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CID1990 wrote: Tue Jul 21, 2020 5:28 am You grew up in the 1920s?


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Ok wisenheimer...the peak of modern Christian conservatism and political influence/Republican Party alliance.

But also Tipper Gore.
Um

If getting your own Constitutional amendment banning booze isn’t the “peak” I don’t know what is

I figure I’ll see how much I’ll get you to narrow it down

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CID1990 wrote: Tue Jul 21, 2020 7:19 pm
kalm wrote:
Ok wisenheimer...the peak of modern Christian conservatism and political influence/Republican Party alliance.

But also Tipper Gore.
Um

If getting your own Constitutional amendment banning booze isn’t the “peak” I don’t know what is

I figure I’ll see how much I’ll get you to narrow it down

“OK then, the peak of modern Christian conservatism in November 1985, about the 15th”


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Cpt’s Mast, or wose, since she’s all over the internet in uniform?
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BDKJMU wrote:Cpt’s Mast, or wose, since she’s all over the internet in uniform?
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-nav ... rotesters/
NJP/Mast at worst, probably just what the article says - probably just a little Chiefing is needed


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CID1990 wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2020 5:50 am
BDKJMU wrote:Cpt’s Mast, or wose, since she’s all over the internet in uniform?
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-nav ... rotesters/
NJP/Mast at worst, probably just what the article says - probably just a little Chiefing is needed


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“Tolerance and Apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.” Aristotle

Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem.
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LA times article about AI fears. I can see Chizzang reading this article and saying "hey, this guy is talking about Pwns!"

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2 ... logy-fears
Tales like these suggest that our fear of AI arises not from AI itself, but from the human mind.

This fear emanates from the psychological distinction we draw between mind and matter. If you saw a ball start rolling all by itself, you’d be astonished. But you wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to see me spontaneously rise from my seat on the couch and head toward the refrigerator.

That is because we instinctively interpret the actions of physical objects, like balls, and living agents, like people, according to different sets of principles. In our intuitive psychology, objects like balls always obey the laws of physics —they move only by contact with other objects. People, in contrast, are agents who have minds of their own, which endow them with knowledge, beliefs, and goals that motivate them to move on their own accord. We thus ascribe human actions, not to external material forces, but to internal mental states.
Guilty as charged in a way, except I honestly wish we could get to be a society where computers and machines do all of the work and everyone can mostly do with their life what they want to do. I just don't think we'll ever get there.
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Pwns wrote: Mon Jul 27, 2020 10:55 am LA times article about AI fears. I can see Chizzang reading this article and saying "hey, this guy is talking about Pwns!"

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2 ... logy-fears
Tales like these suggest that our fear of AI arises not from AI itself, but from the human mind.

This fear emanates from the psychological distinction we draw between mind and matter. If you saw a ball start rolling all by itself, you’d be astonished. But you wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to see me spontaneously rise from my seat on the couch and head toward the refrigerator.

That is because we instinctively interpret the actions of physical objects, like balls, and living agents, like people, according to different sets of principles. In our intuitive psychology, objects like balls always obey the laws of physics —they move only by contact with other objects. People, in contrast, are agents who have minds of their own, which endow them with knowledge, beliefs, and goals that motivate them to move on their own accord. We thus ascribe human actions, not to external material forces, but to internal mental states.
Guilty as charged in a way, except I honestly wish we could get to be a society where computers and machines do all of the work and everyone can mostly do with their life what they want to do. I just don't think we'll ever get there.
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A vacationing British family got the shock of a lifetime when they found two young migrants hiding in a storage box atop their car, video shows.

The two-minute clip, posted Tuesday on Twitter, shows the moment a British family made the startling find as they stopped at a gas station in Normandy, France.

“Oh my f–king God, two people,” one woman says as one of the stowaways emerged. “Oh my f–king God.”

A man then launched into a expletive-laced tirade as the migrant hopped off his car, knocking out what appeared to be a laptop computer, video shows.

“What the f–k are you doing, you f–king t–t?!” the man yells. “You’ve could’ve broken this, you c–t. F–king get out of my sight. Where’s all our stuff?!”

The pair of migrants – identified as two 16-year-olds from Eritrea and Guinea, according to France’s The Local – then start to walk away as the family demands they empty their pockets while taking stock of their belongings, video shows.

“Where’s our stuff?” one young man asks before a woman in the family says that there’s “nothing there” in the storage box where they were just found. The young migrants then disappeared into nearby shrubs along the highway, video shows.

The couple, who just arrived in France with their two children, then asks for help from a bystander, video shows.

The family later told police as they filed a theft complaint that they stayed in Calais, France, the night before and suspect that’s where the two migrant teens got into their car, believing they were headed to the U.K. based on their British plates, The Local reports.

The migrants were later taken into custody by police, but they were released after prosecutors in Dieppe issued a care order and social services refused to take them, The Local reports, citing French media outlets.

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They just happened to be filming? Looks like a setup...
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AZGrizFan wrote:They just happened to be filming? Looks like a setup...
Yeah something isn’t right here


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CID1990 wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2020 1:03 pm
AZGrizFan wrote:They just happened to be filming? Looks like a setup...
Yeah something isn’t right here


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CID1990 wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2020 1:03 pm Yeah something isn’t right here


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The Vinnie Sullivan News-Feed just ain’t as reliable as it used to be.
I’m just trying to logically think through how it couldn’t be staged

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“Tolerance and Apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.” Aristotle

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Just wait

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CID1990 wrote: Thu Jul 30, 2020 3:49 pm
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Just wait

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Or the Russian Naval Jack. It made me do a few double takes :lol:

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Skjellyfetti wrote: Thu Jul 30, 2020 6:14 pm Or the Russian Naval Jack. It made me do a few double takes :lol:

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CID1990 wrote: Thu Jul 30, 2020 3:49 pm Just wait

I’m going to bait my new HOA with my St Andrew’s Cross


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I belong to the Seattle Backyard Gardening group on FB, and a lady had to publicly apologize because she implied that if you planted the mysterious seeds that have been arriving in the mail, it will grow into the plant from Little Shop of Horrors.
Well, maybe she wasn’t too far off

What would be worse is if those seeds were a fungus-vulnerable wheat hybrid capable of cross pollinating with American wheat species


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CID1990 wrote: Fri Jul 31, 2020 1:34 am
SeattleGriz wrote:
I belong to the Seattle Backyard Gardening group on FB, and a lady had to publicly apologize because she implied that if you planted the mysterious seeds that have been arriving in the mail, it will grow into the plant from Little Shop of Horrors.
Well, maybe she wasn’t too far off

What would be worse is if those seeds were a fungus-vulnerable wheat hybrid capable of cross pollinating with American wheat species


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SDHornet wrote: Thu Jul 30, 2020 9:18 pm
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BDKJMU wrote: Fri Jul 31, 2020 9:40 am
SDHornet wrote: Thu Jul 30, 2020 9:18 pm
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