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« Reply #585 on: April 26, 2016, 02:10:50 am »
True. But push to talk was pretty damn close, design aesthetics notwithstanding. And touch screens. And I forget what they called that thing Nimoy was always carrying around when they'd go off exploring. Now we call it either Google or Siri. And big screen tvs are getting there.
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« Reply #586 on: April 26, 2016, 10:54:46 am »
Spock's device was the Tricorder, a very versatile telemetry device. Newer handheld medical multimeters are already close to Dr. McCoy's version, but handheld examination scanners (micro CTs) are a ways off yet.
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« Reply #587 on: April 26, 2016, 11:52:47 am »
You know, I don't think I've ever heard of an instance where a woman was sending constant unsolicited and unwanted vagina pics to a man.

Also: "Well, what's so hard about it?" is honestly such a fucking aggravating question. It's like going up to someone having a sudden attack of something they don't know they have and asking them "well, what's so hard about breathing?" Believe me, motherfucker, I'd be motherfucking delighted to find out too and when I do I'll let you know, but in the meantime I can't fucking breathe, acknowledge that instead of implicitly blaming my own stupidity maybe?

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« Reply #588 on: April 29, 2016, 03:17:36 am »
Seneca. I'm also fond of Voltaire, Nietzsche, Zeno, Hume, and Anaximander.
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« Reply #589 on: April 29, 2016, 04:02:04 am »
I like that deranged homeless guy who lives at the park. He has some spooky insights, man.

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« Reply #591 on: April 29, 2016, 11:10:32 am »
Sun Tzu.  He's the only one whose works I've actually read.
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« Reply #592 on: April 29, 2016, 02:50:06 pm »
You're all scrubs. Diogenes was the best philosopher of all time.
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« Reply #593 on: April 29, 2016, 02:55:54 pm »
Markus Kajo: "Long story short, the life of a human being is a journey going from one crisis to another. It is as if you were standing on the ghost train of a carnival with your back to the front of the train: You can only see the past and the present and you will never know when the next rafter will hit the back of your head. But you are certain that it will hit you.

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« Reply #594 on: April 29, 2016, 02:59:35 pm »
Okay, yeah, I see it. But maybe don't read any Markus Kajo for a while.
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« Reply #595 on: April 30, 2016, 02:11:20 am »
Confucius.
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« Reply #596 on: April 30, 2016, 03:06:58 am »
"Favorite philosophies" is a more interesting topic than "favorite philosopher", in my opinion.

Methodological naturalism as a tool of science has a lot going for it.
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« Reply #597 on: April 30, 2016, 05:01:25 am »
Anyone here have a favourite philosopher?

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« Reply #598 on: April 30, 2016, 09:41:49 pm »
So I discovered Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and all I have to say is that it indeed lives up to it's title.

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« Reply #599 on: May 21, 2016, 12:53:16 pm »
Has anyone ever responded to a comment thinking it was a joke, then realized the person was dead serious?

For me it's usually the other way around. #autismproblems