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- Thu Jan 25, 2018 1:39 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Trump's Greatest Quotes
- Replies: 142
- Views: 28718
Re: Trump's Greatest Quotes
What happened to this thread? covfefe so it's possible in principle for the informational aspect of pain to be conserved while eliminating the subjective aspects. I agree this works for the examples you mention, but not for others - like avoiding an accident. Your brain can't cause you to jerk away...
- Wed Jan 24, 2018 8:19 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: I'm getting spammed by bizarre messages from a stranger
- Replies: 34
- Views: 9736
Re: I'm getting spammed by bizarre messages from a stranger
lol yeah you don't want to see that. she included close-up photos of the toilet bowl, and along the way I stopped looking. wtf is wrong with this person. I've reported her to Gmail (for violating their terms of service), the Hawaiian police (so someone can check in on her and find her a much-needed ...
- Wed Jan 24, 2018 7:47 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Trump's Greatest Quotes
- Replies: 142
- Views: 28718
Re: Trump's Greatest Quotes
This is because hedonic adaptation is a specific thing physical parts of the brain do which electrical stimulation of that sort can override. Oh, ok. That's interesting. Usually suffering just happens for no reason and for no benefit. I agree, hence not talking about specific instances of suffering...
- Wed Jan 24, 2018 4:16 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: I'm getting spammed by bizarre messages from a stranger
- Replies: 34
- Views: 9736
Re: I'm getting spammed by bizarre messages from a stranger
oh man she just spammed me with extremely obscene photos of her butt and naked body slathered in shit. :( :( :( :( :(
it's nauseating and now I want to completely destroy her.
it's nauseating and now I want to completely destroy her.
- Wed Jan 24, 2018 2:46 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Trump's Greatest Quotes
- Replies: 142
- Views: 28718
Re: Trump's Greatest Quotes
The pleasure a person gets from a drink after days of thirst is qualitatively more than one would get otherwise I doubt it's just qualitative, since it possibly results in a greater release of endorphins and other happy chemicals that can be quantitatively measured. There's also how certain things ...
- Tue Jan 23, 2018 4:10 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Aziz Ansari
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2130
Aziz Ansari
I noticed there wasn't a thread yet. [none] on one hand I completely empathise with the woman's account and found it horrific. I think most people (straight cis men especially) are woefully underestimating how difficult it can be to say no, especially if the other person is stronger and/or more powe...
- Tue Jan 23, 2018 3:06 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Trump's Greatest Quotes
- Replies: 142
- Views: 28718
Re: Trump's Greatest Quotes
I agree, though as a philosophy itself it's very depressing. I find that the way it (or David Benatar) defines suffering and pleasure is too simplistic and mathematical, and doesn't account for things like how suffering can sometimes amplify pleasure or create it where previously there was none - e....
- Mon Jan 22, 2018 6:22 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Trump's Greatest Quotes
- Replies: 142
- Views: 28718
Re: Trump's Greatest Quotes
I went to r/antinatalism and believe that its existence is contributing to the net suffering of the world. Just a few minutes on there and the depression is creeping back in along with the existential dread I try very hard to get rid of. Are antinatalists depressed because of antinatalism, or are th...
- Wed Jan 17, 2018 2:33 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Cockroach milk
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4100
Re: Cockroach milk
tbh my one reservation about lab-grown meats is that it's almost inevitable that some lab, somewhere, is going to start producing human meat and that gives me a lot of existential horror at how we are all food, everybody is potential food, everything alive on this planet is food
- Wed Jan 17, 2018 2:03 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: why do people do this
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5000
Re: why do people do this
Those aren't liberals though; those sort of people usually hate liberals, but they're often conflated with liberals anyway, so your statement was true in that sense.
- Sun Jan 14, 2018 3:10 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: We're having a cold spell here!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2815
Re: We're having a cold spell here!
This was an educational thread on why it's been feeling colder than it should, some of which I figured was the case: https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/7qa468/the_reason_why_it_feels_so_cold_even_if_its_just/?st=JCEH7USW&sh=069066cd - we are a very windy country, so there's a lot of win...
- Sat Jan 13, 2018 4:53 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: mjeyds meaning was revealed
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1334
mjeyds meaning was revealed
From the programmer's blog: (spoiler tags in case you'd rather keep the mystery intact) 'Mjeyds'. On the imdb board bbcode syntax, there's a particular smiley that you markup using this bizarre word. People occasionally ask what the term means, and I've always enjoyed the mystery, being one of very ...
- Sat Jan 13, 2018 4:40 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: We're having a cold spell here!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2815
Re: We're having a cold spell here!
D: On the flip side, I was chilling with another Singaporean friend in NYC during a heatwave and the news was going on about how people were being hospitalised for heatstrokes. We thought it was nice cool weather and didn't get the fuss. Just looked this up in Wikipedia and found a study summarised ...
- Sat Jan 13, 2018 4:34 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Cockroach milk
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4100
- Fri Jan 12, 2018 3:13 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: We're having a cold spell here!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2815
We're having a cold spell here!
Temperatures have dipped to about 22-24C (72-75F) over the past few days, occasionally as low as 21, which is practically freezing. Naturally, people have been breaking out their winter clothes, scarves and all. Volunteers have been going out to distribute blankets to homeless people. Restaurants ar...
- Fri Jan 12, 2018 3:09 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Cockroach milk
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4100
Re: Cockroach milk
I prefer what these people are doing: http://www.perfectdayfoods.com/ - it's actual cow's milk, but produced in a lab without the cows. Other startups have been working on culturing leather and other animal products, so it's a fascinating field that will hopefully one day help to meet demand and pos...
- Fri Jan 12, 2018 2:46 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: I'm getting spammed by bizarre messages from a stranger
- Replies: 34
- Views: 9736
Re: I'm getting spammed by bizarre messages from a stranger
oh no you didn't. [none] From what I gather, it's possible that he knows someone in her family - which is entirely possible, since he has a huge extended family in Hawaii and she lives in Hawaii. She mentioning him coming by her house when she was 5, and a couple more times when she was older. But t...
- Fri Jan 12, 2018 8:07 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: I'm getting spammed by bizarre messages from a stranger
- Replies: 34
- Views: 9736
Re: I'm getting spammed by bizarre messages from a stranger
So this is becoming far bigger than I would have thought. After a tearful rant she sent an email with her personal information and passwords, saying that it's mine and she did all this for me and she loves me etc. So, naturally, I went into her email account, since she was practically telling me to ...
- Thu Jan 11, 2018 8:34 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: why do people do this
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5000
Re: why do people do this
idk, I haven't been keeping up with her. What's Oprah been up to lately, other than starting wars and global warming?
- Thu Jan 11, 2018 2:06 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: why do people do this
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5000
why do people do this
So this happened on my facebook feed: - a friend who's a woman of colour made an excited post about Oprah's Golden Globes speech and how it's so good to hear strong black female voices in the media - random dude: "Oprah may be a woman, but she is not a spokesperson for women. She is an elite ne...
- Thu Jan 11, 2018 1:21 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Cockroach milk
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4100
Re: Cockroach milk
...ok, that's weirder than cockroach milk.
- Wed Jan 10, 2018 2:03 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Cockroach milk
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4100
- Mon Jan 08, 2018 3:17 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Trump's Greatest Quotes
- Replies: 142
- Views: 28718
- Sat Jan 06, 2018 4:43 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: I'm getting spammed by bizarre messages from a stranger
- Replies: 34
- Views: 9736
Re: I'm getting spammed by bizarre messages from a stranger
I've contacted Hawaiian social services with screenshots. Hopefully this will brighten their day.
- Sat Jan 06, 2018 2:21 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: I'm getting spammed by bizarre messages from a stranger
- Replies: 34
- Views: 9736
Re: I'm getting spammed by bizarre messages from a stranger
Oh man, after I blocked her she signed up at my website and now I'm bracing myself for more spam. I could delete her account, but she could just make another one. I'm starting to think she has multiple personality disorder, because I found more threads of her talking to herself under different names...
- Fri Jan 05, 2018 6:40 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: I'm getting spammed by bizarre messages from a stranger
- Replies: 34
- Views: 9736
Re: I'm getting spammed by bizarre messages from a stranger
No need to be sorry. :P It's provided a lot of entertainment in my workday. From what I gather (gmail sends blocked messages to spam), she's now triumphantly convinced that we're all Keanu and trying to deceive her with multiple email addresses and fake names, but she's got us now. On the one hand I...
- Fri Jan 05, 2018 3:40 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: I'm getting spammed by bizarre messages from a stranger
- Replies: 34
- Views: 9736
Re: I'm getting spammed by bizarre messages from a stranger
gah she sent: "You lazy, slant eyed, gay for cock fucks. Try moderating your own boards. Figures that reeves would have a bunch of cock hungry ass jockeys working for him." and I was about to block her just for that, because I did nothing to deserve this from a complete stranger I've never...
- Fri Jan 05, 2018 2:36 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: I'm getting spammed by bizarre messages from a stranger
- Replies: 34
- Views: 9736
Re: I'm getting spammed by bizarre messages from a stranger
She's definitely not phishing. I don't think she has the presence of mind to do that. Her thought processes are all over the place in a way that might be impossible to fake, and it's perversely fascinating.
If she spams me again tomorrow I'll block her.
If she spams me again tomorrow I'll block her.
- Fri Jan 05, 2018 2:13 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: I'm getting spammed by bizarre messages from a stranger
- Replies: 34
- Views: 9736
I'm getting spammed by bizarre messages from a stranger
Started with this email conversation between her and someone named Jeff, which she forwarded to me along with a bunch of other people who are not Jeff: http://i68.tinypic.com/a2ywxk.jpg and this, left in my website's guestbook: http://i63.tinypic.com/dhe0y8.jpg I told her I wasn't Jeff. http://i65.t...
- Mon Jan 01, 2018 3:22 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Happy New Year!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2578
Re: Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
- Wed Dec 27, 2017 1:27 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Merry Christmas, Pitters.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3552
Re: Merry Christmas, Pitters.
I thought so, but yesterday I encountered an atheist on Twitter who was furiously ranting about how people no longer wished her Merry Christmas or implied that she didn't/shouldn't celebrate it, so I don't even know any more.Happy Holidays. (That's what we're meant to say isn't it?)...
- Tue Dec 26, 2017 10:28 am
- Forum: Gaming
- Topic: Idle games
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4130
Re: Idle games
I just did my first reset with 137 kittens after 574 years. I was playing a lot more actively, though, and it's ruining my life. :P (If you haven't already, you can refresh the game to get a present box! It adds 10% happiness and carries over across resets. You can open it sometime around January, t...
- Tue Dec 26, 2017 1:56 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Yeerks are real
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3953
Re: Yeerks are real
I like the comments on that article.
Everworld was great. There was also the Remnants series by K.A. Applegate, which was darker than the other two.
Everworld was great. There was also the Remnants series by K.A. Applegate, which was darker than the other two.
- Tue Dec 26, 2017 1:33 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Merry Christmas, Pitters.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3552
Re: Merry Christmas, Pitters.
Merry Christmas!
- Thu Dec 21, 2017 3:32 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: what's the consensus on Joseph Mercola
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3368
Re: what's the consensus on Joseph Mercola
haha thanks. My initial response was to dismiss him, but he has a fairly high reputation in the natural health sphere, and my dad seems to read his site a lot - and he's far from dumb; he's got a masters degree and everything (though not in medicine). So I wasn't sure if he knew something I didn't (...
- Wed Dec 20, 2017 3:11 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: what's the consensus on Joseph Mercola
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3368
what's the consensus on Joseph Mercola
my parents keep sending me articles from there warning of the dangers of wi-fi and suchlike. I googled and apparently he's been subject to criticism from medical authorities and the FDA, which my dad says is only to be expected because his studies will potentially cause harm to big pharma and other ...
- Wed Dec 20, 2017 1:27 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: The Last Jedi (probably spoilers)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5834
Re: The Last Jedi (probably spoilers)
I liked it a lot. Definitely more than Rogue One, which I never quite got the hype for. and I love the porg collective.
I see what you did there.Feeling lukewarm
- Fri Dec 15, 2017 8:34 am
- Forum: Gaming
- Topic: Idle games
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4130
Re: Idle games
844 years? D:
That's slightly terrifying. I've only been at it for 230.
(You can click on the 'Stats' tab to see how many hours you've played. I'm at 51 now.)
That's slightly terrifying. I've only been at it for 230.
(You can click on the 'Stats' tab to see how many hours you've played. I'm at 51 now.)
- Wed Dec 13, 2017 5:06 am
- Forum: Gaming
- Topic: Idle games
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4130
Re: Idle games
I've now been playing the kittens game for 30 hours.
I don't even know what I'm doing with my life. Though it's a good game to have running in the background when doing menial tasks at work.
I don't even know what I'm doing with my life. Though it's a good game to have running in the background when doing menial tasks at work.
- Wed Dec 13, 2017 1:48 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Stuff like this makes me just want to give up.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4315
Re: Stuff like this makes me just want to give up.
i clicked on a link from there, and wtf. "As far as some of the more politically sensitive sections of the American ruling class are concerned, the current sexual misconduct scandals have two principal benefits. First, the purge of prominent figures in Hollywood, Washington and elsewhere on the...
- Mon Dec 11, 2017 1:36 am
- Forum: Gaming
- Topic: A Dark Room
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4204
Re: A Dark Room
This darn kitten game though. I feel like it might be too slow. It has a reset/prestige system, but after 2.5 days I'm still not far enough to use it to good effect. It has a lot going on though; and I still keep unlocking new modules. A few things are a little unclear as to how they work, and the ...
- Fri Dec 08, 2017 5:51 am
- Forum: Gaming
- Topic: A Dark Room
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4204
Re: A Dark Room
It's sulfur + steel to craft bullets.
The game also lets you make spears from teeth.
The game also lets you make spears from teeth.
- Thu Dec 07, 2017 5:43 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: John Oliver
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1146
Re: John Oliver
The thread title needs to be more descriptive. For a moment I thought he'd been accused of something.
- Wed Dec 06, 2017 1:22 am
- Forum: Gaming
- Topic: A Dark Room
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4204
Re: A Dark Room
Haha yeah, same here. I ended it too quick.
Sulfur lets you make bullets!
Sulfur lets you make bullets!
- Tue Dec 05, 2017 3:50 am
- Forum: Gaming
- Topic: Idle games
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4130
Re: Idle games
There's also the kittens game: http://bloodrizer.ru/games/kittens/
- Tue Dec 05, 2017 3:42 am
- Forum: Gaming
- Topic: A Dark Room
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4204
Re: A Dark Room
I'd heard about it before but never got down to playing it until this week. :D How many hours does it take to finish? I'm not sure - I think I took maybe 5 hours or so. It could be a lot shorter or a lot longer depending on how fast you reach certain objectives and which random events occur. Looks l...
- Mon Dec 04, 2017 7:42 am
- Forum: Gaming
- Topic: A Dark Room
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4204
A Dark Room
it's awesome go play it
http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/
best played without any spoilers. I finished it in a couple days, which was faster than expected.
http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/
best played without any spoilers. I finished it in a couple days, which was faster than expected.
- Mon Dec 04, 2017 7:38 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Tweet of the week
- Replies: 96
- Views: 45583
Re: Tweet of the week
lol
also when I saw his name my first thought was "isn't he a TERF"
also when I saw his name my first thought was "isn't he a TERF"
- Mon Dec 04, 2017 7:34 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: AELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2596
Re: AELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy birthday, aels!!
- Mon Dec 04, 2017 7:33 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Because I just had to be THAT guy at Disney
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2581
Re: Because I just had to be THAT guy at Disney
D:
...pics or it didn't happen
...pics or it didn't happen