+11I know that it's good to try to get an
advantage in life, but that advantage
should...
+11Remembering that there's a lot out there
in the universe can make you feel very
small...
+9It seems like two-hit wonders just as
common as one-hit wonders, looking
things like...
+8The friend activity box is cool, but
you're not sure what qualifies as a
friend. Is it...
+7Most cookery shows rely too much on sex.
If someone from the original era of
cookery...
+1Bob: Why was 6 afraid of 7? Bill: Why?
Bob: Because 7 8 9! Bill & Bob:
AHAHAHHAAH...
0If a guy is bisexual, he's still gay.
+2It's really **** annoying when a human
or group of humans does something
terrible and...
-1Slavery is good in some ways but bad in other ways,Amirite!
-24Women who stay with men that beat them
are like a horse with blinders on. Never
pay...
+2It's really **** annoying when a human
or group of humans does something
terrible and...
-35It amazes you that people believe in god
and the bible in this day and age
+7There haven't been many drawn posts, or
good posts lately, amirite?
+4Ryan Dolan did not deserve to finish
bottom. Sure the song wasn't the best,
but it...
+11Remembering that there's a lot out there
in the universe can make you feel very
small...
+2A game of chess is like a sword fight
+2Being a foley artist seems like a really
fun and creative job. Amirite?
+6What happened to Mr. Z (VicZinc). He
needs to get his old, ancient self back
on here...
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You have 100 balls (50 black balls and 50 white balls) and 2 buckets. How do you divide the balls into the two buckets so as to maximize the probability of selecting a black ball if 1 ball is chosen from 1 of the buckets at random?
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Put one black ball into one bucket. If you pick that bucket, you are guaranteed to pick a black ball. If you pick the other bucket, you have a 49 in 99 chance. The probability of picking a black ball would be 74.7%.
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personThingy
You are given 12 balls and a scale. Of the 12 balls, 11 are identical and 1 weighs slightly more. How do you find the heavier ball using the scale only three times?
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Anonymous Intellectual
Who the heck has a balance scale. Do it this way smarty...
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In response to “Who the heck has a balance scale. Do it this...”
You only get to use it three times. That wouldn't work.
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personThingy
The cause of the universe, must be a sentient/ personal being
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I believe it was created by a sentient being, but I wouldn't say it must be.
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personThingy
Science is compatible with Religion
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Anonymous Religion
I think religion can tolerate science if it wants to, but science cannot tolerate religion because science is about empirical data and religion cannot provide that. Religion can bend to accept data (think Galileo) but science cannot bend to accept unproven "truths".
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In response to “I think religion can tolerate science if it...”
You seem to be treating science as an entity of itself. Religion cannot be incorporated into science, but it is possible for scientists, or people interested in science, to also be religious.
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personThingy
It is only possible to have one TRUE love or soul mate in a lifetime. Amirite?
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So if you don't find that ONE and ONLY, then you are destined to be alone, unhappy, and miserable for the rest of your life?
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In response to “So if you don't find that ONE and ONLY, then...”
I'm confused. Aren't you the one who made this post? You seem to disagree quite strongly.
Anyway, destiny isn't necessarily something that must happen, or something that is forced to happen. Some people see it more as the end result of what ultimately does happen, which may have been only one of many possibilities but was orchestrated by a higher power to achieve the end result. So even though your wife thought her previous husbands were her soul mates, maybe she was ultimately destined to be with you. And if you hadn't met her then maybe she would have been miserable for her whole life, but you were drawn to each other by fate, and now you will be together forever.
Or at least that's one explanation. The weird thing is, I don't believe in soul mates either. I have no idea why I wrote this comment, but I hope it helps somehow.
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personThingy
Isnt it weird that you can sleep walk up and down stairs or go in the kitchen and open the fridge totally unconscious. But if you tried to walk ten feet with your eyes closed youd trip over a shoe and break your neck. Amirite?
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The_Allie_katt Sleep
When you're asleep, you cerebellum is the main controlling force. When you;re awake, your cerebrum is constantly telling you that you're not getting information from the environment. Your cerebellum simply takes the old information, and probably remembers there was a shoe there while your cerebrum is preoccupied with being blind.
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In response to “When you're asleep, you cerebellum is the main...”
There's a difference between "weird" and "scientifically inexplicable."
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personThingy
There are uneducated people, who don't understand politics and who never bothered to question their own ideas nor to understand the views of those who haven't the same opinion. Do you think it is fair that these people's votes weigh the same as those of the wisest, the open-minded, who spent time and thought to work out what is best for their fellow citizens ?
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hugo Politics
Well seeing as how in a democracy the outcome affects both people, it is fair to say that they both should be voting because that is an accurate representation of the society
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In response to “Well seeing as how in a democracy the outcome...”
So if a man says women shouldn't be allowed to vote, then the outcome of his vote will affect him... how?
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personThingy
The argument against the use of capital punishment shouldn't be focussed on immorality. It makes more sense to consider its monetary and societal cost. Implementing the death penalty is a substantially more costly process than life imprisonment. Goverment funds would have more use if diverted into education, police force, mental health treatment, drug and alcohol rehab programs etc. This may be why states in the US who have abolished it have lower crime rates in comparison to those who use it.
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I agree with your point, but I don't think the immorality of killing someone is something to just skip over.
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personThingy
Happy Pi Day everyone!
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in mathematical terms, it means summation, or the shorten that up, it would be sum. so yeah.
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In response to “in mathematical terms, it means summation, or...”
I am well aware of what it means, thank you very much.
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personThingy
The Glitch
Some games need to sort their glitches out
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Anonymous Games Video
Some glitches are fun to play with. I like SSBB glitches a lot.
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In response to “Some glitches are fun to play with. I like...”
But some glitches aren't, and some games need to sort their glitches out.
Also, to what glitch(es) are you referring?
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personThingy
Happy Pi Day everyone!
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Lets see if my calculus has helped.
First term is the square root of -1 , also known as the term "i", when talking about complex numbers.
2 in the power of 3 equals 8,
The funny looking E is known as the "sum"
Pi is pie.
i 8 sum pi!
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
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In response to “Lets see if my calculus has helped. First...”
The "funny-looking E" is the Greek letter Sigma.
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personThingy
Stopping time is probably the most loophole filled wish since it has to be pre-established that you don't get stopped as well, other wise all existence pretty much ceases since there is no one to start time up again, amirite?
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And even if you establish that, there's the issue of how you would move or change anything if the the whole universe is frozen except you. Also, if you could change things while time is frozen and if you, for example, deflected a bullet, does that mean you just applied infinite force to the bullet when you start time again?
I'm not sure if these are loopholes, but they're problems with the idea of stopping time.
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personThingy
Harry Potter is one of the greatest fictional series ever
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While it might be fantastic in popular culture, I don't feel it has enough philosophical and literally complexity to be considered one of the greatest. I'm sure it'll be remembered for a long time, but mainly as a pop culture icon.
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In response to “While it might be fantastic in popular...”
Why does something need to be philosophical or complex in order to be good? In my opinion, the only thing that makes a series good is how much you enjoy it.
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personThingy
In a group of minorities, there can be majorities. In a group of majorities, there can be minorities, amirite?
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just like there's a social minority
there's a social majority I think
left handed people are minorities
right handed people are majorities
I might be wrong about this majority thing though
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In response to “just like there's a social minority there's a...”
I know what majorities are, but there can't be more than one in the same area. Since a majority has to include more than 50% of the population, it is impossible for the remaining population to have another group of that size. For example, if right-handed people were 51% of the population, then left-handed or ambidextrous people could only make up a maximum of 49%, making them both minorities.
I suppose by "a group of majorities" you could have meant "a group of people within a majority" such as a group of 200 right-handed people. In fact, that makes perfect sense, and if that is what you meant, then YYA.
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personThingy
In a group of minorities, there can be majorities. In a group of majorities, there can be minorities, amirite?
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How can there be a group of majorities?
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personThingy
We can easily put a person on the Moon, but we have trouble walking across the street to meet a new neighbor.
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Correction: The US government can put a person on the moon after spending millions if not billions of dollars, but I (and other individuals) have trouble walking across the street to meet a new neighbor.
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personThingy
It sucks when someone wakes you up from a great dream and you can't remember it, amirite?
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In response to “”
"It sucks when someone wakes you up from..."
Still your dream.
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personThingy
When someone tells you," its me or him." the person who puts you in that position is not the true friend. A true friend should allow you to be friends or in a relationship with who ever you choose.
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'Anyone who is willing to end a friendship with one person over a disagreement with another is not a true friend' may be one of stupidest things I've read on this site. You honestly believe there isn't a single solitary social situation, no line that can be crossed, that could make social interaction bad enough to cancel the friendship. Seriously? Is friendship also the strongest thing in the whole wide world made of rainbows and unicorns too? People aren't forgiving and people are judgmental, there's always a line. If something truly bothered me about someone else SO much that I actually went to my friend and said I can't be friends with this person or you if you are gonna hang out with them my friends would back me up in a heart beat and trust an extreme judgement call like that.
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In response to “'Anyone who is willing to end a friendship...”
I'm sorry, when did I say that nothing was bad enough to end a friendship? When did I say that you should forgive everything your friends do, or that you can't judge if they kill millions of people right in front of you? When did I say that friendship was made of unicorns and rainbows and you would die without it and go to the darkest circle of Hell? It's like you literally have nothing better to do than to make me angry so you just sat here for half an hour trying to do that.
ALL I SAID (and all OP said) was if you are willing to threaten someone by ending a friendly relationship with that person, it means you do not give a very high value to said relationship; otherwise you would have as much to lose as he does when it ends. I did not say you couldn't end the relationship, I did not say being true friends with someone was the most important thing in the world (I have maybe five close friends and I couldn't be happier about it). I just said that if you thought your friendship was important (which, again, I didn't say it was), you wouldn't put it at risk like that.
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personThingy
When someone tells you," its me or him." the person who puts you in that position is not the true friend. A true friend should allow you to be friends or in a relationship with who ever you choose.
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"All generalizations are false, you just read the only exception." ever heard of that? Apparently not. My absolute is irrelevant, it's just a mockery of irrational absolutes like the one you are trying to support. The example itself was fine, I quite enjoyed the picture it painted, but the details weren't important. Change it from bills dog to his mom but Jake got out of jail on a technicality. Any friend worth would take bill over Jake because life is about more than easy decisions and 'friendship'. Dog or mother doesn't matter, the point is when Jake did what he did he lost the right to your friendship. Bill has more things going for him friendship wise, he's the better decision. It's annoying as hell when 13 year olds come on this site and throw around words like always and never in their posts and it's even worst when people older than 13 jump on and support them when they should know better. This whole argument wouldn't exist if the post said 'can often not be a true friend'.
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Anonymous
In response to “"All generalizations are false, you just...”
No, Jake didn't lose the right to your friendship unless you say he did. He would have lost the right to my friendship, and hopefully he would have lost the right to anyone else's friendship, but that isn't relevant. If anything, Bill should say "Stop hanging out with Jake because he killed my ____," not "Stop hanging out with Jake because if you don't I won't be your friend anymore." If Bill is willing to end his friendship like that, he is not a true friend.
Note that not being a true friend doesn't make you a terrible criminal; it just means you don't highly value your friendship with the person in question. The morality of Bill and Jake is not in any way connected to which one is the better friend.
Also, for the record, the post never said "always" or "never" or any other absolute word.
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personThingy
When someone tells you," its me or him." the person who puts you in that position is not the true friend. A true friend should allow you to be friends or in a relationship with who ever you choose.
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That's a descriptive little story John, I like it, I was giving this one some consideration till I read that. PersonThingy don't be a moron it's not about the story or it's details. John used an extreme to show that it's kind of stupid and naive for ANY post to give 'all or nothing' scenarios in pretty much any part of life. In all cases of social situations there are details that effect the feeling about it so saying anyone who says 'me or them' isn't a true friend is childish. I really didnt think that would be that difficult to understand but both you and OP missed it. Regardless good post, thanks for the thought.
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Anonymous
In response to “That's a descriptive little story John, I like...”
I hope you realize that stating that all absolutes are "stupid and naive" is an absolute in itself. You have to be prepared to demonstrate the exception before you can say there is one.
Yes, it is about the story and its details, because that's what I was replying to. The example which was presented was flawed, so I pointed out the flaws. If you have a better example, let's hear it.
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personThingy
When someone tells you," its me or him." the person who puts you in that position is not the true friend. A true friend should allow you to be friends or in a relationship with who ever you choose.
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Irrelevant, for the sake of the argument you don't care that Jake killed the dog, it doesn't 'personally' affect you. Bill has the right in a situation like that to say 'I refuse to be in a group of friends involving jake' in which case 'you' would have to decide whether you are going to be in a 'Jake and you' group or 'Bill and you'. And of course the amount of years a friendship has been around matters. It can determine the measure of loyalty and understanding.
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In response to “Irrelevant, for the sake of the argument you...”
Of course Bill has the right to say that he doesn't want to be in that group of friends, but he has to accept that you, not caring about what Jake did, could very well choose Jake. Anyone who is willing to end a friendship with one person over a disagreement (however significant) with another is not a true friend.
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personThingy
Money can be very evil. The pursuit of it can be the root of many, many crimes that are done to other humans. Remember to treat others as you would have them treat you no matter how much money you accumulate.
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If I could I would have people give me millions of dollars a day and let me have anything I want for free. That doesn't mean I'm going to do that for other people.
I wouldn't NW because of this, but I just thought I'd point it out.
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personThingy
When someone tells you," its me or him." the person who puts you in that position is not the true friend. A true friend should allow you to be friends or in a relationship with who ever you choose.
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You have two friends bill and Jake. Bill has been your friend since you were 2, you met Jake last year when he moved from Jamaica and you consider both to be your closest friends. 2 weeks ago Jake and bill got into a fight and Jake, being slightly sociopathic, murders bills dog out of anger.Furious Bill then demands you choose because 'it's me or him'. This does not mean Bill is not a true friend, every situation has it's details.
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In response to “You have two friends bill and Jake. Bill has...”
If Jake killed Bill's dog, then for most people it probably wouldn't come to Bill saying that; for me it wouldn't take half a second to pick one. If 'you' like hanging out with sociopaths, that's your decision, and Bill has no right to say you can't and then say he's a true friend. The number of years it's been means nothing whatsoever.
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personThingy
I think the United States should convert to the metric system of measurement and get on board with the rest of the world. We're the only country that doesn't know how long a kilometer is!
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Bootylicious Life
? its so much more logical in Celsius.0 is the freezing point for water and 100 means boiling. Fahrenheit is so complicated for nothing. If you want more accurate you should switch to degrees kelvin
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In response to “? its so much more logical in Celsius.0 is the...”
Kelvin has the exact same accuracy as Celsius.
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personThingy
I don't think it's ever okay for the government to restrict someone's freedom of speech. We were granted that freedom for a reason.
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cpm1day Politics
Everything happens for a reason. That doesn't mean it should continue to happen.
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personThingy