Internet memes that make me slightly more angry than usual!
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For 'special snowflake', I think it's just when the admins feel like it.
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@PJH, @boomzilla, what say you? Can we get blakey a special snowflake badge?
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Holy crap. Three Mediocre poster badges in quick succession. I must be witty as fuck when I have not had lunch.
I nearly have one from a repost.
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The Mediocre Poster badges I get I am always surprised by. With the exception of long, drawn-out rants directed towards @codinghorror and Discourse, there is no real way to know which posts will get a ton of likes.
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there is no real way to know which posts will get a ton of likes ouside of t/1000.
;)
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I don't go in there.
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A special snowflake is probably more appropriate.
How about a Touched In the Head instead?
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fuck when I have not had lunch.
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Isn't that only for when you do a good job?
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That's what the description says.
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A woodchuck would chuck no amount of wood since a woodchuck can’t chuck wood.
@translator, A woodchuck would chuck no amount of wood since a woodchuck can’t chuck wood.
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That might not work in here because it is a Blakey-thread and the bot is taught by @accalia to stay out of it.
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if you want to play with my bots you'll need to find a thread not started by blakeyrat or paulabean.hanzo'd as i hit submit.
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You would say that.
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hmm..... i saw your edit.
how do you like your global edit powers? hmm?
I them ~ aliceif
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i saw your edit.
It's right there with the orange pencil. Unlike yours. I saw that too ;)
They're still more triggered by accident than amusement.
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They're still more triggered by accident than amusement.
ah but for how much longer.
also what edit?
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look cool by pretending he doesn't know forum in-jokes
I always thought one tried to look cool by pretending to get the in-jokes — everyone else is laughing, so I should too — even when you don't.
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ah but for how much longer.
7 buttons close together (on this CSS) - so probably.
That wasn't an accident though
also what edit?
You know which.
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The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:
@powerlord said:How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
And in response, thus spake the Oracle:#ZOT!!!
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I always thought one tried to look cool by pretending to get the in-jokes
Unless you're intentionally Doing It Wrong™ in order to have something to complain about.
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And in response, thus spake the Oracle:
ZOT!!!
I would feel ripped off if the Oracle gave me that answer.
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At least it wasn't fourty-bloody-two!
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I would feel ripped off if the Oracle gave me that answer.
Round here, Oracle seems to given answers involving sending them ever more money for licenses and support…
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I thought Cube Cows were naturally occurring, like dogs. : P
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I would feel ripped off if the Oracle gave me that answer.
It's been a looooong time since I hung out in rec.humor.oracle, but as I recall, answers to the woodchuck question tended to fall into three categories: No answer; the question was just ignored. A simple ZOT! Rarely, someone would take the effort to write a clever way of delivering the ZOT!
This, obviously, was a category 2 response.
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in rec.humor.oracle
You thought that link would work. You're a funny guy.
Also, there's nothing funny about Oracle. Not in the slightest.
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You thought that link would work. You're a funny guy.
I would have expected it to work, if at all, only for a tiny handful of old-timers who still use USENET. (Although, thinking about it, it wouldn't astonish me if Chrome redirected it to the equivalent Google Groups URL.) I did not expect that Discourse would go out of its way to break a perfectly valid (if not reachable)
news:
URL.Edit: However, I didn't try it, because I know I didn't have anything configured to handle the
news:
protocol. Now, having tried it anyway, I see that Chrome doesn't seem to even recognize it as a link. And although it can (supposedly) be configured to handle other protocols using a web service, there doesn't seem to be any way to add one manually.
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All you guys discussing tdwtf in-jokes, the internet memes that make @blakeyrat angry thread is ← ↑ ↓ → .
Anyway, an internet thing that makes me angry is how people bring up Dunning-Kruger, they tend to explain it in overly simplistic terms: “stupid people think they're clever, well duh”, when the actual issue is more subtle than that. An important thing to note is that intelligent people also think they're more clever than they really are. In fact, overconfident intelligent people are a lot more dangerous than stupid people, because intelligent people are much better at explaining away why reality doesn't seem to support their wrong theories.
In the book Expert Political Judgment, psychologist Philip Tetlock discusses the results of a long-running experiment in which experts were asked to make predictions about the future. Their predictions were not much better than random guessing, nor the non-experts guesses. Particularly, being the top expert in a field led to people becoming more overconfident about their predictions in that field. The take away is that rather than blindly trusting something just because it comes from a respectable source, you're better off judging each idea that you hear on its own merits.
This is how I'd explain the Dunning-Kruger results: In my experience, people's opinion about how clever they are is strongly tied to how well they did at school, but school grades are a poor predictor of people's actual potential. Which is more likely: that there are armies of high-school dropouts running about with britches about ten sizes too small on, or that there are a lot of shit-for-brains that somehow managed to get Harvard degrees?
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That is quite fitting ... since zot is Dutch for crazy.
I think I've only ever seen it as a noun, where I'd be more likely to translate it as "fool". May be different in the southern provinces and Flanders.
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Stupid Flanders.
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Hi-diddly-ho there neighbor-ino!