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The Simpsons Stonecutters Song

nnieLowe · 1.2M views · 2009-09-29 · 0:58

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A fan-made video of the Simpsons Stonecutters Song, in which a secret society takes credit for controlling world affairs, with lyrics and stills from the show.

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Used purely as a joke reply when a thread touches on secret groups or conspiratorial control.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2014–2019

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schappim · 2019-11 · Joke / meme

Certainly, the key is hot air needs to be able to get away from the SoC. For my home lab, I don't bother with the fans/cases and instead just stack the Pis with brass spacers. I haven't had any issues yet with the ambient room temperature around 20-22ºC (68-71.6ºF for the stonecutters who keep the metric system down[1]). [1] [VIDEO]

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GFK_of_xmaspast · 2016-03 · Joke / meme

> The reason they don't have roadmaps to AGI is because they do not want AGI to be made before the Friendly AI problem has been solved Reminds me of: [VIDEO]

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maxcan · 2014-01 · Joke / meme

s/flown/ridden/. FTFY. I'm going to guess you weren't at the controls. Also, fair point. I have personally been holding back private supersonic travel for decades. I killed the 2707 a few years before my birth and worse than that, I personally lifted 2 billion Indians and Chinese out of poverty solely to cause demand for fuel (and thus prices) to skyrocket so that in case anyone managed to build an SST, it would be uneconomical. I'm the inspiration for [VIDEO] P.S. I'm a pilot who flies (not just rides) planes and I'd love to fly or ride this thing, doesn't mean it will ever happen.

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