Thinky Whale posted:

Just get that Harlequin to repent already.

Bill Dungsroman posted:

Glagha posted:

Glagha posted:

fullroundaction posted:

That idiot coworker of a friend I posted a few pages (the one who claims racism is over / everyone is equal because of JFK/MLK/The Constitution) made me laugh out loud again this weekend. Turns out she's just a loving moron.



Also double IOSM because of my friend's stupid loving tshirt purchase.

Hardcordion posted:

I'm pretty sure we've been slaves to time since the first organism died of old age.

King of Foolians posted:

I like this one because even though it is technically true, what does it loving matter? It's taking the position of "Wake up, Sheeple and learn the truth of our dependence on clocks!"
It's not as if time will stop passing for you if you stop using clocks. The whole thing dumbfounds me because I can't really think of a single negative that comes from knowing what the exact time is (or at least the time according to the Global Clock Conspiracy).

Deceitful Penguin posted:

Oh I'm sorry I didn't recognize you, in that case, it's not so much as I'm against Social Justice, so much as that it can get very frustrating operating in social justice circles when a lot of the time it seems people are more interested in just being morally superior to others than actually furthering the goals of our respective movements, as in sharing articles or memes rather than holding meetings, events or actually doing things in real life

Yeah, that can be draining, irritating and even sometimes mean that you have to endure hostility from people around you, but ultimately victory is achieved just as much from small victories such as changing one persons opinion on things over and over as large legislative victories, at least when it comes to small societies like mine.

Not wanting to put effort into things all the time is understandable, but acting like it's not understandable weakness but some kinda moral position is something I find very irritating.

Edit: also why ghost
But seriously, has anyone ever gone home after being told to google anything, read through it and then been like "oh yes, I will now amend my ways because I read a thing on the internet!"

Setting aside the fact that googling poo poo nowadays you're just as likely to pick up terrible echo-chamber garbage, you convince people by talking to them like human beings and trying to appeal to their emotions much more than with ~great articles~, especially if they don't even have a basis to judge the subject

That is if by the time they reach a computer, they haven't just forgotten it. Or they could read about it in their smartphones I suppose?

Puppy Time posted:

This is stretching the definition of "hero" to the point that it doesn't mean anything.

Why is a baby your hero? What heroic qualities can an infant possibly demonstrate?

Puppy Time posted:

This is stretching the definition of "hero" to the point that it doesn't mean anything.

Why is a baby your hero? What heroic qualities can an infant possibly demonstrate?

china bot posted:

posted by a 61 year old woman, a friend of my parents who misspelled her own name when setting up her Facebook profile

china bot posted:

same woman just posted this:

King of Foolians posted:

I like this one because even though it is technically true, what does it loving matter? It's taking the position of "Wake up, Sheeple and learn the truth of our dependence on clocks!"
It's not as if time will stop passing for you if you stop using clocks. The whole thing dumbfounds me because I can't really think of a single negative that comes from knowing what the exact time is (or at least the time according to the Global Clock Conspiracy).

china bot posted:

same woman just posted this:

china bot posted:

same woman just posted this:

Kajeesus posted:

How exactly is it technically true? Obviously the units by which we measure it are a construct, but there's very clearly something that separates objects and events even when they occupy the same place in space.

Data Graham posted:

I'm sorry officer, but I think you'll find that speed doesn't exist

Inco posted:

Cats can, because they're the only creatures (other than witches and sages) that can see into Purgatorio from Mundus.

Kajeesus posted:

How exactly is it technically true? Obviously the units by which we measure it are a construct, but there's very clearly something that separates objects and events even when they occupy the same place in space.

The Vosgian Beast posted:

We've always been slaves to time, but being a slave to clock time goes back to the industrial revolution at most.

quote:

For thousands of years, devices have been used to measure and keep track of time. The current sexagesimal system of time measurement dates to approximately 2000 BCE from the Sumerians.

The Ancient Egyptians divided the day into two 12-hour periods, and used large obelisks to track the movement of the sun. They also developed water clocks, which were probably first used in the Precinct of Amun-Re, and later outside Egypt as well; they were employed frequently by the Ancient Greeks, who called them clepsydrae. The Zhou dynasty is believed to have used the outflow water clock around the same time, devices which were introduced from Mesopotamia as early as 2000 BCE.

Other ancient timekeeping devices include the candle clock, used in ancient China, ancient Japan, England and Mesopotamia; the timestick, widely used in India and Tibet, as well as some parts of Europe; and the hourglass, which functioned similarly to a water clock. The sundial, another early clock, relies on shadows to provide a good estimate of the hour on a sunny day. It is not so useful in cloudy weather or at night and requires recalibration as the seasons change (if the gnomon was not aligned with the Earth's axis).

The earliest known clock with a water-powered escapement mechanism, which transferred rotational energy into intermittent motions,[1] dates back to 3rd century BCE in ancient Greece;[2] Chinese engineers later invented clocks incorporating mercury-powered escapement mechanisms in the 10th century,[3] followed by Iranian engineers inventing water clocks driven by gears and weights in the 11th century.[4]

The first mechanical clocks, employing the verge escapement mechanism with a foliot or balance wheel timekeeper, were invented in Europe at around the start of the 14th century, and became the standard timekeeping device until the pendulum clock was invented in 1656. The invention of the mainspring in the early 15th century allowed portable clocks to be built, evolving into the first pocketwatches by the 17th century, but these were not very accurate until the balance spring was added to the balance wheel in the mid 17th century.

The pendulum clock remained the most accurate timekeeper until the 1930s, when quartz oscillators were invented, followed by atomic clocks after World War 2. Although initially limited to laboratories, the development of microelectronics in the 1960s made quartz clocks both compact and cheap to produce, and by the 1980s they became the world's dominant timekeeping technology in both clocks and wristwatches.

Atomic clocks are far more accurate than any previous timekeeping device, and are used to calibrate other clocks and to calculate the International Atomic Time; a standardized civil system, Coordinated Universal Time, is based on atomic time.

Practical Demon posted:

From the post, I'd say hanging onto life after being born very prematurely and in bad condition.

Terrible Opinions posted:

I'm guessing it's the same thing as calling cancer survivors heroes. The commenter is a dick.

King of Foolians posted:

It is technically true that what we usually call "time" is a measure of Earth's rotation split into convenient sub-sections. I don't think that "...therefore time doesn't exist" is true though. The whole thing still confuses the gently caress out of me.

Lottery of Babylon posted:

IOIs are therefore signals of an interest in cheating with You. In a sexual transaction, it is a given that at least one person is going to get laid and at least one person is going to get screwed. Maybe You, maybe her, maybe someone else.

RatHat posted:

Aside from just "lol duggars" I don't get it.

Zero One posted:

Or further back...


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

TinTower posted:

https://twitter.com/mlong5000/status/780523909816913920

I mean, it's not as if PTSD is a common occurrence amongst rape survivors, you know?

TinTower posted:

https://twitter.com/mlong5000/status/780523909816913920

I mean, it's not as if PTSD is a common occurrence amongst rape survivors, you know?