@Jolly said in Racist Pseudoscience:

If you believe in equal treatment of races under the law, the question of whether there are innate differences in average intelligence and other characteristics is less important. But if you assert that all differences in outcomes are an injustice to be eradicated, as BLM does, then the question of whether there are innate racial differences becomes more important.

I agree with that, actually.

I would prefer to get rid of the "equal outcomes" thing and then stop research on "race". Nothing good can come out of this.

Still possible for a few "switches in time to save 9". But unlikely.

@Copper said in Something I never thought I'd hear myself say.:

The first $5 beer I bought was at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square in 1988

That was a shock

Your post inspired me... It wasn’t too long ago that I would pay $5 per a pitcher instead of $7 a pint. So I did a quick google search and found that Buffalo Wild Wings still has a $5 pitcher special...Of course, the pitcher is 38oz...🙄

@Aqua-Letifer said in "An incitement to violence.":

Yeah, I absolutely want these people to decide our elected officials in two weeks.

https://www.projectveritas.com/news/senior-google-manager-on-search-engines-power-you-are-just-plain-and-simple/

Enjoy:

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“I feel suffocated at Google,” said Ritesh Lakhkar, a technical program manager in Google’s Cloud division, to a Project Veritas undercover journalist. “Because on one side you have this professional or unprofessional attitude, and on the other side, you have this ultra-leftist attitude, and your entire existence is questioned.”

Lakhkar said Google exercises deity-like control over the information Americans receive.

“You’re like playing selective God,” he said.

“If it was fraud, it doesn’t matter, but for Trump, Melania Trump, it matters, and on the other side, Trump says something, misinformation, you’re gonna delete that because it’s illegal under whatever pretext,” he said. “If a Democratic leader says that, then you’re gonna leave it like that, so I’m like, okay, you’re not following one way or the other. You are just plain and simple trying to play God.”

Ritesh Lakhkar: “The power’s in the search, yeah.”

Journalist: “The power to control reality. How do you feel about that? How does that make you feel?”

Lakhkar: “Helpless.”

James O’Keefe, the founder and CEO of Project Veritas, said, “Ritesh Lakhkar told our journalist the truth about Google, the company he has worked at for years. With the presidential election just days away, he is calling out Big Tech.”

Journalist: “You go to search and you type in ‘Donald Trump,’ and it’s like all negative—"

Ritesh Lakhkar: “Yeah.”

Journalist: “--and when you type in ‘Joe Biden,’ it’s all positive.”

Lakhkar: “Because—"

Patrick Markan, lead mechanical engineer at Fitbit: “It’s skewed by the owners or the drivers of the algorithm, right?”

Lakhkar: “It’s skewed by the owners and the drivers of the algorithm. Like so, if I say “Hey Google, here’s $2 billion, feed this data set of whenever ‘Joe Biden’ is searched, you’ll get these results.”

O’Keefe said, “This ranking member at Google says there will be riots at Google if Trump wins, he says Google and YouTube play God with their power and even raises concerns about Google outsourcing American jobs.”

Well, one good saying deserves another...

Link to video

@Jolly said in Acting Class:

@Aqua-Letifer said in Acting Class:

@Jolly said in Acting Class:

Actors are born, not made.

Utter bullocks.

Truth, lad.

It's like throwing a fast ball.

You're talking sports while simultaneously discrediting the entire story of Rudy. C'mon, man. 😁

But it really isn't. Not everyone starts with an equal baseline, sure. Not even close to an equal baseline. But you reach a point in nearly any skill timeline where consistent effort trumps talent, every time. If Daniel Day Lewis had never worked at it you'd never know who he was. Meanwhile, Angelo Rossitto did work at it, and look what he's done.

But hell that's just Hollywood movies. That's not the whole of what "acting" means. There's being on Netflix, but there's also making a living from YouTube, being part of a solvent theatre group, improv, etc., etc. The people who do these things well aren't failures just because you've never seen them in movies.

@Doctor-Phibes said in In Paris:

@Aqua-Letifer said in In Paris:

The first paragraph makes excellent points. But he really flubbed the rest.

Yes, it's actually good to put the brakes on sweeping generalizations when emotionally charged violence takes place. That's one of the reasons why we have the Rule of Law. I've heard enough crazy shit here on this very forum about Muslims, from folks who, surprise, have very few relationships with Muslims, to indicate that temperance is a good idea when it comes to accusing an entire religion of hatred. An Islamic extremist beheaded a guy in Paris? That same day, about a dozen white guys participated in murder in America. Where's the call to snuff out white guy extremism? Why is that ridiculous, but it's completely okay to lump together and condemn 1.8 billion on the planet because of one nutter?

The Pavlovian response when a non-Muslim does this type of thing is to describe him as mentally ill, as if this explains everything.

Ayuh. If your goal is to have more of the same kind of incidents, that's the exact response you should have.

@Doctor-Phibes said in Welcome to the resistance, Exxon:

So, it has come to this.

Hey - fuck or fight, just tell me which one to dress for....

@taiwan_girl said in I am not alone - Darrell Spence - Economist:

@Larry said in I am not alone - Darrell Spence - Economist:

So the way we measure how well the citizens are doing is by looking at the stock market?

No wonder some of you don't understand Trump.

Tell me what your measurements are to test the well being of citizens.

It sure wouldn't be the stock market. It would be things like being able to go to the grocery store and not have to keep a running tab in your mind as you put items in your cart to make sure you can pay for it. Or being able to afford a decent house, car, etc. Being able to not have to worry if you can pay your bills. Stuff like that is how most Americans test their well being. Not how rich the stock owners got this year.

Incredible story indeed.

I wonder how the two had fit into a single womb, given that they'd have about twice the height of a normal single baby.

Obviously, some of it makes sense. Some of it is gross over-simplification of complex issues.

My point is that it's very one-sided. IOW, all the problems we face are due to the left.

I've had similar but opposite discussions with people on the other side who blame everything on Donald Trump, but don't seem able to see why he was elected.

After watching the television documentary The New Pope, I've decided to become a follower of Cardinal Newman. Sure, he was a Papist, but the philosophy of the middle road is a lot more palatable than the bollocks being presented to us by politicians. I may even start wearing little red shoes. There's no place like home.

Wild turkeys fly pretty well. Domestic turkeys don't.

I have special scorn for anyone dumb enough to vote for Biden.

There's a few potential big technological revolutions left in the hopper. Biotech is definitely a big category.

"Unlimited" energy (fusion, new storage technology, space mining, etc.) is another plausible one in the not too distant future.

Lolz @Aqua-Letifer

@jon-nyc said in In the beginning...:

What they don’t show you a second later as she starts to shoot is when he jumps up and blocks the living fuck outta her shot. Then stands over her, talking trash, pumping his chest saying “not in my house!!”

@Aqua-Letifer yes, I agree.