Cancer Posted November 7, 2021 Report Share Posted November 7, 2021 Other stuff was going on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 10, 2021 Report Share Posted November 10, 2021 Science has evolved to a form of magical mysticism. It’s funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 11, 2021 Report Share Posted November 11, 2021 You can find things put in the science categories that meet that description, but you're guilty of overgeneralization to make the global assertion above. Other times I have heard statements like that made, the imputation of mysticism is actually a complaint by the speaker about not being able to understand what they read or heard; that often is the result of too little context for a particular claim or result being provided in a lot of science items. A lot of the time that is the fault of the reporting (or editing of the reporting). IMO a lot of the time so much important background information is cut out by publishers pandering to the mathophobes (or who are themselves mathophobes) that what's left is, well, something that reads like magical mystical crap. There is also something of a privileged channel for way-out-there cosmological and fundamental physics theories to get into popular-level media. I get really tired of that stuff, because a lot of that I categorize as garbage that current measurements cannot presently rule out. Supposedly Einstein said that a theoretician's most important tool was his wastebasket. Unfortunately, there seems to be some confusion between "popular-level press intake hopper" and "wastebasket" these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 11, 2021 Report Share Posted November 11, 2021 Basically, science has a special vocabulary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted November 11, 2021 Report Share Posted November 11, 2021 What if centipedes wore flip-flops? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 11, 2021 Report Share Posted November 11, 2021 12 hours ago, Bazza said: Basically, science has a special vocabulary. Every discipline has specialized vocabulary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 11, 2021 Report Share Posted November 11, 2021 To be sure. However it is the way science has used its, and is attached to it, that is just as important to my post above. It is the way certain phrases or words are invoked/evoked, or conjured. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted November 15, 2021 Report Share Posted November 15, 2021 What the hell did they think would happen? Did they think looking at pictures of other people being happy would get depressed people reconsider suicide? Or just go somewhere else to do it? Logan D. Hurricanes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted November 16, 2021 Report Share Posted November 16, 2021 Villainous and Lords of Waterdeep. Excellent ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted November 25, 2021 Report Share Posted November 25, 2021 It occurred to me at Job #2 last Saturday that I have completely stopped explaining things to women. Even if directly asked "and how do I do X," I fake complete ignorance, sometimes going so far as to pull the instructions from some of the products involved and read them verbatim-- again, without explanation of any likely-unfamiliar terms. I don't know when this started, exactly, but I do know why. I browse too many humor sites; too many opinion sites, perhaps. But the "somebody just tried to mansplain a thing to me" has gotten absolutely asinine: "my car is stuck in a ditch and this dude straight-up tryna mansplain how to get it out" and other such nonsense. It occurred to me that I had stopped when a woman came in looking for a way to adapt an outdoor gas burner to her home plumbing and bypass the regulator (it's that time of the year in the south: one good frost, and everyone wants to start building bombs. It kind of works: they will stay warm for the rest of their lives). As a general habit, I tell them that I will not help them do it, and then explain why I will not help them do it, furthered with the promise that I am not going to sell them any parts for hooking up gas lines of any kind, and explain that because of weird laws in this state, you can blow yourself straight to the gates of hell and sue the people who sold you the parts. Go figure. I have stopped doing even that if the customer is a woman. I just feign ignorance and wish them luck (though I do make a point to tell them that we don't have any kind of parts that would do that. No explaining; just "we ain't got none." I don't want anyone to blow themselves up. Well, maybe Travis, but he's a special case.) If the current culture is that no man should ever explain anything to a woman ever again, fine. It doesn't bother me that you don't want someone to tell you. Figure out for yourself just why you're getting electric shocks when you touch the fridge and your stainless steel countertop at the same time. Car on fire? Want to know which extinguisher to use? Don't ask me; I'd hate for you to think I was mansplaining. Make a few tweets and wait for a non-man to help you. We will both be happier. Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 25, 2021 Report Share Posted November 25, 2021 An album cover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 25, 2021 Report Share Posted November 25, 2021 Zamboni bumper cars! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted November 26, 2021 Report Share Posted November 26, 2021 Been looking out for what offers might be available on board games and today the last day of the deals, one of the games I was interested in dropped below £30 roughly $40-45 so I got it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 26, 2021 Report Share Posted November 26, 2021 Which game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 27, 2021 Report Share Posted November 27, 2021 I remember when this thread was posted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 27, 2021 Report Share Posted November 27, 2021 Haunted Grace and The Adherents of Quantity would make a good name for a Christian death metal band. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted November 27, 2021 Report Share Posted November 27, 2021 Who knew it was so hard to give away free stuff? And it wasn't junk either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 5, 2021 Report Share Posted December 5, 2021 Whatever happened to the sequel to Highlander II? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 5, 2021 Report Share Posted December 5, 2021 What is the log of an 1179 ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 5, 2021 Report Share Posted December 5, 2021 I'll have peace and quiet in this house, even if I have to scream and shout to get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 5, 2021 Report Share Posted December 5, 2021 Jennifer Lopez said in an interview that men under 33 are useless at dating. The retort was 'this from a woman with more engagement rings than Thanos'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 9, 2021 Report Share Posted December 9, 2021 How bizarre. My total reactions went from 538 to 27. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 9, 2021 Report Share Posted December 9, 2021 "The DGAF is strong with this one." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 10, 2021 Report Share Posted December 10, 2021 Well that was weird. I was on the site and then got 404 errors continually. Gave it a while and then went to the site just as hero games and got back in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 20, 2021 Report Share Posted December 20, 2021 I dated a girl back in college who didn't know that those white puffy flowers you can blow apart and dandelions were the same thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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