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THREETOED_SLOTH | news | t5_2qh3l | cmlxzjp | Yes it is a terrible excuse, when the resistance is a convulsion or flinch that occurs because of said technique, but the dude resisted before the cop choked him. You watch the officer goes to cuff him and he snatches his arms away. When a cop has cuffs or a gun out, do what they say, is it just me or is it ridiculous for this man to be trying that shit while surrounded by cops. Yes the choking was extreme, but I felt the bigger crime was not responding to his cries of "I can't breathe". Of course it is impossible to know who to indite in that situation... | cop was in the right to subdue but was wrong to choke hold him/ bigger crime was not responding to his cries. |
hoodyninja | news | t5_2qh3l | cmlyj58 | I hope I can help answer your question since you seem sincerely interested.
Police recruits are trained to be overly cautious (some say fearful) due to anecdotal and empirical evidence that historically shows they should be. Generally speaking, the idea is that for every call police are dispatched to, an average citizen is experiencing some crisis that has escalated beyond their control and requires police intervention to return the situation to normalcy. So police automatically assume that they are walking into an unstable situation.
Then there is the waiting game. "It might not have happened to you this time, but if it happens once, that is enough to kill you." Often times in police work I find myself not fearful in the moment but after the fact when I am thinking about what could have happened. I don't share stories often but hear goes one.
The best lesson I learned in training was,"Listen to your body, if it doesn't feel right, it's not right." Last night I backed up an officer on a fight call. I arrive on scene and contact the suspect. I walk him outside and start talking to him, while talking to him he becomes agitated and sticks his hands in his pockets. I tell him to take them out, and he refuses. He starts to lean in towards me (about an arms length and closing). It didn't feel right and I was worried. Nobody except little kids get that close to police. I push him back, draw my gun and order him to the ground. My partner cuffs him and we continue our business. We run him and he has multiple felony warrants (agg assault deadly weapon, sex assault child, agg assault against police, evading in a vehicle, resisting arrest) his criminal history was even longer with BMVs and drug charges. When I am searching him I find two big chucks (baseball size) of concrete in his jacket pocket. He later stated at the jail that he was going to smash my head him and run, but he got caught off guard and couldn't do it.
This guy was huge compared to me, and could have done some damage. Thankfully he didn't but I attribute that to my listening to my senses and when I get scared or fearful I react. Fear is not a bad thing, it is what makes me check behind all the doors in a building searches and it is what makes me call for additional units when I have multiple suspects. It is also what allows me to empathize with victims of crimes who are scared and feel embarrassed or ashamed of their fear.
Every officer and especially every training officer has personal experiences that reinforce our fears. It sucks when we have act the same way for everyone even if our fears are unfounded, but I only know a few people I come into contact with every night and the ones I know are not nice people.
I hope that helps answer your question if you have follow up I will try to answer. | police are trained to fear because fear keeps you alert, cautious and most importantly alive. |
HapTrek13 | news | t5_2qh3l | cmlz0wo | the truth is that if someone can speak, they are not truly choking
Did you not say that?
And I appreciate your EDIT, but your original statement is still flat out wrong. I've been in both blood and air chokes where I could still say words.
BadgerRush below says it much better:
"There are many cases when it is possible to say you can't breathe while you can't breathe. The only requirement for talking is for very small amount of any gas (it doesn't need to be oxygen rich) to pass trough your larynx (on its way out).
Breathing on the other hand requires many things to happen, if one of those fails you may appear to be breathing but little O2 gets into your system. You have to expel most of the CO2 heavy gas in your lungs past a long dead distance (the "piping" between the lungs and outside), and then pull new gas with more O2 (again past all the dead distance) until it reaches your lungs. So if you can only pull/push a small amount of air (while being chocked), you can still talk, but the amount of air may be not enough to travel all the way into your lungs (before it finishes filling the "piping" it starts to be expelled).
Also, talking involves mostly expelling air, what is always easy (even when being chocked, crushed, etc) because the positive air pressure forces the airways open. But when inspiring the negative air pressure becomes another strong force trying to close the already restricted airways, in other words, the act of breathing-in works against breathing-in. | in many cases it is possible to say that you can't breath when you can't breath." |
ClamFritter | news | t5_2qh3l | cmm0cvb | I'll bite.
The reason you're hearing most of the opposition coming from the left is because the same pop-culture movement that opposed the Trayvon case and the Ferguson case are glomming on to this case. However I'd say they're doing so for the wrong reasons. This is garnering so much support on the left because it's being cast as a race-issue, just like Trayvon, Ferguson, etc, whereas many on the right simply don't see any evidence to support that narrative. It seems to me that those on the left don't care much about the issue of authoritarianism or civilian victimization as they do about simply continuing the "unarmed black victimized by white police" narrative.
But there is push-back coming from the right, but for different reasons. Many voices on the right see this as an unnecessary death that is a direct result of big-government tax enforcement. Is it really necessary to have a half-dozen cops, some undercover, going around NYC enforcing cigarette taxes? That's just a way of protecting one of the state's many revenue streams. It's stupid in the same way that police raiding bookies or people growing small amounts of marijuana is stupid, but it's mainly the laws that are the problem, not the enforcement. If a law is stupid you need to attack the law rather than attack the enforcement, although I do think an argument for prioritization can be made, and cigarette tax enforcement should not be a priority.
When I first saw the video a few months ago I was disgusted. How can you not be, when witnessing a completely avoidable situation that led to someone's death? But cases like this need to be examined on an individual basis. The mythos and hysteria surrounding previous cases like this fell apart upon a close consideration of the evidence and many claims about this case seem to as well. First off, Garner was resisting arrest. No, I'm not saying that "resisting arrest is punishable by death", but it's accepted that law enforcement has the right to use escalation of force when a subject is resisting arrest. When police have decided to arrest you, it's basically game over and resisting is only going to result in them using escalating force in getting you to comply and put you in cuffs. Secondly, Garner seems to have died largely as a result of underlying medical conditions (heart condition, asthma, etc). No, this is not victim blaming, it's simply explaining why the police take down killed Garner when it would almost certainly not killed someone without these conditions. Same as when someone with a heart condition dies of being tazed - it's not victim blaming it's simply explaining cause of death. Thirdly, this was not murder. There was no intent to kill on the part of police. And yes, intent matters. All they intended to do was force him to submit to an arrest. He died because of the amount of force needed to do so and a number of underlying health problems.
Just my 2 cents. | Some on right are voicing opposition, but not by buying into the SJW narrative. He was resisting which escalated the force needed, which, in addition to health problems, resulted in his unintentional death. Tragic, but I don't see how you can blame the police more than you can blame the law and Eric's own choices. |
Krenolds | news | t5_2qh3l | cmn428k | What in the hell is unmanly cooking? My husband is a goddamned amazing cook. He bakes fresh bread every weekend for us to eat throughout the week. Next weekend we're going to bake hundreds of cookies to send out for the holidays. It's not my tradition, it's his. My brother also cooks for his family. Every day on the way home from work he stops by his local grcery store for fresh ingredients, and he's a fantastic cook. He also hunts, watched football, goes paintballing with his adult son. There's nothing inherently masculine or feminine about cooking. It's just a skill or a talent. People should feel free to embrace that. | Fuck you.
Edit: Also, what, women can't have strength, honor, principles, and courage? Extra fuck you to you. |
Phezh | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cmmvjsc | This is just bullshit. Yes it is bad if one company has the whole market under control for a certain product because they can lower quality and ask for more money because no one else can offer the product.
Streaming is a completely different thing. There is a ton of potential money in the market and as soon as twitch start to get shitty a bunch of new services will come out of nowhere and take over. You don't need much to start a site like twitch (compared to producing cars for example) and there's an insane amount of investors that would throw money at a new service if the community is unsatisfied with twitch.
The twitch guys know that too, the crowd that uses their service is not stupid and they know they have choices. They won't just suddenly stop all the good stuff their doing and start being evil because they can. | As long as twitch offers good service there is nothign to worry about and as soon as they stop someone else will replace them. |
xa3D | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cmmvmml | He said he got tired of the competitive scene and the pressure and whatnot. | s4 was shitty and made him salty. |
MajesticPensiveTall | AskWomen | t5_2rxrw | cmnjuls | Before I got on the pill- 3 days at least. Laying in the fetal position sobbing for at least 2 of them. Throwing up due to sheer pain.
On the pill- sometimes a day. Even if my cramps aren't too excruciating, sometimes my period upsets my stomach. | I love birth control. |
philiph | sex | t5_2qh3p | cmo33nt | I wouldn't say I have an armpit fetish, but I have been getting in to my girl's armpits lately. I like to bury my face in her armpit and huff it when she's a little sweaty. I find her smell an incredible turn-on.
Also recently she hadn't shaved in a while and I found her armpit hair to be very erotic. I enjoyed rubbing my face in it.
I think the attraction of places on the body like the armpit is that's where a person's natural scents are most concentrated. I suppose there's a limit to that though - if my girl didn't shower for a few days it would probably just smell like B.O. and I wouldn't find that arousing. | we are all animals and respond to smells. |
RestTarRr | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cmwq1n7 | It is not my first language but I fully understand what you said and I still believe it's not true but I do think that you didn't understand me.
Coin > Relic (NEVER)
Talisman > Mountain (Only in certain match ups)
Coin is useless. Hands down it does nothing. Relic gives you faster pushing for lvl 2 and sustain to you and your carry.
Going for Relic and then selling it mid game and buying Talisman because you need it. This yes, worth.
Also it is probably not even 10% . Yesterday when I checked the last 50-60 games there were 0 talismans/coins. Doubt there'd be more than 4 in the other 40-50 games to make it even close to 10%.
Even blitz who builds Talisman more doesn't have many buys. I just checked the last 100 games in probuilds and there were 8 talismans. | I never said you said every time, never said I agree with you that on certain matchups coin is better. It isn't. Talisman might be(in some cases) but Coin - no-no.
Relic > Coin (always) (talking about thresh)
Talisman and Mountain (in some[hardly ever happens] team comps Talisman is better) |
PPCSpecialist | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cmp3moo | It doesn't "proc" on ranged. You must CS normally on Thresh which makes it harder since there is no "execute" | CS normally on Thresh or they just suck at CS'ing in general. |
ThexAntipop | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cmp1iy2 | Okay I'm going to ignore the fact that you just compared the combined utility of 2 spells to the utility of a single spell and the fact that you blatantly ignored the other spell hits up to the entire team and just break down thresh's kit for you and why those spells as well as other factors make him weaker for solo queue than other supports. Before I get into this I want to point out that thresh is both my 2nd most played champ in ranked and the fact that I have a winning record with him so my opinions on him are neither uninformed nor do they stem from me not being able to win games with him.
Death sentence:
For starters hitting someone with death sentence isn't nearly as impactful as hitting them as many people think, at least not when compared to other spells supports have such and Dark binding, rocket grab, or Annie stun. Another problem with this spell is that to follow it up with flay you have to recast it which will often put yourself at risk. While often putting yourself at risk like this can pay off big you always run the risk of people not following up on it as quickly as they need to or even at all due to lack of communication and/or coordination which is symptomatic of solo queue. Expounding upon that point even if you don't recast your Q it causes your ADC to have to do a lot more decision making than many other spells that have more obvious goals. Did thresh just land hook to make _ lose cs? Does he want me to all in? Should I just use this opportunity to get free farm? Should I go for a short trade? Often the answer to these questions is far more ambiguous than with other support spells and it can definitely make a far smaller impact on the lane/game when the wrong choice is made than say Dark binding which will always do more damage and can junk the opponent even if your adc does nothing. Another spell I think draws the most obvious comparison is rocket grab, which both does more damage, puts you at less risk and the enemy at more, and is less ambiguous as to it's goal, it's a hard initiation and will pretty much always be recognized as such unlike thresh q which is more multipurposed.
Dark Passage:
This spell is the single biggest thing that makes him amazing competitively but somewhat lack luster for solo queue. Apart from it's small shield which now can only be given to a single ally it's entire utility is based on the decision making of your ally which is never going to be consistent and when discussing a champs strength in solo queue, consistency is key. When used properly by your allies dark passage is IMO the single most OP thing in thresh's kit, far more than his Q dark passage is what makes thresh an amazing champ. It's a free long range gap closer and escape on a fairly low cool down that any of your allies can use and it's what makes him god tier in competitive play. However often your allies will take lanterns meant for someone else or just ignore them entirely or simply take them too early if you're planning on using it in conjunction with death sentence.
Flay: Honestly this spell actually doesn't have much down side for solo queue it's decent cc and adds damage to your autos which is never a bad thing. It works best for disengage so pretty much the only small con I can say about it is that for purely disengage purposes it's mild compared to something like nami bubble, black shield, or even blitz knock up. That being said this is thresh's least ally reliant spell.
The Box: Really good for peeling or engaging only problem with this one is you generally have to put yourself in danger to get a really good one on the enemy team and you run the risk of your team mates not seizing that opportunity.
On top of this thresh's base stats are pretty low, he's not naturally tanky and does very minimal damage even by support standards so unless you're collecting an absolutely insane amount of souls he's really item dependent to become tanky.
If you're wondering why the only champs I compared him to are blitz nami and morg it's both for brevity purposes as this is already fairly lengthy and because those are the other 3 supports I have the most experience with. | He's more reliant on his team mates than many other supports. |
Escorien | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cmp4s86 | Riot does fine for the most part- it's when they introduce elements with no real basis to what they have done before that they really fall short. A good example of this would be Azir, who added a lot of things the game had never seen before or implemented to the extent previously.
League's code base has almost certainly grown substantially since it's infancy, and what they have done with their engine that is now five+ years old is pretty remarkable.
Coding is not as simple as you make it out to be, testing is NOT plug and play,and Riot- contrary to popular belief- is quite human.
Is Kalista passive/Relic Shield a bug? It's not up to you or I to determine that- because the implementation of Kalista's W passive makes sense logically. However, just because something makes logical sense doesn't mean that it feels good to the player.
If Riot feels that the current behavior sucks (I, for what it's worth as an ADC main, feel that it does), then they will change it- and if the changes to how her W damage functions that are on the PBE are to be believed, they are. | Stop being an unreasonable shit and think rationally. |
suplup | wow | t5_2qio8 | cmpge5r | Except there wasn't as much customization as you think there was. The best you could do was a hybrid spec, but those were mostly always sub-par and never really went anywhere. The only exception I can think of is SL/SL lock back in Wrath I think it was.
The new talent trees offer much more customization at the cost of frequency. Depending on your class, like warrior or rogue, the talent you take at even level 15 changes the way your character plays. There weren't many, if any, talents in Cata and before that changed the way your character plays, barring the abilities we get for free of course.
In addition, having specializations allows Blizzard to put more core abilities in the earlier levels. For example, Enhancement Shamans get dual-wield and Lava Lash at level 10 now, whereas before Cata they didn't get dual-wield until level 30 I believe it was. Before, you were just another shaman. Now, you're an enhancement shaman, and everyone knows it.
SW:tOR just switched from the original talent system to one similar to WoW's, stating that they cannot plan for hybrids, and that having the ability to front-load the specialization with abilities core to that spec draws more players in, which I would be inclined to agree. As I've stated before, you weren't an enhancement shaman until level 30, and you only just got dual wield, forget about stormstrike and lava lash.
The new talents also offer much more immersive growth, in my opinion. Using Rogue as an example, at level 60 you get the choice between Cloak and Dagger, Shadowstep, and Burst of Speed. Before MoP, you had a choice of Vendetta, Killing Spree, or Shadow Dance, and those were locked to your spec, so you really only had one choice. All other choices until that point were +A% to B, or +X% to Y.
Lastly, there were only three talent combinations (4 for druids, and 6 for death knights in Wrath) that were viable. If you didn't have talents X, Y, and Z, you were gimping yourself and the group all for 'muh customization.' The old talent trees never changed what you were, again barring abilities core to that spec like stormstrike. Talents were hardly more than +X% to ability Y. Trust me, I've spent loads of time playing around in the talent trees for multiple games, and every time, I would make the same tree for the same spec, barring maybe 3-5 talent points or so. Those 3-5 talent points are akin to the talents of today, situational perks to certain abilities, maybe new ones. | Talent trees were never as much of a choice as everyone makes them seem. The specialization system is much better for the health of the game overall, making leveling alts easier, and making classes seem much more interesting earlier on. Play around with the old talent trees, make a PvE build, make a PvP one. There's not much difference, any difference there is is enough to be a talent in today's time, I assure you. |
avenlanzer | sex | t5_2qh3p | cmt4sap | I've had these types of fantasies too. I'm a a strait male. I know my sexuality, not shy about questioning it. My best friend is transgender, so I know that's not the case either. Just fantasy as if I were a woman getting fucked. Role reversal is a normal and fairly common fantasy. Human sexuality is not just about what you enjoy, but also what your partner enjoys, and the role reversal fantasy is very common with people who have great empathy with their partners. It's a sexual thing, but its really a layer over an emotional expression. It could indicate your sexuality or gender identity, but usually not. Also, understanding it from the other perspective can help you understand your own desires better and what turns you on. Don't look at it as weird or a warning sign of anything, look at it as an opportunity to grow in your sexuality. You can learn why your partner likes something or not by putting yourself in their shoes, and you van learn what you like by thinking on how you would please yourself as the opposite gender. | Don't put too much worry abou it. Its normal and good for you. |
jetpacksforall | changemyview | t5_2w2s8 | cmx86kb | I have a lot of sympathy with your position. I, like many people, and I'm guessing you as well, feel that standardized testing is a waste when students could be learning far more useful skills and applying far more of their talents and abilities.
HOWEVER, the science on IQ testing is really well established: standardized tests correlate very well with IQ tests, and also with later educational achievement, and also with later success in careers, higher incomes in adult life, etc. Standardized tests are very predictive, almost scarily predictive.
There's an element to IQ testing known as the g factor . Cognitive researchers hypothesize that it represents some general mental ability... perhaps something like mental "energy," perhaps a general ability to focus. They aren't really sure what it is.
But what they are sure of is that the g factor is [quite predictive](
the correlation between IQ and grades and achievement scores is between .60 and .70. At more advanced educational levels, more students from the lower end of the IQ distribution drop out, which restricts the range of IQs and results in lower validity coefficients. In high school, college, and graduate school the validity coefficients are .50–.60, .40–.50, and .30–.40, respectively
According to research by Robert L. Thorndike, 80 to 90 percent of the predictable variance in scholastic performance is due to g, with the rest attributed to non-g factors measured by IQ and other tests.
Research suggests that the SAT, widely used in college admissions, is primarily a measure of g. A correlation of .82 has been found between g scores computed from an IQ test battery and SAT scores.
There is a high correlation of .90 to .95 between the prestige rankings of occupations, as rated by the general population, and the average general intelligence scores of people employed in each occupation. At the level of individual employees, the association between job prestige and g is lower – one large U.S. study reported a correlation of .65 (.72 corrected for attenuation).
The correlation between income and g, as measured by IQ scores, averages about .40 across studies. The correlation is higher at higher levels of education and it increases with age, stabilizing when people reach their highest career potential in middle age. Even when education, occupation and socioeconomic background are held constant, the correlation does not vanish.
The g factor is reflected in many social outcomes. Many social behavior problems, such as dropping out of school, chronic welfare dependency, accident proneness, and crime, are negatively correlated with g independent of social class of origin.[68] Health and mortality outcomes are also linked to g, with higher childhood test scores predicting better health and mortality outcomes in adulthood. | If you do well on standardized aptitude/achievement tests, you're at least 60% more likely to make higher than average grades, 80 to 90% likely to do well on the SAT, 90-95% more likely to become a doctor, attorney or business executive (or similar high-prestige profession), about 40% more likely to earn a higher income, and much less likely to have social behavior problems. Standardized tests are popular because they are disturbingly good at predicting your future. |
birdlawyerjd | worldnews | t5_2qh13 | cmxo3sj | Do you have any idea what quality of life in Cuba is like? Free world class health care and education. Without the whole U.S/west throwing hissy fits and doing everything possible to crush the Cuban economy (especially sectors relating civilian goods after the collapse of the USSR) it'd probably be even better. Edit: | replies: Cuba bad, U.S good, mostly uppermiddleclass/highly religious Cubans emigrated after their "evil communist dictator" let them... |
RaginRobertG | worldnews | t5_2qh13 | cmxp8zg | One of the reasons I prefer to travel to Cuba over the Dominican Republic and Mexico , and have done so frequently over the last ten years, is the absence of the American populace. Now, before I get reamed for anti-American sentiment, bare with me. Part of the allure of Cuba is the more laid back tourist base and the resulting environment, and this in part comes from the minimal volume due to the restrictions on Americans traveling there. Not to say that Canadians can't be wild, uncontrollable and disgustingly confrontational; they can be. But because of the minimal tourist base, it doesn't hold the same reputation as "Party Central", and henceforth, all the "just turned 18 so let's get stewed and fuck shit up without fear of consequence because I'm outside my local jurisdiction" crowd tend to travel to other areas. Which makes traveling to Cuba more enjoyable.
Also, the country is among the safest, if not the safest, for tourists. Every citizen in that country understands the importance of the tourist industry, and go out of their way to ensure your safety. I feel safer in the slums of Havana or Holguin, than I do in parts of Ottawa.
The food, however, is sub-par. And this, of course, is a result of the embargo and the inability to get quality food from a neighbour that rests 80 KM to the north. | Cuba has a certain culture and environment about it due to American travel restrictions. It'd be a shame if that was eradicated. |
killerhurtalot | worldnews | t5_2qh13 | cmxpuxe | going to cuba depends a lot on the time of the season, I bought tickets for $620ish with sunwing for thanksgiving since it's considered low season. If you wait until the last minute, it dropped to around $420 so they can fill out their chartered flight... But if you go during the SUPER high season of christmas and new years area, EVERYTHING will almost double the price (tickets are around 1-1.5k right now) and lodging there will be a lot more expensive too. | it'll cost you less than $1200-1500 a person to go for a week including like a $400-800 spending money (depending on your lodging) if you go during low season, and it'll cost 2-3k easy during high season. |
HOMEP1 | worldnews | t5_2qh13 | cmxz7gw | You're right, Cuban talent is raw, unrefined talent. There are a few guys in Cuba who are great but overall the level of play is below that of the major leagues.
Also, do you really think Cuban players don't take steroids or amphetamines?
I don't even know how to respond to your comment about some imaginary obese hitter who needs an oxygen mask. | You're wrong on every level. |
koji8123 | worldnews | t5_2qh13 | cmy2oy3 | Media never really brings it up. It's from Cold war times when Fidel Castro revolted. something along the lines of USA fearing communism punished them with an embargo. | there wasn't really ever a valid reason, we're hypocrites and finally things are getting better almost half a century later. |
joeinthebox | nfl | t5_2qmg3 | cmziskb | Based on anecdotal evidence (i.e. sports bars in LA), I would argue that the Raiders have a much stronger fanbase in Los Angeles.
However, it is not as if the Rams have been forgotten.
I'm not sure how familiar the OP is with the Southern California region but my assumption from this post/question is that the OP is not very familiar with the region.
To me, the Raiders were very much a Los Angeles team while the Rams were considered more of an Orange County team. This divide is similar to the divide between the Dodgers and the Angels.
Therefore, if we're talking about Los Angeles proper (i.e. LA proper, West LA, Inglewood, Compton, Torrance, Hawthorne, Pasadena, the San Gabriel valley, parts of the Inland Empire, parts of the Valley, etc.), I'd argue that the Raiders maintain a strong presence.
However, if we're talking about Orange County (the region in between LA and the northern parts of San Diego)? Especially amongst a slightly older generation? Then I'd argue that there is still a lot of nostalgia and love for the Rams down there.
Overall, I think documentaries like Ice Cube's 30 for 30 "Straight Outta LA" reflects the lasting cultural impact of the Raiders.
So, the | answer to the question is that the Raiders have the larger fanbase. |
strangerflower | TwoXChromosomes | t5_2r2jt | cn1v6aw | I agree with all of the legal ramifications that /u/OneEsk brought up. I want my SO there for me and I want to be able to provide for him should I pass away.
My anti-marriage feelings have melted away - but it's definitely not for everyone. My SO is a pain in my ass, but is the love of my life, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
yes, I took vows in front of family and friends, but it wouldn't have mattered one bit if those people weren't there. Those vows were between me and my SO, and they were completely devoid of religion. We got married because it was what we both wanted out of life, not because it was what our friends were doing (it was the exact opposite of what our friends were doing), or what our families wanted for us.
but as much as it works for me - there are people like, hm, my mother - that it didn't work out well for - she had three marriages - the 1st one (my father) - he turned out to be gay, the 2nd was an abusive alcoholic that drove into our apartment building one night, and her last marriage was the one that stuck but they were together 10 years and had bought a house before even thinking about getting married. | Do what you want and what is right for your relationship. Screw what your friends are doing, and what your family might want for you. Ultimately, it's you living your life, so it better be what you want for it. |
AlterAsc | Games | t5_2qhwp | cn22exm | Future of PC looks okay. Although to me it always seemed that it was okay.
Problems that i see - AAA-games will be shirtports 80% of the time. There were shitports before too, but when shitports came from 10year old hardware, shittiness was not that noticable. Also this recent trend that florished with newgen. The one about 30fps being cinematic and so on. Before current gen it was more like a needed sacrifice and people accepted it. This would be exclusive console problem, if shitports were not shitports, but they are. So 30fps on PC gets more common. Not nice, but fuck those who do that shit.
Unexpected but nice is the japanese devs' decision to get some games on PC. Also kickstarters for VNs that were funded very quickly are also good thing, but that's not exactly PC issue, since they don't come out only on PC. | moar shitports incoming! |
urethral_lobotomy | Games | t5_2qhwp | cn27bdt | Well this kinda depends on the game.
For example I just started playing Oblivion recently and with some mods it looks pretty damn good. Id say half the age it actually is. And it would be even better if I had a better computer that could handle the better mods. Plus its extremely easy to mod,even for noobs like myself.
But im also playing the first Mass Effect which even at maxed out settings, doesnt look that great. And im too scared to even try and mod it since it doesnt have a Mod Manager like Oblivion. | I agree. |
dinosaur_train | relationships | t5_2qjvn | cn3ecw3 | Call your lawyer and see if an emergency motion can be filed or see if there is any legal way to hold back the visit. Don't listen to us telling you what you can and cannot do, when you will pay the cost for that. | these are questions for your lawyer. |
Sterling__Archer_ | news | t5_2qh3l | cn3k0du | The discussion needs to be had, and people need to look at statistics and facts just as you have. I'm glad you're taking a rational, logical approach to it. It gives me hope that it can be had, at least on reddit.
You're right, about everything really. But now that we have why (society is afraid) how do you change that? Looking to your | we would need to change the actions of a lot of people. That way, people wouldn't have a reason to be afraid.
gonna be a long road ahead of us. |
TheTokingBlackGuy | news | t5_2qh3l | cn3jktz | Once society can discuss this question in a civilized manner, we can really begin to make progress. Seeing this question posted on reddit in and of itself is pretty encouraging.
This is all just my opinion, but I think society is afraid of black men for a few reasons. We (black men) generally are arrested and jailed more often than other races, so it's not like the fear of black men comes from nowhere. The reasons behind us being arrested at such disproportional rates are vast.
For one, poor people commit more crime. (desperate times, desperate measures) And black people in America are generally poorer than most other races.
Why are we poorer? A couple of reasons. But a pretty big one is simply the lingering affects of Jim Crow and slavery. I know a ton of folks will read that and say "come on, slavery was 200 years ago!" But laws prohibiting pregnant black women from getting treated at hospitals and being forced to give birth on sidewalks - only stopped being federal laws in the 1960s.
Another reason that we're generally poorer is institutionalized racism. It can be harder to get a job interview if your name is Tyrone. It can be harder to move up the corporate/social ladder if you and your family aren't well-connected. It can be harder to find good housing in good neighborhoods if you're a minority. People often hear black folks complaining about racism and assume they mean "racism" as in random people disliking blacks. That's not the racism most black folks are concerned about. It's the institutional racism that really holds us back.
Now, it wouldn't be much of a discussion if I said society is afraid of black men because we're generally poorer and therefore generally more likely to commit crime. And that all of this is strictly the product of slavery, jim crow, and institutionalized racism. That would be lazy.
Black folks have had a hand in this too. Way too many of our youth aspire to be the gangsta rappers they see on TV. A lot of this comes from lacking positive role models in real life, but the rappers themselves aren't doing their people any favors.
Additionally, a fair amount of black Americans want someone to make things right for all of the years that we were wronged. But that isn't going to happen. The people who held slaves are all gone. The people who enacted Jim Crow legislation are all gone. The white folks in America today, by in large, aren't to blame for the problems blacks still face. So who's going to answer for their ancestors? Nobody. It's a tough pill to swallow, and I think a lot of my people just aren't ready to swallow that pill yet. | Society is probably afraid of black men because 1) We commit more crime than other races and 2) we tend to emulate and look up to gangsters. There are valid historical and socio-economic explanations for both of these things, but in order to discuss them, society has to acknowledge the elephant in the room.
EDIT: Thank you for the Gold. This response is proof that people really do want to have these discussions and that's a beautiful thing. |
Grunnakuba | news | t5_2qh3l | cn3xv8a | This has nothing to do with being afraid of black but here is my story of seeing racial discrimination for the first time.
I am a white male for starters. It was 4 of my friends and I. We decided to go to Athens, Georgia for the night to go to bars cause we were bored. We all dress really well. You know slacks, button down, collard shirts. What you expect a young year old male in the South to wear. We had one black friend with us who dressed the same way and was working for a good engineer firm as an intern. We go to this bar and I enter first cause I told them it was a fun bar. They let me and another white friend in. Then the black friend tried to enter and they say he pants are to baggy and cant enter. I look at his pants and their are tailored slacks. No bagginess at all. Then I see them deny a group of black guys but this time their had baggy pants. So I tried to enter with baggy pants and got in no problem. Pretty much my first time seeing racial profiling. I was pretty pissed because it was complete bullshit | Bars in Athens are not a fun place for black people. |
drioqka | Fitness | t5_2qhx4 | cn49zve | If you bulk slow enough, you WILL build muscle while staying lean at the same time. But you will always put on at least as much fat as muscle. So over time you will eventually have to cut down your bodyweight for a little. The slower you bulk, the longer you can stay lean.
If you aim for a 1 pound bodyweight gain per month, you can build muscle throughout the year while staying lean. But after a whole year you'll have put on some fat. It's inevitable. You'll be 12 pounds heavier. But you can drop 5lbs of bodyweight in a month while sparing a lot of muscle if you eat enough protein and go right back to being lean and putting on muscle again.
However, when most people do bulk/cut cycles, they tend to gain 4lbs a month or more. I'm not an advocate of this since there's pretty much a genetic limit on how much muscle you can put on in a month anyway. On top of that, they then have to spend a long time cutting (cutting down over 1lb a week is not advisible as you start to lose too much muscle doing it, so you cant just cut at a higher deficit to speed the process). In my opinion a super slow bulk puts on more net muscle than a fast bulk because you put on a higher percentage of fat per week on a faster bulk, and on top of that, you have to spend more time cutting (which means less time putting on muscle and more time potentially LOSING muscle).
On the other hand, its very hard to build muscle while staying the same weight. You can only really do that if you are a pure beginner, have insanely elite genetics (and even then you will reach a point of diminishing returns quickly), or on steroids. | You can stay lean while building muscle if you bulk slow enough. You can add more net muscle over a year with a slow bulk than fast cut/bulk cycles. If you stay the same weight for a whole year, however, you're gonna have a hard time doing it. |
ThreeTimesUp | news | t5_2qh3l | cn4vqdz | So how can you protest then.
It's going to require changing laws.
Mall owners (invariably large politcally-connected corporations) have intentionally contrived to create a public space that is immune from several various freedoms the public enjoys in order maximize the public thrusting money at their tenants. | You can demonstrate -outside- of Macy's, but you can't demonstrate IN Macy's. |
ThreeTimesUp | news | t5_2qh3l | cn4wbeu | these people were in fact illegally on private property
But in a public space.
Reconcile that - or better yet, bring private rights vs. civic responsibilities up for discussion in your next law school class.
My prediction: the malls are employing a not-evolutionarily-sucessful tactic. | we're all part of a larger organism, and the well-being of the larger organism is of paramount imortance. |
esinohio | news | t5_2qh3l | cn50iw5 | Just an aside to your comment. Having lived in the area since this mall was built I can tell you mall management is active and on site. A simple check of the police blotter locally will show that the mall management AND several patrons of the mall called the police. While you can call this a "public space" it is indeed on private property.
The mall can choose to admit or bar anyone the don't choose to do business with as can the individual businesses located inside. We reserve the right to refuse service is the right of the business is it not? It might piss you off but that is the law.
The equal protection laws you were referring to here(vaguely referenced by your next law school comment) do NOT apply as the mall did not discriminate against the protesters in any way. Specifically they are termed "A patron accompanied by a large group of non-customers looking to sit in". Excluded from equal protection. They also can be deemed, "Patrons who are unreasonably rowdy or causing trouble". Both specifically outlined in law literature as common reasons for refusal of service. | The mall has every right to kick them out on their arrogant asses. |
darrellcanfly7 | wow | t5_2qio8 | cn613gh | My main alt is a MW monk and what i can tell you is they aren't weak but very unforgiving. They can be extremely strong especially on longer fights. However if your basing them being kicked from pugs. its more than likely because most people pugging aren't that amazing. no offense to anyone who pugs.
As for dungeon healing they are imo by far the weakest | good calss just hard to play correctly resulting in bad representation overall. if you have any other monk specific questions feel free to message me |
codayus | relationships | t5_2qjvn | cn7carr | Demanding that your husband not look at porn is absolutely your right. It's also a huge ask, and a good indication that you have unresolved issues stemming from your abuse. If you haven't pursued all the obvious therapy avenues, you really should, because while it's certainly unfair to you, the plain truth is that your demands set you up for disasters like this one. "I asked my husband not to look at porn, he promised, and I found out he lied" is a staple of this subreddit. The blame lies on the husband, but I think most people would rather have a happy relationship than to be technically in the right in the wreckage of a destroyed relationship.
Anyhow, as to your actual issues: He treated you poorly before you were in a relationship, cheated on you once you were in a relationship, and kept lying throughout the relationship, and constantly doing things he knows hurt you.
> I’d think this girl is so stupid for staying with a guy that disrespects her feelings so much.
Stupid is a strong word. How about "it looks like a clear mistake on her part"?
> But on the other hand, I know that most guys (and plenty of girls) watch porn.
Yeah. If by "most" and "plenty" you mean "basically everyone". And for the overwhelming majority of them it is a healthy part of their sexuality. If you break up and date someone else, it is overwhelmingly likely they they routinely watch porn; if you ask them to stop for you they will probably either break up with you or lie.
Which doesn't matter; you still have every right to set your own boundaries and have them be respected. I mean, at some point, wouldn't being single be better than this?
Frankly, your husband sounds like a terrible person. You probably should break up. The hard part is going to be figuring out how you can form a healthy relationship in the future. Healthy relationships are based on trust, and you're going to have a real problem trusting anyone about porn after this experience. Again, I have to ask: Have you done everything you possibly can to recover from your earlier trauma? Because while you shouldn't have to change yourself to have a happy relationship, objectively your odds would sure improve. | Your husband is scum, but your problem is bigger than that. Sorry. :(
NINJA EDIT: Reading back through your post and your other comments, I think the porn issue is a huge red herring. This guy is way, way more abusive than I originally thought. You have a lot of problems, but your biggest and most urgent problem by far is the vicious, abusive, controlling monster you're married to. You need to get away, immediatly. Once you've done that, then you can maybe look into your other issues with trust, porn, childhood trauma, whatever. But your biggest problem is your husband. You need to break the fuck up, move to a new state, block him every way you know how, and ideally get a restraining order. Christ. Finding a compromise you and some future boyfriend can live with about porn can fucking wait. |
dinosaur_train | relationships | t5_2qjvn | cn7h56z | I'm at a loss right now. He takes your family and your career. You aren't in the USA and that might be a problem, although, IDK. Here, I'd be up a lawyer's ass and Rita would be gone, instantly. Is there something that can happen like that, there?
Your marriage is gone. Your focus needs to be on saving your career and protecting your daughter from these clowns. Lawyer up, big time and hit him hard. Over here, you could sue her for alienation of affection.. it's a damn shame you probably can't there. | lawyers, figure out how to protect your job and your daughter. you can deal with the emotions of everything else once this is in order.
Post an update! |
enossirt | TwoXChromosomes | t5_2r2jt | cn99inw | I'm a guy I haven't had a reddit account in awhile.
My ex cheated on me for money then she left to go be a literal ho. Who knows who else she cheated on me with. She couldn't tell the truth to someone if get life depended on it.
It destroyed me, hell I went from a nerdy dork into a frat star. It's years later and I still love her, but she could give about a fuck less.
We started taking again. At first I applied standard text book PUA and the conversations would get sexual, but I reverted to woo I used to be ended up going out with her then she more out less said we only friends blablah I'm drunk and at snow globe.
Btw I have hot girls who are fucking normal, who don't suck dick for money, and who are into me (albeit we have nothing in common) . But here's me chasing after whoreimus maximus. Wtf is wrong with me.
Never again, I used to not judge girls on there past, how they dress, their economic background, etc. Fuck that I'm judging hard. | ex cheated for money is now a prostitute/hooker/escort and I'm still in love with her wtf is wrong with me. I was raised right. |
buffdude1100 | summonerschool | t5_2t9x3 | cn8o1ax | She won't do much because now your only front line is your jungler, who could very well be someone who isn't all that tanky.
Yeah she has a ton of damage, but she's not hugely tanky or offers any shields/heals. Double adc falls off pretty hard late game. In mid game it's alright because it's a lot of damage, but your team kinda NEEDS a tank/front line if you aren't already super ahead.
And she definitely is like teemo top.
Lots of damage? Check.
Good kiting? Check.
Not at all tanky? Check.
Wins most top lane matchups with ease? Check. | She's fine bot lane although not the strongest if your mechanics suck or your support sucks, but please don't be that guy that plays her top. |
AlexCostaStudios | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cnc9mvg | Hijacking this as I don't see anybody linking to his [Patreon](
There is a ton of people in the comments of the video asking for a Paypal donation acount. This is as close as you can get for continuos suport for his family, and all the hours of fun hes given us thru all this time.
If you don't know what Patreon is, - | you colaborate with any sum you can once a month or so. like a sub but like 95%+ goes to him, not like twitch wich is half. |
sid34 | technology | t5_2qh16 | cnd19sh | You gave the wrong person the argument. While the FCC makes the ruling there will be plenty of ways to combat the decision if it goes against our wishes. Firstly If legislation passed that directly or indirectly gives net neutrality a hold on a legislative basis that would over power the FCC ruling. If the fcc makes a decision we, the people, have the ability to petition it and possibly raise suite in a federal court for violations of our right depending on the ruling. The FCC does not make law they will make something very law like in nature but it can be over powered by legislative powers, judicial powers, and the president has the authority to strike down their ruling because it is a administrative agency he is the very top controller of it. | Don't roll over and take what we get. If we just take what they give us, expect to be given shit every day for the rest of you life. Fight for what you believe is right, and if someone(or agency) gets in your way you keep fighting. IT'S NOT TOO LATE |
Multicorn | technology | t5_2qh16 | cnd6z78 | Not technically.
The Constitution basically says a state law cannot override a federal law.
However, we see blatant challenges to this with the current trend of marijuana legalization at the state level flying in the face of the federal government.
The verbage of the laws can also be very tricky, which we have seen with gay rights issues (marriage, military, medical) between federal (defense of marriage, don't ask don't tell) laws and policies, and state level legislation, state constitutions, and court rulings.
States also can sue the government in court to challenge laws if they have standing. Many of our Republican-held states comprising "The South" successfully challenged a Department of Justice civil rights policy in the Supreme Court so they could pass election reform that makes it harder for people in poor and minority communities to vote (since they tend to support Democrats). | it's a complicated and shameless lawyer orgy
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. |
ShellOilNigeria | worldnews | t5_2qh13 | cne3wmg | Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership"
>>critics say it would increase corporate power and make it more difficult for governments to regulate markets for public benefit.[2] The American government considers the TTIP a companion agreement to the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
If you don't know what the Trans Pacific Partnership is -
>is a proposed regional regulatory and investment treaty. As of 2014 twelve countries throughout the Asia-Pacific region have participated in negotiations on the TPP: Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam.
>The proposed agreement began in 2005 as the Trans-Pacific Strategic Partnership Agreement (TPSEP or P4). Participating countries set the goal of wrapping up negotiations in 2012, but contentious issues such as agriculture, intellectual property , and services and investments have caused negotiations to continue into the present,[7] with the last round planned to meet in Ottawa from 3 July – 12 July 2014.[8][9] Implementation of the TPP is one of the primary goals of the trade agenda of the Obama administration in the United States of America.
Here is some more context about the TPP -
>What we do know from leaked documents is that this agreement is not about trade, but rather about expanding the rights of Big Media conglomerates who are pushing for extreme Internet censorship powers.
>Consequences of this heavy-handedness range from criminalizing small-scale alleged copyright infringement, like uploading a home video with a popular song playing in the background, to blocking web content, and even quite literally kicking people -- and entire families -- off the web simply for being accused of breaking copyright rules, without any evidence or due process.
More info on the TPP - | Same shit, different day.
>the nine Trans-Pacific Partnership countries announced that the TPP intended to "enhance trade and investment among the TPP partner countries, to promote innovation, economic growth and development, and to support the creation and retention of jobs." |
casce | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cnfuxdx | Thorin is one of those people who can talk 10 minutes just to express something they could have said in 3 sentences
You could basically make a 1 line | of all of his videos and they would cover the whole thing |
its2ez | Games | t5_2qhwp | cngcjri | Well, in regards to poor preparation, that was a comment I made about the Kickstarter campaign not doing very well since I launched it about 3 weeks ago. I fully believe that I didn't prepare for it like I should have. I had been working on such a long project, that when I finally completed the game, I was ready to show it to the world via kickstarter. This is where I messed up. Instead of getting overly excited, I should have stepped back and attempted to generate some talk about the game. Maybe reach out to some blogs or game sites and get the name "zombie refuge" out there. That would have been the best approach to a successful kickstarter campaign - generating interest before launch. I did the opposite. I launched it and tried to generate interest. So thats where I was going when I used the words "lack of preparation".
As far as motivation goes. It is SUPER HARD to stay motivated on a 2 year long project when you're working ALONE. It just is. More often than not, I felt like I was just wasting my time. I felt like no one would be interested in playing this because it is a little bit different. I'm a super ambitious person too, so wasting time on something that might fail was a big struggle for me. However, a lot of things you do in life MIGHT fail, so I decided to not let that stop me. I decided I had more fun and learned more things in creating this game than anything I had done before, and that was all I needed. Yes, there were still times when I went weeks without touching it, but I always came back. I wanted to finish it, so I did.
I talk about the kickstarter "funding" my motivation in a more generalised way. I think deep down, I just wanted to know someone cared, someone was interested. I wouldn't go as far as saying I don't think that anymore, because it's an awesome feeling to know some other person is rooting for you and generally interested in what you're doing. However, I would say my outlook on a lot of things having to do with this game has changed. The game has slowly developed from a project to something I'm more passionate about than I ever thought I could be. Phase III of the game has already started, I have already started working on additional features. I have had roughly 70 people sign up for the game since launch and when it comes to motivation that was more than enough. If I have even half of those people interested in what my game has to offer, I completely want to continue development - as I have been. At this point, motivation is hardly a concern for me. If I continue to work alone, there will likely be times where I may go days or weeks without touching the code, but I will always come back - I've already shown myself that. I just have too much fun working on it.
I think most of my rewards were fairly obvious that I wanted people to get involved - AND PEOPLE HAVE! I'm too far along to give up now. I want to finish it. I want to complete it. I'd wager to say I'll likely add more features as time goes on. | I've already started work on additional features. At this point, motivation isn't a problem. |
herkaburger | tifu | t5_2to41 | cnikost | One, you're wrong, it isn't, and others have told you it isn't. Not only that, but there are laws against child porn and pedophilia, but none against looking at naked cartoon women. There's a reason for that.
Two, analogy, metaphor, pick one.
Analogy: a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
Guess what, you didn't do that, because they aren't alike.
Metaphor: A metaphor is a figure of speech that identifies one thing as being the same as some unrelated other thing, thus strongly implying the similarities between the two.
This metaphor, if you can even consider it as such, is not good at all . "Thus strongly implying the similarities between the two." There are no similarities between scarring a child for life and looking at a naked cartoon adult someone drew. | You, throughout this entire thing, have been incredibly off-base, close-minded, and generally dick-ish because you think that your way of thinking is the only way of thinking. That's not how it works, and not everyone wants to be a lonely keyboard warrior. So, you know... off... that's the direction in which you should aim to fuck. |
halfasshippie | TwoXChromosomes | t5_2r2jt | cnj1ufl | I walk to bank everyday for work, about 4:30 pm (broad daylight). I have had people yell at me and the like, and one time thought I was being followed. Enough to make you walk faster but they can't really get to me with a car due to there being several parking lots/curbs/roads and this is a very public route so nbd. I've walked everyday for five years, uncomfortable situations pretty rare.
So one day I'm walking along and this older suv pulls up, I'm somewhat behind a gas station and while not completely out of visibility of the public, not really in plain sight either. I'm prepared to keep walking after this suv pulls up, but I see that it's just some kid (18, maybe) and think, "oh it's just a kid, can't do any harm."
So he asks me where "main" st is. Being the friendly and helpful person that I like to think I am, I proceed to explain. He looks... Uncomfortable. He says, "um... Where is it?" Thinking I didn't explain it well, I proceed to explain again. It's like, two blocks away. Not complicated.
But he still looks, perplexed. He says, "um.. Can you come closer? I can't hear you." I take half a step closer and kind of say something like, "um, it's just right there." I really don't want to explain it again and I'm not sure this person should be behind the wheel of a motor vehicle if he can't understand simple directions.
So then he asks if he can ask me a question. I don't know how I could have possibly not realized something was amiss by this point. I say ok. He asks if he can see my boobs.
Hahaha that kid really just asked if he can see my boobs. I say, "No, you cannot see my boobs" and decide it was time to keep walking.
So then He looks down at his crotch, where he is vigorously jerking his fully erect penis and asks, almost pleads, "well will you at least give me a hand job?!? I'll give you twenty dollars!!! Please!!!!"
I know it was just a kid. But it was truly, very disturbing. I called someone to pick me up after that and didn't walk there again for awhile. I really need to get mase or something.
The sad part is, he wasn't an unattractive dude. He was pretty well endowed, not that i care about that, just.... Didn't have anything to be nervous about in that department. Just seemed a little, like, you know, the kids who were a little weird in school, wore darker clothes and tobogons, my kind of people, actually. Too young but had he asked a girl on a date and treated her nicely, showed her respect and genuinely cared about her, she would've had sex with him. It sucks he felt like he had to ask a strange woman on the street for a favor the way he asked, the sound of desperation in his voice. I kind of wish I could tell him that, after the initial horror of that experience has worn off. Kid, you're alright. You'll find someone someday. Just keep that thing in your pants when you're out in the general public. At least buy a girl a drink first, damn. | had someone ask for directions and after having given directions, realized they were choking the chicken the whole time they were talking to me, then got propositioned for a favor. It's sad but you do need to be weary when someone pulls up to you on the side of the road. |
Jaguarmonster | summonerschool | t5_2t9x3 | cnjrw05 | I appreciate you typing this out but it's all useless and shows you don't understand league of legends (nor statistics for that matter). The only valid point you're making is that if you have 2 high winrate supports on your team and one is in a solo lane that obviously the winrate of that solo lane support isn't going to be representative (at least that's the point I think you're making?). This is true because the winrate of that champion is almost entirely generated by being played in the support role. This was actually a large problem for some of my analytical work back when fiddle was very popular as a support and a jungler.
Their potential on particular teams is already covered in the percentage picked statistic. Something that's picked 25% of the time simply cannot be only picked on particular teams in order to justify that winrate. This doesn't mean that something with a low winrate can't suddenly become a really good champion if placed on a very particular team where it excels (yasuo has one of the lowest winrates but if you manage to specifically build a team around him and the enemy team can't shut him down properly he is really good) but it is just totally irrelevant because LoL is about expected value and not about individual games. Your entire post is like saying '65s in poker can be just as good as AA or KK because of [all the possible outs you can get that you don't get with AA or KK]'. It just shows me you don't know what you are talking about. If Thresh has a 45% winrate or whatever in your elo that simply means that if you prevent people from playing Thresh on your team or try and bait the other team into picking Thresh you will gain elo over the long run. Same goes for your snapshot argument: yeah, you don't know if they suddenly improved or are currently good players but that's an assumption you're making here and it just makes me wonder why you'd make this far less likely assumption over what objective statistical data tells you. Go to the jungle with a rifle and don't shoot a tiger running at you, he 'may just be playful and curious'. Non-point.
Your last point is absolutely laughable and makes me wonder why I even typed all this out. The differences between champion winrates are absolutely fucking gigantic . A 52% winrate is FAR better than a 50% winrate even though at first glance it doesn't seem that way. People are typically playing with people of their own skill, so all champion winrates should more or less be 50% regardless of strength if the matchmaking system is doing its job correctly, as someone being able to win 50ish% of his games in gold 3 with Thresh is arguably as good as someone being able to win 50ish% of his games in gold 3 with Rek'Sai. This still doesn't happen though and you see clear spikes in winrate, some as low as 40-45%, others as high as 55+%. In addition to this, it is not a 1v1 game but a 5v5 game which means the impact of a champion is less than elements in 1v1 games. Despite all of this, some champions STILL manage to get a winrate over 55+%. This is absolutely ridiculous. | you don't know what you're talking about |
AmycusPrime | summonerschool | t5_2t9x3 | cnjvkqz | I am really late to the party.
I may be incorrect as I am about 8 years out of statistics courses and frankly I don't have the time here at work to research >< I'm probably just going to be rambling but I liked the initial post, Hiten's post, etc.
This seems like an example, of winrates being used as the assessment tool. Because of the sheer volume of these games, you have a large sample size to pull from (which makes it easy to generate numbers, yay).
The part where I draw issue with this logic is that it seems to blurring the line of reliability and validity too much to be a true assessment tool. To steal words from Hiten, champions don't exist in a vacuum, nor does each individual game. I think to draw a fair assessment of a player, it can be misleading to rely on such simple metrics, because while the data is reliable, is it actually measuring what you think it's measuring?
I agree that it makes logical sense, I mean you can't argue with numbers. If a champ has a 55% winrate, it likely says something about that champion. However, to reflect on the individual player itself in a game and their ability requires many factors, many of which cannot actually be measured by statistics, such as:
Does the player have another account? Smurf?
Are they on tilt? Maybe a hot streak?
Is someone just very, very comfortable with their performance on a champion vs. the generalized win rate?
etc.
While the answers to many of these questions may be considered opinion, there is a certain level of qualitative data required to determine the potential outcome of a game based on win rates alone.
For a kind of out there example, I like to think of it as the All Star Game for a major sporting event. The team will be comprised of many individual players- each with their own statistics, and their team statistics to back them up. Would Gronk's numbers be as good without Brady's passes? Who knows? That's hard to prove based on statistics alone. Given a different quarterback, he may not perform as well in that game. However, we do know he's a damn good player. That's for sure. The numbers back that up.
In a way it's the reason people win/lose at fantasy sports. Numbers will get you to a certain point. However there can be factors outside the realm of statistics that can alter the results. Fantasy sports players know this. Take a quarterback for instance, used to playing in very warm weather. Throw him in New England in the middle of a snowstorm in 0 degree weather...and his throwing arm may not be so hot, know what I mean?
Overall I think you provide a very valid point, but I think it's missing a few considerations that may or may not have been addressed. Funny you mention the Orianna winrate thing. I really love her as a champ, but one thing I've found in soloqueue is the last of coordination can make it hard to pull off great plays with her. Even when you assume someone will do something correctly (like a Malphite ult -> Shockwave), it happens that sometimes the Malphite ults in the wrong direction -_-). A continuation of that point... to be totally honest, if I am a support player, and you ban out my favored pick, win rate aside I'm probably going to be pretty mad. Unless it's an accident. That happens =P | As a final note, rereading bits of your post, you did somewhat address my concerns. I think I just went into entirely too much detail. I've been randomly typing a line here or there for the last half hour at work so please, please forgive my rambling =) I had coherent thoughts, I promise! |
KruxEu | summonerschool | t5_2t9x3 | cnkcohl | I dont have much time to play (JWK, Job, Wife, Kid ;), so my only goal (started Season IV) was to get to Silver 5. I was ADC Main at this time and now in Preseason im shifting to Mid.
So in this subreddit, ppl tell you often: Don't play this champ, he's too hard to learn too versatile. But i tell you right the opposite. Why isn't it "allowed" to learn a complex champ as a newbie??? Just because u started the game in Bronze doesn't mean your got less IQ, less good requirements to play this champ.
I was desperatly searching for a Main Champ in Mid and i instantly connected with Zed. What caught me, was the cool Passive splash sound and his AA Animation :P. I red and watched a lot of stuff about him and practiced him (Got nearly 60-70 games i think) and it's so much fun to see how i get better with him from game to game.
So if you really want to learn a specific, complex champion just play him. It's your decision. | Play Zed if you enjoy him. |
gravelpit | sex | t5_2qh3p | cnljrf9 | Got facefucked last night. We've thrown it in a little bit for maybe 10 seconds as part of a rough night of sexy things but not as the main event. He wrecked my face for at least a good 10 minutes and it was definitely the main event. I managed to take it nearly flawlessly. It was fuckin awesome. We were gonna have a "foot massage and give him an oily handjob" but guess that didn't happen lol. | got rekt, loved it |
ilovemybirdy9 | sex | t5_2qh3p | cnlteyo | Bit of backstory:
I had been engaged and in a serious relationship with terrible sex for approximately seven years. Imagine being betrothed to a dickless Hodor. When I say terrible, I'm meaning downright awful; sex lasted ~2 minutes max with no foreplay and my (ex) SO would whine that I didn't cum/he couldn't make me cum/etc. even though he basically never tried to get me there and got offended when I attempted to help myself along. It didn't help that he had a dick the size of a crayola crayon and I had outgrown coloring a long time ago. (nothing wrong with a small woodpecker, I love dicks/ducks of all sizes. I also enjoy climaxes that are as if fireworks are going off in my head, learn to pack your cannons my micro-penguin friends!)
Shortly after leaving him I was.. in need of attention and just honestly missed having someone there with me. (It is very weird to suddenly be by yourself after seven years of constant companionship- even if it was shit companionship!)
The man who was supposed to be the best man at my wedding approached me, confessing feelings for me that were genuinely unexpected. (He had even tried to help keep my ex and I together!) I mentioned that I didn't want to jump into another relationship and -my family being my family- he was having dinner with everyone I hold dear the next evening. I'm rambling! To the sexy bit!
Sex with him is incredible! Never pictured myself with this man (see above) but he has changed my outlook on sex and relationships as a whole. This past week we made love for the first time. Normally we would have crazy passionate, but rough sex, as I enjoy being dominated. However, he recently admitted that his biggest turn-on (and the kind of porn he enjoys to watch) is really vanilla, loving sex. After presenting him with a lovely array of ice cream scoops, we got down to making a sexy sundae.
He still "took me" but it was tender and HOT AS FUCK. When he groans, GAH! It's like someone has installed a hydro-pump of sorts in my nether regions. He held me and caressed me and told me he loved me for the first time! I said I loved him too and he came so hard- UMPH, it was absolutely amazing! | Fell down a rabbit hole of awful sex and onto the dick of my would-be best man who said he loved me and filled me with a geyser of ecstasy and goo. |
almosttan | relationships | t5_2qjvn | cnlruiv | Best way to get over someone is to get on top of someone else. | it hurts and sucks but you'll move on and be fine. |
joker91za | Fitness | t5_2qhx4 | cnmld51 | Literally the best thing I've done is stretch. I used to focus overly much on chest resulting in slouching shoulders. I then started doing back but also stretching during my. Every day I do chest stretches(with a door frame), lat stretches and leg stretches. When I stretch, I try hold it for a minute which stops the muscles like chest, pulling your shoulders down. | stretching is equally important than weight training for posture. |
iShogi | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cnnqrk5 | DON't PLAY RANKED YET. I am speaking as someone that went 3-10 and was placed bronze three. Yes, I was the kid that was actually better than what he placed. I wasted three months of climbing to gold because I didnt wait to really hone some of my skills and learn all positions before I rushed my 10 placements. | learn all roles well and focus on a couple champs before you do placements. |
SneakyPope | wow | t5_2qio8 | cnq0y9g | Calling it now, we fight Grommash as the final boss, but before we can deal the final death blow, Prince Malchezzar comes and steals Gorehowl, and opens a portal to Our Azeroth dimension, but the same time long ago in which we are currently on Draenor. We are forced to follow him through the portal BACK to OUR dimension, but backwards in time, reverting us to level 70, and having us assault Karazan AGAIN, which explains how he had Gorehowl in BC, and blizz doesn't need to design any new content for 2 years, since we have to RE-LEARN everything on the way to 100, at which point the Zandalari have managed to follow us BACK to AU Draenor, and by the time we get back to AU the 2nd time, the trolls have overthrown the iron horde, and we will get what Blizzard has been prepping us for for 10 years.....
A 2 year long completely troll raid oriented expansion, with 12 new troll 5 mans, 37 new troll scenarios, and a whopping 9 tier Zandalari troll raid, which will be hailed as game of the year 2020, and the pinnacle of WoW. | fuck you just read it I managed to type that run on sentence on a phone! |
ICryLightning | relationships | t5_2qjvn | cnqd5gy | It would take pages and pages to truly elaborate on what I mean, but I will try to do so in a succinct manner for the purposes of this thread.
When I said "afforded", I simply meant "to be able to do." Humans have a 50% probability of being born a woman and a 50% probability of being born a man, biologically speaking. When I say afford, I don’t mean to say there is an inherent value in being a women, more so than in being a man. I mean that the women was afforded that 50% probability in a specific direction (female) and is now able to live as a female. Being female or male has societal implications, be they positive, negative, or neutral.
Explaining how my interactions with male friends has changed due to my physical transition is complicated because some things are just feelings that I cannot put into words. When I was female there was this barrier between us that I did not even know existed and of which I only became aware of once I really did become "one of the guys." Men treat women differently than they treat other men, even though they may not consciously want to be doing that.
I think some of this is related to men taking a protector role when in the presence of a female. I don't mean to say that women are weak and that they can't protect themselves. I thought I was a tough girl who could deal with anything, but then on hormones I realized men are about twice as strong as women. I had no idea about this until the muscles started packing on and I was able to lift a lot more weight and just in general do things that were physical with much more ease. I have become protective of women because of this knowledge. It makes me worried for my sister and mother because I know sick fucks are out there and I fear for them.
Men also speak differently to other men when females are not around. They speak more openly because they know there is not a potential romantic interest around to judge them for their harsh or dirty language. Also, men are more rough with me physically now that I am on the same playing field as them, I used to never be wrestled or grabbed before by my friends, and now it is just a playful thing that I accept and also initiate.
I am also not the perpetual cock block that I used to be. If I went out with friends to bars or clubs, everyone would assume I was one of my friend's girlfriends. Now I am a wingman. Even something so simple as using the bathroom changes dynamics between the genders. When my friends and I go on road trips, we all pull over and piss on the side of the road because we can pee standing up. If a woman was with us, we would probably wait until we could find a bathroom. It is hard to explain but there is a barrier between men and women as friends in terms of being buddy buddy just due to physical differences.
None of this is to say that men and women cannot be close platonic friends. I have great female friends who I admire and love dearly and who give me a different kind of friendship than that I get from my male friends. Women are more open about personal issues and relationships. Men will bring something up, you are aware of it, but no one elaborates on the issue, they just accept that the dude is dealing with some stuff. Women talk a lot more about everything.
I've kept journals and video diaries of my transition and changing mental status and interactions and will probably write a book some day when I'm done with medical school and have time. The medical aspect of transitioning is a whole other story for another time. I will say though, hormones are one powerful son of a bitch, both on the body and the mind. | Women and men have differences which do create a barrier between them as friends, a neutral barrier, but one nonetheless. |
NegativeEagie | relationships | t5_2qjvn | cnth8et | secret information
It's only a "secret" to you because you don't spend a single second researching anything, you just plug your mind into the television and believe that anything that's called a "conspiracy" is instantly fake. This is supported with the fact that you think all conspiracy theorists have the same beliefs. | Sheep. |
thegirlontheredbicyc | relationships | t5_2qjvn | cntom0y | Someone could be a lovely partner and compatible in many ways but if their intelligence or beliefs are incompatible with yours it's probably not going to work. Most of us are looking for a supportive and understanding person for the long haul, you need a relatively clear understanding of their expectations, limitations and emotions. If his values when he's calm and relaxed defer from yours drastically in a normal state what happens when things in the relationship get rough?
It's natural for most people to find a partner that you have more of a understanding with. The path of least resistance basically. | you probably don't want your kids to have the dad that claims "the government is out to get you kids, they're putting fluoride in our water to control us!". |
bassman1805 | summonerschool | t5_2t9x3 | cnwju1f | So, this is the opposite of what you asked, but I'm gonna tell you what I, as a split pusher, want my team to do for me. So when you're getting pressured by a splitter, you can try to make the opposite happen.
So, I'm Udyr. I crave towers and inhibitors. I also don't know what this fabled "mid lane" is, only the side lanes and jungle. I see that bot lane is pushing close to the enemy tower, so I go and drop a couple wards in their bot jungle. If nobody is there, the other team just lost a tower. But I want more. I want 2 towers. And an Inhibitor. Unfortunately, if I just #yoloswag down the lane, the enemy team is gonna collapse on me. I can deal with any of them 1v1, some of them in a 2v1, but if I get totally collapsed on, I'm screwed. So, I need some teamwork.
Udyr: "Hey guys, can you engage on the other team just a little bit to keep them distracted?."
Veigar: "It's a 4v5, there's no way we can win that fight"
Udyr: "Don't try to win the fight. Just stall. If you keep them from going back for a little bit, I can almost guarantee an inhibitor."
I don't want a team fight. I don't trust my team for shit, hence playing a split pusher. I want Veigar to drop his stun box on anyone that runs away, I want Blitz to grab anyone casting recall. And I want all this to happen close enough to our own turret that they can run to safety if the enemies actually want to fight. Engage-disengage-engage-disengage. Just like juggling jungle aggro, but with Humans. They keep getting this close to getting a kill from the 4v5, so when they come out of the turret, they want to go in again. And again. And Again. Shit, where's our inhibitor?
All it takes is one person with waveclear to leave the fight, and I can't push anymore. I have no interest in tanking the turret without minions, so if someone shows up and procs stattik shiv to delete my whole wave, I'm done. I could 1v1 them if they got out from under the tower, but unless they're super squishy and have no CC, I can't do anything without risking a turret death. | Waveclear. Udyr, Jax, Trynd hate tower diving without minions. So remove the minions the minions. |
Leetwheats | news | t5_2qh3l | cnwcqc6 | Y'know, as easy as it is to hate cops, I feel this is pretty justified.
New Jersey cops have a record of being shitty concerning fire arm laws ; I remember one case a few years back concerning a man transporting his firearms legally and safely in the trunk of his car between states was pulled over in NJ and almost shot for it.
So, | yeah he shouldn't have gotten out of the vehicle but the reaction of the officers was both extreme and unwarranted. Fuck the cops in this scenario.
But hey, not that my opinion matters. |
TheIronMoose | sex | t5_2qh3p | cnygzao | Physical
Barring some form of past physical or emotional trauma, or desensitization from magic wands, the simplest solution with the highest likelihood of success ( according to me anyway) would be to take up kegels. This has several ways it can help you. One, it brings your focus in to yourself, your ladybits, and your pleasure, which is what you are trying to regain. two, it increases orgasm intensity and strength. 3 it breeds sensate focus, which is where you actually try to focus on what your are feeling, what feels good and makes you pay attention more to what you like and don't like, thus generating a more effective way to make yourself feel good. There are many ways to do this, and lots of instructional vids/articles.
[this]( may seem a bit goofy or extreme but according to my own theories its pretty solid. However this is for the upper end of this stuff. I feel like your situation could benefit most from simple clenching/unclenching exercises at least for a couple weeks before buying anything.
This lady seems to be pretty down on regular isometric kegels (done with no assistance just muscle resistance), which I don't agree with. Her methods my be a bit exaggerated but I don't doubt that she will have results.
essentially when men get this its just called ED, what happens is that we stop or never started the process of focusing on your own pleasure. Or controlling our own sexual experience, and as such develop almost no conscious control or interaction further breeding a numbing situation. If you don't use it, you lose it, as the old adage goes.
Mental
I read an older book called "The Venus Butterfly Method", which takes a really strong approach to sensate focus. That book feels that modern people get so caught up in their day to day life that they dont devote any real time to developing their sexual being. The shortened version of their suggestion would be to set some time aside ( between 20 min and an hour ) by yourself alone in your room, in a comfortable environment to just explore without the pressure of trying to reach an orgasm. Just try to focus on feeling good. They also suggest using a hand mirror to get a good look at yourself and the parts you cant normally see, and force yourself to compliment yourself. Just experiment and see what kind of stuff is fun to you. I would reccomend having some decent lube, some viewing material, and a couple toys to experiment with clean and ready so you dont have to get up and do anything mundane during this time.
Sorry if I rambled a bit I tend to let my hands run in front of my brains. | Take up kegels for the physical ; focus on your own needs by setting aside about an hours worth of "funtime" once or twice a week to figure out what your buttons are.
Again sorry for the long ass post, but I hope this helps. Please let me know what you think, any feedback is useful, and as I am not a doctor or obstetrician take this info with a grain of salt.
Good luck friend. |
Microwave_7 | sex | t5_2qh3p | cnx7trq | After reading all of this and feeling like I can't not say anything, I'm going to agree with MissRepresentation. Her point from what I understand, like the point of many women, is that men insult women, period. And then expect us not to take it seriously.
It doesn't matter what the intention was- "Oh, I thought it would be cute," or "It's just a joke;" it's the same with sexual harassment: all that matters is how the other person takes it. There is no such thing as "just a joke" when it comes to another person's body.
People make jokes about things when they think something is wrong, but can't think of an appropriate way to say it. Most women take these "jokes" to heart because we grew up hearing these "jokes" about our bodies daily.
Fortunately, men don't have the kinds of pressures women do to fit into ONE cookie-cutter image. Men get to be fat, hairy, have dicks/balls of all shapes; sizes; and placement- nobody ridicules a man for having "too much" chest hair. Nobody tells a man his penis looks like an inflated piece of spaghetti, a clown's piece of balloon art, a dead albino snake, or a hot dog that just went wrong; and if they did he would simply laugh it off.
Women do not laugh it off. We take it seriously, because it's not actually a joke. There is no such thing as "just a joke" when it comes to a woman's body. Not when you grow up hearing "jokes" about things you can't control.
Which, in retrospect, is probably what this is all about- making fun of things people can't control. | I got involved in something not about me. Don't make jokes about someone's body- especially things they can't control. Men, please stop telling women that we are wrong when we have feelings. |
AlleleNb | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cnxr69b | Heimerdinger is not a garbage champ at all. (I may be have some bias: own 3 skins, played him quite a bit). He can honestly win any matchup.
Laning phase is pretty easy, consists of zoning and farming with your turrets, stunning enemies that come in your turrets' range, and poking with your rockets.
Heim's ultimate is just amazing. There's something for almost any situation. Two or three enemies diving you? Ult+q+zhonyas (while in the range of your other turret's as well) and pick up a double or triple. Need to burst an enemy down from long range (stun) ult+w. Need to initiate a teamfight (or back off from a losing one)? Ult+e.
Peoples hate for heimerdinger probably come from playing against him. It's just really hard to go all in or gank a heim. There just not much you can do against him. If you play heimerdinger, just be prepared for being flamed by the enemy for just sitting back and letting your turret's do all the work for you. | Heimerdinger is base god. |
Italian_Barrel_Roll | news | t5_2qh3l | co2f3b9 | I'm saying anyone (not just the rich) who can plan for a child should be able to have one. You could pay off the entirety of a child's 18 year upbringing if you tuck away the average monthly cost into an investment account of raising a kid every month for the 7 years before conception and up until the child's birth. Too expensive?--Save for longer. Too long?--Save more and get there faster.
As far as the poor children who were born to selfish parents? There are plenty of ways to handle that. Make any benefit a loan rather than a handout and rehome the child if it isn't given the proper care, for instance. | Poor people aren't being excluded, people who are bad with money and financial decisions are. |
JimBobsHair | news | t5_2qh3l | co3uewz | I'm confused. Is your argument that the FBI would jump out of their chairs, stop everything their doing, to come arrest you that very instant? Because that's not what happens... not in the article and not to you.
The article was released YESTERDAY. So unless you want to give the FBI the ability to monitor EVERYTHING -- I'd suggest you chill out for a hot second and let them investigate.
If, what the article says is true -- and can be proven, shit will go down.
If it's sensationalist -- like the shit you and Reddit like to eat up -- and is found to be grossly exaggerated... then we probably won't ever hear about it again. | Don't get your panties in a knot. Calm down. Let them do their job. |
Fluffinho | nfl | t5_2qmg3 | co4xzsi | I suspect a lot of people in this thread are young and their only experience of parenting is from the child's perspective. | Thread full of childless rich people. |
IAmMakingAllOfThisUp | nfl | t5_2qmg3 | co5ddi9 | Whaaaat. This is far from ideal. And what the fuck was he thinking knocking her up 9 months before the Superbowl. Shoud've thought that out a little better. Little fucker. Thinking that being born on the most important day of the year is an acceptable practice.
Oh, shit. That'd be fucked up if Sherm skipped the game, watched his boy be born, and Brady scores the game winning touchdown on the right side of the field, then the kid grows up being viewed as the reason the Seahawks dynasty never finished finding it's place in history, and then mass depression causes the Pacific Northwest's economy to suffer terribly, while suicides increase and eventually riots and anarchy consume society like a kraken swallowing whatever it is that krakens eat. Scantily clad, muscly warriors, I guess. Don't go thinking you are off the hook east coast! The wave of post-apocalyptic chaos isn't going to be contained by the measly Rockie Mountain range. This is ...dumb. I'm done here. I'm boring myself. I guess I'll post this nonsense, since I took the time to type it, but I'm not going to proofread. That will just consume more time that I could be using to explain why I am ending this lame story abruptly. | I sure do hope that Mister Sherman's baby is born, ya know, any time that isn't a super bowl. I think that's a fairly reasonable request. |
PoppySiddal | science | t5_mouw | co6tywp | Please do get a booster if you are able. I was also vaccinated but I'm immune impaired like you are, so I got an MMR booster. I've now also had pertussis, pneumonia and flu shots.
Anyone who thinks whooping cough is anything like a cold is out of their tiny little mind. When I had whooping cough it felt like my body would not stop until it coughed both my lungs out. Couldn't breathe, talk or sleep. I wanted to die. | Please get vaccinated. |
itfiend | science | t5_mouw | co6uz6w | They find it impossible to admit that they were unlucky and their child had autism (if you even view autism this way), refuse to believe that there's no reason why it happened, have to blame something and vaccines have become a convenience scapegoat thanks to Andrew Wakefield, the researcher who suggested the link who was later thoroughly discredited. | People don't like to think things just happen, believe discredited research. |
bahhumbugger | science | t5_mouw | co6v25y | 911 truthers exist too, as do climate change deniers. He'll every religion ever requires you to believe stories without evidence. | it's human to be stupid. |
snazzychica2812 | science | t5_mouw | co6w8pv | I'm autistic, and have a degree and two teaching licenses, including special ed. I trained in ABA for autistic children. I (and many others) frequently argue against the anti-vax movement and try to show how offensive it is. People brush us off by saying things like "You're not REAL autistic, you're Asperger's. You don't speak for my child, only I know their brain well enough to do that."
Asperger's doesn't exist as a new diagnosis anymore. Check the DSM-V. It's considered to be autistic disorder, though probably one in a separate class of need.
Not only do I have a brain with the same disorder as this child, I also have a degree specializing in autism and related disabilities.
They may know their child's special little quirks, but I truly know what it's like to be autistic, both personally and professionally. | These guys are condescending cunts, and I flap my hands in their general direction. |
goldenboy2191 | tifu | t5_2to41 | co8xowz | Upvoted this for the | pun. |
Raencloud | wow | t5_2qio8 | co93n9a | Normal BRF (665) is intended to be the next step in progression from normal Highmaul (655). I think most normal HM PUGs set the standard at 640 for highmaul, so 650 is a reasonable figure for BRF.
What's "enough" is slightly different question. Heroic HM is tuned for high skilled players coming straight out of heroics (ilvl 630-640). Most PUGs ask for 650-660 depending on the bosses, but this is really to compensate for lack of coordination and uncertainty of player skill. I tanked through 6/7 heroic highmaul on my DK with sub-650 ilvl. | 651 is perfectly fine for normal mode BRF. It's also likely "enough" to tank heroic BRF (caveat: I don't know how much more difficult BRF is than highmaul), but you may have some challenge finding PUGs willing to take you at that ilvl. |
sophacles | tifu | t5_2to41 | cob1lhy | A couple years back, I hadn't run much for a few days, because of a conflation of new years, cold weather, and a bit of laziness. So I had to take this trip for work, and it involved a 12 hour airport hell travel route. Fortunately I had a book with me. Unfortunately it was "Born to Run". So all I could do for that 12 hours was think about running, and how I hadn't for a while, and because of the book, how awesome running is.
Oddly, it was very similar to going a while without pulling the pud - it was all I could think of.
So I finish my travel, get to the hotel and go to the workout room more or less immediately. I just started running. It was great. As I got into and the endorphins kicked in, I was feeling fantastic and, noticing all the mirrors decided to watch myself run to work on my form. This is where - being running high as fuck - I was so into paying attention to my form, that I for got to run forward. I started veering off to the side and steped half on/half off the moving rubber thing. I totally fell, and did the whole "fly off the back". Idiot me didn't put on the safety cutoff thing, so when i landed my shoulder was just getting torn off by the tread.
I realize I'm a moron, stand up, and start laughing. I hadn't realized how bad the 'mill rash' was, and just started running again and laughing. Look around a bit, and there's a woman there just looking horrified at me. I stop the treadmill and look at her like what? She says "your arm....".
I look over and it's just bleeding, pretty good, and it's not just blood, but the fun road rash ooze. I laugh even harder and she just nope's out of the workout room.
I clean up and just keep going. Apparently runner's high is just as much of a high as meth. | tell your kids about running, before someone else does. |
derreddit | tifu | t5_2to41 | cof5it4 | Just a filthy tourist and his personal experience,
i go there every other year since im 18 and stay for about a week. It was always a place that drew me in magically. I loved just being around and on the lookout for the small things most people miss just walking by.
The dynamics between different groups, drug dealers, pimps, prostitutes, hells angels and cops were just exciting to watch. But this was almost 10 years ago when you had to be more careful.
Btw. I had a great time in the hells angels bar by mistake. I desperatly needed to pee and asked the waiter for the toilet key. I am pretty tall and was a bit heavier than nowadays, almost bald and always wearing black. I didn't want to sound like a pussy in there so i asked for the key a little more insitently after he was shaking his head like he had no clue what i was talking about.
He grabed a key from under the counter and pointed up the stairs. I went up and opened the door and to my surprise there was no toilet but a backroom full of people in black leather playing pool, drinking and smoking weed. There wasn't a single pair of eyes not watching me as i stood there in utter confusion. But survival instinct kicked in pretty fast, silently closing the door and leaving wasn't an option. So i tried the only thing left: act like you belong there and give anyone eyeballin too hard a concerned but friendly smile. I located myself at the free table in a corner and by that time i knew i entered their comfort zone (you won't see a public place where smoking and drinking is allowed in the same room). Now i have to break the tension in the story a little bit. Except from the conversation with the waiter my girlfriend was right behind me and they probably knew that we posed no threat at all, were invited or whatever. We sat akwardly sipping from her beer (i wanted to smoke so bad but was afraid of getting kicked out knowing the fines for smoking weed in a bar) until the lady next table smiled and slid me her little bag of weed (not that there weren't so many lying around everywhere). Then we talked to her she told us what a beautiful couple we were and so on.
Ended playing pool, drinking beer and smoking weed in the backroom of a hells angels bar. Great night. | Ended playing pool, drinking beer and smoking weed in the backroom of a hells angels bar. Great night. |
JackCoull | tifu | t5_2to41 | cofdz8w | It's honestly pretty dull and not a fuck up
"TIFU by going to a sex show in Amsterdam
So me and a bunch of friends went to Amsterdam for the weekend. We had decided to hit up the red light district for a bit of fun, so we go to this sex show that we heard was good. We buy our tickets, get some drinks, and sit down pretty close to the front. The first act starts, and its this stripper who, after taking off most of her clothes doing ridiculous things, looks for someone in the crowd. She pointed to my friend sitting next to me, but he has a girlfriend and refused. I was next on the list. Unfortunately, I had no such excuse to allow me to escape. She sat me down on this chair on the main stage, and started by rubbing her ass all over me. Then she decides to step it up a notch and rips my shirt off really quickly. At this point, I was worried where this might be going, but I figured I'd stop it if it got too far. Anyways, she then tells me to lie down on the ground, and takes off the rest of her clothes. After some more pretty typical lapdance type stuff, she starts poking at my dick, which is fully flaccid at this point. I had no idea what was about to happen next. She pulls out a sharpie, uncaps it, and sticks it in her vag. Then she squatted over my chest and drew "Big Dick" on me with it. At this point, everyone in the place is cheering for me, and I'm worried she's about to try to get me to have sex, but she was done her act, and so I went back to my seat. The kicker? I'm gay and had 0 reaction to any of this. | Stripper picks the only gay guy in the building for live show and does weird shit to me." |
loveengineer | gaming | t5_2qh03 | cohn55q | I recently played Half-Life 2 coop via Synergy with a cousin, and while I really wanted to share the amazing story of the game, he was mainly focused on the fighting. At one point, he was asking me, "Why are we doing this?" and "Where are we going next?". | I couldn't find playmates who care about the story as much as I do. |
Bunkerlab | summonerschool | t5_2t9x3 | coi48vg | YES, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, YES. | yes pls. |
DrunkyMcKrankentroll | politics | t5_2cneq | cojvkef | My only question there is, post-apocalypse, are you gonna be a gold guy or a Bitcoin guy?" asked Arrington.
The fact that Paul completely misses the point of that question is all that needs to be said.
Gold has value in a functioning economy simply because it is both scarce and has cultural value.
Bitcoin is on the leading edge of that. It's scarce (i.e. finite) by design, and contemporary culture is lately assigning quite a lot of value to things that exist only digitally.
Neither one of them can actually sustain you in a global economic failure. You can't eat either one, you can't extract energy from gold or bitcoins, and when shit gets real then a pound of beef has real value where a pound of gold is just a pretty chunk of metal.
The only thing of real value is raw square footage of Earth's surface. And even then, a deed for land is just a piece of paper; you have to back it up with the willingness to use force. | Currency is an abstraction of value, whether it's gold or dollars or bitcoin. The fact that Paul favors one over the other indicates he just doesn't understand economics. |
dxspip | nfl | t5_2qmg3 | cokhs51 | Look up Expected Value and that should show you that its many times better for a team to go for it on say 4th & 2 at their opponents 40 yard line, as opposed to punting and most likely only netting a 20 yard punt. You have to have a really good punter to coffin corner on those plays, and teams just dont have that...
More often than not it is more advantageous to go for it on 4th and short as the potential point swings are larger and the yardage gain is minimal. | Every team should have a game theory coach on the sidelines providing analysis to these situations |
denvertebows15 | nfl | t5_2qmg3 | cokjr9k | Let's take a look at Peyton's playoff losses and see how many you could say he's a big reason why his team lost.
1999 - Colts lost to the Titans 19-16 in Manning's first playoff appearance. Manning went 19/42 for 227 yards 0 TDs 0 INTs and a passer rating of 62.3. He also rushed for a TD, however this was an abysmal first playoff outing by Manning. Inefficient at every turn you can blame Peyton for this one, but its his first outing so he gets a pass.
2000 - Colts lose to the Dolphins 23-17. Manning went 17/32 for 194 yards 1 TD 0 INTs and a passer rating of 82.0. An admirable showing by Manning in this playoff loss, but nothing to write home about. Not the reason they lost the game, but certainly wouldn't have been the reason they won it if they did.
2002 - Colts lose to the Jets in miserable fashion 41-0. Manning went 14/31 for 137 yards 0 TDs 2 INTs and a passer rating of 31.2. Absolutely abysmal performance by Manning.This one can fall on Manning's shoulders.
2003 - Colts lose to the Patriots 24-14. Manning went 23/47 for 237 yards 1 TD 4 INTs and a passer rating of 35.5. Turning the ball over 4 times is absolutely inexcusable, this one is on Manning.
2004 - Colts lose to the Patriots 20-3. Manning went 27/42 for 238 0 TDs 1 INT and a passer rating of 69.3. Not an astoundingly bad performance, but not a good one either. I think some of the blame for the loss can fall to Manning's shoulders on this one.
2005 - Colts lose to the Steelers 21-18. Manning went 22/38 for 290 yards 1 TD 0 INTs and a passer rating of 90.9. Manning played extremely well in this game and I don't see how he can shoulder any of the blame for this loss.
2007 - Colts lost to the Chargers 28-24. Manning went 33/48 for 402 yards 3 TDs 2 INTs and a passer rating of 97.7. Not a terribly bad performance by Manning statswise and the defense gave up two TDs to the Chargers back-up QB. But two extra possessions for the Chargers were huge in this so Manning and the defense have to share the blame.
2008 - Colts lose to the Chargers 23-17. Manning went 25/42 for 310 yards 1 TD 0 INTs and a passer rating of 90.4. Not a bad game by any stretch of the imagination, but looking at the highlights Manning gets sacked late deep in Colts territory allowing the Chargers to bring it to OT where they eventually win it. This is another one that's not completely on Manning, but he played a big part in the loss.
2009 - Colts lose to the Saints in the Super Bowl. Manning went 31/45 for 333 yards 1 TD 1 INT and a passer rating of 88.5. Again this isn't a poor game statwise, but that one pick that he threw was the backbreaking pick-6 late in the fourth as the Colts were trying to tie up the game. You've gotta put this one on Manning.
2010 - Colts lose to Jets 17-16. Manning went 18/26 for 225 yards 1 TD 0 INTs and a passer rating of 108.7. This playoff loss is in no way on Manning in my opinion. Special teams and defense blew this one for the Colts.
2012 - Broncos lose to the Ravens 38-35. Manning went 28/43 for 290 yards 3 TDs 2 INTs and a passer rating of 88.3. Again this doesn't look that bad statswise and everyone knows about Rahim Moore's monumental fuck up. However, lets not forget about how kick returner Trindon Holliday kept the Broncos in this game with his two return TDs. Peyton was buoyed by the special teams that day and he threw the game sealing pick in 2OT. In my mind Peyton and Rahim Moore split the blame equally that day.
2013 - Broncos lose to the Seahawks in the Super Bowl. Peyton went 34/49 for 280 yards 1 TD 2 INTs and a passer rating of 73.5. Peyton is not the sole one to blame in the thumping the Seahawks put on the Broncos, but he's definitely up there. Just a bad performance all around by the Broncos.
2014 - Broncos lose to the Colts 24-13. Manning went 26/46 for 211 yards 1 TD 0 INTs and passer rating of 75.5. It doesn't look too bad on paper, but if you watched the game Peyton was off all game long. I don't know if it was because he was playing through an injury or what, but he was painfully bad underthrowing and overthrowing like it was his job. This loss is definitely at least in some way Peyton's fault. | By my count there's at least 9 of Peyton's 13 playoff losses that you can make the argument that he is at least in some way partly to blame for the losses. |
BonJovisButtPlug | sex | t5_2qh3p | come0v1 | You are correct, a forceful anything does not by itself indicate sexual assault. However, you must put aside your biases (liking light aggression and being forceful with your partner) and consider the context of this relationship. He cannot masturbate without feeling shame. With that in mind, do you think that he would be into her, "pushing him towards the bed playfully and stroking on top of his pants and then aggressively opening them up?"
Read the post with the gender pronouns switched:
> So I have a girlfriend(F 20) and she's a little out of the ordinary. I'd like to say that I(M 19) am pretty normal when it comes to relationships and sex. I have an average-to-high sex-drive and she has the sex-drive that any normal girl would have. Like a lot of girls on /r/NoFap, she feels very guilty after fapping. But the weird part is that she feels super guilty after doing anything sexual too, even if it's with me, someone who it's okay to do things like that with. I didn't really think this was a big deal so far and I kept teasing her and flirting with her until we would do stuff. Keep in mind, we haven't had sex yet because she refuses to, but we've done everything else. There would be a couple of days where we would be very touchy-feely and flirty but then there would be weeks where she won't even let me kiss her properly. Even though this is very demotivating and frustrating, I can deal with it because I like her a lot and love spending time with her even if we don't mess around. Now, the first time I kind of forcefully fingered her and she told me to stop so I did, but then she told me to not stop so I kept going, she finished and then started regretting it a lot. She said that she was going to cut herself in the shower and I started crying and told her to not do it but she did it anyways. After she did it, I was extremely confused and shocked and didn't know what to do. I told her to not do it again and not to be like this because it hurt me a lot. She said that she'd try. Well, recently, I saw more cuts on her tummy and I just didn't know what to say to her so I kinda walked out and we haven't talked for a day. I just don't know what to do, I've never experienced this and I have no idea how to handle it.
> ; | Girlfriend feels guilty and sometimes cuts herself after we do anything sexual. How do I handle this?
You cannot tell me that the perception of this situation does not change when the roles are reversed. Ignoring that is disingenuous. It is similar to people who say, "I don't see color." Race exists, gender exists, it does nobody any benefit to ignore them when discussing these issues.
This is not about a gender war. This is about a very damaged man who needs help, not somebody chasing him around to have sex (whether oral or whatever). |
chaz91w | news | t5_2qh3l | coqkaf0 | I was active duty Army from 05-09. The most incompetent soldier I met was our 2nd Lieutenant. He was 21 and graduated early from college with a degree in Chinese anthropology. Like many, many, many, people who joined the Military during that time frame, he joined for the wrong reasons. He was never interested in being a leader, molding young soldiers into men, or even the Army in general, he was interested in getting his student loans paid off, thats it. And now, 10 years later this dirtbag is probably in a more important role, but instead of student loan repayment as his motivating factor, he is counting the days he can retire and be a manager of some home depot somewhere. And worse part of all is that unless he fucks up majorly, he is going to continue to be promoted as he continues to put in the years. | the army is riddled with people who joined when the incentives were great. Now they are stuck with a large group of soldiers not interested in being soldiers. |
sielingfan | news | t5_2qh3l | cor3uv4 | That shit happens. I was a 1LT fresh out of pilot school (with -- you'll never guess -- a Chinese anthropology degree, of sorts, from a goddamn academy ). Zero real military experience, let's be honest. My leg got busted up and long story short I couldn't fly, so they figured "Well, let's just put him in Stan Eval, you can do that sitting down." So it became my job to run all the goddamn paperwork for the whole training wing. I had 2 hours of on-the-job training, followed by six weeks in a hospital bed, and then straight into the bureaucracy (which is like the Air Force version of combat, I think). I was worse in StanEval than Johnny Manziel in the NFL. | butterbars are useless enough on our own, and they love to strategically position us to suck even harder. |
doktormabuse | worldnews | t5_2qh13 | coqpq7h | Most jurists of the classical era of Muslim scholarship opined that music is forbidden both by the Qur'an and by the Hadith. ignores this completely, to the great benefit and pleasure of millions. :-)
And even back in the "old days" mostly ignored this. That's how the West got stuff like the guitar, the bass drum, and quite possibly even the solfège musical notation (do, re, mi...)! | ISIS are idiotic assholes. |
nHenk-pas | worldnews | t5_2qh13 | cotc8ka | Dutch guy here: I love Italy, and am disgusted by what these scumbags have done. However, both the Dutch and Italian police have made mistakes here, the Italian police should have never allowed these hooligans into Rome itself, and the Dutch police / security agencies, should have warned Roma police they were coming in such great numbers.
Than again, I do not want to be accountable for these losers, they should pay for this, but they're probably on wellfare, so the Dutch tax-payer will pay the bill, which pisses me off. | Dutch guy, disgusted by these idiots, absolutely love Italy and Rome and hope these suckers will be punished as though as possible. |
TheLadyPainter | AskWomen | t5_2rxrw | coxap5z | Thank you for the reply. I personally know quite a few women who regretted it, and others who opted out completely for reasons similar to my own concerns. I have a lot of respect for them and their SOs for being able to reach some form of compromise that all sides were comfortable with.
I have thought long and hard about it and I've decided that I'd rather keep my SO than my name. We've decided that it will become my middle name and I will keep using it as a pen name. It's really the only thing that he has "put his foot down" about, so to speak, because it's not only important to him, but to his entire family. He's an amazing man and he would not be the same person without his heritage/cultural background. I'm willing to give up my name for him, no matter how much I dislike the idea, because the relationship we're building is more important than the emotional attachment I have to a collection of syllables associated with me. | There are two people in this relationship and sometimes we have to compromise. |
HedgehogBlowjob | relationships | t5_2qjvn | covfus5 | u/tweetypi is right. You need a plan of your own in place. I can tell you from very difficult experiences, you should never, EVER, move to another city unless you have a plan in place in which you will be perfectly fine and not out on your ass if the relationship goes sideways. What you SHOULD be doing, is just moving to her city INTO YOUR OWN PLACE.
I've done LDRs in the past. Learned a few things. People project romanticized versions of themselves when they can control others perceptions of them across great distances. People are a hell of a lot harder to get along with in person than over electronic mediums. People create romanticized versions of their LDR SO's in their heads due to lack of actual face to face contact. Moving in with someone you haven't spent much time around quickly reveals EVERYTHING about them that would irritate the ever living shit out of you. People get comfortable in the quiet solitude of LDR's over time, and moving in together so quickly disrupts that to a pretty large degree.
I could go on. | She is right to be weary, and so should you. |
A_600lb_Tunafish | Fitness | t5_2qhx4 | covu76b | First and foremost, that is a video of OP's max, and EVERY max will have some form degradation. If you have perfect form, you're not maxing out deadlift.
OP's lower back is rounding, that's bad, at 0:34 you can see his hips dip down and back a little bit, common error for conventional deadlift where most people struggle towards the top. If he's maxing out he should invest in a proper lifting belt and learn how to flex the abdominal wall outwards, that always helped me maintain a straight lower back.
One thing to remember though is rounding your upper back is [perfectly fine if you know what you're doing]( Many strong mother fuckers do it. That doesn't mean if your form is turning to shit at higher loads that your upper back rounding is necessarily a good thing, it means that keeping an entirely straight back isn't the "only correct" form. | deadlifts are tough. Also the sky is blue. |
GbZeKamikaze | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cozteds | Just wanted to jump on your point here, « personal » AP items mean little since Riot can tweak that Champion's ratios just to adapt to their taste (see Cassiopeia : she may have >9000 AP lategame but Riot specifically tweaked her ratios). It, however, is a question of whether they want that champion to synergize well or not with Rabaddon's Deathcap .
Edit : By that I mean... Let's say the Hextech Core gives 200 AP (it's 155 but I want easier numbers to compute). Riot wants Viktor's Death Ray to gain a ~150 damage powerspike (for whatever reason) when Viktor finishes his Hextech Core . Therefore, they will give it a 0.75 AP ratio (it's 0.7 currently). However ! They also want to reward Viktor for going glass canon (i.e. Rabaddon's Deathcap ), so they keep the +200 AP item but will probably decrease Death Ray ratio if the need arise.
Saying that « he's the only guy who can build more than 2 +120 AP items » would work only if every champion in the game was identical. If that argument was solid, it would indeed be a « Viktor is plain better » argument, which Riot seems pretty wanton to avoid (see Toplane Disaster and current Jungle issues), preferring « Viktor is better in that situation, filling that role » - for good reasons. | It gives Riot an additional lever (Personal AP Bonus) to push Viktor in a specific direction.
Edit 2 : My AP example sucks please don't throw rocks at me. |
WontLetMeTypeHangul | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cp5bcds | How I got over my toxicity:
A while ago, I was your average silver ADC Main, and I got pissed off A LOT. Eventually, I got so mad at the game, I gave up. I said "Instalocking Nidalee, every game, every lane" I stopped talking in chat and communicated only through pings. When I did talk, i would only say things like Nids quote's, or just put <3's when deserved. I generally never get mad at the game anymore and tend to play for fun alone. From Silver 1 to Plat 4, the climb has begun.
This obviously will not work for some people (or most people), but just what i did to get out of my toxicity. | Don't give AF |
toastyspongecake | relationships | t5_2qjvn | cp7eojl | Wait so is he your boyfriend or your EX boyfriend? Cuz your title says ex but your | says SO. |
blueragemage | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cpb16gv | TF W+ TF E+ Lich Bane.
His items were Rabadons Deathcap, Zhonyas Hourglass, Morellonomicon, Lich Bane, and Mejais (Likely 20 Stacks).
This means the gold card had a base damage of 175%xTF's base AD, with 175 Base Damage (He's level 17, assuming E max 3rd), and a 155% AP scaling.
Twisted Fate's base AD will be 102, giving him 102 Physical Damage, and 76 Magic Damage (Due to Lich Bane). TF's AP will be (assuming 21/X/X with all AP damage dealing masteries maxed out) 120+120+80+80+180+15+15+6 or 616, which multiplied by 1.43 is 880 AP. With a 155% AP Scaling, this equates to 1364 Damage.
Twisted Fates Total Damage right now is 1440 Magic Damage and 102 Physical Damage. With Havoc, its is now 1483.2 Magic Damage and 102 Physical Damage.
Yasuo has no MR (assuming he is not running MR runes), leading to him only having his 30 base MR. TF gets 28 effective MR on Yasuo after factoring masteries, and only 5 effective MR on Yasuo after factoring runes. That is basically 5% effective HP against TF's magic damage burst. Yasuo has 1416 HP (keep in mind Yasuo has taken some damage), with a 215 shield on passive. | TF has insane AP Scalings on-hit, and as long as Yasuo had taken around 170 damage, Yasuo would have been one shot. If yasuo had gotten a Q off on Janna, and lifestealed, he wouldnt have died in one gold card. |
MonkRome | tifu | t5_2to41 | cpbm6e3 | While keeping up with an ex you still like over the phone, txt, or e-mail sometimes works, seeing each other in person is never a good idea. It is not for the reason you think however, the main reason it does not work is that it is accomplishing the exact opposite of what you want. You want to keep dating her, but she does not. By staying with her you don't really show her what she is missing and she can drag this out until she is emotionally settled on someone else. When you make a clean break, walk away and start dating other people it has the added benefit of showing that person your value as a person. You will also enjoy dating other people whether you believe it now or not.
If you want to have any chance with this girl you need to walk away as quickly as possible and move on with your life. If you are lucky she will miss you and want you back once you have moved on, but it's probably too late for that. If you find someone else you might not want to get back with her anyway, and she probably already looks down on you because you stuck around instead of walking away. When you don't make that clean break it creates an unequal power relationship which will change how the other person sees you. Source: I took this advise years ago and have been happily married for 3 and a half years to the girl that broke it off with me. Immediately moved on with my life and started dating again, we kept in touch and when we both realized what we left behind it was much easier to start over. Been together 9 years in total and 7 since the breakup. | Sticking around actually accomplishes the exact opposite of what you want. |
smoakleyyy | summonerschool | t5_2t9x3 | cpbospd | I am lvling an account on LAN. I had saved up 6800ish ip and it got me almost a full set of runes. You will want at least a standard ad/ap rune page as they really help for early trades and csing.
You can get flat/scaling mr blues and either health or armor yellows and use for both pages, magic pen reds for ap and physical damage reds for ad. Ap quints and ad or attack speed quints.
I'm sure someone has done the math on the ip you would need to get a complete set. | I suggest runes first. |
Delicious_Noob | tifu | t5_2to41 | cpejio2 | Eight years ago my father found a wallet on the street with $6000 cash in it with cards and all. It belongs to a man in his mid 20s from the same lower socio-economic suburb of Australia like ourselves. My farther decided to return it with all its contents but after hearing the story behind this you will understand why he probably regrets it.
Upon looking at the mans ID and the circumstances in which the wallet was found i urged my father to keep the money as the man in my judgement was almost definitely a drug dealer and we needed the money.
My father being the good man that he is with a poor refugee background disagreed with me and said the man probably withdrew the money to buy furniture and had he lost his wallet he would want someone to return it as well.
My father then found the man's address and after confirming that it was in fact him on the ID my farther gave the man his wallet with the money at his house. The man after counting the money in front of my father pocketed the wallet then began aggressively threatening my farther and fuming at the mouth and threatened to call the police if my father doesn't leave the property immediately.
My father didn't even get thanked. | My father finds $6000 AUD, tries to return it, the owner he returned it to takes the wallet, doesn't thank my father but instead threatens my father. That is what being good gets you. |
Snarfler | worldnews | t5_2qh13 | cpfeyqn | objectively it's either that or Average Canadian supports the bill.
You can't really just assume since there wasn't much of a response that everyone does/would agree with your point of view.
Analogy time. Let's say we have a country where 75% of the population supports keeping the owning of sharks illegal. And the government passes a bill saying that they are going to keep owning sharks illegal. 0.2% of the population (that would be the same as 100,000 Canadians compared to their entire population) decides to protest this bill. One of these Canadians is in support of this bill. So he goes onto a website and says:
> Lackluster response to criminal bill: Average Canadian apathetic and uninformed at best.
Because he just assumes that if everyone was properly informed they would agree with him. | don't claim an entire nation is apathetic and uniformed because YOU didn't get a response YOU wanted. |
makeplayz | nfl | t5_2qmg3 | cpfrij5 | Big Ben is better than both, and stats even show it. He has just as many rings as Eli, yet his TD/INT Ratio is better, he has a higher completion percentage, he's taken way less sacks and has more wins in the regular season. Big Ben has never really been known for his passing skills. He's always been deemed a hand it off, control the pace of the game and let the defense keep us in the game if need be. But when needed, he makes the drive successful and makes the throws necessary to do so, i.e. Super Bowl 43. I've always said I'd take Big Ben in crunch time over Peyton. Rivers deserves no recognition for HoF talk.
Eli needs to play lights out and inflate his stats for a few years or get another SB win before he should be considered. His play gives the perception that his SBs were luck, amazing supporting cast, or whatever counterargument you can provide. He's never had flashy numbers and he's always in the mix for league leader in interceptions thrown and turnovers. Im just not sold on Eli. I do admit his throw on the corner to Cruz (correct me if im wrong, I just vividly remember the throw) was money. Amazing throw. I give him props for that. But other than that throw, his career to me is iffy. In my eyes, that is the only thing he's done that ever mattered or had drastic ramifications. If he can get one more I say he gets in. Otherwise, he'll just get in because his name is "Manning." | Big Ben, first ballot; Eli will get in because of his last name; Rivers deserves no consideration, yet. |
Silidon | politics | t5_2cneq | cpigng4 | Yes, in GBW's second term there was an increase to the federal minimum wage under the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007. Jeb Bush now wants to eliminate that federal minimum wage and leave it up to states. If that happens, states with lower or no minimum wage (Louisiana Alabama Mississippi Tennessee and South Carolina currently have none) will attract far more jobs from states which maintain a livable minimum wage. In order to get these jobs back, the other states will have to drop minimum wage to compete with them, leading to an overall reduction of wages for everyone. | Your argument is stupid because Jeb is proposing exactly the opposite of what happened under W. |
ten24 | politics | t5_2cneq | cpih2la | The harm is that we're spending too much time arguing that the minimum wage in NYC needs to be high, while someone else argues that value is too high for someone in Kansas.
Yes. Both people are probably right. The cost of living varies too widely for a federal minimum to be a valid solution to anyone's problem.
Stop trying to set a federal minimum that makes sense for both NYC and Kansas. Any value set for both is going to either be too high for one locality, or too low for the other. It makes for great political talking points and plenty of distractions from relevant federal issues.
A federal minimum wage is about as worthless as a federal standard for the number of lanes on a road. Let local problem be met with local solutions. The federal government should spend their time focussing on federal problems. | Opportunity cost is the harm in leaving it be. |