Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[NJW2000]

Subjectively Objective: totally true from some standpoints.

For example: if one assumes that homosexuals are evil (subjective) and that Oscar Wilde was gay (unverifiable but assumable), then it is objectively true that Oscar Wilde was evil.

Not that anyone would ever use that. Might be an interesting way to think about belief in God though.

[hops]

Despite having changed my username long ago I was still a bit confused for a moment, since my brain had been wired to see mentions of me first.

I guess I never developed that with Cinder because ever since I changed username I didn't post much here.

[birdy51]

Tarantula in the grape delivery.

Welp.

[Eric Blank]

Theres a large spider in your fruit?

[Khan Boyzitbig]

Tarantula in the grape delivery.

Welp.

Much better than a Brazilian Wandering Spider in a Banana sack given to schoolkids that happened a few years ago. Tarantulas aren't deadly.

[AzyWng]

They still scare me. Even more so than the spiders I commonly see, since tarantulas are quite large by comparison.

[helmacon]

Meh, cuckchan is thoroughly tame these days. Unless you're deliberately going to /pol/, /d/, /b/, /v/, or wherever else is likely to offend your sensibilities.

I guess tame by its own standards these days. Is the acceptance of this kinda shit desensitization?

Spoiler: semi graphic descriptions (click to show/hide)

On /gif you can go from intense sexual arousal of a porn thread immediately to videos of mexican mafia literally peeling a guys face off with a sickle while he's screaming and Isis execution videos of people burning alive in HD. From that you bounce back to a feels thread that honestly has some of the most beautiful moments of kindness I have ever seen.

Not to mention the animal torture threads that literally have 4channers asking for people to be banned and content removed. Thankfully I didn't watch any of those. Just... fuck man.

 Any of those on thier own is a bit intense, but juxtapositioned with each other it sends you flying from one mental extreme to another and leaves you exhausted and depressed.

[BlackFlyme]

Toronto exploded yesterday.

An underground hydro vault failed. It got flooded and a transformer went boom.

People are still saying terrorism anyways.

[AzyWng]

Toronto exploded yesterday.

An underground hydro vault failed. It got flooded and a transformer went boom.

People are still saying terrorism anyways.

Everything is terroristic when it isn't racist or homophobic or alt-left or alt-right or Hitleristic. Haven't you read the news recently?

[My Name is Immaterial]

The fact that I can perform a Google search for "that one Swedish guy in India with the ted talks" and get exactly who I want disturbs and confuses me. Is this what being old and tech-unsavvy is like?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Ultimately, while there are a lot of possible conditions, it is very uncommon for all of those conditions to be fulfilled at the same time, ever. A deck of cards has 52 entries and more possible combinations than there are atoms in the universe, and such.

The use of a heuristic which can identify when a particular, unique or near-unique combination of factors are all in play at once is both how Google does this and how things like Akinator are eerily accurate. Fact is, a lot of condition entries only have ever happened once, and on a restricted platform like the internet this is even more likely.

If you're asking Google for a guy, who's Swedish, in India, and doing a TED Talk, there's nearly zero difficulty in selecting the only entry for those conditions.

[Flying Dice]

Yeah but I didn't know google could even do that

Google made their fortune on building a search engine that could parse natural language effectively. That's precisely why other methods are totally obsolete outside of professional applications where people *cough* are trained to interface with them. They succeed by providing a more-or-less functional general-purpose wide-coverage search that can render even tremendously tech-incompetent or stupid people into semi-functioning users. Granted, they do so by sacrificing precision and recall at the altar of the layman, but in the vernacular of a contractor I know, it's "good 'nuff for me".

Meh, cuckchan is thoroughly tame these days. Unless you're deliberately going to /pol/, /d/, /b/, /v/, or wherever else is likely to offend your sensibilities.

I guess tame by its own standards these days. Is the acceptance of this kinda shit desensitization?

Spoiler: semi graphic descriptions (click to show/hide)

On /gif you can go from intense sexual arousal of a porn thread immediately to videos of mexican mafia literally peeling a guys face off with a sickle while he's screaming and Isis execution videos of people burning alive in HD. From that you bounce back to a feels thread that honestly has some of the most beautiful moments of kindness I have ever seen.

Not to mention the animal torture threads that literally have 4channers asking for people to be banned and content removed. Thankfully I didn't watch any of those. Just... fuck man.

 Any of those on thier own is a bit intense, but juxtapositioned with each other it sends you flying from one mental extreme to another and leaves you exhausted and depressed.

Meh. /gif/ is for shock and porn, going there expecting otherwise is like going to /d/ and expecting to not see their eponymous moniker swimming and being surprised when you get wet and cold. It's called "adult gif" in the directory for a reason. Any board labeled as NSFW should automatically be assumed to be containment. If you were genuinely looking for gifs instead of stuff to be offended by, one would pretty reasonably assume you'd have gone to /wsg/ instead because that's literally what it's there for. :|

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

And the pedos posting CP have moved to join their buddies on facebook and reddit because those are more hospitable to their ilk.

Meanwhile everywhere else was either always relatively chill (and nobody paid attention to them), or marginally-to-markedly less stupid and chaotic than they used to be (not that that's saying much in some cases).

[helmacon]

I never really said I was offended, just that I was shocked and depressed. I hadn't been on there in around 3 years, and had forgotten just how bad it really was. That was the whole point of my original WTF.

A deck of cards has 52 entries and more possible combinations than there are atoms in the universe, and such

A deck of cards has 52! or 8.066*10^67 atoms.
The number of hydrogen atoms alone in the universe is estimated to be between 10^78 to 10^82.

[Rolan7]

It's chess that is estimated to have more than 1e120 possible games, conservatively.
Though apparently the number of possible board-states is more like 1e43.  I learned a little today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_number
It also claims the number of atoms in the observable universe is 4e79 to 4e81.  I guess the "observable" part is probably why that hydrogen estimation would be different.  Kinda funny that they specified 4, though, I guess they were sure it wasn't 3e79 or less...  Or maybe 5e81 or more?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Regardless of what popular mindboggling comparison is correct for decks of cards (it may have been "more likely than not there has and never will be two identical random shuffles"), the point is that's a fuckton of Poker and general language heuristics can identify just about anything given the right keywords.