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Postby Ethel mermania » Tue Mar 06, 2018 2:20 pm

The future of progress is that it will evolve in ways that we can not predict. Star fleet ships with seatbelts, 50 years ago, unthinkable.
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Postby Pope Joan » Tue Mar 06, 2018 2:23 pm

Ethel mermania wrote:The future of progress is that it will evolve in ways that we can not predict. Star fleet ships with seatbelts, 50 years ago, unthinkable.


Read Asimov, who was a certified genius. In most of his books, he had giant computers; they had to be that big to process all that data, see.

Who knew? IBM certainly did not; they were caught flatfooted.

And gene splicing, DNA, the whole revolution in biology. We never saw that coming by reading Popular Mechanics.
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Postby Orfni » Tue Mar 06, 2018 2:28 pm

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The Snazzylands wrote:The SJW feminists and gays will join forces to start putting midichlorians in the water that will castrate all white men and turn everyone else into Marxist pedophiles

Damnit, they're onto us.


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Postby Ethel mermania » Tue Mar 06, 2018 2:37 pm

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Ethel mermania wrote:The future of progress is that it will evolve in ways that we can not predict. Star fleet ships with seatbelts, 50 years ago, unthinkable.


Read Asimov, who was a certified genius. In most of his books, he had giant computers; they had to be that big to process all that data, see.

Who knew? IBM certainly did not; they were caught flatfooted.

And gene splicing, DNA, the whole revolution in biology. We never saw that coming by reading Popular Mechanics.


Ibm's initial projections for PC sales was 25,000 a year maximum.

In my business computer based train control is based on massive networking of systems to relay train information back to centralized servers who make and distribute train control information in less than 10 milliseconds. Some guy in japan, is designing a system where the individual trains make all the decisions themselves. For this industry that idea is revolutionary. The cost is a 10th of what we are trying to do.

I have given up on trying to predict what is going to happen next week.
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Postby The Parkus Empire » Tue Mar 06, 2018 2:51 pm

Conserative Morality wrote:True progress would be not having to deal with Parkus' projection problems.

Ah yes, the favored liberal ad hom. If you criticize blacks, you're a closeted black, if you criticize women, you're a closeted woman, if you criticize the stars, you're a closeted star. Liberals only say this to make themselves look cool for criticizing God
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Postby Conserative Morality » Tue Mar 06, 2018 2:56 pm

The Parkus Empire wrote:Ah yes, the favored liberal ad hom. If you criticize blacks, you're a closeted black, if you criticize women, you're a closeted woman, if you criticize the stars, you're a closeted star. Liberals only say this to make themselves look cool for criticizing God

Sorry that your obsession with hedonism and its satanic allure is blatantly obvious both in philosophy and politics.
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Postby Auze » Tue Mar 06, 2018 3:00 pm

Japan ceases to exist.
Polar bears invade Canada.
In a confusing twist, San Marino annexes the entire European Union.
I'll think of some others later.
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Postby Hatterleigh » Tue Mar 06, 2018 3:01 pm

Conserative Morality wrote:
The Parkus Empire wrote:Ah yes, the favored liberal ad hom. If you criticize blacks, you're a closeted black, if you criticize women, you're a closeted woman, if you criticize the stars, you're a closeted star. Liberals only say this to make themselves look cool for criticizing God

Sorry that your obsession with hedonism and its satanic allure is blatantly obvious both in philosophy and politics.

Sorry that your obsession with the north and south pole is blatantly obvious both in your sig and in your sig

Really though, saying someone is a satan-worshipping hedonist for a political philosophy is ad hominem at it's finest (unless said political philosophy suggest either of the two things blatantly)
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Postby Unit 23 » Tue Mar 06, 2018 3:06 pm

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Postby The Snazzylands » Tue Mar 06, 2018 3:06 pm

The Parkus Empire wrote:
Conserative Morality wrote:True progress would be not having to deal with Parkus' projection problems.

Ah yes, the favored liberal ad hom. If you criticize blacks, you're a closeted black, if you criticize women, you're a closeted woman, if you criticize the stars, you're a closeted star. Liberals only say this to make themselves look cool for criticizing God

You misunderstand. The idea that homophobes are closeted homosexuals comes from the idea that the need to fixate on the sexuality of others shows a deep-rooted insecurity in one's own sexuality. So criticizing blacks or women or the stars (whatever the hell that means) doesn't mean you're literally a black, womanly ball of burning gas, it just suggests a repressed dissatisfaction with your racial identity, relationship with women, or place in the cosmos.
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Postby Valrifell » Tue Mar 06, 2018 3:12 pm

Ethel mermania wrote:The future of progress is that it will evolve in ways that we can not predict. Star fleet ships with seatbelts, 50 years ago, unthinkable.


This is completely inaccurate.

Seatbelts? What, do you think future star captains are some kinda dorks?
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Postby Hatterleigh » Tue Mar 06, 2018 3:16 pm

The Snazzylands wrote:
The Parkus Empire wrote:Ah yes, the favored liberal ad hom. If you criticize blacks, you're a closeted black, if you criticize women, you're a closeted woman, if you criticize the stars, you're a closeted star. Liberals only say this to make themselves look cool for criticizing God

You misunderstand. The idea that homophobes are closeted homosexuals comes from the idea that the need to fixate on the sexuality of others shows a deep-rooted insecurity in one's own sexuality. So criticizing blacks or women or the stars (whatever the hell that means) doesn't mean you're literally a black, womanly ball of burning gas, it just suggests a repressed dissatisfaction with your racial identity, relationship with women, or place in the cosmos.

Except there isn't any reason to assume that critiquing homosexuals means you are more likely to be a homosexual yourself
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Postby Albrenia » Tue Mar 06, 2018 3:59 pm

The Parkus Empire wrote:
Conserative Morality wrote:True progress would be not having to deal with Parkus' projection problems.

Ah yes, the favored liberal ad hom. If you criticize blacks, you're a closeted black, if you criticize women, you're a closeted woman, if you criticize the stars, you're a closeted star. Liberals only say this to make themselves look cool for criticizing God


So I'm an alt-right SJW god. Huh.

I'm weirder than I knew.

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Postby The Parkus Empire » Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:12 pm

Albrenia wrote:
The Parkus Empire wrote:Ah yes, the favored liberal ad hom. If you criticize blacks, you're a closeted black, if you criticize women, you're a closeted woman, if you criticize the stars, you're a closeted star. Liberals only say this to make themselves look cool for criticizing God


So I'm an alt-right SJW god. Huh.

I'm weirder than I knew.

Alt-Right is literally right-wing SJW'ism, so that makes sense
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Postby New Emeline » Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:15 pm

The Parkus Empire wrote:
Albrenia wrote:
So I'm an alt-right SJW god. Huh.

I'm weirder than I knew.

Alt-Right is literally right-wing SJW'ism, so that makes sense

So if I criticize billionaires will I get rich? :shock:
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Postby Albrenia » Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:15 pm

The Parkus Empire wrote:
Albrenia wrote:
So I'm an alt-right SJW god. Huh.

I'm weirder than I knew.

Alt-Right is literally right-wing SJW'ism, so that makes sense


Agreed there. It's hilarious how both ends flip off the handle at the slightest provocation.

I'm a pretty shit god though. I mean, I don't even believe in me.

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Postby Vivida Vis Animi » Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:18 pm

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Conserative Morality wrote:True progress would be not having to deal with Parkus' projection problems.

Liberals only say this to make themselves look cool

Ah yes, it is well known that the left has severe vanity issues.
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Postby The Parkus Empire » Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:18 pm

New Emeline wrote:
The Parkus Empire wrote:Alt-Right is literally right-wing SJW'ism, so that makes sense

So if I criticize billionaires will I get rich? :shock:

Just look at all the pinko celebrities
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Postby The Parkus Empire » Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:19 pm

Albrenia wrote:
The Parkus Empire wrote:Alt-Right is literally right-wing SJW'ism, so that makes sense


Agreed there. It's hilarious how both ends flip off the handle at the slightest provocation.

I'm a pretty shit god though. I mean, I don't even believe in me.

You need a supportive wife to help you there.
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Postby Mujahidah » Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:19 pm

The Parkus Empire wrote:
New Emeline wrote:So if I criticize billionaires will I get rich? :shock:

Just look at all the pinko celebrities


>Implying liberal celebrities are communists

Parkus, I'm legitimately curious - do you actually know what political labels mean?
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Postby Albrenia » Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:20 pm

The Parkus Empire wrote:
Albrenia wrote:
Agreed there. It's hilarious how both ends flip off the handle at the slightest provocation.

I'm a pretty shit god though. I mean, I don't even believe in me.

You need a supportive wife to help you there.


:lol:

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Postby The Parkus Empire » Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:30 pm

Mujahidah wrote:
The Parkus Empire wrote:Just look at all the pinko celebrities


>Implying liberal celebrities are communists

Parkus, I'm legitimately curious - do you actually know what political labels mean?

Pinko doesn't mean communist. "Reds" are communists, "pinkos" are progressives who are cozy toward communists or communism, but not really communist
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Postby Valrifell » Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:32 pm

Mujahidah wrote:
The Parkus Empire wrote:Just look at all the pinko celebrities


>Implying liberal celebrities are communists

Parkus, I'm legitimately curious - do you actually know what political labels mean?


Irrelevant, any left-wing political label will instantly be turned into a slur. They have no meaning here.
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Postby Oil exporting People » Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:32 pm

The Parkus Empire wrote:Alt-Right is literally right-wing SJW'ism, so that makes sense


You're right, but not in the way I'm thinking; here's a pretty interesting article on the subject. I had a brief flirtation with them last year, but ultimately decided against on the basis that all they wanted, in the grand scheme of things, was 90s Liberalism but for White people. That's neither a worthy vision nor one that would work out in the long run, in my view. Still, I see them as a gateway to a better ideology going forward, so they serve a purpose.
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