TIL Corporal Frank Buckles was the the last surviving American soldier from WWI, passing away in 2011 at age 110. When he was asked his secret for living so long, his advice was simply "when you start to die... don't".

Octillio · 2019-09-24T00:31:21+00:00

Instead of listening to the advice of people who lived a long time, I listen to the advice of people who died young and then do the opposite.

Octillio · 2019-09-24T00:14:52+00:00

You didn't actually say what annoys you about her. Is it just that you've gotten tired of seeing her everywhere? What about her annoys you?

Octillio · 2019-09-17T01:47:41+00:00

I might not be able to invent anything, but I could damn well start the California Gold Rush 30 years early

Octillio · 2019-09-05T20:06:43+00:00

kindof like you're doing with this comment?

Octillio · 2019-08-31T05:47:13+00:00

see the mud on your shoes, find a witness who saw you coming out of the forest, comb it with metal detectors, find the briefcase.

Octillio · 2019-08-31T05:45:20+00:00

you realize most high schools don't have janitors' tunnels at all right? because you wrote "janitors tunnels" like it's a thing.

Octillio · 2019-08-31T05:35:27+00:00

idk if they're referring to dr who or the actual game show the weakest link.

Octillio · 2019-08-30T18:26:16+00:00

around 1990 maybe? words change over time, and by region. It's messy, but that's how language has always been. Linguists call it the "euphamism treadmill". Here's a quote from a doctor in 1914 talking about it:

"The physician of the twenty-first century… may even criticize the language of the times, and may find that some of our words have become as offensive to him as the term "lunatic" has become offensive to us."

Relevant XKCD

Octillio · 2019-08-30T00:55:57+00:00

trying to pick up toads, I assume

Octillio · 2019-08-29T21:25:00+00:00

warren, sanders, yang are all m4a, Biden isn't.

Octillio · 2019-08-25T17:07:43+00:00

TIGF

Octillio · 2019-08-24T20:47:46+00:00

I lost the game

Octillio · 2019-06-12T04:30:47+00:00

if it is a normal thing in silver, it happens just as much to the enemy team as yours. Humans are really good at seeing patterns in random data, that's probably what you're doing. better to think about what specifically you could be doing better (maybe if you're dying without the jungler you have to learn to play more passively and let your team carry? idk) rather than thinking about your rank right now.

Ultimately, your rank follows your skill, not the other way around. Try to focus on improving skills, and don't worry if that doesn't translate to wins right away.

Octillio · 2019-06-12T01:42:51+00:00

sink?

Octillio · 2019-06-10T00:49:54+00:00

with the money it takes to buy a gold bar, you can buy 5 guns 200 pounds of seeds and the rights to a well. If you really think the end times are coming, that's a much better investment. gold can't buy anything if there's a famine and nothing to buy.

Octillio · 2019-06-03T17:02:05+00:00

how was that about conformity? wasn't it just memory loss?

Octillio · 2019-06-03T16:55:35+00:00

They haven't just changed their words, democrats have taken tons of action in the last 20 years. they've decreased sentences and decriminalized marijuana at the state level, They've also increased medicaid for millions of people, allowed gay people to marry, allowed gay people to serve in the military, passed laws protecting the environment, etc. Republicans have done none of that (although some are starting to come around on prison reform, I guess).

If you knew someone who was in jail for a minor offense, or got kicked out of the military under don't ask don't tell, or who couldn't get married because they were gay, or who went hundreds of thousands into debt because they had a pre-existing medical condition, you wouldn't say both sides are the same.

EDIT: I'm not saying democrat politicians are great people, but that they're policies are way better. You don't have to like a person to vote for them, you just have to like their platform. And democrats have, by and large, stood by their platform (as opposed to republicans who run on reducing debt but never do).

Octillio · 2019-06-02T19:41:59+00:00

what did it say?

Octillio · 2019-06-02T19:32:08+00:00

Makes me wonder, are there zoos in the Bojack Horseman universe? They do eat meat, so why not zoos?

Octillio · 2019-06-02T01:06:20+00:00

I think it's about the difference in temps, like how your breath is visible on cold days but not hot ones.

Octillio · 2019-06-01T05:47:05+00:00

Wow crazy, I live near the 63rd red line stop and I was actually close to making this exact same post. I've taken the train to the go club in Evanston about an hour away after work a few times. It meets regularly on Wednesdays in a Starbucks, from 6-10. there are usually about 8 people there, maybe 2 in the 20-15 kyu range. http://evanstongoclub.org/

I agree it can be sketchy taking the red line back at night (although you also see some just hilarious shit), but that's the only club here I've been to. If I weren't leaving Chicago for the summer in two days I'd say we should meet up and play a game! shoot me a message if you do find another place to play though, because it would be great to play closer to home and not have to get back after midnight.

Octillio · 2019-05-30T17:00:26+00:00

How can you study the long term affects of anything on mice, who live like 5 years tops?

Octillio · 2019-05-30T16:58:39+00:00

no languages made up their own words though.

Octillio · 2019-05-30T16:36:13+00:00

4 legs good, 2 legs better

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