Random Thoughts

[allniter89]

The USA is a huuuuuuuge nation (that word should be spoken in a Trump-like way).  It is quite possibly large enough to make it impossible to conquer.

Look and see how many attempts to conquer Russia have been successful.  Similar story.

The U.S. probably can't be conquered in the traditional sense, but I'm sure it could be conquered by other, more subtle means.

Maybe by using a stronger lethal virus?
Does anyone think maybe China is experimenting to see how we cope with the biological warfare?

[webny99]

Does anyone think maybe China is experimenting to see how we cope with the biological warfare?

Does anyone not think that?

[Alps]

Does anyone think maybe China is experimenting to see how we cope with the biological warfare?

Does anyone not think that?

Some people do, some people don't, I would prefer not getting into that discussion here plzkthx

[kenarmy]

- It's crazy that Mcdonald's introduced drive-through service because people in the military couldn't walk in.
- There are billions of people getting jobs that depend on your downfall.
- I'm sure our ancestors are disturbed that we call people who do good "queens" and "kings".
- What's scarier than your parents saying "wait till we get home" when you were little?
- You probably can't prove you and I aren't 18th cousins.
- You're more likely to get a computer virus from visiting religious sites than p0rn sites.
- Everyone talks about water being dangerous.. what about clouds?? they are evil.
- Wearing a mask in public has had a drastic connotation change since covid started.
- You're always responsible for your death.
- Somebody just died again.
- Why are tea bags still a thing?
- Why are paper bags considered better for the environment than plastic bags??

[Scott5114]

- Why are paper bags considered better for the environment than plastic bags??

Paper is a renewable resource and oil isn't. Also, paper is biodegradable, and plastic isn't. Also, paper can be easily recycled, and plastic is more difficult.

[webny99]

Does anyone think maybe China is experimenting to see how we cope with the biological warfare?

Does anyone not think that?

Some people do, some people don't, I would prefer not getting into that discussion here plzkthx

Understood. I was only about 20% serious, but I still should have known better.

[webny99]

- Everyone talks about water being dangerous..

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[zachary_amaryllis]

- Everyone talks about water being dangerous..

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water in and of itself isn't dangerous... but large amounts can be...

... says guy with river in the backyard.

[kphoger]

Man, you think about death an awful lot.

- Why are paper bags considered better for the environment than plastic bags??

Paper is a renewable resource and oil isn't. Also, paper is biodegradable, and plastic isn't. Also, paper can be easily recycled, and plastic is more difficult.

We've had this discussion before.  The actual bag is better for the environment if it's paper.  But the environmental toll wreaked by actually manufacturing that bag?  Well, it just may be that paper is worse in that regard.

[JoePCool14]

- You're more likely to get a computer virus from visiting religious sites than p0rn sites.

(citation needed)



Why do we call it "demountable copy" when the primary goal is the mount the letters on, not take them off?
You only have to go back a small handful of generations to find people alive in the 1800s.
Acronyms and mnemonics are not the same thing.
Some public road somewhere out there has an AADT of less than 1.
You'll never get to drive every single road, and you'll never get to see every single sign.

[Scott5114]

- Why are paper bags considered better for the environment than plastic bags??

Paper is a renewable resource and oil isn't. Also, paper is biodegradable, and plastic isn't. Also, paper can be easily recycled, and plastic is more difficult.

We've had this discussion before.  The actual bag is better for the environment if it's paper.  But the environmental toll wreaked by actually manufacturing that bag?  Well, it just may be that paper is worse in that regard.

Right, and I thought about digging up a link to the discussion, but felt too lazy. But anyway, he asked why are they considered better, not why are they.

Why do we call it "demountable copy" when the primary goal is the mount the letters on, not take them off?

Well, because it's able to be demounted, of course. Direct-applied copy isn't, for the most part. Since that's the most notable difference between the two, demountable copy it is.

For what it's worth, button copy is also demountable. (In Oklahoma, it was held on by flathead screws.) But the most notable thing about it is the buttons, so that's what we call it.

You'll never get to drive every single road, and you'll never get to see every single sign.

This is something I'm okay with. A lot of the roads I won't get to drive probably aren't all that interesting anyway. I don't think I'll have any regrets if I die without clinching SD-48.

[Roadgeekteen]

- You probably can't prove you and I aren't 18th cousins.

We probably aren't unless you are Asian. My family has lived in China, Taiwan, and Vietnam for hundreds, probably thousands of years.

[allniter89]

Does anyone think maybe China is experimenting to see how we cope with the biological warfare?

Does anyone not think that?

Some people do, some people don't, I would prefer not getting into that discussion here plzkthx

Okay

Does anyone think maybe China is experimenting to see how we cope with the biological warfare?

Does anyone not think that?

Some people do, some people don't, I would prefer not getting into that discussion here plzkthx

Sorry Alps. I added the question as an afterthought b4 I gave it proper forethought.

[Bruce]

Similar to the customer service ones: fast food employees tend to treat delivery drivers like shit, who in turn get angsty and treat other employees like shit. I've been deliberately ignored by so many places that are now on my blacklist as both a driver and a customer.

Jokes on them, I don't mind writing feedback to corporate or the state's COVID compliance office.

[kphoger]

- You're always responsible for your death.

Please explain.  Let's say I'm shopping at a mall, some nutjob with a rifle starts shooting, and I take a bullet to the brain.  Explain how I'm responsible for that.

- You probably can't prove you and I aren't 18th cousins.

Well, even if I have my complete family tree going back 19 generations, I still don't have your family tree going back that far.  So that would be a "definitely", not a "probably".

- Why are tea bags still a thing?

Full disclosure:  I use loose-leaf tea.  I hardly ever use tea bags.

But why wouldn't they still be a thing?

What if you got attacked by a turkey?

Be specific.  I imagine it wouldn't be a whole lot different than being attacked by a Canada goose.

I find it weird people admire stallions for their asses. Imagine If we admired elephants for their penises. 

Not an elephant, but...  Have you seen how long a donkey's penis can get if it's sexually aroused?

Some public road somewhere out there has an AADT of less than 1.

Oh, I'm sure LOTS of them do.  For example, I'm almost certain this very poorly maintained road, with nothing but a couple of sheds along it, connecting two much better-maintained roads, has an AADT below 1.  But how many of those roads have actually had their AADT counted?  Now, that's another question entirely.

You only have to go back a small handful of generations to find people alive in the 1800s.

Having been born in the 1900s, that doesn't seem very strange to me.

Acronyms and mnemonics are not the same thing.

Also:  not all initialisms are acronyms.

[Scott5114]

Similar to the customer service ones: fast food employees tend to treat delivery drivers like shit, who in turn get angsty and treat other employees like shit. I've been deliberately ignored by so many places that are now on my blacklist as both a driver and a customer.

Jokes on them, I don't mind writing feedback to corporate or the state's COVID compliance office.

I'm considering starting to do food delivery for some spending money while I wait for my business to start generating profit, and I had never even considered this as a possible thing I'd have to deal with.

Then again, I just spent ten years around angsty casino employees, so I think I can handle it, but still.

[kenarmy]

- You're always responsible for your death.

Please explain.  Let's say I'm shopping at a mall, some nutjob with a rifle starts shooting, and I take a bullet to the brain.  Explain how I'm responsible for that.

- You probably can't prove you and I aren't 18th cousins.

Well, even if I have my complete family tree going back 19 generations, I still don't have your family tree going back that far.  So that would be a "definitely", not a "probably".

- Why are tea bags still a thing?

Full disclosure:  I use loose-leaf tea.  I hardly ever use tea bags.

But why wouldn't they still be a thing?

What if you got attacked by a turkey?

Be specific.  I imagine it wouldn't be a whole lot different than being attacked by a Canada goose.

I find it weird people admire stallions for their asses. Imagine If we admired elephants for their penises. 

Not an elephant, but...  Have you seen how long a donkey's penis can get if it's sexually aroused?

inahles

- Because you decided to go to the mall, you didn't move, and then your body stops doing what tf it needs to do.
- But in my unspecific enough thoughts I had plans to send it to you
- Because.. why?? Just put that shit in a packet so it can be mixed or sum because un un.
- I can't, that's the thought.
- No, but now I'm going to have to search it up  .

[dlsterner]

You only have to go back a small handful of generations to find people alive in the 1800s.

Not unexpected.  My grandmother (who passed on when I was about 30) was alive in the 1800s.

How about the 1700s?  Fun Fact, semi related:  John Tyler, who was born in 1790 and was US President from 1841-1845, has a grandson still living today.  (Tyler fathered a child while in his 70s who likewise fathered a child while in his 70s)

[Roadgeekteen]

You only have to go back a small handful of generations to find people alive in the 1800s.

Not unexpected.  My grandmother (who passed on when I was about 30) was alive in the 1800s.

How about the 1700s?  Fun Fact, semi related:  John Tyler, who was born in 1790 and was US President from 1841-1845, has a grandson still living today.  (Tyler fathered a child while in his 70s who likewise fathered a child while in his 70s)

There are people alive today with parents born in the 1800s. The oldest human alive today was born in 1903.

[kevinb1994]

You only have to go back a small handful of generations to find people alive in the 1800s.

Not unexpected.  My grandmother (who passed on when I was about 30) was alive in the 1800s.

How about the 1700s?  Fun Fact, semi related:  John Tyler, who was born in 1790 and was US President from 1841-1845, has a grandson still living today.  (Tyler fathered a child while in his 70s who likewise fathered a child while in his 70s)

John Tyler was also born in the same year that Founding Father Ben Franklin died. Likewise, I was born in the same year that Nixon died (hallelujah, Nixon was a crook), and my mother, while definitely not born in the same year that Van Buren was born (or even died, for that matter), shares the same birthday as him (December 5th-and for this reason, I'll mention that she was raised in Jackson, NJ).

[Roadgeekteen]

You only have to go back a small handful of generations to find people alive in the 1800s.

Not unexpected.  My grandmother (who passed on when I was about 30) was alive in the 1800s.

How about the 1700s?  Fun Fact, semi related:  John Tyler, who was born in 1790 and was US President from 1841-1845, has a grandson still living today.  (Tyler fathered a child while in his 70s who likewise fathered a child while in his 70s)

John Tyler was also born in the same year that Founding Father Ben Franklin died.

We have people alive today who's grandparents lived alongside George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson.

[webny99]

We have people born today who's grandparents lived alongside George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson.

LOL, I think you mean alive today, not born today.

[dlsterner]

You only have to go back a small handful of generations to find people alive in the 1800s.

Not unexpected.  My grandmother (who passed on when I was about 30) was alive in the 1800s.

How about the 1700s?  Fun Fact, semi related:  John Tyler, who was born in 1790 and was US President from 1841-1845, has a grandson still living today.  (Tyler fathered a child while in his 70s who likewise fathered a child while in his 70s)

John Tyler was also born in the same year that Founding Father Ben Franklin died.

We have people born today who's grandparents lived alongside George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson.

May want to check your math.  Going to extreme cases, if somebody born today had an 80 year old father who himself had an 80 year old father, that grandparent would have been born around 1860.  Maybe Abe Lincoln, but not Washington/Adams/Jefferson.

Unless you meant to say people alive today, not people born today.  Then I could see that happening - but it would be quite rare.

Edit - Didn't see webny99's reply before I posted.

[Roadgeekteen]

You only have to go back a small handful of generations to find people alive in the 1800s.

Not unexpected.  My grandmother (who passed on when I was about 30) was alive in the 1800s.

How about the 1700s?  Fun Fact, semi related:  John Tyler, who was born in 1790 and was US President from 1841-1845, has a grandson still living today.  (Tyler fathered a child while in his 70s who likewise fathered a child while in his 70s)

John Tyler was also born in the same year that Founding Father Ben Franklin died.

We have people born today who's grandparents lived alongside George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson.

May want to check your math.  Going to extreme cases, if somebody born today had an 80 year old father who himself had an 80 year old father, that grandparent would have been born around 1860.  Maybe Abe Lincoln, but not Washington/Adams/Jefferson.

Unless you meant to say people alive today, not people born today.  Then I could see that happening - but it would be quite rare.

I meant alive today oops. Was talking about Tyler's grandkids.

[zachary_amaryllis]

most people have more than the average number of arms per human being