TaliesinMerlin
TaliesinMerlin t1_jegu2q4 wrote
Reply to Monopoly has a monopoly on Monopoly. by [deleted]
It literally doesn't. People can freely reproduce near copies of Monopoly. (Long story why.) As long as the games don't use the actual visual assets or the exact written rules, I think they're okay. Hence we have many souvenir versions of Monopoly.
TaliesinMerlin t1_jeexjkf wrote
Reply to How do you make a habit of reading for leisure, not only for university studies? by bunga_Berapi
Part of it gets easier after university. Part of it is being deliberate with your time.
What I do is give myself 15 minutes a day to read. If I want to stop after those 15 minutes, that's fine, but for those 15 minutes, I have no mobile, no background stuff going on. It's me and a book I want to read.
Sometimes I get into the zone and I can read for an hour or more. Other times, I scoot slowly through a book 15 minutes at a time. Either way, that's better than nothing.
TaliesinMerlin t1_jebqf2v wrote
Reply to TIFU by sending š to my realtor by throwaway_blue22
If it's only been a few hours, I wouldn't worry. Sometimes people get busy and they don't respond. It doesn't mean you should latch on to the one element of the last message you can spot.
If it's been a couple of days, then maybe you should be concerned, but keep the focus on business, not what they think of you. If they didn't think you were annoying before, overworrying about an emoji would more likely annoy them.
TaliesinMerlin t1_jebpl7v wrote
Reply to comment by goofwayne in At some point, someone thought to ground up the meat of a pig, shove it inside its own intestines, and cook it for people to eat. by greatpoomonkey
It also uses up more of the animal, specifically the intestines and some of the loose bits of meat. It's sort of like figuring out how to make stock out of bone and cartilage. The less of an animal you waste, the better.
TaliesinMerlin t1_jea1rx4 wrote
Reply to comment by doterobcn in TIL that when former White House press secretary James Brady died in 2014, his death was ruled a homicide because it was ultimately caused by a gunshot wound he sustained in 1981, during the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan by IAmTiborius
>Would the person who pushed me during the basketball game be held responsible for my injury and ultimately, my death?
Probably not, since that would be an accident and the player wasn't attempting to commit a crime. (They were committing a foul.)
TaliesinMerlin t1_je9uxum wrote
Reply to comment by Jarkside in I read an article about Missouriās House cutting funding to their libraries and it made me really sad. by poopmaester41
How are the budgets of more rural libraries affected? Also, why is lower funding pitched as "getting the state out of local library decisions" when revoking the funding is a consequence of the state involving itself in local library decisions?
TaliesinMerlin t1_je9uocl wrote
Reply to I read an article about Missouriās House cutting funding to their libraries and it made me really sad. by poopmaester41
This bill would hit hardest those programs that rely on state funding where city or county funding falls short.
Anyway, the double-think being exhibited in a statement like this is astounding:
>Republican Rep. Dirk Deaton of Noel defended the law and the decision to strip public library funding in response to the lawsuit. āItās been said this is a book ban. This is not that,ā Deaton said. āIt is protecting innocent children.ā
He completely disconnects purpose, cause, and effect. Let's pretend for a moment that this action protects innocent children. How would it do that? By defunding libraries that dare to legally challenge book bans. Dirk Deaton tells a big lie because he knows that "protecting children" is a weak band-aid that covers the Republican power grab for strictly controlling the information the public has free access to.
TaliesinMerlin t1_je5vg5x wrote
Block.
TaliesinMerlin t1_jd9co6p wrote
Reply to I asked 7 CEOs āwhatās the secret to your success?ā, and they all said the same thing: by jflipside
I asked my doctor if I would be able to play the piano after the operation.
She said, "How did you get in my house?!"
TaliesinMerlin t1_jc6o6ew wrote
The designer is creating a computer one could use indefinitely (at least given proper protection from the elements) in a time displacement situation.
TaliesinMerlin t1_jad8153 wrote
Reply to comment by nabulsha in Would I need to pay Rent Twice? by evilhaw
Once OP does that, it's also okay to put a reminder in your calendar for what each month's payment covers. I know it took me a while to know that, oh, I'm paying at the start of April for April's rent, when at work, I'd be paid at the end of a period for that period's work.
It's okay to ask, and it's okay to not find it all intuitive at first or at all.
TaliesinMerlin t1_ja87iu4 wrote
Reply to comment by kungpaocheese in The Cost for an American to Comfortably Retire in Every State and Country, mapped by berrysardar
By the same logic, they paid someone else's social security. I'm not sure why that point is relevant here.
TaliesinMerlin t1_ja87cpj wrote
Reply to comment by Theburritolyfe in The Cost for an American to Comfortably Retire in Every State and Country, mapped by berrysardar
Did you include social security or other entitlement programs?
TaliesinMerlin t1_j9yjw8s wrote
Reply to LPT: Don't look at your clock when waking up during the night to increase your quality of sleep. It's a lot easier to fall back asleep when you don't keep track of the sleeping time you still have left. by migudude
On the contrary, knowing whether it's 1 AM or 5 AM helps me a lot with sleeping. If it's 1, I can read for a short time and then drift naturally back to sleep. If it's 5, I'll either get up or doze until it's time to wake up.
TaliesinMerlin t1_j9uqps8 wrote
Reply to Brown horse, me, wood, 2023 by Bodnaruc-Sculpture
When you see it as a horse from the side: wow, that's really cool. Great texture.
When you see it as a horse from the front: one-eyed horse with Elvis hair and a cleft nostril commands me
TaliesinMerlin t1_j9ujhj9 wrote
Reply to comment by RTwhyNot in Jet carrying 335 forced to turn back after missing destination airport's closing time by 10 minutes by sprlte
They didn't. They had to land and refuel at a larger airport, Osaka, before returning to Tokyo.
TaliesinMerlin t1_j9ujaas wrote
Reply to comment by arthurdentstowels in Jet carrying 335 forced to turn back after missing destination airport's closing time by 10 minutes by sprlte
The plane had to land for refueling in Osaka, which added to the return time.
TaliesinMerlin t1_j9q5oku wrote
Reply to comment by wiedmaier in Approaching Nine Months Since Tennesseeās Abortion Ban, DCS Remains in Disarray by SnarkOff
It makes me think of the picture of a kid during Lyndon B. Johnson's "war on poverty" (Life). This kind of poverty never went away, but retrograde anti-abortion policies are set to make it even more common.
TaliesinMerlin t1_j6l5i4u wrote
Reply to comment by ShortWoman in TIL: Between 800 and 1349 AD, the Colosseum was converted into a residential apartment building by Serath4
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TaliesinMerlin t1_j6jl815 wrote
Reply to TIL: Between 800 and 1349 AD, the Colosseum was converted into a residential apartment building by Serath4
Some say that they hung banners on the coliseum like, "We ain't lion, we have the best rates" and "Gladiator? Be gladtolivehere!"
TaliesinMerlin t1_j28u4fo wrote
Reply to comment by Theseus2022 in Going to start reading Shakespeare. Any advice? by SnowFlakeObsidian4
This. The language (early modern English) may initially be hard to comprehend in writing, but the rhythm of it (usually in iambic pentameter) helps to comprehend the lines.
TaliesinMerlin t1_j077zz1 wrote
Reply to comment by MuddyWaterTeamster in U.S. Postal Service honors the late civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis with a stamp by scudobuio
No, it's right to be angry. But believing that "that's all our system is capable of accomplishing anymore" is defeatist tripe.
TaliesinMerlin t1_j070wz8 wrote
Reply to comment by MuddyWaterTeamster in U.S. Postal Service honors the late civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis with a stamp by scudobuio
I don't think John Lewis would agree with the despairing tone of this post. If something fails, what do you do? You get back out there and get in trouble, good trouble, to make it happen. You believe in change, rather than sitting on your hands like the white moderates Dr. King wrote about in his letter from an Alabama jail.
TaliesinMerlin t1_iy6db8s wrote
Reply to comment by enokidake in World Health Organization to rename monkeypox as mpox -CNBC by wander9077
Thanks for following up. I guess I'll give partial credit to the Biden administration for this change, then. Good on them.
TaliesinMerlin t1_jegu9bk wrote
Reply to When the king farted, why did nobody laugh? by malumfectum
It was silent but deadly.