Randomness thread, part two.

[OngBonga]

Chlorine + brake fluid + 3 litre barrel

[wufwugy]

The only people who've insulted my boyfriend to my face are the people I've friendzoned. Funny how that works.

i just dont get the mentality. i mean, what is going on in the minds of friendzoned guys? if ive the hots for a chick and she friendzones me (unrealistic hypothetical, i know), the last thing im going to do is spend another second with her. doing so would drive me up the wall. maybe some guys just dont think of themselves as good enough.

regardless, life is so much easier when you're friends with your friends and have the hots for people who have the hots for you.

[rong]

Definitely much easier. But I have a tendency to sleep with girls who become my friends. Or rather they tend to want to sleep with me and I just don't put up a fight. Sometimes we remain friends, sometimes we don't.

[rong]

That sounds really big headed and I don't mean it to. It's not intended as a brag. I guess if I hang out with a girl frequently enough it just tends to develop in to more without any real intention on my behalf.

[rong]

Although sometimes it is myndoing, because I'll become friends with a girl who's reasonably attractive but I'm digging some other chick and then when that doesn't work out / she isn't interested I suddenly see the friend girl in a whole new light.

[MadMojoMonkey]

regardless, life is so much easier when you're friends with your friends and have the hots for people who have the hots for you.

I agree. I just wish that was how the heart worked... or that my head would have figured it out sooner.

Question: If you've 100% friendzoned a woman who clearly has the hots for you, then what? Do you continue to hang out with the friend? Or do you let her deal with her own choices? When your gf starts getting irrationally jealous of this person, then what? Do you stop hanging out with the friendzoned woman, who is fun to be with, but not in a sexy way? Or do you realize that your gf is 'tarded and doesn't really trust you and walk away?

I mean... I know what I did in this situation, but I felt at the time like I was just taking the easy road.

[spoonitnow]

Question: If you've 100% friendzoned a woman who clearly has the hots for you, then what? Do you continue to hang out with the friend? Or do you let her deal with her own choices? When your gf starts getting irrationally jealous of this person, then what? Do you stop hanging out with the friendzoned woman, who is fun to be with, but not in a sexy way? Or do you realize that your gf is 'tarded and doesn't really trust you and walk away?

I just want to point out that it's not irrational to mate guard.

[MadMojoMonkey]

I just want to point out that it's not irrational to mate guard.

Exactly why I stipulated the irrational part.

[spoonitnow]

Exactly why I stipulated the irrational part.

Could you elaborate on what makes you feel like it was irrational?

[aubreymcfate]

I agree. I just wish that was how the heart worked... or that my head would have figured it out sooner.

Question: If you've 100% friendzoned a woman who clearly has the hots for you, then what? Do you continue to hang out with the friend? Or do you let her deal with her own choices? When your gf starts getting irrationally jealous of this person, then what? Do you stop hanging out with the friendzoned woman, who is fun to be with, but not in a sexy way? Or do you realize that your gf is 'tarded and doesn't really trust you and walk away?

I mean... I know what I did in this situation, but I felt at the time like I was just taking the easy road.

I've dealt with this moral dilemma quite a bit. Sometimes it feels like I should be the one to walk away and not lead the person on (because sometimes people get lead on even with pure friendship), but on the other hand, they are adults and can choose to continue hanging out with me, even when I've made my position clear. At what point is the onus on me? Sometimes I feel like I'm being selfish though, because I don't want to relinquish a friendship I enjoy. But again, we're dealing with adults here.. I tend to worry too much and feel bad about things I shouldn't.

For me, what it boils down to is respect... If the other person respects your relationship, then I don't think it is an affront to your relationship to hang out with them. Re: your girlfriend's jealousy, it could be that she doesn't trust you, or it could be that she feels uncomfortable with you being around a girl that likes you and whom you enjoy hanging out with. It probably made her uncomfortable that you liked a girl enough to hang out with her without the need for sex. Whether what she feels is "rational" or not is hard to say, it depends on your relationship.

Anyway, regardless, I don't think it's healthy to relinquish friendships for your SO when the friendship doesn't undermine your relationship in any way. It enables their issues and it will breed resentment in you. It's amazing to me how much emotional immaturity is tolerated in relationships. Most of us deal with insecurity and in romantic relationships, that neurosis is viciously manifested.

edit: btw in case I sound like I think I'm the patron saint of emotional health, I'm totally not haha, I deal with jealousy. But not letting it control me is the best thing I've ever done for myself.

[MadMojoMonkey]

Could you elaborate on what makes you feel like it was irrational?

Not relevant. Consider it a hypothetical if you like.
...
Yeah. OK, I see your point. There's just too much to assume w/o pinning down specifics. Maybe I shouldn't have taken this conversation here.

I'm reflecting on a situation from 15 years ago, so I'm not really interested in picking open an old wound.
In the situation I'm referring to, the "good" one was the friend, and the "bad" one was the gf. So obv, I should have dumped the bad one and moved on regardless... eventually I did.

At what point is the onus on me? Sometimes I feel like I'm being selfish though, because I don't want to relinquish a friendship I enjoy. But again, we're dealing with adults here.. I tend to worry too much and feel bad about things I shouldn't.

The notion that being an adult somehow imbues anyone with emotional maturity is lost on me. Most people are totally emotionally unstable given the right (wrong) stimulus. Myself included. Ragequit is a thing I do.

To me, friendship means that we help each other deal with our struggles and overcome them (while enjoying the good times to be had). I get lost when it comes to the point of making someone I love uncomfortable while doing something which is otherwise innocent.

I guess it comes down to personalities and the degree of discomfort.

[spoonitnow]

Not relevant. Consider it a hypothetical if you like.
...
Yeah. OK, I see your point. There's just too much to assume w/o pinning down specifics. Maybe I shouldn't have taken this conversation here.

I'm reflecting on a situation from 15 years ago, so I'm not really interested in picking open an old wound.
In the situation I'm referring to, the "good" one was the friend, and the "bad" one was the gf. So obv, I should have dumped the bad one and moved on regardless... eventually I did.

You're the one who asked the question.

[aubreymcfate]

The notion that being an adult somehow imbues anyone with emotional maturity is lost on me. Most people are totally emotionally unstable given the right (wrong) stimulus. Myself included. Ragequit is a thing I do.

To me, friendship means that we help each other deal with our struggles and overcome them (while enjoying the good times to be had). I get lost when it comes to the point of making someone I love uncomfortable while doing something which is otherwise innocent.

I guess it comes down to personalities and the degree of discomfort.

Being an adult doesn't imbue you with emotional maturity, but it does imbue you with responsibility for yourself and your choices, which is what I meant.

Making your SO relinquish friendships when there is no justifiable reason just because it makes you uncomfortable is unhealthy and controlling.

[MadMojoMonkey]

You're the one who asked the question.

Yeah. I realize now it was more of a lamentation than a question. I didn't ever intend to bring it up. It was more of an emotional response to my past brought up by aubrey's friendzone post.

I guess there's just no way to answer it without getting deeply into the specifics. There's no real guideline outside of keeping yourself healthy and having a good time.

I made the wrong choice 15 years ago. My SO was terrible for me, and the other woman was super funny and chill.

I'm not emotionally mature when it comes to love relations. I have beat general social awareness into myself, and I can wing it in most conversations. When it comes to understanding these more complicated human interactions and expectation, I am 'tarded.

I'm lucky to have found someone equally socially awkward who gets me, and I get her. If I had to be back in the dating pool again, I'd be just as 'tarded again.

Being an adult doesn't imbue you with emotional maturity, but it does imbue you with responsibility for yourself and your choices, which is what I meant.

Making your SO relinquish friendships when there is no justifiable reason just because it makes you uncomfortable is unhealthy and controlling.

Yes, this is close to what I'm thinking. I have never been sensitive to whom my SO is spending time with. I am a bit protective of my current SO, since she has started a regular Twitch stream and has regular male followers. I don't feel jealous in any way. I feel worried that one of them will show up in our lives and become a thing we have to deal with.

I've never felt that kind of jealousy about my SO. I don't understand it. My attitude is, "If you want to be with someone else, please do us both the favor of being with someone else. I'll be hurt, but less so if you're honest than if you're cowardly." When I've broken things off, it was never because there was anyone else in my life. I was just fed up with the current situation.

I also feel that putting ultimatums on another person is laughable. When you've gotten to that point, it's already done. Walk away.

[spoonitnow]

Since I haven't been rallied against for being a misogynist for like a couple of weeks, I figured I would post this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RedPillWome..._and_have_you/

tl;dr: Fat, ugly feminist decides to submit to the patriarchy and is surprised when it turns her entire life around.

[oskar]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meermin_slave_mutiny

synopsis:

crew: hey slaves, would you mind cleaning those weapons for us
slaves: sure. would you mind sailing this back to madagascar

[oskar]

The twitch chat on the bob ross stream is fucking gold.

http://www.twitch.tv/bobross

[OngBonga]

I feel your synopsis is somewhat incomplete. Allow me to add to it...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meermin_slave_mutiny

synopsis:

crew: hey slaves, would you mind cleaning those weapons for us
slaves: sure. would you mind sailing this back to madagascar
crew: sure, do any of you know how to navigate at sea?

[spoonitnow]

This happened to a friend of mine about two or three years ago (not me), and it's relevant to the friendzone discussions.


Girl has her boyfriend take video of him slapping her pussy with a belt.

Girl sends video to female fuckbuddy... except she accidentally sent it to male coworker who she's rejected in the past.

Male coworker loses his fucking shit about how "she's being abused" and threatens to go to the cops(?).

Boyfriend is like lol ok?

*several hours pass*

Male coworker asks why she dates assholes who beat her instead of nice guys like him.

???

Profit

[a500lbgorilla]

[Galapogos]

That picture is the first time I've ever seen the resemblance between a real heart has and a Valentines day type heart.

[Lltyldide]

I like this pic))
I really actually din`t understand the persons who starts to "BOMB" on jokes about jewish or African Americans or something like that - they say at once that you are racist even if the joke was harmless =/

[rong]

http://www.iflscience.com/physics/wh...g-opposite-way

[Luco]

Check your headlights, check your brake lights. Since the clocks went back ive seen tons of cars with a light out and its a quick fix once youve spotted it

[kiwiMark]

Yeah it's way simpler than people realise to put your clock forward again.

AYYYYY

[Luco]

Ohai kiwi

[kiwiMark]

hi friend

randomrandom

[rong]

http://www.iflscience.com/physics/wh...g-opposite-way

No love for this?

[Luco]

No love for this?

Yeah it's neat. Must have taken a few tries to get that perfect drop like they did

[rong]

Yeah definitely. Plus, Canon balls move slower than I imagined.

[OngBonga]

Oh Kari. There aren't many ten out of tens in this world, but she's definitely one of them.

[Luco]

Oh Kari. There aren't many ten out of tens in this world, but she's definitely one of them.

Beauty is subjective. Not a 10 for me, but definitely up there. Someone else on reddit today mentioned a 10/10 that I wouldn't give more than an 8 (Meg Turney)

I remember starting a thread in the commune years ago about trying to find an objective 10/10 and ultimately everyone had their own flavour... the closest we got to universal acceptance was a south african model called Candice Swanepoel?

[spoonitnow]

Who the fuck gives any female a 10?

Personally I prefer scoring out of 30 ala Patrice O'Neal. For example, Angelina Jolie is like a 19. She's a really good-looking alright-looking bitch.

[Luco]

Who the fuck gives any female a 10?

Personally I prefer scoring out of 30 ala Patrice O'Neal. For example, Angelina Jolie is like a 19. She's a really good-looking alright-looking bitch.

We should score everyone in binary, out of 64

So angelina is a solid 101001

[spoonitnow]

We should score everyone in binary, out of 64

So angelina is a solid 101001

I could be down for that.

[aubreymcfate]

lol you guys need to visit NY

[spoonitnow]

lol you guys need to visit NY

It's the most hectic, nerve-racking city. Imagine having to take the 7 Train to the ballpark looking like you're riding through Beirut next to some kid with purple hair, next to some queer with AIDS, right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time, right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. It's depressing. The biggest thing I don't like about New York are the foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?

[aubreymcfate]

NYC is the zen capital of the world and I am clearly the most zen person on this forum so Idk what the fuck you're talking about.

[aubreymcfate]

despite the art, culture, parties, and the amazing music, it's terrible for humans, and people who haven't left the city in years (by choice) basically have stockholm's syndrome.

the real reason i mentioned it is the hottiez

[kiwiMark]

you should see my mirror

[oskar]

having never been to new york I always imagined it to be a lot like the chapter the market in naked lunch.

Spoiler: Show

THE MARKET

Panorama of the City of Interzone. Opening bars of East St. Louis Toodleoo… at times loud and clear then faint and intermittent like music down a windy street….


The room seems to shake and vibrate with motion. The blood and substance of many races, Negro, Polynesian, Mountain Mongol, Desert Nomad, Polyglot Near East, Indian — races as yet unconceived and unborn, combinations not yet realized pass through your body. Migrations, incredible journeys through deserts and jungles and mountains (stasis and death in closed mountain valleys where plants grow out of genitals, vast crustaceans hatch inside and break the shell of body) across the Pacific in an outrigger canoe to Easter Island. The Composite City where all human potentials are spread out in a vast silent market.


Minarets, palms, mountains, jungle… A sluggish river jumping with vicious fish, vast weed-grown parks where boys lie in the grass, play cryptic games, Not a locked door in the City. Anyone comes into your room at any time. The Chief of Police is a Chinese who picks his teeth and listens to denunciations presented by a lunatic. Every now and then the Chinese takes the toothpick out of his mouth and looks at the end of it. Hipsters with smooth copper-colored faces lounge in doorways twisting shrunk heads on gold chains, their faces blank with an insect’s unseeing calm.


Behind them, through open doors, tables and booths and bars, and kitchens and baths, copulating couples on rows of brass beds, crisscross of a thousand hammocks, junkies tying up for a shot, opium smokers, hashish smokers, people eating talking bathing back into a haze of smoke and steam.


Gaming tables where the games are played for incredible stakes. From time to time a player leaps up with a despairing cry, having lost his youth to an old man or become Latah to his opponent. But there are higher stakes than youth or Latah, games where only two players in the world know what the stakes are.


All houses in the City are joined. Houses of sod — high mountain Mongols blink in smokey doorways — houses of bamboo and teak, houses of adobe, stone and red brick, South Pacific and Maori houses, houses in trees and river boats, wood houses one hundred feet long sheltering entire tribes, houses of boxes and corrugated iron where old men sit in rotten rags cooking down canned heat, great rusty iron racks rising two hundred feet in the air from swamps and rubbish with perilous partitions built on multi-levelled platforms, and hammocks swinging over the void.


Expeditions leave for unknown places with unknown purposes. Strangers arrive on rafts of old packing crates tied together with rotten rope, they stagger in out of the jungle their eyes swollen shut from insect bites, they come down the mountain trails on cracked bleeding feet through the dusty windy outskirts of the city, where people defecate in rows along adobe walls and vultures fight over fish heads. They drop down into parks in patched parachutes,… They are escorted by a drunken cop to register in a vast public lavatory. The data taken down is put on pegs to be used as toilet paper.


Cooking smells of all countries hang over the City, a haze of opium, hashish, the resinous red smoke of Yage, smell of the jungle and salt water and the rotting river and dried excrement and sweat and genitals.


High mountain flutes, jazz and bebop, one-stringed Mongol instruments, gypsy xylophones, African drums, Arab bagpipes…


The City is visited by epidemics of violence, and the untended dead are eaten by vultures in the streets. Albinos blink in the sun. Boys sit in trees, languidly masturbate. People eaten by unknown diseases watch the passerby with evil, knowing eyes.


In the City Market is the Meet Cafe. Followers of obsolete, unthinkable trades doodling in Etruscan, addicts of drugs not yet synthesized, pushers of souped-up Harmaline, junk reduced to pure habit offering precarious vegetable serenity, liquids to induce Latah, Tithonian longevity serums, black marketeers of World War III, excisors of telepathic sensitivity, osteopaths of the spirit, investigators of infractions denounced by bland paranoid chess players, servers of fragmentary warrants taken down in hebephrenic shorthand charging unspeakable mutilations of the spirit, bureaucrats of spectral departments, officials of unconstituted police states, a Lesbian dwarf who has perfected operation Bang-utot, the lung erection that strangles a sleeping enemy, sellers of orgone tanks and relaxing machines, brokers of exquisite dreams and memories tested on the sensi-tized cells of junk sickness and bartered for raw materials of the will, doctors skilled in the treatment of diseases dormant in the black dust of ruined cities, gathering virulence in the white blood of eyeless worms feeling slowly to the surface and the human host, maladies of the ocean floor and the stratosphere, maladies of the laboratory and atomic war…. A place where the unknown past and the emergent future meet in a vibrating soundless hum… Larval entities waiting for a Live One…

I've watched Seinfeld so I know this has to be pretty close.

[aubreymcfate]

I have a harem of young boys languidly masturbating in trees around my house. Keeps the property value up.

Man I love Burroughs.

[wufwugy]

dont kid yourself, 90% of the chicks posted to /r/beautifulfemales are 10s. unless your name is spoon and you don't save your "this is how to treat females in order to maximize positive outcomes regarding them" thing for when actually dealing with females.

[spoonitnow]

dont kid yourself, 90% of the chicks posted to /r/beautifulfemales are 10s. unless your name is spoon and you don't save your "this is how to treat females in order to maximize positive outcomes regarding them" thing for when actually dealing with females.

0-9 is better than 1-10, and I've probably fucked more 7+ girls than every guy in the past two or three pages of this thread combined.

NYC is the zen capital of the world and I am clearly the most zen person on this forum so Idk what the fuck you're talking about.

It was that John Rocker quote that got him in so much shit in the late 90s. The guy is hilarious.

[OngBonga]

0-9 is better than 1-10, and I've probably fucked more 7+ girls than every guy in the past two or three pages of this thread combined.

I reckon I've been to more raves than everyone on the last two or three pages combined. I've surely smoked more spliffs. I've also probably spent more time not working than you lot too. I wouldn't swap lives with you for shit. Success and bitches? Fair play. But to be happy with nothing, well would you still be a smug twat if you had no job no money no bitches? I am.

[spoonitnow]

I reckon I've been to more raves than everyone on the last two or three pages combined. I've surely smoked more spliffs. I've also probably spent more time not working than you lot too. I wouldn't swap lives with you for shit. Success and bitches? Fair play. But to be happy with nothing, well would you still be a smug twat if you had no job no money no bitches? I am.

I've had everything I've got taken away from me more than once, and I've always gotten it back and then some. The money and females do not make the man. My comment wasn't about "look how awesome I am" so much as defending against an attack concerning how I handle females. Apparently that's the popular thing to do around here lately.

To your comment, I think that it ultimately doesn't really matter what any of us do. We're stuck here for a while, and then we're gone, and the only real difference (and an infinitely small one at that) in the overall big picture is what we decide to do with the time we have. I've decided to do what I'm going to do, and you've decided what you're going to do, and there's nothing wrong with either because right and wrong doesn't come into it. You wouldn't switch lives with me (and I wouldn't switch lives with you) because those switched lives don't match up with what the other wants.

[wufwugy]

I've had everything I've got taken away from me more than once, and I've always gotten it back and then some. The money and females do not make the man. My comment wasn't about "look how awesome I am" so much as defending against an attack concerning how I handle females. Apparently that's the popular thing to do around here lately.

fwiw i've never meant anything about "how you handle females". i think you probably handle them spectacularly. in fact ive been meaning to ask you to expand on how you tutor females math differently than males.

my comment in this thread wasn't about handling females but about discussing females with dudes. the other disagreement from a week or so ago wasn't about you either (unless ur gf wrote the fb post). tbh i have a feeling you would handle the situation much better than that doofus did anyways.

[oskar]

0-9 is better than 1-10, and I've probably fucked more 7+ girls than every guy in the past two or three pages of this thread combined.

[oskar]

[oskar]

I'm debating whether or not to make Adolf Hitler my facebook profile pic. I'm trying to weight how much it would upset my mom to how funny it would be to me.

[wufwugy]

um if upsetting your mom is the only problem that would cause then you have to do it. moms (at least the loving ones) are fantastic at putting things that upset them about their kids aside

[oskar]

My mom dropped by work today to bring me cake, so, yeah... Made it this instead:

[a500lbgorilla]

[wufwugy]

that gorilla is not five hundred pounds. it's not even a gorilla.

[a500lbgorilla]

Bro, HIIT will transform you.

[a500lbgorilla]

The computer before me blows my mind.

My old TI-86 calc was a bit of a wonder, but understandble...

This?



This is fuck magic.

[spoonitnow]

in fact ive been meaning to ask you to expand on how you tutor females math differently than males.

The TL;DR version is that I focus a lot on managing anxiety with females since that's the #1 killer of both interest and learning the material. I've not had success with this approach in kids under about 12 since they tend to just not be anxious and really just not care.

[Luco]

Heh, reminds me of when jackass did beehive tetherball

[spoonitnow]

Related to the girls and math and learning and the girls in competitive games thread too...

Between 11-13 years ago, I ran a big county-wide chess situation for the elementary/middle schools (our elementary schools were K-8 at the time and included middle school grades). There were eight elementary schools, and they all had chess clubs. I would visit each chess club about once a month (about two visits to schools each week) to teach and extend an invitation to a weekly group I had going at this restaurant near the center of the county. This restaurant had some big conference type rooms full of tables and chairs that they were nowhere close to filling most of the time, so they let us reserve it for one day each week. They enjoyed it because most of the kids ate something there, and it gave them more business.

I want to point out that this chess club at the restaurant basically stopped happening after I handed it off to an elementary school guidance counselor about 2-3 months after I had to move out of the area for school.

At its peak, we had about 60-70 kids coming weekly for somewhere between 9-12 months. This actually led to me getting a job offer from this chess academy in Charlotte (http://www.charlottechesscenter.org/) for $20/hour full-time, which I stupidly turned down because of the timing and having already committed to moving to Raleigh right after I finished my second year of college, but that's kind of outside of the scope of what I'm wanting to bring up here.

So out of these 60-70 kids were about 10 girls, and they mostly took advantage of the chess club there as a chance to socialize (with one exception that I'll get to in a moment). None of them were particularly interested in getting better. In comparison, virtually all of the boys were there because it was an opportunity for them to improve.

The one girl exception I mentioned above was in the 6th or 7th grade, and she was the youngest of five children. She had four older brothers, and she was constantly in competition with them. She was largely socialized to be competitive, and because of that, she was a bit of an outcast from the rest of the girls. She really thought they were pretty dumb because they didn't care about being better and just "wanted to talk about boys," etc.

This really stood out to me as being a good example of the majority of the girls kind of acting how they naturally act and the exception acting differently because of environmental factors. This was particularly interesting to me because she was very feminine in her appearance and how she acted otherwise, and she was frequently even the only girl there to wear a dress (the others would be in jeans and t-shirts). She got a lot of attention from boys too, and she seemed to blow most of them off because she thought they were dumb.

[spoonitnow]

CDC busts the myth that men commit most domestic violence, and it's not even close:

http://psychnews.psychiatryonline.or...pn.42.15.0031a

[MadMojoMonkey]

The computer before me blows my mind.

My old TI-86 calc was a bit of a wonder, but understandble...

This?



This is fuck magic.

It's all about standing on the shoulders of giants. This is decades in the works, from just the programming level. The hardware to accomplish this is also decades in the making.

It's mind-blowing, but if you've been following the baby steps along the way, it's been kind of tediously slow progress.

[MadMojoMonkey]

My mom dropped by work today to bring me cake, so, yeah... Made it this instead:

:jealous:

My mom is terribad. Loving moms aren't a given in this world.

[MadMojoMonkey]

I've surely smoked more spliffs.

[a500lbgorilla]

It's all about standing on the shoulders of giants. This is decades in the works, from just the programming level. The hardware to accomplish this is also decades in the making.

It's mind-blowing, but if you've been following the baby steps along the way, it's been kind of tediously slow progress.

Some of those baby steps seem like gazelle leaps to me.

[MadMojoMonkey]

Some of those baby steps seem like gazelle leaps to me.

Some of them truly were / will be.

Some of them look like leaps, but were really just a baby step, magnified. An advance in material science or manufacturing processes can lead to a smaller tool die. The smaller tool die can make smaller transistors. The smaller transistors fit more closely together, reducing the time for a signal to propagate between 2 consecutive gates. The smaller gates mean more can be fit into the same volume, so the complexity of a given chip can increase by many orders of magnitude.

The initial change was a material only slightly better than the previous one, but the outcome is a new computer chip architecture.

[MadMojoMonkey]

Also, that phone is bogus. The numbers are in the wrong spot.



See that 1 is the closest to the pin and zero is last?


This is what tipped me off:
The area codes were distributed by population within the zone. NYC was most populous at that time, and got the area code 212, the lowest possible code, given other factors (can't start with a 1, etc.). Hawaii was given the highest possible code, 808, accordingly.

The most populated area codes were the shortest to dial.

[a500lbgorilla]

I design in boolean logic. I get how a rotary phone yes/no's its way to connect a call. I get how a touch screen yes/no's it's way around the internet. But how you take in raw visual data and pick out the traffic commands from the wandering citizens... that's magic.

[a500lbgorilla]

Heh, reminds me of when jackass did beehive tetherball

There's heh and then there's HAHAHAH

edit

[wufwugy]

holy crap im crying with laughter

[MadMojoMonkey]

I design in boolean logic. I get how a rotary phone yes/no's its way to connect a call. I get how a touch screen yes/no's it's way around the internet. But how you take in raw visual data and pick out the traffic commands from the wandering citizens... that's magic.

It's still a series of yes/no's. You take the data of one image and you perform an edge detection algorithm. You have a lookup table of what different configurations of edges mean. You no/no/no/yes through the data table until you find a match. Then you follow the instructions attached to that yes.

You do all that for one image and you go to the next image. By comparing consecutive images, and relating various edge-detected-entities from one frame to the next, you build a velocity space by seeing where each object is in relation to where it was.

Then you have another lookup table that says, when object XX is moving in YY manner, perform ZZ Top's hit single, "Sharp Dressed Man."

[a500lbgorilla]

Then you have another lookup table that says, when object XX is moving in YY manner, perform ZZ Top's hit single, "Sharp Dressed Man."

[MadMojoMonkey]

-Billy Gibbons or Dusty Hill
(Who can tell them apart?)

lol: the drummer from ZZ Top's name is Frank Beard.

[spoonitnow]

The story of how they grew their beards is pretty interesting. They both grew them out independently.

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milo yiannopoulos is easily one of my favorite people. even when you disagree with him, he's entertaining and has just enough charisma to keep going. if you dont know anything about him, he's a gay conservative provocateur. seems unusually high iq and well read as well.

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i love how much he loathes gays' embrace of mainstream culture, like how what can be sometimes assessed as gay privilege to subvert norms is itself subverted by the embrace of mainstream culture. it's not so much that he's right (no single side on the issue of either embracing culture or subverting it is exclusive in its correctness), but it's a neat point.