I was recently wondering what kept people going to these shitty sequels upon sequels upon sequels and it just hit me. It was always a factor, especially in high school, but social media magnified it greatly for everyone: no one wants to be left out.
So is sunk cost fallacy. You don't want all that movie watching so far to be for nothing, now do ya?
People who'd get an idea to adopt a child from a TV commercial shouldn't be allowed near children. At least with pets, worst case scenario, poor animal has to suffer the fool for 12 years or so until it dies. With a child 12 years is just the start.
...is a #cryptocurrency called #AwesomCoin which would be powered by labor of small children harvested from impoverished villages. Preferably working in a combination of coal and uranium mines - and oil rigs. Oil is needed cause uranium won't burn as easily on its own. Also, where possible, whale and dolphin fat would be added to the mix - for flavoring.
From time to time, in order to increase the value of #AwesomCoin through magic, some of the children would be offered as human sacrifices to Kali, Quetzalcoatl, Beelzebub, Donald Trump and Santa. Not necessarily in that order. #AwesomCoin mining facilities would be built on a large swat of land presently used as rain forests, in cooperation with Russian and South American criminal cartels and oligarchies.
#AwesomCoin would be combined with an app where one could purchase and kill real life kittens through a variety of means - from sitting on them until they are crushed to throwing them against an oncoming train (other methods to be added).
It's not how many can YOU memorize. It's how many is the guy with a 1970's Chinese-made AK who's guarding that particular border pass in the middle of nowhere willing to accept as a matter of faith. I'm gonna go with... somewhere less than its value in lead and brass.
How many bitcoin can you smuggle inside your stomach into a concentration camp, then exchange them behind the camp's toilets for the lives of your children?
So... every three transactions, one would waste as much electricity as one would need to run a home for a month. It's like having to set the store on fire every time you get a loaf of bread.
Basically... using Bitcoins is the moral equivalent of dealing meth to kindergartners. Or maybe heroin. Mining Bitcoin is the moral equivalent of producing drugs and cutting them with rat poison. THEN dealing them to kindergartners. Preferably in poor, underprivileged neighborhoods. GREED - fucking up future generations - TODAY*
____ * slogan is currently under the right of first refusal consideration by the US Republican Party
"Explicit consent" is a worthless and meaningless measure. Everyone already agrees to all the bullshit that a particular piece of software demands of them - either during the installation or when starting the software. Or during updates.
What would be necessary goes beyond tracking or consent. Basically, there's a need for legislation treating software and hardware developers as presumed criminals and fraudsters - requiring proof and regular inspection that they are not defrauding or abusing their customers, attempting to do so or allowing for it through negligence. Think treating all software and hardware with same scrutiny as medical devices and procedures.
You know... as you would expect whatever it is that your dentist is putting inside your mouth during a root canal procedure. Is it just filling material - or is she putting a tracking device in there, so the reptilian overlords could track you using satellites and cellphone towers?
Same scrutiny should be given to all the cases of giving away "free" software, purposefully making software obsolete or packaging the same old functionality in a "new" application just because the developer has to push SOMETHING out there every quarter. Also, backward compatibility and right to repair for hardware would have to be obligatory, and could be waived only by making all the software running on obsolete and "reasonably beyond repair" hardware open source and "free" - unless said hardware/software is a part of a medical device. In which case support would be obligatory "for the life" of the patient. You know... so people wouldn't have to worry about being asphyxiated if a fuse blows out during the night.
Map-making lobby ARE the globe producing lobby. A globe is nothing but a 3D map. And a map is nothing but a projection of a surface of a sphere onto a flat plane. Clever way to hide in plane sight, isn't it not?
Is it cause it features Clintons? Or is it cause, in the reasoning of the joke above (and below) it reflects the position of Trump's cabinet on Trump? It's he Clintons, right? As in, right has a Clinton-phobia. Which is why they can't let go of their fear of Clintons even when they win.
I guess being a loser IS a state of mind. Too bad one can't gerrymander that state, right? Right? Hello?
Anyway... as I was saying, in reply to the question "What if alien life were so advanced that its physical manifestation was indistinguishable from Donald J. Trump?"...
Well... according to him. Then again... also according to him the book is not a very good source for learning how to fix motorcycles.
But oh boy does he criticize professional repair men and other motorcycle owners. Apparently, they only exist so he could point out their flaws. In repair of motorcycles, reasoning, life...
Pirsig was a paranoid schizophrenic who wrote memoirs disguised as pseudophilosophical twaddle. Sad memoirs being a way for him to deal with remembering that at one time he was institutionalized and treated with electroshocks, which caused him to suffer memory loss. At one point he stopped giving interviews after hearing himself on TV and thinking he was having hallucinations again.
Also, he wrote as a way to prop up his own ego. Which is why he writes himself a ready and inquisitive yet flawed audience to listen and admire his ramblings and to serve as an example he can apply his wast Mary Sue wisdom to.
One might as well pick up any daily paper and read the horoscope. Same quality of fact and wisdom. Any daily paper will do.
Oh look! Some precious snowflakes can't take all the winning their Twitler in Chief is providing them with. So they try to moderate down comments pointing out his racist Nazi ways. Cause that works real well against the powers of Copy and Paste.
Anyway... November 3rd? By then, the turd in the White House will be banned from Twitter?
Hmm... Wonder if it will try to nuke North Korea in order to get the attention. Or maybe Mexico. Will instagram save the world and life as we know it by taking the proverbial bullet? Or maybe Facebook? Tinder? Grindr? Fart-app du jour?
Oh... judging by your ID, comrade, I fear that you know the taste of Moscow snow far better than I. Particularly of the yellow variety.
Which is fitting for a history revisionist Nazi defender pushing a tale of "fine people on both sides". Too bad for you that people who hung the cunts you defend knew otherwise.
Benjamin Ferencz, a former US prosecutor in the war crimes trials, and one of the few people participants still alive to have taken part in the trials, returned to Nuremberg at the age of 90 to speak at the opening of the museum on the anniversary of the world's first war crimes trial.
Speaking at the inauguration of the new museum, Ferencz said, "When I left Germany for the first time after World War II and left Nuremberg, my biggest regret was that I never heard from any German saying 'I'm sorry.'
You might wanna take a refreshment course in some of the best TV ever made. Cause it was about real people, real events, real history... And last but not least, it shows the complicity not only of those "fine people" fighting only "because their country told them to fight" - but of civilians as well.
See... There's this thing about supporting and defending an ideology you might not be aware of... It makes that ideology your own. You like the ideas - you simply must be thinking them too! Cause that's how that brain thing works! You thought it - you bought it!
And you know what else THAT means! That's RIGHT! That's very right indeed! Very far right. It means that you're a Nazi cunt - only more cowardly cause you don't have actual balls to go around shouting "Jews will not replace us." You only have enough balls to troll online.
Now go back under the bridge you crawled under, you Nazi scum.
And as is their custom, they are retarded and cowardly, trying to moderate down the truth of the their own cowardice and mental (and other) retardation. But that ain't how it works...
Got news for you: A lot of the original Nazis were also just cowards waving the flag.
Got news for you: ALL of the original Nazis were also just cowards waving the flag.
It's one of their main features. Along with being white, without a sense of humor and being convinced in their own racial superiority in order to compensate for a raging inferiority complex.
The turd in the White House will be banned from Twitter?
Hmm... Wonder if it will try to nuke North Korea in order to get the attention. Or maybe Mexico. Will instagram save the world and life as we know it by taking the proverbial bullet? Or maybe Facebook? Tinder? Grindr? Fart-app du jour?
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I was recently wondering what kept people going to these shitty sequels upon sequels upon sequels and it just hit me.
It was always a factor, especially in high school, but social media magnified it greatly for everyone: no one wants to be left out.
So is sunk cost fallacy.
You don't want all that movie watching so far to be for nothing, now do ya?
People who'd get an idea to adopt a child from a TV commercial shouldn't be allowed near children.
At least with pets, worst case scenario, poor animal has to suffer the fool for 12 years or so until it dies.
With a child 12 years is just the start.
With an AK you never have to say you're sorry...
...is a #cryptocurrency called #AwesomCoin which would be powered by labor of small children harvested from impoverished villages.
Preferably working in a combination of coal and uranium mines - and oil rigs. Oil is needed cause uranium won't burn as easily on its own.
Also, where possible, whale and dolphin fat would be added to the mix - for flavoring.
From time to time, in order to increase the value of #AwesomCoin through magic, some of the children would be offered as human sacrifices to Kali, Quetzalcoatl, Beelzebub, Donald Trump and Santa.
Not necessarily in that order.
#AwesomCoin mining facilities would be built on a large swat of land presently used as rain forests, in cooperation with Russian and South American criminal cartels and oligarchies.
#AwesomCoin would be combined with an app where one could purchase and kill real life kittens through a variety of means - from sitting on them until they are crushed to throwing them against an oncoming train (other methods to be added).
It's not how many can YOU memorize.
It's how many is the guy with a 1970's Chinese-made AK who's guarding that particular border pass in the middle of nowhere willing to accept as a matter of faith.
I'm gonna go with... somewhere less than its value in lead and brass.
Depends.
How many bitcoin can you smuggle inside your stomach into a concentration camp, then exchange them behind the camp's toilets for the lives of your children?
Cause Bitcoins also waste HUGE AMOUNTS of electricity with every single transaction.
Currently it's at 271 KWh or about 9.15 "U.S. households powered for 1 day".
PER transaction.
So... every three transactions, one would waste as much electricity as one would need to run a home for a month.
It's like having to set the store on fire every time you get a loaf of bread.
Basically... using Bitcoins is the moral equivalent of dealing meth to kindergartners. Or maybe heroin.
Mining Bitcoin is the moral equivalent of producing drugs and cutting them with rat poison.
THEN dealing them to kindergartners. Preferably in poor, underprivileged neighborhoods.
GREED - fucking up future generations - TODAY*
____
* slogan is currently under the right of first refusal consideration by the US Republican Party
"Explicit consent" is a worthless and meaningless measure.
Everyone already agrees to all the bullshit that a particular piece of software demands of them - either during the installation or when starting the software.
Or during updates.
What would be necessary goes beyond tracking or consent.
Basically, there's a need for legislation treating software and hardware developers as presumed criminals and fraudsters - requiring proof and regular inspection that they are not defrauding or abusing their customers, attempting to do so or allowing for it through negligence.
Think treating all software and hardware with same scrutiny as medical devices and procedures.
You know... as you would expect whatever it is that your dentist is putting inside your mouth during a root canal procedure.
Is it just filling material - or is she putting a tracking device in there, so the reptilian overlords could track you using satellites and cellphone towers?
Same scrutiny should be given to all the cases of giving away "free" software, purposefully making software obsolete or packaging the same old functionality in a "new" application just because the developer has to push SOMETHING out there every quarter.
Also, backward compatibility and right to repair for hardware would have to be obligatory, and could be waived only by making all the software running on obsolete and "reasonably beyond repair" hardware open source and "free" - unless said hardware/software is a part of a medical device.
In which case support would be obligatory "for the life" of the patient.
You know... so people wouldn't have to worry about being asphyxiated if a fuse blows out during the night.
Map-making lobby ARE the globe producing lobby.
A globe is nothing but a 3D map. And a map is nothing but a projection of a surface of a sphere onto a flat plane.
Clever way to hide in plane sight, isn't it not?
That's what the globe producing lobby wants you to think.
There's a reason they call it a global conspiracy.
Yew haters are just jealous of yew's longevity and its ability to stay hard.
Or fall for taunts of 7-digit, 5-million ID, 6-post trolls.
Is it cause it features Clintons?
Or is it cause, in the reasoning of the joke above (and below) it reflects the position of Trump's cabinet on Trump?
It's he Clintons, right?
As in, right has a Clinton-phobia. Which is why they can't let go of their fear of Clintons even when they win.
I guess being a loser IS a state of mind.
Too bad one can't gerrymander that state, right?
Right?
Hello?
Anyway... as I was saying, in reply to the question "What if alien life were so advanced that its physical manifestation was indistinguishable from Donald J. Trump?"...
Life on Earth would be indistinguishable from an episode of Freakazoid.
Right now we're lacking the whole flying saucer thing.
Well... according to him. Then again... also according to him the book is not a very good source for learning how to fix motorcycles.
But oh boy does he criticize professional repair men and other motorcycle owners.
Apparently, they only exist so he could point out their flaws. In repair of motorcycles, reasoning, life...
*Said memoirs...
Pirsig was a paranoid schizophrenic who wrote memoirs disguised as pseudophilosophical twaddle.
Sad memoirs being a way for him to deal with remembering that at one time he was institutionalized and treated with electroshocks, which caused him to suffer memory loss.
At one point he stopped giving interviews after hearing himself on TV and thinking he was having hallucinations again.
Also, he wrote as a way to prop up his own ego.
Which is why he writes himself a ready and inquisitive yet flawed audience to listen and admire his ramblings and to serve as an example he can apply his wast Mary Sue wisdom to.
One might as well pick up any daily paper and read the horoscope. Same quality of fact and wisdom.
Any daily paper will do.
Life on Earth would be indistinguishable from an episode of Freakazoid.
Right now we're lacking the whole flying saucer thing.
Keep telling that to yourself as the walls peel away around you.
But you might end up wishing you could've...
Anyway, as I was saying before I was so rudely modded down for stating the truth...
Bipolar? Oh no...
He's a narcissist sociopath with senile dementia.
But at least there's all that winning going around.
In the words of Darth Vader: Yippee!
He's a narcissist sociopath with senile dementia.
But at least there's all that winning going around.
In the words of Darth Vader: Yippee!
Oh look! Some precious snowflakes can't take all the winning their Twitler in Chief is providing them with.
So they try to moderate down comments pointing out his racist Nazi ways.
Cause that works real well against the powers of Copy and Paste.
Anyway... November 3rd?
By then, the turd in the White House will be banned from Twitter?
Hmm... Wonder if it will try to nuke North Korea in order to get the attention. Or maybe Mexico.
Will instagram save the world and life as we know it by taking the proverbial bullet?
Or maybe Facebook? Tinder? Grindr? Fart-app du jour?
Oh... judging by your ID, comrade, I fear that you know the taste of Moscow snow far better than I.
Particularly of the yellow variety.
Which is fitting for a history revisionist Nazi defender pushing a tale of "fine people on both sides".
Too bad for you that people who hung the cunts you defend knew otherwise.
Benjamin Ferencz, a former US prosecutor in the war crimes trials, and one of the few people participants still alive to have taken part in the trials, returned to Nuremberg at the age of 90 to speak at the opening of the museum on the anniversary of the world's first war crimes trial.
Speaking at the inauguration of the new museum, Ferencz said, "When I left Germany for the first time after World War II and left Nuremberg, my biggest regret was that I never heard from any German saying 'I'm sorry.'
You might wanna take a refreshment course in some of the best TV ever made.
Cause it was about real people, real events, real history...
And last but not least, it shows the complicity not only of those "fine people" fighting only "because their country told them to fight" - but of civilians as well.
See... There's this thing about supporting and defending an ideology you might not be aware of... It makes that ideology your own.
You like the ideas - you simply must be thinking them too! Cause that's how that brain thing works!
You thought it - you bought it!
And you know what else THAT means! That's RIGHT! That's very right indeed! Very far right.
It means that you're a Nazi cunt - only more cowardly cause you don't have actual balls to go around shouting "Jews will not replace us."
You only have enough balls to troll online.
Now go back under the bridge you crawled under, you Nazi scum.
And as is their custom, they are retarded and cowardly, trying to moderate down the truth of the their own cowardice and mental (and other) retardation.
But that ain't how it works...
Got news for you: A lot of the original Nazis were also just cowards waving the flag.
Got news for you: ALL of the original Nazis were also just cowards waving the flag.
It's one of their main features.
Along with being white, without a sense of humor and being convinced in their own racial superiority in order to compensate for a raging inferiority complex.
The rest is just symbols and slogans.
They're not metaphors any more.
Nor were they ever for the readin folk.
The turd in the White House will be banned from Twitter?
Hmm... Wonder if it will try to nuke North Korea in order to get the attention. Or maybe Mexico.
Will instagram save the world and life as we know it by taking the proverbial bullet?
Or maybe Facebook? Tinder? Grindr? Fart-app du jour?