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2016-10-30 at 5:21 AM UTC in Gin & TONICG&Ts are a great drink, probably my go-to with a negroni as a close second. Nothing better than a tall gin and tonic in the late afternoon of a summer day.
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2016-10-30 at 12:26 AM UTC in Omfg I fucking fucked up so bad. :( Biggest fuck up I've ever made.I didn't read your post before I replied. Seriously though, you don't need a "strategic outline" here, we're talking about some hoe up on enter's dick in a gay club, this isn't like some great deception and it doesn't require social finesse to handle, even I know that. You tell the bitch your bi, you insert your penis into her vagina, and you don't ever tell anyone about the total depravity of your internal experience. The end.
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2016-10-29 at 10:19 PM UTC in Omfg I fucking fucked up so bad. :( Biggest fuck up I've ever made."hey, I'm actually bi"
it's that easy, is this a fucking joke? -
2016-10-29 at 8:45 AM UTC in I just listened to the sounds of a tropic beach for half an hourdrunk posting woooo
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2016-10-29 at 8:19 AM UTC in I just listened to the sounds of a tropic beach for half an hourLooked up some recording of the sound of waves crashing on a beach on youtube or whatever. First time I've ever done that. I hate the beach. I grew up on the beach, as I kid I remember spending nights on islands where I was literally the only human there, warm nights, sleeping on the beaching. Sharing a beach with two or three other people. Waking up in the early dawn, the waves sound different when the opposite coast is 30 feet behind you.
Freude talked about the association of the ocean with emptiness, in western forms it's usually the vastness of the sea that's elevated to the sublime, sometimes depictions of drowning. In cultures better acquainted with beaches it's the sound, the unceasing rhythm. The period of the song is perhaps 6 hours but over enough time the pattern becomes clear. You learn to tell the difference between a rising and sinking tide by ear. That's insane right? Like you can tell it from a 30 second clip out of a period of 6 hours and somehow know if it's ascending or descending. The relative difference in tone between successive waves should be significantly less than the human capacity for discernment between pitch points, so there must be some greater information encoded there.
But that's gross, it quantifies something that's so much more than a measure of differentials. You don't know the waxing form the waning tide by extrapolation from a sample, it's intuitive, it's a sensory dimension entirely separate from the normal streams, it's composite and yet accessible to the intellect only by a separate, independent means. Like how we sense spatial orientation as a composite computation of basic values and yet it's reported to us separately from the inputs that inform it (you have a sense of "being upside down" that's a separate experience from the tactile sense of being pulled towards one's head).
But it's the loneliest sound in the world. It's a dull ache to even recall. Inevitable. Your senses know how to deal with it, some acoustic region of the brain uses it eternally was a market of your position in space on a macro level, and perhaps that's why the same sound from every angle is so disorienting, intoxicating. A force so consistent that it reduces rocks to sand, it goes on and on, it breaks rocks into sand, it reduces such structure to dust and one can't but feel an inanimate piece in a much larger collage in the face of such unrelenting force, annihilating far longer lived material than one's self.
Watching the surf, laying in it, feeling the looser more softly defined curves of environs defined by the sea is some sort of horrifying and reassuring at once. It's dark in it's own expansive way and yet so familiar.
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2016-10-29 at 7:28 AM UTC in Perspectivetoolowcontrastdidntread
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2016-10-29 at 5:31 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
Hey Lanny, try an experiment with me:
Low doses of Morphine induce reverse tolerance to Morphine itself (1990)
https://www.reddit.com/r/DrugNerds/comments/3tbkb5/low_doses_of_morphine_induce_reverse_tolerance_to/
Not with opioids, alcohol. It may have been demonstrated with multiple other drugs, too lazy to do a search. There are also anecdotes from reputable people that align with this effect, confounders considered.
Do you have access to the full text of the paper? I hope you're not one of those people that looks at abstracts (or worse, titles) and considers that reading a paper. Skimming is fine, only in small fields can a person keep fully up to date reading and comprehending every paper in full, but at minimum you should have access to the methodology and results of a study before accepting it as meaningful evidence of something.That's all you have to do, although I don't know how difficult this would be for you, whether you can put down the bottle for at least a day.
I know it's trendy to call me an alcoholic these days but rest assured it's not that bad. I'll stop drinking for days or weeks now and then just as a tolerance check. I've been keeping myself to one drink per night on weekdays because it messes with my sleep, I did notice when I started after three or four days one beer would have a much stronger effect than I was used to but it's hard to say if that was "reverse tolerance" or just normal tolerance reduction that happens over time. -
2016-10-29 at 3:09 AM UTC in People who say "thus far" instead of "so far".The pretentiousness of my last post made me cringe so hard I had to make myself another drink to deal with it
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2016-10-29 at 2:50 AM UTC in People who say "thus far" instead of "so far".
Your baseline is a state of pretension.
It's not though, I know that was probably meant as a joke but I think there's a real issue there. Anit-intellectualism is a real problem in the western world today and the way we talk is a real dimension in which it needs to be addressed. Our culture is stratified, I was born and raised in a certain strata as much as someone with a heavy black/southern accent and I'm not more capable of changing that fact than such a person would be (which is to say, it's possible but represents a conscious effort and perhaps some level of training). I may talk like a fucking douchebag but it is, at least, authentic; and the "pretentious" slur is on par with claiming poor dialects of the language are casually tied to low intelligence.
The world would be a better place if we treated people who use "ergo" unironically the same as people who say "ratchet". It may be stupid, it may depart from the common dialect beyond justification, but it's ultimately a function of one's environment. We, as a civilization, are hurt by our increasingly divergent language, and we should realize it's a more complex issue than a one dimensional spectrum between deviant and academic. -
2016-10-28 at 5:19 PM UTC in People who say "thus far" instead of "so far".you know sometimes people just talk a certain way without it being a concerted attempt at pretentiousness.
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2016-10-28 at 4:35 AM UTC in Daily reminder that Zok made "Zoklet" his license plate.You didn't warn tainted browser through.
HAH, found the loophole. EAT A DICK -
2016-10-28 at 3:50 AM UTC in Lannylol, spectral, you don't know what those words mean.
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2016-10-28 at 2:56 AM UTC in urgent warning all cool peopleWhat if drugs are only legal because it creates a fairly harmless channel for deviancy natural to the social development of a person? Maybe we could make exercising illegal so badasses will just do that all the time and the american dream will be owning a nice home in the suburbs and turning it into a opium den for the whole family.
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2016-10-28 at 2:03 AM UTC in Lanny
Why is that javascript needed Lanny?
It's part of vB. A lot of stuff you do on the forum is done by ajax. It doesn't strictly need to be, in the sense that it's perfectly possible to make a forum work without it, but vB5 made the design decision to go with it. There are some benefits there, like anything it's a tradeoff, if you think about functionality like thanks, there's no good way to make that interoperate with the quick reply form without JS. If they're independent forms then thanking something empties the reply field, if they're combined you have to boomerang every piece of state on the page back after redirect (costing you a minimum of two requests, assuming ideal cache performance), and the complexity of that code blows, and and it's throwing the dream of semantic markup out the window.Of all the people, you should be able to quickly remove it, and I'm sure you know of the security risks.
Not from vB, it isn't setup to work like that, to the core it assumes a whole bunch of user actions are done by ajax and that there's some logic on the client side.
As for the security risks, it's worth talking about but on the whole modern browser environments ala Chrome or FF are pretty secure. Fundamentally it's a larger attack surface, but it's one of the most battle tested sandboxing environments in the world today. When we're talking about like tor then the additional data yielded is relatively limited, timezone and some browser stats like screen size, generally considered non-identifying. People like to spread FUD about javascript and tor and to be sure it is an increased risk to enable it but it's a risk to turn your computer on. There is no currently known attack against correctly configured, up to date browsers through TOR that hinges on JS being enabled -
2016-10-27 at 2:59 AM UTC in Sophie's theme songpeter dinklage doesn't look half bad with a handle bar stache
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2016-10-27 at 2:56 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
Just got half a gram of etizolam powder, pretty nice stuff. All sparkly and glistening like good coke.
I bought like 5 grams of etiz at once and have it in a big ziplock with some other things like a bag of caffeine anhydrous. Pulled the bag down the other day to get something out of it and as I pressed the air out of it to close it again a plume of fine white power shoots up and gets in my face, eyes, breathe some of it in. It was an interesting couple of minutes waiting to see what exactly I had just accidentally inhaled. -
2016-10-26 at 2:57 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionI mean it's as easy as putting a numeral "2" on the end, Japan has been using arabic numerals for over 200 years and the Chinese counting system for longer than Japanese has been a language.
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2016-10-26 at 2:49 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionAlso marketing something under a name which is phonetically indistinguishable, difficult to distinguish in text for the primary audience, and functionally impossible for a significant secondary market, from another commercial product the entire target demographic already owns is just bad strategy
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2016-10-26 at 2:41 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
Have you faced antagonism for Asians in your career? Awfully hard workers and good yes men, aren't they? I imagine they could have been frustrated to you pecker-woods since your university days, particularly considering how prevalent they are in the bay area.
Not at all, I didn't even know it was a serious slur. I've only really heard it used in English speaking Japanese fandom circles used jokingly. I haven't worked with many first generation (or culturally) south east asians but the couple that I have I have a lot of respect for. -
2016-10-26 at 1:56 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionWhat is up with nips and not being able to name a sequel?
It's even catching on in the US where we have such genius marketing strategies as "NEW DOOM"
