SunlitZelkova Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 14 hours ago, kerbiloid said: https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20210549/html.php When I think using the mindset of that "other" solution I mentioned, what I come up with makes Edward Teller look like Mahatma Gandhi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 6 hours ago, SunlitZelkova said: makes Edward Teller look like Mahatma Gandhi Well... https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdvIVGIZgmvj1T3hUymOw4BtF7ap08G7V47ceLaupzkWOacOA/viewform Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LHACK4142 Posted October 4 Share Posted October 4 What do meteorologists think when they're asked about the weather? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superfluous J Posted October 4 Share Posted October 4 4 hours ago, LHACK4142 said: What do meteorologists think when they're asked about the weather? Probably the same thing I think when someone asks me to look at their computer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdJ Posted October 4 Share Posted October 4 7 hours ago, LHACK4142 said: What do meteorologists think when they're asked about the weather? "I wonder what happened to defined seasons?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted October 4 Share Posted October 4 They predict meteors. The weather is predicted by the weatherologists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted October 6 Share Posted October 6 Not to run into the politix, just watched yesterday on U-tube. *** Kamala Devi Harris Quote Harris's birth certificate, dated November 5, 1964 (left), an affidavit correcting her middle name from Iyer to Devi, dated February 18, 1965 (right). TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE KAMALA DEVI HARRIS (shuffle) KA MA LA HA RRIS DEVI (arrange) SRI DEVI MAHAKALA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted October 6 Share Posted October 6 (edited) https://folklorescotland.com/the-legend-of-heather-ale/ Heather Ale by R.L. Stevenson Quote There rose a king in Scotland, A fell man to his foes, He smote the Picts in battle, He hunted them like roes. Over miles of the red mountain He hunted as they fled, And strewed the dwarfish bodies Of the dying and the dead. The Picts weren't dwarves. They were tall tattooed drunken men, and according to the official books, the Romans had built the Antonine Wall and Hadrian Wall to protect their British colonies from the Pictish raids. Probably, they were just a kind of the Scotch. The text of the poem makes to think that the poem is actually two(at least)-fold. One layer is for the profanes, a heroic poem about the conflict between the Scotch drunkards and Pictish moonshine makers. Another (and true) layer says "Picts", but means "Pixies". It makes it be making sense then. The pixies are small, and they are supernatural and keep some magic/divine secrets. So, the "heather ale" is actually a magic elixir, and the pixies were keeping its recipe in secret, or were keeping a Grail of it. Then it becomes a poem about the attempt of the Scotch head leader to capture the pixies and get the "Ale" to improve the supernatural skills of his team. But who is the "king in Scotland"? The poem is written in late XIX, when rare educated and cultured person like Stevenson had no relation to the masonry. And the Scotch masonry is known as one of the most original and respectable masonries in the world. So, probably, the "king in Scotland" is the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland, one of them. (The poem was first published in 1890, so maybe close to that year). So, we can assume that the true story of the poem actually describes and is devoted to some failed but honorific attempt of the Scotch masons to capture some Grail from the supernatural entities. Edited October 6 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunlitZelkova Posted October 6 Share Posted October 6 3 hours ago, kerbiloid said: So, we can assume that the true story of the poem actually describes and is devoted to some failed but honorific attempt of the Scotch masons to capture some Grail from the supernatural entities. Maybe their descendants tried again and succeeded in doing so, and then commercialized the Grail's connective powers and sold it as Scotch Tape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunlitZelkova Posted October 13 Share Posted October 13 Living in Hiroshima kinda reminds me of being in a Philip K. Dick novel, because its a city that got nuked and was rebuilt in a modern way. Especially because my school is just north of the pseudo-red light district, going on walks there at night can give real Blade Runner vibes (not that I really connect BR with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? plotwise, but the vibes are what matters). The wide streets also give off a unique feel compared to the narrow ones more common in other Japanese cities. I've always thought that so long as a nuclear war is limited to the countries that actually have nukes (which I can count on my fingers if Europe is just mashed together as one) humanity will rebuild quickly with help from South America, Africa, and Australia. I don't subscribe to the nuclear winter hypothesis. If humanity was going to go extinct I think it would be caused by the GG emissions from such a rebuilding effort + general consumption, assuming green technology is abandoned as too expensive in a post-war world. But that would take centuries, it wouldn't occur on a small timeline. This is why I like another of Philip K. Dick's novels, Dr. Bloodmoney, so much. It takes place slightly before, during, and then mostly after a nuclear war. But in the after part, there isn't really any of the usual post-apocalyptic tropes. Its just people going about their normal lives for the most part. There's some mutant tomfoolery but none of it drastically affects the characters' lives. The recovery of the world is even mentioned, surgeries are beginning to happen again in New York after eight years without any, likewise it is possible to send a letter from NY to San Francisco as new paths across the Rockies are cleared (apparently key nodes there got nuked during the war), and the Army-run central government in Cheyenne is even building simple rockets to try and reach the Mars mission that launched on the day of the war and got stranded in LEO after mission control was destroyed (Dick wrote the novel in 1963 so all he really would have been familiar with was Vostok and Mercury style near-total (in the case of Vostok total) ground control of spaceflights). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted October 14 Share Posted October 14 Actually, the main purpose of Private Division was to prevent the 502 errors. They were doing it manually. Once they had stopped, it has begun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdJ Posted October 30 Share Posted October 30 Surprised that all the threads are not saying "This thread is quite old, consider starting a new one." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 (edited) https://phasesmoon.com/ Quote New Moon Moonrise today: 06:15 AM Moon set today: 04:12 PM Duration:9 Hours and 57 minutes 31.10.2024 Moon status today 1.34% Visible Thursday, October 31, 2024 Moon's constellation ♓ Pisces Horoscope is ♏ Scorpio The forum had disappeared on the full moon, and reappeared a half-moon later, on the new moon. Will anybody tell now, that the moon phases don't rule the world. The forum has been resurrected on HelloWin, the day/night of the deads, on the new moon! Edited October 31 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted November 7 Share Posted November 7 I've been recently exposed to a bunch of AI-made videos. You know, with janky, non-sensensical character movements that make it clear the AI has no idea what it's actually depicting. Reminded me a lot of Lem's Solaris. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Kerbin Posted November 8 Share Posted November 8 If multiple goose are called geese, why aren’t multiple cabooses called cabeese? Why does CARgo go ships? On rockets? Why do they say “we are shipping it to your house” when it has nothing to do with a ship? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted November 9 Share Posted November 9 14 hours ago, Mr. Kerbin said: Why do they say “we are shipping it to your house” when it has nothing to do with a ship? Well... Sometimes. Spoiler 14 hours ago, Mr. Kerbin said: If multiple goose are called geese, why aren’t multiple cabooses called cabeese? moose - meese, mouse - mice, house - hice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted November 23 Share Posted November 23 (edited) The archaeologists of the XXIII century were amazed at the self-control and sense of humor of the people from the early XXI century, on having found numerous signs of admiration on the walls everywhere around. Spoiler Edited November 23 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted November 23 Share Posted November 23 (edited) On 11/9/2024 at 5:46 AM, kerbiloid said: Well... Sometimes. Reveal hidden contents moose - meese, mouse - mice, house - hice https://xkcd.com/2043/ Tow truck don't work here but an car caring truck does. So does an trailer with another car on. Edited November 23 by magnemoe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted December 3 Share Posted December 3 (edited) (from pikabu.ru) Spoiler "We have to somehow make the flag waving..." Spoiler "The Martians on the Earth." "The humans on Mars." Edited December 3 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted December 7 Share Posted December 7 The tutorial tells me: "Open the file folder". I do this. But what should I do next with these files? Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superfluous J Posted December 7 Share Posted December 7 4 hours ago, kerbiloid said: "Open the file folder" Wait until the instructions tell you to scroll up and down on your tablet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted December 7 Share Posted December 7 40 minutes ago, Superfluous J said: Wait until the instructions tell you to scroll up and down on your tablet. Got it. Probably, it's about the zipper on photo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted December 8 Share Posted December 8 After reading the article about the foreign (particularly - Italian) harsh words, I start thinking that 90Sr was named not after the Scotch village. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunlitZelkova Posted December 17 Share Posted December 17 If science studies concepts created by the superstitious hunter-gatherers, like time and space, can it be said to be scientific? Not to say it’s a worthless system, or is nonsensical, just that it doesn’t possess god-like objectivity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superfluous J Posted December 17 Share Posted December 17 1 hour ago, SunlitZelkova said: If science studies concepts created by the superstitious hunter-gatherers, like time and space, can it be said to be scientific? Not to say it’s a worthless system, or is nonsensical, just that it doesn’t possess god-like objectivity. Not sure what you mean, but if you apply the scientific method to *anything* you're doing science, be it warp travel, ghosts, or how prisms work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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