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Post by Blasted » Wed Dec 19, 2012 8:50 am

What you want to look at is the Barefoot Doctor's Manual, which was the official manual of Mao's barefoot doctors. If you ignore the western equivalents provided, I think it would work very well for you. This was published some time after WW2. I'd be very surprised if during the civil and sino-japanese war traditional medicine advanced at all.

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Post by nockermensch » Wed Dec 19, 2012 12:50 pm

> shadzar wrote:a few things to remember in regards to global warming, etc:
> 1. life needs water to live
> 2. water is always leaving the planet, and moreso with less ozone and other protective layers.
> 3. liquid water leaves quicker than solid water
> 4. solid water becomes liquid water due to global warming
> the warmer it gets, the less life the planet can sustain through levels of water, and people wont stop breeding due to recreational sex and unplanned pregnancy, so the population rate isnt going down. Earth is always being dehydrated.

So I failed my Will save vs. shadzar and read his post. Any sources for this?
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Post by erik » Wed Dec 19, 2012 4:42 pm

> nockermensch wrote:

> > shadzar wrote:a few things to remember in regards to global warming, etc:
> > 1. life needs water to live
> > 2. water is always leaving the planet, and moreso with less ozone and other protective layers.
> > 3. liquid water leaves quicker than solid water
> > 4. solid water becomes liquid water due to global warming
> > the warmer it gets, the less life the planet can sustain through levels of water, and people wont stop breeding due to recreational sex and unplanned pregnancy, so the population rate isnt going down. Earth is always being dehydrated.

> So I failed my Will save vs. shadzar and read his post. Any sources for this?

It breaks down around #2-4 and in total is bullshit.
1. Yeah, life as we know it/care about it, needs water.
2. Hydrogen molecules are always leaving the atmosphere, yes. Oxygen, notsomuch.
3. Neither liquid nor solid water is leaving the planet at any rate... with the exception of the water that we send out on top of rockets. It is gas that is leaving, and it doesn't really matter if it is H2O specifically, so much as that we are losing Hydrogen and Oxygen. And we essentially aren't losing any Oxygen.
4. Yes, but this has nothing to do with how atoms leave the atmosphere. Water molecules are pretty damned heavy and aren't just floating off like Hydrogen does.
About 3 kilograms of hydrogen leave the atmosphere each second. So 1.5 Million Kilos per year. Not nothing. But our rate of Oxygen loss is about nothing. It's too heavy to just float away. It does get sequestered by other atoms and stuck elsewhere, but it isn't floating off into space.
[edit: edited cuz I failed in a couple places.]
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Post by tussock » Fri Dec 21, 2012 8:05 am

Yeh, water vapour loss to space is not a big number (relatively speaking). There's also icy rocks falling from space at a much larger rate. None of which is significant, there's a big old fuck-ton of water down here. There'll still be plenty of water left in three billion years when our slowly-growing sun finally boils all the oceans, and even then it'll stay in the atmosphere (until the sun is going well enough to blast that away too).
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Post by ...You Lost Me » Sun Dec 23, 2012 10:54 pm

I vaguely remember a thread on this board, and somewhere within somebody linked to a google doc that had a big table of "roles" for classes like striker, harrier, controller, etc, and paired them up with different archetypes like necromancy, angels, psionics, etc.
Does anybody know where that thread (and more specifically the google doc) is? My desperate seach is turning up little.

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Post by ishy » Mon Dec 24, 2012 1:35 am

> ...You Lost Me wrote:I vaguely remember a thread on this board, and somewhere within somebody linked to a google doc that had a big table of "roles" for classes like striker, harrier, controller, etc, and paired them up with different archetypes like necromancy, angels, psionics, etc.
> Does anybody know where that thread (and more specifically the google doc) is? My desperate seach is turning up little.

http://tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?p=256283#256283 this one?

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Post by ...You Lost Me » Mon Dec 24, 2012 2:30 am

> ishy wrote:

> > ...You Lost Me wrote:I vaguely remember a thread on this board, and somewhere within somebody linked to a google doc that had a big table of "roles" for classes like striker, harrier, controller, etc, and paired them up with different archetypes like necromancy, angels, psionics, etc.
> > Does anybody know where that thread (and more specifically the google doc) is? My desperate seach is turning up little.

> http://tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?p=256283#256283 this one?

Yessir!

> DSMatticus wrote:Again, look at this fucking map you moron. Take your finger and trace each country's coast, then trace its claim line. Even you - and I say that as someone who could not think less of your intelligence - should be able to tell that one of these things is not like the other.

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Post by Leress » Thu Dec 27, 2012 6:39 pm

What do you call a horse with a unicorn horn and wings? Is it a winged unicorn or horned Pegasus?

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Post by Prak » Thu Dec 27, 2012 6:47 pm

Alicorn.
Also, I would point out that Pegasi should be called Winged Horses. The normal way is like calling humans Chuck Norrises.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.

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Post by Ted the Flayer » Thu Dec 27, 2012 9:39 pm

Is the second a in the word "caramel" silent?
My dad insists that pronouncing it CAR-a-mel makes me sound uneducated. To me, CAR-mel sounds like something a hick says.

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Post by Prak » Thu Dec 27, 2012 9:51 pm

No, Miriam Webster says it's pronounced. Carmel is a place. Caramel is a delicious burnt sugar substance.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.

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> FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
> You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.

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Post by Cynic » Thu Dec 27, 2012 9:54 pm

Words are.pronounced differeently based.on the area you live in. Sometime the.area.doesn't.even matter. Example route(pronounced rout) or route (pronounced root). You are as in the right as your dad.

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Post by Korgan0 » Fri Dec 28, 2012 12:19 am

Every american I've met pronounces it carmel; back in Australia everyone says caramel.
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Post by Emerald » Fri Dec 28, 2012 8:10 am

I'm an American who pronounces it caramel, and the same for most of my friends, so I suppose it depends on the area like Cynic said.
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Post by Shrapnel » Fri Dec 28, 2012 2:01 pm

I'm American and pronounce it "caramel" as well. Maybe your dad needs to go out more (no offense).
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Post by tussock » Fri Dec 28, 2012 4:18 pm

> CAR-a-mel

For NZenglish, the proper enunciation is k'-ruh-mw'. Like your mouth is full of it, only for everything else too.
"nuh'n' I li' bette' 'n tha' k'ruhmw' ch'lut, ay."
"yeah, nah."
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Post by Shrapnel » Fri Dec 28, 2012 5:44 pm

That looks like a cross between a Bostonian accent and some Lovecraftian language. I dig it.
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Post by shadzar » Fri Dec 28, 2012 6:38 pm

CAR-mull
or
CARE-uh-mull
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Post by fectin » Fri Dec 28, 2012 7:09 pm

OED says Ted is right.

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Post by Username17 » Sat Dec 29, 2012 11:42 am

Google Translate has a thing where you can listen to words being spoken. They happen to say "Care - Uh - Mell" on that one. But I think it's far more interesting that they have put in the word "bootylicious" that you can listen to.
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Post by Prak » Sat Dec 29, 2012 8:41 pm

That's hilarious. Try pasting the lyrics of the song Bootylicious into google translate.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.

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Post by Voss » Sun Dec 30, 2012 4:42 am

> Leress wrote:What do you call a horse with a unicorn horn and wings? Is it a winged unicorn or horned Pegasus?

Despite Prak's quick answer... generally speaking, alicorn is just the horn of a unicorn (or narwhal).
But what kind of context are you talking about? If it is my little pony, then the writers may have sort of bowed to the fandom on this one (though both the opening of the first episode of FIM referred to Celestia and Luna flatly as unicorns, and Twilight backs this up during the royal wedding during one of the nostalgia scenes by referring to Cadance as a unicorn as well.
Otherwise, unless you are Piers Anthony (or like his shitty porn), you don't refer to a winged and horned horse this way.
From the standpoint of mythology or folklore, people will just look at you funny.
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Post by Prak » Sun Dec 30, 2012 10:22 am

Huh, I'd always heard, as far as a specific term is concerned, Alicorn. I mean, when I was a kid the girls in class would call them winged unicorns, but...
Didn't realize that alicorn... wasn't the actual term.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.

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> FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
> You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.

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Post by Username17 » Sun Dec 30, 2012 12:03 pm

> Prak_Anima wrote:Huh, I'd always heard, as far as a specific term is concerned, Alicorn. I mean, when I was a kid the girls in class would call them winged unicorns, but...
> Didn't realize that alicorn... wasn't the actual term.

Alicorn is indeed the horn on the head of a unicorn. Piers Anthony used the term "Alicorn" to mean "Winged Unicorn" in his 1993 book "Demons Don't Dream". This is the sixteenth Xanth book, and well after Piers Anthony became a really creepy pedophile. The preceding book is called The Color of Her Panties and the book after is called Happy Thyme. He seriously wasn't even pretending at that point. The book in question is about a boy fighting censorship and fucking a fish. I am not making that up.
The fact that My Little Pony fandom has latched onto terminology from a disturbing work of furry child molestation says fairly bad things about Bronies as a whole, to be honest.
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Post by Shrapnel » Sun Dec 30, 2012 4:05 pm

I've been saying that all along.
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