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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: April 27, 2019, 07:48:18 am »
Eh... for what it's worth it kinda' has to be 'the' overarching goal right about now. Otherwise most to all of our species is dead in the relatively near future. Individuals can vary but on a large scale we either start pulling harder on that stewardship or the bottom on which all our other goals rely is probably going to fall out. We can pooh-pooh about it being a generation or two down the line but we're already seeing migration and mass disruption due to environmental shit getting out of hand. Balance with this stuff is effectively suicide.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: April 26, 2019, 11:39:45 pm »
Quote from: wierd on April 26, 2019, 11:25:45 pm
Sorry to ruin your fun kids, but the device's QA section outright says it does not do flavored drink mixes.
so... what about flavored ice? Gotta' be some hard candy that tastes like Tang out there somewhere if that won't work.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: April 26, 2019, 11:23:27 pm »
Tang flavored cotton candy, eh. All we'd have to do is put japan in a blender and jam the results into the candy machine. we're in a new era of rei jokes, pass it on

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: April 26, 2019, 06:54:37 pm »
Quote from: nenjin on April 26, 2019, 03:59:32 pm
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on April 26, 2019, 03:19:56 pm
I've toyed with the idea that millionaires and up should be prohibited from having any children.

They'd just elect pseudo heirs in that case, or their wealth would just transfer to corporate interests in full.
That... would arguably be an improvement, really. Especially if you stop the former from going to similarly wealthy heirs. Put some kind of limit on the latter (extra hard taxed, i'unno), too, and you'd possibly be a step on the road of breaking excessively generational wealth transfer over your knee. I could see it as a sort of "trickle down or get pissed on" thing. Not nearly enough on its own and you'd probably be way better off just taxing the rich blighters harder, but hey, every little bit.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: April 26, 2019, 01:29:40 pm »
What it meant was he was the thing put there more or less specifically as a 'fuck you' to Venezuela. I wouldn't so much give weight to whatever he says as default to praying to whatever you think will listen his words have no weight. The alternative is probably worse than him spewing ineffectual hot air :-\

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: April 26, 2019, 01:25:28 pm »
Quote from: Eric Blank on April 26, 2019, 12:24:29 pm
Still less stupid than that water-flusher pump thing for your nose advertised on tv right now. God thats such a stupid product. But oh yeah, its totally all-natural and thus perfectly safe to use so you gotta buy it and cleanse your nose daily (with pressurized tap water) for that clean nose feeling!
the whatever it is pot things? Something like nettle pot just... not that. I remember those strictly due to the noted risk of introducing brain eating bacteria to your insides.

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General Discussion / Re: which is your hand of skill?
« on: April 25, 2019, 01:22:21 pm »
I mean... it actually does, it would just be handwriting. Stylus or finger stuff :P

... also apparently sigma is a sum? Uppercase, anyway. Never had reason to use the thing, iirc. Either way, spreadsheet stuff often won't be quicker for the setup, no. Just usable, and often enough faster if you need to fiddle with component pieces afterwards.

Can be good specifically for learning since, again, you often need to break more complicated stuff down to component parts to cobble together a working set of functions. Both see how the whatever works and easily see how it reacts when you mess with parts of it. Can be nice, and you can save it for later use, heh.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: April 25, 2019, 09:48:07 am »
Bleeeh. Not close enough to the primaries to think about who to vote for, but I'm not voting for a goddamn 70 year old in them.

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General Discussion / Re: which is your hand of skill?
« on: April 25, 2019, 08:06:34 am »
Quote from: Arx on April 25, 2019, 07:57:30 am
Quote from: Frumple on March 10, 2019, 04:19:19 pm
Depends on what you mean by mathematical notation, but most spreadsheet programs I'm aware of can manage one way or another.

Excel won't help you write a sigma, or a xi, or whatever.
Quick check seems to show "=SUMPRODUCT(1+2*(ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&$A$1))-1))" (minus quotes, probably aiming wherever it actually needs to) works for sigma :P

Probably similar stuff for whatever a xi is, or whatever a whatever is. Macros if you're actually using it often help. If you don't have access to more specialized software, you can muddle your way through most things with your average spreadsheet program.

... also still no answer on what hand of skill is, I see.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: April 24, 2019, 12:57:52 pm »
Quote from: Dunamisdeos on April 24, 2019, 12:34:19 pm
I mean really now, it's not like liberal-leaning Presidents during wartime have been more likely to charge their soldiers with individual war crimes.
... have you actually seen numbers on that? Out of it enough at the mo' I really don't feel like trying to massage google into giving them up, so if you got sources on hand that'd be neat.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: April 23, 2019, 08:23:06 pm »
had reason to ask one of my coworkers if we have erotic fiction stickers for the books

we don't, no

lady chatterley's lover had to make due with just "classic" warned boss people about this but get it anyway they tells me, ah well, probably not the worst smut on the shelves

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: April 23, 2019, 06:10:02 pm »
Quote from: Rolan7 on April 23, 2019, 04:00:00 pm
Yeah I... just turned 33 this morning actually.  I know there are several posters about my age or older, which is nice.
happy cakeday, I guess. I'm around that point age wise, too, so yeah. We do indeed have some 40-50 year olds tottering about, though.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you laugh today: 9701 skittles and counting
« on: April 23, 2019, 08:06:10 am »
Quote from: There is no epic loot here, only puns, chapter 75
“Come on! Have some Shroom Pop!” he encouraged.

The mug in her hands felt cold so Kemy gulped slightly before sipping it. She slowly put the mug down.

The taste was... well... Kemy sipped again.

It was kind of earthy, but it turned sweet as it passed her tongue. After a moment, the sweetness melted away into a distinct mushroom aftertaste.

Kemy liked mushrooms but this was giving her tongue a midlife crisis.

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Other Games / Re: Zorbus (D&D inspired roguelike)
« on: April 22, 2019, 01:28:52 pm »
Not just roguelikes, mind. Just about anything with fog of war et al concerns, anything that isn't strictly linear. I'd kill for an equivalent for something like grim dawn or diablo or something, and plenty of RTS or other strategy stuff have implemented roughly equivalent features (automated scouting, press button to go to event, etc.). It's just an issue with stuff that has things to explore and isn't willing to drown you in unrelenting hell. Eventually you're going to need to go through territory you've already cleared out, and being able to one-button press your way through it is just... nice.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: April 22, 2019, 08:46:27 am »
You can also just not back up the phone :P

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