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Hot chocolate and scotch.  (No not a single malt silly person)
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YeahTubaMike posted:"Crypto" is short for cryptozoology. one pack of instant hot chocolate i got was literally just shavings of chocolate with a higher milk content (I think? I'm not sure how exactly they got it to turn into "hot chocolate" and not "hot chocolate water"). The ingredients list was literally just "chocolate" how can that be disgusting, it worked fine
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Dec 23, 2021 01:09
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All Hot Chocolates Are Good
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christmas boots posted:hot chocolate with red bull imo The best hot chocolate is made not with water, milk, etc.--but instead with melted chocolate.
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Dec 23, 2021 01:12
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hawowanlawow posted:I prefer hot chocolate made with water We've been reading Enid Blyton to our 5yo and there's a wizard in one of the Wishing Chair books that has enslaved a village of pixies and is abusive towards them on all levels. But you know he's truly evil because when he makes the protagonists hot cocoa, he makes it thin and with water only.
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Dec 23, 2021 01:16
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Henchman of Santa posted:Armageddon is in the Criterion Collection. American Pie would not be all that out of place. I agree but I feel like I agree for different reasons. Armageddon is pretty much the perfect end of the world movie. The closest that has come is Greenland imho but they didn't have a cool aerosmith song attached to it and they just kind of accepted their fate instead of sending bruce willis into space.
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Dec 23, 2021 02:28
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Bloodborne is worse after all the old gods appear. Almost every boss after and including Rom sucks major rear end (DLC not included) and is extremely boring and easy compared to like Gascoigne or Blood Starved Beast being legit hard.
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Dec 23, 2021 04:26
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PHUO: "Wind direction" should be given as the direction the wind is blowing, not the direction it's blowing from. The current convention is nonsensical. If we used it for rivers, we'd be saying the Mississippi's overall flow direction is "north".
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Dec 23, 2021 20:25
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Nobody tell this goon that electrical current flows from low to high.  Or that potential energy is lost as height decreases. Or that the gradient points uphill. Or that wind from the north pushes objects southward. 
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Dec 24, 2021 00:13
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Powered Descent posted:PHUO: "Wind direction" should be given as the direction the wind is blowing, not the direction it's blowing from. So you think a southern wind should be cold and a northern wind should be warm?
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Dec 24, 2021 03:25
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Gripweed posted:So you think a southern wind should be cold and a northern wind should be warm? I think "north wind" should refer to a wind that's blowing north, yes. 
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Dec 24, 2021 03:38
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I can't say I've ever thought about wind in decades. Like do you really go outside and try and figure out what direction the wind is blowing
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Dec 24, 2021 03:39
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Gaius Marius posted:I can't say I've ever thought about wind in decades. Like do you really go outside and try and figure out what direction the wind is blowing Sometimes the weatherman says that the winds are coming from x direction and that’s why we’re going to have the weather we get. It makes for decent small talk I guess Small talk is nice. It’s nice to talk about something not really important, but interesting enough, sharing a small moment with another human being
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I frequently check weather charts to be prepared for the mountains. It's important to understand the source of winds aloft, for example, because that affects humidity, precipitation, down draft temperatures, and so forth. If the little flag (on those charts) is misinterpreted, it can be a big problem. Spoken forecasts usually say "winds from the north 10mph", but computer automated text and verbal forecasts dispense with extra words and just say "wind north northwest 10kt gusting to 15". For marine and aeronautical forecasts the wind direction is "very important". Changing a 20kt headwind to a tailwind (a difference of 40kt) means piling up on the rocks, not making it into port, or sliding off the end of the runway instead of taking off. A north wind "brings cold air" because the god of the north is up there puffing away:  Versus the god of the south running their vacuum cleaner, which would pull in air from every direction.
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thetoughestbean posted:Sometimes the weatherman says that the winds are coming from x direction and that’s why we’re going to have the weather we get. It makes for decent small talk I guess You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows
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Just remember Notos sounds like North and comes from the south and Boreas comes from the Aurora Borealis. Eurus comes from the East and Zephyr sounds like where wild music comes fro.
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Dec 24, 2021 04:12
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Whether or not there's weather or not people will talk about the weather whether they understand it or not.
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:The best hot chocolate is made not with water, milk, etc.--but instead with melted chocolate. 
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Dec 24, 2021 14:19
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Whatever the composition it should have peppermint booze in it and be drunk after being out in minus 10 C weather.
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Joy a Holiday Collection by Jewel is the greatest christmas album of all time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=902ZRdplotE
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doverhog posted:Whatever the composition it should have peppermint booze in it and be drunk after being out in minus 10 C weather.  (Another good one is whipped cream vodka, it's perfect at 0C all by itself)
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Morality without kindness is just finding reasons to declare yourself better than other people. This is true of Christianity and it’s true of socialism
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thetoughestbean posted:Morality without kindness is just finding reasons to declare yourself better than other people. This is true of Christianity and it’s true of socialism 
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thetoughestbean posted:Morality without kindness is just finding reasons to declare yourself better than other people. This is true of Christianity and it’s true of socialism 
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thetoughestbean posted:Morality without kindness is just finding reasons to declare yourself better than other people. This is true of Christianity and it’s true of socialism
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Grouchio posted:Then I merely wish I wasn't always bitter A positive outlook is the most important thing one can have
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Grouchio posted:Joy a Holiday Collection by Jewel is the greatest christmas album of all time. I was about to say you're wrong but then I remembered Christmas is not Yule so maybe you're right who knows. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kTVVbM8OEr6_xroIAx_ksva74i1HYdo7I
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Dec 25, 2021 15:18
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thetoughestbean posted:Morality without kindness is just finding reasons to declare yourself better than other people. This is true of Christianity and it’s true of socialism "Oh I'm open to change you just have to do it right and appeal to me"  "Oh but you weren't nice enough in enforcing your morals therefore you're just as bad as the fascists."loving spare me. At least when the Nazis strongarm people like me there's none of that Velvet Glove horseshit. They know what they want and they're doing it.
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mind the walrus posted:lovely argumentative mousetraps like this are how Liberal bullies coerce people into maintaining the status quo. That sure is what that post says
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Dec 25, 2021 16:55
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It's ridiculous to get upset at Bill Nelson for mentioning God during his speech about the JWST launch. It's christmas, he's old, of course he's going to mention that. Can we please focus on the monumental achievement that this thing is finally out in space after so many delays?
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I don't get why some groups of atheists focus on the existence of god or not. They should focus on the masses of unchecked religious abuse, which is literally just shooting fish in a barrel Like, ThereminTrees doesn't focus on whether or not "god exists", but instead focuses on the ways religious belief is used to perpetuate cycles of abuse, and how religions and sometimes faith itself hijacks and prays on mutltiple layers of our psychological makeup. It means that his channel is also deeply relevant and meaningful to survivors of cults, and most other kinds of abuse, as a nice little bonus. The question of existence of a deity is just so mind-bogglingly uninteresting from any serious perspective, and it's not really a surprise that people who have built a career on it turn out to be pretty lovely, awful people alexandriao has a new favorite as of 03:56 on Dec 26, 2021 |
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alexandriao posted:The question of existence of a deity is just so mind-bogglingly uninteresting from any serious perspective, and it's not really a surprise that people who have built a career on it turn out to be pretty lovely, awful people The question of the existence of a deity is quite interesting from a serious perspective. The problem is that basically none of the popular discourse around the topic, and certainly none of the discourse from the new atheist circles, is in any way serious.
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Gripweed posted:The question of the existence of a deity is quite interesting from a serious perspective. Is it really? Aren't you skipping a bunch of steps about the nature of reality, your ability to perceive it, and whether facts even exist? Anyone who wants to seriously talk about such things must first go back to first principles. To most people of course religion is not a philosophical question, it's culture, and never questioned. I gave my nieces and nephews presents for Christmas, drank Christmas beer, went to Christmas sauna, etc. because of culture.  So I also admit the value of culture, god is like an extra bit the existence or lack thereof of which is not really important.
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doverhog posted:Is it really? Aren't you skipping a bunch of steps about the nature of reality, your ability to perceive it, and whether facts even exist? Anyone who wants to seriously talk about such things must first go back to first principles. Yes it's a question about the nature of existence. It's a philosophical question that people have seriously thought about for thousands of years. It's a part of metaphysics and ontology The new atheist movement was good in part for actual practical stuff like getting creationism out of schools. But when they got into their arguments in favor of atheism, like the flying spaghetti monster or the floating teapot, they were being pretty facile and childish.
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I'm sure plenty of people have said it but I'll add myself to the list: Beyonce's "singing" voice is the most loving annoying thing I've ever heard. Everything about it feels so forced & terrible, plus I noticed that whether she's on her own or with backup, her voice is always pitched louder than anyone else. Like, most other singers or groups try to harmonize & not overshadow each other, but it's like she intentionally has her sound techs bump her voice volume up so that everything else is slightly drowned out. It reminds me of newer movies that aren't mixed right where the music/effects are loud as hell but you barely hear any dialogue.
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thetoughestbean posted:Morality without kindness is just finding reasons to declare yourself better than other people. This is true of Christianity and it’s true of socialism what does that actually entail, practically speaking?
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Dec 26, 2021 12:46
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BOOTY-ADE posted:I'm sure plenty of people have said it but I'll add myself to the list: If it's even her voice. A lot of her songs were sung by other uncredited people. If you ever her a song from Beyonce that you don't hate its probably someone else.
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BOOTY-ADE posted:I'm sure plenty of people have said it but I'll add myself to the list: Are you trying to summon the ghost of Koalas March?
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Crespolini posted:what does that actually entail, practically speaking? You have to actively practice kindness, patience, and acceptance, imo. Not everyone is going to be following your standards, and while you should be trying to get yourself and others to do better, you shouldn’t be quick to condemn others. Morality should be a means to try to improve the world, not declare yourself better than others I see it a lot in Christians, where they’re quick to write off non-Christians (or other Christians) for x or y reason, declaring themselves the sole good people in the world. It’s a practice in narcissism. I see it in a lot of socialists, too, this assumption of a priori goodness that separates them from the rest of the world, that they’re good because they have the right beliefs, not because of what they do. (I think that religion and ideology are ultimately extremely similar organizational forces but that’s a discussion for another time) Dealing with nazis and the like is a different matter, of course. The paradox of tolerance is in full effect.
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thetoughestbean posted:I think that religion and ideology are ultimately extremely similar organizational forces ehh, i don't see it
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