Cancer Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 9 hours ago, Logan D. Hurricanes said: This is the relationship I want. Showed this to my wife after dinner on this Valentine's Day. Her response: "I love you too." Old Man, Logan D. Hurricanes, L. Marcus and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 "WHAAAAT????" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bazza Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 But also “wrong”. It is the other way around. #ontologymatters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 1 minute ago, Bazza said: But also “wrong”. It is the other way around. #ontologymatters Dude, I heard a weird noise and... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 Ontological discussions are what philosophy students try to open up when they didn't study for the physics course and they are desperately trying to get to a place where they can bulls--t their way through it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 And physics students are failed ontology students. Heisenberg literally stated that quantum mechanics deals with potential, as opposed to actual entities. And Heisenberg was aware due to his background in philosophy. tl/dr quantum particles have no actuality. Duke Bushido 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 1 hour ago, Old Man said: Dude, I heard a weird noise and... That statement has more realness to it than is supposed by current theories of sensible perception. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Lord Liaden Posted February 16 Report Share Posted February 16 And this just demonstrated why the rest of the world gets pissed off constantly having to convert simple straightforward measurements into ungainly inconsistent numbers just to please a bunch of archaic Americans. BTW the US military has been calling a kilometer a "klick" for decades. Just substitute that for a mile, and if you think a thousand klicks is too short compared to a thousand miles, try walking it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 16 Report Share Posted February 16 47 minutes ago, Lord Liaden said: BTW the US military has been calling a kilometer a "klick" for decades. At least six decades; I remember hearing the term when I lived among the US forces in West Berlin back in the early 1960s. Kilometers have never bothered me, probably from six years of living in Europe. DItto liters and kilograms. However, I am equally inept at thinking in acres and hectares, because I have never had cause to think about measured land areas in either set of units. Driving up in British Columbia last September, before we figured out how to flip the indicators on the display of the new-to-us car from English to metric units and back, I was having to do km-to-miles conversions in my head for estimating driving times (the speedometer has both mph and km/hr on it full time, so staying in compliance with speed limits was not a problem). That's harder than conversion going the other way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted February 16 Report Share Posted February 16 a meter is not just a measure of length, it can also be a measuring device, so instead of yardstick, just use meter (second meaning) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Duke Bushido Posted February 17 Report Share Posted February 17 21 hours ago, Lord Liaden said: And this just demonstrated why the rest of the world gets pissed off constantly having to convert simple straightforward measurements into ungainly inconsistent numbers just to please a bunch of archaic Americans. For the love of little dishes, _stop doing that! _. All of you! Every one of you! Stop doing it in trade, in split signs, in casual conversation, in _anything_! You want us to catch up? _Make_ us! In all the history of humanity, no one has ever changed a behavior by pandering specifically to the undesirable behavior. It drives me crazy! You have seen our politicians, our actors, our celebrities, and our Uber-wealthy ruling class. What else do you need to make you understand that you are dealing with children?! When you want a child to change his behavior, step one is to make it extremely difficult to continue the undesired behavior, is it not? So please: either decide to give us no choice (and I would like to convert myself; I get super-tired of doing conversions on the fly all day long), or stop blaming us exclusively for something you are deeply complicit in reinforcing. Mostly, I want to see us adopt liters per hundred kilometers as the metric for fuel consumption, because a consumption difference of 2 mpg "doesn't seem like _that_ much...." and we crank out another four thousand coal burners.... Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 17 Report Share Posted February 17 This confusion in measurement systems HAS past tense resulted in engineering failures, and other human related errors as explained by this short video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted February 17 Report Share Posted February 17 1 hour ago, Duke Bushido said: For the love of little dishes, _stop doing that! _. All of you! Every one of you! Stop doing it in trade, in split signs, in casual conversation, in _anything_! You want us to catch up? _Make_ us! In all the history of humanity, no one has ever changed a behavior by pandering specifically to the undesirable behavior. It drives me crazy! You have seen our politicians, our actors, our celebrities, and our Uber-wealthy ruling class. What else do you need to make you understand that you are dealing with children?! When you want a child to change his behavior, step one is to make it extremely difficult to continue the undesired behavior, is it not? So please: either decide to give us no choice (and I would like to convert myself; I get super-tired of doing conversions on the fly all day long), or stop blaming us exclusively for something you are deeply complicit in reinforcing. Mostly, I want to see us adopt liters per hundred kilometers as the metric for fuel consumption, because a consumption difference of 2 mpg "doesn't seem like _that_ much...." and we crank out another four thousand coal burners.... Those children control the world's biggest economy, the world's most powerful military, and more nuclear warheads than the rest of the planet combined. How would you recommend that we make you change? (I'm not unsympathetic to your rant, Duke. I was mainly responding to the satirical but still rather smug tone of the Tumblr thread that Logan posted.) Duke Bushido 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bazza Posted February 17 Report Share Posted February 17 Spider-Man: “We call those people ‘super villains’ for a reason.” wcw43921, Tom Cowan, Pariah and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cancer Posted February 17 Report Share Posted February 17 That explains/describes a problem I've had in some campaigns, where I build a character who doesn't fit the campaign well. I'm adept at building sea cucumbers. Logan D. Hurricanes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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