Hpecker

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Hovertext: Also your children like their stepfather better.

Hey, I did a guest comic over at Cy&H. It's a bit NSFW, so people who happen to be my parents are not allowed to click this link. 

Good, now I’ve drawn what a dumpster fire looks like.

elaxisfae:

onlyblackgirl:

The history of film in one scene

When people on tumblr try to say a movie was “inaccurate” because it had black people in it.

Change “fighter” to “monk” and you’ve got yourself a deal

Hovertext: That said, if anyone wants to invent a food pellet machine for humans, I'll buy it.

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Hovertext: GOD why are friends and relations FOREVER informing me of major life moments?

mxbrightside:

fun fact: “star wars” is actually an acronym for the names of the main protagonists of the original triolgy. just look

Skywalker, Luke
Threepio
A big hairy guy
R2-D2

Wax Rebo (Max Rebo’s cousin)
An Solo
Rebel lady
Shit guys that’s Yoda

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is still paying a pension earned by a Civil War soldier.

Union infantryman Mose Triplett was 19 at the war’s end in 1865. In the 1920s he married a woman nearly 50 years his junior, and they had a daughter, Irene, in 1930, when Mose was 83 and his wife was 34.

Irene Triplett, now 85 years old and the last child of any Civil War veteran still on the VA benefits rolls, lives today in a nursing home in Wilkesboro, N.C. She collects $73.13 each month through the pension her father earned for her in 1865.

(Thanks, Tom.)

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And to think he passed on fighting Megaman for this date.

Hovertext: IT'S NOT TOO LATE. WE CAN DO THIS. WE MUST DO THIS.

Client : My computer is f***ed up.

Me: What does the error message say?

Client : It says “Windows is f***ed.”

Me: Right.  What is the exact wording of the error message?  I need to know what happened.

Client : I didn’t do anything.  I just clicked a bunch of crap and now it says “Windows is f***ed.”

I told him to call me back when he could actually read the error message to me and I hung up.  He never called back.

Hovertext: Also there were fewer teenage pregnancies because nobody had invented the calendar.

Super Tuesday’s coming up #drunkjcrew #hillaryclinton #berniesanders #supertuesday @drunkjcrewuguys

“and this one is in the shape of the word ‘gamer,’ and bios starts up with a shotgun noise, a chainsaw noise, and a sexy moan. you can disable the shotgun noise though”

Jeez, if you’re so stupid that you can’t understand that white and black people have a profoundly different experience and even rights and those plain facts make these sentiments vastly different in a way that even fucking idiots can see, maybe you should stop writing in webpages where people with even a small amount of competence can tear your pathetic argument to shreds without any effort? I don’t know, just a thought.

Is it rational to believe in the existence of a superior being? In 1982, New York University political scientist Steven J. Brams addressed the question using game theory. Assume that SB (the superior being) chooses whether to reveal himself, and P (a person) chooses whether to believe in SB’s existence. The two players have the following goals:

SB: Primary goal — wants P to believe in his existence. Secondary goal — prefers not to reveal himself.
P: Primary goal — wants belief (or nonbelief) in SB’s existence confirmed by evidence (or lack thereof). Secondary goal — prefers to believe in SB’s existence.

These goals determine the rankings of the four outcomes listed above. In each ordered pair, the first number refers to SB’s preference for that outcome (4 is high, 1 is low), and the second number refers to P’s preference. For example, SB prefers the two outcomes in which P believes in SB’s existence (because that’s his primary goal), and of these two outcomes, he prefers the one in which he doesn’t reveal himself (because that’s his secondary goal).

Brams finds a paradox here. If the game is one of complete information, then P knows that SB prefers not to reveal himself — that is, that SB prefers the second row to the first, regardless of P’s choice. And if SB will undoubtedly choose the second row, then P should choose his own preferred cell in that row, the second one. This makes (2, 3) the rational outcome of the game; it’s also the only outcome that neither player would choose unilaterally to depart once it’s chosen. And yet outcome (3, 4) would be preferred by both to (2, 3).

“Thus,” writes Brams, “not only is it rational for SB not to reveal himself and for P not to believe in his existence — a problem in itself for a theist if SB is God — but, more problematic for the rationalist, this outcome is unmistakably worse for both players than revelation by SB and belief by P, which would confirm P’s belief in SB’s existence.”

(Steven J. Brams, Superior Beings, 1983. This example is drawn largely from his paper “Belief in God: A Game-Theoretic Paradox,” in International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 13:3 [1982], 121-129.)

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Hell yas

htdiary:

transstudent:

What Cis People Say To Trans People Vs. What We Hear

By Meredith Talusan and Rory Midhani

TRANSlator 3000: Amazing technology translates cissexist BS!

“Oh you’re trans but you look so good!”
“Trans people are ugly.”

“I’ve never met a trans person before.”
“I assume I can identify any trans person.”

“I would date a trans person.”
“Trans people are usually undateable so I deserve a prize.” 

“You look just like a real woman.”
“Trans women aren’t really women.”

“I’m glad you’re being honest with me about being trans.”
“Trans people who don’t tell me they’re trans are deceivers and liars.”

“I loooooove trans people!”
“I fetishize trans people.”

“It’s so hard to switch pronouns.”
“Trans people are an inconvenience to me.”

“I don’t have a problem with trans people.”
“I have a problem with trans people.” 

😩 life

Hovertext: Also, there's the Red Queen, who keeps moving while staying in the same place.

Proposed in 1953 by both John McCarthy and Alan Turing independently, and posthumously folded into a single theoretical concept, the McCarthy-Turing Boundary is described as

a form of unpreventable race condition resulting from the increasing complexity of an evolving artificial intelligence, in which eventually 100% of processing time is used to draw ASCII dicks

It appears that an unconstrained AI program, over time, will attempt to answer the question “how long of an ASCII dick is it possible to draw?” which any computer scientist will recognize as a variant of the Halting Problem.

i will let someone else do a joke about NP-complete vs. NP-hard

maximumbuttitude:

when will Ted himself.. finally show up to the Talk ?

Real talk

A client asked me to make a Facebook page for his company. I did, and then told him to “like” the page so that I could make him an admin. He then sent me some of the funniest emails I’ve ever read.

Client: I don’t have personal media yet. I have to have one in order to make a “like” right?

Eleven minutes later.

Client: I meant persona media.

One minute later.

Client: Social media.