Not 100% clear on the rules of the sub, so I hope this fits.
My step sister got 2 snakes when she was in high school and then she went to college where she wasn't allowed snakes. My dad and stepmom were supposed to be watching them until she was able to take them again. Now 4 years later, she has her own place and instead of taking her snakes she got a hedgehog and 2 cats.
My dad and stepmom don't like snakes and were only willing to watch them - not care for them. My stepsister was supposed to handle, feed, clean, ect. them. She didn't. So my stepmom just fed, watered and cleaned their enclosures. They have not been handled or even touched in four years.
Lately my dad has been asking if I could take them into my home since I have had reptiles before. However a bearded dragon is very different from a snake. I know reptiles can get aggressive if not handled often enough and while I have handled snakes before they were all very sweet. I am not sure if I have enough experience to care for these snakes. So any advice on what to do would be welcome. Or if there are any programs (canadian) or reptile shows that would care for them.
I'm of the opinion that once you adopt a pet then that pet is your responsibility. I'm disappointed in my stepsister and feel bad for the snakes which are being borderline neglected.
Seeing as how the Japanese have a WIDELY different societal outlook when it comes to these sort of things, how did Master Roshi get past the censors in America's airings? He's not exactly the most family oriented character and he gets away with a lot of shit.
> Improvement of handle is what allowed DeMar to become an All-NBA player and unlock playmaking/passing that people said he would never be able to do. Lack of big improvement of handle is what has limited guys like Wiggins and HB.
> “That guy has tunnel vision. He’ll never be a playmaker.” It’s usually because the wing’s handle doesn’t allow them to be a playmaker
https://twitter.com/jonesonthenba/status/1193558673907281920?s=21
Frank was outstanding in every aspect of the game.
Not only was his shooting on point but his tenacious defense was often times infectious. He was only given 3 steals on his stat line but had at least 2 deflections which ended up as steals for other Knicks players ad led to fast break points.
Frank was pushing the pace well and by the 4th quarter was confident enough for some razzle dazzle and scoring off the dribble with swagger.
His defense on Kemba was very good and once Hayward got hot it was Frank who slowed him down with some excellent closeout D denying open threes.
Seriously what can't this guy do? He is coming of age before our very eyes and blossoming into not only the Knicks current starting PG but the PG of the future. 21 and so much untapped potential the sky is the limit. Keep starting him and giving him 36 minutes.
The team looked like an 8th seed caliber tonight....and why?
Obviously it was not ALL Frank but he was the motor of the team tonight, especially on D.
Vrabel was awful as a DC with the Texans. As a HC, he hired two good coordinators and gave them authority while he helps with game plans, and ended up with a playoff win in year 2.
Patricia nailed his OC hire with Bevell. Stafford was ranked 4th in DVOA and our pass offense was top 6 before his injury. Now Patricia just needs to nail the DC hire, and mainly be a game planner. He showed a lot of potential as a game planner, like in the Rams and Chiefs games. With $50M+ in cap space and a top 3 pick, I'm optimistic for 2020.
I want to get this out of the way right at the start; this is not a post meant to fearmonger or bash on the developers, but rather a few choice examples of how the hotfix had a detrimental impact on areas of the game. Specifically how the changes to the drop rate solidified the power farming of bosses while devaluing the rest of the content in the game, and how the blanket reduction in power of Torgue Shotguns effectively gutted a specific type of weapon. Both of these changes had aspects of them that needed to occur for the health of the game, but the execution of such led to issues that may not have been obvious at the time.
Starting with the changes to the drop rate, I'll get the obvious statement out of the way first. Boss drops needed to be reduced, that is not in contention here. The sheer amount of the legendary items players could collect by melting bosses in seconds overshadowed all of the other content in the game and rapidly devalued the feel of those drops (whether or not that feeling is actually important I won't go into here, we'll just assume it is). The issue with the hotfix is that it only addressed one of those problems, the feeling of getting legendary drops, without correcting the other, which is of potentially greater significance. This leads us to:
Hotfix Issue #1: There is now no content that feels rewarding other than boss farming.
The endgame of Borderlands 3 can be broken down into three main components.
- General Mobbing, in which players are killing regular enemies in the game, typically alongside completing quests.
- Boss Farming, in which players load in, kill a boss as quickly as possible, quit out, and repeat.
- Proving Grounds/Circles of Slaughter, the equivalent of dungeons/arenas.
Pre nerf, general mobbing gave a consistent trickle of legendaries, proving grounds done optimally gave a few nice piles by the end of every run, while bosses flooded you for how quickly they could be done. Post nerf, general mobbing has a drought, proving grounds gives a couple per run if that, while boss farming remains far and above the fastest and most consistent choice. Notice the problem here? The ratio of drops between boss farming and everything else didn't change. Instead of the outlier getting toned down to be more in line with the rest of the game, it was solidified as the only viable choice.
I want to make this clear because it's important to the central point: Mobbing with the pre hotfix values is less efficient th
... keep reading on reddit ➡I teach undergrads. Recently they've been giving in-class presentations as the conclusion to a semester-long research project. Yesterday as one girl got up and was about to begin speaking, a boy loudly blurted out "Holy shit! Those tits are huge!"
Yeah. record scratch .....
Once I recovered from a moment of 'did that really just happen' I immediately said to him, "Why would you ever say something like that? That's completely unacceptable, you need to apologize and leave for the rest of the period." Which he then did and there was no further issue from him.
I feel like I handled this as well as I could have? I've never had an overtly disruptive student before, I've had ones who don't do the work but the worst they do during class is just texting under the table. I was totally taken aback and so was the rest of the class. I heard a few whispers of "what the fuck?" and giggling, the poor girl looked mortified, and there's no way that's something you can just sweep under the rug as the teacher.
Last night I was telling my boyfriend about it. He didn't think I dealt with it well. He started questioning why I had the male student leave the room. His criticisms were that I was treating him like a child and publicly embarrassing him. When I countered that the female student was the one publicly embarrassed and I wasn't going to make her go on to present with someone who'd just harassed her in the audience, he said, "Oh Jesus not everything is harassment, yeah it was horrible timing but guys his age are still awkward and making mistakes."
I did not agree with this at all. He was completely missing the point. I started feeling like he thought what the male student did was okay. He said he didn't think it was but that "young men need to be able to make mistakes without a woman crucifying them for it."
The whole argument was ridiculous to me, it's not like I gave him an F or personally expelled him from the school. We're explicitly trained to have disruptive students leave the room if they cross a line. And this is college not high school, there are higher expectations for behavior. I'd clearly explained to my boyfriend that the comment was apropos of nothing, it was not a private joke between friends, the girl's chest was not exposed at all and there is no situation in a CLASSROOM where making a sexual remark about someone else is acceptable, ever. Let alone when it humiliates them right before they're about to be everyone's center of attention.
I ended up
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I'm going to try to state this as calmly as possibly.
My father has cancer, walks with a cane/wheelchair, and has a port for his treatments that is a tube from the side of his chest going to his heart. We came to this country 20 years ago, both my parents speak english well with an accent that is not so thick people have difficulty understanding them in our city (New York) facing the customer directly at our shop. They sometimes get syntaxes, plurals, and slang wrong, but it's not hard to figure out, my father read the times daily and has given lectures at a college. I'll gladly post an audio clip of them speaking if needed. However, the cancer and medication make him very soft spoken, and his hearing isn't that great (he's nearly 70) and when very upset or flustered, can have a hard time finding the right words.
Today, they were flying from TN (I don't want to name the airport yet, but if needed will do) where my sister and her family live, to Houston, TX, where my father is undergoing some experimental treatments for his cancer. He had permission to travel, and with him brings a note from his oncologist from home (Brooklyn, NY) and in Texas, which includes a diagram of the port but not a full list of medication (which I will request from his doctors tomorrow) He also brings a printout from the TSA about traveling with a port and cancer which I will find the exact link to when I get more info.
My parents arrive 3:45 to a Tennessee airport for a 6:00 flight. Both parents have TSA pre and get on line at about 4. They are told to get out into the other line, they show their tickets, and the agent consults another while they wait, the other agents letting people past them. The agents start questioning my father on where he is going, his name, the address on the ID, etc. My father is having difficulty understanding the agents accent, which is very thick, and the agent is responding by speaking louder and louder and more drawn out, making it even harder to understand. Meanwhile I assume he is not speaking his best English, either, as he is flustered and has been standing a while now, but he is trying his best. I'm not sure if they asked about the port at this point but my father tries to give them the info and doctors note he has brought, which I think adds to the confusion. They wave him away, scribble something on his and my moms ticket, and eventually get escorted by a third agent to
... keep reading on reddit ➡Perhaps I should give up hope but for all its issues and bad PR, Anthem is pretty unique in its pursuit of that Iron Man type power fantasy. It's so rich with potential that it amazes me how they could fuck it up as badly as they did.
I was one of the guys who quit pretty soon after starting this game, tired of the bugs and the empty story and the nonsensical mechanics, but I'd absolutely love to see this game overhauled and done right, because I genuinely think it could be big with the right people at the helm.
If it fails and shuts down, I doubt another team would attempt a similar game with flight and such any time soon because of the obvious comparisons to Anthem, which is a real shame.
This could still be big if Bioware and EA want to do their community a service and overhaul it with the right people in charge. I'm not sure they will though.
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Edit: wow. I just want to thank everyone for all of the support and love. It's seriously overwhelming and made my week. Growing up around JNG was a struggle and still is at times, but I'm really thankful for this sub and knowing I'm not alone. Much love everyone!
So I've been posting a bit recently about my step-grandmother JNG. In an earlier post I mentioned my JY Dad, who is JNG's step son. That got me to thinking about their relationship, and man is there one story above all others that really cements what a POS she is.
My dad's actual mother, who I am named after, died of cancer when my dad was in his early twenties. I never got to meet her, and was born about a year after she died. Before my grandmother died, she bought my dad an extremely nice watch as a last gift; she probably spent about five grand on it. It's beautiful and he wore it pretty much everyday after. My entire childhood I don't think I ever saw my dad without it; that watch was absolutely his most prized possession.
Dad struggled with alcoholism and addiction since he was a teenager. It all came to a head when I was a freshman in high-school and he got arrested and he ended up going to rehab. During this time, my family lost our house and we had to move in with JNG. The judge said dad wouldn't have to do any jail time, but would have to stay in rehab the full 90 days and then stay in a halfway house for at least 6-9 months with weekly check-ins and meetings with counselors and AA. Dad needed money to pay for this because if he wasn't able to pay he was going to go to jail instead. He asked his father, JNG's husband to help him and he said yes.
JNG did not like this answer and did not want her husband to pay for my dad's rehab. Granted she hadn't worked in years, had a nanny for her own son, and did absolutely nothing to support a house. It was all of my grandfather's money, yet she still felt inclined to demand that my father get no support, knowing that it would send my dad to jail.
Finally, she relents. BUT my dad has to give up his watch to them in order to get the money.
Let me back up. My grandfather had an affair with JNG and left his marriage for her when my dad was 5 years old. After the divorce, JNG did not allow my grandfather to have contact with his ex and all visitation was to be scheduled through JNG. So at 5 years old my dad had to ride a bus 3 hours between towns every other weekend to visit his dad and JNG because JNG did not allow contact for custody switches.
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I got stopped for speeding at around 3 AM today. This trooper stood next to me waiting patiently for me to take off my helmet and remove my ear plugs before starting to talk. He was all business while conducting the stop. After he was done, he patiently stayed in place behind me to protect me from traffic while I got all of my gear back on and re-stowed my paperwork and backpack, then shut off his headlights so I could see past him to safely re-enter traffic. And above all, he let me off with a warning (even though he got me dead to rights at 15 over).
Mercifully, I don’t get stopped too often, but the few times I have it has been a painful event. It’s not malicious but there is an unfortunate lack of awareness on the part of law enforcement about how it works on our side.
That’s why I appreciated this trooper: He put himself in my place and did what he could to make it easier for me.
Hopefully Denver gives the same punishment that Utah gave to the racist heckler who said the same thing to Russ
Jeffery Epstein is a wealthy financier who in 2008 was convinced on a single state charge of "soliciting prostitution from girls as young as 14." [Some sources cite two charges]
His 2008 deal signed by current Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta included certain benefits:
> ...the multimillionaire was assigned to a private wing of the Palm Beach County stockade, where he was able to hire his own security detail. Even then, he didn’t spend much time in a cell. He was allowed to go to his downtown West Palm Beach office for work release, up to 12 hours a day, six days a week, records show.
Additionally, the Miami Herald reports Acosta's non-prosecution agreement "essentially shut down" an ongoing FBI probe into linked crimes and victims, may have granted immunity to potential co-conspirators that were left unnamed, and that Acosta may also have violated Federal law when he failed to notify victims of Epstein of this deal:
> Not only would Epstein serve just 13 months in the county jail, but the deal — called a non-prosecution agreement — essentially shut down an ongoing FBI probe into whether there were more victims and other powerful people who took part in Epstein’s sex crimes, according to a Miami Herald examination of thousands of emails, court documents and FBI records.
> The pact required Epstein to plead guilty to two prostitution charges in state court. Epstein and four of his accomplices named in the agreement received immunity from all federal criminal charges. But even more unusual, the deal included wording that granted immunity to “any potential co-conspirators’’ who were also involved in Epstein’s crimes. These accomplices or participants were not identified in the agreement, leaving it open to interpretation whether it possibly referred to other influential people who were having sex with underage girls at Epstein’s various homes or on his plane.
> As part of the arrangement, Acosta agreed, despite a federal law to the contrary, that the deal would be kept from the victims. As a result, the non-prosecution agreement was sealed until after it was approved by the judge, thereby averting any chance that the girls — or anyone else — might show up in court and try to derail it.
There were 36 victims cited
... keep reading on reddit ➡I love the Witcher games but I think CDPR could have handled its characters better
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In the books, Yennefer was an asshole with some redeeming qualities. In the games, those redeeming qualities are never shown.
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Dandelion was the best character in the books. He was a foil to Geralt and was the wise guy to his straight man. In the games he's just kinda comedy relief.
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Ciri was far more of an anti-hero in the books. Hell, at one point she joins a group of bandits and kills innocent people. This never gets brought up in the games.
