The Trash Heap of the Heapers' Hangout

1482948304832483448357762

Comments

  • Let's shut me out of even more areas of foreign relations!

    Would be nice if there were some way to just airlift all those Israeli settlers in Palestinian lands to get them out of there.

    Palestine should be a country.
  • Also, obligatory additional "fuck you" to Scott Walker.
  • Russia should let those people who used to live on Big Diomede Island go back there.

    and should allow people from Little Diomede Island to visit them and vice versa.
  • More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
    image
  • More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
    image
  • ^ hey

    change that to 2010 now
  • More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
    image
  • correct replacement for gerrymandering:

    state is divided by minimum number of lines to achieve desired population counts per district, as calculated by a computer

    state border is calculated to one meter spatial resolution, for the purpose of this line-drawing

    there.  everyone stop complaining.
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
  • edited 2014-04-18 09:10:05
    is it the chosun one?
    :-DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
  • correct replacement for gerrymandering:

    state is divided by minimum number of lines to achieve desired population counts per district, as calculated by a computer

    state border is calculated to one meter spatial resolution, for the purpose of this line-drawing

    there.  everyone stop complaining.

    -thumbs up-
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)

    correct replacement for gerrymandering:

    state is divided by minimum number of lines to achieve desired population counts per district, as calculated by a computer

    state border is calculated to one meter spatial resolution, for the purpose of this line-drawing

    there.  everyone stop complaining.

    -thumbs up-
    Agreed.

  • as a practical matter, my first thoughts about how that might run into trouble are (1) the Voting Rights Act and its anti-cracking measures that specify that there has to be, for example, at least one district in Alabama has to have a majority-minority population (I'm not sure if this was affected by the recent SCOTUS decision on VRA), and (2) any jurisprudence heretofore on "communities of interest", which I know is a thing but I don't know how much of a thing it is.

    like, as far as I know, people generally considered it okay back when AZ-02 snaked into territory where a tribe of Native Americans lived but which was surrounded by territory where another tribe of Native Americans lived and was allocated to AZ-01, on the basis that the tribe with the surrounded area actually requested to be given a different representative.

    (this is no longer the case, for what it's worth.  for reference: 2005-2013 map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_House_of_Representatives_Arizona_Congressional_Districts_Map.png , current map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Arizona_Congressional_Districts,_113th_Congress.tif )
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    mikooooooooooooo
  • Gonna lie in bed today I think.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Why?
  • Free Speech: For when literally the best thing you can say about your opinion is it's not technically illegal.

  • Odradek said:

    Why?

    So I won't get hungry, and because it's something I've wanted to try for a while.
  • The forum went goffik for a minute there.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    I'm a shit and no one should have to deal with me.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    :(
  • edited 2014-04-18 11:35:01
    image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    EDIT: Scratch that, no point importing drama.
  • Odradek said:

    I'm a shit and no one should have to deal with me.

    *hugs*
  • edited 2014-04-18 11:36:47
    My dreams exceed my real life

    EDIT: Scratch that, no point importing drama.

    Please don't, that's a terrible idea.

    Importing drama I mean.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    I'm gonna leave for a few days to figure things out.
  • Odradek said:

    I'm gonna leave for a few days to figure things out.

    :|

    Come back soon!
  • Hunger pangs starting. I can power through this, I can do it. Phew. Gonna be a tough twelve hours.
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Odradek said:

    I'm gonna leave for a few days to figure things out.

    You're not a crud or a ****, and I hope you find what you are looking for in these days.

    Godspeed, my friend.
  • edited 2014-04-18 12:54:57
    Good luck with whatever it is that's troubling you.  :)  Hope to see you back soon.
  • edited 2014-04-18 14:42:17
    Lack of food has made it difficult to focus on one thing for extended periods of time. I've determined that since I woke up at 9, and the fast ends at midnight, I'll have my one meal at five o'clock. I can do this.

    I have no idea how people do this for days; or even a single day, really. I'm just glad Catholic fasting allows you to eat once.
  • Question for Aliroz, since you seem to be the most religiously inclined one here, is it cheating to end the fast at midnight?
  • how is a fast a fast if you can eat during it
  • edited 2014-04-18 14:43:59
    It's still pretty difficult for me.
  • Also
    Fasting as explained by the U.S. bishops means partaking of only one full meal. 
  • edited 2014-04-18 14:45:27
    kill living beings
    Kexruct said:

    Question for Aliroz, since you seem to be the most religiously inclined one here, is it cheating to end the fast at midnight?

    i have no idea what you're doing but i'd like to point out that during ramadan you can eat after sundown. i mean if you didn't eat for a month you would be dead. or wish you were dead.

    my dad, a former waiter, has a few funny stories about setting up food for muslim coworkers, who'd then go to town after their shift
  • But considering I'm around some people who regularly can't eat maybe I'm just being an idiot right now sorry.
  • Kexruct said:

    Question for Aliroz, since you seem to be the most religiously inclined one here, is it cheating to end the fast at midnight?

    i have no idea what you're doing but i'd like to point out that during ramadan you can eat after sundown. i mean if you didn't eat for a month you would be dead. or wish you were dead.
    Oh, I know. I'm not a Muslim though; I'm doing this for Good Friday. However, Lent ends tomorrow and I'd like to eat the foods I've abstained from as quickly as possible because if you're me going forty six days without chips, candy, or soda is torture.
  • edited 2014-04-18 14:54:31
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Kexruct said:

    Question for Aliroz, since you seem to be the most religiously inclined one here, is it cheating to end the fast at midnight?

    No, I don't think so.   I don't know how fasting works in your religion.  Here's how it feels like ot me.

     If you are fasting on, for example, Thursday, but not Friday,

    I don't know, but what I would tend to do is wait until 12:01, when it is indisputably the next day.  However, sometimes that feels off to me, and I wait until 1:00 (it always felt to me that 1:00 just felt like the next day in a way that 12:01 didn't.  This is absolutely not necessary, it's just that I always think of the next day as starting at one for some reason)

    My feeling is something like, since I can't see the seconds, I don't know if 12:00 is 12:00:00:00 or 12:00:59:99.  Even though practically the later is 12:01, a clock displays it as the same.

    And, on some level, 12:59:59:99 could technically be called 12 o clock (but 59 minutes), where 1:01:00:00 could not.  And since it's unclear whether 12:00 in any case can be PM or Am (is noon 12:00 am?  is Midnight 12:00 AM?  Is 12:00:00:00 the same Am/pm designation as the 11:59:59:99 before it, or the 12:00:00:01 after it?

    Basically, at one o clock, nobody could say you ate at twelve, and thus nobody could claim on any level you were cheating.

    Same if your fast is twelve hours.  Just, instead of 12:am; it's 12 hours since you ate.

    So, no, it's not cheating at 12:01.

    Nobody can say you were eating at or before 12 o clock, then.  (though, at one o'clock, nobody can say it was even twelve at all; nobody can claim that 12:30 is twelve o'clock (but with thirty minutes after)).

    At the very very very latest, at 1:01, nobody can say that you were eating at or before any time that could be called twelve.
  • Alrighty, thanks. I just figured that religions would adhere to a different system of timekeeping than the norm, like considering sunrise the start of the day or something.
  • Honestly the idea of a contemporary Catholic actually fasting in the traditional sense is kind of confusing to me.

    I don't think anyone at the Catholic school I went to did. I know for a fact my uncle doesn't and he's the most devout Catholic I know.
  • edited 2014-04-18 14:59:49
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    I don't know.  Do you know anyone of your own religion?

    I mean, my mom's catholic friend does something called "vespers to vespers fast".

    I don't know when vespers are.
  • Not really, but I'm sure that I'll be fine. Thanks, Aliroz!
  • Thanks. I just figured that religions would adhere to a different system of timekeeping than the norm, like considering sunrise the start of the day or something.

    Besides ending the fast at midnight, the only other method that I'd think of would be sunset to sunset (also called vespers to vespers). That's the way days are religiously counted in Orthodox Judaism and Seventh-Day Adventism.


    Never heard of sunrise before.
  • Neither have I; I just wanted to account for that possibility.
  • edited 2014-04-18 16:22:27
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    ht tps://www.you tube.com/watch?v=pGzr L8J0t-c#t=184
    How does anybody like this kind of music?  It's loud all the time.
  • edited 2014-04-18 16:29:37

    Thanks. I just figured that religions would adhere to a different system of timekeeping than the norm, like considering sunrise the start of the day or something.

    Besides ending the fast at midnight, the only other method that I'd think of would be sunset to sunset (also called vespers to vespers). That's the way days are religiously counted in Orthodox Judaism and Seventh-Day Adventism.


    Never heard of sunrise before.
    Okay, how the heck did the forum system mess that up?  That's Kexruct's post, not mine.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    oh hay, Merzbow

    on other days I might like that, but not today
Sign In or Register to comment.