Lurker > pinky0926

Video on it, starting at 14.28 to 23:20.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY985qzn7oI&t=1684s&t=14m28s

TL:DW - guy was a real scientist working in a specific field of physics, did work on the Manhattan Project. Later went on to win the Nobel prize for discovering stuff to do with particles and resonance states.

Later became interested in all kinds of fringe ideas like how egyptian pyramids had secret chambers in them and what caused the dinosaur extinction event, and what killed JFK. Stuff way outside his "lane".

He was wrong about the egyptian pyramid stuff, but the important thing is that he got a bunch of experts in the field involved, did actual experiments, accepted it was wrong and then moved on.

He actually...wasn't wrong about the dinosaurs. This is the guy who worked out that an asteroid hit earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. A guy who worked in particle physics, helped develop the atomic bomb and also won a nobel prize for more or less developing the entire field of data analysis and subatomic physics.

He also wasn't wrong about JFK. Was one of the earliest investigators to figure out that the backward head snap made sense from a shot from behind.

Interesting dude.

Well yeah, its a super common and cheap procedure.

TMOG posted...

Can professional athletes beat a bunch of high school kids in their chosen sport?

I'm gonna go with "yes, obviously".

Or did you want this topic to just be people laughing at women?

The answer is nowhere near as clear cut as you think

I think the reason the phrase annoys me so much is that it's often dropped as a dismissive hand-wave to discussions about whether the crime should even be against the law or if the "time" was excessive.

Remember when brittney griner got sentenced to 9 years for having a miniscule amount of cannabis oil on her? So much of the online discourse around that was one person saying "that's barbaric" and the response argument being "if you can't do the time..."

It's a strawman, goddamit. No one was arguing that it's smart and sensible to travel through russian airports with any amount of cannabis on you.

eggcorn posted...

I don't think you need to be a bootlicker to understand that if you break rules that are already in place you should expect the possibility that there may be consequences to your actions.

Who are these people that "can do the time"

Is anyone going "well actually calendar is looking pretty free, I wouldn't mind a spot of prison next month"

Even just as a turn of phrase it's stupid

NittanyLions23 posted...

1 > 0

Gave more examples than you did.

I don't think I've ever heard someone use that phrase after someone got busted gruesomely murdering dozens of people

It's always some low level drug thing or like talking back to a cop

NittanyLions23 posted...

Do you really want serial killers running free on the streets?

Certain people belong in jail.

We dont want them around.

This is such a hyper specific and ludicrous example

This phrase really rustles my jimmies. Who are all these bootlicking revenge-porn people that worship rules and authority figures, and why are they so happy about people going to jail

Cotton_Eye_Joe posted...

Even when the woman says he abused her.

And the abuser says he didn't abuse her, and there is no evidence beyond some spicy text messages and her friends saying he's a dick. You can't really do a whole lot with that legally.

I get cold sores. No idea if I have genital herpes, but never had a break out.

That text is so offensive. Its one thing to peddle your dogma, another thing to pretend it's scientific.

The thing a lot of people get wrong about "Calories in, calories out" is that it's NOT a diet strategy. It's just quite literally the explanation for what's happening according to physical law.

If you're trying to learn how to bounce a basketball it doesn't really help if someone says "It's just gravity and the transference of kinetic and potential energy". That doesn't give you the tools you need to actually get better at bouncing a ball.

Counting calories in might be a diet plan - but it's incomplete, and it doesn't work well for everyone.

Dieting is a skill. You need to learn it. You need to learn a diet plan that allows you to adhere to the physical law.

A calorie deficit is quite literally the definition of losing weight. You are not at negative calorie intake, anymore than I am a married man despite being a bachelor.

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

"If Trump can get fined half a billion dollars for committing fraud, then it can happen to us too! Liberals bad!"

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a04df381.jpg

These people are so dense that they think this is like getting your home appraised by a real estate agent for $20k more over market value

Let that sink in

I actually completely forgot Cyclops lead the X-men like Captain America because the movies did him SO dirty

As a kid I remembered him being the leader of the X-men

I'd forgotten that. I just figured he was the bitch of the x-men.

• Your phone was a tool for communication and not a life stealing device
• You were probably in your early 20s and still figured were gonna make it big with 0 effort
• You and everyone you know had their own lives to live rather than living whatever-the-opposite-of-cathartically-is through the misery of others by being terminally online
• It was possible for a movie like American Pie to be made and that was considered funny
• Politics wasn't something you had any interest in
• Bush was the measure of an immeasurably embarrassing politician
• You had a more innocent perspective on media, like you never even thought about whether a silly superhero movie had to cater to specific social causes
• No one ever challenged you on the above thought even if they were right to do so
• Lord of the Rings

Simpler times

Jiek_Fafn posted...

Youre a step ahead of where I'm at. I've watched people manually add up columns in excel to then input into their total cell. Our database itself is "too fancy" for them even though there are buttons in it to do this shit for them. Thankfully, they at least understand the concept of updating things in the system so other people can look it up accurately

There's a strange relationship between how difficult and strict you need to make the system to use vs how big the company is.

• A lil mom and pop store with a handful of workers: nothing in a database will be easier or faster to use than Mary printing off a spreadsheet and sitting down with John and marking things off with a highlighter. If you want a database then just use it like a contacts list.
• 10ish employees: well now you need to use the system, but it's ok if you don't record everything and we'll give nearly everyone manager permissions so that they can fiddle about with records however
• 10-30 employees: ok shit is pretty serious now, everyone needs to get off the spreadsheets or you're all going to be doing 3x the work. Also we need to think about who is allowed to do what, very carefully
• 100 employees: Everyone has a very specific task they are allowed to do in the system and nothing else, and don't you dare use any other systems or you're fired
• 1000 employees: wtf we're back to spreadsheets again

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My favourite is when people get fired for using the system unaware that people can very easily investigate exactly how they're using the system.

Like the time a guy was going into bank account records and changing the details to his own bank account so that he'd be paid invoices directly

Incredible that he thought he'd get away with this tbh

ejolson posted...

Dude, my dad was a systems implementation consultant for Deloitte, he knew Fortune 500 companies that had their entire financials system run on Excel spreadsheets.

So I work in implementation of these sorts of systems. If you don't make someone's life easier than using excel then they will ALWAYS use excel.

Sometimes "making life easier" has to mean "use the system or you're fired", sadly.

AlphaWhelp posted...

Talk to your management about getting some kind of business intelligence product where people like him can click on one button and make a printable report and he can waste as much paper as he wants without bothering you.

The issue isn't how we create the report, it's how people like this take information out of the database, do something with it and then don't put it back in. So now the list of "clients we haven't called in 6 months" is wildly out of date because sales guy called them all last week and didn't update anything.

Sales guy: How do I print off a list of every lead who no one has called in 6 months?
Me: Rather than printing off a list, just run a search criteria. And then work through the list in the system.
Sales guy: No no I need a report, I need to see it in front of me so that I can work through the list with a pencil.
Me: We can do that, but you're basically doubling up your work and then your information is now in two different places.
Sales guy: I just really like the feel of paper, you know?

*6 months later*
Sales guy: Ok so we need to have a talk about why the data is so out of date

/headdesk

I mean, with good reason. Magneto was about to commit his own genocide.

Dark_Arbron posted...

Should a decent person with the capacity for critical thought and an understanding of the big picture vote for Biden, or Trump? That's the bottom line.

Biden of course

And while voting for Biden, continue to be critical of the entire system that allowed this

mystic_belmont posted...

Why does it matter that Biden is old, if Trump is also old?

Because...both problems matter?

Like there is more than one problem that exists at the same time here

What aren't you getting

Ivynn posted...

It's a pointless discussion that won't have any immediate effect.

My dude

You are on the current events section of gamefaqs.gamespot.com

R u serious

mystic_belmont posted...

So is Trump.

Yes, but since trump has about 34 thousand other more serious flaws it just puts the spotlight on biden

Ivynn posted...

OK.

Biden's old.

What should we do with this information

Discuss how it is that we arrived at a point where this is literally the best the Democrats could do
Discuss whether there should be age limits on incumbent candidates
Discuss how age factors into job performance in any field
Consider the ramifications of a president dying of old age in office, or even just declining mentally

Would be quite interesting and horrific for dementia or other age related health issues to set in , for example. Maybe we could talk about that?

You know, just how discussions work

Ivynn posted...

Who's glossing? Everyone knows Biden is an old fuck. But you're not getting another Dem candidate so it's pointless to complain.

Seems like a pretty valid and important criticism to make on several levels.

And many are glossing, as evidenced by this topic and discourse as a whole.

These two broke the age record the first time around, and now they're running again.

Wild when people attempt to gloss over this

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/17be93b1.jpg

I've seen it. My favourite part of the movie was when she went "madam, it's webbin' time!" and webbed up all over the shop

Well it's not really, is it? Not compared to everything else surely?

I mean If CNN publishes a lie they get absolutely reamed for it. Millions of people are there to be critical and ask questions about this stuff and point out where it's not credible.

Meanwhile if you say some absolute fucking nonsense on a rando fringe website literally no one questions you on it, because you've found the other 100 people on Earth as whacky as you are. You can say literally anything you want. Flat earth is real, QAnon is the most senior intelligence officer of all time, Donald Trump is a good father etc. etc.

Maybe it's more like, mainstream media is more often correct more of the time than everything else?

Cruciferous posted...

I see what you're saying but there must be like a perfect angle and amount of force that would do it for us. Taking the spin of the earth and such into consideration. If we can use math to basically blind shoot a rocket into the surface of a moon millions of miles away why can't we figure that out?

still ELI5 I am being half serious tho

Even putting aside the dizzying amount of physics to consider here, how would you even go about creating a force that can shift something that weighs 13 septillion pounds, rotating at 1,000 miles an hour and travelling at 67 thousand miles an hour through space? Is there a God-sized finger around ready to poke it like a basketball on a god-sized globetrotter's finger?

PerseusRad posted...

I never could bring myself to grind for all the bonus content, either in the PS2 version or the updated versions with the new stuff. I did used to do a lot of Blitzball when I was young though.

I kind of hated blitzball. I took it far enough to unlimit Wakka's celestial weapon because it was easy enough, but I couldn't be bothered or see the reason to go any further than that.

You know, the one you fired up day in day out in the summer holidays, for hours and hours. The one where you looked up split infinity's FAQ and pored over it to grind for the best equipment and earn stupid amounts of money for no particular reason. Thousands of hours on your save file.

I was maybe 15 or 16 when I got it on platinum (I think it was called that, the case had a silver border) on sale. I had never played a JRPG before, never mind a turn-based one. I remember being distinctly disappointed when I found out that everyone just stood there and attacked in some kind of order, and battle was like a separate part of the game you went into each time.

But in those days you didn't just stop playing a game you didn't like. Mum and dad buy your games, and you get one at a time. So I kept playing. Years later I had a save file with maybe 1500 on it and another two or three save files with a collective 2000 on it.

Despite all this I never beat Nemesis or Penance. I didn't get all of the celestial weapons. I got to a point where I had a dream team of 4 characters who had absolutely insane gear but nothing that was specifically good for any end-game bosses. IIRC they had armour with auto-haste, auto-protect, auto-phoenix, auto-regen, ribbon.

I bought it again on switch for 60 because I am an absolute clown. It was like saying hi to an old friend.

Now, time for a spicy opinion. Lulu is the most consistently underrated party member and I will die on this hill.

Seems to me less like Biden specifically supports genocide and more like the entire fabric of America's political landscape system supports genocide. Like every party, senator and with any influence is on team Israel, for whatever reason.

I guess we've been here before but it seems incomplete to point out that biden supports genocide without recognising the bigger issue that is AMERICA supports genocide. There is no vote that does not support genocide.

Ricemills posted...

I find this topic ironic.

The topic started with "Any time you criticise Trump to a supporter, they bring up Biden", but when someone thinks he doesn't like both of the candidates, the posts are all becoming about how you should still vote Biden because Trump is bad.

I think there is a qualitative difference here.

When someone supports Trump, they absolutely LOVE him. They think he's hiliarious, they think he's going to fix America, they think that he's a clever artful dodger playing 4D chess and simutalenously the most honest and good thing to happen in politics. So when they hear criticism about Trump they have to point to Bidens flaws as if to say "no, Biden is the guy who is all of that stuff."

When someone supports Biden, it's generally in spite of his personality and policies rather than because of it. I don't know anyone that thinks Biden is going to fix America. No one thinks he's funny or charismatic. No one believes he is a clever artful dodger, and if anything he is emblematic of everything that is wrong with the democrat party. When someone criticises Biden you kind of have to go "...yeah he's pretty shit. But still not as bad as Trump."

Ricemills posted...

It might be your problem, but not to them.
Especially when that single issue is what matters to them. The question is why nobody want to tackle that issue?

I understand it, and I empathise with it. Hell I've been a single issue voters before, but I don't think it's practical to base your support on a party over a single issue. You get one tick on a box, and that tick represents everything that party does. So whether you are voting based on a single issue or not, you are always lending your support to a range of issues. Thats the shitty thing about politics.

Ricemills posted...

So voting on what party with policies that you like then?

I think people become completely side tracked by the cult of personality and be single issues. Single issue voters are a problem, imo.

RndmNmber1 posted...

Because of the idea of voting on hate is so sad. People should vote on who they like more, not who they hate less.

if you ask me, the entire idea of voting for an individual primarily based on how you like them as a person is completely insane. There's an entire party your backing - legislation, policies, funding, lobbyists, supreme court picks, everything.

They literally cannot imagine someone not having a cult like obsession with their president, so they really think that left wing voters idolise Biden.

I don't even know a single person that likes Biden.

One thing that will happen for sure is that he will devotr much of his presidency trying to get his life back on track. He'll pardon himself from all criminal proceedings, he'll leverage his position to make money on real estate again, everything. Being president is a way for him to make money.

Irony posted...

Usually because he cheats

Also another shonen rule he breaks. Everyone knows that you have to have an honourable straightforward fight to determine power levels. A character can be a dick but ultimately they nee to have a one-to-one battle at full power to show off who is stronger.

Not blackbeard though. He'll do anything.

At no point does he ever look confident. He is always getting smacked around like a punk. He is always scared of his opponents, and surprised by how strong they are. He's always in great amounts of genuine pain. Every single battle with Blackbeard plays out like he's comic relief canon fodder.

And...he always wins. Usually off camera.

Basically, standard shonen rules don't apply to him. You're supposed to adjust your glasses and smirk and outline why you've read your opponents moves, or say some other cool thing. Winners don't panic right?

This never happens with blackbeard. He just sort of loses every fight until something (??) happens and then the good guy is dead. Totally unmeasurable level of strength.

wanderingshade posted...

The new model I don't get is the idea there are now multiple oceans past the fictitious ice wall with more land masses.

let's not call it a model. It can't predict anything and it doesn't work or explain anything, the only way it works is by coming up with a series of increasingly incompatible and incoherent ideas.

It's a "model" like tolkien's middle earth is a model.

ooger posted...

It is a great video.

https://youtu.be/JTfhYyTuT44?si=ARO0kGxpVkaBCB4B

This was great, had it on while I was driving home last night. I tuned out at the end because QAnon is just depressing. Flat earth at least seems mildly harmless as far as most conspiracies go, but I guess if you believe flat earth then you believe all the others.

I love that they call it the flat earth model.

Like adding the word "model" legitimises it, even though it can't predict anything, gives no consistent explanation for how anything works and has zero rigour to its experiments.

It's better than it has any right to be. If a slew of action show tropes makes you laugh then it's perfect

Guys

I genuinely do not want to be around anyone who is this dense