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Zmirzlina t1_j6ol2jr wrote

Reply to Adoption is the 'skip intro' button for parenting. by thedbm

My first child was a five year process from deciding to adopt to the moment he came to live with us, then another year until we finally adopted. My second child happened in the course of a few seconds with my son’s friend at school being placed into foster care but no suitable homes so we decided to take her in since our license was still active until she could get a long term placement. Two years later parental rights were terminated and we finalized her adoption. Sometimes good things take time, other times life comes at you fast!

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Bewaretheicespiders t1_j6okcsw wrote

Reply to That 90s Show is farther from the 90s than that 70s Show was from the 70s by islandofcaucasus

Its casting is also farther from anything good.

I mean did they try to find the blandest bunch of kids they could? Callie Haverda / Leia is the only one you might remember in a crowd and she delivers her lines like its high school theater. Not that it would save the show with it being written like a Nickelodeon afterschool special.

You can't recreate magic, but I can't believe they greenlit that casting and those scripts.

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MegaMinerd t1_j6ok4av wrote

Reply to comment by Crux_AMVS24 in The direction of temperature is arbitrary. There is no reason for hot objects to be assigned a larger number than cold ones by Crux_AMVS24

From the ideal gas law PV=nRT, it follows that at 1atm and T=0C, 50C, and 100C, V will be 2241.4, 2651.7, and 3062.0 cm3, respectively. To get these same volumes, T under this new system (PVT=nR) would be 0.0366, 0.0309, and 0.0268. Ignoring the fact the T's units are now 1/K, this breaks the linear relationship between V and T. T=1 in this system is 1K in our system, after which it explodes to infinity. Physics itself seems to work. The change in scale is odd, but decibels are logarithmic so it's not unheard of. The asymptote at absolute cold and limit tending toward 0 as things get hotter are actually sort of intuitive in a way if you think about it.

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Rhueh t1_j6oj6n9 wrote

Reply to There's a perception that you can't just invent a word, and yet hundreds of thousands of them have been invented by pufballcat

>There's a perception that you can't just invent a word...

A misperception. Of course you can invent a word, otherwise where would they come from? Not only that, but you can--and do--use existing words in an idiosyncratic way. I would argue that you can't actually use them any other way--at least, not nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. It's important to understand that everyone means something different when they use a word, and conversations can fall apart very quickly if one or another person doesn't understand that.

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