Godammed SDN

[adr-admin]

one of these days i'll watch that movie

heard good things

[starku]

Not enough branding you'll hate it

[adr-admin]

i just started reading that one birth control insurance thread again

Which is exactly why the term “insurance” is a poor choice for the healthcare system – it started as insurance, but then, as it was more and more accepted that preventive care was cheaper than dealing with an acute crisis, more and more preventive and/or “predictable, stable expenses” where added to help control long-term costs. Thus, it is no longer truly “insurance”. Which is why some of us prefer terms like “coverage” and “system” and are in favor of national (or at least state-level) healthcare coverage like just about every other civilized nation on the planet has.

broomstick said that

i don't like the term insurance myself in the health arena

nice to know i'm not alone

[starku]

Insurance as a word has changed dramatically in meanin inthe last 150 years

It used to have quite socialist connotations in many ways

Now it's an industry

[Bakustra]

fuckin austerity makes me so goddamn mad

but hopefully i can get some laughs out of st. arglider squawking his way through a response to genuine socialism

[starku]

its funny right

if he hadn't translated his intellectual greed into actual greed (and thus set himself up at attacking strawmen in every single post) he'd teach teo people a thing or two

amusingly while posting nothing but trollbait he is way less useless than j, who honestly thinks she's 'helping'

[F.J. Prefect, Esq]

Starglider is kind of funny, because when he first started talking about his AI research he was like 'I got into this largely because I think it is a really important thing for society and I feel I need to try and get it right for everyone'.

And then suddenly he turned into captain capitalism

[starku]

there's a post on sdn where he literally says 'i can't belive i wasted my life earning no money; now i am making huge piles of money. waht a fool i was!'

this basically explains 100% of his attitude now

[F.J. Prefect, Esq]

Man we can bring peace to the world while also making shitloads of cash money I know it

[Bakustra]

he was always a smug dick though

and he'll always be a bird furry

[Zod]

he was always a smug dick though

and he'll always be a bird furry

and a transhumanist :troll:

[starku]

yeah but i mean

i bet he trolled his ai buddies online all the time too

'hahaha your appraoch i fundamentally wrong ho ho' etc

he's just transferred his greed for intellectual gratification to money

ergo the trolling of sdn

[F.J. Prefect, Esq]

It's true he was a smug dickhead bird furry, but he still wanted to do something good and meaningful for the sake of civilisation. Now he's a smug dickhead bird furry who just wants to make a lot of money and not get taxed. It's a change of a kind.

[F.J. Prefect, Esq]

Admittedly he probably also wanted his name in the history books but I'm not going to fault someone for that as such

[starku]

he's gone from 'those otehr ai guys better not succeed because they are naive and haven't considered all this stuff i have thought of already'

to

'whoa being rich is sweet you guys are all lamers; try being rich!'

[F.J. Prefect, Esq]

in fact I have a standing invitation to a Greek bankrupcy celebratory drinking night

Whoa whoa whoa what the fuck.

[starku]

he's mentioned shit like this before

you see his 'mates' stand to massively profit from this sort of thing

[Nietzslime]

i justify my piracy on the same grounds i justify eating steak that funds fucked-up factory farming practices and using recreational drugs that probably fund organized crime

i like it

[F.J. Prefect, Esq]

Man I can't even imagine celebrating the misfortune of someone I really hate, you know? Like if my arch-rival's mother contracted some hideous venereal disease I wouldn't even entertain rubbing it in, so drinking to the shit that millions of ordinary people are in just doesn't compute for me.

Then again I can't even contemplate how anything in Fanboy has posted in his food porn thread is even remotely edible so

[F.J. Prefect, Esq]

i justify my piracy on the same grounds i justify eating steak that funds fucked-up factory farming practices and using recreational drugs that probably fund organized crime

i like it

I justify my piracy on the basis of all the fucking merch I buy.

[adr-admin]

alyrium denrile annoys me to no end

[starku]

send him to the forge world

[Flagg]

People who like cold blooded animals more than human beings should be gassed before they kill.

[adr-admin]

the problem with replying to him is there's always some stupid in the post

i kinda like being on the defensive, it makes me think about new stuff


but he's saying stuff that i'm almost certain is horribly wrong and i don't want to let it slide

and also odn't want some 5000 word monstrosity of a post

[Flagg]

That's why you just ignore the fluff and respond to the points you want to and tell him to use his verbage somewhere else where people care how many words you can type per minute. Or tell him to go get eaten by a shark so you can have a good laugh.