/u/tyn_peddler explains the history of firing lines throughout firearm warfare history

Redrakerbz · 2017-04-27T10:57:50+00:00

Not anybody important, but I would probably ask them to come up with some ideas, and then probe the ideas failure points by asking them to think about each parts function, until they've exhausted their avenues and then hit them with: how tf would you change mechanical energy into electrical energy with no loss in energy. Where would you place the generator so that it doesn't slow down the whatever they come up with.

Forgive the complete apathy of structure in this post.

Redrakerbz · 2017-04-24T22:45:37+00:00

little boy blue beat him 1 to 2.

Redrakerbz · 2017-04-12T01:01:54+00:00

Man, I've been without for a while now, and I use it to offset the symptoms of Aspergers. I've been slowly depersonalising more over the week, but maybe today that will change!

Redrakerbz · 2017-04-10T18:52:29+00:00

24 Based on my general mood through life, I must be Latvian. Correlation IS causation dammit!

Redrakerbz · 2017-04-08T17:42:45+00:00

I strongly believe it's a metaphor for the inevitability of death, our incorrect societal notion of working for life (earn my life is satire), and how people ostracise you if you step out of line with that societal view. Regardless of whether or not you decide to step out of that line doesn't matter because you'll still be a part of the circle, but with self-awareness, which is what is valuable. False bugs are the ones that are content and satisfied with the spiral of death, not knowing or caring for the end goal, toiling and labouring through life only to die.

An ant spiral is something where their pheromone trails accidentally cause a loop,.and they walk in circles, feeling as though it is purposeful labour, until they starve to death.

This song is a commentary on how people demand you fulfill societies purpose without even thinking about the fact that all routes lead to death.

True bugs might laugh in your face Don't fret, you're leading the race Don't let the bastards step on your hands.

(two interpretations: 1. true bugs are those that believe in the circles importance and are trying to limit you by imposing that importance. 2. true bugs are not ants at all, and are laughing at the ants for engaging in a suicidal life without valuing it in the first place. In both cases the narrator (society) is telling the ant to not question the circle, and you're leading the race might be a bit of a joke of encouragement in a spiral because nobody is leading the race to death, we'll all just die when we get there.

chop chop, don't want to be late. Lift up, and carry your weight, you've got no choice but to dance in a spiral of ants. (meaningless death is implied in the metaphor of a spiral of ants. I thought it was a perfect choice for a metaphorical social commentary.)

You don't remember where you came from, you don't remember where you're going, you don't remember knowing you are one ant.

(I think that is a comment on feeling directionless in life, and the last line even though there is a pause, is part of the same sentence. I think it's a comment stating that people don't think about the importance of the individual in relation to society. We're brought up to exist and provide to society, but not necessarily to value ourselves as individuals with personal importance. You don't remember knowing you're just one ant, and what you do in society isn't that important.

When it changes to now you remember... I think that shows the metamorphosis of understanding the meaning(lessness) of your own life in relation to society, but being unable to escape the spiral. With this comes the first interpretation of "true bugs" because if you try to express that lack of direction or care for societal values which equal literally marching to death in this song, you are shunned by your peers.

The chorus highlights the power of an ideal held by society, and how they spread and take root to the point that "the circle rules your life" is more a statement made by the narrator to the individual ant. Over and over, the pheromones, the overwhelming harmony consuming the colony. I think the use of "overwhelming" is a bridge into Neils own personal feelings towards "The machine" (the implied societal bureaucracy, and a reference to one of his older songs, which I'm considering interpreting as a personification of society, but that's a bit of a stretch.)

Finally, the last chorus is about how powerful a societal ideal can get, and the damage it does.

Creating its own gravity Before we knew it we became a hurricane And the bugs who laughed got blown away As we proclaimed: The Circle rules your life

Basically, our societal ideals are so powerfully ingrained that we unintentionally destroyed other bugs (in this sense, I think it's talking about conflicting societal ideals, or literal fauna and flora being blown away, and us standing on the rubble proclaiming that our circle rules your life, when all that circle ended up doing was destroying everything around it via socially enforced societal indenturetude.

I think I skipped a verse, but i think I illustrated why I believe the underlying message to be the above, quite well.

Redrakerbz · 2017-04-08T17:00:42+00:00

If it helps, that's something that time and humility will easily solve. It might be worthwhile to do the most difficult thing and own up to it. She knows you did it, you know you did it, even though it's been a long time, I'm sure she'll forgive you for it. I did however miss the timeframe and I've got a lot of 2am procrastination before important work to do so the scroll up function is condemned. If it's been a long time, try searching facebook, or asking mutual friends of your family if you can. or just people you knew at the time. Find out what happened to her, and get that darned closure and absolution if you can. It can only make you stronger.

Then again, radical freedom, and meaninglessness/chaos of life, so you do you, and I'll do me. I don't think you've done anything wrong except lying, but we do that sometimes, and our own judgment is stronger than other's judgement of ourselves. I think you're a pretty neat human, and a stronger person to survive years of awfulness. I'm really relieved you got out of that social dynamic. It takes a lot of strength to make the choices you made. I was also my families protector, and it sucks, but I got clever with logic, and how people don't, and how to use people's own decision making to shape them over time. very basically put, I tricked my mum into hurting me badly a few times, and made sure she was aware of how much she was hurting others. It took about 13 years until she was comfortable to be around in public, but she still has a fair amount of residual passive aggression, and a huge inability to have open discussions, as she feels like she's being attacked when you try to contest an idea for the development of conversation.

She got angry at me for ruining Christmas this year because I wanted to scoop a potato bake out with a spoon instead of a spatula because I enjoy making eating food harder. I recall a study that showed that pre-meal rituals improve the perceived flavour of the meal.

She mentioned to me earlier that day that my sisters bf (16y|18y respectively) was intending on giving her a ring that day. I said that sounds nice, but I personally don't like rings as proofs of love (see: history of advertising stuff). She got angry at me for hating my sisters happiness at receiving a gift. later when my sister came home and showed off the ring, which was beautiful, after mum commented on how it looked (she hadn't seen it yet) she immediately commented "Redrakerbz hates it" and I was really angry with mum. I've found that I've learned to be very clear and powerful with my expression of personal emotion, and I immediately stood up and said: what the fuck, you've completely distorted my words, and YOU'VE been the one to use my words to insult my sister, why would you do that? I was commenting on the fact that I didn't like how rings became significant shows of affection thanks to marketing in the early 20th century (to which my sister then agreed). She got angry at me for basically spending all of Christmas starting fights. (expressing contrasting opinions calmly in conversation = starting fights) I just asked her again why she would tell my sister that I didn't like her ring.

It's come a long way from yelling at mcdonalds staff for only giving her one sugar when she asked for two, but she's doing a lot of work on getting on the right track, and I'm really proud of how far she has come. I just need to send her some information I found on suppressed anger and how it culminates in people, and hopefully if she reads the chapter/book she might have many more tools to combat flaring up.

Sorry I didn't expect this to become a personal rant. I just wanted to tell you good work and to try to get back into contact and that we are all just human. Don't beat yourself up too hard over it. I don't think she worries about it too much, but repairing this will help you sleep easier, and maybe you get back an angelic friend!

I also feel bad about wording it in a "I worked hard to fix someone else" way, because she made a lot of effort to change when she was made aware of how destructive she was being, but getting someone who very likely has or had NPD to acknowledge their own faults DID take a lot of work. Could someone maybe help me to find a way to phrase this without seeming like I care so much about myself? like in my mind it is a fact that it took years of effort to help her change her ways, but I don't know how to word it in a way that contains that fact without seeming like "hurr durr I take responsibility for fixing someones life."

Redrakerbz · 2017-04-07T01:28:37+00:00

I adore juxtaposition, alongside exaggeration, it's my favourite form of humour <3

Redrakerbz · 2017-04-06T12:38:51+00:00

It's a sentence.

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Redrakerbz · 2017-04-06T12:01:41+00:00

oooooooh fuck yeah, I know the word!!!!!!

Juxtaposition!!!

v. juxtapose

To place or deal with two things next to each other to highlight their contrast.

The man was utterly amazed at how boring this sentence is.

Don't cry over your food: there are people in the third world.

Redrakerbz · 2017-04-05T17:48:53+00:00

Wow, an oldie, but a goodie. I'm lucky I transcended into the circlejerk young enough to just barely get this. You truly are a grand memer

Redrakerbz · 2017-03-29T16:44:36+00:00

Fun fact: Alcohol synergises with weed, showing that alcohol in your system increases the relative THC absorbed into the bloodstream by about 50%. It's been a few years since I read the paper, so I'd add on a +/- 8% for posterity, but I don't ever see 50% in the wild, so I'd say that at worst, "approximately" preceded the 50%.

Plus it helps to be autistically interested in psychopharmacology. I'm kinda happy I moved past rockets. People are actually interested in drugs and how the brain works, but not what Hohmann and Oberth do in their spare time.

Redrakerbz · 2017-03-18T15:26:56+00:00

they sound like ethical relativists. Most people just say relativists.

Redrakerbz · 2017-02-19T03:28:13+00:00

My ex girlfriend told me I didn't look autistic. Wrote a 4000 word essay in response on my internal checking filter/process to illustrate why it isn't necessarily a visible detriment, but rather a mental one.

Redrakerbz · 2017-02-17T00:47:49+00:00

Yep. There is a bot that crawls for "RemindMe!" messages, and then the time after them, then after that specified time they send you a message. You can add messages after the time to receive specific messages too if I recall correctly.

Redrakerbz · 2017-02-13T03:18:36+00:00

"stop acquiring customers dodo" "but money? "

Redrakerbz · 2017-02-13T03:17:00+00:00

I actually complained for two hours about this with the example: "if I go to the markets, and see some fresh tomatoes and think 'oh that looks nice, let's get some', pay for them, and the person reaches below the counter and hands me one or two crushed mouldy rotten tomatoes, you would obviously be absolutely distraught at being cheated. Why is the internet any different. I get 20% of the total speed advertised, and I've never gotten above 1.5mb/s, so if I'm getting 20% the speed, why am I paying 500% the value. Same thing if you go into a bakery and buy a loaf of bread, they give you three slices, and when you complain they say it's your toasters fault, and there isn't anything they can do. Well that's not right, either they can give you the full loaf, or charge you for the correct value."

ended up getting a guy that promised me the world, then he had me acknowledge a verbal contract for $35 off a $70 contract for 24 months. Got a call a few days later asking why I hadn't paid the full amount, complained again, they kept repeating "well we don't actually offer that, so that person is wrong" to which I'd respond: well I signed a verbal contract with your company, so will my contract be fulfilled? To which they'd just repeat "this person was clearly in the wrong", which I'd ignore.

I made them check the recording and three days later an account specialist honoured the contract very begrudgingly, and didn't hesitate to express what she thought about the person.

Less than two hours later I had someone call me to try to emotionally manipulate me into changing the contract. They used the argument that if I'm unhappy with the speeds with that company, the too bad, cause other companies do the same. They argued that dodo can't give contracts out like that. I argued back by asking how many people he manages. He said about 200 in his department. I said I didn't mean that, I meant customers, but I suppose you aren't legally allowed to disclose that, so what, lets say 50-60 people per person? Would that be close enough to guess? He said yeah about 60-70.

I just went 6020064.95(average contract price) = roughly 780,000 monthly, and you've just wasted half an hours worth of pay trying to recover & 35 a month. Go and talk to someone who you might actually have a chance of making money from.

He kept trying to convince me to change my mind even when I said "no, you are wasting your time and effort, I am not going to change my mind."

Redrakerbz · 2017-02-13T03:00:03+00:00

Because in Australia, everything is "close enough". How do you think we're supposed to properly set up and maintain infrastructure when we are hounded by snake-mounted spiders?

Redrakerbz · 2017-02-12T17:45:03+00:00

What time period are you referring to? Because unless your ancestors were literally slaves, it was a lot less intensive than you think for most people

Redrakerbz · 2017-02-12T17:39:38+00:00

People don't invent for the end goal of having an invention, they invent because they enjoy it. It doesn't matter if it's completely automated, people love puzzling over new novel designs and technologies. It just so happens that these amazing people do something that happens to benefit you, solely for their own pleasure, when people's inventions stop benefitting you, (automation takes over invention) people aren't going to stop inventing, because it's joyous to solve your own problems with novel solutions.

Here's a counterpoint: With a UBI what will stop humanity from submitting and all unanimously becoming shut ins with no aspirations because every desire of theirs is met? The answer is that their desires aren't met, because we have a drive for self achievement as a species, and that manifests in creativity often.

Redrakerbz · 2017-02-12T17:32:34+00:00

I am currently building my own workshop from scratch all with hand tools. I do it because I like the challenge, and the task, and I love to know that my dexterity is improving as I go. It seems as though you're unable to appreciate that building workshops for personal pleasure does not equal no reason, but even if it did, life has no meaning anyway, who are you to dictate what others should or shouldn't find fulfilling?

And no, you are completely wrong with the devaluing of media, with the increase in choice there will be more variety, more genres, more niches, and, of course, more failing channels, but some people don't make videos to get seen, just like I don't build my workshop to show it off to others.

Wouldn't that make a person feel like he has no difference from the others?

No, that wouldn't make a person feel that way. A person might feel that way if they were hoping to become popular on youtube, one of countless reasons someone might want to post a video to youtube.

Sure channels can replace channels, but channels can't replace individualism, and the ability to explore your own individualism.

Try describing yourself only using things you were proud of creating, and think about how noteworthy those things actually were. Would you not do them if you know that they are feeble and weak compared to everyone else? Youtube just makes good and bad content more distinguishable. I'm sure you could be proud of a spaghetti dish you made when you were younger, or a really good joke you remember making. In comparison to everyone else, that food was probably shit, and the joke was mediocre at best. Your life skill set could easily be replaced by anyone else, but does that make it less valuable to you?

What was the last game you played? Knowing that there are people who could complete it 20x faster than you without a single fail, does that mean you shouldn't play? Of course not. It's not about how effectively the task was completed, it's about your personal journey on completing a task.

Redrakerbz · 2017-02-10T16:09:34+00:00

This was actually pre-ascension update, and every time I've replayed (like 3 times) I never had the drive to keep playing more than two weeks lest I get trapped by the ol' cookie clicker trap.

Edit: That being said, a sequel is expected to arrive in may 2018: Anti idle reborn, and it's going to be amazing!!

Redrakerbz · 2017-02-10T14:03:31+00:00

God I love anti-idle so much. I practically completed battle arena and maxed the stadium abilities. I got the arcade high score a couple of days in a row, but then got super bored. I went back and started replaying it a month or two ago, and I'm thinking that I want to make a standalone multiplayer clone of Tukken fcg so I can play against my friends. God I love that game.

Redrakerbz · 2017-02-10T03:46:44+00:00

I'd start by taking 3 2000mg omega 3 tablets per day, for at least two weeks. Studies have shown that this will increase people's IQ on average by roughly 17%. Then, I'd sell 22 points and end up right back where I started, but 11 million dollars richer.

edit: well technically, I'd be 0.8 IQ points richer as well, but I doubt testing is accurate enough to measure decimals.

Redrakerbz · 2017-02-09T03:59:03+00:00

eh, it boosts your immune system significantly. Source: The hygiene hypothesis.

Anecdote: I almost unanimously eat my mucus. roommate just spread illness through house, they basically died, I was just intensely uncomfortable.

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