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quote:So tired of this. I don’t personally give a rip. I am just tired of having the sports media and every media dominated by this. I miss the days pre-2008 where news was news, sports was sports, and the two rarely intersected. 
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Yes, the sports media is dominated by homosexual athletes coming out. Athletes such as...
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quote:To: dfwgator 
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Feb 10, 2014 05:19
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quote:To: dfwgator If any coach thought that might actually happen, he would be an instant no.1 draft pick.
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Feb 10, 2014 05:22
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quote:To: massmike Man they're REALLY hating the types of behavior the free market rewards lately.
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Feb 10, 2014 05:24
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Did they also melt down about Marcus Smart shoving that old white guy in the stands?
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Feb 10, 2014 06:02
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Poonerman posted:Yes, the sports media is dominated by homosexual athletes coming out. Athletes such as... To be fair, there was Jason Collins, who dominated the media for a week or two until everybody realized he was not good and old.
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Feb 10, 2014 06:50
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And that was a long and trying time for all of America. Now, let me tell you more about the horrible treatment of Tim Tebow at the hands of the notoriously homoleftist NFL 
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quote:“I could see a quarterback going, “Here, just have the ball just don’t touch me.” Sort of like what happened here: 
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nachos posted:Did they also melt down about Marcus Smart shoving that old white guy in the stands? I actually can't find a thread on it. It'll happen once the news makes the rounds tomorrow. That's going to be a really ugly thread 
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Feb 10, 2014 08:33
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I keep waiting for Freep to discover castefootball.us -- the site that argues that white skill position players are victims of discrimination.
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Feb 10, 2014 08:40
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skaboomizzy posted:I keep waiting for Freep to discover castefootball.us -- the site that argues that white skill position players are victims of discrimination. Haha holy poo poo this website.
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Here are some out-of-context quotes from a variety of threads to start your week off right:quote:Beatlemania? Beatlemania is simply the result a neurological phenomena. When a male and his voice voice goes through an electric amplifier it has a direct effect on the midbrain of receptive women of child bearing age. It stimulates a tremendous almost hysterical need to copulate with the singer. Beatlemania and the behavior of women at rock concerts is best understood in that context. quote:I saw him in the latest hunger games. My kids dragged me. It was a horrid film, disgusting story, little redeeming issues. Made worse only by the appearance of this wretch of a person at the end quote:“Why are my posts about Maureen Dowd being deleted? Was posting a picture of Katherine Zeta-Jones now forbidden?” quote:My theory is Yoko was in on it. quote:I’m not interested in intelligent aliens. They would just be an obstacle or a threat. quote:Think of how many issues would have never been heard about if somebody did not take a picture and post it on the internet. quote:I gave up on Coke when they started flogging that “Save the Polar Bears” crap. quote:I personally think we should try to repeal the 17th FIRST. quote:Man am I tired of social engineering shoved in my face via ads
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Truly America's downfall was the societal acceptance of miscegenation 
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SedanChair posted:Everyone knows homosexualism gives bonuses to strength and agility. But it really kills your Con and Saving throw vs. Diseases.
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Feb 10, 2014 18:47
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quote:Beatlemania? Beatlemania is simply the result a neurological phenomena. When a male and his voice voice goes through an electric amplifier it has a direct effect on the midbrain of receptive women of child bearing age. It stimulates a tremendous almost hysterical need to copulate with the singer. Beatlemania and the behavior of women at rock concerts is best understood in that context. Poe's law fuckin' me pretty hard on this one.
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quote:egg lipstick mulatto gal OK, this is an amazing turn of phrase, like LF username level good.
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quote:quote: First, they will ban cigarettes at CVS, and then, obviously, this will lead to murdering 12 million Jews and starting a world war.
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[quote]I 31 posted on Monday, February 10, 2014 9:37:54 AM by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.) There is no  big enough for this tag line given the site that it's on.
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But Rocks Hurt Head posted:
It's okay for human rights violations to happen as long as I don't know about them!
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quote:I’m not interested in intelligent aliens. They would just be an obstacle or a threat. To be fair to this guy, both Stephen Hawking and Neil deGrasse Tyson have said the same thing. Tyson said it something like this (in my own paraphrasing): Chimps can make, at most, simple tools. Our kindergardeners can also make simple tools, and we're less than 1% genetically different from chimps. The chances of intelligent life evolving exactly as intelligent as we are is absurdly small. If that 1% is the difference between sharpened sticks, and the Hubble Space Telescope, then what can we offer to a race who's children could build a Hubble Space Telescope? Would we be like groundhogs to be cleared away so they could build their development in this neighborhood? Stephen Hawking famously suggested that, perhaps, we hide from other life. Anything that might notice us might only see us as a raw resource to harvest: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/04/stephen-hawking-update-alien-contact-not-a-wise-idea-a-sunday-feature.html To be fair, the only observational data for intelligent life is ourselves, and this is pretty much exactly how we act. We don't exactly try to talk to the rabbits in the fields. We either eat them, or pelt them, or remove them, or not care about them at all. ColdSnickersBar fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Feb 10, 2014 |
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ColdSnickersBar posted:Stephen Hawking famously suggested that, perhaps, we hide from other life. Anything that might notice us might only see us as a raw resource to harvest: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/04/stephen-hawking-update-alien-contact-not-a-wise-idea-a-sunday-feature.html To be fair, the only observational data for intelligent life is ourselves, and this is pretty much exactly how we act. We don't exactly try to talk to the rabbits in the fields. We either eat them, or pelt them, or remove them, or not care about them at all. However, isolation and monitoring of the Freep populace by the Federation until such time as they develop warp drive or annihilate themselves seems like a solid idea. 
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There is a certain presumption that any species with a higher intelligence than us would have a basic ability to recognize sentience, though there really is no reason to believe that intelligence and morality correlate.
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Nessus posted:While there's a fair point that we only have one sample case for 'a civilization which creates radio astronomy equipment,' I don't think that generalizing from the behavior of humanity under late-stage industrial capitalism in the last fifty years is necessarily an absolute case for "the true nature of humanity." Humans have a history of warfare and exploitation of one another, but that is not the only possible route. It's a shame they're annihilating themselves with bread sticks and old age instead of something fun.
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Pong Daddy posted:There is a certain presumption that any species with a higher intelligence than us would have a basic ability to recognize sentience, though there really is no reason to believe that intelligence and morality correlate. Or that our view of morality is objective and aliens couldn't have developed a system where it would be perfectly fine to wipe us out, whether we're sentient or not.
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change my name posted:Or that our view of morality is objective and aliens couldn't have developed a system where it would be perfectly fine to wipe us out, whether we're sentient or not. I think these things are fine thought experiments but often turn into Rorschach tests more than anything. We won't know better until we meet 'em, if we ever do.
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Well, the root of both Tyson and Hawking's points was that they're almost certainly not the same level of intelligence as us, and could very easily be on a higher level than we are. If they are, then it's possible that: we'd have nothing to offer them; that we'd be totally unsurprising and not special to them; and that they'd see us as either something to ignore, or something to sweep away, or something to exploit. Alternately, I'm pretty firmly convinced that if we find a creature out there that is intelligent, but not as much as we, we will certainly exploit them. We've done it to ourselves in every single circumstance. We have never, in fact, done anything else in that situation. In fact, it's arguable that chimps, from the previous post, are intelligent, and we just see them as another animal to either ignore, sweep away, or exploit. There's no reason to think we'd do anything else if we found some kind of space neanderthal or space dolphin. If they were not standing on anything valuable, we might ignore them. If they had something valuable, we'd very quickly find a way to sweep them away or lead them off into service and then take what we wanted. ColdSnickersBar fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Feb 10, 2014 |
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quote:My theory is Yoko was in on it.  sorry for the reddit-y seeming image macro, but I can't fully express my need to laugh at that comment with words alone.
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Freepers: Why are my posts about Maureen Dowd being deleted?
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ColdSnickersBar posted:First, they will ban cigarettes at CVS, and then, obviously, this will lead to murdering 12 million Jews and starting a world war. 12 million Jews? I know the total number of people killed in the holocaust is not 100% certain, but Ive never heard more than 6 million Jews, will the other 5-6 million being everyone else
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Liquid Dinosaur posted:12 million Jews? I know the total number of people killed in the holocaust is not 100% certain, but Ive never heard more than 6 million Jews, will the other 5-6 million being everyone else
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ColdSnickersBar posted:Well, the root of both Tyson and Hawking's points was that they're almost certainly not the same level of intelligence as us, and could very easily be on a higher level than we are. If they are, then it's possible that: we'd have nothing to offer them; that we'd be totally unsurprising and not special to them; and that they'd see us as either something to ignore, or something to sweep away, or something to exploit. The problem is that way too much of our speculation about contact with alien lifeforms is informed by the paradigms of the Columbian exchange, casting either ourselves or the aliens in the position of the Europeans and then either believing that there will be a repeat of (or actions that are making up for) what occurred to the indigenous people of the New World. This is obviously a bad paradigm in which to view any encounter with alien life, because any such life will be infinitely more alien than that paradigm can imagine. I think Steven Millhauser's New Yorker story The Alien Invasion is a good example of the kind of completely left-field thing a potential alien contact could be. Anyways, gently caress freepers, am I right?
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Well, we all will have to admit that if aliens are like freepers, and they are indeed more powerful... we'd be hosed.
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e_angst posted:The problem is that way too much of our speculation about contact with alien lifeforms is informed by the paradigms of the Columbian exchange, casting either ourselves or the aliens in the position of the Europeans and then either believing that there will be a repeat of (or actions that are making up for) what occurred to the indigenous people of the New World. This is obviously a bad paradigm in which to view any encounter with alien life, because any such life will be infinitely more alien than that paradigm can imagine. I think Steven Millhauser's New Yorker story The Alien Invasion is a good example of the kind of completely left-field thing a potential alien contact could be. Let's split the difference and hope we meet hyperintelligent aliens who are conveniently genocided by our disgusting diseases.
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Well maybe it will be like Childhood's End 
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SedanChair posted:Everyone knows homosexualism gives bonuses to strength and agility. If I'm venerating Satan by seeking out man-butt-sex, I'd better be getting something in return. Quid pro quo and all.
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I still don't know why people think Earth resources would be worth the problems of the gravity well. Presumably aliens with interstellar capacity would have figured out space harvesting by then.
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Nessus posted:Well Obama's double Hitler so he'd obviously do a double Holocaust. It's even worse than that: he's double-secret black Hitler.
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Little Blackfly posted:I still don't know why people think Earth resources would be worth the problems of the gravity well. Presumably aliens with interstellar capacity would have figured out space harvesting by then. Not to mention there are an infinite number of other planets to chow down on. If aliens are going to bother harvesting anything on Earth, it'll be the life.
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I think that it's kind of impossible to even determine what an alien species would be like if they reached that advanced of a level of civilization. If they're like humans, they'd probably see humans and say "aww, lookit how cute they are" and go away so as not to destroy us. But, let's say it was an artificial intelligence that was built by some other civilization, then I think we'd have to be worried about whether it would care about us more than it would be interested in building a Dyson sphere around the sun. Humans have a hard time understanding how humans from other cultures think, and we're all running extremely similar hardware in our skulls. Trying to imagine how an alien life-form would think is pretty much impossible (in my opinion).
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