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In the book, it's fairly clear that he did kill everyone but only got away with it because 1) nobody can tell anybody else apart because everyone looks the same and 2) everybody is so self-centered that even if they did know a murder took place, they didn't bother to report it.

It's very heavily implied in the book that the landlady covered up Paul Allen's (and multiple other prostitutes') murder, presumably to maintain the property value of the apartment. Unfortunately, a lot of the clues don't translate well into a movie:

1. The apartment only recently became available to rent
2. Bateman notes that the paint on the walls is still fresh, barely dried
3. Bateman notes that there's a lot of potpourri laid out, as though to cover up a smell
4. Iirc the furniture was also brand new
5. The landlady immediately knew who Bateman was and asked him to leave

Because it is really, really difficult to get pure water. Even distilled water isn't pure. I'm not even sure you can get pure water outside of an industrial or laboratory setting

Chemistry might not be much better. It's because scientists generally assume that readers already know how to do the techniques, and so the only information they would care to provide are the ones that wouldn't be considered obvious. Such as equipment brand, the name of the technique if there's multiple techniques that do the same thing, or experiment-specific modifications to the technique.

My understanding is that it's a holdover from older times, when scientists were charged per word, and so methodology would be cut down to remove anything considered "general enough" knowledge

If you're asking scientists about writing protocols, you clearly don't know how scientific protocols work. If anything, scientists need to take lessons from recipe writers on how to write protocols. Scientific protocols are notoriously difficult to replicate.

Here's a burger recipe written like a scientific methodology:

Raw beef patties (Carshire Butcher) were prepared on a grill (Grillman) according to manufacturer's instructions. The burger was assembled with the prepared patties, burger bun (Lee Bakery), lettuce (Jordan Farms), American cheese (Cairn Dairy), and various toppings as necessary. Condiments were used where appropriate. Assembled burgers were served within 15 minutes of completion.

Reference to an Aesop fable. In the original version, the scorpion stings the frog and both of them drown. The moral is that some people are intrinsically harmful, even against their own self interest

There's a lot of speculation here that the moderation and appeals on Reddit have been transitioned into being primarily AI-driven. Basically, I have no idea what to expect as a response and I don't think anyone could say either.

I used to be fairly active on Reddit, now I just lurk once a week or two. Not only because of philosophical differences, but because Reddit moderation has become such a black box that I genuinely don't know what could be perceived as breaking the rules

The cat clearly isn't ashamed. He's doing it to the sign as well

Seems likely that it's dropshipped. So I would wager there is no real source

You seem to be confusing what you want with gender roles. Nobody said that men must make the first move. Many satisfying relationships start because women make the first move. But by consequence of the fact that you want a relationship, it naturally then follows that you'd have to make the first move.

IMO using props is a poor move. Might get your foot in the door, but it'll be obvious that your interest/commitment to the prop is not genuine. People can tell if you're acting, so I would ignore any comment that tells you to imagine and act out a scenario - doubly so if you're using a prop.

The trick is to realize that a cold call almost never works. There is a very low chance that any one person you run into on the street is looking for a relationship, and an even lower chance that they'd be willing to bet on a stranger for that relationship. So you're facing 2 filters that are lowering your chances that any one person you meet would want to get into a relationship with you.

You can't affect the first filter, but you can at least change the second filter - just don't be a stranger. It's easier said than done, but it's possible with concerted effort. To put it bluntly: be amicable and be social. Put yourself in situations where you meet people, and befriend them. And you are by far more likely to run into a potential partner from the people you already know than in a public park. I don't even mean to pretend to be friends - I mean actually be friends. Socializing has a compounding effect where the more you socialize, the more people you get introduced to. That's also important because of the fact that you can't affect the first filter. Clearing the first filter is really a numbers game, to simply know a lot of people.

You'll need to learn to maintain a social circle. Based on what I can tell, you seem to either be an introvert or have social anxiety. And honestly, I understand. I can't say that the process will be easy or that it's fair that extroverts have a leg up in the process, but the unfortunate reality is that society is built upon the assumption that people are social, and you have to play by those rules. The upshot is that more people are willing to be in a relationship than you'd think, and you don't really have to expand your social circle that much or maintain it that well before you come across someone who agrees to be in a relationship with you.

I find that high school really doesn't expose you to many of the most interesting fields and careers out there, and the subjects that it does expose to you are typically taught at a very basic, foundational level. To put it simply, I strongly believe that you and many other people in your situation don't know what they're passionate about because they don't even know it exists.

I think it's the fault of the school system for not working harder to show the intricacies of actual careers, but for now, we just have to deal with what we're given.

We can try guessing what sorts of things you may like if you tell us a bit more about yourself. What sorts of things are you passionate about (ie, hobbies, obsessions, interests, favorite subject in school), and why do you feel passionate about it?

OnlyOffice. Newer and somewhat less features, but the UI is so much better than LibreOffice. I've been on a quest to find the best Office alternative and OnlyOffice is what I've settled on

Distilled water still has impurities, just not the kind that will leave a residue

Would that be a viable method for a state to secede?

ie, give state to another country (Canada), then state secedes from Canada

I personally prefer way the things they are now (show downvotes). I'm not quite sure what the reasoning would be to hide downvotes on a user's own posts?

Maybe in the past? Modern science has shifted away from direct observation and more towards targeted probing. Modern science is about setting up intricate systems to answer a very specific question such that no matter what happens, you learn something new

IMO the key takeaway of modern science is that things are always more complex than we thought

Ive had that issue on Kubuntu. In the end it was one of my USB devices (specifically my controller) that was responsible for turning my PC back on. No idea why, but unplugging it stopped the entire phenomenon. Maybe check if one of your USB devices is doing the same thing?

That feels completely contrary to my own experiences

Switched over to Linux last year. I gave Windows 11 a fair chance and it was a horrible experience. Installed Linux instead and now I basically never use Windows.

The distro itself doesn't particularly matter. Unless you're picking a niche distro or one designed for experts, all of them will have a good level of polish. What does matter is the desktop environment, which is the look and feel of the OS.

Many distros offer various desktop environments, and it can be a good idea to take a look at different desktop environments and see which one you like. I personally enjoy KDE Plasma, since I feel like it resembles Windows 10 the most. A bunch of popular distros like Bazzite and Fedora offer KDE Plasma variants. Alternatively, many people also like Cinnamon, though I personally think it looks somewhat outdated. Cinnamon is primarily offered by Linux Mint.

With the right desktop environment, Linux isn't actually particularly technical. There's definitely been a push recently to try to make things more user friendly. From time to time, you might still have to open terminal to do more advanced things, but I find that you can generally get by.

However, the way you do things in Linux is pretty different than in Windows, and it definitely takes a bit of getting used to and building up a new set of muscle memory. You will get frustrated that something isn't where you think it is. My advice is that you should dual boot and keep a copy of Windows, so that you can switch back to Windows when you just need to get stuff done.

As for gaming, basically everything just works out of the box. I don't even bother to check for Linux compatibility. Make sure to enable compatibility in the Steam settings and you should be good to go. The only time when games don't work is if a game uses an anticheat that specifically blocks Linux - if you plan to play online games, it might be worth checking if the anticheat that it uses allows Linux or not. I haven't tried modding so I can't comment too much about that

To me, that sounds like it'll create more issues than it'll solve. Part of why it's difficult to get rid of large journals is because people like the centralization. Even beyond the obvious pride aspect of getting into an exclusive journal, a big reason for having journals is that it is much easier to find relevant papers if they're collected and catalogued into a small number of large repositories (ie, journals).

Federation intrinsically has lower discoverability, and it is difficult enough to find relevant papers that you want. And due to decentralization, it is more difficult to separate out the troll articles from the serious ones. That doesn't matter if federation is used for a social media platform or if it is used for peer-to-peer communication, but it seems to run counter to the purpose of publishing scientific articles.

And that's not counting the issues that you would have with the review process on a federated service

Mmmm, no, very mammalian