07-18-2019 12:19 PM
#27526
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07-18-2019 12:20 PM
#27527
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07-18-2019 12:26 PM
#27528
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haha. | |
07-18-2019 12:28 PM
#27529
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le sigh | |
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07-18-2019 12:42 PM
#27530
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Isn't there a phrase 'bi-curious', which means someone can be unsure if they'd like it but once they try it they make up their mind? I've heard of this but it seems a bit alien to me I admit. Maybe they're just gay and trying to ease themselves into it psychologically... | |
07-18-2019 12:58 PM
#27531
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It's still not "fair" to treat homosexuals in the same shitty way. Not all homosexuals are treated equally. To claim they are is to claim there is a moral difference between having bum sex (outlawed), and sucking dick (not outlawed). That's a personal opinion influencing your judgement. | |
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07-18-2019 01:00 PM
#27532
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I didn't want to touch the "straight people having gay sex" thing because it probably does happen. Some people might discover they're not gay by having gay sex and hating it, idk. | |
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07-18-2019 01:15 PM
#27533
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07-18-2019 01:16 PM
#27534
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07-18-2019 01:38 PM
#27535
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07-18-2019 01:42 PM
#27536
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The group in this instance is the group of people who live in the country where the law is. The law punishes the act, not the orientation of the person engaging in it. | |
07-18-2019 01:43 PM
#27537
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It'd be like saying a law banning a woman from having an abortion is unfair because men never get pregnant. | |
07-18-2019 01:51 PM
#27538
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07-18-2019 01:51 PM
#27539
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07-18-2019 01:53 PM
#27540
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I don't think abortion laws are fair. I've never suggested they are. All I suggested was that abortion laws are not remotely on the same level as the persecution of gays. | |
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07-18-2019 01:53 PM
#27541
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Forget it. | |
07-18-2019 01:58 PM
#27542
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07-18-2019 02:27 PM
#27543
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Ok mojo, I'll bite. Banning abortion saves the life of a baby. Banning gay sex... who does that benefit? | |
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07-19-2019 08:05 AM
#27544
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Last edited by spoonitnow; 07-19-2019 at 08:09 AM. | |
07-19-2019 09:48 AM
#27545
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I've broken my shoulder blade, and was on a decent dose of hydrocodone for 4 weeks (technically 6, but the dosage cut for the final 2 weeks and the weirdness went with it). | |
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07-19-2019 02:06 PM
#27546
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Some drugs definitely make people behave in ways that they wouldn't ever behave if they never took drugs. Alcohol would certainly be in that category. | |
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07-19-2019 02:29 PM
#27547
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07-19-2019 05:58 PM
#27548
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07-19-2019 07:33 PM
#27549
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I put my keys in the freezer sometimes when I'm not on drugs. Does that mean if I take drugs I'll stop doing it? | |
07-21-2019 01:35 AM
#27550
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IDK. Break your scapula and try it out sometime. Personally, I did it by dropping off a motorcycle onto a curb at about 25 mph. Not sure I recommend it, though. The doctor said I was damn lucky it was a clean break and that I somehow took it all on one bone without any shattering. So if you're gonna do it that way, do it right. | |
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07-21-2019 07:42 AM
#27551
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07-23-2019 01:37 AM
#27552
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07-23-2019 11:42 AM
#27553
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Guns: 1, Tyranny: 0 | |
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07-28-2019 09:35 PM
#27554
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08-25-2019 11:31 AM
#27555
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Anyone who thinks cricket is dull knows absolutely nothing about cricket. | |
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08-25-2019 03:11 PM
#27556
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Both are true for me. Some of the Indian guys at work love it though. And some Brits, but less so. | |
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08-25-2019 05:27 PM
#27557
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09-05-2019 10:48 AM
#27558
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Driving through the mountains today I saw a beautiful big stag elk with a full set of antlers in a clearing by the side of the road. I pull up near to him to have a look and he starts eyeing me up so I move up the road another 50 feet or so. The guy behind me pulls up right next to him - and the elk promply head butts the side of his car. | |
09-05-2019 12:04 PM
#27559
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I kinda respect an animal that looks at a human and is all, "Get off mah land!" | |
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09-05-2019 05:22 PM
#27560
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09-05-2019 07:36 PM
#27561
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When I was camping in the Smokey Mountains, I saw a ring of tourists standing around a tree... baby bear in the tree... idiots. | |
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09-06-2019 03:26 AM
#27562
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It's not "tourists", it's "stupid people". It's just these two groups are not mutually exclusive. I've never seen a bear in the wild in my life, but if I saw a baby bear in the wild, my first thought would be "where's the Mother?" and I'd want to get the fuck away as quickly as possible. You don't need to be a local to have a healthy fear of wild bears. | |
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09-23-2019 05:19 PM
#27563
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I just spent 30 minutes trying to find the name of a piece of sheet music I have, which has a name and author on it. | |
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09-24-2019 11:04 AM
#27564
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MMM, drugs affect brain chemistry. What is it that you imagine dictates behavior besides brain chemistry? | |
09-24-2019 11:59 AM
#27565
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Umm... where is all this coming from? | |
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09-24-2019 12:57 PM
#27566
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Where this comes from: | |
09-24-2019 03:14 PM
#27567
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Labels are nothing to be afraid of; jerkfaces who use labels as fuel for hate are. | |
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09-24-2019 08:34 PM
#27568
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Yeah, honestly I'm not completely sure why your posts tend to grab my attention. It's hard to dissect one's own biases. I don't think I'm playing a gotcha game, I just rarely visit the forums and if I see something objectionable, you're often the author. Maybe it's because you're one of the few posters who seems to be attempting to be participating in good faith and not just shit posting, so I just filter out partisan hackery but laser in on stuff you say. *shrug* | |
09-25-2019 11:51 AM
#27569
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OK. I'll take your angle in good faith, too. It is frustrating to play on this side of a gotcha game, but if you don't mean it to be like that, then I'll try to not see it like that. | |
Last edited by MadMojoMonkey; 09-25-2019 at 11:55 AM.
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09-27-2019 06:14 PM
#27570
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I guess I'm just not sure what you mean if you agree that a person wouldn't have done X but for Y, but refuse to attribute X to Y. There are always preconditions to an action. The 8 ball went in the corner pocket because it was struck by the cue ball-- while the 8 ball's position on the table, the other billiard balls positions, the condition of the felt, the position of the moon, and the fact that Kim Jung Un did not decide to nuke Poolzang Billiard Hall in Seoul where this fateful gaming is taking place-- while all these are preconditions to the ball sinking into the corner pocket, it just strikes me as absurd to preference any of these when describing the event. | |
09-27-2019 08:34 PM
#27571
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I'm saying I don't believe anyone can draw a straight line between 2 dots about X and Y. | |
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09-28-2019 03:02 AM
#27572
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09-29-2019 02:06 AM
#27573
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I think the bold is almost surely mutually exclusive from the second one, though I'm not sure what to make of the underlined phrase. I'm much closer to sure for the first one. | |
09-29-2019 02:17 AM
#27574
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Possibly beliefs are simply being falsely identified as the prime movers. What's below beliefs? Maybe the Greeks' concept of virtues, or at least something along those lines is a better place to look. | |
10-01-2019 12:01 PM
#27575
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The bold seems at odds with both 1 and 2, IMO, with strong mathematical and experimental evidence that there is no "backward propagation" of consciousness affecting the quantum probabilities at all. (Though, 2 has some subtle things that are at odds with 1, as well.) | |
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10-01-2019 12:10 PM
#27576
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I'm fine with saying that our beliefs are the prime movers in our actions. | |
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10-01-2019 05:53 PM
#27577
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10-01-2019 06:31 PM
#27578
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You agreed to give my no-freewill-mobile a try, but then you just intentionally drove it off a cliff. Dafuq? | |
10-02-2019 04:17 PM
#27579
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I can't believe you'd loan me a car without telling me that it had a blind spot. I could've been killed! | |
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10-02-2019 08:22 PM
#27580
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haha, I enjoyed your digression on entropy. It indeed is a tough concept to grasp, and it's fairly unique in that it's apparent to laymen just the same. Typically that which is hard to master is not recognized as so by the layperson. Even if they acknowledge the tremendous skill it must have taken to be an elite athlete, for example, most people still harbor some vague notion that they could've achieved the same. | |
10-03-2019 05:04 AM
#27581
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Our lack of ability to accurately describe entropy only exposes our limited understanding of nature, imo. This idea that big things adhere to the direction of time but tiny things don't is a challenging concept. That either tells us that our ability to measure such things is limited, or that we don't understand time. Probably both. | |
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10-03-2019 06:25 AM
#27582
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^^ Wrong. | |
10-03-2019 07:08 AM
#27583
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I can't, otherwise I would. I really didn't mean to delete that thread. | |
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10-03-2019 11:14 AM
#27584
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I only know about statistical entropy. I don't really do physics. | |
10-03-2019 02:00 PM
#27585
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I have no idea what statistical entropy is but it must be a very similar concept, seeing as quantum mechanics appears very much statistical in nature. | |
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10-03-2019 03:18 PM
#27586
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Hmm. I don't think it's fair to say we can't accurately describe entropy. Only that there are many descriptions that are equivalent despite seeming to not be equivalent. | |
Last edited by MadMojoMonkey; 10-03-2019 at 03:38 PM.
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10-03-2019 05:03 PM
#27587
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This is how I like to be slapped down. I've had to read that twice, with a break in between watching vids about the Planck length. | |
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10-04-2019 04:18 PM
#27588
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Happy to oblige! | |
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10-16-2019 05:42 PM
#27589
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Loop quantum gravity is the sexy word salad of 2019, and it postulates that the Planck length is the quantum unit of spacetime. | |
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10-16-2019 06:05 PM
#27590
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On another note, when I'm playing live poker, I like to put my phone on vibrate, and nestle it underneath my ballsack. I find that the stimulation helps me to play my A-game. Of course, I have to keep looking at the screen at a juicy pair of titties to maintain my boner, but it helps me make some ridiculously good reads. | |
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10-16-2019 10:06 PM
#27591
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I saw the PBS Spacetime video, but I can't claim to understand it, yet. | |
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10-17-2019 06:14 AM
#27592
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10-17-2019 05:15 PM
#27593
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Why do physicists have Planck units in the first place? | |
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10-17-2019 05:57 PM
#27594
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Can you type all that again please, except replace 2pi with tau? | |
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10-17-2019 06:00 PM
#27595
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Technically, Newton posited his "crepuscular theory of light" ages ago, and crepuscule means particle in today's terms. It's just that it wasn't a "quantum theory," and it was hotly debated at the time. It was relatively easy to show wave-like behavior of light, and people were a long way from accepting wave-particles. | |
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10-17-2019 06:03 PM
#27596
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10-17-2019 06:05 PM
#27597
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10-17-2019 06:15 PM
#27598
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I don't have any stake in that argument. Just copy/paste it into any competent word processor, then do a ctrl-F for find and replace if you're remotely serious. | |
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10-17-2019 06:38 PM
#27599
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10-23-2019 01:13 PM
#27600
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OK. I spent a fair bit of time on this, and while I hope it's not all for naught, I expect it probably is. | |
Last edited by MadMojoMonkey; 10-23-2019 at 06:31 PM.
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