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2015-11-20 at 3:38 AM UTC in Do you think things will ever get better for me?
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2015-11-20 at 3:31 AM UTC in Places you enjoy the atmosphere of
I suppose you'd need that with all the lack of self esteem, inecure cringefest shit you're always displaying.
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2015-11-19 at 7:56 AM UTC in Places you enjoy the atmosphere of
Hey, did you ever try phenylpiracetam? Along with being the strongest, in terms of effect, racetam by a good margin, it also has the interesting effect of increasing cold tolerance, although this varies, as effects usually do. It was actually banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency/Olympics for this reason, possibly others, such as the stimulant effect.
I didn't. That sounds cool but a little worrisome, like why is that a side effect? I guess stuff I don't know about with other racetams should be just as concerning but "increased cold tolerance" just conjures the mental image of drinking antifreze.Being on a boat
My living room
Not a big fan of boats. Sailboats at least. The sound of the sheets or shrouds hitting the mast at night always keeps me up, and that distinctive smell of lacquer, salt, and poor ventilation is kinda nauseating. -
2015-11-19 at 6:28 AM UTC in Here's another good forum to check out.
Name sounds hella familiar but I cant pin it.
On the note of other forums, anyone found arnox's new forum yet?
"spookyjediproductions" was one of the totse decedent sites for a while. -
2015-11-19 at 4:10 AM UTC in Places you enjoy the atmosphere of
Abandoned old places, forests at night and cozy cafés.
Yeah, I especially like street cafes at night. There are two places on my walk home from work that are open until like midnight but aren't bars, in the summer there's usually people sitting at the outside tables, talking quietly, usually smoking. Kinda like a lone pool of light along the street (although there are street lights and stuff). Occasionally I'll sit down, order some coffee, and just chill for a little bit. Not any fun when it's cold though. -
2015-11-19 at 3:58 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
what the fuck is buckfast?
God's literal gift to poor criminal britbongs -
2015-11-18 at 6:08 PM UTC in What Is Art?
I know the answer, I'm just not going to tell you until you ass is on the line -
2015-11-18 at 6:05 PM UTC in How old are you and what are your plans for your life?
Don't worry, I know my brain is fucked. I still have regular goals, even though I don't do anything to go through on them except flow with the current. I plan on curing any brain damage I may have with meds and nootropics, then I'll be better off and possibly have a cognitive advantage.
Might as well throw in some faith healing for good measure -
2015-11-18 at 6:02 PM UTC in Do rainbows exist objectively?P.S. you never relied to this:
But I maintain, and common/technical usage supports, that color is not the same thing as the experience of color. I can experience lavalamps differently than other people but this doesn't show that lavalamps do not have an objective existence,
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2015-11-18 at 6:01 PM UTC in Do rainbows exist objectively?
Yes I have, I've explained it to you a dozen times already. At this point it's easier to just tell you that colour is already defined as the visual perceptual property in humans corresponding to the categories called red, blue, yellow etc.
That's wrong, you haven't done anything to establish this. I've already told you why that experiment does not establish this. The only other thing you've done in this thread is repeat the mantra that color is subjective without actually making a meaningful reply to any of my points for the last couple of pages.Colour is a subjective experience. It is defined as a perception.
Where is it defined as such? Why? What about my evidence that "color" is actually not a perception at all? And just for kicks, here's the OED's definition of color:The property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way the object reflects or emits light
Colour is not an objective property of light, colour is subjective, wavelengths are an objective property of light but wavelengths are not colour. Colour is a perception.
Once again you're just making a claim with 0 support for it.Demonstrate this.
See the OED quote above. Also see the "ultraviolet", "infrared" and "blue light" examples. How could those terms be coherent in a technical sense if color is not a property of light? How could we assign wavelengths to colors if color isn't a property of light?rainbows do not emit light, the sun does. A rainbow is not an object but rather an optical illusion produced under very specific circumstances which have already been explained earlier in the thread.
Your whole argument has been semantics from the start but this is particularly stupid. Rainbows are causally responsible for certain light, wether or not you consider that emission doesn't change the fact that it's sufficient criteria for existence. Mirrors don't "emit" light (by your definition) nor do they create an alternative universe populated by their apparent contents. Do you deny the objective existence of mirrors? -
2015-11-18 at 7:12 AM UTC in what is the limit on torture you can take before youd rather just die?Yeah, hard to say. I think the cognitively aware vegetable thing would definitely do it for me, I go nuts just sitting at a bus stop for like 20 minutes without a phone. Every time I get on an airplane for more than an hour or so flight I try to work out some way to knock myself the fuck out (booze or a benzo or not sleeping for a day or two before) because I can't stand just sitting in a chair doing nothing. If I was stuck in a bed for the rest of my life or something I'd wish I were dead.
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2015-11-18 at 6:35 AM UTC in "teen" angst
That's a myth: http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2014/04/apples-suicide-factories.html
The suicide rate is actually far lower than the average. The nets? They employ such an immense amount of people it's bound to happen, and it particularly makes sense due to their PR image, particularly when this nonsense emerged. We should be thanking them for their good work. What social program has caused a decrease in the suicide rate this drastic? I challenge anyone to name one.
Oh, I love being a libertarian/capitalist apologist (explainer), especially since I actually mean what I write. You should give it a try one day, Lanny, feel the joy of evil coursing through you.
As I've mentioned before, I don't actually oppose capitalism a priori. If we can find actual examples, like this seems to be, where capitalism has a net(heh) positive effect, or rather is the optimal course, then let's go for it. I've always argued for control proportional to evidence, where we have strong evidence of an optimal approach (for example we have good evidence city planning produces better results than anything-goes zoning (yes, SF's housing situation is a counterpoint but I'm speaking generally, and it's still better than many south-east asian metropolitan areas that initially or still lack meaningful zoning/planning)) we ought to enforce it by any means available whereas in situations where we don't have very certain knowledge laissez faire policy is one way of managing that uncertainty (it's not really clear if it's better to have a safeway or a whole foods on a given corner, we can allow the market to decide in such a case).
Also I know what apologist means lol. -
2015-11-18 at 3:31 AM UTC in How old are you and what are your plans for your life?
I'm 18, and just like any other young adult. I will take my SAT, then go to college, then get a job, then marry someone, then have kids.
Are you taking the non-core subject exams? If so which ones? Any college in mind and do you have a target score? Done any prep?
Protip is that the English (not writing) one is the easiest of the core three, don't waste too much time studying for it. The writing section is all technical, having the stupid 5 paragraph structure down and timing it, worth practicing for the timing you but can't really make yourself a better essayist through practice. Math is the only one worth doing drills/repeated practice and shit for.
I went to a shitty highschool so I had to get into college on SAT scores, wasted a lot of time studying for no real benefit. -
2015-11-18 at 3:14 AM UTC in "teen" angst
yea, i mean, i understand that but for example (this is just the first thing that popped in my head), if i tell someone about operation northwoods, they just dont believe it and refuse to even look it up themselves. or like, the other day i saw a dude with an imac with a "love" sticker on it. it pissed me off because hella chinese people are working like slaves and killing themselves to bring you that and you dont even acknowledge it because it doesnt fit with your yuppie image of the world. are we all just content with living with our head in the sands or what?
and as for the intelligence part, i was sort of joking. intelligence is subjective as fuck and just because you are extremely intelligent in one area doesnt mean you will be in another. ive met engineers who are dumb as a rock, but can do their job.
but i do get better grades in school than most everyone else with relatively little effort, and imo grades are definitely a measure of either intelligence, or your ability to fit in with society/work productively. i dont think im super smart or anything, sometimes i actually think i am retarded.
Well with the northwoods thing many people, myself included, have been harassed so frequently by conspiracy theorists that any time someone starts going there you just tune it out and exit the conversation as soon as possible. Among a wide field of nutjobs who never give up conspiracy theorists are the most unrelenting and, to be honest, least willing to engage in a subject with intellectual honesty. I don't know if that describes you or not but when someone says "muh northwoods" I instantly disregard everything that follows because it, empirically, just isn't worth my time.
There's an interesting question of "so what" though. Like ok, northwoods, that was a thing and we do actually have good evidence that it was a plan but so what? 9/11 was an inside job? What is anyone going to do about it? Even if we accept the premise we can't elect a candidate outside the major parties and revolution without military support is a non-starter. Even if you had 100% knockdown evidence of whatever you're mad about, if knowing about it isn't going to change what I do tomorrow then I don't really care. It's kinda like the deist God or whatever, something which has no observable effects on the world (or in this case knowing things that have no effects on my behaviour) is exactly the same as a thing which doesn't exist (or knowing thing X is perfectly equivalent to not knowing X). -
2015-11-18 at 3:01 AM UTC in Is it weird that I never stuck anything up my ass?Very weird, get to work son.
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2015-11-18 at 2:59 AM UTC in Do rainbows exist objectively?
No, colour is a function of your visual system and is not objectively a property the object you are viewing.
You keep saying that but you've done absolutely nothing to establish it.The object you are viewing has a surface that absorbs some wavelengths of light and reflects others. The existence of the object, the properties of the objects surface, and the wavelength of the light being reflected off the object are all objective. But the colour this object appears to be is not objective. The colour you perceive is a result of your own visual systems interpretation of the information it is receiving, as the scientific experimentation has demonstrated.
Wrong, I've already explained this to you. The very best the experiment could claim to show (and the methodology is so flawed as to be nearly meaningless) is that the subjective experience of color differs from person to person. But I maintain, and common/technical usage supports, that color is not the same thing as the experience of color. I can experience lavalamps differently than other people but this doesn't show that lavalamps do not have an objective existence,Colour information is transmitted out of the eye by three opponent channels, each constructed from the raw output of three types of colour receptor cells: a red–green channel, a blue–yellow channel, and a black–white "luminance" channel.
Sure, but like I said before "color information" or the qualia of color is not the same as color.Appealing to common practice doesn't save you from being incorrect.
It does actually, because what we're arguing about is the definition of color. The definition of words stems from common usage. You can't even claim a technical definition however, because we have terms like "infrared", "ultraviolet", and experts regularly talk about blue light or red light.
AND you're still sidestepping the fact that it's irrelevant what the meaning of color is. Rainbows emit light, light is objective even if you want to pretend color isn't, clearly rainbows have an objective existence regardless of how moronic you want to be about the meaning of color. -
2015-11-17 at 6:17 PM UTC in Bash scriptinglooks good. It might be worth pointing out `unzip` and `wget` aren't universally installed. I think unzip in particular has some license complications so it doesn't (or didn't for a time) come with Debian and similar distros. I think curl is slightly more widely available than wget but don't quote me on that. Probably not an issue in 2015 but something to keep in mind.
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2015-11-17 at 6:07 PM UTC in "teen" angst
like why is it ok that we live in a country where corruption is ok, and meaningless war is ok?
Probably because most mature adults have found better things to do than whine about it, and that life's worth living anyway. At least that's why people can be comfortable with it, but there's a lot of more rigorous answers as well (the french existentialists in particular, making their careers in the wake of WWII, have a lot to say about being content in a world with a lot of problems, most of them worse than what a 21st century american is ever going to face).but i say fuck all those people, im literally smarter than them and more competent
Lol, you're sure you're not a teenager? -
2015-11-17 at 5:58 PM UTC in Places you enjoy the atmosphere ofYeah, LA really is pretty much a shithole through and through. Hardly even a city, more like horrendous sprawl as far as the eye can see (about 30 yards on account of the fucking smog).
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2015-11-17 at 5:53 PM UTC in How old are you and what are your plans for your life?
late 20's, ex military and in college. going to become an engineer to make that $$$
Bleh, don't. Become a lawyer or doctor or something, at least those fields are already lost to money grubbery
