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I do believe today was the first time I actually encountered a strident climate change denier in person. Kinda' interesting. Shame it was in a business law class where further discussion on the subject (or, honestly, discussion that outed this person to begin with) was seriously out of place.

I liked the bit where they noted that a volcano puts out as much CO₂ as a million cars, as justification for mankind having an effect on climate change being nonsensical.

E:Ooh, I checked the numbers. It seems there averages around 60 eruptions a year (60 million car equivalent) and there's over a billion cars on the road. Welp!

E2: This would also mean that the yearly motor vehicle output (going by 1 million vehicles/volcano) is currently roughly equivalent to 2/3rds the volcano output in the last ten thousand years, combined.

Folks, I'm not sure. But I think this volcano/car CO2 equivalence is reinforcing my belief in man influenced climate change.

A starting sewing guide, with a few resources at the bottom. Seems specifically if you've got a sewing machine, though. Was the third hit in "how to start sewing" on google, with several other apparently useful hits on the first page. Add "by hand" and you get a lot of stuff for doing it sans machine.

"How to start painting" pops up a crapload of beginner stuff, as does "how to start cooking". Any time you run into a term or technique that you don't know or isn't explained by the resource at hand, a quick search for "What is <that thing>" will usually clear things up.

And yeah, if it's a possibility, swing by local libraries and ask if they've got anything on hand, or know of any institutions that are offering resources -- it's not uncommon for one or more groups in an area to be offering that sort of basic instruction on the cheap, perhaps even outright free.

Cooking... you have the internet. There's recipes everywhere, for basically everything. Look at what food stuffs you have available, give a search online, see what pops up. Other than that, read the directions given, follow the directions given, and keep an eye on what you're cooking. Basic cooking really is no more complicated than that, and gives a firm basis for branching off into more advanced things. As for basic kitchen implements, if you've got a pot to boil water with and a pan to cook stuff, you have a tremendous body of material you can produce. Even without that, you've got a lot you can do. Cooking really doesn't take much unless you're getting incredibly fancy, and even then you can do a lot with a very limited tool set. Especially if you have the right seasonings and spices~

Painting... which sort of painting? Artistic, or just, like, painting walls a single color? The latter... again, internet, if you're looking for detailed instructions. Mostly you just paint up and down until there's an even coat, and move along. Make sure you don't have too much paint on the brush or (preferably, it tends to go a lot faster and produce a more even paint job) roller. There's not terribly much too it.

Sewing, I can't help with, ha. Depends on what sort of sewing you want to do, too. Just repair work, full textile assembly, etc. Again, though, if you've got internet, you've got a massive resource of tons and tons of free material. Local library (or libraries) almost certainly will have manuals for varying sorts of cloth work, as well.

Actually, if the library doesn't have texts on hand (or able to be called in via interlibrary loans) for all of that, I would be incredibly surprised. Cookbooks and sewing guides are common to have on hand in libraries, if my experience in them have been any indication, and art texts are fairly common as well.

Mm, fair point. It has happened occasionally... I know footjo fearfuljes-whatever has made the occasional non-english post, and Owlbread (and maybe a few others) occasionally slip into welsh for giggles, just as examples, without terribly much comment. Few posts out there that are randomly!chinese or whatev'. It's kinda' neat, especially since there's usually someone around to translate.

Well. Maybe. But thinking about it, speaking in a different language when the rest of the board for the most part is obviously using English could be considered "intentionally garbled language".

The time or two we had specifically non-english threads didn't get shut down, did they? We definitely get the occasionally non-english post, here and there, it's just rare to get particularly lengthy conversations before it defaults back to english.

Considering the amount of folks here that speak english as a second language, it's almost a little surprising it doesn't happen more, thinking on it...

I'll throw in for this one, too, heh.

Favorite game... more accurate would be favorite games, because there's probably a couple dozen tied for the first place in my gaming heart. But if you pressured me, and forced me to choose... I'd go with Incursion. Because of stuff like this. Between that, the first time I had an 18 Cha drow go on a tentacle beast rampage, and many other moments, it holds a special place in my gaming heart. A place that giggles maniacally and bursts into raving cackles of glee and doom.

... shot from a BB gun can kill a person if you hit them in the right place, enough times. As for small mammals, squirrels, birds, reptiles of varying nature, yup. Especially if you hit the right spot (like, say, the eyes) at the right angle, or put enough BBs in more or less the same place (I've killed a couple rattlesnakes over the years like that). It's not the most likely thing in the world, per se, and it's not like they're golden BBs (even if they are BBs made of gold) that kill anything they touch, but. Yeah, a small piece of hurtling metal lodging in the wrong (right?) spot can kill quite a few different things!

It's... the logic is straightforward and simple, and... probably one of the better ones for something like Saltybet. The FAQ lays it out kinda' bluntly. There's four tiers, S, A, B, P. Characters are assigned to each based on win percentage. That's it, entirely. The longer the matchmaking continues to operate, the more accurate the tiering will become, as is normal for this sort of tiering system.