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« on: October 17, 2015, 05:39:19 PM »
I still don't know how to end an internet conversation - do I say goodbye or do I just stop posting at mutual agreement or what?
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« on: October 17, 2015, 05:37:12 PM »
I had this and the OP stuck in my head for weeks.
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« on: October 17, 2015, 05:35:35 PM »
After my cat woke me up I've been working my way through Elementary Number Theory by David M Burton, it's really quite a brilliant book.
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« on: October 17, 2015, 05:31:29 PM »
Dragging out a good thing is a sure fire way to make it terrible. You should be glad that you get to end it on a high note.
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« on: October 17, 2015, 05:29:28 PM »
Thank him for reminding me then proceed to clean behind my ears.
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« on: October 17, 2015, 05:26:13 PM »
All good things must come to an end, that's what lets us enjoy them. Be glad that we live in a timeline where chimera ant arc exists and is bloody fantastic.
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« on: October 17, 2015, 05:21:54 PM »
To everyone that says they don't have the time, let's quickly do the math here, there are 24*7 hours in a week, of which I spend 3 on exercise, so as a percentage that's [3/(24*7)]*100 = 1.78571428571%
1.8% of my total time spent working out effectively without equipment, 98% of my time is spent doing NO EXERCISE AT ALL, and yet I'm quite noticeably fit. Working out is NOT hard, it does not take up any noticeable amount of time, and the only equipment you need is GRAVITY, you simply have no excuses flood.
But I like sleep.
Properly resting after a workout is almost as important as the exercise itself. If you don't give your body a chance to repair itself then you'll only end up harming yourself, so in order to be good at working out you need to be good at sleeping a lot.
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« on: October 17, 2015, 02:53:39 AM »
But it's summer though, the season of genociding as many mosquitoes as you can.
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« on: October 17, 2015, 02:51:49 AM »
...isn't rice paper food?
Normally, yes.
But not the way I use it.
That sounds unsanitary. Spoiler Erotically unsanitary.
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« on: October 17, 2015, 02:39:48 AM »
I-I like hot chocolate with honey in it, who's side am I on?
...How creamy?
Color-wise you've gone rogue. That's sedition, mate.
Cream? you don't need cream, just milk, chocolate powder, and hot water. Surely this isn't a radical opinion, right?, right?
I mean how creamy is the milk, are we talking whole master race, 2% working class, or skim untouchables?
Wait wait milk and water? That's just weird.
1.5%...I swear I'm a good person! the water prevents the milk from getting a skin, surely no side likes that stuff.
I have never in my life heard of 1.5% milk. The only logical explanation suggests you must be from another planet.
I usually don't notice skin if it forms (and I stir the milk constantly to avoid it). If there is skin I either remove it or it seems to melt back into the hot milk... like a woman disrobing her rice paper gown in a hot spring as the soft effusive moonlight kisses her volupt.
It's a strange far off stretch of land called New Zealand... Skin pretty much only forms if you heat it in the microwave, and by the time it has the only option is to remove it, though I never considered trying to dissolve it. ...isn't rice paper food?
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« on: October 17, 2015, 02:23:22 AM »
How can you keep all 50 states teaching the same curriculum if you remove the DoE's ability to do so?
Not sure, and that's certainly an important question, but I think it's a mis-characterisation to say this is a likely outcome of his policy.
Nevertheless, I'm more concerned about his balanced budget amendment. Now that is fucking dumb.
I don't think you understand how hard American Christians fight to teach their beliefs in public schools.
I don't think you understand how little it matters in the face of economy and geopolitics.
Except I'm not talking about economics and geopolitics, I'm specifically talking about his position on the Department of Education.
I just don't think it's a big deal. Evolutionary biology and astrophysics, which you implied were your main concerns, are not a big deal. I'd be more worried about making sure the more practical STEM and health realms are being adequately taught. Creationism vs scientific origin isn't worth worrying about.
You may not think it's important, but I don't think purposefully teaching children the wrong thing is beneficial in any way, and does more damage than just in biology class.
To be fair, creationists don't know it's wrong. They mean well, and as I understand it want creationism presented alongside scientific origin and natural selection.
What kind of consequences do you expect to come of it?
Well, I for one don't quite like the idea of a scientifically illiterate populace.
okay so aside from muh feels?
I would argue that incorrect teaching of science cripples a student's ability to make use of their scientific knowledge. Imagine teaching chemistry without the periodic table or the concept of an atom, students wouldn't be able to do anything productive.
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« on: October 17, 2015, 02:18:10 AM »
I-I like hot chocolate with honey in it, who's side am I on?
...How creamy?
Color-wise you've gone rogue. That's sedition, mate.
Cream? you don't need cream, just milk, chocolate powder, and hot water. Surely this isn't a radical opinion, right?, right?
I mean how creamy is the milk, are we talking whole master race, 2% working class, or skim untouchables?
Wait wait milk and water? That's just weird.
1.5%...I swear I'm a good person! the water prevents the milk from getting a skin, surely no side likes that stuff.
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« on: October 17, 2015, 02:09:44 AM »
I-I like hot chocolate with honey in it, who's side am I on?
...How creamy?
Color-wise you've gone rogue. That's sedition, mate.
Cream? you don't need cream, just milk, chocolate powder, and hot water. Surely this isn't a radical opinion, right?, right?
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« on: October 17, 2015, 12:32:29 AM »
I-I like hot chocolate with honey in it, who's side am I on?
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« on: October 17, 2015, 12:24:04 AM »
finished working out, jacked off, thinking of how to write a program that automates long division for 1/(an integer) so that I can get those sweet sweet repeating decimals.
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« on: October 16, 2015, 07:54:28 PM »
;_;7 poor guy.
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« on: October 16, 2015, 07:48:32 PM »
I never stopped.
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« on: October 16, 2015, 07:47:00 PM »
I talk to Edward Snowden often.
Can you prove Snowden isn't NSA? ;^)
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« on: October 16, 2015, 07:44:29 PM »
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« on: October 16, 2015, 06:09:55 PM »
It's not a show, but I can't say the derivative works of Touhou Project didn't have an effect on my enthusiasm for the games.
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« on: October 16, 2015, 05:56:50 PM »
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« on: October 16, 2015, 05:48:25 PM »
To everyone that says they don't have the time, let's quickly do the math here, there are 24*7 hours in a week, of which I spend 3 on exercise, so as a percentage that's [3/(24*7)]*100 = 1.78571428571%
1.8% of my total time spent working out effectively without equipment, 98% of my time is spent doing NO EXERCISE AT ALL, and yet I'm quite noticeably fit. Working out is NOT hard, it does not take up any noticeable amount of time, and the only equipment you need is GRAVITY, you simply have no excuses flood.
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« on: October 16, 2015, 05:32:40 PM »
I don't understand why people argue with Verbatim. He's never been able to make any valid counter arguments. All he says is "fuck your argument, I personally don't care so it objectively doesn't matter".
If Verbatim and his arguments are legitimately stupid, then it should be easy to counter them and demonstrate why he's wrong. If it isn't easy to do so then there is the very real possibility that he may be right, or that the statement isn't one that can be disproven.
They are incredibly easy to counter hermano.
He asks why would the government abuse the surveillance system on civilians? Why? Because they're doing it right now with the NSA. You can bet your ass they'll do it with a much more sophisticated system.
Now, if you're stubborn and just keep saying "FUCK PRIVACY LMAO YOU'RE WRONG I'M RIGHT" even though he has provided absolutely no sources or a valid argument to prove that, then of course it would seem that way to a simple minded person like you.
Fact is I'm right. And so are a bunch of other people in this thread.
1. The government would abuse it.
2. There would be no way to have a system which couldn't be abused.
3. It's a complete violation of privacy which is very important to human beings as I demonstrated saying it leads to suicide.
He has provided absolutely no counter arguments for any of those points other than "fuck privacy" and asking us to play along with a hypothetical in which the government isn't corrupt, in which case we might as well argue about sharks that shoot lasers out of their eyes.
I'm not disagreeing with you, it's just that I myself was caught off guard by him quite happily supporting ideas that are almost the complete opposite of my own.
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« on: October 16, 2015, 05:27:40 PM »
I think it's a good way to remind us that even when you're trying to be serious on the internet, it's still just the internet.
When did I say we should make it a serious banner?
I think using your brain is a good way to remind you to not make stupid assumptions.
I never said you did. Even if being sensible about it is the most obvious thing in the world, you should know that internet arguments can easily cause people to stop thinking, so it really doesn't hurt to have a reminder.
Except I never said we should make it a more serious banner. I said to change it, and my suggestions in the past have always been joke banners.
You forget that I haven't had a chance to see your past suggestions, and you didn't exactly provide any here.
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« on: October 16, 2015, 04:56:53 AM »
Abstraction is the very foundation of logical thought.
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« on: October 16, 2015, 04:46:21 AM »
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« on: October 16, 2015, 04:39:38 AM »
Those are adorable.
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« on: October 16, 2015, 04:30:46 AM »
The holidays ended so this marked the first of several weeks of copious amounts of studying. On the bright side I've been consistently aware of dreams while having them ,and remembering parts afterwards, which makes the whole thing more fun. Spoiler last night I was investigating an abandoned factory with a team when were attacked by a ghost, and over the course of the dream I got progressively better at fighting it off, to the point that I woke up exhausted.
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« on: October 16, 2015, 04:22:08 AM »
Who are you? I'm lost.
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« on: October 16, 2015, 04:19:33 AM »
Wait, do you actually think it's impossible for government officials to be traitors? Are you actually saying that there is not a single government in the world that is not in even slightly corrupt? Are you honestly telling me that you do not see how a spying system could ever be used for purposes other than stopping crime?
I can't tell if you're uninformed or simply naive. Neither. I'm just not paranoid like that.
Paranoia would imply that the distrust is irrational and has no basis; I can only really speak for New Zealand, and here the government is quite brazen about undermining the country every chance it gets; Their actions have proven them to be traitors and not deserving of any level of trust. I mean it really boils down to the question of whether or not you know all of your government officials well enough to trust that they would spy on you responsibly, and the only real way to do so would be to spy on them.Are you dense? The very existence of the police force, the defense, force, and the legal system; as well as their presence in the country's culture, and the moral character that is meant to be instilled in everyone raised in such a society, THAT, is your deterrence. And it's obviously not enough.
People keep telling me that crime rates are going down--they should be nonexistent.
I would argue that stems less from not punishing crime enough and more from not rewarding good actions enough. I don't think our the culture of my country places a strong enough emphasis on being an upstanding person and helping others be ones as well, I don't think my government has ever gone far enough in legislating ways to support and incentivize such behaviors, and I don't think the church really has the respect or authority to do what is arguably their entire reason for existence anymore. If you went out of your way to make everyone a good person (and even if you can't precisely define what that is, we all have enough of a rough idea to make it work), then you would see crime plummet; and it wouldn't be plummeting because people are scared to commit crimes, but because they would legitimately not want to. Of course the exact way in which you implement such a system is an entire discussion of it's own. And they would only be justified in doing so if they already considered me guilty and were simply gathering evidence, but simply being alive and a citizen of a country is not a reasonable cause for suspicion. It's not a matter of suspicion. It's a matter of keeping everyone under scrutiny as a means of deterring crime.
And again I would argue it's not effective as a deterrent, and unless the government in question is free of corruption, would not be used as a deterrent anyway. Just for future reference, are you living in the US or somewhere else?
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