The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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it's new. maybe a month or so
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No it's not, he's been doing the red button for years and years.
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really? TIL
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Yeah I remember it being mentioned on Comics I Don't Understand like ... at least 3 years ago when I first followed that blog. (It had a lot of those submitted and then people would say "maybe the comic makes more sense if you hit the red button to see the bonus panel" and sometimes it did.)
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Behold the Mighty Mississipp'!
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BTW, what broke image uploading? It hasn't worked for me most of the day.
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I've been uploading stuff all day. Sounds like a personal problem you share with blakey.
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I've been uploading stuff all day. Sounds like a personal problem
At both work and home? In Edge and Chrome?
you share with blakey.
You'd know.
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At both work and home?
Sort of.
In Edge
:donotwant.exe:
and Chrome?
Yes.
You'd know.
Ask @Polygeekery. He knows about my omniscience.
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Maybe try clearing all the site's cookies and starting fresh? It used to never work for me either in my primary browser one one computer, but worked on other browsers and other computers.
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Another Z Nation funny:
http://i.imgur.com/JKIOfgF.jpg
I really hope that is George R R Martin and not a lookalike.
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This struck me as funny: “I don’t think there will be enough snowfall increase to offset these losses,”
Yeah, it's a mystery how an average increase of 100 billion tons of ice a year is a loss.
This study is rather old; 2001-2012. We've come a long way on this issue in the meantime. Here's a summary page, Antarctic Ice Sheet Surface Mass Balance.
After wading through the dense thicket, the bottom line is given by this statement:
From the period 2005-2010, Shepherd et al. (2012) estimate the mass balance of the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet to be -81 ± 37 gigatonnes per year.
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This study is rather old; 2001-2012
If you started a study of the same length right after that one ended, you'd still have until 2023 before the new study finished. I wouldn't call that "rather old".
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If you started a study of the same length right after that one ended, you'd still have until 2023 before the new study finished. I wouldn't call that "rather old".
Sorry, I typo'd. I meant to reference the focus period 1992-2001. While digging around for a reference, I forgot that. Later periods show greater declines; that's what the graphs in my reference indicate. The number they gave, 81 G tonnes, amounts to about 19.5 cubic miles of ice loss per year. Not much, yet, but increasing.
That figure corresponds to the black boxes in this graph from the article (IMBIE combined, note my arrows):
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I suspect I might know bobby.
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BTW, what broke image uploading? It hasn't worked for me most of the day.
I was having a few issues with it yesterday, kept sticking at 100%.
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Paging @cartman82. You use Macs, yes? Found a thing you need:
For the rest of you: https://translate.google.com/#auto/en/pička
Filed under: I just realized this might also be a joke about Mac users. I'm OK with that., Not intended as a joke about cartman himself.. this time
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I just realized this might also be a joke about Mac users.
Hey! We've got to get it some how!
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I was sure you had
mount
already?Then again, the lack of up-to-date version of sexy might be holding you back...
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I haven't been on Mac in a while, but as far as I remember, I'm already using something similar.
As for this:
That's why Picka ships with a command line utility that works with Bash and Zsh to speed up your workflow. Whenever you need to type a long path, Picka is here to help you.
wrote it myself on linux :-)
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kept sticking at 100%.
Happens to me all the time. In the cupcake thread, every time in recent months you see a hotlink instead of a rehost, it happened and I gave up fixing it.
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I read somewhere a long time ago: "If the world ran on Linux, you'd have to mount people before you could talk to them".
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This study is rather old; 2001-2012. We've come a long way on this issue in the meantime. Here's a summary page, Antarctic Ice Sheet Surface Mass Balance.
After wading through the dense thicket, the bottom line is given by this statement:
From the period 2005-2010, Shepherd et al. (2012) estimate the mass balance of the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet to be -81 ± 37 gigatonnes per year.
The study quoted by @FrostCat found that "net gain slowed to 82 billion tons of ice per year between 2003 and 2008." It's basically calling out older research, presumably such as the paper you quoted:
The research challenges the conclusions of other studies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2013 report, which says that Antarctica is overall losing land ice.
I'm assuming that study had informed the IPCC report.
“Our main disagreement is for East Antarctica and the interior of West Antarctica – there, we see an ice gain that exceeds the losses in the other areas.” Zwally added that his team “measured small height changes over large areas, as well as the large changes observed over smaller areas.”
So, NASA is saying that they came up with a better measuring technique and found that previous methodologies had under estimated the gains in other parts of the continent.
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NASA is saying that they came up with a better measuring technique
Maybe. Calibrating those satellites is really hard because they get shaken around a lot during launch and you can't hold the system in orbit up against a known standard. The best known approach is to compare what one satellite is seeing with what another equivalent satellite is seeing, but that requires that both are in orbit at the same time.
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that's what they're saying
As I said, calibration is a bitch with anything that goes to space (especially as so many of the instruments are total one-offs) and there have been known cases where data has had to be retracted and reissued due to lurking issues with the calibration. Other complexities are what is the thickness of the sea ice (of various kinds) around Antarctica; it hasn't been measured in all that many places (and it's difficult to do so), and to what extend the rate of ice loss due to increased glacier flow rates will be balanced by the rate of ice gain due to increased snowfall. It's complicated.
And that's ignoring the differences between East and West Antarctica, which seem to be responding in different ways. It's entirely possible that West Antarctica is losing lots of ice while East Antarctica is adding lots of ice. IIRC, West Antarctica is really an archipelago (stretching up towards South America) covered in lots of ice that rests on the islands and the sea bed and East Antarctica (which includes the pole) is the continent proper. The environment is pretty tricky to work in, so there's a shit-load of guesswork involved, but we do know that some of the ice shelves have broken up and that that might (not yet confirmed IIRC) let the glaciers behind them flow faster. Come back in 40–50 years and we'll be able to tell you far more about what's going on!
Meanwhile, the rest of the world has its own things going on.
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It's entirely possible that West Antarctica is losing lots of ice while East Antarctica is adding lots of ice.
Dude...You should RTFA or something.
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What's funny about these pictures?
The unusualness, I guess. Most shows don't bother with movie references and silly stuff like the zombie Abe Lincoln Lookalike Bus Tour. And I just thought throwing in zombie GRRM was funny. In the episode, he's there because some kook is trying to build a zombie museum in the zombie apocalypse. He gripes about being kicked out of Comic Con, he's got a bunch of letters to the CDC that were returned unopened (but sadly not in green ink), and so on. The show was clearly just goofing around there.
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Actually, I just remembered... I got uploads to start working again by whitelisting
@@|https://what.thedailywtf.com/message-bus/*/poll*
Necessary, because for some reason, I blacklisted
||what.thedailywtf.com/message-bus/*
... probably because at some point in the past those were taking forever to load and making the page load hang. But just to be on the safe side, I'll leave the blocking rule in place.
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#SlatePitch!!!
The more I reflect on spooning during my sojourn, the more I have come to see it as a terrible idea, one that’s fraught both physically and ideologically.
Oh dear.
Indeed, I would argue that spooning is always already a power play, a perverse strategy by which we nightly enact the unjust relations of “big” and “little” privilege that plague our society on every level.
We can do better than this.
WE'RE CUDDLING WRONG!
Related, Grauniad columnist falls victim to Poe's law with a reference to his own column:
http://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2015/11/the-final-outrage.html
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A look at the gay adaptation of these terms is useful in exposing the power relationship they instantiate
So it mainly is a gay problem ...
Me and the wife have no issues. I hold her and get to feel manly, she warms her ass and feet. Win - Win!
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So it mainly is a gay problem .
I suspect it's mostly a him problem, but he says it's problematic for straight couples, too:
This, of course, is fundamentally a sexist arrangement, one that casts the big spoon as “the man” and the little spoon as “the woman.” To say that this power imbalance is built into all acts of spooning—whichever the sexes engaged—is not, I think, an overstatement.
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He puts way to much thinking in sleeping
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I would be totally okay to be the "little spoon". There's just something magical about breast pillows....
Filed under: Not that I've ever experience such a thing, but simulations say it's freaking awesome!
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I would be totally okay to be the "little spoon". There's just something magical about breast pillows....
Having been the "little spoon" and experienced those pillows, I can say it's totally true. And I didn't feel emasculated at all. Probably because I just thought I was cuddling with my wife and not making a political statement.
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one that casts the big spoon as “the man” and the little spoon as “the woman.”
How does that work if I'm the "big spoon"?
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one that casts the big spoon as “the man” and the little spoon as “the woman.”
Guess I'm a woman at heart, since I absolutely can't sleep unless I have my face to the wall.
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This, of course, is fundamentally a sexist arrangement, one that casts the big spoon as “the man” and the little spoon as “the woman.”
I'm going to conveniently ignore that, due to the fact that my girlfriend is the "big spoon" most nights.