Science!
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SHE PINCHED HULK'S EAR! HULK MUST SMASH!
No, Hulk, we don't smash our friends. Sometimes our friends need to be mean to us for our own good.
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/me switches to the other ear
<aside>You do realize that when the Hulk charges a wall, he goes through the wall, right? Doesn't matter which ear you're on, that's gonna hurt. Especially if it brings the building down.</aside>
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No, Hulk, we don't smash our friends. Sometimes our friends need to be mean to us for our own good.
FINE, HULK SMASH PUNY SPIDER!
CRZZTZTTZTZTZTTTTKZTKTKKT!!!!!!!
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<aside>Well, I hope you're happy, @accalia. Thanks to your paint stunt, I now have to get a new monitor.</aside>
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<aside>You do realize that when the Hulk charges a wall, he goes through the wall, right? Doesn't matter which ear you're on, that's gonna hurt. Especially if it brings the building down.</aside>
maybe, but not as much as if i was between you and the wall. :-P
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<aside>Well, I hope you're happy, @accalia. Thanks to your paint stunt, I now have to get a new monitor.</aside>
your check is in the mail. :pirate:
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FINE, HULK SMASH PUNY SPIDER!
CRZZTZTTZTZTZTTTTKZTKTKKT!!!!!!!
That's fine, I don't like spiders.
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I have nowhere to put such a monitor :( Have laptop will compute.
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Have laptop will compute.
have laptop, and desktop, and servers, and tablet, and other tablet, and phone, and not-a-phone...... why don't i have money left for food?
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Tablets are chewy. Just be careful of the conductors baked into the glass.
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OMG you totally made me LOL out loud!
</schoolgirl>
well played good cookie monster.... well played.
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/me bows
I do my best for awesome people.
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/me gets swelled head from the praise
that's going to make getting through doors awkward....
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[quote=Doc Darlin (in the linked page)]
Had this article been about bacterial counts in the sheaths of valuable Race Horses, everyone would have sagely nodded along, with no ignorant, snarky comments. [/quote]No, still funny with horses
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Best part of the article:
**Related content**: Nipple, penis, or nostril — what’s the most painful place to be stung by a bee? (The answer might surprise you.) Snakes are ‘righties’–with their penis, that is. Nipple, penis, or nostril — what’s the most painful place to be stung by a bee? (The answer might surprise you.)
CATEGORIZED UNDER: analysis taken too far,
fun with animals
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Related content:Nipple, penis, or nostril — what’s the most painful place to be stung by a bee? (The answer might surprise you.)
... I want to see how they gathered objective data for that one.
because it's not science if the data is subjective/
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It's subjective since they used only one subject, but they were clear in their definition of the experimental parameters and they were used consistently, so it could be expanded to a more objective experiment.
Basically, this guy made a 1-10 scale where a forearm sting is 5.0, and made bees sting him 3 times in 25 different places, rating the levels of pain.The ratings were consistent and covered a wide spread; it's safe to say that for this individual the ratings are accurate. Now we just need more people to get stung.
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bees
Ah, but what kind of bees? We need the experimenters to conduct a widespread sampling there too.
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I think the question of whether we need Nick Cage in the experiment or not is more pressing!
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Ah, but what kind of bees? We need the experimenters to conduct a widespread sampling there too.
That was already done in a reputable study. 86 different species of bees stung 100 volunteers (most receiving the full 86, all receiving at least one honey bee sting), comparing pain as fractions/multiples of the honey bee sting. There, too, the results were "consistent enough" (can't be bothered to grab the p-value) to be considered scientific.
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Here's the problem with studies involving pain:
If you use one subject and compare A vs B, back to back, on one day, you run into sensitization effects skewing the result.
If you use one subject on different days, to allow sensitization effects to wear off, you run into issues where day-to-day stress levels impact perception of pain
If you use multiple subjects, you run into issues where different people perceive pain differently.
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all of those effects can be compensated for, but to do so requires a much larger sample size.
(for example in the case of same day exposure run the test multiple times on different days (with appropriate restr days to reset) varying the order of the stimuli and then apply math.)
i also have to question the sanity of the person who voluntarily let a bee sting him in the penis, even more so if the subject agreed to allow a second sting for scientific accuracy purposes.
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i also have to question the sanity of the person who voluntarily let a bee sting him in the penis, even more so if the subject agreed to allow a second sting for scientific accuracy purposes.
I have the same question about people who get tattoos on... well, any privates, really.
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i also have to question the sanity of the person who voluntarily let a bee sting him in the penis
Don't bee stings cause swelling?
Filed under:
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I cant shake the feeling that for the subject in question, any kind of pain would cause swelling of the penis.
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Because why use
max-width
when you can just usewidth
? I mean, it only causes a bug if the new/unread bugs have a combined total of 5 or more digits, and who wants to catch up on a topic with 100 or more unread posts?Oh, sorry, I said bug? I meant not a bug at all, a "mobile user experience feature request". Because That's Differentâ„ .
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CLOSED_UX
<I'm valid!
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Not to be confused with science. !!Science!!, in comparison to science, generally involves more magma, more !!DWARVES!! and more Fun.
I'm dubious about that last word being included...
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That has a domain-specific definition.
Remember, people who aren't Ben, that the official DF motto is "dying is fun".
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I thought it was "losing is fun." Which is kind of the same in the context of the game, but still.
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It's...interesting...that you know that.
Memory like a steel trap.
https://what.thedailywtf.com/t/what-makes-a-wiki-suck/8595/127?u=boomzilla
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Nonononono! This is not the message we need to send!
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Is sex?
A study of thousands of people, most in committed, finds that having sex.
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Hopefully you'll find out some day.
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FWIW, it's fun to read about. You can get some very interesting storylines in community forts...
I can't even remotely play the game well though. I'm usually doing OK for like 30 minutes then I screw myself over and ragequit. It's a fascinating game though...
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So does ‼THING‼
‼some object‼ means "some object that is on fire".
Similarly, ☼some object☼ means "some object that is extremely well made"
You can also decorate objects and they'll have names like «forum post».
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Filed Under: XXMilwaukeePCXX
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It's producing miasma!
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Rotting corpses as network conduits aren't as appealing as they may first appear
Although it would explain the service
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I feel that the original science theme is getting dwarfed by people's needs to go off-topic so here's a new article up for discussion:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/18/us-health-cancer-pigeons-imaging-idUSKCN0T72XW20151118
INB4 flocks of hungry pigeons replacing a complete pathology department...
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This reminds me of the following passage, which occurs as a footnote in Michael Crichton's Congo. I haven't been able to find anything related that's not quoting the book, so I don't know if he just made this up or if it's actually a real thing.
@main text '... and in 1968 there was the bizarre Australian pharmaceutical case.' said:A new pharmaceutical factory was built in Western Australia. In this factory all the pills came out on a conveyor bell; a person had to watch the belt, and press buttons to sort the pills into separate bins by size and color. A Skinnenan animal behaviorist pointed out that it would be simple to teach pigeons to watch the pills and peck colored keys to do the sorting process. Incredulous factory managers agreed to a test; the pigeons indeed performed reliably, and were duly placed on the assembly line. Then the RSPCA stepped in and put a stop to it on the grounds that it represented cruelty to animals; the job was turned over to a human operator, for whom it did not, apparently, represent cruelty.
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It sounds so mind numbing that it must have been tried at one point.