Martman posted:

Remember when everyone came together and threw Gamemaster Anthony a HUGE party? Good times

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

I first learned that some people really, really care too much about circumcision because of a guy who posted incessantly about foreskin restoration on another forum almost twenty-five years ago. He had his own website where he blathered about foreskins too. The early internet was a hell of a place.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Does a wiki count as a forum? I suppose the talk pages might but I'm gonna need a ruling on this.

ItohRespectArmy posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-us-teenager-wrote-huge-slice-of-scots-wikipedia

if wiki's count then boy do I have a good one lmfao

“This is going to sound incredibly hyperbolic and hysterical,” wrote Ultach, “but I think this person has possibly done more damage to the Scots language than anyone else in history. They engaged in cultural vandalism on a hitherto unprecedented scale.”

The 19-year-old North Carolinian, who edits under the username AmaryllisGardner, responded on Wikipedia saying that he was “devastated” at the reaction “after years of my thinking I was doing good”.

He wrote: “I was only a 12-year-old kid when I started, and sometimes when you start something young, you can’t see that the habit you’ve developed is unhealthy and unhelpful as you get older.” He also called for other users to stop harassing him and his friends on social media.

According to Wikipedian MJL, another administrator on the site, AmaryllisGardner had created or edited 49% of all the articles on the Scots Wikipedia. “Speaking as an admin there, here’s what happened with Scots Wikipedia,” they tweeted after the story broke on Reddit. “Nobody cared about maintaining it. Someone stepped up because no one else did. That person was never given any guidance. Articles ended up being very poorly mistranslated.”

AmaryllisGardner’s edits showed a lack of understanding of the basics of the language: in one common error, he used “an aw” as a dictionary translation of the English word “also” when grammatically the phrase should be used more like “and all”. “I’m X, and I’m also Y,” can be translated as: “A’m X, an A’m Y an aw,” for instance. When the error was flagged in January this year, after seven years of editing the Scots Wikipedia, AmaryllisGardner said he had “never thought about that”.

In Wikipedia’s sometimes insular community, seniority matters a great deal. Purely by being an early, and prolific, editor of the Scots Wikipedia, AmaryllisGardener gained administrator rights, and the power to undo vandalism of the site, occasionally using that to overrule others who tried to fix his errors.

The revelation has led to some calling for the entire Scots Wikipedia to be deleted, arguing that its continued existence causes more harm than good. “It’s been suggested to me to nuke the whole thing and start over,” MJL said. Another proposal gaining support among Wikipedia’s broader community calls for every edit the user has made in the last seven years to be undone, even if that means deleting almost half of the encyclopaedia.

Tweak posted:

was the FF7 house a forum saga somewhere or was it just something on like, tumblr

Wikipedia posted:

Bluelight is a web forum and research portal dedicated to harm reduction in drug use. As of May, 2022, it claims over 455,000 registered users. It was formed as bluelight.ru in 1999 before later switching to the bluelight.org domain. Bluelight has a dedicated following of people who use drugs, researchers, and people seeking advice for harm reduction in their drug use. It does not promote drug use explicitly, as evidenced by the honorarium to the deceased in Bluelight's Shrine where many members who have died due to their drug use, mental health disorders, and for other reasons.

Some kind soul posted:

Well these types of threads are not allowed at Bluelight. That was the easiest source of info I found.

stuffmonger posted:

I agree with the instability. It changes color from grayish-white to a beautiful tan, and texture from a talcum like powder to a larger grain with 4 or 5 days of precipitating, provided it's kept wet.

Why are threads like this not allowed? I've seen tons of freebasing discussions on Bluelight.

Famethrowa posted:

bluelight was like tcc on uh, crack. insane body count for sure.

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16-bit Butt-Head posted:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/573081-hellhole lol

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

many years ago in ultima online there was a guild of orc rolerplayers called shadowclan that played on the servers catskills and siege perilous they were so well known that they even had a entry in the official strategy guide for one of the ultima online expansions. as the years went on and the game slowly died from stupid decisions many of them splintered off and formed a new guild on one of the biggest private servers which led to an incredibly stupid and petty and very funny war of words of who deserved a wikipedia page or not and which one was the better group of orcs with constant vandalism and attempts to delete the others wikipedia page

wikipedia finally got fed up and deleted both pages and now its just a small blurb on the ultima online article that there used to be roleplayers who played orcs in the game lol

Paracaidas posted:

I hate that I'm familiar with the term intactivist.

rodbeard posted:

It was definitely the L-block.

Carthag Tuek posted:

about Clinton and mohammedans (ie muslims) and vaguely scientific references, always super long posts in classic schizo format, weird racist esoterica.

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I have done a complete re-write of the Wikipedia article, which had a rather absurd number of inaccuracies. Here is a link to my revised version of the article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound%E2%80%93Rebka_experiment

Please review and suggest improvements and corrections.
Thanks!

For comparison, here is an archived copy of article before my changes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pound%E2%80%93Rebka_experiment&oldid=1100293754

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Trying to convince you to improve your writeup is getting tiresome, especially given your stubbornness. As this point I will conclude with recommending you a very good treatment of the subject by a professional physicist, Ben Crowell, from his published book: https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Relativity/General_Relativity_(Crowell)/01:_Geometric_Theory_of_Spacetime/1.06:_The_Equivalence_Principle_(Part_2) (so it is not what wiki calls personal research).
Crowell clearly states:

"If the Mössbauer effect is carried out in a horizontal plane, resonant absorption occurs. When the source and absorber are aligned vertically, p, gravitational frequency shifts should cause a mismatch, destroying the resonance. One can move the source at a small velocity (typically a few mm/s) in order to add a Doppler shift onto the frequency; by determining the velocity that compensates for the gravitational effect, one can determine how big the gravitational effect is."

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Resonant absorption occurs in a wide range of frequencies, rear end in a top hat.

There are no gamma photons emitted at a specific, unique frequency f₀ = 14.4/h Hertz.

The distribution of resonant frequencies is given, in eV, by a Lorentzian profile centered on E₀ with intensity I₀ and
full-width half-maximum (FWHM) Γ given by:

L(E) = I₀ (Γ/2)²/[(E - E₀)² +(Γ/2)²] = I₀ (Γ/2)²/[ΔE² +(Γ/2)²] , where

I₀: Nominal peak energy of the shape (eV).
Γ: Bandwidth for L(E) = ± I₀/2 (eV).

The shape fall to half its maximum at E = (E₀ ± Γ/2).

Fractional FWHM = Γ/2

Γ ≈ h/τ = 4.136E−08 eV

Fractional FWHM = |± 1.43E-12| (Pound quoted |1.13E-12|)

RATIO of Gravitational Effect to 2xFractional FWHM ≈ 0.001 (0.1%)

Now, try to measure a 0.1% bandwidth spread (Einstein) over the resonant capture bandwidth of Γ = 4.136E−08 eV.
The gravitational effect IS REPRESENTED BY ≈ 4.136E−11 eV.

Now, do that with ANALOG INTEGRATORS OF BEEP COUNTS, even when you captured 10,000,000,000 photons that cause
RESONANCE in the FWHM Γ = 4.136E−08 eV.

And COOKING, FUDGING, CHERRY PICKING AND TRIMMING DATA AT WILL, WITHOUT ANY CERTIFICATION BY PEERS!

Fishy as hell. A true HOAX.

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Not in the case of Mossbauer effect

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Post by Richard Hertz
rear end in a top hat.

Nice new signature, Dick.

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loving SOB, you're an EE!

Even if you don't want that spectral dispersion to be true, you KNOW that it happens with every single source of EM energy.

Stop behaving like a loving child, insisting that gamma photons have a loving DELTA DIRAC SPECTRUM, mother..f..uck..er!

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You are eating poo poo. Again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C

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I REPEAT THIS WITH NUMBERS, SO IT MAY ENTER INTO YOUR THICK, STUPID SKULL.


No gamma photons are emitted ONLY at a specific, unique frequency f₀ = 14,400/4.136E−15 Hertz = 3,486 PetaHertz

The emission of recoil free gamma photons follows a PROPOSED Lorentzian distribution, using eV in ΔE instead of Hz as x axis:

L(E) = 14,400 (2.68)²/[ΔE² +(2.68)²] = 103,426/[ΔE² + 7.18] eV

For (FWHM) Γ/2 = ± 2.068E−08 eV separation of E₀ = 14,400 eV, |L(E)| = 7,200 eV.

DID THIS PENETRATED THE DEPLETED URANIUM SHIELD ON YOUR loving HEAD?

E₀ = 14,400 eV is a ROUGH ESTIMATION. If you want the center energy TO BE ADJUSTED to the precission required for
the experiment, you should express E₀ with 15 DIGITS!. Like 14,399.5912445247 eV. THEN, AND ONLY THEN YOU COULD USE
a value of Γ/2 = ± 2.068E−08 eV.

DO YOU UNDERSTAND THIS, IMBECILE? IT'S ERROR THEORY 101 in measurements. YOU STUDIED THIS, CRETIN!

You can't obtain more precision digits in ANY MEASUREMENT where the weakest value has 5 DIGITS, even when the rest of
values have 10, 15 or 20 DIGITS!

The FULL (2 x FWHM)/E₀ = Γ/E₀ = 4.136E−08/14,000 = 2.87222E-12

AND THIS MEANS A RESONANCE WITH A Q FACTOR Q = 3.48162E+11

And this EXTRAORDINARY Q FACTOR is what makes the Mossbauer effect so useful. It's almost 10,000 higher than the
hyperfine transition of 133Cs in the Ramsay cavity!

BUT, notwithstanding such extraordinary Q factor, Fe⁵⁷ still radiates WITH A DISPERSION (NOISE).

Traduced to Hertz, Δf = 3,486E+18/3.48162E+11 Hertz = 10,012,569 Hertz of bandwidth for RESONANT GAMMA FREQUENCIES.

Now, the FULL IMBECILITY OF POUND-REBKA: Trying TO MEASURE a shift of 2.49E-15 in a NOISY BANDWIDTH OF 10 Mhz.

And this ratio is THE FABULOUS ACHIEVEMENT OF MEASURING A 0.1% SHIFT IN THE RADIATED SPECTRUM.

Do you understand now, loving imbecile?

I presented here data in eV and Hertz.

If you persist with your imbecilities, you can go as quick as you can TO gently caress YOURSELF.

I don't hold any hope for you, Dono. You're a disgrace of A MAN, in every possible sense.

And prokaryotic, Gamma photons are emitted by the nucleus of Fe⁵⁷ atoms, not by electrons. Nucleus have the recoil.

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...and the stupid lies. Good work, dumbestfuck!

pentyne posted:

I still remember when they would tell you in school that you can't use .com or .org webpages as citations when turning in papers because the internet wasn't trustworthy.

pentyne posted:

"No, you can't use webrings as a source I don't care how many animated flame gifs their pages use"

EVERY TIME GOING posted:

That sure is a neat aggregator for peeking behind Usenet's mantle without actually having to sign up for the ancient service. But yeah that relativity article discussion just kept escalating daily to Hell's Kitchen levels of intrigue and got pretty enjoyable before calling it half-time with its latest entries 4 days ago. The ESL manner in which the two physics enthusiasts hotly demean on each other makes it infinitely funnier. Hoping the two will resume the task of disproving each other's bogus experiments with their own incomplete proofs all the while solving the real science of which one of them is the real dumbestfuck.

pentyne posted:

where did Ulillillia come from?

pentyne posted:

I read somewhere that Chris Chan might be the most documented person in human history to this point.

HelloIAmYourHeart posted:

JenniCam got married and her named changed to Jennifer Johnson so she's basically unfindable now.

source: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/8whoja

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

brutal doom causes some drama in the doom modding community to the point many modders go out of their way to have their levels break and refuse to work to keep from having to deal with its fanbase demanding they balance their levels around brutal doom

SgtMarkIV the creator of brutal doom has also been banned from every single doom forum for being a holocaust denying neo nazi sociopath that once gave someone having a mental breakdwon detailed instructions on how to kill themselves used real images of gore for brutal doom and stole work from other modders and wouldnt credit them until the drama became too much to ignore. he also had a meltdown and thought id was ripping him off when he saw glory kills for doom 2016 lol. just an awful person all around

pentyne posted:

Speaking of insane modders,

Tessmage: Big modder for Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines, had probably the most widely used 'fix' mod that everyone worked off, then for some reason he added a bunch of changes like inflating the tits of the female characters and then started calling things Tessmage approved or Tessmage official and the community moved away from him

The Oblivion Gates guy, who was so notorious that Nexus Mods ended up changing their policies to avoid dealing with someone like him again.

Harminoff posted:

Poor Uli can't catch a break after all the progress over the last few years, he is moving back to his parents

https://www.patreon.com/posts/back-...ntent=join_link

Psycho Landlord posted:

this mike matei sounds like a contentious fellow