Razbliuto: The sentimental feeling you have about someone you once loved but no longer do.

Chisaku · 2012-05-26T20:28:11.786954+00:00

In terms of concepts of loving/longing that our language doesn't have a word for.

Chisaku · 2012-05-26T04:29:09.286866+00:00

I've always preferred saudade

Saudade describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves. It often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never return.

The_Five · 2 days

I got bit by an ostrich once. Not bad enough for a scar, just a little nip to get me to back off. My own mother was fifty feet away when it happened and she doesn't believe me.

sje46 · 2 days

All sorts of random shit gets stuck in the spam filter every day, but this shit gets more reports than anything ever has in the history of the subreddit and the system doesn't see fit to remove it. Figures.

postdarwin · 3 days

Magnet link for 8 here.

Nourn · 3 days

In the word unbreakable, "break" is a morpheme and a particular form of the lexeme normally written as BREAK (should be in small caps). But I don't think it's a lexeme if it's part of another word. Lexemes aren't about "core meaning" as much as structure (see here). I think the concept you're getting at is closer to the fact that "break" is a root morpheme, "un" an inflectional morpheme, and "able" a derivational morpheme.

donutorium · 4 days

I seem to remember there being some relatively good explanation for this that wasn't vote fuzzing, but I don't remember what it was. Regardless, my total link karma is 1043 and my top submitted link is 1580-something, so there's definitely something going on.

Adding up my link submissions, I get 1610 (-ish, it's fuzzy), but my link karma is 1043, FWIW.

lucanio · 4 days

"A long walk for a short drink of water"? Specifically for when you put way too much work into trying to connect two things, with unimpressive results, like Goldblumming.

a12345678910 · 5 days

This tends to fall into the same category as required reading, in my opinion. Realistically, people either bullshit their way through the bare minimum or their parents force them to take an instrument for years (or they decide they need to play an instrument to get into college and they force themselves to play an instrument until they graduate high school).

a12345678910 · 5 days

About the visual components. Classical music used to be a major component of kids cartoons. Looney Toons are still kind of a thing, but nowhere near as dominant as they used to be. The point being that I went to a kid's concert once where they played a bunch of pieces featured in Looney Toons while they played the cartoons on a screen behind them. Good for bringing in a younger audience, pretty much anybody middle-aged and under will reminisce over it. Same idea, wider net.

phfan · 6 days

It includes five minutes of walking at the beginning and end, as a warmup/cooldown. Also, there isn't actually 1 minute of walking after the last 10 minutes of running, because you have a five minute walk cooldown.

TheresJustNoWay · 6 days

I'm sure someone would see all the new posts at 0

That's part of the problem. In a small enough subreddit, an early downvote or two is enough to make sure that virtually nobody ever sees a submission. It definitely means it won't be on anybody's frontpage, and it can take surprisingly few upvotes to drop it to the bottom of your subreddit's frontpage, or further. So unless you're browsing this tiny subreddit by New, you pretty much won't ever see it.

We had this problem in /r/TipOfMyPenis a while back. For a while I'd go into the New queue twice a day and upvote all the legitimate submissions just to try and get them back up to 1 before they got buried. It's been happening less and less over time, but it still only really takes a downvote or two early on to completely kill a submission.

avsa · 7 days

There are some things droids just aren't very good at. People skills come to mind. 3PO tries to deal with this by being overly polite and careful, but as a result nobody takes him seriously and he comes off as perpetually confused and helpless. R2 avoids this by not speaking, and instead just sort of doing things and hoping nobody will call him on it. This works better for him, depending on the context he comes off as a willful or disobedient pet.

The point being: dogfighting is always assumed, in sci-fi, to be a skill that you can't teach a computer. Pretty much 50% leadership/teamwork, 30% improvisation, 20% scrappy underdoggism.

I'm not entirely sure how legitimate this is. It seems like spatial awareness, communication, and teamwork would all be improved by being robots who can communicate information much more quickly than we can. Not to mention keeping track of the gajillion variables that must be involved in 3D spaceflight/combat. But that's all very theoretical. Look how much trouble we've had trying to get a robot to drive a car. And then scale the complexity up to fighting each other in space. Until your average robot is better at driving a car than I am, I will remain skeptical that R2 would be a better pilot than Biggs or Wedge or whoever.

jbo6527 · 7 days

Love like Anthrax by Gang of Four?

I kind of associate this song with Jet and The Black Keys, but I'm not sure if that means you'd like them.

EDIT: Also, I'm going to second Psycho Killer by The Talking Heads, and further suggest Peaches and (Get a) Grip (On Yourself) by The Stranglers.

supermonkey1313 · 7 days

This is kind of just the way the Fringe universe works. It's usually not anything ridiculous or magical. It's usually just some guy doing some science (even if it takes us a long time to figure that out). It's a lot more reasonable that the alternative.

Maxxters · 9 days

A friend of mine once told my girlfriend that his junk was like a gorilla's. Tiny dick, giant balls. I didn't really know how to react to that situation.

TarmacATK · 11 days

Since TPB only indexes magnet links now, why do people still post TPB links? Why not just post the magnet link? Or at least put it in a comment or something. TPB's down and now I have to rely on some slow-ass DDL site I've never heard of.

EDIT: Found one:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:b09376ab4fbe2e512eac22d5edad92b1e4bdf947&dn=Streamlined+Mythbusters&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.istole.it%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80

Made a lot less convenient by the fact that reddit doesn't support magnet links as links, but still.

GivenToFly · 16 days

Dexter season 7?

alllie · 17 days

You're completely ignoring my point. Editing the bible to support an agenda is not a modern problem, it hasn't been a problem for hundreds of years. It's an irrelevant response to someone talking about modern people reinterpreting the bible to suit their purposes.

alllie · 17 days

The difference between quantum/classical physics and mono/polytheism is that we can factually demonstrate that quantum physics is more accurate than classical mechanics (although it is still a lot less useful at larger scales). Monotheism is a relatively newer idea than polytheism, but there's no way to compare accuracy or meaning. It's just another idea. Monotheism may have "challenged" polytheism, but there aren't any physicists who "don't believe" in quantum physics, whereas something like a billion people are still polytheistic. You'll never fully, objectively define God and physicists will probably never fully, objectively describe the entire universe. But physicists are constantly getting closer and closer to their goal. It doesn't seem like you're getting anywhere, and it's unclear that you'd even know whether you were. That's why it seems like a pointless goal.

alllie · 17 days

Not in the last couple centuries. People are still using the King James bible, which is pretty much unchanged since the 1600s. Your link refers to whose agendas were in mind when it was being written and compiled. It's not like people are re-editing it today to suit their purposes.

ttaylorr · 20 days

It comes off as a little too anti-NBC. They're being "unfair", gave it a "death sentence". I'm too tired to rewrite it myself at the moment, but it might be better if you blame the other shows, for example. "In this timeslot, classic comedies such as () are dominating the marketplace. Put it somewhere else and it might grow". A little more positive.

matude · 21 days

It's always been my impression that the season finales are high-budget, and require higher levels of product placement. So they frontload the product placement and backload the fucking awesome. I may have entirely made this up. But to me this says: they got the budget to do some ridiculous shit in the second part.

sicount · 22 days

One of the things I've always liked about Fringe is that it does not pander. It does not do the generic thing that you expect every TV show has to do (move Heaven and Earth to maintain the status quo and main character lineup, for example). If the story demands that we lose a main character, or the main timeline of the entire show: they fucking do it. We know that Redverse isn't a factor in 2036, and we know that Olivia has to die in every timeline. So if the next season takes place in 2036 without the star of the show and/or an entire universe we've been seeing for a couple years now: I will fucking applaud them because that is ballsy as fuck, and I can respect any choice that puts the integrity of the story above what the people think they want.

arandomthrower · 22 days

One more. That's all I got.

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