I didn't know what was going on until I researched the meme.
I was never able to develop an interest in TNG, though I was a big fan of TOS. I think it was the holodeck that went where no version of Star Trek should have gone before. It was like a black hole shortcut for anything, a kind of blank check against reality. At least TOS had some reasonable excuses for the transporter.
Anyway I don't think sheramil really earned the "funny" mod points because the joke was excessively tangential, even diversionary.
You seem to have forgotten that the so-called Republican Party stole a Supreme Court seat for the Donald to fill with whichever candidate is most successful in convincing the Donald of undying love and loyalty. The only problem #PresidentTweety has is that it's so hard to love and trust such a liar.
Not a problem with blaming the court system for slowing him up. It's often convenient to have someone to blame for your failings. Like the way the Chinese communists are about to start blaming Trump for their own economic problems...
Once he exercises his free (AKA stolen) pick for the SCOTUS, "applicable law" will mean whatever #PresidentTweety wants it to mean. My prediction is that he will pick whichever candidate can convince him of the highest personal loyalty. It's a variation of how the Donald hires his accountants:
Trump: "How much is 2 + 2?" Winning accountant: "How much do you want it to be?"
Trump: "Are my executive orders legal?" Winning judge: "How legal do you want them to be?"
Welcome to the Donald's latest pseudo-reality program. The ratings are YUGE. It's on ALL the channels and in ALL the newspapers. Even international!
I actually see this as a market opportunity. Whereas CNN promises the most disaster porn, I'm looking for a news source that promises the least possible amount of Trump news. Only the stuff that REALLY can't be ignored.
Oh, wait. That's just what he wants, isn't it?
(Prior search for "funny" was disappointed. Ditto "insightful", but maybe it's just too early.)
Well merited mod, and as usual with the best humor, plenty of insight, too. The comments that were actually moderated insightful fell rather short. As usual.
What I was looking for on the insightful side was some realization of the imminent corruption of #PresidentTweety, perhaps even a prediction of how far America's ranking will fall over the next year or two. I'm thinking short term because I'm still hoping that Trump will get Bill-Cosby-ed out of office relatively quickly. Pence is only gawdawful relative to Trump.
Not exactly a constructive closing, but I'll not that I just got Insane Clown President and just based on the table of contents I can already recommend it for insight. However, if I were a machine intelligence observing earth, I would think that the odds on human extinction before creating a replacement machine intelligence are rising rapidly...
With regards to your specific reply, I think you sound kind of delusional to the point where a tailored response is not worth the effort. However, I recently composed the following somewhat applicable passage for another venue, so I'm including it below. My only direct response to your comment is that my first thought was "The manufacturing jobs are NOT coming back and it doesn't much matter (from a supply chain perspective) which country the newest manufacturing robots are located in." Now here's the imported response:
Some deep thinkers want to encourage other people to think more deeply. However, there are also deep thinkers who prefer other people to think less deeply, the better to manipulate and take advantage of those people.
The worst (and most dangerous) case is people who are shallow thinkers, but who think they are deep thinkers, and #PresidentTweety is one of those people. Trump is not at war with the media. He is at war with reality. Trump wants to create belief in a straw-man fake reality of horror and collapse so he can then claim improvements by tweaking the fake beliefs back towards reality.
At least Duterte killed (alleged) evildoers and Mussolini made the trains run on time! That's not the reality of America. (Well, actually the American trains aren't so reliable, but Trump's supporters in flyover country are the least likely to use trains.)
My favorite sig should make it obvious, but I'm on the side of more deep thinking. You have to think deeply to understand your free choices in a meaningful way and to understand the constraints and their sources. (That's why "freedom of speech" is so confusing to many people, because the "speech" may be opinions or lies just as freely as it may be true.)
So far my best effort at a constructive "solution" is the design of the deep-thinking cap, but it's yet another "morally neutral" tool. While I think I would use the cap to support more deep thinking, maybe I would just use it to sleep a lot. Some people might use it to listen to more loud and mindless music while ignoring other people, even though the cap could be used as a better communication device, too.
While I checked for "funny" comments, I wasn't expecting to find any, and I don't think this insightful comment was modded correctly... Then again, we're in a post-truth #PresidentTweety world now, so maybe we're post-funny, too. What used to be parody is now just different facts.
You thought there was only ONE reality and one set of facts? You must be nuts!
Well, at least Twitter keeps sending me validation requests for one or more fake Twitter accounts that I never created and have no interest in validating. The header of the email indicates that most of them are coming from a slightly mangled form of my email address that is used by spammers. I don't know what the scam is, but it's been going on for many months, perhaps even a couple of years now, so they must be making money somehow.
Tried to report it to Twitter and the google a couple of times, especially in the early months. They obviously aren't interested and did nothing to stop it. At first I was mostly concerned about some kind of identity theft. I'm still considering that as a possibility for the suckers that do validate the fake accounts, but so far I haven't detected any direct impact on me.
The fake Amazon account in my name seemed more dangerous, but at least Amazon finally did nuke that one (after 18 months and escalation all the way to jeff@ (more than once)). The fake Amazon account was actually validated to one of my email addresses, apparently via a bug in their Android app. (Another possibility in the Amazon case is that it was a scam like Wells Fargo case, with employees creating fake accounts to boost their performance ratings.) Suffice it to say that Amazon was not very forthcoming with details about what was going on or how they finally stopped it.
Anyway, in my first scan of these comments I couldn't find any similar reports. I thought it was a wholesale thing, but the lack of other reports makes me worry about spear-phishing... (I wouldn't be the real target, but it is possible that I could be an intermediate target.)
Mostly reminds me of my experiences as a volunteer trying to support the public-use computers in the Austin Public Library. That was almost 30 years ago, way before we had anything like network access problems. Basically I wound up just wiping the systems every time I visited and restoring them as well as I could to their "legal" condition. The big problem in those days was just pirated software, especially an expensive CAD package, but the big threats these days are keyloggers intercepting passwords used for email and data stored in the network...
That reminds me of a much more recent fiasco involving Amazon and a public library in Indiana. Someone created a fake Amazon account in my name and validated the email address using some kind of bug in the Android app. Amazon never volunteered any meaningful details, but I'm believing the name and email address were just a dictionary attack. However, this thing went on for a year and a half before Amazon finally stopped it. One aspect of the scam obviously involved borrowing electronic books from a public library. If that was the only thing going on, then I'm only offended by the association of my name with some rather execrable books, but I think there must have been a money trail, too, or it wouldn't have gone on for so long... (Did you know you can escalate to jeff@ when you get desperate enough? At least it seemed to work in my LONG case, though the two-step solution was obvious in my FIRST contact with Amazon's customer so-called service.)
Historical trivia. Always want to close with a constructive suggestion, but it's hard to come up with one... Follow the money and break the criminals' economic models is kind of obvious, isn't it? Easy to say, but hard to do, even if the criminals are just ingenious fools.
Wouldn't be the first time I was fooled, and it's always hard to make predictions, especially about the future (as the joke goes). I deliberately tried for more specific predictions than I made about Dubya early in 2001, but the more specific, the less likely they will be fulfilled. As regards those three predictions, you may notice that the premises are actually quite conservative and safe, but the conclusions could easily get derailed in a number of ways.
Just to focus on the first prediction, as regards the premise we know that Trump has promised to put pressure on foreign countries and has already said a number of provocative things to and about China. Though he lies a lot, I think he is mostly sort of sincere on hating his business adversaries. Now will China decide this represents an opportunity to get Taiwan back? Hard to say, and if so, will they decide that a military approach is feasible? Again hard to say, but if they are leaning that way, then creating the diversion in North Korea is obvious... It should also be obvious that the Chinese dictators would love to scapegoat Trump for their own economic mistakes and real world limitations, but the devil is in the details, as they say.
I actually sort of agree with you about "improve [the] lives of Americans", but NOT the way you probably meant it. I think he is going to make certain rich people much richer and they will think that is improving their lives, even though they already have far more money than they will ever use. Your other quasi-prediction of "unnecessary conflict" seems basically meaningless, since he is already creating plenty of conflict, but it must be "necessary", eh?
Hey, does the stock market need to have any relationship to reality or is the entire value just a matter of #PresidentTweety's opinions?
Per https://ello.co/shanen0/post/n... the software that increases productivity is investment and extremely poor societies can't afford those investments because essential production is already absorbing all the available resources. Or in other words, there's no sense in trying to squeeze blood from a turnip when he doesn't even have a turnip.
Entertainment category software is different and there is no rationale I can see for discounting it. Right now I'm having trouble thinking of any software that would qualify as essential, at least in the context of an extremely poor society.
Just extending my earlier response on the basis of having had the opportunity to discuss this with some actual Chinese people yesterday. Unfortunately, none of them were from Taiwan and I'm not sure how to weigh in the "political reliability" of mainland Chinese who have been given permission to study abroad. Having said that...
They "sort of seemed" to think that a two-front approach might be feasible, especially if #PresidentTweety had actually sanctioned the invasion of North Korea. I didn't mention that part here, but I may have thought it was too obvious that the not-quite-a-feint in North Korea would keep America focused on that threat simply because of the American troops that would already be in harm's way when the balloon went up. I don't know enough about the current capabilities of the Red Army to fight two wars at once, even if they can keep them small.
I think I largely agree with you, but I can't tell if HornWumpus is making his point badly or just trolling. I would say that the communists certainly could invade and conquer Taiwan if they wanted to, but there would be a real cost and they would have to evaluate the benefits, including the effects on "domestic politics" in their peculiarly anti-partisan one-party system.
They could even imagine making a profit out of the invasion, but that obviously depends on not destroying too much infrastructure and a belief that the majority of the people on Taiwan would accept the new situation. An expensive insurgency could absorb all of the potential profits for as long as it lasts. On that aspect, they are obviously much more capable than we are of assessing the popular sentiment of their fellow Chinese.
Having said that, they might be able to invade relatively inexpensively by merely filling the next batch of cargo ships with soldiers rather than cargo. If they land and successfully seize the ports in a surprise attack, then they could quickly ferry a few million soldiers over and have quite substantial beachheads. I'm not even sure if the relative air forces would matter if the communists pulled a surprise with clouds of cheap drones...
There is a really important time-related factor, too. There was a known date for Hong Kong and they just had to wait. Taiwan has no schedule and they do NOT want to wait forever. They may well see #PresidentTweety's apprenticeship as the golden opportunity they've been waiting for.
I think you are feeding a troll. I used to wonder if they were sincerely stupid, proudly ignorant, or paid to fake it, in which case they should be congratulated for cashing in on their lack of social skills. These days I just wish Slashdot were making some progress towards making them less visible. ANY other use of my time and attention is better.
Good comment and I'd give you the 5th insightful point if I ever got a mod.
You didn't mention the detail that he doesn't even have the guts to put his name on his dump. The abuse of anonymity has become part of the sickness of our Internet-centric society. Personal reputation matters, but not to ACs or #PresidentTweety.
There's an interesting philosophic debate about why bad things happen to good people, but no one has to ask why good things happen to bad people. They are using their badness to get the good things.
The moderation is hopelessly broken and I suspect that a lot of the points are coming from sock puppets. It could be fixed by linking earned reputation to the system, but there is no sign of progress.
Oh, and I think it should be logarithmic. If so, then +5 funny would mean e^5 mod points... (Yeah, I favor the natural log, too.)
Well reasoned and deserving its insightful moderation. Let me predict your comment will not be taken as an invitation to reasoned dialog. Actually, I'm cheating because I could see the first of the responses before clicking to add mine.
Just add my story of having a few drinks with a couple of Hillary haters. Short form is they each believed a fake news story. Different ones, but one of the advantages of fake news is that you get to believe whatever you want to believe. Another major advantage of fake news is that the production costs are much lower.
America has been had. I'm pretty sure the main result of #PresidentTweety will be to make China great again.
Don't you mean Siber War? Like the Cyberian Candidate?
Just playing with the word games, but I think it be a Freudian slippage thing from #PresidentTweety's perspective. Oh, I sure hope they don't take away his Twitter account.
Actually, I think the most likely war will be China provoked into occupying North Korea and failing to stop until they have South Korea and Taiwan, too, for dessert. Time for China to be GREAT again. Back to normal after a couple of bad centuries, eh?
You forgot to mention the partisan obstructionism of the so-called Republican Party. The same guys who are warning us we better NOT do the same sort of stuff to #PresidentTweety.
As if the Democrats could. No votes and no guts. No intestinal fortitude, if you prefer.
You were right to challenge the "insight" of the earlier comment, but the moderation system on Slashdot is terminally broken. No signs of progress or improvements. Ditto Fake News Nation under the leadership of the new president-for-life.
Another appearance of umbrage related to #PresidentTweety?
As in TUSAD (Trump-Umbrage Stress Anxiety Disorder)?
I will be SO disappointed if he actually starts acting presidential because they finally manage to take away his Twitter account.
Then again, his handlers may have to do it when he provokes China into invading Taiwan. The so-called Republicans will have to insist on SOMETHING in exchange for not impeaching him, right?
For that deservedly funny post, "Geek of all tirades" would be better for the sig.
You are in violation of Godwin's law, however. I claim an exception because I used to know Mike moderately well before he got all nasty and lawyerish. There really is a time [travel] for Nazi comparisons, but the law short-circuits such discussions. Yet another paradox?
Love the sig and the comment is good enough that I wish I had mod points to give you. (Apparently nevermore?)
However, it's an excuse for my predictions:
(1) In provoking China to take care of North Korea, #PresidentTweety will go to far and China will invade North AND South Korea, and Taiwan for dessert. #PresidentTweety will be embarrassed orange, but no one will notice.
(2) If he doesn't get Bill-Cosby-ed out of office RSN, then he'll dump Pence in favor of VP Ivanka. All in the Family and if she becomes prezzy, then America will be a wholly owned subsidiary of the Trump organization. Such as it was.
(3) Iran will continue to grow into the power vacuum in the Middle East. Israel will get unhappy. Iran will make YUGE deals with Russia and China. #PresidentTweety shall tweet his wrath to no avail.
(4) America will have a presidential library with an entire wing dedicated to the Twitter Wars.
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I didn't know what was going on until I researched the meme.
I was never able to develop an interest in TNG, though I was a big fan of TOS. I think it was the holodeck that went where no version of Star Trek should have gone before. It was like a black hole shortcut for anything, a kind of blank check against reality. At least TOS had some reasonable excuses for the transporter.
Anyway I don't think sheramil really earned the "funny" mod points because the joke was excessively tangential, even diversionary.
Z^2
You seem to have forgotten that the so-called Republican Party stole a Supreme Court seat for the Donald to fill with whichever candidate is most successful in convincing the Donald of undying love and loyalty. The only problem #PresidentTweety has is that it's so hard to love and trust such a liar.
Not a problem with blaming the court system for slowing him up. It's often convenient to have someone to blame for your failings. Like the way the Chinese communists are about to start blaming Trump for their own economic problems...
"to the extent consistent with applicable law"
Once he exercises his free (AKA stolen) pick for the SCOTUS, "applicable law" will mean whatever #PresidentTweety wants it to mean. My prediction is that he will pick whichever candidate can convince him of the highest personal loyalty. It's a variation of how the Donald hires his accountants:
Trump: "How much is 2 + 2?"
Winning accountant: "How much do you want it to be?"
Trump: "Are my executive orders legal?"
Winning judge: "How legal do you want them to be?"
Welcome to the Donald's latest pseudo-reality program. The ratings are YUGE. It's on ALL the channels and in ALL the newspapers. Even international!
I actually see this as a market opportunity. Whereas CNN promises the most disaster porn, I'm looking for a news source that promises the least possible amount of Trump news. Only the stuff that REALLY can't be ignored.
Oh, wait. That's just what he wants, isn't it?
(Prior search for "funny" was disappointed. Ditto "insightful", but maybe it's just too early.)
Well merited mod, and as usual with the best humor, plenty of insight, too. The comments that were actually moderated insightful fell rather short. As usual.
What I was looking for on the insightful side was some realization of the imminent corruption of #PresidentTweety, perhaps even a prediction of how far America's ranking will fall over the next year or two. I'm thinking short term because I'm still hoping that Trump will get Bill-Cosby-ed out of office relatively quickly. Pence is only gawdawful relative to Trump.
Not exactly a constructive closing, but I'll not that I just got Insane Clown President and just based on the table of contents I can already recommend it for insight. However, if I were a machine intelligence observing earth, I would think that the odds on human extinction before creating a replacement machine intelligence are rising rapidly...
With regards to your specific reply, I think you sound kind of delusional to the point where a tailored response is not worth the effort. However, I recently composed the following somewhat applicable passage for another venue, so I'm including it below. My only direct response to your comment is that my first thought was "The manufacturing jobs are NOT coming back and it doesn't much matter (from a supply chain perspective) which country the newest manufacturing robots are located in." Now here's the imported response:
Some deep thinkers want to encourage other people to think more deeply. However, there are also deep thinkers who prefer other people to think less deeply, the better to manipulate and take advantage of those people.
The worst (and most dangerous) case is people who are shallow thinkers, but who think they are deep thinkers, and #PresidentTweety is one of those people. Trump is not at war with the media. He is at war with reality. Trump wants to create belief in a straw-man fake reality of horror and collapse so he can then claim improvements by tweaking the fake beliefs back towards reality.
At least Duterte killed (alleged) evildoers and Mussolini made the trains run on time! That's not the reality of America. (Well, actually the American trains aren't so reliable, but Trump's supporters in flyover country are the least likely to use trains.)
My favorite sig should make it obvious, but I'm on the side of more deep thinking. You have to think deeply to understand your free choices in a meaningful way and to understand the constraints and their sources. (That's why "freedom of speech" is so confusing to many people, because the "speech" may be opinions or lies just as freely as it may be true.)
So far my best effort at a constructive "solution" is the design of the deep-thinking cap, but it's yet another "morally neutral" tool. While I think I would use the cap to support more deep thinking, maybe I would just use it to sleep a lot. Some people might use it to listen to more loud and mindless music while ignoring other people, even though the cap could be used as a better communication device, too.
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#1 Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice{5} (Beer^4 | Speech | Trade)
While I checked for "funny" comments, I wasn't expecting to find any, and I don't think this insightful comment was modded correctly... Then again, we're in a post-truth #PresidentTweety world now, so maybe we're post-funny, too. What used to be parody is now just different facts.
You thought there was only ONE reality and one set of facts? You must be nuts!
Well, at least Twitter keeps sending me validation requests for one or more fake Twitter accounts that I never created and have no interest in validating. The header of the email indicates that most of them are coming from a slightly mangled form of my email address that is used by spammers. I don't know what the scam is, but it's been going on for many months, perhaps even a couple of years now, so they must be making money somehow.
Tried to report it to Twitter and the google a couple of times, especially in the early months. They obviously aren't interested and did nothing to stop it. At first I was mostly concerned about some kind of identity theft. I'm still considering that as a possibility for the suckers that do validate the fake accounts, but so far I haven't detected any direct impact on me.
The fake Amazon account in my name seemed more dangerous, but at least Amazon finally did nuke that one (after 18 months and escalation all the way to jeff@ (more than once)). The fake Amazon account was actually validated to one of my email addresses, apparently via a bug in their Android app. (Another possibility in the Amazon case is that it was a scam like Wells Fargo case, with employees creating fake accounts to boost their performance ratings.) Suffice it to say that Amazon was not very forthcoming with details about what was going on or how they finally stopped it.
Anyway, in my first scan of these comments I couldn't find any similar reports. I thought it was a wholesale thing, but the lack of other reports makes me worry about spear-phishing... (I wouldn't be the real target, but it is possible that I could be an intermediate target.)
Mostly reminds me of my experiences as a volunteer trying to support the public-use computers in the Austin Public Library. That was almost 30 years ago, way before we had anything like network access problems. Basically I wound up just wiping the systems every time I visited and restoring them as well as I could to their "legal" condition. The big problem in those days was just pirated software, especially an expensive CAD package, but the big threats these days are keyloggers intercepting passwords used for email and data stored in the network...
That reminds me of a much more recent fiasco involving Amazon and a public library in Indiana. Someone created a fake Amazon account in my name and validated the email address using some kind of bug in the Android app. Amazon never volunteered any meaningful details, but I'm believing the name and email address were just a dictionary attack. However, this thing went on for a year and a half before Amazon finally stopped it. One aspect of the scam obviously involved borrowing electronic books from a public library. If that was the only thing going on, then I'm only offended by the association of my name with some rather execrable books, but I think there must have been a money trail, too, or it wouldn't have gone on for so long... (Did you know you can escalate to jeff@ when you get desperate enough? At least it seemed to work in my LONG case, though the two-step solution was obvious in my FIRST contact with Amazon's customer so-called service.)
Historical trivia. Always want to close with a constructive suggestion, but it's hard to come up with one... Follow the money and break the criminals' economic models is kind of obvious, isn't it? Easy to say, but hard to do, even if the criminals are just ingenious fools.
Wouldn't be the first time I was fooled, and it's always hard to make predictions, especially about the future (as the joke goes). I deliberately tried for more specific predictions than I made about Dubya early in 2001, but the more specific, the less likely they will be fulfilled. As regards those three predictions, you may notice that the premises are actually quite conservative and safe, but the conclusions could easily get derailed in a number of ways.
Just to focus on the first prediction, as regards the premise we know that Trump has promised to put pressure on foreign countries and has already said a number of provocative things to and about China. Though he lies a lot, I think he is mostly sort of sincere on hating his business adversaries. Now will China decide this represents an opportunity to get Taiwan back? Hard to say, and if so, will they decide that a military approach is feasible? Again hard to say, but if they are leaning that way, then creating the diversion in North Korea is obvious... It should also be obvious that the Chinese dictators would love to scapegoat Trump for their own economic mistakes and real world limitations, but the devil is in the details, as they say.
I actually sort of agree with you about "improve [the] lives of Americans", but NOT the way you probably meant it. I think he is going to make certain rich people much richer and they will think that is improving their lives, even though they already have far more money than they will ever use. Your other quasi-prediction of "unnecessary conflict" seems basically meaningless, since he is already creating plenty of conflict, but it must be "necessary", eh?
Hey, does the stock market need to have any relationship to reality or is the entire value just a matter of #PresidentTweety's opinions?
Per https://ello.co/shanen0/post/n... the software that increases productivity is investment and extremely poor societies can't afford those investments because essential production is already absorbing all the available resources. Or in other words, there's no sense in trying to squeeze blood from a turnip when he doesn't even have a turnip.
Entertainment category software is different and there is no rationale I can see for discounting it. Right now I'm having trouble thinking of any software that would qualify as essential, at least in the context of an extremely poor society.
Just extending my earlier response on the basis of having had the opportunity to discuss this with some actual Chinese people yesterday. Unfortunately, none of them were from Taiwan and I'm not sure how to weigh in the "political reliability" of mainland Chinese who have been given permission to study abroad. Having said that...
They "sort of seemed" to think that a two-front approach might be feasible, especially if #PresidentTweety had actually sanctioned the invasion of North Korea. I didn't mention that part here, but I may have thought it was too obvious that the not-quite-a-feint in North Korea would keep America focused on that threat simply because of the American troops that would already be in harm's way when the balloon went up. I don't know enough about the current capabilities of the Red Army to fight two wars at once, even if they can keep them small.
Z^1
I think I largely agree with you, but I can't tell if HornWumpus is making his point badly or just trolling. I would say that the communists certainly could invade and conquer Taiwan if they wanted to, but there would be a real cost and they would have to evaluate the benefits, including the effects on "domestic politics" in their peculiarly anti-partisan one-party system.
They could even imagine making a profit out of the invasion, but that obviously depends on not destroying too much infrastructure and a belief that the majority of the people on Taiwan would accept the new situation. An expensive insurgency could absorb all of the potential profits for as long as it lasts. On that aspect, they are obviously much more capable than we are of assessing the popular sentiment of their fellow Chinese.
Having said that, they might be able to invade relatively inexpensively by merely filling the next batch of cargo ships with soldiers rather than cargo. If they land and successfully seize the ports in a surprise attack, then they could quickly ferry a few million soldiers over and have quite substantial beachheads. I'm not even sure if the relative air forces would matter if the communists pulled a surprise with clouds of cheap drones...
There is a really important time-related factor, too. There was a known date for Hong Kong and they just had to wait. Taiwan has no schedule and they do NOT want to wait forever. They may well see #PresidentTweety's apprenticeship as the golden opportunity they've been waiting for.
Z^4
I think you are feeding a troll. I used to wonder if they were sincerely stupid, proudly ignorant, or paid to fake it, in which case they should be congratulated for cashing in on their lack of social skills. These days I just wish Slashdot were making some progress towards making them less visible. ANY other use of my time and attention is better.
Good comment and I'd give you the 5th insightful point if I ever got a mod.
You didn't mention the detail that he doesn't even have the guts to put his name on his dump. The abuse of anonymity has become part of the sickness of our Internet-centric society. Personal reputation matters, but not to ACs or #PresidentTweety.
There's an interesting philosophic debate about why bad things happen to good people, but no one has to ask why good things happen to bad people. They are using their badness to get the good things.
The moderation is hopelessly broken and I suspect that a lot of the points are coming from sock puppets. It could be fixed by linking earned reputation to the system, but there is no sign of progress.
Oh, and I think it should be logarithmic. If so, then +5 funny would mean e^5 mod points... (Yeah, I favor the natural log, too.)
Well reasoned and deserving its insightful moderation. Let me predict your comment will not be taken as an invitation to reasoned dialog. Actually, I'm cheating because I could see the first of the responses before clicking to add mine.
Just add my story of having a few drinks with a couple of Hillary haters. Short form is they each believed a fake news story. Different ones, but one of the advantages of fake news is that you get to believe whatever you want to believe. Another major advantage of fake news is that the production costs are much lower.
America has been had. I'm pretty sure the main result of #PresidentTweety will be to make China great again.
Don't you mean Siber War? Like the Cyberian Candidate?
Just playing with the word games, but I think it be a Freudian slippage thing from #PresidentTweety's perspective. Oh, I sure hope they don't take away his Twitter account.
Actually, I think the most likely war will be China provoked into occupying North Korea and failing to stop until they have South Korea and Taiwan, too, for dessert. Time for China to be GREAT again. Back to normal after a couple of bad centuries, eh?
You forgot to mention the partisan obstructionism of the so-called Republican Party. The same guys who are warning us we better NOT do the same sort of stuff to #PresidentTweety.
As if the Democrats could. No votes and no guts. No intestinal fortitude, if you prefer.
You were right to challenge the "insight" of the earlier comment, but the moderation system on Slashdot is terminally broken. No signs of progress or improvements. Ditto Fake News Nation under the leadership of the new president-for-life.
Another appearance of umbrage related to #PresidentTweety?
As in TUSAD (Trump-Umbrage Stress Anxiety Disorder)?
I will be SO disappointed if he actually starts acting presidential because they finally manage to take away his Twitter account.
Then again, his handlers may have to do it when he provokes China into invading Taiwan. The so-called Republicans will have to insist on SOMETHING in exchange for not impeaching him, right?
As commented elsewhere, #PresidentTweety is president-for-life of Fake News Nation.
Yeah, I'm commenting on a sig. Sucks, doesn't it?
My Trumpitis is too inflamed for deeper thought and I have no mod points. So there.
For that deservedly funny post, "Geek of all tirades" would be better for the sig.
You are in violation of Godwin's law, however. I claim an exception because I used to know Mike moderately well before he got all nasty and lawyerish. There really is a time [travel] for Nazi comparisons, but the law short-circuits such discussions. Yet another paradox?
Love the sig and the comment is good enough that I wish I had mod points to give you. (Apparently nevermore?)
However, it's an excuse for my predictions:
(1) In provoking China to take care of North Korea, #PresidentTweety will go to far and China will invade North AND South Korea, and Taiwan for dessert. #PresidentTweety will be embarrassed orange, but no one will notice.
(2) If he doesn't get Bill-Cosby-ed out of office RSN, then he'll dump Pence in favor of VP Ivanka. All in the Family and if she becomes prezzy, then America will be a wholly owned subsidiary of the Trump organization. Such as it was.
(3) Iran will continue to grow into the power vacuum in the Middle East. Israel will get unhappy. Iran will make YUGE deals with Russia and China. #PresidentTweety shall tweet his wrath to no avail.
(4) America will have a presidential library with an entire wing dedicated to the Twitter Wars.