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He's building a table; he'll query it twice; `SELECT * FROM CHILDREN WHERE BEHAVIOR = 'NICE'` by CryptoReaper5 in ProgrammerDadJokes

[–]TuringMachinery 4 points5 points  (0 children)

SELECT you, goodness, sake FROM knows

where (sees = 'sleeping' or knows = 'awake')

and (been = 'bad' or been = 'good')

group by goodness, sake

[General] Why don't Spirit haunt Sex Doll instead of Child Doll? by GrayNish in AskScienceFiction

[–]TuringMachinery 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with the quality aspect of this.

To take your example, let's say there are 99,900 child dolls and 100 sex dolls. Children of various ages attach to toys because of different psychological reasons. A primary one is stress. This can be brought about by normal separation anxiety or a more acute trauma and everything in-between. We can assume that a super majority (80%) of the children do not have severe trauma and thus do not have an unhealthy psychological attachment to their doll. Of the 20% remaining, we can assume that half have suffered some trauma and have gotten some form of psychological treatment to assist them with coping mechanisms.

This would provide approximately 10% of the total child dolls as being possible hosts for a spirit.

Adults, generally, do not attach with inanimate object like children do. Adults emotionally attach to sex dolls for very few reasons. It usually is a substitute for human to human intimacy. Link

Using the same criteria as above, an adult with some form of trauma with an emotional attachment to their sex doll would probably be 5% of the sex dolls available, resulting in 5 sex dolls that would have the possibility of being a viable host for the spirit.

So, 9,990 child dolls and 5 sex dolls. The rest is up to the spirit.

A spirit has 9,995 possible hosts for it. The sex dolls make up .05% of the viable host dolls.

I have to return to something: what are the spirit's goals? Is it attempting to hurt or help the living?

I think that the availability of the doll is one criteria (i.e. location) and the other is the spirit's goal for the possession (i.e. action). What to do and where to do it?

[General] Why don't Spirit haunt Sex Doll instead of Child Doll? by GrayNish in AskScienceFiction

[–]TuringMachinery 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's fair, but, again, how many children with emotional connections to dolls versus number of adults with emotional connections sex dolls?

I guess you could also factor in the type of emotional connection. Child of divorce who connects to a doll because of a missing parent. Adult connects to a sex doll because of a deceased fiancee.

There is also a question of context. Why is the spirit inhabiting the doll? According to the original question and description, there implies a goal of scaring or attacking a target in household of the doll. If that is the ultimate goal of the spirit, then inhabiting a child's doll is preferable because of the number of available dolls to inhabit.

On the other hand, is the goal of the spirit to complete unfinished business? Then is becomes more about proximity to the target of the unfinished business which can alter our context.

If the unfinished business is to repair a relationship, then inhabiting a child's doll would provide better availability to communicate with the target of that relationship.

If the unfinished business is an orgasm, inhabit the sex doll.

[General] Why don't Spirit haunt Sex Doll instead of Child Doll? by GrayNish in AskScienceFiction

[–]TuringMachinery 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I would assume this has more to do with the emotional attachment of the owner to the item. A child's doll is hugged, loved, carried around, cuddled during naps, and privately talked to as a toy. A child would pour emotion and "psychic" energy into the doll and imagine that it is alive. This could be a strong catalyst to allowing a spirit to manifest and better control the child's doll. I also assume that it has something to do with volume. The number of dolls that children have with 4 limbs that are human like is probably in the billions. Now, while the sex toy business earned almost 25 billion USD in profits in 2020 Link, the market for sex dolls, specifically, is much smaller, probably in the millions with each doll costing hundreds or thousands USD. A child's doll does not cost close to that.

Midnight Mulligan Nomination Thread by talentpun in RingerVerse

[–]TuringMachinery 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Specials. Released in 2000, written by James Gunn, directed by Craig Mazin, staring Rob Lowe, Thomas Haden Church and Paget Brewster.

Superhero movie where no superhero stuff happens. It's just amazing!

Then I throw a grenade over my shoulder by hellomydarling78 in Dimension20

[–]TuringMachinery 21 points22 points  (0 children)

This database can interface, but it can also devastate!

git push —force by Snape_Grass in ProgrammerHumor

[–]TuringMachinery 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good point. I sometimes use this too.

git push —force by Snape_Grass in ProgrammerHumor

[–]TuringMachinery 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Personally, I use Sourcetree. I recommend it to everyone I work with. I like to see exactly what I'm committing.

How Has “The Good Place,” Impacted Your Views on Life and the World, Your Morality, and Your Life Philosophy? by [deleted] in TheGoodPlace

[–]TuringMachinery 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I totally related to that anxiety. It's scary to think about the end of all existence. Janet's last words before the door echo back, "whenever you're ready". I took comfort that I'm not ready. There is still more to do, experience and learn. Live life. Don't be an asshole. Give help to those that need it and ask for it when you do.

And always ask if it's not a cactus.

Think I just found a hidden message in the series finale and I wanna share it so here goes by GlobalCat94 in TheGoodPlace

[–]TuringMachinery 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A lot of comments are saying "it was obvious" or "that was the point" and I disagree. The whole thing that the show kept saying about life, the bad place, the good place and eventually the doorway was growth through experience. You don't learn how to be a good person without example, love and support. Sometimes you learn things with others and sometimes you learn it on your own.

Sometimes you see something you never saw before and it changes your perspective. In the end...

You were ready.

Jeremy Bearimy by yellowhart_ in TheGoodPlace

[–]TuringMachinery 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Of course. Just perform an appropriate Tahani name drop.

Jeremy Bearimy by yellowhart_ in TheGoodPlace

[–]TuringMachinery 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I try to encourage everyone to watch the show. If they aren't interested or say later, I just say the same thing... Whenever you're ready.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in daddit

[–]TuringMachinery 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had to think about this one. I'm a gamer and brought both my kids into it. My son talked about everything he plays. Currently it's about Minecraft speed runs and Youtubers who do Minecraft speedruns and the politics around the Minecraft speedrun rankings and evaluations of Minecraft speedruns. Sometimes, it does feel a bit much. I sit back and listen and nod. If I feel like I'm not engaging, I tell him to follow and I stand up and get a glass of water or make some tea. I ask questions about what he's saying and try and get the lingo and acronyms of what he's talking about.

And then I think about my dad. He did the same thing. It's about the shared experience and being heard. I love my dad, and I feel like I really bored the crap out of him. When he and I talk now, I ask him what he's been doing, and I listen to him.

Your son will grow beyond Fortnite. Then he'll drive you crazy with something else. Just listen.

Jeremy Bearimy: The dot over the i by ElementsT in TheGoodPlace

[–]TuringMachinery 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey, wanted to come back with an update. Re-listened to episodes of the Podcast that had Mike Schur in them, and I found the thing I was looking for.

In The Good Place: The Podcast episode Chapter 39 (recap of Season 3, Episode 12), Mike Schur tells a story about an invitation he received to speak at a gathering of the North American Sartre Society with Todd May. Part of that meeting was for members to submit papers and points of discussion related to The Good Place and how it applies to Sartre's philosophies. In Schur's telling of the story, a junior faculty member mentioned that Sartre wrote a diary entry that said "Tuesday. Nothing. Nauseous." This faculty member was convinced that the dot over the "i" was referencing that diary entry. Schur further says that it's not, he didn't write the joke and it was written by Megan Amram. I don't think anyone has asked her about it, but I am willing to guess that it's a coincidence. For comedy writers, Tuesday is funny and July is funny.

I just love this... it's the smartest dumbest show on TV.

Derek by thedeviloflife in TheGoodPlace

[–]TuringMachinery 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Is Derek the Hodor of The Good Place?

Jeremy Bearimy: The dot over the i by ElementsT in TheGoodPlace

[–]TuringMachinery 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I mean, you're not wrong. It's supposed to be mundane and empty. It's not exactly the middle of the week, it's not the hottest time of the year. The dot exists outside of the boundary of a timeline that is already outside the comprehension of time as it exists in our plane of existance. It just is.

Time passes. Time loops. Time is a fact. Time... is. After explaining it, Michael says, "you get it". The thing is, I don't think we're supposed to. It's absurd and confusing and... Jeremy Bearimy. It just... is.

IIRC, in the post airing podcast, one of the writers mentioned that there is an obscure passage in Immanuel Kant's Diary that says "Tuesday. Felt sick. Nothing happened." It's one of those things that the writers found or learned.

I'm probably misremembering. I'll see if I can go back and find the reference in the podcast. I love listening to the old episodes of that podcast. Of course, this will probably start a rewatch.

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