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RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
00:21
@Robusto well, just looking at the last two years alone, the rate is literally one violin every two years.
If I continue like that, I will never be able to afford a harp.
@M.A.R. It's just Sapir-Whorf. That's what happens when you give your kids Sapir-Whorf to read at the age of five.
My parents gave me Dostoyevski. Now look at me. I'm an idiot.
Robusto
Robusto
01:06
@RegDwigнt You could try a mouth harp.
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Very affordable.
 
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Mitch
Mitch
02:38
@Robusto First they came for the epistemology. We don't know what happened after that.
That was better
 
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Tonepoet
Tonepoet
04:09
Let's appreciate fine art and academia together with The School of Athens by Rapheal:
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
06:26
> Patients taking the drug experience a faster reduction in nasal congestion
"in" nasal congestion or "of" nasal congestion?
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
06:58
@RegDwigнt cut yourself some slack. You're AT LEAST a profound idiot.
@CowperKettle I like "in" better
@Tonepoet that was random
Unless today is . . . Plato day?
It's definitely Batman day AFAIK
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
07:48
@M.A.R. Motshakeram!
 
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RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
09:47
@Robusto who starred that nonsense? We already discussed, in this very room, that that thingie is 4000 Euros off Amazon.
You can literally buy 80 violins for that. Also off Amazon.
@M.A.R. I'm an idiot and a gambler and a brother. Though my parents refused to change their name to Karamasov.
Kenny Rogers - The Gambler
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Good song. Though crap advice. Or rather, complete lack of advice.
If you're gonna play the GameBoy you gotta learn to play it right.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
10:04
Which is a better document title?
1. Use of the [drug] in pediatric practice
2. Use of the [drug] in pediatrics
3. Use of the [drug] in pediatrician's practice
I think it's option 2
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
10:21
@CowperKettle Why the "the"?
 
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mshwf
mshwf
12:09
Hi, a question about using "a" article: "The control has a selected state and unselected state" or "The control has selected state and unselected state"?
CIFilter
CIFilter
12:37
Pretty sure it needs an article.
Or at least warrants one. :)
I actually imagine that should either read “...has a selected and an unselected state” or “...has selected and unselected states”. But I’d defer to someone who knowledgeable... Just a hunch!
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
@M.A.R. Indeed!
mshwf
mshwf
13:07
@CIFilter I also tend to the article version
Robusto
Robusto
@RegDwigнt Better one good harmonica than 80 crap violins.
@RegDwigнt That book should have been called The Karamazov Rubles.
@mshwf Try "The control has a selected state and an unselected state."
 
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mshwf
mshwf
14:19
@Robusto thanks for the help
 
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Tonepoet
Tonepoet
15:30
@M.A.R. Fine, fine, here:
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RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
16:41
@Robusto well you'll hear no disagreement from me. Though you might hear ear-deafening disagreement from all the marching bands and highschool orchestras of the world.
Our entire education system is operating on the principle that fifty really shitty recorders are somehow better than one guy playing a decent pipe organ really well.
Depends on your goals I guess.
As far as I'm concerned it's a false dichotomy to begin with. One good harmonica is better than 80 crap violins, but 80 good violins are also way better than 80 crap violins.
You know, just the other day I was watching some vlog by Christian Henson where he dropped a John Cage quote. "College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books."
It was amusing to see how many people in the comments took it at face value. While I was sitting there and contemplating that when taken at face value it is obviously the most retarded thing anyone has ever said.
I have a feeling Cage just pulling everyone's leg once again as per usual.
For a moment I did wonder if I should be contrarian and quote Edmund Wilson right back, "no two people ever read the same book". But then the whole video ended up being all about just that. Through some rather miraculous leaps in logic.
Anyway. What the fuck is my point here even.
Oh right. Buy one good violin and one good harmonica. And a good triangle and a good church organ.
Kind of like Moses. No, not Moses. Who was that other guy again. Russell Crow. Noah. Yeah, Noah.
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
19:40
Absolute hot
Absolute hot is a theoretical upper limit to the thermodynamic temperature scale, conceived as an opposite to absolute zero. Contemporary models of physical cosmology postulate that the highest possible temperature is the Planck temperature, which has the value 1.416785(71)×1032 kelvins. Above about 1032 K, particle energies become so large that gravitational forces between them would become as strong as other fundamental forces according to current theories. There is no existing scientific theory for the behavior of matter at these energies. A quantum theory of gravity would be required. The models...
Robusto
Robusto
@RegDwigнt If it's a false dichotomy then you own it, since it was you who brought up the "80 violins for the price of one harmonica" comparison.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
> In Australia and New Zealand the playground slide is known as a slide, slippery slide, slipper slide or slippery dip depending on the region. Sliding pond or sliding pon is a term used in the New York City area,[2] It is a corruption of "slide upon".
Word of the day: sliding pon
Robusto
Robusto
@CowperKettle I never heard "sliding pond" in my life, and I've spent a great deal of time in NYC and environs. Where the hell do you get this information?

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