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So, I'm one of the most liberal-minded people I know on recreational drugs, especially considering I'm a former addict.
Yet it really cheeses me when people toke up in their back yards and let the smoke waft into my yard, especially after all the major California wildfires and air quality issues.
It's like, "Could you PLEASE keep your smoke ON YOUR PROPERTY so I don't have to smell it? Thanks!"
The only reason I hate smoking, weed, and vaping is because of the users' views that it's perfectly OK to blow those noxious fumes my way.
EDIT: Removed politics entirely. Let's keep it clean.
I 100% am down with legal weed.
I 100% do not want to smell anybody’s skunk-ass weed.
I can hold both these positions at the same time.
Shame them, NH!
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My neighbors can't hear my electric mower. My wife can barely hear it from inside the house even when I'm a yard/meter from the windows.
Our lawn crew uses the noisiest equipment on the planet. Fortunately, they do most of our neighbors’ houses all on the same day as ours, so we all just endure the noise once a week.
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Smoke rolling into my air doesn't bug me as much as the guy with music so loud you can't help but hear it. Nice of you to assume I like the same kind of music as you, jackass.
Can't help where the wind blows, but deafening thuds down the street can surely be prevented.
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I don't have a sense of smell so I couldn't tell you what my neighbors are doing.
I prefer it that way.
Although in all honesty I wouldn't care anyway, we have nice neighbors.
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Fantasy Monster: Miscriber Gremlin.
Completely unrelated to recent events and complaints.
<adds YET ANOTHER Drejk monster to the must-use pile>
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I don't have a sense of smell so I couldn't tell you what my neighbors are doing.
I prefer it that way.
Although in all honesty I wouldn't care anyway, we have nice neighbors.
Oh do you really not have a sense of smell? born that way or did something happen? I had a guy I knew that had a bottle rocket go up his nose and it killed his sense of smell. (such a crazy story looking back at it. like he was obviously launching those things wrong right?)
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So, I'm one of the most liberal-minded people I know on recreational drugs, especially considering I'm a former addict.
Yet it really cheeses me when people toke up in their back yards and let the smoke waft into my yard, especially after all the major California wildfires and air quality issues.
It's like, "Could you PLEASE keep your smoke ON YOUR PROPERTY so I don't have to smell it? Thanks!"
The only reason I hate smoking, weed, and vaping is because of the users' views that it's perfectly OK to blow those noxious fumes my way.
EDIT: Removed politics entirely. Let's keep it clean.
I 100% am down with legal weed.
I 100% do not want to smell anybody’s skunk-ass weed.
I can hold both these positions at the same time.
Shame them, NH!
What about public nudity?
He had a fight with a skid loader, remember? He won, but the skid loader did take his sense of smell as a parting gift.Oh do you really not have a sense of smell? born that way or did something happen? I had a guy I knew that had a bottle rocket go up his nose and it killed his sense of smell. (such a crazy story looking back at it. like he was obviously launching those things wrong right?)I don't have a sense of smell so I couldn't tell you what my neighbors are doing.
I prefer it that way.
Although in all honesty I wouldn't care anyway, we have nice neighbors.
Oh yeah!
You know they always SAY to play dead but that doesn't always work.
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By the way, I meant any kind of smoke. I wasn't just advocating for potheads. We should absolutely not foul your noses with our smells, if it bugs you, and we can help it.
But noisy music is so much worse. And prevalent.
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not as much on the night shift life. I get a lot more bad smells then loud noises. I can try to remember back to when I was a diurnal creature... so long ago... I was probably making the loud noises... Metal head 4 life!
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My wife woke up with a big smile on her face this morning, and now I'm not allowed access to the Sharpies anymore.
well at least you found a way to make her smile.
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I like to think that I make her smile everyday, as I walk out the door.My wife woke up with a big smile on her face this morning, and now I'm not allowed access to the Sharpies anymore.well at least you found a way to make her smile.
aww that's touching.
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aww that's touching.I like to think that I make her smile everyday, as I walk out the door.My wife woke up with a big smile on her face this morning, and now I'm not allowed access to the Sharpies anymore.well at least you found a way to make her smile.
Touching what? HARHARHAR
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Hey John.
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Starting a new project.
Which will be a 28 foot diameter patio with a fire pit in the middle.
Which might actually be bigger than my house.
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For dark rituals?
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I suspect it's to accentuate their alien landing site.
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For dark rituals?
It screamed 'sacrificial altar' to me, too.
And, to be fair, a screaming altar of flame would be pretty cool, providing you didn't have to live right next door to it.
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"Wow, my dad would have snapped!" - Kid next door after I backed up our trailer into the driveway and right next to a truck where we're working.
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"Lacks All-spark" - What I wrote on my truck sheet this week.
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It's interesting -- I agree with VE that loud noise is appallingly prevalent and annoying, but in my immediate neighborhood it's not an issue -- in spite of there being TWO music teachers on my block, including one right next door.
I find it kind of charming to hear her bongos and chanting, and when I open my windows I turn my radio down and we get along fine. The other guy is about 5 doors down and teaches guitar, and I've never heard a peep out of his place.
It's like I said, it's just being aware of the people around you and not stepping on their toes. I actually like the smell of the wood-burning fireplaces in the fog in the depths of winter. Just not 3 days after we're coming out of an areawide smoke-caused lockdown...
EDIT: Though I *am* the guy who bought a decibel meter just for the Sunday farmer's market, and every time the bands go over 90 decibels I send the organizers an angry email. But seriously, they set up the kids' seats about 8' from the speakers, then blast the music at 95+ dB for a one-short-block Farmer's Market. I go there to shop, not to have to shout over the "background" music.
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EDIT: Though I *am* the guy who bought a decibel meter just for the Sunday farmer's market, and every time the bands go over 90 decibels I send the organizers an angry email.
There is no emoticon for what I am feeling.
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There is no emoticon for what I am feeling.
EDIT: Though I *am* the guy who bought a decibel meter just for the Sunday farmer's market, and every time the bands go over 90 decibels I send the organizers an angry email.
LOL. All I'll say is that I've had multiple vendors thank me for it. They complain to management that they're losing business because customers can't hear them speak and management'll say, "Well, if a customer asks us to turn it down we will."
On at least two occasions I had a vendor ask me outright to ask management to turn it down.
So at least I'm not alone in hating the overly-loud music at the tiny market...
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Heading back home today. We'll see how long we go before I have to start looking at apartments for Mom.
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Uh oh... my social security number has been found suspicious and locked again! I'm in trouble!
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Fantasy NPC: Lord K'nyal, a justice of the peace.
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Hope it's a false alarm, NH!
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Hope it's a false alarm, NH!
I started off on a tirade, but deemed it "political" and shut up, hence the very short post.
But yeah, er... there's no such thing as someone else "locking" your social security number. Or a robocall on "suspicious activity" on it.
It was a rather appallingly obvious scam. And I was going to ask which was more depressing: That people still fell for such scams, or that people were evil enough to perpetrate them on the gullible? But that's definitely deviating back into politics so I'd rather just not go any farther there...
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Someone's translated (and I have downloaded and read) a 16th(17th?) century Italian fencing manual, full of rather implausible advice on how to deal with someone attacking you with a halberd, or shooting at you with an arquebus, when you are unarmed, and also containing Handy Hints on what to do should you get into a fight with:
* A pack of wild dogs (kill one, and the rest will run away)
* Some wolves (drag a chain along the ground, and light torches)
* A European snake (don't piss it off and it won't bother you, but if you must, try dragging your cloak along the ground and sweeping it away)
* A bear (apparently, you can put a block of wood, or a dagger, into its mouth and it will let you, after which you just have to stay out of reach of its paws).
Useful to know, hey?
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I've been listening to the Philosophize This! podcast, and I'm feeling particularly philosophical today so I google-drew a flowchart of how (I think) will, choice, and consequences work.
I'm sure many of us are aware that two of the perennial questions of philosophy are (1) In what sense are our wills free or deterministic, and (2) If they're deterministic, how can we justify holding each other responsible for our choices?
And to detour into theology,
So anyway, feel free to take a look and tell me to keep my day job!
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I've been listening to the Philosophize This! podcast, and I'm feeling particularly philosophical today so I google-drew a flowchart of how (I think) will, choice, and consequences work.
I'm sure many of us are aware that two of the perennial questions of philosophy are (1) In what sense are our wills free or deterministic, and (2) If they're deterministic, how can we justify holding each other responsible for our choices?
And to detour into theology,
** spoiler omitted **So anyway, feel free to take a look and tell me to keep my day job!
Interestingly enough, for me, taking quantum physics resolved any issue of free will.
If you measure the momentum and velocity of a muon traveling through space to the best of your ability, and you have the computing power to predict every single interaction and influence that that muon will experience in the next billion years, there's still a significant chance you'll be wrong about its final position. Quantum mechanics says so. Heck, you can't even tell me whether or not it'll decay in that time span.
So if fundamental particles can't be entirely deterministic, how can the human brain be so?
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Fantasy NPC: Lord K'nyal, a justice of the peace.
I hate him already.
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I've been listening to the Philosophize This! podcast, and I'm feeling particularly philosophical today so I google-drew a flowchart of how (I think) will, choice, and consequences work.
I'm sure many of us are aware that two of the perennial questions of philosophy are (1) In what sense are our wills free or deterministic, and (2) If they're deterministic, how can we justify holding each other responsible for our choices?
And to detour into theology,
** spoiler omitted **So anyway, feel free to take a look and tell me to keep my day job!
Interestingly enough, for me, taking quantum physics resolved any issue of free will.
If you measure the momentum and velocity of a muon traveling through space to the best of your ability, and you have the computing power to predict every single interaction and influence that that muon will experience in the next billion years, there's still a significant chance you'll be wrong about its final position. Quantum mechanics says so. Heck, you can't even tell me whether or not it'll decay in that time span.
So if fundamental particles can't be entirely deterministic, how can the human brain be so?
I've always been skeptical of considering quantum mechanics with regards to will, because:
1) Do very tiny particles truly have a degree of spontaneity, or is our current understanding of them simply incomplete? Or does our current technology simply lack the fine precision necessary to predict deterministic behavior at that scale? Admittedly I've never taken quantum physics, so maybe these questions have been answered.
2) Even if very tiny particles do have a degree of true spontaneity, does that really matter on the scale of our brains' chemistry and electrical signals? To make an analogy, we can't practically predict a single water molecule's position as it vibrates at X degrees or the position of that molecule's electrons. But there are ~1.67 sextillion water molecules in a single drop of water, so that atomic (quantum?) uncertainty gets averaged out into very deterministic behavior when we apply heat or voltage to that drop of water.
Admittedly I lack any real background in quantum physics though, so I'm open to modifying my skepticism.
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I've been listening to the Philosophize This! podcast, and I'm feeling particularly philosophical today so I google-drew a flowchart of how (I think) will, choice, and consequences work.
I'm sure many of us are aware that two of the perennial questions of philosophy are (1) In what sense are our wills free or deterministic, and (2) If they're deterministic, how can we justify holding each other responsible for our choices?
And to detour into theology,
** spoiler omitted **So anyway, feel free to take a look and tell me to keep my day job!
Interestingly enough, for me, taking quantum physics resolved any issue of free will.
If you measure the momentum and velocity of a muon traveling through space to the best of your ability, and you have the computing power to predict every single interaction and influence that that muon will experience in the next billion years, there's still a significant chance you'll be wrong about its final position. Quantum mechanics says so. Heck, you can't even tell me whether or not it'll decay in that time span.
So if fundamental particles can't be entirely deterministic, how can the human brain be so?
I've always been skeptical of considering quantum mechanics with regards to will, because:
1) Do very tiny particles truly have a degree of spontaneity, or is our current understanding of them simply incomplete? Or does our current technology simply lack the fine precision necessary to predict deterministic behavior at that scale? Admittedly I've never taken quantum physics, so maybe these questions have been answered.
2) Even if very tiny particles do have a degree of true spontaneity, does that really matter on the scale of our brains' chemistry and electrical signals? To make an analogy, we can't practically predict a single water molecule's position as it vibrates at X degrees or...
(1) You can canonically prove that the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is true, and therefore there exist unpredictable things in our universe. Particle decay is one of my favorites. There is no way to determine when a particle will decay.
(2) Yes, scaling the probabilities to macroscopic levels makes them very ridiculous very quickly. One of the professor's favorite "tricks" when first teaching quantum physics is to have students calculate their probability of spontaneously appearing on the moon. Then work out how many ages of the universe it would take to have even a 1% chance of it happening. The numbers are staggeringly big.
But if making a decision is the effect of a single electrical impulse in a single neuron among trillions of neurons in the brain, all of a sudden the probabilities aren't as vanishingly small, and the number of instances is growing larger...
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*SIGH*. The demand for conformity continues to eternally aggravate me.
Bank: Give us your cell phone number.
NobodysHome: I don't have one.
Bank: We won't accept your application without one.
NobodysHome: Fine. Here's a number.
NobodysHome picks up his cell phone and finds a voicemail. "Oh, I've been trying to reach you, but you never pick up your phone!"
Not everyone in the world has a cell phone. The fact that banks cannot proceed with loans any more without a cell phone number from you is... disquieting. (I suppose I *could* have gone in in person and found out, but what with COVID and having a life and all, I figure they want my money so they'll call back.)
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An unproductive day leads to doing a bit of work at night. FML.
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Been there before.
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really if very small quantum particles have a degree of random probability that randomness would only add up more and more the more macro you get. This would explain the dream I had about walking on the moon.
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really if very small quantum particles have a degree of random probability that randomness would only add up more and more the more macro you get. This would explain the dream I had about walking on the moon.
Or you're a member of the Umbrella Academy and had your memory wiped by the one that hears all the g&#@#$n rumors.
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really if very small quantum particles have a degree of random probability that randomness would only add up more and more the more macro you get. This would explain the dream I had about walking on the moon.Or you're a member of the Umbrella Academy and had your memory wiped by the one that hears all the g$+&!+n rumors.
Possible... but I don't have a gorilla torso soo questionable.