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JakobVirgil  ·  3489 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Horrible people are just a vocal minority: Prove it

It is just the first video in Anita's video game series.

JakobVirgil  ·  3521 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Wikipedia refuses to delete photo as 'monkey owns it'

To be even more pedantic apes are old world monkeys.

JakobVirgil  ·  3542 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is it time to retire feminism?

everybody is muted here. me too.

typical southern white male wants everybody STFU while he splains to them what they should believe.

kidding on the square

[because it is largely true of Southern men and because it is fun to be a bigot]

[edit to @minimumwage@ did you just mute me? ......CIS BASTARD. I happen to be a 1 on the kinsey scale and live in the south ]

[to mkr it comes off as very aggressive and a bit rapey to say things to people when you have a hand over their mouth. I wish you luck in your solo dialog]

JakobVirgil  ·  3542 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Coming Democratic Schism - NYTimes.com

Exactly If everyone had the funds to get a fair shake in court and a voice in the political process social issues would be addressed.

It is all about the benjamins. in america you pay to play.

JakobVirgil  ·  3546 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is Hubski An Echo Chamber?

Snowball bias.

Also the metric is meaningless it is geared to makeI everybody libertarian.

JakobVirgil  ·  3549 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Suggestion About The Layout (Not A Bug Maybe...)

It is a fairly common problem in forums

Reddit solves it by the "load more comments" link

JakobVirgil  ·  3550 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Suggestion About The Layout (Not A Bug Maybe...)

It is even worse on a phone

JakobVirgil  ·  3550 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Earth's magnetic poles are getting ready to flip

I give am_Unition my full endorsement. In fact the Venusian Cloud city is going to erect a statue of him for his great help in our plans. (by statue of him I mean a Garfield inflatable we got cheap off the Macy's day parade with a big sign on it that says am_Unition. Weight is an major issue in cloud cities.) Seriously though he is the got to guy on space and weather and space weather.

JakobVirgil  ·  3550 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Earth's magnetic poles are getting ready to flip

Cool I may not even have to go to Venus. If this is not a flip but a simple reduction in the magnetosphere we my end up with trace H20 and 9 atms of CO2

JakobVirgil  ·  3550 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Should Germans Read Mein Kampf?

I don't know to me Hitler was a nebish a man without particular skill, or unique thought an incompetent. If it were not him it would have been another nothing person Germany was ready for evil and he was a avatar of that urge.

He ran his country from rags to ashes with a brief ponzi fueled bubble. He opened fronts he did not need to, picked fights he could not win. Ran a insanely ineffective government. I have read his book and it only reinforced the banality of evil to me.

JakobVirgil  ·  3550 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hacker News Redesign

What thinking man wouldn't ? How many Beatles songs were written by Neil Diamond?

How many times did Tim Buckley play a song for sirens on the Beatles sitcom created by the guy that made Bob and Ted and Carol and Alice?

Oh wait they did not even have a sitcom...

JakobVirgil  ·  3550 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Scientists threaten boycott of European commission-funded Human Brain Project

A list of the misunderstandings/ bad assumptions of the Brain these brain sim projects .

The way I see it we really don't know enough about how the brain works to really even start.

Even our analogies may be ill founded i.e. brain as a computer etc. I am unsure we have a even a Theory of Intelligence or Sentience that reflects anything in the real world.

I also have the inkling that the simulator would be larger than the brain by a few orders of magnitude. Even with magic Moore's law.

Being in a Simulation background I have come to the conclusion that simulations that are as complex as the thing being simulated really don't have a whole lot of research utility. i.e. you have something as difficult to analyze as the real thing but you don't even know if it reflect s the thing it is meant to be modeling.

It seems to me this is the Sci-Fi dreams of [B]illionaires being acted out on the public dime.

[edit realized that millionaires are not really a thing anymore]

JakobVirgil  ·  3552 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Possible life in Venusian Clouds

Now there is the spirit unfortunately you gotta bring your own water and potassium as well as pretty much everything other than CO2 , Nitrogen and Sulfur.

JakobVirgil  ·  3553 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Possible life in Venusian Clouds

For Science. And because Venus will be farming planet. They say floating cities but really it would have to be floating farms. All that Co2 and N Days that are 243 earth days long = cabbages the size of houses.

JakobVirgil  ·  3553 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why did the Vietnam veteran's wife file for divorce?

That bastard. Once he called SNL asking for tickets and it just so happened Al Franken answered the phone.

When Henry asked why he could not have any Al said "the gulf of tonken" and slammed the phone down.

If there is a blacklist I want to be on it.

I hate being left out.

JakobVirgil  ·  3556 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Started a blog about flags

We made some cool 51 star flags.

Have you noticed that capt America is really capt Puerto Rico?

JakobVirgil  ·  3556 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A crucial FDA food label battle is playing out

The added sugars are rarely the good kind.

JakobVirgil  ·  3558 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Supreme Court's Cold Indifference to America's Workers

Down voted for mixing metaphors

You also said long run twice in 140 odd characters without any symmetry or rhythm do try to do better.

JakobVirgil  ·  3557 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Supreme Court's Cold Indifference to America's Workers

The tide at the end of the tunnel is a great description of the future of workers.

I think the boy won a lottery and now thinks that he is a genius at picking numbers.

JakobVirgil  ·  3559 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are Kurt Vonnegut's best works?

Anybody read Player Piano?

Facebook users are the consumables?

FB (and any other social media site ) is a house of cards.

A change in the wind will knock it over but of course by that time Mark will have bought some stable assets or not it is not like he is going to run out of money.

so you are not the real Leonard Cohen.

I can not express how disappointed I am.

;(

I agree and by the same token I should not be held responsible for the Nazi pamphlets i keep on my coffee table and give as xmas presents. I Did not write any of them.

Seriously though if fox was a station that allowed a diversity of views they could use that canard

JakobVirgil  ·  3564 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son

Does that "we" mean you are an officer?

Some artists contain universes.

In 1984 hip hop was kinda silly break dance music then it wasn't.

Hits by definition are short lived events.

The pieces by which Bach et. al. Are best known today are often not the things they were famous for in their day.

Agreed on Mike oh and Prince.

Edit: added oh and Prince.