Testing Chat V: The Final Mysterious Island: Miami Beach

[Losonti Tokash]

More like NONJAS

[Agent Bert Macklin]

Speed Racer is a terrific film.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9tWrq0YusyM

[Bounty]

Speed Racer is a terrific film.

oh GOD YES

"you don't climb into a T-180 to be a driver, you do it because you're driven"

the whole thing is fucking genious abstract art

i have no fucking idea what happens at the end of the final race

it's just an explosion of colour and shapes

and it is glorious

[adr]

writing my D book now and just put down: "Here, we'll write an input range that iterates over a tree structure of arbitrary depth." or should i say "ARBORtrary depth?!??!!? " LOLOL i slay me.

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Reminds me of how in my Discrete Mathamatics textbook there was a question about complementary graphs. If you went to the answers section in the back of the book it had a little hand drawing of a anthropomorphized graph looking into a vanity mirror and complimenting itself.

LOL

[evilsoup]

you should maybe take a walk outside
you know, get some fresh air

[joviwan]

Speed Racer is a terrific film.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9tWrq0YusyM

Whaaaaaaaat

god damn it how did they know i'm a sucker for space opera

[adr]

so my tv stayed on after the king of queens and a trashy "the bill cunningham show" came on

he's doing the lie detector tests on cheating boyfriends and the boyfriend says "these tests aren't even 100% accurate. if they were, they would be used in a court of law"

and the host's reply is "THAT'S WHAT EVERY LIAR SAYS"

...but the boyfriend is, of course, right.

why dont i just get up and turn off the tv?????????

[Bakustra]

Apropos of nothing except my earlier post:

Fuck "social justice" as a concept. I hate it, I hate the way it gets trotted out, and I hate the faux-leftism of those who advocate it from behind a laptop screen without engaging in some form of real world activism or any understanding of the intense scholarship behind the words that get trotted out as conversational cornerstones ('patriarchy', 'privilege', 'hierarchy') by its crusading wing.

Let's go to the name alone, 'social justice'. What is the social for which it seeks justice? Who belongs to this social? Endless black scholars like Wilderson, Ahmed, Sexton, Yancy, and so many more going back to Fanon and beyond, deepthinkers who I respect in profoundly inarticulable ways are all clear that the black person, the black body, does not exist as social entity in the modern world. That slavery and colonialism have so radically altered and destroyed any possible understanding of the black person as to make them always and perpetually a slave, a non-entity, a zero-being, "ontologically dead." If they are not part of the society what does it matter if the society is just? Is a 'just' society even possible in that case? Or would the renumeration of the crimes of which they are victims require the destruction of society?

Let's go towards a field closer to my heart, the non-human. How can the chimpanzee be part of my society? How can the Chimp and I have an understanding? Is it even possible? How about the wolf? How about the shrew? How the cow? The chicken? The pig? There is no possibility of a social understanding that can be developed with them. I have no doubts, none at all, that they have their own social groups, their own societies and understandings, but for now at least (do not read that as a humanist exhortation to the coming technological/scientific transcendence of the abyss that separates us) they exist beyond our comprehension and if that is so how can we establish a relationship of justice? Let's set that aside, for a moment, and engage in the mindless call of the analytical school for a moment, if we were to recreate the world what would a just relationship with the pig look like? Certainly they wouldn't be eaten, but how would I alter my life to recognize them? Would I be able to run power-lines through woods they inhabit? Roads? How take water from rivers they drink from? How can I even begin to understand these questions in a way that establishes 'justice'?

(Want to see something funny? Mention our ethical dietary obligations to the non-human other in a public conversation in Social Justice circles and then wait until 'vegan privilege' gets mentioned. Clockwork.)

Maybe I'm just a bitter young man, or maybe I'm going through what the communist party must have thought of fellow-travellers. In spaces where I don't have an intense respect for most of the other possible participants in this conversation I would never air these complaints, but I just cannot stand it anymore.

im permabanned user bougiestomper58. i first started reading leftism when i was about 12. by the age of 14 i got really obsessed with the concept of "socialism" and tried to channel it constantly, until my thought process got really bizarre and i would repeat things like "the history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles" and "eat the rich" inside my head for hours, and i would get really paranoid, start seeing things in the corner of my eyes, etc, basically narcissistic personality disorder. im now on antipsychotics. i always wondered what the kind of "leftist" style of politics was all about; i think it's the unconscious leaking into the conscious, what jungian theory considered to be the cause of schizophrenic and schizotypal syptoms. i would advise people who "get" leftism to be careful because that likely means you have a predisposition to a mental illness. peace.

[Bakustra]

to be controversial, i was reading a fairly standard far-left feminist thing, and then the person saying that women have a right to be mad at their oppressors started talking about how she violently assaults homeless men who catcalled :l

[evilsoup]

what really

[Bakustra]

what really

it was from years back, and hopefully she was just fantasizing, but still

[Zablorg]

bakustra who the fuck is bougiestomper58

[Bakustra]

bakustra who the fuck is bougiestomper58

actually i edited that from the original, which is about someone claiming a forum for jokes gave them schizophrenia, and posted it in a thread joking about left-wing stuff

[Zablorg]

since straha posed the question to me i would say

fuck thanas, marry dalton, kill mike

discuss

[timmy]

When you say fuck you mean engage in sexual relations with, yes?

[Zablorg]

Yes you must assign one to each

[Big Orangutan]

OK, I've seen the first episode (or "session") of Cowboy Bebop on blu ray and its inspiration on Firefly is heavily apparent. The setting is also very much like the setting in Iain M. Banks' The Algebraist.

[joviwan]

I just saw The Hobbit 2: The Paddening.

It was okay. Very good on spectacle, has virtually nothing to do with the Hobbit.

[Bakustra]

since straha posed the question to me i would say

fuck thanas, marry dalton, kill mike

discuss

same, only with kindness for the last one

[timmy]

^Sold

[adr]

assume Jesus created the earth, under the direction of the heavenly father and also jesus suffered and died for man's sins....

what if jesus was actually being punished for his own errors??? so god is all like "make the earth and the people perfect" and jesus is like "ok... uh oh i messed up they aren't perfect but i still love them <3 <3 <3" and then the vengeful old testament god is like "fine you made this mess you go live with them now"

but then christ the redeemer softened the heart of the vengeful god through the atonement

"The truest repairman will repair.... man."

[Crazedwraith]

I just saw The Hobbit 2: The Paddening.

It was okay. Very good on spectacle, has virtually nothing to do with the Hobbit.

my fatty nerd take on it is this: doesn't understand how heat works. Thus fails forever.

[joviwan]

I'm willing to forgive a failure to recognize how heat works in any movie with dragons.

[Crazedwraith]

but in this movie it only made the dragon less impressive. When he flamed people. NOTHING HAPPENED

[joviwan]

should probably engage spoiler tags at this point if we're going to get our complaint boners on

Of course nothing happened, the only targets he had were the stars of the movie. I expect significantly more people getting flamed when he finds Bum Lake.