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T-man posted:You install an app on your phone that locks your phone if you don't return the cart. Using the app is the only way to make the brakes disengage. BRB, patenting wheels that snap onto the frame, lifting the whole cart by a modest amount and rendering the existing, locked wheels obsolete.
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imagine my disappointment when the warp marine corps books end up accurately predicting the future and immortal president pence leads us through the warp through the power of jesus
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How can aliens not be real when UFO's are real, huh?
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Warmachine posted:Kalamazoo MI. I lucked into this place as I knew some friends living in other units. It is far and above the cheapest you're going to get in this town with no roommates. It tends to get passed by word of mouth, so I don't think it's ever been listed on the open market. Right, well, I'm pretty sure Kalamazoo has nothing to do with the discussion of rent in Canada's capital
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Buy a shopping trolley key for a couple buck off ebay. wanting to steal carts but not wanting to look gay
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PLEASE do not mock my criminal penis keychain
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Buy a shopping trolley key for a couple buck off ebay. pretty sure this is a diagram of a half-finished vasectomy
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Larry Parrish posted:This is liberalism. Socialism is about hope and the scientific method. Hope is a liberal construct designed to keep people complacent while their overlords run roughshod over them. I had written a whole lot more, but at the risk of getting banned and/or investigated I cut the rest out. But eventually there's going to be a tipping point, and it's going to be violent.
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Any humans that explore the stars will not be recognizable as humans to us. Still a pretty good chance they’ll wanna gently caress the aliens tho.
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Chunderbucket posted:PLEASE do not mock my criminal penis keychain Why is it so small?
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Remulak posted:Any humans that explore the stars will not be recognizable as humans to us. 1) Establish human colonies outside our solar system. 2) Allow divergent evolution to take its course. 3) Presto! Fuckable aliens!
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Literally the only reason to find aliens other than to have sex with them is to study their society and gather more data to support dialectical materialism.
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bike tory posted:Literally the only reason to find aliens other than to have sex with them is to study their society and gather more data to support dialectical materialism. or we could kill and eat them
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Chunderbucket posted:Right, well, I'm pretty sure Kalamazoo has nothing to do with the discussion of rent in Canada's capital when my cohort were finding undergrad housing, you had to sign a year’s lease and hope you could find someone to sublease for the summer months or else eat the extra rent. where did these student-friendly 8-month lease terms come from?
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we just signed year long leases and went to summer school or hung out over the summer. gently caress going home.
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Hurt Whitey Maybe posted:we just signed year long leases and went to summer school or hung out over the summer. gently caress going home.
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Screaming Idiot posted:or we could kill and eat them
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Hurt Whitey Maybe posted:we just signed year long leases and went to summer school or hung out over the summer. gently caress going home. gently caress yeah! I'm a Prof at my undergraduate uni now, and unlike my cohort all these kids bail to go back to their bland boring suburban shitbox house. It's super lame.
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my friends all came home because then they didn’t have to pay for food, they had access to their parents cars and nicer-than-student houses, and it was often easier to find a summer job there than in the student towns. (the women found the latter especially so, since many of the local jobs had physical labour components and people hiring for them wouldn’t really take female applicants seriously.) this is all last century though, so I guess it’s not surprising that it’s different now. it’s just surprising that leasing terms got better for students!
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Subjunctive posted:it’s just surprising that leasing terms got better for students! They probably just price out a years lease over eight months and make believe that they’re giving better terms
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Subjunctive posted:when my cohort were finding undergrad housing, you had to sign a year’s lease and hope you could find someone to sublease for the summer months or else eat the extra rent. where did these student-friendly 8-month lease terms come from? I have no idea what he's talking about really, I've seen the same as you. Come May there's a huge flood of units popping up for summer sublets, either until the lease ends or they come back. Made my last move a nightmare. Guillotine for the ones who are like "sublet ends a week before september so i can move back" Chunderbucket has issued a correction as of 20:48 on Nov 9, 2019 |
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bike tory posted:Literally the only reason to find aliens other than to have sex with them is to study their society and gather more data to support dialectical materialism. I dunno if you heard but earth ain’t doing so hot. If we killed the aliens we could take their planet
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Listen there are many terrible and wonderful things we could do to the aliens. Human history makes that clear. And that is why we're in the time-out box too far away to ever contact them.
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Not only are they disgusting meat sacks, did you see what they did to the Neanderthals? What they do to themselves? Homo delenda est.
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The great filter is anime.
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wilderthanmild posted:
Either that or eat a metric fuckton of spice.
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:Either that or smoke a metric fuckton of salvia, enough that you actually get trapped in the shadow realm ftfy
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bike tory posted:Literally the only reason to find aliens other than to have sex with them is to study their society and gather more data to support dialectical materialism. friend, have you considered the potential of an entire world as... a market?
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Blockade posted:The great filter is anime. What if the aliens are so technologically advanced they're capable of making anime real?
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:What if the aliens are so technologically advanced they're capable of making anime real? Isnt that just the Culture
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:What if the aliens are so technologically advanced they're capable of making anime real? Battle Angel came out in February so anime has been real for months
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anime is already real in the hearts of all that believe in the Goddess Haruhi Suzumiya, bless'd be thy name.
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Screaming Idiot posted:Ladies and gentlemen and everyone in between, I should remind you of the great and beautiful mercy that is Fermi Paradox. There are no alien civilizations, no extraterrestrial life, no intelligence in the universe save our own. We are a fluke, an accident, a temporary chemical reaction that is thankfully in the process of cleaning itself away. In just a few decades it will all be over, and the world will be still and quiet. It will heal, and the life remaining on earth will adapt to the new paradigm we have left in our wake and we shall be forgotten utterly. Hallelujah Time to gently caress up my credit like steve bucemi in armegeddon
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Screaming Idiot posted:or we could kill and eat them Is this before or after we have sex with them?
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:Either that or eat a metric fuckton of spice. 
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There is a beacon in the solar system somewhere. We don't have the tech to see or detect it. It warns any passing aliens not to contact us, even if its for invasion or to steal resources. "They kill each other for trivial things, they see the point of helping each other helps everyone, but decide not to do so. They kill over differences of their surface color, locations where they were born, even for any minor difference in thinking. They are not worth taking as slaves, befriending, or for raw materials. They will claim to say they are friendly and want to share knowledge and peace. Especially the ones who have stolen from many others to gain dominance. Do not trust them, as they will end up killing you for your differences to them. Once they have made themselves extinct, feel free to take or explore whatever you wish from the system. Shouldn't be long." The above from a short story idea I had of a TedX Talk by a futuristic Elon Musk type billionaire who found the beacon and decides to play it for the first time to the world.
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Platystemon posted:It also assumes that they have superstitions similar to our own. Oh I realize, that was mostly for effect, but I'd think if they were to analyze the thing in depth they'd at the very least probably pay special attention to these weird glyphs we went through a hell of a lot of trouble to put on everything. Also re: Fermi paradox, I've always thought there's probably plenty of life out there, maybe even intelligent life, but the way we look for them is so human-centric that we'll never find them. Even if we assume aliens operate on the same time and size scales as us and aren't like, hyper-fast meshes of iron atoms assembling and disassembling on the surface of a star or an emergent result of a complex interaction of gravitational bodies taking millions of years to think a single thought, there's not really any reason to think they'd be using radio waves to transmit signals the same way we do, on the frequencies we think are the "good" ones (for SETI or anything else really), or in ways that even look like information to us. I remember reading an idea Norm Chompers had about alien language a while ago, that it would be so fundamentally different to our own concept of language that there'd be no way for a human to ever 'learn' it, and that we could only ever decipher what it meant by applying the scientific method to it and studying it like that. I'd be willing to bet this extends to alien technology as well.
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