There's no P in hamster...
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Not quite to THAT level, but spelling and grammar is one of those things that is a never-ending battle with the helpdesk technicians that get put on my helpdesk. It doesn't help that there's also the two-sided war of QA's "Do your damn tickets right" versus Management's "Do your tickets quick so you can be back in queue inside the company-decided after-call-work metric of two minutes"
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@TimeBandit said in There's no P in hamster...:
@PJH The word hampster (with a p) actually exist
FileUnder: Blame Canada
And this is why slapping someone with a fish should be legal.
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@PJH said in There's no P in hamster...:
.. or the end result of helicopter parenting...
archive.tdwtf
I don't normally take the time to try to read images that display the small. This time I did.
And just holy crap. We are doomed.
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@TimeBandit
Number 1 in the Canadian charts! Ha.There's an alternative track based on the same sample which made it to number 4 in the UK. I remember having this on CD single.
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@loopback0 said in There's no P in hamster...:
Numeber 1 in the Canadian charts! Ha.
A good enough reason to NOT listen to the radio
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@Karla said in There's no P in hamster...:
I don't normally take the time to try to read images that display the small.
Clicking it shows the original...
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I don't want to defend the young wompan or her helicompter parents in any way, but I would nevertheless like to mock the writer of this story as well.
When you need about 400 tweets to get your story across, Tweeter probably isn't the right choice for you.
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@cvi said in There's no P in hamster...:
Tweeter
probably isn'tis never the right choice foryouanyone.FTFY
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@PJH said in There's no P in hamster...:
@Karla said in There's no P in hamster...:
I don't normally take the time to try to read images that display the small.
Clicking it shows the original...
Derp....yeah that would have been easier.
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@Karla said in There's no P in hamster...:
yeah that would have been easier.
How the fuck did you manage to read that without clicking on it
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@TimeBandit said in There's no P in hamster...:
@Karla said in There's no P in hamster...:
yeah that would have been easier.
How the fuck did you manage to read that without clicking on it
I clicked the image in the details under archive.tdwtf, saved it and opened it locally so I could make it large enough to read. I assumed the reason it was there because the first part was also an image.
I have a tendency to do things the hard way.
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In adolescence you develop independence. If you're in your twenties and you haven't learned to deal with such situations on your own it's not only your parents fault. Maybe that person is indeed "neuroatypical" if she couldn't figure out by her late twenties that her mother is an idiot she shouldn't rely on for advice.
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@M_Adams said in There's no P in hamster...:
And this is why slapping someone with a fish should be legal.
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Them: "There's no P in hamster..."
Me: "Maybe you're just not squeezing them hard enough."
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@da-Doctah said in There's no P in hamster...:
Them: "There's no P in hamster..."
Me: "Maybe you're just not squeezing them hard enough."If you squeeze them that hard, you're not likely to find it in them anymore.
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@levicki said in There's no P in hamster...:
Phis is nop phe end resulp of helicopper parenping.
This is the result of Skinner's "positive reinforcement" applied to humans and a general doctrine that "Everone's opinion is equally important" which turned into a belief that "my ignorance is as good as your knowledge" as Asimov so succintly put it.
"Only reward, no punishment" can be applied to benevolent beings such as dogs, but not to fully sentient cheaters a.k.a. homo sapiens.
Yeah, that's not how it works, at all, but carry on.
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@da-Doctah said in There's no P in hamster...:
Them: "There's no P in hamster..."
Me: "Maybe you're just not squeezing them hard enough."
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@levicki said in There's no P in hamster...:
If you want to dispute things with people you must try harder than "You are totally wrong just because I say so".
YMBNH
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@levicki said in There's no P in hamster...:
What's not how it works at all?
Positive reinforcement.
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@levicki said in There's no P in hamster...:
@Rhywden said in There's no P in hamster...:
Yeah, that's not how it works, at all, but carry on.
What's not how it works at all?
Or are you just outright dismissing everything I wrote in that post, even the part of Isaac Asimov's quote just because you don't like me?
If you want to dispute things with people you must try harder than "You are totally wrong just because I say so".
The problem is that you're confusing a lot of things here. First of all, you seem to think that behaviourism only applies to dogs and "lesser" creatures. Here's a newsflash: We're not that far removed from the animals you look down upon. There are countless examples of where our animal history plays tricks on us, influences or outright dominates our behaviour. So, yes, positive reinforcement is a pretty powerful tool which does work on us. It also has no bearing on "cheating" - because it's only interested in cause and effect and not interested in morality.
Basically, it only says: If you reward behaviour A you'll get an increased chance of A repeating.
And that's all it does and it works very well. It does not concern itself whether A is wanted by society or called "cheating" or something.
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@Rhywden said in There's no P in hamster...:
@levicki said in There's no P in hamster...:
@Rhywden said in There's no P in hamster...:
Yeah, that's not how it works, at all, but carry on.
What's not how it works at all?
Or are you just outright dismissing everything I wrote in that post, even the part of Isaac Asimov's quote just because you don't like me?
If you want to dispute things with people you must try harder than "You are totally wrong just because I say so".
The problem is that you're confusing a lot of things here. First of all, you seem to think that behaviourism only applies to dogs and "lesser" creatures. Here's a newsflash: We're not that far removed from the animals you look down upon. There are countless examples of where our animal history plays tricks on us, influences or outright dominates our behaviour. So, yes, positive reinforcement is a pretty powerful tool which does work on us. It also has no bearing on "cheating" - because it's only interested in cause and effect and not interested in morality.
Basically, it only says: If you reward behaviour A you'll get an increased chance of A repeating.
And that's all it does and it works very well. It does not concern itself whether A is wanted by society or called "cheating" or something.
That's not to say it's a panacea and that there aren't other factors in play, but behaviourism can be used to understand a hell of a lot of why people do things
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@HardwareGeek said in There's no P in hamster...:
@cvi said in There's no P in hamster...:
Tweeter
probably isn'tis never the right choice foryouanyone.FTFY
Twitter is the JavaScript of social media. They've made every single bad design decision they could possibly make, and somehow they've still become the industry standard of the internet and you have no other choice but to use it, or turn your back on the entire ecosystem.
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@Gąska said in There's no P in hamster...:
you have no other choice but to use it, or turn your back on the entire ecosystem.
Gate number 2, please.
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@MrL that's what I did too. With both.
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@Gąska said in There's no P in hamster...:
@MrL that's what I did too. With both.
I mean, I don't get what's the appeal of Twitter. You follow someone and you get notifications on everything he writes? So how many people would you really like to follow? Two? Three?! It's like participating in a group chat all the time. Who would want that? And why?
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Sounds like what happens when both a parent and a child have narcissist disorder.
The whole conversation on speakerphone shows they reinforce each other's zero regard for anyone else.
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@MrL said in There's no P in hamster...:
It's like participating in a group chat all the time. Who would want that? And why?
/me questions why he's sitting here reading WTDWTF at 1h30 AM.
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@Zecc said in There's no P in hamster...:
/me questions why he's sitting here reading WTDWTF at 1h30 AM.
You're working late
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@M_Adams said in There's no P in hamster...:
@TimeBandit said in There's no P in hamster...:
@PJH The word hampster (with a p) actually exist
FileUnder: Blame Canada
And this is why slapping someone with a fish should be legal.
There's a site for that too!
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@levicki said in There's no P in hamster...:
Or are you just outright dismissing everything I wrote in that post, even the part of Isaac Asimov's quote just because you don't like me?
That's the one. @Rhywden is fun to talk to.
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@Gąska said in There's no P in hamster...:
Twitter is the JavaScript of social media.
I would agree… except there's Facebook.
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@MrL said in There's no P in hamster...:
You follow someone and you get notifications on everything he writes?
No. You see recent things that the people you follow have written when you check. And some notifications, usually slanted towards informing you about posts by accounts that post rarely.
I follow artists, authors, poets, and people I know through other means.
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@cvi said in There's no P in hamster...:
I don't want to defend the young wompan or her helicompter parents in any way, but I would nevertheless like to mock the writer of this story as well.
When you need about 400 tweets to get your story across, Tweeter probably isn't the right choice for you.
There isn't a good alternative. Facebook is even worse. And arguably you can use an outside service like people on weibo does all the time and turn you incredibly long passage into a long picture, but that people having the attention span of a goldfish, you know. Apparently they can only afford their attention if the content is spread in 400 tweets.
Also, why are you covering your ass when you're not talking about the topic in the tweet itself in any sense? Are you a victim of Twitter sensationalism?
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@_P_ said in There's no P in hamster...:
Also, why are you covering your ass when you're not talking about the topic in the tweet itself in any sense?
What's there to say? Some people are in great need of being able to spell? Some people have had a rather excessively sheltered upbringing? Some people are assholes, whether or not they're neurotypical?
I have two colleagues who might well put a P in hamster, but they know they're dyslexic and can't spell (they can program well) and it doesn't bother them when I do corrections from time to time. The only real downside is that one of them can be painful to read in group chat when one of his mistypings falls outside the autocorrect capabilities of a normal human brain. Once or twice a day, more if he gets really excited.
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@anonymous234 said in There's no P in hamster...:
narcissist disorder
I don't think it's a personality disorder. All you need to create such a monster is an overbearing mother who doesn't want to teach her daughter to become independent and a child who doesn't get tired of her bullshit and soaks it up like a sponge. The biggest problem is not their individual personalities, but their unhealthy co-dependency.
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@levicki said in There's no P in hamster...:
The problem is that humans are good at finding workarounds. They will find a way to simulate desired behavior A in order to cheat the system and get what they want out of it.
If you think dogs don't do the same, you've never met an intelligent dog. Even after centuries of selective breeding and puppy training, they still like to trick their human owners.
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@_P_ said in There's no P in hamster...:
Also, why are you covering your ass when you're not talking about the topic in the tweet itself in any sense?
Mainly as an excuse for typing "wompan" and "helicompter". Didn't find a good way to get these into the message otherwise.
Also, who are you to criticise my creative writing? The post is perfect the way it is.
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@dkf Facebook is definitely Java: slow, overengineered, can do everything, wants to take over everything else, nobody likes it.
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@anonymous234 said in There's no P in hamster...:
Facebook is definitely Java
and it comes with free spyware during installation
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@dkf said in There's no P in hamster...:
@MrL said in There's no P in hamster...:
You follow someone and you get notifications on everything he writes?
No. You see recent things that the people you follow have written when you check. And some notifications, usually slanted towards informing you about posts by accounts that post rarely.
I follow artists, authors, poets, and people I know through other means.
Yeah, I meant 'notifications' in this sense.
I have instagram account. I follow... 4 people I think. Out of which 2 post more frequently than once a month.
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@levicki said in There's no P in hamster...:
An animal will kill another for food. It will use claws, teeth, hooves and horns usually in a fair fight.
An animal will do everything it can to make the fight not fair. Understandably so. It's humans that have the strange notion of 'fair fight'.
They also have no motivation to kill unless hungry or threatened.
Not true. Animals also kill for practice, fun, territory, sex, power, reproduction advantage and for no reason.
On the other hand, a man will go to war and commit genocide over something as imaginary as religious beliefs or enter a school with an AR and shoot defenseless children.
Chimps go to war.
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@levicki said in There's no P in hamster...:
I know what it says, I read a book. The problem is that humans are good at finding workarounds. They will find a way to simulate desired behavior A in order to cheat the system and get what they want out of it. For example, from an intelligent sociopath, the most you will get is the appearance of behavior A, but they will actually hate it and subvert it whenever they think they can get away with it.
Oh, great, using an abnormal person to refute things. Always a good method. Yeah, a person with non-standard processing does things in a different way from the rest of people. Film at 11.
Even those people are subject to behaviourism, by the way, it's just that, for example, their reaction to punishment is muted.
Also, you're once again confusing "method" (what/how) and "reason" (why).
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@MrL said in There's no P in hamster...:
Chimps go to war.
They're using guerilla tactics by the way, which further refutes the notion that "animals fight fairly".
Also, male lions usually kill cubs from other male lions when taking over a pride.
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@Rhywden
True.Even domestic animals kill for fun.
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@levicki said in There's no P in hamster...:
"Only reward, no punishment" can be applied to benevolent beings such as dogs, but not to fully sentient cheaters a.k.a. homo sapiens.
My dog learned not to shit in house pretty quickly when my mother started sticking her nose it. It must of passed on the lesson because none of her pups did it either.
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@Rhywden said in There's no P in hamster...:
@MrL said in There's no P in hamster...:
Chimps go to war.
They're using guerilla tactics
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@dkf said in There's no P in hamster...:
@Gąska said in There's no P in hamster...:
Twitter is the JavaScript of social media.
I would agree… except there's Facebook.
Twitter is a flaming bag of dog shit on the front porch of life.
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@kazitor said in There's no P in hamster...:
@Rhywden said in There's no P in hamster...:
@MrL said in There's no P in hamster...:
Chimps go to war.
They're using guerilla tactics
Well, obviously not Gorilla tactics, they're chimps after all!
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