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General Discussion / Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« on: May 12, 2015, 06:42:36 pm »
Didn't bother to check what the new minimum would be, just that they'd be allowing folks under 35 to give it a shot. Presumably the age of majority? Quick google says 21.

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General Discussion / Re: Legal hypothetical situation - AI
« on: May 12, 2015, 06:40:08 pm »
Would depend on where you're at :V

There was some sort of art exhibition that ran afoul of something like that relatively recently, actually, though that was the program itself indulging in illegal activity rather than suggesting someone else do it.

The legal angle you'd be looking for is incitement. There's an aspect of intent involved with that, though, which both the programmer and program presumably lack.

Personally, I'd say no. We don't sue police departments when officers coerce and convince people into breaking the law during undercover operations, after all >_>

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: May 12, 2015, 06:04:26 pm »
In other news, I just noticed the title on the top of the forum is trying to eat us.

II:
^
Graawr

... it's fitting, isn't it?

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General Discussion / Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« on: May 12, 2015, 06:02:01 pm »
Quote from: Avis-Mergulus on May 12, 2015, 05:21:14 pm
...Wait, isn't this the politics thread? Where did all the etymological discussion come from?
Discussion of nation-states a handful of pages back was where it originated.

In other news, apparently ireland is holding a referendum on minimum age to run for presidency and same-sex marriage in a few weeks. Be interesting to see how it turns out.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: May 12, 2015, 05:53:32 pm »
Quote from: Cinder on May 12, 2015, 05:40:33 pm
I'm suddenly baffled by everything.

Why is breathing a thing?

Why do people talk?

Why am I a boy?P

Why do I have skin?

Why am I a human?

Why am I?

Why do I have a penis?

Why does things exist??????
Being baffled is good. A question is an excuse to wikiwalk and learn.

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General Discussion / Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« on: May 12, 2015, 04:54:13 pm »
Quote from: scriver on May 12, 2015, 04:46:45 pm
In English, all of the terms for body stuff will be in Latin, and I'll have no idea what anything means without constantly looking it up.
... unless you speak english, which has a lot of bleedover from latin. Lot of time you can figure out what fancy technical-use latin means pretty trivially just because of what you know of english and (very) basic etymology.

Lot of doctors and whatnot actually do make a(n at least) basic study of latin, though, to make that stuff easier to identify.

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General Discussion / Re: Will save the World for Gold - 4e D&D Webcomic
« on: May 12, 2015, 04:34:47 pm »
... no, not badly translated, now that I actually think along those lines. There's this one doujin that has anthromophized doorknobs...

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General Discussion / Re: Sheb's European Politics Megathread
« on: May 12, 2015, 01:04:27 pm »
... you're saying all that like it's not something that already happens?

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General Discussion / Re: Will save the World for Gold - 4e D&D Webcomic
« on: May 12, 2015, 08:53:49 am »
The one on 2013-03-14, according to the .png I have in my pictures folder. Too lazy to actually find a link to it.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: May 12, 2015, 07:08:02 am »
Quote from: Tiruin on May 12, 2015, 03:21:45 am
I've been tying my shoes wrong the whole time and they were loose...
In which a link shows me the use of that one hole in most rubber shoes. >_>
The most amazing thing to me is that site apparently won't even load -- errors out with a 522 -- without javascript on.

I feel like deciding to open it in firefox to see if it made a difference has now given my computer internet herpes ;_;

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General Discussion / Re: [What] Obi wishnowski vs kanmusu? (Happy thread?)
« on: May 11, 2015, 09:01:59 pm »
Quote from: Arcvasti on May 11, 2015, 08:52:00 pm
^This. I probably read too much. I'm also the only person I know who's ever actually read words in a dream.
No, no. Make that at least two.

Though I've just straight up read from like books before. And computer screens. There was this one terrible dream I spent mostly browsing fanfiction.net and there were the most amazing stories on that damned thing and then I woke up. I'm pretty sure I actually literally cried a little when I checked and they weren't there. Dreambrain's invented whole texts whole cloth for me, though, or at least bits of 'em. Cover, binding, and everything.

... and yeah, I guess it's nissin? Bah, it's all the same vowel to me.

And yeah, throw another person in the "Talks to themselves in their head pile". It's usually either words, music, or silence. I don't actually seem to do abstract ideas much, at least that I notice. Imagery barely happens at all if I'm not outright dreaming, though that seems more like an artifact of the visual snow than anything.

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General Discussion / Re: [What] Obi wishnowski vs kanmusu? (Happy thread?)
« on: May 11, 2015, 08:53:36 pm »
Quote from: Bauglir on May 11, 2015, 08:29:20 pm
A bowl of mashed potatoes with about 5 ounces of melted extra sharp cheddar. Food is a running theme in happies for Bauglir.
Ooh. Mashed potatoes, you say? Something I've been doing recently is cooking this spicy teriyaki beef noodle stuff,* mixing it with a pack of ramen to diffuse the spicy, then shoving mashed potatoes in it until it's this just-barely-this-side-of-thick soup thing, then adding cheese and cinnamon. Feeds me for like two days, and is this amazing pseudo-sweet gruel thing. Entirely too good for something that should ostensibly taste horrible.

Also chinman! Hello here, too, chinman!

*Nissan chow mien, to be precise -- folks have been picking it up for me when they're out, and they've been consistently getting the wrong kind, so I've been getting creative trying to de-kick the spicy version.

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General Discussion / Re: Bay12 2016 Election Megathread- It Was Inevitable
« on: May 11, 2015, 08:46:43 pm »
Woah, chinman. Welcome back?

And yeah, the texas situation has been... interesting. That was a fun letter, heh.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: May 11, 2015, 08:42:40 pm »
Yeah, I think you're coming down too hard on neo, here, FD.

And personally, I wouldn't call helping people against their will being a "good person". I've seen that sort of behavior cause of a hell of a lot of trouble in my lifetime. You ask someone if they want help, make the offer, and if they say no you back the blazes away. You keep going anyway and what you're doing isn't being a good person -- it's being something, but not that.

Though as to what it costs you, it costs you the nice walk you were enjoying and riding in a hurtling deathtrap you might have preferred not to. Depends on the person in question, but don't assume something that's costless for you is costless for someone else, y'know?

And beyond all that, the answer isn't to burn bridges. Sometimes you just want to build them somewhere else on the river. Talk to people, let them know what's up, help build mutual behavior in directions both parties are comfortable with. Deciding to steamroll or lay supine isn't healthy.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: May 11, 2015, 08:03:24 pm »
Yeah, it does go both ways. Rejecting their sentiment is being a little jerky, but so's rejecting the recipient's. They're expressing dislike or perceived superiority just as much as the person turning it down. S'refusal to accept communication either way, and it's certainly going to seem like the greater imposition from the point of view of the person being imposed upon.

Still, utilizing social-fu to deal with some of that is a pretty useful skill to pick up. It's harder with stuff like folks showing up at the door to drive you places, but food at least is a pretty easy, "Ah, thanks, but I really don't want* to eat right now, so I'll stick it in the fridge and eat it later." The next day, you fend of their advances with the leftovers. Ride I would fend off with invocations of wanting to try some exercise, or just appreciate the weather or whatev'. Probably ask 'em to come along, or arrange for the ride at a different date. Thanks but no thanks, deflect to a different instance to show willing to accept sentiment under different conditions. Some people won't accept or be comfortable with a no, so you figure out ways to say no by saying yes, if you care about them. If you don't, well, there's always gratuitous vulgarity and maybe soap on a rope or somethin'.

S'a bloody nuisance pretty often, but sometimes y'just can't really get the point across so you judo flip it onto the mat and get on with your life, preferably without actually having to break someone's limbs.

*Or really can't. The issues I have with reflux is probably 10-15% fabricated just so I can comfortably turn down family that wants to eat in the afternoon. As another example, telling folks I'm not hungry when they want to go out to eat is an outright lie probably better than half the time -- I really do appreciate the sentiment, but not enough to suffer for an hour or more over a meal I don't want in a place I don't want to go to.

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