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Apple Talk / Re: The Compleat Billy Chronicles (thanks to Zenpatista)

« on: October 13, 2021, 04:10:54 pm »

I find it difficult to express my rage at this turn of events.

Hate always finds a way.

Does the dissolution of the company release you from any NDAs that have heretofore prevented you from discussing the sordid details of said DEFF ROBOTS?

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Or Kill Me / Re: OH MY FUCKING GOD, GET THE FUCKING VACCINE ALREADY, YOU FUCKING FUCKS

« on: October 05, 2021, 02:23:25 pm »

I hope Discordians haven't fallen for the government's tricks. Don't take the jab.

Oops, too late.

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Good article that details exactly why the bitcoin is a pyramid scheme

« on: October 03, 2021, 06:03:54 pm »

There is practically nothing around here available for purchase using cryptocurrency.  The idea that cryptocurrency will supplant government-issued currency within two years is highly dubious.

That's what changes around june/july.

What changes, exactly?  I've already asked you for a testable prediction.

I guess I missed it, whatever it was.

"The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once."
                -- Jane Bryant Quinn

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Or Kill Me / OH MY FUCKING GOD, GET THE FUCKING VACCINE ALREADY, YOU FUCKING FUCKS

« on: October 03, 2021, 05:41:25 pm »

Here's a rant by Wendy Molyneux.  Someone send her a pope card, she's got style.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/oh-my-fucking-god-get-the-fucking-vaccine-already-you-fucking-fucks

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Random News Stories

« on: September 30, 2021, 01:51:23 am »

Lockdowns in Britain have evidently caused a rat problem.

Toilet rats! Vermin are all over Britain – and they’re climbing up our waste pipes.

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Apple Talk / Re: Last one to post in thread wins

« on: September 25, 2021, 02:54:32 pm »

I can't believe the commander is a real guy and not some kinda wacky online character

I have a theory that there is only one real person in the world, and everyone else is a simulation.

I'm not the real one, obviously; I have no existence beyond the lines you're reading on the screen in front of you.

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Apple Talk / Re: Last one to post in thread wins

« on: September 19, 2021, 01:51:13 am »

So...what do I win?

I hope it's pie.

The Commander
DIA

Its not pie

Why not?

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Apple Talk / Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only

« on: September 05, 2021, 05:47:47 pm »

It will stay disabled.  If your account has been around a while, it will compare your pic to pics you have loaded.

If you don't have pics, it will compare your pic to pics of people who have been banned.

If it doesn't find a match, it allows the account.

The problem with their model is that they are making it really difficult and annoying for anyone new to join up.  That won't bite them for a while, but it will in fact bite them.

Yup.

You can't use Facebook because your account, or activity on it, didn't follow our Community Standards.
We have already reviewed this decision and it can't be reversed.
To learn more about the reasons we disable accounts visit the Community Standards.

This was a one-hour-old account, and my sole activity on it was to ask a question about a fruit tree sale.

I since sorted it out via phone, so come next weekend, I'm gonna plant myself a few dwarf sour cherry trees.

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Apple Talk / Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only

« on: September 03, 2021, 08:16:32 pm »

Today I created a Facebook account; I had a question to ask of the university's fruit tree program, and this seemed like the easiest way.  (I had an account a while back, but I never used it, and was getting annoyed by the spam, so I deleted it.)

Anyway, I set up the new account, and posted my question.  I came back a little later to check for a response, but my browser autocompleted to https://www.facebook.com/HolyNonsense/, since I guess I'd followed that link a while ago.  And since Facebook doesn't let you see much of anything unless you have an account, I decided to browse a bit.

I scrolled down the Holy Nonsense page, and then YOUR ACCOUNT HAS BEEN DISABLED.
 

There was no reason given for this, but I guess that's normal.  I clicked through to request a review.  It asked for my picture to confirm my identity, but since I'd never sent Facebook my picture to begin with, I sent a random picture of a cat sitting under a zucchini plant; they can make of it what they will.

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Apple Talk / Re: Last one to post in thread wins

« on: August 15, 2021, 04:59:00 pm »

Pretty sure I win 

It's a fair attempt, but calling yourself "the last one" isn't enough to make you the last one.  It was never going to be that easy.

You need dedication.  Commitment.  You need to spend every waking hour refreshing this thread, watching and waiting, dangling the prospect of victory before your opponents, only to snatch it away when they drop their guard, thereby gradually whittling away at their resolve.

And you need to hold onto hope when your own victories are inexorably crushed, again and again.

No, this thread isn't going to be won by word games and cheap tricks.  It can be won only by blood.

Sounds like someone is salty they didn't think of it first

MY BLOOD IS LIQUID NATRIUM, MY BREATH HALOGEN.  But let's leave my origin story out of this.

Calling yourself "The Last One" fails for three reasons.

The first reason is grammatical.  The thread title is "Last one to post in thread wins", not "The last one posting in this thread wins".  Infer a couple commas, tweak the capitalization, and you might read that as "The Last One, posting in this thread, wins", in which case the selected username could have some merit.  But we don't have any reason to say that "The Last One" as a forum user refers to the same entity as the "last one to post in thread"...especially when "The Last One" currently isn't the last one to post.  They do have a valid standing as the last one to register for this forum...for now, anyway.

A better choice of username would have been "Last one to post in thread".  Such a user would appear to win, simply by virtue of existing, whether they posted or not...but that brings us to the second reason:  Intent.

In a court of law, if Douglas Defendant sues Alice Plaintiff, we understand that, for legal purposes, Defendant is the plaintiff, and Plaintiff is the defendant.  In the court, the intent of the law would supersede the apparent letter of the law.  Any rights reserved to the defendant would clearly apply to A. Plaintiff, not D. Defendant.  The proximate intent of this thread is clearly that the last person posting here should win, not that it be concluded by semantic arguments.

The third reason is trivially obvious.

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Apple Talk / Re: Last one to post in thread wins

« on: August 14, 2021, 04:52:35 am »

Pretty sure I win 

It's a fair attempt, but calling yourself "the last one" isn't enough to make you the last one.  It was never going to be that easy.

You need dedication.  Commitment.  You need to spend every waking hour refreshing this thread, watching and waiting, dangling the prospect of victory before your opponents, only to snatch it away when they drop their guard, thereby gradually whittling away at their resolve.

And you need to hold onto hope when your own victories are inexorably crushed, again and again.

No, this thread isn't going to be won by word games and cheap tricks.  It can be won only by blood.

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Apple Talk / Re: Last one to post in thread wins

« on: August 04, 2021, 02:51:47 am »

Victory bermp!!

Congratulations!  I always knew you had it in you.

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Apple Talk / Re: Last one to post in thread wins

« on: August 02, 2021, 11:06:37 pm »

This is the best possible time to be alive.

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Apple Talk / Re: The Compleat Billy Chronicles (thanks to Zenpatista)

« on: July 30, 2021, 07:35:48 pm »

For most buildings, the sewer interlock is just a 180 degree trap, like you have under your sink.

That much I know, but I assumed a drone would be able to navigate a regular trap (it might impose some size limitations, but this critter is already capable of ascending a ten-foot pipe, so I expect mobility is solvable).

What I had in mind was putting two valves in series downstream of the toilet, designed such that only one of them could open at a time (like an airlock).  The toilet flushes, the first valve opens, poop passes, then it closes, then the second valve opens, the idea being that there is always a physical barrier to anything moving upstream.  This would be an expensive retrofit, would be susceptible to clogging, and probably wouldn't even be very effective (if the drone just stops and waits, couldn't it get past the valves in two flushes, anyway?)

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Apple Talk / Re: The Compleat Billy Chronicles (thanks to Zenpatista)

« on: July 29, 2021, 04:58:03 pm »

Me:  "Boss, I'm building a drone that goes up the sewer pipes into peoples' toilets.  This is an all-new nightmare.  Do you have some NORMAL people around to build that?"

I was thinking about countermeasures for this.  By the time I figured that we might need an encrypted data channel between the toilet flush controller and the sewage interlock, it became clear that:

1.  I don't understand much about plumbing.
2.  Any travelling heads of state would be best served to request a hotel room without a toilet, and they will just have to go in a chamber pot.