This in fact is not a post

Posted on by hollyfrostgoldportpress

The posts are actually in the porch Sarah is building, with proper assistance, which she missunderestimated how long would take. Therefore, no posts for you for now, unless you install them yourself in the comments. See you later! (I expect all y’all have at least a dozen post memes.)

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    2. Is that where the Vulcan Science Academy report on Humans came from? :-D

      The one where they say “We gave them two warp cores to experiment with. Instead of using one and keeping the second one as a backup in case of failure, like a sensible species, they cross-connected them! They unlocked an entirely new field of subspace physics that we’re just starting to figure out, and now they want a third warp core to ‘try out this other idea we’ve got’!”

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      1. It is part of the “Humans are Space Orcs” and “Humanity F Yeah” group of flash fiction on Tumblr and now other places, yes.

        It’s bringing the fun back into scifi.

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  3. “the porch Sarah is building, with proper assistance, which she missunderestimated how long would take. ”

    I could probably run up an equation for this.

    Something like “Time Estimate + (.25 time estimate x number of tools needed) + (1.5 x trips to the hardware store) + (4 x number of decades over 20 years old you are) = actual job completion time”

    (Why, no, I have no experience with this phenomenon, why do you ask?)

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    1. The Reader thinks that equation is short a factor of pi. All time estimates are irrational.

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    3. I believe she spoke to a certain tendency for space time to get a bit non linear around her. That has to make carpentry a bit more challenging.

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    4. Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.

      As this rule is recursively self-describing, work estimations are effectively fractal in nature.

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    5. The traditional (and actually optimistic) software view is that the first 90% of the project takes 90% (+) of the time and the last 10% takes the other 90%(+).

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  4. Ok… that cost me some serious time. You would not believe the rabbit hole when you search “memes for a post”! The really sad part is I still don’t have one for you…

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  5. Perhaps I could ask for some help from the group.

    Early at work yesterday a coworker pointed out a short video to me. I was tired with a horrible headache and running on no sleep, so I failed to get the link.

    There was a Whitehouse spokesman (a man, not KJP), or possibly just govt generic answering a question. He stated, “The fourth amendment is not in the interests of the United States.”

    I’m not surprised at the sentiment, just surprised at the admission.

    My Google-fu has failed and I have been unable to find the clip. Has anyone else seen it?

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      2. Are you sure that isn’t an example of a bondage post? The Reader is asking for a friend.

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  8. oh ffs. I posted and vanished into the ethernet. trying again.

    I was at work yesterday and briefly saw a short video. Thing is I was so tired that I don’t remember where it was at and didn’t think to get the link.

    A WH spokesman (not KJP) was answering a question and stated that the “4th amendment was not in the interests of the United States.”

    I’m not surprised at the sentiment, just the admission.

    Did anyone else see this? My Google-fu seems to be failing on this.

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    2. My reply had two links so is in moderation. I Googled “A white house spokesman 4th amendment was not in the interests of the United States” First return is to a Cato article that then links to a X/twitter.

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    4. Whenever they say ‘The United States’ or ‘America!’ or ‘The Children, The Children’ just substitute ‘The Democrat Party, Long May It Reign Supreme’ and you will understand where they’re coming from.

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  10. The best formula I’ve found for estimating time: 2x+5
    Where: 2x means raise the time unit your using to two (i.e., 1 hour becomes 1 day) then add five to that estimate. A three-hour job thus takes 8 days. It works in a discouragingly large percentage of cases.

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    1. Why do I have a very bad feeling about any attempts to quantify Cheops’ Law?

      Hint: He was a frickin’ optimist.

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  12. Oooh, is there porch-sitting in your future? Should we get you a rocking chair and shotgun? You’ll have to install your own dog lying at feet or cat to stroke as you glare at the world.

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    2. “Mister, I finished painting your porch, like you asked. But I noticed it’s not a porch. Its a Mercedes.”

      (Grin)

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        1. The Reader sometimes has trouble following here when puns change domains from comment to comment. An additional gulp of coffee helped here. He does think that all puns should have an evident domain.

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  15. Whatifalthist Coming Pyschological Black Death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0K0sI5XiP4

    Whatifalthist Mouse Utopia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTDTVbourzU

    What if alt hist is an alternate history youtube site.
    He is young, only 22. Generally good content. Recently he has started branching out into social speculation. The two listed above touch on a lot of things we have discussed here. He only just discovered the Mouse Utopia experiments and seemed to think they are unmined.
    Still has good ideas on the general mess we are in.

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    1. The Mouseutopia has been debunked. You now can’t find the debunking on line, but quickly: it wasn’t overpopulation. It was free food and not having to do anything for themselves.
      It’s irreproducible with proper parameters.

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      1. Agreeing with you. I first ran across the mouse Utopia thing back in the
        70s, maybe in Analog. George Martin used it as a thread in Tuf Voyaging
        back in the 80s. Somewhere between then and 2000 I did read that the
        original researcher ran the experiment multiple times…..it was
        apparently his bread and butter as a college professor. The debunk I
        read, and Whatifalthist explicitly mentioned, is that none of the tests
        every actually achieved maximum population capacity, certainly never out
        stripped resources. It was the lack of purpose that killed them….to
        the point that even when any putative population pressures were relieved
        by the die off, they still failed to reproduce.

        Historians, Archeologists and fiction writers have all noted that when a
        peoples reach a point where they no longer have to strive individually
        to ensure personal and familial survival, the civilization implodes,
        going decadent, no children, anti survival behaviors etc. We are there
        now for the most part…..including despite reports, the Islamic
        cultures too.

        Some individuals still strive, but the civilization does not.

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    3. Theo Gray built a coffee table, shaped like the periodic table, with samples of elements inside (where possible). He sells a poster with a picture of said table. Occasionally, he’ll re-blog the sales link on his website.

      This makes him a periodic Periodic Table table poster poster.

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  17. The latest game to announce a cross-over with Warhammer 40,000 is…

    checks notes

    Power Wash Simulator!?

    On a more serious note…

    Has anyone heard anything useful about the “trucker strike” in NYC in support of Trump? I’m trying to figure out whether there’s actually something to this, or it’s just some people making announcements without anything to back them up.

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    1. I did hear the Leftroids are trying to shut down a GoFundMe somebody started up to pay the outrageous penalty imposed on Trump by an activist judge that decided the case before the trial started. Can’t let people donate their own money to the ‘wrong’ cause dontchaknow. Just like they have to ‘Save Democracy!!’ from a majority of the American people voting for President Trump.

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    2. Some truckers are refusing loads for NYC. I do not think it is getting significant traction yet, as the Red Leftroids are not freaking totally out.

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        1. I’d like to steal that name for an institution if I may? And I wonder how hard it would be to put that on a T-Shirt in a font/format REALLY close to what the MIT Bookstore uses on its stuff :-). Two infant size shirts for Our Hostess Felines might be fun :-) .

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