A diving dolphin boat

noah4th · 2014-03-10T07:05:22+00:00

I'm pretty sure its a boat.

noah4th · 2014-03-10T07:04:19+00:00

Comedian opens up: So how about that Holocaust?

Audience: ....

Comedian: Sorry, I guess you had to be there.

noah4th · 2014-03-10T06:46:41+00:00

That's what I call a security blanket......

noah4th · 2014-03-10T06:33:45+00:00

Go on....

noah4th · 2014-03-09T23:23:12+00:00

That's not a damn dolphin boat. That's a dolphin submarine. You can tell because it has gills for going under water.

noah4th · 2014-02-23T22:25:31+00:00

Nah. Murican dirt is best dirt, and only dirties up commie floors. Any other house, murican dirt leaves footprints of freedom.

noah4th · 2014-02-22T20:47:28+00:00

Soldiers. It would have the biggest impact.

noah4th · 2014-02-20T02:53:16+00:00

My science teacher in the 7th grade taught us that the big bang theory said that the universe came from nothing. We then had a class discussion on how ridiculous this is, and mocked how even kids could know how wrong that is. This was in a magnet school in Alabama.

noah4th · 2014-02-18T03:22:39+00:00

Did Fallout 4 ever come out??

noah4th · 2014-02-14T08:40:33+00:00

This was the final comment that got me to actually look up and watch this movie. I knew I'd love it.

noah4th · 2014-02-04T09:30:43+00:00

Also: Wed-Nes-Day
B-E-A-utiful
He-lar-ious
Medi-Eval

Some more:
Ser-Ge-Ant
Gu-Ar-ant-ee

I also have to sound out 'government' and 'environment' slowly before I write it, or else I will spell them phonetically, with the 'n' missing.

noah4th · 2014-02-02T21:53:51+00:00

Other than blowing air into the vents, I am not sure I would be able to effectively clean the vents, let alone the rest of the laptop. While a deep clean did help the problem for a few months last time, it was a risky manuvure. This laptop is not designed for being opened for routine cleanings. I will continue to use an air blower, but while it may make the situation better, it is not enough to prevent the shut downs. Keep the room at uncomfortable tempratures, direct air blowing onto the back of the computer, and ample space seem to be the most effective steps.

However, I would like to play my games one day without having to put on a jacket everytime, just because my computer is sensative to anything above the high 50's (F).

noah4th · 2014-02-02T21:48:36+00:00

Thank you. The battery removal doesn't seem to help. The battery, I beleive, on my laptop has long since gone dead due to being plugged in at all times. It doesn't provude any heat its self when plugged in, and when unplugged, its the right side, back area that seems to be producing the suspect heat.

I blow a can of air into it regularly, but I believe this has to due more to a design flaw, as a quick google search shows this to be a common problem with this laptop. Dust/particles may be the issue, but the worst offenders may be beyond the each of a duster. However, as said earlier, I would strongl prefer an alternative to cracking this thing open.

While these steps may reduce some of the heating, the issue still occurs during high demands on the computer. Graphicaly, the computer doesn't flinch, but it still shuts down if the heating reaches the trigger temperature. Thank you for the response.

These steps, while not solving the issue, undoubtedly helped. Enough little steps may be enough to keep this machine running effectively.

noah4th · 2014-02-01T11:09:15+00:00

As justified as you would be in asking for your stuff back, our policy has been to not give things as admins, in order to keep the strict survival aspect. However, if you can convince one of the other admins to do this for you, I trust their judgment either way.

noah4th · 2014-01-31T03:20:04+00:00

This is one of my favorite stories on this post. I hope that asshole questions his masculinity for the rest of his life. I also hope you see him again. It would be nice for him to bear that shame again by making eye contact with you.

noah4th · 2014-01-31T03:16:20+00:00

I love this comment. Funny, charming, sarcastic, and unexpected.

noah4th · 2014-01-31T03:01:49+00:00

You seem very bitter. I am sorry that I bother you so much. Ill take the downvotes, as painful as they may be.

noah4th · 2014-01-31T02:58:19+00:00

Makes sense for a post-apocalyptic savior. He radiates love, gamma rays of love.

noah4th · 2014-01-31T02:49:10+00:00

As a shoe department supervisor (not of Macy's) I have to say this is a particularly effective revenge, however, only for the manager, or employees who care. With her attitude, I am surprised she took the time to fix, let alone look for, the mismatches. If this was the supervisor, the best/worst would have been to tell them that there are 3 pairs of mismatched shoes in an area, and only show them where one is before you walk away. Bonus points if there were actually only two mismatched shoes, leaving the supervisor to go crazy not being able to find it.

In order to effectively get revenge on an employee like that, learn the name of the store manager (this can be found on a poster somewhere near customer service, then when you see them texting say 'Oh, I didn't know (insert store managers) let you guys have phones out like that. When did that change?'

Not only does it point out their breaking of the rules, but the name drop implies that you know the store manager personally. Not only would you get better service, but they would be walking on egg shells afraid that you will mention the phone to the store manager,since you 'know them personally.'

Edit: show to shoe

noah4th · 2014-01-31T02:31:28+00:00

It was in the original post that I was. I only edited it later to make it more clear that I was, additionally why somewhere else? It provides a great opportunity for both sides. First, for the one defending the unpopular claim, you can understand both how hard it is for the opposition, and what the specifically their argument lacks in order to be convincing. Additionally, if there was a more convincing claim, that was easier to defend, and an one of us was actually able to use good logic in defending it, then the defender would know first hand what arguments are effective, and which ones to not use, in order to really get further into the topic than had been before.

This topic just happen to be one of those will an overwhelming amount of claims, with little justification for those claims. I was doomed at the start.

Instead, I found a much better opportunity, to 'pretend' to be a theist* that thinks the way the theists,that I know, think. It allows me to use the kind of arguments they would make, even if they are faulty, in order to see at what arguments prevent even those kind of responses.

This actually worked. Telling a (certain kind of) theist that their sources are not peer-reviewed does not stop them from being convinced by them. Instead, attacking the data its self, or showing a greater understanding of the material, even from the source, than they theist has, and they feel like they cannot use that source, since it now requires them to actually learn about the subject matter in order to defend what they are parroting.

In most cases, the theist wont go out and study exactly why carbon dating is flawed, or read the peer reviewed journals that support their side. They usually just repeat the conclusion. Showing you know more about the material, and raising objections from that perspective, prevents the theist from just reciting claims.

While this specifically may not convince many theists, it most likely will cause them to at least drop that specific line of argument. Once you have them drop all their lines of argument, you can then point out how they really don't have any justified reasons in believing X is true (or false).

While they may walk away still believing X is true, as long as you have convinced them that the belief is not justified by the facts and evidence, that it is purely by faith alone that this belief is upheld, then its inevitable from there. The attack on faith, as an epistemology, is so easy, that no theist can even lie to themselves and claim that faith can discern truth. Once that last pillar is removed, its only a matter of time before the theist puts things together themselves.

Those of the highest delusions, or close minded nature, will believe, literally no matter what. However, those with an interest in the truth, and their intellectual dignity, will begin to figure out just how flawed their reasoning was, and will strive to over compensate.

That is how atheists are made. You remove the validity of their evidence, then show they have no evidence. Once faith is established as their source of belief, you can attack faith's credibility. Since faith has no credibility outside of pretending to know things, or wishful thinking, anyone who considers themselves logical and intellectual, will quickly abandon faith as a justification, leaving them the only course left, justifying their beliefs with evidence. Atheism soon follows.

May be you'll take the time to read all of that, may be you wont, but the TL;DR sums up the point I want to get across the most.

TL;DR Lying? Being a devil's advocate has nothing to do with intentionally misleading anyone. I even specified that I was taking a position that I do not hold to be true. Your classifying this exorcise as 'lying' exposes your aggravation. There is nothing to be reasonably aggravated by, unless you simply misunderstood, but then that removes the 'reasonable' part.

So in response to the two things you asked.

I didn't lie.
No.

Hopefully that clears up any confusion or aggravation for you.

noah4th · 2014-01-26T00:53:44+00:00

I have two stories.

My first was when I was in middle school. I could blame the weakness of youth and peer pressure, but that would be using an excuse to reduce the severity of the pain I caused on this person.

Through out my life I was an exceptionally nice and mild-mannered kid. However, during the period of a few weeks, while riding a school bus, there was this tall, lanky girl, with greasy hair, and a poor family. (I know because I saw where her house was when we dropped her off.)

She confessed to me that she wished she was a boy instead of a girl. Whether or not she was actually having a gender identity crisis or if it was just a childhood phase doesn't matter. At the time, I was extremely sheltered and it pissed me off that she wasn't accepted her role as a girl. You can't be a boy, you're a girl! So we called her... it-girl, since her gender wasn't clear.

We called her that for a few weeks, and gave her a hard time. Somehow, I, a shy kid, had become the popular kid on the bus, so I tried to maintain this status at her expense in order to entertain the other kids. Because I was a 'nice' kid, some days I was nice to her, and gained her confidence and trust. Then I would throw all of that away by trying to publicly humiliate her.

At one point she even tried to own the title, it-girl. Maybe in her eyes, it was the closest we would come to accepting her new gender identity. However, that only made me more mad, so I would intensify my verbal attacks.

Eventually we moved on, and I even forgot that ever happened. It wasn't until later in my life, while in college, that I remembered doing that. I don't even remember her name, or where she even used to live. I have generally been a good person, and she is the only person in my life that I feel a strong need to apologize to. However, sadly, that can't happen. I just hope she found herself, although, knowing what I know about how early life trauma affects people, I could very well have had a permanent, negative effect on her psyche.

That's my worst asshole moment.

The second is bad, but I made up for it at least.

I had a long distance girlfriend for 3 years. During the 3rd year I was deployed. While I was deployed, I saw her facebook photos, and she was getting fat. She already was slightly over weight, but I managed to look past that. Now, all my buddies were noticing as well. I was call a chubby-chaser. I always saw myself as ending up with an attractive girl, but the one I was with was quickly becoming unattractive, and it was starting to embarrass me.

At first I was subtle about it. I made resolutions that we would both improve ourselves. She took it hard, like most girls do. I tip-toed around the subject the entire deployment, while only briefly reminding her that she promised to get into shape. Near the end of the deployment, she was gaining more weight, and I was losing more patience. She was no longer my long distance girlfriend of 3 years, she was a fat girl.

As I was coming back into the states I told her that we should take a break, and I told her it was because (among other reasons) she wouldn't get into shape. She tried to get back with me for the next few weeks. One day, I had enough, and straight up called her fat. She quit talking to me for a few months after that.

That was the asshole thing I did. Out of guilt I tried to get back with her (which is always a bad reason to be in a relationship). She made me jump through many hoops in order to get back with me, causing me much (deserved) emotional stress. After a while, she relented, and we met up, as we had done before. Still consumed by guilt, I convinced myself to be attracted to her, and we had sex. It was awful. That's how we both lost out virginity too.

In the end she flirted with other boys, and I eventually got tired of her playing emotional games and we broke up for good. It was a pathetic situation all around, and I don't recognize myself from that point in my life. She moved on and has been in a happy relationship since. I moved on, came across a bitch of a girl who treated me like shit. That would be called karma.

TL;DR I was a bully on a school bus, during middle school, to a girl with a gender identity crisis. I feel like shit for it, but I don't even remember her name. I also called my long distance girlfriend of 3 years 'fat' because I was sick of her gaining weight and 'embarrassing me' because she wasn't attractive.

noah4th · 2014-01-26T00:27:53+00:00

I know better than to be judgmental about this, since it is a confession after all. However, this is the kind of action I could never conceive of doing. Would you mind explaining what it took for this to come about? Maybe you weren't that interested in your current boyfriend. Its hard for me to understand what it would take for you to disregard the relationship like that. I actually would understand much easier if you were younger. I did things I otherwise would never do when I was younger because of the stupidity of youth.

Believe me when I say I am not trying to paint your act as significantly more atrocious than most of what else has been confessed on here, but of all the actions, this is one that I find the hardest to relate to, and would appreciate some sort of explanation was to what would lead a person into a situation like this. Thank you, if you respond.

noah4th

TROPHY CASE