My heart goes out to you angel. Remember this: you don’t have to do it alone. I realize this thread has been a bit down on AA, but just speaking from my own experience, sitting in rooms with other drunks, who were happy to share their humiliations and misadventures, was the first step towards letting go of the…

Dude, if that struck you as serious the Pokemon are going to catch you.

You know, I’ve used a lot of technology in my life. In fact, the tech I’m using right now is the stuff of science fiction from a few years ago.

Being scolded by Hillary truthers about not being “up to date” is like having a street loon belittle you for not paying heed to the fire snake jutting out of your chest.

(Imaginary) Hyperloop (conceivably at some point) connecting Helsinki and Stockholm (might, if it were ever to be built) turn 300 mile trip into (would be great if it were to happen) 28 mile ride.

You know what else is a lie and outrageous and infuriating? When a musical act is actually lip syncing to a prerecorded track and there’s no giant Chryon to make sure we know and everything’s on the up and up. Also, make-up and lighting. Those people don’t actaully look that good! And don’t even get me started on…

I’m an old dude who completely identifies with Sarah’s story. Booze allowed a shy, bookish boy a way into fun and adventure, until it left me alone and wretched.

Well, anyway, I think it’s nice that at :40 Elliot and ET stopped to check on him, even thought they were in a hurry to get to the wooded clearing.

Awesome. I had no idea. Yeah, if there were a million beer league softball teams, and their drunken exploits all got posted to Youtube, I’m sure I’d be left with the impression that baseball was inherently violent towards the officiating.

So, I’m not a soccer fan, particularly, but I seem to see these posts on fairly regularly— player doesn’t like penalty, physically attacks the ref. Is that, like, a thing in soccer? Are there ever serious consequences (beyond sitting out a game or two)? I mean, it seems like..... that’s fucked up? That the actual game…

But what could “1:1" scale possibly mean when you’re talking about the star field? Roughly analogous to the apparent scale as viewed from the earth? And we’re talking about a constantly shifting , 360º orb of possible “maps”, so pretty much any given chart would be highly arbitrary.

Hack. Hack hack hack hack. I hacked my diet! I ate less food! I hacked my brain! I read a book! I hacked my car! I changed brands of gas! I hacked a glib trendoid! With a meat cleaver.

Ipod. I-Tunes. You’ve never used an Apple device in your life, have you?

Moreover, a lot of the “natural” forms are contrived— a leaf apparently cut into a perfect circle by an ant, arbitrarily round-headed animals, random imposition of circles over natural processes etc. This is basically a pretty animation of “circles” but doesn’t seem to really support the idea that circles (or at least…

The implication is that there’s no such thing as a continuous and immutable self nor is there an ever-present soul.

“OK, C-3PO!”

Lies. All lies.

Huh. So Janet Jackson just straight up lifted the hook to “Everywhere I Go” from the Full House theme? “Everywhere I go, every smile I see, I know you are there, smilin’ back at me” and “Everywhere you look, everywhere you go, there’s a heart, a hand to hang on to” with that first bit note for note?

Huh? I was just curious if LIGO translates the interference pattern into sound as part of the experimental process. I know that the actual data is interference patterns in the laser light. Did you think I was being contentious?

Does LIGO use sound to monitor results?