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notabot,

Easier? Yes. More fun? No.

notabot,

Have you ever seen them both in the same room at the same time? I know I haven’t. :)

notabot,
  • Bird in for service

Bird mechanic sucks teeth: well, the wings are out of alignment and some cowboy’s got the quack valve out of alignment. I can fix it, but it isn’t going to be cheep. Mind you, if you fly it like this you’re likely to have a nasty accident.

Customer: I know your tricks! Stop trying to up-sell me. I only brought it in for a beak polish. I’m going and I’m going to leave a bad review on twitter!

Bird takes off, immediately veers into the path of a plane, which promptly bursts into flames.

Bird mechanic: Told you.

notabot,

Probably not, but used with sufficient invective I think you could make people feel like they’ve been insulted with out actually doing so. ‘You blasted multicellular mammal! What have you done this time? What are you, bipedal or something? Eukaryote!’

notabot,

I’ve seen reports that slowing down the rate that someone with dyslexia reads by adding some difficulty to recognising the words and likewise increasing how much they have to focus on seeing the words actually helps with compression. I suspect this works in a similar way. It took me a few goes to work out how out of order it wss, and I’m not dyslexic.

notabot,

That’s just the author getting fed up of their character and killing them off. From the character’s point of view the shot sort of comes from right-angles to reality.

notabot,

It’s not just kids, most adults would talk this much too, and probably feel a lot better for it, if they hadn’t had it knocked out of them and had someone they trust to talk to.

notabot,

Is he still on the team? If so, why? Are they all this twisted and broken?

notabot,

Absolutely. That’s the thing that always gets me about so many ‘villains’, they could inevitability gain their desired ends much more easily by being ‘good’ but persist in being evil.

notabot,

He could charge for that. I reckon people would queue around the block to be turned into sentient dinosaurs. He could be one rich dino dude with huge fanbase of folks who’ve got his product and idolize him. That’s bound to work out well for everyone…

notabot,

Your username is most apt. Now, if you don’t mind, I’m off to find some armoured underpants.

notabot,

If you are engulfed by the planet as soon as you step foot on it the question of whether they provide adaquate nutrition is rather moot. Mind you, if you, all other surface dwelling life, and presumably most of the scenery have sunk into the planet, can it truly be said to be made of sandwiches any more?

notabot,

I think it would depend on the ratio of jam to peanut butter and bread. High sugar concentrations are an excellent way of preventing bacterial growth as it acts as a desiccant which is why jam can last so long without spoiling. So, unless there’s enough moisture in the peanut butter and bread, your discarded gut bacteria will die out. It turns out that too much of a good thing really can be bad for you.

notabot,

Its shorter, so it fits better in headlines that need to be short.

notabot,

That one is a newspaper headline though, its from The Independent.

notabot,

A fair point, I hadn’t realized they’d stopped printing physical copies. They still seem to think of themselves as a newspaper though, and I suppose old conventions die hard.

notabot,

A letter or phone call probably wont have much effect, but actually engaging with them over the course of their term might. The more people who do it the more they’ll respond. Sure politicians will follow the money, but they also know they need to get re-elected if they want to stay on that particular gravy train. If they’re getting the message, loud and clear, that one course of action will lose them votes, they’re more likely to steer a different course, especially if their margin is small. You’re unlikely to see a politician completely flip on a significant philosophy, so I wouldn’t expect miracles, but enough small changes make a big difference.

From their point of view all protests tell them is that a particular course of action is unpopular and will lose them votes, but its a fairly extreme way of sending that message. A concerted effort by even a fairly small group over a longer period has a similar effect. Throwing money at them certainly helps, but isn’t necessary.

To be clear, I’m not American, but, at least currently, the same basics apply, its probably just harder to cut through the clamour to be heard.

notabot,

Mostly what it tells me is that mist voters make no effort to engage with their politicians to tell them how they should act and what they should support if they want their vote. If you don’t engage you will be ignored.

Election season is absolutely the least effective time to be pushing politicians to change as they can’t do so without risking upsetting the balance of votes they expect. Instead call them and write to them during their term. Don’t let up, be the voice they keep hearing and their attitudes will slowly start to change as they hear your message more loudly than the vague background they’re surrounded by. Make it easy for them to do what you want by stating it clearly and politely but firmly and repeatedly. Ideally show them that it taps into a groundswell of opinion that boosts their vote count.

notabot,

That may be your perfect search engine, I jyst want proper boolean operators on a sesrch engine that doesn’t think it knows what I want better than I do, and doesn’t pack the results out with pages that don’t match all the criteria just for the sake of it. The sort of thing you described would be anathema to me, as I suspect my preferred option may be to you.

notabot,

Not just nukes, but nuclear shaped charges, at a rate of maybe one per second for a manned vehicle or even more for a faster cargo only mission.

notabot,

Are they even bothering with the ‘extend’ bit anymore?

notabot,

Hmmm, it’s hard to debug pizza remotely, but maybe the heat wasn’t high enough, it normally only takes a minute or two to heat through and cooking it for longer probably would make the base go hard.

Thanks for reporting bavk though, and I’m sorry you had a suboptimal pizza result.

notabot,

Our troop bought in bulk them then handed them out to the scouts who earned them, there were no micro transactions involved.

notabot,

I suspect you’re getting down voted because you tried to make it sound positive (the ‘just handled’ bit for instance), rather than condemning it as barbaric.

notabot,

Thanks for the update. If you have the time and energy after the migration I’d be interested to hear details of the new setup, we have servers using vswitch too, and while I haven’t run into trouble myself I’d like to avoid it if possible. You know what they say about the wise learning from others’ experience!

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