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Nessus posted:I believe the general opinion is that rule by anime women with big dicks would be greatly preferable to rule by libertarians Oh thank god, I'm not the only one that thought that.
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Curvature of Earth posted:Nice to know plaid still exists in the future. And they couldn't even imagine using your voice to tell your Google Home to play Far Side Virtual while you wait for its oven timer to finish. But don't tell anyone that all this computer stuff was figured out at universities (and, admittedly, the Navy, thanks Grace Hopper) before it became commercially viable divabot posted:As I posted in the PYF Dark Enlightenment Thinker thread: Hahaha what, I'm someone who read the sequences and basically nothing else, and I thought the sequences were really helpful, so to hear all this extra stuff about them since joining SA is like, wow. Like, I read the first chapter of HPMOR, thought "That's neat, maybe I'll read more later," and then I hear it turns into more or less a self-insert fantasy. I suppose I started drifting after following Big Yud on Facebook for a while. I still do, but some of his posts made me realize 1) he lives in a total bubble, and I have to actively work to not be in my own bubble 2) the gently caress is all this libertarian poo poo what did you just say you should make a software package to reset a failed government how do you think that works it doesn't Nonetheless, reading those sequences were a big step on my way to being able to articulate what causes people to be wrong on the Internet, and think differently about how to communicate with them, but I suppose more important to that was real-world experience e.g. talking to street preachers just to see how their thinking works after I ran out of lines of argument. Also, how do you be scared of cluckolding in a community where everyone is polyamorous or tries to be? Just loving lol I suspected then, and have a stronger suspicion now, that the overall community has a bias toward believing that methods are a substitute from gathering information. Except they created Givewell, which does hard factfinding about charities and promotes those with exceptional self-measurement and improvement, so I guess at the end of the day spergoids be spergoids for better or worse? The community is not a monolith, is what I'm gathering here.
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I thought this might be related: I don't know if anyone follows @Sweden on twitter (a twitter account given to different Swedes once a week), but this week's curator is a self-professed libertarian and prepper. It's gotten all the libertarians out of hiding, talking about how much they love this guy and how finally there's someone from that country that seems rational (etc. etc.). Compared to, say, the last few weeks where people were actively coming out to troll a feminist that was "comfortable with her body," a Ph D whose job it was to study education and curricula, and a half-Swedish half-Vietnamese woman studying in Hong Kong who "wasn't really Swedish".
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Panzeh posted:There are third parties that do that and absolutely no one knows about them. And your point is? Spit it out already. Just being known about does absolutely nothing for you if you don't have the local strength to get things done anywhere. The Green Party is nationally known: what good has that done them?
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(I'm concerned I will regret asking this later but) which person in the relationship is the "cuckold?" The aggrieved husband, right? Cuckold in the syllabus sounds like a verb, but I don't know this vocabulary/concept well at all. E: if you are putting the word cuckold on a syllabus, don't also include a book whose first author is named Cooter. WrenP-Complete fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Oct 18, 2016 |
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Oct 18, 2016 16:43
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WrenP-Complete posted:(I'm concerned I will regret asking this later but) which person in the relationship is the "cuckold?" The aggrieved husband, right? Cuckold in the syllabus sounds like a verb, but I don't know this vocabulary/concept well at all. Yes, the person being cheated on is the cuckold, traditionally the white husband who's white wife is having sex with a (superior) black man. Cuckoldry refers to the act, the woman commits cuckoldry and the man is cuckolded. Cuck.
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Oct 18, 2016 16:48
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Thus, "to cuck" someone means to make him a cuckhold by loving his wife. Man, the sentences these discussions prompt me to write!
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Oct 18, 2016 16:56
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GunnerJ posted:Thus, "to cuck" someone means to make him a cuckhold by loving his wife. But "to cuck" is a back-transformation, right? I can't believe I'm pulling up n-grams to check this. 
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Oct 18, 2016 16:58
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WrenP-Complete posted:But "to cuck" is a back-transformation, right? I don't know what that means! But if it means the noun came first and the verb developed from that, then yes I think so, and a very recent one. eta: I can't believe I'm doing this, but by "recent" I mean "commonly used as a verb recently" and also I think that data drawn from books won't represent that since it's a... "conversational" term rather than a technical one that lots of books would use. GunnerJ fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Oct 18, 2016 |
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Oct 18, 2016 17:07
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To cuck, or not to cuck, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer the cocks and balls of fertile bulls, or to take arms against a sea of phalluses, and by opposing screw them: to gently caress, to cum.
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Oct 18, 2016 17:09
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Curvature of Earth posted:Nice to know plaid still exists in the future. How do those drawers on the curved section work? They must be shallow as hell. Meanwhile, you have to get waist deep in the fridge to reach the stuff in the back.
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Oct 18, 2016 17:22
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So, here's some breaking news that might be interesting, especially in light of the whole "Government can't do anything right/Government has no business funding research" bullshit that Libertarians seem so desperately fond of masturbating to: https://www.ornl.gov/news/nano-spike-catalysts-convert-carbon-dioxide-directly-ethanol TL:DR version: Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory seem to have found a way to convert CO2 directly into ethanol, thus finding a way to turn a greenhouse gas directly into fuel. If this holds up and can be scaled, the US Government just made a major breakthrough when it comes to global warming. You're loving welcome, Libertarians.
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Oct 18, 2016 18:46
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Joke's on you, they don't even acknowledge global warming as a real problem.
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Oct 18, 2016 18:49
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Screw fuel, now we can drink global warming away. 
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Oct 18, 2016 18:51
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Conservatives use "cuck", liberals use "bigot." I say let them have their labels.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:Screw fuel, now we can drink global warming away. I'll drink to that!
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Oct 18, 2016 19:13
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GreyjoyBastard posted:Screw fuel, now we can drink global warming away. And so the world was saved, unintentionally, by drunks.
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Oct 18, 2016 19:26
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And that's how I met your mother!
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Sulphuric rear end in a top hat posted:Conservatives use "cuck", liberals use "bigot." I say let them have their labels. Oh, yay, you came. I already had my fun with you, I'll let the others have you.
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Oct 18, 2016 19:38
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Captain_Maclaine posted:And so the world was saved, unintentionally, by drunks. I will take one for the team and drink as many CO2 screwdrivers as possible (that requires oranges too, so it's a double whammy of CO2 reduction)
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Oct 18, 2016 19:47
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Who What Now posted:Oh, yay, you came. I already had my fun with you, I'll let the others have you. Friends! One or two at a time this time, okay?! And I may appoint myself as their ombirdswoman.
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Oct 18, 2016 19:48
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TLM3101 posted:So, here's some breaking news that might be interesting, especially in light of the whole "Government can't do anything right/Government has no business funding research" bullshit that Libertarians seem so desperately fond of masturbating to: While under an applied voltage. So we could take clean energy and use it to produce fossil fuel which we can then burn! Awesome!
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Oct 18, 2016 20:47
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Ron Jeremy posted:While under an applied voltage. So we could take clean energy and use it to produce fossil fuel which we can then burn! Awesome! It has some really cool implications for energy storage! Instead of needing expensive batteries, just make tanks of fuel and burn that instead. If this really does work as advertised, there's some pretty amazing things that could be done.
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TLM3101 posted:So, here's some breaking news that might be interesting, especially in light of the whole "Government can't do anything right/Government has no business funding research" bullshit that Libertarians seem so desperately fond of masturbating to: Researchers at Stanford made this discovery in 2014*. It still takes more energy than you get out of it to produce the ethanol, in addition to the energy costs of capturing the C02 to begin with. This is most likely not a solution that will feasibly restore C02 levels or be carbon neutral. This is not a major breakthrough that will solve global warming. *Yes, with NSF grants, I'm aware. Sulphuric Asshole fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Oct 18, 2016 |
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Sulphuric rear end in a top hat posted:Conservatives use "cuck", liberals use "bigot." I say let them have their labels. (for this thing you're quoting from somewhere else, right?  )
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Oct 18, 2016 21:41
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There was discussion of the definition of cuck a handful of posts above that. I injected myself into the discussion because I don't pick up on social cues that my presence is not wanted.
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Oct 18, 2016 21:45
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Sulphuric rear end in a top hat posted:There was discussion of the definition of cuck a handful of posts above that. I injected myself into the discussion because I don't pick up on social cues that my presence is not wanted. I'm not sure this is true. I think you are very welcome here. 
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Sulphuric rear end in a top hat posted:Researchers at Harvard made this discovery in 2014*. It still takes more energy than you get out of it to produce the ethanol, in addition to the energy costs of capturing the C02 to begin with. This is most likely not a solution that will feasibly restore C02 levels or be carbon neutral. This is not a major breakthrough that will solve global warming. The paper published by the scientists at ORNL doesn't cite any papers from Harvard-based scientists. Something they'd have to do if Harvard discovered it first.
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Oct 18, 2016 22:30
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Stanford. Freudian slip.
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It's a pretty cool bit of science, it's just not some sort of gamechanging solution. So, science journalism. Converting air back into fuel using electricity is an active area of research. It basically rests on making it efficient enough, using electricity cheap or inconvenient enough and economics. Expect to see lots of incremental improvements for many years until it suddenly hits a tipping point, much like solar.
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divabot posted:It's a pretty cool bit of science, it's just not some sort of gamechanging solution. So, science journalism. Plants already do this, without the need for electricity. Algae farming is a far more promising method for carbon capture/biofuel than artificial photosynthesis.
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Oct 18, 2016 23:54
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Just think of the novelty vodka market though. Send an automated probe with this system to the red planet and a bottling module to send mars vodka back home.
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It's either carbon sequestration or the creation of fuel. At this point, as other people have said, plants do carbon sequestion better than anything else, and fuel is energy negative still way the gently caress more expensive than putting a hole in the ground and pumping up petrochemicals. I'm all for academic research, but this isn't going to put a dent in global warming. We need to stop burning poo poo and stop clearing forests.
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Oct 19, 2016 00:03
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Just build an entire nuclear plant dedicated to transforming greenhouse gasses into booze. The government funds the project up front and recoups the cost through sales of EnviroholPatent Pending
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Does anyone have any info on the connections of libertarians to Star Trek? Just based on anecdotal meetings with libertarians, they love Star Trek. But they see no tension there. Do they picture the post-scarcity world springing forth from unfettered capitalism? Do they thing socialism and diversity comes after capitalism? Friedman et al. seem to make some marxist assumptions in their fundamental economic theories, so maybe it's like that? Even just some nerd libertarian talking about star trek that I could laugh at would be great.
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Themagicalgoat posted:Does anyone have any info on the connections of libertarians to Star Trek? Libertarianism's disturbing attraction to those with novel ideas regarding the age of consent is well established.
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Oct 19, 2016 01:49
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The enterprise is a authoritarian hierarchy where the lower ranks exist only as a plot device to be killed off on foreign military interventions?
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They're into Star Trek because they're actually pedophiles, OP.
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Themagicalgoat posted:Does anyone have any info on the connections of libertarians to Star Trek? Just based on anecdotal meetings with libertarians, they love Star Trek. But they see no tension there. Do they picture the post-scarcity world springing forth from unfettered capitalism? Do they thing socialism and diversity comes after capitalism? Friedman et al. seem to make some marxist assumptions in their fundamental economic theories, so maybe it's like that? Even just some nerd libertarian talking about star trek that I could laugh at would be great. On a serious note: my guess is that compared to, say, Star Wars, which is liked by a lot of conservative people because of its stark good vs. evil imagery (ignoring the fact that while the Jedi are "good," these people would most likely be the ones applauding Palpatine upon establishing an authoritarian empire), Star Trek is less about moral struggles and more about intellectual superiority: the crew of the starship Enterprise go from planet to planet showing how wrong the backwards savages are and how right they are. It also probably reflects their belief in the "freedom" of the (final) frontier, even though the civilization that they bring is antithetical to the one upon which they've built their philosophy. This also reflects the evangelical nature of libertarians. The only difference is that while libertarians see themselves as guardians of the non-aggression principle, they really don't like taking "no" for an answer. However, on Star Trek, they actually usually practice what they preach (which is more than I can say for libertarian ethics).
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Themagicalgoat posted:Does anyone have any info on the connections of libertarians to Star Trek? Just based on anecdotal meetings with libertarians, they love Star Trek. But they see no tension there. Do they picture the post-scarcity world springing forth from unfettered capitalism? Do they thing socialism and diversity comes after capitalism? Friedman et al. seem to make some marxist assumptions in their fundamental economic theories, so maybe it's like that? Even just some nerd libertarian talking about star trek that I could laugh at would be great. The cross over is people who want to gently caress kids, not economics. The bad ones all hate DS9, it's the way to tell.
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