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re: Epstein maximalists: please step off the crazy train
Posted by funnystuff on 3/3/26 at 4:52 pm to Big Scrub TX
quote:Well that’s just a straight up, flat out, bold faced lie.
almost every single one of the most extreme and salacious accusations we now seem to take for granted come from one source: Giuffre
If that’s the perspective this guy is arguing from, it’s safe to say that he isn’t “the only reporter that has placed an appropriately critical and skeptical eye on the entire thing”
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re: Lawmakers want billionaires to foot the bill for $3,000 payouts to American households
Posted by funnystuff on 3/3/26 at 4:42 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
quote:Well shite, they aren’t even going to pay down the debt with it?
The measure would direct new tax revenue toward one-time $3,000 payments for individuals in households earning $150,000 or less, meaning a family of four could receive up to $12,000
re: Silo (Apple TV+)
Posted by funnystuff on 3/2/26 at 6:49 am to BigNastyTiger417
Don’t let them fool you, it’s a damn entertaining show. Give it a shot if you’re interested.
You aren’t going to get an all time GOAT… but it’s still a highly engaging mystery nested in an entirely unique concept across TV. I deeply enjoyed it, others did too. You might, as well
You aren’t going to get an all time GOAT… but it’s still a highly engaging mystery nested in an entirely unique concept across TV. I deeply enjoyed it, others did too. You might, as well
re: Paramount is working on two GI Joe movies
Posted by funnystuff on 3/1/26 at 12:13 pm to boxcarbarney
I’d see that in theaters
re: When did this board become filled with Lindsey Graham alters?
Posted by funnystuff on 2/28/26 at 10:11 am to kingbob
At this point, 40% of this board are likely sock puppets
There’s nothing to co-opt, they literally belong to the movement
There’s nothing to co-opt, they literally belong to the movement
re: Dort and OKC are dirty frauds
Posted by funnystuff on 2/28/26 at 7:57 am to Marktastic86
That’s some bush league bullshite. He lined it up in advance and everything. Hopefully it’s a multi game suspension
re: Trump bans AI giant Anthropic, after dispute of AI military weapons and surveillance
Posted by funnystuff on 2/27/26 at 6:54 pm to RelicBatches86
This is so fricking stupid. We’re fricking up our management of AI every way imaginable. It’s arguably been Trump’s single worse area.
re: Parents of late teens: what are you routing your kids to?
Posted by funnystuff on 2/27/26 at 3:59 pm to fareplay
Ethics, moral philosophy, and religious studies
re: Boebert provides some insight to the questioning of Hillary
Posted by funnystuff on 2/27/26 at 6:30 am to Night Vision
We should stop giving Boebert a single ounce of attention
re: F-22's in Israel
Posted by funnystuff on 2/26/26 at 7:29 am to METAL
Yea… like a holy war
re: F-22's in Israel
Posted by funnystuff on 2/26/26 at 7:27 am to jp4lsu
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that a deal isn’t the goal
re: More BS from Tucker
Posted by funnystuff on 2/21/26 at 6:05 am to AUJACK
quote:
Hope they all go to hell.
quote:I think you missed a teaching or two along the way
I'm a Christian.
re: Christianity and Aliens
Posted by funnystuff on 2/20/26 at 9:12 am to SlowFlowPro
quote:This is just flat out untrue. You are operating on faulty assumptions, and then criticizing the conflicts that arise out of your own flawed modeling.
A book like the Bible, which is supposed to contain the comprehensive history of the universe
The Bible is the word of God. It is not all of God. His glory extends far beyond what we are capable of understanding. And therefore, far beyond what we are capable of writing. It therefore cannot, by the very nature of our own limits, be comprehensive.
re: Christianity and Aliens
Posted by funnystuff on 2/20/26 at 9:03 am to SlowFlowPro
Do you really need an answer to that question? The extent to which we understand anything about the nature of the universe (and about our place in it) has remained unchanged for the last 2000 years, in your opinion?
I get that you like to reflexively disagree around here, but this one is pretty over the top.
But fine, I’ll bite. Here’s just a few…
Calculus
Statistical inference
Microscopes
Telescopes
Spectroscopes
Atomic theory
Natural selection/evolution
Cognitive science
The internet
Radiometric dating
Newtonian mechanics
Electromagnetism
Thermodynamics
Relativity
Quantum mechanics
Cybernetics
Experimental design
Precision metrology
Chaos theory
Game Theory
Nonlinear dynamics
Machine learning
Cryptography
Signal processing
Biochemistry
Immunology
Simulation modeling
And on
And on
And on
And on
And on
It is self evident that our understanding of our place in the universe has advanced drastically over the last 2000 years. Arguing against that is just arguing for arguing’s sake.
I get that you like to reflexively disagree around here, but this one is pretty over the top.
But fine, I’ll bite. Here’s just a few…
Calculus
Statistical inference
Microscopes
Telescopes
Spectroscopes
Atomic theory
Natural selection/evolution
Cognitive science
The internet
Radiometric dating
Newtonian mechanics
Electromagnetism
Thermodynamics
Relativity
Quantum mechanics
Cybernetics
Experimental design
Precision metrology
Chaos theory
Game Theory
Nonlinear dynamics
Machine learning
Cryptography
Signal processing
Biochemistry
Immunology
Simulation modeling
And on
And on
And on
And on
And on
It is self evident that our understanding of our place in the universe has advanced drastically over the last 2000 years. Arguing against that is just arguing for arguing’s sake.
re: Christianity and Aliens
Posted by funnystuff on 2/20/26 at 6:46 am to funnystuff
With all of that said, I’d actually be even more excited about a universe without any intelligent life forms other than ourselves. It would leave only one logical conclusion about god’s will for us…
Manifest destiny on a universal scale
Manifest destiny on a universal scale
re: Christianity and Aliens
Posted by funnystuff on 2/20/26 at 6:44 am to SallysHuman
Not even a little bit.
If God is our father, then we are the functional equivalent of a two year old child (and that’s probably being generous to us). The gap in knowledge between an human parent and their two year old child is certainly orders of magnitude smaller than the gap in knowledge of that human parent and the creator of the collective sum of all space and time. So using the analogy of a two year old is already giving us too much credit to begin with… but let’s roll with it…
We all understand that no parent in human history has ever been capable of explaining the full depth and complexity of the world they live in to their two year old. Not even close. So I don’t see why God our father would operate on any different restriction. He might be perfect, but we certainly are not. And so many of the things he wants to tell us, we simply are not yet developed enough to understand.
So if we are going to accept that we’re two years old now, then when God revealed himself through Jesus, we were maybe one. Maybe. And at that point, our infant brains were only prepared to understand so much about the nature of reality.
Now, as we are slowly growing up, we’re capable of understanding ever so slightly more about the nature of the universe than we were 2000 years ago (a parent can clearly communicate more complex things to a two year old than they can to a one year old).
Awareness of aliens would fit seamlessly into that pattern of growth.
If God is our father, then we are the functional equivalent of a two year old child (and that’s probably being generous to us). The gap in knowledge between an human parent and their two year old child is certainly orders of magnitude smaller than the gap in knowledge of that human parent and the creator of the collective sum of all space and time. So using the analogy of a two year old is already giving us too much credit to begin with… but let’s roll with it…
We all understand that no parent in human history has ever been capable of explaining the full depth and complexity of the world they live in to their two year old. Not even close. So I don’t see why God our father would operate on any different restriction. He might be perfect, but we certainly are not. And so many of the things he wants to tell us, we simply are not yet developed enough to understand.
So if we are going to accept that we’re two years old now, then when God revealed himself through Jesus, we were maybe one. Maybe. And at that point, our infant brains were only prepared to understand so much about the nature of reality.
Now, as we are slowly growing up, we’re capable of understanding ever so slightly more about the nature of the universe than we were 2000 years ago (a parent can clearly communicate more complex things to a two year old than they can to a one year old).
Awareness of aliens would fit seamlessly into that pattern of growth.
re: How close are you to accepting that uploading human consciousness into robots is next?
Posted by funnystuff on 2/20/26 at 6:31 am to crimsoncoded94
“Next” is too quick of a timeline…
But I agree that the goal of these AI companies is to eventually get to that point. They are telling us so directly; they want to break the laws of nature.
We shouldn’t be letting them even try.
But I agree that the goal of these AI companies is to eventually get to that point. They are telling us so directly; they want to break the laws of nature.
We shouldn’t be letting them even try.
re: New Trailer The Mandalorian and Grogu
Posted by funnystuff on 2/18/26 at 9:45 am to Proximo
There’s directional truth to the assertion. It’s probably overstated in magnitude, but I suspect y’all recognize that the pushback itself has been an over correction here.
Don’t get me wrong, Disney has made a lot of shite and deserves their crow for doing it… but also, because they have made so much shite, the culture here is to assume that everything new they put out will be shite. And if something isn’t shite, it’s going to be very difficult for this board to set aside their priors and give it its full due.
If Disney were to deliver a truly A-tier, top notch, best in class type of film, at least a sizable subset of this board would settle on the “it was pretty good… certainly better than I expected… but still overrated… not up to the standard of the old classics” type of narrative. That would be to subconsciously justify the initial skepticism/doubt that would have unequivocally flowed freely prior to its release.
And for the record, that’s not necessarily meant to be a critique of this board, because that’s not just a movie talk problem… that’s a modernity problem. Something comparable seems to happen across basically every strata of social media discourse. People set their expectations prior to the delivery of a new thing… then after the thing comes out, people work backwards to craft a narrative to justify the quality of that thing being as close as possible to their preheld narrative.
We’re all guilty of it.
Don’t get me wrong, Disney has made a lot of shite and deserves their crow for doing it… but also, because they have made so much shite, the culture here is to assume that everything new they put out will be shite. And if something isn’t shite, it’s going to be very difficult for this board to set aside their priors and give it its full due.
If Disney were to deliver a truly A-tier, top notch, best in class type of film, at least a sizable subset of this board would settle on the “it was pretty good… certainly better than I expected… but still overrated… not up to the standard of the old classics” type of narrative. That would be to subconsciously justify the initial skepticism/doubt that would have unequivocally flowed freely prior to its release.
And for the record, that’s not necessarily meant to be a critique of this board, because that’s not just a movie talk problem… that’s a modernity problem. Something comparable seems to happen across basically every strata of social media discourse. People set their expectations prior to the delivery of a new thing… then after the thing comes out, people work backwards to craft a narrative to justify the quality of that thing being as close as possible to their preheld narrative.
We’re all guilty of it.
re: New Trailer The Mandalorian and Grogu
Posted by funnystuff on 2/18/26 at 6:34 am to RLDSC FAN
Movie theaters really need a win. I hope this is good enough to turn out audiences.
re: Epstein and McCarthyism tools to destroy innocent enemies
Posted by funnystuff on 2/16/26 at 11:26 am to trinidadtiger
Who do you think you’re responding to? What image of me do you hold in your head?
Nowhere I am trying to destroy Lutnick. That’s not anywhere near my goal. I even stated directly…
If you read that response as trying to “destroy the guy”, then the political mind virus might have a stronger hold of you than you realize. Step back, chill out, and stop looking for enemies in every interaction.
Nowhere I am trying to destroy Lutnick. That’s not anywhere near my goal. I even stated directly…
quote:I simply countered the response of a poster who implied that Lutnick didn’t lie about his relationship with Epstein with the unequivocal truth that he did. Then I noted that our entire political process has deteriorated so severely, that I could understand looking the other way. But I supplemented that note with a bit of wishful thinking that our politics was not so severely deteriorated.
So if you’re willing to just straight up say that you don’t care, I get it. Our system has broken badly enough that that response would make sense.
If you read that response as trying to “destroy the guy”, then the political mind virus might have a stronger hold of you than you realize. Step back, chill out, and stop looking for enemies in every interaction.
re: Epstein and McCarthyism tools to destroy innocent enemies
Posted by funnystuff on 2/16/26 at 11:19 am to Flats
Get off your high horse. It’s an equal problem for the left, as it is equal for the center. That’s my whole point. The standards to which we hold our political class have absolutely collapsed. We’ve all accepted untrustworthy leadership. And our country suffers every day for it.
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