EdamAnchorman
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3 hours ago, marf said:
I heard a Louis CK story about Larry doing stand up way back before Seinfeld. And he would yell at the audience. Like "hey, where are you going?" kind of stuff
There's some of that in the commentary/extra content on the Seinfeld DVDs (which is great content, btw). Apparently, sometimes if the audience wasn't feeling what he was doing that night, he would berate them, tell them to fuck off, and leave the stage.
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I think it's unfair to compare them directly, since they existed in very different worlds with respect to what could/couldn't be done, and what had been done before.
In that respect, I think Seinfeld wins. For that show to survive on network TV in the early '90s was insane. Of course, I enjoy the Larry David seasons a lot more than the later ones, where it just got too wacky at the expense of the minutiae.
Laugh for laugh, Curb is probably funnier but I find myself rewatching Seinfeld way more than Curb. Maybe I just like the ensemble of the main four, or perhaps the quick sitcom format more than Curb's format of Larry gets trapped in a situation and acts like a dick and finds a way out of it somehow.
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2 hours ago, beerwolf said:
2 bottles of Chimay Blue
750 mL??
I know it's cliché, but I've found that the good stuff is much more likely to not give hangovers.
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7 hours ago, ignatius said:
not prosecuting him would basically throw the country out the window and entire generation of americans would have no doubt that the system is complete broken and they'd have no faith in the government, the courts, congress etc.. and they'd essentially stop participating. the country would essentially be handed over to the fascists.
But you know that prosecuting him isn't just going to make everyone on his side fall in line. Trumpers would be calling on the DOJ to prosecute any and all high-ranking Ds for any number of things real and fake from now until forever. Not saying that's a reason to not do it, just something the DOJ has to consider.
I mean if we're talking precedent, the Rs already burned that bridge with the last two SCOTUS nominations, so maybe it's time for the Ds to grow their precedent-breaking balls.
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1 hour ago, phudoshin said:
The DOJ is slow and being super meticulous..trying to make it airtight. They're playing a blinder with their tactics on the special master front too. Ive seen every Jan 6th hearing too... just to hear sense been spoken is amazing. I think he'll go down..... the maga/Qanon folks will fizzle away. surely this kind of stupidity can't survive. Am I naïve AF?
I'm not so sure the DOJ will attempt to prosecute him. They're supposed to be completely impartial when it comes to politics and a lot of people are afraid of the precedent that it sets if they go after him, even though there is clear evidence that he broke at least a few laws. If they don't go after him, what precedent does that set also? That this kind of behavior will be tolerated? They are kind of screwed either way.
Personally, I think it's worth the risk to prosecute him, but I don't get to make that call.
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Caught Lola just after waking up from a nap. Seems to be a pretty meme-able picture.
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1 minute ago, Rubin Farr said:
lol
No way, that's too on-the-nose.
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Is "War Fare" some kind of war-themed festival food or drink??
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2 hours ago, Squee said:
I guess this place is kinda our Facebook in a way… just hidden behind stupid names.
We did have the member photo with all y'all's mugs on it...
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I've been around since 2005 but I was and still am an infrequent poster. Can't remember what my usernames were back then.
I miss TheJacketLoose, that dude was funny (hence my sig). Where did he go?
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They forgot the comma
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17 hours ago, beerwolf said:
Love it. I am seriously in love with geuzes. Why did I find them so late in life??
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Well, he's not wrong...
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In Seattle for the day at the end of an 8-day vacation.
Flew to Chicago, took the Empire Builder Amtrak to Montana, spent 4 days in Glacier National Park, hopped back on the train to Seattle, fly home tomorrow.
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1 hour ago, auxien said:
so technically the 'supermassive black hole' is an infinitesimal point that isn't that 'size' since it's not really a three dimensional object anymore. it's a 1 dimensional object i think? (it's more math than physical object as far as we can even begin to comprehend it at this point).....it's the event horizon around it that grows larger as more mass falls into the singularity. and i think there's some weird shit speculated or mathed out that any mass at that horizon is in some ways infinitely falling into the singularity once it crosses over that event horizon's threshold....but a lot of that trying to understand or explain anything going on 'within' is sorta just....ludicrous. it's where spacetime just stops being spacetime really, so trying to understand it is academic at this point (since we don't really understand a lot of those weird edges and bits of spacetime in normal space) and likely academic forever since we'll never be able to actually experiment on such things.
sorry, that pic is interesting, but it's irked me since it was posted and i'm procrastinating so
edit: not actually trying to actually... here, it just always fascinates me much more to think about the reality of black holes and how fucking mindbending they are.
I think we can calculate the size of black holes, I think the singularity comes about because anything that massive breaks Einstein's equations by turning that area into a singularity. That's because there's no quantum stuff in relativity. A black hole is weird in that it's such a massive object where quantum effects dominate.
The spacetime stuff is also from relativity, so if you could live inside a black hole, time might not stand exactly still relative to an outside observer because the mass isn't really infinite. I'm not sure if anyone has worked out time dilation with quantum effects.
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That must be an illustration of the uncertainty of measurements. The more precise you measure either position or momentum, the more uncertain your simultaneous measurement of the other becomes.
The uncertainty principle is also what causes zero point energy. If you could cool a particle down to absolute zero, it wouldn't stop vibrating because then its position and momentum would both become exactly known. So there's still some vibration energy even at absolute zero because Heisenberg says you can't know both position and momentum with very high accuracy.
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Yo mama's so dense that the positions of her fermionic matter are so fixed that their momentum must be exceedingly large because of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_matter
Edit: it's so wild to me that the uncertainty principle is what keeps neutron stars and black holes from collapsing further than they do. It's like the universal density limit. Once you pack enough stuff into a small enough space, their positions become so fixed that Heisenberg says that their momentum must go way up to keep the uncertainty, and the pressure from the higher particle momentum keeps it from collapsing more.
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I think he was banned not too long after I joined. I do remember his long-ass posts, and he was nice to me in the few PM interactions we had.
Didn't really get to know his persona too well as I was new and trying to learn about everyone on the board.
That's sucks about his recent behavior... Seems like some people like that just become so frustrated later in life at their inability to form normal relationships that they resort to stuff like this as a substitute. Hopefully he didn't seriously hurt anyone with his creepery.
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There's a great yo mama fat joke there somewhere...
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Perhaps the actions of individual officers should be studied and given as an example of a successful strategy, after the abject failure of their bosses to properly prepare for the crowd that they knew might show up that day.
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I'm not downplaying it at all. What I meant was, there was no concerted, shared plan. Maybe a handful of rogue actors had plans to get Pence or Pelosi, but the vast majority just broke in and wandered around the building. Imagine if they would've all been more organized...
I've said this here before, but I kind of wish they had reached Pence or some other Congressperson and not killed them of course but roughed them up. That would've made it MUCH harder for the R assholes in Congress to ignore during the impeachment trial. As it stands, it's much easier for them to brush it off because yeah they came close but, hey, nothing bad happened to them or their colleagues. That's the view they're taking and feeding to their supporters. Of course the reality is that a bunch of morons tried to overthrow the government at a very vulnerable moment, but weren't organized enough to accomplish their goals.
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Curb or Seinfeld?
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Love it. That 2-second sequence after the door is opened is choreographed and shot so perfectly.