PittTheElder posted:

Is the Repatriation question some sort of white supremacist dog whistle? Like are they seriously asking if people think politicians would really say what they mean, if only we could pack the blacks back to Africa?

Nuevo posted:

Skittles probably went "hmm. We have lemon, and green lemon. Perhaps we shouldn't have two of the functionally same flavor, especially when they're the flavor least liked by everybody."

Also green apple rules and is only second to "blue" in candy flavors.

Phy posted:

The real reason Apollo 13 blew up. Punishment from God Almighty for putting catsup on a hot dog.

sudonim posted:

whats funny is watching you defend your baby palate.

cinci zoo sniper posted:

Like there's people to fight the war on the vim side, everyone has long since switched to nano.

MrUnderbridge posted:

It looks like it started as an attempt at a graphic representation of end times theology. God (upper thick line) exists forever, creates world and people (two lower lines, black for bad, white for good), god comes down to Earth, gets crucified (cross) allows good people into heaven. Tough luck, black arrow. Then comes down to fight battle of Armageddon (spears), later comes back again, judges people in hell, stays on Earth forever.

Then someone added the audio labels. Which make it surreal.

Tah-dah! Mystery solved.

Tetracube posted:

Typical INTJ posting

Tetracube posted:

ol qwerty bastard posted:

MausoleumExtremist posted:

SMH if you can't instantly differentiate between Bambino Light Italic and Corbert Regular

Paladinus posted:

Dreddout posted:

Welcome to the real world

Powered Descent posted:

SulphagneSocialist posted:

Bad chart since it's missing lawyer dogs.

Fathis Munk posted:

It's comes from people trying to use ready made idioms without thinking what they actually mean. See also "I could care less" instead of "I couldn't care less". The whole point is that you care so little it's impossible to care less!

Also while introvert has become real dumb, the worst is "ambivert", to describe those special people that are sometimes introverts and sometimes extroverts.

Fathis Munk posted:

You're wrong imo.

Hemingway To Go! posted:

https://twitter.com/DataProgress/status/999365954340622337
this was posted in the suck zone thread but i didn't notice that it was intentionally misleading until someone pointed it out. are you a true veteran of awful charts? can you spot it?

Theris posted:

racist white Democrats realizing they're actually Republicans,

Kennel posted:

https://planetplanet.net/2018/06/01/the-million-earth-solar-system/

Platystemon posted:

The worst password rule is “you have to have some so‐called special characters, but others are forbidden, but we’re not going to tell you which ones, and maybe will through an unrelated error like complain about the length when actually we just didn’t like the question mark.”

The Cheshire Cat posted:

This doesn't even make sense because it's not going to actually make a password easier to crack unless it's just a string of "aaaaaaaa" or something (in which case wouldn't a test for a low number of unique characters be more meaningful than a test for consecutive matches?)

Password standards are all cargo cult security. Perform the right incantations and the password will be Strong.

evobatman posted:

We used these for VPN at one place I worked, and they were great. They were literally the most reliable system we had.

We replaced it FOR NO loving REASON AT ALL with a program that displayed an image of two rows of numbers like this, second row randomized for each logon attempt:

1234567890
3578964120

So if your PIN is 5824, you look at the digit on the second row and enter 9158 and your password. Now imagine explaining that to hundreds of oil industry workers one by one.

Tetracube posted:

blue dots: 1,000,000

pink dots: 5

System Metternich posted:

As was said, the archaelogical records as well as the intensity of historical research are pretty unevenly spread out. We know a ton about ancient Egyptians, Greeks or Romans because a) they wrote a lot of stuff down, b) their written sources got preserved relatively well throughout the centuries and c) research into them generates much more public attention (i.e. funds) than pretty much everything else as far as the classical era and anything before that is concerned. We know a good amount about virtually every aspect of Roman history, and additional scholarship is generated every year, whereas there seem to have been very large and complex civilisations throughout the Amazon Basin that were wiped out entirely in the decades after first contact with the Europeans, and we know virtually nothing about them other than that they (probably) existed. The only sign of them ever being there are terra preta, a specific variety of soil that doesn't appear naturally, a handful of geoglyphs and the fact that some hunter-and-gatherer tribes in the area exhibit a kind of social hierarchy that we only know from settled and agricultural societies, which implies that something like that possibly used to exist there. But other than that, there is nothing. Or take the Tollense valley battlefield: This was a bronze age battle fought about 3,300 years ago in what is today NE Germany. Up to 5,000 people may have participated in it, which would have made it the largest battle of the entire era worldwide. But here again we only know that there used to be a large battle (and we only know because an amateur archaeologist spent a nice sunny day rafting down the river when he saw something strange, which turned out to be a humerus with an arrowhead embedded in it). Who fought it? Why? We have no idea, even though the scale of the battle implies that civilisation in this time and area was much more advanced than formerly believed, and there probably were even central governments able to muster armies several thousand strong, feed and supply them via what must have been a complex logistical chain, brief them and send them to wherever they were supposed to fight. But we can't say anything more other than that they probably existed. But where? What languages did they speak, how was their society structured, in what gods did they believe? We don't know and probably never will.

Besesoth posted:

https://twitter.com/wef/status/1058675216027660288

quote:

To conduct the survey, the researchers designed what they call “Moral Machine,” a multilingual online game in which participants could state their preferences concerning a series of dilemmas that autonomous vehicles might face. For instance: If it comes right down it, should autonomous vehicles spare the lives of law-abiding bystanders, or, alternately, law-breaking pedestrians who might be jaywalking? (Most people in the survey opted for the former.)

Brawnfire posted:

That is one of my favorites. One time there were literally two dozen marzipan Ritter sports in the break room at one of my jobs. Nobody touched them for days, so I just took all of them and ate them.

The next week, there were 32 praline ones. I was worried that someone was trying to kill me.

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

Nice! Desktop I assume? I used to support Server but moved to the Online team recently.

Carbon dioxide posted:

Kaethela posted:

Are we playing FATAL now?

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Gay 20something guys on dating sites definitely get hit on by 40-50s.

TinTower posted:

At least it wasn't Provo's old flag.

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Piell posted:

I realized I've never rated anything other than 1 or 5 so I rated this thread 4

Baronjutter posted:

YYYY-MM-DD should be standard on penalty of death. Otherwise files and things don't properly alpha-sort by date.

TinTower posted:

A similar talking point was that they were a really Panamanian company because they used a domain privacy service (which they would’ve automatically availed themselves of anyway if they used a .uk domain)