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People used to try to tell the future in the patterns of entrails of slaughtered animals, the flight of birds, and other random natural phenomena https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2NRgOkSUwc&t=114s I've just realised they were trying to divine the RNG of God.
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The concept of probability wasn't even around then. Dice didn't have to be designed to be "fair" because the results are the will of the gods. Gambling is just seeing who the gods favored more. Not a thing of chance.
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Path of Exile has a side mission called Victario's Secrets, where you have to collect 3 platinum busts scattered around a sewer. I only got the reference after completing the mission for around the 50th time. Bonus clue from the mission giver text when you hand it it: quote:Hargan: The people's poet could hide his spoils from Chitus, but not from us, eh? I knew you was the exile for the job. I'm sure you've been more than compensated already from Victario's stockpiles, but here's a little extra, care of something I found under a dead man's bed. Why? Just because I like you.
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Nov 15, 2019 16:28
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I never made the connection that obnoxiously Christian actors Kirk and Candace Cameron are related until I saw someone else mention it the other day.
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bamhand posted:The concept of probability wasn't even around then. Dice didn't have to be designed to be "fair" because the results are the will of the gods. Gambling is just seeing who the gods favored more. Not a thing of chance. What do you think the probability is that my post was serious?
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Nov 16, 2019 00:22
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Over/under of 7, is my guess.
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Nov 16, 2019 00:30
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LULLaby
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Nov 20, 2019 18:03
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Hipster_Doofus posted:LULLaby AW gently caress
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Nov 20, 2019 19:28
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Gary Numan was born before Gary Oldman.
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Nov 21, 2019 01:40
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Paprika is just capsicum / bell pepper.
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Nov 21, 2019 06:58
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Inceltown posted:Paprika is just capsicum / bell pepper. Woah
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Nov 21, 2019 07:03
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Inceltown posted:Gary Numan was born before Gary Oldman. Jfc 
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Nov 21, 2019 07:21
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I'm pretty poo poo at knowing who is in bands and stuff but finding out that Amanda loving Palmer was the singer of Dresden Dolls is doing my head in.
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Nov 22, 2019 03:24
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Inceltown posted:Paprika is just capsicum / bell pepper. Chipotle is just smoked jalapeños.
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Nov 22, 2019 15:00
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And anchos are just dried/smoked poblanos.
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Nov 22, 2019 15:05
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Chili here really only come in 'red' and 'green' so this is basically useless for me but hopefully helps someone.
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Nov 22, 2019 23:42
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I had a childhood space heater with digital controls that I thought was really lovely. It would run for a little bit, then shut off due to overheating. I would set it to the lowest temperature to see if it could run longer, but would still shut off after not too long. This week I bought a space heater. I went to set the temperature and realized that the temperature setting isn’t how hot you want the air to come out, it’s the temperature of the room at which you want the heater to shut off. It wasn’t overheating, it was shutting off when it reached the set temperature. Setting a lower temperature actually meant that the heater would shut off even quicker. I was using it wrong for years and years as a kid/teen. It’s something I truly can’t believe I just found out.
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Nov 24, 2019 05:32
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Kevin DuBrow posted:I had a childhood space heater with digital controls that I thought was really lovely. It would run for a little bit, then shut off due to overheating. I would set it to the lowest temperature to see if it could run longer, but would still shut off after not too long. See, this is why dads don't let kids touch thermostats: children literally don't know what a thermostat is.
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Nov 24, 2019 12:24
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With a space heater it's more understandable for someone to mistakenly think it works that way since it would make sense for a small electric device to be variable power and the temperature knob usually isn't labeled in degrees, but I've met plenty of people that think that "lower temperature = blows colder air" is how their central air works. "It's a little bit too cold in here, but I'll raise the thermostat by 10 degrees so it warms up faster." "I'll turn the air conditioner all the way off so it doesn't make it too cold during the night."
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Nov 24, 2019 13:05
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Every day I go into work during winter, I have to go around fixing the thermostats people have turned up to 85+ degrees because it is currently cold outside. Every loving day.
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Nov 24, 2019 13:15
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Lotion Tester posted:it would make sense for a small electric device to be variable power Nothing except thermostat control makes any sense whatsoever because it's literally by far the cheapest and simplest to implement.
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Nov 24, 2019 13:24
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I get why they're made that way, by "sense" I just meant that I see the logic in thinking that it's something variable like the fan speed is.
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Nov 24, 2019 13:31
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Lotion Tester posted:I get why they're made that way, by "sense" I just meant that I see the logic in thinking that it's something variable like the fan speed is. But is the fan speed really variable?  What if the speed selector just slows up or speeds down the flow of time?!?!?
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Nov 24, 2019 13:32
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Lotion Tester posted:With a space heater it's more understandable for someone to mistakenly think it works that way since it would make sense for a small electric device to be variable power and the temperature knob usually isn't labeled in degrees, but I've met plenty of people that think that "lower temperature = blows colder air" is how their central air works. No such thing as too cold at night
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Nov 24, 2019 14:19
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Milo and POTUS posted:No such thing as too cold at night 
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Nov 24, 2019 16:17
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Rollersnake posted:Every day I go into work during winter, I have to go around fixing the thermostats people have turned up to 85+ degrees because it is currently cold outside. Every loving day. At every business I've ever worked, staff has complained endlessly about how it's too hot or too cold even though the temperature is exactly the same year round with good load balancing. We had to put locks on the thermostats. People at one end of the call center would turn the A/C way up, people at the front would turn theirs way down, People in offices that had separate control would do random things. What happens? One of the A/C units ices up as it's running 100% duty. Then they turn up the unit at the front because it's getting hot. Guess what, that one ices. Now the office units ice up and you have to cut the breakers on all of them and let them thaw out. Locked and load balanced always works. People just like to obsess about temperature. My assistant endlessly complained about how it was freezing cold in his office and would wear a stocking cap, gloves, and a coat all the time. He would bitch and bitch and bitch. I bought him a thermometer to have by his desk. That way, he could see that it was 74 degrees year round in his office. He stopped wearing the extra stuff. He realized that it was all in his head.
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Nov 24, 2019 18:22
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Two jobs ago we had to relocate one employee out of the office that had the thermostat sensor in it because she wouldn’t stop shutting the door and running a space heater full blast, thereby freezing out the rest of the office.
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Nov 24, 2019 21:04
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Lotion Tester posted:....but I've met plenty of people that think that "lower temperature = blows colder air" is how their central air works. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P4_6e5IaQXM
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Nov 24, 2019 23:38
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mostlygray posted:At every business I've ever worked, staff has complained endlessly about how it's too hot or too cold even though the temperature is exactly the same year round with good load balancing. My experience over the years has been that people never, ever shut up about how cold it is. I hear it almost every single day. Most of the time when they do this it's perfectly fine for me despite the fact that I'm usually wearing something short-sleeved. I try to be understanding, I assume it's a legitimate complaint from their point of view. I've read that men and women prefer different temperatures, and there are probably a bunch of other metabolic factors in play. Dross posted:Two jobs ago we had to relocate one employee out of the office that had the thermostat sensor in it because she wouldn’t stop shutting the door and running a space heater full blast, thereby freezing out the rest of the office. lmao
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bamhand posted:The concept of probability wasn't even around then. Dice didn't have to be designed to be "fair" because the results are the will of the gods. Gambling is just seeing who the gods favored more. Not a thing of chance. absolute nonsense, people have known what loaded dice were virtually since their invention and they definitely would care if you were gambling with them
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Nov 25, 2019 04:48
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rodbeard posted:I never made the connection that obnoxiously Christian actors Kirk and Candace Cameron are related until I saw someone else mention it the other day. I just made the connection with this post.
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Nov 25, 2019 04:53
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ulex minor posted:absolute nonsense, people have known what loaded dice were virtually since their invention and they definitely would care if you were gambling with them You just got suckered by a loaded post
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Phlegmish posted:My experience over the years has been that people never, ever shut up about how cold it is. I hear it almost every single day. Most of the time when they do this it's perfectly fine for me despite the fact that I'm usually wearing something short-sleeved. Cold people can always wear more clothes. We unfortunate hot people aren't allowed to undress past a certain point. Crank up the AC.
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Beachcomber posted:Cold people can always wear more clothes. We unfortunate hot people aren't allowed to undress past a certain point. Crank up the AC.  The correct revenge is to sweat over the person complaining it's too cold.
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Nov 25, 2019 05:34
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ulex minor posted:absolute nonsense, people have known what loaded dice were virtually since their invention and they definitely would care if you were gambling with them The Lord works in mysterious ways. …Double or nothing?
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Beachcomber posted:Cold people can always wear more clothes. We unfortunate hot people aren't allowed to undress past a certain point. Crank up the AC. I'm a Cold Person and I like the AC up because then I can wear my comfy robe or bundle up in bed. I can't sleep at all if it's hot.
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Nov 27, 2019 08:42
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I thought the preferred term was cold elemental
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There's no creature called the Time Being who people leave things for.
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Jerry Cotton posted:There's no creature called the Time Being who people leave things for. The Time Being is also not picky and will happily accept things that are not perfect
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Peter FitzSimmons is not at all the same person as Angry Anderson. FitzSimmons seems like a decent bloke, while Anderson is an Islamophobic RWNJ. I really don't know how I managed to conflate them, other than maybe their hair?
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