Mistruths

211031 pts Β· July 28, 2012


I sometimes not always don't quite never tell the truth, the whole truth, and something bending the truth. ~ Actually, I'm mostly honest, but when I'm being tricky you'll probably not notice anyway. No one reads usernames =\

sockpuppet, this 5 year old account's only comments are on this post with zero other interaction.

3 hours ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"Do you have a favorite flavor of paint chips?" "Your mother obviously didn't get enough folic acid." "Was your helmet as a child a bundt pan?" "Wisdom has been chasing you, but you have always been faster." "If your brains were dynamite, you couldn't blow your nose." "You couldn't pour water out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel."

1 day ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

part money laundering, part gambling, part rug-pull scam once the hype dropped down and only the really stupid and the really rich still cared

1 day ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Es stultior asino, Stercorem pro cerebro habes. Vacca stulta, caput tuum in ano est.

5 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Actually, JavaScript is named after Java, because Netscape and Sun got in bed together and planned for both languages to go together as a scripting-and-compiled language pair.

5 days ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

You need to put more points into your repair skill, I think.

1 week ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

*last

1 week ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Quoting your own linked article: "In the end, these efforts came to naught. In some cases (New Jersey, Illinois), the GOP obtained recounts but they didn’t change the final vote. In other cases (Texas), judges rejected the GOP’s bids for recounts. As it turned out (as several academic studies have concluded), some fraud existed, but not enough to alter the outcome."

It wasn't rigged

1 week ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I can make her worse.

1 week ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

Decibels (in this use case) are a measure of volume, Hertz is a measure of frequency (which in this case would be sound pitch). The meme is saying the cat is hearing shit you can't, because your ears literally do not perceive that high of a pitch of sound, even if the cause would kill you. A 1,100 Decibel sound would destroy the universe, because the energy required would instantly create a black hole with an event horizon 𝘡𝘩𝘦 𝘴π˜ͺ𝘻𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘡𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘒𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘯π˜ͺ𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦.

2 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No, it's still "President" for the moment

2 weeks ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

#13 the silent p was added back when it was fancy to spell words like their etymology instead of how they're said. It's otherwise just a variant of the past tense of "receive", and is very closely related to "recipe"

2 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

100s of hours to get his character where it was, nor the 1000s of hours to get his character where it was in *only* a few hundred hours

3 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's not a case of electronic devices tracking everything, that's a case of electronic devices leaving breadcrumbs because they're legally required to because of e.g. counterfeiting. It's not reporting what you print to the cloud the same way everything else is.

3 weeks ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 2

You can spoof those

3 weeks ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hold the school admins accountable for their bullshit

3 weeks ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

it filters people too stupid to do basic arithmetic, and frequently, chatbots

3 weeks ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Wake up. Look around and see if there's food. Go back to sleep.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I condone it. Fuck Rand Paul.

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

add some sugar to the curing concrete if you can. It slows down the curing process and doesn't take a whole lot to essentially stop it completely, and for a foundation it ruins the entire pour

1 month ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Step one is to remove the compromised russian assets in the white house.

1 month ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Radiation, convection/conduction (via heatsink ejection), one-way physics trickery (evaporation/sublimation RE: convection, dissolving salt in water, etc) and one-way chemistry trickery (endothermic chemical reactions such as barium hydroxide + ammonium thiocyanate).
But ultimately your only real options are radiators and a cooling system to feed them, or a heat pump connected to an expendable resource that is vented or ejected, carrying the excess heat away with it.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I have thunderbird automatically delete the typical receipt/confirmation/etc emails after a month unless I manually archive them, and all "important" receipts get automatically dumped into a folder after a couple weeks. I figure I'm either at my PC and immediately handle it, it pings my phone and it's urgent (and I handle it there), or it can wait until something is actually needed.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You can always ask about specific classes (highest math credit, most difficult (to them) math course, weirdest solo project, etc. depending on your hiring needs) but one thing to check is how they go about solving a problemβ€”maybe ask them if there's something annoying that their computer(s) do (or don't do) that they wish it didn't (or did), and how they would go about making that happen. Bonus points if they've already done things like that, with examples.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Almost all 2-year degrees and most 4-year degrees give a decent foundation of knowledge, and a very 𝘸π˜ͺπ˜₯𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘡 𝘯𝘰𝘡 π˜₯𝘦𝘦𝘱 education on the subject matter. This is almost entirely because most degrees require significant specialization beyond 4 years, and not everyone going in knows exactly what they're going to do coming out. CS in particular touches on a lot of things (a lot of which you will mostly ignore afterwards) and depending on your specialization, you might just get certifications

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"Computer Science" is approximately as precise a term as "civil engineer". You can have someone who has spent their entire career studying and designing bridges, with a depth of knowledge of how the typical mineral content in a specific river affects the corrosion rate of any metal reinforcement of the specific concrete mix used in the pylons compared to a different section of the same river.

It is also theoretically possible that they have never seen an operational dam in person.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Canada all but bans direct-to-consumer advertisement for prescription drugs, only allowing mentioning the disease or symptoms to be treated, OR the drug name, not both.

The US instead requires all significant side effects or risks to be listed alongside the purpose of prescription drugs, ALSO says "ask your doctor", but can still advertise basically everything about them.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

β†’and alternative medicine is almost entirely of the "statistically identical to placebo" type.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The common reply was actually "How dare you call my hands dirty! I was only wrist-deep in a corpse five minutes ago! I am a gentleman, and a gentleman's hands are clean!"

And this is 𝘒𝘧𝘡𝘦𝘳 evidence that washing hands actually worked.

Finally, you can't positively prove a negative in that way. There is only "There is no proof this works, and we haven't looked" and "There is no proof this works, and we've looked" and "There is proof this works, because we looked" β†’

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