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Al Borland Corp. posted:But he does have a state secret tattooed under there
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If trump said that I will eat a Trump steak cooked trump style
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Yeah, it's almost impossible that the great filter is ahead of us. We are clearly less than 200 years from being able to make a von neumann probe. The idea that every species ever ends between 'now" and then is pretty silly. Even if every species has their world ending nuclear war and one managed to get theirs 50 years late they still would have a chance to fill the galaxy with their stuff. A great filter would be necessarily impossible to foresee. Consider the possibility that every planet in the galaxy that generated multicellular life eventually evolved a thinking being (just like you!) who thought their species would soon have a chance to escape to the stars. And then they elected their Trump and shortly thereafter cleansed their planet of all its chances
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Blurred posted:You should wish you were demi-sexual, because you'd still have zero dating opportunities but at least you'd be able to lord it over everyone else by pretending you were somehow superior by not having sex with anyone. Really behind but as someone who recently figured out he was Demi the last thing I am able to do is lord it over people. "Haha! I have utterly no ability to have meaningless sex! The only gratification I get out of most social encounters is conversation and alcohol! I come across as cold and aloof to anybody who is interested in me because I actively recoil if someone expresses sexual interest in me unless we've had a half hour conversation and developed some kind of connection beyond physical attraction!" *edit In rereading this I've realized this comes off as false humility. To clarify, one night stands are something I really wish I could have because I have a very bad habit of Serial Monogamy that leads to toxic relationships because my need for emotional connection leads to the emotions that lead to long term relationships that I'm not really able to commit to but my own mental/emotional BS of being terrified of hurting people leads me to staying in those relationships far too long. Before this turns into even more of an E/N whine, I'll close off by saying that this is not a "I'm so deep and awesome" thing, it's a "I'm emotionally broken and can't create no-strings intimacy no matter how hard I try" thing. Renaissance Spam fucked around with this message at 03:52 on Mar 16, 2018 |
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I think it's a joke. So 4 if you take out Stephanie Miller and Jade O Keefe.
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"If sheep and goats had gods, they would look like sheep and goats" - Heraclitus
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"All things are a'flowin, Sage Heraclitus says, but a tawdry cheapness shall reign throughout our days."
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farraday posted:https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/974468508074565632 https://twitter.com/rebeccaballhaus/status/974475881287766017
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Yeah, it's almost impossible that the great filter is ahead of us. We are clearly less than 200 years from being able to make a von neumann probe. The idea that every species ever ends between 'now" and then is pretty silly. Even if every species has their world ending nuclear war and one managed to get theirs 50 years late they still would have a chance to fill the galaxy with their stuff. I think that's less likely great filter than the jump to multicelluar life, but to what degree I can't say. Unoriginal Name posted:A great filter would be necessarily impossible to foresee.
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Zophar posted:I wish I could communicate with others just how much sleep I've lost over the existence of John Bolton. You'll be first against the wall you bourgeois culture drone.
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skylined! posted:so didja google him or are you actually john bolton posting on somethingawful dot com TBH I was just reacting negatively to the idea that it was not possible to express why he is bad, a sentiment I have seen multiple times for some reason. Thanks for all the helpful links on the past couple pages though, everyone. 
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If Bolton gets in as NSA that means he could be shuffled into SecDef without Senate confirmation, right? I know Mattis is secure for now, but that's not exactly ideal.
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Unoriginal Name posted:A great filter would be necessarily impossible to foresee. I know you are making a joke but people constantly try to make the great filter some sort of social commentary thing in a way that makes no real sense. Like even if end of the world nuclear war is 100% inevitable anything past where we are is so close to leaving large scale evidence that if anyone delays their apocalypse even a few generations they ruin it as a great filter. Like global warming might be definitely going to gently caress up our civilization but like if we were some different species that could endure it just a few extra years over us they could easily get to the point they are putting out enough energy to show up on radio telescopes or build von neumann probes or any of the other low hanging fruit for "how would we see distant aliens?" stuff. Great filter basically has to be behind us.
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Caros posted:So, before we get started, I'd just like to introduce the couch. Behind we we've got Termimuller and @FormerBu, both of whom have really been instrumental in discovering a lot of the tech that is going to make this speed run possible. They're really great guys. Just tremendous.  This is from a while back, but is excellent and deserves more attention.  farraday posted:https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/974468508074565632
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pumpinglemma posted:If Bolton gets in as NSA that means he could be shuffled into SecDef without Senate confirmation, right? I know Mattis is secure for now, but that's not exactly ideal. No, he can't be moved from a non-Senate confirmed position to a position that requires confirmation
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Nsa is executive appointed. To put someone in to a Senate confirmation positionvlike the sod he would still have to go through the Senate. Pruit wasn't confirmed correct? Think he has the same issue going to the doj if that happens.
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lmao holy gently caress Trump, you fuckin' idiot.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I know you are making a joke but people constantly try to make the great filter some sort of social commentary thing in a way that makes no real sense. Like even if end of the world nuclear war is 100% inevitable anything past where we are is so close to leaving large scale evidence that if anyone delays their apocalypse even a few generations they ruin it as a great filter. If you assume you know everything, this might be true. But we, as a species, don't sooooooo
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Koalas March posted:As a bisexual I can tell you everyone is gay (#twentygayteen) except the women who are actually interested in me because lesbians/bi gals suck at communicating with each other and always assume every lady they're into is straight even as they're actively flirting/making out with us. This is from a few pages back, but here's a fun fact: this "women don't know how to flirt with other women" problem is so common that it actually has a semi-scientific name, "lesbian sheep syndrome" named after how gay female sheep (yes, sheep can be gay too) will just stand next to each other for hours because neither of them knows how to make the first move: https://boingboing.net/2001/12/04/i-encountered-this-w.html
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Lightning Knight posted:lmao holy gently caress Trump, you fuckin' idiot. Evangelicals: forgiveness brothers, as long as he still hates brown people we can still find forgiveness
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Kilroy posted:Well, I tend to agree, but while I can't comment on the possibility of it, I wouldn't discount that we're living in essentially a post-apocalyptic universe filled with self-replicating semi-sentient organisms / machines with the sole function and purpose of eradicating intelligent life. Something that was developed by an earlier technological species, perhaps as a weapon against its enemies or just for the lulz, and which proved devastatingly effective. That seems like the opposite solution to the fermi paradox, where instead of the answer being that intelligence/life is no where because it all died/didn't exist/got trapped on one planet that instead life or it's creations is literally everywhere and it just happens to be really sucky and boring. If every solar system gets it's own set of unstoppable reapers that also sucks and is bad, but like, it answers the fermi paradox with "actually aliens and their stuff are every single place, we just didn't notice" and we generally don't want to assume it's that, because if it's possible it's that then fermi paradox was never much of a question at all.
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Unoriginal Name posted:If you assume you know everything, this might be true. But we, as a species, don't sooooooo This is really dumb.
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Kilroy posted:soooooo... what? Nothing is knowable? No, you're just trying to answer a question by making a bunch of assumptions. Which is, well, really dumb.
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Instead of John Bolton let’s have Michael Bolton
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Vladimir Putin posted:Instead of John Bolton let’s have Michael Bolton I don't trust someone who enjoyed Pirates of the Caribbean that much.
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Spiffster posted:Evangelicals: forgiveness brothers, as long as he still hates brown people we can still find forgiveness *Matt Walsh furiously writes 1,500 word thinkpiece about how this displays Trump's masculine dominance and is in fact cool and good for the Federalist*
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Vladimir Putin posted:Instead of John Bolton let’s have Michael Bolton Or Ramsay Bolton. Until the Battle of Winterfell he showed considerable strategic prowess and he would even have won that one without last minute outside intervention.
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Zero_Grade posted:
Aww, thanks.
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could a journalist please open the box and determine McMaster's status by direct observation?
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Trump is going to say something about how disgusting Vanessa is in like a month tops.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/SRuhle/status/974478483601666048 He's totally getting fired over twitter tomorrow
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Unoriginal Name posted:No, you're just trying to answer a question by making a bunch of assumptions. Which is, well, really dumb. It's not like lovecraft where every solar system has it's own physics. There is plenty of assumptions you can make. Especially because a lot of them don't matter for being exact. Nuclear war or global warming might kill us all, but if we hold off on them even a few generations we get to the point our planet is putting out enough energy alien seti would see us, so that means nothing gets any farther than we are now. It's possible some secret surprise jumps out of the ground before 2100 and says "suprise! every planet has lavos! everyone dies now!" but it's far far more likely that even if we die real soon, that 1% of the civilizations that make it this far make it to the 'detectable by seti" stuff, even if they don't become star trek and all eventually die the same way we do to donald trumps. So it seems real likely the great filter is an event in the past we passed by. Which again, is seemingly so obviously the one step of our development that took an actual fraction of the age of the universe instead of some near instant blip of a few million years.
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Johnny Bravo posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/SRuhle/status/974478483601666048 Of course he is, Trump doesn't have the balls to fire people in person and his designated firer resigned on him.
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ShutteredIn posted:Trump is going to say something about how disgusting Vanessa is in like a month tops. And probably be caught propositioning her in a hotel room and paying her $130,000 to forget about it the next day.
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Holy poo poo. I've been trying to find a way to articulate his gait/stance/face. This one is perfect. I've been trying to figure out how to do his dumb smile but my face muscles couldn't do it. Channeling this one time and I've got it.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:That seems like the opposite solution to the fermi paradox, where instead of the answer being that intelligence/life is no where because it all died/didn't exist/got trapped on one planet that instead life or it's creations is literally everywhere and it just happens to be really sucky and boring. If every solar system gets it's own set of unstoppable reapers that also sucks and is bad, but like, it answers the fermi paradox with "actually aliens and their stuff are every single place, we just didn't notice" and we generally don't want to assume it's that, because if it's possible it's that then fermi paradox was never much of a question at all. Although I don't know that means for life that develops on gas giants, though perhaps there's a different filter there and intelligent life never develops on gas giants. I think it's a realistic possibility. If we want to become a space-faring civilization we're eventually going to need to conquer the fact that we're squishy bags of very fragile meat and are not at all suited to space travel. Also we die pretty quickly: our life span is not long enough that even interplanetary travel is very attractive, much less interstellar or intergalactic. But before we solve that problem, we'll be sending out... (probably self-replicating) probes to explore and chart nearby places and find interesting things for us. It's not hard to imagine some ancient species (hell, it's not hard to imagine us) also programming such a probe to also kill any life it happens to come across, on the off-chance it might be hostile. The good news is that any species which developed such machines, in the past billion years or so at least, will not have been able to populate the visible universe with them. So that's not an answer to the Fermi paradox. So it would have to have happened basically at the very early stages of the stelliferous era, making it less likely, and also I'm not actually sure what the size of the visible universe was then - maybe it's impossible outright. Kilroy fucked around with this message at 04:34 on Mar 16, 2018 |
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