Jared Leto.
TIL: Today I Learned
- Thread starter Gilgamesh
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But there's less social stigma attached to looking at a wristwatch vs. looking at a phone. When I look at my watch/fitbit obsessively people just think I'm impatient.
I have a date on Thursday, maybe I'll impress her with that style choice.
Hi!
It's not the people I didn't know about. I have been gaming for long enough to know to never use voice chat. I didn't know they had an actual stupid name for themselves.
GasBandit
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Apparently the term was invented in 1993 by a woman who considered herself involuntarily celebate, and started a website as a sort of support group mechanism.
But I do remember that the Isla Vista shooter also referred to himself as incel, in the middle of his extensive diatribes and manifestos calling for basically the violent subjugation and forced objectification of all women.
So basically ISIS?
GasBandit
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Not... exactly. From what I've read, that's more about ethnicity than misogyny. ISIS only considers women of certain ethnicity to be suitable for sex slavery - the Yazidi. People of the Yazidi Kurdish ethnic minority have been specifically targeted for extermination (for the males) and enslavement (for the females), and according to ISIS doctrine, are not considered to be "people," treated as animals or objects, to be bought, sold, used, or slaughtered at the owner's whim.
Well, yes, but it's not like they treat "real people" women all that much better.
More like today I remembered, but...
I remembered that I was given bitcoin tips on Reddit a couple of times, apparently due to some stuff I wrote, which someone liked enough to tip me for. I just checked the bitcointip account, and I have a total of around 0.007 bitcoins. Seems like a tiny amount, but when converted to US dollars at the current exchange rate, that's around 57 bucks. That's almost enough to buy an AAA game, minus microtransactions and DLC. Problem is, I don't have a bitcoin account, nor do I have any idea how I'm supposed to cash out my tiny fraction of bitcoin into cash.
So, basically, TIL I have fifty bucks I don't know how to get to.
I remembered that I was given bitcoin tips on Reddit a couple of times, apparently due to some stuff I wrote, which someone liked enough to tip me for. I just checked the bitcointip account, and I have a total of around 0.007 bitcoins. Seems like a tiny amount, but when converted to US dollars at the current exchange rate, that's around 57 bucks. That's almost enough to buy an AAA game, minus microtransactions and DLC. Problem is, I don't have a bitcoin account, nor do I have any idea how I'm supposed to cash out my tiny fraction of bitcoin into cash.
So, basically, TIL I have fifty bucks I don't know how to get to.
TIL-there's a claw game app where if you win you get an actual stuffed animal shipped from Japan...really?! REALLY?! JUST BUY THE DAMNED STUFFED ANIMALS!
TIL that Steam is no longer going to accept bitcoins. I hadn't gotten around to converting my 0.007 btc into Steam cash yet, so now I've lost my chance. Also, my 0.007 btc has risen in value to nearly 100 dollars.
I mean, I completely understand why Steam made this decision. A currency that can just double in value like that in less than a month is no good as a currency. But still... d'oh.
As obliging as stem cells are, there’s almost nothing you can’t rebuild with them...IF you have a proper framework upon which to sow them. Someday you’ll essentially be able to 3D print replacement parts, just load collagen into one hopper and stem cells into the other, load the model, and then wait a couple weeks.
Hard to tell who will be more excited about such technology...health professionals, or the BME crowd.
—Patrick
Hard to tell who will be more excited about such technology...health professionals, or the BME crowd.
—Patrick
You already have a second heart, sorta. I seem to remember that your leg muscles assist with circulation (if you use them frequently, that is).
—Patrick
I swear we talked about this in another thread years ago, but yes; went once, hurt twice. Traction Park!
what is "organic mercury"?
Edit:
oh, they mean "organomercury"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethylmercury
Edit:
oh, they mean "organomercury"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethylmercury
I was confused, because I knew two drops of regular ol' mercury wouldn't do that shit.
And you can get 10 grams of it in two months for only $591!
Fun fact: as bad as it is, dimethylmercury is apparently what chemists use so they can avoid using dimethylcadmium.
Nice of them to link to one of my favorite chemistry blogs, Things I Won't Work With. But man, that is a horrid web page, even with ABP running.
(Un?)surprisingly, this isn't the first time we've discussed this case. I know we also discussed it somewhere else while we were talking about the Colorado theater shooting, but I can't find that. It was more something about how a mass-murderer could still easily commit mass murder without the direct use of firearms.
--Patrick
TIL-Ironical is...an actual word...WHAT?! All those years people were SCOFFING at others for using the word-TURNS OUT-its an actual freaking WORD! And can used in place of ironic! ALL THOSE JOKES ABOUT IT BEING WRONG WERE LIES!
Isn't it ironical, don'tcha think?
GasBandit
Staff member
TIL that "This note is legal tender for all debts public and private" is toothless and unenforced, and some places have already stopped accepting cash.
figmentPez
Staff member
Yeah, and businesses don't have to accept your payment if you try to do so in all pennies, either.
I wander what Zinc is going to do when we go straight to a Batman Beyond style future and all money is on Credz and the penny gets phased out? Or some version of Batman Beyond Bitcoin. Point is Batman Beyond should be the future.
And we have quite a few places around here that only take cash.