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- 1Thanks,. Off the top of my head, I thought of the witch that brought Snow White a poisoned apple. In my version, the witch asks Snow what her pronouns are. So Snow crams the poisoned apple down the witch's gullet. Witch turns into a frog that hops away and the magic broom takes a liking to Snow and follows her home.
Don't know how that can lead to a prince waking up a poisoned Snow with a kiss. Maybe I can have a prince see Snow and the dwarves taking turns riding the broom and have him ask if he can take a ride too.
And that frog can come hopping back to start trouble. I dunno. That's okay. I don't want to work for Disney anyway. Don't care to be around flaky libtards. - 2Posted by Dobrien 7 hours, 8 minutes ago to George Carlin...was brilliantVery clever! Hehe
- 3LMAO, would have enjoyed a Carlin take down of the trans community.
- 4Loved that one . . .
- 5Posted by $ Olduglycarl 8 hours, 56 minutes ago to Objectivists in Denial: Evasion, Envy, and the Misreading of Trump (by Sherwin Newman)Not likely an "Asteroid" but surely a gruesome and natural end to this cycle and a restart anew; hopefully with many lessons learned in tow.
- 6Posted by $ Olduglycarl 9 hours, 1 minute ago to Objectivists in Denial: Evasion, Envy, and the Misreading of Trump (by Sherwin Newman)Thanks Larry, The unsure of themselves crowd had the rest of us introspecting our own motives for standing by Trump and ultimately knowing we had not strayed from our own objectiveism . . . in the real world, A can only equal A and there is only "One Right" amongst a host of wrongs.
- 7Disney should have hired you to write the Snow White movie.
- 8Posted by Dobrien 11 hours, 4 minutes ago to George Carlin...was brilliant“It’s a small club and you ain’t in it.”
And
“Atheism is a non profit organization.”
George Carlin - 9Posted by Dobrien 11 hours, 14 minutes ago to Memes what kid of people are theyPrayers for your continued recovery and wellness.
It’s been years since I warned of the death jab. My healthy sister died from multiple jabs at age 69. Blessings! - 10Posted by mhubb 12 hours, 59 minutes ago to The Imperial Judiciary Of The United States - Stealing Power Never Given Them Under the Constitutionit is worse
the Alien Enemies Act has a provision that removes it from judicial review
this is clearly being ignore by "judges" - 11If he were alive and doing this material today somebody would jump up on the stage and try to stab him ...like was done with Chappelle.
- 12Posted by mhubb 13 hours, 40 minutes ago to Leak On Signal DOD Meeting? What IT Security? What Should Have Happened.anyone that helped cover-up biden's crimes, biden's decline, the Russia hoax has ZERO credibility ON ANY "scandal" that might happen in the Trump admin
they simply cannot be trusted with the Truth - 13Hey Dob...I am waiting for the axe to fall. Read the article about the guy who has discovered how many people got vaxxed and it ruined their health. This will amount to a monumental Class Action suit. Two of my best friends got stung...one is now blind and the other can't stay out of the hospital. You will recall I begged them not to get vaxxed.I am grieving for them. All I do is fall down cont8nuallyl but I am fighting this. Second time I have fractured my pelvis. I now weigh 110 pounds...?nb
- 14Posted by freedomforall 14 hours, 29 minutes ago to Leak On Signal DOD Meeting? What IT Security? What Should Have Happened.👍
- 15Posted by Aeronca 14 hours, 44 minutes ago to Leak On Signal DOD Meeting? What IT Security? What Should Have Happened.I'm certain many booby traps have been laid and are underfoot still. Many security clearances have been revoked. I bet they still have spies in there. How to purge the CIA, FBI when the moles are in on the plans to purge? I guess we have to...something to do with orbit? :D
- 16Posted by Aeronca 15 hours, 8 minutes ago to George Carlin...was brilliantRat shit bat shit
Dirty old twat
Sixty-nine assholes
Tied in a knot
Hooray
Lizard shit
Fuck!
One of Carlin's notable cheers. Apologies for the crude and crassness. I am not George. Just loved him. Especially The Seven Dirty Words You Can't Say on Television.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbZhp... - 17Posted by mhubb 16 hours, 6 minutes ago to David Stockman on the Fallacy of Reciprocal Tariffsno sale
- 18Posted by CrustyOldGeezer 17 hours, 21 minutes ago to The Imperial Judiciary Of The United States - Stealing Power Never Given Them Under the ConstitutionThe President has the ultimate power to send the US Marshals to the courts and arrest the miscreant judges and transfer them to Guantanamo Bay for Military Tribunals because the issues are FOREIGN and NOT domestic.
It's not even a "Constitutional" emergency.
Executive Branch is the ONLY Branch with Authority to deal with INTERNATIONAL ISSUES! - 19Posted by j_IR1776wg 21 hours, 4 minutes ago to A Meeting of Minds--Emergent Intelligence?“…Of this I am convinced: something hard to comprehend is happening as a result of the exponential acceleration of computing power and its drop in price…”
Actually, I am, egotistically, of the belief that I know precisely what is coming and why but am struggling to organize my thoughts and put them into book form and publish them.
I look forward to reading your review of Kurzweil's book. Your writings are thought-provoking as always.
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Joe - 20Posted by Lucky 1 day, 8 hours ago to "This Is Existential": Billionaire Cancer Researcher Says Covid & Vaccine Likely Causing Surge In Aggressive Cancers - Data Show A Surge In Deaths and Disabilities After Widespread COVID VaccinationThanks, yes, A lot of us can identify with your story (in upper case even).
We start from a mixture of some expertise and much concern, but are brushed aside with disdain. - 21Yeah, lots and lots of questions, for sure. I am now reading the serious futurist, Ray Kurzweil's "The Singularity Is Nearer." Of this I am convinced: something hard to comprehend is happening as a result of the exponential acceleration of computing power and its drop in price. This really can change the world. I am reviewing the book as I read it and can give you a preview of the two major questions I raise about Kurzweil's predictions.
Another review is required to explore my criticisms of the Singularity. So I will mention just two.
When Kurzweil argues in best materialist fashion that if we build a silicon brain of sufficient complexity, then awareness—consciousness—will emerge as it does from our brains. I think attention is needed to the question: Is consciousness possible without life? Life requires values for survival, values generate appetites and desires, which generate goal-directed action, which provide constant evaluative feedback. In the billion or more years life evolved, every step in emergence of mind responded solely to the imperative of survival. Thus every function and action of our brains responds to a single inherent standard: life. What similar unified, universal, motive-and action-generating, inherently evaluative (“good for me?”) standard will be built into the lifeless brain of the silicon “intelligence”? Will it automatically conceive, motivate, regulate, and evaluate its physical and mental behavior? No amount of external programming will give its enormous complexity coherent purposefulness because no life means no values means no feelings or emotions, mean no “stakes”—means no consciousness. As Antonio Damasio encapsulated it: consciousness is “the feeling of what happens.”
My other issue takes to task Kurzweil’s masterful exposition of almost universal improvement, all key trends are good. Yes, in the developed countries (and partially in the rest of the world)—except for the long-term direction of human philosophy. Ideas in the long term decide the fate of civilizations. The philosophy we call “modernity” formed during the Age of Enlightenment (essentially the eighteenth century): reason, secularism, science and technology, individualism, rational egoism, human universalism, natural rights, constitutionally limited government, and capitalism. We still ride on these achievements today in the developed world, particularly the nation born of the Enlightenment, the United States of America. But the philosophical underpinnings of modernism have long been under attack and are sadly in disrepair. Originating chiefly in German Idealism since Immanuel Kant (and disseminating throughout the civilized world), reason, individualism, constitutionalism, and capitalism have been under unrelenting attack. We see the result today in our universities and increasingly in the professions and politics: postmodernism. It is an anti-reason philosophy of radical epistemological skepticism; irrationalism; suspicion of science and technology; antagonism to individualism in the name of “groupism,” “identity politics,” collectivism, and tribalism; statism antagonistic to capitalism; and egalitarianism as against merit. None of these is new. Most originated in the first half of the nineteenth century and led to collectivism (Marxism and national socialism), existentialism, and postmodernism. By now, modernism’s foundations are largely washed away; the superstructure has not fallen and even what is left still works as Kurzweil documents. But, as we know, when the foundations are finally gone and the superstructure is socialism—communistic or fascistic—progress is all over.
Despite these questions, Kurzweil's predictions are compelling. I hope to have the review on Savvy Street soon. - 22I Looked after you were looking and I liked that look!
Thanks - 23Posted by freedomforall 1 day, 12 hours ago to George Carlin...was brilliantAs previously posted in the Gulch by member LibertyPen:
The American Okie Doke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W40E2...
Carlin was indeed brilliant.
In his later years his shows were a primer on government overreach and corruption.
I think this video was part of his show It's Bad For Ya
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_... - 24Posted by j_IR1776wg 1 day, 18 hours ago to A Meeting of Minds--Emergent Intelligence?Can an infinitely large number of transistors enmeshed in an infinitely large neural network using an infinitely large amount of electricity become the dominant intelligent being on Earth?
It does sound a lot like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, doesn’t it? - 25Particularly excellent in the Bill & Ted movies.