One Punch Man?

My commentary was that 4th of July this year felt more like a going away party.

Honestly even two parties would be an improvement over what we currently have.

Some additional social constructs they may be more sentimental about: gifts, allowance, summer vacation, breakfast, lunch, dinner, doors, privacy, the internet.

The real miracle was creating chocolate chip cookies 1,908 years or so before they were invented.

This is still superior to quitting or getting fired without comment. I wish more people would use their platform before being removed from it.

Been a vegetarian for a while, but here’s a hot dog tip from my past:

Stick a skewer down the center, then use a knife and sort of barbershop pole around it. Then deep fry it. Then remove the skewer. You’ll be left with a corkscrew shaped hotdog of unparalleled crispy goodness. Maximum surface area. Nooks and crannies galore.

Though, my ideal hotdog is a classic beef dog on a classic plain bun, with boring old ketchup and mustard. I feel like the quality of the hotdog experience is more about circumstances than execution.

No.

Bach on organ in general, specifically BWV 565 reliably makes me cry. Also Max Reger’s Introduction And Passacaglia In D Minor.

And then on the other end of the spectrum, I once got some really bad news while listening to Pantera, and now I’m afraid to listen to them out of superstition. But that’s not really applicable here I suppose.

I’m losing track, but don’t they usually go good, bad, good, bad?

98 good, m.e. bad, xp good, vista bad, 7 good, 8 bad, 10 good, 11 bad, so maybe 12 good?

Obviously I’m over simplifying and I skipped over 2000. But at least since 98 I feel like the trend has been pretty reliable.

Men are what happens when you indulge tantrums. Women mature earlier, so there’s this really early period when boys are behind. The boys get mollycoddled, the girls are shamed and belittled, the boys get used to having thumbs on the scale in their favor, and to being defensive. The girls are conditioned to modify their behavior for the benefit of others. I think this is a very key building block for the larger prejudices in society later in life.

As a silver lining to this bizarre and misguided attack, perhaps these uses of social media to overtly scrutinize and surveil people will make big monolithic social media less popular for everyone, not just prospective immigrants. Which, social media in it’s current iteration played such a huge role in the legitimization of post factual politics, that this feels like biting the hand that feeds them.

It’s so frustrating to watch this regime try to kill the messenger. They are objectively wrong about so much. And get mad at the people who “point it out”. And so attempt to muzzle people who are factually correct. Which even if successful, is just going to mean they know less and less, and are increasingly wrong. Which will make them even madder, and muzzle more. Which will make them wrong even more. And so on. It’s the stupidest feedback loop.

It’s like they can’t drive, and rather than practice and learn, and actually become better drivers, they’re trying to change the roads themselves to accommodate their shortcomings. But they’re still going to be bad at driving no matter how much they change the roads. Meanwhile the roads are getting harder to use for everyone else. It’s only a matter of time until something really important catches fire and emergency services can’t put it out because the roads are all too fucked up.

NYPD has a field office in Kfar Saba. So, possibly more pertinent than it should be.

Fair enough. It still went on for a decade though. At the end of the day, how are you going to say “no” to a cop with an assault rifle?

I’m not so sure. They had plenty of time for stop and frisk:

In 2016, a reported 12,404 stops were made under the stop-and-frisk program. The stop-and-frisk program has previously taken place on a much wider scale. Between 2003 and 2013, over 100,000 stops were made per year, with 685,724 people being stopped at the height of the program in 2011.

The program also became the subject of a racial-profiling controversy. Ninety percent of those stopped in 2017 were African-American or Latino, mostly aged 14–24. By contrast, 54.1% of the population of New York City in 2010 was African-American or Latino; however, 74.4% of individuals arrested overall were of those two racial groups.

Well Oedipus pokes his eyes out with needles, his mom hangs herself, and his father is famously murdered by his son. I don’t know who is supposed to be who in this analogy but it seems promising.

Are you for real, man? Can you really not let this go? Let me break it down for you:

I don’t think Mythbusters should have used human skulls, you disagree. That’s it. It’s that simple.

How about this: you win! You’re very smart and we’re all proud of you. There is nothing wrong with using human bones for entertainment science. Adam and Jamie are real scientists. I was wrong about everything, it just took like 5 replies for me to realize it. I promise to print out your replies so that I can study them by candle light even if my power goes out. Thank you for helping me to understand such a complicated issue.

Now leave me alone.

Hard science is science that uses systematic observation, experiments and sometimes mathematics to get knowledge. In hard science, experiments have to be reproducible (if the experiment is done a second time, it will have to produce the same results as the first time).

https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_science

My opinion is that Mythbusters is not science, but science themed entertainment, and as such, does not justify the use of human remains. I further contend that they do not treat the human remains with sufficient dignity, and that their use is disrespectful.

It is also my opinion that you will continue to reply/argue with me until one of three conditions is met: 1. You continue to argue semantics until one of us expires from old age. 2. You whittle me down and I give up. 3. The actual heat death of the universe.

It’s looking like option #2 is the front runner. Because at this point I’d rather get my own skull crushed than to continue going back and forth with you.

The priority on Mythbusters is always entertainment first, not science. It’s not best practices, it’s what is visually appealing. It’s not data driven, it’s shooting schedule. The skulls are not necessary tools, they are props. Adam Savage himself states that the goal is to “replicate the circumstances, then duplicate the results”, or in other words, create a spectical. Which again, is fine, but is not hard science. If you can’t tell the difference between hard science and television I don’t know what to do for you.

But I suspect you understand this already, and are motivated more by the excitement of eliciting a response by adopting a posture of “enlightened” objectivty, blowing the minds of us lesser beings, us superstitious cave dwellers, than by legitimately considering the finer points of profiting off of human remains or the needless destruction therof.