@PNS I got a call from the bank once about something similar. I was buying a guitar. Transferred $1600 to his account, and then was driving over to pick it up. They called on the way to check if I had been scammed. I just told them no, it's not a scam. I've met the guy, I know exactly what I'm getting, and I've physically tested it to make sure it's legit. And they let it go through without a hitch.
@sun I can. 1. By this point you probably know what he's going to say. We've heard it all before. 2. He's a story teller, mostly reading Sci fi fan fiction. @lain
I knew Neil Degrass Tyson was an annoying midwid. But I didn't realise he was actually this retarded.
I feel like 40 IQ points dumber for stumbling upon this conversation. I can't believe they didn't just stop to think about the logic of this for 1 second and realise it's bullshit.
@icedquinn It is a huge problem that people don't have time to think anymore. It takes away all self awareness. I can also believe that people not being hungry anymore would also have significant detrimental effects. Both physical and mental. We were built for adversary, with lots of time to sir and think inbetween. Now we have nightmare rectangles and liquid diabetes on demand. And I can't expect anyone to escape this torture machine as I can't either.
@icedquinn My experience with the stoics is they tend to not give a shit about the state of the world at all. As opposed to those Plato gang that only care about the state of the world and want to fix/control it.
Seriously considering moving my main PC over to Linux on the weekend. Putting together a mental checklist of the 100+ things I'm going to have to get working again and/or find alternatives for.
@icedquinn Are you implying the nightmare rectangle is there to pacify the hate? I don't think it's the rectangle, it's what the rectangle represents. Highly managed complex society. What uncle Ted would call "oversocialization". That's why he went to live in a cabin before the rectangles existed. @Masterork@MountainJay
@EvolLove@DrFell@mk@Sirensabotage@RoboftheVolcano You misunderstand. We are not the generation of strong men. We are the generation of hard times. And we are all a product of our time. You cannot escape it. We will not live to see the great men that will come. We will not live to see the good times they create. That is not for us.
@EvolLove@DrFell@mk@Sirensabotage@RoboftheVolcano Your not wrong. But we cannot unite in this culture. Not going to happen. instead we are held together by large political units, which is just a weak substitute for your culture and your people. To unite with your people the multicultural utopian ideal needs to go away. It will happen. But you can't make it happen. Not yet.
@Dan_Ramos Funny, those are the 2 browsers I use. Edge for work, Opera for personal. Edge is legitimately a great browser. Not even joking. I also use Bing for search.
@BowsacNoodle@p Galloway is an Islamist loving communist from the UK. There isn't an enemy of the UK he doesn't support over his own country. The type that would gleefully sing the praises of Mao.