i thought freerange children was a myth concocted by the creators of rocket power and rugrats
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i thought freerange children was a myth concocted by the creators of rocket power and rugrats
people are scared now. plus, they have internet.
I remember a few years ago it hit something like -18 F here (near record low, below 0 F might only happen a couple times a year at most) and I remember that day very vividly because I went to the gym bundled up and there were a couple people leaving with shorts on.Quote:
Originally Posted by givememyleg
Actually it's supposed to get down that low again (-17) early next week. It would be the coldest day of the year by far.
I can pretty seamlessly switch between pounds and kilograms in my head (at least using 1kg = 2.2lb which is accurate enough for most applications) but farenheit/celsius conversion really fucks me up. I would have to look up the exact formula but it has something to do with adding/subtracting 32 and 9/5 or 5/9 or some bullshit
edit:°C x 9/5 + 32 = °F
(°F - 32) x 5/9 = °C
Why don't you have a seat...Quote:
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Originally Posted by bikes
thanks for the laughQuote:
Originally Posted by Luco
i also lol'ed at that luco
i'm reading this awesome book right now, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William Shirer. dude was a journalist and war correspondent during the war. it's super interesting if anyone's.. like.. interested.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Rise-Fall-.../dp/1451651686
You should go to piratebay and download "Triumph of Will". One of the most famous resources of nazi footage. A lot of movies took inspiration from scenes from this movies, such as Starship Troopers and The Lion King.Quote:
Originally Posted by aubreymcfate
Another thing to understand is that propaganda basically did not exist befor that time. If you read Mein Kampf, there is a whole bunch of nonsense about how jews are evul but the rest reads like a how-to guide for propaganda. Not at all what I was expecting, even though I had no idea what to expect.
Also, you might like this:
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/fw2-17.htm
Women & Germany's Reich. Try to read it while taking the message at face value and see what you think.
WW2 probably had the biggest impact on current day western culture, in profound ways that very few people fully realize. Propaganda. Unseen technological advancement on both the axis and allies sides. The nuclear bomb, which changed warfare forever. Our perception of left wing and right wing ideologies. And here is something else that is interesting. It's the kind of stuff that you won't find written anywhere but I remember hearing it talked about often when I was in high school. Did germany really lose the war? After WW1 they were crippled by economic measures imposed on them. Now they are the strongest economic power in europe. Heck, the EU scolded germany only a few weeks ago for having an economy that is TOO strong, they have so much surplus that it is hurting the economies of many other european countries. If Russia, Poland and a bunch of other eastern european countries would have had their way after the nazi's surrendered, germany would have been raized to the ground. But this did not happen. We blamed Hitler and nazi ideology and then moved on. All very interesting in and of itself.
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So much of Germany WAS razed to the ground. Compare photos of Hiroshima and Berlin and you'd be hard pressed to tell one from the other. Recent literature suggests Stalin had realistic hopes of not only conquering a portion of Germany, but the whole thing - and eventually entire Europe. It seems the Soviets made assumptions that a bit of indoctrination here and there would be enough to get Germans to voluntarily construct a united Soviet Germany, and greatly underestimated the German resistance to it. Americans were interested in seeing a strong West Germany (and Europe in general) to help stop the spread of Soviet influence. The revival of west German industry was key to an overall recovery of the entire European economy.
Holy shit, hes got two dicks!Quote:
Originally Posted by bikes
i just don't understand how he's not making lots of money in the porn industry.
Where are they going to find a lady with two vaginas?
Well, ok, never mind:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2...s-not-so-rare/
These were 2 very strong reasons for why the aftermath of the war went the way it did. It's the complex diplomacy of a worldwide war which was new, and the technological advancements which reshaped the world forever. I'm not sure why you are comparing Berlin to Hiroshima though as both were leveled during and as part of the war.Quote:
Originally Posted by eugmac
jv, i had a feeling you were going to respond with a buttload of awesome shit for me to check out. thanks so much.
that article about women in the third reich is an interesting read, not necessarily surprising by any means though. i would've been shocked if she thought women had any other role than to foster the perfect nazi family and home (and by extension, society). the way she views male and female roles (public sphere and private sphere, respectively) is pretty standard.
totally bookmarking that page though, that's awesome.
Germany lost the war, but it has always been the most populous European state, geographically important, and the US had paramount interest in rebuilding it. Not to mention there was great incentive by all parties to keep another world war from beginning in Europe
Germany's dominance (pseudo-dominance) of Europe today isn't particularly unpredictable. A population map of Europe will show it was inevitable. Belgium and Netherlands were always top dogs but their populations were just too small. England is mainly about London, France is mainly about Paris, Italy is about the Po Basin. But Germany has big cities everywhere, and it has ever since Germany became a part of western culture -- the Holy Roman Empire, all the free imperial cities, etc. The world wars had a lot to do with Germany finally realizing it was naturally the most powerful state in Europe. So it started acting like it.
Happy to share =).Quote:
Originally Posted by aubreymcfate
Another strong factor was the fact that Germany missed the boat on the colony expansions (nice pun!), which turned countries like Spain, France and the Netherlands into empires. In fact the Brittish empire is the largest empire the world has ever seen. So germany was collectively thinking "wait, we know we're awesome.. but we have nothing to show for" which made them very susceptible to the kind of national pride Hitler was preaching.Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
Oh and I bolded Belgium there in your text because it made me chuckle you'd be so polite as to mention us. All throughout our history we've been serially occupied by different european countries, in WW2 we met the same fate as in WW1: Germany blitzkrieged through Belgium as if noone was even there to bypass the French maginot line and conquered France with a speed noone had deemed possible. Our location is pretty good I'll have to admit that (and it's awesome to live here) but we profoundly lack a strong national identity and historical significance..
I didn't mean to say that Belgium was ever a military power, but, for reasons I don't yet know, Belgium has always been a part of the economic core of Europe. I was trying to make a contrast between some of the other states, like France, where if it wasn't for Paris, it would be poor; or Italy, which other than the Po Valley, is poor. Europe is full of countries that thrive on just one or two cities. Germany is the only big exception in this regard. Belgium has some sort of mix where it's small enough that it doesn't appear to have the kinds of differences that, say, Italy has. Belgium doesn't quite have something as big as the Randstad or Po Valley, but it's right there in the core nonetheless
If I had to make a controversial point, I would say that the Netherlands has the second most fortunate geography of Europe, right behind Denmark. The Randstad is situation right in the sweet spot between England and the continent, has great coasts and rivers. Denmark only wins out because if you want to traverse to or from North and Baltic Seas, you have to go through it. People born there hit the jackpot. Anyways, Belgium, even if it doesn't have great coasts for ports (I don't know if it does, but I assume it doesn't since it never became a huge maritime empire), sits right in the middle of the most economically active region in the history of the world
Just a really fantastic AMA with a retired US colonel. He has a sobering understanding of geopolitics, as should be expected of people like him, yet we never hear about since the political punditry sphere is full of nothing but blowhards
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comment...ansoor_former/
since the surgery i've been having to take pain meds and nausea meds, and holy fuck damn does that shit fuck me up. it's like i have zero tolerance. i think i was asking at one point if anyone has ever thought to make penguins sweaters because they are probably cold. oh, and also asked if elephants cry.
i honestly hate taking pain meds, or well, any meds for that matter. i have a weird hangover feeling the next morning, and i highly dislike this, but, me high on pain meds/nausea meds is highly entertaining to everyone and sometimes myself.
I just watched that Blackfish movie for the first time. It is heavy.
I mean shit, after watching it I'm almost questioning the dark sides of dog domestication.
Cats are probably fine since those assholes are basically wild.
Dude, A+ AMAQuote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
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Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
Yeah, dog domestication is one of those subjects, which when breached, elicits all sorts of irrational responses from dog owners.
I said almost. Dogs are pretty well bred for domestication, Blackfish is like witnessing the horrors that could have occurred in the first generation.
It's like how you might read about historical conquests and think about how horrible the events were but from a perspective so far removed from the fact and so completely absorbed in the consequences both good and bad that there's nothing to do but roll with the dark humor of it all.
any attempt to domesticate this animal is bound to go wrong
http://i.lv3.hbo.com/assets/images/s...tully-1024.jpg
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Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
Idk. Something has always just irked me about pet ownership. The guy on a hundred acre plot with a couple of dogs to keep him company, or the hunter, or the shepherd-- but you've got to admit that for a significant number (I'd guess the majority in the States) have dogs as accessories, and accessorizing with living beings is such a strange hollow social gesture.
what do you mean by having dogs as accessories? that makes me think of Paris Hilton, but i don't think most people are like that.. people develop pretty strong bonds with their pets.Quote:
Originally Posted by boost
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Originally Posted by aubreymcfate
Yes that's what I mean. Obviously though if we are picturing Paris Hilton as the poster-child for this, it will be easy to make it seem rare since most pet owners aren't altogether missed opportunities for a medical student to practice abortions.
Pets would be a pretty terrible accessory. Everybody hates everybody else's pets. can't even ride in my brother's car because it's layered in shepherd hair. My sister's dogs are stupid and ironically she hates her MIL's stupid dog. Everybody hates everybody's pets. But nothing is as precious as your own pet
Rilla is my pet and he's super precious.
wufwugy, your anecdotes here are not indicative of anything.
Everyone loves everyone's pets-- especially upon initial contact. "oooh how cute! How old is he? What's his name?", has to be the most standard three things said from a stranger to another stranger who is accompanied by a dog.
At the park. When it gets more personal, most people do not like others' pets, and pet owners virtually never understand why. It's just like how mothers think everybody loves their ugly babies. For many there isn't love, and for those that there is, it's superficial in the way you mentionedQuote:
Originally Posted by boost
So basically what I'm saying is don't ask me to take care of your dog
Many of the responses to Blackfish on reddit depresses me. People will rationalize anything they like. Put a man in a cage his entire life, and he'll become psychotic and get a hunched back. Put an orca in a cage its entire life, and it will become psychotic and get a droopy dorsal fin. How do people not understand this?
I haven't been through those threads, but it seems highly unlike reddit to circlejerk against any animal welfare cause.
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Originally Posted by d0zer
so sayeth ftr's biggest karma whore :-x
animal cruelty is an issue most people are too scared to address because things about it always hit home. the obvious example is livestock; a less obvious one people get enthralled by things like seaworld at a young age
I can't help that the peoples they loves me :xQuote:
Originally Posted by bikes
Even meathead joe rogan is tearing into seaworld these days and he's pro-hunting and is always going on about how he's on "team people".Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
rogan is one of the smartest non-academics there is
I just found his podcasts a couple of weeks ago on youtube... I've only watched a handful of them. There are 400+ episodes that are ~3 hours long each... I'm not interested in "catching up" but I'd give him the benefit of the doubt for 15 minutes or so if a new podcast came out and I didn't recognize the guest.
I like that he calls people on their BS and trusts only his own logic to discern what is and isn't BS.
the only ones i watch anymore are when chris ryan is on, or obviously with ones like degrasse tyson. this one is really great
http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcast...ristopher-ryan
More importantly, thx to rogan I discovered dan carlin. Hardcore history was a gateway to his political podcast "common sense: he's so independent, even the independents kicked him out" (even tho he's a raging libertarian), both are great. Hardcore history is better, but I ran out of eps so I gotta get my carlin fix somehow.
I just recently discovered Rich Vos's podcast through O&A. I'm only at EP 3 but I think it's great. She really doesn't give a shit about the podcast. He struggles to keep it together. Kids screaming in the background... You couldn't script it better.
There aren't a ton of eps up, but I really liked Cracked.com's podcast. Decent range of topics, and mostly pretty thought provoking. Not anything super deep, but often just a fresh way of looking at an issue.
both of the sam harris episodes are great. and yeah anything with christopher ryan is amazing, his podcast is also fucking great: http://chrisryanphd.com/tangentially-speaking/
the latest few on rogan i really enjoyed:
433 Christopher Ryan, Duncan Trussell
430 Shane Smith, Eddie Huang
414 Cmdr Chris Hadfield
412 Maynard James Keenan
410 Sam Harris
405 Steven Pressfield, Aubrey Marcus
397 Josh Barnett
Should we start a podcast thread? I feel like it's such a big sea of shows that it's easy to completely miss a lot of really good stuff.
how was the maynard james keenan one? i don't think i ever finished it... didn't they mostly talk about his wine?
i think i'm going to be default slightly resentful of anything mjk says till the new tool album comes out >:O
I loved maynard more when there was this whole mythology and obscurity surrounding him. When the true MJK is revealed and he's just a 5'5 guy who makes wine and not the demigod he's supposed to be, it's kind of a let down.
Maynard isn't really interested in talking about Tool, from what I can tell. The convo with Joe was mostly about wine. It was only really interesting in seeing Maynard actually open up in the conversation. Usually he's so annoyingly annoyed with an interview that nothing else comes through.
He and Adam (also from Tool) were on a couple of episodes of "Mr. Show with Bob and David" in the first season. On the DVD commentary, someone get's all excited that when Maynard came for his scenes brought delicious cookies that he made from scratch. This was before Tool was a national sensation, early 90's-ish.
I bring it up because every time I hear something about Maynard it comes from out of nowhere. He's an awesome rock singer. His band has pop hits with lyrical content that has to be experienced to be believed. He bakes cookies. He owns and runs a winery.
He's the most interesting person I'd never want to hang out with under any circumstances.
i dunno, when i was 17 i devoured every word the man spoke in the presence of a recording device (which i guess is as much of his "true" self as your average fan is going to get) and i still thought he was awesome. i have a lot admiration and respect for his intelligence and insights.
i also enjoy how he handles goofy interviewers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idPPnWRgTiU
Yeah I'm not bashing the guy. Nobody could live up to the MJK on-stage circa 1997 persona. He's obviously a very cool guy.
That's a fantastic line.Quote:
Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey
Trent Reznor is def my most interesting musician Id never want to hang out with. Feel like he'd be too emo.
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Originally Posted by bigred
meow.
Stop.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chelle
MJK- confirmed awesome, even now. Less of an enigma for sure, but he is so uber talented and not just with music. His side projects (A Perfect Circle, Puscifer) are amazing too. The Puscifer albums took a few listens before my brain figured out that those songs are very enjoyable as well.
:lol: I thought it said MLK, and I was all... really? I mean confirmed awesome, yeah, but what's brought it out... I'm gonna learn something cool about MLK Jr. that I didn't know already.Quote:
Originally Posted by KoRnholio
Wait.. music? What? Ohhhhh... MJK.... same conversation... :doh:
http://i.imgur.com/sy8bh9i.jpg
why cant it be 76 year round?
But, boredom. Also - random.Quote:
Originally Posted by boost
Saw Wolf of Wall Street last night, it was pretty damn good.
My best friend runs a really awesome pop culture blog.. She's a fantastic writer and supremely intelligent (in my hoooooomble opinion). She just wrote a post on Wolf of Wall Street, American Hustle, and the representation of women in film (as it relates to those two films).
http://pop-mitzvah.com/
If you enjoy reading well thought-out opinion pieces and analyses of TV, film, music, etc., definitely check her blog out. There should be a category bar to the side so you can navigate the content easily.
She reviewed I believe the last season of Breaking Bad episode by episode, and they are honestly some of the best BB episode reviews I have ever read. I know she's my best friend but I'm not in the habit overhyping those I know unprompted, so yeah. DO IT.
Yeah but, is she a radfem?
no lol, not at all. I'm pretty sure no radfem would ever write the following: "Back then, Scorsese’s biggest sin was ignoring women. I can live with that. He had things to say about masculinity, flesh, war, desire, living and dying, and made art."
In all seriousness though, I typically disagree with radfem ideology, and I can't speak for her but I think it's safe to say she does too. Radfems tend to be transphobic and ridiculously hyperbolic about men, among other things. Bleh.
What about his performance in Moneyball? Fuck me right?!Quote:
And I can cheer for newly-minted serious actor Jonah Hill, who finally broke through the Superbad ceiling this year, proved his chops, and kind of stole the show
Radfem is a boogeyman. The amount of influence it has on policy is miniscule. On the flip side, the amount the traditional sexist patriarchy has on policy is enormous
She is a really great writer BTW. She hates me though. Haaaaaaaates. Foam at the mouth hates
I fucking love vanilla scented things. Body wash, perfume, candles, and lotion. Ungh. Vanilla.
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Originally Posted by Chelle
Cut it out.
http://www.girlsforum.com/Quote:
Originally Posted by Chelle
SHOTS FIREDQuote:
Originally Posted by jyms
Eh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vVCSUafFVI
So this is interesting.
Well done.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chelle
Next FTR Trip? SLAB CITY!
A lot of their documentaries are pretty awesome. They're on what some people would think of to be 'offbeat' subjects, but they're more appealing than others I've watched.Quote:
Originally Posted by boost
Yeah, they're pretty good, but the surface levelness of them is disguised in their offbeatness. After watching a bunch, you start to feel like you're watching MTV. They often beg the question, but don't actually offer any in depth analysis. But yeah, they're really accessible and more interesting than most online time sinks.
Life lessons being taught in the newly remodeled #flopturnriver channel.
<TLG-rejected> got banned
<renton> well i just masturbated while eating chocolate muffins
<renton> looks like i did better than you
<renton> seeing as i had a great time
<TLG-rejected> rent , did u glaze the muffins with ur bio-coating fluids?
<renton> no, i started masturbating, realized about mid way that i'd enjoy eating a chocolate muffin in the present even more than stroking my penis in the present
<renton> i got up and ate a muffin
<renton> then i finished
<renton> it was a beautiful thing when i think about it
<renton> i think thats one of the great things about capitalism
<renton> actually
We owe everything to capitalism! But...we've never had completely laisse faire capitalism right? So I guess we owe everything we have to regulated, bastardized capitalism :(
the life lessons that are taught in the #flopturnriver channel you can get no where else.Quote:
Originally Posted by Renton
The greatest innovation since someone figured out how to turn 1s and 0s into pictures of naked ladies.
http://lolmythesis.com/
Wrap yourself in a blanket with a warm mugga coco and enjoy the cutting edge.
amazing.Quote:
Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
NEW GOT TRAILER
Good trailer. Doesn't really give much away. The way it should be
god i love peyton
"Gays in space"Quote:
Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
"I completely underestimated the complexity of this system."Quote:
Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
-Physics, University of Otago
I heard that phrase during so many senior presentations.
I've been staying away from anything GoT related on the net so as to not get spoiled (succesful to date), very nice trailer only short scenes without saying anything just getting me hyped again. April 6 can't come soon enough.
Also lol @ renton relating his experiencing to capitalism in the end. That's funny and.. not wrong. It reminds me I still need to make that mammoth post I have been intending to make in the capitalism thread. Over the past few weeks I've come to realize that we actually live in a capitalist bubble, we as in, the whole world. 90% of the money in the world has no counter-weight in physical objects of value, which has never before happened in the history of humankind. The only way I got to understand how it came to be this way and which the fundamental beliefs are that underly such a system (beliefs everyone has but most people aren't aware of, even me until recently) was by studying the history and how capitalism, which is intrinsically connected to science, came into being. Super interesting stuff.
"The Earl of Rochester loved sex till he got syphillus. Then he got all religious."
"Bureaucrats like to fuck over each other. A lot. That’s pretty much the only way anything gets done."
"Turns out you can’t learn to read without books."
"the real sun is too complicated so we made a fake sun on a computer. the fake computer sun is too complicated so we drew a cartoon. the cartoon is wrong."
"We cant tell anything about how pesticides affect humans from hamster vagina cells"
"Birds are nicer to their relatives and don’t want to have sex with them."
"In which behavioral interventions that have been shown to be effective…are still effective."
"trees don’t respond well to being rubbed in with vaseline."
"When you regularly come home smelling of and stained by tar, it is advantageous to live with someone who works in a similar field."
"Turns out you can’t cure cancer in a physics lab. Not even a little."
"The number of plants grown is proportional to the number of seeds put in the ground."
"If you come from far away, people will be surprised at the way you speak."
"We spent thousands of government dollars to create a mouse model for a disease only 32 people in the world have."
"Put a liquid into a billion dollar machine and fired a laser upon it. Turns out the liquid got slightly warmer."
"Big trees weigh more than small trees."
"Ritual suicide was a bad idea."
"They knew a thing or two about computer security in 1641."
"Monkeys don’t like eagles"
and my current favorite
"There is a maximum temperature at which ants can survive."
These things kill me.
Most of them I can at least guess at what the honest purpose was, but this one?Quote:
Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
My guess it that its a paper that rightfully indicts the left wing assholes that banned DDT and other pesticides and are thus mass murderers of millions who wouldn't have died from malaria if DDT were available to them.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackvance
I wouldn't mind reading about thisQuote:
Originally Posted by Renton
I think you're bringing a lot of extra baggage to the table there, Renton.
"By using a complex field I can make a simple function more difficult, and far less accurate."
"Some neurons kind of notice when you cut the brain in half."
"And so it turns out that a sphere is not, in fact, a donut."
"Rats like cocaine"
"If you want to get drugs directly into your brain, then drill a hole in your head."
"Blowing stars up with a bigger computer than the last guy."
"People somewhere developed agriculture at some point.
"When your food eats you from the inside out, your brain says ‘this is not good food.’"
"I don’t know what genes are responsible for guiding zebrafish embryos to grow into mature fish, but I killed thousands of them to find out."
"Protein of unknown function in yeast still has unknown function."
"We found out that fish that look different are different species"
"Mammoths stopped eating things after they went extinct."
And one that didn't make me laugh so much as made me really wonder
"Taught a computer to paint portraits by understanding cognitively (vision, perception, process) how human artist’s paint and used that system to scientifically prove Rembrandt was a cognitive genius at controlling your eye path to tell his narrative."
And that concludes my postings from lolmythesis.com
i have about 3 leftover cases of budlight from a christmas gift from a player. they need to be drank in like 2 weeks. fml.
I wonder if you can mix glutamine in hot cocoa. Or does it absolutely have to be used in a cold beverage?
You liftin bro?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack Sawyer
Not really lifting. but I did start a sprint/jog routing, basketball, jump rope, hiit etc routine.
I plan to start lifting for the umpteenth time round March or so. Right now I'm focused to get down to the magic 220 LBS. I'm hovering around 280, I ballooned up to like 320+ not too long ago :(
American LBS btw jic ;)
Dude.. you are pedal to the metal on the road to curmudgeonton.Quote:
Originally Posted by Renton
If you're still reading, please keep posting. I clicked once, but doubt I'll click again, but I trust your filter and have been enjoying its yield.Quote:
Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
i hadn't had my coffee yet, mass murder was a little much, but they were left wing fuckwads who had a very negative effect on society at least.