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Groovelord Neato posted:counting on fingers makes a lot more sense than counting on knuckles. Base 10 is super recent though, like, only a little older than 1000 years. Up to real recent history everyone was counting just fine without base ten, and just using placeless systems. The idea we in 2018 count by 10s because cavemen had to count on their fingers isn't right at all. Counting by ten postdates all prehistory. Like, counting by 10 is so recent that even the modern languages we speak all have elements of non-decimal counting, like english having base 12 naming and french having base 20 naming. It's not some caveman on the savanna thing where people counted on fingers first then math developed later, the base 10 stuff is super late to the party.
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if you're gonna defend the french calling 80 "four twenties" you've gone off the deep end. https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1078272888069853184 https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1077632852811005952 Groovelord Neato fucked around with this message at 14:12 on Dec 27, 2018 |
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Dec 27, 2018 14:03
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Come on, there are four twenty nineteen problems with the French language but base 20 isn't one.
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Dec 27, 2018 14:12
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Polls of the military consistently show that the white male yahoos with no education like Trump, and his approval sucks with every other demographic in the military. He's had net disapproval with the officer corps forever basically.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Base 10 is super recent though, like, only a little older than 1000 years. Up to real recent history everyone was counting just fine without base ten, and just using placeless systems. The idea we in 2018 count by 10s because cavemen had to count on their fingers isn't right at all. Counting by ten postdates all prehistory. Is there some sort of Decimal Denier thing happening here or what? Pro-pound Lobby? Or is this an exercise in bullshittery?
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Base 10 is super recent though, like, only a little older than 1000 years. Almost all of these (some very old) are base 10? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numeral_systems
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Eox posted:Come on, there are four twenty nineteen problems with the French language but base 20 isn't one. 
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Lol wtf https://nymag.com/intelligencer/201...XUBuYRJx3di6Zhk
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*Heavy Geraldo breathing*
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I asked a military guy about this and it’s a nothing burger. There’s usually a Seal team at that base. Which team it is doesn’t matter. The implication is more that Trump doesn’t know what he’s broadcasting. This wasn’t bad, but there’s literally nothing stopping him from actually tweeting out more sensitive information.
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Dec 27, 2018 14:33
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Navy Seals aren't actually that secret unless they're SEAL Team 6. This is a non story.
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OctaMurk posted:Navy Seals aren't actually that secret unless they're SEAL Team 6. This is a non story. I hadn't realised seal team number 6 was any more special than seal team numbers 1-5. Huh.
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https://twitter.com/praddenkeefe/status/1078279574549680128quote:“I need to show respect to Mr. Trump,” Burnett recounted, in a 2013 speech in Vancouver. “I said, ‘Welcome, everybody, to Trump Wollman skating rink. The Trump Wollman skating rink is a fine facility, built by Mr. Donald Trump. Thank you, Mr. Trump. Because the Trump Wollman skating rink is the place we are tonight and we love being at the Trump Wollman skating rink, Mr. Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.” As Burnett told the story, he had scarcely got offstage before Trump was shaking his hand, proclaiming, “You’re a genius!” Groovelord Neato fucked around with this message at 14:51 on Dec 27, 2018 |
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If we had to have a reality tv president (which honestly was probably inevitable), RuPaul would've been an objectively much better choice, imo.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Base 10 is super recent though, like, only a little older than 1000 years. Up to real recent history everyone was counting just fine without base ten, and just using placeless systems. The idea we in 2018 count by 10s because cavemen had to count on their fingers isn't right at all. Counting by ten postdates all prehistory. Hell, remember old British money? I think base 12 tended to stick around a lot because it's more easily divisible (halves, thirds, sixths and such) and the human mind thinks more easily in fractions (iirc) but base 10 possibly got more popular with more people having access to writing materials?
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Crow Jane posted:If we had to have a reality tv president (which honestly was probably inevitable), RuPaul would've been an objectively much better choice, imo. The chairman from iron chef would make everything a culinary delight. Is Mueller on Xmas break? Haven't heard much lately.
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Roblo posted:I hadn't realised seal team number 6 was any more special than seal team numbers 1-5. Huh. There's actually only Seal Teams 1, 2, 3, and 5. So if all of them get captured, the bad guys will keep looking for 4.
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Krispy Wafer posted:There's actually only Seal Teams 1, 2, 3, and 5. I think they legit started using the codename Seal Team Six for exactly that reason but it's totally possible that's apocryphal.
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drat burnett is a psychotic idiot:quote:Long before he met Trump, Burnett had developed a Panglossian confidence in the power of branding. “I believe we’re going to see something like the Microsoft Grand Canyon National Park,” he told the New York Times in 2001. “The government won’t take care of all that—companies will.” and lol: quote:“The Apprentice” was built around a weekly series of business challenges. At the end of each episode, Trump determined which competitor should be “fired.” But, as Braun explained, Trump was frequently unprepared for these sessions, with little grasp of who had performed well. Sometimes a candidate distinguished herself during the contest only to get fired, on a whim, by Trump. When this happened, Braun said, the editors were often obliged to “reverse engineer” the episode, scouring hundreds of hours of footage to emphasize the few moments when the exemplary candidate might have slipped up, in an attempt to assemble an artificial version of history in which Trump’s shoot-from-the-hip decision made sense. During the making of “The Apprentice,” Burnett conceded that the stories were constructed in this way, saying, “We know each week who has been fired, and, therefore, you’re editing in reverse.” Braun noted that President Trump’s staff seems to have been similarly forced to learn the art of retroactive narrative construction, adding, “I find it strangely validating to hear that they’re doing the same thing in the White House.” these scumsuckers knew exactly what we were getting and kept their lips sealed. gently caress em all. Groovelord Neato fucked around with this message at 15:06 on Dec 27, 2018 |
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Crow Jane posted:If we had to have a reality tv president (which honestly was probably inevitable), RuPaul would've been an objectively much better choice, imo.
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Pander posted:The chairman from iron chef would make everything a culinary delight. The original chairman Kaga is far superior and he's not a us citizen He could replace shinzo Abe tho
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Pander posted:The chairman from iron chef would make everything a culinary delight. Most likely, but do steel-eyed gargoyles celebrate christmas? Crow Jane posted:If we had to have a reality tv president (which honestly was probably inevitable), RuPaul would've been an objectively much better choice, imo. Doubtless. That would usher in an age of American glory.
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He's not wrong. People have complained about "what happens if a competent fascist was President?" not realizing that we already had one. The Bush administration was the accumulation of 30 years of conservative efforts to undermine democracy. Trump has swung so hard to the right that it's breaking that machine.
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Hey, my gang tag came back.  Thanks, mysterious benefactor!
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quote:Such sleight of hand is the industry standard in reality television. But the entire premise of “The Apprentice” was also something of a con. When Trump and Burnett told the story of their partnership, both suggested that Trump was initially wary of committing to a TV show, because he was so busy running his flourishing real-estate empire. During a 2004 panel at the Museum of Television and Radio, in Los Angeles, Trump claimed that “every network” had tried to get him to do a reality show, but he wasn’t interested: “I don’t want to have cameras all over my office, dealing with contractors, politicians, mobsters, and everyone else I have to deal with in my business. You know, mobsters don’t like, as they’re talking to me, having cameras all over the room. It would play well on television, but it doesn’t play well with them.” quote:Burnett, who was forty-three when Season 1 aired, described the fifty-seven-year-old Trump as his “soul mate.” He expressed astonishment at Trump’s “laser-like focus and retention.” He delivered flattery in the ostentatiously obsequious register that Trump prefers. Burnett said he hoped that he might someday rise to Trump’s “level” of prestige and success, adding, “I don’t know if I’ll ever make it. But you know something? If you’re not shooting for the stars, you’re not shooting!” On one occasion, Trump invited Burnett to dinner at his Trump Tower apartment; Burnett had anticipated an elegant meal, and, according to an associate, concealed his surprise when Trump handed him a burger from McDonald’s. Groovelord Neato fucked around with this message at 15:15 on Dec 27, 2018 |
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I would also definitely vote for President Tim Gunn over Trump
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he'd definitely make it work.
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Crow Jane posted:I would also definitely vote for President Tim Gunn over Trump Secretary of Making It Work.  ^^ 
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SocketWrench posted:They're standing next to the world's most despised man in a war zone. I congratulate them on their bravery for not hiding behind more armor It gets worse, because of course it does: Trump Seems to Have Accidentally Revealed the Identities of a Covert Navy SEAL Team on Twitter https://splinternews.com/trump-seems-to-have-accidentally-revealed-the-identitie-1831330106 quote:“The deployments of special operation forces, including Navy SEALs are almost classified events [sic]... to protect those men and women that are on the front lines of every overt and covert conflict the United States is involved in,” an unnamed Defense Department official told Newsweek. “Even during special operation demonstrations for congressional delegations or for the president or vice president, personnel either have their faces covered or their face is digitally blurred prior to a release to the general public.” VH4Ever fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Dec 27, 2018 |
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VH4Ever posted:It gets worse, because of course it does: This is less a thing than you'd think, at least according to GiP - there's apparently always a seal team at that base.
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Oh my god gently caress him. Whenever this resolves watch him try to block back pay.
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holy poo poo he's legitimately braindead:quote:Burnett’s myopia about politics may be selective, but that does not mean it is feigned. He would hardly be the first Hollywood chieftain with a dim grasp of current events beyond Los Angeles, but even by industry standards he can seem remarkably disconnected. Shortly after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Florida, this past February, Burnett attended a regular meeting of television executives at M-G-M. At one point, someone mentioned the marketing plan for a project in the studio’s film division: a remake of “Death Wish,” starring Bruce Willis. The movie, about an armed vigilante, was unabashedly pro-gun—Breitbart eventually hailed it as an “N.R.A. Public Service Announcement.” Someone asked whether M-G-M would be altering the rollout of the film, in light of the shooting.
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I know the answer is “no” but is this remotely true in any way? That’s “most of the people not being paid are Democrats?” Like, I could see this being true if maybe the EPA was shut down. Maybe.
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Shifty Pony posted:Oh my god gently caress him. They might not be Democrats now, but they sure will be after this shutdown 
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Groovelord Neato posted:they shoulda used the access hollywood tape. From a few pages back (but it's not my fault thus thread moves too drat fast and I got other poo poo to do), but if I was in a position to swap out the audio files then I think it would totally be worth getting fired.
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Boris Galerkin posted:I know the answer is “no” but is this remotely true in any way? That’s “most of the people not being paid are Democrats?” Like, I could see this being true if maybe the EPA was shut down. Maybe. I would imagine that non-appointed government positions tend to skew at least some to the left because of the whole public servant thing. You will of course find the occasional libertarian nutjob trying to fight the system from within but at worst it'll represent the overall spectrum of the population around the jobs.
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Does Trump think he holds all the cards here wrt the shutdown because the GOP's goal is literally to get rid of the federal government and all the people who work for it are Democrats anyway?
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Crow Jane posted:If we had to have a reality tv president (which honestly was probably inevitable), RuPaul would've been an objectively much better choice, imo. Mama June from Honey Boo Boo would have been a better President. She's already a better parent, and she let her daughter's molester move back in the house. The bar to being better than Trump is more like a speed bump.
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Roblo posted:I hadn't realised seal team number 6 was any more special than seal team numbers 1-5. Huh. The numbering was to originally throw people off on how many active teams there were (allegedly). Team 6 is/was also known as DEVGRU/special warfare developmental group and pulled members from the other SEAL teams. Think of it more like the Navy's Delta Force. All of these guys are the blackest of black ops teams.
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