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Comment Re:There are no banned books. None. (Score 1) 250

There are no banned books, Every single book listed is readily available.

The only issue is if they are available in a particular school or public library, and if so, in which section. This is nothing new. Every single library since the beginning of libraries has made decisions as to which books and materials will be made available and to which library users.

This is so freaking stupid

No alt-right snowflakes have ever been cancelled because their unfiltered retarded fish brain speech is readily available. This only issue is if they are available on a particular social media service or site, and if so, in which section. This is nothing new. Every single digital forum since the beginning of the internet has made decisions as to which electronic mouth farts will be made available and to which users.

Hold my nuts while we pass legislation that tells them the decisions they need to make.

Comment Re:I guess the people have spoken (Score 1) 215

Woke doesn't mean anything today, it's just anything conservatives don't like (an ever expanding list), and they've convinced themselves it's a modern phenomenon.

Because that list keeps expanding, they're retroactively including things from the past they never had a problem with and that hurts their feelings when you point it out. Just keep pointing it out until their brains melt.

We Were Soldiers was woke, eat it christoban.

Comment Re: That's not the same thing (Score 1) 291

AI is missing quite a few of the pieces we have, or even a small animal has. It'll get there, but not today. They can display an impressive level of reasoning that comes from using language as a tool like we do, front loaded with a shitload of training, but consciousness is a continuous process, and they're not doing that.

A squirrel will always empty any birdfeeder it's faced with, it learns as it goes, they don't come pre-trained with millions of squirrel-birdfeeder scenarios, and do it all without the help of a language.

We could model billions of squirrel behaviors and make something that passes sort of, but it's not the same thing as switching on a tiny squirrel brain, continuously modeling the world around it and just being a squirrel without having observed billions of them already. I'd bet on a squirrel that has never seen a bird feeder before over a complex model of squirrel behavior that hasn't seen one. That's a no brainer.

Comment Re: I guess the people have spoken (Score 2) 215

What do you mean politics secondary, that happened just a year after Loving v. Virginia. It was political. Or the fact a woman was on the bridge at all, with a guy with a Russian accent. Or all the socialism right under your nose that maybe you wrote off because the military is basically socialist as-is, but the Enterprise didn't run around defending foreign mineral/oil interests, the interstellar banana trade or prevent the spread of (insert ideology) either did it, and there was kind of a lot of sharing...

You're handwaving these things away yet a woman in the infantry, a Chinese accent, and who kisses who are still "political" today because of the same brand of hateful assholes.

It's someone else's fault of course, the other guys do the identity politics. Projection, every fucking time.

Comment Re: Pandora movies (Score 1) 67

I just went, you walk around and enjoy the park, wait in line for a ride if you want. It's like literally any other popular theme park in that regard. If you want to record a TikTok that makes a theme park seem like a sucky experience you could do that anywhere, maybe you don't like theme parks, that's ok, but Disney is a good one.

Comment Re: Not really much to disrupt (Score 1) 157

What does it matter? Our options are shit. It really isn't going to matter who wins.

If it was a choice between the guy that says immigrants are sub human and a ham sandwich, the only moral choice is letting a ham sandwich run the country.

Acting like it doesn't matter is intellectually dishonest, plain stupid, or evil.

Comment Re:It is possible there is value in Reddit (Score 1) 96

Seriously. I got banned from /r/politics for relating a story of how I've been called a "faggot" for, get this, ambiguous use of hate speech. When an actual gay man isn't allowed to describe the sort of homophobia he's experienced, you know that forum has jumped the shark. Prior to that, I butted heads with some folks in there because I wasn't drinking the Bernie Kool-Aid, and pretty much if you're right of Bernie you may as well be marching the streets dressed as a Neo Nazi, at least as far as the folks in that subreddit were concerned.

If I was writing a Yelp review for them, it would read something like: Worst place to discuss politics ever, zero stars.

It's a forum with 8.5 million members, there's like 8000 online right at this moment. Of course there are dumb one size fits all rules in place.

What do you expect? A packed NFL stadium is something like 70,000 people. Why in the actual FUCK would you go to a generic event in one called "politics", and for fun we wired one hundred of those together into one big mega forum, for ... "politics".

Think about how dumb that whole concept is right out of the gate, and you're threatening to write a yelp review because your experience sucked at the mega politics forum. Well, duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh.

You're also that guy that writes yelp reviews about the packed restaurant nobody goes to right?

Just don't go, it makes literally zero sense. I wouldn't throw a "politics" night at a small bar, why would it make any sense at THAT scale? What is wrong with you, why are you even trying to participate in that shit show? If you want nuance, go to a smaller forum, I mean what the fuck do you expect, seriously? I have no sympathy whatsoever. You expected something good from the audience of millions of extremely online that you are entitled to talk to, with the topic "politics". Think about it.

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