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Varyk @sh.itjust.works
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We regret to inform you that Ray Kurzweil is back on his bullshit
  • I can tell you're serious, that's why it's such a bummer you can't make any headway.

    You seem so earnest but have all these assumptions you keep tripping over that facilitate you shooting yourself in the foot.

    You constantly have to revise and change your "quotes", guidelines and arguments to eke out over more flailing attempts where you swear, you swear, this one example will really shiw that kurzweil was in fact not one hundred percent correct on every prediction(which nobody is trying to prove).

    You want to change your criteria further to secure a half point I've already given you hair a dozen comments ago since AR was available but wasn't mainstream, you go for it.

    Dither all you like, it's not changing the overall score of kurzweil predictions being largely correct.

    Shoot, doesn't even affect how overwhelmingly correct the predictions are on your "special rules" with the wrong dates list.

    Definitely doesn't affect my original argument that kurzweil was correct about "tons of his predictions".

    I had no idea kurzweil was over 80% correct though even narrowly as you're interpreting them, so thanks.

  • We regret to inform you that Ray Kurzweil is back on his bullshit
  • I personally used ar glasses with greyed lenses, a projected miniature computer screen and a backpack just like those, so you won't be convincing me any time soon that ar tech didn't exist in the 2000s.

    You want to change your definition further to secure a half point I've already given you since arc tech was actually but wasn't mainstream, you go for it.

    Dither all you like, it's not changing the overall score of his predictions being largely correct.

    Shoot, doesn't even affect how overwhelmingly correct the predictions are on your "special rules" with the wrong dates list.

  • We regret to inform you that Ray Kurzweil is back on his bullshit
  • Again, kurzweil made those predictions before 1999, but who's counting? Not you.

    He didn't make your rules for you, you're just upset that he was correct so you're trying and failing to rebut him.

    It's hilarious that you can't do it.

    I actually thought you'd have a much higher success rate than this, but even by your own metrics he's still above 80% just within that one book.

  • We regret to inform you that Ray Kurzweil is back on his bullshit
  • Here's an example of a prediction, since you're having so much trouble.

    "Multiple electric cars with airless tires will be sold commercially by 2035".

    See that?

    It's a scenario that doesn't exist yet that we are pre-dic-ting (imagining the future!) will happen later on.

  • 'There Are No Kings in America': Biden Blasts Supreme Court, Issues Dire Warning After Immunity Ruling
  • Jackson added, for sure.

    Kagan no way.

    Kagan has sided with conservatives way too many times with the "look, their conclusion is poorly reasoned and unconstitutional, but you can technically get to the conclusion constitutionally from a liberal perspective if..." and then she sides with the conservatives.

    Poking around in legal details can be fun, but she can be a professor while we get someone taking action on the court instead of siding with employer-imposed religious mandates over employee bodily autonomy (hobby lobby), supporting the "Muslim ban"(trump via Hawaii), and crippling contract law so that class action lawsuits can't be brought against corporations over faulty or illegal contracts. (American Express versus Italian colors).

    Kagan is not helping people, get someone on there who wants to help people.

  • We coulda had Bernie...
  • You don't like it when people contradict your false statements with the truth?

    Shocking.

    Unfortunately, some of us know what we're talking about and don't need to make up the fictions you need to.

    Biden is doing the specific work you're throwing a tantrum about.

    Happy to rain on your fantasy.

  • We coulda had Bernie...
  • Oh you mean like every other us president for 70 years?

    Except that Biden actually paused military aid imposed sanctions and stood up to Israel?

    The first us president to do any of those things.

    Fascinating.

  • We coulda had Bernie...
  • See what you're talking about is every single other president in US history.

    What I'm talking about is Biden taking direct action by sanctioning, contradicting and pausing weapon shipments to Israel.

    You made a whoopsie there. Confusing one person with every other person in the group.

  • What's your favorite fun t-shirt?

    I have one from a band called Massie that says "you work hard, I'll be sexy".

    Makes me laugh every time.

    I also have a t-shirt with a purple teddy bear under a paragraph of text telling a nihilist horror story in broken english about that teddy bear as if he were a real person.

    Both winners.

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    I think this is hilarious, but I don't have Instagram so I can't look at the hi-res version of this picture. can someone reply with the hi-res picture? thanks!

    It's here:

    https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Flookaside.instagram.com%2Fseo%2Fgoogle_widget%2Fcrawler%2F%3Fmedia_id%3D3315223092475838181&tbnid=ePm-IWvBiHwkZM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fbenbeirreuge%2Fp%2FC4CCde-M_tB%2F&docid=h-1N1e03nty40M&w=1440&h=1800&hl=en-US&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm1%2F4&kgs=071a5391bbb01dd6&shem=abme%2Ctrie

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    Mulling Over Morphs #41 - The Familiar

    I owned most of these books and this was one of the ones I reread the most because of how poetic so many difficult personal struggles and fears are faced and worked through so rapid fire, it's pretty overwhelming without being trite.

    This book ends perfectly,

    Title

    the simple act of asking Cassie if she was okay when he didn't ask her like he should have the day before.

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    Juke Box - share music @sh.itjust.works Varyk @sh.itjust.works

    The singing, dancing, the colors, I cannot more heartily recommend any song or music video - Lido Pimienta - ESO Que TU Haces

    This is one of my favorite songs and videos.

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    Mulling Over Morphs #40 - The Other

    I cannot remember the first time I read this series, but I can't imagine thinking anything other than "ah, The power of friendship!"

    Which upon this reread is hilarious given how clearly the authors wanted to portray a gay couple in 2000, which wasn't done often in a series fronted by a major publisher.

    spoiler

    This time, I was like "oh right, the andalites living together, and then I was inundated with the hunts of gardening, super fitness, pink furniture, shunned by society, debilitating incurable illness, cared for by "best friend", androgynes, and especially the poetic language of how the became friends, they were both pilots and their wings tangled together and they crashed to the ground together.

    Pretty awesome that when so other few authors were willing to have gay characters, especially in a young adults series, ka and grant went full bore and even named this title "the other".

    I always thought the "Marco" being bi what sort of and unsupported gimme afterthought, but they already had an unmistakably gay couple having badass adventures.

    I wonder if they made them both pilots because of top gun?

    And this title is not merely a showcase of queer culture, the story is as developed and well told as any of the other books, and of course more so than some of them.

    I find the thought-speak across great distances very interesting, how visser 3 doesn't want anything to do with either of them because of andalite culture treating difference as an embarrassment, and also how ax is very openly hostile toward both of them.

    It's another good book!

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    Mulling Over Morphs # 39 - The Hidden

    spoiler

    It is very creepy when the ant begins turning Cassie, but it's downright horrifying when the Buffalo begins to learn how to speak while it's morphed into chapman.

    That is so yikes that it makes perfect sense. They have to fry him at the end.

    Yikes.

    They really get at some horror here.

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    Litecanthropy

    Credit to "no banana" for the image and Hobbes_Dent for the title.

    Zero credit to me for doomscroll.

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    Mulling Over Morphs #38 - The Arrival

    Ax gets a big ol' crush on

    spoiler

    A genocidal sort of asshole.

    Still, the heart wants what it wants.

    This is a great book, testing ax's loyalty again.

    A very good example of people insisting they're doing some necessary thing for the greater good by becoming the thing they're fighting against.

    The characters and their Dynamics were very interesting in this book, non-stop action.

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    Juke Box - share music @sh.itjust.works Varyk @sh.itjust.works

    Superorganism - Something For Your M.I.N.D.

    And the tiny desk concert after you watch this video and you're like oh my God they're f****** amazing.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K49QKVR0p0

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    Mulling Over Morphs #37 - The Weakness

    I remember this book because as soon as you realize that Jake is gone, you're like oh shit.

    Wow! This book is really good, dealing with leadership and Marco's criticisms and how poorly Rachel deals with the leadership she thought she wanted,

    spoiler

    and then the absolutely batshit insane plan at the end that foreshadows Rachel's final act.

    I also never understood why the garatron looks so much like an andalite.

    Are they just like hey isn't evolution weird? This one thing looks like another thing but they're not the same thing.

    I don't get why that was so important.

    Also, I was so glad that Jake spoke with Rachel shortly at the end of the book. Perfect ending.

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    I found an unsettling picture of Cassie mid morph

    Since I learned the word estreen, the andalite word for an extremely talented morpher, I searched for fanart based on that and found some interesting stuff.

    Beautifully colored, is this oil painting?

    Artist is artbyLars

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    Cassie showing off her skills to Tobias and Rachel

    Update: Estreen! That's the word. Found it!

    An exceptionally talented morpher is an estreen! I knew there was a word for it.

    ---

    I can't find the word.

    Isn't there a specific andalite word for how good Cassie is at morphing?

    Artist - iara catunda

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    hooooly shit! has anyone else played journey?

    I feel like that game literally changed my life in the 2 hours or whatever it took me to play it.

    That game is so beautiful. It made me a better person.

    I was absolutely entranced.

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    I'm watching due date 2010 for the first time, Jamie Foxx refers to galiafanakis as "debarge", does anyone know why? The musical group? is it his perm?

    cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/21123242

    > Thanks. it's fine if nobody knows the answer to this or has not seen the movie, it's not a very good movie.

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    Mulling Over Morphs #36 - The Mutation

    Yikes, I only remembered one scene from this book, and somehow managed to forget

    Title

    The Atlanteans slicing open living humans and aliens to harvest their organs in the blood and sowing them back up into mummies.

    Pretty hardcore.

    And there's some cute Tobias Rachel back and forth.

    Man, I wanna morph an orca.

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    Mulling Over Morphs #35 - The Proposal

    Tons of good quotes in this one.

    I like that inside cover too, how they can't actually show the guy

    spoiler

    strangling a dog,

    even though of course it's described in great detail in the book.

    Ax is so funny as a human. When he finds out that Marco's dad is dating, and ax's been getting used to TV, he says <Ah. Perhaps your father is Young and Restless. Those who are Young and Restless frequently change mates.>

    Love it.

    You know what else is interesting, that both sides in this war look like humans, they look like anybody else, even though both sides can turn into murderers at the drop of a hat. Sure. The aliens look like humans, but the child soldiers who change into animals all the time and kill people also look harmless most of the time.

    And Jake has a great line about how they're all different and they have to deal with their trauma in their own way.

    And also Jake said I love you to Cassie! Wooo!

    Marco has this great quote:

    "Self-pity is the easiest thing in the world. Finding the humor, the irony, the slight justification for a skewed, skeptical optimism, that's tough."

    I am definitely an unlikely optimist, I wonder if this book had any part to play in that particular personality development.

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