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  • DoctorArchDoctorArch Curmudgeon Registered User regular
    I want to make a H/A thread but I'm not sure if it's worth it.

    AAAGH why can't my problems be simple.

    Give it a shot.

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  • OrganichuOrganichu Registered User regular
    Elki wrote: »
    Got chased by my waiter, who thought I was dining & ditching (I left cash and then left). Earlier in the night, my water took 15 minutes to arrive, and I ordered things that the restaurant was out of and waited for them to not arrive.

    And that's why you should cook your own dinners.

    did he just not look at the table first or did someone steal your cash

  • Form of Monkey!Form of Monkey! Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    But in the space between "mistaken shipping" and "mistake discovered" there was an entire dinosaur mania that swept up tons of little boys with books and museum trips and NOVA specials and Flintstones cartoons and and and and suddenly "oh, hey all that stuff is wrong. There's no brontosaurus".

    For a kid, that can be a formative moment.

    and if this country wasn't so heavily infected with ideas based on revealed truth rather than science it would never have been such a shock.

    I think a big part of it, at least for a kid, is that stuff from adults, and especailly super adult places like museums, is presented as "This is the way it is. No, be quiet and pay attention! I just told you this is they way it is!"

    "Oops, turns out we had it wrong" is never really presented as something that can even happen until much later on.

    In the example provided, they sheepishly switched the signs and then they just didn't talk about it. Right in front of my child eyes. Or at least, between one museum visit and the next. So much for ownership of past mistakes.

    :(|) <-- that monkey is actually sad, but they attached his jaw wrong so it's tough to tell

  • DoctorArchDoctorArch Curmudgeon Registered User regular
    Thanatos wrote: »
    Elki wrote: »
    Got chased by my waiter, who thought I was dining & ditching (I left cash and then left). Earlier in the night, my water took 15 minutes to arrive, and I ordered things that the restaurant was out of and waited for them to not arrive.

    And that's why you should cook your own dinners.
    I would have walked back to the table, picked up the tip, and left.

    If the waiter was rude about it, absolutely.

    Steam ID: DoctorArch Xbox Live: DoctorArch
  • OrganichuOrganichu Registered User regular
    I want to make a H/A thread but I'm not sure if it's worth it.

    AAAGH why can't my problems be simple.

    on the bright side, it's almost definitely less complicated than you think.

  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    But in the space between "mistaken shipping" and "mistake discovered" there was an entire dinosaur mania that swept up tons of little boys with books and museum trips and NOVA specials and Flintstones cartoons and and and and suddenly "oh, hey all that stuff is wrong. There's no brontosaurus".

    For a kid, that can be a formative moment.

    and if this country wasn't so heavily infected with ideas based on revealed truth rather than science it would never have been such a shock.

    I think a big part of it, at least for a kid, is that stuff from adults, and especailly super adult places like museums, is presented as "This is the way it is. No, be quiet and pay attention! I just told you this is they way it is!"

    "Oops, turns out we had it wrong" is never really presented as something that can even happen until much later on.

    I think it's even more subtle. If you go to a natural history museum and there's a dinosaur the size of a city block on display, with interactive headset audio and plaques and tour guides and toys in the gift shop, that thing is real. Some bearded curator trying to say "well, we're pretty sure all these bones go together but hey... might be wrong later, don't quote us on that" simply would not register next to Giant Dinosaur It's Right There Its Teeth Are As Long As My Arm!

    Successful Kickstarter get! Drop by Bare Mettle Entertainment if you'd like to see what we're making.
  • SarksusSarksus TEN FUCKING DOLLARS Registered User regular
    Podly wrote: »
    Podly wrote: »
    Podly wrote: »
    also, EM, it's a 909 bathing suit, there's so many good jokes to be made from that!

    if there isn't a volume knob on the part covering her crotch, i'm not interested.

    it's "tone"

    i suppose that works too. if you're no good at oral sex.

    Bitch, have you seen my DSLs? I'm like some racist got his dropped his stereotypes and haphazardly placed his big black lips card in the pure aryan stock folder.

    *cough*

  • RiemannLivesRiemannLives Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    I want to make a H/A thread but I'm not sure if it's worth it.

    AAAGH why can't my problems be simple.

    on the bright side, it's almost definitely less complicated than you think.

    what if her problem is whether P is equal to NP?

    What you think "makes sense" has nothing to do with reality. It just has to do with your life experience. And your life experience may only be a small smidgen of reality. Possibly even a distorted account of reality at that. So what this means is that, beginning in the 20th century as our means of decoding nature became more and more powerful, we started realizing our common sense is no longer a tool to pass judgment on whether or not a scientific theory is correct. - Neil Degrasse Tyson
  • PodlyPodly RUDEASS TITTIES Registered User regular
    oh shit, there's an apc40 one?!

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  • EddyEddy i ain't afraid of no ghosts Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    I want to make a H/A thread but I'm not sure if it's worth it.

    AAAGH why can't my problems be simple.

    on the bright side, it's almost definitely less complicated than you think.

    I bet it's about having deformed kids

  • ElkiElki hegemon globalSuper Moderator, Moderator, ClubPA mod
    Thanatos wrote: »
    Elki wrote: »
    Got chased by my waiter, who thought I was dining & ditching (I left cash and then left). Earlier in the night, my water took 15 minutes to arrive, and I ordered things that the restaurant was out of and waited for them to not arrive.

    And that's why you should cook your own dinners.
    I would have walked back to the table, picked up the tip, and left.

    So, I've pretty much never not tipped, and I'm not reconsidering that policy, but in the moment I was really tempted to go back. I'm quite tolerant of small fuck ups, but I was quickly running the math in my head to see if I had the correct combination of paper and coin to take back the 32.00 I left for the 26.22 check, and leave something very close that second amount. And then I just shook my head and left the place.

  • DoctorArchDoctorArch Curmudgeon Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    I want to make a H/A thread but I'm not sure if it's worth it.

    AAAGH why can't my problems be simple.

    on the bright side, it's almost definitely less complicated than you think.

    what if her problem is whether P is equal to NP?

    I love reading about the millennial problems.

    Steam ID: DoctorArch Xbox Live: DoctorArch
  • OrganichuOrganichu Registered User regular
    P EQUALS NP WHEN N EQUALS ONE

  • OrganichuOrganichu Registered User regular
    also when P equals zero

  • DoctorArchDoctorArch Curmudgeon Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    P EQUALS NP WHEN N EQUALS ONE

    Does not help.

    Steam ID: DoctorArch Xbox Live: DoctorArch
  • ThanatosThanatos Registered User regular
    Elki wrote: »
    Thanatos wrote: »
    Elki wrote: »
    Got chased by my waiter, who thought I was dining & ditching (I left cash and then left). Earlier in the night, my water took 15 minutes to arrive, and I ordered things that the restaurant was out of and waited for them to not arrive.

    And that's why you should cook your own dinners.
    I would have walked back to the table, picked up the tip, and left.
    So, I've pretty much never not tipped, and I'm not reconsidering that policy, but in the moment I was really tempted to go back. I'm quite tolerant of small fuck ups, but I was quickly running the math in my head to see if I had the correct combination of paper and coin to take back the 32.00 I left for the 26.22 check, and leave something very close that second amount. And then I just shook my head and left the place.
    Was the waiter white?

  • ElkiElki hegemon globalSuper Moderator, Moderator, ClubPA mod
    Organichu wrote: »
    Elki wrote: »
    Got chased by my waiter, who thought I was dining & ditching (I left cash and then left). Earlier in the night, my water took 15 minutes to arrive, and I ordered things that the restaurant was out of and waited for them to not arrive.

    And that's why you should cook your own dinners.

    did he just not look at the table first or did someone steal your cash

    He spotted me walking toward the door as he came out of the kitchen area, and that was his instant reaction.

  • WinkyWinky Registered User regular
    Podly this is exactly like those images of girls dressed in skimpy outfits that are supposed to represent the different gaming consoles.

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  • Premier kakosPremier kakos Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Poldy, why does philosophy suck so much?

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  • WinkyWinky Registered User regular
    I want to clarify that I actually support the shit out of both of these practices :P.

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  • PodlyPodly RUDEASS TITTIES Registered User regular
    Podly wrote: »
    oh shit, there's an apc40 one?!

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  • DoctorArchDoctorArch Curmudgeon Registered User regular
    And apparently all of the PAX badges are gone. Wowzers.

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  • OrganichuOrganichu Registered User regular
    DoctorArch wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    P EQUALS NP WHEN N EQUALS ONE

    Does not help.

    don't get mad at me just because i'm a savant

  • DoctorArchDoctorArch Curmudgeon Registered User regular
    Poldy, why does philosophy suck so much?

    Because it's more about the argument and less about the answer?

    Steam ID: DoctorArch Xbox Live: DoctorArch
  • Premier kakosPremier kakos Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    also when P equals zero

    And when P is infinity.

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  • WinkyWinky Registered User regular
    Poldy, why does philosophy suck so much?

    How can a mathematician say this about philosophy?

    Anyway, I've learned that philosophy doesn't suck, it's just when Europeans 19th century and onwards do it when it sucks.

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  • DoctorArchDoctorArch Curmudgeon Registered User regular
    Podly is Red Rangering up [chat] today.

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  • Premier kakosPremier kakos Registered User, ClubPA regular
    DoctorArch wrote: »
    Poldy, why does philosophy suck so much?

    Because it's more about the argument and less about the answer?

    Or, you know, some douchebag not knowing what he's talking about as is the case in the Physics and Philosophy thread.

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  • PodlyPodly RUDEASS TITTIES Registered User regular
    Winky wrote: »
    Podly this is exactly like those images of girls dressed in skimpy outfits that are supposed to represent the different gaming consoles.

    I know!

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  • DoctorArchDoctorArch Curmudgeon Registered User regular
    DoctorArch wrote: »
    Poldy, why does philosophy suck so much?

    Because it's more about the argument and less about the answer?

    Or, you know, some douchebag not knowing what he's talking about as is the case in the Physics and Philosophy thread.

    Who this time? Is it worth reading a bit?

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  • PodlyPodly RUDEASS TITTIES Registered User regular
    Poldy, why does philosophy suck so much?

    It's pretty shitty.

    It's also pretty amazing.

    Sooooooooooooooo

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  • SarksusSarksus TEN FUCKING DOLLARS Registered User regular
    Poldy

    You God damn nerd

  • ronyaronya hmmm over there!Registered User regular
    kirman critique~

  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong and a cast of thousands Registered User regular
    Podly wrote: »
    Winky wrote: »
    Podly this is exactly like those images of girls dressed in skimpy outfits that are supposed to represent the different gaming consoles.

    I know!

    I think it might be worse.

    Donkey Kong on
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  • HappylilElfHappylilElf Registered User regular
    Elki wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    Elki wrote: »
    Got chased by my waiter, who thought I was dining & ditching (I left cash and then left). Earlier in the night, my water took 15 minutes to arrive, and I ordered things that the restaurant was out of and waited for them to not arrive.

    And that's why you should cook your own dinners.

    did he just not look at the table first or did someone steal your cash

    He spotted me walking toward the door as he came out of the kitchen area, and that was his instant reaction.

    I once had a gas station clerk call the cops on me.

    I had like $12 in gas and also picked up a carton of cigs, a couple of gatorades, a gaming magazine and a deluxe car wash.

    She forgot to include my gas on my total.

    Pulled out of the car wash and immediately there was a cop behind me with it's lights on.

    Yes lady, I was going to dive off without paying for gas but first I thought I'd hang around for 10 minutes to take my car through the car wash

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  • Form of Monkey!Form of Monkey! Registered User regular
    You could always read Ways of Worldmaking and then know why people are not buying your art in an epistemological sense.

    I ain't bitter son.

  • DoctorArchDoctorArch Curmudgeon Registered User regular
    Lately it seems all arguments that have philosophical underpinnings end up being a twenty page debate on the definitions of terms, and instead of defining those terms, we argue about "why" we are defining those terms as we are, so in the end we're no longer debating about the topic at hand, but what the definition of "is" is at this moment in time/phase of moon/period in history.

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  • Premier kakosPremier kakos Registered User, ClubPA regular
    DoctorArch wrote: »
    DoctorArch wrote: »
    Poldy, why does philosophy suck so much?

    Because it's more about the argument and less about the answer?

    Or, you know, some douchebag not knowing what he's talking about as is the case in the Physics and Philosophy thread.

    Who this time? Is it worth reading a bit?

    Apparently, some physicist wrote a book about virtual particles (and I assume perturbation theory as a whole) and how there are all sorts of things that come from nothing and some philosophy of science doucher responded with, "Nuh uh! They didn't come from nothing! They came from the quantum field!", fundamentally exposing that he has no idea about quantum mechanics.

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  • Form of Monkey!Form of Monkey! Registered User regular
    DoctorArch wrote: »
    Lately it seems all arguments that have philosophical underpinnings end up being a twenty page debate on the definitions of terms, and instead of defining those terms, we argue about "why" we are defining those terms as we are, so in the end we're no longer debating about the topic at hand, but what the definition of "is" is at this moment in time/phase of moon/period in history.

    Hahaha if only it were that easy. We're not even sure we'd have the same definitions of "is" even if one person went ahead and defined it and the other said "Yes, I agree with that 100%, unequivocally."

    It's almost beautiful in its absolute futility.

    Form of Monkey! on
  • WinkyWinky Registered User regular
    DoctorArch wrote: »
    DoctorArch wrote: »
    Poldy, why does philosophy suck so much?

    Because it's more about the argument and less about the answer?

    Or, you know, some douchebag not knowing what he's talking about as is the case in the Physics and Philosophy thread.

    Who this time? Is it worth reading a bit?

    Apparently, some physicist wrote a book about virtual particles (and I assume perturbation theory as a whole) and how there are all sorts of things that come from nothing and some philosophy of science doucher responded with, "Nuh uh! They didn't come from nothing! They came from the quantum field!", fundamentally exposing that he has no idea about quantum mechanics.

    Did you read MrMr's post?

    Dude had a PhD in physics and makes some good points.

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