Bgugi

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[–] Bgugi 9 points 2 months ago

Spell: fix this. Result: this is fixed.

[–] Bgugi 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

After joking about this at work, I landed on the most cursed scale I could think of... pT = log10 FPW.

Pros: no bottom to scale, increasing negative values asymptotically approach absolute zero. Water freezes at zero.

1 pT is almost exactly the melting point of iridium. Lightning bolts are around 2 pT. Boiling points of neon and helium are in the neighborhood of -1 and -2.

[–] Bgugi 19 points 2 months ago

I assume cocaine also has some kind of ballmer peak

[–] Bgugi 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The ball was white/light gray. It has the surface texture of plaster of Paris, but it is somewhat lighter than would be appropriate for its canteloupe-like size.

I don't think I actually pictured a whole person as pushing the ball, more likely it was a disembodied hand or the general sensation of pushing it myself.

I remember being specifically intrigued that I pictured the ball rolling back towards the center of the table and pondering why I had chosen the table to be slightly concave. I don't remember more attributes of the table, but I have the feeling that has more to do with inattention to its details rather than not picturing them at the time.

I imagine that, based on the framing of the story, my interpretation was to picture the sphere as a literal entity, but the person as the "concept of a push"... The table probably lied somewhere in the middle.

[–] Bgugi 6 points 2 months ago

Not really how that works, but I dig the enthusiasm!

[–] Bgugi 2 points 2 months ago

Too high or too low can be dangerous, and there's different varieties of diabetes that make one or both swings more likely/dangerous.

[–] Bgugi 71 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I swear I had to read these headlines like 10 times.

"GOP candidate calls his campaign stop an autism fundraiser, gets banned when venue owner finds out."

[–] Bgugi 2 points 3 months ago

Curious about what was crossed out. We could probably tell with a better photo.

[–] Bgugi 12 points 3 months ago

the number industry

All I can think of is a gruff, blue collar worker coming home, covered in oil stains. He hangs up his hardhat and lunch pail at the door. "You would not believe the day I had!" He says, "Some jackass put the 9 dies in the 6 press, and I had to spend all morning trying to pry open the hydraulics without fucking them up. After all that, I get a call that the serifs are too long on the ones and they're getting sorted as sevens!"

[–] Bgugi 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Probably because it played so well for Harris.

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