Ranger: This sort of thing is exactly why I carry. Let these animals go wild all they want, but the instant they threaten my safety or that of my family, it doesn’t matter what age they are. I will take the necessary steps to keep myself safe.
Ezra: The two perceived instances of discrimination as described were: 1. the refusal of a white server in the chow line to give two sandwiches to a black sailor. Given the amount of fresh lunch meat on a ship the server had been probably instructed to only give one sandwich per sailor. 2. A white galley attendant accidentally removed a tray of food that he thought the black sailor had already consumed and left behind. Both the server and attendant were attacked and beaten really without any provocation....
Adar: If Elon tries a hundred off-the-wall ideas nobody agrees can succeed, and he is successful in only ten of them, Elon is 10x ahead of everyone else in the world.
Isegoria: I had to look up “Ron Perlman Bethesda” to find what you were referring to.
Longarch: [bad Ron Perlman impression] Musk … Musk never changes … [/bad Ron Perlman impression] [non-skippable Bethesda intro sequence precedes character creation screen]
Allen: Old me: “There’s no way real scientists could be as reckless as those in science fiction novels.”
Marty H.: David Foster, self-reliance and the ability to create an independent life in agrarian settings was considered virtuous. The “King” takes its toll and the banks firgured out how to rig the game against the small-holder. Having worked on one some many years ago, had the taxes and financial rents been removed, it would have been an interesting lifestyle option.
McChuck: The ‘AI’ racing drone beat humans, but only over the course it was trained on. When they moved the rings 6″, it lost every time.
Bomag: So, when AI is robust enough to give us self driving cars, and I can finally relax and enjoy life, the FBI will then have complete ability to track and take out badthinkers; so I will have a new set of worries.
Bomag: Ezra’s reference to Kitty Hawk reminds me of the Congressional report’s conclusion, circa 1973. Rather frank. Can’t imagine such being written today. From Wiki: “The subcommittee has been unable to determine any precipitous cause for rampage aboard U.S.S. Kitty Hawk. Not only was there not one case wherein racial discrimination could be pinpointed, but there is no evidence which indicated that the blacks who participated in that incident perceived racial discrimination,...
Bomag: Rinse and repeat for a chunk of fedgov: win a kind of war; need more to do, so they find ways to muck things up. More we give Defense, the more we lose. More State does, more the world hates us. Complying with new EPA regs puts up more pollutants than reduces. Etc. But Wokeness taps into our tribal, internecine hatreds, channeling us into hating the Straight White Man to the maximum; while triggering our instinct to help the halt and the lame: gnash and wail over George Floyd, unappealing as he...
Jim: To update Upton Sinclair’s famous quote, “It is not difficult to get a woman to believe something when her salary depends upon it.” From 1968 to 2021, despite immense improvements in automation, the number of Americans working in Human Resources grew from 140,000 to 1,500,000. After all, Jim Crow with its persnickety caste rules was a drag on economic growth. Mr. Sailer is nothing if not a comedic genius.
Bruce: Big increase in Democratic Party patronage, backed by federal law forcing everyone to pretend to believe the sob stories and increased censorship.
Jim: O, how the reality distortion field cuts both ways.
Jim: Musk will go to HELL for convincing Porsche to ice combustion engines in favor of fucking batteries and electric motors, but it can’t be denied that he lives and breathes the supreme tyranny of Ancient Greece.
Bob Sykes: Why did people work for Steve Jobs? He was a jerk. But he was also a visionary and demanded the absolute best.
Bomag: Sort of maps why people are attracted to a frontier; why they flee communism for capitalism. But society grinds on spreading communism, and erasing frontiers. Hmmm…
Bob Sykes: Epstein et al. do not understand the nature of the Ukraine/Russia war. This is not Somalia or Afghanistan, it is Passchendaele and the Somme. It is a massed artillery war. They have no idea what the field surgeons would experience.
Jim: The number-one thing that the United State could do to prepare for future conflicts with more technologically advanced and economically productive rivals, such as Russia or China, is the decriminalization of marriage for Americans, but to do that would be to permit the Founding Fathers’ progeny to benefit from Federal rule, a completely unacceptable proposition, so unacceptable that evidently not even the prospect of 5TFR Anglo-Germanic teenbodies for the natsec meatgrinder may serve as...
