Time for a twelve-year-necro, but tbh, it's kinda worth it:
https://www.engadget.com/darpa-helped-make-a-sarcasm-detector-because-of-course-it-did-193037356.html
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- 21 May 2021, 15:02
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Jer? I think we have a solution for you.
- Replies: 56
- Views: 6245
- 20 Feb 2018, 11:23
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Venting Thread Delta - Now With Easy to Follow Rules
- Replies: 7432
- Views: 441144
Re: Venting Thread Delta - Now With Easy to Follow Rules
My hearing degradation is getting worse; I can't even listen to a movie trailer because the soundtrack (which is background music and is mixed to be so) STILL drowns out the dialogue for me. And to top it all off, I struggled to setup the perfect setting to try to hear one offhand remark in one such...
- 02 Jan 2018, 10:12
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Venting Thread Delta - Now With Easy to Follow Rules
- Replies: 7432
- Views: 441144
Re: Venting Thread Delta - Now With Easy to Follow Rules
2018 can go jump in the rancid dumpster fire remains of its two previous brethren! Two days into this year and already it's FUCKED me six ways from Sunday. Worked New Year's Day (cab driver), and we had some light flurries over the course of the day, so when I dropped off the cab, I needed to brush ...
- 19 Dec 2017, 12:44
- Forum: Magnum Rewatch
- Topic: Magnum Rewatch 27 - The Sixth Position
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8613
Re: Magnum Rewatch 27 - The Sixth Position
Oh dear; something belatedly occurs to me. Of course, I realize the likely reason is to wait until she's old enough to be trusted to safely amuse herself (in her room, or whatever) while G&K are doing the re-watch 'recording'. ...what if they were waiting for Penelope to get to an age where she ...
- 27 Feb 2017, 01:35
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Venting Thread Delta - Now With Easy to Follow Rules
- Replies: 7432
- Views: 441144
Re: Venting Thread Delta - Now With Easy to Follow Rules
Great; it seem Amerika had at least sorted out ONE contentious issue, and then Drumpf had to go undo any resolution and bring up the issue of 'Trans in bathrooms' AGAIN. You wanna know the solution? HERE: ABOLISH MULTIPLE-OCCUPANCY BATHROOMS. Your mall has a large 'men's room' and another large 'wom...
- 15 Jan 2017, 14:53
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Worst game ever? You tell me.
- Replies: 106
- Views: 16475
Re: Worst game ever? You tell me.
Welcome back, Slack.
Your presence always cheers us and makes the forums a better place.
Your presence always cheers us and makes the forums a better place.
- 24 Nov 2016, 13:36
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Venting Thread Delta - Now With Easy to Follow Rules
- Replies: 7432
- Views: 441144
Re: Venting Thread Delta - Now With Easy to Follow Rules
...from what I've heard - 'consumers' who have never worked in retail tend to loathe The Christmas Music™, too. But yeah, after nine years, that brief period of "Hey, some different stuff on the PA for a change. Cool!" that occurs before the "This is the sixth time I've heard Little D...
- 21 Nov 2016, 14:15
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Stream Shelter Announcements
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2460
Re: Stream Shelter Announcements
Sieg Reyu wrote:Feel like you should probably include this in the main post Stream Schedule Sheet
....herp
(thanks for the reminder! )
- 15 Nov 2016, 15:54
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The voxlunch stream shelter thread
- Replies: 140
- Views: 40362
Re: The voxlunch stream shelter thread
Elomin Sha wrote:You mean weak.
Actually I kinda like the pun; we might even adopt that as a slogan "Stream Shelter: Sanity is for the Week! (YMMV after 7 days)".
- 15 Nov 2016, 11:39
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Mixed Emotion Thread
- Replies: 2772
- Views: 138031
Re: The Mixed Emotion Thread
Just had a job interview; it was a lock - as soon as I showed up I had the job, the rest of the time was just some paperwork and training. :) The mixed emotion is - uniquely I did this while gainfully employed already (though the term is 'underemployed'), so I also had to give notice with my current...
- 14 Nov 2016, 16:16
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Stream Shelter Announcements
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2460
Stream Shelter Announcements
Hey, y'all. There's be a fair amount of distraction from the actual purpose of the Stream Shelter that Alex proposed and started up; I think someone else has put it most succinctly: (emphasis mine) Alex himself said The Shelter wasn't meant to be a place for people to bury their heads in the sand, n...
- 14 Nov 2016, 16:14
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Alex's Stream Shelter? Safe Spaces? Echo Chambers? DISCUSS.
- Replies: 133
- Views: 39493
Alex's Stream Shelter? Safe Spaces? Echo Chambers? DISCUSS.
Right. The forum populace has had some lively debate about an issue, and despite the appropriateness of discussing this in a thread meant merely as a notification (poorly, admittedly, but still), the debate IS VALUED. As such, the same discourse is encouraged, either in the original thread , or here.
- 11 Nov 2016, 15:58
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Venting Thread Delta - Now With Easy to Follow Rules
- Replies: 7432
- Views: 441144
Re: Venting Thread Delta - Now With Easy to Follow Rules
That particular little headache that forms just over your eye when you try to do something to help others with a problem that you, yourself, don't have... ...and then your attempt gets shit all over and deliberately counteracted by a belligerent troll, whom also doesn't have the problem and thinks '...
- 11 Nov 2016, 12:03
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The voxlunch stream shelter thread
- Replies: 140
- Views: 40362
Re: The voxlunch stream shelter thread
Okay, let's put it like this: The "Stream Shelter" is the local. It's the gym where you go to have a post-workday exercise. It's the quiet nook where you snuggle under a blanket and sip a cuppa. It is a place for some people to go where they can sort out everything they're dealing with. Fo...
- 07 Nov 2016, 07:20
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Politics and the Vague Fear of Something Called Donald Trump
- Replies: 191
- Views: 54719
Re: Politics and the Vague Fear of Something Called Donald T
Here's a 'definitely not gonna happen, but what if' contingency: Drumpf gets criminal fraud charges levelled against him, AND Clinton has something more culpable than "Grandma, you don't put that there !" come out of Bill's private email server, and they're both suddenly ineligible to run ...
- 01 Nov 2016, 12:27
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: How are you feeling... in song
- Replies: 511
- Views: 56140
Re: How are you feeling... in song
Off with your head Dance 'til you're dead Heads will roll Heads will roll Heads will roll On the floor Glitter on the west streets Silver over everything The rivers all wet You're all chrome Dripping with alchemy Shiver stop shivering The glitter's all wet You're all chrome The men cry out the girl...
- 29 Oct 2016, 02:14
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Oh no! Uwe Boll Quits Film Making
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2793
Re: Oh no! Uwe Boll Quits Film Making
Okay. I can see that; originally when the article said he was stopping because he wasn't making any money anymore, I'd assumed Germany was cutting back on the tax incentives and write-offs it was offering film productions, and he wasn't able to make his 'films' as cheaply. But yeah, this makes even ...
- 27 Oct 2016, 14:18
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Oh no! Uwe Boll Quits Film Making
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2793
- 04 Oct 2016, 11:45
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The General Chat thread
- Replies: 6647
- Views: 395950
Re: The General Chat thread
Well, it WILL feel weird; I always thought of it as "Well I'm not 'old' yet...but I'm not 'young' anymore, either. And since I always felt 'young' up to now, that's where the odd-feeling's coming in." There's nothing wrong with it; it just is. I started getting white in my temples, and my ...
- 27 Sep 2016, 08:37
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Canadian Electoral Reform Survey - Please Pass it On!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5643
Re: Canadian Electoral Reform Survey - Please Pass it On!
Well, mandatory voting with your specific option to decline sounds like a decent compromise. A person gets counted, and still has the alternative having to 'choose the best of a bad lot'. Most of the ideas the survey offered has potential; I will be forthright and state that I usually answered #4 - ...
- 15 Aug 2016, 01:58
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Mixed Emotion Thread
- Replies: 2772
- Views: 138031
Re: The Mixed Emotion Thread
Maybe that's why they were dragging their feet with the 1st position; they knew the 2nd was coming up, and they already had you in mind?
Anyways, congrats!
Anyways, congrats!
- 13 Aug 2016, 02:46
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Mixed Emotion Thread
- Replies: 2772
- Views: 138031
Re: The Mixed Emotion Thread
"Don't despair, Mr. Stimpson."
"It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand."
"It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand."
- 02 Aug 2016, 12:42
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Venting Thread Delta - Now With Easy to Follow Rules
- Replies: 7432
- Views: 441144
Re: Venting Thread Delta - Now With Easy to Follow Rules
*Reads Hosks post* *Has the sudden urge to book a ticket to the US to give someone a "10%" disability...* You plan a layover at St. John's International on the way, I'll join you for the rest of the trip and I think we can wrangle 80% out of the burro-crat...either for Hosk, or for the af...
- 27 Jul 2016, 13:04
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The thread of win
- Replies: 7651
- Views: 340119
Re: The thread of win
Yeah, the bulk of the job is FINE for me - I love to drive, I enjoy planning my way through traffic and across a byzantine network of overgrown cowpaths they call 'city planning' in this place ;), I like helping people... ...it's just the drop in the price of oil (which this region is depending on) ...
- 27 Jul 2016, 01:51
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The thread of win
- Replies: 7651
- Views: 340119
Re: The thread of win
Fingers crossed and mojo aimed in your direction, Jam! Yesterday was a pretty profitable day in the taxi - usually I'll gross "a ton and gas" or a hundred dollars plus the cost of gas, maybe a little below or above. But thanks to a little remembering when and where some high-paying booked ...