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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Terrible Political Memes

« on: August 10, 2021, 03:20:15 AM »

Not so much funny as horrifying but I still think it belongs in this thread.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: August 09, 2021, 08:33:00 PM »

When is Trump being reinstated by the way? It's this month, right?

The process starts tomorrow.

https://xyz.frankspeech.com/content/mike-lindells-cyber-symposium-2021


So many questions.  I would love to go to this thing but it's not open to the public.  Only the press, cyber expert and current politicians.  But there doesn't seem to be a sign up link anywhere.  Is it invitation only?

Does Lindell even know what a packet is in this context?

Where did he get these packets?

Are these packets encrypted?

Does Lindell have the private key to decrypt it?

Who the hell is running a packet sniffer on our election systems and why is he talking to a pillow guy?

Finally, Lindell believes this data is iron clad proof that the election was stolen.  But he's been withholding this evidence for the last 9 months?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Apple will scan all iPhone images looking for 'child abuse'

« on: August 07, 2021, 05:53:16 AM »

So anyone can just get ahold of someone else's unlocked device and ruin their life in an almost undetectable way without even having to make a false police report? Nice.

No need to get physical access.  Just text someone random pictures of kids until you trigger it.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: July 27, 2021, 10:35:23 PM »

Let's be fair.  We really can't rule out election fraud until we get all the cat 5 cable used in this election.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: July 13, 2021, 06:04:26 PM »

The sanction hearing against the Kraken lawyers in Michigan shows just how fucking absurd the whole charade was to begin with.

https://abovethelaw.com/2021/07/kraken-sanctions-hearing-devolves-into-screaming-shtshow-debacle/

These laws prohibiting courts from being video taped must be repealed now!

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: President Joe Biden

« on: July 11, 2021, 06:28:23 PM »

Did "The Big Guy" get his 10% again ?

Very concerning if true. Fortunately the big guy actually provides his tax returns.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: July 07, 2021, 07:30:24 AM »

 This time around the emotion I felt was anger.  If these were black lives matter protesters then there would be have been a lot corpse cleanup the next day.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: July 02, 2021, 02:50:21 PM »

There's some saying that this is just the beginning.  I don't know if that's true or not.  Sort of sounds like wishful thinking to me.

If this is it though then this is sort of weak.  This is so weak that it makes me think that the media has been a little unfair to Trump.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Translations of the Bible

« on: July 01, 2021, 02:19:24 PM »

You have not truly read the Bible until you've read it in it's original Klingon.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: June 30, 2021, 09:31:32 PM »

Let's look at this realistically.  Trump is a crooked businessman.  He has a long history of trying to bend laws wherever possible.  He is not unique here and as far as I can tell he's been operating this way for decades.

So if there's been crimes committed here, and I'm sure there are, it seems to me that it's probably Trump slightly overstepping the boundaries of law and getting caught.

My guess, the worst possible outcome for Trump here is making the Trump Organization unable to get loans from banks.  Which might bring down his company but probably won't land him in prison.  But we'll find out soon enough I guess.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: June 30, 2021, 06:13:02 PM »

Lollerz

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57669976

Yeah... I'm going into this with very low expectations.  I predict a few people getting a six month sentence done in house arrest, probably reduced to community service.  But maybe this time it'll be different.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: June 30, 2021, 04:35:53 PM »

Pretty weird how you guys are still obsessed about Trump. I only rarely mentioned Obama and Bush after they were presidents.

Obama kind of left the public view after he lost his office. Trump continues to be a danger to our democracy. It's justified.

Also if we can keep the conversation going until the midterm elections it may be our best shot at bucking the norm and keeping a Democratic majority in Congress (a tall order given all the Republican efforts to suppress the vote, but still, the best shot we have). So thanks Trump for refusing to shut up!

There is this bizarre aspect.

All things being equal, republicans take the house in 2022.  There is no scenario where this isn't a given, except if Trump gets involved and works the same magic he did for the senate in 2020.

So... um... Go Trump?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: June 30, 2021, 06:29:08 AM »

Pretty weird how you guys are still obsessed about Trump. I only rarely mentioned Obama and Bush after they were presidents.

Obama wasn't a dangerously insane reality tv star who tried to destroy American democracy.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: June 30, 2021, 03:14:19 AM »

One woman told O'Sullivan she believed the Jan. 6 insurrection was completely "staged."

There's a contradiction that I'm surprised no one points out about this particular conspiracy theory.

If they really believed that the election was stolen then these insurrectionists were patriots.  Why would they say it's staged? 

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: June 26, 2021, 05:10:39 PM »

Clearly the most important metric for competent leadership is whether or not you want to fuck their wives.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Coronavirus Vaccine and You

« on: June 26, 2021, 03:35:32 PM »

I received my invitation to book an appointment for vaccination today. Finally, this will all be over.

Update: I have made an appointment to be vaccinated. I'll have my second jab at the end of July.

Just got my first jab of Pfizer. I can already feel the 5G signals pulsing through my body. Can't wait until the transformation is complete!

Dont listen to Thork. Your poos will be glorious, but your arm gonna hurt. I get my 2nd pfizer poke today... really hoping my magneto powers will come through.

Should have waited bro! The newest vaccines make you Bluetooth enabled!

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: June 24, 2021, 08:35:22 PM »

It's just funny to me that it takes this much malfeasance to lose your law license.

There's a whole team of lawyers in on this.  As far as I know they're still practicing law.  I'm starting to think that getting disbarred is an exceptionally rare event.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: June 24, 2021, 05:43:37 PM »

Yep.  And all he had to do was attempt to destroy democracy.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: President Joe Biden

« on: June 23, 2021, 08:06:32 PM »

There's a disturbing tendency to downplay January 6.  There's no reason to think they wouldn't have murdered any Democratic member of congress or even some of the Republicans if they got their hands on them.  They were quite willing to kill anyone who got in their way, including law enforcement.

It's not an exaggeration to say that if it weren't for a small handful of police officers who didn't have their thumbs in their asses then we would probably be in a civil war by now.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: President Joe Biden

« on: June 19, 2021, 11:09:37 PM »

I thought I'd calculate the odds of Joe Biden dying in office. Below are the actuarial tables so you can see my sources.
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html

Joe is 78 years old. He has a 4.78% chance of dying this year.

Out of 100,000, people only 56,065 would be left to make the ripe old age of 78.
4 years later 44,553 will be left to celebrate their 82nd birthday.

56,056 - 44,553 = 11503
100 / (56056 / 11503) = 20.5% chance of death in those 4 years. Joe didn't have his birthday on the day he was inaugurated so his chances are a fraction more.

I honestly thought his odds of dying would be a lot higher. 


Edit: Joe has dementia.

General life expectancy for someone with Alzheimer’s is around 8-12 years.
After diagnosis, the average lifespan of someone with dementia with Lewy bodies was found in one study to be around 5-7 years after onset.
The average life span for someone with frontotemporal dementia (sometimes called Pick’s disease) is around eight years.

So its about 50-50. Ok, I feel better about this now.

Not to worry.  Kamala Harris will become president.