Tell something interesting you've seen.

Bored. Bored of real life stuff. Bored of the election stuff (as already detailed in what will probably be my last thread on the subject).

Tell me something interesting you've seen today.

Go.

I saw some riots from the Hillary camp.

it's estimated that the lowly transistor, the microelectronic switch at the heart of digital integrated circuits, is the most manufactured item in human history.

humans have built more transistors than we've paved inches of roadway worldwide since we've been paving roadways
humans have built more transistors than we've put letters to paper ( or internet ) since writing became a thing.
humans have built more transistors than we've grown grains of rice since agriculture became a thing.

and we've only been doing it for ~60 years

@Gaming-Planet;

Personally, or on TV?

I saw a computer, my computer, running window's 10 and it's start button wasn't responding. I found a script that fixed it though. It was kinda difficult to open a command prompt without access to a start button though.

TV. The riots aren't far from where I'm at though. I live in the bay area.

Cool. As someone with personal experience with major riots and protests, may I advise you to stay clear and keep a low profile, regardless of who you voted for? As I said, I've encountered stuff like this before. Emotions can get really intense, things can get real ugly real fast, and believe me when I say you don't want to be in the middle of that when they do.

Just be safe.

I will definitely stay away from down town.

I think it's the president's job to address concerns about the hysteria along with Trump to assure that they will protect the civil rights of minorities.

Saw some anti-Trump protesters burn an American flag the other night. That was pretty interesting. If these people hate America so much, maybe they should get out? Protesting democracy is literally protesting what this country stands for.

(I wear my MAGA hat everywhere and look forward to one of these losers to say something about it).

@Gaming-Planet

That's for them to decide. May help, may not. Look after yourself first.

@KHAndAnime

Like I said, I have personal experience with these kinds of protests, and I would give you the same advice. But you know, do what you will.

Just watched derby county make the play off final from 3 years ago.

One time, I went TAD to Cambridge/London. This was about, 5-6 years ago, and I woke up and went outside after working all night and went for a walk down the street. This was the first time I ever actually went around in public there.

There was a man lying in the street, right in the middle of the fucking street. He got up when I walked down the sidewalk, and started shouting and performing drill maneuvers, marching from one side of the street to the other. He spotted me and came running over.

This guy, he was maybe 5'3, about 180 pounds of pure muscle. He got right up to me and asked me what I did so I told him, and he got really excited and started talking about when he was in the Scottish Army. He had an accent, and at first I was just treating him like any other drunken idiot, but then he broke off the usual military rambling and started talking about why he got kicked out.

He looked me right in the eye and shouted "THEY KICKED ME OUT, BECAUSE I WAS IN THE KU. KLUX. KLAAAAAAAN."

The he started shouting about how much he loved the KKK and asking if I was in the KKK. At this point I started walking back to the hotel because of how loud he was shouting, but he followed me to the hotel. A little Pakastani guy that was running the hotel saw him, and began shouting in Swahili or some shit and came running out with a baseball bat.

He starts swinging at the crazy Scottish guy, and the Scottish guy starts calling him some slur, and then they're screaming at each other and the Scottish guy runs into the parking garage. The cops showed up wearing these goofy hats that I guess cops over there wear, wielding billy clubs, like old fashioned tire thumper billy clubs.

Scottish guy comes flying out of the parking garage on a bicycle he stole, and the Pakastani guy starts swinging at him while the Scottish guy just rides in circles around him for a minute before seeing the cops and cycling off. The cops chased after him and I went back into the hotel.

Never found out what happened to him.

ahahaha

I saw a dog dirt that was at least a foot log on my way to work this morning. It was MASSIVE, the biggest one I ever saw.

So pleased I saw it and didn't stand in it. My ice white adidas samba would of been ruined!

were you not able to find cmd.exe through windows explorer? I've not used Windows 10, so I have no idea if Windows Explorer or DOS is even a thing anymore, haha.

Tonight I will see the biggest full moon in my lifetime

"TV" he says...OK, so you haven't seen the riots, then? OK good, just wanted to make sure.

I've participated in some "riots" (what misnomer, they're really just protests...don't let the Gestapo scare you) in Berkeley and Oakland before and they can be both A.) peaceful and B.) productive, leading to both excellent resolutions for both parties.

If you are the kind of person that is mature enough to keep composure in the face of authority and stick to a script, I encourage you to join either camp (the protester or counter-protester) and participate. It is part of what makes this society great! It is something many of us take for granted, and we see government oppression of this kind of exercise in countless countries every single day of the week. They don't really let us rabble into government office all that often so we need to take it to the streets. So make a sign, where some comfortable shoes and maybe a funny shirt, and join in. Be mindful of what groups are protesting, look online, and join in on a peaceful one. Don't hide your face, don't dress like a hoodlum...just don't make it look like you're going to start some shit you make us all look bad lol

Unfortunately there are a few bad things going on right now because some childish people are going crazy and, as is common with the media, it is being blown out of proportion, but it's not as bad as they make you believe. The freeways are still open and, last time I checked, even the Occupy movement managed to shut down the freeways every now and then.

Anyway, getting back on track...

...a hot-air balloon got off track from Napa (its kind of a big thing there, "come sail the air above the vineyards of Napa!" they say) and landed in a cow pasture over near where I work.

You always forget just how big those things are. Everyone survived, thank god; apparently a few people die every year from hot air balloon accidents, they are generally safe but as with most air vehicles when they go wrong, they go really wrong (most of the time). I guess they can fit like 30 people in those baskets. CRAZY!

Interestingly, this isn't the first time this has happened in my area. I guess hot air balloons navigate by using air currents and there's basically just this lattice work of cross streams at all these various altitudes and if you want to go west you just go up 100 feet and if you want to go south you go down 100 feet and so forth and if you're smart you wake up, you do your research before you take off, and you have a nice day. Well some people forget to do their research and just assume the air currents will be the same...

LMAO...Anime fans do cut quite the imposing figure...hahaha. I bet you're intimidating as hell.

I needed a good laugh!

**** Arsenal

@comp_atkins: Holy crap

Went to Aviation Nation on saturday. Saw some cool planes, watched the thunder birds show. Loud af.

Not something I've seen but something I learned of early yesterday was the Mandela Effect. If you're not familiar it's a phenomena in which many people mis-remembering the same thing or event. One of the most prominent examples seems to be related to it's namesake: apparently many people remember hearing about Nelson Mendela's death while in prison sometime in the '80s when in reality he died in the year 2014. The explanation for this mystery is thought to be attributed to 'quantum fluctuations' caused by the experiments occurring at the LHC in Geneva. Laugh out fucking loud.


This has made me realize how astoundingly narcissistic people can be. Instead of admitting that they are simply mistaken they think reality as we know it has changed. It's unreal how out of control egos can get.

This: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2112537-smallest-sliver-of-time-yet-measured-sees-electrons-fleeing-atom/

It took 3 people to paint a small sub electrical building in park as it been drawn all over on. Any way it took 3 council workers. 1 to paint it and parked out side house from 7AM with engine running which peed me off. Then at 8:30AM he decided to start painting. Then he finished and 2 more people came 2 hours later to inspect it to see if he done it right. Thought that was interesting having 3 people employed for one small job.

I didn't have a zoom lens for my DSLR. So, I used an old camcorder to record a video and captured a frame.

One time when I was about 18, I went to midtown manhatten.

They were having a veterans day parade down 5th avenue, and I stopped to watch it.

Somehow, I managed to stumble into a protest, some people were protesting against the Iraq war, and I ended up on the side that was "pro-war" I guess. Not thru any conscious decision, but just by where I was standing. It's like the "pro war" side just materialized around me.

People were shouting at each other and throwing stuff back and forth, so I started hollaring and throwing stuff at the other side.

Back then I didn't care anything about politics, if you had asked me if I was pro or against war in Iraq, I would say "I don't know."

But somehow here I was, in this street battle, with 1 harried cop trying to keep people from blows.

Even tho the situation was probably dangerous, I found it quite cathartic and somehow uplifting, like ok both sides were mad at each other but we didn't kill each other, or maim each other, we had our shouting match and threw bits of plastic at each other, it was sort of like participating in a football hooliganism.

Later that year, there was an anti-war protest near my school, and I participated in that.

What I learned was that you don't necessarily have to agree with the protest, they're still fun to be in, if there's counter-protesters that's even more fun. You shout at each other and have a bit of faux-aggression.

Generally speaking, I'm quite moderate and almost non-political, but I don't mind a roll in the hay.

I didn't support Trump until some friends started supporting him, so I just threw my hat in and started arguing for Trump, heck I can argue for or against anybody, it really does not bother me. But generally "right-wing" stuff is out of character for me, I like people who are "nice" and "inclusive." People who say "we're all in it together." I like populism and inclusion. Are their policies good? Heck I don't know, like I said I'm pretty non-political. I like fast cars, sexy women and things that go bang.

Also yesterday I saw a dog taking a shit. So funny and interesting looking at there face. Its like. Don't look at me while I take a shit.

Within a week my car, tv, laptop, and phone stopped working. I think poltergeists are following me.

That works, or CTRL-ESC as a KB shortcut to bring up the start menu. Or CTRL-Shift-ESC to launch the Task Manager, from which you can access the "run" line from the File menu and manually run cmd. Or CTRL-ALT-DEL to launch the Task Manager to do the same thing. Or just even Windows Key+R to bring up the run line directly. There are usually about a dozen ways to do anything in an OS.

As to the topic, I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

-Byshop

@skipper847: that's funny, that's the look my dog gives me when I make her go, like "this is so humiliating".

reminds me of this.

http://www.avclub.com/article/how-you-spell-berenstain-bears-could-be-proof-para-223615

Interesting things.... i have two good interesting stories from my old crazy fast food job.

When i was younger and managing a fast food joint, from the drive-thru window you could see a payphone. And this payphone was the only one in a very very very poor neighborhood that accepted calls back, so naturally it was crackhead central. So one dealer would come up, drop the crack, take the money and go. The crackie would then pick up the rocks and find a place to smoke.

Well one day at about 7pm or so, a deal went down but the crackhead could not find what he dropped. He was freaking out, he wanted his crack, so he spent the entire night, until i closed and probably after (which was 2am) digging up the dirt and mulch around the payphone looking for his crack. It looked like someone was digging for power lines, there was mounds of dirt in the parking lot. Luckily it was a dead store, so we sat there in the drive-thru all night laughing at him.

Story 2.

Same job. Same store actually, i used to go around to different stores, hire new management and make sure they ran properly. But this store was hell, it was shut down a year or so after i left because it just didnt make money and it was in such a bad area.

So one night i was about ready to close and all the sudden this guy walks up to the drive-thru, i had seen him plenty of times before as he as a regular customer, but this time he has no shirt on and is covered... i mean COVERED in blood.... Like... it looked like he killed someone, bled them out and then started rolling around in their blood. So he's at the window im talking to him, asking him if he needs help or anything and he goes "nah man..." (in a FL accent) "... but you think you can do me a favor? I really want some curly fries before i go to prison, can i buy a large?". And he started to take his money and hand it to me, so i said "You know what man? If you're going to prison the fries on me. Let me make some fresh for you". So im cooking them and hes still talking to me saying things like "i apologize if i scared you, i didnt realize i looked this bad".....I just told him it was all good and gave him his fries and wished him the best. He was a regular id seen three times a week or so, but after that i never saw him again.

it was a weird night.