Not the Nine O'Clock News did this with the rather threatening British television licence PSA campaign using the slogan "Get a TV licence - it's cheaper than a fine"; their parody showed The BBC instead staging plane crashes for people that didn't pay their licence fee and then having their houses bulldozed, with the slogan "Get a TV licence — it's cheaper than a funeral".
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 would be interesting if a game like Cities: Skylines made you deal with the safety implications of poorly designed highways instead of just the congestion implications.
Like, I know I've built some S-curves with too tight a radius, or highway ramps too short to get up to speed, but as long as they can adequately carry the levels of traffic the game doesn't care.
Even SimCity 4, which did simulate car accidents, only based them on congestion rather than the physical geometry of the road. So many four-lane highways with hairpin S-curves @_@
Lin, those aren't unique to TVT. They were certainly popular on the site and forums, which wasn't helped by certain tropes like X Just X, but it's all the same "I agree with this person' as "this" on Tumblr or "+1" on Reddit. I don't really see an inherent issue with them, even if they can potentially be kind of lazy compared to longer responses? But sometimes people just don't feel like being so elaborate, or do uniformly agree with X, so asking for people to stop saying overall innocuous stuff like that strikes me as a bit silly.
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
This is a short stretch of I-75 in Kentucky, near Cincinnati, called Cut-in-the-Hill.
I first saw this highway in person in 2010, nearly 20 years after it was rebuilt, so I had no idea how treacherous it used to be.
They were impressively thorough with the redesign; there's effectively no trace of that S-curve left.
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
People should always find something to say. It's a very useful skill, to weave out unique comments easily. They don't have to be elaborate or long, just novel.
And like, you think "this" gets my haunches? You think it makes me upset? What makes me even more upset is when there's a comment that goes; "this," and then there's a much longer, one-paragraph long elaborative comment. It's pure fucking laziness followed by not being able to help yourself. If you typed out "this" and then thought of something to say, you should go back, delete it, and have the sentence fucking flow.
You are right, though. I am overall a pretty silly person.
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
This was a bizarre Wikipedia tangent I've taken throughout the weekend
Looney Tunes --> Mel Blanc --> Dead Man's Curve (Los Angeles) --> other dangerous/inadequately designed highways
@MachSpeed Fair enough if it bothers you, but i kinda don't see what's wrong with it. i mean, if you take the time to type a full response clearly you're not saying 'this' out of laziness, you're saying it to express your agreement with the quoted post, which you then elaborate upon.
@Mach: I kind of do that in IRC, since I sporadically type in a stream-of-consciousness fashion, "Well okay that doesn't make sense, but actually yes it does, suddenly I have textwalled you, oops." Mind you, I don't prefer plusone's, but it's also not my business about what should be said and is easy to gloss over
"this" or "+1" is also probably kinder to the types of people who will tl;dr longer paragraphs, though perhaps that's not a habit that should be indulged
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
@Tachyon: Pretty much, yeah. It helps that I ended up on a topic that's directly relevant to my obsessive interests :P
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
ROAD WORK AHEAD
ALL TRUCKS & ALSO NANEY AND SREDNI'S SUPER GAY FURRY PARTY BUS USE ALTERNATE ROUTE
truth be told i dislike being told i shouldn't say things, unless the reason is something like 'it's racist' or 'it normalizes pedophilia', something with actual social consequences beyond just people not liking it
don't get me wrong, i WILL try to avoid saying things that merely annoy/offend people (if i remember to do so, and i will do my best to remember), but i won't be particularly happy about it
So i have a book, Time and Philosophy by John McCumber.
It's a history of continental philosophy, and during his introduction McCumber takes pains to argue that continental philosophy is a real tradition, not merely a collection of associated ideas or a kitchen-sink category for Western philosophy outside the analytic tradition (which i honestly suspect it of being).
But he does this by basically establishing a canon, which includes philosophers who i guess could be considered Hegelian, Marxists and Existentialists and those influenced by them. He contrasts this with traditional philosophy. Traditional philosophy is atemporal, continental philosophy is temporal; it reminds me of the synchronic/diachronic distinction de Saussure made, though McCumber hasn't made that comparison (as far as i've read, anyway).
So Habermas is out, of no interest, as he is a traditional philosopher whose ideas did not provoke a temporalizing reaction, according to McCumber. Kant and Husserl are in, but only because of their influence on continental thinkers; they are themselves traditional philosophers. Sartre is accused of traditional sympathies, as is Badiou with the caveat that he limits the scope of traditional philosophy sharply (science, art, love and politics are all temporal processes for Badiou).
Thoughts on this, @Odradek? It seems to me like he is narrowing the definition of continental philosophy a lot here (and that many analytics probably would not agree that they are merely following in Plato's footsteps where continental philosophers are not).
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
So I'm going to give it to the bestie as a birthday present.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I don't doubt that her public persona is mostly an act, FWIW.
tho i'm kinda meh on domino's
Feel better, Toolsie.
I first saw this highway in person in 2010, nearly 20 years after it was rebuilt, so I had no idea how treacherous it used to be.
@ CA
maybe i should do it quick now
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
success
don't get me wrong, i WILL try to avoid saying things that merely annoy/offend people (if i remember to do so, and i will do my best to remember), but i won't be particularly happy about it
gloriously bad, anyway
It's a history of continental philosophy, and during his introduction McCumber takes pains to argue that continental philosophy is a real tradition, not merely a collection of associated ideas or a kitchen-sink category for Western philosophy outside the analytic tradition (which i honestly suspect it of being).
But he does this by basically establishing a canon, which includes philosophers who i guess could be considered Hegelian, Marxists and Existentialists and those influenced by them. He contrasts this with traditional philosophy. Traditional philosophy is atemporal, continental philosophy is temporal; it reminds me of the synchronic/diachronic distinction de Saussure made, though McCumber hasn't made that comparison (as far as i've read, anyway).
So Habermas is out, of no interest, as he is a traditional philosopher whose ideas did not provoke a temporalizing reaction, according to McCumber. Kant and Husserl are in, but only because of their influence on continental thinkers; they are themselves traditional philosophers. Sartre is accused of traditional sympathies, as is Badiou with the caveat that he limits the scope of traditional philosophy sharply (science, art, love and politics are all temporal processes for Badiou).
Thoughts on this, @Odradek? It seems to me like he is narrowing the definition of continental philosophy a lot here (and that many analytics probably would not agree that they are merely following in Plato's footsteps where continental philosophers are not).