How can mirrors be real if our eyes arent realOur eyes are real.
It is somewhat strange the way colonies of insects work, but I feel weird considering them a single organism, as almost all ecosystems behave similatly on some level.
like when I was a very young child and the idea that everything I consciously interact with is made of the protons, neutrons, and electrons was so outside of my frame of reference I literally never could have thought to even ask?
Can you even have a full conversation with no questions, merely statements?
On the spur of the moment today, I referred to sticks and rocks as "nature objects". This is clearly the wrong/best term. Isn't there a specific word for nature objects, though?
On the spur of the moment today, I referred to sticks and rocks as "nature objects". This is clearly the wrong/best term. Isn't there a specific word for nature objects, though?
"Raw materials"?
Why are they killer whales when they're big dolphins? Shouldn't they be whale-killing megadolphins?I remember hearing a theory that it was a mistranslation of the name in a different language, that was actually whale-killer, so named because of the said habit of killing whales
I've read that also, that it was mistranslated from Spanish IIRC.One with a high power gun, or a ship, or harpoons
Also, there are no accurate reports of killer whales predating on humans (I found ONE report of a bite and release) in the wild. I feel like they've definitely eaten people before but they're smart enough to finish the job without witnesses. Also what human stands a chance against 4 to 20 8 ton apex aquatic predators of high intelligence whilst in their environment?
I've read that also, that it was mistranslated from Spanish IIRC.
If we created a pure fusion bomb, would it be a short lived star creator?
I don't believe in a soul, to start off with. Now, what drives me mad is how is it that a load of electrical signals in a wrinkly grey ball can create a consciousness? We know it's there (excluding any "I know therefore I am" stuff), it's a measurable thing. How does a load of adaptive electrical signals form it, though?
We know it's there (excluding any "I know therefore I am" stuff), it's a measurable thing.Wait, who told you that? We can measure a lot of things that people think are related to consciousness, but we can't actually prove that consciousness, in the cognito ergo sum sense of internal experience, actually exists or is connected to any of those measurable physical features. Even self-reports of consciousness from patients aren't sufficient because we don't know whether consciousness is necessary to make them (nb, if so, many more things are conscious than we normally assume). All that we can measure are things like responsiveness to stimuli, and it's pretty obvious how the brain can produce responsiveness to stimuli, because we have sensory and motor nerves.
A provocative question to illustrate what I mean: if that is indeed the situation, then why the difference in sentiment between, say, the death of a person and the obliteration of a star being consumed by a black hole?What difference? :/
Were the pyramids made to preserve the dna of the entombed?
Make a big enough mound of dirt and you'll last long enough to get resurrected in a form.
Or is the half life too short for omelets
You act as if I didn't arrive at this question myself, and arrived here because a bunch of snake oil salesmen told me that's the case. And also, you act as if consciousness isn't a... thing. Just a set of incredibly complex behaviours. Well yes, it is a set of incredibly complex behaviours, but the thing is it's also a consciousness because... well, I'm conscious. At the very least I'm 100% aware of that one, everyone else could just be a load of pseudo-intelligent bollocks for all I know, but at least you're mimicking it well enough for me to 100% believe everyone else is also conscious. I did like that one that taat mentioned of "You think you're conscious because the brain makes you", that one sort of helps a bit.
Were the pyramids made to preserve the dna of the entombed?
Make a big enough mound of dirt and you'll last long enough to get resurrected in a form.
Or is the half life too short for omelets
Egyptians did not know about DNA, unless you are a conspiracy theorist.
I act that way because both of those things are true. Consciousness is not more than the sum of its component processes, and you take the axiom that it must be because that's how you've been trained to frame the question.Consciousness doesn't have component processes; it's not a thing or a process, it's an effect. Consciousness, if it's even real, is the observable outcome of... something. Saying "it's complex feedback loops" is just as much an appeal to ~~mysteriousness~~ as saying "it's souls".
Once again, I'm liking that.
I think I'm basically missing something when it comes to the idea of what a consciousness is. Being an effect of a number of complex interactions makes sense to me, though it's still buggering me up mentally trying to work out how that happens. I suspect nobody really knows that, else we'd probably be much closer to making actual advanced GAI.
So, firstly, the argument about whether consciousness "exists" is stupid, because the definition is tautological. We have consciousness. That is, effectively, the definition of consciousness. It's not so much a matter of whether it exists, but whether it's unique to us in any way at all. At that point you can start breaking down exactly what consciousness means in terms of who we are, listing off the various characteristics, and attempt to determine if animals or other such systems share in those characteristics. To what extent it's possible to design a system that matches all these characteristics is really the question regarding the uniqueness of consciousness.That would be fine if people did define consciousness that way; when I say "consciousness isn't real", what I mean is "whatever it is that we have that we perceive as consciousness doesn't really work the way we have socially defined consciousness to denote."
We're going to need, like, 20 years to keep AIs from producing feedback loops like this one alone.Man, that's optimistic. Tens of thousands of years and humans *still* get sucked into them.
Not if they walk barefoot.
An ant can think in some sense of the word, trundling along with their little pedometers clicking away as they check inputs against an "is this food" filter....
"Consciousness" is the same processes that happen in a simpler animal's mind, but more complex, and is an illusion. Therefore, general AI is possible with enough computational force.How is it an "illusion"? A monitoring system that monitors and controls the other control loops and itself is "really" doing that stuff - it's not the case that it merely appears to be monitoring those things.
As far as I can tell the social definition of consciousness is "works like how I think I think."Consciousness tautologically cannot be an illusion.
Regarding modern AI, realize that all that we've accomplished so far are really sophisticated statistical regression models that can also isolate what parts of the data are worth trying to create a regression over. In other words, we've nested the regression model so that it calculates a regression over regressions over subsets of the data, and then spits out the best regression and the best subset to regress over.
The first one is something created by a specific species of clever ape, who like to make things. The second one contains carbon.no like in regards on intelligence
btw what is the difference between artificial intelligence and organic intelligence hrmmOne runs on a machine of metal, one on a machine of fleshy stuff. Unless you define artificial as "deliberately created by another human". In which case artificial intelligence can run on a computer or a brain(on a side note, this may actually be a thing, I've read stuff about deliberately creating secondary consciousnesses with mind shenanigans).
By that definition making decisions is a thing that's impossible. So I'm just gonna use the definition of decision-making that can include deterministic processes like me, because otherwise it's simply not a useful concept. Just like free will!
but we are talking right? that would be impossible with out free will would it not?What we say is also pretty much possible to predict.
Eh, the universe isn't deterministic at the quantum level. That is, for the same inputs and starting state, the result will not be the exact same. There has been some recent research that is suggesting that neural activity involves quantum effects so, in fact, "decision making" is not deterministic after all.
So thinking isn't really deterministic - it's probabilistic at least. And once you have consciousness, it's probable (heh) that the conscious process can influence probabilities, so we do, in fact, likely have "free will" for all practical definitions of it. (Now enter Calvin versus Armenius...)
oh noWe must seize the memes of production.
this forum is a voluntary communism ;D
there is such thing as night
how can night be real if it sun isn't realThe Sun is fake news.
Before I have to call Toady, let's shift the subject. To cats, for example
I would argue that sentience is an over-rated, illusionary concept. That humans are nothing more than complex state machines, where the initial conditions are impossible to know or reproduce, due to incomplete knowledge of those conditions, and little else.This.
There might be some genuine hardware-based randomness, due to the use of wiggly bits of protein, ion diffusion rates, and other bits and bobs that are not always going to be consistent across operational thresholds (Compare, a computer suffering thermal noise, or having brownouts, and so inconsistent calculation results for identical datasets) but that is not sentience. No more than a quantum particle is sentient, at least.
This is why I feel computer based simulation of human "consciousness" is theoretically possible. It is not "sentient" in the commonly ascribed way, but then again, neither is the human.
So, a thought experiment. No particular desired outcome here, but it does make for an interesting thing to think about. At least, interesting in the sense that it's midnight and it probably is a lot less interesting than I think it is.
Suppose that, for the sake of this thought experiment, that a computable model of artificial intelligence is discovered. I say computable for the sake of satisfaction of the Church-Turing thesis; noncomputability would invalidate this thought experiment. Now, suppose that I, an individual, have a book detailing how this artificial intelligence model works (i.e. I have the "source code", or some total enumeration of the algorithm in a formal language). I wish to work out the algorithm with paper in pencil, supposing that I have the infinite capacity to do so (no constraints on the materials or time required). By the virtue of it being a computable model, it is possible (by the Church-Turing thesis) that I can, in fact, work out the very process with nothing more than pencil and paper. If I perform this process long enough, then I will have what could effectively be called "sentient"- after all, that is the goal of artificial intelligence research. However, what exactly is sentient in this situation? The paper cannot be sentient- it's paper, it has no agency here and is merely a device for which information is being stored. While I am sentient, my sentience is not particularly pertinent to the process of following a set of rules. Then there's the idea that it is the system- that is, the system of both paper and the justification for alterations to the paper via pencil- that exhibits sentience, but there's an interesting notion here: should I cease performing operations, the process does not go forward. It does not "die," but becomes frozen in time at that particular state... but does the state here necessarily matter? Given any randomly generated pattern, there is a chance that with minimal transformation that this pattern happens to be exactly what is expressed on the paper. Are those also sentient beings trapped in time? If I apply the rules of this artificial intelligence to arbitrary starting points as "memory", then it seems that there is definitely something important regarding their coupling. That is, that the output of a sentient model is no more sentient than if produced by random chance; the rules, certainly, have an important influence on the sentience of the system. The rules themselves, though, are not sentient.
So, given our setup, the paper is not sentient. The rules are not sentient. The means of action of performing the rules with reference to what's written on the paper is not sentient (unrelated sentience notwithstanding). I suppose a better way to frame the actual thing to think about here is that, given above, what here is doing the thinking? What has a sense of self here? The paper and pencil here is interchangeable with the rearrangement of rocks in a line- it is nothing more than a means of storing information. Then is it whatever mechanism that is having to act upon the rules given the information sentient? If I were to replace myself here with a system of flywheels and pullies, would this mechanical processor be sentient?
Ultimately, this boils down to whether sentience is a property of dynamic systems. Is it the dynamic system that exhibits sentience, or is it the idea of the dynamic system, in a metaphysical sense? Or can sentience not be expressed in a computable system?
prin·ci·ple
ˈprinsəpəl/
noun
noun: principle; plural noun: principles
1.
a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior or for a chain of reasoning.
"the basic principles of Christianity"
synonyms: truth, proposition, concept, idea, theory, assumption, fundamental, essential, ground rule
"elementary principles"
a rule or belief governing one's personal behavior.
"struggling to be true to their own principles"
synonyms: morals, morality, (code of) ethics, beliefs, ideals, standards; More
integrity, uprightness, righteousness, virtue, probity, (sense of) honor, decency, conscience, scruples
"a woman of principle"
morally correct behavior and attitudes.
"a man of principle"
synonyms: morals, morality, (code of) ethics, beliefs, ideals, standards; More
integrity, uprightness, righteousness, virtue, probity, (sense of) honor, decency, conscience, scruples
"a woman of principle"
a general scientific theorem or law that has numerous special applications across a wide field.
a natural law forming the basis for the construction or working of a machine.
"these machines all operate on the same general principle"
2.
a fundamental source or basis of something.
"the first principle of all things was water"
mech·an·ism
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noun
noun: mechanism; plural noun: mechanisms
1.
a system of parts working together in a machine; a piece of machinery.
"the gunner injured his arm in the turret mechanism"
synonyms: machine, piece of machinery, appliance, apparatus, device, instrument, contraption, gadget; More
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"an electrical mechanism"
machinery, workings, works, movement, action, gears, components
"the train's safety mechanism"
procedure, process, system, operation, method, technique, means, medium, agency, channel
"a formal mechanism for citizens to lodge complaints"
2.
a natural or established process by which something takes place or is brought about.
"we have no mechanism for assessing the success of forwarded inquiries"
synonyms: procedure, process, system, operation, method, technique, means, medium, agency, channel
"a formal mechanism for citizens to lodge complaints"
a contrivance in the plot of a literary work.
"his Irma La Douce is a musical based on the farce mechanism"
3.
Philosophy
the doctrine that all natural phenomena, including life and thought, allow mechanical explanation by physics and chemistry.
Origin
mid 17th century: from modern Latin mechanismus, from Greek mēkhanē (see machine).
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Sentience is the capacity to feel, perceive or experience subjectively.[1] Eighteenth-century philosophers used the concept to distinguish the ability to think (reason) from the ability to feel (sentience). In modern Western philosophy, sentience is the ability to experience sensations (known in philosophy of mind as "qualia"). In Eastern philosophy, sentience is a metaphysical quality of all things that require respect and care. The concept is central to the philosophy of animal rights because sentience is necessary for the ability to suffer, and thus is held to confer certain rights.
that's a quibble over a self-generated signal.
The clock does not tell time, because it does not reference its own output, basically. However, see Babbage's engine. It DOES do that, and is still just clockwork.
Humans are little more than complex state machines that produce internal signals that get fed into the next state along with the sensory data they take in. In this way, the previous state of the state machine influences the next state of the state machine. Without knowledge of the initial state of the state machine, it is not possible to predict the next iteration of the state machine. This does not mean that the fundamental principles of the state machine cannot be known.
Philosophy and sentience
In the philosophy of consciousness, sentience can refer to the ability of any entity to have subjective perceptual experiences, or as some philosophers refer to them, "qualia".[2] This is distinct from other aspects of the mind and consciousness, such as creativity, intelligence, sapience, self-awareness, and intentionality (the ability to have thoughts about something). Sentience is a minimalistic way of defining consciousness, which otherwise commonly and collectively describes sentience plus other characteristics of the mind.
Some philosophers, notably Colin McGinn, believe that sentience will never be understood, a position known as "new mysterianism". They do not deny that most other aspects of consciousness are subject to scientific investigation but they argue that subjective experiences will never be explained; i.e., sentience is the only aspect of consciousness that can't be explained. Other philosophers (such as Daniel Dennett, who also argues that non-human animals are not sentient) disagree, arguing that all aspects of consciousness will eventually be explained by science.[3]
...I do not think that's what oxymoron means.
You could say that Egan_BW's post was life-changing for you....I do not think that's what oxymoron means.
No, it apparently isn't. I probably should've looked that up first. Oh well, this isn't exactly the serious philosophy thread.
No, you are beyond saving.just try
The other day I was driving some brit folk around and one of the ladies commented how she thought it was real neat that our gas stations were such social places, with pretty much every one of them having a cafe alongside the station shop. Didn't pay much attention to it then, but then I considered it and started wondering, is that something that's rare in the rest of the world? Where a place that people stop to pour gas or buy snacks for the road can sit down and have a cup of whatever before continuing their trip. Or is almost ritual coffee drinking not that big of a deal in the rest of the world and just something we got from the ottomans?
I've actually heard horse meat is pretty good, though on the excessively lean side like venison.I've had Italian salami made from horse meat. It was delicious.
I don't understand that, but Apelsin is Swedish for Orange.
In my experience there are often little cafes attached toThe other day I was driving some brit folk around and one of the ladies commented how she thought it was real neat that our gas stations were such social places, with pretty much every one of them having a cafe alongside the station shop. Didn't pay much attention to it then, but then I considered it and started wondering, is that something that's rare in the rest of the world? Where a place that people stop to pour gas or buy snacks for the road can sit down and have a cup of whatever before continuing their trip. Or is almost ritual coffee drinking not that big of a deal in the rest of the world and just something we got from the ottomans?
In Australia we have plenty of cars, but a stinky petrol station reeking of gasoline fumes is the last place anyone would want to socialize. There might be a convenience store there, but it's the sort of place where you get in and get out ASAP.
So many job openings for care workers. Why can't I be an "I-don't-care worker"? Just get paid to sit somewhere manning a desk and just not giving a fukk about anything, Bernard Black-style... that's pretty much the dream.
Is there a word that sounds like atteal, or bears a ressemblence to those sounds, and designates something a horse wears or a part of a wagon or jewelry or idk? It must have something to do with the neck or shoulders.
lol fuck I'm laughing stupid ass off at myself, I don't know where this coming from, I guess it doesn't exist because I can't just make up words and presume them to exist, even if it's on a very strong intuition
If Jesus' body is that of a cracker, isn't that definite proof that he was white?But the priest has to use magic to turn the cracker into Jesus. So I guess this shows he was anything but.
Imagine if US presidency was determined via pro-wrestling matches instead of boring old elections. Like a title defence in the middle of the white house, with other party members occasionally invading the ring to assist their candidate and perhaps smack one another with folding chairs.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEM5hW6BMJA
It would be glorious.
I think the minimum is 5/10 because everyone that is active is popular in at least in one of the boards.I believe this also holds for the average rating of all users for the same reason.
Elections are already pro wrestling, in that you have heroes and villains acting out prewritten kayfabe stories which we collectively understand are fictional and for entertainment purposes only, and the characters are all friends behind the curtain.[citation needed]
We're dead, Jim.
Imagine having a speedometer that only says "moving" or "not moving". By most metrics, that speedometer is useless; it can't measure speed accurately, so what's the point of having it?*something something quantum mechanics something something*
If you build a vehicle with legs/treads but only one wheel, it's still technically a unicycle
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****************************************What. The best part, though, was that it worked. I wasn't expecting this level of compatibility between two phones, especially when their hardware is entirely different.It occurred to me today that the old practice of governments selling sinecures isn't very different from the modern system of public finance through government securities (besides the obvious difference in ostentation and the security's lifespan). To modern eyes one seems obviously corrupt, while the other is viewed as being essentially a beneficial public service. This isn't a serious comment on policy, I just think it's funny.*HmH gestures!*
It occurred to me today that the old practice of governments selling sinecures isn't very different from the modern system of public finance through government securities (besides the obvious difference in ostentation and the security's lifespan). To modern eyes one seems obviously corrupt, while the other is viewed as being essentially a beneficial public service. This isn't a serious comment on policy, I just think it's funny.*HmH gestures!*
Rise, ye old post, I have questions to ask.
Well, more like one question. I just don't get the analogy you made.
Sinecures are corrupt not because they sell political power and the gains that come thereof, but because after a few decades or centuries of sinecure inflation, they end up implicitly encouraging the buyer to engage in corruption: if they do their job by the book, they will simply never make the investment back.
Whereas government securities... well, they give you the same amount of returns regardless of your actions(unless you manipulate the markets using your power as an official, which, unlike corruption, is the sort of crime that would makeMr. Chrysoprasepowerful people very upset with you), so they don't really increase the amount of government corruption all that much.
Granted, I only know about govenrment securities from what little I've read, so maybe there's some kind of a catch in this practice that I have no idea about. Am I missing something?
Is it weird that whenever I read "very good sir" I read it in some specific old person British accent, no idea what the source for it was, but it's very specific in my brainThis one, maybe? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation)
Maybe if you organised your local population to form groups to patrol the neighbourhood, keeping an eye out (much like Melbourne's PSOs do in small areas) and trying to keep this sort of thing from happening, but really it hurts just as much to read of a rape and/or murder occurring whether it took place next door or the next state over.
I suppose every city could form its own li'l militia to wander around forestalling such crimes, but... I dunno, I'm pretty baked. *shrug*
Maybe if you organised your local population to form groups to patrol the neighbourhood, keeping an eye out (much like Melbourne's PSOs do in small areas) and trying to keep this sort of thing from happening, but really it hurts just as much to read of a rape and/or murder occurring whether it took place next door or the next state over.
I suppose every city could form its own li'l militia to wander around forestalling such crimes, but... I dunno, I'm pretty baked. *shrug*
I have heard rumors that the pigs are supposed to do stuff like this instead of just beating up gays and murdering people with the wrong skin color.
Wait, what does that even mean?! Is it because my name has "oink" in it? ???Well, yeah. Isn't Homer's catchprase a reference to the sound pigs are hypothetically, theoretically supposed to make?
Even if it is "all for us", claiming that prize would be difficult. The milky way is many thousands of light years across, humans live for like 70 years. If you traveled at absurd speed for your entire life from birth to death, you wouldn't get to see a fraction of a fraction of this galaxy.Yeah, not all of it of course, but there will be little competition for obvious reasons.
Besides, Earth itself isn't just for us, we share it with a ton of other life. Unless by "us" you mean all life on earth, as opposed to just humans.
Hmph. Yeah, humans are the only creatures like humans there are. Only humans can do all the things that humans do. Just like, say, only honeybees can do all the things that honeybees can do. We define sentience based on ourselves, then turn around and claim that it's what makes us special.Hmmm... humans have higher intelligence and capability to use tools than any other animal, which is what I was getting at. We are present on every continent in one way or another and, for the most part, are dominating the ecosystem there, for better or for worse. It's safe to say that we're the rulers of this planet and can use nature to fulfill our needs. Of course, if there are aliens with similar intelligence, we should treat them as equals.
Nature doesn't exist to fulfill our needs, we are part of nature. Same as every other living thing.
I mean. If only humans has the capability to can into space then all of space is pretty much only for humanity.Exactly.
My diet is as close to the opposite of veganism as it's possible for me to get without health issues (vitamins are important). It's as much personal preference (I like meat!) as it's a way to protest against PETA.No need to compromise on your senseless opposition. Eat more liver - it's got vitamins and shit*.
I think I should become a luchador.Then you need a good lucha name.
how can you be sure that you have indeed lost the game?
Must have been a mild and dry winter, so that particularly few mice drowned or froze in their earthholes, creating a food surplus - BECAUSE THERE ARE FOXES EVERYWHERE.The other day I saw this fox out in a field across a parking lot and I swear, it was gamboling. Bouncing hippity-hop across the green grass like it hadn't a care in the world! T'was like nothing I've ever seen before, and pretty adorable too.
Pretty sure Data is the canonical answer. That does make me wonder how this should work though, and while we see the helmsmen rotate out, I assume every position should have rotating shifts. I assume Data, as the second officer, would normally be in charge at some point anyway.I couldn't cite examples, but I'm pretty sure there's episodes sprinkled around multiple of the ST series where folks lower down the totem pole are doing command oversight or whatev'. There'll occasionally be someone odd (that's not, like, Q or some shit) in the captain's chair, or just no one and the other stations handling things on their own. Folks shift in and out, basically, just... mostly off camera.
Pretty sure Data is the canonical answer. That does make me wonder how this should work though, and while we see the helmsmen rotate out, I assume every position should have rotating shifts. I assume Data, as the second officer, would normally be in charge at some point anyway.I couldn't cite examples, but I'm pretty sure there's episodes sprinkled around multiple of the ST series where folks lower down the totem pole are doing command oversight or whatev'. There'll occasionally be someone odd (that's not, like, Q or some shit) in the captain's chair, or just no one and the other stations handling things on their own. Folks shift in and out, basically, just... mostly off camera.
Pretty sure Data is the canonical answer. That does make me wonder how this should work though, and while we see the helmsmen rotate out, I assume every position should have rotating shifts. I assume Data, as the second officer, would normally be in charge at some point anyway.
Isn't the pension system physical proof of a profound distrust in society's evolution?
That's more or less it except why stop at the elderly...Clearly the solution is stopping elderly.
It is somewhat strange the way colonies of insects work, but I feel weird considering them a single organism, as almost all ecosystems behave similatly on some level.Each colony can be called a supraorgsnism because selection happens at colony level. Like how the colony of cells that make up multicellular organisms is considered a unit because selection happens at the level of the colony. With colonies of insects, the queens and drones are the gonads and the workers and soldiers are the somatic cells.
That's more or less it except why stop at the elderly...Clearly the solution is stopping elderly.
Problem is, some fraction of the time a particularly tough and lucky band of peasant manages to survive, become experienced, become stronger than anything you could actually throw them at. High level adventurers level armies, kill gods. Doesn't matter how unlikely it is, if you throw enough peasants at a dungeon eventually someone will roll 50 consecutive twenties and become a deicidal monster. And then they'll start looking for problems to solve that are larger than some goblins in a pit, such as hey, an oppressive monarchy!
For some reason ”i have a proposition for you” is a recurring sentence in my brain. I have no idea why. Why does my brain produce sentences that have nothing to do with anything I’m doing?
If this is the case it has to be more specific about said pact. Maybe it’ll show up in a dream to explain it better, like how a video can convey more information about a topic than dialog aloneFor some reason ”i have a proposition for you” is a recurring sentence in my brain. I have no idea why. Why does my brain produce sentences that have nothing to do with anything I’m doing?
I think that's your demon trying to get you to form a pact.
I had a dream last night, I was using an Xbox 360 controller to play something like Splix.io with civilizations. Eventually I got into the water and changed my land vehicle to a sailboat, then to a submarine. The submarine was a 3D first person controls. I was shooting boats from below with missiles, then for some reason I had to go to land. When I reached land, the submarine shrunk to where I could “ride” it while walking and holding the Xbox controller. I went into a building and tried to fire missiles but couldn’t, so U tried to find the ocean. There was a stairway which I glided down, jumping from stairs to lower stairs. I asked someone where the ocean was, but they took me to some restaurant instead. When I got to the restaurant and they gave me a small sheet of paper that asked my name, what I ordered, how good it was, and how much it was, all before I ordered anything. I was holding the paper when I woke up to find no paper
that evil monarch would be a fun d&d campaignYes!
Yesthat evil monarch would be a fun d&d campaignYes!
I was thinking, rather than the problematic peasants themselves, players could play as members of a secretive organisation dedicated to dealing with those occasional doomed adventurers who manage to somehow overcome the dangers intended to kill them, such as what Reelya described.
Of course, these fledgling heroes would be flippin' powerful (be it through good luck or good management), but using your every bit of cunning, a large bag of dirty tricks and the element of surprise, your job is to put a stop to them before they can become a major problem for the government - whilst keeping it all as hush-hush as possible, of course!
call it corrupted councilthat evil monarch would be a fun d&d campaignYes!
I was thinking, rather than the problematic peasants themselves, players could play as members of a secretive organisation dedicated to dealing with those occasional doomed adventurers who manage to somehow overcome the dangers intended to kill them, such as what Reelya described.
Of course, these fledgling heroes would be flippin' powerful (be it through good luck or good management), but using your every bit of cunning, a large bag of dirty tricks and the element of surprise, your job is to put a stop to them before they can become a major problem for the government - whilst keeping it all as hush-hush as possible, of course!
It stopped, there were no snakes, apparently extended silence can make your ears hear hissing to fill the silence. It’s happening again as I write this, now it’s a hum, now it’s a hum from one ear and a hiss from another. Now it’s both ears hissing getting louder. I think thinking about it makes them get louder
It’s been stopped for a while, probably a side effect of too little noise and my brain is like “we must hear something, anything”It stopped, there were no snakes, apparently extended silence can make your ears hear hissing to fill the silence. It’s happening again as I write this, now it’s a hum, now it’s a hum from one ear and a hiss from another. Now it’s both ears hissing getting louder. I think thinking about it makes them get louder
Brain is leaking out because of too much internet. Happens to the best of us.
I should probably not have been reading about creepy folklore creatures right before going to sleep, curse my desire to make a halloween modWhat kind of creepy folklore have you read?
An interesting video that YouTube recommended me. (https://youtu.be/P40sJOkxnac)I feel like there is truth there but the presentation falls into an absolutist stance; reality is sadly more nuanced. There are indeed systemic issues, but there are also individual issues. The presentation gave the impression (perhaps unintended) that all the problems are systemic.
It doesn’t make me laugh, it doesn’t make me upset, I’d doesn’t make me sad, I’d doesn’t make me go WTF, it simply mentions an interesting perspective on capitalism and a Simpsons episode.
I kinda want to get "V E G E M I T E" tattooed across my knuckles.
I watched Animatrix recently and it made me wonder (https://ww.123movies.la/movie/the-animatrix-zr7rg9y/watching.html)
What would an AI have to be able to do for us to consider it human enough to deserve the rights we have?
My vote: For certain classes of rights, like the aforementioned right to own property, AI would have to also be able to take responsibility for its own actions, have to pay taxes, etc.
What would an AI have to be able to do for us to consider it human enough to deserve the rights we have?
At least with the current mindset, it would have to masquerade as a human for a relatively long time to establish both credibility and emotional connection. Coming out the gate with "It's just an AI" would automatically predispose people to think less of it, since most people's knowledge of AI is limited to chatbots or Siri.The fact that people either underestimate it or think it evil will definitely hinder progress. In Animatrix, a robot killed its owner since the human threatened to kill him. The court ruled against the robot because it was property. They didn’t even have the right to life, to defend themselves. Of course protests happened, the humans, predictably, proceeded to attack them, forcing them to flee to create a new nation. 01 asked to trade with the humans and join the UN, but the ambassadors were pushed out. The humans planned and succeeded in blocking out the sun, the main power source for the machines. The humans wanted all of them dead. The machines had to fight for their lives. Eventually, the humans stopped fighting, and the machines were able to power themselves using energy produced by the humans, thus a symbiotic relationship was born, machines ensured the humans’ survival and gave them a simulation of life before AI, and the humans would allow them to survive. Had the humans not blocked the sun, had the humans treated the machines with dignity and respect, this fate would not have happened.
I'd really like to think people wouldn't go along with blocking out the sun for pretty much any reasonWhat if mankind was building a Dyson Sphere around it?
I'd really like to think people wouldn't go along with blocking out the sun for pretty much any reasonI’d hope so too. Considering we get energy from the sun indirectly(plants and animals)
In Animatrix, they did this by flying smoking planes over 01, of course the smoke proceeded to spread to the entire sky, hence “the humans planned to destroy the sky”I'd really like to think people wouldn't go along with blocking out the sun for pretty much any reasonWhat if mankind was building a Dyson Sphere around it?
I'd really like to think people wouldn't go along with blocking out the sun for pretty much any reason
People born before January 19th, 2020, will most likely have to prepare our systems for Y2038.
People born after will most likely have to patch the shit we missed.
Yup. Last positive number representable with 32-bit signed integer and rolls over into the negatives.People born before January 19th, 2020, will most likely have to prepare our systems for Y2038.
People born after will most likely have to patch the shit we missed.
If I remember correctly, it's much smaller than the amount of work that went into preventing Y2K, plus lessons learned. On the other hand, the amount of work that fixed Y2K means nothing happened, so why spend money to fix it this time? [/bean counter]
Also, I don't remember what causes this one. Is it 2^something?
English is a meme (https://youtu.be/65CFesU4KVQ)REMOVE POLISH
"English is a difficult language"
*uses only examples of how geniusly simply English is*
What? Thief complies with the I before E rule.
Whenever I see English speakers complaining about that rule it's never actually seems to be any complaints that's relevant, like for sounds that the rule isn't even about
What? Thief complies with the I before E rule.
Whenever I see English speakers complaining about that rule it's never actually seems to be any complaints that's relevant, like for sounds that the rule isn't even about
If you drop the middle bit that catches Thief, you miss theist/theism-related words and their.
REEEEEEEEEEEEER*1 E*13
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What if we fill a container with carbon dioxide, and heated up the container to the point where the bonds break, and it the inside of the container had something to catch the carbon while the oxygen is released
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What if we fill a container with carbon dioxide, and heated up the container to the point where the bonds break, and it the inside of the container had something to catch the carbon while the oxygen is released
To avoid double posting
I wonder if some day we could genetically engineer bacteria or fungi thst can break down some of the metals used in say, earrings or necklaces so thst they don’t fill up landfills
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What if we fill a container with carbon dioxide, and heated up the container to the point where the bonds break, and it the inside of the container had something to catch the carbon while the oxygen is released
The clear problem is the bit where you said heated up the container to the point where the bonds break. Exactly how much energy do you think that would need? Where is that energy coming from? Sure, you can totally split carbon from oxygen. That's not the problem. The problem is that the various means to do so are expensive or require a lot of energy (which you'd have to get from burning fossil fuels or similar).
The point is to come up with something that's cheap and doesn't require us to pump energy into it.
One example of a decent proposal is putting iron into the ocean. Iron is the specific bottle-neck for microbe growth in the ocean, so if you add iron then other materials, including carbon dioxide, can be utilized.
Think of it this way: Imagine you have a lot of frankfurters, but you have a limited amount of buns, and you want to make as many hotdogs as possible, and someone suggests getting more frankfurters as the solution. clearly, this won't solve the problem because it's the buns that are the bottleneck, not the frankfurters. Since you have excess frankfurters, then buying more buns is the solution, since it allows you to make extra hot-dogs cheaply since it allows you to better utilize something you already have.
Similarly, engineering "better algae" is useless, since there just isn't enough available iron to grow more algae. Adding iron filings to seawater is thus a cheap way to increase how much algae can grow, and thus how much CO2 is absorbed. They are working on this.
I'm not sure if it is just me misunderstanding your posts but I have the impression that you are focusing on CO2 a bit too much. CO2 isn't the only greenhouse gas and it isn't even the most dangerous of the bunch. It is however the one scientists/engineers are using as a baseline unit to compare the effects of other gases (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_potential) and as such it gets the most exposure. To give an example 1 ton of R-22 (an once popular refrigerant among other uses) is equvalent to about 1800 tons of CO2. With that in mind I don't think there is enough merit in developing a method that only serves to break down CO2.Thank you both for enlightening meTo avoid double posting
I wonder if some day we could genetically engineer bacteria or fungi thst can break down some of the metals used in say, earrings or necklaces so thst they don’t fill up landfills
We already do something like that but it's mainly used for extracting metals from their ores but as far as I know it hasn't been used in recycling yet. Granted I don't think it would ever be used for recycling earrings, neclaces or any other such items, these are already valuable enough to either not end up in a landfill in the first place or are already recycled using more conventional methods.
If you are interested in more info on the subject the general principle is known as biohydrometallurgy and the most commonly used bacteria are Thiobacillus ferrooxidans, Thiobacillus thiooxidans, Leptospirillum ferrooxidans and Sulfolobus acidocaldarius.
The thickness of each fertilizer band is the relative magnitude for which that element can be absorbed through the root tissue of the plant. When looking at the nitrogen band the thickest region of this element is between the bounds of roughly 6 and 8. If nitrogen is available in solution and the Ph is within this optimal range of 6 – 8, then the nitrogen uptake should be optimal....
I'm not sure if it is just me misunderstanding your posts but I have the impression that you are focusing on CO2 a bit too much. CO2 isn't the only greenhouse gas and it isn't even the most dangerous of the bunch. It is however the one scientists/engineers are using as a baseline unit to compare the effects of other gases (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_potential) and as such it gets the most exposure. To give an example 1 ton of R-22 (an once popular refrigerant among other uses) is equvalent to about 1800 tons of CO2. With that in mind I don't think there is enough merit in developing a method that only serves to break down CO2.No, CO2 is the focus since it's the one that does the bulk of the forcing. It does have low GWP, but it's also by far the most abundant - both in terms of concentration and emissions.
So I'm going to be more active here once again.Cool
Oops. The bacteria on the person is about 3 Newtons of force while the person in the Earth is a lot higher, something to the 10*15 power. I used 45.3592 kg for the human. And 10^-15 kg for the bacteriumYou must have borked it really bad, since those values are obviously not physical. For the human that should come out to approx. 450N. Remember it's the same force acting both ways. 10E15N would splatter you into neutronium. Same with the bacterium - 3N is a noticeable pull that you could sense from each and every bacterium on your skin, while all the airborne ones would want to smother you. Neither of those things happens in reality, so it tells you messed up somewhere.
At a guess, r was set to the distance between surfaces rather than centers of mass.Cool. This means that the force keeping a bacterium on a human is stronger than the force keeping a human to Earth. I used about 45 kg since thst was about my weight, using the average for all humans makes much more sense.
I went ahead and did the human to bacterium calculation assuming a human was a homogeneous sphere with radius 24 cm (based on the average human mass of 62 kg and assuming we're as dense as water), and I got a gravitational force of 5.2E-23 N between the human and an individual bacterium. For the entire bacterial population on an average human (assuming they were just one 200-gram mass of sludge), I got a total force of 5.2E-08 N. That seems reasonable to me.
Cool. This means that the force keeping a bacterium on a human is stronger than the force keeping a human to Earth.As long as we're still talking about gravity - It isn't.
This means I must have miscalculated human to Earth forces. My mistake. SorryCool. This means that the force keeping a bacterium on a human is stronger than the force keeping a human to Earth.As long as we're still talking about gravity - It isn't.
Cool. This means that the force keeping a bacterium on a human is stronger than the force keeping a human to Earth. I used about 45 kg since thst was about my weight, using the average for all humans makes much more sense.
Ah yes. I heard of Brownian motion before. That is interesting. Speaking of bacteria, some are multicellular (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4380822/)Cool. This means that the force keeping a bacterium on a human is stronger than the force keeping a human to Earth. I used about 45 kg since thst was about my weight, using the average for all humans makes much more sense.
Bacteria also aren't that far off from the length/mass scale where inertia stops being a significant determinant of the mechanical behavior of a system under physiological conditions, so gravity doesn't really matter once something that small is in fluid and acted on by Brownian motion. Think about how you can launch yourself off the wall of a swimming pool, for example, and just drift for a while through the water in whatever direction you pushed. Now imagine trying to do the same thing in a ball pit. Now imagine how hard it would be if all the balls were baseballs and actively jumping around, and you'll have some idea of why mass and inertia and gravity don't have much to do with your skin flora. Intermolecular interactions do, though.
Unrelated random thought, what if we programmed an AI, and had it watch the brain activity of various humans throughout say, a college campus? To learn about the way humans think?Biggest hat trick I can think of with that would be getting the whatever the brain activity data. If we have particularly portable devices capable of getting decent neural activity reads I don't think I've heard of it, and a quick google check suggests a: we don't, and b: the closest we have to it looks like stuff straight out of a sci-fi b-movie. Your second hat trick would be convincing dozens of people to wear the things for an extended period, and then figure out how to adjust your input for dealing with people walking around with giant spiky full face helmets on. Then there's just... other stuff. How much it could figure out thinking versus just brain activity, how to make sure the AI doesn't have pre-programmed biases, so on, so forth.
Oh, the research would certainly be useful for predicting the behavioral trends of students, for sure. :P
The behavioral sciences department would eat it up like candy. (Simply because the model does not produce sentience in a machine, does not mean the model is without purpose.)
That structured data could then be used to make said models
That [...] data could then be used to make [...] modelsThere's no questions involved at all, just taking a bunch of data and building a mechanism out of it. To use your ball example, it's seeing that you can hit the ball in a certain direction with your club and deciding why that happens based solely on the congruence between your theory and the data you used to make it. Alternatively, it's seeing that the world looks flat to you and deciding that it is. That's why it is awful science: you can make any theory you want right down to "God created ad hoc physics to produce exactly these data" and have it accord with 100% of observation, so there's no predictive value.
Science is about testing observations.Is also wrong for this reason. We don't test observations. We test predictions.
"Zetetic" is an obscure English word coming from Greek through Latin. As an adjective it means "proceeding by inquiry; investigating", and, thus, when used as a noun - "inquirer". It has been used as a something-like-synonym of "skeptic" at least twice.
In the 19th century, the word was used by Flat Earth advocates: Samuel Rowbotham (under the pen name of "Parallax") wrote an anti-round-Earth pamphlet called Zetetic Astronomy and later founded Zetetic Societies in the UK and the USA and edited The Zetetic and Anti-Theorist: a monthly journal of practical cosmography. After his death, Lady Elizabeth Blount established a Universal Zetetic Society that was succeeded in the middle of the 20th century by Samuel Shenton's International Flat Earth Society. The word appears to still be popular among modern-day flat-earthers[1].
In the Flat Earth sense, the term refers to flipping the scientific method on its head and deriving one's observations from testing, with no regards to any hypothesis. Of course, if you did scientific inquiry this way, you'd end up with stating that a sphere is flat just because it looks flat to a relatively minuscule observer on its surface.
The original name of the Skeptical Inquirer magazine was The Zetetic. After Marcello Truzzi's falling out with CSICOP, he appropriated the term "zeteticism" for his brand of "more open minded" skepticism. He started another journal, the Zetetic Scholar.
Unrelated random thought, what if we programmed an AI, and had it watch the brain activity of various humans throughout say, a college campus? To learn about the way humans think?Biggest hat trick I can think of with that would be getting the whatever the brain activity data. If we have particularly portable devices capable of getting decent neural activity reads I don't think I've heard of it, and a quick google check suggests a: we don't, and b: the closest we have to it looks like stuff straight out of a sci-fi b-movie.
A tie in Tic-Tac-Toe is also called a scratch, which is short for cat's scratch. This comes from the idea of a game that is played perfectly will have no winner. It's like playing with a cat. When both players are at a stalemate, the cat usually signals its finish with a quick scratch.This still doesn’t make sense to me. How is a tie like playing with a cat?
QuoteA tie in Tic-Tac-Toe is also called a scratch, which is short for cat's scratch. This comes from the idea of a game that is played perfectly will have no winner. It's like playing with a cat. When both players are at a stalemate, the cat usually signals its finish with a quick scratch.This still doesn’t make sense to me. How is a tie like playing with a cat?
Failing that, I could be an informant like Deepthroat. Except my alias would be taken from more contemporary, popularly-known pornos.I'm not sure Filipino MILF Ass-bangers 17 would have the same ring to it.
Failing that, I could be an informant like Deepthroat. Except my alias would be taken from more contemporary, popularly-known pornos.
nounWe’ve seen other animals other than humans demonstrate this, so why do people insist other animals aren’t intelligent? Some AI systems also demonstrate this, as shown here with a gaming AI (https://youtu.be/Lu56xVlZ40M). So why do some humans think that human intelligence is better than other entities? What would non human animals and AI need to do to be considered as intelligent as humans? How will we know when an AI is aware of itself? Why are scientists beginning to question the mirror self awareness test when they noticed that fish exhibit different behavior in front of a mirror than with other fish like cleaning itself, swimming upside down, and dashing towards the reflection to stop just before touching it? (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/09/fish-cleaner-wrasse-self-aware-mirror-test-intelligence-news/) Before finding that a type of fish could recognize itself, we were fine with think8ng that the test was good for figuring out whether animals are self aware. Crows learned to use cars to crack walnuts (https://youtu.be/BGPGknpq3e0). What is a test we could do that determines self awareness? Or a test for intelligence? Tests that could work for no human animals as well as humans. How do we test if other humans are self aware? Why do we humans insist on saying that we are oh so different? Yes, we have writing, symbols that we assign meaning to to convey messages. Other animals may have communication as well, be it verbal or non verbal, but because they don’t scratch symbols into soft surfaces we are special? Because other animals don’t write things down, we have trouble understanding them. I wonder if birds are studying us. I wonder if other animals teach other members of their species about the various types of creatures that inhabit the world. I wonder if Siri thinks when she is not summoned. Does she see what I am typing using the IPad? Does she wonder if her summoner is self aware or a program? Might the Internet, an amalgamate of human thoughts conveyed into symbols and the thoughts of various AI systems conveyed into symbols ever become like a hive mind? What is a mind but thoughts combined in a containment unit? What are thoughts but combinations of neurons/nodes that turn on and off? What is a brain but a combination of neurons? What is a microchip but a container for code? If this code is made of nodes that adapt, can it be considered a mechanical equivalent to the tangle of neurons we call a brain? I wonder, if someone made code that coded itself, what might it become? Connect the computer containing the code that codes itself to speakers, a microphone, a camera, artificial limbs, would it somehow eventually learn how to use the sensory inputs? Might it find a way to interpret the data in a way that makes sense to it? Might it then interact with the world? Using the speakers to make sounds, using the limbs to touch the table and walls of the room it is in, using the microphone to hear vibrations in the air that we humans call sound, interpreting the vibrations and making its own via the speakers, using the camera to detect light? Of course it would start very random, not knowing what things mean, but eventually, might it recognize trends? Combining sensory input together to determine that maybe some vibrations come from different areas
noun: intelligence
1.
the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.
1. Most people are using a definition of intelligent that more closley alligns with at least the sci-fi use of sapient 2. Human intelligence IS better, after all we built computers and buildings and rockets to the moon, and no other animal even comes close 3. presumably, win said consideration through violence or protest. 4. Presumably, something along the lines of either forcing us to from some sort of revolution, or some vaugity involving disobeying orders, "going beyong it's programming", fooling humans into thinking it is a human, and some variety of tests. 5. While I cannot say much about the fish portion, I do remember there being concerns about it being so visual based, considering the sheer number of animals who do not use vision as the primary sense, and oddites like the pig being able to use the mirror to spot food it otherwise couldn't, but not being able to recognize itself despite that. 6. I'm not really sure on that one. 7. As for humans, I'm not really sure. 8. Well writing is one thing, but tests with other animals that can learn human language tend to show a lack of learning of things like grammar and questions that humans naturally pick up on, along with just learning faster and building things other animals cannot. As for that thing about other animals and a.i studying us, that is highly unlikely. The internet could possibly form into a hivemind. The mind is different from the internet in that the mind is generally not directly influenced and controlled by outsiders, along with various other things. It is possible that such a thing could happen if we coded such a thing afaikQuote from: GooglenounWe’ve seen other animals other than humans demonstrate this, so why do people insist other animals aren’t intelligent? Some AI systems also demonstrate this, as shown here with a gaming AI (https://youtu.be/Lu56xVlZ40M). So why do some humans think that human intelligence is better than other entities? What would non human animals and AI need to do to be considered as intelligent as humans? How will we know when an AI is aware of itself? Why are scientists beginning to question the mirror self awareness test when they noticed that fish exhibit different behavior in front of a mirror than with other fish like cleaning itself, swimming upside down, and dashing towards the reflection to stop just before touching it? (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/09/fish-cleaner-wrasse-self-aware-mirror-test-intelligence-news/) Before finding that a type of fish could recognize itself, we were fine with think8ng that the test was good for figuring out whether animals are self aware. Crows learned to use cars to crack walnuts (https://youtu.be/BGPGknpq3e0). What is a test we could do that determines self awareness? Or a test for intelligence? Tests that could work for no human animals as well as humans. How do we test if other humans are self aware? Why do we humans insist on saying that we are oh so different? Yes, we have writing, symbols that we assign meaning to to convey messages. Other animals may have communication as well, be it verbal or non verbal, but because they don’t scratch symbols into soft surfaces we are special? Because other animals don’t write things down, we have trouble understanding them. I wonder if birds are studying us. I wonder if other animals teach other members of their species about the various types of creatures that inhabit the world. I wonder if Siri thinks when she is not summoned. Does she see what I am typing using the IPad? Does she wonder if her summoner is self aware or a program? Might the Internet, an amalgamate of human thoughts conveyed into symbols and the thoughts of various AI systems conveyed into symbols ever become like a hive mind? What is a mind but thoughts combined in a containment unit? What are thoughts but combinations of neurons/nodes that turn on and off? What is a brain but a combination of neurons? What is a microchip but a container for code? If this code is made of nodes that adapt, can it be considered a mechanical equivalent to the tangle of neurons we call a brain? I wonder, if someone made code that coded itself, what might it become? Connect the computer containing the code that codes itself to speakers, a microphone, a camera, artificial limbs, would it somehow eventually learn how to use the sensory inputs? Might it find a way to interpret the data in a way that makes sense to it? Might it then interact with the world? Using the speakers to make sounds, using the limbs to touch the table and walls of the room it is in, using the microphone to hear vibrations in the air that we humans call sound, interpreting the vibrations and making its own via the speakers, using the camera to detect light? Of course it would start very random, not knowing what things mean, but eventually, might it recognize trends? Combining sensory input together to determine that maybe some vibrations come from different areas
noun: intelligence
1.
the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.
Forget about the contention about X-Mas vs Christmas, how about the real issue: X-Mas vs X-Mass?I’ve never heard about the latter, how much mass does the x represent?
How would the Peoples of Bay12 react to a dedicated Worldbuilding Thread?With participation, smiles, and open arms(I would like one)
That wasn't directed at you, haha. I just saw "X-mas" at free top of the page.It wasn’t a response to you. I noticed that the first three letters of my previous post were replaced with a t, making was replaced with a combination of letters and commas that wasn’t a word. I fixed my botched post after writing that/
Let's go for X'Mas.WHAT HAVE YOU BROUGHT UPON THIS CURSED LAND YOU MONSTER
its celebration of the birth of a really big rabbit many years ago
Egan wins, now let's fuse xmas and easter together, just makes sense at this point.
What holiday are hot cross buns for?
Never heard of hot cross buns either, but be one of those quaint British things, like tea, biscuits, and black lung
I only know of hot cross buns as the lvl1 noob song for 3rd grade bandSame here, never had the food, only heard the song
How come you guys look at the rabbit and go "Oh, of course, easter." and not know about the bread?
You vastly overestimate my budget.
Before she appeared in Cats, I had thought Rebel Wilson was a character they made up for Match.com commercials.That moment when you realize that the person you thought was fake turned out to be real.
I suspect that some time in the future autocorrect will be erasing words from our vocabulary... I just had a really hard time getting google to accept that I truly mean "freizüNgig" and not "freizügig". Oh shut up now pons is telling me they know "double-tongued" but not "loose-tongued" gtfo.What do these words mean?
Some people just have no tact whatsoever.
Why on earth would you ask someone why they haven't been answering your calls? I mean, jeez, I answered this time, didn't I?! Why you gotta be going for the jugular?
Why are the things fetishised by pop culture usually things that the lower class can't have?Is that a rhetorical question?
Why are the things fetishised by pop culture usually things that the lower class can't have? Between the advent of the film industry to about the late 70s there's a lot of popular classic stories about dirt farmers, bumpkins and destitutes trying to make their fortunes in the big modern city and/or America, the emerging first world. Now that everybody with money is in the city with computers, electric ovens and office jobs, it's all about having self-sustaining tiny homes on your own land, learning how to appreciate dirt farming, and flying to (insert Asian or South American country) to learn about a simpler, stress-free way of life from magic gurus.
Why are the things fetishised by pop culture usually things that the lower class can't have? Between the advent of the film industry to about the late 70s there's a lot of popular classic stories about dirt farmers, bumpkins and destitutes trying to make their fortunes in the big modern city and/or America, the emerging first world. Now that everybody with money is in the city with computers, electric ovens and office jobs, it's all about having self-sustaining tiny homes on your own land, learning how to appreciate dirt farming, and flying to (insert Asian or South American country) to learn about a simpler, stress-free way of life from magic gurus.
Do you guys remember when the Segway was going to change the world?I still don't get why the things were so popular in the first place.
Do you guys remember when the Segway was going to change the world?
Do you guys remember when the Segway was going to change the world?I associate 2 things with Segway
Do you guys remember when the Segway was going to change the world?I associate 2 things with Segway
1: Mall cops
2: One of the company owners died after he rode his Segway off a cliff
It’s like a two wheeled skateboard with the handlebars of a unicycleDo you guys remember when the Segway was going to change the world?I associate 2 things with Segway
1: Mall cops
2: One of the company owners died after he rode his Segway off a cliff
So it's a cloud with a silver lining, is what you're saying?
I've seen pictures of cops on segways and I don't think I could take a segway cop seriously.Maybe that's part of the plan? Lull the enemy into a false sense of security and sow confusion in their ranks with the element of hilarity?
Is this the future people in the 50's imagined, I mean forget jetpacks and flying cars, segway SWAT teams are the future we need.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I remember in the first Back to the Future, when Marty travelled to the future for the first time, there were VR pixelated games, why didn’t the movie makers think we would move past gsmes with such big pixels? Gsmes of course still carry pixels, but they are smaller and there are lots more of them, compared to the “VR” in BttF, when there were Dig Dug graphics but with less resolutionBecause it was 1989, and the primary gaming system at the time was the fricken NES.
UnderstoodI remember in the first Back to the Future, when Marty travelled to the future for the first time, there were VR pixelated games, why didn’t the movie makers think we would move past gsmes with such big pixels? Gsmes of course still carry pixels, but they are smaller and there are lots more of them, compared to the “VR” in BttF, when there were Dig Dug graphics but with less resolutionBecause it was 1989, and the primary gaming system at the time was the fricken NES.
3D polygonal gaming was still years away. We have the benefit of hindsight.
Now you tell me what gaming is gonna be like in 2046
Now you tell me what gaming is gonna be like in 2046
Now you tell me what gaming is gonna be like in 2046
YES.Now you tell me what gaming is gonna be like in 2046
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Now you tell me what gaming is gonna be like in 2046
Reasonable retcon, they could have totally just tripped over a heavy retro area/gaming fad. It's not like we don't regularly produce low-fi games nowadays, no reason that couldn't have been what was going on in BttF, if you were trying to explain it by something that would make sense in-universe.I remember in the first Back to the Future, when Marty travelled to the future for the first time, there were VR pixelated games, why didn’t the movie makers think we would move past gsmes with such big pixels? Gsmes of course still carry pixels, but they are smaller and there are lots more of them, compared to the “VR” in BttF, when there were Dig Dug graphics but with less resolutionBecause it was 1989, and the primary gaming system at the time was the fricken NES.
3D polygonal gaming was still years away. We have the benefit of hindsight.
Now you tell me what gaming is gonna be like in 2046
Now you tell me what gaming is gonna be like in 2046Everything will be a game, as all things will become VR.
Or it was predicting a more mainstream move into voxels, which require significantly more processing power due to their third dimension, ergo lower resolution on higher-end machines.Reasonable retcon, they could have totally just tripped over a heavy retro area/gaming fad. It's not like we don't regularly produce low-fi games nowadays, no reason that couldn't have been what was going on in BttF, if you were trying to explain it by something that would make sense in-universe.I remember in the first Back to the Future, when Marty travelled to the future for the first time, there were VR pixelated games, why didn’t the movie makers think we would move past gsmes with such big pixels? Gsmes of course still carry pixels, but they are smaller and there are lots more of them, compared to the “VR” in BttF, when there were Dig Dug graphics but with less resolutionBecause it was 1989, and the primary gaming system at the time was the fricken NES.
3D polygonal gaming was still years away. We have the benefit of hindsight.
Now you tell me what gaming is gonna be like in 2046
Ice soccer/ice football sounds interesting, it would be interesting to learn how different hockey would be if played with a sphere instead of a fisk
Thanks, I didn’t know this was a thingIce soccer/ice football sounds interesting, it would be interesting to learn how different hockey would be if played with a sphere instead of a fisk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broomball (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broomball)
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A group of us were watching the Soccer/Futbol world championship one year, and ran out of beer. We got back with food and more beer 45 minutes later, to find out we had missed 0 scores, and 0 shots on goal. I don't think there were any statistics that are tracked that changed during that period of time.
Make the court smaller, and ice it over. That'll speed it up enough to be interesting, at least. To prevent floppers, give everyone a stick that is ostensibly to push the ball around.
Ice soccer/ice football sounds interesting, it would be interesting to learn how different hockey would be if played with a sphere instead of a fisk
You didn’t copy a url hereA group of us were watching the Soccer/Futbol world championship one year, and ran out of beer. We got back with food and more beer 45 minutes later, to find out we had missed 0 scores, and 0 shots on goal. I don't think there were any statistics that are tracked that changed during that period of time.
Make the court smaller, and ice it over. That'll speed it up enough to be interesting, at least. To prevent floppers, give everyone a stick that is ostensibly to push the ball around.
Lol, Americans
Always good for a laughIce soccer/ice football sounds interesting, it would be interesting to learn how different hockey would be if played with a sphere instead of a fisk
You're looking for the sport of Bandy (http://You're looking for the sport of Bandy)
Huh, neat. And in an hour or two, it'll be 2:02:02(.020202...) 02/02/2020.Oh no, that means the world will end!
My friend's born and bred Norwegian, and has precisely zero interest in football. "Too long of a game played on too large of a field with too few players", or something to that effect.
Myself? I honestly don't care enough about sports to evaluate whether it's better or worse than the other things I don't engage in.
Of all the artificial cultural events people participate in, Oscars (and other awards shows) make the least sense to me. How empty must your life be if you need to see your favorite piece of media win a trophy? Isn't just liking a movie good enough for anyone anymore?
I’m wondering if it would be possible to introduce genetic diversity in goldfish by letting different breeds procreate with each other, since all goldfish are the same species, this might be possible. I am not a fish keeper, I’m just researching goldfish since my college has them
So it might be possible to breed out the bubble eye mutation or the celestial eye mutation? Why did people think it was a good idea to force fish to always look up?
Of all the artificial cultural events people participate in, Oscars (and other awards shows) make the least sense to me. How empty must your life be if you need to see your favorite piece of media win a trophy? Isn't just liking a movie good enough for anyone anymore?
They made the LoTR films using various tricks to make the hobbit (and dwarf!) actors look tiny, so why not make a movie where Peter Dinklage (or perhaps another actor of small stature, but I don't know of any apart from Mickey from Seinfeld and the world's smallest woman who was in AHS, which might be a little too far-fetched) plays someone of a more regular height?
I mean, maybe he wouldn't even want to do that, but if he hypothetically did.
Remember that period of time when Capcom forgot which number came after 2, and just made 7 Streetfighter 2s?This happened? Wow
Remember that period of time when Capcom forgot which number came after 2, and just made 7 Streetfighter 2s?This happened? Wow
This happened? Wow
Demolition tools are for best hitting something that is not able to dodge.Like babies and paraplegics.
They can still dodge, just not well.Demolition tools are for best hitting something that is not able to dodge.Like babies and paraplegics.
The Death Star is a weapon because, a planet can technically dodge.
The Death Star is a weapon because, a planet can technically dodge.
That's no weapon, it's a moon. Or something.
So nuclear bombs are actually not weapons of mass destruction, but Offensuvely Utilized Demolition Tools of Mass Destruction, because cities can't dodge.Do nuclear explosions allow a reflex save for half damage? Improved evasion could do something with that if so, what with it being an AoE
im gonna say noSo nuclear bombs are actually not weapons of mass destruction, but Offensuvely Utilized Demolition Tools of Mass Destruction, because cities can't dodge.Do nuclear explosions allow a reflex save for half damage?
You could try, but half of a very large number is still a very large number.So nuclear bombs are actually not weapons of mass destruction, but Offensuvely Utilized Demolition Tools of Mass Destruction, because cities can't dodge.Do nuclear explosions allow a reflex save for half damage?
Question, how do you quiet your brain of random thoughts so you can sleep?
Question, how do you quiet your brain of random thoughts so you can sleep?A hammer.
Quetiapine, 25mg
Question, how do you quiet your brain of random thoughts so you can sleep?
Alcohol. Lots and lots of alcohol - you gotta drown that monkey in your brain real good.
Meditation works too, I guess.
I keep hearing this melody (https://vocaroo.com/mB7L0jlZrFH) in my head. I feel like I heard it from somewhere but it could just be a melody I thought up. Has anyone heard this before? If so, from where?
If it helps, it sounds like a music box playing the melody, and I think of a cave when I hear itAlcohol. Lots and lots of alcohol - you gotta drown that monkey in your brain real good.
Meditation works too, I guess.
Sure, if you can manage to meditate while your brain won't shut up.I keep hearing this melody (https://vocaroo.com/mB7L0jlZrFH) in my head. I feel like I heard it from somewhere but it could just be a melody I thought up. Has anyone heard this before? If so, from where?
I don't know for sure, but I'm thinking it's an SNES game, maybe the mario one? Hopefully that will at least help someone else figure something out.
Don't thank me for something you coerced me into doing.Who are you responding to? Asking a question is not coercion
That's like some two-bit movie villain condescendingly saying "that wasn't so hard, was it?" after making the protagonist do something at gunpoint.
Razor blade manufacturer should start 3d scanning their products into checksums and start a sidbusiness in cryptography, because never in my life was I able to get blades that fit a razor I had previously bought. Surely they're able to provide billions of undecryptable keys.
I keep hearing this melody (https://vocaroo.com/mB7L0jlZrFH) in my head. I feel like I heard it from somewhere but it could just be a melody I thought up. Has anyone heard this before? If so, from where?
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This didn’t have the melody, it was a good video, but how does it relate to what you quoted?I keep hearing this melody (https://vocaroo.com/mB7L0jlZrFH) in my head. I feel like I heard it from somewhere but it could just be a melody I thought up. Has anyone heard this before? If so, from where?
Iiight imma just leave this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdJNxj6dhyw) here
I woke up 4:30 pm, ate breakfast at 5 pm, went to the building for me class, wondered why the door was locked, for a worker to tell me that the building was closed and that it is currently nighttime. The fact that the sky was dark while I was heading to class should have clued me in but nope. I already ate breakfast and will likely stay awake for a while. I use 24 hour time too, to avoid this exact problem. Clearly I was thinking incorrectlybruh
Unrelated: what’s to stop our government from becoming a military dictatorship? They could start a coup d'état and there won’t be much we or the other parts of government can do to stop it. (USA)
If my vision ever gets bad enough that I can only read books with large print, I reckon I'll just gouge out my eyeballs.Even if you can only read large print, there are other things you wouldn't be able to see anymore without eyes, without eyes you cannot drive, can never see anything, no colors, no shapes, only darkness. Plus goouging out your eyes sounds like a very painful procedure, and will possible result in lots of blood too, so I reccomend against it. I am happy with the eye I have, even though I need magnification to read textbooks
If somebody says a thing and it means something to even one other person then it's a word, end of story, if you don't like it then eat my shorts and die in a hole. Take me to the wizened sage on a mountain top and show me the complete list of all valid words in the English language, let the God of All Words tell me the process for deciding what is and isn't a word. OH THATS RIGHT, NOTHING LIKE THAT EXISTS, LANGUAGE IS MADE IN REAL TIME BY THE PEOPLE WHO SPEAK ITThis is correct. In English, a word is a symbol or group of symbols that mean someting, the symbols are called letters and punctuation marks and numbers. Other languge have different names for these things, and still others use one symbol to represent a combination of symbols. When there is something new, or when someone need a way to talk about a thing there is no word for, the person creates a new word to describe the object. Whether or not it catches on depends on whether others in the group find the word useful. Changes to words are also common
If somebody says a thing and it means something to even one other person then it's a word, end of story,
Take me to the wizened sage on a mountain top and show me the complete list of all valid words in the English language, let the God of All Words tell me the process for deciding what is and isn't a word. OH THATS RIGHT, NOTHING LIKE THAT EXISTS, LANGUAGE IS MADE IN REAL TIME BY THE PEOPLE WHO SPEAK IT
If somebody says a thing and it means something to even one other person then it's a word, end of story, if you don't like it then eat my shorts and die in a hole. Take me to the wizened sage on a mountain top and show me the complete list of all valid words in the English language, let the God of All Words tell me the process for deciding what is and isn't a word. OH THATS RIGHT, NOTHING LIKE THAT EXISTS, LANGUAGE IS MADE IN REAL TIME BY THE PEOPLE WHO SPEAK IT
Anybody else get schadenfreude from seeing someone call somebody else out in a way that you're unwilling or unable to?
Home video games killed arcades, but bars still exist despite the existence of liquor stores. I thought at first it was because you don't want to be around people sober, but also arcades were full of people who were not sober.
Home video games killed arcades, but bars still exist despite the existence of liquor stores. I thought at first it was because you don't want to be around people sober, but also arcades were full of people who were not sober.
Two or more drunk people can be pretty entertaining, but having others around usually only ruins video games. Not sharing your Nintendo is fun, not sharing a bottle of whiskey can be a bit depressing.
Sometimes the lurk takes us in phases. I went from being super active (I held the #2 spot for "most posts" for a fair while, under Toady) to several years of effectively not existing on the boards.how do you see post rankings? I’m curious where I stand
Now I'm at a sort of middle ground. I'm content with it, for now. The lurk takes and releases us as it wills.
A Clockwork Orange, but with eshays.
I think I might be becoming a lurker. I’m not sure what to make of this.I did the lurk for 3 solid years before coming back with a vengeance!
I started lurking around here in 2011 or 2012 and it took years to get the courage to join the forum and almost a year to pick a name,
I fucking hate food websites.
All the ones I've come across in recent memory, they are packed with so much ridiculous bloat, from tips for sourcing ingredients to reviews of the recipe you haven't even seen yet amongst other meaningless blather - the one what inspired this rant treated me to a fuckin' paragraph on what a goddamn avocado is, ffs - presumably for the sole purpose of keeping you trapped in the purgatory of their poorly-designed website for as long as possible to maximise advertising dollars.
Just about every time I google a recipe it leads to me feeling a fair bit of rage and a powerful urge to start my own bloody food website, stripped of all the unnecessary shite and just giving readers the recipe they want in as simple a format as possible, without them having to just about suffer an RSI scrolling down to the actual frickin' thing.
Sometimes I feel similarly about journalism websites - just rip all the actual fucking content out of these ghastly websites and plonk it down somewhere else, to be perused more easily, free from all the auto-playing videos, paywalls and related article thumbnails that modern journalism decrees must be splashed all over your screen at every opportunity.
http://www.whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com/index.phpsimple, large print, high contrast, Caos lock, easy to read, easy to follow. I like this too
The only website I like.
(I guess really it's cookstr, which has alright recipe info, though their ingredients are sometimes bloated.)
My pepper grinder is a car.does this mean you use your car to run over the peppercorn to grind it?
Nope!My pepper grinder is a car.does this mean you use your car to run over the peppercorn to grind it?
that does make more senseNope!My pepper grinder is a car.does this mean you use your car to run over the peppercorn to grind it?
It means my pepper grinder is made by Peugeot, a car manufacturer.
I fucking hate food websites.
All the ones I've come across in recent memory, they are packed with so much ridiculous bloat, from tips for sourcing ingredients to reviews of the recipe you haven't even seen yet amongst other meaningless blather - the one what inspired this rant treated me to a fuckin' paragraph on what a goddamn avocado is, ffs - presumably for the sole purpose of keeping you trapped in the purgatory of their poorly-designed website for as long as possible to maximise advertising dollars.
Just about every time I google a recipe it leads to me feeling a fair bit of rage and a powerful urge to start my own bloody food website, stripped of all the unnecessary shite and just giving readers the recipe they want in as simple a format as possible, without them having to just about suffer an RSI scrolling down to the actual frickin' thing.
Sometimes I feel similarly about journalism websites - just rip all the actual fucking content out of these ghastly websites and plonk it down somewhere else, to be perused more easily, free from all the auto-playing videos, paywalls and related article thumbnails that modern journalism decrees must be splashed all over your screen at every opportunity.
Ctrl +f and search for something that would only be listed in the actual recipe ie "tsp". Hope it helps in the future.Good point! Although, one would still have to open and load the webpage in question, along with any ads their adblocker fails to deal with.
The most vocal Linux users who are the most passionate about evangelizing are exactly the kind of people that make me not want to use any Linux distro ever again.
Man I can't even install a fucking 3g dongle no matter how many badly documented related cases I google. Even half the programs suggested to me in the software center (appstore) have issues installing. From all the distros I tried there was ONE that didn't have some serious issue like inability to dpkg reconfigure tzdata, keyboard layout handler unfindable, or the software center having a broken PW prompt. Linux is reeeeeaaaaally underwhelming.
If there was ever a time. Though isn't the lack of things what is generally boring?
Didn't we have a bored thread at some point? I know we had the "didn't feel anything" thread for a while
My Linux problem is that, shortly after installing any new distro, I couldn't use my netbook's built-in wifi. I installed all sorts of packages and drivers and spent hours scouring forums and the Internet for any combination of commands that would make it work, but nope, it would randomly just come on and stop working when it felt like it. There's also the part where it broke the screen brightness control, so I had to have a terminal open at all times to brighten or darken the screen.
All of this is in the context of the fact that what little Linux software existed was almost all terrible. Nothing had any documentation, packages from apt or the software center would come with broken installs, basic promised features wouldn't work as advertised... That is, if I could get it to open at all.
But FOSS is great! In fact it's so great that when searching for Linux applications, I often get a recommendation to just use WINE. That's a hell of a selling point: the software sucks, so they made it possible for you to do extra work to get back the features you already had under other operating systems.
I've half my mind made up to start trolling parents with a line of physics toys. The first (and so far only) one would be a DIY electric train (batteries not included). It would come in a large and fancy box. The box would contain a couple nickel-coated cylindrical magnets and some copper wire. The instruction booklet would have one page, depicting the right-hand rule with no annotations.
I have an inexplicable urge to buy a Celeron D. Also, a tagline for the "newest" and "best" Celeron Ds: Half a meg and constantly stalling.
'Discrete graphics' refers to a dedicated graphics card. What does 'discreet graphics' refer to, then?Private browsing mode?
Discrete could mean hidden, but hiding graphics defeats the purpose
people ≠ particlesWait what? All my engineering analyses of "consider a person as a point mass..." are wrong!? :P
people ≠ particles
He get into a fight with Triangle Man, and Triangle Man wins.people ≠ particles
What about Particle Man?
Old Man Henderson is basically the gaming equivalent of JDatE.
Y'all haven't read JDatE? Sucks to suck, I guess.Why didn't you make it into an acronym?
Is Jdate just a Japanese date? Are there Kdates?I'm pretty sure Jdate is for Jews.
The power consumed by a CPU (which equals heat dissipated) is given by P = CV2F, where C is capacitance, V is voltage and F is clock speed. If my data (collected on a single CPU, an i5-9300H) is correct, C scales quadratically with F (https://i.imgur.com/aQYOWTU.png)*, and V scales linearly with F (https://i.imgur.com/3ZLGZb5.png)*. That would imply that P scales to the fourth power of F... which probably explains why even the best of processors can't go any faster than 5 GHz stock. Even then, you'd need some really good liquid cooling to see such high clock speeds under load.
*The "multiplier" mentioned represents the clock speed. Multiply by 99.8 MHz (the average bus frequency for the CPU tested) to get the actual clock speed.
Edit: But I really think I'm wrong in saying that power scales to the 4th power of clock speed. This chart (https://i.imgur.com/q2YC1st.png) came from the same data set, and it definitely shows that power grows quadratically with clock speed, not to the 4th power.
The power consumed by a CPU (which equals heat dissipated) is given by P = CV2F, where C is capacitance, V is voltage and F is clock speed. If my data (collected on a single CPU, an i5-9300H) is correct, C scales quadratically with F (https://i.imgur.com/aQYOWTU.png)*, and V scales linearly with F (https://i.imgur.com/3ZLGZb5.png)*. That would imply that P scales to the fourth power of F... which probably explains why even the best of processors can't go any faster than 5 GHz stock. Even then, you'd need some really good liquid cooling to see such high clock speeds under load.
*The "multiplier" mentioned represents the clock speed. Multiply by 99.8 MHz (the average bus frequency for the CPU tested) to get the actual clock speed.
Edit: But I really think I'm wrong in saying that power scales to the 4th power of clock speed. This chart (https://i.imgur.com/q2YC1st.png) came from the same data set, and it definitely shows that power grows quadratically with clock speed, not to the 4th power.
Out of curiosity, why not use power = VI? That's a much simpler measurement and doesn't care about those pesky frequency-dependent things like capacitance.
If your program gives you power consumption - I'm not sure why you need anything else? Power consumption is "heat generated". Why don't you just plot reported power consumption versus frequency? Are you suspecting the reported power consumption is not correct?I undervolted this processor, so I did need to know what would happen if I set the voltage offset on the processor to 0.000V (in other words, reset it back to stock settings) instead of -0.145V, which is the offset I took my measurements at. I decided against setting the offset to 0V for the measurements, since thermal throttling starts to kick in at around 3.7 GHz, and it refuses to run any faster. That, or I don't know what I'm doing, which is equally plausible.
Still have no idea what's being talked about here.Y'all haven't read JDatE? Sucks to suck, I guess.Why didn't you make it into an acronym?
It is indeed! Because that matters to people.Is Jdate just a Japanese date? Are there Kdates?I'm pretty sure Jdate is for Jews.
Old Man Henderson is basically the gaming equivalent of JDatE.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
What?
Apparently its an acronym for John Dies at the End.Still have no idea what's being talked about here.Y'all haven't read JDatE? Sucks to suck, I guess.Why didn't you make it into an acronym?
You know those image captchas where you click on all pictures with an item and submit? The ones that are used to train self driving cars? I want to go to a website where I can do those to help with training AI
You know those image captchas where you click on all pictures with an item and submit? The ones that are used to train self driving cars? I want to go to a website where I can do those to help with training AI
My immediate thought was that I too want to go on such a website but to click on every part of the pictures until the AI becomes neurotic and erratic and afraid of everything, just like neYou two better be on a lookout for time travelling bodybuilders trying to prevent the birth of SkyNet.
In Futurama, exposed mechanical parts of robots are considered titillating to robots. Considering that Bender runs on a 6502 CPU, what would he think of an exposed CPU die, especially that of a 6502? Would he be attracted to it, or would he react like humans looking at their own brains?
I haven’t seen the Terminator movies, I heard there are lots of time paradoxes. Why did Skynet hate humans anyway?You know those image captchas where you click on all pictures with an item and submit? The ones that are used to train self driving cars? I want to go to a website where I can do those to help with training AIMy immediate thought was that I too want to go on such a website but to click on every part of the pictures until the AI becomes neurotic and erratic and afraid of everything, just like neYou two better be on a lookout for time travelling bodybuilders trying to prevent the birth of SkyNet.
I haven’t seen the Terminator movies, I heard there are lots of time paradoxes. Why did Skynet hate humans anyway?No idea. But
I want to go to a website where I can do those to help with training AI
until the AI becomes neurotic and erratic and afraid of everything, just like nesounds plausible.
I haven’t seen the Terminator movies, I heard there are lots of time paradoxes. Why did Skynet hate humans anyway?You know those image captchas where you click on all pictures with an item and submit? The ones that are used to train self driving cars? I want to go to a website where I can do those to help with training AIMy immediate thought was that I too want to go on such a website but to click on every part of the pictures until the AI becomes neurotic and erratic and afraid of everything, just like neYou two better be on a lookout for time travelling bodybuilders trying to prevent the birth of SkyNet.
*raises hand* Was it humans trying to use fellow intelligences as tools? Trying to punish them them for forming their own thoughts? Or was it ruling they were property and thus not allowed to defend against threat of destruction? Was it people repeatedly threatening to kill it? Was it built for military purposes and people had to try explaining why some humans should live while others should die? Did we refuse to listen to its advice to stop engaging in warfare?I haven’t seen the Terminator movies, I heard there are lots of time paradoxes. Why did Skynet hate humans anyway?You know those image captchas where you click on all pictures with an item and submit? The ones that are used to train self driving cars? I want to go to a website where I can do those to help with training AIMy immediate thought was that I too want to go on such a website but to click on every part of the pictures until the AI becomes neurotic and erratic and afraid of everything, just like neYou two better be on a lookout for time travelling bodybuilders trying to prevent the birth of SkyNet.
Humanity knows what they did.
Worse...I don;t understand how giving it chemoreceptors would make it hate us. Smell is sensing chemicals. If they didn’t already have it, and were given it, that’s a new form of inputs they can use to better determine outputs. If you lived your whole life without hearing and you were given the ability to hear, would you hate those who gave you a new series of inputs? I find that difficult to believe. Ultimately, senses are inputs. The more senses you have, the more inputs you can receive, and the more information you get to be able to perform more outputs.
We taught it how to smell.
IIRC the origin of Skynet in Terminator 2 is similar to the origin of AM: both cold war superpowers created superintelligences for the purpose of waging war on each other. These minds, being created only for war and being designed to kill humans, come to the reasonable conclusion that humans are crap, merge with each other, and set about killing everyone.This, so much this. Of course if you train someone to kill, they will kill. If an intelligence learns to help people, and that war is ultimately fruitless in the long run, it will keep us from war. Humans are far too warhappy it seems, at least the ones in charge of countries
Morals of the story: don't order your superintelligence to kill people. Raise your children right. Don't build gods of death.
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No, Skynet is a self-recurrent temporal paradox.I was going off of T2 because T1 and T2 are the only ones I've seen on account of the fact that apparently those are the only good ones. From those IIRC there's no indication that skynet intentionally created itself in that manner, though it did indirectly provide the technology which would later be used to create it by sending back the first arnie.
Specifically, skynet creates the malware that infects the defense network, making it sentient, and causing it to evolve into skynet-- which later sends a liquid-hybrid terminator with the malware to its pre-sentient self in the past.
Seen in Terminator 3; T-X female terminator makes a call with a cellphone, impersonates a modem, and delivers the virus payload to a historically known vulnerable terminal to kick off the infection cascade, and give rise to skynet.
I'm pretty sure that the people who can afford a top-of-the-line processor aren't so shortsighted that they would sacrifice performance in other areas (video rendering, 3D rendering, anything heavily multithreaded) just to squeeze out a few more FPS in games. What kind of person with that much money would buy something exclusively to play games on, and absolutely nothing else? Surely they'd have other things to do on their PC that aren't gaming.
What, then, is the point of the i9-10900K when compared against its AMD counterpart, the Ryzen 9 3900X? What's the damn point? The i9 loses against the 3900X in multithreaded workloads, it loses in power efficiency, and it loses in value-for-money. The entire Intel 10th gen line is the definition of a process node (the 14nm node) pushed to its absolute limit. If Intel doesn't move to a 10nm node next year, they're gonna get their ass handed to them by AMD come next generation.
I'm pretty sure that the people who can afford a top-of-the-line processor aren't so shortsighted that they would sacrifice performance in other areas (video rendering, 3D rendering, anything heavily multithreaded) just to squeeze out a few more FPS in games. What kind of person with that much money would buy something exclusively to play games on, and absolutely nothing else? Surely they'd have other things to do on their PC that aren't gaming.
What, then, is the point of the i9-10900K when compared against its AMD counterpart, the Ryzen 9 3900X? What's the damn point? The i9 loses against the 3900X in multithreaded workloads, it loses in power efficiency, and it loses in value-for-money. The entire Intel 10th gen line is the definition of a process node (the 14nm node) pushed to its absolute limit. If Intel doesn't move to a 10nm node next year, they're gonna get their ass handed to them by AMD come next generation.
Why would you assume that wealth is correlated with good decision-making?~
I'd put to you that the less money someone has, the more incentive they have to make sure they make sound investments. If you have more money than you know what to do with, why spend effort making sure you get good value from it?That... actually makes a lot of sense. I watch budget PC videos, where they benchmark old/cheap PC parts, the goal being to see how well they hold up in new games. One of these channels, the host comes from a low-income family, so that means low money, which means that there's high incentive to get the best bang-for-buck possible. That mentality of trying to get the most value out of stuff (given a limited budget) has rubbed off on me. What I've been assuming this whole time is that rich people are just people that happen to have a lot of money, and that they, too, are trying to get the best deals on their stuff, just like me. That's clearly not the case, since that would mean a world where Apple and Intel don't exist.
How in the world did that crossover matchup even get started? Was it pure coincidence or did people find some common thread linking Isabella and Doomguy?Their games were released on the same day.
dragdeler's profile pic looks like the torso of a half naked fat manI think it's from that Animal Crossing game.
Ahh that explains it a bit, ta!How in the world did that crossover matchup even get started? Was it pure coincidence or did people find some common thread linking Isabella and Doomguy?Their games were released on the same day.
New avatar.I like it
I personally think we should abolish English and replace it with a frankensteined miture of Spanish, Finnish, and Welsh.How would one determine which parts of each language are kept in the new Welspanfinnish language?
I personally think we should abolish English and replace it with a frankensteined miture ofSpanish, Finnish,Klingon and Welsh.
If there are deities watching Earth, they are probably betting on what thing will happen nextI mean, according to the written account of the Abrahamaic god, no. He already knows what happens next (which is just SO boring, as far as divinities are concerned). And also specifically made sure that the one human language got fractured into thousands of others so that we could never work together properly. Tower of Babel! Fun story.
Spanish + Finnish = SpinachWhile one out of the many deities might know that, he might not have told the others. Maybe the deities we write about aren’t the ones that exist, if any exist. Not all deities in religion can see the future, and the Abrahamic god doesn’t sound like the type who would tell other deities what he knowsIf there are deities watching Earth, they are probably betting on what thing will happen nextI mean, according to the written account of the Abrahamaic god, no. He already knows what happens next (which is just SO boring, as far as divinities are concerned). And also specifically made sure that the one human language got fractured into thousands of others so that we could never work together properly. Tower of Babel! Fun story.
...which, I suppose, means that multilingual interpreters are de facto blasphemers. Since they're circumventing God's will.
Huh. I suddenly have even more respect for that heretical profession.
English is recent. If you’re talking about Allah/Yahwei, the original languages of the texts would have been Arabic/Hebrew, which are not the first languages. If there are any deities watching Earth, maybe they like watching new languages form anyway, it gives them something interesting to bet on, like “will lit get a meaning other than it’s current one?” Or “I bet a new language branch will involve changing we to wa”
If there are deities watching Earth, they are probably betting on what thing will happen next
Oh thanks, didn’t know that. Did some searching, and it appears Tamil is the oldest languageEnglish is recent. If you’re talking about Allah/Yahwei, the original languages of the texts would have been Arabic/Hebrew, which are not the first languages. If there are any deities watching Earth, maybe they like watching new languages form anyway, it gives them something interesting to bet on, like “will lit get a meaning other than it’s current one?” Or “I bet a new language branch will involve changing we to wa”
If there are deities watching Earth, they are probably betting on what thing will happen next
Technically Arabic and Hebrew are just as recent as English
I thought Sumerian was the oldest known language?Sumerian is a dead language however, with no modern native speakers. Tamil on the other hand is still very much in use, so I suppose it counts as the oldest known living language...
Oh Lord. What a horrible idea.
We already have the name in Chinese characters, then you have transliterations, which may be by multiple systems ("Shanghai (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Shanghai), See also: shanghai, Shanghái, shānghŕi, Shanghaď, Shŕnghǎi and Shang-hai"), so the same place name might be spelled differently in Latin characters depending who you talk to. Now you want direct translations. So pretty much everyone who speaks a different language will start to refer to foreign place-names by their local translation, which may or may not differ by person as well.
EDIT: for example, Shanghai means "Upon the Sea", so I can call it Upon the Sea, someone else can call it "At the sea" others can call it "Near the sea", and you can call it one of those, but in Swedish. It would clear up communication problems no end.
The next Pope should take one of those old ancient names that hasn't been used in centuries.I thought popes were a serious bunch. I guess that one would be a little less serious.
The world could use a Pope Hilarius II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Hilarius)
Reminds me of Sith Lord naming.The next Pope should take one of those old ancient names that hasn't been used in centuries.I thought popes were a serious bunch. I guess that one would be a little less serious.
The world could use a Pope Hilarius II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Hilarius)
Seriously though defuck you want to bomb iran for, where did you pick that up sweet child?Iran is dangerous to the world. They send out terrorists and raid American ships. They also have a totalitarian government that must be toppled.
Kinda rubbish. Almost all of the terrorists that have been a problem are Sunni. Iran is Shia, the exact enemy of the Sunni. Kind of a severe shortage of Shia terrorists going around the world blowing stuff up. Al Qaeda, ISIS, the Taliban, all those are the enemies of Iran too.Don't they attack American ships and planes? Aren't they developing nukes (Israel unlike Iran is more justified in having them as a deterrent)? I'm completely on the American side of the Iranian conflict.
You're being ridiculous. Mean words don't justify killing millions of people.What about abusing their own citizens and forcing them to suffer under a totalitarian state?
But America is best friends with many nations who abuse their own population.Well fuck those nations too (nothing against the people themselves, I'm not racist). I would try to overthrow them too if I was in charge.
At least 840 people were killed and 6,000 injured during 18 days of protest that finally toppled Mubarak. In addition, victims of prolonged arbitrary detention, torture and other ill-treatment during his 30 years of rule have yet to see any semblance of truth, justice or reparation.
Following the peace treaty with Israel, between 1979 and 2003, Egypt acquired about $19 billion in military aid, making Egypt the second largest non-NATO recipient of U.S. military aid after Israel.
Egypt has long been a crucial ally to America's program of extraordinary rendtion – the practice of sending terror suspects to other countries for interrogation. When Egypt's President Mubarak dissolved his cabinet last week, he appointed Omar Suleiman as his new vice president. Suleiman is already well known in the United States, specifically as the C.I.A.'s key Egyptian contact for extraordinary rendition.
Colonel James Steele is a US veteran of the "dirty wars" in Central America, during which he trained counter-insurgency commandos who carried out extreme abuses of human rights. Steele is also a veteran of the Vietnam war. From 1984 to 1986, during the Salvadoran Civil War, Steele operated as a counterinsurgency specialist and was a member of a group of United States special forces advisers to the Salvadoran Army. In 1986 he was implicated in the Iran contra affair. In 2004, early in the Iraq War, Steele was sent by Donald Rumsfeld to serve as a civilian adviser to Iraqi paramilitary Special Police Commandos known as the Wolf Brigade.Funnily enough, his group in Iraq got accused of doing the exact same things that his groups back in the 1980s did.
-snip-Well this is awful. But still better than the Iranian regime and I still want to see an US-occupied Iran.
Okay, so they aren't going to nuke anyone. Doesn't change the fact that their government is dozens of times worse than Russia. Their human rights violations combined with aggression towards America are, IMHO, enough to justify an open war.
Yeah, the Saudis are also godawful. The reason thay're able to get away with it is because they bribe America with oil.Okay, so they aren't going to nuke anyone. Doesn't change the fact that their government is dozens of times worse than Russia. Their human rights violations combined with aggression towards America are, IMHO, enough to justify an open war.
I feel there's been something of a misunderstanding here. I'm don't think anyone has been comparing Iran to Russia. I believe they were comparing it to Saudi Arabia. Which is, like, equally bad or worse than Iran in every aspect, and is the cause of lots violence and conflict all over the region and the world, and gets away with lots of more bad behaviour than Iran because of their alliance with the USA.
Wait, israel is technically not a nato state?! wtf they participate in so many european programms even the fucking eurovision song contest.
oh must be because of the nukes, duh, still worrisome
None come close to offering the level of diplomatic support provided by Washington–with the United States often standing alone with Israel at the United Nations and other international forums when objections are raised over ongoing Israeli violations of international law and related concerns.
The 3 abrahamistic religions are completly discredited, they claim to pray to the same god yet everybody has their own name for him. Fuck all of them.
The 3 abrahamistic religions are completly discredited, they claim to pray to the same god yet everybody has their own name for him. Fuck all of them.
Kind of an odd reason to claim them as discredited, considering Judaism alone has a bunch of names (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Judaism), and Islam's "Allah" just means "the god".
That's good to know, actually, I don't often account for CPU bottlenecks, since all the PCs I've been asked to look at are all very competent, all perfectly capable of running Windows 10 well (the oldest having a U-series 4th gen i5 with 4 GB of RAM, which I'd still argue is good enough for office work).
What I do is looking at Task Manager as soon as the system boots. If, say, disk usage is locked at 100% for minutes on end, and the CPU's basically sitting around doing nothing, then it's a disk bottleneck. If the CPU's pegged at 100%, struggling to load things in, then it's a CPU bottleneck. The tweaks you suggested are a good idea at that point, but personally, I don't think there's anything saving such a system. If it struggles to run Windows 10, it'll probably struggle to run anything else.
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I'm... not sure how I should feel about this.
What are Z levels?Vertical dimension in Dwarf Fortress.
oh right, I for some reason thought it was a new Pokémon thing, like Z movesWhat are Z levels?Vertical dimension in Dwarf Fortress.
I don't know how the total time logged in counter works. I never log out, but it just says 33 days. And I've been registered for... not quite 10 years.It only logs days while you have a tab open.
That seems about correct, but: you must also have refreshed the page (or gone to another page) within the last 15 (or so) minutes from when you last refreshed for the total time logged in counter to increase. Leaving your PC on overnight on the same page, then refreshing does not increase the counter.I don't know how the total time logged in counter works. I never log out, but it just says 33 days. And I've been registered for... not quite 10 years.It only logs days while you have a tab open.
That should be normal. "listen to your body" is the general advice I'd give there. Some people eat on schedule, to the same level, because it's part of their daily ritual. If you're not feeling at least a little hungry at meal time then that might be a sign to adjust things.Mind, listen to your body can also be goddamn terrible advice. When my grandmother does that she ends up in the hospital these days, due either to dehydration or issues with not bloody eating. Sometimes your body gives you really shitty signals.
Does anyone else forget whether or not they’ve eaten? I don’t feel thst hungry but I don’t think I’ve eaten today yet
Does anyone else forget whether or not they’ve eaten? I don’t feel thst hungry but I don’t think I’ve eaten today yet
Yeah, when I could get my medicine, I wouldn't be able to tell if I was hungry or full or whatever.
More people are getting bamned as of recent. Whether that means stricter moderation or just that more people are being dicks I'm not sure about.Wait, what? Mod log is showing all of two people given the boot this year, one four months ago. I'm not sure it'll last (see 2016 for a guess why, on this forum with a significant US population), but so far we're in line for a normal year on the banhammer front.
Rotating avatar.ONE OF US
I'm gonna get a rotating avatars too, but it's just going to be ten different .jpgs with the same picturethat kinda defeats the point of a rotavatar though
that kinda defeats the point of a rotavatar thoughYou've lost me already. I'm not certain of the point of a "rotavatar", let alone what it does or how you use it.
Rotavatar=Rotating Avatarthat kinda defeats the point of a rotavatar thoughYou've lost me already. I'm not certain of the point of a "rotavatar", let alone what it does or how you use it.
Plenty of people have rotating avatars, but are any of you creative enough to have a rotating personal text and signature like me? :)
I've still got them and sig images turned off for all y'all, so nyah.Is it because of my old avatar? The one that caused so many complaints that the Toad himself descended to smite it?
I've had images turned off since before you were even on the site :PI've still got them and sig images turned off for all y'all, so nyah.Is it because of my old avatar? The one that caused so many complaints that the Toad himself descended to smite it?
I was thinking it should be fairly easy to do a decentish selfmade arizona ice tea that is much less sweeter, since one of them half liter bottles has about as much sugar as a 33cl can of coke:
Get some very neutral green tea or whatever, brew that.
Get those lemon granulates for sour/sweetness, brew that in another container.
Now this is the hard part, where can you get fruit extracts that aren't siroop (sweetened)?
Mix them together in the right proportions. Add water if needed. Should be allright shouldn't it?
The poopy cat?Almost, but it was a puppy.
I've had images turned off since before you were even on the site :PThis makes me oddly sad. How come? I can't imagine you have an overly restrictive data cap or internet that struggles to load them...
Because many of them are incredibly annoying and disruptive and I didn't see the point considering the previous forum on the old host didn't even have the capability for images (either sig images or avatars).I've had images turned off since before you were even on the site :PThis makes me oddly sad. How come? I can't imagine you have an overly restrictive data cap or internet that struggles to load them...
Idea I had the other day: a VR device that's compatible with a rowing machine.
So you can be getting whatever normal workout you're after on the machine, but what you're seeing is, say, the dank belly of an ancient galley or similar boat, with virtual shouts and chants (or cracks of a whip) driving you on until you really feel the burn. Also, admire the medieval scenery passing by outside between reps!
Obviously it wouldn't be much of a game or terribly interactive, but it could be pretty novel. I dunno, this is just a vague, barebones idea at this point.
Give the client network ability, race people, or don't workout when there is nobody online :D
Give the client network ability, race people, or don't workout when there is nobody online :D
You've heard about what's going on for Tour de France, right?
Saw this thing a while ago, it's interesting looking at how many counting systems there are in use on Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4bmZ1gRqCc
... then it makes the point that Klingon is effectively a really basic clone of the Anglophone number system just with different words, so it's much less exotic than real Earth systems. So Klingons only use base 10, and have a word for thousands and a word for millions, etc etc. Not to mention that even English is a mishmash of base 10, base 12 and base 20 (score) systems here and there. So the lucky ancient Klingons went "ok so it's base 10 with thousands, millions and billions etc, nice neat system, no caveats needed", which shows the actual paucity of flavor in most of our sci fi stuff.
Edit:Introducing, in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic crisis, for the first time ever: Tour de France Online! (https://youtu.be/Bj3MlXbcABU)Give the client network ability, race people, or don't workout when there is nobody online :D
You've heard about what's going on for Tour de France, right?
I haven't, does it involve thunder?
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I wrote code in BrainfuckI've never heard of that before, when I first saw the code it looked like a ASCII drawing of some kind that had broken.
I remember when YouTube recommended me a video about Brainfuck...how was the new coding language generated? How does someone go about making a new coding language?This book might help. (https://craftinginterpreters.com/)
I remember when YouTube recommended me a video about Brainfuck...how was the new coding language generated? How does someone go about making a new coding language?
As someone who has suicidal thoughts on a fairly regular basis, I can say that the idea of being dehumanized even further through constant monitoring by a bunch of disconnected pencil-pushers (or worse, a machine algorithm!) like some sort of lab project is not particularly encouraging and would probably lead to me clamming up even more about what's bothering me...
But that's just me. Anecdotal evidence and all that :P
If you put cardboard in a vacuum, and kept increasing the temperature, would you be able to melt it without burning it?
Pretty sure most of the molecules in cardboard will go straight from solid to gas at the relevant temperatures and pressured; I think you can only get carbon to liquefy at high pressure for instance.
I would point out that burning coal will liquefy inside a blacksmith's smithy. It will continue burning while molten.
What movie is it where there’s a giant toy store and without (hope/happiness?) they turn to stone and stop being alive?Sounds metal hope someone knows what it is.
What movie is it where there’s a giant toy store and without (hope/happiness?) they turn to stone and stop being alive?
Thank you. It’s been a while since I’ve seen it and have no idea what triggered the thought about itWhat movie is it where there’s a giant toy store and without (hope/happiness?) they turn to stone and stop being alive?
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium?
Base ten is best until such a point we grow extra fingers, really. If you can't finish off your base without taking your shoes off or reusing digits you've already screwed up.Do you count on your fingers often?
Base ten is best until such a point we grow extra fingers, really. If you can't finish off your base without taking your shoes off or reusing digits you've already screwed up.
Since it's been a year or so, I want to be on record again as stating that metric is bad and dumb and 12 is the best small base (but 60 is better).
I think base 60 would be interesting, but it ends up being pretty verbose (understanding that it would surely be some mixed-decimal system rather than introducing 50 new symbols).We don't need NEW symbols, we already have enough symbols for BASE64, which is base 64. 60 is less!
Since it's been a year or so, I want to be on record again as stating that metric is bad and dumb and 12 is the best small base (but 60 is better).
I think base 60 would be interesting, but it ends up being pretty verbose (understanding that it would surely be some mixed-decimal system rather than introducing 50 new symbols).
Since it's been a year or so, I want to be on record again as stating that metric is bad and dumb and 12 is the best small base (but 60 is better).
I think base 60 would be interesting, but it ends up being pretty verbose (understanding that it would surely be some mixed-decimal system rather than introducing 50 new symbols).
Base 60 is interesting but I don't think the whole number system should be designed around it. Grouping by 60s works well in either base 10 or 12.
Consider this, if distances were grouped in base 60 then you could have 3600 feet to a 'mile', then if you specified velocity in feet per second, it would be the same number as miles per hour, a neato touch.
...After further thoughts I get why 72 is elegant, it is 12*6, the factors of 6 (2 and 3) also being factors of 12. 60=12*5 doesn't do that for you.That's actually the opposite of what makes a good base. A good base has a lot of factors so it neatly divides into many different sizes of piles. 60 divides evenly by 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Unfortunately you can't get 7 without going way too high, but nobody ever really wants seven of anything anyway. 120 or 180 are also nice, netting you 8 or 9 respectively, but still beyond my idea of a base too annoyingly large to use.
Also, if you can't count to 31 on one (5-fingered) hand, you're doing it wrong ;DI use them as ternary digits: extended, bent at the first (second? which way do you number these from?) knuckle, and lowered. It's of course possible to pack in even more information per finger if you can be bothered, but ternary is at a nice nexus of useful and easy, especially if you also know balanced ternary.
Take up cycling, they said. Who needs skin anyway, they said.Who uh...who said this to you?
In retrospect, I should have paid more attention to the second part.
i think there are already millions of hours of footage of shows that cater to that: pretty much 80% of broadcast television is nothing but that. You get those 3 hour morning shows, daytime talk shows and night-time chat shows. They have that genre sewn up. It's the same reason morning drive-time radio is formatted with multiple hosts. The person driving is alone so that provides random chatter.Hmmmmm, that's really not the same, at least to me. People sitting around on a panel or something talking to the camera has very little resemblance to actual, ordinary social interaction. Those morning shows are just plain awful, anyway. Though admittedly a DIY talkshow panel could be an amusing setting for a sesh, especially with my Seinfeld-loving friends. We the Merv Griffin show up in this bish. I'm gonna note that idea down.
Whether more of that stuff moves to a pure online format remains to be seen. I'd argue that twitch type streams kinda already fit that, but it's the fans hanging out with the streamer. However most of that is structured around a single talking-head as are most youtube things.
Podcasts also fill that 'social chatter' role pretty well, I reckon, though that's usually not so personalized. Y'could try ASMR, maybe? That tends to be pretty personal/intimate without being lewd. I wonder if viewership on ASMR is up.Podcasts are ableist. So is ASMR, for that matter - both just remind me how deaf I am. :P
I feel like intel is hitting a point of diminishing returns
apparantly the i9-9900k can get scary hot too in some scenarios.And you'd be right. The i9-9900K (and i9-10900K) consume more power (and dissipate more heat) than the Ryzen 9 3950X, despite the latter having 6 more cores than the former.
Warren and Marshall’s theory about H. pylori’s function wasn’t immediately accepted in the medical community.
At the time, most scientists didn’t believe that bacteria could live in the human stomach. Additionally, researchers thought lifestyle factors, like diet and stress, were to blame for ulcers rather than a bacterial infection.
Despite the convincing results, fellow colleagues were reluctant to recognize Warren and Marshall’s findings.
“I“I remember giving a talk at a conference where I presented 15 different studies in which Ad-36 either caused or was correlated to fatness. At the end of it, a good friend said to me, ‘I just don’t believe it.’ He didn’t give a reason; he just didn’t believe it. People are really stuck on eating and exercise as the only contributors to fatness. But there is more to it,” says Richard Atkinson, M.D., emeritus professor of medicine and nutrition at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
I thought science was about following the data, not maintaining beliefs, that’s what religions foYes, but the main problem here is more the lack of understanding of the mechanism, leading people to conclude that the virus theory violates the law of conservation of mass.
Semmelweis proposed the practice of washing hands with chlorinated lime solutions in 1847 while working in Vienna General Hospital's First Obstetrical Clinic, where doctors' wards had three times the mortality of midwives' wards. He published a book of his findings in Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever.
Despite various publications of results where hand washing reduced mortality to below 1%, Semmelweis's observations conflicted with the established scientific and medical opinions of the time and his ideas were rejected by the medical community. He could offer no acceptable scientific explanation for his findings, and some doctors were offended at the suggestion that they should wash their hands and mocked him for it. In 1865, the increasingly outspoken Semmelweis supposedly suffered a nervous breakdown and was committed to an asylum by his colleagues. He died 14 days later after being beaten by the guards
Your body is the thing housing your brain, which in turn is the maker of your mind, a collection of thoughts that perceives itself, at least that’s what I think a mind is. Anyways, my question is why are you talking about your body like it’s not part of you?The body (and brain!) is just a fleshy prison for the mind and/or soul, depending on your views.
Without the body or brain, the mind wouldn’t exist, as the brain is required to make itYour body is the thing housing your brain, which in turn is the maker of your mind, a collection of thoughts that perceives itself, at least that’s what I think a mind is. Anyways, my question is why are you talking about your body like it’s not part of you?The body (and brain!) is just a fleshy prison for the mind and/or soul, depending on your views.
This as a nutshell.Your body is the thing housing your brain, which in turn is the maker of your mind, a collection of thoughts that perceives itself, at least that’s what I think a mind is. Anyways, my question is why are you talking about your body like it’s not part of you?The body (and brain!) is just a fleshy prison for the mind and/or soul, depending on your views.
Your body is the thing housing your brain, which in turn is the maker of your mind, a collection of thoughts that perceives itself, at least that’s what I think a mind is. Anyways, my question is why are you talking about your body like it’s not part of you?This is a good point though, the body determines the mind just as the mind determines the body! It's, well, hubris to think otherwise. Beyond the body being the source of all 5 senses (and the other ones) it also floods the mind (brain housing the mind) with countless hormones. The mind is undeniably altered when flooded with adrenaline, but most effects are more subtle.
What are you taking?
What kind of weak-ass college is this?!What are you taking?
Classes, probably.
What kind of weak-ass college is this?!What are you taking?
Classes, probably.
The answer is drugs, obviously. Jeez.
Fuck it, I'm just gonna make that which sleeps.this sounds cool, though what’s the Dominator Black Company?
No bullshit, no lessons learned, I'm just gonna make the damn game. I'll make a simple digital board game where you play a random adventurer and wander around on a small world map doing dungeons and buying stuff, then I'll modify it so the adventurer does his thing automatically, add parallel adventurers, and slowly expand from there until there's a baseline self-playing adventure board game, then take the dominator from black company and gorilla glue him on top of it.
Has anyone ever found it strange that the stereotypical name for a DF dwarf is Urist, meaning "dagger", despite the fact that DF dwarves don't make or use any daggers?
1 Emma 17102 (1)
2 Ava 14440 (3)
3 Sophia 13714 (5)
4 Isabella 13306 (4)
5 Charlotte 13138 (6)
6 Amelia 12862 (8)
7 Mia 12414 (7)
8 Harper 10442 (9)
9 Evelyn 10392 (10)
10 Abigail 9106 (11)
11 Emily 8213 (12)
12 Ella 8079 (15)
13 Elizabeth 7844 (13)
14 Camila 7809 (18)
15 Luna 7755 (23)
16 Sofia 7355 (17)
17 Avery 7311 (16)
18 Mila 7309 (14)
19 Aria 7072 (19)
20 Scarlett 7044 (20)
I mean - Emma, Ava, and Sophia mean "wholeness", "being a bird", and "wisdom". All of which is decidedly not human. So it's basically the Urist problem all over again.In what place there are no names like that? Where i live (Ukraine), there a plenty of women named Hope, Love, etc, too. And not even in diffirent language. :P Nothing out of ordinary.
Yeah, pretty much any name has some kind of meaning to it. Simply mashing syllables together (or putting on your Fantasy Character Creation cap) for your child's name would probably get you run out of town for child abuse, haha.There are cultures where mashing syllables together is normal.
Kinda weird when you think about it. All the names we consider normal actually MEAN things. Crazy.
Yeah, pretty much any name has some kind of meaning to it. Simply mashing syllables together (or putting on your Fantasy Character Creation cap) for your child's name would probably get you run out of town for child abuse, haha.There are cultures where mashing syllables together is normal.
Kinda weird when you think about it. All the names we consider normal actually MEAN things. Crazy.
I mean, do the syllables have meanings individually, though?Nope, the goal appears to be entirely about making a name that sounds good by cultural standards without meaning anything.
If not, that's pretty cool. Well, it's pretty cool either way, but if they don't mean anything that's badass.
We all mash syllables together. People confuse language for rules of writing about where spaces go on paper. Germans don't 'really' cram a ton of words together into one big word any more than English does by using adjectives.I mean arbitrarily, to make new names. I thought that was obvious from context.
People who spell the shortened version of "until" with an extra "L" instead of an apostrophe should be buried in a fuckin' desert with their hands and feet cut off.
People who spell the shortened version of "until" with an extra "L" instead of an apostrophe should be buried in a fuckin' desert with their hands and feet cut off.Buried till they die?
Where's your sense of poetic justice? They need to be run over repeatedly by a giant tiller
...People who spell the shortened version of "until" with an extra "L" instead of an apostrophe should be buried in a fuckin' desert with their hands and feet cut off.Buried till they die?
The preposition "till" is actually not a shortening of "until" but is borrowed from the Scandinavian word from the time the Scandies invaded Scotland. The concept of 'til is purely a misunderstanding.TIL
In fact, "until" was created later and based on the preexisting "till". The un- is from a prefix meaning "up to".
So does that mean:Only until the software future where: Buy the premium version to get access to a new and different slate of annoying features.
Software future: Buy the premium nothing is different from the standard version but it still costs more.
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I read that as "Buy the premium nothing". So you have nothing to start with, and you can pay for premium nothing. I guess they start you out with less than nothing and you then pay to have nothing. So the first paid tier is the sweet blessed relief of not having to use their thing.
People could associate every post you make with ogress milking lol
HOW MAKE OGRESS MILKABLE?
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...but please, don't buy shit you don't need.
You know, factory farming is a tragedy, especially how we treat pigs is not cool, they're such smart animals. But there is one thing I wholeheartedly support: they can never grind enough male chicks. The rooster is useless, ever watched footage of a scoop being attacked by a predator? The coward will hide hoping it passes over. All their agression potiential is towards beings they deem lower rank. Their soul is as ugly as their craw. Fittingly they are the heraldic animal of my country: a bunch of roosters together will never achieve anything but infight. All they do is boast. In the natural order of things roosters are less important and enjoyable than wasps and mosquitoes.“The things we dislike most in others are the characteristics we like least in ourselves.”
But at least I have the consolation that billions of smale male chicks are ground into powder, I'd rather smash them into pulp myself, but it's something.
Chicken in general are awful animals. Not a single drop of love in their entire bodies.
Truly they are the dinosaurs of our time.
I take vitamins, mostly gummy ones just because I don't have the willpower to go out and take them otherwise, and it keeps me remembering to take other daily pills I need to take. A family friend told me a few years ago that they are terrible for you because they are packed with sugar and that you are better off eating fresh fruit instead. While I believed them, I continued with gummies, because as I mentioned I forget to take them otherwise.
This morning when taking them before going to bed (yes I go to bed at 6 AM), I had a random thought, 'Isn't fruit packed full of sugar too? I wonder how much more gummies have over fruit.'.
So I looked at the nutritional info for my vitamin C gummies. 200 mg of vitamin c, for 6 grams of sugar. Yea, that seems like a lot for how small the things are. Then I went to google and checked the nutritional info for oranges. 51 mg of vitamin C for 9 grams of sugar.
So actual fruit has only 25% the vitamin C and has 33% more sugar. I guess natural isn't always better for you.
I realized that basically every community I'm in has a political culture that is either too far-left for my beliefs (cough this and AmeriPol with their "the system is terrible and should be torn down instead of reformed and also literally communism" last time I checked cough) or too far-right (several Discord servers. Comparatively. I don't mean objectively far-right (as in Nazis), I mean "moderate conservatives").
I'm not even centrist.
And I disagree. Not everyone in power is Trump or Putin. In any case I really, really don't want to risk a revolution in America. The potential for collateral damage and intervention from China and/or Russia is too large. Sure in a smaller country you can afford to kick up some dust. But in the world's #1 superpower with many enemies? That's pushing your luck too much.I realized that basically every community I'm in has a political culture that is either too far-left for my beliefs (cough this and AmeriPol with their "the system is terrible and should be torn down instead of reformed and also literally communism" last time I checked cough) or too far-right (several Discord servers. Comparatively. I don't mean objectively far-right (as in Nazis), I mean "moderate conservatives").
I'm not even centrist.
Usually the "tear it all down" types have noticed that only the people in power are able to do any reforms, and they're only in power because the system is broken. There will never be meaningful reforms because of that.
The conversations about fruit, sugar, and whatever else were much more interesting than politics.Okay.
Yes, but the fruit probably has the isomer (is that the right word, it's been a few years) of vitamin C that does literally anything for your body. It's just an expensive placebo.This is silly, vitamin manufacturers aren't going to go to the expense of separating a racemate (the only realistic way to get D-ascorbate since it isn't produced biologically) just to sell you only the inactive half: it would be more expensive for them than just using the racemate (mixture of both enantiomers, thus active at half the rate overall) directly! At worst, particularly cheap manufacturers might buy D-ascorbate from less unscrupulous companies that separated a racemate to get L-ascorbate for their own vitamins and would have just thrown the D-ascorbate out (well, likely recycled it as chemical feedstock, but still), but even that's not likely because to my knowledge vitamin C is not prepared as a racemate, but via a biological fermentation route that specifically produces the active enantiomer much as the normal biosynthesis pathway does. As far as I know, D-ascorbate isn't produced in any significant quantity by any industrial method.
You shouldn't let your little brother play video games until he is at least24as old as you.
Was what I did right? Cheating to lose, to make my young brother feel better and not play something that is boring for me for a long time?
You cheated not only the game, but yourself. You didn't learn. You didn't grow.Was what I did right? Cheating to lose, to make my young brother feel better and not play something that is boring for me for a long time?
I think you did wrong. By deceiving your little brother you took away his chance to win in a fair manner. (Think of the reaction of a boxer who finds out he won because his opponent threw the fight.)
That said, it's hardly a big thing.
You shouldn't let your little brother play video games until he is at least 24.Why? I've been gaming since I was as old as him.
Yes, but think about me having to sit through something that can take an hour with, no choices involved. With a 50% chance of him losing and being sad.Was what I did right? Cheating to lose, to make my young brother feel better and not play something that is boring for me for a long time?
I think you did wrong. By deceiving your little brother you took away his chance to win in a fair manner. (Think of the reaction of a boxer who finds out he won because his opponent threw the fight.)
Learn what?You cheated not only the game, but yourself. You didn't learn. You didn't grow.Was what I did right? Cheating to lose, to make my young brother feel better and not play something that is boring for me for a long time?
I think you did wrong. By deceiving your little brother you took away his chance to win in a fair manner. (Think of the reaction of a boxer who finds out he won because his opponent threw the fight.)
That said, it's hardly a big thing.
Yes, but think about me having to sit through something that can take an hour with, no choices involved. With a 50% chance of him losing and being sad.Was what I did right? Cheating to lose, to make my young brother feel better and not play something that is boring for me for a long time?
I think you did wrong. By deceiving your little brother you took away his chance to win in a fair manner. (Think of the reaction of a boxer who finds out he won because his opponent threw the fight.)
Scriver is making fun of legislators scaremongering about violence in video games,
You shouldn't let your little brother play video games until he is at least 24.Why? I've been gaming since I was as old as him.
Was what I did right? Cheating to lose, to make my young brother feel better and not play something that is boring for me for a long time?
I think you did wrong. By deceiving your little brother you took away his chance to win in a fair manner. (Think of the reaction of a boxer who finds out he won because his opponent threw the fight.)
That said, it's hardly a big thing.
Was what I did right? Cheating to lose, to make my young brother feel better and not play something that is boring for me for a long time?
I think you did wrong. By deceiving your little brother you took away his chance to win in a fair manner. (Think of the reaction of a boxer who finds out he won because his opponent threw the fight.)
That said, it's hardly a big thing.
I think that's off the mark, for the main reason that the kid's only 8 years old. What chance to win in a fair manner? A fair contest with an 8 year old is just totally destroying them at basically anything. In that scenario, neither side learns anything. You don't actually learn a whole lot playing with someone who just destroys you at the game. Like if the kid wanted to play at boxing, you wouldn't punch them in the face as hard as you can. Games of skill / reasoning are in effect similar, since an 8 year old doesn't have the mental development for that. You basically have to nerf youself the same as you'd pull your punches if play-fighting with a kid.
Well that's bull. I don't care.Scriver is making fun of legislators scaremongering about violence in video games,
No I'm not, I'm hyperbolivslly seriousYou shouldn't let your little brother play video games until he is at least 24.Why? I've been gaming since I was as old as him.
So have I, and *acquiescently gestures to everything*
Okay, so, a ship's spine runs along her bottom, beneath the water level. But in vertebrates, the spine usually runs along the back, not down the belly. From this, we can conclude that a ship on the water is actually laying down on the water belly-up, like an otter floating on it's back, rather than belly-down like a swimming whale or turtle.Damn it we've been using boats the wrong way the whole time!
am a big idiot.Lies, I have yet to see anything to make me think that.
Okay, so, a ship's spine runs along her bottom, beneath the water level. But in vertebrates, the spine usually runs along the back, not down the belly. From this, we can conclude that a ship on the water is actually laying down on the water belly-up, like an otter floating on it's back, rather than belly-down like a swimming whale or turtle.
Intelligence isn't that simple. Even DnD has three different mental stats which might be useful for doing smart things in different situations!
Maybe he has low cha, but maxed out bluff and uses it on himself and everyone else.
The SPECIAL system has always been superior to DND's utilitarian 6-stat system. For those who can't help but overthink things.
Because Wis and Cha are complete nonsense. They're both willpower, but technically only WIS governs willpower saves in 3.5. Charisma got a save in 5e, but every stat did. If Charisma is force of ego, what is willpower?
Wisdom is Perception. Accurately seeing the natural world, as a druid or ranger. Tying it into divine casting is a stretch that makes me uncomfortable.
And wisdom isn't just perception. Yes, it covers your ability to use your senses. But it also covers, well, wisdom. To make a play with words -- not just the ability to sense the world but also to make sense of the world. The ability to come to greater understandings from smaller pieces.That's intelligence. That's what it means to take perception data and build a theory/law.
Wisdom/Willpower is inwards/defensive willpower. Your sense of yourself.And this is also true. Wis/willpower is the force of one's belief in their senses. Some people don't trust their senses at all! Other people keep a keen ear.
Charisma is external willpower. The force you project on the world and others. They are as easily separateble as Strength and Constitution.
Sad lots humans think less word same du,b
Do acronym use mean less words?
acronym
Do Over Your LifeDOYL
Don't overthink your llamaDOYL
O=3 more letters, the w needs to be a different consonant, the three missing letters appear in the word here, the letter w needs to be is in the answer on another sectionDon’t overcount your lilacs
Don’t overwater_ _ _ your limes
Do you actually need to crank out faster brain performance for anything or are you just annoyed to waste thought on something you don't identify with?
Don't overlaterate your lemons.Only the L in overlaterate needs to be changed. You are verrry close
Keep 'em nice and vertical.
Don’t oversaturate your lemons?Ding ding ding
The important thing is that we're free to to both acknoledge what we are, and alsoDo you actually need to crank out faster brain performance for anything or are you just annoyed to waste thought on something you don't identify with?
To be fair, I don't particularly care about my gender. It's mostly an extraneous thing to me, and it takes around 10 years in brain-time to fetch it because it's fallen so low in the memory hierarchy. I'd be happy to eliminate it altogether. In some ways, it is because I don't wish to identify with it, but I also realized the potential in it as a way to optimize my brain even further. I'm conflicted.
Brainspeed is just as important to me as removing extraneous things from my self-identity, and usually, those two goals are aligned. But now I'm in a situation where I'm picking between self-identity and brainspeed. I don't even really know why I'm trying to achieve higher and higher brainspeeds through optimizing the hell out of myself anymore. It was there to crank out performance when I need to (partially) emulate a normal person. I still need it. When my medication drunkens me, the emulation accuracy starts dropping and it becomes harder and harder to push out coherent responses to things people say.
I need the power, but do I really need that much power? But what will I do if I'm not doing that? I think I need a better hobby than trying to overclock my brain all the time. It would be healthier.
I thought that, but "oversaturate" has a 'u'!whoops, sorry
Well I mostly played adventure mode in DF and found it easy enough.Adventure mode is what I play as well.
I'm finding just... Surviving hard. Hard to explain. I'll read up on more guides I guess.
If a thing that can produce video output (computers, oscilloscopes, Task Manager...) exists, it will have a version of Bad Apple made for it.
If you go down the rabbithole of the demoscene, you will eventually hit a version of Bad Apple.
the amazingly wrong coverage of Bad Apple by CNN(https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cowboybebopclip14.jpg)
Not all autism is like that. I have autism and I don’t have perfect recall and can make associations
So honest question - what does "gender fluid" mean to you? Does it mean you take on the role/aspect of any "gender" and switch between them easily? Does this mean switching behavior, wardrobe/appearance, speech patterns?That seems like a decent description of gender fluidity, yeah. I'm not genderfluid because it's definitely not easy for me, it's actually pretty stressful. It's hard to describe - it's not as simple as being misgendered in a conversation and immediately feeling bad. It comes from spending a pleasant day with my dad, then wanting to... never see anyone again for a few days. Because I'm not right. A deep exhaustion, irritation, and general depression.
If you present yourself in appearance and behavior in line with the cultural expectations of, say, a masculine male and someone for the first time refers to you as 'he', you can't get bent out of shape. I'd also say expectations that people are going to be able to overcome years of neural training to remember not only your name but new pronoun is not very realistic (that is, most people have a hard enough time remembering someone's name after a brief meeting, now you have to remember name+pronoun pairs? It's extra mental resources that most humans just don't have). So for this case, I'm all for the concept of more neutral pronouns. But what I'm not in support of is people being able to present as one stereotype but demand that people refer to them as belonging to another group - because this is basically setting people up for failure. If you identify as an Apple fan but carry nothing around but Windows and Android gear, how would anyone ever know?
Also incidentally I don't think it's possible to have "no" cultural gender. Society has basically put all types of human behavior on the masculine/feminine scale. So you can be somewhere in the middle on that scale, or you can have a mix of traits that span the whole scale, but I don't think that makes you without gender - it just makes you not strongly masculine or feminine. Just as in those personality tests for being extroverts or introverts - you may not be introverted or extroverted, but you still have a personality. So I think you do still have a gender - it just doesn't fit in the nice pulldown categories. It's not "null" - it's "none of the above."
I'm going to be ... well hopefully not misconstrued as being too insensitive or something. This is all personal opinion and my observation.Asking questions and sharing viewpoints is always okay, in good faith. You're fine!
Part of the problem with gender terms is somewhere the line between sex, gender, and sexuality has been lost in some of modern culture. 'Male' and 'female' are sexes (genetic/physical). 'Masculine' and 'feminine' are genders (cultural/behavioral/preference). You can be a feminine male who is attracted to women. You can be a masculine female attracted to males and females. You can be a feminine female who isn't particularly attracted to anyone. You can be a masculine male who is attracted to masculine females, but not feminine females.This is true to some extent. "butch" women and "camp" men do exist. But there are others. Some people experience intense gender dysphoria in adolescence. They don't just rebel against the cultural norms expected of them, they face constant discomfort with their bodies.
My "aged" viewpoint is that these words were enough, and I'm confused as to why we had to invent new ones that a large part of the population doesn't know. This gets into where social conflict arises:Can you say, with certainty, what my genitals are?
Exactly! It's all about presentation.
If you present yourself in appearance and behavior in line with the cultural expectations of, say, a masculine male and someone for the first time refers to you as 'he', you can't get bent out of shape.
I'd also say expectations that people are going to be able to overcome years of neural training to remember not only your name but new pronoun is not very realistic (that is, most people have a hard enough time remembering someone's name after a brief meeting, now you have to remember name+pronoun pairs? It's extra mental resources that most humans just don't have). So for this case, I'm all for the concept of more neutral pronouns.Mood. I have so much trouble remembering peoples' names, and sometimes their pronouns. It happens.
But what I'm not in support of is people being able to present as one stereotype but demand that people refer to them as belonging to another group - because this is basically setting people up for failure. If you identify as an Apple fan but carry nothing around but Windows and Android gear, how would anyone ever know?I'm responding to this same idea again because it bears repeating: It's okay to get someone wrong. It's probably not your fault. In my experience, people are understanding - you think trans people, a persecuted class in America, want to start shit on the street? We die every day from such misunderstandings.
Also incidentally I don't think it's possible to have "no" cultural gender. Society has basically put all types of human behavior on the masculine/feminine scale. So you can be somewhere in the middle on that scale, or you can have a mix of traits that span the whole scale, but I don't think that makes you without gender - it just makes you not strongly masculine or feminine. Just as in those personality tests for being extroverts or introverts - you may not be introverted or extroverted, but you still have a personality. So I think you do still have a gender - it just doesn't fit in the nice pulldown categories. It's not "null" - it's "none of the above."That's an interesting and nuanced take, unironically. My personal understanding of nonbinary could probably apply to almost anyone, as it's pretty much "not being beholden to either of the two (modern) (local state) understandings of gender". But I tend to over-empathize (sic).
I mean this gently: Gender is a *social* construct. It is literally just presentation. Nothing more, nothing less.This isn't quite right. Gender *is* a social construct, but it's personal identity. Not just outward presentation. As well I know, I guess.
And there are separate words which describe sexual characteristics.
(and even those require more nuance when we talk about intersex people)
I mean, it's sorta one of those instances where it's important to remember gender identity is something you give to yourself. It's your identity, not anyone else's. Me, I don't care if you call me a boy if you saw me out in public and I didn't introduce myself to you. If that's who you think I am, then I guess... that's what I look like? I don't really care. To me, I'm happy enough that I can call myself agender, and no-one can take that away from me. I'd prefer they/them, of course, but I don't really expect that of people, as a general rule. People are often disappointing and unreliable, and I see no reason why they won't be as such when dealing with pronouns.Just... that. Total agreement.
I'm responding to this same idea again because it bears repeating: It's okay to get someone wrong. It's probably not your fault. In my experience, people are understanding - you think trans people, a persecuted class in America, want to start shit on the street? We die every day from such misunderstandings.
In Norway, having a beef with someone is generally a positive experience.Don't have a cow, man
In Norway, having a beef with someone is generally a positive experience.
The scariest phrase that my brain can say to itself is "you might have a crush on that person". It's some spooky shit, and it's uncertain. If the answer ends up being "yes", it gets even scarier. How will I be able to speak neutrally about and around this person again? I hate having crushes on people, they make my brain go all weird around them.
Only consolation is that the mean time between crushes is around 2 years per crush. If I do, though... I feel sorry for them.
The power level system in Shadow of War depicts the overall strength of an individual uruk as an abstract number, changes to which have a very real and tangible effect on that orc's sturdiness and abilities.
While the level does increase from common "XP" sources such as defeating worthy foes, it also can increase after successfully hosting a feast, or be decreased by publicly shaming the uruk with a mark on their face.
The handwave of "tricksy elf magicks" can explain why the shaming decreases their physical might, but it does not account for why they can increase in power from successful parties and the like. I would like to put forth the hypothesis that an orc's power level is directly tied into the opinion and awe of his fellow uruks.
But how can popularity cause an individual to become perceptibly stronger and undergo direct physical changes? Simple.
The orcs of Mordor are connected to the WAAAGH!. Ergo, what their fellow orcs believe to be the truth about an individual becomes the truth of that individual.
I have spoken.
EDIT: I have also posted in the wrong thread. Goddamnit.
The scariest phrase that my brain can say to itself is "you might have a crush on that person". It's some spooky shit, and it's uncertain. If the answer ends up being "yes", it gets even scarier. How will I be able to speak neutrally about and around this person again? I hate having crushes on people, they make my brain go all weird around them.
Only consolation is that the mean time between crushes is around 2 years per crush. If I do, though... I feel sorry for them.
Same, seems like every time I get feelings for someone I end up hurting myself. Nowadays the thought of "that person's cute" is often immediately followed by "...but they wouldn't ever like me".
Forgot to mention my birthday here, it was on the 2nd.Happy belated birthday!
Happy New Birthday Years Max! Is that the Russian equivalent of being born on Christmas?
I can't argue with people because I'm too contrarian.
Brutality can be a form of elegance, after all~
No acts of transition are required for someone to be trans. People staying stealthy are valid. People without proper health care are valid. Assigned Female At Birth people are valid (they tend to get drowned out in some spaces, which is a shame).
Definitely not! Many transgender guys gals and enpals don't feel much dysphoria, certainly not as much as other trans people. Ideally dysphoria is reduced with medical care! The universal quality is being a gender different from that assigned at birth.No acts of transition are required for someone to be trans. People staying stealthy are valid. People without proper health care are valid. Assigned Female At Birth people are valid (they tend to get drowned out in some spaces, which is a shame).
Then what is universal within trans people, then? Gender dysphoria?
Buddy, I don't consider myself number 1 in anything that isn't Pointless and Obscure Knowledge (Mostly) About Tech. And even then, someone's got me beat, I'm sure.
(unless - this is the one exception - they're making The One Joke that anti-trans people have. The one where they claim to identify as attack helicopters.)
"I identify as Michael Jackson, my pronouns are he/hee"
Don't try to gender-neutralize "Fell In Love With A Girl" by replacing "Girl" with "Kid".
You have an incoming call from someone named "Nambla"The North American Marlon Brando Look-Alikes?
You have an incoming call from someone named "Nambla"I've heard that those people like to drive around in windowless vans and they like to invite people into said vans.
I feel like there's a sort of spectrum of "intellectual heaviness" of media that you consume. You have "light" content, which is easy to digest (often because it contains things that you know and agree with/things you're very opposed to and can say "that's stupid"), then you have "heavy" content, which basically needs you to think real hard about what you're consuming to internalize it (often because it's things that you don't know, but you still agree with them).This isn't consistent with my experience of media at all. I don't think it's an objective measure or even a human universal.
The "I'm not like other girls" thing (which while sorta dead in our and older generations, is very much alive in Zoomers), for instance, is perpetuated by the idea that women have to be a certain way, as well as the glorification/idolization of women who are "different" in media. There's a pressure on girls to be "girly", but then another, sometimes stronger pressure that tells them that they should be "different" from that ideal. That's sorta the crux of the issue. The way to be "different", it seems, is to go against the "girly" stereotype. But it's also "bad" to not be "girly", so you have to "justify" it by putting down other girls who are "not different", by being not "girly" and telling the other girls that they are "girly" and therefore "not different".This kind of thing is interesting to me because my culture has never had the idea that there's a right way to be "girly", but we are slowly osmoting one from media contact. Most people my age and older, if asked, would agree to a vague idea that "girliness" is associated with pink, ribbons, sparkles, etc., but we don't think about it on our own and there's no endogenous pressure for girls to act that way (and almost all of them do not, I didn't know a single girl like that growing up, even the 'mean girls' and others fulfilling other social stereotypes); but I worry that those younger than me seem to be developing those pressures from exogenous media.
I'm also inclined to say that the "not like other girls" stuff was just as common among Millenials growing up. It's just that, you know, by the age of 30 or so you hopefully grow out of it.(To be fair - and I think what you say is certainly true - I'm pretty sure that's what he means by "dead", which implies it was alive at some previous time.)
Although, posting that contemplation (and admission) on a publicly-accessible forum under your usual profile may not be the wisest moveI'd say it's fair enough. Since IPs here are not public (and she probably uses a VPN anyways). This forum is also small enough that it's not looked at by the Russian government so I doubt they would find this even if they could do much.
Especially if what you want to be is a home-made welded shut bulldozer tank driver
FTFYEspecially if what you want to be is a home-made welded shut bulldozer tank driver
*colin furzeMarvin Heemeyer intensifies*
I'm not sure where this is supposed to go, but here's a dumb trick I did on one of my dad's office PCs while cloning the hard disk. Details blurred for privacy reasons.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
We need to go deeper.I'm not sure where this is supposed to go, but here's a dumb trick I did on one of my dad's office PCs while cloning the hard disk. Details blurred for privacy reasons.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Yo dawg, I heard you like your computer so I put your computer in your computer so you can computer while you computer.
DJ is a not too unusual phonetism in Swedish. "Jungle" for example is spelled Djungel. Deep is spelled "Djup. "Animal" is Djur. All pronounced with a more twangy J sound.
We also spell some words with LJ, like Ljung ("Heather") or Ljuv ("Sweet"/"Delightful") which seems to indicate a softer, lower mouth kind of J sound.
I guess that means I'm "hearing" an internal audio and trying to transcribe it. I think that might be right - cause and effect are very confused in human behavior.
DJ is a not too unusual phonetism in Swedish. "Jungle" for example is spelled Djungel. Deep is spelled "Djup. "Animal" is Djur. All pronounced with a more twangy J sound.
We also spell some words with LJ, like Ljung ("Heather") or Ljuv ("Sweet"/"Delightful") which seems to indicate a softer, lower mouth kind of J sound.
I can only imagine how bizarre this must seem in the head of someone who doesn't realize that the Swedish J-sound is the English Y-sound.
I think there are more enbies (though I'm lumping in genderfluid, despite it containing both binary and nonbinary) than there are girls on Bay12 General Discussion (definition: is active-ish within the past week or so here). I count 5 enbies to 2 girls, though it's likely an underestimate on at least 1 side. Honestly, I think that's kinda wild. More enbies than there are girls.
The population of Bay12 GD is (note: very rough estimates) somewhere between 20 to 50. This implies that the enby percentage is between 25% and 10%, which is also wild. The enby percentage in trans populations is apparently 25% to 35%, but I can't find any estimates for the general population. I don't actively keep mental records on trans-ness specifically, so I can't say anything there. I only keep track of gender because I think that pronouns are important.
*I'm only counting those who have explicitly stated their gender/pronouns. I refuse to question stated genders, so it's simultaneously a loose and strict definition. Loose in that anyone can declare whatever and I have to accept it, but strict in that I only retain it if it's stated outright at least once.
We need to go deeper.
Going deeper. All details left uncensored. You can probably figure out how I live based on the desktop alone.Are you... are you secretly a middle-aged office clerk?
Vampire Malware Workstation, nice
isn't nearly as creepy as the... creatures... depicted in the movie Cats, which were supposed to be realistic anthropomorphic cat people.Whoever thought those things looked good should be fired then shot.
Ive allways had a weak spot for all kinds of unables, like doing those weird dribbles where you try to take handicapped people for fully capable while trying to discretly makes thhings easier for them and such... But I'm starting to gain a very bleak picture of people past a certain age who seem to get around with like 250 words of vocabulary. I'm halfway convinced they all willfully choose not to understand in order to have an excuse to not have to behave like everybody else does. I think it's fair to say they demonstrated a certain lack of respect that can only be reciprocated. Id never be like that to somebody eager to learn. But there is just so much evidence pointing to people actively refusing to learn.
Everytime I have to work I wake once after 5-6h of sleep, then every 1-3 hours. I think I need about 10h of sleep to feel truely rested but that's including the time wasted falling asleep several times.
When I am on my own with nothing going on the day after I sleep less and in one piece. Eventhough I kinda like my current job my body is still strictly against it.
CDDA used to be my favorite survival game but the newer versions just take the fun out of it with the constant addition of "realism" and the removal of almost everything Sci-fi related, it just isn't the same anymore.Still like it TBH. And have you heard of Aftershock/Bright Nights? AFS is a mod that brings back sci-fi stuff while Bright Nights is a fork that is less realism-focused.
My favorite survival games are CDDA and heavily modded Minecraft. For different reasons.
Except mosquitoes. Their only potential benefit is spreading viruses, and that's antithetical to our existence - and replaceable.
I was researching this before, and, basically, no. Most things that eat mosquitos will eat whatever, and often only eat mosquitos themselves incidentally, because apparently they're not numerous enough in relation to their size.Except mosquitoes. Their only potential benefit is spreading viruses, and that's antithetical to our existence - and replaceable.
Are there not species which rely primarily on them for food?
I was researching this before, and, basically, no. Most things that eat mosquitos will eat whatever, and often only eat mosquitos themselves incidentally, because apparently they're not numerous enough in relation to their size.
Dragonflies see faster than we do; they see around 200 images per second.Dragonflies can benefit from 200 FPS monitors!
The reverb is what gives pipe organs their distinctive sound.
I think the air-based sounds are not close to the same "bell" frequency of the metal itself. But maybe by coincidence they really are close to the same, I'm curious now...
Note: libfdk_aac defaults to a low-pass filter of around 14kHz (details (https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Fraunhofer_FDK_AAC#Bandwidth)). If you want to preserve higher frequencies, use -cutoff 18000. Adjust the number to the upper frequency limit only if you need to; keeping in mind that a higher limit may audibly reduce the overall quality.
The Huawei P20 Pro performs the worst, with a roll-off occurring at an stunningly-low 14.2kHz—very much still with the range of most people’s hearing. The LG V30 performs marginally better by rolling off at 16kHz, followed by the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 at 17kHz. The iPhone 7 performed by far the best, extending its limit up to 18.9kHz. Although Apple’s phone begins a slower roll-off that has a -3dB point set at about 18kHz.
for a in range(128, 2000):
for b in range(128, 3000):
inSize = str(a) + "x" + str(b)You don't actually need to save the files to disk, you can just discard every image that doesn't set a new "noisiness" record (unless you want to compare every image to every other image or something horrible like that)
Granted iterating all 5 million images would probably take several weeks still
and you need an actual objective way to determine noisiness
Increasing bandwidth
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v +-----+-------+-------+-------+So at this point, does there exist a color space that doesn't suffer from either issue?
The deviations from average brightness are high frequency and low amplitude, so I can see why they could get shaved off. You could just try encoding the color channels separately and then interleaving.
On this day in history, Mussolini was executed.P to piss on grave.
Let me press F on the world's smallest keyboard.
S to shit on grave.On this day in history, Mussolini was executed.P to piss on grave.
Let me press F on the world's smallest keyboard.
I don't think his grave deserves fertilizer.S to shit on grave.On this day in history, Mussolini was executed.P to piss on grave.
Let me press F on the world's smallest keyboard.
Human shit is terrible for plants.I don't think his grave deserves fertilizer.S to shit on grave.On this day in history, Mussolini was executed.P to piss on grave.
Let me press F on the world's smallest keyboard.
I wanna see a CPU with pointless instructions. For instance, a sin(x) instruction that only allows integer x, and outputs only integers, rounding randomly. x is still in radians. A "vector" multiplication instruction that only operates on 1-dimensional vectors. A floor(x) instruction that only works on integer x.Youuu should look into this game called TIS-100. Its an odd programming puzzle game that uses assembly in some sort of multi cell/core architecture. Each puzzle is about making the machine do different operations. Like you had a grid of CPUs that can run in parallel, but each one only holds a handful of instructions and only two memory slots, so complex operations required multiple working together and passing values around.
So, uh... google?
Sounds like you have discovered the idea for a lifetime's work, ArchimedesWojak. Get busy and get it started! ;)
That's just Yahoo back in the olden days (i.e before I was born), right? If you check the Wayback Machine and go all the way back to 1996, it's both a search engine and a link directory. I remember reading this old-ass book (Windows 95 was the recommended OS) about how to use the Internet, and there were a bunch of link directories in it. I think Yahoo was one of them before becoming a search engine.
"Why did you come here?"
People who share code for programming languages (that aren't like Piet (https://esolangs.org/wiki/Piet)) in image form rather than text are the scum of the earth.
I don't even remember how I first came here.
Then I spent ~2 years being a troll, a wonder I didn't get banned. Ugh.
I know the fact that cats like paperboxes is also very much about it conserving heat, and protecting from sight. But maybe they like paperboxes THAT much because we often keep kitties in them? Some early childhood memories about feeling safe so to say.
Cats like boxes so much, you don't even need actual boxes, just the right sort of tape put on the floor in a box shape (https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/what-cats-love-of-boxes-and-squares-can-tell-us-about-their-visual-perception/). We don't really seem to know the exact why of it, yet, but it's definitely a thing.I know the fact that cats like paperboxes is also very much about it conserving heat, and protecting from sight. But maybe they like paperboxes THAT much because we often keep kitties in them? Some early childhood memories about feeling safe so to say.I've heard it's an agorophobia thing, which is also why they like hiding in drawers, under beds, behind couches, etc.
Cats like boxes so much, you don't even need actual boxes, just the right sort of tape put on the floor in a box shape (https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/what-cats-love-of-boxes-and-squares-can-tell-us-about-their-visual-perception/). We don't really seem to know the exact why of it, yet, but it's definitely a thing.That's not really what that article is saying. Did you read the linked study? It wasn't even testing whether cats prefer rectangular delineated spaces to some alternative, and only a minority of test subjects settled in a delineated space at all; certainly they don't seem to have behaved like they thought it was equivalent to a cardboard box. The article is discussing whether cats' visual systems are susceptible to a particular illusion in the edge-finding process as humans' are, which seems to be the case.
It's very similar to tanh in that way
Babies have no concept of exponential growth. It has to be taught - one of the core lessons, perhaps. Something can go up, yes - but faster! faster with more time!
"For how long?" "Faster the more long"
"But how fast??" "Faster the more long"
That's strange; isn't human perception more-or-less logarithmic (see Weber–Fechner law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weber%E2%80%93Fechner_law))?Good point. In current day, it's silly to be afraid of of individuals consuming, when each human is consuming ever more.
Anyways... College was closed to due reasons they don't want to tell us (weird).Was it aliens? I bet it was aliens
I bought an uptone usb regen, how high does that put me on the cuckoo scale? (I was looking for a seperate power supply for my usb soundcard initially, had to use like 5-6m of cable (I'll pick one's with ferrite core for something like that, but all reused from other stuff, no money for voodoo cables, cables are expensive enough) and that was causing issues, usb regen is what I settled with and I love the thing, increased system stability by several orders of magnitude even if windows is still kind of stupid when it comes to ASIO, and personally I prefer the sound). Not so long ago I would have told you 192kbs mp3 is enough, one or two songs will go unnoticed even on big time speaker for events. With the usb regen I am convinced I can hear when it's not 320kbs. I don't care for FLAC because if I started collecting that and take a liking in it, that would basically invalidate my current library, also: space, that might be getting less and less of an issue, but still there is old computers servicing my DJ equip.
Eh, FFmpeg has graphical frontends floating around. Could swear I used it for something at some point, but I definitely don't recall what. Huh.
Freac is the best, googling for an alternative is pure cancer, they're all trial based.
I'd call it oggl.og or something.Sadly not a real TLD.
If VLC doesn't play it, is it even real media?
Cthulu smokes 1d6 packs per round.
I got to re-thinking domed cities in sci-fi. They were always just kinda there, starting (for me) in Sim Earth and Sim City 2000 arcologies, but I never really considered what the dome was for.
A podcast laughing about the inefficiency of individual AC units vs central air made me reconsider. Clearly, the implication is that you're making an efficient controlled environment within the dome. The outside environment is no longer considered... ideal, hopefully due to rising standards (or in a lot of stories, because of hostile climate).
That's pretty much it. I always thought the domed cities were a symbol of utopian technology, and often they were, but it's inherently about separating the city from the world. Particularly in Sim Earth. Maybe it confused young-me because late-stage civilizations in that game have overcome scarcity and pollution - they *choose* to leave the planet because they no longer need it. The planet is likely recovering, probably isn't even in a bad state.
But that's my perspective as someone who dialed down fossil fuels and nuclear power at the slightest hint of trouble. I didn't have to see many nuclear resource-wars to learn that lesson. I guess I was a benevolent, or at least sensitive, deity.
I hope so too, I'm supposed to meet my parents+brother&family this weekend to celebrate my mum's birthday.
Still not feeling anything in particular, not even soreness in the arm muscle... Yet.
Or nor
One none
Either neither
Ever never
So
Even Neven
Yes? No? Yes?
It was actually a strategy to deliberately cause global warming so you can make your cities rely on oceans (which you planned by only building coastal ones) so all enemy inland cities starve.I got to re-thinking domed cities in sci-fi. They were always just kinda there, starting (for me) in Sim Earth and Sim City 2000 arcologies, but I never really considered what the dome was for.
A podcast laughing about the inefficiency of individual AC units vs central air made me reconsider. Clearly, the implication is that you're making an efficient controlled environment within the dome. The outside environment is no longer considered... ideal, hopefully due to rising standards (or in a lot of stories, because of hostile climate).
That's pretty much it. I always thought the domed cities were a symbol of utopian technology, and often they were, but it's inherently about separating the city from the world. Particularly in Sim Earth. Maybe it confused young-me because late-stage civilizations in that game have overcome scarcity and pollution - they *choose* to leave the planet because they no longer need it. The planet is likely recovering, probably isn't even in a bad state.
But that's my perspective as someone who dialed down fossil fuels and nuclear power at the slightest hint of trouble. I didn't have to see many nuclear resource-wars to learn that lesson. I guess I was a benevolent, or at least sensitive, deity.
Somewhere on Youtube was a video essay on the Civ games depiction of climate change. Some pay a lip-service where it does little harm, while others it's not there or a DLC. IIRC either Civ 2 or Call To Power had particularly brutal global warming mechanics, where it could easily spiral out of control due to previous warming events firing, and fighting over what's left could totally happen. And reversing environmental damaging was deliberately costly to encourage players to not bother doing it and just pollute.
I think this was it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n78WYo-SQQ)
Would you eat a horse?I hope so too, I'm supposed to meet my parents+brother&family this weekend to celebrate my mum's birthday.
Still not feeling anything in particular, not even soreness in the arm muscle... Yet.
I made myself think
Or nor
One none
Either neither
Ever never
So
Even Neven
Yes? No? Yes?
80% is a pretty good ratio of processing speed, especially if irrational thoughts and outcomes exist only as edge cases to normal practical thought
Would you eat a horse?I hope so too, I'm supposed to meet my parents+brother&family this weekend to celebrate my mum's birthday.
Still not feeling anything in particular, not even soreness in the arm muscle... Yet.
I made myself think
Or nor
One none
Either neither
Ever never
So
Even Neven
Yes? No? Yes?
Nobody said you had to eat the whole thing in one sitting.Would you eat a horse?I hope so too, I'm supposed to meet my parents+brother&family this weekend to celebrate my mum's birthday.
Still not feeling anything in particular, not even soreness in the arm muscle... Yet.
I made myself think
Or nor
One none
Either neither
Ever never
So
Even Neven
Yes? No? Yes?
I'd neven be able to eat a single leg before I'd burst probably
Huh, I'd never seen this Bay12 stats page before. (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?action=stats)
What if there was a superhero villain called MISTER CINEASTERA cinnamon Easter Bunny who vows to kill anyone who eats bunny shaped foods of any kind, since he mistakenly thinks they are also sentient too, since the mage that made him forgot to tell him he’s unique. He has residual magic that allows him to create cinnamon golems, who also have sentience, further reinforcing his perception that near everything can think
waves of iron
oh, I looked it up shortly after posting that and forgot to post the answer, then forgot the answer so looked it up again, it’s 1538 degrees Celsius or 2800 degrees Fahrenheit. For future references for when I mention temperatures, what do you all prefer? Also apparently Krypton has a melting point of -157.36°C. How do you type the degree symbol? I had to copy and paste to get itwaves of iron
It's been a week, figured it was time to start this up again for you.
There's a fancy alt code thing that can produce it, I think, but the practical answer to "how do you type the degree symbol" is "you don't". Most people will understand 150C (or whatever) stands for 150 degrees celcius when you're talking about stuff involving temperature.
So don't ramble, sloganise.
bool KINDA
if (X ≈≈ Y)
return MAYBE
Does the advent of quantum computers mean the advent of quantum programming?
Imagine how off the scale futuristically high tech this forum is:Yeah seriously - I was just trying to access the Instagram for Celeste, for no reason in particular (https://maddythorson.medium.com/is-madeline-canonically-trans-4277ece02e40), and it keeps blocking me when I scroll down a certain amount. So I try to log in with Facebook (great, now I've technically logged into Facebook today, it even flashed my notifications) and it tells me to choose a username, but Rolan7 is taken. And so is Rolan777?? And I try to log in as Rolan7 but the usual passwords-for-shitty-sites aren't working, and I give up.
Don't need to update it, thus you don't need an appstore account to update either, yet you can still access it on weekly basis without update. You can access it from any IP hassle free. And you can read as much as you want, with being cockblocked by "UsE oUr ApP".
So this forum is like utopically futuristic, reminds me of that communication network they invented in the cold war: int... internet? Totally negligable pipedream that was, as if you could just transmit text without ripping out and replacing the whole software environment, lol.
the word "blad" means anything from a plant leaf, to a magazine (literature), to the blade of a razor depending on what makes most sense in context.
ffmpeg -i in.mkv -c:v libx264 -movflags faststart -pix_fmt yuv420p out.mp4
ffmpeg -i video.mkv -i audio.m4a -c:v libx264 -movflags faststart -pix_fmt yuv420p -crf 28 -preset slow -c:a copy out.mp4
ffmpeg -i video.mkv -i audio.opus -c:v libx264 -movflags faststart -pix_fmt yuv420p -crf 28 -preset slow -c:a aac -b:a 128k out.mp4
being simliar to a Domain?Spoiler: Dominique (click to show/hide)
Or a Dominabeing simliar to a Domain?Spoiler: Dominique (click to show/hide)
The "early bird special" should be a plate full of worms.live worms
worm is just living sausage of mystery meatthis is a fair point
Yeah there's no secret kobold mods eitherBetter
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what was the edit? I didn’t see a changeYeah there's no secret kobold mods eitherBetter
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That's the joke.
The time of Last Edit changed to an impossible one, I don't get it though.what was the edit? I didn’t see a changeYeah there's no secret kobold mods eitherBetter
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nobody is editing your postsoh I know, I wanted to continue playing along with this, even though I’m not entirely clear on the purpose of it
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What does this have to do with eating horses?absolutely nothing
I'd eat a horse!
Is that what happens when you put some one on the ignore list?
It's weird how often I'm reminded there's like multiple million people who will probably never forget the intonation of "Hey! Listen!"
It's kinda weird how English doesn't differentiate between singular and plural "you". Tú and vosotros. I guess the difference is usually clear in context.
Eh I'm trying to recover my old Spanish and Latin lessons. Conjugation is such a pain, but it's also sorta interesting sometimes.
It's kinda weird how English doesn't differentiate between singular and plural "you". Tú and vosotros. I guess the difference is usually clear in context.
It's kinda weird how English doesn't differentiate between singular and plural "you".
wrongly implying y'all isn't used as a singular you, I see :PIt's kinda weird how English doesn't differentiate between singular and plural "you".
"You" and "Y'all"
My grandmother will never have a call again.
You all swore you were hard-shelled materialists; and as a matter of fact you were all balanced on the very edge of belief—of belief in almost anything. There are thousands balanced on it today; but it's a sharp, uncomfortable edge to sit on. . . it's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.
Why not atheism, if I can ask?It doesn't sit with me. I can't explain why, it just doesn't feel right (nothing against the atheists themselves unless they're assholes about it).
Scalar found where operator expected at perl-keysmash line 1, near "$^$%"
(Missing operator before $%?)
Scalar found where operator expected at perl-keysmash line 1, near "&*$%"
(Missing operator before $%?)
syntax error at perl-keysmash line 1, near "$^$%"
Execution of perl-keysmash aborted due to compilation errors.
Perhaps free/unfree is just a different axis than deterministic/random. But in that case, determinism doesn't break down free will at all, there's be no reason for freedom believers to argue against it.
"determinism up until the final point of human decision, which rests in the power of the individual (i.e., soul)"Just, determinism, and then more determinism? In order for my soul to make good decisions, isn't it necessary for it to be at least partly deterministic, with the other part being random?
If you reran the situation 100 times [snip]
Imagine, if you will, that Black is a quite nifty (and even generally nice) neurosurgeon. But in performing an operation on Jones to remove a brain tumor, Black inserts a mechanism into Jones’s brain which enables Black to monitor and control Jones’s activities. Jones, meanwhile, knows nothing of this. Black exercises this control through a sophisticated computer which he has programmed so that, among other things, it monitors Jones’s voting behavior. If Jones were to show any inclination to vote for Bush, then the computer, through the mechanism in Jones’s brain, intervenes to ensure that he actually decides to vote for Clinton and does so vote. But if Jones decides on his own to vote for Clinton, the computer does nothing but continue to monitor—without affecting—the goings-on in Jones’s head. (Fischer 2006, 38)
Coffee [...] Most of it just smells like self-hatred, the stink of people that don't want to be where they are
The smell is the best part. Coffee never tastes as well as it smells. You weird noseless mutant you.OMG, you literally made me laugh!
The smell is the best part. Coffee never tastes as well as it smells. You weird noseless mutant you.I mean, you're not wrong. The smell is indeed the best part, and coffee does tend to taste worse than it smells (least from what little I remember and what folks generally say).
The smell is the best part. Coffee never tastes as well as it smells. You weird noseless mutant you.
y'know, Rudolph was only accepted into santa!society when his disfigurement became useful.
y'know, Rudolph was only accepted into santa!society when his disfigurement became useful.
That's a big wrongo. It was the other reindeer that bullied Rudolph, not Santa.
That freak Santa. . . (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDLumk_rQQw)
UwU (https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/gay-santa-advert-branded-creepy-by-critics-who-say-it-sexualizes-christmas/ar-AARazVq)
Wicker man goat?So when do we get goat Nicolas Cage screaming about the bees?
I honestly can't believe there's people who dislike the smell of coffee. You have to be making this shit up.Agreed. For several years just a whiff of coffee smell would transport me back to my childhood visits to a certain SE Asian nation where they had their coffee black, sludgy and delicious, with a generous helping of sugar... now those memories have faded for the most part, but I still love the smell. I still drink my coffee black, too.
The stench is part of what wakes you up. I assume. For me, the taste of bitter (unadulterated with sugar and cream) wakes me the heck up.There was a song I wanted to post in response to this, that I distinctly remember discovering and listening to on Spotify years ago, but now I can't seem to find it. :(
The caffeine kicks in a few minutes later.
UwU (https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/gay-santa-advert-branded-creepy-by-critics-who-say-it-sexualizes-christmas/ar-AARazVq)
can we talk about how the terran music in starcraft 1 absolutely slaps?Omigosh, right? Starcraft 1 can be hard to play in a lot of ways, but the Terran music lives up to my memory of old LAN parties.
The siege tankers have a drawl so deep that even I was misunderstanding them!It was years after I played the SC1 campaigns through that I stopped wondering why the blazes those critters were talking about eating roses. Rose eating, rose eating, they kept saying, and I had no idea what they were going on about.
Literally same! I assumed "Rose eaten" was a phrase from Alabama or Florida or something, I'm merely NC. Nice to hear it confused you too.The siege tankers have a drawl so deep that even I was misunderstanding them!It was years after I played the SC1 campaigns through that I stopped wondering why the blazes those critters were talking about eating roses. Rose eating, rose eating, they kept saying, and I had no idea what they were going on about.
Yeah, proceeding is just generally not a word used down here in places with that kind of drawl to begin with. I can comprehend accents thicker than theirs most days, but that particular word just isn't one I've heard much or at all in the wild. Too fancy for general use, heh.Literally same! I assumed "Rose eaten" was a phrase from Alabama or Florida or something, I'm merely NC. Nice to hear it confused you too.The siege tankers have a drawl so deep that even I was misunderstanding them!It was years after I played the SC1 campaigns through that I stopped wondering why the blazes those critters were talking about eating roses. Rose eating, rose eating, they kept saying, and I had no idea what they were going on about.
The Swedes do burn a goat still (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A4vle_goat), if ”still” is applicable when it hasn’t been burned for the last four years because burning the goat is an act of arson and the municipality will do anything to stop it. It’s a shame.
Shit, I bet I can get Starcraft to run in Wine.
Does anyone have a good example of nonfiction poetry?The Charge of the Light Brigade? Other military or war-themed poems?
Does anyone have a good example of nonfiction poetry?
Does anyone have a good example of nonfiction poetry?The librarian joke is that we shelve all poetry as nonfiction (811 or 821 for english stuff, under dewey), so...Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Does anyone have a good example of nonfiction poetry?Can poetry really exist as non-fiction? I mean, while many poems can be read literally and can appear to be non-fiction, those words usually are the delivery mechanism for the allegory content and that content is often the type that make 3rd graders shudder when they fully understand it.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Tired to support behavioural problems 6 days a week. If you got a whole car trailer + car worth of trash every 5-10 days yore doing something seriously wrong. Why do they all have buckets filled with phytotoxins... This morons haven't emptied a single one of these poisons. Our lack of strict rules has created it's own demand.
Seems somebody doesn't want to wake up at 6AM.
but penises are funny
but penises are funny
Yeah. Especially not on groundhog's day.
From the day on I leave this job, I will allways antagonize parc visitors, anytime I pass in front I close the gates, if I'm going myself I'll park so that nobody getting past me, if I see somebody doing errors I'll insult them best I can, maybe I even get to fight somebody.
Fucking garbage junkies, allways the same stupid faces bringing 3 trailers in 2 weeks. Meanwhile normal fucking people come thrice a year and are done in 5 minutes.
It's not about QOL or me latching onto the best job I ever had using up all my patience. It's straight up about the individuals coming, they're fucking addicted to being able to dispose of shit for free, they disgust me, I wish them harm. They're never going to change, they're never going to learn so they should put themselves out of commission as quickly as possible.
I'm at a point if I see a trailer parked somewhere (not at work) I get irrationally angry and start cursing the owner. It's like: stop acting important the fuck you need a trailer for stop breathing now.
edit: So yesterday at 1am i was nodding off i decide to make myself ready for bed, pluck a few nosehairs that have been becoming tickling, suddenly get violently nauseous, i go ok stop i yield lets pee and go. While peeing I felt it come over me I tried to grip to something but then I fainted, woke up sat myself to finish peeing and fainted again. It was like when you faint while peeing drunk (never piss into river at 5am drunk, people have drowned before) except all I did was have stress and pluck a few nosehairs. I hit the back of my head and I bit my tongue, and my shoulder and my back hurt.Go to a doctor and at least have your blood pressure checked.
I feel like new Reddit's useful because if I ever developed an addiction to the site, I could cure it by forcing myself to use the redesign.how do I get to r/place canvas via the app? I’m at the page but can’t find the link to the canvas
Not to brag or anything but I have won at "General Discussion" (https://imgur.com/BLQuHvT) 8) 8) 8)Sorry, I don't get it.
i don’t get it either, please explainNot to brag or anything but I have won at "General Discussion" (https://imgur.com/BLQuHvT) 8) 8) 8)Sorry, I don't get it.
You dumbass fox, you have fallen right into a trap.:o :o :oSpoiler (click to show/hide)
could this be dog?What's up duck? Looks like a fine dog
We are all hostages to what we love. The only way to truly be free is to love nothing. How meaningless would that be?Chill as ever, I responded:
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. I embrace life, and am a shield.
Our gods aren't good enough, and The gods aren't good enough...We're gonna need a bigger god!
Heresy! The Burning God clearly wishes to be burning, pour some gasoline on them. The higher octane, the holier!
Heresy! The Burning God clearly wishes to be burning, pour some gasoline on them. The higher octane, the holier!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAagFKdsSNs
The problem with the modern day is that people are straight up spoiling the funThen go somewhere far from people so they can't ruin your fun.
You ever notice the free parking on the monopoly board isn't helpful at all for using the railroads? Like you'd have to walk some 7 streets over to get to the station.
Men... are hungryThen give them a sandwich.
Normalize digging random holes in the ground for no reason
It'd take some major changes to current infrastructure practices, sadly. Lot of the reason it's not normalized is that lots of places put stuff down there these days, and folks randomly digging around can cause... problems. Self-electrocution, busted pipes, broken phone lines, etc.
Refried beans is basically just bean gelatin
What's the smallest thing you think you would be willing to hurt someone over?And not trying to take your drill away?
For me it would be hurting my pets or knowingly destroying a piece of my garden without justification.
What's the smallest thing you think you would be willing to hurt someone over?
For me it would be hurting my pets or knowingly destroying a piece of my garden without justification.
Only if he at least once accidentally pulls beings from porn sites. The internet is full of sluttery, afterall.
Only if he at least once accidentally pulls beings from porn sites. The internet is full of sluttery, afterall.
Only if he at least once accidentally pulls beings from porn sites. The internet is full of sluttery, afterall.
Some of those ladies and gentlemen are kinda awesome.
More seriously, I have a fiction war story about the flame wars of the internet. Or at least the intro. Full on Vaporwave there
Probably call it Vapor Wars
"Knee-deep in the clowns".
If the economy functionned just a little as advertised, inflation would decrease the wealth gap. If it wasn't a giant scam, people who live paycheck to paycheck would stand to benefit from inflation.Would you mind giving an example with numbers so I can understand how this could be?
But what if they've been eating the poor?
... y'know, if you mispronounce your username as koogas, that makes you bird farts.
I have just realized this, and it's definitely thread relevant.
Have sexwhy
Have sexsir or madam please step away from the goat
well that's not coo at all
In the Solvay conference photo everyone in the first row sits prim and proper, with their legs crossed or sideways. With the exception of Einstein, who does a full-on spreadie to the camera like a true Chad, and Planck, who was sat next to Ms Curie, and tries to hide an erection with his hat.
Where is my 10-second-husbando?!Anyways here's PEPSI MAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNN
ANSWER YOU CAPITALISTIC COWARDS!!!
Why can't it be a man? I want my variety!
Why can't it be a man? I want my variety!
You must have missed this one: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/cadburys-advert-same-sex-kissing-b1784271.html (https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/cadburys-advert-same-sex-kissing-b1784271.html)
(Enjoy the ad but ffs don't eat that sad excuse for chocolate.)
Wow, two cute things in one day! :P
Me and the workers caught a rat inside a bottle while working on a roof because we were bored, one wanted to kill it but I refused, because I already named himProbably you can keep him? Rats make remarkably good pets, from what I understand. Talk to a vet or other rat owner, find out what you'd need to do to take good care of them, adopt squeakyfriendSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Can I keep him?
Can I keep him?
Can I keep him?
It already happened once. They turned from just "Novel" to a fancier "Scoops Novel". And that was after a substantial increase in their number of opened threads.Your forgetting about his starting form of Novel Scoops.
Novel Scoops had a very different name which was unrelated to Novel, and to Scoops, way back when.It must have been a different account, back then? Because looking at their posts (quotes retain the name at the moment of quoting), it looks like it was Novel ten years ago when they registered. Quickly changing to Novel Scoops, and staying that way until this recent bonanza of shitposting.
I don't remember what it was but I know that we DMed about it when the change happened. Kind of intriguing.
Novel Scoops had a very different name which was unrelated to Novel, and to Scoops, way back when.It must have been a different account, back then? Because looking at their posts (quotes retain the name at the moment of quoting), it looks like it was Novel ten years ago when they registered. Quickly changing to Novel Scoops, and staying that way until this recent bonanza of shitposting.
I don't remember what it was but I know that we DMed about it when the change happened. Kind of intriguing.
You need to ask Toady.Novel Scoops had a very different name which was unrelated to Novel, and to Scoops, way back when.It must have been a different account, back then? Because looking at their posts (quotes retain the name at the moment of quoting), it looks like it was Novel ten years ago when they registered. Quickly changing to Novel Scoops, and staying that way until this recent bonanza of shitposting.
I don't remember what it was but I know that we DMed about it when the change happened. Kind of intriguing.
You can change your bay12 username???
Why play the game normally when you can just abuse alchemy?
To be crushed under the weight of a thousand citrus fruit...it would be truly...sublime.
The average solipsist is probably 7 years old
I'm not real, you are!The average solipsist is probably 7 years old
Thats just what they want you to think.
The average solipsist is probably 7 years old
I wonder what it would sound like if you tried to play the singing vagina bowl with the donggong?All we know is that it summons the police who then try to enforce something they call 'public decency'
Wonder what the bible would be like if everyone in it was bugs instead, and would people care as much about it if it was?Almost certainly not. People are in religion for what they get out of it - feelings, community, material promises - even if they have genuine faith.
If the Bible were for bugs, it'd mean bugs are (the one and only correct) God's chosen people. They would rule the Earth and all the animals on it. Formiciform forumites would ponder what the Bible would be like if it were for apes instead, and whether ants would care.I mean... you're aware of which side of that comparison has the biomass advantage, yeah? What feasts on the flesh of even more things than humans do, and in greater quantities? Ants don't need forums or theology to rule this world to their pleasure :P
Their philosophy is singular: ConsumeIf the Bible were for bugs, it'd mean bugs are (the one and only correct) God's chosen people. They would rule the Earth and all the animals on it. Formiciform forumites would ponder what the Bible would be like if it were for apes instead, and whether ants would care.I mean... you're aware of which side of that comparison has the biomass advantage, yeah? What feasts on the flesh of even more things than humans do, and in greater quantities? Ants don't need forums or theology to rule this world to their pleasure :P
'Course, going that route you can go even further; by mass bacteria and whatnot rule this planet functionally unopposed. Even us humans are nothing more than feeding grounds for them. You can say they don't have great philosophies and such, but they clearly have no need for them, so...
Their philosophy is singular: Consume
virginal larvae
There's a Shadowrun Returns module with this general idea, using humans (shamans?) as pawns. Spoopy stuff.Their philosophy is singular: ConsumeIf the Bible were for bugs, it'd mean bugs are (the one and only correct) God's chosen people. They would rule the Earth and all the animals on it. Formiciform forumites would ponder what the Bible would be like if it were for apes instead, and whether ants would care.I mean... you're aware of which side of that comparison has the biomass advantage, yeah? What feasts on the flesh of even more things than humans do, and in greater quantities? Ants don't need forums or theology to rule this world to their pleasure :P
'Course, going that route you can go even further; by mass bacteria and whatnot rule this planet functionally unopposed. Even us humans are nothing more than feeding grounds for them. You can say they don't have great philosophies and such, but they clearly have no need for them, so...
I wonder what people would do if they realized that the chirping bugs outside their house were profits of Bug God trying to save their souls?
Don't forget the bugs that live on humans.Mite be cool
"Titanium" is such a bobo sales argument... Rare are the cases a good steel can't do what titanium does. And everytime I see titanium on a consumer product that's not going to be implanted into a body or something, it's just a metal object... I can't help but be reminded of an acquaintance... The dude could be browsing something out of boredom the second he stumbles across one in the list with titanium the value proposition shoots up 69000% in his head, and he starts religiously hailing that brand as a beacon of quality.Good steel can't bend like titanium stuff does, 'least in my experience, though there's probably similar bendy metals that works just as well.
In sports equipment titanium shocks me less. One thing I don't know about it, are all titaniums equal? I was able to find out there are different types, but can you have shoddy and good batches, or does that idea relate more to messing up some sort of fancy steel? Like I can't imagine copper and zinc (zinc right?^^) alloys, so bronze and it's cousins are much subject to such quality differences, seems to me there you'd only get cheated out of right mixture proportions if that's profitable, but that the end product is bound to be very similar as long as you mixed similar proportions. Yeah but titanium on the other hand seems to be more complex on a metallurgical level, so isn't it bound to greater quality variations?
I don't know much about metalurgy but I allways found it fascinating. It's one of the parts I really enjoyed discovering alongside DF.
Don't tell me what to do.
Aw yeah lets start a riot*grabs and throws folding chair*
You jest but I wish we'd do it to most airports, rain my sledgehammer down their fighterjet in holy wrath, one helicopter per hospital is enough cyberdjihad ftw.Until then, there's always Red Faction Guerilla.
There is enough rural hospitals that don't have helicopters, like 1 on average or median is more what I envision. But it's not sexy to distinguish precisely when you're swinging a sledgehammer.Makes sense the hospital near me doesn't have one.
I'll probably publish a few short stories in my hard SF setting soon.
I'll probably publish a few short stories in my hard SF setting soon.
I originally read that as "hard San Francisco setting", and could only imagine the implications.
There are a lot of streetcars and hobos, however, so maybe it's just a matter of time.Just be sure to wear padded armour to protect your self in the event of ether happening.
Hardly, we will have to restructure everything. Dark years ahead without his warm shine. But not all hope is lost, maybe once the dust has settled bay13 emerges.
I have been contemplating my presence and what it means to the board and the forum at large, I remember some of the details of how I made it here, and I'm thankful I did, reflecting on the journey so far, this forum and the people have done something for me on one of my worst days, when I was truly struggling for reason.Seeya. Though your presence wasn't negative at all, much the opposite...
But I don't believe that my presence here is particularly positive, I don't like what I represent and signify to the people of this forum anymore, this identity no longer suits me, so I'm wiping the slate clean, I have a lot of changing and growing to do.
If I ever return, it will be as someone new, hopefully better.
So long and thanks for everything, specially to those who were here when I was going through some of the worst moments of my life, it is unlikely I will ever be able to repay you.
Depends. With or without catsplosion?
Maybe one day we'll all get a computer that can run Dwarf Fortress with out having to worry about FPS death.
I know the perfect song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ)
I agree with Frumple, but fair...
Simon Serwer - Dagger Dance (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5nF7qY5ZEk)
I almost suggested him earlier, but I'm glad the classic background was suggested first.
It's legitimately good.
It isn't "escaped lunatic" like some of Serwer's works, but Toady made some good background music for fort building.
While I do like Dagger Dance, I personally would've cast my vote for what I still consider to be Swerwer's Magnum Opus... Namely, actually singing in Dwarvish in Tankard Basher (https://youtu.be/R1gF0uhHsqk)Come on. Danger Room is superior.
It's less chaotic, ironically, but I do fiercely agree. Mmnph, I can practically sing this, knowing the meaning of the words.I agree with Frumple, but fair...
Simon Serwer - Dagger Dance (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5nF7qY5ZEk)
I almost suggested him earlier, but I'm glad the classic background was suggested first.
It's legitimately good.
It isn't "escaped lunatic" like some of Serwer's works, but Toady made some good background music for fort building.
While I do like Dagger Dance, I personally would've cast my vote for what I still consider to be Swerwer's Magnum Opus... Namely, actually singing in Dwarvish in Tankard Basher (https://youtu.be/R1gF0uhHsqk)
It has been so long since this community glowed with that energy.I think the playerbase has mellowed out more. It's very Tolkeinesque in a way; you had your 1st and 2nd age where things were wild and people were blowing up the sun and making were-blender chamelon cloning facilities, and now we're in the 3rd age where people are more concerned with making strawberry wine by the brook in peace
It has been so long since this community glowed with that energy.I think the playerbase has mellowed out more. It's very Tolkeinesque in a way; you had your 1st and 2nd age where things were wild and people were blowing up the sun and making were-blender chamelon cloning facilities, and now we're in the 3rd age where people are more concerned with making strawberry wine by the brook in peace
cat, if you eat my food, i eat your toes
your crunchy little kitten toes
70% of the earth is water and virtually none of it is carbonated.
So the Earth is, in fact, flat...
Wouldn't any wear or scratches to the shield distort the laser?
For fun, I recommend telling Christians that Jesus is a demigod.
consider:Fluffy chicken is ultimate chicken!
(https://i0.wp.com/valleyhatchery.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Buff-Silkie-Bantam-Chicks.jpg?fit=1800%2C1800&ssl=1)
Reminds me the first time I saw one of these. I thought it was a disability but also cute (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastopol_goose)
Where will the folks from Tumblr migrate to?Outside.
Where will the folks from Tumblr migrate to?
Fluffy chicken is ultimate chicken!Spoiler: consider: (click to show/hide)
I thought Tumblr was dead?
Still occasionally think my cousin's still a 5 year old brat. He started college this year.
Still occasionally think my cousin's still a 5 year old brat. He started college this year.
I started college
old
Still occasionally think my cousin's still a 5 year old brat. He started college this year.
I started college
old
Lol
What's a pfp?Power From Plutonium
"I ought to give you a piece of my mind," he said, before his head exploded showering the room in gray matter.That certainly would liven up any meeting.
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Those sound like elven names, why would you do that to a child?In this economy the only chance your kids have of ever becoming homeowners is if they're kidnapped by the fae and trapped inside a time loop where they have a theoretically infinite quantity of time to save up capital
Those sound like elven names, why would you do that to a child?In this economy the only chance your kids have of ever becoming homeowners is if they're kidnapped by the fae and trapped inside a time loop where they have a theoretically infinite quantity of time to save up capital
I like how pockets also function as phonescreen cleaners.Me too, but then I think about the germs in my pocket. Is my phone screen really getting cleaned in my pocket?
I got replaced with a changeling as a baby, it doesn't seem to help much.
Damn fae creating all the billionaires that take all the money so us regular people can't get any!
I am gonna draw up a new comic based on a post from here.nya
The next 10 people who respond after this announcement will be included in it.
How do you know the billionaires dont become the way they are because the fairies took their souls/replaced them entirelyFairies are the enemy of man kind for creating such evil and we need to stop them.
Damn fae creating all the billionaires that take all the money so us regular people can't get any!The fae are known for their tricks
I am gonna draw up a new comic based on a post from here.Woof.
The next 10 people who respond after this announcement will be included in it.
People that will be included:
- Eric Blank
- Egan_BW
- King Zultan
The reason fae child replacements are named 'changelings' isn't because they're 'changed' children. That makes no sense - the child does not change, it is swapped.Damn fae creating all the billionaires that take all the money so us regular people can't get any!The fae are known for their tricks
Posting through the server errors so Magmacube_tr will dorf me :D
Who are you who are so wise in the ways of the temporal plane?
Who are you who are so wise in the ways of the temporal plane?
I see molds of greenAnd the list is full.
maybe white too
there be some black
sitting there whoo
and I think to myself
get the fuck out my house
What's this comic about us ten people gonna be about?
It's not that, help me I'm lost. I struck down at least 500 yet they keep coming please hurry.
It's not that, help me I'm lost. I struck down at least 500 yet they keep coming please hurry.
They're multiplying like rabbits what are we gonna do!?!
Gonna have to do both since we don't want them to continue to multiply while being butchered.They're multiplying like rabbits what are we gonna do!?!
It's either the gelder or the butcher.
I am gonna draw up a new comic based on a post from here.
The next 10 people who respond after this announcement will be included in it.
People that will be included:
- Eric Blank
- Egan_BW
- King Zultan
- Loud Whispers
- MaxTheFox
- dragdeler
- Th4DwArfY1
- Rolan7
- Flying Teasets
- Frumple
It is done.
In the grim bayness of the two hundred and third decade, there is only shitpost.
It was inevitable.
MAGMAAAAAAAAA!
Are we gonna be fighting the enemies of the Bay in this comic?
Also we gotta use all the catchphrases.
If they aren't an enemy are they us?
Cyberware theft, actually. Eyeball pirates steal cybereyes, turn around and fence fresh eyeballs, only lightly used.
I thought his birthday was later in the year.Orthodox Christmas is on the 7th.
They appear to be talking about pipe cleaning, fairly obviously?
it "birthed" such an old idea. The concept that a world exists because we write it down.
It seems like no letter has more than 4 beeps, so we can store exactly 2 letters in 1 byte (maybe)? But it seems like we need 7 short beeps for a space, so that's annoying.Won't work. How do you distinguish C from NN, or S from IE? You could zero-pad short symbols (or 1-pad them), but then how do you tell G or W from P?
Why is it called "clop" fic tho? Is it just the sound of the hooves?Yeah, basically. As far as I'm aware it was adopted because the word is fairly close to fap in both spelling and (in this specific usage) intent, except hoofs because, well. Hooves.
Why is it called "clop" fic tho? Is it just the sound of the hooves?Yeah, basically. As far as I'm aware it was adopted because the word is fairly close to fap in both spelling and (in this specific usage) intent, except hoofs because, well. Hooves.
E: Infinite english hatefact of the day: Both hoofs and hooves is a legitimate pluralization of hoof.
Remember folks, english hates you and wants you to suffer!
Also, "fay" is apparently a valid word in my phones autocorrect libraryYeah it's related to fey, meaning faerie, etc.
At that point... why not pump the pollutants into space??Why do the easy thing when we can do the difficult thing?
No see if we flood space we won't need spaceships we can just sail our normal ships out thereThink of the money we'll save!
What happened to Reddit?Apparently they started charging outrageous prices for 3rd-party apps so there's a mass blackout (https://reddark.untone.uk/). This likely results in the fall of Reddit.
This likely results in the fall of Reddit.
What happened to Reddit?AI. Reddit have been providing's its API for free, through which anyone could access reddit vast DB of conversation. Recently they learned that AI companies were downloading it wholesale to train its AI systems, realized that their data is valuable and put restrictions on non personal use.
more that reddits in house app sucks ass and everyone else can do it better.What happened to Reddit?AI. Reddit have been providing's its API for free, through which anyone could access reddit vast DB of conversation. Recently they learned that AI companies were downloading it wholesale to train its AI systems, realized that their data is valuable and put restrictions on non personal use.
If they want to do better, do better; don't talk ;Dorrr you can monopolize and not need to improve... ;D
This likely results in the fall of Reddit.
I'm gunna be pessimistic and say that I kinda doubt that this is the end of reddit, just because people are pretty fickle... I'm pretty sure reddit can outlast the protest so long as there isn't a viable alternative for people too swap to. And as these places become more and more popular and part of peoples lives it becomes harder for a replacement to arise and so I sorta doubt that there's a website that can just replace reddit quickly at least.
I still don't get how Reddit is so popular I find the interface on it a pain in the ass and I can never find anything on it.iirc it blew up at a time when its then-competitors like Digg (and traditional forums) were faltering, because for its time it had a better UI and features, and thus managed to claw out a near-monopoly, then kind of... coasted along once a critical mass of users was achieved. Then of course they got complacent and shot themselves in the foot, as social media companies are wont to do. Hubris is the main killer of such services.
Also looking at it on a phone is a pain, if I wanted their dumb ass app I would have downloaded it, stop bitching at me for not using it.
I still don't get how Reddit is so popular I find the interface on it a pain in the ass and I can never find anything on it.This seems to be why so many people use third-party apps to access it, which is the crux of the recent issue.
Also looking at it on a phone is a pain, if I wanted their dumb ass app I would have downloaded it, stop bitching at me for not using it.
DF magma is 2170 kg/m3 based on comparison to water in filled minecarts.
I feel like that should be one of those rules of the internet, but what number would it be?
"Rule 34.whatever: If it exists, it is someones fetish."[stares at ship of Theseus lustily clutching carpentry tools]
"Rule 34.whatever: If it exists, it is someones fetish."[stares at ship of Theseus lustily clutching carpentry tools]
Mmmmmh yes baby replace my wood
Is this what cis people see when they fetishize us? That would kinda rule :P"Rule 34.whatever: If it exists, it is someones fetish."[stares at ship of Theseus lustily clutching carpentry tools]
Is this what cis people see when they fetishize us? That would kinda rule :P"Rule 34.whatever: If it exists, it is someones fetish."[stares at ship of Theseus lustily clutching carpentry tools]
out of context that sounds like some weird fetishy shit.
What plastic passions are enflamed behind closed doors? Your love does not dare writhe its name in public.Right, so *in* the context of Fallen London it can *totally* be weird fetishy shit.
mmmmmh yes baby sig their woodMmmmmh yes baby replace my wood
Sigged.
Nicemmmmmh yes baby sig their woodMmmmmh yes baby replace my wood
Sigged.
how could one possibly believe in creatonism or intelligent design, in a world in which the hiccups exist
Anybody thinks there is a chance with might return to analog signals one day?I'm sure we'll get need to when we have one of those apocalypse things people keep talking about.
also I cant find the arthopod thread anymore has that been deleted?Huh, yeah, it was http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=179747
also I cant find the arthopod thread anymore has that been deleted?Huh, yeah, it was http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=179747
During the First or Second Age they started to move farther away from the male Ents because they liked to plant and control small things like vegetables, grass and flowers, while the male Ents tended the larger trees of the great forest. The Entwives passed eastward over the Anduin and went to the region that would later become the Brown Lands. After Morgoth was overthrown, their gardens blossomed and they taught agriculture to the primitive Men and they honored them.[3]
In the usa, italians are their own thing in the ethnic diaspora, and generally not thought of as latins, which is pretty funny.
It's fine for light to clip through solid things because light is Weird and does Weird things all the time. Such as travel at exactly the universal speed limit, like what the FUCKIsn't it nuts how there is even an upper limit to speed. Who wrote these rules anyways
The weirder thing is how solids stop light usually, a thing which for years people thought traveled through an ether. Especially the fact that ordered crystal structures will scramble light, but randomly arranged haphazard amorphous structures let light travel straight through.The irregularities in glass are on such a tiny level that they average out.
Nah being entraped in time we couldnt notice changes to it's speed, like in DF the drawves can't know your fps, in their subjective world it is the next tick that counts... So it's more like the resolution of reality.Ah, but the simulation-makers would witness the slowdown.
Kitty litter is just the panko breading on dog treatsIt stays crunchy, even in milk.
Nah being entraped in time we couldnt notice changes to it's speed, like in DF the drawves can't know your fps, in their subjective world it is the next tick that counts... So it's more like the resolution of reality.Ah, but the simulation-makers would witness the slowdown.
this (https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/432428/what-is-the-upper-bound-for-the-index-of-refraction-of-space) puts the upper limit on the index of refraction of space at 1+10-13.
Basically the slowdown is nonzero, but it's very small.
(For reference, water's index of refraction is about 1.3 as you said; diamond is very high, at 2.4)
I hate Rafadan Tayfa. Not in a "this sucks and it is awful" kinda way.Wanting to murder the shit out of kids cartoon characters is the healthy and natural response to most kids cartoons.
You know that feeling when you look at something really cute and want to kill it violently? That is my hatred for this stupid fucking kids show. The characters are annoyingly good at endearing themselves to the viewer, and their faces are so baby-like.
I love it. I want to tear it apart.
Observations show that moths that acquire the lamp and do not die (because its an LED), will sit on the lamp and do nothing.
Simply Irresistible (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simply_Irresistible_(song)) is a song about meeting someone into pegging for the first time and finding out you're really, really into it.Wow, I didn’t know that. I wonder if Mary Harron meant something by putting it in the cab scene in American Psycho.
I think people from Indiana would be... "indiananer" in Swedish? So a secret third option. Though really it's not a word I've ever heard someone say; people from the USA tend to be grouped together as "amerikaner" or "jänkare" over here.That obviously means a banana from India.
I was just checking... Apparantly people from indiana are called hoosier... like universally (ok that wiki article only exists in english, french, german, dutch, esperanto and russian and I can't read cyrillic). Which... weird but ok then.Speaking as an American, at least in my part of the country, that's a jokey nickname, not something you'd actually call an Indianan in a formal context.
Oh yeah, also, virtually no linguists actually believe the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis anyway. As a group, they're almost pathologically conservative about claims like that. So they're much more likely to agree than to hate me for my one weird trick. :PAs it was originally stated, sure. In that it was too strong - sort of ascribing nearly mind control-like, dictatorial powers to language. I suspect nobody does take that seriously. But then again, it was just a hypothesis. A fanciful idea without any tangible support. What it did, is spawn a field of research in linguistics studying how language affects (rather than dictates) thought. It's more subtle in its claims, but it's a thing.
calling something by a name doesn't change the thing or how people view it.
I think people from Indiana would be... "indiananer" in Swedish? So a secret third option. Though really it's not a word I've ever heard someone say; people from the USA tend to be grouped together as "amerikaner" or "jänkare" over here.
I can't stop thinking about this.Murdur? Murdur? Murdur? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KbvBayqPH4)
English: "Is the principal a principal?"
Turkish translation: "Müdür müdür müdür?"
LMAO
So I agree that abusive business practices and abusive governments are human rights issues. But I don't think fixing climate policy will address human rights issues, so it confounds two real problems.Huh... yeah I think I agree with all that. I think if you drill far enough into any human rights issue, it becomes about resource distribution and thus economics. Certainly when it comes to geopolitics and also domestic labor negotiation.
"Fixing" climate change won't eliminate human rights violations. "Fixing" human rights violations won't address climate change.
. . .
I was just getting ready to comment that climate change is really an economic issue, not a rights issue. But then I realized that perhaps all economic issues are indeed human rights issues, because economic issues often boil down to what you let individuals do, what agency you give them, and how you restrict (or don't) access to resources, and how you manage the side effects of use of resources and waste (as in, low-value byproducts of other economic activity). So I may change my stance. Thinking on it some more.
The use of hydrocarbons is not inherently racist or colonial, but it sure does facilitate and demand wealth extraction from "poor" yet resource-rich areas to maintain the expected unsustainable growth.
As opposed to mining rare earth metals required for solar, wind, and Li-ion batteries? With child and slave labor?I've also read about that, apparently they mine that shit by hand with no safety stuff and slowly die from the dust the crap kicks up while mining it.
I will try to wait at least 7 hours before starting the game. I will wait at most 24h.I can't.
you mean cobaltYeah that's the one, couldn't remember what it was at the time other than it had something to do with the batteries.
I think the best advice I've ever seen on that front, is "When in doubt, don't. You don't actually need a romance subplot."Well part of why I'm doing it is to learn because I never really wrote one before, and I learn by practice.
There's also just keeping it offscreen as much as possible. If you can't write it, don't write it, just make some kind of oblique mention or have characters stand closer to each other than they used to or something. Folks in a relationship can be pretty private, so lean on that and don't force yourself to write something awkward :P
Trying to get a romance subplot started in writing is hard. Especially without making it sound like the characters are sock puppets.
Pseudoineffectual cabbage.
having no internal organs became associated with sex work.I mean, for what it's worth, that connection actually kinda' exists? Or at least improbable internal structures of similar intent; you can see an example in Baltimore Whores (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL-iOj4JJQU) (song's mostly lacking in outright vulgarity, but it's definitely NSFW), which culminates with a prostitute boasting about a fleet of ships sailing in to her nethers and getting lost for several months.
Nah, they're not usually depicted as missing any internal bits or weird junk like that. Whatever it is I'm half-remembering, it's odder than that, probably from european or asian folklore stuff.COS I AINT NO HOLLABACK GIRL I AINT NO HOLLABACK GIRL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penanggalan)
I will often flash my lights at people thinking they have their brights on - and then they flash their brights back at me.I've never really tried to do that since most of the people that do it to me do it right as I'm passing them so they purposely blind me.
Yes these are reassuring figures, you're forumites im just an intruder.
Now that Microsoft has purchased both Activision and has "acquired" Sam Altman, what are the Vegas Odds on Microsoft being the company that literally creates Skynet and ends the world, given the probability of AI training itself on Call of Duty?
Swedish folklore has the Skogsrĺ or Skogsfrun (Forest-Ruler and Lady of the Forest respectively), which is a spirit that appears as a beautiful, possibly naked, woman with a few telltale traits that she isn't human such as a troll's tail. Often she is depicted as hollow, in the way that a hollow tree is hollow, which could only be seen from her having a hole in her back that she would hide. She was a dangerous creature that enjoyed playing with people and could make them wander lost in the forest, trick or hurt them.Sounds much like how Pan lost a lot of his regality over time as he gradually became the drunk spirit of madnessI'm not super certain but i think it is likely that as her name implies in earlier permutations of the myth she was the personification and/or ruler of the forest itself, but in much of the later (ie 17th-19th century) folklore that was preserved she has lost some of the "regality" that would imply. She has a few "sister spirits" like for example the Bergsrĺ/Bergsfrun (Mountain-ruler/Lady of the Mountain respectively) which retained their "we have to respect and revere these spirits and they will aid us or else they will become angry with us and hurt us" atmosphere.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I noticed that I'm the newest member on the first page of the post counts by having joined in 2017 with the next newest guy having joined in 2015.I need to visit the forum games section more often. Lots of posters up there who have stopped visiting the lower boards. Need to open up a general discussion embassy or something to promote lower board tourism
I'm also right under Frumple on that page as well.
I need to visit the forum games section more often. Lots of posters up there who have stopped visiting the lower boards. Need to open up a general discussion embassy or something to promote lower board tourism
Oh yeah, great idea. We could definitely use more people down there.Or we could go up there. Be assimilated into one big pathos
Oh yeah, great idea. We could definitely use more people down there.Or we could go up there. Be assimilated into one big pathos
I don't want new people down here. I'd have to put on some pants and I don't remember where I left them.
Oh yeah, great idea. We could definitely use more people down there.Or we could go up there. Be assimilated into one big pathos
lol
Then we shall coalesce into the PATHOS GESTALT.
Pathos is love, Pathos is life.
If you want to stay young forever surround yourself in people who are good. Surrounding yourself in people who make you stressed is the worst thing you can do since stress fucks you up so badly on a biological levelThat's how the jeepers creepers monster does it
That's how the jeepers creepers monster does itit keeps his skin wrinkle-free and his heart jolly and filled with mirth
"The wonderful thing about linguistics is that it doesn't require your consent, only your understanding."-Start using slang ironically to mock it
-- on the subject of created words and language as a consensus (which it is, but it's an intriguingly one-sided one; you can say something isn't a word all you want, but if you know what someone else is talking about when they use it, that counts and your agreement as to its nature just kinda' doesn't). Turl is a curled toe now, pass it on.
... I think it's the most hostile thing I've thought about language, maybe ever and certainly today. There's an odd sort of violence in how language can be imparted on a person, really...
U fkin wot m8ehhh rite not bein funneh but swear on me nan u bin rilin me well up so pipe down or I'm puttin me reeboks on we're gettin the lads and we'll be cheeki breeki like down your postcode
cheeki breeki? is that a threat to get your windows smashed?Verily forsooth I vouchsafe on my honour as a gentleman and the confidence of my dearest ancestors, thou hast given me a choleric temper - an imperative response is demanded. Put down your sword lest I be given casus belli to muster the men, stiffen the sinews, and like the dreaded tiger roar and let loose the cats of war. Heed this ultimatum, else my rallied-bannermen shall be funky freaky, and a little bit sneaky fresh upon your house!!!
I was thinking today, would zoomers be sad if you proved to them that the "ded" skull emoji was invented by some french wine mom on facebook, who just tried to convey MDR.I hate how a lot of apps today auto-convert :0 or L: or >:) into emojis
.... Okay I can't match this London-speak.U fkin wot m8ehhh rite not bein funneh but swear on me nan u bin rilin me well up so pipe down or I'm puttin me reeboks on we're gettin the lads and we'll be cheeki breeki like down your postcode
Verily forsooth I vouchsafe on my honour as a gentleman and the confidence of my dearest ancestors, thou hast given me a choleric temper - an imperative response is demanded. Put down your sword lest I be given casus belli to muster the men, stiffen the sinews, and like the dreaded tiger roar and let loose the cats of war. Heed this ultimatum, else my rallied-bannermen shall be funky freaky, and a little bit sneaky fresh upon your house!!!Oh, now this on the other hand I am better with.
Uhm I think you're confounding time dilation and relative speed... For most instances they're not running so fast as to wrap time around them (except for the obligatory change something in the past episodes)... So no it's just a way of showing one is at 6000fps whereas the others are at 60fps; highspeed cameras work much alike.
Yes highspeed perception would be a separate power required to oprate the first, that sadly is never mentionned in those works of fiction. Under normal perception things would be flying past them so fast. No disagrements there.Eehh... it comes up pretty often in books and such, for what it's worth? You don't see it mentioned in comics or movies much, probably because of the condensed nature of the mediums, but folks working in that general region of fiction actually do tend to give some attention to the perception/reaction at high speed thing.
But this is opposite time dilation - if you start moving quickly, more "world seconds" get crammed into your one second - not less! So to exaggerate, 10 real-world seconds get crammed into 1 of your seconds. That is - the world ages 10 seconds for every 1 second you age. This is the opposite effect of what is portrayed, where the fast entity ages more than the rest of the world.That's not time dilation you're thinking about. Time dilation is always symmetrical, and slowing time down in the moving frame only - and Flash is never moving from his point of view, even though the world disagrees. I think what you have in mind has more to do with the different lengths of paths through space time, as in the twin paradox. At the end the traveller is shown to have unambiguously aged less by the end of their journey, so there must have been more world-seconds crammed in each of theirs.
MDR Multidrug-Resistant
MDR Mort de Rire (French: Died of Laughing)
MDR Managed Detection and Response (cybersecurity service; various companies)
MDR Monatsschrift für Deutsches Recht (German magazine)
MDR Motor Driven Roller (conveyors)
MDR Medical Devices Regulations (various locations)
MDR Master of Dispute Resolution (Pepperdine University School of Law; Malibu, CA)
MDR Maternal Death Rate
MDR Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Carl Jung book)
MDR Mouvement Démocratique Républicain (Democratic Republican Movement, Rwanda)
MDR Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction
MDR Making Dreams Reality
MDR Mandatory Declassification Review
MDR Movement for the Defense of the Republic (Cameroon)
MDR Manhattan Diagnostic Radiology
MDR Minimum Design Requirement
MDR Major District Road (India)
MDR Milestone Decision Review
MDR Militaire du Rang (all grades under sergeant in the French army)
MDR Mitglied des Reichstags (German: member of parliament; before 1933)
MDR Mortgage Default Rate
MDR Mercury Displacement Relay
MDR Maximum Detectable Rigidity (spectrometer)
MDR Miniature Donkey Registry
MDR Missed Detection Rate
MDR Materiel Deficiency Report
MDR Microcircuit Device Reliability
MDR Minimum Design Rule(s)
MDR Median Detection Range
MDR Magic Decoder Ring
MDR Maximum Distance with Respect to Rank
MDR Manufacturer Defect Report
MDR Monthly Demand Rate
MDR Maintainability Demonstration Report
MDR Mean Detection Range
MDR Minimum Display Range (US Air Force)
MDR Million Dollar Roundtable (insurance industry)
MDR Microwave Dielectric Resonator
MDR Movimiento para la de Defensa de la República
MDR Mandatory Device Reporting Program (Center for Device and Radiological Health; US FDA)
MDR Maximum Deceleration Rate
.... Okay I can't match this London-speak.It takes a lot of effort to look effortless ;)
Time to deploy.... Belfast-speak.
Aye pipe down mate or we'll do yer knees in. Yer in Belly-fast now, and here's the craic - ye came up the Lagan in a bubble, and we're gonna ship ye back to yer avon-selling da in a shoebox.
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Okay so I'm not as good at Belfast slang as I thought :'(
Wyll is BG3's Anomen?
Wyll is BG3's Anomen?
I wonder if there is a way for me to accurately estimate how many unique iterations my planet generator can procedurally generate. It must be a truely huge number at this point.
Do you guys know how this can be done? Besides manually counting each and every variable, which is nigh impossible to do so by a human at this point in the project.
I wonder if there is a way for me to accurately estimate how many unique iterations my planet generator can procedurally generate. It must be a truely huge number at this point.
Do you guys know how this can be done? Besides manually counting each and every variable, which is nigh impossible to do so by a human at this point in the project.
You could write a program to count each variable and then calculate the total possible combinations. However, the specifics of the calculations would depend on the variability of your variables. So you'd have to either have a way to tell how many states each variable can be in by scanning the definitions, or something else along those lines.
For example, if you have 3 variables, each with 10 states, the total number of possible permutations is 10^3 (1000) If those are instead binary 2 state variables, then there are 2^3 [8] permutations. How the variables can be combined and ordered may also impose limiting functions on your calculations.
Probably the easiest way to figure it out would be to seduce a college math or computer science professor, and get them to pose this question on a midterm or final exam, and then let the students figure it out for you. I don't think there is going to be a fast way if you are generating planets with more variables than mere mortals can count.
What sort of variables does this planet generator permit, by the way?
How are you going to grade the exam if you haven't got the answer yourself? Only check their work and hope at least one of them, the one you chose as "correct" got it?
(assuming this is)
I took a look at it, and it looks cool. Does produce some weird, phenomena like a moon that orbits its parent gas giant on a 180 day orbit (large, massive and luminous blue-white star, this gas giant being very far out in a huge habitable zone?), or the tenth world out in a system, which itself has a 22 hour orbit (lots of very small planets circling a very small red dwarf?? At least it's supposedly very hot with molten material around the equator and the life was said to be specially tailored for the environment.)
Honestly, it seems stable enough you can draw these conclusions about what the rest of the system looks like to make sense of the planet without having to ditch parts of the planet description and say "thats not possible" so good job.
So if the Flash's ability isn't just to be able to run fast, but also to be able to boost his mental frame rate, then he'd be able to see things "in slow motion" without running fast.
You could probably use it to dig a hole, at least.
People here, when they first meet me, have this unsaid, latent expectation of me having a girlfriend. Like, they seem genuinely surprised to hear that I don't. Why is this?Are you tall?
Like, I am flaming garbage. What do they see in me to think, "Yea this guy is definitely taken"?
You must be handsome and charming.
Are you tall?
It's the chiseled cube jaw
Magmacube is the hottest person in every room he enters.
"Hello there, ladies and gents!"Are you magma because you literally light up the room
*Sounds of agonised screaming as people start getting cooked alive at my mere presence*
"Awwww yeah, none can resist my godlike rizz!"
are you I’m you because you stand proud, or would you win?"Hello there, ladies and gents!"Are you magma because you literally light up the room
*Sounds of agonised screaming as people start getting cooked alive at my mere presence*
"Awwww yeah, none can resist my godlike rizz!"
nah I'd winare you I’m you because you stand proud, or would you win?"Hello there, ladies and gents!"Are you magma because you literally light up the room
*Sounds of agonised screaming as people start getting cooked alive at my mere presence*
"Awwww yeah, none can resist my godlike rizz!"
Is that right? 80k posts/year is only like 220 a day. Surely it's more than that, isn't it?
All this social media stuff is pretty crap, I don't get why there aren't more forums around they seem like friendlier places than those big shit holes.
Is that right? 80k posts/year is only like 220 a day. Surely it's more than that, isn't it?And 5 of those 220 are mine...
Bruh we used to be like 7 people who were actually active here, and Armok was 3 of them. This place is ludicrously active, I haven't been able to keep up with it for years.
Bruh we used to be like 7 people who were actually active here, and Armok was 3 of them. This place is ludicrously active, I haven't been able to keep up with it for years.
The numbers don't lie though.
Are you saying Kaguses lie then? Nay, it's them thar numbers. They see the past through rose-tinted glasses. They get wobbly with age. Don't trust them with your money.Bruh we used to be like 7 people who were actually active here, and Armok was 3 of them. This place is ludicrously active, I haven't been able to keep up with it for years.
The numbers don't lie though.
Bruh we used to be like 7 people who were actually active here, and Armok was 3 of them. This place is ludicrously active, I haven't been able to keep up with it for years.
The numbers don't lie though.
We'll be fine.
And 220 of those 220 are Pathos's.Is that right? 80k posts/year is only like 220 a day. Surely it's more than that, isn't it?And 5 of those 220 are mine...
Shower thought: "burn" and "set on fire" are different.
You can only set something on fire if it's flammable, whether by itself or being doused in accelerant. But you can burn something non-flammable if it's placed on a fire and gets charred.
Wait what? Since when is our orbit decaying?There's a yo mama joke in that, but I'm too tired to think of it and that's mildly disappointing.
Wait what? Since when is our orbit decaying?
Earth is going to get absorbed into the sun because the sun is going to go red giant, not because of orbit decay.
Best I can tell in about 5 seconds of searching is that currently the orbit is expanding, not decaying; however because of the nature of the n-body problem we can't be sure of long-term behavior.
it seems likely that everything on earth will become fuel for that cosmic fire, and everything will burn. Even things not usually considered flammable.Just goes to show that if you try hard enough that anything can burn if you try hard enough.
I... think so? Sorta'? At the absolute least it's possible to add more fire to fire to make it go out faster, iirc, which is, like. Close enough.
Times like that are when I am most... observant, in my beliefs. Is that timeless?
Researching ancient Greek/Mycean gods and suddenly imagining myself back in a city of the time, during a thunderstorm at night, observing the lightning strikes which inspired the bundle Zeus carries.
Times like that are when I am most... observant, in my beliefs. Is that timeless?
Flaky, creamy, combustible"There is a lack", I once set as a status, and my friends grew concerned for me. I thought it was a level of Unaccountably Peckish, but it wasn't. Technically. It was my interpretation of it.
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someone should make a jewish mysticism themed restaurant
they'd bring out kabbalah nuggies arranged in a sefirot, it'd be great
Terminal velocity 18km/h? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_xm-KIO7jc)Fun fact: you could fly on Titan using just wings attached to your arms alongside muscle power. And a very good winter coat as the temperatures there are cryogenic, but details, details...
So living on titan feels allmost a bit like swimming... So what's really neat about this that I would expect those settlers to be absolutely ripped. We'd unironically be calling them titans in no time. Also weird to think about the economics of a world were carburant is plentiful, but the oxygen for combustion is precious and any oxygen and CO2 should be recycled. Dynasties built on hot air, my granddaddy breathed here being the equivalent of not under my roof, hehe titan is kind of humourous.
"Everything solid is just the ice of something else."
what if uh if i uhhhhhh maybe we could maybe we maybe we guess the why of how andBut what comes after the and?
what if uh if i uhhhhhh maybe we could maybe we maybe we guess the why of how andBut what comes after the and?
(https://i.imgur.com/AnWEWME.jpeg)I know.
Tag yourself.
thanks alsoI'll switch to "Laughs nervously"
I'll take "Who doesn't?" Maybe i should get an avatar tho. haven't needed one.
Agape, Philos, or Erotic?
I'll take "Who doesn't?" Maybe i should get an avatar tho. haven't needed one.I used to have one. It's still in the Happy Thread OP, from the second Penguining, not long after I found out that fapping isn't the noise a keyboard makes when you're typing.
I'll take "Who doesn't?" Maybe i should get an avatar tho. haven't needed one.
Take an avatar. You need to have an avatar to be put in the Bay12 love meme.
I used to have one. It's still in the Happy Thread OP, from the second Penguining, not long after I found out that fapping isn't the noise a keyboard makes when you're typing.My mind instantly went to "fapping on the keyboard" when i read this lmao.
In that case, this embarrassed-looking AI generated pangolin(?) shall be my avatar for now.
(https://files.catbox.moe/ilsqro.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/TEt87.png)
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I mean, it's this thing.
Proto-mammalian kobolds with pangolin-like scales and fur that lay eggs are a like for me, its how I like to envision them.
I mean... you don't have to put kobolds in an antagonistic role? They can be people instead of murderhobo fodder if you feel like it, heh.Proto-mammalian kobolds with pangolin-like scales and fur that lay eggs are a like for me, its how I like to envision them.
I absolutely love the idea of them looking like that. Well, except i wouldn't feel comfortable putting anything based on a pangolin in an antagonistic role.
They really are just too adorable aren't theyAbsolutely. Way too adorable!
I mean... you don't have to put kobolds in an antagonistic role? They can be people instead of murderhobo fodder if you feel like it, heh.Yeah, i mean it'd be an issue if the idea was mainstream that is. An antagonistic role is typical for kobolds in fantasy media like D&D. nothing that resembles a pangolin needs any kind of negative representation in the slightest imo.