CarbonatedPastaSauce

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Cops - Teaching people never to call them, one atrocity at a time.

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First time I’ve seen a cat lose that fight!

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Woosh

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If they can find a way to offload the excess energy to my house, I’ll never pay for electricity again!

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Can you guys hurry it up? Is there a GoFundMe I can donate to?

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I can't ever remember if Breyers or Dreyers is the shitty one, so I always just buy Tillamook or Blue Bell.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

The best part is it also advertises how many of his own boogers he eats per week.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

It would take a LOT of mass, even just using water. You need a 1m thick layer of water to provide adequate protection in space outside of LEO. There's a good explanation here:

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/1336/what-thickness-depth-of-water-would-be-required-to-provide-radiation-shielding-i

TL;DR - You'd need 3 Saturn V launches of just water to fill the shielding for a tiny capsule going to Mars. The example they used was "a cylinder roughly 3.5m by 20m" for the crew compartment.

If they could somehow pull the water from space (comets, asteroids) then it would become easier, but launching that much water from the surface of Earth is just not logistically feasible with our technology.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

Only if he lets them know. Otherwise the cycle continues.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

Read up on reference frames.

Discussing astronomical events would be incredibly tedious if we had to qualify everything by how many light years away / how long ago the light we’re measuring was created.

Put another way - everyone already knows we’re looking at the past, it’s like saying the sky is blue.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

Yes, and if you want to take it to pedantic extremes, EVERYTHING you see is in the past because it takes at least 13ms for your eyes to transmit signals to your brain, and your brain to interpret the signals. (This is based on recent research from MIT but it's far from definitive, point being it takes time for our meat computers to interpret reality) That's why the whole argument is a bit silly.

Astronomy is just that, adding orders of magnitude the further away something is.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

Indeed. Mel Brooks knew how to do it. I really enjoyed “Hitler On Ice”.

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Remember kids, it’s not hypocrisy to be intolerant of the intolerant. They have broken the social compact and are therefore no longer protected by it.

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I was going to joke about some kind of social vision correction device that goes on your eyeball, but then I realized you meant contract. ;)

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

Nobody is asking the REAL questions, like why did he dress like a Larry the Cable Guy audience member for a political debate?

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Yeah there's a good chunk of this country that would react to this kind of message by heading to the gun store to stock up. Not exactly helpful.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

I never had kids of my own, because I didn't want any, but the last 15 years or so I've becoming increasingly grateful that I made that decision. It at least allows me to sit back and contemplate doom without worrying about what my kids' life on this planet is going to be like after I'm gone.

I've always done the reducing, reusing, and recycling, because it's the right thing to do. Cut waaaaay back on dairy and beef purchases, I eat a lot of plant protein and use plant milk now. But it's all a drop in the bucket. Only the governments can actually fix this, and they won't because they are owned. I just sit around hoping it won't get TOO bad before I'm dead.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

Cool, nothing to worry about then!

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There’s a process for ‘challenging facts’, it’s called the scientific method.

What these people are doing is called the moronic method.

CarbonatedPastaSauce , (edited )

What's your argument here? That we should sacrifice in the name of corporate profits?

I personally am not interested in giving up the few luxury food items I buy so that the CEO of Kroger can buy another fucking yacht.

edit: I meant to say I'm not interested in paying more for less so they can keep buying yachts, but did a terrible job of that and ended up saying the opposite.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

There’s no mechanism here where people buying less luxury foods leads to anyone buying yachts.

That's... not what I said at all. In fact, the opposite.

edit: You're right, that is what I said. Not what I meant to say though. I 'mistyped'. Hence why it doesn't make sense. Sorry.

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These companies are so short sighted. They are destroying the ability for the people who might push this software for use in a business environment to use it at home, test it out, learn it. This depletes the pool of experts and supporters that would expand their product's use over time.

Microsoft and VMware are the worst offenders at the moment. I feel if you're a competent on-premises Microsoft sysadmin you'll have work for the rest of your life, because they aren't MAKING on-premises Microsoft sysadmins anymore.

*edited my last sentence for clarity

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

They are making Cloud Microsoft sysadmins, as opposed to on-premises sysadmins. Which means the new crop of admins are just high tier application admins, and have no idea how to manage infrastructure, configure hardware, or actually troubleshoot problems with the application, since they don't have access to it at that level. All of this makes businesses more and more reliant on the cloud, which is exactly what these providers want.

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Rout not route.

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They sell your data.

Transition from litter box to doing business outdoors

We've got one cat 6months and the other 3months old, currently both using the litterbox. However we're going to move to a new house soon, and eventually try to transition them to getting used to doing their business outdoors instead of the litterbox. Does anyone have any tips or best practices for this transition?...

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

ITT - tons of evidence that letting cats outside is harmful in many ways.

OP - shrug

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

“My countrymen need a lot of this education I’m ignoring”

What do people today act like is new, when it's already have been a thing or already been around? ( kbin.social )

Gamers like to make it sound like $70 is a new thing today for video games. When, I've seen adverts of games back in late 90s and early 90s that were priced $70. It's always been around so I find it ridiculous that so many of them complain that the pricing is too high when, it's been a thing....

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

$70 cartridges have been around since the SNES days.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

But it was the standard for new ‘AAA’ games for the first couple months of release.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

I dunno, I seem to have misplaced my Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Game Prices by Week. :D

Just pointing out that back in the day it was not unusual to have the most desirable games cost $70 for a while. It wasn't special editions / GOTY stuff - those type of things didn't even exist yet. So I'd imagine whoever is downvoting you is an old curmudgeon like me that lived through the Dawn of Video Games like I did, and remembers this as not being uncommon. Hell, even normal NES games were $50 or so. I remember paying that much for Final Fantasy when it came out. Once you add in inflation, that's an expensive game!

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

Have you ever used iTunes? Apples music UI has always been dogshit. I find using any of their music stuff to be a chore. If Google wasn’t so evil I’d drop iOS in a heartbeat.

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A bit sensitive are we? lol

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I’ve been rear ended twice while sitting at a red light and yielding at a yield sign, so I guess as close as possible?

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

Bold of you to assume they're people.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

So when is Google going to try to have him arrested?

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

How many MBAs at the bottom of the ocean does it take to raise sea level by 1mm?

I don't know, but let's make it a priority to find out.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

It's a satirical account, that's not a real politician.

There are plenty of them out there that are this dumb though.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

Just finished, got an extra 32 horsepower out of her!

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

I have a couple 72 year olds that still act like 15 year olds

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

Every few years some people decide you can’t use certain words because they have become negative terms to some group. So they invent a new term for the same thing and as the years go by and more people use the new term, it gets the same negative association that the old one had. Then the cycle begins anew.

Sometimes it’s good - a lot of slurs that were ok for anyone to say when I was a kid are now socially unacceptable and that’s great. But sometimes the SJWs take it too far and I think this is one of those times. I don’t understand the reason for the push to call them “unhoused” but I’m willing to be educated.

Once you hit middle age and have seen this happen a few times you’ll usually just roll your eyes and carry on.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

Very interesting, thanks for linking it! And they even have a name for the phenomenon I described.

"Intentional shifts in terminology might seem like a game of Whac-A-Mole – an ultimately unsuccessful effort to outrun a concept’s ugly implications. The Harvard professor Steven Pinker dubbed it the “euphemism treadmill”."

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

Aliens, man

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Are they even real?

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

I’ve got that Friday feeling.

I get it every day.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

The government should never be allowed to put its own citizens to death. The government is not infallible. The government has put innocent people to death.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

Before the revolution can happen.

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Whoever you are, whatever your game or mental health issue is, it would seem people here have tired of your shenanigans.

You might have more luck back on Reddit.

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If you cared about privacy you wouldn’t be using any Google products.

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