Testing Chat V: The Final Mysterious Island: Miami Beach

[Infinity Biscuit]

and now we go from hard hitting drama to

spike building a sex bot

spike buddy this better be rock bottom please be rock bottom

[Darksi4190]

and now we go from hard hitting drama to

spike building a sex bot

spike buddy this better be rock bottom please be rock bottom

Actually I think it gets worse.

[Infinity Biscuit]

why this

[Darksi4190]

It's a couple of seasons ahead so i'd really be spoilering.

[Darksi4190]

lets just put it this way.

If I think it's offensive to women, what the hell are you going to think about it?

[timmy]

If we haven't all watched this, get it done. It's wonderful.


http://youtube.com/watch?v=MxrWuE5qC5c

[RyanThunder]

I wish I'd seen this yesterday, then I could have told everyone 'happy regicide day'.
oh well, next year maybe

You would still be a twat

along with everybody else who browses that site without recognizing how monstrously absurd it is

[Darksi4190]

Mother of fuck. See, i'd really like to use Spacebattles.com as my new go to place to talk about Sci-fi, Fantasy, and other nerdy stuff, since SDN is a wasteland and nobody here ever really wants to talk about it, but every time something new comes out, like today with the Dr. Who 50th anniversary ep or two weeks ago with Thor, the sites crappy ass server can't handle the number of people who try to log on and post and I can't gain access.

[RogueIce]

Sadly, that's all I've got.

Reboot duh. Worked for BSG.

[timmy]

Awww but I prefer the campy old version, I don't think it'd work as gritty and dark.

[Bob the Gunslinger]

It's a couple of seasons ahead so i'd really be spoilering.

It doesn't take a couple seasons to get worse.

But it gets worse every season.

[Bob the Gunslinger]

Mother of fuck. See, i'd really like to use Spacebattles.com as my new go to place to talk about Sci-fi, Fantasy, and other nerdy stuff, since SDN is a wasteland and nobody here ever really wants to talk about it, but every time something new comes out, like today with the Dr. Who 50th anniversary ep or two weeks ago with Thor, the sites crappy ass server can't handle the number of people who try to log on and post and I can't gain access.

I'm thinking of making the switch, too, but I've only been on there once looking for Star Trek discussion and couldn't figure out how to find it. Is there a method?

[RogueIce]

How to find what? SB or the ST discussion?

[Bakustra]

[timmy]

Ha, Tucker, the Israel thing on facebook. Soon as I spotted it:

[Jung]

That China thread on SDN made me wonder

I wonder how big of a role proximity to the first society to have an industrial revolution plays in another society industrializing vs. ending up "undeveloped" or colonized.

Like it occurs to me that the reason the West got to exploit the head-start it had so well was industrialization isn't readily adopted by preindustrial cultures in general, cause it's massively disruptive to the status quo and generally isn't something people are going to jump to wanting, especially elites who tend to be naturally conservative (the status quo is working for them and the existing society reflects their values, why risk setting in motion forces that may change that?)

And by the time the elites wake up to how advantageous and necessary it is they've got a colonial power with decades of lead time breathing down their necks and demanding they open their borders to cheap manufactured goods and concentrate on growing indigo and paying money for opium like good little peons

Whereas earlier exposure to earlier more primitive industrialism acts like a sort of innoculation, making elites realize what a threat the lead their neighbors/enemies are gaining on them is before it can become too big

The implication being that if you swapped the geographical positions of China and Russia the former might have been a rising power by 1900 while the latter gets ppl like energiewende talking about how obv they didn't become a world power because they were run by morons and lacked the magic free market

I'm contemplating whether the fate of the Ottoman Empire supports or falsifies this idea.

[AniThyng]

OK, riddle me this:

General statement:

Malays in Malaysia hold political power, but not economic power

Chinese in Malaysia hold economic power, but not political power

Equality that does not account for privilege is not equality at all

People should vote for people they feel best represents their interests and understands their situation

Ergo, it is not racist for Malays to prefer a Malay politician because he is more likely to fight for economic 'equality' and retain malay political dominance and understands Islam

And Chinese are justified in prefering a Chinese politician because he is more likely to fight for political 'equality' and retain chinese economic power and understands chinese.

Discuss.

[thejester]

except the basis for that distinction is racism; I don't think you can untangle the the current politics of Malayasia without acknowledging that.

[AniThyng]

Yeah I acknowledge racism - this is more in reaction to the assertion that it is "not wrong" for voters in the US to favor voting a Black person over a non-black person because of the poor position of blacks in the US. Though the comparision breaks down when you consider blacks have neither economic OR political power.

[Agent Bert Macklin]

The engagement shoot I had yesterday went very, very well. I got some great fall color shots and genuine looks of love from the couple. It's funny. After doing this, I realized I want what my friends have. That's lame and sappy, lol.

I made a post on FB yesterday that said "When will Israel grow the hell up?" As Aaron can attest to, it was a nightmare. Two conservatives came out of the woodwork and one in particular was like "if you don't have a solution, gtfo" and another was like "Wong, you're Canadian, therefore your opinion doesn't matter."

[Crazedwraith]

Clearly Facebook needs a IVP moratorium.

[adr]

is this re the iran deal? i just read a bunch of commentary on it and god damn i need a new senator (edit: to replace Chuck Schumer) so badly

[Agent Bert Macklin]

is this re the iran deal? i just read a bunch of commentary on it and god damn i need a new senator (edit: to replace Chuck Schumer) so badly

Yeah. My argument is that Israel ends to grow the fuck up and stop wanting everything. But, hey, Iran really would wipe them out and face the destruction of their entire country at the hands of Imperialist America.

[adr]

aye.

so my life right now... i slept poorly thursday. led to a headache friday, but i went to bed early and was fine saturday and sunday... until about 9pm last night, when the headache returned double time. didn't sleep well last night but did get some and i woke up feeling ok. and now the headache is returning again

ugh, i was really hoping friday's long sleep would actually take care of it. i get these headaches a lot, and usually keeping some sane, uninterrupted sleep time helps it, but sometimes, like today, it just gets stalled.

[Bakustra]

breaking news

energiewende believes that the usa could attack iran and install a puppet government with no consequences, and that saudi arabia is more militarily formidable than pakistan despite having an army one-tenth the size and fewer tanks than pakistan has modern tanks, and you know, everything else about their respective armed forces

more on this as the situation develops