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so why do people like those inuits and other almost exclusively carnivore cultures dont get scurvy
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 23:29 |
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echinopsis posted:so why do people like those inuits and other almost exclusively carnivore cultures dont get scurvy because you get enough vitamin C from fresh meat and fish to prevent scurvy. supposedly the inuit found the survivors of the franklin expedition and tried to teach them to eat raw seal meat to survive, and were chased away for being filthy savages. the first expedition to actually go up and successfully search for evidence of what happened to the franklin expedition was led by an american army lieutenant who had the brilliant idea of actually having his men eat the native diet and lo and behold, they travelled for two years not dying of scurvy. shadok fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Feb 21, 2015 |
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shadok posted:american army lieutenant who had the brilliant idea of actually having his men eat the native diet and lo and behold, they travelled for two years not dying of scurvy. i love it when people defy my expectations of an era
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 00:49 |
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Mister Macys posted:Hey idiot, communal farming will fail due to the simple fact that people aren't robots and won't eat the same poo poo day in, day out, for the rest of their lives. they will if what they're presented with is a vegan microwave burrito containing fully 1/3 of a day's nutrition!
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 07:14 |
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that must be some burrito
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 07:42 |
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Mister Macys posted:
you might call it a dilburrito
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 08:01 |
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im honestly surprised by a lack of Soylent in dilbert's proposal.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 08:10 |
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Tokamak posted:im honestly surprised by a lack of Soylent in dilbert's proposal. remember the dilburrito was supposed to be Soylent
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 08:14 |
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SCOTT ADAMS: I failed at many things.I tried to make computer games.I wrote a few but it turns out I'm not a very good programmer.I tried to create a food company that had a nutritious vitamin-filled burrito. GREENE: That's the Dil Burrito? ADAMS: The Dil Burrito.Yes. GREENE: The Dil Burrito. ADAMS: Yeah.Unfortunately, made people very gassy.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 08:29 |
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in scott adams' diltopia city, all residences will be connected to the internet via ISDN connections!
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 08:37 |
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dilburrito, the only burrito with an entire dildo inside every one
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 08:44 |
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Jonny 290 posted:these arguments are always fun for like 8 minutes and then you start to piece together in your mind the enormity of the body of ignorance that allows an adult human being to make it not only to, but well past, the age of majority with opinions like these without having a mind shattering mental breakdown agreed libertarians are absolutely fascinating in short doses
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 08:50 |
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eschaton posted:remember the dilburrito was supposed to be Soylent no i didnt remember the dilburrito, consider me informed.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 09:59 |
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didn't scott adams rant about how the dilburrito failed because some shadowy group paid people to sabotage them
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 10:25 |
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the shadowy group known as "established food and beverage products that people actually enjoy buying"
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 10:46 |
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“If you’ve ever taken advice from a cartoonist, there’s a good chance it did not turn out well. For starters, it’s hard to know when a cartoonist is being serious and when he or she is constructing an elaborate practical joke. I’ve crafted pranks that spanned years, sometimes when no one was in on the joke but me. Some of those pranks are still percolating.” I was the victim of one of those pranks. And until reading this introduction, I did not know it. Here is what happened. When I launched IT-Harvest, my industry analyst firm, I had a brilliant idea for making my website “sticky”: publish a security themed cartoon every day. Adams had blogged frequently about helping beginner cartoonists launch their career so I sent him an email. I have to paraphrase these emails since I lost several years’ worth of email records, thanks to Yahoo. From: richard@it-harvest.com To: scott Hi Scott: I am launching a new website and I wondered if you could point me in the direction of a cartoonist who would like to create a daily security themed cartoon? I could work out a payment scheme whereby he/she got a penny per page view. I was quite amazed when the great man himself responded to my email, although disappointed by his reaction to my idea: From: Scott To: richard@it-harvest.com Richard: This is a horrible idea. It will never work. No cartoonist who is any good will ever work on these terms. -Scott Talk about balloon deflating. Oh well on to other things. But then a week later, on a Friday, I got the following email from Scott Adams. To: richard@it-harvest.com From: Scott Richard: I have been thinking about your proposal. I have become very bored with Dilbert and have been looking for something new. I will write your security cartoon. -Scott Wow! Pop the Champaign corks. This is HUGE! I am embarrassed to admit that I was truly excited. Not since the first time I got an email from a friendly business person in Nigeria has my head spun with the possibilities. I immediately shared the good news with my wife and kids. I forwarded the email to my brother who used to be a cartoonist. I started making bigger plans for the web site. After a weekend of cooling off I responded to Scott, accepting his offer and asking what the next steps should be. His response: From: Scott To: richard@it-harvest.com Richard: This is a scam, my email was hacked. -Scott I was shaken with disappointment. I was also impressed with the cleverness of hackers that target Scott Adams. Wow, they read and responded to his emails. That is pretty funny, even if I was the victim of the joke. I never published this story, even though the fact that Scott Adams’ email was hacked was news worthy. Until reading his admission that he has practical jokes that have been “percolating for years.” This was one of them! I was still falling for it eight years later because I took him at his word. That is how I was duped by Dilbert.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 10:57 |
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good story thank you
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 11:09 |
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Oh what a card, that Scott Adams!
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 11:22 |
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no thats scott orson
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 12:04 |
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poty posted:no thats scott orson nice
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 13:13 |
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started black mirror
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 13:15 |
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Jonny 290 posted:also it's me, i'm the router company that gleefully ships everybody the same router and then when they need a new one, oops, they're in super high demand, they're now $799 instead of $49 no routers can be shipped because scott adams banned the postal service from the city
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 13:46 |
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if i didnt know just how odious a man scott adams is i would find his pie-in-the-sky libertarianism absolutely adorable
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 14:00 |
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As a Millennial I posted:in Scott Adams' utopia, you will walk downhill both to and from work. this will save millions
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 15:23 |
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Hey, here are some chargers for Scott Adams' libertopia
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 17:19 |
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Doc Block posted:Hey, here are some chargers for Scott Adams' libertopia lol is that real
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 17:20 |
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WHOIS john galt, indeed
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 17:22 |
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:lol is that real IDK, probably. Somebody posted it on Twitter, if memory serves. Had it saved on my phone because LOL
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 17:28 |
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A Pinball Wizard posted:“If you’ve ever taken advice from a cartoonist, there’s a good chance it did not turn out well. For starters, it’s hard to know when a cartoonist is being serious and when he or she is constructing an elaborate practical joke. I’ve crafted pranks that spanned years, sometimes when no one was in on the joke but me. Some of those pranks are still percolating.”
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 18:25 |
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 18:47 |
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As a Millennial I posted:in Scott Adams' utopia, you will walk downhill both to and from work. this will save millions
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