The pee-pee tape? Unverified, salacious gossip and irresponsible reporting. Reported more on comedy shows than MSM.
Russia? Ongoing. I think DJT's fine. Jr. might have stepped in it.
DJT's constant inaccuracies? His tweets? Access Hollywood? His conspiracy theories? Appointing unqualified family members? The sexual assault allegations*? His taunting a nuclear-tipped maniac? Yes, I buy that propaganda. Are you saying the media is fabricating those things?
* Admittedly those allegations could be false. After all, all we have is the women's word and his taped confession.
I don't want any of the smart tv features so I decided I wanted to buy a dumb tv. I had plenty of options to choose from.
Not remotely the same thing. A TV without smart features may be hard to find (I don't know; it wasn't when I bought mine.) An Echo without smart features is easy to find; it's a coaster.
I just want to actually remember to do things, and actually know things.
Knowing things has fallen out of fashion. We now carry around the whole of human knowledge in our pockets and it's cramping my style. I used to be able to toss out random bits of Hollywood trivia that sound truthy and that make me look like I know something interesting. I could say something like, "Did you know Laurence Fishburne had a recurring role on PeeWee's Playhouse?" or "Did you know that Natalie Portman was cast in The Professional based on a Sesame Street performance?" That used to be mildly impressive and entertaining. Now anyone can just ask Alexa if I'm full of shit. "Knowing" things is dead. The answer to every question is "Just Fucking Google It".
...all the slander against Trump didn't work out in the end.
"Slander" is typically false. The stuff the MSM railed DJT for was mostly accurate. That's not slander; that's reporting. Are you upset that the MSM didn't spin the Access Hollywood tape as DJT "reaching out to women"?
...UBI should be a thing because the big data companies are making a killing off your data.
WTF does UBI have to do with "big data company" profits? They're not TOTALLY unrelated because they both involve money, but that's the end of the connection I see.
When your data is only worth $.00000008, how does one expect UBI to be feasible?
Because nobody's suggesting that we fund UBI with personal data sales. Are they?
I think AC was suggesting that being Indian affects your income more than being Hindu. I'd like to think that being Hindu has little to do with it. The numbers AC linked to seem to support that.
...I say this as an American...I don't go to a "doctor" for my medicine, I go to a pharmacist or chemist.
If you're an American and you're getting your medicine from a chemist, you're on meth.
A "doctor" is someone with a doctoral degree, not necessarily a doctorate in medicine.
You're not wrong, but context makes distinction very simple. E.g. If somebody shouts, "Is there a doctor in the house?!" You don't respond, "Yes! I'm a geologist!" If you tell your boss, "I don't feel well; I'm going to the doctor," he'll know you mean a doctor of medicine.
Paddy the Irishman putting away a 5th in an evening will be blind drunk, but not necessarily hungover the next day.
Paddy might not even be blind drunk. High BAC, but if he's drinking that much every night he may function just fine. It takes dedication, but it can be done.
If cannabis is a regular habit, you've been sober 0 years.
By sober, I meant abstaining from alcohol. Definitions of "sober" other than my own are not important to me. I'm on 4 different daily prescriptions; one is cannabis. They all affect the way I think. I draw the line between "medicating" and "self-medicating" according to doctor's advice.
You're free to think that marijuana is not medicine. I think it can be.
Not that I noticed. They're darker complected than me, but I feel like I would have noticed blushing. Our roommate was incredible. She couldn't have weighed more than 100 lbs and had been drinking better than a fifth a day since well before I met her (years). The only explanation that I can come up with is that her liver is made of magic. A fifth a day shut my liver straight the fuck down and didn't waste a lot of time doing it.
People that can't metabolize acetaldehyde (many Asians) get much more hungover and basically can't drink.
My ex is Asian (1/2 Lao, 1/2 Chinese) and drinks like a champ. I suffered though some hangovers with her, but hers never seemed any worse than mine (I'm white.) We also had an Asian roommate (Lao) who drank more than me. That's quite a feat; I was literally drinking at a suicidal pace. 2 data points.
The thing that 'kills you' is drinking on a hangover.
There's no hangover if you never stop drinking. When I was drinking, the only reason that there was whiskey left at the end of the night was that I was saving it for breakfast before running off to get more.
If your not feeling sick in the morning, your not exceeding your livers capacity to metabolize acetaldehyde, at least not by much.
That doesn't imply that your liver's not taking damage.
Even if you drink like a Rusky, eat a healthy meal and your liver is good to fight again.
I've got to disagree with this. I ate just fine. My liver eventually failed and damn near killed me.
I'll be 2.5 years sober on Friday. I wasted hundreds of hours at AA meetings but never got the hang of not drinking between meetings. It finally took ending a loving relationship founded on alcohol abuse and picking up cannabis as a regular habit.
As much as I'm enjoying this spirited, rational, and lengthy debate over whether or not gravity exists, one question occurs to me that hasn't been asked:
When you see a man arguing with a mule, which of the two looks foolish?
This proves you are a child molesting, cum gargling mother fucker whose mother dines upon the undigested cum-shit that you try to keep bound up for her in your anus.
With eloquence like that I can't believe anyone would debate you. You've got AC on the ropes. I think you've already convinced most of us that gravity's real.
How about Rule Zero: Don't have a smartphone in the first place.
You do know that right out of the box, never even having done so much as made a normal voice phone call on it, your smartphone was already compromised, right?
Or accept the fact that it's compromised but still useful. If you want 100% security, then yes, Wargames. Most of us trade greatly increased capability for slightly reduced security.
First rule: don't install any apps that you don't have a strong need to install, and particularly avoid games.
There's not much I need. I'm not sure I have a "strong need" for anything. But there's a lot that I like and that improve my experience interacting with my phone. I'm a big fan of Words With Friends (Scrabble).
Second rule: don't install games.
If I had to dump either the phone-call function or Words, I'd probably stop making calls. They're not that important and I enjoy playing Words with some of my high school buddies.
Third rule: install and use a firewall to prevent any app from communicating to the internet, unless internet access is needed for the app's primary purpose and you really can't live without it.
Playing online is Words's primary purpose. It's not something I "can't live without", but being essential for survival seems like a high bar for picking apps.
Fourth rule: marketers are evil scum, and are getting more evil and scummier as time goes on.
Their job is to extract money from rubes through whatever means necessary. Yeah, scummy.
Fifth rule: don't install games
Maybe your phone is a call making machine. Mine has a lot of purposes. Playing games is one of them.
This kind of sarcasm is like making fun of how stupid and ignorant the average citizen is.
The average citizen is of average intelligence. I believe I could put that in the form of a proof. Your perception of the average citizen just tells us where you consider yourself compared to your peers.
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It's telling that you still stop short of telling me which of the things I listed is "propaganda".
The pee-pee tape? Unverified, salacious gossip and irresponsible reporting. Reported more on comedy shows than MSM.
Russia? Ongoing. I think DJT's fine. Jr. might have stepped in it.
DJT's constant inaccuracies? His tweets? Access Hollywood? His conspiracy theories? Appointing unqualified family members? The sexual assault allegations*? His taunting a nuclear-tipped maniac? Yes, I buy that propaganda. Are you saying the media is fabricating those things?
* Admittedly those allegations could be false. After all, all we have is the women's word and his taped confession.
Are you suggesting that it's going to become difficult to find dumb headphones & toilets? I think they'll be around for a while.
I don't want any of the smart tv features so I decided I wanted to buy a dumb tv. I had plenty of options to choose from.
Not remotely the same thing. A TV without smart features may be hard to find (I don't know; it wasn't when I bought mine.) An Echo without smart features is easy to find; it's a coaster.
I'm holding out for the Augmented Reality hearing aid.
I just want to actually remember to do things, and actually know things.
Knowing things has fallen out of fashion. We now carry around the whole of human knowledge in our pockets and it's cramping my style. I used to be able to toss out random bits of Hollywood trivia that sound truthy and that make me look like I know something interesting. I could say something like, "Did you know Laurence Fishburne had a recurring role on PeeWee's Playhouse?" or "Did you know that Natalie Portman was cast in The Professional based on a Sesame Street performance?" That used to be mildly impressive and entertaining. Now anyone can just ask Alexa if I'm full of shit. "Knowing" things is dead. The answer to every question is "Just Fucking Google It".
...all the slander against Trump didn't work out in the end.
"Slander" is typically false. The stuff the MSM railed DJT for was mostly accurate. That's not slander; that's reporting. Are you upset that the MSM didn't spin the Access Hollywood tape as DJT "reaching out to women"?
...UBI should be a thing because the big data companies are making a killing off your data.
WTF does UBI have to do with "big data company" profits? They're not TOTALLY unrelated because they both involve money, but that's the end of the connection I see.
When your data is only worth $.00000008, how does one expect UBI to be feasible?
Because nobody's suggesting that we fund UBI with personal data sales. Are they?
I think AC was suggesting that being Indian affects your income more than being Hindu. I'd like to think that being Hindu has little to do with it. The numbers AC linked to seem to support that.
...if someone isn't married by 30, they are defective goods and single for a reason.
I must be double-plus special! I'm only 40 and I've already completed 2 entire marriages!
What the hell was your wife doing on a dating site to begin with!
Dating? I hear it's popular. Never had much of a knack for it.
The question is, are there women there who want love but not money?
And this makes women unique? Everyone wants money. Love's nice too. One of those I can live without.
...I say this as an American...I don't go to a "doctor" for my medicine, I go to a pharmacist or chemist.
If you're an American and you're getting your medicine from a chemist, you're on meth.
A "doctor" is someone with a doctoral degree, not necessarily a doctorate in medicine.
You're not wrong, but context makes distinction very simple. E.g. If somebody shouts, "Is there a doctor in the house?!" You don't respond, "Yes! I'm a geologist!" If you tell your boss, "I don't feel well; I'm going to the doctor," he'll know you mean a doctor of medicine.
Paddy the Irishman putting away a 5th in an evening will be blind drunk, but not necessarily hungover the next day.
Paddy might not even be blind drunk. High BAC, but if he's drinking that much every night he may function just fine. It takes dedication, but it can be done.
If cannabis is a regular habit, you've been sober 0 years.
By sober, I meant abstaining from alcohol. Definitions of "sober" other than my own are not important to me. I'm on 4 different daily prescriptions; one is cannabis. They all affect the way I think. I draw the line between "medicating" and "self-medicating" according to doctor's advice.
You're free to think that marijuana is not medicine. I think it can be.
Not that I noticed. They're darker complected than me, but I feel like I would have noticed blushing. Our roommate was incredible. She couldn't have weighed more than 100 lbs and had been drinking better than a fifth a day since well before I met her (years). The only explanation that I can come up with is that her liver is made of magic. A fifth a day shut my liver straight the fuck down and didn't waste a lot of time doing it.
People that can't metabolize acetaldehyde (many Asians) get much more hungover and basically can't drink.
My ex is Asian (1/2 Lao, 1/2 Chinese) and drinks like a champ. I suffered though some hangovers with her, but hers never seemed any worse than mine (I'm white.) We also had an Asian roommate (Lao) who drank more than me. That's quite a feat; I was literally drinking at a suicidal pace. 2 data points.
Alcohol below the 'hangover' level is about as bad for you as sugar.
I heard somewhere that alcohol can cause irreversible genetic damage to stem cells.
The thing that 'kills you' is drinking on a hangover.
There's no hangover if you never stop drinking. When I was drinking, the only reason that there was whiskey left at the end of the night was that I was saving it for breakfast before running off to get more.
If your not feeling sick in the morning, your not exceeding your livers capacity to metabolize acetaldehyde, at least not by much.
That doesn't imply that your liver's not taking damage.
Even if you drink like a Rusky, eat a healthy meal and your liver is good to fight again.
I've got to disagree with this. I ate just fine. My liver eventually failed and damn near killed me.
I'll be 2.5 years sober on Friday. I wasted hundreds of hours at AA meetings but never got the hang of not drinking between meetings. It finally took ending a loving relationship founded on alcohol abuse and picking up cannabis as a regular habit.
A medicine to me is a chemical.
Which is why we call everyone who practices medicine for a living, "chemist".
Are you seriously suggesting i have an eloquent argument with this jack-off?
Not remotely. You misunderstand. I'm suggesting that you're getting trolled and should ignore that jack-off.
As much as I'm enjoying this spirited, rational, and lengthy debate over whether or not gravity exists, one question occurs to me that hasn't been asked:
When you see a man arguing with a mule, which of the two looks foolish?
This proves you are a child molesting, cum gargling mother fucker whose mother dines upon the undigested cum-shit that you try to keep bound up for her in your anus.
With eloquence like that I can't believe anyone would debate you. You've got AC on the ropes. I think you've already convinced most of us that gravity's real.
DFTT.
How about Rule Zero: Don't have a smartphone in the first place.
You do know that right out of the box, never even having done so much as made a normal voice phone call on it, your smartphone was already compromised, right?
Or accept the fact that it's compromised but still useful. If you want 100% security, then yes, Wargames. Most of us trade greatly increased capability for slightly reduced security.
First rule: don't install any apps that you don't have a strong need to install, and particularly avoid games.
There's not much I need. I'm not sure I have a "strong need" for anything. But there's a lot that I like and that improve my experience interacting with my phone. I'm a big fan of Words With Friends (Scrabble).
Second rule: don't install games.
If I had to dump either the phone-call function or Words, I'd probably stop making calls. They're not that important and I enjoy playing Words with some of my high school buddies.
Third rule: install and use a firewall to prevent any app from communicating to the internet, unless internet access is needed for the app's primary purpose and you really can't live without it.
Playing online is Words's primary purpose. It's not something I "can't live without", but being essential for survival seems like a high bar for picking apps.
Fourth rule: marketers are evil scum, and are getting more evil and scummier as time goes on.
Their job is to extract money from rubes through whatever means necessary. Yeah, scummy.
Fifth rule: don't install games
Maybe your phone is a call making machine. Mine has a lot of purposes. Playing games is one of them.
This kind of sarcasm is like making fun of how stupid and ignorant the average citizen is.
The average citizen is of average intelligence. I believe I could put that in the form of a proof. Your perception of the average citizen just tells us where you consider yourself compared to your peers.