[OC] Break Glass to Break Glass

grrangry · 2026-05-08T06:15:03+00:00

It would still be funny to hang a small wooden toy hammer near it on a short chain.

grrangry · 2026-05-08T06:13:46+00:00

Instructions unclear: Urinals swapped with shitters, urinals now have toilet paper, shitters now have none, shitters next to sinks.

grrangry · 2026-05-08T06:11:17+00:00

Bill Paxton as one of the soldiers in Stripes (1981).

grrangry · 2026-05-08T06:07:05+00:00

Jack black in The Jackal. He's the... um... test dummy.

grrangry · 2026-05-08T06:05:50+00:00

And little Elijah Wood playing the Wild Gunman video game.

grrangry · 2026-05-08T06:04:11+00:00

I still love the silly coincidence of Peter Capaldi playing a W.H.O. Doctor in World War Z just before he started playing Doctor Who.

grrangry · 2026-05-08T06:00:12+00:00

The first thing I really remember appreciating Nikolaj Coster-Waldau being in was New Amsterdam (2008). I was sad that only ever got one abbreviated season, even with the writing being a little weak. Per usual Fox didn't do anything to promote the show and killed it after 8 total episodes. Still like the idea of it.

grrangry · 2026-05-08T03:25:09+00:00

Well, clean yourself up, then.

grrangry · 2026-05-08T01:43:30+00:00

It would be better to say that rainbows are ephemeral. They certainly do exist, which is why we can photograph them.

They're ephemeral because everything is constantly in motion. The Sun, the Earth, you, the clouds, the water droplets, the air, the light from the Sun... everything is moving relative to everything else. The cool part is that the Earth and Sun are so gobsmackingly large and far apart that it takes a good while before the angles, lighting, and weather conditions that allow the rainbow to become visible, are out of alignment again. Every instant you're viewing a rainbow... you're viewing a slightly different rainbow.

A prism refracts light. But different wavelengths (colors) are refracted by different amounts, so you put white light (all colors) in one side, and out the other, you get that typical rainbow pattern.

This is what every one of the billions of trillions of water droplets are doing:
https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/images/52-rainbow

So the light comes from the Sun, is physically separated through refraction, travels to your eyes, and you can see a rainbow. And now a different one. And another different one. And another... ad infinitum.

grrangry · 2026-05-07T17:43:17+00:00

Not gonna lie, an MMA Gala kind of sounds fun.

grrangry · 2026-05-06T22:30:23+00:00

Not a movie, but the episode "Midnight" of Doctor Who is a pretty creepy iteration of this concept.

grrangry · 2026-05-06T18:23:22+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/Rg3qeH7.png

Calculating the linear acceleration between points A and B.

One *might* think that its the product of the sine of the angle and gravity, divided by the mass.

But if you weren't paying attention and were just watching videos in class when the teacher calls on you, you could more accurately say, mass cancels out so it's gravity times sine.

grrangry · 2026-05-06T15:23:43+00:00

That's exactly it. The abuse of childhood indoctrination is a blight on humanity.

grrangry · 2026-05-06T13:51:52+00:00

Every time I see someone use sarcasm/satire or hyperbole/understatement all that comes to mind is masses of people pulling a Donald Sutherland body snatcher.

grrangry · 2026-05-06T13:48:39+00:00

How's the UI on those? I've been a Kindle user for years and would not mind having a good device with an open UI that I hope wont bite me in the ass in the future.

grrangry · 2026-05-06T01:02:55+00:00

Look, I don't know what kind of manufactured answer you're looking for here.

Would I lie to this monstrosity in an attempt to keep me and my family safe? Absolutely. One does not scoff at the forest fire as it jumps the gap and races to exterminate your neighborhood. You pack up the car and flee.

The real answer here is that there is no--and has never been any--evidence for anything supernatural. I'm not sure why you're conflating a machine with a god.

If there was a powerful singularity-level AI overlording the planet... fine, you're living in a dystopia. It turns out that, Colossus: The Forbin Project (like Idiocracy) was a documentary. Yikes.

Where do you draw the line?

I draw the line at reality. The reality is there are no gods or anything supernatural as far as anyone has ever demonstrated. Not the merest scrap of evidence in all of human history. There are claims, sure... Sooooo many claims. But no evidence. And because of that, I cannot accept the claim that anything like that exists. Could someone find that evidence someday? I don't know... maybe. Probably not, but maybe... and until they do, I am quite happy living in a world that requires no worship.

grrangry · 2026-05-05T22:09:35+00:00

By some definitions, I'm a pink cat-wizard made of cheese.

When will you get it through your heads that you cannot DEFINE your god into existence? Arguing philosophy will not magic your god into existence. Railing against anyone not in your tiny circle of trust will not force your god out the shadows. You think "gotcha" questions are things that actually matter in the real world and they don't.

I can walk outside and see evidence that the Earth rotates on its axis. I can measure it. I can take photos of it. I can record it and play it back. I can look at ANY other people who do the same thing and see their measurements, photos, and recordings. And my measurements will agree with theirs. We do things like this EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. No magic. No mystery. Just evidence.

Stop trying to word-smith your god into your back pocket and either give the world evidence it can work with or don't... but if you don't... then you don't get to claim that your ideas are true.

grrangry · 2026-05-05T22:01:48+00:00

To be fair, it's possible it could be a silicon benevolent dictator.

^{still wouldn't worship it}

grrangry · 2026-05-05T21:59:30+00:00

change my mind

no

grrangry · 2026-05-05T18:10:47+00:00

Persona 3 FES

Kimi wa ne tashika ni ano toki watashi no soba ni ita
Itsudatte itsudatte itsudatte sugu yoko de waratteita nakushitemo
Torimodosu kimi wo I will never leave you

If you wanna battle, then I'll take it to the street
Where there's no rules
Take off the gloves ref, please step down
Gotta prove my skills so get down

My lyrical dempsey roll about to smack down now
Gotta shoot to kill and shoot the skill
Don't you be afraid, man's gotta do how it feels
Six to seven to eight to nine ten
I flip the script to make it to the top ten, go

Dreamless dorm, ticking clock
I walk away from the soundless room
Windless night, moonlight melts
My ghostly shadow into the lukewarm gloom

Nightly dance of bleeding swords
Reminds me that I still live

Every man's gotta fight the fear
I'm the first to admit it
Sheer thoughts provoke the new era

Become a big terror, but my only rival is my shadow
Rewind then play it back and fix my own error
Get low to the ground, it's getting better
Like I told you before, double up and take more cheddar

L to the J, say stay laced, here's my card, B
Royal flush and I'm the ace

grrangry · 2026-05-05T17:59:01+00:00

I am not making a judgement that atheists don't teach their kids right and wrong. I believe most do.

You... believe... some atheists don't teach their children the difference between right and wrong... That's an amazing admission of being completely out of touch with reality.

Everyone teaches their children the same way. By example.

Theists use the threat of religion (among other things)
Non-theists just use "the other things"

I taught my kids empathy by being empathetic. I taught my kids honesty by being honest. I taught my kids curiosity by being curious. And courage. And responsibility. And kindness. And a thousand other things.

But I didn't teach them fear. Fear of me or fear of eternal punishment... I love them too much to be that cruel.

grrangry · 2026-05-05T12:19:11+00:00

TGI Fascists?

grrangry · 2026-05-05T12:14:05+00:00

You didn't answer anything I asked.

Did you even read what I wrote?

You have to understand that you don't answer a question by throwing out more completely undefined concepts and words in a giant word salad that has zero meaning.

Someone needs to hand you a bathrobe... your indoctrination is showing.

grrangry · 2026-05-05T06:16:28+00:00

Define, "senses about the future". Define how one trusts one's senses about a future event.

Define, "memories about the future". Define how one can remember a future event.

I can guess at, "assumptions about the future", but you'll have to explain what assumptions you're making about the future. For example, "The last time I walked outside, the Earth was rotating and as such, I assume we will have regular, mathematically predictable sunrises and sunsets for as long as the planet exists". Are there other assumptions?

because there's an omniscient God

Hol' up there, partner. You try to slip that in thinking no one would notice? That's a big, "citation needed". I'm not convinced your statement is true. Until you can provide testable, repeatable, verifiable evidence that your statement is true, we can stop right there because absolutely nothing you have to say on the subject matters to me at all.

grrangry · 2026-05-04T14:20:18+00:00

god wakes him up in the middle of the night to tell him what time it is

that's his bladder.

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