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EdgarJPublius

I used to have literal nightmares about volcanic vents opening in my neighborhood/bedroom Given your surfer avatar (taken from another webcomic) ... I'm pretty sure my fear of suburban volcanoes actually stems from reading "Hill of Fire" in elementary school, and watching the Reading Rain...

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I used to have literal nightmares about volcanic vents opening in my neighborhood/bedroom

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Something made me think of this cyberpunk-ish sourcemod I remember hearing about a while back. the story had something to do with a girl/woman with pyrokinetic abilities, possibly the main character? I'm just wondering if that rings a bell for anybody. So, funny story. I was spring cleaning my hard...

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People on the local subreddit have been comparing the bombings to the DC sniper situation back in 2002, with the 'pattern' essentially being random, and so far no claims of responsibility or manifestos. A trip-wire set beside a public road seems pretty indiscriminate compared to package bombs set in...

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I also avoid checking baggage because the bag check-in process takes time and means you have to get to the airport even earlier than you already should to account for security and such. And on top of that, your checked bags are subject to the depredations of the baggage handlers and may be damaged, ...

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I though the first bomb Monday might have been a copycat, but two on the same day makes me think the one on the 2nd being a test is more likely. If it *is* racially motivated, might turn out that the first victim had some connection to the bomber and then they moved on to neighbors with denser minor...

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Kind of surreal to see my home town getting this kind of attention. I remember four years ago during SXSW someone crashed a car into a crowd downtown and got a similar level of attention. That turned out to just be a drunk idiot trying to escape police in a stolen car though. I expect this also has ...

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Because that's my favorite MCU movie so far, with Black Panther and Thor: Ragnarok tied for a close 2nd&3rd. I didn't find it so fantastic that I would actively seek it out to watch it again, but the first Iron Man keeps standing out in my mind. I like how it shows that maybe all this gee-whiz ...

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Does Spiderman Homecoming count? I guess it's more "Actually, your girlfriend's dad is a jerk" Because that's my favorite MCU movie so far, with Black Panther and Thor: Ragnarok tied for a close 2nd&3rd. I dunno how I feel about GotG2 I think I'm significantly cooler on the Gua...

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Did you forget to include links to any of these 'sources' you say you found? I looked extra hard for any, just to be sure I didn't miss one. You see, I understand exactly how annoying it can be to link sources backing your claims that are subsequently ignored, and I wanted to make sure I wasn't cont...

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My impression was that Wakanda just didn't let outsiders in, even to the rural parts, except possibly in rare, controlled circumstances. If that's the case, then the disguise wouldn't have to bear much close scrutiny. Their immediate neighbors probably have some idea that there's something weird goi...

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The Mythbusters did at least one episode addressing this and found a method that seemed to be faster than any of the standards. My personal feeling is that it doesn't matter much, I don't think the boarding procedure is usually a bottleneck in getting the plane moving (perhaps for very large aircraf...

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Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore my...

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A thought I had is that many schools have PA systems with two-way intercoms in each classroom. I wonder how difficult it would be to retrofit such a system to be capable of discerning gunshots. Triangulation would be unnecessary in that case, it'd be trivial to localize a shot to the closest interco...

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chen's comment on fire alarms being linked to detection systems made me think about having this 'police alarm' linked a gunshot detection system. Researching whether such a system would be effective for interior spaces such as a school building, I learned that this is apparently already a thing: htt...

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The majority of suicides occur while under the influence of alcohol and/or benzo...thing. Suicides themselves are more of a spur of the moment thing rather than planned, though planned ones do happen. So, do you plan to restrict alcohol and benzothingies more than they already are? No more than I p...

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edit: it'd probably also be good if more people were able to recognize other human beings as people and not fantasy caricatures... Well, that actually took longer than i thought it would... Honestly, I don't really give two shits about arming teachers. I don't buy into the FUD, but neither do I thi...

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Teachers can already be armed in many U.S. jurisdictions. As far as I know it hasn't caused any of the problems described.

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Observation (not complaint), minor spoiler: Shuri gave T'Challa those silent shoes but they never came into play. I don't mind it but usually you expect the gadgets the hero receives to be used throughout the movie. I was definitely expecting it to come into play during the climatic battle ...

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I had a thought regarding Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy this morning. I dunno if this is a particularly novel or interesting thought, but I hadn't considered it before. Given what is known about the powers and capabilities of the Infinite Improbability Drive, is it possible that Magrathea never ex...

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Those kids need help regardless of whether or not they might one day shoot up a school or whatever. They don't need to be 'monitored' by authorities, or locked up or anything, they need to see a counselor, a therapist or a psychiatrist/psychologist. edit: it'd probably also be good if more people w...

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To get back on topic, Trump Says Classmates Knew Florida Shooting Suspect 'Was a Big Problem' and Should Have Reported Him Trump says: “So many signs that the Florida shooter was mentally disturbed, even expelled from school for bad and erratic behavior. Neighbors and classmates knew he was a big p...

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To another country or to a different state? Between states, it's not financially or physically difficult, just emotionally. Between countries, well, that's much more difficult. the ability to make this statement at all is a marker of a level of financial privilege that the majority of this country ...

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CorruptUser wrote:
EdgarJPublius wrote:I would not call the U.S. current social safety net 'robust'. It's not even much of a 'safety-net', more like a nigh-inescapable slough of despond.

It's working more or less as our politicians intended.

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Other benefits (such as access to a healthy and educated workforce and consumer base provided by a robust social safety net) could outweigh the costs. So... basically Walmart and slumlords? Because that's where the money from foodstamps and housing assistance actually ends up. I'm more of the philo...

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'Wealthy' potential immigrants aren't going to choose whether or not to move to a country solely based on whether or not they're going to be required to pay into social programs they may not directly benefit from. Other benefits (such as access to a healthy and educated workforce and consumer base p...

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Eh, Altered Carbon was by far my least favorite of the Takeshi Kovacs books. They toned down or avoided the most gratuitously violent parts of the book for the show. I don't think It's as graphic as the earlier seasons of GoT. I'm fine with it being toned down from the book though, I almost put the ...

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Hmm, like some sort of Voyager/Sliders mashup where the Discovery keeps jumping to different alternate realities via the Fungus network? That could be pretty interesting. I've been wondering if the first half of the season was a bit of a long-con and the rest of the show is gonna be Discovery trappe...

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Isn't the recidivism rate for sex-offenders generally much lower than the average of other classifications of offenders?

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I am 1000% on board with this Mirror Universe arc

edit: 10,000%

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I'm actually not sure whether I would prefer the system to be able to easily handle custom messages or not. It seems to me that would increase the potential harm of malicious misuse of the emergency alert system. The message size limit of SMS makes it a poor medium for conveying potentially complex ...

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Disney is going to milk this franchise for all they can get. As far as I know, episodes VII, VIII and IX are supposed to be a discrete trilogy, but I have no doubt there will be episodes X-∞ in addition to the 'Star Wars Stories' like Rogue One and the upcoming Han Solo movie, and more TV shows, com...

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Snoke's honor guard can't be the Knights of Ren? Also, It was stated multiple times, I think across both movies but definitely in TLJ, that when Kylo left Luke's new Jedi Academy he took some number of the other students with him, and those students became the Knights of Ren. i'd like t...

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I thought the red dudes were the other students who left with Kylo Ren after he murdered the ones who didn't join him? That was my impression also. If the red dudes aren't the 'Knights of Ren' then where are the Knights and what have they been up to this whole time? I don't know...

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Angua wrote:
Spoiler:
I thought the red dudes were the other students who left with Kylo Ren after he murdered the ones who didn't join him?

That was my impression also.

Spoiler:

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It's now possible to buy the DLC for ME2 and 3 in bundles on Origin without having to buy any of biowares monopoly money.

Why the DLC wasn't already included in the Trilogy bundle a while back, or hasn't been included in some kind of GOTY edition yet is beyond me.

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1. I think stories should be allowed to be told across multiple mediums. And especially as it pertains to Disney'Marvel's marquee franchises that have been doing this stuff for like ten years now, it may be a little out of touch to expect all the background information to be conveyed on screen. Eh....

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So, in Bullshit, what are the rules around announcing a different number of cards than what you actually lay down? For example, announcing 'Two jacks' but actually laying down four-five cards in a stack with two jacks on top? Because I do that shit all the time when playing Bullshit. I don't cheat a...

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A couple things: 1. I think stories should be allowed to be told across multiple mediums. And especially as it pertains to Disney'Marvel's marquee franchises that have been doing this stuff for like ten years now, it may be a little out of touch to expect all the background information to be conveye...

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I liked it. Having had some time (a year for Roue One and two for TFA) to reflect, TFA has grown on me and I think that the 'It's just a remake of Episode IV) complaints are overblown. it has a completely different dramatic structure and you can't easily draw parallels between the characters. The si...

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