sin by blaspheming the Holy Spirit, then that is essential.
If you are acting morally you cannot blaspheme the Holy Spirit. | > You are basically saying god is non-contingent because you are only accepting definitions for god in which god is non-contingent..
No I'm not.
>I am saying there exist definitions for god in which god is not maximally great, and not necessarily non-contingent.
If those maximally great beings are contingent u... |
>legally they shouldn't be provided any less protection from invasion of their privacy
Totally agree. But I also think <PERSON> should be laughed at by the public and the media and no one should have sympathy for her or any other politician who gets hacked if they support mass data collection.
They're getting wha... | A while ago I took a vacation from FB, I can't remember for how long exactly but I completely uninstalled it for at least a month, probably longer. That is my main social media, I mainly use IG as a vehicle for uploading photos to FB, and I have a Twitter but don't use it and don't even have the app installed.
Honest... |
> wants to require me to sign a lease with her to rent out my parents spare bedroom and store my belongings on the premises.
Your parents are renting out the entire apartment, right? Not just a single room in the apartment? The landlord can't double dip, because she's already signed away exclusive access to your pa... | The way you avoid being price gouged is to not contract for services at a rate you're not willing to pay. If you knew she planned to charge $245, and you kept going, then you implicitly agreed to the rates she was paying.
Now, you're correct that you can now negotiate with her. But she has a perfectly valid claim to t... |
A meme is something that gets popular and starts propagating naturally.
Forcing a meme is one person or a small group of people trying to get something to take off when it doesn't have the natural oomf.
It's kind of like how some companies try to make viral videos, or assure you that their product is "the hottest new... | Same here! Sometimes I just feel like looking what the people that are downvoted the most have written, and I just have to answer them sometimes. And that just ends in a heated discussion sometimes, because people are jerks.
Someone even called me SJW (Social Justice Warrior) one time. I'm not. Like, excuse me for act... |
This is where it gets muddy though; in the case of the U.S., the individual states all preceded the federal government, and individually ratified the constitution. Under 18th Century political theory, this was an act of delegation to a mutually agreed authority by thirteen sovereign states, and this delegation didn't ... | Wasn't that simply the condition placed in the Constitution, the "twenty year window" negotiated as a concession to Southern interests? The language in Article 1 Section 9 is fuzzy (and arguably an escape clause) but that was its intent. The only law I know of is the Act of 1807 that basically took advantage of the t... |
It matches up to the part in the Bible that says "Be still and know that I AM". Not the part where God tells the Israelites to go and conquest the Canaanites, or whatever (unless you look as Israelites as a metaphor for your higher self and the Canaanites as a metaphor for your inner demons, which is fine but is a less... | I see your point that you feel things in the torah should be rules and allegory and not history, but that seems to be a modern notion. I strongly disagree with your notion that "allegory in the Bible was separate from history by Tradition", this appears to be changing history as it happened. Millions of people lived an... |
I think most reasonable people would look at it and see both sides having issues. The husband definitely came off as immature but the wife definitely seemed dismissive of her husband's wants and needs. No idea if it's true but that's how it came across. Overall what they needed was a good therapist, not Reddit. | Kind of agree. Maybe he was thinking he was doing a favor by keeping it out of public view and just trying to be neighborly in his own weird way. Definitely strange but maybe it's just an awkward way to white knight for <PERSON>. Trying to make it seem like he's looking out for her. Not the best strategy. Unless he's l... |
There's an important thing we should be teaching kids: how to determine whether a source is reliable. If Wikipedia says something, follow the citation and see how credible the source is. If there's no citation, try to find a source for the information--if you can't, don't assume it to be true. Wikipedia articles truly ... | [](/agree) I have a map of the world in my basement. The scale is 1:1. It has every single detail of the world, down to the smallest virus. Of course, that makes it useless as a map.
Simplification is why analogies work. If they were accurate about everything, they wouldn't be analogies--they'd be the real thing. |
I'm not a qualified user, but dropped by to suggest <PERSON>, a contemporary figure, who wrote *The Book of Contemplation* which contains some interesting accounts of crusaders (he calls them 'Franks') and general life of an aristocrat (hunting, sundry small battles, horses, mainly). It's quite charming and urbane.
Y... | That's not entirely the case. The ban on 'factionalism', honoured more in the breach than in the observance during the 1920s, applied only to the Communist Party. It was a matter of intra-party discipline, not broader electoral law. That had a more convoluted history.
Outside of the party, ie in elections to various s... |
As per the title, on the surface, there seem to be many overlaps, especially regarding folklore, food etc.
Still, there's often a distinction made, for example between German folklore and Scandinavian folklore.
When did this cultural distinction occur?
Does it have to do with the German lands being Christian for a... | I've said this before already, but the ranking just before the worldcup is irrelevant except for the drawings, and then only if you're top 7 (or 8).
If you come from a weaker region, but you beat them all, your score will be inflated. In comparison to the rest of the world though, your ranking would probably be quite... |
care to explain then? What is wrong with it?
The first part was, admittedly, only my opinion. What has been done to <PERSON> is not illegal because he's not considered an enemy combatant.
If he were a prisoner of war, international protocols like the Geneva Conventions would apply to him and he could not be tortured.... | I can tell you a little but about western Europe's relationship with Israel in the early years of the State of Israel (though it is important to note that some European nations have strong ties to Israel in the modern era - they simply lack the resources to support Israel in the way America does/Israel has no need for ... |
I urge you to contact the [Landlord Tenant Board](http://www.sjto.gov.on.ca/ltb/) for the proper forms to serve your landlord.
Legal Aid Ontario runs free [community legal clinics](http://www.legalaid.on.ca/en/contact/contact.asp?type=cl) where they are well-versed in dealing with tenancy issues.
Also; your school ma... | I am not a lawyer. I was, however, a First Aid instructor in Manitoba.
I was trained to administer Epipens. I trained people to administer Epipens. What I was taught, and what I taught, was that you should do your best to let the victim administer it by himself, only use their own Epipen, and if you hadn't already con... |
While I understand your point, you have to realise that the world doesn't work by what's moral and what's not.
The fact is that it is not economically damaging enough to force a legitimate response from the content producers. They will of course try and find options to slow the growth of piracy, such as litigation an... | I don't think there's a logical argument to say that a paedophile who manages to completely control their actions is *wrong*. None at all.
But I think there's a strong argument to suggest being a paedophile presents a *danger*. It is natural for people to follow their urges, and common for people to give into them d... |
Not coconut or [kinder egg](http://www.megrosoff.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/kinder2.jpg)? I can understand if kinder eggs are not normal enough in the states what with them being more illegal than an a assault rifle (I mean really it's fucking chocolate, just eat the damn toy inside it if you must, but don't fear... | If you are fairly successful and still single you will have other people cleaning shit for you (maids), and other people doing laundry (laundry service). Appliances help too like dish washing machines. If you cook big batches like I do then you always have fresh food just warm it up. But of course since you are success... |
The cavity is definitely her responsibility. Insurance may very well be covering a portion and possibly even determining the discounting price, you'd possibly pay the same no matter the dentist. The dentist can't waive whatever the balance is as it breaks your contract with your insurance.
As for the cleaning, tell th... | Those are the same thing and that's also known as a bad check. If he wrote a check and it didn't pay the fee initially, they either forgot to cash the check (unlikely) or it bounced. I'm sure your dad knows unless he doesn't look at his bank account closely. |
If anything it did show investors just how ludicrously influential Nintendo's IPs are. Just slap them on an otherwise mediocre game and suddenly you're rolling in millions of dollars worth of microtransactions per day. As soon as Nintendo made it clear that they weren't going to just be handing out licenses to try and ... | The new consoles are much more capable of real-time physics and particle effects. Previous-generation games haven't really been able to rely upon either of those working consistently, making games featuring them either almost exclusively built around them or only using them in vague, cosmetic ways that can be cut if ne... |
wouldn't it be better for a crazy person to not have access to guns in the first place, rather than risk your kid's life? And who can guarantee that the teacher will have time to get the gun before somebody gets killed? sure one person dead is better than twenty seven, but it's still one person too many, and this kind ... | We keep doing what feels familiar. If I brush my teeth every morning, it will feel weird to skip one day, but if I never brush my teeth, it will feel weird to start, and probably my gums will bleed and it'll hurt. But that doesn't mean it's bad for me, just unfamiliar. It's actually good for my health.
So, if I were y... |
At the time of the ratification controversy, the terms "Federalist" and "Republican" referred to political principles, not political parties. A "federalist" government was one that was a federation of smaller states, like the Constitution laid out; a "republican" government was one that was based on the rule of the pe... | The term Zhongguo, or Middle Kingdom, predates the warring states period, first being used in the Classic of History. Before the warring states period, China had been unified under the <PERSON> and <PERSON> dynasties, so common identity was hardly unprecedented; the elites of the various states were all writing in the... |
If your rent was late even counting the date the repair happened as when it was due, then you should pay the fee. Otherwise tell them no. And make sure you do it in writing, and tell them you feel the demand is retaliatory.
If they try to evict you you have very good grounds to fight it. Any eviction that begins wi... | It depends. Aggravated felonies and sex offenses can never be sealed.
Otherwise, your record can sometimes be sealed at 21. With felonies Thee are more stipulations. Namely no more convictions since, no more felony convictions after age 17, the case can't have been transferred to a criminal court, and the records c... |
Yeah, that's pretty clearly fraud. Plus, the girl is complicit and just as guilty as the mother if she has knowledge. /r/Insurance would probably be able to give you an idea of the liklihood of her getting caught simply because they know the way things work and the checks and balances in the system better.
I'm most ... | Nobody is getting arrested over 200$. I doubt you'd get arrested over a 2,000$ bill honestly. Especially since you are contesting the charge from the sound of things.
Although, I would be interested to find out if the credit bureaus in the US contact your local equivalents in any way. I doubt it, but I wouldn't put... |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism
> Capitalism is defined as a social and economic system in which capital assets are mainly owned and controlled by private persons, labor is purchased for money wages, capital gains accrue to private owners, and the price mechanism is utilized to allocate capital goods betwee... | > Sorry, but do you not think that 50% to 60% of your salary is a rather absurdly high cap? I make a fairly high income and where I live I absolutely could not live on only 40-50% of my income.
It mentioned that there are many states which choose to cap at 40-50% instead, and if there was a big enough push from int... |
I think there's no way to answer your last few questions, likely only him and the people he owe know exactly what he owes and in what form - credit card, 401k, loans, etc. And it seems like he's past convincing. I'd let him hire that lawyer, and the lawyer will probably be the best person for him to talk to right now. ... | It sounds like she has a lot of options to find other work and quickly. Between her former employer and all these other offers, there's likely a lot of jobs she would be a great fit for. Unless she burnt the bridges when she rejected those other offers, at least one of those hiring managers would likely still love to h... |
First and foremost the Merlin was one of the most capable inline engines available in the world in the 1930s, especially for the UK. This is why it was favored for the Mustang over the Allison inline engine.
Secondly, it benefitted from the leadership vision of Rolls-Royce's <PERSON>. He initially rebuked the UK gove... | Austria-Hungary was primarily using their own Steyr-Mannlicher M1895 rifle and carbines. This was a straight pull system with an en-bloc loaded magazine system feeding 8mm rounds.
The principle pistol design of the time would be the [Steyr M1912](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steyr_M1912) but [M1907s](http://en.wikipe... |
I have way too many shows on my plate at the moment lol. AHS, GOT, The Good Wife, The Originals, Arrow, Amazing Race, Gotham, How to Get Away with Murder, Stalker, OITNB, The 100. My favorite finished shows are True Blood and Lost (of course). Things I've never seen but plan to: Breaking Bad, Walking Dead, House of ... | Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. It's not even the sad ending that gets me, it's [this scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIIqSKu_RuU). Always makes me sob.
I finally finished House M.D. a little over a week ago though and it did make me tear up. It was sad but happy at the same time. |
Hey, for Germany check out this previous post of mine!
* [How and why did people accept nationalism when it first emerged?](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2wragi/how_and_why_did_people_accept_nationalism_when_it/)
* [How did Prussia come to dominate all the other German states?](https://www.reddit.co... | > The German Army's control over German politics would later be emphasized during WW1, when two generals, <PERSON> and <PERSON> became virtual dictators of Germany by virtue of being the leader of the German general staff.** <PERSON> was in command of the German 8th army which won a massive victory against the Russi... |
> Regardless, if this correlation is not grounds to take action because the causation isn't completely known, then why is the opposite generally cited as a cause to take action?
I'm not actually making this argument. I'm just pointing out different ways in which you cannot use correlation to make decisions witho... | > Making abortions illegal means banning doctors from performing them. If abortions are illegal, women don't necessarily have to face some sort of punishment, but rather the doctor performing the abortion would be the criminal for performing an illegal surgery.
My point is that, if people support making abortion i... |
Ugh, I did this at my local college a few years back. Fell asleep and kept farting repeatedly in my dream. Woke myself up with an abnormally loud one, and the guy next to me had been trying to get my attention. Maybe to ask me for my seat or maybe my farts were bothering him. I'll never know because I booked it out of ... | My gramps was also a POW. He's never really talked to the family about it because the memories are too freaking horrible. He still gets nightmares once in a while. I know this because I heard him sleeptalking a couple times before when I stay over at my grandparents' place.
He's one of the funniest and most cheerful ... |
I think you have a real case of stupid-listing-realtor-idus.
Price is not always the final factor in a homes sales. Sometimes contingencies are more valuable to the seller than the price.
If your realtor did not ask what was important to the sellers or even why are they selling get a new realtor. | I wont repeat what others have said but I will give you this piece of advice.
While its not impossible to determine if a woman is pregnant 2 weeks after sex it is not very common. Most at home tests are not accurate until the the 3rd week. This is just a guess but if she is a prostitute there is a high chance that... |
Back in my day it was common for parents to want to talk to the parents of friends before outings. They wanted to get to know each other and talk about what the kids had planned. They wanted to make sure everyone was going to be safe and what to do, who to contact in case of emergencies. Sure kids have personal cell... | If it's a family neighborhood, you two making out in a car regularly might be disturbing to someone. Just parking a strange car for a long time regularly outside someone's home could be bothering them. Illegal? Probably not. However, with your license plate a determined person can eventually get the name and addres... |
It's so icy pretty much the entire city's shut down. School shut down, the community colleges shut down, all the clinics shut down, the mall shut down; pretty much the only thing that hasn't shut down are the emergency response offices. Needless to say, there's nothing to do. See title. | Well I know for a fact that my grandmother's maiden name was <PERSON>, and when another family member tried to tell my sister, she told him to shut up. Our uncle told her later in private. Also, what makes you so damn sure? It's impossible that <PERSON> had any siblings who ever had children? |
The 171k figure comes from Wikipedia's [List of major dam failures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam_failure#List_of_major_dam_failures), while the [article on the dam itself](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam) is unclear. It should be noted that the sum of all other deaths from dam failures on Wikipedia's lis... | You might be interested in some previous threads on the topic of British and French actions after the Soviet invasion of Poland:
**Britain, France, Poland, and the 1939 Soviet Invasion**
* [Why didn't Britain/France declare war on the USSR at the same time they declared war on Germany at the start of WWII?](http://ww... |
This probably isn't in the spirit of a CMV, but I thought this might help your CV/resume.
If you have some SQL experience and unemployed, start going through some online resources to expand your knowledge and try and find a couple volunteer/low pay freelance gigs. Use this on your resume and explain you're learning a... | Got a good strawman fallacy going on here.
This is a local experience of Tinder. The use of it is widespread, but we were talking about hooking up. Saying it's different where you are means nothing, because elsewhere it's used for other things.
I didn't say fast food sex should replace home cooked sex. I'm saying so... |
Identity is linked to a continual, causal chain. In order for some future individual to be said to be me, that person must have a history in which they share at least my present body or my present memories.
An infinite number of people can exist without the notion of me existing *again* making any sense at all. I can ... | A hypothesis is a working assumption about the world that leads to predictions about reality.
A hypothesis is only useful in humanity's quest for understanding the world in which we live if it makes a prediction about the real world which could, in principle, be shown to be wrong. Setting up hypotheses in a way that p... |
I don't think churches should be taxed unless they own commercial properties.
To all the people supporting full church taxation, that would cause THOUSANDS of churches to close in the US alone. Do you know how much art you will lose? All the stained glass, statuary, architecture. It makes me sad whenever a church clo... | A perfect being who loves his creations might not make them perfect, but he would give them free will according to your scripture. But being gay is *not a choice.*
I know you will probably say that they have free will to not *act* on their urges. But that doesn't seem fair. Straight people can express their love, sin... |
Right. So you are free to think this way, but you live in a society that disagrees with you. By your own ideology the only moral option is for you to take your business elsewhere and move to Christiana in Denmark or somewhere similar where you can do whatever you want.
The resources I'm talking about are the schools, ... | I can't really make an argument against your intuitions, but I'll present my opinion to see if you might sympathize with it.
If I plant crops on unowned land then I am able to feed myself. If you cannot plant crops because you were born blind, paraplegic, or retarded you do not have a claim to a share of my crops. But... |
Not so much this summer, but the last day of summer semester, the night before we moved out of the dorms, everyone partied and got shitfaced. I got slightly drunk and then very high with a guy and ended up letting him touch my boobs, like, alot, if you know what I mean. I've never been w a guy at all since I was molest... | No it wasn't. Tbh, my schools campus was pretty nice looking, and the little town it was in wasn't bad either. It just wasn't particularly pretty and Philadelphia is an ugly city. I do still have some love for Philly though but all of us love some ugly things. Like yo momma, got eeeeem |
Hey don't get me wrong, they definitely have similarities! That's why I was interested in your comment and bothered to google it in the first place! <PERSON> was the producer for P of C: Black Pearl with <PERSON> composing the music, although <PERSON> was heavily involved in composing too. Looks like it was just <PERSO... | Are you male? I read that unlike the female brain, a male one is more likely to look for the literal word of whatever it's looking for than the object itself. So if you're looking for paper, your brain is trying to recognise the written word 'paper' rather than what a pad of paper actually looks like. You can look stra... |
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