would you replace your wife or gf with a robot if it was free

starblue · 2022-07-26T07:57:52+00:00

Good God, no!

starblue · 2022-02-20T21:25:06+00:00

How does the fact of being released to journalists change anything about the data being suspect? The data could have been munged, tampered with, and then released to journalists. Or it also could be real. Problem is we can tell from this.

starblue · 2022-02-20T21:22:07+00:00

Hoorah. I'm sad to say it, but I also hope that the punishments have a note of finality that makes would-be dictators and pre-cops with fascistic-tendencies decide to choose alternative careers.

starblue · 2022-02-20T21:20:15+00:00

So, I find this hilarious. You go to a public place, where things done and said are public. You pull down your shirt, expose your breast with no blanket to cover or provide privacy. You flop. It out and the kids get to their snack. You could keep something for privacy, but - no - that's no longer your concern.

Look, I'm not defending stalking or harassment - I'm not sure I like someone hunting me around with a telephoto lens. But if you run naked through the square, there will get photos of you and its your own damn fault. Why should a woman breastfeeding get any special treatment? Either wear clothed properly, keep yourself covered, or don't go to public spaces. The public square is the public square - why would we keep screwing with this???

It's just like public domain materials waiting to let out of copyright jail. Why do we keep making it harder and removing the abolity for the next generation to have an easy base upon which to be creative???

starblue · 2022-02-20T21:14:16+00:00

You're assuming they will be consistent on that point. Of course, they'll provide exceptions for themselves just like members of governments have given themselves exceptions for recent vaccines, for SEC rulings on insider trading, etc. Rules for thee, but not for me!

starblue · 2022-01-30T09:15:25+00:00

He's right, you know.

starblue · 2022-01-29T06:12:37+00:00

Yes, that's exactly right - he's a man-child, one that never grew up, was never taught right, and has turned into the milquetoast, limp-fish-handshake, weakling that is causing the downfall of western society.

If any kind of people need to be quarantined for the sake of society's health, it's this kind.

starblue · 2022-01-25T22:19:22+00:00

Some corporations, definitely. But, just like a gun, it depends on who is holding it that changes whether it is good or evil.

starblue · 2022-01-23T03:32:15+00:00

Psychologically, that has to drain you. You're knowingly living a lie, and eventually, the mask is going to crack and fall off - probably at an "inopportune" time.

I mourn the loss of the virtues of the past of integrity, honor, consistency, patience, understanding, and wisdom. These are some of the foundations of good societies, but we eschew them with an efficiency and efficacy that is astounding, and our new generations are rudderless because of it. This is the only way I can explain how quickly we've succumbed to this madness and pretending.

starblue · 2022-01-23T03:14:11+00:00

John Taylor Gatto has a great book on this: "The Underground History of American Education". Read it if you haven't, it explains how it happened.

starblue · 2022-01-16T01:54:31+00:00

This is IT infrastructure 101: Never assume your primary site/system is reliable, and have 1, 2, or 3 alternates ready to roll for BCP. "2 is 1 1 is none" applies here, and it applies to regulatory, supplier, weather, and any other disaster.

Ignore what has been happening at your own peril. And, Amazon has proven their lack of respect for contracts when it comes to enforcing political ideologies, so don't use them for anything that could even remotely be considered political.

starblue · 2022-01-16T01:42:58+00:00

I'd probably say more "evil" than idiots. There are some idiots, but a lot of them are people I think we can reasonably classify as evil - it's not nice and fuzzy, but people who live and die as predators of the weak and innocent should be idenfitied as such.

starblue · 2022-01-16T01:41:16+00:00

Even better, teach kids civics and home economics, again. Real-life skills and practical grounding do wonders for your ability to reason.

starblue · 2022-01-16T01:35:45+00:00

Couldn't happen to a nicer group of people. Sad. So sad.

/s

starblue · 2022-01-16T01:18:19+00:00

Seriously, are we really surprised that they don't want to remove their main voter-base from the rolls?

starblue · 2022-01-08T00:08:39+00:00

Come now. Any number of 5 year olds could do a better job about Afghanistan - you don't even need to go elsewhere.

starblue · 2022-01-07T23:57:35+00:00

Are we really surprised that someone whose self-proclaimed qualifications are that she is a "Wise Latina" instead of listing actual qualifications, would make such similar mistakes and not do her research. God help us.

starblue · 2021-01-06T21:59:00+00:00

It terrifies me, because it will mean the destruction of the USA and replacing it with something else - a usurpation of the very principles of its founding.

starblue · 2020-12-07T10:16:12+00:00

*caused by bribes from the elite to any receptive party who will further their ends.

FTFY

starblue · 2020-11-24T03:04:48+00:00

Aha, I see. So because I have other responsibilities than social media and our conversation may happen over days or weeks (as the Internet and asynchronous commas are designed for) my statements and clarifications are moot.

Good to know that there's an expiry time. And you still haven't addressed anything I have said other than," uh uh!" Great response - and I even gave you two weeks to think about it.

starblue · 2020-11-11T14:35:52+00:00

It's not so much no internal logic - there is a logic. But they have no internal consistency, no capacity for self-inspection, and are intensely jealous of others, so there's no rumors to follow for others to be able to easily comprehend the truth of it. Everything is relative and shifting - they just keep mentally pulling themselves up on to the nearest pad of sand, and when it begins to turn to quicksand below them, they jump again. This is why try in to have a discussion with them is so infuriating.

Still, it's definitely a logic, though not one that I can follow.

starblue · 2020-11-11T14:25:21+00:00

Apparently "Feminism" and "Engineering" are actually antonyms! Who knew, right?

starblue · 2020-11-11T14:13:07+00:00

A million people have died from COVID-19, hmm?

calls over shoulder Hey, Tommy, how many people die from the flu each year? About 650k? And the vaccine is already there... No kiddin'? What about next year? Aren't there vaccines? Oh, right right. Mutations and crap.

And COVID-19, one and done? Oh, very slow mutations? Right. So, it runs it's course and then your done, like chickenpox? Right. looks back at screen

Hey, folks, Tommy says don't worry about it. You'll be fine.

starblue · 2020-11-10T13:35:59+00:00

In that sense, I agree with you. This is something I've been thinking about. It's like there are "levels" of civilization people are able to handle.

Those who are at a radical Islam level only understand violence and death. They need a tyrannical dictator to keep them in check because they tend to destroy and bomb wherever they go and ruin society. In that sense, the dictatorships of the ME make perfect sense.

Radical Communists fit into that same category. They believe violence is the same as words and they like the brown-shirt method of negotiation. They only understand violence and act that way.

Then you have people who need a mommy-state as adults because life is too hard. Socialist societies work for them because they like the a safety net, but they don't get to keep much money (if they earn any). Europe is mostly like this. Full democracies operate this way as the people will vote themselves money.

Then there are those fully civilized in freedom and liberty, who take responsibility for themselves and their immediate neighbors and surroundings, who live by the idea of personal responsibility and local control. They understand liberty and will be the least violent people you cross. These people function best in a full republic with liberty as the base - which was what the US was for the first 75 -100 years (we've lost a lot of it sense then). They can handle a self correcting society and the morality that is required in order to maintain it. Mixing these types does not work well.

It's just a hypothesis I've been killing over for years, but that's where I have it now.

starblue · 2020-11-10T13:28:29+00:00

If they are who said we had to do it nicely. Desecrate them first, in whatever fashion their religion defines, so that they can't achieve the afterlife they hoped for. That will dissuade their other cohort from perform in a similar action.

This would be the logical next step, not your mockery and refusal to approach my statement from a serious point of view. Mockery occured in this context because you have no better counter to my argument. That's okay, but realize it for what it is.

Your statements are simply non sequitur.

starblue · 2020-10-31T21:52:16+00:00

And this is why the death penalty should exist. Whomever it was who perpetrated this attack has shown that they are broken and are willing to murder innocent people in cold blood. Remove from them the possibility to ever do this to someone ever again.

starblue · 2020-10-31T21:47:41+00:00

Society, be careful of the slippery slope where you find that the definition of personhood and the right to live become increasingly squeezed. Some people claim that a baby born alive during a botched abortion is not a person and can be left to die, invaded for. One day, you may be declared to not be a person as well, with a similar fate to go.

I agree about the title. Should have said more like " Court rules that '6 day old baby in not a person per NYC state code." Even that's too biased for good journalism, though it's the best I can come up with in 30s.

starblue · 2020-10-30T08:29:47+00:00

Now you're talking! This is the kind of stuff I believe we could get into a robust debate over, but in general, if we had this ideal, we would be in much better a state - no pun intended.

starblue · 2020-10-29T11:55:13+00:00

And then you have Anti-Federalists and Originalists like me who believe the Federal Government has a limited on to protect the nation, and make sure States play fair with one another, and that the States should have the Powers to customise their laws for their own people without federal government interfering beyond the bare minimum (as defined in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution).

But you have good basic explanations of those major categories.

starblue · 2020-10-27T12:16:11+00:00

Wouldn't it be funny if Pelosi was a Fallout 5 character, though? She'd make a fantastic ghoul.

starblue · 2020-10-27T10:16:38+00:00

Seems like a nanny-state thing to do to me. Grown adults shouldn't need this kind of coddling.

starblue · 2020-10-19T14:23:18+00:00

I really don't understand the big deal about infinite scrolling. But the publisher vs. platform issue is the one big thing. If the start behaving like a publisher, then they lose platform protections. Seems pretty straightforward, and its much easier and more objective than attempting to fact check data.

starblue · 2020-10-19T14:04:42+00:00

And oldie but a goodie.

starblue · 2020-10-10T14:08:39+00:00

Don't worry, I'll remember not to open any doors for her.

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