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If Thor had a hammer;
He'd hammer in the morning,
He'd hammer in the evening,
All over Vahalla.
He'd hammer out danger
He'd hammer out a warning
He''d hammer out love between
My gods and my goddesses, ah-ah
All over Valhalla

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jozwa wrote:
phlip wrote:
kypzethdurron wrote:Underwear is not an advertising trope I've personally come across

I've listened to at least two different podcasts that were sponsored by MeUndies

Wow.. and here I thought the OP was referring to the mind-numbing repetition of the UnderwearTroll 4-point business plan.

cellocgw

Here in Randall's neck of the woods, we're all supposed to use the Big Magic Machine at Jordan's to get our official Sleep Number evaluation. (And then get sales pressure to spend upwards of $2k US on a mattress). Then there's the "memory foam, now with diamond dust for thermal management"...

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somitomi wrote:
Quizatzhaderac wrote:Absolutely, four magic beans are useful, the fifth just leaves you in a sate of "has bean".
Old saying wrote:Four magic beans in a row:

One for the roc,
one for the anti-crow,
one to wither,
one to super-grow.

...and one for the road

I think you meant to write

... Burma-Shave

cellocgw

Too soon to reference "Feeling of Power," by Asimov?

cellocgw

Showing timezones in a graph and not labeling the time axis in UTC? That's a paddlin' "Consensus" means all, or nearly all. It means that everyone "consents," even if they have minor quibbles. So a "Consensus New Year" would happen as soon as the last time zone passes ...

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This my first solid, genuine GOOMHR moment. I have a very detailed numbers path in my mind that probably started when I first learned 1 thru 10. Then my curve takes a hard left from 11 thru 20, and then straight upwards to 100. And lots more strange but consistent bends. On top of that, at times I j...

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Gotta be a stupid joke about an online video game, or a Jessica Chastain movie in there somewhere.

If I had the time, I'd mod the original art so deep in that sequence, one of the "Eve"s is replaced with a "Lilith" .

cellocgw

So if the Schwarzchild's cat just fades from view, how do you tell it from a Cheshire's cat?

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He left out the phase where the rocket is at risk of being eaten by a ginormous shark

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But I have the impression that mnemonic rhymes are more prevalent in the US. It might be more the Anglosphere, That benefits from this trick, here. Our language has such language roots, It from the world of words recruits. You need to rhyme the digit "Four", And have matched endings all g...

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angelus911 wrote:According to Wikipedia, the Crete earthquake was July 21, 365. Is he using another source?

Probably a matter of calendar: Julian vs. Gregorian [vs. Ionian vs. MixoLydian ...]

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"Then", said Glorfindel, "let us cast it into the deeps, and so make the lies of Saruman come true. For it is clear now that even at the Council his feet were already on a crooked path. He knew that the Ring was not lost for ever, but wished us to think so; for he began to lust for i...

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They should lose their internet privileges! And remove the vowels from their keyboards so we can tell who they are if they sneak back on!! Wht gd wld tht d? Nt mch. 'm mzd b wht psss fr spllng. Kds ths ds. D . knw f th lttr "" nl dspprs whn t s bng sd s . vwl lxclly? 'Cs tht wld b sm prtt...

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In related news, the funeral home industry is headed to crisis, as studies reveal millennials have funerals at a much lower rate than previous generations. Funeral homes are in trouble anyway. They have no repeat business like barber shops. Dunno about that - how many times have Freddie K and Kenny...

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Fortunately, here in Massachusetts, Millenials (and Baby Boomers) can easily get joint replacements legally, now. Initial news reports suggest millenials are purchasing them in quantity.

(4:20)

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For some odd reason [cough] myusername {/cough] when anyone mentions Popper I expect them to be talking about this guy

His publications are subject to interpretation, too.

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First shake his hand. That way, you can at least make sure...

that it isn't a heist by a geist.

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rmsgrey wrote:
xtifr wrote:if anyone can push the technology to the point where space manufacturing becomes economically feasible, China can

And the first major industrial accident in orbit is liable to trigger Kessler Kessel (Run) syndrome...

FTFY

cellocgw

How many bitcoins per kg?

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Collecting as many stupid /. memes as possible...

Put a laser^H^H^H^H^H camera on a frickin' shark and viola![sic] Sharknado

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Ummm,... folks... dunno how to break it to you, but us Big Mean Countries have at our disposal wicked big, high-flying drones (Raptor) which can pretty much do the same thing Hurricane aircraft do.

Not all drones are cute little [malevolent, spying, noisy, destructive] contraptions.

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I've seen some bad posts *on Facebook, and I've since put the account in hibernation. Unfortunately, I won't be able to tell which one of my friends are truly awful anymore. *Bad crime stories that creates sympathy for cops, Trump memes, etc etc. You left out vaginal rocks, drinking urine, essentia...

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Why is there discussion of gerrymandering in this thread? Did I miss a layer of the comic? cellocgw posted in the wrong thread? Clearly, any strangely-shaped districts in Super Smash Brothers should be considered charmandering. I was obsessing with the fact that Randall put, presumably as an obitua...

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Archgeek wrote:Because I can't help myself:

"Lot's wife -- brings the salt!"

... brings the Salt FTFY

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It occurs to me that there's unending, and valid, fights over Gerrymandering the House Districts, but nobody even notices how absurdly Gerrymandered the Senate "districts" are. Stat found at CNN, but not created by CNN: Each California senator represents nearly 19.8 million people, over 68...

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I rarely watch E.N. video coverage. What is this needle thing they're referring to?

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https://xkcd.com/2067/asset/imgs/polls.png This reminds me of something in Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari, where he talks about "level two chaotic systems". These are ones that respond to attempts to predict them. It doesn't appear to be a rigorously defined term within Chaos theory, but cl...

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LtPowers wrote:
orthogon wrote:
da Doctah wrote:How do you zoom with a mouse?

One word: Scroll wheel.

That's two words.

Not in German: scrollrad
Not in Estonian: kerimisratast
Finnish: vierityspyörä
Khmer: កង់រមូរ (I can't tell if that's a single word...)
Somali: gawaarida

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Title text: ... Which raises a question:...

Thrilled to notice that Randall did not misuse "begs the question" there. I'll be happy all day.

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I assume you have to register your car with the DMV and your county voter registrar. If you skip the DMV, the car will have tobe transported to the polling place. Not all polling places have disabled car parking. Parsing fun: So, not all polling places have reserved locations for disabled cars, or ...

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Mother? Is that you?

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Pronounced properly, it sounds to this Beavis&Butthead accolyte like "Carnal Cycle"

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And there's the ongoing organ performance of a certain John Cage piece. The composer marked the score "As Slowly as Possible"

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sociotard wrote:My I interest you in this book of poetry in Iambic Pentameter?

well, ... not really

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https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/hygrometer.png Title Text: "I'm working on assembling a combination declinometer, sclerometer, viscometer, aleurometer, stalagmometer, and hypsometer. I'm making good progress according to my ometerometer, a device which shows the rate at which I&am...

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It's intuitively obvious (and therefore almost certainly incorrect!) that the set of possible events has a larger cardinality than the reals * . In a finite universe, with finite total energy, and finite granularity, the total number of ways of distributing that energy in the form of a finite numbe...

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It occurs to me that one way to use Bayesian stats incorrectly is to set P(C) = 42 . You'll get some spectacular results. Near-infinite improbability or something.

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rhhardin wrote:The thing can't be right because the P(C) ought to be applied only the first time. It's not independent from iteration to iteration. The metastatistic can't be buried in the statistic.

What? You're saying we can't learn from our mistakes?

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Flumble wrote:
anonymouscat wrote:Somehow I'm disappointed there's no internal monologue for Mathematics...

They're too abstract to put into words.

Actually,

, this is just another manifestation of Godel's Incompleteness Theorem.

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