TheFogan

currious of the chicken/egg scenerio when it comes to candidates on the ballot though. IE is there only one candidate in the primaries because no one is going to vote anyway, or is no one going to the primaries because only one person is on the ballot.

So... ok what the hell is wrong with the guy? I mean surely he knows grok 4 was not a success after it was pulled offline. What's next, is he going to push over the "unscheduled rapid unassembly" from failed spacex rockets?

Well yeah sure if we were talking the obama admin you could have joked around with him... The idea that someone would be denied entrance to the US over a "thanks obama" sticker or something would be laughable and instantly condemned by the president himself if it were a public story.

This is the trump admin though... they are thin skinned to insanity, they could never laugh at themselves, or find humor in something they disagreed with.

Exposed yes, but also noted almost all of them consider "exposed" as a fairly low bar as well. IE it's safe to say 99.999% of american's are exposed and chosing to reject.

But yeah the general idea of making sure small niche tribes in affrica never hear it, seems like a good way to protect them.

Same logic also could be applied to the idea that babies and kids under a certain age that die get a free trip to heaven. At which point the only logical conclusion is... a baby murderer is actually the most self sacrificing good human possible... such would be dooming himself to hell, while saving every baby he kills, self sacrifice is the greatest possible moral action. Why let babies grow up with the possibility they might reject god when they are old enough.

Honestly, a former evangelical, now a full on atheist, but I have to say, in a logical standpoint.. belief in hell, and belief that you should mind your own business, seem at odds in a general stance. If you literally believe your god, views non belief as such a crime, that anyone following it deserves to be tortured for all of eternity, it logically follows that you should do everything in your power to convince them otherwise.

The concept of a you do you and not my problem is on par with say... being a die hard trump supporter, going out every week with "mass deportations now" signs. Then going out and grabbing a beer with your undocumented immigrant friends and saying to them "You're a cool guy, lets hang out until ice finds you and gives you what you deserve".

You know what would actually be a good loyalty test for these guys... just print out a bunch of the memes.. like the one that got a guy deported at the airport etc...

Then give a really serious look dead in the eye... and hold them up one by one "DO YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY???". If the person cannot calmly say "No sir I do not find this amusing at all". Fire them.

Some good examples to use

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But if I was her, I’d sing like a songbird for any reasonable plea bargaining.

Umm... ok not a huge expert on how the courts work... but is who she'd be bargaining with be under trumps control?, again not really sure the logistics... but if it's all federal employees under trumps control... couldn't they be saying "we'll go as light as humanly possible, but if you rat out trump... we'll hit you with everything the law allows".

I mean come on and do it, what do you have to lose at this point. You clinging to the hope that maybe the US and Isreal might chose not to go to war with you?

Simple concept of nationalization/globalization. Honestly I would say records or whatever the first tool of pre-recorded music distribution came out that the game changed. IE if we want music somewhere... 99% of the time, hiring live musicians is a pretty silly excess, and well if you are using pre-recorded music, your local band needs to go toe to toe against big record labels... which have highly talented artists, the best marketing and production resources in the world, data driven approaches to attempt to pick the most likely to appeal to the broadest group of people possible etc...

When it does come to live music... Generally speaking the people that do want it, are relatively low budget. If say you are running a bar, how much extra money would you anticipate live music from a relatively unknown band would bring you in a night. Most likely not much if any. On top of that a lot of people enjoy doing music, and there's just more musicians with pretty good talent, but lack of demand in places for them to go.

6 year olds with leukemia?

Yeah... in short he was in the primaries, actually had a pretty strong following, mainly because he proposed UBI. Then after losing he started a "forward" party... which as far as I can see was meant to be kind of a centrist party, but effectively didn't have any stances besides work towards ranked choice voting.

I mean, I'd imagine probably not a good one :) Somehow I imagine asking the AI to record a conversation, is an instant arguement escalator... as is asking to read the facts back, and usually the topic would be switched rather than one side admitting their fault in the conversation.

Actually I think there's a black mirror episode on roughly that (not a device for recording audio when asked, but everyone having a chip in their head that automatically records their memories, and a huge fight when a husband discovers his wife deleted a few hours of recordings.