southsamurai (he/him/pronoun agnostic)

I think what folks have missed in both threads is that if the character already knows their top speed is X, then it means they’ve survived it at least once. Else they wouldn’t know their top speed is higher than what a real-world object could survive.

This points to a high probability that any character rated to go that fast has some kind of secondary power that protects them when moving at speed. OP specificed Marvel, so let’s pretend both that the speed force doesn’t exist and that there’s no Marvel equivalent cooked up for this character.

Canonball has a protective field when he’s using his power. Aurora and Northstar have canon speeds high enough that they never try to go as fast as they can because they’re not sure how much damage they might take, buys are sure what kind of damage they’d leave in their wake. Quicksilver has a canon record of mach 1280, and suffers no damage from it.

What we can take away from this other than writers and editors being who decide what limits there are, is that the Marvel universe, 616 and otherwise, includes speedsters that can exceed mach 195 without dying or burning up. As such, there’s no reason to conclude that OP’s OP OC wouldn’t have some kind of similar protection. It’s akin to spidey being able to throw punches that crumple steel and shatter stone, but having no damage other than bruised or bloody knuckles. Unless stated otherwise, the Marvel default is that if a character has a feat, they have whatever protection they need to reach it without suffering more than minor damage.

Now, is OP OP? Not by Marvel standards, no. It’s basically Colossus and Quicksilver’s bastard child. Certainly a dangerous character, but completely beatable by dozens of heroes and villains, including less popular ones.

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Is lemmy. Can spell hot

Can spell piss too, but only if talking about band

That was exactly what popped into my head :)

Jesus jumped up christ, that was a horrible read. Half of it obviously fiction, a quarter of it jerking off to the hot women, and the rest just badly written. Like, I’m a hack, but damn.

Hell, I’m dubious about it being half fiction. I’d be willing to bet that the only non fiction parts are the very basic facts about the writer’s oral health being neglected over time.

No, chiropractors know what they’re doing.

They’re taking a lot of money for next to zero benefit, all while pretending to do something useful. Which may seem like a scam. Because it is. That’s why it seems like a scam.

You have an inaccurate idea of what eugenics is. The Wikipedia entry starts off covering the reason why it’s a bullshit idea.

It’s the enforcement that’s the problem, not just keeping genetics in mind when procreating. That’s the whole thing that makes eugenics eugenics rather than just selective breeding.

There are absolutely zero net positives to sterilizing people against their will and/or forcing people to breed.

Eugenics got a bad rap long before Hitler. It’s abhorrent to any kind of sane and just society as it violates the most fundamental of human rights: body autonomy.

I’m not saying folks can’t optimize their own progeny however they want. I’m saying that when you enforce your idea of what is and isn’t desirable, you break the social contract. And, being real, even geneticists aren’t yet fully aware of the level of detail needed to parse out what traits can be safely pruned without losing others. Then there’s epigenetics, which makes eugenics even more stupid.

Nah man, it’s not just a bad idea, it’s impossible to implement without fucking things up. Being real here, your concept of what eugenics is, isn’t exactly unheard of. And that’s part of the problem. The people most behind the idea are the ones least qualified to implement it. It’s a thing bandied about by jackasses wanting their idea of undesirables wiped out, and they never, ever manage to know enough about how genetics works to get close to being able to eliminate anu diseases at all.

But it isn’t as fun

You know that everyone knows that Wikipedia and search engines exist, right? People don’t post questions on forums because information doesn’t exist elsewhere. It’s because of the social factor.

Besides, Wikipedia isn’t perfect, and search engines have gone to shit

This guy screws

More cushion for the pushin
I hope you can hang
Let’s spread cake on your body
And we’ll do the wild thang

That beautiful cat is chimeric

Also, it hates the gays. You can tell by the way it’s glaring at OP

First, a caveat. I’m not willing to play at debate, nor submit myself to proselytizing. Both bore the hell out of me. Not saying that’s your goal, just establishing a personal boundary.

The biggest barrier is vegans themselves. There’s a segment of that population that treat it like a religion, and I’m not interested in associating with that specific segment.

The second one is related though. Veganism is a system of belief. And I have no issue with anyone believing whatever they want. I do, however, object to someone claiming moral superiority because of their beliefs. Again, it means I’m not willing to associate myself with that segment.

Which leads to the third big one. Veganism requires a degree of faith that it’s right. That’s am assumption I can’t get behind. Again, I’m fine with someone believing whatever they want, living their life by their code. But for me, the baseline assumption that using animals as part of human civilization is a bad thing just doesn’t hold up as a fact. It’s a valid belief, but it isn’t a demonstrable truth. As such, it precludes believing it enough that I couldn’t call myself vegan even if I shared the belief.

Now, I have overlapping beliefs! As an example, I’m very much against industrial farming. Not because of ethics or morals, but as a matter of practicality. It’s not healthy for animals or humans. I also dislike how animals in industrial farming are treated, but that is a separate issue and it doesn’t apply to all farming of livestock. It is entirely possible to treat animals well while alive, and that’s my personal standard for what I prefer in terms of sourcing food and supplies. That’s one big divide; I’ve never met a vegan, or read any vegan literature that doesn’t object to all forms of farming that involves animals.

There’s also differences in what is and isn’t humane treatment. While vegans aren’t a monolith, there’s some that will raise immortal hell over keeping backyard chickens, saying it isn’t humane, that it’s exploitation. My line is in how the birds are treated, not that we benefit from the relationship. That goes for goats, cows, whatever. Which brings it back to whether or not I would choose the label of vegan. I don’t share the belief that animals can’t benefit us without it being unethical/immoral. So I just don’t qualify as vegan.

There’s also little quibbles about the behavior of some vegans, but that’s more of an annoyance than a barrier to claiming the system of belief.

I can eat vegetarian, and do to some degree. Hell, the older I get, the less I enjoy meat; I end up craving the tastes of well cooked veggies waaay more than I do meat of any kind. Like, right now, I’d punch a kitten for a big ol’ mess of collards. The punching kittens part is a joke because of the topic.

I can get behind improving the collective health and treatment of livestock. I’m even fine with some of it being outright forbidden at scale; though not at the local level. I’m definitely for improved standards of care when livestock becomes non productive, even with the associated giant increase in prices it would cause.

Anything else gets nitpicky, so beyond what you asked, and beyond the wholesome community standards. Which, referring back to my initial caveat, is part of why I don’t debate such things in general, and absolutely will not here. It only rarely stays friendly.

Being real though, there’s a dozen things she can be criticized for that don’t make the person doing the criticizing am asshole.

And let me be very clear that mocking someone’s looks is an asshole move. Doesn’t matter how big a piece of shit they are, it’s just douchey. I’m not saying I’ve never done it, I’m not saying it isn’t something that most people would think on seeing a person that’s… distinctly unusual in appearance. But it is douche thing to do to say it.

For one thing, a women’s value, any person’s ( it just happens a lot with women) isn’t based on their fuckability, and a lot of assholes think it is.

For another, it completely ignores what a person’ deeds are. This lady? There’s plenty to go after that matters. Wasting time on her face is a disservice.

There are, and they aren’t just for ADHD. That’s the primary usage, but not the only.

Most of the ones that are prescribed are amphetamines. OTC you have similar options, just not quite so potent, for sinus congestion: ephedrine and pseudoephedrine.

Generally, you won’t get uppers as uppers. As in meant to treat energy levels and such the way the uppers that were popular in the seventies got used medically. For that, you get into “off label” stuff like amantadine that isn’t an upper in the usual sense of the term, but can improve alertness and counter fatigue. However, it is a cns stimulant, just not an amphetamine. That’s just one example, but there are a decent number of medications that can give an “energy boost” by tweaking neurotransmitters in one way or another.

That’s the thing though, uppers qua uppers, aren’t prescribed any more. The default is to attempt to treat what’s got the patient “down” rather than the symptom. The days of being prescribed black beauties is long gone. The things they were prescribed for just aren’t really treated by them (or other stimulants), so they’re only used as a last ditch effort now.

That being said, if you’ve been unable to tolerate other options, or they’ve failed, you can occasionally run into people using prescribed amphetamines for extreme fatigue, obesity, and things like narcolepsy. Very, very rare, but it does happen. Iirc for narcolepsy that aren’t even a first choice, or a second. They’re down the list a ways.

Good doctors won’t even recommend other stimulants for regular fatigue. Caffeine in particular, they’re not going to say you should drink more coffee if you’re feeling run down, and there were doctors in the past that would. Bad doctors will still sometimes say shit like that, so if anyone reading this hears that from a doctor, find a different one.

As far as old school uppers go, the reason they’re not in use for the things they used to be is that there’s way too many side effects and drawbacks. Hell, the reason they’re used for ADHD is because of a side effect. And they still come with risks and drawbacks, there’s just not many other options there. Nobody has pinned down a better way to manage the detrimental parts of ADHD without stimulants. Notice I said better, not that there aren’t any other options. There are, though I might argue that when you’re blocking norepinephrine reuptake, it amounts to a stimulant, and some of those options do that.

Anyway. It’s been close to fifty years since doctors were prescribing uppers for much of anything. By the time the mid eighties rolled around, awareness of the problems caused by such drugs had become common, so doctors were pulling back. Tbh, I think it was a bit too far, because they also got resistant you prescribing stimulants when it was warranted, the way docs (and the governments) now are overreacting with opiates and benzos. But things went back to a more practical prescription policy by the end of the nineties, and I expect it’ll do the same with the current bugbears probably by the mid 30s.

For those curious, one of the illnesses I’ve seen prescribed stimulants for is MS. Another is Parkinson’s. While amphetamines aren’t a first choice for either, some stimulants can be vital to leading a decent life with either of those. I’ve seen it tried with Alzheimer’s a couple of times, I’ve seen them used for palliative care (very rarely, but still). And all of those have some degree or another of non amphetamine stimulants used as part of an overall regimen, but amphetamines are still sometimes used.

In all reality, there’s just better drugs nowadays. Your classic uppers were like shotguns, medically. Yeah, you’d put some pellets in the intended target, but you’d also be finding them in wings and legs instead of vital organs. Amphetamines stimulate everything, and have so many side effects. Add in the addiction potential and damm near any other option is better. But with the advent of more narrowly targeted drugs (like things that selectively target serotonin, epinephrine, or dopamine), they just aren’t good.

If your friends aren’t beating that booty, they ain’t friends

Yup.

The barriers, however, aren’t minor enough to align myself and my beliefs with veganism.

There’s a lot of overlap in how I prefer to live my life, and a decent amount when it comes to how humans should treat animals in general, as well as when they’re under our care.

But there’s large areas where there’s conflict, and a couple of barriers that are more about vegans than veganism at its core.

I found that, while I can get behind the majority of what comprises vegan beliefs, and could certainly adopt most of the principles into my life, I fundamentally disagree with some of the assumptions. Since I do live my life with similar principles anyway, trying to force myself to pretend that those assumptions are also part of my beliefs to claim the self label vegan would be untenable.

In other words, I’m not an enemy to veganism, but it isn’t for me

Well, it’s a multi prong issue; there isn’t a single cause, and not everyone shares the same combination of causes.

First is the obvious. Age related eye and coordination issues. As we age, some things don’t keep it up like other traits can. And, worse, age related experience only counters it if the person applies said experience.

Second, you run into issues with the plumbing, as someone said in other comments. The prostate is a hell of an organ. But when it gets swollen, the stream gets sputtery. You also run into user error where you have to hold the thing different than when you’re younger because the elasticity and thickness of skin changes. It’s easier to accidentally apply pressure to the urethra. The typical two or three finger grip can apply more pressure than is good when the skin isn’t as resilient.

Third, the ol’ give-shitter runs down. Spoons, baby. You run out of them. The effort of paying attention just isn’t as bearable, depending on what else is melting your spoons down. Which applies to cleaning up after yourself as well. Which also means that remembering to behave better when you aren’t at home where you’re the person inconvenienced can be a problem.

Now, the answer to all of those is to sit the fuck down, but the folks now into their seventies and eighties had a much less free concept of masculinity. In other words, they were fed the unhealthy concept that doing things the way women do them is inherently unmasculine. That isn’t true for everyone, but actual boomers, and the generation before them have more resistance to sitting down just because they’re men. Boomers less so than their parents, as the actual baby boomers includes the very same people that fought to change such concepts.

You also have plain assholes, but that isn’t a generation thing; there’s assholes that will spray piss everywhere on purpose of all ages, so it isn’t really a factor for this question.

Legit, I had patients back in the day that would resist sitting down to put on pants because they felt it made them lesser. Not less masculine, just less independent. They’d resist canes and walkers for the same reason, accelerating their reliance on mobility aids. That aspect of seat pissing is also a factor, but like just being an asshole, it isn’t purely a generational thing. Plenty of young guys fight against anything other than standing to pee because being able to do so becomes a symbol of physical capability. If you have to sit to pee, you’re fucked is the idea, no matter how false.

I had to lay down the law with my own dad a couple of years ago. Got tired of needing to use the toilet and sitting in piss, or walking in it, or seeing it drip. In his case, he didn’t even realize he was missing, but he still didn’t like the idea. He also got cataract surgery after that and it improved his aim back to an acceptable level when he does stand while peeing.

For real though my fellow men; sit to fucking pee. Splashing toilet water isn’t a good thing, and that’s going to happen no matter what else you do.

I want to run the remote control of the Jupiter rover. It would be just like running my old traxxas stampede rock climbing next to a farm pond

Being real, not as long as it’s limited to niche phones/devices and/or having to be installed by users. Otherwise, even if it eventually becomes perfect in every other way, it’ll always be enthusiast level only.

That being said, a lot of the projects are reaching the point that all they need is oem support and they’ll be ready to go as an oem level os.

The app market will follow that.

Well, to quote some modern poetry…

Fuck, fuck, fuck the police

I think you’re running into a brand specific thing. The last box of frozen gyoza we got said to warm/steam then crisp in a pan.

I’m trying to think and remember if the ones my best friend used to get had the same instructions. I think so, and I’m remembering the smell of them hitting the pan, which wouldn’t be the case if they were frozen still. I’m 85%+ confident that brand said to warm then pan fry, though it may have been the brand that wanted you to put them in and get the edges crisp and then add water cover to steam.

But I’ve seen both processes on different brands for sure.

I tend to prefer starting off with direct heat to get the edges crispy, then steam. Usually, my the time they’re finished, enough of the water has escaped the pan so that the edges get nice and extra crispy while the body of the dumpling wrapper gets this elastic and soft texture that lets you take multiple bites without it falling apart, which often happens doing it the other way around.

Hell, I’m okay with only steaming them tbh. I enjoy the soft edges just as much.

But, to answer your title question, I think that it’s less about efficiency than it is making sure they get cooked through properly. When you steam/nuke first, you’re more likely to try and rush to fry and end up with cold centers. Steaming in the pan doesn’t lose much edge crisp (when heat is maintained well), but you’re almost guaranteed to have an even temperature throughout. Frozen foods have some unusual processes because reheating or cooking from frozen can radically shift outcomes.

That’s why you used to have frozen dinners with weird instructions for the different segments of the tray, like leaving one section covered, another slitted, maybe stopping to stir the dessert partway through, that kind of thing. Dumplings are fairly simple to make fresh because you’re actually cooking them. Most of the frozen ones are par cooked before freezing, which means you end up with wonky results if you follow the same procedures as fresh.

Edit: awesome question btw