Monday, March 7, 2016

Three Things You Can Say to Instantly Prove Yer A Complete Idiot


Intro!


I'm always willing to give anyone a chance -- until they open their mouths and prove they're a complete idiot. Here's three things fairly common in the "wizarding world" people say which prove them to be stupendiously stupid.

I. Speaketh tha word "quantum"


If you're one of those people who pepper mask your blatant ignorance with the word "quantum" (in other words, have never stepped in a lab and use the word frequently) -- I gots a challenge for ya.


Das Challenge:

1. Define quantum.

No, don't look it up. Open up notepad or get a scrap of paper and commit your definition to paper so you can't lie to yourself about it later. (Self-deception's a bitch, bitch.)

2, Look it up.

If you're having trouble with this concept, simply go here (http://www.google.com), type in the phrase (with quotes) "quantum definition."  If you don't know what to do from this point, kill yourself.

3. Compare your definition with the actual definition.

Not the same are they?

Dumbass.

4. Caveat!

Yes, I understand that this word is tied into a "science as myth" er.. myth which has some value (as myth, not science!) as it points out that not everything is known. On the other hand, like no shit, Sherlock, as anyone who doesn't think they already know everything already knows this shockingly basic fact. Referencing the infamously and halariously misunderstood Double Slit Experiment nor rambling on about quantum bullshit whatever isn't required whatsoever. In fact, it's kinda like masterbation.

II. Use the word "syncronicity" 


I know, people like to use this word because it's surrounded in mystery. Ooooh -- a "meaningful coincidence", how unexplained! Well, not so much anymore. All syncronicity boils down to is an side-effect of perceptual priming. If you're not familiar with the term, that's cool, so I'll give you an analogy. However, if you're a real dim bulb, it won't brighten you one bit..

Perceptual priming works like putting on a very slightly green-tinted pair of glasses: when you wear them (when your perception is primed a certain way) you see everything slightly tinted in green, but probably don't ordinarily notice it because it's a very, very light tint of green. That is, until you look at something with a large white field and think "Holy shit, this ordinarily white sheet of paper is extraodinarily green today." If you see something else with a larg white field -- holy shit -- syncronicity! Then you take off the glasses (your perception is bent another way) the "green" disappears, and thus the salience of "green whites".

For someone like me (in other words, for me, from my point of view, yet masked, through language), people who use the term synchonicity are more idiotic than merely being the kind who open their mouth and prove they know dick and shit about what they speak -- it also shows they have a shocking lack of self-awareness. (Figure that one out yourself.)


III. Tell any tale involving your own so-called precognitive dreams


So, you're full of shit. You want people to think you're not. What's such a person to do? You're going to need something that nobody will be able to investigate and thus will have to take your word for it.

Uhhh...Dreams! Nobody can say whether you dreamed or didn't dream about anything in particular or even at all. In fact, the facts about your dreams are so securely and unverifiably private that you can stand anywhere in your flaming liar pants and claim you precognitive dreamed anything. (And as I always say: If you're going to lie, why not lie outrageously? Both are equally as valid, so you might as well have fun.)

What never ceases to amaze me is that people are amazed by any git who claims to be a psychic after the fact by route of their own dreams. Meh, stupid people to the stupid.

IV. Bonus! Use syncronicity in combiation with your tale about any of your so-called precognitive dreams


Double dumb to the extreme self-explanitory degree.

V. Y so serious?


This section exists for one and only one reason: I like the number five in roman numerals. It's a V! :)

17 comments:

  1. Disagree with the some of that synchronicity stuff. Sometimes people think about something, go about their day-to-day lives, and then something later happens that lines up nicely with that they were thinking about. Sometimes people think "huh, isn't that weird?".

    These coincidences can be the result of attention, perception, psychology or a variety of other things. Who knows? Magick could also be at fault.

    Discussing them isn't a bad thing. Questioning why they happen isn't a bad thing. Proposing why they happen and also providing a means for that proposed explanation to be tested also isn't a bad thing.

    What's bad is making definitive statements about what it is, without ever testing it. Or saying you know, without having established proof either way. Or making unfalsifiable claims about pretty much anything (god, spirits, subtle energy, etc).

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    1. I appreciate your response.

      "What's bad is making definitive statements about what it is, without ever testing it. Or saying you know, without having established proof either way."

      The thing is that I wasn't trying to establish proof in the case of synchronicity. I only was trying to get the gist across.

      I can prove it if you want. It's basic basic psychology. Are you up for proofs? :)

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    2. Nah, it's cool. Don't got enough time. (Also, it's my day off. Too few and to far in between. Gonna be busy sleeping, resting, relaxing. 60h a week in two jobs is too much.)

      You did get the gist of your point across, though. And for other topics, getting psychology proofs in there would be awesome. Or using psychology to help convey your point.

      Like this link:

      http://runesoup.com/2012/03/ultimate-sigil-magic-guide/

      That kind of stuff is awesome.

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    3. 60h? That sucks. What do you do?

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    4. Two jobs. One's at a datacenter for a big company. Another one's working at a fast food place.

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    5. I've done the fast food gig. What's the datacenter like?

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    6. I've done the fast food gig. What's the datacenter like?

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    7. It's busy. Think of a giant room, filled with floor tiles, and the room is very windy (wind blowing from bottom, upwards) at 55F. Rows and rows of PCs.

      My job involves a lot of paperwork, walking to the machines to check and perform daily tasks, going back to my desk, answering phone calls, etc. Boring job. Mostly waiting around for things to go horribly wrong (they eventually do). Lots of YouTube in the meantime.

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    8. Thanks :)

      I'm assuming you've got a lot of server racks. I've always wondered: How do you run a diagnostic on something like a blade server that doesn't have a direct input or output devices (keyboard, monitor, printer)?

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    9. There are USB ports in the front, and often VGA connectors as well. A cart (with a monitor) roll over to the machine, power cords connect the monitor, and a mouse and keyboard are connected via the front I/O. (Sometimes they include a PS/2 mouse and keyboard on the front I/O. The cart will usually have PS/2 mice and keyboards, and USB mice and keyboards.)

      Once all that needs doing is taken care of, all I/O devices are unplugged, and same with the power cord powering the cart's monitor.

      Often times, though, they'll use a Remote Access card (DRAC for Dell, ILO for HP) that is basically a video stream so that the device can be diagnosed over the network. Datacenter workers often take these carts up to the machines, configure those remote access cards using the Datacenter's standards, and then the client takes care of it from there. Probably Sys Admin, DBA, back-end web dev, etc.

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    10. Thanks. I considered the possibility that since they're servers that they'd be accessed as, well, servers. The rolling table of devices though -- had no clue. :)

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    11. Thanks. I considered the possibility that since they're servers that they'd be accessed as, well, servers. The rolling table of devices though -- had no clue. :)

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  2. My overall main purpose was to take a shot at things people do which are useless.

    I could have addressed it as a whole more directly and with a little less "umphh". I still think I did a good job with "quantum" though. Hmm... **Briefly considers using the word in entirely inappropriate situations, for example I could always address my left nut as my quantum left nut... because... you know -- it's special ...but I digress.**

    What use is synchronicity? For me the best use has been as an indicator of perceptual priming. :) You?

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    1. Hhmmm. Well, depends. Sometimes I've found that there's a really big pooling of off unlikely, yet somehow desirable events.

      Yesterday I and my co-worker were discussing that a UFC fighter had come in a few weeks ago. Later on yesterday (the same day!), he walks in and gets some food. Kinda weird and awesome. Not really useful (since it doesn't always work, and often can't be controlled), but somewhat cool.

      These weird "coincidences" (or synchronicities) may be just a glitch in our perception. But it's kind of weird that people you want to meet somehow pop up in your life, often in a long string one after the other. I've met a DRAM designer from Micron, a game developer from my favorite game studio, and more. People who work the jobs in industries I'm interested in learning more about seem to all pop up out of "randomness" (not the correct use of that word, hence quotes), and these weird "coincidences" (see previous parentheses) all happen within a short span of time (a few months, in my case).

      This is bound to happen in a truly random system anyways, no doubt. But it's odd how tightly grouped they are, when they do happen. That is the odd part. Because if it were truly random, you'd expect it to be much more uniform. Or to be far more isolated cases, rather than several large groupings and fewer isolated cases than there are large groupings.

      But again, could just as well be perceptual trickery of the mind trying to recognize patterns.

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    2. Your post made me realize that there's another psychological principle that applies. :)

      I need to recharge me quantum brain a bit before I respond. For now, much thanks for the excellent food for thought.

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    3. "Not really useful (since it doesn't always work, and often can't be controlled), but somewhat cool."

      Ok. Well. How is it cool?

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    4. "Not really useful (since it doesn't always work, and often can't be controlled), but somewhat cool."

      Ok. Well. How is it cool?

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