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:prof: That's a nice analogy. Yeah, and interestingly enough it makes comparing people to intestinal bacteria not nearly as misanthropic as you'd expect. As to how working on computers brought me to this line of thinking, it's mostly due to the realization that in building the internet, we have bas...

cause i thought there were transhumanoids who were all for post-scarcity and the end of the weirdo market blah demand blah invisible hand blah thing where we'd all be free to make the liberty we've won for ourselves outerhaven etc. Some of them are all about uploading their brain into a computer an...

I find the biggest lol is that a lot of them seem to be under the impression that transhumanism will uplift them (and specifically them) to some higher level of existence.

And not, you know, make them more efficient cogs in the machine.

But you know, every year the world gets bigger, faster and more connected, and every year people just stay the way they always were: dumbly adapting to things they barely understand. I don't think society really knows how to cope with the things its creating. You laugh about 'them' needing civilisa...

it's like does he believe america is special and "socialism", as in slightly differently regulated capitalism, cannot work there? but it can work elsewhere? cause if he thought it couldn't work at all he'd just say that and not add "in america" In a manner of speaking. While soc...

Well you have to understand the American culture of accountability and lack of self control that has led a great number of people eating fast food in great quantities without any concern for how it affects them in the long term. Like the books Fast Food Nation (nobody make the 'just made me want a ...

Dooey Jo wrote:"ladder theory"

I hadn't heard that particular term. I had to look it up.

Now I'm having a hard time figuring out which term is douchier.

starku wrote:Can you take anyone who says friend zone seriously

It's not a completely useless term.

For instance, whenever anyone seriously uses it to describe themselves, it instantly confirms that they are a misogynist permavirgin.

Why does it seems that in real-world engineering, conceiving things in very conservative ways, taking minimums risks and making sure things will works in the most adverse condition is something every engineer should strive for while in software engineering it's all shortcuts and custom "cook-b...

IIRC the USSS was around doing counterfeit shit before they were tasked with protecting the President, but I could be wrong on that one. They did for about 30 years (50 if you only count when Congress officially made them bodyguards). That was just the rationale I heard as to why they keep having c...

Flagg wrote:Actually, they have 2 jobs. And the primary one isn't keeping the President safe, it's going after counterfeiters.

I hear the reasoning for that is that all lower-level agents are given the counterfeit hunting jobs to see if they have the right obsessive personality to be a good bodyguard.

Phantasee wrote:What part of STFU do you two not understand?

This about sums it up

I figure less people are against a handgun registry because handguns are probably used more in violent crimes than long guns are. Most of the time when you hear about a long gun being used in a crime it's the "crazy guy in a clock tower" kind of crime. Probably also because there are more ...

When it was announced that Zimmerman was going to have charges brought against him, she predicted that it would be manslaughter because she didn't think they'd have enough evidence for murder 2. About two and a half hours later, it was confirmed that he was being charged with second degree murder.

btw 9/11 was also provoked and used as an excuse to make more bullshit wars True, though there is a difference between provoked and engineered. Pearl Harbor and 9/11 were provoked, the WMDs in Iraq thing was engineered. Though I have heard it said that Iraq had to have WMDs, because Dick Cheney sti...

fdr engineered an attack on america to bring us into a war for christ's sake Either that, or a complacent pre-military-industrial complex US military was legitimately caught with its pants down by a naval force from a country that had been at war for almost 10 years previous. You're getting pretty ...

like what do you see as the endgame of america deciding that it's miller time when japan's refusing to surrender Even before the bombs dropped there was some overtures from Japan basically saying "Okay you guys are kicking our asses. We'll surrender if you don't make us get rid of the Emperor....

there has to be a reason for that castro says it is because the rich capitalists in control want to use other countries for their own profit and power games basically america hates cuba for their freedom which can inspire other states to stand up for themselves against american business interests T...

And why Is Thanas falling for broomie's blatant attempt to change the subject? Because he will tolerate no criticism of the glorious Fatherland by the Amerikanere. whyistherenocryinggermanyflag.jpg Honestly it's a pretty boring thread because the actual story are Polish and American historians goin...

The thing with Santorum recently reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQzI3k39Cfw

Akhlut wrote:Did SVPD get his nose broken by some guy waling on his face to such an extent that he feared for his very life?

According to his post, he hit a parked car while riding a bike.

Also, just issuing a correction: he didn't say there was no bleeding, he just didn't mention bleeding.

Probably, but considering how badly the Sanford PD dropped the ball (whether intentionally or not), any report released at this point documenting any injuries on Zimmerman would be viewed with suspicion to say the least. It wouldn't be too far-fetched to imagine some unscrupulous cop doctoring up a ...

Continued white knighting confirmed. KS claiming the police magically healed all of Zimmerman's claimed injuries and laundered or changed his clothes on the way to the station. SVPD claiming that he once broke his nose without any bleeding or bruising and without needing bandages or cold compresses,...

Flagg wrote:BTW is it just me or was fgalkins response more of a "fuck you" than an "I'm sorry"?

Definitely. It very much had the tone of "daddy's making me apologize for breaking your window"

The Zimmerman fangirls are seriously trying too hard on news blogs. Now the police supposedly took him to a fire-station to clean him up real nice before they brought him to the police station. I was thinking more how people like SVPD would try to justify it. News blogs are news blogs, so the antic...