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I liked her visits to New England. We all cherish them so.
-in Massachusetts, she insisted that Paul Revere rode to warn the *British*. So he was running around the countryside telling the Redcoats that they, themselves, were on the move.
-The mics were out at one campaign stop. She started berating the people shouting "louder!" and so on, even keeping on them 'keeping her from exercising her First Amendment rights' and insinuating they were liberal plants after the mics were back on and it was explained to her.
-She opened a speech in New Hampshire by saying she always loved being back in the northwest.
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Some of the leading theories of ball lightning don’t involve plasma, e.g. the theory by Vladimir Torchigin that it’s a light soliton in the shape of a sphere, with the curvature kept stable-ish by the self-focusing effect of intense light in air (the Kerr effect). In other words, according to this theory “ball lightning” is a misnomer and it should be “ball light”.
There could also be several types of ball lightning with Torchigin’s type being one of them. There’s another theory involving silicon nanoparticles that seems popular.
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I have absolutely no formal education in medicine beyond high school biology but when my mom was freaking out because my dad was spacing out a lot of the time, I diagnosed him. He had been on epilepsy medication for decades since before I was born but he hadn't had a seizure in my life. My mom thought he was having mini-seizures but I knew my Dad's diet was kind of shitty and I remembered a House episode where a girl's psychiatric symptoms were caused by a B12 deficiency. I looked into his epilepsy meds and found they deplete B12 so I told my mom, might be a B12 deficiency. Now my dad gets monthly B12 shots and doesn't space out anymore.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2022-09-04 06:15:39
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doesn't make it sound any less urban myth, but I saw the video and the proof that she was still in high school coming out. this happened in the late 2000s, so I'm not surprised that it's been scrubbed off. I remember the title as well, and before anybody comes for me I was underaged at the time
Anyway - I recognize that you say it would be obvious to spot CP when it's CP, but I really don't think that's the case. Girls under 18 are still children, and the line is easily blurred because every female body is different and can either develop early or late.
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Assholes of Reddit, why do you get drunk and want to fight strangers?
Back in college I was at a house party, sitting on a curb, drinking and talking with a friend. During our conversation, I kept hearing subdued profanity. "Sup, bitch.... mafucka....fuckin' pussy." I finally looked up to find a dude standing in the middle of the street with two of his buddies, and realized his stream of cursing was directed at me. I had never seen the guy in my entire life. I asked him why he was threatening a random person, and he said, "I saw you at the bookstore. I nodded to you and you didn't nod back." Pretty obvious it was just a made up excuse (there were 10K people in my college, and I hadn't been to the bookstore in months).
Similar situations happened to me on multiple occasions during my partying days. Why do people want to get drunk and fight randoms?
Edit: I know there's a lot of psychological reasons behind getting drunk and fighting (repressed homosexuality, bad upbringing, etc.). But I'm wondering more about *their* motivation. Though I'm pretty sure the best answer I'm gonna get is highest rated comment.
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2012-10-09 17:18:34
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What classical or classical-style music do you love?
The post about classical music on the front page got me thinking about listening to that style of music a little more, and I was wondering what some of your favorites are.
I personally love the sound of a violin and a lot of the other string instruments, but I also love [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSm4e8huO-I) from the movie Plunkett & Macleane. It's not strictly classical, but I love the fusion.
So what are your favorites? Links are very much encouraged, I want to hear them!
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tymre
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2012-05-22 02:54:47
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Since the first motion picture in the late 1800's, how much has film spawned ideas that have lead to the invention or progress of other technologies?
This is a bad example; but it got me thinking about other films and how they could have given other inventors ideas. Watching Jurassic Park (1993) and the girl was playing on the touch screen in the car they were riding in. I think the first touch screen I touched was the first iPod touch in 2007. I understand that this sort of technology had already been obtained in 1993, but it was nowhere near something the public saw all the time. Now everything is a touch screen.
And I'm still waiting on the laser pointer roofie from Men In Black.
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2011-11-26 01:10:10
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Reddit- do you think computers or robots could ever have emotions?
I read somewhere that "although emotions can be simulated computationally and can plausibly be viewed as part of the computational aspect of the brain, it is unlikely that we will ever build a machine that duplicates human emotions." I disagree, because I feel like the statement puts human emotion on some sort of pedestal that has no basis in the physical world. What do you think? Given enough hardware resources, could a computer have emotions similar to that of a human being?
Edit: Some good replies here guys! Thanks!
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2012-11-30 21:22:36
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Its to link directly to the content in question without linking to the web page that it's on instead. If someone clicks on the link they go directly to the content, costing the web page bandwidth, but never exposing them to the website itself.
Most websites provide content and generate revenue based on how many people come to the webpage to see said content, you might not pay to see their content yourself, but it doesn't mean others aren't paying -them- to encourage you to see the content (advertizing being the simplest way).
So linking directly to the content is in a way, a direct revenue loss. Some places don't care as long as their content gets seen... some websites on the other hand are REALLY anal about it.
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So Reddit film connoisseurs, I humbly ask for your help impressing a girl.
I've got a crush on this gorgeous, artsy stoner film student that loves old classic movies. I've seen the odd classic here and there, but films are not my forte. She has a rather odd sense of humour, and loves creepy sorts of things - eg. her roommates once hid a creepy baby doll in her bed, and she loved it instead of freaking out. One of her favourite movies is Blue Velvet, and we recently watched Valley of the Dolls and Chocolat. Also, she is a big fan of Atom Egoyan - recently saw Exotica. Any ideas? this is a throw away account as my main could easily trace back to me in real life. I'm sorry for sparse replies, as I don't have internet at home and have to resort to trekking to campus to use the library computers on a daily basis. Thanks for any suggestions!
Edit2: Wicked suggestions - ended up mentioning one in conversation that she had been meaning to see - The Court Jester with Danny K I think. Might watch it tonight, made a huge list of movies from the comments for future reference though! just incase we hitup the movie store...note to self, remove throw away username and login information from the top of the list lol.
Edit: Wow, thanks for all the awesome replies already - will pick some up and see how it goes! Will update in a day or two if all goes well
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2010-01-05 21:39:42
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I have enjoyed World of Tanks for about four years now and i always find myself moving back towards it.
FWIW, I have spent about $300 over four years on the game, but you don’t actually need to spend money on it in order to enjoy OR advance (“premium” ammo can be bought through easily earned in-game currency, and “premium” tanks, while providing a boost to XP and in-game currency are most often inferior to the best tanks).
But I still upvoted your post because it is applicable at least 90% of the time.
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This is not a "my Dad stuck up for me" story, it's a water balloon story.
When I was about 10 or 11 I was going to some summer camp and taking a Physics class. I was by far the youngest kid in the class. In fact, the rest of the kids were probably high schoolers. The teacher was a pretty young guy, the cool teacher type, and got on well with the high schoolers. I got along with him too, but was kind of a loner in the class.
Anyway, one day we did an experiment where we dropped water balloons off the top of a building. Afterwards we had a water balloon war with the leftovers. This was totally awesome...until the teacher called me out and blasted me in the face with a balloon.
The next week before class, the older guys talked me into throwing a water balloon at the teacher while he talking at the front of the class. I was so nervous in class I was shivering, but I was committed to doing this. The moment came. His back was to me and I let it loose. It sailed through the air in slow motion. And in the moments before it hit my teacher, I regretted this action more than anything I had done in my life until that point. Upon impact, the balloon bounced off my teacher bounced harmlessly to the ground. He whipped around furiously. I sat beet-faced and awaited the wrath of my teacher, over my now failed water bombing attempt. He launched into a tirade and I was scared for my life. I was mortified, but never told anyone about this.
Sorry for the long story, **TL;DR: Threw a water balloon at a teacher during class**
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Ugh I'm 5'3" and I carry my extra weight in my tummy. So it's very easy to notice when I gain weight. But I went from 180 (A LOT FOR A GIRL MY SIZE) down to 121, but never made it to the toning stage before the Great Pasta Binge of 2016. I gained 25 pounds back!! So now I'm right around 130 trying to burn off those last 10 and tone up. I've had a streak of bad luck lately (read: my life is falling apart) so it's hard to keep up, but soon I'm moving into an apartment with a fitness center and that will be amazing.
Edit: toning STAGE, not toning STATE. doing a lot of mobile posting today.
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Exploring all the places I can in VR and the metaverse. Mostly smaller indie company experiences, and social platform stuff, since they're the most vulnerable to time. I learned my lesson with MMOrpgs. You have to enjoy them while you can, because they won't be around forever. (City of Heroes, Chronicles of Spellborne, Matrix online, etc). When they're gone, its often for good.
Many of the VR experiences I've seen probably won't be around in years to come (like user made spots in Vrchat etc). VR itself will also change with time, in good ways, and bad. Perhaps someday I will be the only person left who has ever seen some of these places. The last to remember lands and visions that were once there, then vanished forever. Keeper of lost dreams.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2018-02-17 16:41:40
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I'm assuming you live with your parents right now. That means no rent, no food budgeting, no financial responsibility of any kind. 100% of any money, doesn't matter how small the amount, is yours.
Save some of it. If you save something now whilst you're very young and have nothing to pay for you will be miles ahead of your current peers in 10 years when they're only just starting to realise that they actually need some money behind them to succeed in the world.
Even if you just save $/£/€20 a month, that's 240 a year which doesn't sound a lot but money which is untouched works for you over time. It's also addictive and also a point of pride to see the amount increasing over time.
By god I wish I'd have saved just a little money from my part time jobs when I was a teenager.
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AGHHHH. SO, I HAD JUST COME BACK FROM PARIS WITH MY PARENTS. I GOT THIS MUG. This mug was cute. Eiffel Tower made of animals, and they resembled the letter A. My name start with A. I was ecstatic. So fast forward a few days. I hadn't used my mug yet, and my friends were over for hot cocoa. My mom GIVES THE BABY SISTER OF MY ONE FRIEND MY NEW MUG. I say, "I wanted to use my mug." I was probably whiny. Mom says I can use it some other time, obviously annoyed. So littler girl gets my mug. I'm upset, but calmed. THEN SHE KNOCKS IT OFF THE TABLE AND BREAKS IT. FUCK. I loved that mug. We moved back to Germany a few years ago and took a trip to Paris again. No mug like it to be found. WOW.
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>You have no idea how damaging it is to always see people talk about how life would be so much better if you were not the way you were.
Yes I do. Again, *not everything is about you.*
The difference, before you say anything, is that LGBT people don't require extra care...
>If you guys get to complain about how horrible it is to deal with autistic people then don’t be surprised when one of them calls you out on your ableism
I suffer from depression. It's core to who I am. My moods affect those around me. Them being bothered by it isn't ableism. You're not being oppressed by honest discourse.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2022-12-29 19:44:17
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Knives, saws, chisels, and nails.
Mora knives, the traditional Swedish/Norwegian knives are best. I get mine from Ragnar's Forge. (google it, new to reddit and haven't learned how to hyperlink). I mean the type, not the brand. There are many brands.
20$ per knife. Buy hundreds and stash them. Get carbon steel, stainless. Rubber or wood grips. Buy whetstones and learn to use them well. When the abundance of cheap and shitty knives wear and tear out, you can show up with your quality and rule the market.
Chisels will take a while to come into their market, but anyone who works with wood knows that chisels are essential for fastener-less carpentry. I think they'll be worth their weight in gold to a carpenter who breaks theirs.
I think the market for saws and nails will come about fastest. When people have to start cutting their own wood for heat/cooking and building various extra utilities (without power drills), they'll need both.
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Parents of Reddit, how did you deal with your children who are/were diagnosed with depression/anxiety?
This has been on my mind lately. I'm a teenager and I was clinically diagnosed with chronic depression and anxiety. This all happened earlier last year. Though, I have been like this for a few years now. I noticed it brought a lot of stress on my family, especially my mother. I'm sure it had a huge impact on her. Anyways, I want to know how you guys dealt with it. What went threw your mind when this all happened? I want to be able to understand my mother's rage fits without being angry at her for them.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2014-07-25 16:26:51
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Let me tell you why that's wrong.
You don't want a partner who ignores the fact that you have autism and dislike to be touched in an aggressive way, or sometimes at all when you're going through a sensory overload.
You don't want a partner who starts groping you while you're trying to discuss the *fucking holocaust*.
You don't want a partner who you are afraid to get close to because they'll start grabbing you and pulling you around and hurting you because they're twice your size and don't care that you have chronic pain.
I could really go on and on. But I hope that gets the point across.
It's one thing to be objectified in a consenting setting by someone who won't hurt you and disrespect your boundaries. That's called BDSM. It's another thing to be with someone who loves you at first, then changes as soon as you get comfortable makes you feel sexually abused, manipulated, and hurt, and then gets angry at you for not liking it.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2019-06-12 17:52:25
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I'm not an opponent of Linux (I think all OSes have their niche), but I think some of your arguments are weak.
> Market segmentation! Split the product into lite, home, pro and enterprise versions!
Ugh, nothing is as fragmented as the Linux "market" - dozens of distros with dozens of variants.
> Invent new "features" for each new release, which bogs down the program.
Ubuntu/Unity, anyone?
> Data lock-in! It's a given. Can't have customers running off to the competition. Make sure those data files are undecipherable and chained up with patents and EULAs.
In practice, it doesn't matter what you are using, you are locked in. If you created your files with LibreOffice, you will probably not even be able to open them correctly with AbiWord. Try to open it with MS Word, and it will be even more broken (yes, MS Word can read/write .odt now). Same applies for the other way around.
> Sell the product or the whole company to someone. I wonder who it is? If it is a competitor, you may be forced to migrate to their software. If it is someone who only wants the programmers, the product is as good as dead.
Volunteers get a paying job and don't have time/motivation anymore to develop stuff, "product" is as good as dead. Theoretically you could fix it yourself, but since a day has 24 hours, you won't.
> Install secret backdoors for government agencies or other third parties, or pass data going through our servers on to others.
Debian SSL. I'm pretty sure there are backdoors all over Linux (either intentionally put there, or honest mistakes discovered and not reported - that should give enough backdoors).
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2013-04-17 04:53:27
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The whole DNC worked against him!
What's that, the only thing they did was give some role cards to Hillary ( and the person who did that worked outside the establishment and was reprimanded for it ).
I'm sure those role cards determined the election.
It's almost like he wasn't able to get the votes, because youth voters make a lot of noise but consistently don't vote, and then Russian spin media pushed this angle on every platform constantly to make it a truth so they could push people away from voting D so Trump could win.
The fact people are still bringing up Bernie when he couldn't get the votes, twice, with no real interference to his campaign is astounding and a really bad sign for critical thinking in this country. Shows just how easy it is for people to fall to bad propaganda.
The DNC did interfere with the primaries. By asking people to step down, and lowering the total field so that Clinton could cinch the nomination. That's why 2016 had Bernie, Clinton, and two ex GOP folks as basically the only people running. Bernie ignored the DNC and ran regardless to get his message heard.
Bernie only benefitted from what the DNC did, because he was the only other Democratic player in the pool, so his message was amplified. He didn't have to also contend with Biden, Kloubacher, and many others. Just him vs Clinton. It was the purest expression of his message vs the corporate greed Clinton espoused.
And he still couldn't win, because he couldn't get the youth to actually vote. Twice in fact.
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It's hard to go back. My stomach couldn't handle the grease. As I took each bite, i could feel my arteries contracting as if saying, "Jesus Christ! And I had to tap out real early. Vegetables went from some mystery item to an essential food source that everyone should have in their kitchens. I just wanted to share my experience with the almighty power of vegetables. Oh and don't even get me started on fruit...
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I don’t even know if this counts but as a nurse who started out working in LTC facilities - I would think long and hard before putting your elderly parent(s) into nursing homes. The nurses and assistants are all understaffed, overworked, overloaded with patients, and there’s no choice but to cut corners in order to get everything done. Cutting corners results in neglect due to all of the reasons that I listed above and most of us are burnt out. Especially after Covid hit.
The things that I’ve seen in those LTC facilities makes my skin crawl. I will never allow my parents to go into one and I would highly suggest that you don’t either.
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>TallSlimTees is just affordable. Banana Republic, J Crew and AE should all have great sizes for you.
Nope. $30 for one t-shirt is expensive. I'm not in the US so I don't have easy access to those stores, would have to add shipping+import fees even if they do have what I need. Even still, chances are they wouldn't fit, and international returns ain't fun or cheap.
>Oh and you have mens' big an talls.
Yes, big AND tall, that was entirely the point in my first comment. Few places cater to tall and slim, and the ones that do are expensive.
>For fucks sake just go look for yourself.
How about you calm down a bit, there's no need to get so angry. And do you really think I haven't looked? You gotta stop with all these assumptions. I'm not sure what makes you think you as a woman have more knowledge/experience with men's clothing than I do as a man. I don't claim the opposite.
>Men's pants have a space for penises and packages.
Ehh not really. Many slimmer styles are very limited on crotch room. But that's another thing men also have to deal with, so thanks for bringing that up.
>Why don't you go buy some women's clothes yourself?
Because they wouldn't fit.
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2022-04-24 10:45:35
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What is one perfect moment that you will always remember?
You know. Those moments that you flash back to every now and then that make you feel good.
I have a few, but for some reason this one sticks with me :). It was at a party on an island called Morro de Sao Paolo in Brazil. The party had been advertised as a foam party, I'd never been to one of those before so I went with a few people I'd met. It was held on a club on the side of a small hill overlooking the sea. The night was balmy (I seem to remember all nights in Brazil that way) and the place was mostly empty at the start of the night. We sat around drinking a few beers, chatting and just generally relaxing. As the night went on the place filled up and the music really got going. Then around midnight they started dumping the foam in.
The entire place quickly filled up with foam, way above my head, I could only catch glimpses of body parts, faces and people. Everyone dancing, laughing and partying. At one point I had to leave the foam because I was having trouble breathing, so I went and sat on the edge of a wall overlooking a lower level. People were looking up as the foam spilled over the edge and I was in danger of slipping off. This, for some reason, was the moment when everything clicked and my life felt perfect. I had no cares, no worries and I was slightly drunk, sitting on wall, in Brazil, at a foam party, and it was possible that I'd slip off at any moment and kill myself. It all felt so right that I started laughing my head off.
I was still laughing hard when out of the foam a girl appeared, covered in foam and grinning. She saw me on the wall, leaned up towards me as if to say something, and as I leaned in she grabbed me, kissed me hard, took a puff of the somehow still lit joint in her hand, handed it to me, and then dived back into the foam. I sat there for another ten minutes smoking the joint, laughing.
That was one of my perfect moments. Share one of yours?
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As a grocery store cashier, I haven't one iota of power or control over: the prices, the music, the thermostat, the hours we're open, the ingredients in the products you're buying, packaging decisions, the income/employment/behavior of my coworkers, how busy we are, how busy you are, your kids, your schedule, your allergies, your dietary needs and choices, your reusable bags, other customers, the parking lot, the traffic, the layout of the shelves, sales or practices at other stores, warehouse issues, delivery trucks, crop failures, weather events, frozen food melting, the ripeness of fruit, the seasons when plants grow, the date on the bread, the countries our products come from, the organic certification of farms or the treatment of livestock.
No, I can't "call the baker" and tell them you'd prefer chocolate. No, your complaint or suggestion will not carry more weight if it comes from me. No, I can't babysit your toddler while you run home for your wallet. I'm actually very good at math, but if you're gonna do some asinine "I'll give you 17 cents, so you can give me an even $8.30" bullshit after I've already started making change, it's gonna take me a sec, and shouting numbers in my face while I'm counting isn't "helping".
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hey reddit, I still really want to join the military...
I told my parents that I want to go to college and all, but little vice inside of me keeps on saying "you dont want to go to college, the military is a better choice for you", and quite honestly, its winning. The Vets of wars past that I've talked to about the matter, have made it sound really fun, and they all have enjoyed it a lot. To me it sounds as if the positives outweigh the positives.
If you've been thru my situation, or are a vet, or are currently serving any advice would be welcome
EDIT: I've decided to at least get my degree before i go join. That seems like the best way to approach this situation, and besides, it'll give me a few years to think it over before I devote my self, and possibly my life to this
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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Oh absolutely, that is how it is. You so rarely have any extra money and until you do you daydream of all the things you're going to buy.
Any money you do have is already spent. That tax return is an opportunity to feel like part of the middle class... something we aspired to join.
The problem with poverty, well one of the many problems, is that you are slowly robbed of any hope that tomorrow will better. There is only today and anything that can help you forget how shitty today is, is well worth having.
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He was phenomenal! He was bold and unapologetic. Now our country is slowly going down the drain because politicians are playing weekend at Bernie with a barely coherent vegetable and pretending the economy isn't in the dumpster. Luckily I invested heavily while he was president and slammed the breaks when he wasn't. Otherwise I wouldn't have been able to retire comfortably. Hopefully the next president will have a pulse and enough brains to bring us back from the pit democrats are creating. Young people are truly screwed otherwise.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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And Stoli is one of the more expensive options, as well.
Oh, but apparently what we get over here isn't true Russian Stoli...
> A well-known Soviet brand, Stolichnaya for international distribution is bottled in Latvia using Latvian water but alcohol from a distillery in Tambov by a company chartered in Luxembourg but founded by a Russian which distributes a wide variety of Russian spirits, having purchased a number of former Soviet brands and operations. Stolichnaya for Russian distribution is manufactured in Kaliningrad by a separate Russian company
That made my head spin.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2015-06-03 14:46:52
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It's to save on benefits, holiday time, and they rarely can rack up enough hours to go into overtime.
Easier to fire, and easier to weed out the good ones from the bad.
If you don't have contracted hours then when they are cut in the down times, employees can't fight back with paperwork. They agreed when they were hired that they would work anywhere from 0-30 hours a week.
I wish I had better news for some of my workers when it comes to hours, but in most cases I'm glad I can split up some of the work load onto different people.
I have 1 full time girl, and she lets her full time status get to her head.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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How you feel is totally and completely normal. You aren't supposed to have it all figured out at 16. It's OK.
Just keep reading and learning. And then make an effort to try new things. Make a random bucket list of things to do that are mildly interesting. Then go try them. Something will eventually click. Your teens are for building a foundation for your 20s. Your 20s are for just trying stuff out. So right now, just concentrate on the foundation.
Decide who you are by what YOU think is important and then keep revisiting that to see if it still applies.
Here's a secret... most adults also think that anything they do is also not enough. I'm less than a year away from 60 and though successful from society's standpoint, still feel pretty lost and inadequate most of the time.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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My mom used to clean houses for a living. A woman had been evicted from the property and we went to clean it, pretty standard.
My mother threw up when she originally opened the door to the house because of the smell. The woman was a smoker, and the walls had that sticky feeling to them that had absorbed the ungodly stench. You could smell the house from the sidewalk.
So either that or OP's mom.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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It's really not a willpower issue. People with emotional issues sometimes lean on some external thing to make themselves feel better. Sometimes it is drugs or alcohol or sex or gambling. Sometimes it is food. It becomes a crutch to deal with the anxiety/depression because they get a sort of rush from it that makes them feel a little better for a little while when nothing else seems to do that. This is why telling an alcoholic to "just stop drinking" or a fat person to "just stop eating" doesn't work. It isn't simple willpower. As with all such crutches, the key to solving the problem is either sorting out the emotional issues themselves or somehow remapping your brain to not use that particular crutch when you feel bad. These things are *really* hard for people to do because they've been doing it for years and because even though there are associated problems with the crutch, it actually does help make them feel better so taking away that crutch is painful.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2010-12-19 19:53:49
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They will use your good traits in their advantage to benefit from you. You start getting stabbed on your back, and slowly learn that not everyone is as nice as your family members, and that in order to benefit in today's society you have to treat people the same way they treat you, which is mostly bad. Even the ones that look and act good, will eventually turn out that they were faking it. When growing up I was so nice, to the point where I was completely ignorant, I believed everything people told me, because I didn't think people would just lie for no reason. Anyway, now I am the most selfish person in my family, but the most successful at the same time. I only care of making my family's dreams come true, I don't mind seeing others do good, but I won't help anyone, even if I can easily do it. I learned people are so unthankful, and will not credit you for their achievements through your help. There is no unconditional love, but your family. Also drugs... they made me a bit arrogant and temperament.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2022-03-30 14:12:26
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Art Bell (retired *legendary* radio host. Talked about ghosts, conspiracy theories, UFO's, stuff that goes bump in the night) tells a story of how people would call into his show and say things about the President.
I don't recall if it was specificaly bomb threats, or if it was just things that were threatening, but the result for poor Art Bell was the same.
The Secret Service would pay him a visit at home. He would sit with them and explain to them that he does not screen callers and people say whatever they say, it is all beyond his control.
He said that the Secret Service was bound to investigate all threats and these visits where nothing but paperwork to these guys. The visits went fine and nothing ever came from them.
But he does swear that everytime he had a call, he got a visit.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2016-10-24 21:32:14
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ive smoked meth and it gives you a rush at first.. then goes away almost instantly and you are awake, paranoid, but your mind really does think the craziest shit and i can weirdly see why its beneficial in short term for people studying etc (hence adderol scripts for kids lol)
ive injected meth before as well and its a completely different feeling. the rush and massive dopamine surge hits for a good whole minute. u cough and its honestly the best feeling in the world... then it all of a sudden isnt and the paranoia sets in. I was a crackhead, heroin addict, the whole 9 yards. Meth is hands down the worst out of any of them i wouldnt wish that addiction on my worst enemy. hope that was informative and slightly discomforting! haha as it should be ;)
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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My brother showed how to live that life. I was breaking up weed back when I was 10 by the time I was 15 I knew how to cut up coke.... Funny thing is my brother taught me these things but after he caught a charge came out and straightened up. He met a woman, got a house,got married, and had my niece. I went to summer school every summer. Took two extra classes Monday thru Wednesday my sophomore year after school....
I don't regret us doing our dirt. We had to do what we had to do to stay afloat. But I would never want my kid, nieces, or nephews to ever be put in those situations.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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This could be framed to either gender, regardless of your sexual orientation.
No pressure into the actual act of sex, just the question.
I have done it a few times and the results can be eye-opening. It teaches you things about yourself, maybe things you knew but are now expanded on or even new things.
Most of the time though, the stigma about asking such questions really does push me away from doing such. Our very existence and much of our personal pleasure is derived from sex, why not talk about it openly?
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2015-09-20 16:40:42
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Look up Beto O'Rourke. He's very much so a "open the border!" candidate, after all, there are people running from dangerous things! He's never really addressed what they are running FROM being something we need to keep out (cartels and such).
I know that what I said is a bit of an exaggeration, but that's my point. I vote for the people who speak sense, it doesn't matter what side of the isle they sit on. Traditionally, those people tended to sit on the left wing, but lately, they are making less and less sense.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2018-07-23 14:50:15
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No, i’ve never had an interest in those, but I’ve never seen them as “female things” either. Sure they’re more common things for females, but why could you not just be a man with long hair that likes frilly clothes and makeup or something? Theres no reason a male person couldn’t enjoy those things as a male, would it not make more sense to eliminate gender rather than force people to pick between these groups of things that people call gender. From what i’ve read, being trans is being in the wrong body for your gender and people get surgery over it, surely you wouldn’t get surgery just because you were a male who liked “female things” and culture said no?
Again sorry if this comes across offensive, it’s not intended to.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2022-02-08 21:19:49
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Okay, so you start a zoo and orphanage combo. Run it for 5 to 10 years extremely well and get a reputation for being extremely caring and nurturing. Accept any animal or human regardless of how forlorn, strange, or challenged.
Eventually, learn the ins and outs of the system you are running well enough that no one will notice when animals and people go 'missing' here and there.
Meanwhile, overseas in a highly remote place, build an underground torture dungeon. Pay someone trustworthy to feed the animals and humans. Visit the location occasionally and brutally rape and torture every living thing you've collected so far. Continue for as long as you don't get caught. Be sure to setup multiple versions of this once you've amassed enough capital and collect fellow horrible people to run theirs, ensuring that your torture legacy will be passed down or continue even if you are dead or imprisoned.
The key to this plan is keeping your trusted circle of people in the know very small, and to make the punishment for betrayal greater than any benefit to going turn-coat (e.g. throw traitors in the torture dungeon).
Increase your profit and return on the evil investment by getting into the underground sex-tourism industry.
Start selling highly addictive drugs on the side and ruin lives like that as well.
Then get into short term payday loans in order to diversify your portfolio.
Also be sure to fart on every elevator and train you enter. If you cannot muster farts, bring canned durian fruit.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2015-06-27 00:47:55
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How do I entertain my friend on his birthday?
So, my friend is coming to visit for his birthday...he's turning 23, and I'm 20. I'd like to go out to bars and whatnot, but unfortunately that's illegal.
Also, I'm pretty low on cash.
We like just getting drunk together and playing video games most of the time, but for his birthday I wanna do something slightly more special. Also, we have a bit of a romantic history.
But yeah, we're open minded and up for anything, so please give me your crazy ideas.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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Just to add to this, wealth doesn’t have to equate to super rich, fly around in a private jet and live in McMansion rich. Just being born into a middle class family that supports you and provides a safety net is huge.
On a similar subject, there is often debate / argument over hardwork versus being “handed” everything. It’s often insulting to tell someone they haven’t earned anything and it’s often insulting / frustrating to tell a person to just work harder to be successful. The vast majority of the time it’s a combination of opportunity and hard work. A person can be given every opportunity, yet still fail and a person can work hard every day yet still fail.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2021-02-11 09:23:22
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My husband and I have been together for 11 years, our 10 year anniversary is next month. The better part of our marriage was filled with growing pains and drama but we've worked through our differences over the past 2 years. I had to work hard to see him in a different light and once I was able to do that I realized how genuinely caring he is. He really just wants me to be happy. There's no grand gestures but they don't matter since it's the little things that count. He won't leave a convenience store or gas station without buying my favorite candy and he hides it until we're thoroughly stoned that evening then surprises me with it once the munchies set in. When he's on his way home from work he gives me an ETA and I wait in our garage for him. It gives us a chance to sit together for 15 minutes and talk about our day before the kids realize he's home. No matter how often I do this, he peeks around the garage to see if I'm in my chair then smiles like a crazy person and yells "there she is!" and swoops in for a hug and a kiss like he hasn't seen me in a month. I love that no matter what's happening in his day to day, whether good or bad, I'm the first person he wants to call and talk to about it. I love that he considers me and my feelings in every situation even if I'm still learning to do the same for him. He just wants me to smile. He lives to hear me laugh and has a knack for calming me down when my anxieties threaten to send me into a fit. When my family is struggling financially, without question, he will offer whatever they need because he knows I hurt when they hurt.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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I yell to the guy who is now at the front of the line, that the line starts back there ( as I point to the back of line) like 20 ft away.. hes with 2 of his kids and wife, he just glares at me, I say it again, this time my wife grabs my arm telling me to be quiet, by now I'm fuxking pissed, and the cat is not going back in the bag.
I leave the line and walk up behind him and say it again, everyone is watching, and I'm about ready for blows, like elbows and fists, he looks back and finally turns and heads to the back of the line. A few people clap and tempers cool on my part. Nothing happens until about a week later when I see him at the grocery store in the fruit section, he sees me , scowls/glares..., I just smile, a very happy smile too.
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This is especially true when you condense the first six films into a general plot synopsis for each trilogy. You realize with the prequels that he actually had decent story potential and he had most of the important character beats down. Even the philosophical ideas are there. With the Jedi council denouncing the idea that a Jedi should be able to form attachments being their own downfall. Especially when you consider that if Qui-Gon had lived, Anakin would not have fallen to the dark side nearly as easily as he did because of Qui-Gon's own interpretation of how the force should be used to benefit others.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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He will be appreciated by all.
We don't need trillion dollar technology to defend us from evil super mutants that don't exist... Just a guy, one guy, with a big backpack... and an even bigger heart.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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I was working at a pharmacy once and this lady brought her little kid up to the counter and the first thing I notice is he is wearing what I thought was a tie-dye shirt. Only, it wasn't tie dye, the shirt was originally yellow and the red is his blood. The mother says "no, he just had an accident at practice" and points to his scalp, while has a large bloody avulsion on it. I am like "you need to get him to the ER immediately, nothing we have here will treat that"... The mother says "what do you know? I just need some band aids".
I don't know if that little boy survived since she grabbed a box of plain band aids and left, but sometimes I question my faith in humanity.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2016-05-30 22:45:06
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I don't know the cause of yours, but after 3 years of constant pain, I figured out a means to fix mine. I had sprained my back lifting some stuff and I think I had a lightly slipped disk. I managed to keep active and stay in shape, but it hurt all the time.
But I finally started stretching aggressively as part of a theraputic martial arts program and after 6 weeks of 1 hour per day stretching, my pain is 100% gone. A lot of the pain was coming from tension in my legs and butt.
Sorry, could be totally unrelated, but getting rid of that pain is so profoundly amazing, I just hope one more person can experience it.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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How much does coaching really matter to a sporting team?
Is it better to have a team filled with great players or a great coach? Does one need the other in order for the team to succeed as a whole, or can the team be good enough already with one OR the other? Imagine you already have all the top notch skilled players on your team (no matter at what sport), do you really need a (great) coach (or coaches) to win games or can the players themselves pull out wins simply based on how skilled they are?
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2010-12-27 13:11:56
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This is sort of a small rundown / consequence of what white privilege is - useful reading for people who have trouble seeing themselves as 'privileged' to help them understand what the concept is and how it isn't something any one of us really has control over or asked for. I wonder if this was the OP's intention. Us white people in the west have the luxury of not worrying about our skin colour because we have never had any reason to worry (except in the context of being told 'this is how non-white people experience society' and thus in the interest of human rights we have to examine and fight against our unfair privilege). Then you worry about making sure that you're not treating people in a racist manner, how is society set up to give white people these subtle privileges, etc, etc... (and, as we all know, some people react badly to being told these things). Not going to get into anything else, just want to say other things do matter as well, like class or sex or disability, etc. in case someone wants to come on here and say "I don't feel privileged...".
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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My friend's wedding reception was canceled half way through the night because the venue felt it wasn't making enough.
My friend rented the Knights of Columbus hall here in town. The building had it's own bar and the provide the bartender. Halfway through the night, the bar tender goes up top the bride and tells her he isn't making enough money and she'll have to fork over 150 bucks by the end of the night to make up for lost wages.
The father of the bride then requests to see a hard copy of the rental agreement for the venue to see where in the contract it says they have to cover it. Instead of providing it, the bartender kicks everyone out of the hall.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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There are many types (like seasonal depression, clinical depression, postpartum depression, etc) and the DSM-5 criteria is as follows:
> The individual must be experiencing five or more symptoms during the same 2-week period and at least one of the symptoms should be either (1) depressed mood or (2) loss of interest or pleasure.
\- Markedly diminished interest or pleasure in all, or almost all, activities most of the day, nearly every day.
\- Significant weight loss when not dieting or weight gain, or decrease or increase in appetite nearly every day.
\- A slowing down of thought and a reduction of physical movement (observable by others, not merely subjective feelings of restlessness or being slowed down).
\- Fatigue or loss of energy nearly every day.
\- Feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt nearly every day.
\- Diminished ability to think or concentrate, or indecisiveness, nearly every day.
\- Recurrent thoughts of death, recurrent suicidal ideation without a specific plan, or a suicide attempt or a specific plan for committing suicide.
Depending on the type of depression and the severity, treatment may vary and be anything from therapy, antidepressants, and even as simple as a change in your diet and more exercise. If you have concerns and especially if you think of/act on any self-harm or suicidal thoughts, I'd suggest reaching out to loved ones and especially your doctor or a therapist. Be mindful of how you're feeling mentally, physically, and emotionally and take care of yourself.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2022-06-09 12:58:47
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Is it Midnight and you need math help? Ask the Happy Teddy Bear!
This would also happen to be my first post/link, If that is what these are called.
Currently I am enrolled at the University of Houston and aspiring to be a professor myself. I am a 4th year mathematics major and I am willing to answer questions you may have in order to better myself. Also, please feel free to correct any mistakes I made, Redditors!
Linear Algebra and below! Ill check this every day at midnight (Central time)
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2010-11-13 02:51:32
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What foreign languages sound beautiful/ugly to you?
I'm an English speaker and I really enjoy the German language. I've heard a lot of people indicate how harsh it sounds, but nothing is more beautiful than listening to a soft spoken German imo. Also, I love listening to Nordic, Slavic and Celtic languages (Irish in particular - it sounds like a warrior's language) Asian languages sound less appealing to my ears, with Vietnamese sounding the absolute worse. Mandarin Chinese sounds very smooth and sexy though :) What is your native language and what sounds most pleasing to your ear?
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2013-06-24 14:55:57
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Trigonometry. I thought, "all you really need is a ruler and a lookup table of values: one inch along the x axis and the _____ inches straight up from there would be two legs of a
Right triangle, and connecting the two ends if those lines would yield the angle you were after. I started making the lookup table before I realized that the crappy plastic ruler wasn't much better than the crappy plastic protractor.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2012-06-07 04:38:43
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I had the same job once upon a time. Just like you I lasted less than a month and they tried to withhold one of my commissions by claiming the person returned their vacuum. I didn’t trust the scam-artist boss, so I drove back to the customer in question to confirm. Turned out that they TRIED to return the vacuum but the boss was refusing to accept the return and give them a refund. So I went back to the office and calmly demanded a check on the spot for my commission. I got my check and never looked back.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2020-05-04 21:57:19
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Dolma_Reddit
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How fast can you chug a beer?
Wondering how fast you can chug a 12 oz. beer. any type, any temperature, etc, etc. Pick up a can of your favorite, chug it, and post your result
[stopwatch](http://tools.arantius.com/stopwatch)
Just did it in 00:00:19.372 (19 seconds). It was from a can, so the flow of god's nectar wasn't optimal. also it was really cold so it gave a hell of a cold headache. Will post updates as I improve my form.
so come on reddit, let's get drunk!
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itg6b
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2011-07-19 03:04:27
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Dolma_Reddit
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This is literally the entire discipline of political science. Why do some people get to make laws that other people have to follow? How can law best be made? Are some ways of allocating power better than others?
John Stuart Mill would say that you agree to follow the law by living in a country and relying on its protections from war/crime, but you also have the right to give input on who makes laws. It just seems like basic sense to say that if you want the state to use force to stop other people from harming you, you need to agree not to harm other people or be subject to the force of the state.
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edebf3b62a234337a070c6b9a21fb96c
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2019-03-12 08:20:53
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Dolma_Reddit
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What are some fascinating/crazy things you've seen or know about the ocean?
With all the talk about filmmakers going to the ocean floor and underwater colonies, I got to thinking how wild the ocean is and how little we know about what's down there.
Someone posted [this video](http://youtu.be/1ljnf_Vybhs) in the James Cameron threat. Apparently, that's a squid. (I tried to find the comment so I could give a shout out to the poster but I couldn't find it, sorry). To me it looks like the alien shell in Independence Day. I also remember a few months back someone posted about noises from an organic source picked up by underwater recording stations which could only be attributed to an animal far larger than any marine life currently known.
Does anyone else have anything else interesting about what goes on under the sea? Anything at all.
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re945
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2012-03-26 14:55:57
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Dolma_Reddit
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Freelancer / Entrepreneur - any recommendations for online services to track my business earning, expenses, etc..?
I conduct freelance multimedia work through my sole-proprietorship (not incorporated... Ontario, Canada) business license and am looking for an online solution to keep track of client projects and my business finances. I may also begin selling digital media in the future, so preferably something that can track both service-based projects as well as direct sales.
Up until now I have been doing everything on paper / by hand but am finding this tedious, pointlessly time consuming and lack of backups / redundancy is a worry. Ideally, I would hope it could do the following:
* Per-project tracking of hours & billing
* Business earnings & the income taxes that will be due at the end of the year
* Tracking / Categorization of business expenses (and maybe factoring in how much this applies to tax-credits)
* Tracking HST that I collect
* Functions for sub-contracting
* Ability to track direct-to-customer sales
* Export all this information for personal income tax purposes (Canadian)
I've seen a bunch of these online, but I'm hoping to get some first-hand experience & testimony. Thanks! :)
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dqsk8
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2010-10-13 18:47:15
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Dolma_Reddit
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A full wardrobe. Clothing used to be so expensive -- everything from the accumulation of the raw materials to the weaving and dying of the cloth, to pattern drafting and hand-sewing was time consuming and labor intensive. When even 17th or 18th century clothing is compared to current fast fashion, the price differences (relative to income) are wild. The idea of being able to have new items of clothing every few months or weeks (or days, for some some people currently) was unfathomable. And now the purchase of clothing is so common that styles change seasonally, if not more often.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2020-12-23 15:43:23
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Dolma_Reddit
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Not me, my old manager, Patrick. His grandpa passed away and while the rest of the family got cash, a house, cars etc, he was left all the books in his grandpas modest library. Just the books and all they contain, and he had to go alone to collect them according to the lawyer that read the Will. Ok, he grabbed some boxes and headed over to his grandpas house, collected all the books in the library and went home. He started to wonder what was going on so he pulled out some books and did a google search of the titles. There were a few books worth $50-$150 dollars there so he went through all the books. In the end the books amounted to about $3000 so he started to put them on eBay or similar. Sold a few by the same author to someone who picked them up straight away. That same person came back with one of the books and handed it back saying “you really need to look at these books”. Patrick being curious, opened the book to find a $100 Note (Australia). The purchaser then handed over another 2 $100 notes saying there was one in each of the three books. From there, Patrick went to the boxes and opened every book. He found a total of $600 in cash (including the original $300) and a plastic sleeve that contained a bank book and a note that read “read your bedtime story”. Patrick didn’t understand the reference but had a few kids bedtime story books left to the side from the library. He found a familiar story his grandpa would read to him as a kid. When he opened it he found a letter from his grandpa explaining the bank book. He’d started an account for Patrick when he was born and had banked $100 a week into this account but put cash into the books when he couldn’t get to the bank. His grandpa died the week after Patrick turned 40.
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663c48420d174381b88ef2da6784d576
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2022-09-21 23:58:34
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Dolma_Reddit
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I hated that. Hated hated hated that so much. I used to work in a quite nice Soanish restauraunt back in 2006. I quit because the owners were making a killing, servers were ALWAYS bragging about who made the most:
"I made 200 tonight!"
"Aww I only got 170!".
All the whole I had to fight to get my pay raised to 6.25$. I think about two weeks later I had come to my senses and quit. Dudes were driving Audi's, Cadillacs, and corvettes all while complaining that I'm taking too long to make a few steaks.
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e69224ba8d97494d9b3a10187493afe0
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2014-01-03 11:12:36
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Dolma_Reddit
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From the ER perspective, we can check after we’ve exhausted all efforts - and usually we check with the family. (Although now most facilities have specified donation teams that will complete the process.) Most (but not all) donors that originate from the ER are the result of trauma, and there are many organs that can be harvested for awhile after death (corneas, heart valves, bone, etc.). Now if a patient is technically alive - on a ventilator, with drugs supporting cardiac function and the like - but has organ failure, sever brain injury, etc., they would be moved to an ICU setting. If, after that point, it’s determined by the medical staff and family that life support is going to be withdrawn (i.e. the patient isn’t viable/isn’t going to recover) arrangements will be made to harvest organs (heart, lungs, liver, etc.). I’m sure it varies from hospital to hospital, but one scenario is that the patient is transferred to an OR suite, and life support is withdrawn (ventilator stopped/weaned, drugs stopped, etc.). After the patient is confirmed deceased, the harvest team begins. (I know some of that probably sounds very ‘clinical’ in the actual steps, but the teams involved understand the gravity of the situation. I’ve never been on a harvest team or seen it done, but I worked with someone who had some experience in that area and she said it was a very somber and emotional experience.)
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2020-08-24 02:36:08
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Dolma_Reddit
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Dude... I don’t know if I can explain but I’ll try. So all my life I’ve basically had a weird connection with things around me. I’m very sensitive, have been diagnosed with BPD because of this. But I don’t believe it’s the main reason. My mother has told me stories of me coming into my parents bedroom for no reason when she was sad and just hug her. I’d do it anywhere. Just hug and say “I love you mom” and leave. Whenever she was sad. She says I still have a knack for calling her at these times.
There’s other things that’s unrelated. So I won’t get into that now.
Anyway. Facts you need to know.
I’m Scandinavian. I live in Scandinavia too, have all my life.
I’m not easily scared.
My family believes strongly we have a sixth sense.
From everything I’ve been through all the crazy experiences I’ve had. When I first heard about SW’s I wanted to cry. Like I don’t even think the words, if I do I instantly feel awful and get really paranoid. It’s not easy to explain but I just feel watched. I avoid reading about them, I do not seek out stories of them, and I rarely talk about them. Nothing has scared me as much as hearing about those. Just now I’m having trouble being calm.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2019-03-17 00:18:49
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Dolma_Reddit
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I actually live a few miles away from the Duck Dynasty family. Let me just say, it has taken over the town. It's not too bad though, people come from all around to see duck calls? It doesn't make sense to me but oh well. I will say that the guys, are actually really smart. Meeting them in person is really cool too. They're just normal people plus huge beards and loads of money in camo wallets.
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4d68e1cbe4e7472f8a18d464e42a79ea
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2015-03-03 08:19:27
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Dolma_Reddit
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Im not saying that it's the most stigmatized condition,, but people with ADHD are often depicted as careless and forgetful slackers that are constantly bouncing off the walls and are very annoying people. As much as I would love to have the ability to sit down and just complete any homework assignment, and understand every concept that I am taught the first time, it is mentally exhausting for me to do these things. Stimulants like adderall aren't a magical cure either contrary to popular belief and from my own experience they just made me focus more on my internal monologue, or whatever spur of the moment obsession I had rather than school work.
They would pick on me for not paying attention, and segregate my desk to the corner of the room. I wish teachers were taught how to deal with students like me since the social anxiety I experience still affects me, though I have made some progress.
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29b22ac6d4714e619a6736a51c269181
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2021-02-12 02:56:45
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Dolma_Reddit
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It always does until it explodes, burns the table, hurts the student so we can't do any cool stuff at all and destroys a toy bear gifted to the teacher from a student who said you were not only the best teacher they ever had but the best person they ever met, somebody who got her a pass grade, had faith in her said she could be anything she wants and gave her hope for a future away from her very fucked up young life so far.
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f52467cca7704086b020fd252559a025
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2014-10-01 15:48:16
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Dolma_Reddit
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Hey reddit, I desperately need your help. I think my academic livelyhood might be at stake.
A few days ago I posted this topic to reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/clfq6/hey_reddit_ive_been_accused_of_cheating_on_a_test/
tl;dr of the topic: My professor accused me of changing 10 answers on a 35 question test. I did not. His entire argument is that scantron machines do *not* make mistakes.
Unfortunately, it's gotten to the point that I have to face my school's local judiciary board. My professor's entire argument against me residing on the fact that scantrons are infallible. I've gone over and checked the machines in question, and they are Opsan 10's, designed by NCS. I have a test in said class tomorrow, and unforunately don't have a huge amount of time to devote to finding information. Of course I still will when I can, but could anyone here possibly do a guy a massive favor and help me out? I'd be ever appreciative of this, and if everything works out, I will do whatever I can to help repay the effort.
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cmy0v
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2010-07-07 17:06:23
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Dolma_Reddit
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Like I commented further up, I don't condone violence, but I do believe after many attempts of reasoning and multiple warnings given to a child and they still act up, then a smacked bottom or legs is necessary. I'm 25 now and I only remember being leathered a few times from my mum, for things I honestly do believe I deserved. But those few times scared me enough to grow up thinking about the consequences of my actions fearing I would get smack off my mum. Don't get me wrong, she's genuinely one of the most loving, caring and funniest character you will come across, but still to this day I think to myself "what will my mum do if she finds out about this?" and I take a second to think.
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89b665231cab4f8a8f324ead46b3f75c
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2016-01-15 01:08:26
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Dolma_Reddit
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Game Operator at Luna Park at Coney Island. Was the quickest summer job I could pull in when I needed to help support my gf (Was going through a bad time to say the least), and was a bad experience. Sun was bad, equipment was half-broken and would never be fixed, the higher-ups were incompetent and their higher-ups blamed us for their incompetency. Sales would go down for a week and it was the game operator's fault, and not the managers who understocked prizes and would forget to give us scanners, making it so we couldn't actually take any customers. Park wound up having a ridiculous turn-over rate, with 30-50 new people coming in every week. I lasted about 4 months, by the grace of just needing the cash and customers being great. I may have hated the job, but giving little kids on their b-days or one day with their grandparents the best prizes regardless of winning or not was the best. Smile on their face would be there all day and would be a good balance to my own personal misery. Eventually got fired when they had me do opening to closing (9am-1pm) 3 days a week for two weeks straight. Just stopped caring, gave away/stole good prizes, until a office management level manager found me sitting behind a counter reading X-Factor.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2016-05-30 05:21:01
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Dolma_Reddit
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I was a house guest (not THE guest) in this story. College road trip, me and a few friends drove from MKE to DEN for a ski trip. We stayed with my friend’s brother who had a roommate. We partied one night with a few of the hosts’ friends. One woman, Kathy, had too much to drink, crashed on the lower bunk of bunk beds, and in the middle of the night woke up, probably not sure where she was and likely still drunk. She somehow pooped all over the room - there was poo all over her bed & bedding, the wall, the floor (carpeting), and she pooped in my friend’s suitcase (mistook it for a toilet maybe??). It looked and smelled horrendous. My friend and her brother were somehow alerted to this in the middle of the night and cleaned everything and did nonstop loads of laundry until 7am when we left for the slopes. It turns out that Kathy was a work colleague of the roommate. He, a pilot, shared this story with other pilots and flight attendants which gained Kathy some notoriety through the airline and therefore all over the US. She never apologized nor spoke of it again and left her job pretty quickly after out of embarrassment, I suspect.
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b50d8a6b4ee444e893f648cc1ce8b221
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2021-06-08 22:31:35
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Dolma_Reddit
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Last year or maybe the year before some guy asked in a relationships thread what it meant if his cute neighbour was always knocking and asking to borrow sugar/baking ingredients or accidentally running into him in the hallway of their apartment, then bringing over delicous baked goods. I was like "OMG dude she LIKES you. You HAVE TO talk to her, ask her out on a date, something. You have to do it FOR US." I was like one of the animators in "[Steve From Blues Clues Dates a Playboy Model](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwmtkFPYXsg)".
In my head his lack of response is because they went out, fell in love and are busy running an upstate Alpaca farm or something.
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7251516771cc46a1a3be84651198b95f
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2021-07-09 16:13:35
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Dolma_Reddit
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Allow your eggs to come up to room temp and start them in boiling water, keeping them on a heavy boil for a minute or so, then reducing the heat to barely even a simmer for the rest of the cooking time. Then shock in an ice bath or under cold water and peel right away.
The initial blast of heat helps set the whites and make them easier to peel, while the low and slow simmer makes it easier to not overcook the yolk. I rarely do soft boiled eggs, but I'd start at 5mins total cook time and work back from there.
Also, slightly older eggs peel easier.
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4f43403726a940e78c75ddac5da9bb63
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2019-06-30 12:40:13
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Dolma_Reddit
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I just found out a previous associate was less than reputable, and now my reputation is tarnished by association. Now what?
Here's the story. Several years ago, I did some volunteer work with Great Cat Adventures, a (supposedly) non profit rescue center for large cats. (lions and tigers, no bears, oh my!) the organization was shut down in 2010 for, what I was told, financial reasons. Since then, I have been looking for any other organization to get on board with for love of the animals, citing my work with GCA as a reference.
Here's the rub. As it turns out, GCA was actually shut down for animal welfare violations. I had no idea there were laws being broken, as it was the traveling portion of the organization that was breaking the rules. The "industry" is all aware of the real reasons for the shutdown, and just about everyone involved with GCA has been blacklisted.
How do I get my name clear so I can work with these animals again?
TL;DR I got blacklisted from workin with tigers due to association with some less than reputable trainers and I need to clear my name.
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u0orp
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2012-05-23 06:59:24
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Dolma_Reddit
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I would argue that sex shouldn't be an end-goal either. Actively going out trying to find sex specifically works for some people, but for a lot of people, hookup culture just doesn't fit them or they don't fit it. SO going out, making connections, things like that, giving up on trying to find sex and just enjoying yourself doing other things, that's probably going to give you a better chance of firstly having fun and possibly having sex. But if you go out trying not to try to have sex so you can have sex, woah I'm getting dizzy, that just won't work.
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e9e17dd1fa8e4fff9d40b0c28dd9ea5d
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2020-02-04 20:50:59
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Dolma_Reddit
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Reddit, please help me. I don't know how to help my sister. What can I do?
I am a 22 year old brother to a 20 year old sister. We are a part of a wonderful family, my mother and father have always been supportive, and always tried to push me and my sister to be our best. I feel very lucky to have been supported in my career choice (as a music teacher/performer) and my sister as well (fine art photography).
Over the last years though, my sister has been forced to deal with severe anxiety issues (including panic attacks and fainting spells) and eating disorders. More recently, it is starting to shift into a much more severe and twisted deprecation of her self-image and self-value. She hates how she looks, and how she feels. We (my family, and her friends as well) have all tried to support her, and we have gotten her a few therapists, but nothing seems to help. She keeps going further and further into this self-hate.
Tonight, she spoke to me about it personally for the first time. We talked for hours about what was going on in her head, and I tried to help as best I could. Since I am in education, I have taken some psychology and developmental classes, and I have always considered myself a relatively reasonable man as far as dealing with emotional situations is concerned, but I have no idea what to do.
She was telling me that she wants to fix all the problems (her dietary issues, anxiety attacks, and her negative outlook on her entire mental state) but that she is afraid to talk to anyone, even her family or her very close friends. She told me she feels like she doesn't deserve anyone anymore, and that she would only burden them. After the few hours we talked, I feel like I have helped her with the first step of talking to someone about the problem. But I really don't know how to deal with this.
All of her friends, her girlfriend, and her family always have and always will love and support her, yet right now that's not enough. She feels like that love isn't deserved, and that she can't tell us because she will only burden us. Please, what can I do to help her?
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ubjij
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2012-05-30 03:27:05
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The world is as peaceful as it is because basically every nation in the world fears getting on the wrong side of the US military.
I mean, do you really think the Korean War would have ended the way it has if not for the North being far too weak to take on both the South *and* the US, even with China’s help? Or that the Cold War wouldn’t have heated up if one faction couldn’t completely obliterate the other in both a conventional and nuclear war?
It’s incredibly worrying to me, as a non-American, to see how many people even within America itself don’t appreciate the fact that the size of the US military is primarily to ensure that said military never actually has to be used in a major war.
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95d9f7db84464f3787475d6db184a71a
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2018-09-22 19:35:38
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Dolma_Reddit
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I never believed in a god and i left the church. From big things like war for resources down to little things like divorce. I mean just take divorce. Marriage is a holy oath which should never be broken but than there are so many people who aren't compatible enough to endure a marriage. If it's so important to god like the church says, he would bring only people together who wouldn't divorce. Or if it's really gods will, he could make us all, to believe him, cause for a all mighty person it should be a easy thing to show every person on the world a vision or something else that would make us to believe in god. Than religious wars. Why? Just cause you thing your imagine friend is better then the others?
But one thing i always say. I don't know if there is a god or multiple (something i would believe more than a single all mighty god) gods hut i never saw a reason to believe in them.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2020-08-09 09:22:31
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Dolma_Reddit
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Yeah man same kinda deal here. I am relativly recently single, I think she might have been the love of my life also. We split imo because she would never tell me the truth about when something was bothering her, she would just say nothing and pull away from me, stop being intimate with me, etc. Over the course of years I tried desperately to drag the issues out of her and figure out why things were slowly falling apart but even right at the end I think she was lying about what the problem really was, and so I broke it off. It feels like giving up, feels like I ruined something that should have been forever, but I guess no point in spending the rest of my life doing everything wrong?
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ade6130d87f145a1a133ac9957077603
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2023-01-24 14:13:44
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Dolma_Reddit
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I'm lost on how a company can deny FMLA, as it is a federal law. You keep saying they denied FMLA, then you say it kicked in. Which was it?
You say they deny him his sick and vacation time, if he has accrued time per company written policy, and they aren't paying it, they are breaking the law and he should be able to file suit and fix that, with dividends to boot.
I'm also a bit lost on how unions created FMLA. I've seen hundreds of posts saying that x is because of unions and y is because of unions, but can you honestly show some source showing that unions are responsible for FMLA laws?
Everyone keeps saying how unions are responsible for all of the good labor things that have ever happened, but how many people have ever been in one, paid a crapton of dues, and got zero benefit from it? I have, and it sucked. I'm not saying unions haven't done anything good in history, because that would be a foolish statement, but for people to say that unions are the best thing in the world is not entirely wise either. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of cases of organized labor leaders taking bribes, kickbacks, and other such illegalities (much like our politicians). These people aren't 100% saints, nor are they 100% sinners, but people seem to be thinking they are one or the other. There is good and bad to be said of unions, although that is an unpopular view on reddit.
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0403e13d7ac44274a31203798534850e
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2011-03-10 10:24:32
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Dolma_Reddit
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Sometimes on long trips when the highway is not busy, I like to drive about twenty feet behind big box trucks to reduce wind resistance and save on gas. I realize the obvious risks to my car and anyone driving close behind me if the truck stops quickly, but I am generally a cautious driver and take the traffic conditions into account. So my question is to what extent does this behavior bother you as a truck driver?
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dk7de
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2010-09-28 21:54:00
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Reddit Parents I need your advice..
I am a proud father of a 7 week old baby girl. For the first 6 weeks she has slept in the bed between my wife and I with a sleep positioner. My wife got concerned about covers covering her face one night. She decided that she will try to place her in her cradle(beside the bed). The first 3 nights were great. She woke up only about twice to feed and to be changed.
NOW she will not go to sleep and pitches a fit and will not settle. When she does it is no longer than 15-20 minutes before she screams again. My wife gets about an hour of sleep. This has gone on for the past 2 nights. Our baby has been so exhausted from this she slept most of the day yesterday. WHAT GIVES?
EDIT: Than You all for your advice. Helped me a lot.
Also, could this be the largest congregation of woman on reddit?
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b2rmb
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2010-02-16 17:28:34
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Dolma_Reddit
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I want to brew my own home beer. But need some advice on do's and don'ts
My friends and I had the idea of brewing our own home beer. I know there are kits online but I believe I have a few 5 gallon buckets that were used to make wine so I pretty much need ingredients and a good how to.
Where would be the best sites or stores to buy ingredients?
What site has a good how to instructions or video on brewing?
If anyone has experience with this advice and stories would be great.
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rajra
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2012-03-23 21:20:00
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Dolma_Reddit
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So many things happening in life from when I was a kid all the way to adult.
I guess what first started it was my dad dying and at the same time a boy who lived on the same street as me terrorised me, bullied me away from my friends, would make it so I couldn't even leave my house. He would find any excuse to do something to me, including strangulation and once I was older he "joked" about how he was going to do something to me that involved decapitation and sexual assault. This all happened when I was about 7 years old and It still haunts me to this day.
And if anyone was wondering, no, no one helped me.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2021-06-17 13:24:56
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Dolma_Reddit
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I was at the ound searching for the perfect cat companion as my emotional support animal. When I saw the tiniest chubbiest kitten I had ever seen. They warned me that he was very closed off sense the lady brought them here. Apparently he and his sister were dumped in her trashcan. They said he might not even wanted to be petted let alone held but I wanted to try none the less. I did indeed picked him up and he instantly melted into my shoulder purring so loudly! They were surprised.
Now Charlie and I are best friends. He is very protective over me and I feel so much better when he's around.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2019-05-29 05:17:03
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Dolma_Reddit
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Hivemind! Google has failed me. You are my only hope in this trivial endeavour. I know you won't disappoint ...
A few months back, a photo was posted (probably to /r/pics) of an office notice board with a printed message regarding the death of a co-worker and subsequent funeral arrangements. The notice included a basic grammatical error, which someone had helpfully (albeit inappropriately) corrected with a pen. For various convoluted reasons that I will spare you, I really really really need to find this photo again. Can anyone help?
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ee7vm
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2010-12-01 01:17:20
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Dolma_Reddit
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My father has had a chronic illness my entire life and was later diagnosed with cancer. He was supposed to die 15 years ago and hasn't. He takes more medications daily than some people will in an entire year. He couldn't walk on his own, he would spit up blood after meals, and he was living off of pain killers. One day he was driving me to my college dorm when we heard a NPR story about assisted suicide. He looked over and said "as soon as you and your sisters are in a good place I'm gonna do that." I didn't say anything, I couldn't. I knew deep down dying might be the best thing for him. He's not gone yet but I do know it's only a matter of time now. Yes it hurts me thinking he will be gone but I also know he has been in pain everyday for 16 years. I don't know what kind of answers you were looking for but my answer to his statement was silence and a very depressing understanding of the pain he was in.
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c25d2f7d69ee43c7af3abf140555b217
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2016-03-20 05:03:30
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Dolma_Reddit
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Reddit, whats the story behind your username?
EDIT: sorry, i dont browse new so i didnt know i was asking a repeat. But i am interested.
Mine (Chickencoop720) came from when i wanted to make an email account for the first time but couldnt think of anything random. My dad walked in and reminded me i had to clean the chicken coop. (We have a ranch and that was one of my chores) i was big into skateboarding and voila! The name stuck and its easy for me to remember. What's yours?
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xt5px
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2012-08-07 05:31:18
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Dolma_Reddit
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I think a reasonable goal is to save enough people from everywhere, that we reduce the risk of gene pool problems for the survivors.
Ideally, each country also deciding who to save of their own people would also spreads out the "power over life and death" as much as possible (given short notice).
It's possible one of the participating countries might actually have a written procedure on this type of extinction type threat. If we get lucky that procedure could be shared to increase the save count.
Any country wants to participate at all goes into a lotto. If there was already geopolitical leadership in agreement about the threat? I bet we could get an airport, lists, and inbound flights of VIPS in 12 hours.
That leaves 60 hours x 60 minutes x 60 seconds. That gives us about 200,000 working seconds to touch... if each person needs 10 seconds to approach & make contact, but we have 4-6 lines?
We could maybe save 20,000 people x how ever many lines.
I would not be worried about nuclear war that fast, usually people in the position to pull that trigger have been very carefully screened and trained to not panic.
I'd be more worried about gridlock than nukes.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2022-01-15 00:12:15
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Dolma_Reddit
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Rita evacuation was horrible, and we were going the wrong way toward Crockett! It took at least 6 hours to go whats usually a 2 1/2 hour drive.
Evacuating for Ike and Gustov (that flop) was a cake walk, and we left almost last minute after crying for Gustov and then finally convincing the family that a 20 foot surge would kill us since we were basically a mile or two from the sea wall.
I don't know if it was because everything was better prepared since Rita, or less people evacuated because they weren't on the Eve of Katrina.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2012-08-31 03:57:37
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Dolma_Reddit
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When these things have more on board AI, no need for smartphone interfaces or embedded screens and "just work", that's when we'll have the golden age. We're only getting started on that one. The two way teledildonics patent only expired last week! Just wait and see what the state of play is in one-to-one private camgirling technology in 3 years time.
AR & VR golden age is still decades away. This is more like what the 80s were for gaming. A bunch of hype and in retrospect pretty limited and useless now compared to what it will be in 30 years.
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c7e93b35dd91444f8d75e29aa3adf0ef
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2018-08-29 22:16:37
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Dolma_Reddit
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Dealing with a subordinate who technically "outranks" me?
I was recently promoted to the chief of my section (I'm in the military...medical). My old boss got fired for sleeping through too many meetings. It just so happens that we got a new manager of a section that is subordinate to our department who also happens to outrank me. This sometimes happens in the military, but it's my first time dealing with it. Anyways this guy has a bad reputation, known for being a douche to employees, loves power for its own sake. He has made it clear that he felt he deserved my position although he doesn't say it out loud. I am currently the interim chief, the position will be opened up in a few months to competition and I plan to apply. Anyways, he's been doing a little provoking recently, disagreeing with me in public on really minor issues. Clearly he's trying to subtly indicate that he is a power player I need to contend with. I think it's too early to remove him from his position, because it would look weird this early on. I kind of want to flatten him publicly so that the rest of the department understands the power relationships. My more rational self says to have a private heart to heart, making it clear that I have the final say on all matters related to the department. It's likely I will be dealing with this guy for some time, so I need to be careful. The other option is to just do some watchful waiting. BLUF, I don't need to worry about this as a threat to my position, but he could create other kinds of trouble for me that will be time wasters. Sorry for the long post. Any recommendations?
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1nbx2n
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2013-09-28 20:22:44
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Dolma_Reddit
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I just received a $2,950 cashiers check in the mail from a scammer. What now?
This obvious scammer contacted me after I posted an advertisement for tutoring services. He had the typical confusing story where he was out of the country, but would forward me a huge sum to tutor his son, and I was to Western Union the extra back.
I figured I would play with it and see where it went, and made clear that I would issue no refunds. I'm obviously not sending this dude any money for any reason, but if his son ever shows up he is welcome to $2,950.00 worth of tutoring. I assume this check will not clear. Should I try and deposit it? Any one else done this before?
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du4xc
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2010-10-21 01:09:59
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Dolma_Reddit
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If you're union, you pretty much can't be fired period unless you do something really goddamn serious. At least that's how it is with my union job. We have to go through a series of documented verbal warnings, then written warnings, then unpaid time off work, and after that point *maybe* you can be fired. Maybe.
Pretty much the only things you could do that would almost guarantee you get fired on the spot are physically assaulting someone (and I've heard stories of people who've done that and not been fired) or stealing from the company.
Also, I work in the food service sector. There is no drug testing because it's food service work and it's assumed we've all got our vices in our off time. And they'd be right.
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69f2c1e5784e4fdf9f5136b5441a1fa6
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2014-04-08 04:10:54
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Dolma_Reddit
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used to have a friend in high school that was exactly this. He bragged about his IQ and how he read math textbooks for fun, but in reality his ego got way too ahead of him. he liked trying to learn new languages but decided he was too good for beginner books and went to harder levels and couldn't keep up and abandoned it and moved onto the next language. He stopped out of highschool, then went to the army and dropped out of that and became homeless. had to cut him out of my life because he was an asshole, and tried to hookup with someone on my friend list for no reason and then threatened them
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17a8b7e482c7486ea10a8d20d6c1f1ba
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2021-07-10 20:08:10
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Dolma_Reddit
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You need a kid. You need to find a child to spend time with. Maybe a friends kid, don't just walk to a school and say I need a kid. That may not go well. You need that incessant curiosity. The constant excitement. The child is dying in our society. We can't let that happen. Find some wonderful child and go to a theme park or the zoo with them. Anything really. watch their eyes light up with joy. Watch them run around. Let them bombard you with questions that never end.
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427a8784d0474582af106b7d3b380d61
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2015-06-16 18:47:52
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Dolma_Reddit
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