lobster shirt posted:

would love to know more about this

Turtle Sandbox posted:

MFer was a real one.

Frosted Flake posted:

Biden should be picking one strategic direction to deal with. It makes no sense to have priorities this incoherent.

Zodium posted:

wars are intrinsically unpredictable. all the data are unreliable and grossly incomplete garbage, and even if they weren't, there's no scientific theory of war. people are just guessing.

Frosted Flake posted:

From now on, we are enemies - You and I. Because You choose for Your instrument a boastful, lustful, smutty, infantile boy and give me for reward only the ability to recognize the incarnation. Because You are unjust, unfair, unkind, I will block You, I swear it. I will hinder and harm Your creature as far as I am able. I will ruin Your incarnation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th_ro9CiASc

Zodium posted:

fine, but you know that wasn't what i meant.

DancingShade posted:

They were all FBI agents and the tatts just get covered up by dress shirts.

Frosted Flake posted:

Dixon Chisholm posted:

john mearshitter

Cerebral Bore posted:

you know, one of my most surreal experiences on these dead comedy forums was when the bolivian coup was popping off and you had motherfuckers riding around waving literal swastika flags and burning the symbols of the indigenous peoples, you had the military openly brutalizing and murdering protesters on the streets, that random lady declared herself president without even a fig leaf of legality while the military physically blocked all the members from the majority party in parliament from entering any parliamentary sessions, and then to top it all off the main coupers had some hosed up ceremony in a cathedral or somesuch where they basically proclaimed blood oaths that only white people would get to rule bolivia in the future and all of this poo poo was just broadcast out in the open

and then some motherfucker, who had regged that very same day no less, kramered into the d&d thread on the subject, claimed to be a regular bolivian concerned citizen and did the whole song and dance about how it all looks bad but evo was no angel you know, and it was like every single shitlib had some hosed up pavlovian response and immediately decided that this rando on the internet was now the sole voice of the people of bolivia and if you argued against them you weren't respecting bolivian voices or some horseshit like that

Organ Fiend posted:

gently caress Poland

Zodium posted:

intelligence is multifaceted and a lot of work has gone into breaking it down, but in the end, all the facets correlate. that's the positive manifold. and it's one of the most theoretically frustrating things to me, personally, because it really throws a wrench in my gibsonian gears and I still don't have a good answer. but it is something distinct. it is methodologically sound, general, heritable, independent of ses; it exists. it's just not very important. the problem is exactly that society places too much value on intelligence such that things of merit must require intelligence, e.g., chess playing lurker guy feels attacked and compelled to defend chess as intelligent by the suggestion that performance is overwhelmingly driven by a particular type of practice.

Organ Fiend posted:

If my posts on a dead gay internet forum help you or anyone else get through the day, then I'm happy they did.

There's some kind of fundamental truth, I think, that I'm not well read or educated enough to fully articulate. Its about how a system can not fully characterize every aspect of itself.

Like, I was watching that series DEVS, which posits the idea of a quantum computer that can fully simulate, in a predictive fashion, all of reality. This is theoretically possible, as if you had information on the state of every single particle in reality, you could predict what they'd do and what they'd done just by applying the laws of physics and the passage of time. However, I don't think its possible for such a device to exist because the device itself is part of the system. You'd then need another device to store state information about the first device, and so on and so on. You end up with an infinite recursion problem.

I think that this for physics, the incompleteness theorem for mathematics, and the fact that logic can't sort out values, is all connected in some way. Something about how a system must be based on fundamental axioms/laws/whatever that are not defined by/above the system itself.

But like I said, I'm not educated enough to make this coherent.