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That's the gift that just keeps on giving...
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There is no problem of induction. The light from distant stars took millions if not billions of years to get here. From that it would appear that the laws of the universe are either constant or relatively steady across time and space once the universe is more or less established. You can thus reasonably conclude, not know but conclude, some sort of momentum to the rules of the universe.
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But I don’t HAVE to have momentum, right? I can just, like, hang here on the couch? It’s a really comfy couch and I’m pretty settled in...
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I have probably achieved the greatest level possible for conservation of motion. I'm pretty sure I have dust bunnies growing around me now.
A dog is essentially a wolf that lives in perpetual puppyhood. Its why their ears are all floppy, they're not nearly as aggressive, their faces are rounded and most of the males are neutered.
Imagine an alien showing up with a pet human who's body language is completely off, no hair, purple and pink blotches on their skin, and the head of a toddler and no well..... You'd be a little bit worried about what kind of weirdo had invaded and what they were goint to do to you next.
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A dog is essentially a wolf that lives in perpetual puppyhood. Its why their ears are all floppy, they're not nearly as aggressive, their faces are rounded and most of the males are neutered.
Imagine an alien showing up with a pet human who's body language is completely off, no hair, purple and pink blotches on their skin, and the head of a toddler and no well..... You'd be a little bit worried about what kind of weirdo had invaded and what they were goint to do to you next.
Similar phenomenon in modern humans though we kind of domesticated/neotenized ourselves.
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Similar phenomenon in modern humans though we kind of domesticated/neotenized ourselves.A dog is essentially a wolf that lives in perpetual puppyhood. Its why their ears are all floppy, they're not nearly as aggressive, their faces are rounded and most of the males are neutered.
Imagine an alien showing up with a pet human who's body language is completely off, no hair, purple and pink blotches on their skin, and the head of a toddler and no well..... You'd be a little bit worried about what kind of weirdo had invaded and what they were goint to do to you next.
That's the theme of Aldous Huxley's After Many A Summer.
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Similar phenomenon in modern humans though we kind of domesticated/neotenized ourselves.A dog is essentially a wolf that lives in perpetual puppyhood. Its why their ears are all floppy, they're not nearly as aggressive, their faces are rounded and most of the males are neutered.
Imagine an alien showing up with a pet human who's body language is completely off, no hair, purple and pink blotches on their skin, and the head of a toddler and no well..... You'd be a little bit worried about what kind of weirdo had invaded and what they were goint to do to you next.
That's the theme of Aldous Huxley's After Many A Summer.
** spoiler omitted **
Not sure if it was intentional or not, but since some of the other apes are better behaved than we are, I think whatever that formulae did was in those people all along.
Chimps on the other hand....
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Not sure if it was intentional or not, but since some of the other apes are better behaved than we are, I think whatever that formulae did was in those people all along.
Chimps on the other hand....
{thumps crowbar in palm, glares}
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Looks like I'm gonna hafta get wolf beard on my punching parts...
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Evidence for my hypothesis begins to accrue at an alarming rate .. just count the concussions...
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Similar phenomenon in modern humans though we kind of domesticated/neotenized ourselves.A dog is essentially a wolf that lives in perpetual puppyhood. Its why their ears are all floppy, they're not nearly as aggressive, their faces are rounded and most of the males are neutered.
Imagine an alien showing up with a pet human who's body language is completely off, no hair, purple and pink blotches on their skin, and the head of a toddler and no well..... You'd be a little bit worried about what kind of weirdo had invaded and what they were goint to do to you next.
That's the theme of Aldous Huxley's After Many A Summer.
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Not sure if it was intentional or not, but since some of the other apes are better behaved than we are, I think whatever that formulae did was in those people all along.
Chimps on the other hand....
Just give them each an ARP Jupiter and behold! Sentience and civilisation!
Worked for us.
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Evidence for my hypothesis begins to accrue at an alarming rate .. just count the concussions...♫♩ "It's a hard-knock life forusyou..." ♫♩
Ooo FETCH!!!!
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When my daughter is grounded from All Fun, Including Books (usually because her bedroom looks like a Superfund Site and/or she's not keeping up with her math homework), she still needs to take a book to school for silent reading.
So from now on, when she's grounded, she gets the Silmarillion.
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O well. It could have been the Wheel Of Time, I suppose.
Strict parenting!
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O well. It could have been the Wheel Of Time, I suppose.
::Shudder::
There's a difference between penance and punishment.
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O well. It could have been the Wheel Of Time, I suppose.::Shudder::
There's a difference between penance and punishment.
“Go to your room! And don’t come down till Rand al Thor stops whining!”
*dialing*
“Hello? CPS? I’ve got a Code Jordan.”
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O well. It could have been the Wheel Of Time, I suppose.::Shudder::
There's a difference between penance and punishment.
“Go to your room! And don’t come down till Rand al Thor stops whining!”
*dialing*
“Hello? CPS? I’ve got a Code Jordan.”
quibblemuch gets cookies.
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Yes... good... good... and now that I *have* cookies, perhaps there's someone who wants cookies? Wants them badly enough to trade a little trifle like their immortal soul?
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Yes... good... good... and now that I *have* cookies, perhaps there's someone who wants cookies? Wants them badly enough to trade a little trifle like their immortal soul?
I need to know what sort of cookies they are...
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The duality of man is caused by the competing forces of kin selection and individual selection.
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Yes... good... good... and now that I *have* cookies, perhaps there's someone who wants cookies? Wants them badly enough to trade a little trifle like their immortal soul?I need to know what sort of cookies they are...
Thin Mints (he said, confirming a long-rumored connection between the Dark Powers Below and a certain paramilitary badge-happy organization).
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Yes... good... good... and now that I *have* cookies, perhaps there's someone who wants cookies? Wants them badly enough to trade a little trifle like their immortal soul?
Counterpoint: If you already have cookies, you could make them into a trifle. And then, being evil, simply choose not to share as you eat all the cookie trifle.
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Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
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Yes... good... good... and now that I *have* cookies, perhaps there's someone who wants cookies? Wants them badly enough to trade a little trifle like their immortal soul?
Maybe, if I can have cookies and Nicki Minaj... and a Mutron Biphase... though even if not, I do think I'd have the better side of the deal, TBH...
Yes... good... good... and now that I *have* cookies, perhaps there's someone who wants cookies? Wants them badly enough to trade a little trifle like their immortal soul?Maybe, if I can have cookies and Nicki Minaj... and a Mutron Biphase... though even if not, I do think I'd have the better side of the deal, TBH...
Nicki Minaj? Is she part of this now? Did I miss something somewhere?
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I feel like any wish granted to me that gains me Nicki Minaj is probably just her being cursed.
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DAMN YOU MONKEY PAW!
Nicki Minaj? Is she part of this now? Did I miss something somewhere?Yes... good... good... and now that I *have* cookies, perhaps there's someone who wants cookies? Wants them badly enough to trade a little trifle like their immortal soul?Maybe, if I can have cookies and Nicki Minaj... and a Mutron Biphase... though even if not, I do think I'd have the better side of the deal, TBH...
Feh. Kids today with their music and their pants...
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O well. It could have been the Wheel Of Time, I suppose.::Shudder::
There's a difference between penance and punishment.
“Go to your room! And don’t come down till Rand al Thor stops whining!”
*dialing*
“Hello? CPS? I’ve got a Code Jordan.”
Could be worse. Could be till Mat understands women.
(thats a multiple life via reincarnation sentence)
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Yes... good... good... and now that I *have* cookies, perhaps there's someone who wants cookies? Wants them badly enough to trade a little trifle like their immortal soul?I need to know what sort of cookies they are...
My specialty is dried cherry and chocolate chip oatmeal, with toasted almonds. If you don't like oatmeal in a cookie, you're just wrong.
I also make a good Mexican Wedding cookie.
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Yes... good... good... and now that I *have* cookies, perhaps there's someone who wants cookies? Wants them badly enough to trade a little trifle like their immortal soul?I need to know what sort of cookies they are...My specialty is dried cherry and chocolate chip oatmeal, with toasted almonds. If you don't like oatmeal in a cookie, you're just wrong.
I also make a good Mexican Wedding cookie.
Welp, that clinches it. I'm off to find Quibblemodeus.
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If you've ever wondered why its always a chainsaw carved bear....
With a log the grain of the wood is running up and down. Take an ax, cut against the grain of a log, and you could need 10 chops to get through. Put the same log on its end and split it, one maybe 2 hits and it comes right apart. That difference creates a very weak point in the wood if you want to carve out... say for a creatures snout.
Bears, having a very short snout, dont have to poke out much. A fox, a wolf, or heavens forbid, a toucan, have a giant weakness ready to snap off.
I have a pine walking stick with a dragon i carved on it that's recently lost its snoot. Going to take a stick and plunk it in there, giving him a nose job.
Are we allowed to say "nose job" or am I thinking of something completely different here..? hmm.
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Are we allowed to say "nose job" or am I thinking of something completely different here..? hmm.
Ninja’d!
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Had Chips Ahoy "red velvet" cookies this weekend. I dont even want to know whats in them, but they were stupid good. Vanished almost as fast as they were opened.
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We drive on a parkway and park on a driveway because if you parked on the parkway you'd be rear ended by a car doing 65 and if you drove on your driveway you'd hit your house.
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A coffee maker is one of the few pieces of equipment that must be designed to be operable before you've had coffee.
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A coffee maker is one of the few pieces of equipment that must be designed to be operable before you've had coffee.
It's a reverse captcha. If you are alert enough to solve a basic puzzle, the machine knows you don't need any more caffeine.
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A coffee maker is one of the few pieces of equipment that must be designed to be operable before you've had coffee.
I have put coffee grounds and water into my french press when the glass beaker was still sitting in the dish drainer, and the grounds and water went through the metal frame and all over the counter top.
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I sit in confused wonder at coffee drinkers. I have a hard time grasping the (admittedly humorously exaggerated) hard times they have when starting the day without their dark-roasted masters. I've never been a fan of coffee so it's almost a foreign concept to me. I can't imagine having a caffeine monkey that big on one's back every morning. So I just sit and read of their coffee-less mishaps drinking Mtn. Dew straight from the two-liter bottle and laugh at their antics. (smiles and sighs at the satisfying hiss of cracking the lid on a fresh bottle).
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Soft drinks-wise, I drink black tea (during the day) or herbal tea (during the evening) more or less exclusively. I only drink pop when I have a hangover.
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Soft drinks-wise, I drink black tea (during the day) or herbal tea (during the evening) more or less exclusively. I only drink pop when I have a hangover.
Okay, that's interesting.
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Soft drinks-wise, I drink black tea (during the day) or herbal tea (during the evening) more or less exclusively. I only drink pop when I have a hangover.Okay, that's interesting.
I had no idea that anyone outside of the Midwest used the word "pop".
Agreed. Only time I hear it outside the Midwest is from people who moved out of the Midwest.
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A coffee maker is one of the few pieces of equipment that must be designed to be operable before you've had coffee.It's a reverse captcha. If you are alert enough to solve a basic puzzle, the machine knows you don't need any more caffeine.
I'm slowly incubating a conspiracy theory that CAPTCHA is going to be used in the future by our lurking AI machine overlords. Everyone who insists they are NOT a robot will be targeted...
Soft drinks-wise, I drink black tea (during the day) or herbal tea (during the evening) more or less exclusively. I only drink pop when I have a hangover.
Yesssss..."pop" Are you really who you say you are? I'm very suspicious suddenly.
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Soft drinks-wise, I drink black tea (during the day) or herbal tea (during the evening) more or less exclusively. I only drink pop when I have a hangover.Yesssss..."pop" Are you really who you say you are? I'm very suspicious suddenly.
My favorite is when people use a brand name to refer to the entire generic category.
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My favorite is when people use a brand name to refer to the entire generic category.Soft drinks-wise, I drink black tea (during the day) or herbal tea (during the evening) more or less exclusively. I only drink pop when I have a hangover.Yesssss..."pop" Are you really who you say you are? I'm very suspicious suddenly.
Fun fact (that is actually fun AND a fact, not my usual barrage of lies):
The medieval French word for fox was "goupil." There was a famous character in folk tales, later in many illuminated manuscripts. He was a fox (goupil) whose NAME was Reynard. He was so popular that the word for fox in French became "reynard".
It's the earliest example I know of of the Xerox Phenomenon.