The universe according to MMM

[kalvado]

MMM is really making me miss Poiponen13. I used to catergorize them together, but MMM is so much worse now.

MMM is fun. He would be making big bucks if he would do same thing on a stage as a comic. Relax and enjoy free show.

[Roadgeekteen]

MMM is good at making us all feel better about our own insecurities about our intelligence. I'm not great at science but MMM makes me look like Albert Einstein.

[kalvado]

MMM is good at making us all feel better about our own insecurities about our intelligence. I'm not great at science but MMM makes me look like Albert Einstein.

I bet MMM is way smarter than he pretends to be. He's playing the game, and it takes to s of skill and effort to look the way he does without pushing things too far

[Roadgeekteen]

MMM is good at making us all feel better about our own insecurities about our intelligence. I'm not great at science but MMM makes me look like Albert Einstein.

I bet MMM is way smarter than he pretends to be. He's playing the game, and it takes to s of skill and effort to look the way he does without pushing things too far

What is his motivation for this exactly? He's 23, so it's not like he's a middle schooler trolling. He isn't gaining anything from this. Does he just like to annoy us?

[kkt]

Refute my arguments then.

There's finite time in my life and one internet troll more or less doesn't make that much difference.  There's abundant carefully prepared reasoning about physics, the spherical earth, etc., if you cared to look at them.  Or even take a class.  You seem to have abundant free time since you aren't in school and don't have a job.

[Roadgeekteen]

MMM is good at making us all feel better about our own insecurities about our intelligence. I'm not great at science but MMM makes me look like Albert Einstein.

I bet MMM is way smarter than he pretends to be. He's playing the game, and it takes to s of skill and effort to look the way he does without pushing things too far

Psychology major does give good insight in how to keep a troll gag going for this long, I'm not admitting to anything, just saying 

Wonder if you will make it to April. Or March.

[Scott5114]

MMM is good at making us all feel better about our own insecurities about our intelligence. I'm not great at science but MMM makes me look like Albert Einstein.

I bet MMM is way smarter than he pretends to be. He's playing the game, and it takes to s of skill and effort to look the way he does without pushing things too far

Psychology major does give good insight in how to keep a troll gag going for this long, I'm not admitting to anything, just saying 

I would be comfortable with using this post as an indicator of intent in making a forum management decision. Just saying.

[vdeane]

Responding to earlier psots: how MMM thinks boats work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_iBmG5Y_BU

[kkt]

Responding to earlier psots: how MMM thinks boats work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_iBmG5Y_BU

I did suggest he lay off the Bond flicks before posting, and here you bring them to him!

I am serious about my interstate highway plans though. Even if I am not 100% as serious with every random engineering plan (maybe I'd rate them as 80% serious and 20% for laughs), I am 110% serious about interstate highway plans. The West, MidWest, South, and Northwest need many more interstates. Fritz is right about that. Far too many gaps and unused numbers.

And 110% serious about your math, too?

Just because a number is unused doesn't mean there needs to be an interstate there now.  It's a good idea to keep some numbers available in case an area grows unexpectedly and a new freeway needs to be built.

[Roadgeekteen]

I am serious about my interstate highway plans though. Even if I am not 100% as serious with every random engineering plan (maybe I'd rate them as 80% serious and 20% for laughs), I am 110% serious about interstate highway plans. The West, MidWest, South, and Northwest need many more interstates. Fritz is right about that. Far too many gaps and unused numbers.

At least my outlandish plans are jokes...

[Max Rockatansky]

I am serious about my interstate highway plans though. Even if I am not 100% as serious with every random engineering plan (maybe I'd rate them as 80% serious and 20% for laughs), I am 110% serious about interstate highway plans. The West, MidWest, South, and Northwest need many more interstates. Fritz is right about that. Far too many gaps and unused numbers.

At least my outlandish plans are jokes...

I'm usually only 1.37% serious most of the time.  No need to use my full seriousness just yet. 

[Roadgeekteen]

MMM is good at making us all feel better about our own insecurities about our intelligence. I'm not great at science but MMM makes me look like Albert Einstein.

I bet MMM is way smarter than he pretends to be. He's playing the game, and it takes to s of skill and effort to look the way he does without pushing things too far

Psychology major does give good insight in how to keep a troll gag going for this long, I'm not admitting to anything, just saying 

Wonder if you will make it to April. Or March.

For what?

There was a guy from Greenville

Home of ECU

Logged on one day

And couldn't get through

Don't turn into that guy

[Max Rockatansky]

MMM is good at making us all feel better about our own insecurities about our intelligence. I'm not great at science but MMM makes me look like Albert Einstein.

I bet MMM is way smarter than he pretends to be. He's playing the game, and it takes to s of skill and effort to look the way he does without pushing things too far

Psychology major does give good insight in how to keep a troll gag going for this long, I'm not admitting to anything, just saying 

Wonder if you will make it to April. Or March.

For what?

There was a guy from Greenville

Home of ECU

Logged on one day

And couldn't get through

Don't turn into that guy

Unless that guy got the girl in the end?  Wouldn't you be the only one with the answer to that question?

[Roadgeekteen]

MMM is good at making us all feel better about our own insecurities about our intelligence. I'm not great at science but MMM makes me look like Albert Einstein.

I bet MMM is way smarter than he pretends to be. He's playing the game, and it takes to s of skill and effort to look the way he does without pushing things too far

Psychology major does give good insight in how to keep a troll gag going for this long, I'm not admitting to anything, just saying 

Wonder if you will make it to April. Or March.

For what?

There was a guy from Greenville

Home of ECU

Logged on one day

And couldn't get through

Don't turn into that guy

Unless that guy got the girl in the end?  Wouldn't you be the only one with the answer to that question?

The guy currently does not have a girl

[Max Rockatansky]

MMM is good at making us all feel better about our own insecurities about our intelligence. I'm not great at science but MMM makes me look like Albert Einstein.

I bet MMM is way smarter than he pretends to be. He's playing the game, and it takes to s of skill and effort to look the way he does without pushing things too far

Psychology major does give good insight in how to keep a troll gag going for this long, I'm not admitting to anything, just saying 

Wonder if you will make it to April. Or March.

For what?

There was a guy from Greenville

Home of ECU

Logged on one day

And couldn't get through

Don't turn into that guy

Unless that guy got the girl in the end?  Wouldn't you be the only one with the answer to that question?

The guy currently does not have a girl

Not any girl and "the" girl?  Did he at least end up trying?

[Roadgeekteen]

MMM is good at making us all feel better about our own insecurities about our intelligence. I'm not great at science but MMM makes me look like Albert Einstein.

I bet MMM is way smarter than he pretends to be. He's playing the game, and it takes to s of skill and effort to look the way he does without pushing things too far

Psychology major does give good insight in how to keep a troll gag going for this long, I'm not admitting to anything, just saying 

Wonder if you will make it to April. Or March.

For what?

There was a guy from Greenville

Home of ECU

Logged on one day

And couldn't get through

Don't turn into that guy

Unless that guy got the girl in the end?  Wouldn't you be the only one with the answer to that question?

The guy currently does not have a girl

Not any girl and "the" girl?  Did he at least end up trying?

I dunno. If he did try, it didn't work.

[hotdogPi]

There was a guy from Greenville

Home of ECU

Logged on one day

And couldn't get through

Don't turn into that guy

I can't get these lines to rhyme no matter how hard I try. The number of syllables isn't too far off, though.

[Roadgeekteen]

There was a guy from Greenville

Home of ECU

Logged on one day

And couldn't get through

Don't turn into that guy

I can't get these lines to rhyme no matter how hard I try. The number of syllables isn't too far off, though.

ECU and through rhyme. The last line isn't part of the poem

[Scott5114]

There was a guy from Greenville

Home of ECU

Logged on one day

And couldn't get through

Don't turn into that guy Burma-Shave

FTFY

[Max Rockatansky]

There was a guy from Greenville

Home of ECU

Logged on one day

And couldn't get through

Don't turn into that guy Burma-Shave

FTFY

IMG_3118 by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

[MultiMillionMiler]

I'm afraid to say this in that baby thread, because certain users will instantly cry "Eugenics!" but I have to say I am baffled by the lack of logic. People worry about the effects of climate change 50 to 100 years from now, but not the negative effects of overpopulation in 25 years.

[Max Rockatansky]

I don't think that I spend a particular large amount of time worrying about either.

[kalvado]

I'm afraid to say this in that baby thread, because certain users will instantly cry "Eugenics!" but I have to say I am baffled by the lack of logic. People worry about the effects of climate change 50 to 100 years from now, but not the negative effects of overpopulation in 25 years.

First world population is not growing any more. US is below replenishment threshold, and natural population shrink is expected once baby boomers will start to expire. Immigration helps to keep numbers in black, though.
Africa, on the other hand... I believe Bill Gates tried to send some condoms over there.

[triplemultiplex]

Overpopulation is a problem that tends to solve itself.  Watch China's population crater over the next 3 decades as an example.
A hundred years ago, it would be common to point out the Irish as prolific breeders, but today, that isn't the case.

Population growth tends to follow a curvilinear trend where it shoots up rapidly with industrialization, then plateaus before starting to tick down.  We have observed this in literally every country that's been around long enough to document its population.  Japan, the UK, Russia, China, the US; they all experience this demographic phenomenon.  Though the picture is clouded in the USA by immigration, the native-born population for sure follows the same trajectory that other countries experienced.

I think the demographic models suggest human population will peak around 10 billion sometime this century and start coming down, absent any "dramatic interventions."  That's if I'm remembering correctly.

There's basically nothing anyone can do to alter this trend.  The largest attempt to do so in China during their population surge last century resulted in the most horrifying of consequences with forced abortions, force sterilizations, and newborns literally abandoned in the street.  People are going to do what they're going to do and any attempt to prevent them from doing that is going to be awful.

Yes this world is going to get a hell of a lot suckier later this century as we attempt to feed, house, employ and heal 10 billion humans.  We're going to wipe out thousands of more species this century and create long-term damage to the ecosystems of this planet.  But the alternative to that is literally genocide.  So what's the fix?  Ride it out and try and rebuild once the population starts falling, I guess.  I don't think we can avoid the worst consequences of our collective largess.  We won't learn otherwise.

[MultiMillionMiler]

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

Literally imagine if 2 people just started appearing every second on your street, and this continued around the clock 24/7/365. That's insane when you think of it.