The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dcon Doesn't that sort of thing have a special name as a figure of speech?
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@dcon Hasn't this been debunked already?
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@Zerosquare Pretty well played, Wikipedia
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My first reaction was " has this got to do with the US army " and I had to click and then realised how the Pentagon was indeed such a perfect example of a metonym that even when it was right next to the word "metonymy" I still wondered why it was there.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Thing is if you add the unlit letter (a B, as far as I can tell) it doesn't get much better.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Thing is if you add the unlit letter (a B, as far as I can tell) it doesn't get much better.
It does. “Barefoot” shoes is a well established term and not even that nonsensical as far as marketing is concerned. I'd expect it to be written as a single word though.
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@Bulb So you're not one of those people who think it should be called a "teethbrush"?
Me either.
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@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Of course it’s a transporter malfunction, damn thing’s buggier than Windows 2364.
That's one of the things that always made me laugh about all of the Star Trek series.
It's a couple hundred years in the future, they are zooming around the galaxy in huge starships, loaded with amazing tech, capable of traveling many times faster than the speed of light, and yet, all of their tech is constantly breaking and has the reliability of a 1971 Ford Pinto.
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@Gern_Blaanston There is an implied bias that we're explicitly shown where Something Is Happening and that becomes Interesting.
I imagine that for many ships and missions it is duller than dishwater. It's kind of like Shaw puts it early in Picard season 3, when he points out that while he loved reading about Picard and co and their adventures, he liked things by the book. There's a fair amount of anecdotal evidence that when you're not the flagship of the fleet pushing at the frontiers of everything and arguing with demigods, it's actually pretty boring by comparison because things don't go wrong.
O'Brien came into his own going from the Enterprise to DS9 where his skills at making shit just work came into the foreground.
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@Gern_Blaanston The - mentality didn't go anywhere and we are always watching the newest ship with the newest technology putting it through the most difficult conditions. Teething problems are to be expected in such situation.
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gern_Blaanston The - mentality didn't go anywhere and we are always watching the newest ship with the newest technology putting it through the most difficult conditions. Teething problems are to be expected in such situation.
No, it's lazy, unimaginative writers who can't think of anything other than "something's broken".
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Teething problems are to be expected in such situation.
Maybe for the first decade.
But anyways, funny!
It's fine so long as you don't light it up, right?
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gern_Blaanston The - mentality didn't go anywhere and we are always watching the newest ship with the newest technology putting it through the most difficult conditions. Teething problems are to be expected in such situation.
No, it's lazy, unimaginative writers who can't think of anything other than "something's broken".
I read some — call it fan fiction. It was written as a journal article looking at the Galaxy class design. The class had a design lifetime of a hundred years and six were built, but within fifteen years three of them had already been lost (including the Enterprise-D), and one was taken back in for a complete rebuild. In all three losses, the proximate cause was a failure of the warp core, but poor crew reactions were also a major contributor as they struggled with systems that were too complex for them to cope with.
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@Watson said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gern_Blaanston The - mentality didn't go anywhere and we are always watching the newest ship with the newest technology putting it through the most difficult conditions. Teething problems are to be expected in such situation.
No, it's lazy, unimaginative writers who can't think of anything other than "something's broken".
I read some — call it fan fiction. It was written as a journal article looking at the Galaxy class design. The class had a design lifetime of a hundred years and six were built, but within fifteen years three of them had already been lost (including the Enterprise-D), and one was taken back in for a complete rebuild. In all three losses, the proximate cause was a failure of the warp core, but poor crew reactions were also a major contributor as they struggled with systems that were too complex for them to cope with.
Maybe if someone actually told them that in some situations the failure of a single sensor can cause the ship to nosedive, they could actually manage those systems better. Or maybe at least put in redundant sensors.
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@dangeRuss said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
... they could actually manage those systems better. Or maybe at least put in redundant sensors.
Exactly. They've been doing this for a couple hundred years. Nothing is perfect and there will always be an occasional failure, especially something that's really big and complicated like a starship. But not every episode.
And don't get me started on the shields. I get it, if everyone has impenetrable shields then there are no battle scenes, but come on. Show some creativity. You 're a professional fucking writer.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dangeRuss said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
... they could actually manage those systems better. Or maybe at least put in redundant sensors.
Exactly. They've been doing this for a couple hundred years. Nothing is perfect and there will always be an occasional failure, especially something that's really big and complicated like a starship. But not every episode.
And don't get me started on the shields. I get it, if everyone has impenetrable shields then there are no battle scenes, but come on. Show some creativity. You 're a professional fucking writer.
I mean, we’re all here because we’ve seen what professional fucking developers put out. Are you thaaaat surprised by writer product?
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Of course it’s a transporter malfunction, damn thing’s buggier than Windows 2364.
That's one of the things that always made me laugh about all of the Star Trek series.
It's a couple hundred years in the future, they are zooming around the galaxy in huge starships, loaded with amazing tech, capable of traveling many times faster than the speed of light, and yet, all of their tech is constantly breaking and has the reliability of a 1971 Ford Pinto.
https://memes.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/78d490e4-a329-44c1-9452-7e04932ef015
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
No, it's lazy, unimaginative writers who can't think of anything other than "something's broken".
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@error Autoplaying with audio while the embed box is nowhere near being scrolled into my screen? Hilarious. Can we fix our embed plugin to a non April Fools Day version?
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@hungrier You must be lucky, I didn't notice it was even a video until clicking!
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@hungrier said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@error Autoplaying with audio while the embed box is nowhere near being scrolled into my screen? Hilarious. Can we fix our embed plugin to a non April Fools Day version?
Didn't autoplay on my machine
Google Chrome on Windows -- Or how I learned to stop worrying about the data collection and love the standard browser
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@izzion said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@hungrier said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@error Autoplaying with audio while the embed box is nowhere near being scrolled into my screen? Hilarious. Can we fix our embed plugin to a non April Fools Day version?
Didn't autoplay on my machine
Google Chrome on Windows -- Or how I learned to stop worrying about the data collection and love the standard browser
Firefox on Windows. No autoplay.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Firefox on Windows.
NoYes autoplay., unfortunately.
Firefox on Android, no.
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@hungrier said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@error Autoplaying with audio while the embed box is nowhere near being scrolled into my screen? Hilarious. Can we fix our embed plugin to a non April Fools Day version?
Looks like yarn snuck in a new subdomain. Off to update the blacklist....
Meanwhile, entertain yourself with this:
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Off to update the blacklist....
Updated.
Floof:
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@dangeRuss said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
For those of us who don't C++, the difference is between passing by reference and passing by value.
I don't see the problem since you pass either way. But I doubt some people have anything that could be called a "conscience" nor any values to begin with.
Well, when most people want immortality, they want to avoid death. Making a copy that behaves like you isn't immortality in the way they want it. Even if it's a perfect copy of you that even acts, thinks and feels like you, it's still not you. You will still die.
By reference doesn't make a copy, it just references the original in a new context. And as the image says, this isn't what's gonna happen.our own continuous conscience is an illusion anyway. if you believe it will work, you'll be happy until the last second, and the new "you" will be happy when it's turned on, there won't be a you that is disappointed with any of this
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Carnage said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
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@dangeRuss said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
For those of us who don't C++, the difference is between passing by reference and passing by value.
I don't see the problem since you pass either way. But I doubt some people have anything that could be called a "conscience" nor any values to begin with.
Well, when most people want immortality, they want to avoid death. Making a copy that behaves like you isn't immortality in the way they want it. Even if it's a perfect copy of you that even acts, thinks and feels like you, it's still not you. You will still die.
By reference doesn't make a copy, it just references the original in a new context. And as the image says, this isn't what's gonna happen.our own continuous conscience is an illusion anyway. if you believe it will work, you'll be happy until the last second, and the new "you" will be happy when it's turned on, there won't be a you that is disappointed with any of this
That's assuming that the process will kill you.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
You 're a professional fucking writer.
That's a different kind of stories you're thinking about here...
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
our own continuous conscience is an illusion anyway.
This is apparently true. We backfill our memories of the past to make it all seem continuous.
if you believe it will work, you'll be happy until the last second, and the new "you" will be happy when it's turned on, there won't be a you that is disappointed with any of this
The "new you" will believe it to have worked; that's the whole point. The "old you" will not... if "old you" has enough time to form that opinion. If the transfer is done while you are unconscious, the matter is as moot as you care to design the scenario to be...
Consciousness is not a fully understood phenomenon. That is one of the true "holy grails" of science.
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‘Hey, er . . .’ said Zaphod, ‘what’s your name?’
The man looked at them doubtfully.
‘I don’t know. Why, do you think I should have one? It seems very odd to give a bundle of vague sensory perceptions a name.’‘How can I tell,’ said the man, ‘that the past isn’t a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?’
Zarniwoop stared at him. The steam began to rise from his sodden clothes.
‘So you answer all questions like this?’ he said.
The man answered quickly. ‘I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say.’Douglas Adams nailed it.
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
our own continuous conscience is an illusion anyway
You guys have continuous consciences?
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Given the state of the world, the Boltzmann brain hypothesis doesn't sound too unappealing, you know?
Anyway, Funny Stuff.
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@dangeRuss said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
in some situations the failure of a single sensor can cause the ship to nosedive
Wait, was the Enterprise designed by Boeing?
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@ixvedeusi said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dangeRuss said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
in some situations the failure of a single sensor can cause the ship to nosedive
Wait, was the Enterprise designed by Boeing?
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Pretty sure these are actually Ikea instructions...
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@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Pretty sure these are actually Ikea instructions...
We have a few IKEA things only available to us starchildren in the nordics since the rest of yous hasn't gotten past the pesky 4th dimension yet.
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@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Pretty sure these are actually Ikea instructions...
Nah. Not a single umlaut in sight.
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@Arantor Hey, I'm as solipsistic as the next guy.
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@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Pretty sure these are actually Ikea instructions...
Can't be. If they were, they wouldn't include text, except for the name of the product (which would look like an UTF-8 encoding error).
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm as solipsistic as the next guy.
Little does he know who he's sitting next to!