TheEncogitationer

Reg,

The Kalam cosmological argument debunked.

Reading that story has given rise to many big questions:

* If The Big Bang took place 13.8 Billion years ago, and the radius of the known Universe is around 46 Billion Light Years, wouldn’t the matter at the edge of that radius had to have travelled from The Big Bang at faster than the speed of…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers,

Their ultimate Trump references were when they riffed on the character Trumpy in the movie Pod People. The Trumpy of today is certainly just as voracious and chaotic:

Fellow Unbelievers,

Here is a good place to showcase the humorous, even very prescient, refereces to Donald J. Trump on Mystery Science Theater 3000

Reg,

David McWilliams is right…up to the last sentence.

Interdependence of trade in all areas of the world will always exist due to comparative advantage that everyone has on certain products and services. Detroit cannot grow bananas as good as New Guinea and the Czech Republic can’t make coffee as good as Columbia.

But dependence on the…[Read more]

Strega,

Ah Enco, you conceive of receiving music from AI that might disturb you going to sleep. That would be untamed music

How far are we from asking AI to match our sleep phases and introduce sounds to encourage conscious dreaming, or to assist us as biological individuals to reach optimum rest. Perhaps using a device similar to a smart…

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Robert,

I’ll listen to 24/7 smooth jazz on loop to go to sleep, but I’ll never listen to AI-generated music for sleep. Maybe that’s an unfounded bias, but what AI produces visually looks like nightmare fuel.

PopeBesnie,

I’ve learned that there is a style of art created by Studio Ghibli that users have applied to AI-created portrayals of historical and current events and made the stark and deadly serious seem friendly and humorous. An inverted kind of creepy.

The artist behind Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki, doesn’t like what people have done with…[Read more]

Reg,

Is it just me or is AI art deliberately formulaic and creepy?

All the AI visual art that I’ve seen looks like art in The Watchtower or a H.R. Giger painting! That work above looks like a panel from Jack Chick if he did illusrated nursery stories like he did his religious tracts. YEEECH!

Unseen,

The idea of a dynastic Presidency with sons and wives and other relatives also holding either the Oval Office or other powerful positions depressed me enough when the Presidents were Daddy Bush and the Little Bush boy, and in between with Slick Willy Clinton and “It’s Her Turn” Hillary, and Barry “The One” Obama and “Turnip For What”…[Read more]

Unapologetic,

That and George W. Bush’s “Faith-Based Initiatives.” Religious bodies can run their own charities without taxdollars.

Reg,

Since inflationary monetary policy of the 5-year COVID-19 era have skyrocketed the price of eggs and the crunchy fetish for free range chicken has made them at risk for avian flu and RFK JR’s anti-vaxism puts them more at risk, this is a very timely but timeless video…if we are to have The Chicken of…[Read more]

PopeBeanie,

This is a moment in our political history when grabbing power with big money, packing SCOTUS starting way back with ignoring Obama’s SCOTUS nomination, GOP demanding full political loyalty to Trump’s takeover and narcissism, promotion of conspiracy theories, Christian Nationalism, other false narratives, even growing support for Put…

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PopeBeanie and Robert,

Now here below is where Trump earns the label of “Fascist”, as well as exemplifies the folly of central planning.

Trump wants to impose tarriffs ostensibly to serve the U.S. auto industry, yet in his pretension of Omniscience, he failed to consider that U.S. auto makers use foreign-made parts and have foreign plants and…[Read more]

PopeBeanie,

In other words, it takes more than just making stupid noises on EuroVision or not furnishing the apartment for me to use the term: “Fascist.” 😁

PopeBeanie,

Enco, I promise I was only reviewing this thread, starting with its first post back in December, and my purpose was not to find examples of the kind of stuff that you write. But the following comment spurred me to point out that Jason Stanley is not the only pontificator conflating “Fascism” with policies they criticize:

My use of…[Read more]

PopeBeanie,

To “wants to put an end to all this nonsense”, ok, but the level and speed of destruction is justified like claiming the Titanic was all about trying to put an end to those nasty icebergs

The exaggerated sense of invulnerability and omniscience of Academia is real, unlike urban legend quotes about the Titanic. Everything rotten hap…[Read more]

PopeBeanie,

That article emphasizes more than once, I’m paraphrasing, that “meaningful speech” requires payment of money in order to be heard, e.g. via media. No mention of the contra-coralary is made, of course, that by definition, this means that smaller money efforts automatically lose to bigger money efforts to exercise free speec…

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Jake,

I take it you mean Jason Stanley from the other thread. Academia and NPR/CPB are just self-sabotagiing. You don’t even have to be Trump or MAGA to either help them along or enjoy it,

Trump and MAGA are also self-sabotaging with Signalgate. Except for the fact that Islamofascists, Russia, and Red China could be getting intel, this would…[Read more]

PopeBeanie,

Leftism vs Authoritarianism in America, are those the only main characters left playing now?

It’s Authoritarianism all around and all the way down.

All these universities who have been on the taxpayer’s teat all these years have been imposing speech codes and speech regimens on students and dangling tenure over the heads of…[Read more]