Because caring about a thing and making a show of caring about the thing are two completely different things.
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Unrepentantly stole this from episode 3 of the Magnus Archives. Listen to it, then listen to all of it. Everyone needs to listen to the Magnus Archives.
Edit:I have been humbled, and shall pay my penance. Link is here: The Magnus Archives, available wherever you get your podcasts.
Sure, or there's the alternative interpretation:
that's not a pipe, and it was just staying still.
Hmm, interesting. I'll have to consider other cases of this.
I posted this in a different comment thread on this post, but I would be interested to hear your perspective:
While they aren't generally stylistically complex, some songs with complex nonsense lyrics seem, at least to me as a young American, to be the ones that are simultaneously easiest to appreciate for a great many people, and also have huge staying power, despite being quite old. For example:American PieHotel CaliforniaWe Didn't Start the FireDon't Stop BelievingBohemian Rhapsody (or, really, most things by Queen)These, at least among the places I've been here in America, are the ones to which everyone in the bar starts singing along. Sure, these have underlying meaning, or make references to specific events, but in my experience, most of the people I hear singing and dancing to these have no idea what they're referencing, and often don't even know the words. Perhaps it is simply that they are so overplayed that they get those "multiple listens" of which you speak? Or is there something inherently compelling in the seeking of meaning in complex, random lyrics, such that people are immediately drawn in?
While they aren't generally stylistically complex, some songs with complex nonsense lyrics seem, at least to me as a young American, to be the ones that are simultaneously easiest to appreciate for a great many people, and also have huge staying power, despite being quite old. For example:American PieHotel CaliforniaWe Didn't Start the FireDon't Stop BelievingBohemian Rhapsody (or, really, most things by Queen)
These, at least among the places I've been here in America, are the ones to which everyone in the bar starts singing along. Sure, these have underlying meaning, or make references to specific events, but in my experience, most of the people I hear singing and dancing to these have no idea what they're referencing, and often don't even know the words. Perhaps it is simply that they are so overplayed that they get those "multiple listens" of which you speak? Or is there something inherently compelling in the seeking of meaning in complex, random lyrics, such that people are immediately drawn in?
Some possible words for which you might have been searching: didactic, diagetic
Fallout 3, apparently
Thank you for the clarification! I was wondering if you meant literal shrinking, like telomeres, but over generations. I retract my former complaint!
To call the natural process of mutation, literally one of the requirements for any genetic evolutionary progress, "deteriorating" is, at best, short sighted. Most mutations do nothing, most of the ones that do something don't occur in the one sperm that makes it into the ovum, and most of those that do something and make it into the ovum cause an early termination before birth. Some of those that get through all of these hurdles are the ones that cause random genetic variation and increased diversity, without which we actually DO get things like Hemophilia or other sex-linked issues going rampant in any given gene pool. Evolution takes a LONG time to work, but it requires wet and moldable clay to sculpt.
I'm sorry, who said Meta was ever the good guy, let alone its shitstain of a CEO? Implementing too-little-too-late consolation fact-checking for a little bit doesn't excuse waving the flag as THE vanguard of misinformation-as-internet-discourse in mainstream social media.
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Bold of you to assume they'll let anything like rules tie them down.
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Suppose you are trying to determine the concentration of a solution. You could try to boil off the water and figure out how much solid stuff is left over, but what if it's a mixture, and you just want to know how much, for instance, "Hydrochloric Acid" is in the water. Or, alternatively, some chemicals (such as Hydrochloric acid) evaporate with the water. We need a way to figure out the concentration of this chemical ( we'll call it "Chemical X") without trying to pull it out of the solution.
So, you need to know how much Chemical X is in your solution, but you can't really easily separate it from the solution. What do you do? You Titrate! You find some other chemical that reacts with Chemical X, so that this new chemical (which we will call Chemical Y) will get instantly destroyed as long as there is still more Chemical X in solution. So, as long as there is more Chemical X in solution, the Chemical Y will get eaten up instantaneously, reacting with Chemical Y.
Finally, you just need to have some way of detecting whether any Chemical Y exists in the solution, since the moment you see it in solution, you know there's no more Chemical X to eat it up.
Now, you titrate: take a specific volume of your sample solution, and add a known concentration of Chemical Y, drop by drop. Once there is any chemical Y left over, you know you have found how much Chemical X was in the solution to start. Congratulations, you now know the concentration of Chemical X in the sample solution.
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I considered that when posting, though the play of prismatic colors which defines the diamond's unique lustre, in addition to that same tendency toward internal reflection, are both ultimately caused by the extraordinary refractory properties of the crystal structure, and the refracted light coming out of the diamond after internal reflection is the constituent of the "shine"
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Yet another way this is wrong: the primary cause of the adamantine lustre of diamonds is refraction. Any old hunk of metal can reflect light.
If you thought this was promoting suicide, you either don't understand the connotation of a guillotine, or have been living under a rock for...
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the last hundred years
Okay, what helps? Standing outside Starbucks, Walmart, amazon warehouses, anywhere non-union, and spend your time trying to convince their workers to join a union. There's a reason that, when the Nazis took over, "First they came for the Trade Unionists". Don't say nothing. Let's Make More Trade Unionists