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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #48015 on: April 26, 2014, 01:05:20 pm »

I don't keep up on politics much, but someone linked me to a picture of this graph:
If you're like me it might take you a minute to notice what's wrong with the graph.

Reuters, I am dissapoint. I mean, I could understand FOX news pulling a stunt like that to keep the rabid right wing happy, but Reuters? I mean, yes, the graph was probably provided to them like that by the FL Dept of Law Enforcement, but how hard is it to show the data in the correct manner?
For clarity, the report was done by Christine Chan who works for Reuters. Apparently she claimed she was trying to display deaths as negative numbers as inspired by this infographic. I'm inclined to believe this story that it wasn't intended to be misleading, but it's still an extremely awful artistic decision on her part.

Why isn't there a religion based around ϕ yet?

Because that'd be like basing a religion around the square root of two. Sure, it's got some interesting properties (it's the intersection point of a sine and cosine! Its inverse plus its imaginary inverse has an absolute value of 1!), but these values are mostly the same thing when you think about it and it's not much of an interesting number otherwise.
But the Golden Ratio is literally everywhere.

Not in as many places as a lot of other, similar constants, like 1 or 2 or sqrt(2).
There's a lot of myths regarding the golden ratio.

Snail and nautilus shells have a logarithmic spiral, not a golden ratio spiral.
Neither the ancient Greeks nor the ancient Egyptians used the golden ratio in their architecture (or anywhere else).
There is no golden ratio of human body parts (or any fixed ratio at all, human body proportions vary a hell of a lot), nor are golden ratios particularly beautiful to the human eye be they found in nature or architecture. Nor has the golden ratio been used in architecture much at all.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #48017 on: April 26, 2014, 02:28:55 pm »

Uhhhh.... I think that might be stolen.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #48018 on: April 26, 2014, 02:36:01 pm »

Ah man, I got an email from the university honors college concerning my application that I'm scared to open. One of my flaws is taking rejection really badly, so I tend to be very avoidant of situations where there is a high probability of rejection. Which in turns leads to low confidence since I want to be conservative with those probability estimates.
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« Reply #48019 on: April 26, 2014, 04:24:04 pm »

I witnessed a live dramatic reading of My Immortal earlier today. I think I am scarred for life.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #48020 on: April 26, 2014, 05:31:48 pm »

I witnessed a live dramatic reading of My Immortal earlier today. I think I am scarred for life.

How far did it get?
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« Reply #48021 on: April 26, 2014, 05:37:59 pm »

Fuck you page. Load! I can't see the game! >:c
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #48022 on: April 26, 2014, 06:00:29 pm »

Yet another chat with a friend turned into cybering.

Noooooot that I'm complaining. ;D
Sweetie, does your friend know that you are not old enough to do that?
Eh, it's not like i can get cyber-pregnant. Plus it's all just for fun.
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« Reply #48023 on: April 26, 2014, 06:14:37 pm »

Slightly less happy that my browser is loading now.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #48024 on: April 26, 2014, 06:15:14 pm »

Yet another chat with a friend turned into cybering.

Noooooot that I'm complaining. ;D
Sweetie, does your friend know that you are not old enough to do that?
Eh, it's not like i can get cyber-pregnant. Plus it's all just for fun.
Use cyber protection. There are some nasty computer viruses out there.
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« Reply #48025 on: April 26, 2014, 06:43:36 pm »

I just looked up cybering.

Urban dictionary came up (as I hoped it would. Great for finding out what things are without experiencing them), and it had a fake chat-log in it. Not what I was wanting to see :/
*checks*

Holy shit. Really, wow.

Edit: Wow.
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« Reply #48026 on: April 26, 2014, 07:11:32 pm »

I just looked up cybering.

Urban dictionary came up (as I hoped it would. Great for finding out what things are without experiencing them), and it had a fake chat-log in it. Not what I was wanting to see :/
*checks*

Holy shit. Really, wow.

Edit: Wow.

*checks*

Wow.

*scrolls towards the end*

Well that escalated quickly.
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« Reply #48027 on: April 26, 2014, 07:12:03 pm »

Yet another chat with a friend turned into cybering.

Noooooot that I'm complaining. ;D
Sweetie, does your friend know that you are not old enough to do that?
Eh, it's not like i can get cyber-pregnant. Plus it's all just for fun.
Hey wait a minute is Objective happy?
That's a pleasant change. Hope it stays that way.

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« Reply #48028 on: April 26, 2014, 07:17:59 pm »

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Well now I'm happy. Very wow.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #48029 on: April 26, 2014, 08:47:49 pm »

Yet another chat with a friend turned into cybering.

Noooooot that I'm complaining. ;D
Sweetie, does your friend know that you are not old enough to do that?
Eh, it's not like i can get cyber-pregnant. Plus it's all just for fun.
Hey wait a minute is Objective happy?
That's a pleasant change. Hope it stays that way.

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Shibe is always appropriate :D
Also I have my mood swings, but my mood is generally good right now, yeah.
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