goeey you're living in a world where genius iqs are normal already
check out da flynn effect
Genius IQs are normal
The deaf have neural implants
Members of the public carry around communications devices that respond to plain English commands
We can instantly communicate to the majority of the world any time we want for free
we are living in the future
our public transportation is non existent
our network infrastructure is strung together with paperclips and prayer
we have a strong religious zealot faction component to our government
warrantless wiretapping
civilian assassinations
I agree we are living in the future
It's just a dystopian one.
uh, maybe for you, Johnny Reb
but those of us in the glorious utopia up north are livin' it up in our futuristic wonderland
did you know i saw the doctor this week?
guess how much it cost me
I'm saying that Stonewall Jackson was trash himself. Him and Lee and the rest of them rebs. You, too.
does the typical professor want each of your 'points' in a contained paragraph?
quoting from earlier:
so the writing section was first. it was timed.
the prompt was like, your local town has received a charitable award to be used to enrich the teen community. the two options are a sports club and an expansion to the library with more young adult literature and a computer room. draft a letter to the town council arguing which is the better choice. i ended up arguing that the library expansion was the best option, i presented two primary arguments (that it would enable economic/career success and that it would enable personal growth and civic engagement). each got a paragraph, the first basically being 'blah blah communicative ability is fundamental to multiple branches of industry, exposure to accessible print literature and the breadth of language available on the internet will enrich and blah blah'. and i of course mentioned how computer skills are a valuable skillset even in many 'non-tech' fields. then the second paragraph was about civic engagement, getting kids interested etc. unfettered, open access to data- to a broader understanding of the world, and the ideas it possesses- makes for a more interested, empathetic citizen. i used the example of small town kids who lack the print and e-resources to explore the various ideas and cultured and who then experience maladjustment upon going to college or entering the workforce.
unfortunately, the proctor said there was no character limit but that ended up being untrue. there were about 90 seconds left- and i was maybe 50 words from finishing my submission- when i got a popup that i was exceeding the character limit. i had to frantically go back and excise any passages that weren't essential, and whose removal wouldn't interrupt the focus of the argument. this left me with almost no time to proof read the changed version, so i hope i didn't have any errors or continuity problems with hurriedly removing a couple of sentences. i literally hit 'finalize' with one second left. in any case, i think it was a strong submission and i imagine i did well.
i ended up doing:
paragraph 1: introduction, the options offered to us, which i think is better, my 'two' 'reasons
paragraph 2: reason 1, but multiple nuances of the reason
paragraph 3: reason 2
paragraph 4: conclusion
for paragraph 2, is it ok to cram it in one paragraph? or rather, is it expected? while i was proof reading it seemed like the majority of the paragraph was about how more books + internet access will give you a more granular facility with language... and then kind of at the end in 2-3 sentences it was like 'plus the computers help u do jobs 2 lol'
should that have been given its own paragraph, or are those only awarded to each 'general' argument?
I decided a couple years back that having a child is a financial and emotional burden I'd rather not have.
But I still really like sex, so I want to still have that, and I'm not a huge fan of contraceptives in my monogamous permanent relationship, so
I was like "What if, I could get a doctor to slice into my genitals with a laser and install titanium implants thereby rendering me sterile but still sexually potent?"
turns out I just had to ask for it!
and it was done
cost me zero dollars
I brag about this often because it is a perfect example of how I live in a wonderful futuristic country
i hear sometimes you have to wait in a line, though
I mean yeah one time I was barely able to get some $50 medication to literally save my life but the idea of waiting in a line is basically the worst thing since hitler and stalin combined to form mechastalin
it makes me sob and sob and sob and sob and sob and sob
Why would you drink coffee black? The texture is too thin and the mouthfeel is all wrong.
Nobody on earth thinks drinking black coffee is tough except people who do it until someone else pulls them aside and clarifies that it's not a shortcut to becoming Johnny Cash.
every coffee connoisseur I know of drinks their coffee black, or maybe with a bit of sugar if the coffee isn't good enough to stand on its own.
So not only is the texture thin and watery, they sometimes add sugar
I will go ahead and disregard their opinions without a second thought now
There are plenty of ways to make coffee black that provide a pleasing mouthfeel, i.e. espressos.
Are you suggesting the best way to drink coffee is to just add milk or cream?
I stopped drinking coffee for almost 3 months because I always put sugar and I didn't want that anymore
drank tea for a while but I got an iced coffee with skim milk last night and it LIT MY BRAIN ON FIRE
coffee is really good.
Coffee is basically the best thing.
Just learn to enjoy it black, not only is it better for you, but it makes you manlier
If I use a mug instead of a styrofoam cup to drink coffee at work, I find the taste much improved. I wonder if hot coffee poured into a styrofoam cup releases any awesome chemicals that make it taste more bitter than usual.
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1. Finished my exam, but someone pulled the fire alarm half way through and we had to move it to another building.
2. Surely the myostatin blocker in production is published in literature? Granted it's something relatively simple like a single peptide enzyme, and with how Arch showed me how you can build a simple molecular biology lab for $500... Bitches we could go into business.
I would buy your not-folistatin, provided it does not thicken the walls of my heart and cause me to die.
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Why would you drink coffee black? The texture is too thin and the mouthfeel is all wrong.
Nobody on earth thinks drinking black coffee is tough except people who do it until someone else pulls them aside and clarifies that it's not a shortcut to becoming Johnny Cash.
every coffee connoisseur I know of drinks their coffee black, or maybe with a bit of sugar if the coffee isn't good enough to stand on its own.
So not only is the texture thin and watery, they sometimes add sugar
I will go ahead and disregard their opinions without a second thought now
There are plenty of ways to make coffee black that provide a pleasing mouthfeel, i.e. espressos.
Are you suggesting the best way to drink coffee is to just add milk or cream?
I decided a couple years back that having a child is a financial and emotional burden I'd rather not have.
But I still really like sex, so I want to still have that, and I'm not a huge fan of contraceptives in my monogamous permanent relationship, so
I was like "What if, I could get a doctor to slice into my genitals with a laser and install titanium implants thereby rendering me sterile but still sexually potent?"
turns out I just had to ask for it!
and it was done
cost me zero dollars
I brag about this often because it is a perfect example of how I live in a wonderful futuristic country
i hear sometimes you have to wait in a line, though
I mean yeah one time I was barely able to get some $50 medication to literally save my life but the idea of waiting in a line is basically the worst thing since hitler and stalin combined to form mechastalin
it makes me sob and sob and sob and sob and sob and sob
i guess the death panels must really like me or something because i keep getting all this government assistance and all i needed to do
was actually need it
(and jump through some horrible bureaucracy but whatever)
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Oh oh!
Fauxlistatin™
Winky, if you want this name, I will draw up reasonable terms.
Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
The difficult thing about talking healthcare with Canadian people in [chat] is that reminding them of their problems with it makes you look like a giant dick.
Why would you drink coffee black? The texture is too thin and the mouthfeel is all wrong.
Nobody on earth thinks drinking black coffee is tough except people who do it until someone else pulls them aside and clarifies that it's not a shortcut to becoming Johnny Cash.
Good coffee tastes good black!
desc you clearly know nothing about coffee
anyway, they are opening a new coffee shop across the st from my apt, hope they do a good job, it'll have stumptown coffee and their machine is a la marzocca db/5, but stumptown coffee for espresso doesn't come out amazingly unless you have someone skilled working the machine
one of these days- when i (hopefully) go to an out of state school to finish my degree, and before i get my first good job- i'm gonna be sans insurance again (or at least, having only the barebones 'school insurance').
i am sort of dreading it.
the almost total lack of copays and user costs for my medicaid is really spoiling me. going back to even paying 25 bucks per prescription (let alone thousands for an ER visit) sounds fucking terrible.
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I decided a couple years back that having a child is a financial and emotional burden I'd rather not have.
But I still really like sex, so I want to still have that, and I'm not a huge fan of contraceptives in my monogamous permanent relationship, so
I was like "What if, I could get a doctor to slice into my genitals with a laser and install titanium implants thereby rendering me sterile but still sexually potent?"
turns out I just had to ask for it!
and it was done
cost me zero dollars
I brag about this often because it is a perfect example of how I live in a wonderful futuristic country
i hear sometimes you have to wait in a line, though
I mean yeah one time I was barely able to get some $50 medication to literally save my life but the idea of waiting in a line is basically the worst thing since hitler and stalin combined to form mechastalin
it makes me sob and sob and sob and sob and sob and sob
i guess the death panels must really like me or something because i keep getting all this government assistance and all i needed to do
was actually need it
(and jump through some horrible bureaucracy but whatever)
you just wait
one day your bracelet will turn red and you'll have to escape from the death panel police and you'll duck into a warehouse and discover that socialism is made of PEOPLE
and then scarlett johansson won't get her titties out and then you'll be sorry
I decided a couple years back that having a child is a financial and emotional burden I'd rather not have.
But I still really like sex, so I want to still have that, and I'm not a huge fan of contraceptives in my monogamous permanent relationship, so
I was like "What if, I could get a doctor to slice into my genitals with a laser and install titanium implants thereby rendering me sterile but still sexually potent?"
turns out I just had to ask for it!
and it was done
cost me zero dollars
I brag about this often because it is a perfect example of how I live in a wonderful futuristic country
i hear sometimes you have to wait in a line, though
I mean yeah one time I was barely able to get some $50 medication to literally save my life but the idea of waiting in a line is basically the worst thing since hitler and stalin combined to form mechastalin
it makes me sob and sob and sob and sob and sob and sob
And what if you're waiting in line for some pharmacist whose nickname is "The Med Nazi" and you get up there and he's like "No Suproxin for you!"
Don't worry too much about paragraphing, Chu. If you're a competent writer, which you are, your natural idea of where to break into a new paragraph is the best guide. When there is enough of an idea shift to merit a new paragraph, do it. Professors want readability and ease of communication. They don't have a strict set of rules about when to paragraph or how many paragraphs there should be. My main suggestion would be not to worry about breaking your main points into smaller paragraphs if you think it improves the readability of yout paper.
The difficult thing about talking healthcare with Canadian people in [chat] is that reminding them of their problems with it makes you look like a giant dick.
absolutely none
zero
of the problems i have with Canadian healthcare (and they exist!) make me long for the way you fuckin' people do shit
f'reals spool there isn't a single argument or criticism about Canadian healthcare that you could mount that would make me long for a Republican to come up here and fuck things up
I decided a couple years back that having a child is a financial and emotional burden I'd rather not have.
But I still really like sex, so I want to still have that, and I'm not a huge fan of contraceptives in my monogamous permanent relationship, so
I was like "What if, I could get a doctor to slice into my genitals with a laser and install titanium implants thereby rendering me sterile but still sexually potent?"
turns out I just had to ask for it!
and it was done
cost me zero dollars
I brag about this often because it is a perfect example of how I live in a wonderful futuristic country
i hear sometimes you have to wait in a line, though
I mean yeah one time I was barely able to get some $50 medication to literally save my life but the idea of waiting in a line is basically the worst thing since hitler and stalin combined to form mechastalin
it makes me sob and sob and sob and sob and sob and sob
i guess the death panels must really like me or something because i keep getting all this government assistance and all i needed to do
was actually need it
(and jump through some horrible bureaucracy but whatever)
you just wait
one day your bracelet will turn red and you'll have to escape from the death panel police and you'll duck into a warehouse and discover that socialism is made of PEOPLE
and then scarlett johansson won't get her titties out and then you'll be sorry
Pony, I agree that universal healthcare is a great thing and when the US finally gets it, almost all opposition will crumble and our kids will think their predecessors savage.
But could you tone it down with the hyper smug tone? It's irritating and I don't know who you are even targeting with it! I promise you that the young republicans of america are not lurking in chat, reading your posts, revising their future talking points.
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Pony, I agree that universal healthcare is a great thing and when the US finally gets it, almost all opposition will crumble and our kids will think their predecessors savage.
But could you tone it down with the hyper smug tone? It's irritating and I don't know who you are even targeting with it! I promise you that the young republicans of america are not lurking in chat, reading your posts, revising their future talking points.
Edit: I stand corrected. Hello spool. Let me get you a helmet.
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Pony, I agree that universal healthcare is a great thing and when the US finally gets it, almost all opposition will crumble and our kids will think their predecessors savage.
But could you tone it down with the hyper smug tone? It's irritating and I don't know who you are even targeting with it! I promise you that the young republicans of america are not lurking in chat, reading your posts, revising their future talking points.
Edit: I stand corrected. Hello spool. Let me get you a helmet.
Pony, I agree that universal healthcare is a great thing and when the US finally gets it, almost all opposition will crumble and our kids will think their predecessors savage.
But could you tone it down with the hyper smug tone? It's irritating and I don't know who you are even targeting with it! I promise you that the young republicans of america are not lurking in chat, reading your posts, revising their future talking points.
Edit: I stand corrected. Hello spool. Let me get you a helmet.
Goddamn DK I love you for calling me young.
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Why would you drink coffee black? The texture is too thin and the mouthfeel is all wrong.
Nobody on earth thinks drinking black coffee is tough except people who do it until someone else pulls them aside and clarifies that it's not a shortcut to becoming Johnny Cash.
every coffee connoisseur I know of drinks their coffee black, or maybe with a bit of sugar if the coffee isn't good enough to stand on its own.
So not only is the texture thin and watery, they sometimes add sugar
I will go ahead and disregard their opinions without a second thought now
There are plenty of ways to make coffee black that provide a pleasing mouthfeel, i.e. espressos.
Are you suggesting the best way to drink coffee is to just add milk or cream?
because that is the worst of heresies
espresso is god
Yep
A small splash completely changes the consistency of the liquid and balances acidity against a little bit of creaminess
Easiest thing in the world during the moments when people aren't proselytizing confused ideas about coffee flavors and masculinity
That wretched chorus of souls has roamed the earth chanting the most confused-yet-strident nonsense
I do not understand the urgent need to wave that flag
I do, however, understand the need to pet this puppy oh my gosh
Pony, I agree that universal healthcare is a great thing and when the US finally gets it, almost all opposition will crumble and our kids will think their predecessors savage.
But could you tone it down with the hyper smug tone? It's irritating and I don't know who you are even targeting with it! I promise you that the young republicans of america are not lurking in chat, reading your posts, revising their future talking points.
Edit: I stand corrected. Hello spool. Let me get you a helmet.
Goddamn DK I love you for calling me young.
By republican standards, you are practically a baby!
Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
The difficult thing about talking healthcare with Canadian people in [chat] is that reminding them of their problems with it makes you look like a giant dick.
it doesn't so much make you look like a dick as it makes you look juvenile. like, maybe your complaints are accurate- i dunno, i've only ever visited canada. most of my canadian friends have almost no problems with wait times or lack of specialized care, but i'm willing to cede that it's true- but they are just almost moot. to pretend that the average person on an internet website (18-24, college student, low income) is even close to having a 'hard decision' between the american and canadian healthcare systems is just ludicrous.
i mean, let's have this discussion totally lacking data. by that i mean, let's pretend everything you're implying about the system's faults are true. i don't know whether they are, but let's assume they are. let's assume that for everything but a broken neck or a gunshot wound to the head, you have to wait a week. let's assume that you have to wait a month for rare or expensive procedures, and that for major surgeries there is a long waitlist. let's say all that is true (i don't know if those are your exact complaints but they're ones i hear often).
how do you think that compares to the average american in pony's situation? in cass's situation?
it doesn't make you look like a 'dick', exactly. it just makes you look like you have an agenda. who cares if their system is imperfect? it exists and it's available to everyone. it's like living in kenya 50 kilometers from civilization with no vehicle, but you feel the need to point out how your smug neighbor's car sometimes stalls moving into fourth gear, and 'can we please talk about how oil changes for it are really expensive? it's not perfect, you idealists'
it just seems petty because it's like, their setup is obviously so much better that harping on its problems comes off as obvious rhetoric and disingenuous speech
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I'm saying that Stonewall Jackson was trash himself. Him and Lee and the rest of them rebs. You, too.
does the typical professor want each of your 'points' in a contained paragraph?
quoting from earlier:
i ended up doing:
paragraph 1: introduction, the options offered to us, which i think is better, my 'two' 'reasons
paragraph 2: reason 1, but multiple nuances of the reason
paragraph 3: reason 2
paragraph 4: conclusion
for paragraph 2, is it ok to cram it in one paragraph? or rather, is it expected? while i was proof reading it seemed like the majority of the paragraph was about how more books + internet access will give you a more granular facility with language... and then kind of at the end in 2-3 sentences it was like 'plus the computers help u do jobs 2 lol'
should that have been given its own paragraph, or are those only awarded to each 'general' argument?
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/16/sport/ncaa-racism/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
i hear sometimes you have to wait in a line, though
I mean yeah one time I was barely able to get some $50 medication to literally save my life but the idea of waiting in a line is basically the worst thing since hitler and stalin combined to form mechastalin
it makes me sob and sob and sob and sob and sob and sob
OH MY GOOOOOOOOD
There are plenty of ways to make coffee black that provide a pleasing mouthfeel, i.e. espressos.
Are you suggesting the best way to drink coffee is to just add milk or cream?
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If I use a mug instead of a styrofoam cup to drink coffee at work, I find the taste much improved. I wonder if hot coffee poured into a styrofoam cup releases any awesome chemicals that make it taste more bitter than usual.
I would buy your not-folistatin, provided it does not thicken the walls of my heart and cause me to die.
because that is the worst of heresies
espresso is god
i guess the death panels must really like me or something because i keep getting all this government assistance and all i needed to do
was actually need it
(and jump through some horrible bureaucracy but whatever)
Fauxlistatin™
Winky, if you want this name, I will draw up reasonable terms.
i have turned into a 16 year old boy out of nowhere
this is ridiculous
desc you clearly know nothing about coffee
anyway, they are opening a new coffee shop across the st from my apt, hope they do a good job, it'll have stumptown coffee and their machine is a la marzocca db/5, but stumptown coffee for espresso doesn't come out amazingly unless you have someone skilled working the machine
though those la marzocca's are nice
i am sort of dreading it.
the almost total lack of copays and user costs for my medicaid is really spoiling me. going back to even paying 25 bucks per prescription (let alone thousands for an ER visit) sounds fucking terrible.
you just wait
one day your bracelet will turn red and you'll have to escape from the death panel police and you'll duck into a warehouse and discover that socialism is made of PEOPLE
and then scarlett johansson won't get her titties out and then you'll be sorry
USA USA USA USA
And what if you're waiting in line for some pharmacist whose nickname is "The Med Nazi" and you get up there and he's like "No Suproxin for you!"
Your ovaries are only getting emptier.
absolutely none
zero
of the problems i have with Canadian healthcare (and they exist!) make me long for the way you fuckin' people do shit
f'reals spool there isn't a single argument or criticism about Canadian healthcare that you could mount that would make me long for a Republican to come up here and fuck things up
...i am filled with regret
okay i'm sorry
But could you tone it down with the hyper smug tone? It's irritating and I don't know who you are even targeting with it! I promise you that the young republicans of america are not lurking in chat, reading your posts, revising their future talking points.
Edit: I stand corrected. Hello spool. Let me get you a helmet.
Spool is like 100 thousand years old.
Goddamn DK I love you for calling me young.
what
what is the mechanical cock doing
no kidding
Are you talking to me?
How did you know?!
Yep
A small splash completely changes the consistency of the liquid and balances acidity against a little bit of creaminess
Easiest thing in the world during the moments when people aren't proselytizing confused ideas about coffee flavors and masculinity
That wretched chorus of souls has roamed the earth chanting the most confused-yet-strident nonsense
I do not understand the urgent need to wave that flag
I do, however, understand the need to pet this puppy oh my gosh
I'm not sure. I left it in my other pants.
By republican standards, you are practically a baby!
it doesn't so much make you look like a dick as it makes you look juvenile. like, maybe your complaints are accurate- i dunno, i've only ever visited canada. most of my canadian friends have almost no problems with wait times or lack of specialized care, but i'm willing to cede that it's true- but they are just almost moot. to pretend that the average person on an internet website (18-24, college student, low income) is even close to having a 'hard decision' between the american and canadian healthcare systems is just ludicrous.
i mean, let's have this discussion totally lacking data. by that i mean, let's pretend everything you're implying about the system's faults are true. i don't know whether they are, but let's assume they are. let's assume that for everything but a broken neck or a gunshot wound to the head, you have to wait a week. let's assume that you have to wait a month for rare or expensive procedures, and that for major surgeries there is a long waitlist. let's say all that is true (i don't know if those are your exact complaints but they're ones i hear often).
how do you think that compares to the average american in pony's situation? in cass's situation?
it doesn't make you look like a 'dick', exactly. it just makes you look like you have an agenda. who cares if their system is imperfect? it exists and it's available to everyone. it's like living in kenya 50 kilometers from civilization with no vehicle, but you feel the need to point out how your smug neighbor's car sometimes stalls moving into fourth gear, and 'can we please talk about how oil changes for it are really expensive? it's not perfect, you idealists'
it just seems petty because it's like, their setup is obviously so much better that harping on its problems comes off as obvious rhetoric and disingenuous speech