Random thought of the day
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@Tsaukpaetra when you call a taxi in GTA5, you've become an NPC because you've just given an adventurer an escort quest with promise of coins upon completion.
Naturally, I've never used taxi services in GTA5. I'm not an NPC.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
escort quest [...] GTA5
I would have expected something different ...
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@Luhmann there are some similarities. A stranger stops by and you enter his car...
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@Luhmann if he wants feelings, he's doing romance wrong.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@Luhmann there are some similarities. A stranger stops by and you enter his car...
There are differences as well. E.g. whether the driver pays or gets paid for services rendered...
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@Vault_Dweller that depends on your game progress.
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Thanks to reCAPTCHA, self-driving cars managed to make the internet much worse for all of us - and they aren't even a thing yet!
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If you think that's bad, just wait until they are, and they start running over people because the training data was poor quality (there's an XKCD about this, but looking for it)
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@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
(there's an XKCD about this, but looking for it)
That's what bots are for!
@error_bot !xkcd self-driving cars
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@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Which he does after first killing the guy he thinks was his grandfather.
Which is double the opposite of Oedipus. Did he also sleep with a woman he thought was his grandmother?
He did do the nasty in the pasty
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In addition to Adolph Hitler, there must have been other people with the name Hitler. Presumably, most of them changed their name after World War II. Are there any who didn't, and who (or their descendants) still bear the name today? They could therefore refer to themselves as "Literally Hitler" and be correct.
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@jinpa I do not want those searches in my google history.
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@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
Are there any who didn't
Only one, and she died childless in 1960. And because the name Hitler was made up by Adolf's father, there aren't any non-relatives either, except for a few neo-nazis who adopted the name long after WW2.
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@PleegWat said in Random thought of the day:
@jinpa I do not want those searches in my google history.
You replied to my post though, so in 30 years you will be considered guilty by association and fired summarily.
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@jinpa I was curious and thus polluted my search results for you. There are apparently some, not all neo-nazis or similar, and there even was a documentary made about them a few years ago (although a couple of people mentioned in the article are not exactly "Hitler" e.g. there is one "Hittler"):
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@remi said in Random thought of the day:
@jinpa I was curious and thus polluted my search results for you. There are apparently some, not all neo-nazis or similar, and there even was a documentary made about them a few years ago (although a couple of people mentioned in the article are not exactly "Hitler" e.g. there is one "Hittler"):
Thus illustrating that for every fleeting thought I've ever had, there's someone who has devoted at least months to the question.
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I wonder how many female dogs out there have been named Karma.
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Related: I wonder what are the names of @Tsaukpaetra's dogs.
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@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
Related: I wonder what are the names of @Tsaukpaetra's dogs.
The dead ones or the ones still living? One of them is a security answer you know!
If you must know...
Sheba
Sammy
Summer
Stormy
Ginger
SadieI'll leave it up to you to determine which one was named outside my presence (and which ones were "owned" by me).
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
(and which ones were "owned" by me)
This part makes it sound like you pulled some kind of epic prank and at least one of the dogs didn't fall for it
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@hungrier said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day:
(and which ones were "owned" by me)
This part makes it sound like you pulled some kind of epic prank and at least one of the dogs didn't fall for it
Oh I great my bitches with care and respect. If I did such a thing you can bet there was make-up cuddles and potentially make-up passionate hugging. Sometimes less passionate though.
One bitch (not mine) never forgave, and I have a scar to prove it. It just goes to show that you should never fuck with not-your bitches.
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Even if the intent was just comedic value, "Smoke me a kipper – I'll be back for breakfast!" is a legitimately awesome catchphrase.
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@djls45 said in Random thought of the day:
We all ought to be immediately cast into Hell for our own sins
Do you actually an infinite time on hell, that would be an infinite amount of punishment, can be classified as fair?
I'm absolutely close-minded to this concept, I'm just astonished people believe it.
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@sockpuppet7 said in Random thought of the day:
I'm absolutely close-minded to this concept, I'm just astonished people believe it.
If we're talking purely from a Christian perspective, I don't know every part of my Bible as well as perhaps I should, but I'm not aware of any part that specifies eternal punishment for unrepentant sinners. My Church, as far as they address it, seems to incline more towards the sinful being destroyed.
There are definitely passages that refer to an unpleasant fate, but the only part I personally know of that conceivably addresses how long it lasts is
...whoever believes in Him shall not die but have eternal life.
Which to my mind implies you don't get eternal life, not even an exceedingly unpleasant one, if you don't. I'm ready to be corrected if there's a passage I'm not familiar with that says Hell is forever, though.
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@CarrieVS said in Random thought of the day:
I'm ready to be corrected if there's a passage I'm not familiar with that says Hell is forever, though.
It pretty clearly is for at least the devil, the beast and the false prophet:
And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever. — Revelation 20:10 (NIV) (emphasis added)
There are other verses that state that other unbelievers will also be cast into the lake of fire, although they do not explicitly say forever:
Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire. — Revelation 20:14-15 (NIV)
But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death. — Revelation 21:8 (NIV)
My own personal view, which is hardly original to me (IIRC, it dates back to at least Thomas Aquinas, c. 1250) but doesn't have any explicit scriptural support, is that Heaven, Hell, God and the souls of the dead exist outside time as we experience it while alive. (Time exists as a fourth dimension, if you will, but does not flow linearly.) As such, the time spent there is undefined, because there is no passage of time.
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@HardwareGeek quoted in Random thought of the day:
But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
I think we're all going to be in a bit of trouble, if what our users believe about us is true…
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@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
I think we're all going to be in a bit of trouble, if what our users believe about us is true…
Unless you've appealed to occult forces to make your programs work, you're probably OK on that point. On the other hand, if you've ever written a Perl script, you may want to go to confession just to be on the safe side.
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If you get paid a certain amount per month, instead of per hour or day, your time is 10% more valuable on February than on January.
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Got my hands on CSV-ed data on Kickstarter projects. Apparently, 8% of all projects in USA had a goal of exactly $5,000.
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I often wish I had a time travel machine that could send information into the past (like the 70s), so I could tease them by promising them future information and then just send things like the cutscenes from the Zelda CD-i games, or those videos about solving Super Mario 64 levels in 0.5x A Presses, or Robot Chicken movie parodies, and then see what information they manage to extract from those.
(Don't worry, I'd send them modern medical stuff eventually)
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
(Don't worry, I'd send them modern medical stuff eventually)
Like how to properly eat tide pods? Or how drinking bleach is a perfectly reasonable cancer cure?
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@Tsaukpaetra Aren't Tide pods a recent invention that didn't exist in the 70s?
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Random thought of the day:
@Tsaukpaetra Aren't Tide pods a recent invention that didn't exist in the 70s?
It adds to the mystery!
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What if thousands of years ago, human females used to be able to give birth to children without problems starting with their very first period, but social norms regarding sex and adulthood have caused natural selection to go haywire and now majority of women suffer from genetic disorder that causes either premature puberty or delayed development of pelvic region?
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The Poe or Noe thread is
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
What if thousands of years ago, human females used to be able to give birth to children without problems starting with their very first period, but social norms regarding sex and adulthood have caused natural selection to go haywire and now majority of women suffer from genetic disorder that causes either premature puberty or delayed development of pelvic region?
Sounds feasible.
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@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
The Poe or Noe thread is
I mean, is there any other mammal that risks extreme health problems if they get pregnant in their first year of ovulation?
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Sorry, I misinterpreted your post.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
I mean, is there any other mammal that risks extreme health problems if they get pregnant in their first year of ovulation?
That's... actually a really good question. Are there any? How would you even go about finding an answer to that question? (Also, the answer almost certainly varies significantly depending on your definitions of "risk" and "extreme".)
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Random thought: ever notice how, in TV shows that deal with extranormal activity hiding in our world, the group of quirky experts always happens to be focused on exactly what the problem actually is?
Like, you never see a show where there's something weird going on in town, and the local UFO enthusiasts start looking for the aliens who are causing the problems, and then instead it turns out to be vampires and not aliens at all. That would be a lot of fun, done well, but I don't think I've ever seen it.
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@Mason_Wheeler They always seem to know so much with so little info.
A UFOlogist sees a moving light in the sky and is like "Aliens! Clearly from Jupiter! Uncontrovertible proof right there!"
A scientist looks at 10 years of experiments all clearly showing the same thing and is like "well, there are signs of a possible correlation between the two things, but let's not jump to conclusions..."Edit: slightly off-topic, but one of my first experiences as a "skeptic" was when I saw one of those extremely detailed reflexology charts as a kid (where you can allegedly treat those things by massaging that part of the foot).
Aside from the obvious "how would touching your foot affect your lungs or neck", the biggest question I had was: how the hell would they know all that? Those are a lot of organs to assign to areas, and it's not like you can easily feel your pancreas or diaphragm getting healthier...
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In Thor, Loki dies.
In The Avengers, Loki steals the Tesseract.
In Thor II, Loki dies.
In Thor: Ragnarok, Loki steals the Tesseract.
In Avengers: Infinity War, Loki dies.
In Avengers: Endgame, Loki steals the Tesseract.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Random thought of the day:
How would you even go about finding an answer to that question?
. Lots and lots of .
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
The Poe or Noe thread is
I mean, is there any other mammal that
risks extreme health problems if they get pregnant in their first year of ovulation?has hair or nails that grow to unreasonable lengths and needs to maintained by cutting it regularly?Something I have been wondering about myself
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@Vault_Dweller said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
The Poe or Noe thread is
I mean, is there any other mammal that
risks extreme health problems if they get pregnant in their first year of ovulation?has hair or nails that grow to unreasonable lengths and needs to maintained by cutting it regularly?Something I have been wondering about myself
Don't hamsters or whatever require constant wearing of their teeth?
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@Vault_Dweller lots of horses, iirc, need their hooves trimmed or else they can't walk well.
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@Benjamin-Hall How does that work for wild horses?