wolframhydroxide @ wolframhydroxide @sh.itjust.works

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I think that the thing that let them down was that they didn't actually get to participate in any discussion or consensus-building. I think that the ideal scenario to solve this issue is a quick chatroom amongst simultaneous players, in which topics for discussion are briefly discussed for a few minutes, then voted on, like a real jury. It could include deliberation, but the question writer would only see the verdict. I will tell you that I would personally play this if it followed this method:

Make it fewer players per question (like 5 or 7), so that it doesn't take an hour. Each submits a question. Make it so that, while your question is being considered, you are in another jury room deliberating on another question. Make deliberations timed (say, 3-5 minutes per question), so that no one is in a lobby waiting to serve on a jury for too long. Then, after serving on a number of juries equal to the number of jurors (5-7), they can view their verdict. This would allow for the deliberation these people are suggesting.

No, seems called for, since every time I withdraw money, I'm handed a genocidal bastard's face. Not just a genocidal bastard, but also the person who set the precedent for Trump's corrupt kitchen cabinet of kleptocrats and kakistocrats.

Allow me to give you a more eloquent word to spread:

A week or so ago, an Israeli minister vowed that Gaza will be "entirely destroyed". In English, we thankfully have an eloquent word that comes from ancient greek that means "to entirely destroy by fire": and that word is fucking "holocaust"

So let's be very clear: This is an intentional, genocidal holocaust of Gaza.

Great and I already wipe down some things. Genuine question, however, because maybe it will actually lead to a productive insight that can help me when cooking: How do you do as-you-go cleaning with the following things:

• Things that have touched raw meat
• Things with a bunch of fat
• Things that have caramelized sugar or starchy remnants stuck on them

Because, in each of these cases, all of which are common, I have to wash them with hot water and soap, and they require using something to wash them. These tools, such as sponges, pads and brushes, are universally filled with dishwater and germs that I don't want in my food, and the process sends that dishwater spewing up like toilet spume. These are also time-consuming, and their washing is incompatible with most of the dishes I make, which require near-constant attention.

Well, we need to wait a few years to see if H. cephalosepses individuals are capable of producing viable offspring with H. sapiens, since that would indicate that Cephalosepses is actually a subspecies of H. sapiens, just like H. sapiens boomerensis

The person to whom you were responding was trying to make this artifact of the Before-Times relatable to modern Homo Cephalosepses, which cannot comprehend anything from outside its natural environment of TikTok. Unfortunately, speciation has not yet led to a visible difference between the two extant species of the genus Homo, and behavioral differences are currently the only way to differentiate this new species from H. Sapiens, so this person was trying to bridge the species divide, in case the original commenter was on the other side of it.

ETA: I suppose that I will also grant the possibility that the person to whom you replied was an H. Cephalosepses individual trying to translate to others of their kind.

And I suppose you have personal knowledge that they never cook, since they are constantly pulling your shitty food off the grocery shelves?

There is a reason why the cooks and bussers are different people. Not everyone wants to get dishwater in their food from whatever tool they use to clean, nor do I have time while things are cooking and requiring near-constant attention to properly wash my hands 10 times as i go back and forth while cooking a single meal.

I try.

Done

I would argue that at least 15% of the blame lies with the racist expectation in the US that all names need be anglicized, when we have fucking Unicode. If someone whose second language is English can be expected to be able to pronounce "Rayleigh Monaghan McTavish", then the least that the anglophone people of the US could do is learn to pronounce things in a few other common languages. There is, quite simply, no excuse for the government of the united States, in which there is no official language (even though a traitor, invalidated by the insurrection clause of the 14th amendment, had some fuckwit draft a document trying to declare it without congressional approval), to mandate the use of a single language.

I would like to provide a counterexample. There are plenty of these people in the US intermountain west, but there are at least some cases where there is no one at fault. Next time you see one of these names without context (though we clearly have the context in this case), before judging, consider Nariaw:

I am a teacher, and one year I found that my roster included a student named "Nariaw". As a public school, we register your student based on what's on the birth certificate. I ask all of my students to pronounce their names for me when I first meet them, for the reason we see in so many of the replies here and with shit like "abcde". However, when this girl came to my class, she said her name was pronounced "Miriam". I spent a good twenty seconds looking at my roster, and had to ask her to spell it for me. I didn't ask any rude and impertinent questions at that point, so it wasn't until a few months later that I got the full story:

Her mother, an immigrant from Ethiopia, was still unfamiliar with Latin script when her daughter was born here in the US. So when she attempted to write out the name, which she wanted to transliterate as "Mariam", she ended up writing only half of the first M, and wrote the second one upside-down. Whoever did the data entry for the government records dutifully recorded the child's name as "Nariaw". Was the mother at fault for being expected to write a name which, while she knew how to represent it in Amharic, she was forced to write in a language in which she was illiterate?

Thanks for your input, Chef Boyardee. I always make sure to put great store in ad-hominems from fictionalized canned MRE mascots. Take your shitty ravioli high horse and go ride off into the sunset with the Sunkist tuna.

Edit: "fictional" to "fictionalized"

Let's be honest, why would they believe it was real? Literally the only piece of evidence any of them might have even heard of from Voyager would be the Pale Blue Dot, and they would just say "wow, someone poked some holes in a blanket with some lens flare". All of the planet pictures can be explained away as artists' renditions.

ETA: Also, if you haven't seen it by now, I recommend watching the film "behind the curve" to understand the level of willful self-delusion in which this sort of person engages, all to feel like they belong and their perspicacity is recognized by their chosen in-group.

Who said anything about training?

I can, explicitly and unequivocally, state that I derive intense joy from having the privilege of seeing this.

I have never heard it called "The Fart of the Seal", but I am ABSOLUTELY going to call it this from now on.

As a chemistry teacher, I am acutely aware. This is why I suggested that the only "thing" you could measure for flour would be "granules", the leftover ground bits which make up the substance of the flour. However, a mole of granules would still be insanely large (because you'd have to have 600 sextillion particles of flour, which would take up an insane amount of space) and a mole of any chemical constituent like amylose would be impure, and thus the measure meaningless. The greatest problem still lies in the counting, which would require either nigh-infinite time, or would require a conversion from either mass or volume into moles, so the whole point of using moles becomes moot.

Absolutely, and it is stated in FMA that that activation energy is theoretically derived from tectonic potential energy, somehow (although, of course, that turned out to be a convenient lie, in-canon)

We have now reached the peak: figure out how much flour you have by burning it to ash, then carefully measure the mass of that to figure out the amount of flour you need.