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@remi said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
I'll just obverse.
Yeah, because you don't converse with others.
Quite the reverse, I'd think.
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@dkf I can't make heads or tails of these puns.
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@remi I wonder who coined that terminology.
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@remi I wonder who coined that terminology.
50/50 between the Greeks and Romans, though time has doubtless sweated away some of the original flecks of meaning.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
50/50It's a coin flip between the Greeks and Romans
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@remi said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
50/50It's a coin flip between the Greeks and Romansthe coin pun was at
sweating
. 50/50 was a decoy.
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@Gribnit We don't give quarter to that kind of deception here
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit We don't give quarter to that kind of deception here
Well, I dimed myself out.
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It pleases me that my typo caused so much amusement.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Is it just me, or is that like a million other perpetual motion machines? The "we made it bigger on one side than the other, so the unbalanced weight will forever be pushing to try to balance itself" sounds very familiar.
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@Dragoon Proves that INT and wisdom (or common sense anyway) are very different things. Anyone with a lick of the latter knew this wasn't going to work. But some very smart people spent lots of brain power and money chasing it anyway.
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@Benjamin-Hall they built better measurement systems to prove what everyone knew was a measurement error. There’s merit in that.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall they built better measurement systems to prove what everyone knew was a measurement error. There’s merit in that.
But the number of smart, educated people who fully believed it was non trivial. If everyone has said "yeah, that's a mistake/measuring error and we're just trying to pin down where", that'd be different imo. But that wasn't the case.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall they built better measurement systems to prove what everyone knew was a measurement error. There’s merit in that.
But the number of smart, educated people who fully believed it was non trivial. If everyone has said "yeah, that's a mistake/measuring error and we're just trying to pin down where", that'd be different imo. But that wasn't the case.
I don't think there were that many "smart,educated" people who fully believed that it was real.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall they built better measurement systems to prove what everyone knew was a measurement error. There’s merit in that.
But the number of smart, educated people who fully believed it was non trivial. If everyone has said "yeah, that's a mistake/measuring error and we're just trying to pin down where", that'd be different imo. But that wasn't the case.
I don't think there were that many "smart,educated" people who fully believed that it was real.
I knew several. Even with physics PhDs. And more who said "well, I'm not convinced entirely but the results so far have me leaning toward believing it".
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Guess I just hang around with more skeptics.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall they built better measurement systems to prove what everyone knew was a measurement error. There’s merit in that.
But the number of smart, educated people who fully believed it was non trivial. If everyone has said "yeah, that's a mistake/measuring error and we're just trying to pin down where", that'd be different imo. But that wasn't the case.
There are smart educated people who believe Hyperloop is the future...
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
There are smart educated people who believe Hyperloop is the future...
But you contradict yourself. They may be educated, but if they believe Hyperloop is the future...
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@TimeBandit I find it a very common occurence that an overall pretty smart person suddenly gets dumbz when talking about one particular topic.
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@Gąska There's plenty of people who assume that, just because they're very well educated on one very narrow topic, they're also deep experts on lots of other, unrelated things.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall they built better measurement systems to prove what everyone knew was a measurement error. There’s merit in that.
But the number of smart, educated people who fully believed it was non trivial. If everyone has said "yeah, that's a mistake/measuring error and we're just trying to pin down where", that'd be different imo. But that wasn't the case.
I don't think there were that many "smart,educated" people who fully believed that it was real.
I knew several. Even with physics PhDs. And more who said "well, I'm not convinced entirely but the results so far have me leaning toward believing it".
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit I find it a very common occurence that an overall pretty smart person suddenly gets dumbz when talking about one particular topic.
Yeah, it's common to be blinded by ones own smarts and have huge cases of dumb shit live in the blind spots created.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall they built better measurement systems to prove what everyone knew was a measurement error. There’s merit in that.
But the number of smart, educated people who fully believed it was non trivial. If everyone has said "yeah, that's a mistake/measuring error and we're just trying to pin down where", that'd be different imo. But that wasn't the case.
I don't think there were that many "smart,educated" people who fully believed that it was real.
I knew several. Even with physics PhDs. And more who said "well, I'm not convinced entirely but the results so far have me leaning toward believing it".
B/c you have to believe the measurements until you fix them. The measurements are the only tangent point to the referent. There is nothing else.
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@heterodox TFA indicates how hard a nutshot this was nicely:
causing the scale to move to a new zero point. We were able to prevent that
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@Luhmann Does this means there are two unaccompanied police riders running loose?
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Seriously?
How many more lives must be claimed before people realize this is a stupid idea?
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@Atazhaia said in In other news today...:
Seriously?
How many more lives must be claimed before people realize this is a stupid idea?
Before what's a stupid idea? Airplanes?
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@da-Doctah Doing stunts when you're clearly not able to survive the attempt.
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@da-Doctah Overly extravagant gender reveal parties. How fucking hard is it to say "It's a boy/girl!"? And if the dad is the one to die to the retardery, that will make it fun for the mother to explain to their kid how their dad died.
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
This could revolutionize warfare! We send forth scouts, and they need only prepare their dispatch, and strap it to the leg of their erstwhile steed, and we may then expect their brief in the fullness of time.
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@Atazhaia said in In other news today...:
Seriously?
How many more lives must be claimed before people realize this is a stupid idea?
People and a stupid idea you say. And you think the answer can be other than "all of them"?
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@Atazhaia said in In other news today...:
Seriously?
How many more lives must be claimed before people realize this is a stupid idea?
Do you want to ban stunt planes or what? Literally the only thing that was wrong with the entire situation was that the pilot fucked up at the last second. It could've happened on an air show. It could've happened on recreational flight. It could've happened when shooting a movie. It would all be the same. That it happened during a hired flight on some particular occasion had zero effect on whether or how the accident happened. Gender reveals are dumb for many reasons, but "airplane pilots can die when flying badly" is not one of them.
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
Literally the only thing that was wrong with the entire situation was that the pilot fucked up at the last second.
Some letters are harder than others. An accident of naming can make skywriting unnecessarily dangerous. This is why I offer an extremely expensive consultation service to determine name safety re skywriting - since I have access to experts it seemed only fair.
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@Atazhaia said in In other news today...:
How fucking hard is it to say "It's a boy/girl!"?
Nowadays? Impossible. You'll be BANNED FOR LIFE!
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@Atazhaia said in In other news today...:
How fucking hard is it to say "It's a boy/girl!"?
Nowadays? Impossible. You'll be BANNED FOR LIFE!
Ban 'em, @SpectateSwamp, ban 'em!
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@PJH I've said it before and I'll say it again: real art doesn't come with installation instructions.
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@antiquarian said in In other news today...:
@PJH I've said it before and I'll say it again: real art doesn't come with installation instructions.
This self-describing property also holds for real pornography and real dildos.
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@Atazhaia said in In other news today...:
Seriously?
How many more lives must be claimed before people realize this is a stupid idea?
Do you want to ban stunt planes or what? Literally the only thing that was wrong with the entire situation was that the pilot fucked up at the last second. It could've happened on an air show. It could've happened on recreational flight. This could've happened when shooting a movie. It would all be the same. That it happened during a hired flight on some particular occasion had zero effect on whether or how the accident happened. Gender reveals are dumb for many reasons, but "airplane pilots can die when flying badly" is not one of them.
EDIT: I thought this was The Garage.
My explanation is here. ( Garage link. Duh.)
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in In other news today...:
That it happened during a hired flight on some particular occasion had zero effect on whether or how the accident happened.
Yes it does. It affects
whether
, a flight which does not occur does not involve any crashes. Experiment cannot remove the possibility of an "accident buffer" in which accidents in potentia are held, of course, so it may be that the pilot was indeed fated to crash regardless of stupidity of mission.
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@Atazhaia said in In other news today...:
Overly extravagant gender reveal parties. How fucking hard is it to say "It's an
boy/girlattackhelicopterCessna!"?FTF21C
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Atazhaia said in In other news today...:
Overly extravagant gender reveal parties. How fucking hard is it to say "It's an
boy/girlattackhelicopterCessna!"?FTF21C
As a cyborg I am utterly unmoved by this.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
FTF21C
TBF - if the kid is an attack Cessna, celebrating that reveal with crashed airplanes somehow seems on topic.