[Mark]

Yesterday morning I was quietly sitting at my computer. A movement off to the side caught my attention. My cat was sleeping under the bed. She must have woken up and saw she was inches away from nice warm sunshine. She layed on her back and used her paws on the edge of the bed frame to pull herself into the light.

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 Jeff, on 24 July 2019 - 08:09 PM, said:

I'm not big on small talk.

I just find that asking stupid questions like how are you doing, and giving the same answer every week is grinding my gears.

Why do people do it?

With small talk, it's less about what you're saying, and more about establishing some emotional common ground with the other person. Ideally that stage of the conversation wouldn't require too much thinking, like they ask how your week is going and you either say something notable that happened, or that it was normal if nothing was out of the ordinary, and then you move on to the actual substance of the conversation. That said, if the small talk gets too in depth that it requires effort, that's annoying.

[Jeff]

I don't mind if people keep it short like 15 seconds, but some people will go on for 30 minutes talking about stuff that serves no interest to me.

[Danukem]

 Jeff, on 26 July 2019 - 07:53 PM, said:

I don't mind if people keep it short like 15 seconds, but some people will go on for 30 minutes talking about stuff that serves no interest to me.

There are some pretty simple ways to make people stop jabbering at you. One method is to throw it back in their face and start talking about a subject that you know they aren't interested in or makes them uncomfortable. Do it with friendly enthusiasm. Don't worry about being honest, either -- if the person can't be bothered to respect your time or pay attention to what interests you, then fuck 'em. If it's your boss or a superior, be careful.

[Mark]

I don't know how to condense my question about the stock market into a google search form.
In the Silver, and probably other markets as well, why does the trading day ( 8am ) always start with a big drop?
https://www.kitco.co...livesilver.html

[Forge]

 Mark, on 29 July 2019 - 05:04 AM, said:

I don't know how to condense my question about the stock market into a google search form.
In the Silver, and probably other markets as well, why does the trading day ( 8am ) always start with a big drop?
https://www.kitco.co...livesilver.html

probably has something to do with market strategy.
If the price is high at closing, the first thing people want to do is sell.
This causes the prices to drop.
Then the buying frenzy starts and drives the prices back up at the end of the day.

Buy in the morning when it's low, sell before closing when it's high.

Just a theory. You can probably look it up somewhere.

[Mark]

That was my first thought but it seems to happen whether the previous day ended in an upward or downward direction. But maybe it is just that simple. Sell orders gather during the closed hours and at opening bell the investor's computers automatically start the selloff.

[Forge]

[MusicallyInspired]

That's an elaborate way to get the bottle to stand upright. Bravo. Good boy.

[DisgustedGrunt]

 Forge, on 30 July 2019 - 08:46 AM, said:

Even the pros had to start somewhere.

[Sledgehammer]

[Fantinaikos]

Who was aware that someone made some mini-mods based on the late 80's animes Bubblegum Crisis 2033/2040, AD Police and other long time ago? http://www.ravensgarage.com/

Nene Nukem 3D (change textures and sounds, replaces Duke with BGC's Nene Romanova)

Priss Nukem 3D (change textures and sounds, replaces Duke with BGC's Priss Asagiri)

Linna Rampage For Redneck Rampage (change textures and sounds, replaces Leonard with BGC's Linna Yamazaki)

Sylia Warrior (change textures and sounds, replaces Lo Wang with BGC's Sylia Stingray)

It's impossible don't notice how the mechasuit sprites in AMC is very similar, I suppose the inspiration comes from there.

[Jeff]

So a couple years ago I got into a discussion with someone and I mentioned that most of our DNA comes from monkeys. She didn't like being compared to an animal, and said I made her feel uncomfortable. Why is the truth uncomfortable to some?

[DisgustedGrunt]

[Mark]

I own 10 of the games in that pic. Most of my games are from that era. I had around 40 magazines with cds.

[Forge]

 Jeff, on 02 August 2019 - 10:02 PM, said:

So a couple years ago I got into a discussion with someone and I mentioned that most of our DNA comes from monkeys. She didn't like being compared to an animal, and said I made her feel uncomfortable. Why is the truth uncomfortable to some?

Probably because that is inaccurate. Humans and chimpanzees share ( similar genome size, number of genes, chromosome number, phylogeny, etc) about 98 to 99 percent of their DNA. If you believe the school of evolution, humans and monkeys had a common ancestor, not that humans evolved from chimps.

Humans and mice share about 90% DNA, humans and dog 84%, humans and chickens 64%, humans and bananas 30%.
DNA is finite, there are only so many ways it can be successfully mutated and sequenced.

If you're going to insult people's religious belief with your own, and you have every right to do so, then you might want to consider taking your shower thoughts to the forum's outhouse.

[HulkNukem]

Baby farts are fucking hilarious

[Jeff]

Not sure with what I said has to do with religious beliefs or an insult.

[Forge]

 Jeff, on 03 August 2019 - 02:09 PM, said:

Not sure with what I said has to do with religious beliefs or an insult.

 Jeff, on 02 August 2019 - 10:02 PM, said:

She didn't like being compared to an animal

sounds like a western religion

 Jeff, on 02 August 2019 - 10:02 PM, said:

Why is the truth uncomfortable to some?

sounds like a science religion

Your phrasing insinuates that the offended western religious type person is too stupid to recognize the truth. That would be the insult part of it.

[Mark]

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[Jeff]

Had some KFC for dinner. Haven't had that stuff in probably 20 years.

[Sledgehammer]

[LeoD]

Duke made it back on TV.

[DisgustedGrunt]

 LeoD, on 07 August 2019 - 10:51 AM, said:

Duke made it back on TV.
TrevorDuke.jpg

Found it:



at 4:38.

[MusicallyInspired]

Stupid region-locked videos. Oh well, it's only Trevor Noah anyway.

[Jeff]

 Sledgehammer, on 07 August 2019 - 08:51 AM, said:

That cat looks just like Cosmo.



In other news I just had a stone age moment, where my internet, Wi-Fi, phone and LTE all went down at the same time. Only my local intranet worked.

[Forge]

[Sledgehammer]

[Jeff]

I think my internet just imploded:

With VPN (OpenVPN, using my Synology NAS):


Without VPN:


Is that normal?

[Forge]

free vpn - probably.