@Shalvenay Hum, then to stay within the context of the example ... your saying because you wouldn't understand proves it is not understandable and not relevant.
I suppose, in all fairness I must ask, Do you even know what Red vs Blue is? If you do, do you understand and get the humor?
That is, nearly everything depends on the context - in this case, different people understand 'what Red vs Blue' means in different ways - for some, it might be pokemon, others football or some other sport, others some issue to do countries. So, whether or not they find it funny depends on their own 'context', in addition to things like the context of the game. It's possible that the 'not understanding' is part of the context and the entire reason for how things have gone as they have
As in, perhaps you have a character who happens to have a sabre that doesn't weigh very much and so, calls it 'lightsabre', who also happens to be a complete show-off character (although by the sounds of things, probably not)
@Mithrandir24601 :) And that leads to a segue take the following literally, "Were can I" is the same question as "What is the best". How would that strike you as a new person to SE?
@EnigmaMaitreya You see, I have no idea what the context of this conversion is, so have no clue of what you're talking about :P (this is probably my fault)
@Mithrandir24601 Nah, no ones fault. IF anything, Not knowing should prompt for understanding on all parties part. We get back to the original question I was asked on Meta by a Hi Rep person when I made a comment on a recent chat room being deleted, that people droping into the room without knowledge of the Role Playing might flag ... blah blah blah to which that High Rep person said, Why would you be role playing as though it broke every rule SE has.
@JourneymanGeek IF I said, to some one challenging what I said, "And I move my rob back enough to show the hilt of a Light Sabre" why is that to be reason to shut a room down?
Not intended and I have no interest in supplying links because the entire thing is dead and not worth my time. I brought it up as an example of me saying some times I am reminded of Red vs Blue in SE.
even if I did understand it, it would be tedious af
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I was at my sister's concert and a world idea randomly came to me
It isn't your regular spherical world orbiting a sun deal
it and infinite flat plane that's infinitely deep and the sun is always directly above you so all shadows everywhere go straight down
and there's a type of rock that's lighter than the air, but heavier than the layer of gas above the air. so huge clumps of rock float about 50 feet it the air
and the suns rays are deadly so the world is a barren desert, except for underneath these chunks of floating rock, where flora and fauna survive, protected from the sun by the rock
A humanoid species has also evolved and has managed to build towns and cities on the underside of the rocks kind like the western air temple in avatar: avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Western_Air_Temple
It's not strange to look at already existing worlds that have characteristics in common with the world you are creating in order to get some inspiration or to avoid using stereotypes.
Would it be a good question, if someone ask for an explanation to something that is already done but he doesn't...
Proposal to allow reality check was rejected, hard. See Should we finally allow reality checks of other plot elements?
At the same time, there are questions like these two:
Committing suicide by using paper sheet as blade - single person plot of framing his wife, no world changing event in an...
Hum it is Friday and what an interesting asteroid this is "16 Psyche" - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16_Psyche - "16 Psyche is one of the ten most massive asteroids in the asteroid belt. It is over 200 km (120 mi) in diameter and contains a little less than 1% of the mass of the entire asteroid belt." - Some have estimated its commercial value at ~$20 Quadrillion US dollars.
Just for those interested in World Building Space Industries
@DaaaahWhoosh I agree in one sense as is it is less about world building and more about "Detective" / "Crime". In addition, I would tend to avoid scenarios that are crime and capable of being executed in real life as in potentially contributing to the criminal activity. So from my perspective, this question is border line but mostly harmless.
@sphennings I think in principle your right, but I think in general your not. If I laid out a step by step plan on how to Rob a Martian Bank in the year 2050 and asked for help improving the plan, then I think people should .... be careful.
@dot_Sp0T There use to be a nice list of these things and their estimated value in terms of weight / mass of metals. Since the Asteroid Mining has become a "Thing" it has vanished OR obscured with white noise / useless information about all the asteroids.
@dot_Sp0T THis is not what I would want but hey ... It may help ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?asteroids - the problem with it is you pretty much need to know the name of what you want or some part of it and I noticed there does not appear to be any composition data/mass data etc.
IF I were world building on Asteroid Mineing, I would go with "16 Psyche" IF it is the core of a planetoid then the number of plot lines is large. That it is currently not linked to any source .... then one could say it was the core of the "Missing Planet" type thing.
Shrug Just my opinion, but the Google AI driving the search now with in the next 24 months will get us back to normal. It will just take time and patience
@dot_Sp0T But quite honestly, IF I owned the data I would recognize the economic value of the information and it certainly would not be public. IF I were a consumer of the information and could purchase the information, then again it certainly would not be public. Just pointing that out.
@NexTerren Hopefully the apology comes with a bonus? I mean, if they did something bad enough for that kind of response you'd think they would also give you a little something extra
I just don't get how LEGO is so widespread now. There's a video game, about LEGOs, about a movie. And then they made a show, about a video game, about LEGOs, about a movie
I bet they made a comic, about the show, about the video game, about the LEGOs, that are about a movie
@James they don't have much issue with the stop-motion videos people make. They even made a movie about the stop motion videos about LEGO. And they probably made LEGO sets about the movie about the videos about the LEGOs
@DaaaahWhoosh Not switching just saying TV shows .... how is that substantially different from a known fake awards ceremony? Are we simply saying that must be toned down to the sensitivities of some?
@EnigmaMaitreya in a show, the viewer is not being personally insulted by people who know them. At worst, they are being insulted by strangers who have never met them
Daa, I get what your saying, I am saying being insulted is being insulted it does not really make a difference (Insult wise) who made it. Trust? Betrayal? Then how does an Honors class not have Trust Between the Teacher and the Student?
@EnigmaMaitreya I'm going to go with both. It was pretty dumb, but people need to grow up and not let every little emotional hangnail send them to the ER
@DaaaahWhoosh I am just ... probably because of age ... Leary of stories like this. UNLESS special status class's such as Honors and like class's have substantively changed, then the Teacher and the Student tend to know each other a good deal more than the other class's. This reported story does not even remote hint at that aspect ... it just states the Social Injustice.
@DaaaahWhoosh I kind of blame parenting on this one. Putting myself in her parents shoes; If one of my kids had gotten a fake award like that I would probably have been like "really guys, this is the best you can do?" and then I would have used it as a learning experience for the child. As it is, the child is learning, but not a positive lesson. "If someone is owie toward me I can make a big enough noise and destroy them."
I mean, I guess it's possible the kid is using this to defame the teacher, but I find that less likely. I guess either way, something is abnormal about the situation
@AndyD273 The teacher gave several other awards to other students that can hardly be considered compliments (e.g. "Most likely to be homeless"). I'd say the blame here is on the teacher.
Leveraging a position of power for the sake of one's own edification is generally something to push back against.
@HDE226868 I am not arguing against either you or daa. But if the Teacher and the Student had a relationship that should have produced the "Humor", then the Teachers were not specifically at blame. Risk taking yes, but ....
@HDE226868 The teacher was dumb, and need to get their sense of humor adjusted, but life isn't fair, people aren't nice, the world won't make a special place for you. The teacher should have done it differently. But the parents response is the parents choice, and so is their responsibility.
@HDE226868 This statement is the thing that sticks badly. That would say the Teacher(s) are questionable in terms of qualifications of teaching anything let alone Honors. That makes me suspicious of the lack of detail about the relationship.
@EnigmaMaitreya Anyone telling anyone else that they're going to be a terrorist is downright rude at best. If it's a teacher telling this to a child, then this is just telling the child that doing stuff like that is OK, which, if anything is worse when they have a good relationship with the child
@HDE226868 If this were true "Leveraging a position of power for the sake of one's own edification is generally something to push back against." then you could expect me to be looking very hard and asking very pointed questions.
@HDE226868 I get your point, but I disagree, if they teacher is manipulating a student for their own ends then that is a red flag and I would want to know a LOT more about WHY.
@HDE226868 It was one case with multiple kids. It sounds like they do this every year, but no one has cared before this. Someone was trying to be funny and did a bad job.
Ah, scratch what I said, @Emigna - the CNN article seems to imply that this is a longer-standing issue with the same teacher.
> Easton says this isn't the first thing the teacher has done that has raised eyebrows. Before this incident, the teacher, who is black, gave Easton's sister "a 'black quiz' to prove how black she was."
@EnigmaMaitreya That's what I'm thinking too. A lot of this has to do with how the teacher has behaved up to this point. If they are generally a great teacher and this is a error in judgement I'd take it a lot less seriously than if it was an ongoing problem over and over. In that case the teacher should be reprimanded, maybe given some pointers on what is good humor, and what isn't.
I wonder what would happen if it came out that the teacher was autistic, and hence didn't know how that what they were doing was bad.
I guess it would change from "punish this guy" to "just fire him, or put him in a different position"
either way, if the behavior is negatively impacting highly impressionable children, it should be addressed accordingly
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if the kid had autism, and thus didn't know how to take a joke, would that make a difference?
I'd say no, because the teacher should've known better. So I guess similarly, the school should be aware of the flaws of its employees, and address those flaws before they cause irreparable harm
@AndyD273 with the media attention, it's not the school, but rather the larger community that could carry out the punishment. By, for instance, shunning him, denying him employment, et cetera
@AndyD273 yeah, but that's going to happen with or without the SJ movement. Really, the SJWs evolved out of trying to stop communities from murdering people because of their race or sexual orientation. They're taking it too far now, but they're fighting the same issue you are
@DaaaahWhoosh And maybe they should never work as a teacher. it might just not be for them. But having the community at large shun them, deny any employment... that doesn't help anyone. Not the students, not the teacher, not the community.
That's a bit like dropping nukes when someone spills your drink.
@AndyD273 sure, but the reason the SJW movement is so strong is because of the 'social' part. You want everyone to carry out justice without talking to each other, great, but it's never going to happen
@AndyD273 @DaaaahWhoosh Shrug The SWJ will go just so far as to making us be clones of each other then a generation will swing the pendulum in the opposite direction where they fight to be unique, to be different. It is just to bad we can not simply learn tolerance and respect.
@AndyD273 But if the MOM made this an issue then what? Putting the daughter, the teacher, the school, the community in a position to either defend this or attack it.
@Bellerophon That is of course the greatest problem isn't it. As the pendulum passes through the middle we do get a brief respite and we can be tolerant and respectful. We just can't seem to learn to stop the pendulum there.
@DaaaahWhoosh If the local authorities don't follow the laws, then you go to their authorities, and so on. Rodney King got his day in court, and the cops got let off, so it went up a few levels to the grand jury, and the cops went to prison.
@AndyD273 no one knows how far to take anything. There is no magic line where we can put everything and know that it's right.
I'll fight the crazy SJWs just as much as I'll fight the crazy 'we should kill all the Jews' people. The truth is somewhere in the middle, but no one listens to moderation
you can't say 'let's walk the middle path' and have people follow you. Except maybe if you're Buddhist, but even that ends up being pretty fanatical in its own way. Even Jesus was all like "love everyone, even if they're currently in the process of killing you and will go after your friends next"
@DaaaahWhoosh H. Seldon should have published this SocialMetric. "The fringes are fighters, the Middle are pacifist.", this can be expressed by a mathematical formula.
@AndyD273 well yeah. For now. I can conceivably envision a scenario where sniping cops would be the best option, but I don't think we're anywhere near there
@DaaaahWhoosh I'm trying to think of a scenario (outside of the gestapo coming to drag you from your home to gas you). At that point you're basically in a full blown war.
@AndyD273 As I understand it, the Second was for rebellion, as the British Empire was putting in effect for a number of their colonies a system of having to "check in" your weapons to the local fort (or other authority) which would have been a massive crutch for the Revolutionary War.
@NexTerren "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
I'm actually having trouble parsing this statement
@Bellerophon And anyone else "Military Diplomacy: An Essential Tool of Foreign Policy at the Theater Strategic Level " - http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a450837.pdf
@DaaaahWhoosh Sure, and that's war, which does, by necessity, have different rules. If a community has 99.5% good cops who genuinely want to help people and keep them safe, that's something completely different.
@NexTerren But one thing that should not be up for debate is the Colonies sincerely feared the power that 3 cities could wield in the format of the "Federal Government" as they simply did not have the number to out vote them.
@DaaaahWhoosh Because the same issues stand now, Chicago dictates the Federal Elections for Illinois. Is one example. This is wrong.
I don't know what I think about the Second exactly (I honestly don't, and I don't feel admitting that is a sign of weakness. I'd rather have expressed no opinion than one that I don't feel confident about) but I think we should be very strict about respecting the Bill of Rights and the Constitution as explicitly as possible, since the First, for example, is really vital.
Thus I don't like laws trying to sidestep the intent of the Second, because that reinforces the precedence that it's okay sidestep amendments. There's a process of addressing the amendments and changing them, and I think we should respect them.
@NexTerren Personally, not being American, I think that there's a difference between people being allowed to have guns in general, with a license, and anyone being able to just walk into a shop and being able to buy a gun without any issues - some of my friends were in the USA recently and the joke was that it would be easier to buy a gun than rent a car...
@EnigmaMaitreya Right. The only exception I can think of is that you can buy guns at 18, but most rental places don't want to rent to people under... 21, I think it is? But that's for insurance reasons, not law.
Otherwise to buy a handgun in say Oklahoma (generally the most unregulated on firearms) from a business you do a background check and have to provide PII.
@NexTerren Meh that has been so long ago ... I don't know I should ask my Son, we were just talking about one of his daughters having one more driving lesson until she gets her license.
@EnigmaMaitreya It was far harder than it should have been to rent a car - it turns out that they don't like renting (to foreigners, at least) under the age of 25
@EnigmaMaitreya It's also wrong if Chicago doesn't dictate the Federal Elections for Illinois. If there's more people there, why are their votes less valuable?
@DaaaahWhoosh Because that population does not know 1 damn thing about how the rest of Illinois works and lives. Their values certainly do NOT reflect the rest of the states values. Example, Chicago has more murders than any other city in the US. .... Nope, not going to do it, I am simply going to stop there. But (rolls eyes) Corruption is the way the city and county runs. It infects the State Government proportionally.
@DaaaahWhoosh HELL NO kick their sorry butts out of the Union. Seriously, Chicago brings nothing of value to anyone but themselves
@DaaaahWhoosh Bingo and their vote should NOT overwhelm the rest period. New York City accounted for more than 60% of the delta between Trump and Clinton and that was 1 single county vs nation wide.
@EnigmaMaitreya you can't just kick people out of the country if you don't like them. Otherwise maybe the people of Chicago would vote you out, and like you said they run things
@EnigmaMaitreya you can't just not count votes you don't agree with. From my perspective, the rural counties swung the vote for Trump, even though they have less people than the cities
@James , Steward of WB, Crusher of Dreams, Lord of The Factory Floor, First of your name: That's impossible. You can't eat too much curry. You are simply wrong :P
@EnigmaMaitreya I can agree major cities should be counted differently than the rural areas surrounding them. Their lives are different, they should be run differently
“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) “ - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1790809/?ref_=inth_ov_tt I have this one in my Netflix BRay queue … I think.
“Baywatch (2017) “ - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1469304/?ref_=inth_ov_tt Not going to watch it at the movie and I do not think it is in my Netflix queue either.
“Long Strange Trip (2017) “ - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4143508/?ref_=inth_ov_tt - Great Band. Will put it in my Netflix Queue and I am sure my Wife and I will enjoy it.
@Bellerophon IF it were not for the human tragedy that Chicago is spiraling to, I could go along with you but ..... things are just wrong there .... just horribly wrong. Not in the Have sections oh hell no, but the rest ....
Hum, this could be interesting when all is said and done: "Supernova Fail: Giant Dying Star Collapses Straight into Black Hole" - space.com/… - "It appears the path to becoming a black hole is more complex than astronomers thought. Rather than exploding into a supernova before collapsing into a black hole, as expected, one giant star skipped the pyrotechnics and went straight to the collapse. "
@dot_Sp0T Some sort of knot? I know a couple of people that wear things that at least look similar, but I don't know of the top of my head - I can (maybe) get back to you on that in a couple of days...
hrm...where would be a good place to implant some sort of non-reactive object in a human's body that'd a) not require extreme precision to insert it and b) make it as difficult as possible to remove?
@Shalvenay I just remembered that scene from the X-Men film where Mystique uses a syringe to pump lead into the butt of a security guard. I'd go with the butt.
@Shalvenay It's difficult to make it easy to implant and hard to remove. I think someone in that other question mentioned that you could "swallow" the thing into the lungs. How much "access" do you have to your victim?
@Shalvenay Then it would be better if the victim didn't even realize they had a chip. Why don't you stage a little accident on a bike and try to implant it into the neck or upper arm?
@Shalvenay Run the other person over and when both are lying on the ground you use a hidden little syringe to poke the victim in the upper arm and implant the chip while "trying to get up" and saying "sorry" all the time and trying to be helpful by grabbing the arm, but still being clumsy
Don't know if this is still being asked, on the Heart side of the sternum, under the bottom rib there are many places to place a chip, with locking legs (think crab like legs wrap around any number of things there). Should be able to be done by a non surgeon and should be made difficult to remove because of the locking legs.
It's not strange to look at already existing worlds that have characteristics in common with the world you are creating in order to get some inspiration or to avoid using stereotypes.
Would it be a good question, if someone ask for an explanation to something that is already done but he doesn't...
Proposal to allow reality check was rejected, hard. See Should we finally allow reality checks of other plot elements?
At the same time, there are questions like these two:
Committing suicide by using paper sheet as blade - single person plot of framing his wife, no world changing event in an...
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