War Room Lounge v72: Nope

[senri]

I thought you were old. You don't know what a still photo is?

Stop it... Settle down. Did you eat dinner yet?

 

[HockeyBjj]

If you went back in time to 1950 and told someone what commercial flight would be like in 2020, they'd be floored at how little changed it is.

Especially when they find out they have to get their junk grabbed to fly nowadays

Twas my fault. I didn't realize I had a pair of head phones in my front pocket last flight. Tsa agent seemed less pleased than me when the body scan graphic had a nice red box right on my crotch.

 

[Ruprecht]

I said roughly, not exactly.

I don't think humans are going to develop exponentially faster than light travel in the next billion years which is probably a fair margin of error for roughly.

Even so. The oldest known planetary system in the Milky Way is 11.2 billion years old (which predates the formation of the Milky Way). If we survive another billion years and haven't developed faster than light travel, it's never going to happen (and not just because that's about when the Earth's oceans will boil away).

 

[Graves The Elder]

I thought you were old. You don't know what a still photo is?

Sense of humor....gone?
Wow.

 

[Graves The Elder]

It's known as the Pelosi Clap.
(non medical variety, that is)
LOL

 

[Sketch]

Sense of humor....gone?
Wow.

Was a rough night for him and another guy. Fawlty had an emotional outburst and lost his platinum status in the process. The two of them are still recovering.

 

[Fawlty]

Man who survived bison goring goes on date, his date gets attacked by a bison
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2019/...6ozGOA-IaqPtVD_jGQRSmvWREyVEpGDSZNT4ehloMpPHMSeptember 30, 2019 at 4:16 AM HST - Updated September 30 at 6:48 AM


OGDEN, Utah (KSTU/CNN) - Kyler Bourgeous was gored and trampled by a bison at Antelope Island State Park in June.

Recently, Bourgeous was on a date at the same park, when he watched it happen again.

His date, Kayleigh Davis, said she wasn't trying to get a selfie or antagonizing the animal in any way. Instead, she was trying to get out of the way of some bikers.

"All of the sudden, I see the bison charging me, so I start running towards the lake away from it, and it flips me up," Davis said.

She hit the ground, fracturing her ankle and her thigh gushed blood from where the bison gored her. Through the pain, she remained calm as she braced for a second attack.

"He was doing that whole paw thing, digging at the dirt like he's going to charge after me again," Davis said.

She remembered what Bourgeous had told her about his own attack and didn't move.


"I've heard from his story - just stay still so it doesn't come charging at you again," she said.

That worked, the animal left her alone and Bourgeous was there to help Davis through it.

"My heart just drops because I know that pain," Bourgeous said. "I was holding her head and squeezing her hand."

When Bourgeous was gored, he suffered from a collapsed lung, broken ribs and internal injuries.

Now that Davis is recovering from the attack, the two are able to laugh about their extremely unlucky odds.

“To me it feels like it would be a one in a million chance,” Davis said. “It could’ve been worse, I could say. I think it could have been worse.”

Utah State Parks officials say to stay as far away from bison as possible, backing away slowly if you do encounter one.

Copyright 2019 KSTU, Tribune CNN. All rights reserved.

Spent a lot of time there. You almost have to try to attacked by a bison there. My money is on "fucking retards."

 

[Cuauhtemoc]

The "little bit of time" in which we've made almost all of our (supra-biological) advancements is so small that it actually makes me even more skeptical. Imagine if a slight change in circumstances had rendered moot the possibility of growth at all.

How many species sit there with all the equipment they need for a growth explosion only to live a perfectly stable existence for tens of thousands of years before the environment wipes them out?



What about Moore's Law?

These laws are irrelevant, people actually engaged with the stuff know the limits a long time ago. In relation to computing speed we cannot get a transistor to be smaller than a few atoms.
In relation to airplanes you can make a faster airplane but it will be less efficient and require more maintenance because of drag and heat. See Concorde. A hypersonic plane would heat up too much.
In space travel and communications we're limited by the speed of light, which is enormous but the universe is also way too big.
However we still have a lot of clear advancements to make. Faster internet for one, genetic editing, better batteries...I don't think we're anywhere near a plateau in technology generally.

 

[Graves The Elder]

Was a rough night for him and another guy. Fawlty had an emotional outburst and lost his platinum status in the process. The two of them are still recovering.

oh god, the horror.
I had no idea.

 

[spin]

Spent a lot of time there. You almost have to try to attacked by a bison there. My money is on "fucking retards."

That or "tried to have sex with bison"

 

[Fawlty]

That or "tried to have sex with bison"

Technically those can mean the same thing I think

 

[Fawlty]

Taking poll requests for the next thread.

 

[Sketch]

Taking poll requests for the next thread.

We’ve been over this. Favourite donuts.
Fun, simple and everyone can participate.

 

[spin]

Technically those can mean the same thing I think

Depends on how successful you are

 

[all caps]

oh god, the horror.
I had no idea.

It was a little bizarre to say the least.

I try to steer clear of that weird stuff in here. I thought we all wanted to have a laugh at the absurdity of politics, but I guess not.

 

[Lead]

@Jack V Savage
If you were to advise someone on funds for their 401k, what would you suggest? I just realized my prior work had one of those default target retirement date funds and was wondering if those are garbage for the expense ratio tied onto it (.77%)

 

[Limbo Pete]

Spent a lot of time there. You almost have to try to attacked by a bison there. My money is on "fucking retards."

Anyone that gets attacked by a bison is retarded imo
Just.... stay the fuck away from them...

 

[all caps]

@Jack V Savage
If you were to advise someone on funds for their 401k, what would you suggest? I just realized my prior work had one of those default target retirement date funds and was wondering if those are garbage for the expense ratio tied onto it (.77%)

I'm guessing he would suggest a 4% deposit directly to the democratic national committee (as it benefits way more people than just him and his family, because hes a great guy like that)

 

[Fawlty]

Anyone that gets attacked by a bison is retarded imo
Just.... stay the fuck away from them...

They weren't even foreigners with huge camera lenses vacationing in Jellystone. smh.

God forbid they see a moose at the gas station.

 

[sickc0d3r]

Especially when they find out they have to get their junk grabbed to fly nowadays

Twas my fault. I didn't realize I had a pair of head phones in my front pocket last flight. Tsa agent seemed less pleased than me when the body scan graphic had a nice red box right on my crotch.

They’d be much more disappointed by the regression in stewardess quality, imo.