Random Thoughts XIII - Radioenergopithecocracy

[Birdjaguar]

T.S. Eliot: “Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”

 

[Valka D'Ur]

@Kyriakos: I've used it. It does the job.

 

[Takhisis]

But it should've been Hercules, who got the Augean job done.

 

[amadeus]

Ajax got a household cleaner named after him.

Yeah but no jingle!

 

[Gori the Grey]

did ajax cleaner have a jingle - Google Suche

 

[El_Machinae]

I've never seen the sequels to Starship Troopers. I don't think I've ever had the opportunity. I wonder if the licensing deal for Starship Troopers is that the streaming service isn't allowed to stream the other movies?

 

[Sarin]

I've never seen the sequels to Starship Troopers. I don't think I've ever had the opportunity. I wonder if the licensing deal for Starship Troopers is that the streaming service isn't allowed to stream the other movies?

I did, a long time ago, in TV. Not sure which one. It was awful, they tried to make it serious, Aliens-like action horror.

 

[El_Machinae]

Yeah, I watched one of them on youtube and it was truly horrid

 

[Broken_Erika]

I've never seen the sequels to Starship Troopers. I don't think I've ever had the opportunity. I wonder if the licensing deal for Starship Troopers is that the streaming service isn't allowed to stream the other movies?

Consider yourself lucky, i've seen marauder. And i can never unsee it

 

[Narz]

Eating high sugar diet kinda like having a sexual relationship w a toxic person. You keep going back for the temporary pleasure but you know you're hurting yourself in the long run & the pleasure is never anything new, just same old high and low.

 

[EgonSpengler]

T.S. Eliot: “Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”

There's a line from Clarissa in Persepolis Rising that struck me when I (re)-read it: "My father could be the kindest, most generous and loving man. Right up until he wanted something and you wouldn't give it to him. I don't know why I think this, but Duarte feels the same. And these are men who will mercilessly punish anyone who won't comply, but with tears in their eyes and begging you to tell them why you made them do it."

 

[amadeus]

I like to think of myself as a free-thinker but I’m hoping to move to a paid position

 

[Takhisis]

That sounds suspiciously like gainful employment.

 

[amadeus]

My employment is full of something but not gain

 

[amadeus]

If a guy’s a drunkard they say he hits the bottle. But not all alcoholic beverages come in bottles, some come in cans.

Then again, you can’t say that guy is hitting the can.

 

[Birdjaguar]

PANDA MANIA: Keepers showed off giant panda cubs ahead of the new year at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Sichuan province, on Thursday. The cubs are among 15 bred there this year, according to China’s Xinhua News Agency.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

They're cute, but expensive.

The Calgary Zoo had pandas for awhile in the mid-'80s, and Petro-Can (chain of gas stations), in association with one of the Calgary TV stations, ran a promotion in which people could get one of four different panda lapel pins if they filled up there. I don't remember how long it took, but my dad got me the whole set for my pin collection. I went to the zoo that summer with a couple of friends and we saw the pandas.

That was also the first time I saw live, in-person penguins, and was honestly more excited about that than the pandas.

 

[Kyriakos]

The problem with this type of "riddle" is that it doesn't generalize anything. Which is why you can find the answer informally (notice that there already is an exterior fence, which should mean your one or more of your new fences will use that, hence one or more of the new fences will be smaller in perimeter. From that, it's simple to visualize a fence with side sqr2/2 of the original one, at a 45 degree angle, and finally the second fence is again at a 45 degree angle to the previous one, so with side half of the original:

It'd be massively more useful if the question was about establishing number of vertices of a series of such fences, in relation to the isolated parts they'd create. Eg here the three fences create 9 parts, since the first creates 5 original ones, while the second only 4. Now I have to generalize as if it's the seven bridges of Kalinigrad.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

If I'm suddenly gone for long periods of time, the reason is one of two things.

1. My computer died.
2. I got lost down the rabbit hole of fan-created Merlin comics on Pinterest and DeviantArt.

 

[Kyriakos]

I guess this is Chessego, then (ala Stratego). But it's a lot easier to notice what piece is what, going by moves - in Stratego there is only the difference between moving and unmoving pieces.