Testing Chat V: The Final Mysterious Island: Miami Beach

[Infinity Biscuit]

maybe 50

[timmy]

Hard numbers, now we're talking

[Straha]

Are you a spherical lesbian?

[Infinity Biscuit]

i am best approximated as a ray stretching into infinity

[adr]

sometimes i wonder how many people on stack overflow actually work with clients

they see questions like "i cannot store my int in a char array. i tried casting and it doesn't work" and they don't understand what is actually being asked

that's a really informative question compared to the kind of requests i typically get from work clients!

[Bakustra]

"Yeah, I'm against most conservationist efforts. There are too many big, stupid mammals in the world. Anything that gets rid of a few is a good thing in my book."

"Hey man, hey. I ain't no goddamn libertarian. I just don't like wild animals or nature."

"So their proposal to help the fight against ivory is to increase the scarcity and therefore price of ivory products even further? I can forsee some problems with this. People who hunt ivory already know it's illegal, as do people who buy it. The reason it's worth producing and purchasing anyway is that it is so rare.

A lot of unique and useful medical knowledge came from Nazi vivisection. There was simply no other way to tell how people reacted to extreme cold, low/high pressure, being subjected to various poisons (at least in terms of precise quantitative doses needed to kill) at the higher end of tolerance. Does refusing to use that knowledge bring the victims back? What we know for sure it does is cause harm to people who are still alive, without doing anything to punish the perpetrators.

Can we not simply farm elephants, which would solve the problem of scarcity both of elephants and of ivory? And since it would be legal, it would be easy to mandate humane slaughter, as in production of meat."

ahahahaha

[Bakustra]

"No, no it's not. I am not responsible for those problems and I refuse to accept that it is ever right to discriminate against people on the basis of their skin color. Again, you get rid of racism by not being a racist and treating people differently according to their race. "Privilege" has turned into code for "My opinion matters more because I'm a minority," and that is just plain wrong.

But, you know, please go on trying to explain why treating people the same regardless of skin color is racist. I love a good mental gymnastics routine."

i feel basically guilty for this and would like to apologize, you know, in general

[Straha]

What....

[Losonti Tokash]

sdn is a disease

and banishment is the only cure

[Agent Bert Macklin]

It doesn''t help that Alyrium is vitriolic and lacks the ability to have civil discourse on any matter. SDN has proven that profanity-laced arguments doesn't go a long way and that it's mostly posturing.

[RogueIce]

Hard numbers, now we're talking

[Bob the Gunslinger]

damnit, I finally get around to watching pacific rim and the thread about it is gone

who would have thought it wouldn't last several months of inactivity :L

Start a new one. There's still plenty to talk about.


<3 Cherno Alpha. <3

[Bob the Gunslinger]

so i just re-watched john woo's 1989 film "the killer"

i love that film, it has just the right mix of beauty, cheese, action, and heart

It's definitely one of the best action movies ever made...depending on the translation.

My VHS version was excellent. My DVD version was clunky and unpoetic.

[adr]

yeah the dub on the dvd I have, the dragon dynasty one, is a bit loly at times too, and the sound quality in some parts is just awful. but that's ok, I don't think it detracted too much.

BTW omg new feminist frequency video! good stuffs there, I like her videos

[Big Orangutan]

I went to a life drawing class last Sunday. An interesting experience and I polished up on drawing human anatomy (avoiding the Rob Liefeld path).

[Big Orangutan]

SDN has proven that profanity-laced arguments doesn't go a long way and that it's mostly posturing.

Nowadays the more somebody with a dubious opinion rants or actively insults, the more I ignore them.

[evilsoup]

"Yeah, I'm against most conservationist efforts. There are too many big, stupid mammals in the world. Anything that gets rid of a few is a good thing in my book."

has sdn been taken over by actual captain planet supervillains or is there some context here or ..?

[Darth Tedious]

What Soup said

[evilsoup]

aww man
hollywood is making it's a wonderful life 2: this time it's wonderfuller
hahahahahaa

[Infinity Biscuit]

I personally don't think the problem with sd.net is any sort of vitriol or insults or anything by itself

I think the issue comes from the liberal privileged-as-default-and-right perspective that laces the board combined with the massively competitive nature (so basically because it's full of patriarchal masculinity :L :L :L)

now both of these are probably exacerbated by the insults and stuff since in the former case they help solidify the "people who hold other beliefs are stupid" mindset and in the latter since it helps provoke the aggression. But I don't think they'd be an issue on their own, and I don't think swears have anything to do with it at all?

like I can't figure out how the presence or lack of stuff like "fuck" or "shit" would make a difference in an informal setting

also that guy baks quotes is the same in both posts it's ralin

[evilsoup]

I know I'm going to regret this,
but can I please have a link to whatever thread those are from?

[Dooey Jo]

BTW omg new feminist frequency video! good stuffs there, I like her videos

our game is mentioned in it

and pictured

feelin so famous right now you guise

[Infinity Biscuit]

I know I'm going to regret this,
but can I please have a link to whatever thread those are from?

ralin hates animals

let's play: spot the racists

[Bakustra]

I know I'm going to regret this,
but can I please have a link to whatever thread those are from?

http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic. ... 2&t=159709

and now, a message from our sponsors

"Damn those Westerners and their crazy opposition to mass infanticide! Whatever will they do next?

While I can hardly support it morally, there was a practical benefit to the one-child policy in keeping this horrible autocracy on a downward population trend into the 21st century. I imagine that is what is prompting the change; their large population is the only thing putting China in the running for superpower status, and they don't want to be a second Japan."

"PRC had a "shit" standard of living (your words, not mine) because it was run by socialists, not because it had too many children. If PRC had been run by people with a less broken ideology ("freedom" is a good start) it would have been able to produce enough food without mass slaughter of unborn children. As in fact it is able to do now, after free market reforms."

"China is demonstrably run by morons. If it hadn't been they would have ruled the whole world two centuries ago. The current lot are a bit less moronic than usual, so I expect a bit better from them. They're also looking more to the ultimate prize, rather than just desperately trying to hang on to power as in the past."

"Why was China weak to be exploited, rather than exploiting its weak neighbours as it had done for thousands of years? Why didn't Chinese gunboats sail down the Thames and the Seine? The answer is that China was badly governed; its military weakness was a symptom, not a cause.

It's probably impossible to fix this problem without totally upending the entire governmental and social structure of the country. It's fundamentally broken. It evolved as a very successful solution to the problems of antiquity: how to assemble a very large army of spearmen and cavalry from a stagnant peasant economy. That world disappeared, but China didn't change. It couldn't. Its solution to the problems of antiquity was too successful, and therefore too stable. The revolutions it experienced only aimed at modernising the status quo, which is why they were also so unsuccessful at turning China into a powerful country. Today, it's changing a bit, since all other possible actions have been exhausted except adopting Western-style policies. But from the view of people like 'mr friendly guy' (and note, he's actually a citizen of Australia, fully exposed to a successful liberal democratic society, and not directly threatened by the PRC secret police) it doesn't seem the mindset has changed much at all."

somebody stop me

[evilsoup]

Would Ralin be saying the same thing about artwork made from human bones that are harvested from mass-murdered humans?

I dunno. I'd have to think about that one.