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21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short![They/Them]Registered User regular
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpK6GcViC88

It's my [chat].

I made it. :)

Let's talk a bit about Blade Runner.

Blade Runner is a Neo-Noir movie starring Sci-Fi Indiana Jones without his yeti friend, as a cop.

It features robots who are indistinguishable from autistic spectrum humans, giant coca cola publicity screens and many other moments that will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.

I highly suggest you watch it because it's a really interesting movie.

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  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User regular
    ok in this thread we will not talk about stupid bullshit

    we will instead talk about the shit of bulls who are very stupid animals

  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck Registered User regular
    japan wrote: »
    Ultimately all the money to pay all those people doing unnecessary jobs comes from the bills that people are obliged to pay.

    doing an unnecessary job sucks, even when it's easy and pays well

    I want to be a real boy someday

  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    I was gonna make a GY!BE thread, but this is good too.

  • ShivahnShivahn Unaware of her barrel shifter privilege Western coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Why am I awake this early. Ugh.

    Sleeping for ten hours did not go as planned.

  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    @spool32 sorry I wasn't able to respond, I got a phone call and was pacing

    also because The Man

    Anyway I feel like TLDR outlined my reasons very well.

    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    Old Economy Steven is a meme for a reason.

    I figure that technology permanently removing more jobs than it creates was bound to happen eventually.

  • Solomaxwell6Solomaxwell6 Registered User regular
    I am still upset that the French embassy had a marsupilami.

    Marsupilami is Belgian! Damn culture thieves.

  • TehSlothTehSloth Hit Or Miss I Guess They Never Miss, HuhRegistered User regular
    More importantly than any other stuff being conversed is that I'm seeing Doug Benson this weekend.

    Should be fun.

    FC: 1993-7778-8872 PSN: TehSloth Xbox: SlothTeh
    twitch.tv/tehsloth
  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    Shivahn wrote: »
    Why am I awake this early. Ugh.

    Sleeping for ten hours did not go as planned.

    i got...4ish?

    I know the pain friend

  • 21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    Shivahn wrote: »
    Why am I awake this early. Ugh.

    Sleeping for ten hours did not go as planned.

    Are you in Asia right now?

  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    The Replicants were laying low because they were being hunted. If the Replicants were left alone, would they have 'lived' quietly in peace or would they have done terrorist stuff?

  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    Tav wrote: »
    I was gonna make a GY!BE thread, but this is good too.

    well thank god we were spared a "Tav's shitty taste in music" thread

  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    Shivahn wrote: »
    Why am I awake this early. Ugh.

    Sleeping for ten hours did not go as planned.

    Shiv it is almost dinner time. :P

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  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    I'm not a huge Benson fan but he has done the Lord's work by championing the obviously NSFW #sideboobsunday

  • ronyaronya Arrrrrf. the ivory tower's basementRegistered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    ok in this thread we will not talk about stupid bullshit

    we will instead talk about the shit of bulls who are very stupid animals

    chu lives to be disappointed

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  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User, Transition Team regular
    Eddy wrote: »
    @spool32 sorry I wasn't able to respond, I got a phone call and was pacing

    also because The Man

    Anyway I feel like TLDR outlined my reasons very well.

    I don't know if I disagree with him or if I just want to.
    The idea that this whole process of trying to achieve financial comfort is a sham and it's all ultimately hopeless makes me want to throw up or fling a brick through a window.

  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    Honestly this whole situation is pretty crab fab.

    "Oh I don't have to worry about airfare back to Ohio because it'd be on the company time. I. . .oh. Okay. "

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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    japan wrote: »
    Ultimately all the money to pay all those people doing unnecessary jobs comes from the bills that people are obliged to pay.

    doing an unnecessary job sucks, even when it's easy and pays well

    I want to be a real boy someday

    Someone has to turn the letters on the game board on Wheel of Fortune. Vanna White isn't going to live forever, you know.

  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck Registered User regular
    trying to return these slippers and get a larger size has been very vexing

  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    Pony wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    I was gonna make a GY!BE thread, but this is good too.

    well thank god we were spared a "Tav's shitty taste in music" thread

    what crawled up your ass and died?

  • Irond WillIrond Will WARNING: NO HURTFUL COMMENTS, PLEASE!!!!! Cambridge. MAModerator Mod Emeritus
    Irond Will wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    Thinking about the problems we face all leads me back to the conclusion we need a basic guaranteed income high enough for people to not suffer

    maybe not yet anyway, but we're gonna get there

    unless the government takes a strong hold of the economy and forces it to be more inefficient and pay better so there's more high paying jobs available

    Or unless we invent something completely new like the internet and remake society completely again with tons of new careers and jobs and opportunity.

    Which is a thing we do pretty often.
    the internet and all the efficiency it has brought is actually a major source of the "problem"

    and for the record I really, really don't want option B there, our government's patchwork of social safety nets and jobs programs and shit should all be scrapped for a BGI that everyone gets

    its simpler, you don't have to worry about fraud, everyone knows exactly where the money goes, and it's probably not really that much more expensive

    then we need to ditch obamacare and medicaid and just make Medicare available to everyone, and automatically enroll you if you don't have private insurance

    there I've fixed America's economy I'll take my nobel prize and presidency

    it's worth remembering that for every person who draws a meager $25k guaranteed income there needs to be someone who donates $25k to the tax base.

    that's not how progressive taxes work, there would be hundreds of millions of people putting in $0-$25000 of that, millions of people putting in $25000-$50000 of that, and hundreds of thousands of very lucky fellows putting in $small nicely appointed bed and breakfast of that each year

    keeping in mind that we're already spend thousands per citizen on social services that would be swapped over to the BGI

    total US tax revenue in 2014 - local, state and federal - was around 6 trillion dollars. this includes property taxes, income taxes, social security and medicare taxes, sales taxes, corporate taxes, capital gains, estate taxes, the whole bit.

    we have about 320M people in the US. dividing through you find that comes to about $18.7k per head. that's before defense, any kind of social insurance, administration, roads, infrastructure, etc.

    presumably, people wouldn't be paying any taxes on their "guaranteed national income". they'd also be receiving some government benefits like medical care and roads and meat inspection and defense outside of their guaranteed national income.

    this isn't really adding up to me.

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  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck Registered User regular
    Honestly this whole situation is pretty crab fab.

    "Oh I don't have to worry about airfare back to Ohio because it'd be on the company time. I. . .oh. Okay. "

    what's all this then

  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    Tav wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    I was gonna make a GY!BE thread, but this is good too.

    well thank god we were spared a "Tav's shitty taste in music" thread

    what crawled up your ass and died?

    i hate that band, dude

    sorry but they suck

    they just do

  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    GY!BE is good stuff.

  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    I think of of neater possibilities as we move to an even more automated world is that there is a good chance of the return of the cottage craft industry or a new version of it. As it would be a route that allowed the population who since the industrial revolution would be mostly on the factory worker side would instead be using that free time for other economic investments.

    For this though that whole basic income thing really starts looking even better. The starving artist isn't really starving at that point.

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  • 21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    Pony wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    I was gonna make a GY!BE thread, but this is good too.

    well thank god we were spared a "Tav's shitty taste in music" thread

    what crawled up your ass and died?

    i hate that band, dude

    sorry but they suck

    they just do

    Watch out, the ultimate arbiter of musical taste has spoken!

  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    so last night i saw wolf of wall street

    excellent film

    you should go see it

  • simonwolfsimonwolf i can feel a difference today, a differenceRegistered User regular
    Pony wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    I was gonna make a GY!BE thread, but this is good too.

    well thank god we were spared a "Tav's shitty taste in music" thread

    what crawled up your ass and died?

    i hate that band, dude

    sorry but they suck

    they just do

    nah

  • ShivahnShivahn Unaware of her barrel shifter privilege Western coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Shivahn wrote: »
    Why am I awake this early. Ugh.

    Sleeping for ten hours did not go as planned.

    Shiv it is almost dinner time. :P

    WHO CROWNED YOU GOD-EMPEROR OF MEALS, HUH?

    Yeah the issue was that my schedule was sooo fucked (slept from like five to two yesterday) that I figured I would try and wind it forward. So I stayed up till ten, thinking I'd sleep till six, or eight if I was lucky. Regrettably, that did not happen. So now I'm in this weird twilight zone where my body doesn't quite know what's going on and cycles are all fucked up.

    So par for the course for me, but annoying.

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  • Nova_CNova_C I have the need The need for speedRegistered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    ok in this thread we will not talk about stupid bullshit

    we will instead talk about the shit of bulls who are very stupid animals

    One of my favourite Mythbusters is where they found out that a bull in a china shop would break probably nothing at all.

  • ShivahnShivahn Unaware of her barrel shifter privilege Western coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Oh Spool you're here.

    Just wanted to say I met Liara again in ME2 and the greeting was super sweet and basically what I wanted and was complaining about a few days ago.

  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    Pony wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    I was gonna make a GY!BE thread, but this is good too.

    well thank god we were spared a "Tav's shitty taste in music" thread

    what crawled up your ass and died?

    i hate that band, dude

    sorry but they suck

    they just do

    Watch out, the ultimate arbiter of musical taste has spoken!

    youregoddamnright.gif

  • ShivahnShivahn Unaware of her barrel shifter privilege Western coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderator mod
    So basically you were right, yay, etc.

  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    Pony wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    I was gonna make a GY!BE thread, but this is good too.

    well thank god we were spared a "Tav's shitty taste in music" thread

    what crawled up your ass and died?

    i hate that band, dude

    sorry but they suck

    they just do

    good to know you're hostile about your tastes in music because geewhizz that sure is refreshing

  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    Irond Will wrote: »
    Irond Will wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    Thinking about the problems we face all leads me back to the conclusion we need a basic guaranteed income high enough for people to not suffer

    maybe not yet anyway, but we're gonna get there

    unless the government takes a strong hold of the economy and forces it to be more inefficient and pay better so there's more high paying jobs available

    Or unless we invent something completely new like the internet and remake society completely again with tons of new careers and jobs and opportunity.

    Which is a thing we do pretty often.
    the internet and all the efficiency it has brought is actually a major source of the "problem"

    and for the record I really, really don't want option B there, our government's patchwork of social safety nets and jobs programs and shit should all be scrapped for a BGI that everyone gets

    its simpler, you don't have to worry about fraud, everyone knows exactly where the money goes, and it's probably not really that much more expensive

    then we need to ditch obamacare and medicaid and just make Medicare available to everyone, and automatically enroll you if you don't have private insurance

    there I've fixed America's economy I'll take my nobel prize and presidency

    it's worth remembering that for every person who draws a meager $25k guaranteed income there needs to be someone who donates $25k to the tax base.

    that's not how progressive taxes work, there would be hundreds of millions of people putting in $0-$25000 of that, millions of people putting in $25000-$50000 of that, and hundreds of thousands of very lucky fellows putting in $small nicely appointed bed and breakfast of that each year

    keeping in mind that we're already spend thousands per citizen on social services that would be swapped over to the BGI

    total US tax revenue in 2014 - local, state and federal - was around 6 trillion dollars. this includes property taxes, income taxes, social security and medicare taxes, sales taxes, corporate taxes, capital gains, estate taxes, the whole bit.

    we have about 320M people in the US. dividing through you find that comes to about $18.7k per head. that's before defense, any kind of social insurance, administration, roads, infrastructure, etc.

    presumably, people wouldn't be paying any taxes on their "guaranteed national income". they'd also be receiving some government benefits like medical care and roads and meat inspection and defense outside of their guaranteed national income.

    this isn't really adding up to me.

    Proper basic income is just that, income. It is taxed as such as well. And usually it isn't really put as high as 22k but more around 10k to 13k a year. Basically poverty level. Also you remove the population that is over 65 as they are on social security and remove the population under 18 as they receive a percentage not the full income.

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  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    The county wants to preserve Nygårdsparken

    which Bergen wants to refurbish - really, they want to shut it down for refurbishment, forcibly moving the open drug scene there out, as they also open new centres

    which, hm

    but also the article tells of a previous case where bergen wanted to refurbish the fences lining the park - over a 100 years old wrought iron fences

    and the county stopped that in the same way


    which is annoying because yes, those fences are pretty, but they suck. The ones outside hulen have snapped off in parts. One guest fell over and got a heavy concussion because of that.

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  • 21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    Maybe I should make a chat thread draft in case i get picked again in my lifetime.

  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    Tav wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    I was gonna make a GY!BE thread, but this is good too.

    well thank god we were spared a "Tav's shitty taste in music" thread

    what crawled up your ass and died?

    i hate that band, dude

    sorry but they suck

    they just do

    good to know you're hostile about your tastes in music because geewhizz that sure is refreshing

    oh for god's sake tav

    i didn't hit your dog with my car

  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    I think of of neater possibilities as we move to an even more automated world is that there is a good chance of the return of the cottage craft industry or a new version of it. As it would be a route that allowed the population who since the industrial revolution would be mostly on the factory worker side would instead be using that free time for other economic investments.

    For this though that whole basic income thing really starts looking even better. The starving artist isn't really starving at that point.

    I keep wondering if the swing of fashion towards the handmade, local, or "authentic" coupled with the seemingly inevitable collapse of brick and mortar retail and the associated high cost of commercial premises will have this effect.

    Of course, the "authentic" thing may prove to be a fad or the obsession of a particular decade.

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