It’s just the only one that I can imagine a physicist or engineer would be proud of.

To be fair they’re physicists, not English majors

It’s not what we want to hear though.

We gotta stop nitpicking when individual, calculated political responses for the general public aren’t as radical as we aspire to be. Leftists need to learn to stop looking gift horses in the mouth and take the W.

I feel like it’s all gotta be from #8 right? It makes it pretty easy to get >0 legitimately, seems like it would be hard for anyone working on black holes to not have a double digit score from that alone.

Though I could see some cheeky positive values from #13, assuming the theory is a well established one, Randi style. (Or #20 for the typo)

I’m not unhealthy, they’re educated stupid.

It can also be a mismatch in expectations about first messages.

Especially since each match is with a different person with their own internal gauge of what a first message looks like. Too long and too short are both subjective and vary from match to match. The same message might be too long and desperate for one match, and too short and disinterested for another. You’re inherently making judgement calls and rolling the dice.

There’s also the fact that it incentivizes crime. If you commit a crime for which the punishment is death, you might as well do even more crimes to not get caught. Killed a guy? Might as well kill any potential witnesses too, it’s not like they can kill you twice. When you’ve maxed out the punishment, any more crimes are freebies.

Based on context I assume they mean in regard to setting and broad strokes mechanics

Sport shooting looks like it could be a valid workaround, plus actually sport shooting is great training. Things are bad here but I can’t say I envy Germany right now.

Thanks. To be fair, aside from the pacifism if you look at my other interests and hobbies I should be a gun guy, so it’s been a begrudgingly pleasant transition.

I’m circumcised but against it on principle,and had roughly the same concerns as you in thinking about future sons. This thread is doing a lot to assuage my concerns.

There’s a cost-benefit calculation to be done. If you’re the only armed dissident, it’s basically suicide by cop. There’s a critical mass necessary to mount an offensive.

Also, a good chunk of the 2A zealots are cool with what’s happening. They don’t feel oppressed.

The ones being oppressed are the ones who generally didn’t like the weapons. I know, I was one of them.

I’ve switched to GURPS because the mechanics aren’t so combat-focused, but it has interesting combat mechanics too. A lot of people think it’s too complicated, but I’ve always started off super simple and slow-dripped additional mechanics as players get comfortable with the system and start actively looking for more crunch.

I do think it balances the super involved, tactical combat well by making rounds much shorter. Instead of 6 second rounds with Action, Reaction, Bonus Action, Movement, you have 1 second rounds that give you a single Action. There are ways to squeeze in a bit more on your turn, but it comes with trade-offs, like sacrificing active defense.

Active defense is also a great mechanic. Instead of just swinging at an AC, the defender actually gets an opportunity to Parry, Block, or Dodge. This means a lot less damage gets done every round, but that’s balanced by having way fewer Hit Points. I always thought people chipping away at each other’s mountains of HP until one dies to be kinda boring and unrealistic. In real fights, it’s generally a back and forth of attack and defense until an attack finally gets through and does significant damage.

And I won’t really get into all the details of the many different maneuvers available to you, or the techniques you can train. I’ll just say that it’s extremely tactical and provides for suspenseful combat with real stakes.

I’m assuming OP is a man matching with women, and that’s always been pretty typical for women.

Sometimes you match while swiping absent-mindedly, and lose interest on a second look.

Sometimes you hit it off with someone else first.

Sometimes you just have so many matches that some of them fall through the cracks and get buried.

I’m going to guess that you do not have a lot of matches, so each one feels precious. But it’s likely that your match has dozens, if not hundreds, of matches themselves.

Crafting a message that comes off as interesting without seeming desperate is a very delicate skill, and even if you nail it you can still get overlooked. That’s life.

Dating apps are largely a numbers game. You’ve just got to tune your profile and try not to be too picky yourself. Most of your matches are going to go nowhere, and you can’t let that bog you down.

That I’ve heard of? I’m gonna count that guy who commissioned fanart of women buying way too much Wonderbread and destroying rainforests.

Thinking about that guy, he’s probably having the time of his life with AI image generators.

Wow, shoe-on-head takes me back.

Oh boy, this is actually the perfect example.

In The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the titular character speaks at length of the peculiar hobbies and obsessions people have, which he calls “hobby horses”. He even coins the term “hobby-horsical” to describe the concept.

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Basically, I encountered a conscious entity, or perhaps multiple, that definitely wasn’t me. I was confronted with two possibilities: either I was communing with some external intelligence, or there was much more than just me inside my head.

Long story short, I started really dedicating a lot of thought to the problem of consciousness, and found myself with two possible explanations:

1. Consciousness is an emergent property of complex interconnected systems.

2. Consciousness is a fundamental property of the universe, which is just particularly sophisticated in complex interconnected systems.

If 1, it would be silly to assume the universe, as the most complex interconnected system we know of, would not develop some vast alien form of consciousness, which we might as well call “God”. If 2, then the consciousness “field” might as well be called “God”.