How do you Pronounce it? 29 comments
willfree
· 8 years ago
I want to like this because I'm entertained, but I don't want to appear to be supporting the jif lunatics. What a dilemma
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Nokia - We will always miss you! 9 comments
willfree
· 8 years ago
Sticking with Symbian in the face of iOS and Android was their mistake. They didn't move forward when it was time.
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Syndrome X 27 comments
willfree
· 8 years ago
Jesus. She never developed cognitively either, she just.. never grew up. I didn't even know this was a thing that could happen.
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You're now thinking with portal, infinitely 3 comments
To grammar nazis 22 comments
willfree
· 8 years ago
I've read Hemingway, yes, and I have nothing but respect/admiration/mad jealousy for his use of language. I gather he was a pretty unpleasant human being, but as an artisan of wordcraft I think few can match him.
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To grammar nazis 22 comments
willfree
· 8 years ago
Yeah... I'm surprised. I think some people are far more persuasive than others, precisely because of their ability to express themselves well. MLK was known as a brilliant orator because he could paint the most elevating ideas in speech like music - fame has nothing to do with it. With respect, I think you're underestimating the power of language.
To grammar nazis 22 comments
willfree
· 8 years ago
! Tell that to Hemingway. Or MLK. Or any songwriter worth their salt, there's absolutely skill in communicating well.
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To grammar nazis 22 comments
willfree
· 8 years ago
Psssht. Everyone makes mistakes and besides, there are so many variations and dialects that any standard is to some degree arbitrary. And besides, language evolves with culture and besides *that*, it's boring when everyone is the same. There's so much flavour out there, why limit ourselves?
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Now men can turn fertility on and off with the sperm switch 19 comments
willfree
· 8 years ago
They're still working on a pill and one day there'll be one available, I reckon. But imagine literally bring able to switch your potency on and off like that, to every partner's immediate satisfaction. It would be amazing. Frankly I'd be happy to have my vas deferens rerouted outside my scrotum, with a plug in the line that I could either connect or disconnect as appropriate.
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Now men can turn fertility on and off with the sperm switch 19 comments
willfree
· 8 years ago
It's a great idea but it's 3 months between when you flick the switch and when you can be sure that the sperm will be absent from the seminal fluid. I reckon the success of any contraceptive like this is limited until you can literally activate it, ejaculate risk-free, then deactivate it and know that you're fertile again immediately.
There are other issues - you need one for each testicle; they're a sizeable permanent intrusion into a delicate area of the body; they're fucking expensive. Still, what a great step forward.
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There are other issues - you need one for each testicle; they're a sizeable permanent intrusion into a delicate area of the body; they're fucking expensive. Still, what a great step forward.
Why was an organ even on the curb? 6 comments
willfree
· 8 years ago
Most of the ones that people chuck out are unserviceable because they're old and the market for them has shrunk so dramatically. It might have been worth $8000 when it was new (probably in the 60s), but if it had anything like that value now, it wouldn't be sitting on the curb like garbage.
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Our vision of the future 11 comments
willfree
· 8 years ago
But only half true. There was plenty of dystopian sci-fi being written in the past, look at Phillip K Dick and the stuff coming out in the cold war era.
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Attention please 13 comments
willfree
· 8 years ago
This is great. I'd love it if the internet actually started pasting men's nipples over women's, thus downgrading an R to a PG. It'd be a great protest.
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Am I doing it right? 49 comments
willfree
· 8 years ago
Does that apply equally to white pride? Straight pride? How about the pride of those born into wealth?
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