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Wolfenstein®: The Old Blood Grammar-Nazi Nazi

xxovercastxx says...

I was worried (because I'm crazy) that it would be ruined if you knew German (which I don't) because the words would be too different to be confused, but it seems "laying" and "lying" are "legen" and "liegen" (per Google Translate).

Why do competitors open their stores next to one another?

xxovercastxx says...

The theory can still work, though. Rather than relocating a cart, imagine it's a new restaurant opening. That new restaurant sucks up a lot of the business of one of the prior restaurants. The prior restaurant goes out of business and the cycle starts again, repeating until there are no better locations to open new restaurants.

Shepppard said:

...This is a terrible explanation, You're comparing two guys with movable carts to buildings, which are.. slightly harder to move.

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How fracking works

xxovercastxx says...

I'm not endorsing the practice but I will point out that doing it is the only way we'll discover the long term results.

All I'm trying to say is that once something gets tied up in politics, it's near impossible to learn about it. Once it's political, lines are drawn and people take sides and you're either a shill or a hippie.

I'm from a small town in upstate NY in an area where fracking was to really take root. Fortunately (?) it's just been banned. I would have liked to know what the risks are and their likelihood, at least to the best of our knowledge. I'm sure there are people out there who have this information, but I have no way to identify them.

The shills say it's very safe, but I don't trust them at all. The hippies say it's going to kill us all, but they say the same thing about GMOs. I'm sure the truth lies somewhere in the middle, but few people are offering nuanced opinions and I can't assume they're correct just because they are.

I have no way of knowing what's true and what's not and it pisses me off a bit.

dannym3141 said:

I rather feel that that puts the argument in a skewed light. Essentially, we are either in full awareness of the facts and long term results of fracking or we are not. If we are not yet, why on earth would we pursue it now? We have alternative forms of energy production, it's just a whole bunch of very rich people aren't quite done selling us oil yet.

How fracking works

xxovercastxx says...

*controversy

Unfortunately fracking has become politicized and so there are no longer any sources of information that can be expected to be honest. It is now just another dichotomy: A completely safe method of resource collection, or a WMD disguised as such.

What $1000 In Rent Will Get You In Various US Cities

xxovercastxx says...

St Louis is comparable and there are lots of jobs and no Ohios.

My place there 3 years ago was $530/mo for ~700 sq ft. It took me 7 days of work to pay all my bills for the month.

If I knew I was going to end up in NJ, I would have stayed here.

RFlagg said:

A $1000 a month? My last apartment was 2 bedrooms and one bath. Not sure the square footage, but it was decent enough. $450 or so a month. Canton, Ohio area people, come. There's no jobs here, and it's Ohio, so that sucks, but rent is cheap .

The Origin Of Starboard And Port

xxovercastxx says...

Sloppy in the sense that it means the same thing as 'oriented' but with extra letters, and those extra letters don't give it any extra aesthetic appeal, IMO.

It seems @artician may have been correct. This may be a non-word that saw such wide-spread use that it was legitimized, like irregardless.

FlowersInHisHair said:

"Sloppy"? How so? It's just a word. No need for the value judgement.

The Origin Of Starboard And Port

The REAL Reason You're Circumcised

The REAL Reason You're Circumcised

xxovercastxx says...

Were you circumcised later in life so you are able to compare sex before and after? If not, then no, you can't say that.

nanrod said:

Accordingly myself and three brothers were all cut and for myself I can say that my sex life has not suffered as a result.

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5 Gun Myths We Believe b/c of Movies

xxovercastxx says...

I'm not discounting the rest of your post but, since we're correcting misconceptions, yes, metal does burn, just very slowly.

In the case of a gun barrel, I would imagine the only realistic threat from heat would be that it would warp and misfire, but I'm only guessing.

Drachen_Jager said:

(and metal doesn't burn morons)

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