Octopus Overlords

I'm not all that interested in being perfectly accurate or assigning labels, but if the people that the labels apply to are adamant about it, that's fine with me. Just tell me what terminology you want me to use and I'll use it.

Not necessarily in this case, but I do find that the pursuit of accurate, politically correct terminology is getting to be a bit much. I'm not prejudiced so I'd appreciate it if you didn't lose your shit if I use the wrong terminology. Ignorant is not the same as bigoted. Especially if there hasn't been much time to unignorant yourself yet. Just politely explain the correct usage and I'll do my best.

When terminology is evolving, with multiple groups pursuing their own ideas of what is and isn't appropriate, of course the general public is going to be making mistakes for quite awhile. If the groups themselves don't readily agree then how can they expect others to lock down their usage? Typically, it seems to me, that terminology evolves and standardizes over time, as certain terms go out of favour and everyone just sort of migrates to using the same terminology so that everyone understands what everyone else is talking about.

Yes I'm an old dinosaur. That doesn't make me a monster.

While the terminology is evolving is a time of upheaval. If people would just remain calm and understand that the world at large is not out to denigrate them by using outdated terminology, that would be great. Kthxbye.

Well, maybe some people are, but mostly not the rest of us.

For the record this has never happened to me, so I'm tilting against windmills here, but I *do* read about such things happening, especially on post secondary campuses, and that seems angrier than necessary.

GreenGoo wrote: ↑Thu Oct 04, 2018 1:33 amIgnorant is not the same as bigoted.

It feels like sexual and gender identity topics seem to be moving at the same pace as technology now, and if you're not fully immersed in the culture growing it, you're very likely to be out of date within a week. Personally, I don't keep track of it. Willful ignorance? Maybe. It just doesn't have any bearing on my day to day life.

I used to watch videos on Youtube all the time but since they've decided to put commercials in them I've cut back drastically. Even the damn news sites videos.
Pron videos have fewer commercials.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Wed Oct 03, 2018 11:01 pm If you understand root words, you'd see that it's clearly not the case, no. Bicycles and pancycles aren't even't remotely the same!

One is of people who have sex with men and women the other is made of bread?

GreenGoo wrote: ↑Wed Oct 03, 2018 9:28 pm My 14 year old son refuses to discuss sexuality. Not a great sign.

I can't think anything more completely normal than a 14-y.o. boy not wanting to talk sex with a parent.

Holman wrote: ↑Thu Oct 04, 2018 12:25 pm

GreenGoo wrote: ↑Wed Oct 03, 2018 9:28 pm My 14 year old son refuses to discuss sexuality. Not a great sign.

I can't think anything more completely normal than a 14-y.o. boy not wanting to talk sex with a parent.

Maybe in the US.

Dear beverage companies. Stop using fake sweeteners in your drinks. I love sugar in my drinks. I like corn sweeteners like high fructose corn syrup just fine. But when you already use sugar or hifruc PLZ dont add fake junk like sucralose and assflame Acesulfame potassium. I know they are in there. I taste them in there. Fake sweeteners make me nausea and I HATE the taste and after taste.

So plz just stop it.

I wonder if Burger King uses some kind of additive in their cooking gas? Or maybe in the meat patty itself? Because when we grilled using gas it had a distinct flavor to it yet BK burgers taste chargrilled like with charcoal. So how do they do it? I worked there as a teen.....cooked even...and I dont know.

Your taste buds are better than mine. I'm not even sure it's meat most of the time.

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 02, 2018 11:09 pm Boeing boeing boeing.

AT LAST!

A few months back I kept getting scam phone calls. So I bought a loud whistle but never got another scam call until today.
So I want everybody to keep an eye out for some guy holding one hear saying WHAT! all the time.

Another scam call today. Didn't have my whistle near.
Do the scammers from India not realize that we can hear their accents?

Im not sure how loud a whistle into the phone is.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Fri Oct 05, 2018 4:54 pm Im not sure how loud a whistle into the phone is.

I don't think typical cellphones can get much above 100 decibels, which is rock concert level, I read.

Not sure about land line phones.

Which is good. dbt is free to piss them off to his heart's content, while being unlikely to actually injure them. Probably. Maybe.

I think a Rick Roll would be more fun.

Before I got married I used an air horn on unwanted callers.

In an unrelated post.............in Arkansas you can carry a loaded firearm in public. You can also have a loaded firearm in your vehicle.
Some new I learned today.

Can carry in TN as well. No permit if not hidden.

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 05, 2018 4:13 pm Another scam call today. Didn't have my whistle near.
Do the scammers from India not realize that we can hear their accents?

All my spam calls have switched to robo-voices instead of sub-minimum-wage call-farm humans.

The trailers for the new A Star is Born look boring as hell.

Thought it looked fun. Its getting great word of mouth and reviews. Would go with the wife to see it.

Theres a scam call here where they say they are collecting for firefighters. People should know by now not a single place calls for donations now days. Older folk who are used to that kind of call will not catch on though.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Fri Oct 05, 2018 10:32 pm The trailers for the new A Star is Born look boring as hell.

Wife and daughter went to see it yesterday as my wife was really, really looking forward to it.

I asked how it was but I don't remember her answer.

Actually I'm pretty sure she didn't answer directly. She said she had a splitting headache from the emotional rollercoaster.

I have no idea if that's a positive or negative.

I miss chaosraven.

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Wed Oct 03, 2018 6:25 pm Ugh, my teeth are acting up again, specifically the left upper molar that's broken several times. It's been hurting for a full 24 hours now. Usually if I just bit something wrong, it stops after a couple of hours. It may be infected. I've got a bottle of antibiotics I was given by a friend (it's a thing poor people do, go with it), but don't want to waste them if it isn't really infected.

I'm at almost 72 hours on the antibiotics, and they don't seem to be doing much. It seems to be an exposed nerve rather than an infection. Every 'free' or sliding scale dentist I've found takes local patients only, and none of them are local to me. Even the only dental school around was a bust. Ugh.

Near $1,000,000 pound Banksy auction item self destructs after sale.

https://boingboing.net/2018/10/06/dead- ... innit.html

Banksy's iconic "Girl With Red Balloon" street art went under the hammer at Sotheby's in a custom frame of the artist's own design; moments after it sold for £953,829, a booby-trap kicked in, drawing the canvas into a series of shredder blades built into the frame, rendering it down to a pile of forlorn strips of shredded cloth.

The art speculation market has run white-hot for a decade and more, as inequality floods of dark money has sought highly liquid, tax-invisible assets. As a result, the world's most important art treasures sit in climate controlled containers in "freeports," changing hands without ever moving, seen by no one.

I think it jammed after 1/3rd was shreded.

My wife informed me last night that if I died, she'd probably just get a female room mate and give up on men all together. Nothing sexual, just a person she could live with and be friends with. She asked if it would bother me to have a woman helping her raise the kids if I passed away before they left home.

I'm putting this out here in case I suddenly stop posting. You'll know who did it.

Someone helping her raise kids is more than a roommate. Just sayin'.

Also, I look forward to seeing a docudrama about all this on Hallmark or Lifetime.

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Sat Oct 06, 2018 11:32 am

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Wed Oct 03, 2018 6:25 pm Ugh, my teeth are acting up again, specifically the left upper molar that's broken several times. It's been hurting for a full 24 hours now. Usually if I just bit something wrong, it stops after a couple of hours. It may be infected. I've got a bottle of antibiotics I was given by a friend (it's a thing poor people do, go with it), but don't want to waste them if it isn't really infected.

I'm at almost 72 hours on the antibiotics, and they don't seem to be doing much. It seems to be an exposed nerve rather than an infection. Every 'free' or sliding scale dentist I've found takes local patients only, and none of them are local to me. Even the only dental school around was a bust. Ugh.

I've got an appointment with my regular dentist day after tomorrow. I'm just going to have to put it on my card and hold the debt for now. I don't really have any other choice.

/edit - and by 'regular', I mean once every five years.

Good luck man. teeth are hell.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Mon Oct 08, 2018 2:57 pm Good luck man. teeth are hell.

I always assumed the were the Pearly Gates to my stomach.

I take real good care of my tooth.

I had read about Vesuvius and Pompeii and Herculaneum all my life. Always fascinated me. A few years back I read how the heat supposedly popped skulls like eggs in a microwave. Now scientists have more proff.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10 ... ed-skulls/

Petrone and his colleagues were intrigued by the strong red and black residue on some of the bones that could not have come from coins or other metal artifacts, since there were none near this particular site. They used Raman micro spectroscopy to analyze samples for iron and other remnants of blood. There was a very high concentration of iron, most likely derived from victims' bodily fluids, although they could not say definitively that the source was human blood.

Most of the bones were also fractured—another indicator of being exposed to sudden extreme high heat. They especially noted "cracking and explosion" of the skullcaps of many of the skeletons, consistent with forensic cases of bursting skulls, when "expelled brain matter may form a circular pattern around the head." Essentially, the hot pyroclastic flows boiled the soft brain tissue and evaporated the bodily fluids of the unfortunate victims, raising the internal pressure so severely that the skulls quite literally exploded.

That is not a nice way to go, to say the least. But perhaps it was faster than suffocating to death.

Peter Jackson colorizes WW I footage. I guess with modern technology I shouldn't be too surprised, but this edit brings the tech to a whole other level.

DOS=HIGH wrote: ↑Tue Oct 09, 2018 10:28 pm Peter Jackson colorizes WW I footage. I guess with modern technology I shouldn't be too surprised, but this edit brings the tech to a whole other level.

I'd like to see that. Last Saturday we went to a memorial service for two local lads who died on Oct 6, 1918. I've been more mindful of WW1 since hearing their stories.

Kraken wrote: ↑Tue Oct 09, 2018 10:50 pm

DOS=HIGH wrote: ↑Tue Oct 09, 2018 10:28 pm Peter Jackson colorizes WW I footage. I guess with modern technology I shouldn't be too surprised, but this edit brings the tech to a whole other level.

I'd like to see that. Last Saturday we went to a memorial service for two local lads who died on Oct 6, 1918. I've been more mindful of WW1 since hearing their stories.

Thats damn nice. Ive never seen colorized anything and thought it looked fresh filmed before ever. Looks breathtaking.

on vacation and the internet speed is 27 kbps. Absolutely useless for any page that has pictures.

Not sure of the point of paying for something this slow except to add to the renters webpage that you have internet service.

Started Firefox last night and it had a 41MB update. 3 hours later it was finished.

Looks like I'll be looking at the tiny phone screen and using my verizon data.

Lassr wrote: ↑Wed Oct 10, 2018 9:55 am on vacation and the internet speed is 27 kbps. Absolutely useless for any page that has pictures.

Not sure of the point of paying for something this slow except to add to the renters webpage that you have internet service.

Started Firefox last night and it had a 41MB update. 3 hours later it was finished.

Looks like I'll be looking at the tiny phone screen and using my verizon data.

Or tether your laptop to your phone. Still using your Verizon data, but at least you'd have the big screen.

Lassr wrote: ↑Wed Oct 10, 2018 9:55 am on vacation and the internet speed is 27 kbps. Absolutely useless for any page that has pictures.

This is why we keep the 56k warning on the movies thread!