Subjunctive posted:

this part at least is pretty much commodity within the industrial context, although possibly not really the type of steel you want for a bridge

quote:

After hearing Mark Zuckerberg say that posting the “Our Father” prayer violates their policies, I ask all Christians to follow my lead and post the “Our Father.” prayer
I declare my faith in public. Jesus said: Whoever denies me here on earth, I will deny before my Father who is in heaven. Matthew 10:33
This is the best challenge I have ever seen on Facebook. So if you love Him and you're not ashamed, please join me on this faith challenge!
AMEN
Our Father,
Who art thou in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
Thy kingdom come;
Thy will be done
On earth as in heaven.
Give us our daily bread
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we also pay them back to debtors,
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.
Amen!

darthbob88 posted:

Presumably from someplace like this company.

I don't think we'd be able to print out the entire 1.6 mile long bridge in a couple of days.

E: Quick back of the envelope math- If it takes 2 days to make a 10 foot structure, then to make an 8,500 foot bridge would take 1700 days, or about 4.7 printer-years of work, plus added time for the vertical size of the bridge. It'd be almost certainly be faster and cheaper to roll the members and weld them the usual way than to try 3d printing it.

Lemniscate Blue posted:

Dunning-Krueger gets misinterpreted and misquoted but there's some truth to the wrong reading. Some people are so arrogant that they assume the things they don't know about a topic must be inconsequential, because if they were important they'd know them because they're smart. This is a great example: this guy doesn't know a goddamn thing about what it would take to build a bridge like that but assumes that there's nothing important to know beyond what he already knows.

In this case he's doubly stupid because he's bought into the bullshit about 3d printing, AI, etc and assumes that it can do what he proposes here.

(This is the same way you get climate change deniers smugly asserting that they can "debunk" it by mentioning volcanoes, as if there's never been any climatologists who study the impact of volcanic emissions on the composition of the atmosphere and include it in their models.)

Skios posted:

Got an ad for a t-shirt store on my work computer that was certainly... something.

Electric_Mud posted:

I just want to call this one out because it made me snort a Reese's.

Silly Burrito posted:

Duh, you just press the Turbo button. Do I have to think of everything????

The Islamic Shock posted:

3D printing also has this problem where it cleaves ridiculously easily when hit at a specific angle I seem to recall

The Islamic Shock posted:

3D printing also has this problem where it cleaves ridiculously easily when hit at a specific angle I seem to recall

Herman Merman posted:

Stop obsessing about the AI 3D printed bridge, it's an obvious joke.

VitalSigns posted:

If not scientists and experts, who should I believe then?

YouTube videos!

Medullah posted:

Medullah posted:

The Islamic Shock posted:

I guarantee nobody posting this unironically on social media has ever asked an expert on any politically relevant topic a drat thing about it. Runs the risk of them being told they're wrong in complete, comprehensive detail and then they'd have to think critically for themselves to either change their mind (the horror) or gymnastic their way out of it

Hewlett posted:

Not to mention thinking this way allows them to flatter their acute oppositional defiant disorder -- they've taken the oft-sensible notion of "don't accept conventional thinking at face value" all the way to "never believe anything that might make you seem like part of a consensus."

Because consensus is wrong, and more than that, it's boring. And you're not boring, right?

VitalSigns posted:

They're not even that, if they were knee-jerk contrarians they'd be better people simply because the consensus is wrong sometimes (they'd be anti-war, they'd be prison abolitionists, they'd be for trans rights, they'd have supported gay rights before it was cool, they'd have started masking after the consensus moved to Open Biden, etc)

They're conformists, they just listen to different, religious and reactionary, authorities. It just sounds better to call it "free-thinking" whenever their views are unpopular. And they call it something else whenever their views are in the majority ("cultural values" or whatever)

Medullah posted:

I do also love that the "Do your own research and don't believe the experts" people are a perfect circle Venn Diagram of "Why yes I believe that everything written in this 2000 year old book is 100% factually correct"

That sounds edgy atheist but I'm just saying... Skepticism

Subjunctive posted:

Those people have no idea what is written in that book.

InsertPotPun posted:

they've spent so much of their time being told "you're wrong, here's the real answer" by people smarter than them that they now equate saying "you're wrong" with being intelligent

and it made them feel bad to be wrong so they equate making people feel bad with being right

"what's 5 plus 5?"
"four"
"i'm sorry, you're wrong, it's 10"
"LOL STUPID! you fell into my trap: you're wrong! who's smarter NOW??"

insecurity and a lack of empathy. plus being, in general, dumb.

there's nothing inherently wrong with being dumb, i'm dumb in a lot of ways, it's when you fight it so hard and make it everyone else's problem where you start to suck. just accept that you'll have to read over paperwork a couple of times and deal.

generatrix posted:

“…they engage in wild hypocrisy as an act of domination, adhering to something demonstrably untrue out of spite, because they believe that power belongs to those with the greatest will to take it. And what greater sign of will than the ability to override truth?

Their will is a hammer that they are using to beat reality itself into a shape of their choosing: a simple world where reality is exactly what it looks like through their eyes, devoid of complexity, devoid of change, where they are right, and their enemies are silent.

They are trying to build a flat earth.”

(Dan Olson, In Search Of A Flat Earth)

Sartre posted:

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

Dameius posted:

All of his stuff is good. Watch all of it.

Medullah posted:

Dameius posted:

I think you forgot what site you're at. Goons gonna be gooning.