Topic: This thread is non-euclidean, for it has no point (Read 583855 times)

explicit · « **Reply #3500 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 18:05 »

Sorry, i was doing two things at once, words got mixed up... favorite doesn't mean it's going to taste the best, it's my favorite for other reasons.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #3501 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 18:07 »

Well yeah, that's fair.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #3502 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 19:55 »

America's Next Top Gay Owl Model

hedgie · « **Reply #3503 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 20:28 »

The Dalek tree: CEL-E-BRATE!

Method of Madness · « **Reply #3504 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 21:02 »

EX-TREE-MINATE

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #3505 on:** 30 Dec 2014, 00:59 »

The problem with marrying a tsundere:

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #3506 on:** 30 Dec 2014, 03:17 »

Quote from: Method of Madness on 29 Dec 2014, 15:36

Does good beer ever even get advertised?

Good beer, worthy of italicising? No, at least not on any grand scale.

There's some decent beers that get made on a big scale but describing them as good is a bit of a stretch. They're the beers that set the bar for acceptable.

Good beers aren't made on that sort of scale. Mostly this is because once you get up to that sort of scale, you aren't who's main thrusts are passion, quality and character. Good beers are brewed on a smaller scale and rarely get shipped out of the region. Thus a national scale marketing budget would be wasted. Some breweries around here don't even advertise on a small scale or even bother bottling their product. It just goes straight to pump and locals are guaranteed to drink almost every batch dry.

Sorflakne · « **Reply #3507 on:** 30 Dec 2014, 15:19 »

Method of Madness · « **Reply #3508 on:** 30 Dec 2014, 15:35 »

That's who's supposed to thaw him out when the time is right. Or maybe that's whose body he wanted for his reanimated head

osaka · « **Reply #3509 on:** 30 Dec 2014, 15:45 »

Quote from: GarandMarine on 30 Dec 2014, 00:59

The problem with marrying a tsundere:

I honestly do not know which of these two images feels goofier. That's definitely my grandma on the tsundere-mom comic tho.
Maybe 60 years younger than my grandma, but that's not the point.

hedgie · « **Reply #3510 on:** 30 Dec 2014, 18:31 »

Quote from: GarandMarine on 30 Dec 2014, 00:59

The problem with marrying a tsundere:

Snippage:

Thanks for eliminating my entire dating pool, you bastard.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #3511 on:** 30 Dec 2014, 19:18 »

Give up on 3d girls, 2d's way cheaper costs wise. Bit harder on the wrist though.

SubaruStephen · « **Reply #3512 on:** 30 Dec 2014, 19:21 »

Quote from: GarandMarine on 30 Dec 2014, 00:59

Nice to see that my ex is dating again...she was always the quiet type.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #3513 on:** 31 Dec 2014, 01:26 »

Some context kukkad is a word for rooster and is slang for the big man on campus.

LeeC · « **Reply #3514 on:** 31 Dec 2014, 07:29 »

Masterpiece · « **Reply #3515 on:** 31 Dec 2014, 07:30 »

now i crave oreos

LeeC · « **Reply #3516 on:** 31 Dec 2014, 07:40 »

What a lovely day to pillage

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/07/16/156851175/five-men-agree-to-stand-directly-under-an-exploding-nuclear-bomb

http://travisma.wordpress.com/2013/12/12/the-necessity-of-stress/

Stryc9Fuego · « **Reply #3517 on:** 31 Dec 2014, 12:04 »

Quote from: LeeC on 31 Dec 2014, 07:40

http://travisma.wordpress.com/2013/12/12/the-necessity-of-stress/

I hate it when I develop stress wood.

LeeC · « **Reply #3518 on:** 31 Dec 2014, 13:31 »

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #3519 on:** 31 Dec 2014, 13:40 »

LeeC · « **Reply #3520 on:** 31 Dec 2014, 16:21 »

Nikolai · « **Reply #3521 on:** 31 Dec 2014, 16:29 »

Oh, Boromir.

SubaruStephen · « **Reply #3522 on:** 31 Dec 2014, 17:21 »

Does this remind anyone else of one of our fellow forum members?

Neko_Ali · « **Reply #3523 on:** 31 Dec 2014, 18:19 »

cesium133 · « **Reply #3524 on:** 31 Dec 2014, 18:33 »

Method of Madness · « **Reply #3525 on:** 01 Jan 2015, 05:56 »

Happy new year, everyone

Sorflakne · « **Reply #3526 on:** 01 Jan 2015, 10:56 »

How to get cheap airfare on one-way flights.

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1. China wants to start one in the 2020s.
2. Well, we have the Chunnel...
3. They're getting closer to a possible prototype (and that's scary)
4. http://www.moller.com/ (however, a lot of drivers seem not able to operate in two dimensions; I say as a licensed pilot that I would not want flying cars)
5. We're getting closer to that too (and that's just one example in the works)
6. If you have a six-figure+ income or trust funds, then it already exists. If you don't, well...

explicit · « **Reply #3527 on:** 01 Jan 2015, 11:03 »

I'm inclined to say fart noise towards all of those claims (except 4 and 6). But, to be fair, I haven't read any science papers in a while, so maybe I missed something.

3 seems the most unlikely, 5 has always been "almost there" it seems, 1 the costs are still staggering and technically the US also wants one, but the return is just so little. 2, maybe small ones? I can see some being cost effective, but certainly not 100s of miles long ones, which is usually what people are talking about when they mention those types of engineering projects.

I have no idea why I wrote these all out of order like that...

LeeC · « **Reply #3528 on:** 01 Jan 2015, 12:40 »

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #3529 on:** 01 Jan 2015, 13:59 »

6 is a bit funny. If you live in the West, you enjoy a standard of living that kings couldn't have dreamed of even two centuries ago

Akima · « **Reply #3530 on:** 01 Jan 2015, 14:11 »

Indeed, but you don't have their degree of leisure. Generally speaking, not even the very wealthy today do, at least in modern industrialised economies: In Search of Lost Time, from The Economist's Christmas edition.

hedgie · « **Reply #3531 on:** 01 Jan 2015, 15:10 »

Yeah, we need (non-sentient) robots to be doing all the actual work, so humans can pursue their dreams without the need for day to day labour.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #3532 on:** 01 Jan 2015, 15:22 »

That is the ideal future yes... Getting there is going to be a bloody mess, literally and figuratively though. I think the term is egalitarian?

hedgie · « **Reply #3533 on:** 01 Jan 2015, 15:33 »

Also not likely to happen any time soon, even if we did have the tech. It's still going to be less expensive to pay someone minimum wage (or less if they're undocumented) than it is to get a robot. Plus, the whole economy would have to be geared to create a massive welfare state in order for the humans to be able to live decently and avoid the drudgery.

Neko_Ali · « **Reply #3534 on:** 01 Jan 2015, 17:40 »

We would need a post-scarcity society, is what you are saying? Time to get back to work on that matter replicator.

hedgie · « **Reply #3535 on:** 01 Jan 2015, 18:30 »

Much of the scarcity is artificial. Especially with how much agricultural land (at least in the US) is wasted growing maize for fuel additives. Depending on population density, the main resource that is finite is that which gives one a place to live. Things like public transport, and building up and not out would help end our oil addiction.

explicit · « **Reply #3536 on:** 01 Jan 2015, 18:35 »

Well, if we're talking economics, scarcity can be attributed to any want that is not infinite (infinite in the sense that we cannot out use it even while using it for everything we want it for - like air, barring any spaceball vacuum sucking).

If you want to attribute scarcity to everything everyone should have, well then I guess that's different. Though most people have a different list for what those things are.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #3537 on:** 01 Jan 2015, 19:26 »

Comic with large images behind spoiler tag:

(click to show/hide)

Method of Madness · « **Reply #3538 on:** 01 Jan 2015, 21:09 »

You're a bad person.

Neko_Ali · « **Reply #3539 on:** 01 Jan 2015, 21:40 »

Thanks.. I didn't need those feelings anyway...

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #3540 on:** 01 Jan 2015, 21:50 »

Why would you post something like that?

Akima · « **Reply #3541 on:** 02 Jan 2015, 00:46 »

Anyone on a slow internet connection wants to lynch you right now. I have a fairly fast one and those images are still taking forever to load.

Edit: 2960 × 4172 pixels? For one image. Seriously? How will this work for people who read the forum on phones?