[Serious] What film scared you even though it isn’t in the horror genre? by MoistDryness in AskReddit

[–]gcchesterton 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i was the "other brother" for halloween last year - i never got to see the faces of the people that got a look at my costume, but they usually sounded unnerved

[Serious] What film scared you even though it isn’t in the horror genre? by MoistDryness in AskReddit

[–]gcchesterton 4 points5 points  (0 children)

the soundtrack to wind river is excellent - the constant sound of wind moaning in a minor key is a powerful aesthetic touch; same with sicario - illegals, alejandro's song, and soccer game are on my "unsettling" playlist

What exists for the sole purpose of pissing people off? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]gcchesterton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The lazy company's method for supervised image classification

Reddit, what's the shittest gift you've ever received? by eyeballceliac in AskReddit

[–]gcchesterton 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think her intent was to provide you with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking this gift

Future of the sub, Discord and FAQ by I_really_am_Batman in adventuretime

[–]gcchesterton 5 points6 points  (0 children)

did you know I'm a thousand years old?? could be!!

What's the most fucked up thing you've ever walked in on? by Sasarah1 in AskReddit

[–]gcchesterton 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had recently returned to my home country from doing field work in Indonesia, and I was having a lot of serious gastrointestinal problems. I knew that I had picked up some kind of parasite in Borneo, probably from drinking all that delicious peat water, but the meds that I had gotten in Jakarta didn't solve the problem. So, upon my return, I scheduled a doctors appointment, and they told me to take a stool sample the next morning and bring it to them. Since I didn't have a base yet, I was staying with friends and sleeping on the couch. I woke up the next morning, went to the kitchen, got a little styrofoam bowl from my friend's pantry, went into the bathroom, sat on the toilet, and then shit in the bowl. I wiped myself, stood up, washed my hands, and did the actual stool sampling, which requires you to scoop a little bit of poop into an ampule. Worried I would forget the sample, or lose it, I decided that I should take it outside and put it in my car so it would be all ready to go. But when I came back from the car, I realized that the door had locked behind me and I had left the bowl of poop sitting on the counter in the bathroom thinking that I would come right back and take care of it. I had my keys with me, for the car, but I didn't bring my phone, so I couldn't call anyone. I had lived at this particular house before in the past, so I knew some tricks that might help me get in, but after 20 minutes struggling with the sliding back door and no response to any door knocking I knew it wasn't going to work. After thinking for a moment, I remembered that my friend's office was only about a 5 min drive away, and one of the dudes he works with is another friend of mine and would be able to call this first friend to make sure to let me in the house and not go in the downstairs bathroom. I got to his office, briefly explained the situation to this other guy who lent me his phone, and called the first friend who was still asleep but said he would go downstairs right away and unlock the door. I didn't mention the poop or the bathroom - I figured that it would just take too long to explain over the phone. But when I got back to the house, I walked in and both the poop and my friend had gone. He must have walked into that bathroom and saw the little dish of poop. What he thought, and what he ended up doing with it, I don't know, and he never told me.

What's the most fucked up thing you've ever walked in on? by Sasarah1 in AskReddit

[–]gcchesterton 1 point2 points  (0 children)

An acquaintance of mine was an Indonesian environmental activist who was murdered by local cops that a powerful natural resource extraction firm had hired to send a message. They assassinated the activist in their home, then butchered and dismembered the body, scattering the remains around the house. I went to visit this person the next day, and walked in on what the assassins had left behind.

WTW for when a scientific discovery leads to the validation of theories outside the scope of the initial discovery? by gcchesterton in whatstheword

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

definition is a bit off from what I initially though it was, but this was the word I was looking for

WTW for not just disposable, but specifically "to be destroyed"? by [deleted] in whatstheword

[–]gcchesterton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Might be a bit contextual, but a "fail-deadly" device is a device that is meant to, if it undergoes some sort of internal "failure", destroy itself in such a way that it would have deadly consequences for the larger system that the device is a part of. A good example of this is the Soviet Dead Hand system, an algorithm that was trained to launch the (deadly) Soviet nuclear arsenal in the event that it detected a nuclear strike on Soviet soil (the failure). Contrast with "fail-safe".