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Re: Thread split from scared of sex: Advertising = dehumanizing? Everyone here keeps making these bold claims, but you do realize the computer you're using to post these claims, and the internet you're posting it on, are both direct products of this consumerism, right? I'm sorry, but it's...

Re: Thread split from scared of sex: Advertising = dehumanizing? Your anal-retentive lack of patience and taking of offense at truly minor offenses does not dictate that the actions dehumanize you. You're simply irritated at something, it doesn't make you less of a person.

Re: Thread split from scared of sex: Advertising = dehumanizing? It's my humble opinion that dehumanizing is an innately undesirable thing because it requires that you treat a human as, well, something less than human; Someone/something who is not, or at least is less than, an individual with...

Re: Thread split from scared of sex: Advertising = dehumanizing? ... The thread is a discussion about whether or not "Advertising = dehumanizing?". Sorry for being stuck on the topic of discussion?

Re: Thread split from scared of sex: Advertising = dehumanizing? I don't deny they try to grab attention or alter consumer habits. What I deny is that it's dehumanizing. There are actual crimes out there where people are sold into slavery and forced to work in other countries, with the...

Re: Thread split from scared of sex: Advertising = dehumanizing? No. That's ridiculous. People who have things to sell will try to get them sold. Saying that's dehumanizing is... borderline insanity. Trying to control you? They're saying "Yo, I have this awesome thing to buy! You can come buy...

It took me about a decade to realize I had no goals. It coincided with my being so broke that a dollar burger from Mickey D's was a significant expenditure. Then I joined the military, got my teeth fixed, and everything's pretty great... except I'm in the military.

Bah, sanity is a good thing when we're discussing actual mental health, not just conforming to social norms.

It's definitely good.

I'm under the impression the forum has grown more sane. That, or I'm better at avoiding the surreptitiously idiotic threads.

Inasfar as I'm aware, my sexual tastes have never changed, I've simply become more aware of them. Then, you could also say my tastes in food has changed but that's not entirely accurate. It's much more that I've experienced different foods and understand flavors more, such that I like things I...

The far, outer edge of the universe isn't even important. It's functioning is perfectly in line with technically possible. The part of the model which is contradicted by Thermodynamics is the part where all the mass is condensed into a black hole... and then spit back out the other side! I'm not...

Thermally speaking, no. Entropy is the equilibrium of heat energy.

I would play Power Trip by Monster Magnet at the wedding. Edit; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE7Zv6d-HUA

Obviously order. In the entropic sense, disorder is the increase of entropy, so usable energy would then be order. They're terms I don't really like, though, because they're too ambiguous. The opposite of entropy (which is the lack of usable energy) is usable energy. Just like the opposite of...

I think the fallacy applies here because it's ambiguous what the quoted text even means, what the expert is even saying such that it's applicable in the first place. I didn't feel like looking up a more appropriate fallacy, at any rate. It's a fallacious argument because he never states why I'm...

So you're saying I'm incorrect? If so, could you elaborate on the point instead of making an argument from authority? If the universe is a closed system, then when would we say it has reached heat death, or maximum entropy? Would it be while stars are still around? Certainly not, granting a...

It's true, though. If the universe were in equilibrium, no work would be getting done.

Ninja.

I know for a fact that the state of the universe is not finished entropy, because stars are still burning. QED. There's not really an argument to be made against this. It's futile. The universe is not in equilibrium. We know it.

I've already reenlisted once. I currently plan on remaining in until I find a decent job offer outside of the military. The reason I joined is because I was broke as hell, with no decent chance at a decent job, and I had a son to take care of. I'm not getting out just to be jobless and...

Yet the universe isn't in equilibrium, because it's doing work. So.... you're wrong.

Read the second law of thermodynamics. It applies specifically to closed systems! The universe, being a closed system, tends to gain entropy with time... Because it's a closed system!

Unless you look? How is it not demonstrably true? Measure the red shift of galaxies in all directions, see if some are accelerating away at a slower rate than their distance would dictate would be the norm for their distance. What we do observe is that all galaxies are accelerating away at a...

Figuring out what's actually true is actual knowledge. Imagining up what could possibly be true is... I dunno... too easy? I mean, anyone can imagine anything they want to. That's how kids invent games, and it's how I play pen and paper role playing games. My imagination is fun, but it's not a...

I can imagine up as many possibilities as I want. I'm trying to draw a conclusion based on the information we actually have though.

Sure, but the crux of the matter is that there is no extra acceleration on the bulging side or reduced acceleration from the expanding side. Also, if we say "Maybe the universe is this even though it doesn't look that way..." then we can imagine the universe basically however we want to. How do...

Okay, say that again, but this time communicate an understandable concept.

I can't claim I get depressed from them, but I can certainly think of things I did wrong or in otherwise embarrassingly awkward ways, and it still embarrasses me today, or I at least feel like I should have just plain done better. In my other thread where I mentioned passing the board, for...

Well, I still need my points, but I got the board, so the immediately stressful part is over. Now it's just... collecting points. Woo.

What does count as enough data? How do you figure out if the universe is flat or not that would be more accurate than what has already been done and which we can do? Measuring triangles from Earth to the farthest observable points in space isn't good enough for you? Also, why didn't you answer...

The space of that cheerio universe is not flat. The space of our universe is flat. Triangles, yo. And just one more problem, why are all galaxies red-shifted at a proportion exactly equal to their distance, instead of the ones closer to the cheerio hole being less so, and the ones farther from...

... You didn't just make that up, did you? Is there people on the internet saying this makes sense for real?

So I'm playing D&D again, after almost a year of none, on a website called http://roll20.net/ . One of my friends is DMing, so I decide to make a character I can really have fun with. His Wisdom is relatively high, so I figure he's cunning and observant. At the same time, his Intelligence is 8...

Because they wouldn't create a universe, they'd just... spray energy and matter in all directions.

I'll go chainsword.

Nope. It really doesn't mean anything except that I'm able to be promoted once I have enough promotion points... which will take forever in this MOS. It means I have been judged, by a board of senior NCOs, to be qualified for promotion to Sergeant... just, I need to earn enough points to...

I need three meals a day. I die if I skip one. Seriously, it's happened before. I died. I got better.

Thanks!

I passed the board and got my promotable status! BOOOM!

Update! My friends from back home found a website we play on. rolld20.net

Eight years old.

I know, right?!

Is this some kind of hippity hoppity slang that I don't understand? Also, welcome to the forum. <--- Also a cow thing.

That's simply not true, though. Frank Honesty makes you awesome.

Recently, my son wrote a story in school. It's pretty obviously just a re-imagining of the Three Little Pigs, but it's way awesome. Here it is; How awesome is that?! Best twist ending ever, no?!

I'm going the other way. I think he meant that problems always require more effort to fix than to create.

That's not true.

Stay gone next time. You're a jerk.

Fr srs.