Random thoughts 1: Just Sayin'

[SS-18 ICBM]

A switch in emphasis from security to convenience in login policy is an important tipping point to watch out for a tech company.

 

[Takhisis]

News came out today that last night a person who was on heart medication for life died after going to a rave and taking what was, presumably, ecstasy (or a similar synthetic drug). This earns them a Darwin Award, but am I right not to feel it strongly sorry?

 

[GoodSarmatian]

I don't know how ecstasy interacts with heart medication, (or maybe it was drug fueled overextertion) but you shouldn't take anything presumably. Everybody should know their friendly neighborhood drug dealer and not buy from random strangers at a rave.
Should you feel sorry ? IDK. Did you know them personally ?
I reserve my sympathy for people who don't push their luck.

 

[Takhisis]

Did you know them personally ?

Nah, it was on the radio. I did say that they were prime Darwin Award material, didn't I?

 

[Hygro]

News came out today that last night a person who was on heart medication for life died after going to a rave and taking what was, presumably, ecstasy (or a similar synthetic drug). This earns them a Darwin Award, but am I right not to feel it strongly sorry?

That's really sad and unfortunate. "Similar" synthetic drugs can be a misnomer. H2O vs H2O2...

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Does it take more energy to make a wind turbine than it will ever make in its lifetime?

 

[AmtrakQuebec]

Didn't you kill my brother?

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[Traitorfish]

Does it take more energy to make a wind turbine than it will ever make in its lifetime?

No, if they're constructed, shipped and place properly, they stand to generate 20+ times their embodied energy over their lifespan. The claim that they're a net energy-drain is based on outdated data from from the 1970s, when turbines were only just being introduced on a large scale.

 

[Farm Boy]

Does anyone know if there were any shows before Seinfeld that were about a comedian and the episodes contain standup bits from the comedian? I'm trying to figure out if Seinfeld was the originator of that

Laugh-In? Maybe too proto.

 

[shadowplay]

My sister insists one of her cats is transgender, and wants everyone to refer to it by female pronouns. Not sure how seriously I should take this.

 

[Arakhor]

I tend to refer to cats as female and dogs as male, unless told otherwise.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

I think cats don't really worry about gender and just do what they want and screw whom they want. A lesser brain has its share of lack of headaches.

 

[shadowplay]

It seems pretty harmless to me, though I do wonder if it makes light of transgender issues.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

I think it makes light of people just going with a thing. People like to mimic. That is why there is any culture and cultural change to begin with. But mimicing can be a simplified version of the real thing, to put it mildly

 

[Takhisis]

That's really sad and unfortunate. "Similar" synthetic drugs can be a misnomer. H2O vs H2O2...

I think that's part of the tragedy and why he so strongly deserves the Darwin Award. People just ask for ‘that hot stuff’ or ‘the stuff that makes me quicker’ and so on, and care not one jot whether it's MDMA, PDMA, LSD or another thing cut with glass and some sugar bought at the supermarket.

My sister insists one of her cats is transgender, and wants everyone to refer to it by female pronouns. Not sure how seriously I should take this.

Time will tell, but if she's serious she might be being a tad disrespectful to real transgender people.

Of course, cats are our true overlords, but I like to pretend that they aren't.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

My sister insists one of her cats is transgender, and wants everyone to refer to it by female pronouns. Not sure how seriously I should take this.

1. How old is the cat?
2. Has the cat been fixed?
3. There's a possibility that if the cat is more than 6 months old, it might be gay.

No, I'm not kidding.

I tend to refer to cats as female and dogs as male, unless told otherwise.

How do you think the species get propagated, if all of them are the same sex?

I think that's part of the tragedy and why he so strongly deserves the Darwin Award. People just ask for ‘that hot stuff’ or ‘the stuff that makes me quicker’ and so on, and care not one jot whether it's MDMA, PDMA, LSD or another thing cut with glass and some sugar bought at the supermarket.

Okay we all know what that means on the forum, but I've never heard of that particular batch of alphabet soup in connection to drugs.

 

[Takhisis]

A variant of MDMA. Ecstasy is a really stupid thing to take as it increases your heart rate and blood pressure; if you're already suffering from a heart condition then taking it is (in this case most egregiously) suicidal.

 

[Arakhor]

How do you think the species get propagated, if all of them are the same sex?

The same way the asari do...

Seriously, I said that I tend to refer to dogs and cats by specific pronouns, not that I believe that they are all mono-gendered.

 

[Hygro]

I think that's part of the tragedy and why he so strongly deserves the Darwin Award. People just ask for ‘that hot stuff’ or ‘the stuff that makes me quicker’ and so on, and care not one jot whether it's MDMA, PDMA, LSD or another thing cut with glass and some sugar bought at the supermarket.

oh yeah? What else did you learn from network tv?

 

[shadowplay]

1. How old is the cat?
2. Has the cat been fixed?
3. There's a possibility that if the cat is more than 6 months old, it might be gay.

No, I'm not kidding.

1. She's had her for a while now. About 9 years at least?
2. Probably not (they're apartment cats and are all biologically male.)
3. Maybe? She's never referred to it as gay, only as a girl.