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This is kind of turning into the bad vacation ideas thread but I 100% agree. When I'm on vacation, I'll have a few things I want to check out or do - pushpins on a map - but for the most part I prefer to wing it and kind of feel my way out and see what's what. Improvise. I also like to stay away from my phone and laptop too. If I wanted a regimen that was, in many ways, largely tech driven, I'd just stay home or go to work and have my life planned out for me. I went to the Bahamas about 8 years ago and was sooooo happy when there was basically no cell phone reception there. It was kind of amazing to live for a week without constantly hearing "doop-do-do-DOOP doop" 4 or 5 times every hour.
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Adults that make 95% of their personality that they are "Disney people" are really weird and off-putting to me. I used to know people like that and it was just bizarre. They didn't even have kids, just yearly multiple thousand dollar trips to the various parks, tattoos, etc. I get enjoying some Disney movies or being nostalgic for stuff you liked when you were a kid, but otherwise functional adults glomming onto a reprehensible company as a substitute for a personality is beyond sad.
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Dec 19, 2021 22:10
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PT6A posted:Yes, this is arguably more artistically worthy than any NFT produced to date, even if it's pointless. What about if I just say that I'm going make an NF Titty, but in fact I just include a link to Wikipedia? (I.e. a Non-Secure/Fungible [Wikipedia] Token Token). I want my millions to spend playing Sabacc!
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Dec 19, 2021 22:24
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PT6A posted:Yeah, the one guy I heard it from was an English drywaller, a very dear friend but I'd not call him upper-class Most parents wouldn't use it but would recognize it, or know someone who did. Usually in the tired tone that parents moan about their kids to other parents with, when the kids are being inconvenient as kids do.
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Dec 19, 2021 22:32
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I'll put a hand up and say that if the hotel were what they originally promoted it as, wear cosplay, walk around freely, be totally immersed, I would want to do it. (But wouldn't, because (A) I am cheap and (B) I have been in the SCA and I know that cosplay does not guarantee the ability to stay in character. I have had so many conversations about DEC while wearing 14th-century Renaissance dress.) Sounds like you’re basically describing a Punchdrunk production, which are now almost impossible to see unless you’re a rich superfan since they buy up masses of tickets to see the shows multiple times in a kind of theatrical completionist frenzy. So I can kind of understand why they’d want to tap into the crossover of these wealthy obsessive demographics
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Professor Beetus posted:Adults that make 95% of their personality that they are "Disney people" are really weird and off-putting to me. I used to know people like that and it was just bizarre. They didn't even have kids, just yearly multiple thousand dollar trips to the various parks, tattoos, etc. I get enjoying some Disney movies or being nostalgic for stuff you liked when you were a kid, but otherwise functional adults glomming onto a reprehensible company as a substitute for a personality is beyond sad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-kdRdzxdZQ
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Dec 20, 2021 01:55
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This is just footage of a Costco.
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Dec 20, 2021 02:13
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Professor Beetus posted:Adults that make 95% of their personality that they are "Disney people" are really weird and off-putting to me. I used to know people like that and it was just bizarre.
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Dec 20, 2021 02:16
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Most parents wouldn't use it but would recognize it, or know someone who did. Usually in the tired tone that parents moan about their kids to other parents with, when the kids are being inconvenient as kids do. Interesting. The only times I heard it was as a term of endearment, "ah, the wee sprog, she's a good one," mind you like I said, it was from a guy who probably left England in the 70s or so and was exceptionally weird even by that standard. I guess this is one further Britishism that I should avoid using casually.
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Dec 20, 2021 06:51
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lordofthefishes posted:Yeah..... lot of books on old cars around the house. Citroen was basically owned by Michelin. So yeah, the DS19 in '56 has them. The 2CV? Yep, 1948. Note: My 1989 Miata 1000LT BICYCLE had radial tires and they were WONDERFUL. And you can't get radial tires for bikes anymore. So sad. They rolled easily and absorbed the bumps well.
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Dec 20, 2021 06:54
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battlepigeon posted:The only type of amusement park I want to visit; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqg48h_uKYM I was hoping it was AP. Thank you.
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Dec 20, 2021 06:57
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The best vacation is when I get to just stay home and just do stuff in the area.
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Yeah but that's a bit different since most people don't live, or want to live, in the arctic
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knox_harrington posted:Yeah but that's a bit different since most people don't live, or want to live, in the arctic weirdos
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Dec 20, 2021 11:58
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PT6A posted:Interesting. The only times I heard it was as a term of endearment, "ah, the wee sprog, she's a good one," mind you like I said, it was from a guy who probably left England in the 70s or so and was exceptionally weird even by that standard. It was originally used as a negative term but like many of those in the UK, ended up being used as a term of endearment too. So it can be both depending on the context. No idea what the person claiming its an upper class thing is on about though, I've only ever heard working class people use it although it's not very commonly used.
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Dec 20, 2021 12:21
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It's one of those terms you are most like to read rather than hear. Like Boffin or Bedded or Bonk. Saying these things out loud will earn you a frown and the "did they really just say that or did I hallucinate it?" look.
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Dec 20, 2021 12:51
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knox_harrington posted:Yeah but that's a bit different since most people don't live, or want to live, in the arctic Just as well, if everyone did that, then the arctic would start to suck.
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Dec 20, 2021 14:48
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His Divine Shadow posted:Just as well, if everyone did that, then the arctic would start to suck. The Arctic is going to start to suck a lot regardless, if you're a fan of permafrost and lichen and such anyway.
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Dec 20, 2021 15:32
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Given that its going to emit a lot of trapped methane, its less 'suck' and more 'blow'
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Dec 20, 2021 15:40
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eXXon posted:The Arctic is going to start to suck a lot regardless, if you're a fan of permafrost and lichen and such anyway. I'm below that line, not quite sure I can strictly call myself part of the arctic, the actual circle is a few hundred km north.
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Dec 20, 2021 15:53
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CommieGIR posted:Given that its going to emit a lot of trapped methane, its less 'suck' and more 'blow' 
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Dec 20, 2021 16:40
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His Divine Shadow posted:I'm below that line, not quite sure I can strictly call myself part of the arctic, the actual circle is a few hundred km north. The good news is that in some decades time our climate will resemble more that of Poland or with some extra luck maybe Hungary, it will just be lighter summers and darker winters! Like, really dark winters, no snow. It's going to be lovely! Oh, did I say there will be light in summers? Well the forest fires across all of northern Europe from Scandinavia to Siberia will cover us in eternal smoke for the fire season, so we don't have to suffer of harmful UV radiation on our fair skins as long as there are forests left to burn.
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Mega Comrade posted:It was originally used as a negative term but like many of those in the UK, ended up being used as a term of endearment too. So it can be both depending on the context. Military, apparently https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/143624/whence-does-sprog-come quote:Eric Partridge, A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, Fifth Edition (1961) offers this entry for sprog: etc
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First time I heard the term "sprog" was in Mad Max, where it's his kid's actual name. Sprog Rockatansky. More on topic, and this has probably come up a number of times already, but how much of the recent insane price hikes of GPUs has been due to supply chain issues versus available supply being hoarded by crypto miners? I know both are issues, but it doesn't seem like other component prices are anywhere close. Even budget cards like mine go for the price of an entire computer on their own nowadays. Meaty Ore fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Dec 21, 2021 |
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Dec 21, 2021 02:48
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PT6A posted:Interesting. The only times I heard it was as a term of endearment, "ah, the wee sprog, she's a good one," mind you like I said, it was from a guy who probably left England in the 70s or so and was exceptionally weird even by that standard. No, please, as an Australian I insist you keep using it.
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Dec 21, 2021 03:56
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In Mad Max their kid's literal name is Sprog lmao
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W_d4Dxntv24
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battlepigeon posted:The only type of amusement park I want to visit; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqg48h_uKYM Of course it's in New Jersey
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Kaal posted:What about if I just say that I'm going make an NF Titty, but in fact I just include a link to Wikipedia? (I.e. a Non-Secure/Fungible [Wikipedia] Token Token). I want my millions to spend playing Sabacc! I would suggest NFTs of the Brooklyn Bridge to get even people who know NFTs are a scam to buy out of irony, though apparently John Cleese of Monty Python already did it. Then again, he priced really high so perhaps you could get by with undercutting him.
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Dec 22, 2021 23:53
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NFTs are a Veblen Good. You have to price high to get any suckers.
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Dec 23, 2021 01:41
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The Lone Badger posted:NFTs are a Veblen Good. You have to price high to get any suckers. I thought you were just supposed to sell it to yourself, over and over daily for ever increasing prices until some loving moron sees a golden opportunity?
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Dec 23, 2021 02:05
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https://www.moddb.com/mods/nft-doom/downloads/nft-doom-a11
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Dec 23, 2021 15:06
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How is the doomclicker going to get out of this one?
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Dec 23, 2021 16:53
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https://twitter.com/klivdahl/status/1475220450598924297 Probably a matter of time until Alexa is causing stochastic terror attacks.
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:https://twitter.com/klivdahl/status/1475220450598924297 Skynet except instead of killer robot legions it's tiktok challenges
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Tesla is recalling ~500,000 cars because of lovely camera wiring and front trunks popping open while driving https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59818800
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Dec 30, 2021 19:57
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Recalling the same amount of cars sold this entire year, stock barely moves LOL.
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Dec 30, 2021 20:12
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Less Fat Luke posted:Recalling the same amount of cars sold this entire year, stock barely moves LOL. Stockmarket a joke. Water wet.
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Crain posted:Stockmarket a joke. Water wet.
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