bethorien

bethorien


Just a random chick with too many problems and too few solutions

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Say what you will about pleague inc 2 comments
bethorien · 3 years ago
I’m honestly surprised they never made that mode before the pandemic, in strategy games like that it’s a fairly common mode to play the team that is normally the opposition.
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Those white knights are calling 5 comments
bethorien · 3 years ago
Anything slightly negative towards any female
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This women was asked to cover up while breastfeeding her baby. This was her response 25 comments
bethorien · 3 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlWQ2YLO5To
here's a youtuber that claims to be a licensed lawyer in Arizona. From what she says, in Arizona nipple only coverings would be sufficient in Arizona but other states specifically call out the need for covering the lower half the boobs as well which is odd to me with the whole "exposed underboob" trend that comes and goes occasionally when some bit of fashion uses it.
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This women was asked to cover up while breastfeeding her baby. This was her response 25 comments
bethorien · 3 years ago
i mean you say that, a woman walking around wearing only plastered circles over her nipples as a top would likely get hit with indecent exposure in more strict parts of states that havent yet added a "if men are allowed women are allowed" law yet
Yeah I got home protection 5 comments
bethorien · 3 years ago
just for reference, it doesnt take much for a human to bleed what will look like a lot, that amount of blood probably wont even be noticed as missing consciously or otherwise by the intruder unless he's got an underlying issue excepting for the pain at the wound itself.
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Just tourism things 5 comments
bethorien · 3 years ago
Another fun fact about the civil war and native tribes, there are recorded instances of entirely native military units refusing orders from confederate top brass to attack groups of other natives that sided with the union as they only had issue with the union, not the other tribes and didn't want to attack other people in the same situation as them relative to the people they joined the war to get free of.
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Just tourism things 5 comments
bethorien · 3 years ago
:D thanks for thinking of me friend!
ye this isnt that weird. Many native tribes sided with the confederacy. It was actually rather common for native tribes to be treated more humanely and more like equals as humans by confederate go-between folk than with union feds assigned to deal with the "native issue."
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It’s the fact that hamburger helper clapped back for me 3 comments
bethorien · 3 years ago
ok, having found the tweet in question, its apparently just how twitter shows that the helper's message is replying to the top most tweet, I'm disappointed
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It’s the fact that hamburger helper clapped back for me 3 comments
bethorien · 3 years ago
well now i wanna know what status they dredged up to hit him with for that
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Communism 6 comments
bethorien · 3 years ago
ah yes, then please do summarize my point in one sentence without losing any detail or context for any of the request information for said point as well as keeping said sentence entirely faithful to the original concept, such that you could read the "summarized sentence" without having known that the comment i posted existed and still have communicated to you the full information.
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Communism 6 comments
bethorien · 3 years ago
when it comes to whether a given instance of piracy that a hypothetical person considering the act of piracy might commit is an instance of piracy that is harmful to the creator of the content, it entirely depends on the specifics of person committing the piracy. have that hypothetical person think to themselves "would i be willing to pay for this if the only way i could access it was to pay."
if the answer to that question is yes then that specific instance of piracy is harming the creator of the thing being pirated as, if that piracy wasnt an option, the creator would be getting paid for that instance of their work being used, if the answer is no then the instance of piracy doesn't directly lower potential income of the creator as the person who commited piracy wouldnt have paid if they couldnt pirate it.
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Working class hero 11 comments
bethorien · 3 years ago
its not a contradiction. It would be a contradiction if it said "there is no one that pirates that would be willing to pay if the only way to pirate was to put in a moderate amount of effort."
the entire point of the whole shebang in the first common that i wrote is that its only the majority, its not 100% of people that pirate. These kinds of measures put those "potential customers that are the minority" into a situation of "pay or not access without putting in effort."
Another analogy to put it up against, its like the extreme vast majority of political campaigning. basically none of their effort is going towards changing the actions of people who are going to do a given thing no matter what you do, its going to change the acts of the extreme minority that doesn't have a per-determined action, in the case of political campaigning its getting inbetweeners and anyone that isnt a hardline democat or republican that always votes party loyalty.
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Working class hero 11 comments
bethorien · 3 years ago
It's the same principle as putting a lock on something in a moderately accessible to the public space. The lock isnt there to actually stop someone motivated and determined to steal your shit. It's there to stop the vast majority of the rest of people that see the lock and keep going. it's there to stop the people that would be willing to steal it or in this case pirate it if it took no effort or thought but arent willing to put literally even the tiniest bit of effort into it. That's the vast majority of people that give a shit enough about sharing content to people looking for pirated stuff especially in cases like onlyfans where the person had to pay money to get in rather than the physical item like a bike where its an opportunity to take something at no cost to yourself rather than an opportunity to pay money to give other people free stuff taht would have cost them money.
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Working class hero 11 comments
bethorien · 3 years ago
the thing with stuff like this, regardless of what the content of the content actually is, the vast majority of digital content piracy is from people who wouldnt have been willing to pay money for the product in the first place, however very basic anti-piracy functionality like what netflix has, where if anything that draws any kind of capture of the screen be it a screenshot program or a screen recorded itll make the stuff you are watching black, stuff that isnt trying to act like its perfect, stuff thats just enough of a barrier to be annoying. That'll likely put enough incentive for people to not actually spread pirated versions of it that arent folk that are doing it as part of their identity as a person. It also increases the amount of people that will be buying it simply by lowering the amount of people that "steal" the content.
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Thats when you become a villain 4 comments
bethorien · 3 years ago
i mean its entirely possible that the people that property in those areas of the city went bankrupt and someone else bought the foreclosed land dirt cheap because of the price going down 10000000 fold from the land being less than empty, instead full of "things that will cost you money to deal with"
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Tart insane Badger 7 comments
bethorien · 3 years ago
"its your fault that your parents never taught you skills that parents are supposed to teach you"
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In the Beginning there were Predictive Text Games 56 comments
bethorien · 3 years ago
In the beginning the universe was a bit of a pain. This has made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as the most important part of the day.
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*Fortunate Son intensifies* 52 comments
bethorien · 3 years ago
The currently accepted figures for casualties are as follows; The US and south vietnam's side, including all their allies that had boots on the ground, had around 300 thousand deaths and over 1.3 million wounded, the north's side, including all their allies that had boots on the ground, had about 600 thousand deaths and only about 600 thousand wounded.
regardless of what metric you use for if the US "won" the war or not, they didnt achieve the goals they got involved in the conflict in the first place for, yea they won battles, yea they killed a bunch of people, but no, the country they went to aid STOPPED EXISTING because the war was won by the north.
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*Fortunate Son intensifies* 52 comments
bethorien · 3 years ago
the US's publicly stated goals was to stop the spread of communism, to "prove to the communist world that wars of national liberation cannot succeed", and to persuade the north to stop expanding into the south, and a variety of things that all require south Vietnam to still exist after the war.
Lets look at those goals one by one and see how they panned out
the south surrendered to the north and was absorbed by the north into a new "basically just the north's politics but the whole land mass" country. making anything requiring the existence of the south Vietnam to be a failed goal, the north was not stopped from expanding southward, it expanded all the way to taking over the whole area. They didn't stop the "national liberation war" and said war did succeed. They also didn't stop the spread of communism in the region.
Just because the US won some battles doesnt mean shit.
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Green new deal 19 comments
bethorien · 3 years ago
its far harder to knock a nuclear plant out of service than it is to knock any other type of power generation out of service, example, during hurricane florance in 2018 only one nuclear plant in the affected region shut down and they did it preemptively as per their sites protocols, all other plants in the affected regions continued to run and didnt see any noticeable drop in power supply during the entire hurricane.
A more "related to the current cold weather" example, winter storm juno in 2015 was a full on blizzard. 23 out of 24 of the regions nuclear plants continued to function at 100% power output during the entire event, the 24th shut down not because of anything with the nuclear plant but because the electrical transmission systems outside the plant were damaged. Nuclear power would not have cared about whats going on recently.
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Green new deal 19 comments
bethorien · 3 years ago
the system systems of nuclear plants make it so that even in the case of a full failure a melt down basically isn't possible at a level that affects basically anything outside the plant itself
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My husband's first credit purchase, 1971. On a Macy*s card, $300 limit. Still used every 12 comments
bethorien · 3 years ago
even if they really spent 300 dollars on it, its been making acceptable quality toast for 50 years, that's definitely not a waste of money.
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Thats not cold 6 comments
bethorien · 3 years ago
It hit -6F here in Oklahoma
*knocks on wood* 2 comments
bethorien · 3 years ago
and just to clarify on the rarity part being technically correct rather than fully correct, rarity doesnt have an absolute way of measuring it, one could just as easily measure the rarity of an object by looking at its average accessability to any given living sentient being. How rare is X thing on average to any living thing compared to how rare is Y thing on average for any given living being. That measure would very likely show that, assuming you consider organic material grown by something similar to a tree elsewhere from earth to be "wood" that wood would still be far more accessible on average.
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*knocks on wood* 2 comments
bethorien · 3 years ago
The rarity part is technically correct in that, if you select any random place in the universe it’s far more likely that point has a diamond than it has wood, however, the value part is incorrect. Value isn’t something that’s intrinsic to an object, it’s entirely decided by what people think, masses opinion is fact in regard to the value of an object. People consider diamond to be worth more than an equal amount of wood therefor it is more valueable than wood.
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