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If you spent less time in an attempt to make me angry, Bells, and more actually listening to something someone has said, I'd have more respect for you.

"The man was an idiot".
This is all you are.

 

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I understand everything you've said, Bells.

Scream louder, if you like. There isn't single thing you've posted recently which redeems you at all.

 

and your version of reality than must be the "actual" reality?

 

Objection! Show proof of the aforementioned "completely making things up".

Clearly many here disagree with your stance on spanking as a sexual deviation and not to be used to teach children a lesson.

 

hoping for the best
reading between the lines
wishful thinking

 

I Learned Something Today

Every once in a while we learn something that we ought not need to have been told; in many cases, it is also something we wonder how fortunate we are to have learned.

For instance, and because it makes no sense to you, recently I learned that stainless steel is heavy. File under, "Duh", and don't bother with what it actually means.

But today I learned something, and unlike what I picked up last week and then promptly forgot in an apparent act of ego defense, this one is going to stick.

3DpCB​

It should have occurred to me before, except, you know, why would it?

Yeah, one of those. Of course it's possible. Technology provides marvelously fascinating opportunity.

 

What We Want

"Many of us were raised in a time that looked forward to the future, to the age of angels, to the days of miracles and wonder, to the time when most of our economical problems would be solved by new and amazing technologies. Many of us actually arrived in the future. Here it is. We find ourselves in it. And it is disappointing. We no longer cure anything, as the money is in lifelong treatment. Corporations have abandoned R&D and spend their surpluses on generating more surpluses from stock buybacks. Only billionaires travel to space. And a whole generation of brilliant mathematical minds has not been spent on filling the remaining gaps in the Standard Model, our deepest understanding of the universe and its history, but in constructing models for Wall Street traders. And we do not have robots. We have instead machines that make us do the work at supermarkets."

―Charles Mudede​

Every once in a while a moment of gratification arises when a component in the discourse rises to affirm something we already believe. And this is not a specifically partisan issue, but, rather, a philosophical one.

Much of what runs afoul of our aesthetics in society really is a matter of priorities.

Something about differences goes here, too, like the difference between "science" and "applied sciences". That is to say, science is generally a wonderful thing, but the real key is what we do with it. Sure, self-checkout is no orbital death ray, but while the internet might have reduced the typing pool and mailroom staff, it created a whole new sector of tech support.

This is the twenty-first century; King Ned watches, and waits for us to catch up.
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Notes:

Mudede, Charles. "MIT Graduate Develops a Program that Will End Theft at Self-Checkout Machines". Slog. 26 February 2015. http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/sl...that-will-end-theft-at-self-checkout-machines

 

What is that text? (3DpCB) Was it supposed to be a link?

 

No, it's an abbreviation. I suppose it might be not quite so indecent to simply say, "3D printed CB", which isn't quite right, because in that case it should be, "3D printed CC", or, "3D printed CBT".

That latter was what I was trying to duck, but I also picked up the phrase without the T.

And, you know, of course that was coming. After all, xkcd↱ tried the joke five hundred strips back. Well, not exactly. But, yeah.

I had a moment today with a serious bit of news in which I realized that sometimes, to share is to curse, yet we are still compelled to share. So I tried aiming for a pretentious veneer of decency. Oh, well.

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Meanwhile...in USA...women are busy with kids? family? altruism? nope. They are busy making yogurt from their vag. fluids:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-to-make-breakfast-with-your-vagina

 

Automattic Revises World Map: UK No Longer Exists

Okay, look, the first thing is a software joke. Living in the Seattle area, and having that many friends who work in the sector, one thing I am extremely sick of hearing is how everything that goes wrong is user error. In this town, if you took people seriously, you'd think software companies never make mistakes.

For instance, look at the image below, and I'll explain how it's user error.

What you're seeing is a map generated by the WordPress software from Automattic. It's a composite image; the national statistics in the lower right coincide from the map, but are dropped in from a different screenshot.

Notice anything?

U.S., check. Canada, check. Russia, check. U.K. ... er ... um ... ah ... why is it so small, and so far east?

User error! That's not the U.K., that's Kaliningrad, Russian Federation! User error! User error! See? No problem with the software! User error!

That the U.K. does not register on the map is immaterial.

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Thalia Wheatley Is Free Will an Illusion:

 

so 5 seconds into the movie of "srenesam" I am like "ummm no stop, Id rather live with the delusion that I have free will, than be told I dont have free will"