That mindset never made sense to me. A bad thing happened, huh? Is it:

A) God creating an obstacle for you to overcome and help you grow.

B) God redirecting you because you’re on the wrong path.

C) The devil trying to stop you because you’re on the right path.

You ask three different people, you might get three different answers. And they’ll surely have a dozen examples from their own life of being redirected by God or challenged by God or the devil, and it sure is nice that they have hindsight bias to retroactively decide which one it was. Because you can’t know in the moment, you’re just using religion to justify your own decisions and your own beliefs. Anyway, I hate when people use one of those three religious explanations, especially when giving advice. It is entirely unhelpful to pretend that your own opinion on what someone should do is backed up by the plans and manipulations of cosmic beings. I don’t care if you believe God has a plan, but stop pretending you know what it is.

When my mom was in college, she and some friends drove US-41 from upper peninsula Michigan down to Florida. It’s crazy long, about 2000 miles. I-41, on the other hand, is from Green Bay, WI to just over the WI-IL border. Under 200 miles.

Our Interstates and US highways use the same numbers, but aren’t usually the same road. Interstates numbers start from the Southern California and grow as you head north and east, US highway numbers start in Maine and grow as you head south and west. It all gets a little confusing around the Midwest, like at the Wisconsin-Illinois border where we do in fact have both Interstate 41 and US highway 41, which results in confusion like this. There definitely is an I-41. There is also a US 41, which is far longer and better known.

Google I-41 right now. US highway 41 is bigger, but that doesn’t stop Interstate 41 from existing.

He's surprisingly fun and has won me some seemingly unwinnable matches. Today I ended up in an unfortunate scenario of my G8 Riddler with literally no health versus a fully overhealed and shielded G9 Yellow Sinestro. The enemy Sinestro was better healed, better geared, and had affinity advantage. Riddler won. How? Spam his second and third moves to gain constant death immunity while applying agility-down, speed-down, and stun to the enemy. It took a long time, but Riddler pulled it off.

All that said, /u/hwdyfelix has a great point that Riddler will have a PVP week soon and a 50-50 chance of a 6-day hero challenge next week.

My SO and I had a bizarre moment while on vacation in another country. We were tired. We’d woken up early to catch a train. She told me to remind her to do something when we arrived at our destination. We both forgot. When she remembered, something snapped. She started pounding on me. Really punching me in the head and chest. Yelling “Why didn’t you remind me? I told you to remind me!” This went on for several minutes. And what could I do? Nothing. No one intervened. No one said a word. Like you said, it was embarrassing. But to make it worse, my SO spoke the local language, I didn’t. I legitimately could not have asked for help, could not have explained what was happening to anyone who asked. Everyone always assumes the guy is the aggressor. If anyone did intervene, they’d assume I was the bad guy, and I wouldn’t have been able to explain the truth. And that made it terrifying. I was completely powerless, I could do absolutely nothing until she calmed down. Can you imagine if the roles were reversed? Or if I had defended myself at all?

That's exactly the way to do it. My local school is on iPads. My SO's school is on Chromebooks. Both have advantages and disadvantages. iPads have more available apps. Chromebooks are fantastic for Google apps and have the advantage of getting students used to typing. But the staff all have Windows laptops. It would be so limiting to force teachers to only use the same devices that students use.

The same way that Florida's laws relate to Floridians living outside of Florida. That is, not at all.

He later explained that he estimated the number based on Republican voters being 5x more likely to be unvaccinated https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/1432662324855377920?s=19. Because you're absolutely right, it's unlikely that anyone is asking COVID patients on their deathbeds their political affiliation. It's just a guess based on vaccination rates. If about 1000 unvaccinated people die per day, and about 5x as many Republicans are unvaccinated than Democrats, then you figure about 5x as many Republicans are dying of COVID. But again, guesswork.

Honestly I'd be in favor of eliminating the Senate. I understand the motivation was to make sure less populous states still had a voice, but the founding fathers didn't foresee the modern concentration of the population in giant urban centers. It's ridiculous that low-population states have such disproportionately large power in the Senate and Electoral College.

I feel like all these examples (the Dakotas, Carolinas, and Virginias) are ignoring the fact that they're already states and OK with their status. A better analogy would be Guam or American Samoa trying to become a state and people debating whether they should be their own state or part of Hawaii. Both Guam and American Samoa are pretty distinct (geographically and culturally) from Hawaii. DC is somewhat distinct culturally, but not definitely not distinct geographically from Maryland.

Almost like Chicago and the rest of Illinois? Or NYC and upstate New York? Or Detroit and the rest of Michigan? Or Minneapolis and the rest of Minnesota? Or most major cities and the rest of their state? I understand that Maryland is a little less than 10 times the size of DC, so DC joining Maryland would mean that DC has roughly 10% of the voting power of Maryland, which is significant, but it's not like DC would instantly become the only voice in Maryland politics. I just don't understand why different political culture is such an issue when most states have the same issue and same conflict between their urban and rural citizens.

But doesn't nearly every state deal with this issue? I'm in Illinois. Ignoring a few college towns, this state is basically a massive city and a ton of farmland. It's a pretty clear divide between rural and urban. You can pretty accurately guess someone's political positions and priorities by their location (except perhaps in the college-towns and suburbs closes to Chicago). There are occasional petitions for Chicago to leave Illinois, because Chicagoans are so different from the rest of Illinoisans. And Illinois certainly isn't unique in this matter. Upstate New York is quite different from NYC and you pointed out city-dwellers in California being quite different from the large rural populations. I'd guess nearly every state has more liberal cities and more conservative rural areas. In fact, going a step further, it's quite likely many countries have more liberal urban areas and more conservative rural areas unhappily grouped together. That's part of life. Unless we're willing to get rid of the Senate, I don't us ever escaping the fact that our representation at the federal level might not represent our local interests at all.

Yes, you are correct. But the point of the person you're replying to is that DC was meant to be a small federal district that doesn't belong to any state. And now that DC might get statehood, they need to make a new, smaller federal district that doesn't belong to any state, and this smaller federal district will be within DC.

I do all daily challenges and most of the legendary challenges, depending on how much free time I have that day. So, usually I manage to do all 12 RED alerts, the 27 PVP challenge, and the 30 heroic campaign challenge. But again, if the day is too busy, I might not get to all of those. As for time, I typically play a little sometime in the morning, play some more right before reset, and play before going to bed.

For upgrading, it really depends on how long you've been playing and what your goals are. If you want totally maxed out characters that can compete for the top 100 in PVP, you need to either devote all your resources to those characters alone, or spend money. Personally, I aim for G9 and then stop. Doing this allows me to upgrade virtually every new character. If a the general reddit hivemind says that a particular new character isn't worth upgrading, then I put those resources into upgrading an old character instead. Sometimes I make mistakes, like I regret putting resources into Blackfire and I'm questioning how much resources I put into King Shark, but the nice thing is that I stopped at G9 so I only lost a month or two of resources on a dud, whereas it takes many months, gems, or dollars to get the resources to get characters up to G10 or G11.

Eventually, if you play long enough, you'll have the whole roster unlocked. If you keep taking advantage of all the opportunities to get shards, gear, and rings, you'll eventually reach your goals. The game really does provide a lot of opportunities to earn rewards. But the amount of time it takes depends on what your goals are.

The nice thing is that he wasn't worth using before, so effectively nothing changed. It's rough when they change a good toon because they might get worse. But changing a toon that no one uses into another toon that no one uses is effectively meaningless. We can all go back to not using and not caring about Batman CC.

Definitely go for dry sandwiches too. Though I tend to add more ingredients when available. Bread, meat, cheese, lettuce, tomato if I have any, bread. No mayo, mustard, or butter. Occasionally hummus.

Another American here. I used mayo as a kid, but stopped using anything as a teen. I just prefer dry sandwiches. It's less work, less mess, and I feel like you get to taste the ingredients more. Though if someone makes me a sandwich with mayo or mustard, I eat it and enjoy it.

There's a fundamental misunderstanding here. Common core just tells you what students should know how to do. It doesn't say how to do it. Like, "students should know how to add two digit numbers". That's what common core is actually like. Newer trends like "figure out how far the first number is from 100, then subtract that number from the second number, and now your answer is 100 plus whatever is leftover" isn't built into common core, that's a totally separate trend in math education which claims to teach students how people actually do math after they leave school. But many school districts bought or developed various curriculums of "new math" which follow the standards of common core, so people assume this new math is common core. But that's like if the FDA made it illegal to sell horse meat, and then you blame the FDA for your favorite restaurant deciding to sell burgers instead of tacos. Your favorite restaurant could have totally sold non-horse tacos, in fact I'm guessing they already were selling non-horse tacos, but they chose to switch to burgers which were conveniently pre-labeled "contains no horse meat" rather than taking the time to confirm that the tacos were in fact horse-free.

I personally don't think they're bad enough to stop me from driving. I am fully aware and conscious when the muscle spasms happen. The duration is under a second. And they only happen about twice a day on average. I don't think I'm a danger to others around me, I just look a bit weird for a split-second when my arm randomly extends itself or my neck unexpectedly twists to the side.

I really don't think I'm anything like the Dutch woman with epilepsy. The worst that has ever happened is I accidentally slapped a classmate on the arm during a muscle spasm in high school, but thankfully the classmate was aware that I sometimes twitch uncontrollably and they thought it was funny.

All that said, I do want to know what causes them. But here in the US, it is nearly impossible to survive without a driver's license and a car, so the possibility of losing my license might be enough to keep me from seeing a doctor.

Eh, I don't mind acknowledging small glimmers of good deeds by horrible people. If Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and Satan himself all teamed up to do a "You should really get vaccinated" PSA from the depths of hell, I might have some questions but I'd be OK saying "I agree with Satan on this one."

I'm 100% convinced that if Trump had been more proactive about preventing the spread, managing the spread, fairly distributing resources, and pushing the vaccine, hundreds of thousands of deaths could have been prevented (and he'd likely have been re-elected). We're still reaping the ramifications of his COVID-denial and will be for the foreseeable future. I'd love to never see or think of the man again, but if he wants to make a few PSAs about the benefits of vaccination or even take credit for the vaccine at his moronic rallies, I say go for it. Even if he only convinces a handful of people to get vaccinated, that's better than nothing, and it's less time that he's talking about deranged conspiracy theories.

With stuns, bleeds, and purges, he seems pretty good on paper. But he doesn’t do crazy damage, so it seems like many players are choosing to slot in a damage-dealer instead. Personally I think he’s decent, I enjoyed his alliance week, but don’t think I’ll be using him much because there are simply better choices.

He pushed the vaccine, noticed the negative reaction, pulled back a little, changed direction to focus on more popular buzzwords like "freedom", but even then he still didn't shy away from reminding them that he got the vaccine and is glad he did. My expectations of him are so abysmally low that I'm almost a little impressed.

That's undoubtedly the craziest thing about people faking disorders like this. It's typically online or with a small group of friends. But they function normally in society. They go to school or work. They go out to eat. They open bank accounts, get their car's oil changed, and get haircuts. And they're apparently fine in these normal, everyday situations. Then they go home and, what, the pent up force all explodes? Why do so many people only have tics or multiple personalities when they're on camera?

Always great to find a small, local place run by good people. Twice now I've brought cars in to a local mechanic, only to be told "We could totally fix this for you, but it would be far cheaper for you to go to (insert alternative here)." Didn't charge us a dime, just took a look, diagnosed the issue, and told us the smartest choice to make, even if they didn't make any money off the interaction.