Just look at the smile on the face of any kid who is gratuitously cruel to another. It's an instinct. Or the thrill they get from stomping on bugs. It's something that has to be trained out of most people but never fully goes away.
Genghis Khan via Conan said what's best in life is to crush your enemies. I don't know if he's right, but it does feel pretty good.
-- Trump's trial would be in the Senate. He appears to be protected from having to face that. Mueller can probably do no more than file a report against Trump. Trump has already obstructed by threatening to fire investigators and by actually firing one of them, but hasn't faced any consequences for it.
- China will give Trump some concessions to make him look good, even if they wipe the floor with him, as the have been so far.
- Trump can always get something passed. If he gets half-way decent prison reform passed that would be a major accomplishment, and one that would be defying the odds. I expect that anything that can get passed this bought and paid for congress will be a sham.
- Re-election doesn't say much for intelligence. Trump has made a straightforward bet that you are all idiots. If he's right, he'll win. If some of you aren't, he'll lose.
Trump deserves credit for abandoning his secret plan and just finishing the Obama plan.
> US economy - Heading back in the right direction.
As before it has been. We'll see whether massive tax cuts for the rich help. They usually don't.
> N. Korea - Coming to the negotiating table.
NK always wants to meet with US presidents. It's a victory for them to even get a summit. So far we've got nothing in return. I hope all goes well, but NK has never given anything up with out enormous bribes and serious threats issued at the same time. Meanwhile, Trump just unilaterally caved to another NK demand.
Saying "Black LIves Matter" isn't exclusionary of other races, it's just pointing out a fact, or at least a near universally held opinion. It's hard to believe you feel excluded by the concept that black lives might matter. Did some BLM protestor tell you that or something?
If you think all lives matter then there's no way BLM should be offensive or controversial to you.
He hasn't got there. Yeah, racial unity through bigotry, prosperity through corruption, progress through ignorance, world leadership though jingoism does not make sense. But worse, they've been tried throughout history over and over, and they don't work. How many chances are *you* going to give them?
What's wrong with BLM? It's only divides away those who think black lives don't matter.
> with the exponentially increasing premiums of the ACA.
You can always tell when someone doesn't remember life before the ACA. We got the same increases for insurance that didn't cover anything, if we were insured.
> nor was Syria
ISIS was a disaster created indirectly by Bush and contained by Obama. Syria as a whole is going more or less the way Obama wanted: It's been soaking up Iranian and Russian defense spending for a long time.
"The GOP front-runner asserted that the U.S. also "cannot be the policeman of the world" when it comes to allies in the Asia Pacific region, suggesting he would like to see Japan and South Korea develop nuclear weaponry in order to combat North Korea."
That's a pretty blinkered view. The puppy nominations and the establishment nominations both include some great books, aepervius said. Your attitude is exactly the attitude to avoid if you want to find something worth reading.
I've been in cars with assholes driving who speed up if they see anyone who looks hispanic crossing in front of them. They don't have the guts to actually hit them, of course, but they love to see them scramble.
I think it is different than other addictions. I know many guys whose lives were in the toilet because of WoW, but just one day quit cold turkey and never looked back. I've known a few alcoholics who quit, but they needed a ton of support and still do years later.
The distinction between symptom and disorder is exceedingly fine. Every disorder has the potential to become a symptom if our understanding of the causes improves.
These games are designed by psychologists to trap addicts. It certainly is malicious. The timing and visual display of rewards is all calculated to take maximum advantage of inherent human weaknesses.
Today's droolers would be fine. They are as smart or smarter than we were. The advantage we had back then was the computer wouldn't do anything unless you programmed it.
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She set it up because state unsecured emails had long been compromised.
Is this the same Scott Adams who thought exponentially expanding matter was a reasonable theory of gravity?
Just look at the smile on the face of any kid who is gratuitously cruel to another. It's an instinct. Or the thrill they get from stomping on bugs. It's something that has to be trained out of most people but never fully goes away.
Genghis Khan via Conan said what's best in life is to crush your enemies. I don't know if he's right, but it does feel pretty good.
Did you ever consider that you're living proof your race is inferior to others?
Remember at the convention when he literally said that if you voted for him all your dreams would come true, and "Only I can fix it?"
What kind of sane person votes for an obvious con man like that?
Hah. Remember when "He was the most honored visitor in China's history"? Yeah, he's brilliant. /s
-- Trump's trial would be in the Senate. He appears to be protected from having to face that. Mueller can probably do no more than file a report against Trump. Trump has already obstructed by threatening to fire investigators and by actually firing one of them, but hasn't faced any consequences for it.
- China will give Trump some concessions to make him look good, even if they wipe the floor with him, as the have been so far.
- Trump can always get something passed. If he gets half-way decent prison reform passed that would be a major accomplishment, and one that would be defying the odds. I expect that anything that can get passed this bought and paid for congress will be a sham.
- Re-election doesn't say much for intelligence. Trump has made a straightforward bet that you are all idiots. If he's right, he'll win. If some of you aren't, he'll lose.
> ISIS - No longer a major threat.
Trump deserves credit for abandoning his secret plan and just finishing the Obama plan.
> US economy - Heading back in the right direction.
As before it has been. We'll see whether massive tax cuts for the rich help. They usually don't.
> N. Korea - Coming to the negotiating table.
NK always wants to meet with US presidents. It's a victory for them to even get a summit. So far we've got nothing in return. I hope all goes well, but NK has never given anything up with out enormous bribes and serious threats issued at the same time. Meanwhile, Trump just unilaterally caved to another NK demand.
It's completely irrational to support the spread of nuclear weapons. It's much better for all concerned if Japan never needs a nuclear program.
Saying "Black LIves Matter" isn't exclusionary of other races, it's just pointing out a fact, or at least a near universally held opinion. It's hard to believe you feel excluded by the concept that black lives might matter. Did some BLM protestor tell you that or something?
If you think all lives matter then there's no way BLM should be offensive or controversial to you.
He hasn't got there. Yeah, racial unity through bigotry, prosperity through corruption, progress through ignorance, world leadership though jingoism does not make sense. But worse, they've been tried throughout history over and over, and they don't work. How many chances are *you* going to give them?
What's wrong with BLM? It's only divides away those who think black lives don't matter.
> with the exponentially increasing premiums of the ACA.
You can always tell when someone doesn't remember life before the ACA. We got the same increases for insurance that didn't cover anything, if we were insured.
> nor was Syria
ISIS was a disaster created indirectly by Bush and contained by Obama. Syria as a whole is going more or less the way Obama wanted: It's been soaking up Iranian and Russian defense spending for a long time.
Borrowed at record low interest rates, and mostly loaned by the government to itself.
There's stupid and then there's stupid:
"The GOP front-runner asserted that the U.S. also "cannot be the policeman of the world" when it comes to allies in the Asia Pacific region, suggesting he would like to see Japan and South Korea develop nuclear weaponry in order to combat North Korea."
But in Latin, Octopuses ends in an "i"!
-- Sean Connery
True, but there will be a smidgen fewer.
People like you are always saying socialism doesn't work, it just hasn't been run long enough to collapse yet.
That's a pretty blinkered view. The puppy nominations and the establishment nominations both include some great books, aepervius said. Your attitude is exactly the attitude to avoid if you want to find something worth reading.
Probably, but it reduces the problem to refining the game until it's close enough to reality.
I've been in cars with assholes driving who speed up if they see anyone who looks hispanic crossing in front of them. They don't have the guts to actually hit them, of course, but they love to see them scramble.
You don't think Europeans should address truck attacks?
I think it is different than other addictions. I know many guys whose lives were in the toilet because of WoW, but just one day quit cold turkey and never looked back. I've known a few alcoholics who quit, but they needed a ton of support and still do years later.
The distinction between symptom and disorder is exceedingly fine. Every disorder has the potential to become a symptom if our understanding of the causes improves.
These games are designed by psychologists to trap addicts. It certainly is malicious. The timing and visual display of rewards is all calculated to take maximum advantage of inherent human weaknesses.
Today's droolers would be fine. They are as smart or smarter than we were. The advantage we had back then was the computer wouldn't do anything unless you programmed it.