Random Thought of the Day
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@da-Doctah said in Random Thought of the Day:
@Gribnit said in Random Thought of the Day:
Well. Consider fish. They tend to release gametes for external combination. Meaning their fucking happens outside, in a locus modeled by a probability space of (discrete) gamete location projected onto a real space of water.
Meaning, if you've ever been in the ocean, you've had sex with fish.
Not unless you've released gametes of your own.
One assumes this to be assumed.
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This site's HTML sanitizer should be unusually effective, given the user profile.
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It would be much easier to build a control system based on singing than on speech.
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@Gribnit As Loom proved. Sorry for late reply.
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Your reply almost makes me want to unhide the previous post, to figure out the context.
Almost.
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@Zerosquare The Nope, You Read It thread is .
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@Zerosquare context: building a control system based on singing rather than speech. Loom, of course, is musically driven.
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Oh. Yes, it is. But fortunately, you don't have to sing the notes.
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@Zerosquare no, because that would probably suck, but the implication is that Bobbin does.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random Thought of the Day:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random Thought of the Day:
The problem is ... mobile markets
I wonder why...
Oopsie.
The mobile & ad pool of shit turned out to be rather shallow.
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@Applied-Mediocrity and if you hire an ex-EA CEO, don't be surprised that he mouths the same platitudes and nonsense that EA used to mouth (and does so under the new leaders, about unreasonably high expectations that end up being missed etc.)
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If someone says "I wonder how you taste", how many different possible interpretations can be made? I can come up with at least four...
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@Tsaukpaetra I taste using the taste buds on my tongue. Duh.
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@Zecc said in Random Thought of the Day:
@Tsaukpaetra I taste using the taste buds on my tongue. Duh.
Interpretation 1.
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@Tsaukpaetra I hope nobody wants to know how I taste with fava beans and a nice chianti.
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@Tsaukpaetra Given your proclivities, I would not be surprised if that was a fellatio proposition. However, it's not common for people to be so direct, so either you were already well on your way to that or someone really, really wants that from you.
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@TwelveBaud said in Random Thought of the Day:
if that was a
It wasn't something said to me. Unfortunately.
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@Tsaukpaetra I want to taste someone's tongue with my anus. Did you already count this in your 4 or we gonna have to build this interpretation out?
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@stillwater 5th interpretation added!
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@Tsaukpaetra Can you check with the person in question if this was what was actually meant and let us know?
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@stillwater said in Random Thought of the Day:
@Tsaukpaetra Can you check with the person in question
Whenever I next simulate the hypothetical person who said it, I will try to remember to ask them.
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@Tsaukpaetra Well you can always reach out to TechnicalRarity and ask what he thinks can't you?
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@stillwater said in Random Thought of the Day:
@Tsaukpaetra Well you can always reach out to TechnicalRarity and ask what he thinks can't you?
Sure, but... why would I want to?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random Thought of the Day:
@stillwater said in Random Thought of the Day:
@Tsaukpaetra Well you can always reach out to TechnicalRarity and ask what he thinks can't you?
Sure, but... why would I want to?
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How is it that (apparently) people's first reaction to the sight of a gun isn't "Take cover!" but "Shoot the mofo urgently!" ?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random Thought of the Day:
How is it that (apparently) people's first reaction to the sight of a gun isn't "Take cover!" but "Shoot the mofo urgently!" ?
is
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random Thought of the Day:
How is it that (apparently) people's first reaction to the sight of a gun isn't "Take cover!" but "Shoot the mofo urgently!" ?
Surrogate penis syndrome.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Random Thought of the Day:
How is it that (apparently) people's first reaction to the sight of a gun isn't "Take cover!" but "Shoot the mofo urgently!" ?
Survivor bias. The cops are usually quicker on the draw.
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Definition of Technical Debt: When you encounter problems on your way to solving (or just seeing) the problem you want to solve.
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Why are heavy metal bands known for
a) presenting as vicious, snarling, growling, death loving devil worshipers in their music, singing of dark themes very very loudly and seemingly angrily
b) also being (and their fans as well) quite chill and friendly dudes more often than not?Just saw a story about the front-man for Disturbed, known for songs with lyrics like this and this, noticing a little girl (not mentioned how old, but "child" was the word used) in the audience crying because she was scared at one point and stopping the show and walking up to the barrier and comforting her live and generally being a nice guy.
And I've read a bunch about how (especially) Scandinavian groups (a haven for heavy metal in all its forms) being mostly just a bunch of super-chill dudes who like to get drunk and listen to loud angry music but'll give you the shirt off their backs and pet small kittens all day long.
Second thought: Who in their right mind brings a little kid to a heavy metal concert? Even disregarding the content, those suckers are loud. And tons of people pressing in on each other, etc. Doesn't seem particularly safe...
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Random Thought of the Day:
Why are heavy metal bands known for
a) presenting as vicious, snarling, growling, death loving devil worshipers in their music, singing of dark themes very very loudly and seemingly angrily
b) also being (and their fans as well) quite chill and friendly dudes more often than not?Think of them as the musical equivalents of WTDWTF members.
@Benjamin-Hall said in Random Thought of the Day:
Second thought: Who in their right mind brings a little kid to a heavy metal concert?
E_RHETORICAL_QUESTION
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@Zerosquare that sounds like an insult to metal bands.
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@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
"fallopian tube" … "Eustachian tube".
Why is it to me, the latter sounds all actually medical while the former sounds like something you’d hear about in a Douglas Adams novel?
e.g.:
my foonting turlingdromes
The words: ‘flolloped’, ‘globbered’ and ‘vollued’
I know naming things is hard but I feel on this one medical science could have done better and named them something sciencey and maybe a proper noun.
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@Arantor According to WP they are a.k.a. salpinges. Singular form salpinx. :unimpressed:
Anyway, here's the part I wanted to get at:
The name comes from the Italian Catholic priest and anatomist Gabriele Falloppio, for whom other anatomical structures are also named
Edit: but you probably already knew that, and it in no way affects what you said.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Random Thought of the Day:
Who in their right mind brings a little kid to a heavy metal concert? Even disregarding the content, those suckers are loud. And tons of people pressing in on each other, etc. Doesn't seem particularly safe...
Yeah, I hear you. And what were those people thinking when they forced me to come with them to see Kenny G?
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@da-Doctah said in Random Thought of the Day:
Yeah, I hear you.
So you're not at a metal concert right now.
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@Arantor said in Random Thought of the Day:
@Zecc said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
"fallopian tube" … "Eustachian tube".
Why is it to me, the latter sounds all actually medical while the former sounds like something you’d hear about in a Douglas Adams novel?
e.g.:
my foonting turlingdromes
The words: ‘flolloped’, ‘globbered’ and ‘vollued’
I know naming things is hard but I feel on this one medical science could have done better and named them something sciencey and maybe a proper noun.
And as a fan of plants, I think of
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Random Thought of the Day:
Why are heavy metal bands known for
a) presenting as vicious, snarling, growling, death loving devil worshipers in their music, singing of dark themes very very loudly and seemingly angrily
b) also being (and their fans as well) quite chill and friendly dudes more often than not?My on take on this is that the music serves as a kind of pressure escape valve. Those people channel all the negative feelings and violent urges that might come up into the music and performance, leaving them free of such undesirable aspects in their interactions with the real world. They actually feel the need to play (or listen to) such music because they don't want to inflict their negative feelings on others.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Random Thought of the Day:
Who in their right mind brings a little kid to a heavy metal concert? Even disregarding the content, those suckers are loud.
Most little kids I've seen at gigs, which isn't that many as there are often age limits, are wearing ear defenders.
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Serious question. What is a nacho?
Is it a pickled slice of jalapeño pepper, or a corn tortilla chip?
Because there are stores I know I can go into, buy a jar of the former and a bag of the latter, and both packages claim to contain "nachos".
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@da-Doctah said in Random Thought of the Day:
Serious question. What is a nacho?
Is it a pickled slice of jalapeño pepper, or a corn tortilla chip?
Because there are stores I know I can go into, buy a jar of the former and a bag of the latter, and both packages claim to contain "nachos".
I've never heard it for the pickles but it could be anything invented by a certain Ignacio so there may well be collisions.
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@da-Doctah AIUI, it's a dish. Main ingredients are cheese, corn tortilla chips, and jalapeño peppers. In that order.
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This sentence, by virtue of my listing PERPETUITY, PROPRIETOR and REPERTOIRE, contains a comprehensive list of ten-letter English words that can be written using only the top row of letter keys on a standard Sholes typewriter keyboard.
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@PleegWat said in Random Thought of the Day:
@da-Doctah AIUI, it's a dish. Main ingredients are cheese, corn tortilla chips, and jalapeño peppers. In that order.
A crucial property the chips must have to be "nacho chips" is that they have to remain strong enough to serve as utensils throughout the meal; not go soggy.
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@Watson said in Random Thought of the Day:
A crucial property the chips must have to be "nacho chips" is that they have to remain strong enough to serve as utensils throughout the meal; not go soggy.
I do not think I have ever seen corn chips that did not have this property.
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@jinpa said in Random Thought of the Day:
@Watson said in Random Thought of the Day:
A crucial property the chips must have to be "nacho chips" is that they have to remain strong enough to serve as utensils throughout the meal; not go soggy.
I do not think I have ever seen corn chips that did not have this property.
I've encountered them. Especially after ten minutes smothered among the guacamole, sour cream, melted cheese, bean sauce, meat juice, and whatever other binding agents have been applied.
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Once it had expanded beyond its original markets, Waremart changed its name to WinCo to reflect the states it served (Washington, Idaho, Nevada, California, and Oregon). Since that time, the company has added Arizona, Montana, Texas, Oklahoma, and Utah.
For the name to remain accurate, it should therefore once again change its name, perhaps to "I'm an out cow".
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Question that has occurred to me at many random times in the past, but it just now crossed my mind again while I was sitting in front of a computer with access to Google: what US presidents could play musical instruments?
Before looking up the question, I knew that both Nixon and Truman played the piano, and of course we all know about Clinton and his saxophone. Here's a few others I was able to find when I turned to the search engines:
John Quincy Adams - flute
Chester A Arthur - banjo
Thomas Jefferson, John Tyler and Abraham Lincoln - violin
Calvin Coolidge and Ronald Reagan - harmonica
Richard Nixon - accordion (might have guessed), violin, clarinet and saxophone in addition to piano, and also composed concerti!
Warren G Harding - reportedly every instrument except slide trombone and E-flatclarinet*. He was in the ensemble at the convention that nominated him as his party's candidate, where he played tubaEdit: the first source sI found said clarinet; the second (otherwise using exactly the same phrasing as a direct quote from Harding himself) had it as an E-flat cornet.
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Both the Western and Chinese zodiacs have twelve components, but the Chinese is more faithful to the "zo-" (= "animal") component, because the Western one includes four human (or human-animal hybrids) and one inanimate object but only seven actual animals.