u/Xirdus

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Xirdus

Funny thing. Me and my wife got engaged and moved in together after just 2 months. A few weeks before that, she was shocked that I thought we were in a relationship. We did discuss adoption before getting engaged. And I was driving a brand new Subaru back then. But we're a straight couple.

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According to my biology textbook, dense brush is even more than 8 grams.

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I think the three junctions on the right are wrong way up. Rotate them 90 degrees.

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It's been obvious he was bullshit artist that didn't know anything for at least 15 years. Even in early Tesla days, most of what he said about those cars were bold faced lies. He contributed absolutely nothing whatsoever to SpaceX except money, but he kept publicly roleplaying this high tech visionary. The Hyperloop didn't make any sense whatsoever, physical or otherwise, but he was talking about it like it's just a few years away. And so on and so forth. But he was loved by the media and by the internet so people were willfully blind to all of that and called him a real life Tony Stark. Then he bought Twitter and, like a flip of a switch, these same people started hating him to the bone all at once.

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According to my physics textbook, even a tiny branch will make 7.62x39 start tumblimg and the accuracy and penetration goes to shit. 8 grams is just as insufficient as 4 grams to shoot through obstacles.

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Only 6 (soon to be 9) of 50 US states require proof of citizenship. The other 44 rely on self-declaration, usually as part of renewing driver's license that's done every ~4 years or on address change. Often it's just a single checkbox/button "do you want to register for voting? yes/no", and you must infer that clicking yes/ticking the box is only allowed if you're a citizen.

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Heavy+slow will make it through dense brush

Citation needed.

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Funny thing, it's basically 1 to 1 translation of a very common Polish word for an annoying child, "gówniarz". Everyone uses it all the time, going back at least 5 generations.

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Strictly speaking, Betteridge's law of headlines only applies in the situations where, if the answer was yes, there would've been no question mark.

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He was desperate to give her any excuse at all, no matter how unlikely. And then she did something there was absolutely no excuse for no matter how you look at it. That forced him to acknowledge his wife is actually an evil person. And then he realized he's been played for a fool all this time, and all the previous excuses he made for her were all lies.

He wasn't angry for this one incident. He was angry for all incidents throughout the 8 months they lived together, all at once.

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I have a LinkedIn account specifically for the purpose of appeasing recruiters who want a LinkedIn account.

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Even if the friend is the same gender and definitely not romancing, it can still be an issue. When push comes to shove, some serious conflict happens and your friend will stop being your friend unless you separate - are you going to stand with your friend or with your spouse? Is your spouse going to stand with you or with their friend? Do you even want this to be a question at all? Wouldn't you rather build your life with someone where there's no question you're their number one, not just romantically but in everything?

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Not having cash should not be an excuse to ignore data security. If you can't safely store sensitive data, then don't store sensitive data. Don't do things that require you to store sensitive data. Nothing will ever get better if people get a free pass to ignore all safety rules as long as they say "but my org doesn't have money".

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Nobody opens male only gyms because it's extremely likely they'd be ruled illegal discrimination.

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They're not useless, you just have to learn how to read them. Step 1: ignore the middle 99% of the error message. Step 2: the error is actually in the line before the one compiler complains about.

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Based and Mike Ross pilled.

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Scanning drives is not in the Hard Drive Library tab. It's in the left tab (Molecular Analysis Machine), together with all the research trees, at the very top above all other categories (labeled Hard Drives).

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Most of the warnings about bears at Yellowstone National Park involve not letting them get human food.

They even made a whole cartoon show on this subject!

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The funny thing is they probably pay less taxes than you and me.

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SUCKING YOUR TOES NONCONSENUALLY 

New flair just dropped!

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OOP: where is your dress?

OOP's ex's affair partner's wife: what is this dress?

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She broke up... with a husband? I don't think I've ever seen these words used in a marriage.

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Oh, a cosplayer. Figures.

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So some public displays of violence (live streams) normalize violence in the community, but other public displays of violence (videos) don't? What kind of logic is that?

(Auth-center logic, of course.)

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I knew it was some kind of censorship thing. You want violent movies to be banned, and by extension violent live streams as well.