You know it just occurred to me that I might actually be thinking of Thaddeus Beck.
Yes brain, because those two musicians are so similar.
I should admit to lacking a real familiarity with either of those groups tbh. My super-underground of choice from that era is cLOUDDEAD, especially their self-titled.
You should pick it up if you don't have it already.
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
You know it just occurred to me that I might actually be thinking of Thaddeus Beck.
Yes brain, because those two musicians are so similar.
I should admit to lacking a real familiarity with either of those groups tbh. My super-underground of choice from that era is cLOUDDEAD, especially their self-titled.
You should pick it up if you don't have it already.
Whoever he was, I wish he got more screen-time in that episode.
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 find it strange that Texas reserves the more interesting-looking state highway shield for the lesser category of highways.
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
Why the fuck do I want to come up with a trucker handle for myself?
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
When I was younger I wanted to be a trucker.
I'm sure this doesn't come as a surprise to any of you...
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
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
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
Now I have this idea for a webcomic about a young woman who's all sweet and innocent and likes Disney and My Little Pony but is also a trucker.
That is, Central Avenue the internet persona, but as a trucker.
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
The only problem is I don't know enough trucker culture to make it realistic
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
Oh.
You know, "trucker" doesn't really make that much sense anyway, when you think about it, because who the hell uses "truck" as a verb?
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
The app doesn't let me copy-paste because of copyright bullshit, so here's a screenshot instead:
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
What's funny is how easily these stories tend to fit into categories. I didn't guess the exact solution to this one, but I had figured out that it was the kind that rested with some sort of factual error regarding the subject matter.
The other big category is the ones where the witness contradicts themselves. Even if you can't quite guess what the contradiction is, you know that's what the answer will be.
...I can't articulate this post very well right now.
And yes, I read Encyclopedia Brown ebooks before bed. It's comforting somehow.
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
Basic Encyclopedia Brown solutions:
- Suspect makes a factual error
- Suspect contradicts his/her own story
- Suspect mentions some aspect of the crime that only the perp would know
In all three cases, this proves they deliberately lied--no such thing as a slip of the tongue--and if they lied about one aspect, no matter how irrelevant, their whole story is false. Showing them the one thing they got wrong will always lead to them confessing and being punished appropriately.
Scott, please do me a favour. Walk down the hall to the Engineering department, and ask one of the Profs for the Engineer’s Oath that we all swore when we graduated. You obviously know nothing about my discipline or how we think, if you think we “ignore” unknown unknowns. We AGONIZE over them, and uif you read our Oath you would see that immediately. Your first paragraph is vilifying engineers for identifying that we do not know everything, and suggests that we wilfully ignore the unknown Laws of Physics, and that is simply not true in any way.
Remember the Scientific Method. Observation is first, then Theorizing. You cannot theorize about what you have not observed. Unknown unknowns are unobserved phenomenon that we have yet to provoke into revealing themselves, and so we cannot compensate for them. The moment you observe something, it becomes a “known unknown”, and the engineer begins analysis to determine symptoms so that a theory can be developed to explain and solve the phenomenon. Without observation, the unknown unknown cannot be discovered except by accident. No matter how rigorous the engineer, he cannot solve a problem that does not yet exist.
A perfect example is the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. They built the bridge just as they had all others, but unlike all the others, it showed signs of an instability early on. They had no choice but to just warn people away and set up cameras to observe the phenomenon, which worsened. After the bridge so dramatically collapsed, they used the brand new wind tunnels that had only ever been used on aircraft design, and discovered that an L in a crosswind develops a vortex in the corner that creates low pressure that pulls the bridge up, until the vortex crumbles and allows the bridge to fall again. You would vilify the designers for having not thought to look for a phenomenon never before observed anywhere? Yeah, that’s total hindsight. Not one engineer, scientist, or philosopher predicted such beavior in any bridge, so I’ll point the finger right back at your discipline for ignoring the same unknown unknowns. If Philosophers could have predicted the Tacoma Narrows collapse, why didn’t they? It was a publically watched phenomenon, so they can’t claim not to have known about it. Or any of the other thousands of collapses in history. If you’re capable of identifying an unknown unknown, then how can you live with yourself not saving all of those lives every year?
Do you know where the steel for the iron rings being given out to all graduating Engineers comes from? A collapsed bridge in Quebec: we bought the steel during clean-up. We wear our failure every day of our lives.
You are asking for engineers to be Prophets of God, to see the future and predict the Laws of Physics that no man have evidence for. The idea is absurd, and your view of my discipline warped. Attacking my profession for what you could never achieve yourself is provocative and self-centered.
My ticked of of the constant stream of people saying they want the old Runescape back and that Jagex ruined everything and that all the updates are dumb and that Runescape isn't Runescape anymore and blah blah blah level is 99.
This one was from July 17, 2009, on a thread about fake skills that you are level 99 in. Amazing how much changed in a year.
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You know it just occurred to me that I might actually be thinking of Thaddeus Beck.
Yes brain, because those two musicians are so similar.
I should admit to lacking a real familiarity with either of those groups tbh. My super-underground of choice from that era is cLOUDDEAD, especially their self-titled.
You should pick it up if you don't have it already.
Or not.
*sigh*
guys, don't step on the grass. It's dreaming.
Someday, it will be big grass.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
why would you post that
you made the grass cry
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
YNTKT
That song has gotten me out of many a depression.
I AM THE TABLE
This has got to be one of the flimsiest Encyclopedia Brown solutions I've ever read.
I'm in line at the polling place, and the turnout is pretendous. It may be even more dense than 2008.
Scott, please do me a favour. Walk down the hall to the Engineering department, and ask one of the Profs for the Engineer’s Oath that we all swore when we graduated. You obviously know nothing about my discipline or how we think, if you think we “ignore” unknown unknowns. We AGONIZE over them, and uif you read our Oath you would see that immediately. Your first paragraph is vilifying engineers for identifying that we do not know everything, and suggests that we wilfully ignore the unknown Laws of Physics, and that is simply not true in any way.
Remember the Scientific Method. Observation is first, then Theorizing. You cannot theorize about what you have not observed. Unknown unknowns are unobserved phenomenon that we have yet to provoke into revealing themselves, and so we cannot compensate for them. The moment you observe something, it becomes a “known unknown”, and the engineer begins analysis to determine symptoms so that a theory can be developed to explain and solve the phenomenon. Without observation, the unknown unknown cannot be discovered except by accident. No matter how rigorous the engineer, he cannot solve a problem that does not yet exist.
A perfect example is the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. They built the bridge just as they had all others, but unlike all the others, it showed signs of an instability early on. They had no choice but to just warn people away and set up cameras to observe the phenomenon, which worsened. After the bridge so dramatically collapsed, they used the brand new wind tunnels that had only ever been used on aircraft design, and discovered that an L in a crosswind develops a vortex in the corner that creates low pressure that pulls the bridge up, until the vortex crumbles and allows the bridge to fall again. You would vilify the designers for having not thought to look for a phenomenon never before observed anywhere? Yeah, that’s total hindsight. Not one engineer, scientist, or philosopher predicted such beavior in any bridge, so I’ll point the finger right back at your discipline for ignoring the same unknown unknowns. If Philosophers could have predicted the Tacoma Narrows collapse, why didn’t they? It was a publically watched phenomenon, so they can’t claim not to have known about it. Or any of the other thousands of collapses in history. If you’re capable of identifying an unknown unknown, then how can you live with yourself not saving all of those lives every year?
Do you know where the steel for the iron rings being given out to all graduating Engineers comes from? A collapsed bridge in Quebec: we bought the steel during clean-up. We wear our failure every day of our lives.
You are asking for engineers to be Prophets of God, to see the future and predict the Laws of Physics that no man have evidence for. The idea is absurd, and your view of my discipline warped. Attacking my profession for what you could never achieve yourself is provocative and self-centered.
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whatever.
talking was never something i loved anyways.