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[x2yzh9]

It's not testing a bomb to see if it can go off. It's testing a stick to see if it can have just one end.

In the stone age, before advancements in glassblowing and the invention of the Klein bottle, there was only the Klein stick.

Irrelevent but it reminds me that in the book "Belgarath the Sorcerer" one of the characters, Beldin, gives children he has to mind a one ended stick to keep them amused.

Reminds me of the book 1984, where everyone listens to 'big brother', and '2+2=fish', Thus the comparison to the one ended stick. They are kept amused by the psychological state, and the propoganda it propogates in the book..And the protagonist, if I remember it correctly, goes through his past where he went down the rabbit hole, thus he tested the stick?

[wierd]

In my mind, a "one ended stick" would look like a doughnut on the end of a stick.

O---

[redwallzyl]

It's not testing a bomb to see if it can go off. It's testing a stick to see if it can have just one end.

In the stone age, before advancements in glassblowing and the invention of the Klein bottle, there was only the Klein stick.

Irrelevent but it reminds me that in the book "Belgarath the Sorcerer" one of the characters, Beldin, gives children he has to mind a one ended stick to keep them amused.

I loved that book. It was as I recall a really knotted stick. Sort of like having a massive tangle of strong and trying to find the ends when there is only one.

[Hanslanda]

Like a Mobius stick. But end rather than side.

[Il Palazzo]

Reminds me of the book 1984, where everyone listens to 'big brother', and '2+2=fish', Thus the comparison to the one ended stick. They are kept amused by the psychological state, and the propoganda it propogates in the book..And the protagonist, if I remember it correctly, goes through his past where he went down the rabbit hole, thus he tested the stick?

This would be even quite funny if you were bragging about your sexual prowess. How you can make all fiftyllion Kardashians come instantly. But you shan't, because it would be immoral to risk them exploding.
While anyone ridiculing your claims' dodgy relationship with reality is an agent of an imaginary totalitarian oppressive regime playing mind-tricks to stifle the upcoming sexual revolution.

You know what, I'm going to read every further post of yours like it's just that.

[ChairmanPoo]

X2yzh9 may be deranged, but I think you're reading too much in that last post.  I daresay he had switched topics from his amateur telepathy experiments already, and he was truly just thinking about 1984

[Doomblade187]

X2yzh9 may be deranged, but I think you're reading too much in that last post.  I daresay he had switched topics from his amateur telepathy experiments already, and he was truly just thinking about 1984

Let us not refer to people as deranged. This impolite, sir.

That said, I agree that psychology experimental methodology would work best. Such methodology is derived from consent usually.

[Trekkin]

Well, I tried x2yzh9's method with a friend over lunch. It didn't work in the slightest, but I did record the results to verify that statistically.

If we sprout one-ended psychic nuclear eyearms, I guess I have only my minimal experimental rigor to blame.

[Doomblade187]

Well, I tried x2yzh9's method with a friend over lunch. It didn't work in the slightest, but I did record the results to verify that statistically.

If we sprout one-ended psychic nuclear eyearms, I guess I have only my minimal experimental rigor to blame.

If you sprout one-ended psychic nuclear eyearms, you have done a wonderful thing.

[Hanslanda]

New topic to consider: my personal conspiracy theory. Stuff like yanny/laurel and that Goddamn dress are gov't experiments intended to quantify people based on their perception of reality.

[Il Palazzo]

Conspiracy theories are produced and disseminated to teach people to be dismissive about all such ideas - in order to hide the one true conspiracy in plain sight.
It could be anything. Any single CT could be the real deal. Even this one.

[dragdeler]

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[Reelya]

To anybody who fiddled with electronic music, that yanni/laurel thing was a pure non-topic, more banal than that and you'd be telling me people have different tastes.

The yanni/laurel thing turned out to be due to differences in pitch sensitivity. If you go find pitch-altered versions anyone can hear either one. However anyone who heard Yanny is just wrong. Wrongity-wrong-wrong-wrong. The original recording was clearly Laurel, and "Yanny" was just some unfortunate distortion effect. Put there by the space lizard illuminati to destroy the internet.

[dragdeler]

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[MrRoboto75]

Is the single end of the one-ended stick considered "the short end of the stick"?