(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 22 2022, @07:50PM
(3 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday March 22 2022, @07:50PM (#1231263)
Apparently according to fusty, you're clueless if you don't already know what it is that you are supposed to be excited about. And, if you are looking for relevant links, they can go wherever fusty pleases to put them (TFS, somebody else's comment, etc.). Yeah, I know; it can be a bit confusing.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 22 2022, @08:58PM
(1 child)
by Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday March 22 2022, @08:58PM (#1231276)
Screw the mods.
Here's my motion to change the SN default to browse at -1 for all visitors.
If anyone wants to browse at some other level, let them change it for themselves. If they want the change to be permanent, then they need to login. Otherwise they can change it every visit.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 23 2022, @07:51AM
(6 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday March 23 2022, @07:51AM (#1231388)
you did hit the nail on the head though. I quote: "Something!"
Exactly. In fact, I believe there is a book on "why there is something rather than nothing", at least I distinctly remember Lawrence Krauss talking about this. We should get excited about "Something!", because the only alternative is nothing, and then you can't get excited because the excitement hormones don't exist. the neural network which gets excited because its connection weights are changed by the hormones also doesn't exist.
so, while this "fusty" personality (whether the product of a single brain or a group of like-minded conspirators) is obviously deranged, believing that we somehow care enough about their excitement to spend time figuring out what is driving their excitement, we should take notice of the ability to get excited.
We should get excited about "Something!", because the only alternative is nothing
There is in fact a second alternative: “something else”. While this state has never been observed in inanimate matter, some people are definitely “something else”.
…we should take notice of the ability to get excited.
Low pressure neon also has ability to get excited by pulsed electrical currents, but it’s not neural activity. However, neon is noteworthy because it gets brighter when excited, so it actually does something useful.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 22 2022, @02:01PM (2 children)
I'm participatin'!
(Score: 4, Funny) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 22 2022, @02:21PM
Well, hey!.... Aristarchus... something something!
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(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Wednesday March 23 2022, @12:14AM
Participation trophies for everyone!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 22 2022, @02:25PM (10 children)
It's pancakes, right? Pancakes get me excited.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 22 2022, @02:32PM (9 children)
You're getting warm...
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(Score: 2) by drussell on Tuesday March 22 2022, @02:50PM (8 children)
Waffles!!
(Score: 2) by drussell on Tuesday March 22 2022, @02:52PM (7 children)
Oooh! Oooh! With a side of bacon!!
Mmmm... Bacon, bacon, bacon++
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 22 2022, @03:05PM (6 children)
You're getting warmer! And i'm getting wet! 8)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 22 2022, @03:24PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsMwLoWTkfY [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 22 2022, @04:06PM (1 child)
Cool! This journal entry is going to be epic! Thanks!
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 22 2022, @04:31PM
No! Spank YOU!
3 thumbs up to you (that third thumb isn't really my thumb, though, so..... ewwwww.....)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 22 2022, @08:08PM (2 children)
The maple syrup goes on the food, not your lap!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 22 2022, @08:55PM (1 child)
The best maple syrup comes from a farm I visit every year in western NY State. Just say'n...
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 22 2022, @09:04PM
The best maple syrup i've ever had in my lap comes from western NY State too! Just say'n....
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 22 2022, @05:59PM (4 children)
Tell me! I must appreciate this new excitement to its fullest!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 22 2022, @07:50PM (3 children)
Apparently according to fusty, you're clueless if you don't already know what it is that you are supposed to be excited about. And, if you are looking for relevant links, they can go wherever fusty pleases to put them (TFS, somebody else's comment, etc.). Yeah, I know; it can be a bit confusing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 22 2022, @09:02PM (1 child)
. ...according to fusty,
I was about to mod you redundant, but then realized that might not be true for any readers that haven't seen fusty's recent piece of work.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 22 2022, @10:39PM
FTFY
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 23 2022, @03:32AM
Well I'm excited just to be here! I love the blue sky and green grass. Trees are really amazing too.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 22 2022, @07:10PM (3 children)
But the mods are just a little crazy
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 22 2022, @08:56PM
Modded you "normal".
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(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 22 2022, @08:58PM (1 child)
Screw the mods.
Here's my motion to change the SN default to browse at -1 for all visitors.
If anyone wants to browse at some other level, let them change it for themselves. If they want the change to be permanent, then they need to login. Otherwise they can change it every visit.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 22 2022, @10:42PM
...and let slip the dogs of war!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 22 2022, @10:46PM
Futsy will be displeased.
oh and waffles and somethings feature in a small way here: https://soylentnews.org/~tootbuzz.com/journal/8049 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 22 2022, @10:47PM
Miss you MDC. :(
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 23 2022, @07:51AM (6 children)
you did hit the nail on the head though.
I quote: "Something!"
Exactly. In fact, I believe there is a book on "why there is something rather than nothing", at least I distinctly remember Lawrence Krauss talking about this.
We should get excited about "Something!", because the only alternative is nothing, and then you can't get excited because the excitement hormones don't exist. the neural network which gets excited because its connection weights are changed by the hormones also doesn't exist.
so, while this "fusty" personality (whether the product of a single brain or a group of like-minded conspirators) is obviously deranged, believing that we somehow care enough about their excitement to spend time figuring out what is driving their excitement, we should take notice of the ability to get excited.
or something.
(Score: 2) by Farmer Tim on Wednesday March 23 2022, @10:25PM (3 children)
There is in fact a second alternative: “something else”. While this state has never been observed in inanimate matter, some people are definitely “something else”.
Low pressure neon also has ability to get excited by pulsed electrical currents, but it’s not neural activity. However, neon is noteworthy because it gets brighter when excited, so it actually does something useful.
Came for the news, stayed for the soap opera.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday March 23 2022, @10:37PM (2 children)
Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 24 2022, @02:47AM (1 child)
wat
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday March 24 2022, @12:47PM
Oh, the young ones...
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(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday March 24 2022, @03:58PM (1 child)
Hmm....that sounds almost...... existential.
Quick, get the noose!
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday March 24 2022, @05:00PM
Hmmm... that sounds like..... shenanigans.
Quick, get muh broom!
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday March 23 2022, @04:28PM
In the final analysis, the cause of the end of the world will be traced to a single event. When the Mars company introduced the blue M&M.
I seem to vaguely remember a television commercial from the 1970s. It ??? in your mouth, not in your hand. That's what she said.
How often should I have my memory checked? I used to know but...
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday March 24 2022, @03:33PM
It must be the transfinite ordinal numbers! There are so goddam many of them!