We are all Slave now.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

I think I can help. Bias never exists without intent. Without intent, there is no bias. But bias is sometimes unintentional. Does that help?

Yes, thank you. Another question, bourbon, Irish, or Scotch?

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

You’re a moderate like me. Just have a scotch and watch.

I get invested because I don’t litigate anymore, and I desire to get into deep issues. But afterward, I’m just depressed. People are dumb as dogshit, and tribal as all fuck.

I keep forgetting to just tend my own garden. I did my good deed for this life (seriously, I did, in re justice reform). I’m done.

Would you fucking stop talking about tending your own garden. As if it putting some Voltairian gloss on your nakedly self-absorbed sociopathic assholery elevates it to some sort of noble philosophy. Can anyone imagine being friends with someone like that?

[The scene: A soulless McMansion in the Philadelphia suburbs]

Sebastian: Good to see you, my man. But is that a spread collar you're wearing?

Suburban Douchebag 1: Yes, I've been a bit down on my luck. Any chance I could trouble you for a shirt with a less out-dated collar?

Sebastian: Sorry, dude, I'd like to help, but actually, I wouldn't like to help. I'm tending my own garden these days.

Suburban Douchebag 2: That's what she said!

Suburban Douchebag 1 [disappointed]: Ah, o.k., I understand . . . Candide.

Suburban Douchebag 2: Buck up, bro-dawg, the non-duty of empathy is a two-way street!

All [raising their Michelob Ultras into the air]: No duty of empathy!!

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Yes, thank you. Another question, bourbon, Irish, or Scotch?

Another answer: yes!

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Adder

This is because you do not believe in empathy, which makes you deeply odd.

I'm not sure it does. Unfortunately. This country is 40% psychopath.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

I'm not sure it does. Unfortunately. This country is 40% psychopath.

takes one to know one.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Would you fucking stop talking about tending your own garden. As if it putting some Voltairian gloss on your nakedly self-absorbed sociopathic assholery elevates it to some sort of noble philosophy. Can anyone imagine being friends with someone like that?

[The scene: A soulless McMansion in the Philadelphia suburbs]

Sebastian: Good to see you, my man. But is that a spread collar you're wearing?

Suburban Douchebag 1: Yes, I've been a bit down on my luck. Any chance I could trouble you for a shirt with a less out-dated collar?

Sebastian: Sorry, dude, I'd like to help, but actually, I wouldn't like to help. I'm tending my own garden these days.

Suburban Douchebag 2: That's what she said!

Suburban Douchebag 1 [disappointed]: Ah, o.k., I understand . . . Candide.

Suburban Douchebag 2: Buck up, bro-dawg, the non-duty of empathy is a two-way street!

All [raising their Michelob Ultras into the air]: No duty of empathy!!

As far as we can tell from a purely scientific viewpoint, human life has absolutely no meaning. Humans are the outcome of blind evolutionary processes that operate without goal or purpose. Our actions are not part of some divine cosmic plan, and if planet earth were to blow up tomorrow morning, the universe would probably keep going about its business as usual. As far as we can tell at this point, human subjectivity would not be missed. Hence any meaning that people inscribe to their lives is just a delusion.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Would you fucking stop talking about tending your own garden. As if it putting some Voltairian gloss on your nakedly self-absorbed sociopathic assholery elevates it to some sort of noble philosophy. Can anyone imagine being friends with someone like that?

[The scene: A soulless McMansion in the Philadelphia suburbs]

Sebastian: Good to see you, my man. But is that a spread collar you're wearing?

Suburban Douchebag 1: Yes, I've been a bit down on my luck. Any chance I could trouble you for a shirt with a less out-dated collar?

Sebastian: Sorry, dude, I'd like to help, but actually, I wouldn't like to help. I'm tending my own garden these days.

Suburban Douchebag 2: That's what she said!

Suburban Douchebag 1 [disappointed]: Ah, o.k., I understand . . . Candide.

Suburban Douchebag 2: Buck up, bro-dawg, the non-duty of empathy is a two-way street!

All [raising their Michelob Ultras into the air]: No duty of empathy!!

Hipster Bro: Good to see you, Flo. Are those mens' yoga pants?

PLF: Can you see through them?

HB: You're hung like a thimble.

PLF: Duuuude...

HB: Shhhhh. I'm responding to someone who said he thinks the anti-Trump rally last week was a waste of time.

PLF: We wore matching vests for that! I made a sign!

HB: He called us slacktivists!

PLF: I carried seven lattes on my bike to that rally! I curated a Facebook page about it... Two hundred likes! Fuck him!

HB: Troglodyte. He also hates Melt Banana.

PLF: I'm raging, dude. When I get back home, I am so going to write a really extended post on FB shaming him for not being as aware and incensed as we all need to be. I'm going to link it on Twitter, and I'm totally telling my distribution list, and IG feed.

HB: Do you Snap?

PLF: I don't send dick pics.

HB: That's wise of you.

PLF: Fuck you.

HB: This guy says it's all "hot air" except for what we do on voting day.

PLF: What about awareness!

HB: Exactly. All the people in this feed who all agree would never be able to agree together if we didn't all keep each other aware of just how much we agree.

PLF: Vigilance, bro.

HB: Indeed. Carpal tunnel syndrome is a small price to pay for progress. Fifty likes already!

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Hipster Bro: Good to see you, Flo. Are those mens' yoga pants?

PLF: Can you see through them?

HB: You're hung like a thimble.

PLF: Duuuude...

HB: Shhhhh. I'm responding to someone who said he thinks the anti-Trump rally last week was a waste of time.

PLF: We wore matching vests for that! I made a sign!

HB: He called us slacktivists!

PLF: I carried seven lattes on my bike to that rally! I curated a Facebook page about it... Two hundred likes! Fuck him!

HB: Troglodyte. He also hates Melt Banana.

PLF: I'm raging, dude. When I get back home, I am so going to write a really extended post on FB shaming him for not being as aware and incensed as we all need to be. I'm going to link it on Twitter, and I'm totally telling my distribution list, and IG feed.

HB: Do you Snap?

PLF: I don't send dick pics.

HB: That's wise of you.

PLF: Fuck you.

HB: This guy says it's all "hot air" except for what we do on voting day.

PLF: What about awareness!

HB: Exactly. All the people in this feed who all agree would never be able to agree together if we didn't all keep each other aware of just how much we agree.

PLF: Vigilance, bro.

HB: Indeed. Carpal tunnel syndrome is a small price to pay for progress. Fifty likes already!

The best you can come up with is to make fun of the size of my dick? My dick is, in fact, incredibly tiny. Just ask Hank.

Evolution has made Homo sapiens, like other social mammals, a xenophobic creature. Sapiens instinctively divide humanity into two parts, ‘we’ and ‘they’.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

The best you can come up with is to make fun of the size of my dick? My dick is, in fact, incredibly tiny. Just ask Hank.

Evolution has made Homo sapiens, like other social mammals, a xenophobic creature. Sapiens instinctively divide humanity into two parts, ‘we’ and ‘they’.

Hank rated my penis average. Do I join the Magnum crowd, or the Cocktail Sausages?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Hank rated my penis average. Do I join the Magnum crowd, or the Cocktail Sausages?

But flower's is prettier....

I know fringey moved south. Anyone remember her real name?

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by did you just call me coltrane?

as far as we can tell from a purely scientific viewpoint, human life has absolutely no meaning. Humans are the outcome of blind evolutionary processes that operate without goal or purpose. Our actions are not part of some divine cosmic plan, and if planet earth were to blow up tomorrow morning, the universe would probably keep going about its business as usual. As far as we can tell at this point, human subjectivity would not be missed. Hence any meaning that people inscribe to their lives is just a delusion.

The ultimate answer, I believe, is 42.

TM

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

But flower's is prettier....

I know fringey moved south. Anyone remember her real name?

You see, she should have pulled a gun. Then Florida would have been fine with it.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

T.

Evolution has made Homo sapiens, like other social mammals, a xenophobic creature. Sapiens instinctively divide humanity into two parts, ‘we’ and ‘they’.

It's a great book.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

It's a great book.

We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

It's a great book.

Not on my radar screen until your monkeys quote, but I like his perspective.