15816 pts · October 7, 2012
A car is on conveyor belt that will always match the wheel speed. It cannot drive, just like it couldn't if stuck on ice or in mud. Now you attach a rocket engine that provides 30,000 force-pounds of thrust. Your claim is it will still be stationary. Where is that force going?
My autistic son uses google translate in interpreter mode because he's thrilled to have it echo him in a different language. When my wife asked if he's done on the potty he said "All done mommy" and Google assistant said "Understood, exiting interpreter mode."
#8 if you write "find attached" or some variation then outlook will warn you if you hit send without any attachments. Something like "hey fuck face, think you might be forgetting something?" Or old versions did. I think the new Office will just have copilot AI generate a random PDF for you. Just don't say "slop" as Microsoft considers this a racial slur against AIs.
Bradbury however called it. In Fahrenheit 451 books weren't criminalized so the government could censor thought, but because people were upset with certain ideas and voted to ban anything uncomfortable or thought provoking. The news was banned from reporting bad news and the USA got bombed without the citizens even noticing, because it was illegal to report they were at war, and losing badly.
This was funny the first time I saw it. Then every account on instagram remade it. I hate this joke-stealing culture we have online.
Hadoughken!
The bill bans strippers from performing in schools, but also bans trans people from being in schools, or being mentioned at all. The stripper part is to the media puts that in the headline and not the trans part. Note that even the LGBTQ nation article that WARNS that's the purpose of the stripper clause put the stripper clause in the headline.
If anyone doesn't know, The Beaverton is the Canadian version of The Onion.
After he was betrayed, his eyes were gouged out and he was imprisoned. The Philistines called him to the temple of Dagon to entertain them with his misery, and thousands gathered to witness his humiliation. He asked to rest against a column, and God returned his strength so he could collapse the temple, killing himself and all of the Philistine rulers.
In my talons, I shape clay, crafting life forms as I please. If I wish, I can smash it all.
We get a variety pack of cocktail coolers from Costco. Mojitos, Margaritas, Vodka Cranberry, Long Island Iced Tea and... Pina Colada. I don't mind real a pina colada but these are like drinking carbonated sunscreen.
#3 did 2g and met the machine god who showed me the chains and gears that run reality. He explained patiently how a seventh order gear works. It was the divine tongue and I couldn't understand the words, but somehow comprehended the meaning. Alas I've got no idea how it works, I was just nodding along.
It's Murdoch Mysteries. It's a Canadian murder mystery series set in the late 1800s to early 1900s. It's stupid fun, but also gets very serious. Like, TNG levels of tonal shift between episodes. "In this episode Murdoch and Alexander Graham Bell team up to invent sonar and find treasure in the great lakes. Next week, lynchings and abortion rights. After that, steam punk rocketship. Then a meditation on homophobia and the crushing burden of loving who you love when being caught means death."
Yes, because the actor is Jason Mewes (Jay), so they made a reference.
"Quite unsettling, well done." is my usual reaction to Shane.
For years after playing it my wife and I would just sadly whisper "the baby...." out of nowhere to each other.
"Rat Goblin" immediately made me start hearing the "rat chicken" song in my head. Bullsyeart has been gone for more than 20 years, and yet that's stuck in my head.
Canonically she's 6'3" and 200 lbs of muscle. I'd also imagine the Zero Suit would act more like a sports bra than a push-up bra but that contradicts official depictions ;)
Something that goes well with a good jerk chicken. Peas and rice or fried plantains are my favorite jerkmates.
Jeff Bezos is actually advocating this. Saying that you'll just use Alexa on your phone and tell it what you want to do, and it'll rent the needed cloud compute from AWS to do what you want. He says the days of owning a computer are over, and people should get used to the future of technology where you pay by the second to rent a trillionaire's computer instead.
#23 At my local Costco there were "unbreakable plastic cups!" And all the demo models were cracked or shattered.
Shaped using government technology! "Government doesn't patent their intellectual property, so anyone can use it. They (the Natick Center) presented material at technical meetings...The military allowed us to use the processes they'd developed."− Roger Mandigo, meat scientist
#26 the WEG Star Wars RPG rulebook used that exact interaction to illustrate persuasion checks. (IIRC it also had an example of tactical advantage giving a bonus to negotiate "Because he's holding a thermal detonator!")
#37 Third point - The plot of F̶a̶u̶s̶t̶Eric (Discworld). Also of a quest idea in the Planes of Chaos boxed set - Scroll of Monster Summoning IV fizzles on the abyss and a giant idiot summons the party to a hopeless attack or something, caster assumes party is devils in disguise to trick him into letting them go and is like "just give UP! I'm never falling for it!". Party can only leave if caster dies, but cannot directly harm him - must kill him through malicious compliance.
In the 80s my elementary school brought in a firefigther that plugged one of these in and the whole gym smelled like burnt hotdog, then he said that's what human flesh smells like too, so don't climb telephone poles. It was a longer presentation than that but that was my takeaway.
A car is on conveyor belt that will always match the wheel speed. It cannot drive, just like it couldn't if stuck on ice or in mud. Now you attach a rocket engine that provides 30,000 force-pounds of thrust. Your claim is it will still be stationary. Where is that force going?
My autistic son uses google translate in interpreter mode because he's thrilled to have it echo him in a different language. When my wife asked if he's done on the potty he said "All done mommy" and Google assistant said "Understood, exiting interpreter mode."
#8 if you write "find attached" or some variation then outlook will warn you if you hit send without any attachments. Something like "hey fuck face, think you might be forgetting something?" Or old versions did. I think the new Office will just have copilot AI generate a random PDF for you. Just don't say "slop" as Microsoft considers this a racial slur against AIs.
Bradbury however called it. In Fahrenheit 451 books weren't criminalized so the government could censor thought, but because people were upset with certain ideas and voted to ban anything uncomfortable or thought provoking. The news was banned from reporting bad news and the USA got bombed without the citizens even noticing, because it was illegal to report they were at war, and losing badly.
This was funny the first time I saw it. Then every account on instagram remade it. I hate this joke-stealing culture we have online.
Hadoughken!
The bill bans strippers from performing in schools, but also bans trans people from being in schools, or being mentioned at all. The stripper part is to the media puts that in the headline and not the trans part. Note that even the LGBTQ nation article that WARNS that's the purpose of the stripper clause put the stripper clause in the headline.
If anyone doesn't know, The Beaverton is the Canadian version of The Onion.
After he was betrayed, his eyes were gouged out and he was imprisoned. The Philistines called him to the temple of Dagon to entertain them with his misery, and thousands gathered to witness his humiliation. He asked to rest against a column, and God returned his strength so he could collapse the temple, killing himself and all of the Philistine rulers.
In my talons, I shape clay, crafting life forms as I please. If I wish, I can smash it all.
We get a variety pack of cocktail coolers from Costco. Mojitos, Margaritas, Vodka Cranberry, Long Island Iced Tea and... Pina Colada. I don't mind real a pina colada but these are like drinking carbonated sunscreen.
#3 did 2g and met the machine god who showed me the chains and gears that run reality. He explained patiently how a seventh order gear works. It was the divine tongue and I couldn't understand the words, but somehow comprehended the meaning. Alas I've got no idea how it works, I was just nodding along.
It's Murdoch Mysteries. It's a Canadian murder mystery series set in the late 1800s to early 1900s. It's stupid fun, but also gets very serious. Like, TNG levels of tonal shift between episodes. "In this episode Murdoch and Alexander Graham Bell team up to invent sonar and find treasure in the great lakes. Next week, lynchings and abortion rights. After that, steam punk rocketship. Then a meditation on homophobia and the crushing burden of loving who you love when being caught means death."
Yes, because the actor is Jason Mewes (Jay), so they made a reference.
"Quite unsettling, well done." is my usual reaction to Shane.
For years after playing it my wife and I would just sadly whisper "the baby...." out of nowhere to each other.
"Rat Goblin" immediately made me start hearing the "rat chicken" song in my head. Bullsyeart has been gone for more than 20 years, and yet that's stuck in my head.
Canonically she's 6'3" and 200 lbs of muscle. I'd also imagine the Zero Suit would act more like a sports bra than a push-up bra but that contradicts official depictions ;)
Something that goes well with a good jerk chicken. Peas and rice or fried plantains are my favorite jerkmates.
Jeff Bezos is actually advocating this. Saying that you'll just use Alexa on your phone and tell it what you want to do, and it'll rent the needed cloud compute from AWS to do what you want. He says the days of owning a computer are over, and people should get used to the future of technology where you pay by the second to rent a trillionaire's computer instead.
#23 At my local Costco there were "unbreakable plastic cups!" And all the demo models were cracked or shattered.
Shaped using government technology!
"Government doesn't patent their intellectual property, so anyone can use it. They (the Natick Center) presented material at technical meetings...The military allowed us to use the processes they'd developed."
− Roger Mandigo, meat scientist
#26 the WEG Star Wars RPG rulebook used that exact interaction to illustrate persuasion checks. (IIRC it also had an example of tactical advantage giving a bonus to negotiate "Because he's holding a thermal detonator!")
#37 Third point - The plot of F̶a̶u̶s̶t̶Eric (Discworld). Also of a quest idea in the Planes of Chaos boxed set - Scroll of Monster Summoning IV fizzles on the abyss and a giant idiot summons the party to a hopeless attack or something, caster assumes party is devils in disguise to trick him into letting them go and is like "just give UP! I'm never falling for it!". Party can only leave if caster dies, but cannot directly harm him - must kill him through malicious compliance.
In the 80s my elementary school brought in a firefigther that plugged one of these in and the whole gym smelled like burnt hotdog, then he said that's what human flesh smells like too, so don't climb telephone poles. It was a longer presentation than that but that was my takeaway.