Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

That is nonsense.

I wrote a much longer post about why it was nonsense, but it felt like I was trying to prove water is wet.

I got lunch the other day in a cafeteria which had CNN on a large screen, and CNN kept showing the SC shooting video again and again. I don't particularly want to watch it at all, and it really bothered me to have it turned into video wallpaper. That's not the point that author was making, but it's related.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

I got lunch the other day in a cafeteria which had CNN on a large screen, and CNN kept showing the SC shooting video again and again. I don't particularly want to watch it at all, and it really bothered me to have it turned into video wallpaper. That's not the point that author was making, but it's related.

Did you find it arousing?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

That is nonsense.

I wrote a much longer post about why it was nonsense, but it felt like I was trying to prove water is wet.

Not all water is wet, of course.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

Did you find it arousing?

Uh, let me check.

No.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by sidd finch

that is nonsense.

I wrote a much longer post about why it was nonsense, but it felt like i was trying to prove water is wet.

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[taxwonk]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Can we talk about something less depressing than America and race?

Like maybe zoning.

Or international taxes?

[taxwonk]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

I got lunch the other day in a cafeteria which had CNN on a large screen, and CNN kept showing the SC shooting video again and again. I don't particularly want to watch it at all, and it really bothered me to have it turned into video wallpaper. That's not the point that author was making, but it's related.

You should have complained. I always do.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Can we talk about something less depressing than America and race?

Like maybe zoning.

How about basketball?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by taxwonk

You should have complained. I always do.

Ty is the man. He can't fight the man.

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

Fixed that for you. And I suspect your interactions have been more unpleasant than mine.

Me too, but my personal world view has always started and ended with distrusting anyone who thought they could tell me what to do by threat instead of logic. Combine that with thousands of years of history where the "protectors" were actually just bouncers, and I have forever been a prosecutor's worst juror. I assume the cop is a corrupt, lying thug. Maybe necessary to control; a criminal sub-element, but I don't know, given that we have never tried the alternative.

Cameras are increasingly proving this. I love that. But cameras are still noticeable. A corneal camera implant is not far away - any person could be a walking, talking, unnoticeable video recorder. Privacy and secrecy are soon to be very precious commodities. You wont be able to record your private thoughts because even your personal device was compromised before sale by the US government, and there will be universal public monitoring by public and private cameras (and infrared monitoring of your heartbeat ans respiration to detect if you are lying).

And that is only just a bit of what I know about or can imagine. We all have shame behind our faces, and I am not sure our society is ready for universal openness or the only alternative of hiding all one's quirks, interests, predilections, fetishes, and/or desires entirely in one's head without outlet.

I will likely be dead before this all plays out. And I am glad.

[taxwonk]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Ty is the man. He can't fight the man.

I know. I suggested he approach this in the same hard-charging manner he would a jittery intern: Fire the boob.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Uh, let me check.

No.

Good. So how, exactly, is showing a video -- one that every American should see to understand what people mean when they talk about police violence (and to understand what Fox is really saying when they start blaming the victim here because, y'know, he had a traffic warrant or something) -- related to showing Girls Gone Wild videos?

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Not all water is wet, of course.

And not everything you read on the internet is stupid, but the article Ty posted is.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

Me too, but my personal world view has always started and ended with distrusting anyone who thought they could tell me what to do by threat instead of logic. Combine that with thousands of years of history where the "protectors" were actually just bouncers, and I have forever been a prosecutor's worst juror. I assume the cop is a corrupt, lying thug. Maybe necessary to control; a criminal sub-element, but I don't know, given that we have never tried the alternative.

Cameras are increasingly proving this. I love that. But cameras are still noticeable. A corneal camera implant is not far away - any person could be a walking, talking, unnoticeable video recorder. Privacy and secrecy are soon to be very precious commodities. You wont be able to record your private thoughts because even your personal device was compromised before sale by the US government, and there will be universal public monitoring by public and private cameras (and infrared monitoring of your heartbeat ans respiration to detect if you are lying).

And that is only just a bit of what I know about or can imagine. We all have shame behind our faces, and I am not sure our society is ready for universal openness or the only alternative of hiding all one's quirks, interests, predilections, fetishes, and/or desires entirely in one's head without outlet.

I will likely be dead before this all plays out. And I am glad.

I share the love for what these phone cameras are capturing in terms of police abuse. I also love Snowden, and Wikileaks. Putting the powerful and corrupt under the bright lights is one of the few righteous acts that also happens to be entertaining. (No, a cop killing on camera is not fun to watch... But the police scrambling to make up bullshit defenses is quite satisfying.)

Putting everybody under those bright lights, otoh, is disturbing. The average guy who's not making himself a public figure deserves better than to have his data published to third parties because some aspie like Zuckerberg thinks we should all be so transparent.

But then again-- maybe radical transparency is a good thing. The sooner we all admit to having vices, strange tastes, and views contra the status quo, the sooner the Puritans who control our political system will lose control.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

Good. So how, exactly, is showing a video -- one that every American should see to understand what people mean when they talk about police violence (and to understand what Fox is really saying when they start blaming the victim here because, y'know, he had a traffic warrant or something) -- related to showing Girls Gone Wild videos?

If you don't think that people get some kind of thrill out of watching videos where someone gets killed, then you are more naive than I thought.