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Screaming Idiot
Nov 26, 2007

JUST POSTING WHILE JERKIN' MY GHERKIN SITTIN' IN A PERKINS!

BEATS SELLING MERKINS.
lol we are all turbofucked and there is only one way out

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Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:

Screaming Idiot posted:

lol we are all turbofucked and there is only one way out

Mandatory gay communism?

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Outrail posted:

Mandatory gay communism?

I wish I was gayer, but I'm still ready

KiteAuraan
Aug 5, 2014

JER GEDDA FERDA RADDA ARA!


Screaming Idiot posted:

lol we are all turbofucked and there is only one way out

yeah, escaping the cycle of samsara through attainment of the achievement of arhat.

if you meant death, i am not gambling and ending up coming back for another round of this.

Screaming Idiot
Nov 26, 2007

JUST POSTING WHILE JERKIN' MY GHERKIN SITTIN' IN A PERKINS!

BEATS SELLING MERKINS.
for ten bucks you can PM me and find the answer

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


Screaming Idiot posted:

for ten bucks you can PM me and find the answer

do you take basic attention tokens?

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

T-man posted:

genetics are not connectable to learned behaviour.

they are actually in terms of what behavior is easily learned or can be learned at all, e.g. herding behaviors among border collies

Screaming Idiot
Nov 26, 2007

JUST POSTING WHILE JERKIN' MY GHERKIN SITTIN' IN A PERKINS!

BEATS SELLING MERKINS.

Powershift posted:

do you take basic attention tokens?

sorry, only Premium Attention Tokens, purchasable on the Something Awful CyberSpine DLC Market.

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Zeno-25
Dec 5, 2009

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

KiteAuraan posted:

yeah, escaping the cycle of samsara through attainment of the achievement of arhat.

if you meant death, i am not gambling and ending up coming back for another round of this.

If we climate change hard enough and wipe out all higher life does that also break the cycle?

Dr. Killjoy
Oct 9, 2012

:thunk::mason::brainworms::tinfoil::thunkher:
no that just means the godhead has to throw their ten gallon hat on the ground and find a new planet to dump our loser souls onto

Segata Sanshiro
Sep 10, 2011

we can live for nothing
baby i don't care

lose me like the ocean
feel the motion

:coolfish:

Dr. Killjoy posted:

no that just means the godhead has to throw their ten gallon hat on the ground and find a new planet to dump our loser souls onto

scientology was right??? :wth:

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:

Pick posted:

they are actually in terms of what behavior is easily learned or can be learned at all, e.g. herding behaviors among border collies

Makes sense, one of the barely self-aware oxygen thieves I work with is incapable of learning or understanding anything and I refuse to believe he would have made it to adulthood without some sort of preprogrammed set of behaviours.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Pick posted:

they are actually in terms of what behavior is easily learned or can be learned at all, e.g. herding behaviors among border collies

or you know, dogs not being identical to wolves

Sedisp
Jun 20, 2012


Zombiepop posted:

You people sure are interesting. Dog people feelings. Anyway gotta go play with my cats now.

Edit: I had no idea so many in this thread wanted socialism for dogs before humans, which the post I commented on wanted. Strange.

Lol at crying about dogs while owning one of the biggest scourges to the ecosystem.

Egg Moron
Jul 21, 2003

the dreams of the delighting void

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Moridin920 posted:

Like bro the US gov't can't even successfully occupy Afghanistan what makes you think they can occupy like, the entire West Coast?

Afghanistan is full of foreigners and no American has ever actually been there so there's not much enthusiasm about occupying it, hell it might not even exist. If the west coast seceded we'd have a restored draft and world war 2 level industrial base ramp up within 6 months to counter those communist terrorists who want to hurt the poor rural Oregon cattle ranchers or w/e.

SplitSoul posted:

Also, video games is probably a poor metaphor when that's literally how drone operators describe their own job.

While we'd like to imagine their job is watching a dot on a screen and pressing a button to cause another dot on the screen to move towards the first dot and explode, modern drones have super-good optics and the missions are generally more like "go to this place, zoom in real close on these guys so you can see their faces and confirm it's who we want to kill, then blow them the gently caress up in full HD, then loiter around the area long enough to make sure any of them still crawling around with their legs blown off die of blood loss, and that you also kill anyone who comes to help them"

There's a growing number of drone operators with full-on PTSD from this kind of stuff and they're even less able to get help and support from society because they're just sitting in their PJ's somewhere in a base hundreds of miles away hitting buttons, how can they possibly get PTSD?

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

Shame Boy posted:

There's a growing number of drone operators with full-on PTSD from this kind of stuff and they're even less able to get help and support from society because they're just sitting in their PJ's somewhere in a base hundreds of miles away hitting buttons, how can they possibly get PTSD?

That's a real shame.

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

Я выдуман напрочь

Shame Boy posted:

While we'd like to imagine their job is watching a dot on a screen and pressing a button to cause another dot on the screen to move towards the first dot and explode, modern drones have super-good optics and the missions are generally more like "go to this place, zoom in real close on these guys so you can see their faces and confirm it's who we want to kill, then blow them the gently caress up in full HD, then loiter around the area long enough to make sure any of them still crawling around with their legs blown off die of blood loss, and that you also kill anyone who comes to help them"

There's a growing number of drone operators with full-on PTSD from this kind of stuff and they're even less able to get help and support from society because they're just sitting in their PJ's somewhere in a base hundreds of miles away hitting buttons, how can they possibly get PTSD?

Thanks to the second amendment they can always get the help they need

Source4Leko
Jul 25, 2007


Dinosaur Gum

Shame Boy posted:


There's a growing number of drone operators with full-on PTSD from this kind of stuff and they're even less able to get help and support from society because they're just sitting in their PJ's somewhere in a base hundreds of miles away hitting buttons, how can they possibly get PTSD?

I couldn't loving care less about them.

Ham Equity
Apr 16, 2013

The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.
Grimey Drawer

Shame Boy posted:

Afghanistan is full of foreigners and no American has ever actually been there so there's not much enthusiasm about occupying it, hell it might not even exist. If the west coast seceded we'd have a restored draft and world war 2 level industrial base ramp up within 6 months to counter those communist terrorists who want to hurt the poor rural Oregon cattle ranchers or w/e.


While we'd like to imagine their job is watching a dot on a screen and pressing a button to cause another dot on the screen to move towards the first dot and explode, modern drones have super-good optics and the missions are generally more like "go to this place, zoom in real close on these guys so you can see their faces and confirm it's who we want to kill, then blow them the gently caress up in full HD, then loiter around the area long enough to make sure any of them still crawling around with their legs blown off die of blood loss, and that you also kill anyone who comes to help them"

There's a growing number of drone operators with full-on PTSD from this kind of stuff and they're even less able to get help and support from society because they're just sitting in their PJ's somewhere in a base hundreds of miles away hitting buttons, how can they possibly get PTSD?

Those poor drone operators, just murdering innocent people left and right; why does nobody think of how that makes them feel?

Source4Leko
Jul 25, 2007


Dinosaur Gum

Thanatosian posted:

Those poor drone operators, just murdering innocent people left and right; why does nobody think of how that makes them feel?

I know? Clearly they were drafted and had no choice but to do this job, hence why we should feel bad for them.

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Shame Boy posted:

If the west coast seceded we'd have a restored draft and world war 2 level industrial base ramp up within 6 months to counter those communist terrorists who want to hurt the poor rural Oregon cattle ranchers or w/e.

This is like, worse than Tom Clancy levels of fantasy lol

Shame Boy posted:

There's a growing number of drone operators with full-on PTSD from this kind of stuff and they're even less able to get help and support from society because they're just sitting in their PJ's somewhere in a base hundreds of miles away hitting buttons, how can they possibly get PTSD?

Like how is it that American drone operators get PTSD and freak out just due to the fairly lovely actually optics on the drones while bombing people overseas but American soldiers are going to be just peachy keen fine with mowing down actual other Americans?

Moridin920 has issued a correction as of 18:05 on May 16, 2019

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


Talk shit, get bzzzt.

Don't blame the private for the general's fuckup.

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
Like who exactly do you think is going to be invading the coasts?

Johnny Five-Jaces
Jan 21, 2009


Moridin920 posted:

Like who exactly do you think is going to be invading the coasts?



Wichita will lead the glorious crusade against the coasties

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Moridin920 posted:

Like who exactly do you think is going to be invading the coasts?



I was specifically talking about just the west coast, if both coasts seceded at once the answer to who will invade is "Russia and China" obviously

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

Я выдуман напрочь

T-man posted:

Don't blame the private for the general's fuckup.

the private can eat poo poo if he's working as an assassin

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Moridin920 posted:

Like how is it that American drone operators get PTSD and freak out just due to the fairly lovely actually optics on the drones while bombing people overseas but American soldiers are going to be just peachy keen fine with mowing down actual other Americans?

Don't worry, there's plenty of PTSD for everyone to get some. It's not something that just happens and instantly incapacitates you, you can both be getting irreparable mental damage and continuing to kill people just fine, as Vietnam demonstrated.

spankmeister
Jun 15, 2008






Shame Boy posted:

I was specifically talking about just the west coast, if both coasts seceded at once the answer to who will invade is "Russia and China" obviously

Russia will first occupy Alaska, because it has historically been Russian and all the Russian nationals living there are being oppressed!

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014

Len posted:

I worked at Best Buy one Christmas season and can confirm this is a thing. Multiple managers each day would come by and ask why I was having such a hard time selling the plans and they wouldn't have a good reply to "because every time I bought it you guys screwed me over when it came to using it"

Friend of mine's kid breaks everything he touches. So he bought the most expensive protection plan BB had. Total replacement with a new nintendo DS no matter what.

BB gave this kid 7 brand new DS's over the duration of this plan.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Marxist-Jezzinist posted:

the private can eat poo poo if he's working as an assassin

I mean I'm not saying they're blameless, hell I'd support putting them on trial for war crimes, but maybe y'all should direct your rage at the system in place which grinds up people's brains to feed to a machine that is used to kill other people rather than at the people with the thoroughly ground-up brains doing bad things.

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

Я выдуман напрочь

Shame Boy posted:

I mean I'm not saying they're blameless, hell I'd support putting them on trial for war crimes, but maybe y'all should direct your rage at the system in place which grinds up people's brains to feed to a machine that is used to kill other people rather than at the people with the thoroughly ground-up brains doing bad things.

I can and do maintain a healthy disgust for multiple things at once

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

If we hypothetically had captured Hitler I would hope that he would be offered treatment for any medical or mental health problems he had before he was put on trial and executed, maybe I'm just weird like that.

Ham Equity
Apr 16, 2013

The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.
Grimey Drawer

Shame Boy posted:

I mean I'm not saying they're blameless, hell I'd support putting them on trial for war crimes, but maybe y'all should direct your rage at the system in place which grinds up people's brains to feed to a machine that is used to kill other people rather than at the people with the thoroughly ground-up brains doing bad things.

It's weird, every time I think I've tapped into the last of my anger, I find that I do, in fact, have the capacity to feel more anger. I think if there were a limit, I would have discovered it post-November 2016.

deoju
Jul 11, 2004

All the pieces matter.
Nap Ghost
https://twitter.com/JohnLegere/status/1113509238716882944?s=19

This CEO isn't content with his millions. Now he wants to have a social media presence to be an ~influcer.~

Lambert
Apr 15, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
Fallen Rib

spacetoaster posted:

Friend of mine's kid breaks everything he touches. So he bought the most expensive protection plan BB had. Total replacement with a new nintendo DS no matter what.

BB gave this kid 7 brand new DS's over the duration of this plan.

lol @ going through warranty services seven times instead of telling your kid to treat their stuff with some respect.

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014


Over 80% of the us military has a close relative who also served. It's becoming more, and more, common for there to be literal military families. And the whole "baby saluting in uniform" is some advertising that needs to go the way of the white buffalo.

Lambert posted:

lol @ going through warranty services seven times instead of telling your kid to treat their stuff with some respect.

Yeah, kid was a klutz. He's grown up now and composes music so I guess he got over it.

Moridin920 posted:

This is like, worse than Tom Clancy levels of fantasy lol


Like how is it that American drone operators get PTSD and freak out just due to the fairly lovely actually optics on the drones while bombing people overseas but American soldiers are going to be just peachy keen fine with mowing down actual other Americans?

Facebook/twitter/youtube algorithyms have conditioned me into a killing machine of those who's views slightly differ from mine.

spacetoaster has issued a correction as of 18:55 on May 16, 2019

ruddiger
Jun 3, 2004


goddamn

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T-man
Aug 22, 2010


Talk shit, get bzzzt.

Y'all know I hate capitalism a lot. It's caused so much aggregate suffering even in my own lifetime, to say nothing of how it began in colonialism. But we should hate the system that makes so many people do bad things, not the people themselves. Nobody believes they are the villain, and as leftists we must be willing to fight for ethical ideals as much as we do economic ones.

In other words,

Shame Boy posted:

If we hypothetically had captured Hitler I would hope that he would be offered treatment for any medical or mental health problems he had before he was put on trial and executed, maybe I'm just weird like that.

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