MouseDenton

74932 pts ยท March 24, 2013


Master Guns, it's a pineapple.

Okay, but the video cited commercialized establishments as the historical "third spaces" that are currently 'under attack'. And more to your last point, as I said previously, I doubt the likes of Starbucks are gonna take the fall for this corporate illuminati scheme.

2 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But all the examples given were commercialized establishments?

3 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Something tells me that the "shutting down" part is hyperbole. I very much doubt multi-billion dollar companies will fall on the sword for whatever "illuminati" wants to stop people from gathering at coffee shops, restaurants, bars, clubs, etc.
Also, why bother when you can just monitor everyone's activity? They'll self-censor and the "threat" of a physical gathering is largely neutralized.

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Is there some difference in material to ensure the handles on the interior of the door don't get so cold they become a hazard to skin contact?

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Then they make you an admin clerk and you fall into existential depression anyway.

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So did they launch with enough foresight to avoid any celestial bodies or does it have some propulsion to avoid getting sucked into something's gravitational pull?

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Hardcore Henry made me realize if I ever got good at parkour, I'd probably decapitate myself.

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I think I first heard this about bread lines and Gorbachev.

3 weeks ago | Likes 173 Dislikes 1

I desperately want a soundpack mod for videogames in this spirit.

3 weeks ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

We should definitely be working on it as an assistant to human productivity (like a conversational calculator that occasionally lies), but as a replacement? Absolutely not.

3 weeks ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

To be fair for the specific event itself, old radar targeting was infamously shit at differentiation. Lots of fratricide incidents because all they had to go off was a reflected signal.

But that doesn't justify pulling an Abu Ghraib afterwards.

4 weeks ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 12

Now that's a whole new level of Russia's own "hybrid warfare" model.

4 weeks ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

Meanwhile the SEALS are holding up their books like Bibles to a vampire.

4 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

A more accurate one would be "human capital".

4 weeks ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Just watch the opening credits to Blues Brothers. That was the norm at the time.

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I suspect a lot of that tendency is due to media (from storytelling all the way through videogames) depicting it as the ideal/glorious solution, which itself may stem from our survivalist competition with nature. Stories are inherently simplistic for entertainment value, and so we default to the conflict resolution we're regularly presented; violence. But I hesitate to say it's an intrinsic human inclination (at least to the degree we practice it).

4 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Because you only saw one at a time.

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

From what I hear, they did.

1 month ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

That's the mark of a creative childhood.

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

The bit about getting electricity got me good (as a Midwesterner)

1 month ago | Likes 85 Dislikes 1

I've gone to the independent scene. They're minimalist and loaded with bugs, but what they do have is still more fulfilling than most AAA games anymore.

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

The military doesn't even do this level of desensitization.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You have just won the most "gee whiz" fact I've come across for the entire year.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's a solid message, but an idealistic one. In a hostage crisis, it's best to resolve it with no casualties. But when hostages are being executed, the peaceful, constructive approach risks much more harm than good. And there are a lot of national-level hostage crisis in the world.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

With one major exception: the American Civil War.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You had one about managers overreacting to a boss' casual comment about the background color of a presentation I can't seem to find, which I'd love to buy a print of to staple to my supervisor's door.

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I generally give the kanji plates a pass because hey, it's their country, they can drive how they like as long as it's safe, but their parallel parking leaves a lot to be desired (which, admittedly, is probably just as often due to Sunday drivers taking a rental on their holiday from the mainland). But in my book, Y plates have no excuse if they expect to survive when they rotate back.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

There is an argument to be made about the addictive nature of it.

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They must not require this test in Okinawa.

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No pun intended, but that's pretty metal.

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