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 Discussion on question by cph_sto: On…

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Doug Warren
Oct 25, 2024 17:31
Were they coerced, or were they simply tricked?
 

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Doug Warren
Aug 13, 2024 13:25
"Bastard enumeration" is a much more descriptive term for this, not least because there are probably lots of other ways that a series can be out of control. I suspect that the more recent term was only coined because the b-word is considered naughty.
 

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Doug Warren
Jan 25, 2024 11:25
I always imagined that they had used the transporter to beam, say, a cooked turkey into the pattern buffer, and then just kept "beaming out" copies of it. But I suppose if that was ethically troubling, they could instead beam in a live turkey, beam it back out again while retaining the pattern, then beam out another copy with everything but the head, cook that, and beam that into the pattern buffer. Is... is that better?
 

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Doug Warren
May 19, 2023 10:29
"Will this rule that most people won't like make more people more likely to follow the rules?"
 

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Doug Warren
Mar 22, 2022 03:46
Plot twist: The dinosaurs went extinct from overhunting.
 

 Discussion on answer by Andrew: How c…

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Doug Warren
Feb 25, 2022 02:34
"Exactly how this happens is difficult to explain without math" should be the subtitle of this site.
 

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Doug Warren
Apr 30, 2021 13:32
"Demockracy," perhaps?
 

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Doug Warren
Aug 23, 2018 17:44
"Masslighting", perhaps? : )
 

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Doug Warren
Jan 24, 2017 16:53
There's an early Theodore Sturgeon short story titled "God in a Garden" in which the protagonist is granted this power by an ancient idol. I don't remember how things got resolved, though.
 

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Doug Warren
Dec 26, 2016 03:11
Well, all I can say is that if you want me to support your future initiatives, it had better be in my senatorial district.
 

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Doug Warren
Nov 20, 2016 04:03
@MichaelHampton Yes, it's called C-SPAN.
 

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Doug Warren
Sep 10, 2016 20:24
What's wrong with just "deflection"?
 

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Doug Warren
Dec 7, 2015 23:38
I always thought the doubled "t" was intended to make the first "a" in "attach" short. The "e" in "detach" is supposed to be long, so it doesn't need an extra "t". But judging from the sizable debate here, I'm obviously way out of my depth.
 

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Doug Warren
Dec 2, 2015 18:49
Ironically, "forward slash" is a "back-formation".
 

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Doug Warren
Sep 3, 2015 17:19
angryflower.com/lycans.html
 

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Doug Warren
Aug 5, 2015 01:19
Does the smiting occur when the weapon is designed, when it is built, or when it is used? If the thunderbolt comes at the time of use, not only could you give a sword (sorry, "grain-harvesting blade") to a suicide trooper, but you could actually use the thunderbolt itself as a weapon.
 

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Doug Warren
Jul 15, 2015 21:55
Not to be glib, but if groups A and B are really complete pacifists, and the Gurfin aren't, can't the Gurfin take over just by asking? Just herd everybody out into the street, load them in carts, drive them to the ocean, and dump them out?