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Believes god and guns make America great.
Believes guns are an absolute right
Believes abortion is a sin
Believes speak English or GTFO
Believes free speech is absolute (in most instances)
Believes the USA should become a theocracy
Believes banning the right books has nothing to do with free speech and is totally Christian
Believes truth takes a…[Read more]

Ya know a lesson i had to learn was to stop the madness. Growing up having half jewish ancestry and more identifying that way than with the Irish and French i had to get over my hatred of Germans. Not only did history make me sick but i experienced antisemitism from German Americans. Hatred begets hatred. No good comes of it. And i am not making a…[Read more]

Unseen, ya get Jake the Flake’s approval for that post.

Yes we are nearing our demise. Which existential threat will nail us? IDK but my guess is nukes and certainly N. Korea is a dangerous one.

By and large i think the politics of the planet are drifting towards fascism. If all nations had a policy of isolationism and only fighting when their…[Read more]

Unseen, there is no denying the progress.

I am not sure whether it was on here or i read about it independently but one of the foremost tinkerers in developing general intelligence in AI is of the opinion that we MUST STOP ALL DEVELOPMENT immediately. A complete and irrevocable moratorium. This same guy would not sign on to a letter signed by…[Read more]

Unseen, i am pretty sure i would exercise option B. My hunch is we would feel just as much love emotion as we do for the biological trap! No worrying about your partner getting cancer or dementia…

And as you indicate life would be otherwise the same unless your buddy thinks your bot has hot pants and even then he would know that he can’t tempt…[Read more]

How many of us would ditch a human partner or opt for an idealized robot that meets our physical wants and is the perfect companion in terms of temperment, personality, idiosyncrasies, loyalty and can converse and challenge us in intellectual discussions?

Unseen, the cats and dogs poem is the one i was referring to. I think it is blech.

And the science is
shallow to steal a descriptor.

The Hitch poem was pretty good. The others am not impressed. The capacity to produce dreck on demand is noteworthy.

Similarly the analysis is superficial and unimpressive. Pope asked- do entangled particles connect through another dimension? Not sure its response is better than a C in a high school test.

“Entangled particles are two or more…[Read more]

Yes i remember, i recall. Not that i forgot at all.

The sonnet is particularly bad. Written in part like an essay, bereft of feeling. Garbage in garbage out.

That poem is on a par with the crap i write off top of head but it takes me a few minutes to produce similar dreck.

Enco,

“The difference is between unknowng, unwilling assumption of risk (buying defective, adulterated products) and knowing, willing assumption of risk (not buckling a seat belt.) The former Government should curtail, the latter it should not.”

Seat belts or car seats for infants, babies and little kids? They’re not knowingly assuming a risk.…[Read more]

Enco, don’t be discouraged.

Why should government ban sale of anything? That ain’t libertarian. And implied warranty of merchantability is a construct that is late on the scene. How does that obviate libertarian concerns? It is not paternalistic to ban dangerous shit but wearing a seatbelt is? We are taking a risk every time we sink our teeth…[Read more]

If it is curbing speech obviously it has amendment 1 challenge. Also if it is really vague and applies to criminal law it is unconstitutional.

I generally side with Enco on the notion that we ought to be free to do as we please even if we are taking undue risks. However it is a balancing test. Harming others, risking harm to others or causing others including government to incur expenses directly related to our risk-taking is where we ought to balance the interests including the…[Read more]

I was also struck by Enco making some sense albeit smattered with hyperbole.

The issues are sticky when it comes to mandates from the government during pandemics. The don’t tread on me and my liberty is juxtaposed against the greater good. And when the government kept getting shit wrong as to the science it made the libertarian position…[Read more]

The US has had mandatory seat belts as an issue of constitutionality.

If Trump had come out strongly in favor of vaccinations and how it is our patriotic duty to be vaccinated it would have made a tremendous difference. The same morons who detest the government telling em what to do with masks and vaccines would have been just as pissed about…[Read more]