Random Rants #63: These Rants Don't Run

[The_J]

Yeah, when someone is "creative", they shouldn't violate any standards.
So annoying.



Rant on my own: Signed up for a trip to Belgium today. Was in bed since yesterday evening, with a cold. Great! That is the second time, a third time the trip was cancelled, but I was still sick, and the one time I managed I had to drug myself with Aspirin like 3 days before.
Maybe I shouldn't sign up to these trips, then I might become healthier.


(I'm signed up for another one next weekend...let's hope I don't have Ebola or something)

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Japan considering solar is the stupidest thing I've read so far all day. Seriously, tell me: where on your mountainous and extremely densely populated islands is one supposed to find space for all those panels?

 

[W|M]

On top of skyscrapers

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Ah, yes, you are correct. Disbelief rescinded.

But solar power—especially the way that Japan has been installing it—is a complementary option for displacing imported foreign fuels and reducing emissions. Unlike in the United States and China, where the scale of solar installations resembles that of conventional power plants, over 80 percent of Japan’s solar is distributed generation, for example on rooftops, making Japan the largest market for small-scale solar in the world. Distributed solar complements the traditional, centralized, power generation system, offering benefits like improved resilience against cascading blackouts and reduced power loss over transmission lines.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Man United please stop being so bad

 

[Joecoolyo]

I would have thought you'd have to put in a lot of work into social science and humanist courses, since they actually require crtical thinking. Although maybe that makes people better at it so they don't have to work a lot.
Although you study japanese right? I have a friend who studies arabic, and I think he puts in about 8 hours every day

I'm like so bloody jealaous of you at this point.

They require a lot of thinking, but they're also very easy to time-manage. Which means that when I have several assignments with multiple week long due dates, it isn't very challenging to break up the work into 1-3 hour segments over those couple weeks.

Japanese requires work, but not as much as your friend. I mean if I studied 8 hours a day I'd be hella more fluent in it. But my studying matches the pace of the class, and without people to talk to on a regular basis there's only so much I can learn about the language.

I study physics. I don't know if you think that's stressful. I think it's something that should be super easy, since it doesn't require critical thinking. Although I suppose there's a lot to take in.

I'd argue that physics is super stressful and hard! Maybe I'm just good at critical thinking, but I was hopeless at physics (and other math related sciences, which is all of them) in high school. I don't have the head to wrap around vague things like theories that physics relies on. A lot of the ideas confuse me and I find it difficult to parse the equations designed to explain them.

So yeah, I'd argue what you're doing is university on hard-mode. Though you may very well be a different person who can actually grasp what's going on.

 

[Snerk]

Man United please stop being so bad

You like SoDs over 1upt and you're a Man U fan?? Mother of god, Tolni is the perfect anti-snerk! I would kiss you but our bodies would probably repell each other like magnets.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Are you one of those disgusting Arsenal fans that have infested these forums?

 

[Snerk]

I hop for the Klopp.

 

[gay_Aleks]

I won't lie, I'm not very optimistic for the Liverpool-Man Uni game on 10th March.


but the hope lives on right? right.

 

[Snerk]

I haven't had an optimistic feeling for Liverpool since forever. Still, you learn to cope with that.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Well, if anything, our lack of hope in our teams unites us?

 

[Snerk]

You're not anit-snerk, you're snerk's other half!

/walks into sunset with tolni

 

[gay_Aleks]

Only if you change your avatar to Nale.

 

[Snerk]

/pulls gun and points it discretely towards tolni

Just keep walking into the sunset and nobody gets hurt!

 

[gay_Aleks]

i welcome death with my open grace

 

[Snerk]

Man you really are a Man U fan.

 

[gay_Aleks]

like any true fan of Man United I'll blame everything on the trainer

 

[Arakhor]

I am still baffled as to why foreigners would support British football teams.

 

[Snerk]

I am still baffled as to why foreigners would support British football teams.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/ex...ll-fans-youll-never-walk-alone-in-Norway.html