Post and Comment Karma? What do they mean and why should I care?

Scrubjay · 2020-08-07T21:48:14+00:00

The plan is use him to get elected, knowing that he will have to bow out or be removed soon after, then install the black female vice president that the Left will follow without question into the final destruction of the USA, and everyone else will be afraid to question for fear of being torn down for being "racist". He's a political shill at this point. No need for quality. They are running the same game they did last time, between Clinton and Trump, "No one will ever vote for Trump, so let's run a highly politically placed candidate that's pretty much hated everywhere but she cleans up good and will do what we want."

Scrubjay · 2020-07-23T23:47:51+00:00

"I'm sorry, but we have to keep injecting you/your child until your insurance tops out. It's the only way to get herd immunity."

Scrubjay · 2020-07-04T17:53:25+00:00

Times being as they are, we truly do need to keep "sanity check".

Scrubjay · 2020-07-11T03:42:41+00:00

Something about how Snap does things behind your back, and how that's a bad thing.

Scrubjay · 2020-07-04T18:09:19+00:00

I can't wait until psychiatry / psychology begin listing not conforming to the party line as one of various defined and documented "mental illnesses" that need forcible "treatment", just like in the USSR.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-13T03:06:43+00:00

The only shocker is if indeed he actually said it out loud. This or something like it has always been the plan. Nothing else makes any sense.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-07T21:50:48+00:00

Scary.

Scrubjay · 2020-07-09T05:52:15+00:00

I completely agree. I've spent the last few years trying to move over to ebooks (some audiobooks), but I've reverted almost completely back to physical books. I don't do audiobooks at all, and the only ebooks I get are those that aren't available for some weird reason as physical books (out of print, for example). I'm sorry that I didn't keep the link, but I also read that reading physical books makes the information in them "stick" better in your memory, so you actually learn more/better that way, as well.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-17T02:09:28+00:00

I finally created a bookmark to each one in my browser. That was I can at least get back to it.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-13T02:52:56+00:00

Flu is stealing victims from Coronavirus.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-13T03:04:03+00:00

When Firefox folds/corrupts too far, I'm going to do everything through the text-only Lynx browser (It only hurts for a little while) and BigAd and BigTech can eat their own trackers and ad-bloat.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-09T23:31:35+00:00

Amen to that. Jesus warned everyone not to be fooled by false religious people - even the ones who appear most-Jesus-like on the surface.

Scrubjay · 2020-07-04T17:50:46+00:00

I eye-roll articles/assertions/headlines like this, because they set up a myth of "bad/impure/oppressive thing wipes-out/oppresses/pollutes good/pure/oppressed thing" - as if it can ever be as simple as it gets. I'm not advocating or ignoring the need to not wipe out things that shouldn't be wiped out. But I do appreciate that the so-called "good/pure/oppressed" things are rarely just that, and that there are no real "innocents" in this world. For example, sure, dogs with European-continent genes wiped out dogs with American-continent genes. But before that, what species did American-continent dogs wipe out? "None" would be highly unlikely. But the way these articles/assertions are set up, that isn't considered. We're just supposed to boo the "bad/impure/oppressive" things as if they exist outside of space/time and act out of natural-world context.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-15T03:19:00+00:00

Lol nice.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-11T03:05:27+00:00

They are part of the same crime family, so this would be expected.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-09T02:49:10+00:00

Very true. I tried for years to explain to people on the Left and the Right what fascism really meant - to no avail. They've just reimagined it as "those other guys we hate."

Plutocracy is very much a good box to put all what's happening in. Heading for a new feudalism, I imagine, once the richest have taken even from the less-rich and don't have to pretend to adhere to government any longer.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-07T21:43:54+00:00

Ha ha very funny :)

Scrubjay · 2020-08-07T03:56:47+00:00

Try Facebook. See if that works out better for you.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-15T03:59:45+00:00

It often seems to me that movies in the last 20 years or so are just remakes of older ones, in one way or another. Nothing new. No imagination. Just take the old version, with the same characters, and then give it a dark twist so it's violent and/or sexually grotesque and/or some ridiculous fantasy. I'm thinking of the remakes of Star Trek that put them in an "alternative universe" as a way to pretend to have more stories by twisting the head off something they weren't good enough to write themselves. Or the current remake of "Perry Mason", where he's no longer a lawyer, and no longer a good guy, and the whole thing is about being grotesque and over the top.

I am not becoming "nostalgic", but I'm also just not finding much of anything of value in what's offered through mainstream / corporate media creators any more.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-15T02:47:28+00:00

Very true. I think I've seen maybe 3 movies in the last 10 years. And what I watch at home is usually stuff from the 80s and 90s, latest, nearly all the time.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-09T23:29:30+00:00

Lol some of those should be more than obvious.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-09T23:28:39+00:00

Prez Baby Bush made it impossible for anyone in the USA to sue for damages done them or their children by vaccines. Don't know where you are, but in the USA you have to go to "vaccine court", where it's as likely you'll get justice as win the lottery, and where you have to swear never to tell what happened, afterwards. On top of that, more and more states are eliminating the option to not be vaccinated due to medical issues - no matter how real they are. Authoritarians and Big Pharma have big reach.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-09T23:18:15+00:00

Nice. Thanks for sharing!

Scrubjay · 2020-08-07T22:07:05+00:00

That's called "fascism" (like the real fascism, not the pseudofascism of today's accusations).

Scrubjay · 2020-08-04T16:58:40+00:00

Modern "doctors" are trained to be just Pharmaceutical Dispensing Technicians. They haven't been science-users and science-based thinkers for decades. Add that to being as a whole a very authoritarian group... I always wonder when people say things like, "Well, I wanted to try doing XYZ but my doctor won't let me", as if they were a cow and the doctor the farmer.

Scrubjay · 2020-07-24T02:32:30+00:00

I never would. The whole concept, as described in its creation, sounds wholly repulsive, unnatural, and no doubt a boon for continued chronic nutrient-deficiency disease plaguing those who rely on industrialized foods for "nourishment".

Scrubjay · 2020-07-23T23:42:33+00:00

A space alien came down and told them "Dance, or we're going to time-teleport you to 2020." That, or they let the mushrooms grow in their wheat again.

Scrubjay · 2020-07-10T06:52:20+00:00

It's all about letting your "team" go out and play while keeping the other "team" in the dugout.

Scrubjay · 2020-07-04T18:01:17+00:00

You know, I visited there once years ago, and I was really disappointed. The pics always make it look really in-your-face (no pun intended), but in reality the look-feel of it was small from the Visitor Center. It wasn't "bad" - just not the powerful experience I expected.

Scrubjay · 2020-07-02T05:07:13+00:00

Right now I'm totally into Neal Asher. Had never heard of him before, but bought one of his books at a library used book sale for 25 cents (because it had a coffee stain on a page), and am now working my way through the Polity. Can't get enough.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-01T02:47:14+00:00

Thanks, John!

Scrubjay · 2020-07-23T23:20:31+00:00

"Impossible Foods Inc, which helped create the Impossible Whopper, has said it was designed for meat eaters who want to consume less animal protein, not for vegans or vegetarians. "

It's disgusting, in any event.

Scrubjay · 2020-07-13T02:31:46+00:00

Arguing that one can simply replace in-person worship and church with online meeting and viewing apps (Zoom, Facebook, YouTube, etc) is like arguing that eating real food can be replaced by eating printed pics of oranges and bacon instead.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-17T02:11:45+00:00

I love ThinkPads. I either get those or Dell (business class) machines, though work gave me a business class HP laptop and though I still officially sneer at it it's actually holding up pretty well.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-15T03:51:25+00:00

One of my fav memes :)

Scrubjay · 2020-08-15T03:21:00+00:00

All very true. I use Lynx browser for almost everything I do, behind a non-logging VPN. When I need a web app (like to bank) I use a severely locked down Firefox, or I do it over the phone or in person. We only have this nightmare because we won't give up the lollipop they keep in our face while they fleece us.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-15T03:05:47+00:00

I'm still waiting for it to move a bit more beyond "prototype", before committing to one. I love the idea, though, and keep checking back on it.

Gotta be better than the US $2,000 Librem 5 USA version.

[edit: looked up and added the librem link]

Scrubjay · 2020-08-15T02:48:40+00:00

I think there's going to be more "shenanigans" going on this election that ever before, from all sorts of sides. I have a feeling that the election will depend more on who's paying better hackers.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-15T02:46:35+00:00

Lol perfect

Scrubjay · 2020-08-15T02:46:07+00:00

I use it for everything that's reading related, now. In fact, I used it about 20 minutes ago :) Web apps don't tend to work well, of course (like Saidit - though I did try). But I'm getting to where I just care less and less about things that are more about the flash and less about the content. Lynx (or Links2, if one doesn't like the terminal approach) is a great way to distinguish between the two.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-13T20:38:09+00:00

Agreed. I just don't see Biden lasting very long at all into his first term. I think he's just a plant to get Harris in.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-13T20:34:38+00:00

LBJ didn't run because he was burned out and afraid. Biden will go to a memory care unit and spend the rest of his life there.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-13T20:32:33+00:00

A federal appeals court upheld the Federal Communications Commission's rules that limit municipalities' ability to negotiate with telecom companies such as AT&T and Verizon that are seeking to deploy thousands of 5G antennas on city streets and neighborhoods. Why it matters: The ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is a blow to dozens of cities that sued the agency, claiming the FCC's 2018 rules takes away their leverage and autonomy in deciding how the telecom industry can install "small-cell" antennas to build 5G networks. The other side: The FCC maintains that its rules — which prohibit excessive fees and permitting delays by municipal governments — will speed up the deployment of 5G networks throughout the country by removing burdensome barriers to telecom providers.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-13T20:27:00+00:00

A one-weeker, perhaps?

Scrubjay · 2020-08-13T02:58:49+00:00

"Diversity" like Maoist China and Stalinist Soviet Union and Pol Pot Cambodia, Comrade.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-13T02:57:58+00:00

You are amazingly right on.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-13T02:46:56+00:00

I read just the first one. That is so funny.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-13T02:43:18+00:00

Peter Breggin MD is an amazing human being who also happens to be a psychiatrist who's spent most of his career calling bullshit on psychiatry has it's practiced in the West.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-13T02:12:17+00:00

But if they lie on the label, it's all on you.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-11T02:40:52+00:00

Everyone's a harvester. That being said, I had a Toshiba Chromebook now nearing end of security updates, and except for the fact that it was a Google device and required WiFi, it was a darn good machine. Fast. Bright. Clean. I may yet put Linux on it once it reaches end of life.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-09T23:12:08+00:00

Yep. Can't wait for this latest one to be made mandatory.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-09T22:43:31+00:00

That's the sh*ttiest bit of science I've seen in a long while.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-09T02:54:38+00:00

Lol It could always be worse.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-09T02:50:56+00:00

Thanks for the ideas!

Scrubjay · 2020-08-09T02:45:36+00:00

Lol that was an amazing picture painted in my head. Also made me think of Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs, all stitched together. Also gross. Lol

Scrubjay · 2020-08-07T22:05:43+00:00

Unfortunately, I've been doing the couch-work-area thing. We do have a desk setup, but another in the family is also working from home and using it. It felt fine to be on the couch at first, but not so much now. Just makes me feel sore to be sitting on it all day.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-07T21:50:28+00:00

Sounds good to me. Everything is digital now. Warfare too.

Scrubjay · 2020-08-07T21:43:01+00:00

Spoken like a man who apparently hadn't yet heard of Google, Facebook, Monsanto, General Electric, Nestle, ...........

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