JoshuaSlocum

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2024-08-24 16:06:30

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nonsense, it's a space laser fired from the nazi moon base and nothing you can say will convince me otherwise pew pew pew pew

2024-08-23 14:30:57

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i agree with this
but i saw a statistic some years ago that said 95% of Americans have never seen the Milky Way
i am a level 20 hippy-dippy liberal on the dark skies stuff, we've lost something important here

2024-08-15 18:38:29

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i was told it was the "Thunderstorm of Passion"
i do not like this new information

2024-08-14 21:18:41

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name the time and place so i can be sure to have something else going on that's, like, super important

2024-08-14 21:12:36

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this is the internet
this is no place for joy or whimsy

2024-08-14 21:09:15

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it's true, i asked them
they said "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH"
there's some room for interpretation, i suppose

2024-08-14 21:07:35

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little known fact is that they actually live their lives in constant acute pain and they are actually screaming, screaming forever, into an indifferent ocean

2024-08-14 17:34:00

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also this
all dudes will see this and say "hell yeah"
https://i.poastcdn.org/b061a233a4a3131b63feaddb8c7ce1132697b994b7ce4af2eafdbccd77698e4f.jpg

2024-08-14 16:36:03

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that's a cosh
the monkey's fist at the end (should) have a lead weight in it
grip it and swing it
kinda useless for ladies as it's too small and they don't have the grunt to swing it hard enough
but a well-made one is a good way to learn ropework and useful to keep in the car for... coshing... minecraft blocks

2024-08-08 18:05:08

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the 15 year old nephew market will be replaced by AI
(yeah, i said it)
the dilettante will be wiped out, leaving only the greatest masters
which, actually, is not a great thing, but i can't do anything about it, that train has done left the station

2024-08-08 17:53:06

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like graphic design back in the day
formaline, PMT machines, x-actos and rubylith
i joke about the analog days, but it really did make men, great men
now every nignog with a macbook is a music producer and artist
like, nah, nigger, you ain't

2024-08-08 15:35:49

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the shit that went on in radio stations
>"is... is that an 8-track cart"
not exactly, but yes, it more or less is
i like analog stuff as much as the next guy, but c'mon man
slicing and taping? are we animals?

2024-08-08 15:20:33

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not a chance, once CDs came along and removed FF and RW tape was cooked
LPs were better than tape for that reason, but you couldn't take them with you in the car
i do wish DAT had done better so it wouldn't have been so expensive, it was way better than 4-track cassette recorders that every band recorded their demos on

2024-08-08 15:07:41

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fair, but no rewinding or fast forwarding on MD
DAT is for source, MD is product

2024-08-08 14:09:15

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what about those of us who bought into minidisc
we are the true forgotten ones

2024-08-08 13:40:03

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i remember watching one of the earliest episodes of 'The French Chef' and Julia is there making a French omelet in a shitty 1960-era pan over an electric eye
cooks can cook with anything

2024-08-07 16:06:18

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the point is a convection oven that fits on your countertop
they're no good for me because my fam is too big, and also because i already have a convection oven
i'd rather spend the money on another le creuset dutch oven

2024-08-07 14:44:45

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when i was a young lad i watched a crew of negroes working on a house
at the top of the house wall they did a soldier course where they kicked out every 5th or 6th at an angle, really nice detail
they are trainable, and can do good work, but if my experience was any kind of bellwether, they require a strong hand
the foreman was also a negro, and he was also a world-class prick
i learned many new words

2024-08-07 14:35:12

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there was a time when black guys did a shitload of masonry
not even that long ago, like 20-30 years
all beaners now

2024-08-07 14:06:54

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if dan wins does that mean graf has to give him the keys to his house

2024-08-06 20:57:44

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLhONsoN3xc

2024-08-06 19:49:08

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Song #1 is not a fuck you song

2024-08-01 20:55:36

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bitch has a scoliosis cast, y u hate

2024-07-31 17:12:37

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MADURO IS SUCH A NOOB
YOU HASH OUT THE RULES FIRST, YOU DUMMY
ELON IS GOING TO SHOW UP WITH SIX ROBOT ARMS AND A CHEST LASER

2024-07-09 20:41:00

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dynamic linking, if it hadn't been needed to keep disk/memory usage smol, would prob have been invented anyway
e.g., update openssl once instead every application that uses it
just kind of a function of how things got developed using anti-NIH principles
now that we make everything "just do this one thing and nothing else" static linking makes sense again

2024-07-03 16:37:38

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suppose it depends on the booba

2024-07-02 19:31:50

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yep, but i definitely support whatever it is that makes them take their tops off

2024-07-01 22:44:20

time to game
https://i.poastcdn.org/9f02bc4881288e3312ba30727b1175403bffebf92ba0948a06c76c0e9b8aa11f.jpg

2024-07-01 16:03:35

i don't have an opinion on anything today
the internet is useless to me rn

2024-06-27 15:23:38

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buying some twizzlers from the gas & sip on mlk blvd in atlanta
at least sharks aren't really very interested in eating you

2024-06-27 14:09:13

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The danger of the sea is very real, and only fools think otherwise. But that danger is part of the allure. You stand resolute in the wild face of Creation and fight to conquer it, but even in victory you are humbled.

2024-06-27 13:53:43

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“You must then know the sea, and know that you know it, and not forget that it was made to be sailed over.”
--Joshua Slocum

2024-06-25 19:36:24

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https://i.poastcdn.org/d820a04cf0bab6e61e3e36ea9ab5aa296f6223c52d69b6297ea40711c09688aa.jpg

2024-06-24 20:13:04

i'm absolutely sure the first fucker to put sugar on french fries was a literal demon
any restaurant that does this needs to be renamed
i suggest "moloch's diabetic uterus", the SEO on that is tight

2024-06-21 17:19:10

all measurement systems are made up
might as well argue over whose imaginary friend is the best

2024-06-19 22:47:25

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all this excitement over buc-ees
but where is buc-ees when you're in west undershirt arkansas and the little ones are bursting for a wee?
nowhere, that's where
for me, it's love's

2024-06-18 20:45:04

i'm afraid the time has come to hang all architects

2024-06-17 22:47:28

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man, it's the worst of a tl;dr, but to the best of my ability, here's a summary
starprophet got into it with somebody about something
he made a poast (today? yesterday? nine years ago? dunno) talking about afghanistani warlords providing brides to their soldiers
(i read it as a contrast to the US, where our soldiers just get Jodys and PTSD and buttsex education, but others took it to mean he wanted to be given a 14 year old child bride)
folks came down on one side or the other, depending on interpretation
matty made the call that it was the child bride one and booted him
there was good faith on both sides, mostly
there were also a lot of the same folks who yell about gabfugees and gab in general who were calling for starprophet's head
those folks are trying to pull the same routine on others, which is why it's still going on

2024-06-17 19:45:03

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starprophet got booted from NCD

2024-06-17 19:36:42

one usergroup is bigmad about another usergroup
connect these together with tubes
internet
this is what vint cerf worked so hard for

2024-06-14 20:58:54

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well, "will fuck in the back of an el camino" fat
it's logarithmic, like decibels, but grosser
and without the promise of diet pills that will help you study, thanks jimmy carter

2024-06-14 20:46:03

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see it was either this or fuck a fat chick in the back of an el camino, i think he made the right choice

2024-06-14 20:23:41

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i have a reloader friend who reloads everything, dude probably reloads his toilet paper rolls
he doesn't do 22
i looked into it a few years ago, and i was reading stuff like "chop up match heads", and i was like "noap"
and apparently getting the dent out is hard/impossible, so your somewhat unreliable caliber now has a bonus roll for unreliability
my plan now is to use bigger guns to capture and hold a manufacturing facility and run it like a mongol warlord when the zombies come

2024-06-14 20:09:35

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>probably super easy to reload
it's possible, but i wouldn't call it easy

2024-06-13 13:36:41

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jfc how stupid are you
use coordinate transformation across the fiber bundle
if it sticks, apply a little torque perpendicular to the vector, use Rindler coordinates to calculate the hyperbolic trajectory
(you do have plenty of magnetic monopoles, right?)
maybe get your husband to install it

2024-06-12 19:54:09

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FWIW, sterility isn't as much of a thing now. And, interestingly, the modulators have had some effect on this as well.
Unless you've been tested, you don't know if you're carrying the gene. It provided enough value--resistance to cholera and TB being the favored candidates--that it's hung around a long time.
But I see medical research in much the same way as I see funding for space programs. Some of it is sanding off the pointy bits of evolution--reducing the effects of genetic propensity for hypertension, for example. That's the "we went to the Moon so we could get Velcro" version of this. There is a lot of crossover in research that is not immediately apparent.

2024-06-12 19:36:14

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The boutique disease I had in mind in particular is cystic fibrosis. It is a uniquely (more or less) northern European genetic disease, and is usually classified as the most common life-threatening genetic disease.
That said, all of the CF patients worldwide wouldn't fill the University of Texas football stadium. The newly available CFTR modulators have a sticker price of somewhere around $300K/year, and they were developed with the help of some of the same Wall Street shenanigans we were talking about earlier.
The problem with charity in healthcare is that healthcare varies wildly. Getting a free wellness check is way different than a prosthetic limb which is way different than an organ transplant. Charity certainly can fill in cracks here and there, but it scales poorly. A lot of healthcare requires massive vertical integration and the physical plant to keep it operating. GamGam's sewing circle volunteering part-time is not gonna cut it.

2024-06-12 18:36:39

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I disagree with none of that, in spirit if not entirely in every detail.
Pharma and the health insurance industry are more or less in the same generational cohort. And they both took hits off the same Wall Street bongs. This has massively coopted and corrupted the system.
Changing that part of it is critical, along with things like patent reforms and rethinking the testing processes. But chasing the bad money out of the system is also gonna be a long uphill slog.
There are a lot of beak-wetters between the medical professionals and the patients. IMO it comes down to whether you think of healthcare as a consumer product or as fundamental infrastructure.

2024-06-12 18:03:24

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>research new cures and treatments, but thats not healthcare per se
FWIW, this is hugely expensive. For many reasons, but fundamentally it's just hard. Because of this, sticker price on treatments for boutique diseases is hundreds of thousands of dollars. Nobody is paying that. Nobody can. But by any fair definition it certainly is healthcare.
(Pharma has gotten a black eye recently, but there is quite a lot of non-shitty things going on in that sphere. Dismissing our alchemists and sorcerers out of hand is not a good idea.)
Charity can be useful, but it's not a magic wand. Charity is a byproduct of wealth, and we're not in a great place for that now. It's one thing to give excess canned food to a food pantry; it's an entirely other thing to gift an MRI.
Healthcare is insensitive to price signals because it's a different beast than other services. It is highly sensitive to regulation. And it operates on a long timeline, requiring a certain amount of inertia or it falls behind quickly.
IMO, any solution that does not involve the medical schools and teaching hospitals in a prominent role is not going to work. They are the flywheels of this engine, and you risk ruin if you don't keep them spinning. This falls quite clearly in the public sphere.

2024-06-11 22:00:19

push it to production
what could go wrong?
don't be such a gloomy gus

2024-06-11 15:11:59

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>I couldn't answer one single question using the calculator that those guys back then didn't have.
I have my father's old slide rule and the how-to textbook that you used with it. It's 100-odd pages of... playing with math.
Today we struggle to get negroes across the finish line of high school, and they barely know their math facts.
Meanwhile, in the mid 20th century, guys were juggling logarithms and trig by hand using sticks and the fluid language of math.
It's all gone terribly, terribly wrong.