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Amen. I do think things have changed. Or people have begun a rapid downward slide all over. Jesus, it is days sometimes without seeing a beautiful woman or even pretty one. And then it is some super young girl. Very depressing. These damn smart phones. I went flip phone about a year ago. Idk dude. I...

Is it just me, or is there a ton of horribly negative psychic energy oppressing us all rn? It could very well be me. But swear to god this feels as bad as the depths of covid hysteria. Even the mainstream media seems unable to even attempt to tell ppl everything is fine, let alone great. So many ppl...

Yeah. I choked up a few times too. Glad you liked. Wonderful fantastic book.

j-cubed wrote: ↑Fri Jan 06, 2023 8:37 pm Not terribly surprising. They are also the same people that have no idea what is under the hood and how it works. Those people at least are enlightened enough to know they need gas, but have no idea where it comes from or how it's made.

Fair point. True.

I am not trained enough to evaluate the science. Or if this guy is worth listening to. So, this is not an endorsement. But I found a lot of interesting stuff in here. Fwiw (not much) I believe Chronic Disease is a dietary problem. And, our medical system is incredible at dealing with acute issues bu...

I think individual decision-making about personal actions are largely irrelevant right now. Even if everyone acts at a huge scale. There's really no connection between individual economic and social activity and legislation or corporate behavior. Some would argue there never has been, maybe so idk, ...

The Moore film was dumb and disingenuous. That article was too. IN MY OPINION. Malthusianism is cruel and ahistorical and I personally disregard anyone who uses it. It's the language of people who live off the work of others. It's the language of Financiers and usurers. Same with people who use &quo...

THIS IS NOT AN ARGUMENT FOR OR AGAINST ELECTRIC VEHICLES I have noticed that 90% of ppl I have talked to and either own or like electric vehicles think the battery makes the energy. Or some other battery somewhere makes the energy they put in their batteries. I don't know what to make of this. They ...

Viriconium: ehhhh. *shrug* I am not a fan of the whole "writer's writer" thing. Technically quite good. Pacing was (intentionally) ponderous. Ponderously ponderous. Heavy influence from Gene Wolfe and Clark Ashton Smith and Jack Vance and Lord Dunsany. Lethargically lethargic. Dying world ...

The key would be a command to not plagiarize. Idk if that is possible. But detecting cheating then would be very difficult absent some embedded code in the product alerting teachers. Or the thing uploading all essays to some database with teacher access.

Can you ask this thing to write a paper on Vespasian and the Sack of Jerusalem without plagarizing?

Because hahahahahahaha if you can.

Bad owners get screwed by bad GMs. Yes. There are very few (I can't think of any) MLB owners anymore who are so incompetent as to allow an exec to ruin a franchise. Almost all of what fans consider incompetence is very profitable intentional behavior. PIT is the one franchise that might be considere...

I really liked this article. And like the author, I had been wondering about it. It seemed strange that both players and teams wanted these longer contracts (for a lot of reasons (at least to me)). 13 years? That's just bizarre. Totally ahistorical. I've never been particularly bothered by players g...

This one guts me every time

https://youtu.be/x8A9Y1Dq_cQ

I'm not even bothered that the balls are so variable. Or even that they are intentionally variable. I look forward to the electronic umpires. I used to think I was a traditionalist (whatever that means) but now I just think I was frustrated at how stupid the changes were every damn time. Now I see t...

Looking back I think Barry fell to the "pigs get fat but hogs get slaughtered" rule. Or was too much like Daedalus. People were fine with McGwire and Sosa. Probably a lot of reasons. They were both kinda lurches and it was a little bit of a "fair fight" since there were two of th...

Pro-sports are dumb but I still follow baseball and tennis. They're also fake af and mostly rigged by Owners. If not at the individual play level (it often is), then at the coaching and refereeing and equipment level. Anywag, MLB has near total kniwledge of what balls get used where and when and use...

Re-read the Pehov (Pekov) books. Excellent straight ahead fantasy. "Derivative" I guess but really enjoyable and expertly done. Even in translation. Read the Powder Mage trilogy. First book was free and decent. Interesting. Especially for a first novel. But jfc the guy sold out to his edit...

Shaf's right. Absolutely right.

And #3 dwarfs #1 and #2 in numbers.

And there's also the harvesting of organs for dubious medical research.

We'll see how evil the US really is now that ppl can't hide behind judges making the decisions for them.

Absolutely must see band.

https://youtu.be/HQ_j4Ytecgg

Uvalde? Well, the shooter was in a discord with a "retired agent" egging him on and the agent had 30 min prior notice. And some person opened a locked door. And the locals stood outside and stopped the feds and BORTAC from going in. A BORTAC guy finally said fuck it and went in. Then the n...

:happiness: I honestly don't understand where you are coming from on this. Do you know how many homicides we have every year? In the major urban areas vs rural and suburban? How many people "go missing"? What is it about this incident that caused you to post and get agitated? This country ...

Bram, I had a woman today tell me AR15 is the most dangerous weapon available. If you get shot you die almkst 100% of the time. Do you think this is so? If so, why? Is this a serious post? Yes. Serious post. I am still shaken by that interaction. I should have written rifle. I personally have no id...