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  • Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast
    Why are you still awake?
  • edited 2012-10-25 07:28:55
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    because she's nocturnal

    anyway I just got up

    I have to go with my mother to her surgery
  • The sadness will last forever.
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  • The sadness will last forever.
    sigh

    must go to doctor in the morning

    lame
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Rejected spambot name: BartPQ

    If it had been "BartBQ" I would have approved it just because it's funny. Banned it immediately, but approved it.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    So, after poring over various websites and old maps for a couple hours, I figured out that this missing shield in Upper Sandusky...

    image

    ...would have been either US 30N or (more likely) US 30.

    US 30N became US 30 in 1975, when its counterpart US 30S was decommissioned. This particular street (Wyandot Avenue in Upper Sandusky) was an old route of US 30 until some time in the late '80s or early '90s, when the western half of the Upper Sandusky bypass was built.
  • Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast
    Anonus said:

    because she's nocturnal


    anyway I just got up

    I have to go with my mother to her surgery
    But but its silly o clock across the pond
  • Logical positivism: one of the few philosophical schools that can conclusively be proven wrong.
  • Well if something was totally, empirically wrong, no one would ever suppor-ah nope, could not keep a straight face for that. Thought about the Flat Earth Society.
  • Nobody does support it anymore.
    Logical positivism used formal logic to underpin an empiricist account of our knowledge of the world.[5] Philosophers such as Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach, along with other members of the Vienna Circle, claimed that the truths of logic and mathematics were tautologies, and those of science were verifiable empirical claims. These two constituted the entire universe of meaningful judgements; anything else was nonsense. The claims of ethics and aesthetics were subjective preferences. Theology and other metaphysics were pseudo-statements, neither true nor false, simply meaningless nonsense.
     
    Turns out that the statement that "Anything that isn't a tautology or a verifiable empirical claim is meaningless nonsense" is, under it's own criteria, meaningless nonsense.
  • That's kind of a weird criteria to begin with considering that most tautologies are kind of nonsensical anyway.
  • Tautologies are the only statements that are true by definition, so they are the least nonsensical statements possible.
  • I thought a tautology was just a self-affirming statement (X=X).

    I suppose they're not, really, but they certainly sound strange when you say them in any terms that aren't equations.

  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I think a tautology could be said to be meaningless, but not nonsensical.

    Of course I have very little education in logic so what I say is probably wrong.
  • So I just ate a thing called a MAX. It's basically taffy shaped like a medical pill. Why? Because fuck small children, I suppose.
  • I think POTUS just sank Romney’s battleship

    — John Kerry (@JohnKerry) October 23, 2012


    man that is great.
  • The most recent debate was....just about the least debatey debate I have ever heard.

    Well, I only saw highlights so that's probably why.

    But a lot of it seemed to be less "presidential debate" and more "rap battle with less rhyming".

  • The most recent debate was....just about the least debatey debate I have ever heard.

    Well, I only saw highlights so that's probably why.

    But a lot of it seemed to be less "presidential debate" and more "rap battle with less rhyming".



    Nice Peter for prez.
  • Seen it.

    Not really a fan of that one because the raps seemed to be deliberately toned down to make Abe look better.

    But, whatever.

    I should nap now.

  • Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
    here have another tautology:
    ~p(~(p -> (~q  -> (p & ~q))))

    I've taken only 6 credit hours of logic and had a rough go at it but I got a lot out of it
  • Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
    For the record, there was nothing remotely racist in my use of the phrase "shuck and jive" – a phrase which many people have used, including Chris Matthews, Andrew Cuomo, and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney to name a few off the top of my head. In fact, Andrew Cuomo also used the phrase in reference to Barack Obama, and the fact that Mr. Cuomo and I used the phrase in relation to President Obama signifies nothing out of the ordinary. I would have used the exact same expression if I had been writing about President Carter, whose foreign policy rivaled Obama’s in its ineptitude, or about the Nixon administration, which was also famously rocked by a cover-up.

    I’ve been known to use the phrase most often when chastising my daughter Piper to stop procrastinating and do her homework. As she is part Yup’ik Eskimo, I’m not sure if this term would be deemed offensive when it’s directed at her or if it would be considered benign as in the case of Chris Matthews’ use of it in reference to Rachel Maddow. Just to be careful, from now on I’ll avoid using it with Piper, and I would appreciate it if the media refrained from using words and phrases like igloo, Eskimo Pie, and “when hell freezes over,” as they might be considered offensive by my extended Alaska Native family.

    The outrageously outraged reaction to this expression from perennial hypocrites like Chris Matthews has only made me laugh. Mr. Matthews, let me share with you my favorite Irish toast: “May we always be happy, and may our enemies always know it.”

    - Sarah Palin

    I just love how even four years after she stopped being relevant, the media at large can't let her go even though she's become very aware of this and is having fun with it
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    "Melatonin may cause drowsiness."

    Thanks for that, pill bottle. I never would have guessed.
  • edited 2012-10-25 11:32:23
    THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    Man, I'm trying to read this thing on bleacherreport.com, and this damned video ad keeps popping up that's laden with ads from what are apparently right-wing extremist groups. :P  It's so annoying that I'm tempted to install ABP.

    One of these ads is, in all seriousness, arguing for a return to the Cold War, if not full military action against Them Pinko Commies. Yeah, that will end well:

  • Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
    lee can't you just modify your hosts.conf to block all adservers
  • THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    Well, I don't want to block all of them, just the annoying ones. Most ads don't bother me.
  • READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis

    why is it that caffeine seems to help me calm down


    you would think consuming a stimulant would have the opposite effect
    I have ADHD and it has a similar effect on me, as well.

    Still keeps me up though, and alot can make me jittery.
  • Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast

    "Melatonin may cause drowsiness."


    Thanks for that, pill bottle. I never would have guessed.
    May cause drowsiness?

    Bloody hell those pills are crap
  • READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
    My lot in life seems to be setting up meetings that get me out of bed earlier than I would like so the other party can not bother to show up or reschedule. 
  • THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    Oh, and did I mention that this is one of those video ads that have ads before the video? The main video itself is some cheaply-produced stock market update, but almost all of the preroll ads have been political in nature. I actually felt some relief when the ads for soap started showing up. ._.

    If nothing else, at least this one leaves the sound off. I've seen other ads of this type that play with the sound blasting.
  • Yay Hyperdub T-shirts will be on sale soon.
  • Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast

    image

    Wouldn't be surprised if his house was Mt Moon
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Now I'm here
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    why does only part of the background move
  • READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
    'Cause "Animated Gifs are Haaaaaaaaaaaard!", would be my guess.
  • READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
    Mr. Truant just created my new favorite thing to say that looks like it was spoken by a heavy accented Japanese person:

    burunu
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    burinnu
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

    "Melatonin may cause drowsiness."


    Thanks for that, pill bottle. I never would have guessed.
    May cause drowsiness?

    Bloody hell those pills are crap
    If you don't know, the point of them is to cause drowsiness. They're helpful for getting those on the autism spectrum sleepy; our pineal glands don't produce as much melatonin as neurotypicals' do.
  • Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast
    If you don't know, the point of them is to cause drowsiness. They're
    helpful for getting those on the autism spectrum sleepy; our pineal
    glands don't produce as much melatonin as neurotypicals' do.
    I know what Melatonin does, the reason I called them crap is because it says "MAY" not "WILL".
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    That is interesting, I did not know that.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Also, the pineal gland is helpful for tapping into secret powers that destroy reptilians.
  • man the cato institute loves trying to sell me e-books.
  • Also, the pineal gland is helpful for tapping into secret powers that destroy reptilians.
    My friend died by giving birth to a tomato ._.
  • edited 2012-10-25 13:04:08

    First snow.
  • edited 2012-10-25 13:46:41
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Ah, the Pineal gland.

    Another part of my brain that betrays me.

    I swear, between that and the Amygdala...

    ^ First snow here was two days ago.
  • READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!

    i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
    It's sunny again.

    The Pacific Northwest is the troll of the weather world.
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