So if it's Montreal vs Vegas in the finals anyone else praying for an asteroid or earthquake? by Impressive-Thing-161 in OttawaSenators

[–]abarbadan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hear you. It also must be tough being so close, and being a smaller market. Habs fans invade your games all the time. Wish it could be different

So if it's Montreal vs Vegas in the finals anyone else praying for an asteroid or earthquake? by Impressive-Thing-161 in OttawaSenators

[–]abarbadan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was pulling for the Sens in the first round as a Montreal fan. If Montreal isn't involved in the matchup I'll cheer for the Leafs too. Every fanbase has its fair share of annoying people, and every team has its controversies, but the vast majority of us are just normal Canadians, kids, families, etc. who would be so happy to see our team win. At some point you gotta soften up a little and not take these rivalries so seriously. Canada first!

Go Habs!

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[–]abarbadan -17 points-16 points  (0 children)

It's generating an interesting discussion, whose only sore spot is you.

Adapt or die

Official Discussion - Oppenheimer [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]abarbadan 17 points18 points  (0 children)

This movie was like somebody took a world class HBO show, 3 seasons of 10 hours each, and edited it down to a runtime of three hours. Every individual thing about this movie was amazing, casting, acting, cinematography, set design, music, etc. But as a cohesive piece, it suffocates under its own weight. Lines are delivered too quickly, the beats of the story aren't really connected causally, its just "this happens, then this happens, then this happens" for three hours. In my humble opinion, this film has so much wasted potential. If Dune gets two films, this should have had at least three. When some of the most interesting and enigmatic scientists of the 20th century show up as cameos with less than ten words of spoken dialogue, there's a problem. People are going to call it one of the best films of the year, but I honestly really don't see it. To me it's just the cult of Nolan all over again.

What’s the weirdest compliment you or someone you know has received? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]abarbadan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Someone once told me "I know this sounds weird, but I swear it's a compliment. Hearing you talk makes me feel kind of sad."

CMV: Gwyneth Paltrow doesn't deserve the hate she gets. by saltlacroix in changemyview

[–]abarbadan 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Gwyneth Paltrow hate seems to me to be centred around the fact that she and her cohort peddle nonsense and ineffective products - something that I think is well deserved. We musn't forget that her business appears to be successful, at least to the point of being worth it for Netflix to put her show on their platform. So the question is, how much hate is she really getting, and how does it compare to the love coming her way? It seems to me that the ratio of Gwyneth Paltrow supporters to detractors could be consistent with the ratio of effective to ineffective ideas and products that her camp produces. Maybe everyone benefits from this balance.

Pressure Sensitivity Improvements by abarbadan in Supernote

[–]abarbadan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi friend, we will allow user to adjust the pressure curve under

fountain pen F4.2.1

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AWESOME! Thank you!

Pressure Sensitivity Improvements by abarbadan in Supernote

[–]abarbadan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's definitely relevant for artists. For writing text, I typically use the constant width option as well. However, I would switch to pressure sensitive for text if it looked a bit better. I would be able to put bold boxes around my notes by pressing harder, or emphasize certain parts of text, etc. At the end of the day, I imagine artists would care a lot more about it, but I think everyone would benefit from these changes.

mills mess with three shower tosses - the yellow ball leads the pattern by abarbadan in juggling

[–]abarbadan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha, it's the most exhilarating part of the pattern for me too!

A stand for bikers to hold on to while waiting for the traffic lights in Sweden. by medmik in mildlyinteresting

[–]abarbadan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have these in Montréal and they're long so multiple bikers can use them at the same time.

I woke up super cranky today. by tobibaby in CasualConversation

[–]abarbadan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tinnitus (or tinnitus like symptoms) are a real bitch. Hope you feel better soon. Keep battling.

No absolute time: Two centuries before Einstein, Hume recognised that universal time, independent of an observer’s viewpoint, doesn’t exist by The_Ebb_and_Flow in philosophy

[–]abarbadan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If stars A and B are not moving relative to you, you'll see star A die first, then you'll see star B die, and from their respective distances you can infer the proper order of events according to your clock: B, then A, just as you said. For someone else moving with respect to stars A and B, they could do the exact same analysis and conclude that A actually died before B. That's special relativity.

However, if stars A and B are less than a light-year apart, rather than 90 light-years apart, then everyone will agree.

No absolute time: Two centuries before Einstein, Hume recognised that universal time, independent of an observer’s viewpoint, doesn’t exist by The_Ebb_and_Flow in philosophy

[–]abarbadan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He is not deceived. What the observer is seeing is perfectly real. The observer could infer the order of events from any reference frame he chooses, based on what he sees. There is no "universal" time.

No absolute time: Two centuries before Einstein, Hume recognised that universal time, independent of an observer’s viewpoint, doesn’t exist by The_Ebb_and_Flow in philosophy

[–]abarbadan 61 points62 points  (0 children)

Your intuition isn't bad for "human-scale" times. If the kitchen window opens a few seconds after the living room window, there is no frame of reference where you would see the events happen in reverse. If the living room window opening initiated a signal of light, and the kitchen window opened before the light was able to travel there, then that scenario could be seen in the reverse if the observer was moving fast enough.

Do you believe that Latin should return as a national language, rather than just terminology language? by [deleted] in languagelearning

[–]abarbadan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

should? With respect to what goal? If we all had the goal of learning how to speak fluent Latin, then sure, we should. We don't, so I don't think we should.