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ook_the_librarian

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My namesake is a human librarian that was turned into an orangutan. All he says is “Ook” and can traverse the library stacks with great ease. He is happy.

I have a pretty strange knowledge set. I’m not super friendly, but I like to get high and link people to stuff. Just pretend I said only “ook”

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And yet they had purple onions. Curious.

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It was stupid to use a kids show as an example. That episode aired in 2002. Only a small slice of people born 1980 to 2000 would care.

The other examples had an audience with a much wider age range.

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How do people deal with getting older when the hottest girls are out of your age range.

There are certain qualities a man needs to consistently attract hot women. Age does not matter as much as one would think. It certainly doesn’t matter in a way that is fair to women.

So as the hottest girls leave my age range, I don’t much think about it. I’m turning 40 this year, and I’m worrying about how old I’ll be at my kids’ graduations not what any 20-somethings think about old man me.

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You’re the guy in the middle by the way.

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I don’t know why you see it as an error. It’s the format of the meme. The guy in the middle is right, the guy on the left is wrong. That’s just how this meme works. But the punchline in this meme format is the the guy on the right agrees with the wrong guy in an unexpected way. I’m with the guy on the right and no appeals to Schröder–Bernstein theorem is going to change my mind.

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I’m super confused. It seems most of this conversation misses the meme format. Everyone is agreeing with the middle guy. That’s how the meme works. The middle guy is right, but that’s not the point. It’s like I’m taking crazy pills.

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While I wish I didn’t just learn this meme’s far-right origins, I have to disagree with you. The middle guy is supposed to give a correct and boring answer. The left guy is supposed to give a common and wrong answer, and the guy on the right is supposed to have an enlightened view of the wrong guy’s answer. The best example I’ve seen is the one:

  • [wrong] Frankenstein is the monster.
  • [average] No, Frankenstein is the doctor.
  • [enlightened] Frankenstein is the monster.

It’s still wrong to say Frankenstein was the monster. It’s deliberately misleading. So yeah, the money is the same amount, but I’d rather have a secret endless stash of hundreds than singles.

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If you take the average interpretation of “police can’t …” to mean “it’s illegal for the police to …”, then yes, the average guy is right in a boring (and tautological) way. I don’t think that’s an unreasonable way for the average person to interpret the [average] line. The meme hopes to get you thinking about the last line.

Now this money example is particularly hard to argue since if you have the interpretation that the dollar will collapse, or if you think you have to store this money, then, all resolutions suck.

If a genie were to say to me, “Anytime you need money, you can reach in your pocket and pull out a bill. Would you like it to always be $1 or always be $100?”, I think I would agree with the enlightened guy here, even though I know the boring answer is right.

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Dr. Frankenstein is not a monster for creating an actual monster. He is a monster for abandoning his creation and escaping the responsibility of care for his creation.

I thought we were having a friendly chat, but you really insulted my intelligence there. Do you think I would have found that meme remotely interesting if I thought Frankenstein had terminals on his neck?

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I confused though. You seem to think I didn’t quite get the format, but I feel I’ve explained how I see it, and don’t see any contrast with the meme you posted. So far that’s three in the format as I understand it.

So, if your answer to the genie question I asked a bit ago is “$100s please”, then the meme would speak to you. If you truly don’t care, the guy on right is wrong in your book. I’m in the “$100s please” camp.

ook_the_librarian,
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No brainer. Take the money. Global warming exists. WWIII might be happening. What’s the point in being a depressed 6 year-old?

ook_the_librarian, (edited )
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I hope you had their permission before putting their password out there where anyone could read it.

ook_the_librarian,
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Never thought about it. In hindsight “not part of a maga agenda” makes for much better lyrics.

ook_the_librarian,
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He’s 2 dimensional. There is no delta P.

ook_the_librarian,
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Ahh. It was copyright keeping us safe from that.

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Each timezone.

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awk will always have a soft spot for me, but I can see why not many take the time to learn it. It tends to be needed right there at the border of problem complexity where you are probably better using a full-fledged scripting tool.

But learning awk is great for that “now you’re thinking in pipes” ah-hah moment.

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It’s the only way this meme makes sense. It’s a complaint that humans don’t like the average of the temperates that produce the feelings of extreme hot and extreme cold. You’d have to change math, change physiology, or lose linearity.

ook_the_librarian,
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None of those scales have negative scalars.

ook_the_librarian,
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That negative number comes from taking a logarithm of a number less than one. Not from a negative scalar.

ook_the_librarian,
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My plastic flap is still intact. Probably because I only ever had it open since I couldnt be bothered to use the rear ports.

ook_the_librarian,
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And honestly, don’t knock it til you rock it. Not saying I routinely pour a highball of the stuff, but a small amount is surprisingly smooth. It’s no grosser than a white russian imo.

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Oh no, you were double-booked!

ook_the_librarian,
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Are you upset that the Oscars only consider films and not books?

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Look at that photo. It’s such a small part, but he posed for a great photo. I only notice as an adult who has tried to take a photo of kids. Man, they don’t know how to “smile naturally” or take any direction. Then this kid nails “smile like you like me against my wishes” or whatever direction was given.

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