Yep. Even if I had mod points I already opened my big mouth.
The campaign headquarters will have about a thousand people, mostly young and hard-working and enthusiastic. It's important to have a very large hiring pool (such as Chicago or NYC) from which to choose enthusiastic, smart and low-paid permanent employees.
Emphasis mine. Did not emphasize: hard-working or smart. Those two should be interpreted equally cynically. Hard-working: indentured student loan servant who will eat shit 60-80 hours per week if it means not going into default while making the banker class a hefty profit. You do want to buy a house at some point in your life, no? Better not default if you want any chance at getting into the ownership class*! Smart: sort of like a slave with bright eyes.
Young: horray for age discrimination! Who the fuck gives a shit about experience?!
Enthusiastic: see indendured student loan servant.
Low-paid: the zinger that ties it all together and puts it in perspective.
The pay equity narrative is for cows/plebes/sheeple (in their 10,000 year slumber apparently--also this is Alphabet so make sure to #include <misogynerd_narrative.h>). Minimum wage is for cows. I'm a programmer for $15/hr! You make $15/hr as a Sr. communications director and you got that position when you were only 25? Good work, comrade! What do you think about the Party's proposal to raise all our wages to $16/hr next year, comrade?
Jeebus, at least indentured servants were only indentured for a time and then had a frontier to go to. This new indentured servant model is so much more fungible! The better to eat your future with!
* Says the smug homeowner who is eking a way into the ownership class after mostly avoiding the student loan clusterfuck. More out of serendipity, blessings in disguise, and luck than anything else, though.
(Also disclaimer: somehow, the R wing of the Party is even more disgusting these days than the D wing of the Party.)
This is a valid point. All of these reactionary movements are being driven by fear. Fear is being prompted by economic uncertainty and hardship. Hardship comes from the lack of living wages and also meaningful, rewarding (not just financially) work.
I think it was this site that had an article a while back that said a significant portion of UK residents felt their jobs were meaningless.
Mostly it's hardship. We have a top-heavy economic system that is simply not delivering wealth and prosperity to the average person. We also have a system of socialism (to differing degrees in the UK or USA) to make sure that those who are unable to find work do not starve to death in the streets, but it provides the bare minimum and strips the recipients of dignity. Plus, for people with jobs, if one is fed up with one's job, frustrated, burned out, and just sick and tired of the daily grind, yearning for just one fucking chance to put your education and skills to work for yourself and really shine, how the hell do you become a recipient of this socialism? Not easily, and not without losing everything and becoming an undignified, unwanted ward of the state.
This will continue to get worse and worse. There are no shiny, exciting, new jobs of the future for the average person. For the average Slashdotter, sure, we'll keep retraining and finding new, interesting things to do. And we'll do ok that way. The average person simply will not be able to participate in the economy of the future. The only thing they can look forward to is starvation, more hardship, and if they're lucky, perhaps some of that socialism along with a hefty moral guilt trip for being a worthless bum will come their way without needing to be homeless for too long.
The best way I've seen this put is that while we talk about buggy whips, how did the horseless carriage work out for the horses? If you were an attractive, well-trained, and healthy horse, you probably did ok if you were lucky. The rest got made into glue.
For now we can hate horses of a different color. Evolution didn't stop at the neck! Oh and those Moooooooooslim horses, well, Moooooooslim Isn't A Race so it's ok! And those fucking gays and all those transSEXuals raping girls in the bathroom! Faggot! Get 'em up against the wall! (Pink! Pink! Pink!)
Cattle prods... programmers.... Maybe we can put these bots in student services centers on college campuses. When a female student declares a major that won't lead to a tech career (including management, accounting, hr, etc) have the bot zap her until she submits a change to a tech major.
Or maybe we can use facial recognition and cross reference with the student database. Deploy a small fleet of these to every college campus to go around zapping women who haven't declared a tech major yet. Herd them to student services.
My heart sank a little reading that headline. We've all known it's been in the works for a few years now. It was just a matter of time. Of course, as long as they still need somebody in the cab....
Now that we're ramping up the Misogynerd Narrative again (all those evil assigned males chasing the cisfemale hunnies away from programming careers!), I was thinking about maybe polishing off my CDL and giving long haul another shot. Why the hell would I want to be an evil assigned male programmer who hates women because of the gender she was assigned at birth when I could instead be just another lady driver? Granted, there's a creeper here and there, but I'd rather deal with creepers than feminists who think there's some grand conspiracy to make it so you need a dick before you can get a compiler to work.
Here's a question for our resident SJWs. I've met way more lady drivers than womyn-born-womyn programmers. In fact, I don't know any womyn-born-womyn programmers because they refuse to put in the work to create a lasting understanding of the subject matter. I've known some womyn-born-womyn who can fake it for a few months, but none care to actually grok it. (Now, transfemale programmers, I've got binders full of 'em! Well not really but it just goes to prove that the problem isn't the body part between women's ears and sure as hell not some "all men" conspiracy; the problem is the cisfemale entitlement complex.)
Once all the jobs that womyn-born-womyn have been doing like factory work, truck driving, phone answering, and yes HR and accounting, are automated and all that's left are tech jobs, how do you suppose womyn-born-womyn are going to support themselves? What kind of welfare system do you propose that a.) will prevent "misogynerd" faggots like me from getting a sex change to qualify for; b.) will allow womyn-born-womyn to continue to be able to live independently; and c.) will keep womyn-born-womyn able to continue refusing to learn programming?
We could just go to basic income, but then misogynerd tranny programmers like me would qualify! And think about all the other assigned males who'd qualify! And what the hell would happen to the cisfemale entitlement complex if that happened?!
Yup, we can't trust any reckoning of temperatures before the "instrumental" temperature record.
Oh wait, they've moved the instrument due to construction on campus and now the temperatures need to be adjusted! OMG IT'S NOT RAW DATA!!!!eleven!!!11!!1!
Now here comes satellite measurements! We can't trust any numbers before 1980-ish! Oh noes! We can't know anything about anything!
Upside to not knowing anything about anything: when Florida sinks, can we just pretend it never existed?
There's a programmer shortage! We need more women programmers! We can't figure out why women don't go into these careers! It's all the fault of programmers assigned the male gender at birth! FEEL GUILTY!!!!eleven!1!
It couldn't possibly have anything to do with gaslighting asshole managers.
Then you're going to have to do something about the biases womyn-born-womyn have.
This is the fault of all womyn-born-womyn, only womyn-born-womyn, and nobody else.
Want to get womyn into tech? Stop giving them tech support. Don't give your mother tech support. Don't give your wife tech support. Don't give your daughters tech support. If they can't figure out an iPhone, then they're not going to be using an iPhone until they figure the fuck out that it's their fucking responsibility. If they can't figure out a laptop, then they're not going to be fucking using a laptop.
If they want to use tech, force them to learn tech against their will.
In fact, another way to look at it is: which of the R team candidates in the primary could have lost to Clinton?
I mean, maybe Fiorina or Carson. Probably others I'm not even remembering. (There were a lot of them after all.) But Jeb!, Kasich, even Lyin' Ted or Rubio could probably have beat Clinton.
The lizard people came at it from both directions. Clinton's only path to coronation was getting Trump nominated on the R team.
As predicted, Trump's role is now to completely self-destruct. I was surprised by the Russia angle, but it adds up to more things in the coming shitstorm. So, we get a warmonger president (Clinton) and an apparent mandate by "the people" to start Cold War 2.0 and go after the Russkies.
Anybody who is being partisan us-vs-them R vs D red vs. blue about this is lost in the moon matrix (MSM/lamestream media). That's right. People foaming at the mouth at Clinton who want Trump are lost in the moon matrix. People foaming at the mouth at Trump who want Clinton are lost in the moon matrix. That's exactly what the lizard people had planned to happen.
If we're all foaming at the mouth because of the "them" candidate, how will we ever remember that the only way out of this mess is to go and vote Libertarian or Green? I don't mean just for president, either. There are some on the R team or D team worth keeping around, but if anything is going to change before it's too late, we need Libertarians and Greens in state offices and in congress right now.
It may still be too late even, but "Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
There are rational reasons for hating Clinton. The ties to Wall Street are the ones that matter for me. (Well, in addition to being a lizard person--I'm a mammal supremacist and speciest towards lizard people.)
Whether it's because of a deep-seeded hatred for women (did your mommy not hug you enough?), or just maybe the sight of a powerful woman is a trigger for your micro-phallyic self-loathing
Woah, there! You're dangerously close to asserting that anybody who dislikes Clinton a.) is male b.) suffers from a medical condition (warning: penis!) c.) for some reason hates women because of that medical condition. A guy I knew who said he suffered from that would indicate that he was perfectly capable of pleasuring a woman in other ways. I forget why it even came up. Probably lots of alcohol.
What would you say to a woman who isn't voting for Clinton? Or is that unpossible in your mind? What about Stein voters? Are they also all sexually inadequate men? Are Stein voters sexists now too?
I was encouraged that the media did not go down the macho white knight rabbit hole you just went down. Does bigoted shit like that get you all the Hunnies? No? Yes? Good for you.
Protip: there's still a chance I might vote for Clinton. But please be my guest and fly off the handle and post something equally bigoted in response to this comment that will completely turn me off to the idea. Obviously I must be a Trump supporter. Because how dare I question the Lizard Queen?!
Disclaimer: No, I've never had a girlfriend. I made out with a girl once while drunk. I can confirm that I am not attracted to women no matter how much you want to pretend I am in your response. I have no problem getting boyfriends. Some of us don't view women as sexual objects or define our lives in terms of creeping on women and popping cherries. I know that's a radical concept to a white knight like you.
The moon matrix is very thick here. I'd recommend wearing turquoise. I predicted it! Well, who didn't? That's like saying I predicted rain would happen a few minutes after dark clouds rolled in and the wind began blowing the way it blows before a thunderstorm. Around here, about 50 miles inland from the big lake, there's a certain smell that the wind carries as well. When it rains, it pours. Of course, I can't say I was right until it actually rains.
(I'd become victim to the "bliss" there for a while. It's a helluva drug. That's the danger of not wearing turquoise!)
I had thought that Trump self-destructing would be sufficient. Apparently the lizard people are taking extra precautions. They already dropped the "grab 'em by the pussy!" bomb. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the thing was recorded just a day or two before it was "leaked." And I mean damn, even that one made my woman suit's skin crawl. The game's not even over yet. Trump hasn't proved his role in the Coronation of Clinton yet.
So what's next I wonder? We have the mass hypnosis of the moon matrix "bliss" pervasive in the lamestream media, apparently now reinforced by the dipolar computers of the Oracle at Google (perhaps deep within the bowels of the City of Lud on the Shardik-Maturin beam).
I was optimistic when I predicted that Clinton would win with 40% of the popular vote (see my alter ego's journal on the other site). I see that my estimate may have been in error. The lizard people are going for broke. They want the mandate that comes with winning 51% of the popular vote.
This is probably childhood's end, but ol' Karellen isn't a benefactor to be found.
Well, of course the worker should get paid by the employer, but the employer shouldn't get paid. The point is the customer shouldn't have to pay. Medicine is about the only area I can think of where the customer has to pay when the service provider fucks up.
It works that way everywhere except medicine. The employer will fire the worker whose stats are too low to protect their bottom line.
You want free food? Work on your confidence skills. Play a confidence game next time you order. Order a burger without mustard, and then complain when it has onions and demand a refund. If done properly, you'll get a free burger. Remember that you have to be abusive enough to intimidate the other party into believing that you originally said no onions and somebody fucked up by pressing the no mustard key. It's the Art of the Deal.
While drones is a time waster for complete fucking inconsiderate idiots who think they're the center of the universe, which needs a lot of registration and regulations.
If we're going to do this right, we should use elastic tabs.
Base 12 has some definite advantages over base 10. I would prefer new glyphs for A and B, but I'm not finding anything attractive. (/. would promptly eat them anyway.) Any ideas?
Naturally, our Dvorak keyboards could be a little wider for the additional 2 digits which could give room for some compose-like keys, maybe grave, acute, circumflex, dieresis--at the risk of proposing a new space cadet layout.
First off, you're absolutely correct that the lizard people have been lying through their teeth about Trump and twisting his words around and taking shit out of context. It's cringe-worthy many days, because I want to actually talk about shit that matters rather than needing to constantly get mired down in "Un-Correcting the Record" as it were. (i.e. After the lizard people Correct the Record* so that the version presented in the daily moon matrix [CNN, WaPo, etc] bears very little resemblance to reality it can use a little un-correcting.)
Second thing. I'm changing the subject because I have nothing to add about H1Bs. Clinton is sure to roll TPP and TTIP into some other package that will probably also include TISA. I think there's going to be a serious push in the next few years for a half-world government that includes the USA, Canada, Japan, Australia, and Europe. And we're all going to lose fucking bigtime.
Trump believes that trans women have authentic identities and you clearly do not. You won't have any MRI evidence I could post showing that yep, it's how folks are born, physically so that's a moot point. Trump seems to be all for gender equality outside of overhyped locker room banter. We've got Thiel and Milo over there as well. There's clearly something going on here I'm missing.
Here's the question: how much do I have to worry about President Trump signing legislation and using executive orders to enforce your backwards understanding of gender and sexuality? Will I wish I had voted for Clinton^H^H^H^H^H^H^HFEMA concentration camps and Nuclear Armageddon 2016?
I'd like to be clear. I was doing just fucking fine before Obama decided to make a fucking federal policy out of that area as well. I was doing better than I currently am. Obama didn't help me one fucking bit, but the retaliation sure as hell hurt me. (Go figure, how the hell could the federal government possibly help in this arena? I'm not surprised, but I'm angry nonetheless.) But if the "pendulum" swings at the federal level the way it has at the local level, I'm going to lose even more. It won't fucking matter to me what jobs there are if the pendulum swings. And I see no reason to vote against my own best interest.
Third thing. Oh, and any chance you think, despite everything I've read that the alt-right views ending the drug war, closing the DEA, and massively shrinking the size of government and the prison-industrial complex as some kind of politically correct nonsense, that Trump would also support ending the drug war? (I heaven't really heard much of anything on that front and time's coming and gotta make a choice!)
As is hopefully apparent, my political positions are more clearly in line with the Libertarian Party.
* Correct the Record is Clinton's social media astroturf campaign for the extra-dense in the peanut gallery. Pretty sure we've got a few members here and even one on the other site.
Thanks for the link! I love stuff like that. I've been messing around in Space Engine. The controls are a bit clunky, but it's fun zipping around the solar system low warp speed. Also fun editing the ship config file so it can go roughly this fast.
I think it's exciting. No, warp drives aren't real, but we don't need them to get to Mars. We just need to science the shit out of it.
Except there's one thing. Didn't we used to do shit because it was hard, not because it was easy? Or was that just some jingoistic fantasy they told me about in history class back in high school? Were the old federal textbooks just propaganda, and should I get the corrected version from Ms. Hanley explaining how the Apollo missions were faked to bankrupt the Soviet Union?
Slashdot Mirror
Batman!
Wait! Everybody told me you don't exist! You were just supposed to be some conspiracy by the media!
Yep. Even if I had mod points I already opened my big mouth.
The campaign headquarters will have about a thousand people, mostly young and hard-working and enthusiastic. It's important to have a very large hiring pool (such as Chicago or NYC) from which to choose enthusiastic, smart and low-paid permanent employees.
Emphasis mine. Did not emphasize: hard-working or smart. Those two should be interpreted equally cynically. Hard-working: indentured student loan servant who will eat shit 60-80 hours per week if it means not going into default while making the banker class a hefty profit. You do want to buy a house at some point in your life, no? Better not default if you want any chance at getting into the ownership class*! Smart: sort of like a slave with bright eyes.
Young: horray for age discrimination! Who the fuck gives a shit about experience?!
Enthusiastic: see indendured student loan servant.
Low-paid: the zinger that ties it all together and puts it in perspective.
The pay equity narrative is for cows/plebes/sheeple (in their 10,000 year slumber apparently--also this is Alphabet so make sure to #include <misogynerd_narrative.h>). Minimum wage is for cows. I'm a programmer for $15/hr! You make $15/hr as a Sr. communications director and you got that position when you were only 25? Good work, comrade! What do you think about the Party's proposal to raise all our wages to $16/hr next year, comrade?
Jeebus, at least indentured servants were only indentured for a time and then had a frontier to go to. This new indentured servant model is so much more fungible! The better to eat your future with!
* Says the smug homeowner who is eking a way into the ownership class after mostly avoiding the student loan clusterfuck. More out of serendipity, blessings in disguise, and luck than anything else, though.
(Also disclaimer: somehow, the R wing of the Party is even more disgusting these days than the D wing of the Party.)
This is a valid point. All of these reactionary movements are being driven by fear. Fear is being prompted by economic uncertainty and hardship. Hardship comes from the lack of living wages and also meaningful, rewarding (not just financially) work.
I think it was this site that had an article a while back that said a significant portion of UK residents felt their jobs were meaningless.
Mostly it's hardship. We have a top-heavy economic system that is simply not delivering wealth and prosperity to the average person. We also have a system of socialism (to differing degrees in the UK or USA) to make sure that those who are unable to find work do not starve to death in the streets, but it provides the bare minimum and strips the recipients of dignity. Plus, for people with jobs, if one is fed up with one's job, frustrated, burned out, and just sick and tired of the daily grind, yearning for just one fucking chance to put your education and skills to work for yourself and really shine, how the hell do you become a recipient of this socialism? Not easily, and not without losing everything and becoming an undignified, unwanted ward of the state.
This will continue to get worse and worse. There are no shiny, exciting, new jobs of the future for the average person. For the average Slashdotter, sure, we'll keep retraining and finding new, interesting things to do. And we'll do ok that way. The average person simply will not be able to participate in the economy of the future. The only thing they can look forward to is starvation, more hardship, and if they're lucky, perhaps some of that socialism along with a hefty moral guilt trip for being a worthless bum will come their way without needing to be homeless for too long.
The best way I've seen this put is that while we talk about buggy whips, how did the horseless carriage work out for the horses? If you were an attractive, well-trained, and healthy horse, you probably did ok if you were lucky. The rest got made into glue.
For now we can hate horses of a different color. Evolution didn't stop at the neck! Oh and those Moooooooooslim horses, well, Moooooooslim Isn't A Race so it's ok! And those fucking gays and all those transSEXuals raping girls in the bathroom! Faggot! Get 'em up against the wall! (Pink! Pink! Pink!)
There has to be a better way.
Cattle prods... programmers.... Maybe we can put these bots in student services centers on college campuses. When a female student declares a major that won't lead to a tech career (including management, accounting, hr, etc) have the bot zap her until she submits a change to a tech major.
Or maybe we can use facial recognition and cross reference with the student database. Deploy a small fleet of these to every college campus to go around zapping women who haven't declared a tech major yet. Herd them to student services.
Bah, that's what Soylent is for. Did you notice they brought back sponsored articles with no comments? This place is for shitposting.
Why the hell would I want to do this?
Seriously, what is the use case?
MERRY FUCKING CHRISTMAS!
What about Vivaldi I'm wondering. I've been using it for a few months now on both Win7 and Gentoo, and I've been liking it.
AND why is no one calling it Nibiru anymore?
JJ Trek into Fail was just that traumatizing. Nobody wants to remember it. Kind of ruined that name for the 9th/10th/Xth planet.
My heart sank a little reading that headline. We've all known it's been in the works for a few years now. It was just a matter of time. Of course, as long as they still need somebody in the cab....
Now that we're ramping up the Misogynerd Narrative again (all those evil assigned males chasing the cisfemale hunnies away from programming careers!), I was thinking about maybe polishing off my CDL and giving long haul another shot. Why the hell would I want to be an evil assigned male programmer who hates women because of the gender she was assigned at birth when I could instead be just another lady driver? Granted, there's a creeper here and there, but I'd rather deal with creepers than feminists who think there's some grand conspiracy to make it so you need a dick before you can get a compiler to work.
Here's a question for our resident SJWs. I've met way more lady drivers than womyn-born-womyn programmers. In fact, I don't know any womyn-born-womyn programmers because they refuse to put in the work to create a lasting understanding of the subject matter. I've known some womyn-born-womyn who can fake it for a few months, but none care to actually grok it. (Now, transfemale programmers, I've got binders full of 'em! Well not really but it just goes to prove that the problem isn't the body part between women's ears and sure as hell not some "all men" conspiracy; the problem is the cisfemale entitlement complex.)
Once all the jobs that womyn-born-womyn have been doing like factory work, truck driving, phone answering, and yes HR and accounting, are automated and all that's left are tech jobs, how do you suppose womyn-born-womyn are going to support themselves? What kind of welfare system do you propose that a.) will prevent "misogynerd" faggots like me from getting a sex change to qualify for; b.) will allow womyn-born-womyn to continue to be able to live independently; and c.) will keep womyn-born-womyn able to continue refusing to learn programming?
We could just go to basic income, but then misogynerd tranny programmers like me would qualify! And think about all the other assigned males who'd qualify! And what the hell would happen to the cisfemale entitlement complex if that happened?!
Yup, we can't trust any reckoning of temperatures before the "instrumental" temperature record.
Oh wait, they've moved the instrument due to construction on campus and now the temperatures need to be adjusted! OMG IT'S NOT RAW DATA!!!!eleven!!!11!!1!
Now here comes satellite measurements! We can't trust any numbers before 1980-ish! Oh noes! We can't know anything about anything!
Upside to not knowing anything about anything: when Florida sinks, can we just pretend it never existed?
There's a programmer shortage! We need more women programmers! We can't figure out why women don't go into these careers! It's all the fault of programmers assigned the male gender at birth! FEEL GUILTY!!!!eleven!1!
It couldn't possibly have anything to do with gaslighting asshole managers.
Then you're going to have to do something about the biases womyn-born-womyn have.
This is the fault of all womyn-born-womyn, only womyn-born-womyn, and nobody else .
Want to get womyn into tech? Stop giving them tech support. Don't give your mother tech support. Don't give your wife tech support. Don't give your daughters tech support. If they can't figure out an iPhone, then they're not going to be using an iPhone until they figure the fuck out that it's their fucking responsibility. If they can't figure out a laptop, then they're not going to be fucking using a laptop.
If they want to use tech, force them to learn tech against their will .
Sparky: Lookin' good, except uh... there's something wrong with the matrix.
AK: No, there's not. You're lookin' at what we're lookin' at. What the hell is going on in there.
Link: Whatever it is, it can't be good.
In fact, another way to look at it is: which of the R team candidates in the primary could have lost to Clinton?
I mean, maybe Fiorina or Carson. Probably others I'm not even remembering. (There were a lot of them after all.) But Jeb!, Kasich, even Lyin' Ted or Rubio could probably have beat Clinton.
The lizard people came at it from both directions. Clinton's only path to coronation was getting Trump nominated on the R team.
As predicted, Trump's role is now to completely self-destruct. I was surprised by the Russia angle, but it adds up to more things in the coming shitstorm. So, we get a warmonger president (Clinton) and an apparent mandate by "the people" to start Cold War 2.0 and go after the Russkies.
Anybody who is being partisan us-vs-them R vs D red vs. blue about this is lost in the moon matrix (MSM/lamestream media). That's right. People foaming at the mouth at Clinton who want Trump are lost in the moon matrix. People foaming at the mouth at Trump who want Clinton are lost in the moon matrix. That's exactly what the lizard people had planned to happen.
If we're all foaming at the mouth because of the "them" candidate, how will we ever remember that the only way out of this mess is to go and vote Libertarian or Green? I don't mean just for president, either. There are some on the R team or D team worth keeping around, but if anything is going to change before it's too late, we need Libertarians and Greens in state offices and in congress right now.
It may still be too late even, but "Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
Huh?
The Federalist Papers
Also recommended: The Anti-Federalist Papers
Perhaps you're thinking of the Articles of Confederation?
There are rational reasons for hating Clinton. The ties to Wall Street are the ones that matter for me. (Well, in addition to being a lizard person--I'm a mammal supremacist and speciest towards lizard people.)
Whether it's because of a deep-seeded hatred for women (did your mommy not hug you enough?), or just maybe the sight of a powerful woman is a trigger for your micro-phallyic self-loathing
Woah, there! You're dangerously close to asserting that anybody who dislikes Clinton a.) is male b.) suffers from a medical condition (warning: penis!) c.) for some reason hates women because of that medical condition. A guy I knew who said he suffered from that would indicate that he was perfectly capable of pleasuring a woman in other ways. I forget why it even came up. Probably lots of alcohol.
What would you say to a woman who isn't voting for Clinton? Or is that unpossible in your mind? What about Stein voters? Are they also all sexually inadequate men? Are Stein voters sexists now too?
I was encouraged that the media did not go down the macho white knight rabbit hole you just went down. Does bigoted shit like that get you all the Hunnies? No? Yes? Good for you.
Protip: there's still a chance I might vote for Clinton. But please be my guest and fly off the handle and post something equally bigoted in response to this comment that will completely turn me off to the idea. Obviously I must be a Trump supporter. Because how dare I question the Lizard Queen?!
Disclaimer: No, I've never had a girlfriend. I made out with a girl once while drunk. I can confirm that I am not attracted to women no matter how much you want to pretend I am in your response. I have no problem getting boyfriends. Some of us don't view women as sexual objects or define our lives in terms of creeping on women and popping cherries. I know that's a radical concept to a white knight like you.
The moon matrix is very thick here. I'd recommend wearing turquoise. I predicted it! Well, who didn't? That's like saying I predicted rain would happen a few minutes after dark clouds rolled in and the wind began blowing the way it blows before a thunderstorm. Around here, about 50 miles inland from the big lake, there's a certain smell that the wind carries as well. When it rains, it pours. Of course, I can't say I was right until it actually rains.
(I'd become victim to the "bliss" there for a while. It's a helluva drug. That's the danger of not wearing turquoise!)
I had thought that Trump self-destructing would be sufficient. Apparently the lizard people are taking extra precautions. They already dropped the "grab 'em by the pussy!" bomb. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the thing was recorded just a day or two before it was "leaked." And I mean damn, even that one made my woman suit's skin crawl. The game's not even over yet. Trump hasn't proved his role in the Coronation of Clinton yet.
So what's next I wonder? We have the mass hypnosis of the moon matrix "bliss" pervasive in the lamestream media, apparently now reinforced by the dipolar computers of the Oracle at Google (perhaps deep within the bowels of the City of Lud on the Shardik-Maturin beam).
I was optimistic when I predicted that Clinton would win with 40% of the popular vote (see my alter ego's journal on the other site). I see that my estimate may have been in error. The lizard people are going for broke. They want the mandate that comes with winning 51% of the popular vote.
This is probably childhood's end, but ol' Karellen isn't a benefactor to be found.
Isn't that how it already works?
Well, of course the worker should get paid by the employer, but the employer shouldn't get paid. The point is the customer shouldn't have to pay. Medicine is about the only area I can think of where the customer has to pay when the service provider fucks up.
It works that way everywhere except medicine. The employer will fire the worker whose stats are too low to protect their bottom line.
You want free food? Work on your confidence skills. Play a confidence game next time you order. Order a burger without mustard, and then complain when it has onions and demand a refund. If done properly, you'll get a free burger. Remember that you have to be abusive enough to intimidate the other party into believing that you originally said no onions and somebody fucked up by pressing the no mustard key. It's the Art of the Deal.
I'd expect it to implement RFC7168. Perhaps he just sent a BREW request for / and didn't inspect the Alternates header on the response.
While drones is a time waster for complete fucking inconsiderate idiots who think they're the center of the universe, which needs a lot of registration and regulations.
FTFY
If we're going to do this right, we should use elastic tabs.
Base 12 has some definite advantages over base 10. I would prefer new glyphs for A and B, but I'm not finding anything attractive. (/. would promptly eat them anyway.) Any ideas?
Naturally, our Dvorak keyboards could be a little wider for the additional 2 digits which could give room for some compose-like keys, maybe grave, acute, circumflex, dieresis--at the risk of proposing a new space cadet layout.
No opinion on tau vs. pi.
Three things. Karma to burn. Going off topic.
First off, you're absolutely correct that the lizard people have been lying through their teeth about Trump and twisting his words around and taking shit out of context. It's cringe-worthy many days, because I want to actually talk about shit that matters rather than needing to constantly get mired down in "Un-Correcting the Record" as it were. (i.e. After the lizard people Correct the Record* so that the version presented in the daily moon matrix [CNN, WaPo, etc] bears very little resemblance to reality it can use a little un-correcting.)
Second thing. I'm changing the subject because I have nothing to add about H1Bs. Clinton is sure to roll TPP and TTIP into some other package that will probably also include TISA. I think there's going to be a serious push in the next few years for a half-world government that includes the USA, Canada, Japan, Australia, and Europe. And we're all going to lose fucking bigtime.
Trump believes that trans women have authentic identities and you clearly do not. You won't have any MRI evidence I could post showing that yep, it's how folks are born, physically so that's a moot point. Trump seems to be all for gender equality outside of overhyped locker room banter. We've got Thiel and Milo over there as well. There's clearly something going on here I'm missing.
Here's the question: how much do I have to worry about President Trump signing legislation and using executive orders to enforce your backwards understanding of gender and sexuality? Will I wish I had voted for Clinton^H^H^H^H^H^H^HFEMA concentration camps and Nuclear Armageddon 2016?
I'd like to be clear. I was doing just fucking fine before Obama decided to make a fucking federal policy out of that area as well. I was doing better than I currently am. Obama didn't help me one fucking bit, but the retaliation sure as hell hurt me. (Go figure, how the hell could the federal government possibly help in this arena? I'm not surprised, but I'm angry nonetheless.) But if the "pendulum" swings at the federal level the way it has at the local level, I'm going to lose even more. It won't fucking matter to me what jobs there are if the pendulum swings. And I see no reason to vote against my own best interest.
Third thing. Oh, and any chance you think, despite everything I've read that the alt-right views ending the drug war, closing the DEA, and massively shrinking the size of government and the prison-industrial complex as some kind of politically correct nonsense, that Trump would also support ending the drug war? (I heaven't really heard much of anything on that front and time's coming and gotta make a choice!)
As is hopefully apparent, my political positions are more clearly in line with the Libertarian Party.
* Correct the Record is Clinton's social media astroturf campaign for the extra-dense in the peanut gallery. Pretty sure we've got a few members here and even one on the other site.
Thanks for the link! I love stuff like that. I've been messing around in Space Engine. The controls are a bit clunky, but it's fun zipping around the solar system low warp speed. Also fun editing the ship config file so it can go roughly this fast.
I think it's exciting. No, warp drives aren't real, but we don't need them to get to Mars. We just need to science the shit out of it.
Except there's one thing. Didn't we used to do shit because it was hard, not because it was easy? Or was that just some jingoistic fantasy they told me about in history class back in high school? Were the old federal textbooks just propaganda, and should I get the corrected version from Ms. Hanley explaining how the Apollo missions were faked to bankrupt the Soviet Union?
(Don't answer that, flat earth guy!)