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basic self-running computers just do not exist these days.

The computer you typed that post on is one. Jeez. Browsers magically compile and run any HTML/Javascript program you create and BASIC (among others) is a free download.

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In my worst nightmares I could not imagine that the West would come to this. All those years I am here (17), among you, I was worried about the rednecks, the ultra-religious creationists, the "foking banksters", the 1%, the mafia that is the energy industry (oil, gas), food, medicine, cosmetics and so on....anyone can see my /. post history.....and now my own people (the left, don't blame me, I can't help it, no way you can be conservative with extrovert and openness score in the 95 percentile range) betrayed me and became anti-science, anti-free speech, anti-reality for fuck's sake! I am ashamed of myself, that I missed that transformation for many years (yes, I did have horrendous personal problems so I let everything else slide, including political analysis, but still....) and repeated for a while the bulshit without checking the facts...well we live and learn I guess.

This is the classic sign of a false critic. You are trying so hard to try to make yourself out to be a genuine and verifiable source that you aren't believable.

The fact is, the same accusations were being made 17 years ago, and 17 years before that. You should stop looking at yourself as a verifiable source, and instead look at your ignorance. You are not virtuous, you are not anything but blind to the actual lies of the rednecks, the creationists, the banksters, and the industry shills. Or worse yet, an actual shill for them yourself.

You see, somebody who remembers how feministers, liberals, and civil rights workers were treated back in the Reagan years, or the Nixon years, or the Kennedy or Eisenhower years, just sees you doing the same thing over and over again. And people who look back in history can see how such luminaries as Roosevelt, Lincoln, Tilden, and others were treated.

Maybe you should pick your individual path more carefully. Maybe you should stop diving into the midden for your own pearls of wisdom.

Or be like this.

Your choice.

This I am not certain of either and it seems to be said about every new administration. There is likely a lot of recently bias influencing your (and really everyones) thought process, much like how people tend to say that music is crap now and used to be way better. This is not necessarily the case, it is just that people forget all of the terrible music from decades passed and we are unable to look twenty years into the future to see what music from today will have survived and be remembered.

Nope. They don't like the changes. But rather than express that, they resort to a poorly articulated response that they've been habituated to expressing. Your understanding of people's mentality is flawed.

It was the same with Obama where he was called the worst president by his opponents just as Clinton was before him.

Actually, it was quite different. For one thing, his opponents literally made up crap about Obama's birth certificate, including a certain Turnip, and when it was Clinton, they still pass around this mythical death list.

Whereas people actually come up with substantive criticism of Trump, and yet his, and his apologist's, defenses are even more over the top hyperbole which you dismiss and downplay.

The same for Bush who was derided, but has largely been forgotten about.

Bush is still beloved by the precious Republicans, actually. Both of them.

It is also quite clear from your post history that you really do not like Trump. Like you really, really do not like Trump. If you were less vehemently opposed to him, I might take what you say a lot more seriously.

If you were more vehemently opposed to Trump, people might take what you say a lot more seriously. You should probably look at your own post history, or the post histories of some of the more...strident Trump apologists, and discuss them, before you start throwing stones at others.

However it is just as likely for you to want to believe this irrespective of whether or not it is true, which makes it far more difficult for me (or anyone else) to put much value in your assessment. What you say may in fact be true, it is simple the case that you are a poor gauge to measure the veracity of the statement.

Actually, this is more your problem. The value of your assessments is even by your own logic, namely your already stated position regarding a critic who was a proponent, diminished, due to your lack of qualities which make you a sufficiently honest gauge of your own believability.

To put it another way, if you actually were sufficiently hostile and critical of Trump, your attempts at inducing moderation and decorum might have some traction, however, your consistent refusal to do so, well, that actually diminishes your ability to get a grip on the road.

However, if you do have some third party systematic analysis of this that you have used to form your own opinion, I would be more than happy to read it and change my mind.

Your response to the systematic analysis shows you weren't happy, but were displeased and quick to be dismissive.

So nice to see your pattern of behavior remains consistent.

Keep on sliding around. Get in your groove.

And FWIW, your not exactly new either, there's already a lot of people like you who try to chide one side, but are conspicuously silent towards the other, not even raising an eyebrow. They even have excuses for that, most of them laughable. Sorry, but you need to look in your own eye.

There's a Redwood there. A big one. Blinding your vision. Be your own ophthalmologist.

That's what you need to do before you can be believed.

Or be like this.

Your call.

Here, this comic is for you:

Steaks.

Also this one..

Trump fans won't understand either.

Here, this comic is for you:

Steaks.

Also this one..

Trump fans won't understand either.

Also, for our darker complexioned Slashdotters, please read this guide on police interaction.

I know that link is meant to be tongue-in-cheek, but unfortunately it seems for African Americans that even being submissive/playing dead does not seem to allay the fear/suspicion/rage of many police officers. Even this lily-white American male can see that, these days, if the police want you dead then they will kill you. I hate to say it, but it appears that right now the police would rather that African Americans just get it over with and die already. After all, better safe than sorry, right? So, why should I care as a white American male? Surely it can't take all that much imagination to understand that once the African American population has been decimated then the rest of us will be next. Yes, the thin blue line is alive and well.

The people in the car were acting nervous. Which is apparently an unexpected response to being pulled over by the cops.

Sure, if you're middle-aged (or older), white, and upper middle class (or better), you probably don't have anything to worry about. Anybody else, well, pray he's having a good day and you don't do anything to piss him off. Also, for our darker complexioned Slashdotters, please read this guide on police interaction.