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Answer 3 questions & prove things you say about yourself: 1.) Are you paid off by Soros to spew crap https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11729899&cid=56102973/ & https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11669511&cid=56024869/ or are those 2 links just you lying?

2.) You're a PhD in English (lol - a degree for idiots) & you were a "pwufessuh" (those who can DO, those who CAN'T, teach fatzo)??

3.) You're a martial artist (lol, maybe in the old Ninja Gaiden game) too??

On that 3rd one - just to let you TRY PROVE IT fairly?

Come try prove that w/ me directly fatboy - you're the RICH MAN, take a flight here & we'll see what's what on that - No weapons, just man to man (you're no man though).

No threat either: Who'd I 'threaten'? YOU, you FAKE NAME for a FAKE LIE OF A LIFE Mooley - you're all LIES & not even REAL behind your FAKE NAME for your FAKE LIE of a "life", lol.

You called the 1st lady a whore today https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11801469&cid=56198439/ ?

Your ALLEGED WIFE's a whore MOOLEY https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11806784&cid=56202673/ so let her read that you no balls (& certainly no dick per your photo) punk.

Bugs Bunny's better than you & I'm challenging a fake in yourself. A grotesque DELUSIONAL liar & mere caricature in yourself (just like bugs bunny), nothing more.

* By the way: CNN & Anderson Cooper disappearing nose greenscreen work is ALL ANYONE NEEDS TO SEE about "Cock Nozzle Network", lol!

APK

P.S.=> Either way you answer, you're cornered (like the "RATZO" you are): You're either a LIAR or you're a 'souled-out' traitor PopeFATZO!

Do I blame you? Yes!

HOWEVER:

I understand your motives (desperation) & what makes you a perfect candidate for Soros hiring you (He goes for easily paid off disgruntled losers & heroin/meth junkies looking for 'fix' $) You're so FAT & UGLY you deformed MUTANT https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QqAn6jRY748/UP906Z4OONI/AAAAAAAAMBw/4UJL1sLYx2E/s1600/Gun+Nut+Article+for+Bell+of+Lost+Souls2.jpg// you need money to TRY to get laid (& even THEN, you get zero)... apk

Answer 3 questions & prove things you say about yourself: 1.) Are you paid off by Soros to spew crap https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11729899&cid=56102973/ & https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11669511&cid=56024869/ or are those 2 links just you lying?

2.) You're a PhD in English (lol - a degree for idiots) & you were a "pwufessuh" (those who can DO, those who CAN'T, teach fatzo)??

3.) You're a martial artist (lol, maybe in the old Ninja Gaiden game) too??

On that 3rd one - just to let you TRY PROVE IT fairly?

Come try prove that w/ me directly fatboy - you're the RICH MAN, take a flight here & we'll see what's what on that - No weapons, just man to man (you're no man though).

No threat either: Who'd I 'threaten'? YOU, you FAKE NAME for a FAKE LIE OF A LIFE Mooley - you're all LIES & not even REAL behind your FAKE NAME for your FAKE LIE of a "life", lol.

You called the 1st lady a whore today https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11801469&cid=56198439/ ?

Your ALLEGED WIFE's a whore MOOLEY https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11806784&cid=56202673/ so let her read that you no balls (& certainly no dick per your photo) punk.

Bugs Bunny's better than you & I'm challenging a fake in yourself. A grotesque DELUSIONAL liar & mere caricature in yourself (just like bugs bunny), nothing more.

* By the way: CNN & Anderson Cooper disappearing nose greenscreen work is ALL ANYONE NEEDS TO SEE about "Cock Nozzle Network", lol!

APK

P.S.=> Either way you answer, you're cornered (like the "RATZO" you are): You're either a LIAR or you're a 'souled-out' traitor PopeFATZO!

Do I blame you? Yes!

HOWEVER:

I understand your motives (desperation) & what makes you a perfect candidate for Soros hiring you (He goes for easily paid off disgruntled losers & heroin/meth junkies looking for 'fix' $) You're so FAT & UGLY you deformed MUTANT https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QqAn6jRY748/UP906Z4OONI/AAAAAAAAMBw/4UJL1sLYx2E/s1600/Gun+Nut+Article+for+Bell+of+Lost+Souls2.jpg// you need money to TRY to get laid (& even THEN, you get zero)... apk

Answer 3 questions & prove a things you say about yourself: 1.) Are you paid off by Soros to spew crap https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11729899&cid=56102973/ & https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11669511&cid=56024869/ or are those 2 links just you lying?

2.) You're a PhD in English (lol - a degree for idiots) & you were a "pwufessuh" (those who can DO, those who CAN'T, teach fatzo)??

3.) You're a martial artist (lol, maybe in the old Ninja Gaiden game) too??

On that 3rd one - just to let you TRY PROVE IT fairly?

Come try prove that w/ me directly fatboy - you're the RICH MAN, take a flight here & we'll see what's what on that - No weapons, just man to man (you're no man though).

No threat either: Who'd I 'threaten'? YOU, you FAKE NAME for a FAKE LIE OF A LIFE Mooley - you're all LIES & not even REAL behind your FAKE NAME for your FAKE LIE of a "life", lol.

You called the 1st lady a whore today https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11801469&cid=56198439/ ?

Your ALLEGED WIFE's a whore MOOLEY https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11806784&cid=56202673/ so let her read that you no balls (& certainly no dick per your photo) punk.

Bugs Bunny's better than you & I'm challenging a fake in yourself. A grotesque DELUSIONAL liar & mere caricature in yourself (just like bugs bunny), nothing more.

* By the way: CNN & Anderson Cooper disappearing nose greenscreen work is ALL ANYONE NEEDS TO SEE about "Cock Nozzle Network", lol!

APK

P.S.=> Either way you answer, you're cornered (like the "RATZO" you are): You're either a LIAR or you're a 'souled-out' traitor PopeFATZO!

Do I blame you? Yes!

HOWEVER:

I understand your motives (desperation) & what makes you a perfect candidate for Soros hiring you (He goes for easily paid off disgruntled losers & heroin/meth junkies looking for 'fix' $) You're so FAT & UGLY you deformed MUTANT https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QqAn6jRY748/UP906Z4OONI/AAAAAAAAMBw/4UJL1sLYx2E/s1600/Gun+Nut+Article+for+Bell+of+Lost+Souls2.jpg// you need money to TRY to get laid (& even THEN, you get zero)... apk

No. People have always talked about sex at work. For example, the character of "Drew" in the film Office Space (written and directed by the same individual as Idiocracy) is a caricature of the the stereotypical office worker who constantly talks about sex. It is nothing new. It isn't shocking.

Just to add to the sentiment shared by Uberbah: Life Without Retirement Savings. I haven't been able to save enough for retirement even if I'm well above the median savings of $15,000, and I sure as shit don't want to end up like these folks when I'm old and tired. And I live below my means also, so I don't want to hear any of that judgmental shit people like to say as if I was spending $5 for a cup of Starbucks. I don't do it. And yet we'll all be guilted for some caricature of modern-day spendthrifts that will totally ignore the fact that I live on the outskirts of town and my mortgage is still $1800/mo and my health insurance costs are over $9000/year for my spouse and I (and that's on a college-offered student plan which is leaps-and-bounds better than the similar costing Marketplace plan available to us). And it's not like that's a socialized medicine system either, because heavens forbid I need to actually seek medical treatment for any condition.

The SJW have poisoned the term to a point where it is actually more the opposite of social justice than anything. They are exactly the same as tht which they claim to despise. Bullies and morons. Just with the opposite polarity. Like polarity matters when you get an electric shock...

Like everything discussed between Americans, as always, it is reduced to rigid one-dimensional binary extremes of complete and utter galopping Lovecraftian insanity.
Both of your sides are completely retarded asshole horseshit.

SJWs and whatever OP is supposed to be. (neocon?)
And you both attack completely fucked-up distorted caricature strawmen of each other.

Get back to sanity! And reality! Both of you!!

If you're trying to set up a Conservative friendly social media or video sharing service his politics are actually a plus.

The interesting thing is that Sam Altman is probably a libertarian type too.

http://blog.samaltman.com/e-pu...

You can't tell which seemingly wacky ideas are going to turn out to be right, and nearly all ideas that turn out to be great breakthroughs start out sounding like terrible ideas. So if you want a culture that innovates, you can't have a culture where you allow the concept of heresy-if you allow the concept at all, it tends to spread. When we move from strenuous debate about ideas to casting the people behind the ideas as heretics, we gradually stop debate on all controversial ideas.

This is uncomfortable, but it's possible we have to allow people to say disparaging things about gay people if we want them to be able to say novel things about physics. Of course we can and should say that ideas are mistaken, but we can't just call the person a heretic. We need to debate the actual idea.

Political correctness often comes from a good place-I think we should all be willing to make accommodations to treat others well. But too often it ends up being used as a club for something orthogonal to protecting actual victims. The best ideas are barely possible to express at all, and if you're constantly thinking about how everything you say might be misinterpreted, you won't let the best ideas get past the fragment stage.

I don't know who Satoshi is, but I'm skeptical that he, she, or they would have been able to come up with the idea for bitcoin immersed in the current culture of San Francisco-it would have seemed too crazy and too dangerous, with too many ways to go wrong. If SpaceX started in San Francisco in 2017, I assume they would have been attacked for focusing on problems of the 1%, or for doing something the government had already decided was too hard. I can picture Galileo looking up at the sky and whispering "E pur si muove" here today.

I.e. what the SJWs who infest Google and FB (and Reddit, whose board Altman was on) are scared of is that the people who have haven't drunk the Koolaid and may - horror of horrors - fund people who want to start companies who challenge their control of The Narrative.

Odd really, I always thought Altman's politics were like those of the average Redditor. However read that blog post and it's clear they're not. The dude is OK.

Also The Guardian mentioned him negatively in a hit piece on Thiel :

https://www.theguardian.com/ne...

If you're interested in the end of the world, you're interested in New Zealand. If you're interested in how our current cultural anxieties - climate catastrophe, decline of transatlantic political orders, resurgent nuclear terror - manifest themselves in apocalyptic visions, you're interested in the place occupied by this distant archipelago of apparent peace and stability against the roiling unease of the day.

If you're interested in the end of the world, you would have been interested, soon after Donald Trump's election as US president, to read a New York Times headline stating that Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist who co-founded PayPal and was an early investor in Facebook, considered New Zealand to be "the Future". Because if you are in any serious way concerned about the future, you're also concerned about Thiel, a canary in capitalism's coal mine who also happens to have profited lavishly from his stake in the mining concern itself.

Thiel is in one sense a caricature of outsized villainy: he was the only major Silicon Valley figure to put his weight behind the Trump presidential campaign; he vengefully bankrupted a website because he didn't like how they wrote about him; he is known for his pu

You've only now come to that conclusion? I've thought all along that Trump is a pompous narcissist out to make a buck. Even if he lost the election, he can trade on the speaking circuit for the rest of his life.

The man is practically the caricature of someone in it for Money, Power, and Fame. But now he's discovered that power is delegated, not wielded; that fame is one wrong move from infamy; and that the money has to wait until he's no longer President.

Does any evil genius "know all the best words?" Please.

2. Your declaration of victory based on entirely missing the point is entertainingly trumpian.

3. You make (incorrect) assumptions as to my neurodiversity status.

4....everyone knows, when you make an assumption, you make an ass out of "u" and "umption". - Samuel L. Jackson.

Presented in logical-extreme South Park fashion, that's a decent caricature of the Linux gaming/oss dialectic, complete with your tone deaf response. Aspies win this round, move along.

In most of the world, you have the right to control your own image.

And in the US (which is the jurisdiction which applies where REddit is based), these rights specifically control *commercial exploitation*
(i.e.: a company deciding to sell products and earn money by using your face on them without your consent).

It absolutely doesn't cover stuff like horny teenagers using pencils to make their fantasy happen on hand-drawn comics.
That sweaty 14 y.o. drooling why drawing a sex act involving Kate Perry ? Perfectly legal.
(Well, until he decides to show it to his friends, then in the US it becomes a matter of under-age access to porn).

DeepFake is basically just a better pen enabling horny boys to draw their fantasies - THAT NEVER happened in the real world.

Criticizing to output of deep fake isn't anymore illegitimate than criticizing a caricature, etc.
It's artists rendition of something imaginary that happens to look like a living person.

It's not actually stealing the collection of nude selfie of someone.
It's drawing your own imaginary representation of what it would like (but using a better computer rather than a pencil or old-school Photoshop).

As long as it's not mis-represented (i.e.: the doctored movie being clearly stated as such, with credits where it is due to the original material that was used in the remix. Not pretending that Scarlett Johanson actually took part in hardcore BDSM session with you - that probably goes into on slander/libel territory), I fail to see what's the problem.

Colbert was being sarcastic when he said "reality has a well-known liberal bias". His "The Colbert Report" show persona was a caricature of the right-wing punditry typical of Fox News.

Trump and Hillary were caricatures of candidates; basically a giant douche and a turd sandwich, and you're seriously pining for her over Bernie? Look at her now blaming literally everyone and everything except herself, further damaging the democratic party, and generally just being spiteful: She's an awful person with an awful history and her face inspired last minute voters to pick "anyone but Hillary please!". The democratic party is a joke for propping her up, and their actions in recent days aren't inspiring confidence either. We need candidates who refuses to participate in identity politics, and focus on how to reconcile our differences rather than work to further isolate the parties from each other. Unfortunately that seems to be the path we're locked on for now.

This judge is a troll and fabricating a caricature of the US.

That's what happens when you have a carroonish view of politics and react emotionally whenever you're not getting your way.

To be fair, Trump is a caricature of a politician, his administration follows his lead and he has congress backing him. He's also appointed many less than qualified federal judges, is attempting to discredit the FBI and undermine faith in the free press. His extreme behavior is very similar to dictators (which he admires). This is not normal.

I find this to be a gross oversimplification, found mainly in fart left edge of US political spectrum. Republicans are the party of the working class working for various production fields and winning this vote with policies aimed at making it easier to get production into US and limit immigration driving the wages of working class down. Democrats are distinctly hostile to these people, down to calling them "deplorables" in last election and openly supporting all of their main class enemies - immigrants and white collar intelligencia.

Democrats appear to be on the other hand the party of big business, who have shown clear support for Clinton in last elections in many non-production industries such as IT.

There's just a whole lot more to US party system and its alliance networks than just "evil christians doing the work of satan and republicans" caricature commonly painted by the same people who call working class "deplorables". Each party has it's own connections and alliances among various strata of society, and interestingly, it seems that our time is the time when many of these connections are shifting. Democrats used to be the party of working class just a couple of decades ago for example, while republicans where the big business party. That has flipped 180.

We live in interesting times when it comes to US politics. Two party system may lock out other parties - but it also causes the two big parties to keep adopting their platforms to various interests, often making friends among those that were their foes just a few decades ago.

It depends a lot on the system. In Nordic system, where you have parallel private and public health care, what happens is that private healthcare gets to skim the rich and easy cases off the top, and dump the rest on the public system. Which results in massively overloaded public system which gets all the difficult and expensive cases, resulting in lowered quality of care as doctors who have a choice go to private sector.

This is a major problem across Nordics right now. Sweden is so bad at this point, that you have people coming to Finland for quality-critical deeply specialized things like childbirth. Rest of us are a decade or two behind them, which is why our public system at hospital level (specialized care) is still of generally high quality, while the local (i.e. health clinic) is in a downward spiral. I.e. one of the best cancer survival rates in the world, one of the lowest infant mortality rates in the world and so on, because these things remain in high demand, cannot be easily delivered by private sector that finds it most profitable to treat rich with runny noses. A caricature, but it delivers the correct message in this case. In clinic, it may literally take you days just to get to see a doctor, even after you get sick, because of how badly clogged public system is at this point.

And the worst part is that private care does slowly go up in price, even when public option is available. It's just that we are at the start of the progression, while US is much further down the line. Specialized care in private sector is a small business, and while private companies are clearly lobbying hard for more universal payer system payments to private sector (hence allowing less wealthy people to get into the private system) and we have a major legislative package on the topic that has been on and off in parliamentary limbo for something close to decade at this point. The issue is incredibly explosive and painful, that even the main party pushing for defunding public care and shifting to private, that is currently the most popular party in the country simply cannot push the changes through the parliament. The rejection from the rest of the nation is simply too strong.

You really need to read the second to last paragraph:

>That is why your desperate attempt to build a caricature out of my arguments so you can easily debunk them is not constructive. You're the one who needs to win hearts and minds to get universal healthcare to pass in US. I already have it and I wholeheartedly support it for US, so strawmanning my points on the negatives of the system will not convince anyone who isn't already on your side, and will most certainly alienate those that aren't, because they can actually read my points, and see that you're not actually addressing them.

Top payers in medical care are not a mythical one percent. It's closet to universal 20/80 distribution. Weatlhiest people paying most into the system tend to also be healthiest, and vice versa.

This is something we tend to discover in countries with universal health care. Wealthy and healthy people get annoyed that they pay a lot of taxes, and they still have to sit five hours in ER queue with all the junkies and alcoholics. It's a real problem. So they end up paying extra on top of the high taxes paying for universal health care. And then they wonder why is it that they have to pay for public healthcare which they don't use.

Which provides them with incentives to vote for the parties that essentially push to defund public sector in favour of private one. Which is now the most popular party in my country, in some part due to this. It's a genuine problem in long term, and your denials of this will create problem on your end, because while you can refuse to address reality, you cannot refuse to address consequences of your denial of reality.

That is why your desperate attempt to build a caricature out of my arguments so you can easily debunk them is not constructive. You're the one who needs to win hearts and minds to get universal healthcare to pass in US. I already have it and I wholeheartedly support it for US, so strawmanning my points on the negatives of the system will not convince anyone who isn't already on your side, and will most certainly alienate those that aren't, because they can actually read my points, and see that you're not actually addressing them.

And by the way. US is not a "private only" system. Emergency care is still universal. Child healthcare is still universal. Elderly care is still universal.

I can offer a better analogy.

I'm in the interesting position of having a sometimes broken, sometimes working facial recognition system. More specifically, it's usually broken, but I can sometimes somehow trick my brain into activating it, usually by staring intently at a person for an abnormally long period of time. The first time I managed to do this, which I believe was when looking at my mom, I suddenly realized "Holy shit, she looks like grandpa." Up until that point, I had never understood what people were talking about when they say that someone looks like their parents.

The analogy I offer, which closely matches my subjective experience, is that of 2D vs. 3D movies. When looking at them, they contain the exact same imagery and look pretty much identical, but the 3D image contains additional information that allows the brain to post-process it and creating a "popping out" experience that cannot possibly be captured in a 2D image. Faces appear work the same way; the post-processing adds a layer of "depth", for lack of a better term, that doesn't really change how it looks, but rather how it's experienced. You're suddenly capable of identifying patterns, similarities and nuances that you were previously oblivious to. Normal people's facial recognition seems to largely be based on this "extra" information.

An analogy that's way less accurate to my experiences, but may be easier to understand, is that of a magic eye image. The pattern doesn't change, but you suddenly experience something "more" that transcends the pattern itself, like an extra layer of previously invisible information on top of what you already had.

To be more vague and subjective, perceiving people's faces in the "normal" way is actually quite weird from the point of view of someone who doesn't normally do so. The person you're looking at appears to be wearing a hyper-realistic "mask" over their face that somehow looks the same, yet heavily emphasizes their distinct traits, sort of like some living, breathing caricature of the person. While this is a very strange, surreal experience to me, I assume this is what most people always experience in everyday life, that it feels perfectly natural to them, and that they're not even aware that it's going on.