tiffanyg

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by tiffanyg 3y ago
"Well, they forced my hand, I'm going to call the police..." https://youtu.be/lehmQ5mUveg?t=20s
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Oh. I just sample from my own brain if I want truly random noise . Ba-dum-tisss...
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Hey! 8 hours of TV static per night is the only way I can get some decent shut-eye! But then, I'm from 1950. Also, the soothing crackle makes transmissions from my home planet more distinctive, so I never miss any of the crucial orders
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Or, she could just note the exposition as part of the fiction and its presentation. Years ago, I used to be critical when it came to that sort of thing, then I realized that I was being critical of something with a clear purpose that's
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Plausible. However, I would say that a related, more general, and more disturbing hypothesis (in the "big picture") is more plausible: Musk is all-in with China, Saudi Arabia, etc. For various reasons - access to markets, financin
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Baldrick, is that you? https://youtu.be/AsXKS8Nyu8Q (Whatever other representations there are of "The Good Idea Fairy", I can't help but think of Baldrick and his "cunning plans".)
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
If anything is evident from the internet, and HN as an example, the lineage of "Ancient Skeptics"* is as extinct as Jimmy Hoffa. Anyway, as the great philosopher René Descartes said, regarding "skepticism": I think, ther
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Yup, that's about right, I'd say. It's disgusting, too. Every time "the experiment" is run, we find that "the returns" from preventing excessive concentration of wealth VASTLY exceed any claimed benefits o
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Not an "interesting coincidence". It's a coincidence, and the "interesting coincidence" framing is the dumbest of the rhetoric (aka propaganda) tools out there. It's the basest of the rhetorical tricks, put tog
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Oh yes. I just commented on "market saturation" elsewhere - partly, this is very similar to what I wrote there. Initially, hiring some "professional managers" works well (and, relatedly, expanding sports programs, adding
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Yup, this hits a bunch of the basics. There are details, of course, but just like every "housing crisis" in the past, the parameters that need adjusting are fundamentally the same. Which way to adjust always changes. And, in part
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Mm-hmm, Mm-hmm... Oh! Oh, yeah... mm, mm. Mmm! I know some of these words! * More seriously - thanks for that description! It's always interesting to see just how many "principles" &/ "laws" etc. (our co
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
My parents lived much more comfortable lives... grandparents even more so... Interesting how you stopped at "grandparents". To be clear, absolutely not intended as any kind of attack on you or what you've written - just som
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
I don’t know the value of half-assing it, but committing your full ass is amazing. Indeed. As no less than Ron Swanson rendered unto us - an exemplar in classic American yarn form: https://youtu.be/k6hZ9KdG1QU ... wise wo
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Aw man, forget all that noise. Bring back "Project Orion"*, baby! If we're not gettin' out our (NASA-approved) Huarache sandals, "waxing down" our pusher plate, and surfing "the pocket" of those sweet
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
My personal motto is: "Inappropriate laughter, there's nothing more appropriate." Honestly, if you want to distinguish "human" from "lizard in a human skin suit", "animal" (a la Gom Jabbar ), or
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
... apparently ... that's rather absurd ... perhaps I won't listen to this presentation when time might allow, for the moment. https://youtu.be/1Npo0cmp-VY On second thought, let's not go to Camelot, tis a
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Haha - in enough ways, git is shit. I'm not disagreeing, though. I think you're right (for the "foreseeable future"). CVS, SVN, etc., really became serious obstacles once you moved to larger projects and more distributed
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Realistically, in a simple statistical way, plain "coincidences" have a significant "expected value". I.e., if you simply take the billions of people across the planet, and look even across a single day, lots of coincide
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
" Sigh Here we go again..." See, this is what I love about the internet. It channels the best of the "ancient curses": "the curse in disguise" ... "the poisoned chalice"*. I guess, it's a sort o
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
It's for reasons A and B, at least. There have already been issues with "B", for example: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/crashed-spacecraft... Look at how "well" transferring species
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
At the risk of furthering the "me too, like some brain-dead AOLer"... ... it's a favorite to "me too". Just incredibly funny, I love the tone of incredulity... so ... relatable. Can't wait until we have to cope
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Hmm, interesting. It's all trade-offs, I'd argue. The nonsense with cotton gloves is clear rubbish*, but, there's no question that human skin is FULL of ... well, everything. Bacteria, "chemicals" (incl. oils), etc.
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
I've already spent too much time in this thread and commented too much, but given some of the other comments and the relative rarity of the opportunity: "Sad Bastard"? Why would I listen to that guy? No, give me "The F
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
It's all just one giant pyramid scheme anyway... https://youtu.be/z-iWe4qXUD8?t=7s Funny how "Holy Grail" is woven through with it ... so many scenes of "kissing up and kicking down": And how'
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
...live together in a big building, work together, pray together, ~~cook~~ eat together... What, kinda like this? https://youtu.be/EqTyZoupc1w ... monastery. Ooh. Very nice, eh? Do I get to take a turn as a "sort o
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
worth a lot more ... than free users Why? I'm not sure about that, either way. I feel like I've seen cases where this is true, and cases where it isn't. For YouTube, for example, I'd guess this could be true, now. It
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
So, lessee - we already got Alien universe, Futurama* ... maybe another I already forgot... No "Demolition Man"? No "Idiocracy" ... Red Dwarf, Saturday Night Live**, Austin Powers***, ...? Good lord, I didn't even r
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Yes, this trend has been becoming more observable - particularly in the past ~10 years IMO. Of course, as another commenter points out, it has been increasingly adopted by some politicians themselves. At some point, all of the "megapho
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Hmm, I thought 2015 for fusion? https://youtu.be/xvacBzZtYag?t=1m3s There's just too much Bannon-esque "flooding the zone" these days... And now, we wait for the entirely justified downvotes (though, this th

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