The Trash Heap of the Heapers' Hangout

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  • 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 I mean is, instead of measuring something as "5 feet 6 inches", an engineer would say it's 5.5 feet.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    that's ever so slightly confusing

    constantly converting between bases
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i say that, but i'd see nothing wrong with "5½ feet"

    depends what you're used to i guess
  • 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
    Here's a surveyor's leveling rod:

    image
    the red numbers are feet, the black numbers are 1/10th of a foot
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    why not just use meters?
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i'm sure i'm coming off really ignorant here but it's kinda weird to me

    cuz like 5.5, i have no problem reading that as five and a half

    but 5.5 feet looks like it could be 5'5" incorrectly notated
  • 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
    Beats me!

    Because "America", I guess.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    I once heard the US system referred to as "whatever wizard measurements they use in the US" on Peep Show.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Woo, got an A in the online class I was taking over the winter.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Yay, congrats! :D
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    I know everyone is really, really tired about this, but I asked the person who stopped watching RLM because of shitty jokes why they were surprised, and she said they had stopped doing it and she really liked their new stuff, but then one cast member left and they started making shitty jokes again.

    So that explains that.
  • 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 said:

    i'm sure i'm coming off really ignorant here but it's kinda weird to me

    cuz like 5.5, i have no problem reading that as five and a half

    but 5.5 feet looks like it could be 5'5" incorrectly notated

    I think it makes a difference that we're talking about technical and engineering documents, plans, etc. that will primarily be read by people familiar with the convention. If you know to expect decimal feet, you're not likely to misread them as inches.
  • kill living beings
    Rehoboam said:

    For my littlest finger is thicker than my father's loins

    typical politician
  • imagine: cute boy smooches
  • So my Sims 3 legacy just got interesting...
  • Munch munch, chomp chomp...
    I wish Cracked wrote more articles like that, alongside the weird world category.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Cracked deserves no mercy after writing the least self aware thing ever and the Content Consumer Manifesto
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    > Oh, hello again! Terminator is a franchise that no one under the age of 17 gives a wheezing duck fart about.

    I thought it was a legit pop cultural icon, albeit one that really needs to hang it up
  • My dreams exceed my real life
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    CONSUMER

    MANIFESTO
  • 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 walked to South Campus and back to pick up my Physics lab manual at the Barnes & Noble there

    It's quite a long way from Engineering Core but I needed the exercise.
  • For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    Toolsie said:

    All I'll say is: time travel done right, fucking awesome. Time travel done wrong... Ehh...

    Out of curiosity, what would you consider Time Travel Done Right?
  • I consider Time Travel Done Right when it adds something to the story, or the story is based around it, instead of being tacked on in an attempt to be "cool".

    In the case of Harry Potter, it had the potential to be a key part of the series. Instead it shows up once and and is never mentioned again. It's wasted potential.

    If I read a story or play a game that has time travel, I want to say "yes, this is awesome" instead of "this had so much potential but it doesn't make me feel satisfied"

    If that makes sense...
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

    It's weird to me that nobody seems to object to the concept of private property on religious grounds.


    Like, I find it hard to believe a hypothetical creator would say "here's Earth, feel free to claim a chunk of it and keep others out" instead of "here's Earth, it has limited resources, but please try to share them as equally as possible."
    Look up Christian anarchism. I think you may find it intriguing.
  • kill living beings
    ha HA
  • My dreams exceed my real life

    It's weird to me that nobody seems to object to the concept of private property on religious grounds.


    Like, I find it hard to believe a hypothetical creator would say "here's Earth, feel free to claim a chunk of it and keep others out" instead of "here's Earth, it has limited resources, but please try to share them as equally as possible."
    Look up Christian anarchism. I think you may find it intriguing.
    Maybe I should buy Central, like, one of those Very Short Introduction books on Political Philosophy.
  • Toolsie said:

    I consider Time Travel Done Right when it adds something to the story, or the story is based around it, instead of being tacked on in an attempt to be "cool".

    In the case of Harry Potter, it had the potential to be a key part of the series. Instead it shows up once and and is never mentioned again. It's wasted potential.

    If I read a story or play a game that has time travel, I want to say "yes, this is awesome" instead of "this had so much potential but it doesn't make me feel satisfied"

    If that makes sense...

    makes perfect sense

    time travel is such a potential game-changer that if you introduce it, it either has to be in a very limited fashion (Madoka Magica being an example of that) or you have to go all in on it (Dr. Who, Quantum Leap, etc.)
  • My favourite video game introduces the concept of time travel very late on in the series, and they absolutely run with it. And they also reference it in later games.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    I think Homestuck provides one of the better uses of time travel as a plot device in the fiction that I have been exposed to, in that it really runs with every possible problem and embraces each and every one wholeheartedly rather than simply ignoring it.
  • image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    steins;gate
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

    steins;gate

    Hiroshi Hamasaki directed the second season of that. I've been meaning to see it for a long time; thank you for reminding me!
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Yeah.

    Also: Primer.
  • 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
    Hello CEGE Students,

    This is a last call for picking up your homework from last semester. We will be destroying all of Tuesday morning.
    No, not Tuesday morning! If you destroy that, Monday will never end!
  • My dreams exceed my real life

    It's weird to me that nobody seems to object to the concept of private property on religious grounds.


    Like, I find it hard to believe a hypothetical creator would say "here's Earth, feel free to claim a chunk of it and keep others out" instead of "here's Earth, it has limited resources, but please try to share them as equally as possible."
    Look up Christian anarchism. I think you may find it intriguing.
    Maybe I should buy Central, like, one of those Very Short Introduction books on Political Philosophy.
    Seriously considering this tbh, it seems to bother her a lot.
  • kill living beings
    those books are good
  • I destroy Tuesday morning, thus shattering the timeline
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

    Hello CEGE Students,

    This is a last call for picking up your homework from last semester. We will be destroying all of Tuesday morning.
    No, not Tuesday morning! If you destroy that, Monday will never end!
    monday is the last day of my break so I guess that means no school for me anymore
  • kill living beings
    doot doot thrift shopping. gonna grab some cheap math books to send to a friend , hdmi cables, yessir
  • I wanted to go thrift shopping this weekend but we cannot.


  • also mom told me today that she hasn't paid the internet bill in like 2 months

    i don't know why she keeps thinking she can get away with this
  • i feel awful right now and i don't really know why
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

    It's weird to me that nobody seems to object to the concept of private property on religious grounds.


    Like, I find it hard to believe a hypothetical creator would say "here's Earth, feel free to claim a chunk of it and keep others out" instead of "here's Earth, it has limited resources, but please try to share them as equally as possible."
    Look up Christian anarchism. I think you may find it intriguing.
    Maybe I should buy Central, like, one of those Very Short Introduction books on Political Philosophy.
    Seriously considering this tbh, it seems to bother her a lot.
    Sounds like a good idea to me.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Jane said:

    i feel awful right now and i don't really know why

    You have good reasons to feel awful, honestly, but speaking from personal experience, those can almost be immaterial, or else separated from the emotions stemming from them in this curious sort of way.
  • no I mean like physically.

    I think it's just a caffeine crash now that i have become acquainted with it.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Oh, OK.

    I can sympathise with that, too. Maybe just lie down and drink some herbal tea if you have any?
  • kill living beings
    I only found a few math books worth sending. oh well.

    I also got a book on old comms stuff and The Selfish Gene,which it turns out is way better when it leaves memetics out of the primary argument (newer copies talk about it in the introduction, iirc)
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