The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXV

[Farm Boy]

There's just something about it. The tendency to like something that's unpopular, which would be laudable. But then there's the tendency to like it because it's unpopular, and to want to be seen to like it, which makes it less genuine. Then there was(you'll have to tell me if they've moved on) the tendency to abandon something once it caught on, the anal retentive attention to detail in attempting to come up with socially weird clothing and appearence for the sole reason that it's socially weird and attempts to look like it wasn't put together anal retentively. It's like claiming to not care about what people think about you, while being almost entirely a slave to the image of what people think about you. It's like an attempt at becoming the physical, social, and fashion manifestation of a lie. Like all of a sudden the popular croud in high school decided it was going to dress up like the least socially popular students as a form of mocking parody. As if they didn't already have enough, they have to make sure that everyone else knows they can do unpopular better than the unpopular can. It grates on me on a fundamental level, which is what I would suppose the goal probably is. It just disturbs me because it grates on me on a level I usually reserve for people who tailgate going 70mph in heavy traffic, or drive home from the bar wasted, or natter on their phone about non-emergency matters while in the theatre.

 

[Zelig]

Hahah, heavy traffic can't move at 70.

 

[Hygro]

Spoken like a true hipster plant. Well played sir

TBH I could never be assed to bother. It's not that the labels are limited, it's what earns the labels that are limited. But I did make 80s pop music simulacrums for a while

none of this conversation makes any sense without acknowledging the original hipster doofus, the one and only Fifty

CGannon64 warned us of hipsters before Fifty registered here though. Then CG quit.

Hahah, heavy traffic can't move at 70.

Come to Sacramento, you'll witness something incredible.

 

[Tahuti]

Hipster pride!

 

[Quackers]

 

[Mise]

"dickhead" isn't against the rules is it?


Link to video.

 

[bhsup]

"dickhead" isn't against the rules is it?

And ban the most brilliant mind in two solar systems? Nay, I should think it would not be against the rules.

 

[Zelig]

Come to Sacramento, you'll witness something incredible.

Then obv not heavy traffic.

 

[Hygro]

Then obv not heavy traffic.

Having driven in the most congested places in the country, again, come to Sacramento and witness an unusual traffic phenomenon.

 

[Zelig]

Having driven in the most congested places in the country, again, come to Sacramento and witness an unusual traffic phenomenon.

I define "heavy traffic" in terms of "enough cars on the road to cause congestion".

 

[Farm Boy]

I define "heavy traffic" in terms of "enough cars on the road to cause congestion".

That's what 'congested' means.

Naw, some interstates can pull off being prit much full but still be moving anywhere from 65 to 85 depending on the lane, so long as there haven't been any accidents.

Though, considering you two are debating over the term as I used it, aren't you both pretty sure you would classify my 'heavy traffic' as 'light' and my normal traffic as 'post apocalyptic wasteland?'

 

[Hygro]

I define "heavy traffic" in terms of "enough cars on the road to cause congestion".

And when enough cars are on the road to slow everything down anywhere else, but traffic is moving at 75 in the slow lanes, that's heavy traffic moving at 75. There are enough cars to cause congestion, and yet people are choosing to continue to go fast.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

FWIW, I believe the technical definition, when traffic patterns start to be dictated by fluid dynamics (seriously, it's super cool), is a frequency of 1 car in less than 2 seconds over a given point on the roadway, meaning per lane, not per direction of travel.

 

[Borachio]

Does traffic flow ever obey fluid dynamics? I thought it didn't. Traffic is composed of discrete units (quanta, if you like), whereas fluid dynamics is usually modelled by continuous variables. Isn't it? I don't know for sure, but I thought it was.

 

[dutchfire]

Fluids are made of discrete molecules. If you zoom out enough, this can be described by continuous variables.

 

[madviking]

statistical fluid dynamics woop woop

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Some of the predictions of fluid mechanics are completely backwards when it comes to traffic though. For example, when a bunch of cars enter a bottleneck in the road their drivers tend to slow down and drive more carefully to avoid a wreck. The particles modeled by fluid dynamics would on the other hand speed up as they push each other through a narrow pipe.

 

[bhsup]

Yeah, that would be the jerks that try to fly by on the median and cut in right at the beginning of the bottleneck. You know, the ones you have a moral obligation to swerve out in front of if possible.

 

[Zelig]

And when enough cars are on the road to slow everything down anywhere else, but traffic is moving at 75 in the slow lanes, that's heavy traffic moving at 75. There are enough cars to cause congestion, and yet people are choosing to continue to go fast.

Like I said, if there aren't enough cars on the road to prevent them moving at 75, I wouldn't consider it to be congested.

 

[Farm Boy]

If the words meant the same thing, they'd be the same word! =D