Posts by Lanny

1. 2015-10-24 at 3:20 AM UTC in I'm entering SHADOW MODE
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage
   What if tripping when you die blocks the usual psychedelic death experience due to tolerance and you don't relive/live a new experience in the brief period between circulatory death and brain death? What if the process is naturally fractal (death within the hallucination triggers another hallucination) so it's a sort of eternal reincarnation and the only way to exit the cycle is to die while tripping? Could be far out maaan
2. 2015-10-24 at 3:15 AM UTC in FORGET ABOUT ALL THIS FORUM
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage

   'Rights' don't exists. You don't have an inherrent right to anything just because you exist. That being said, murder in self-defense is ok by me.

   
   That's interesting, it seems like you were all about natural rights not too long ago. Why the change of heart, or is it?
   
   

   False. A "right" is not vested in you by the authority of man but by that of God. In this life the Creator bestowed upon us several inalienable rights such as Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. My government was build upon the precept that these rights cannot be taken away by any law of man. The bill of rights grants me everything necessary to partake in these rights. Through the right to bear army both my life and liberty are secured. Through my government was instilled with the restrictions us Americans like to call The Bill O'Rights. These restrictions on the government such as not prosecuting individuals for their speech or self expression, allowing the individuals to bear and keep arms as well as freely organize themselves ensure my ability to maintain my own rights. It is lamentable that these restrictions on the government are being lifted under the guise of gun control and hate speech laws.
   
   As I have said before, FUCK THE DEMOCRACY! BRING BACK THE REPUBLIC!

   
   When your argument is founded on what might be the most tenuous premise of our age I think that should be a sign you're fucked, but I mean let's say there is a god or whatever. How does it follow from "we were made by some anthropomorphic creator character" to "the american bill of rights (and specifically my personal interpretation of it) is divine truth"? I mean I'm sure this is going to turn into you having some special access to the truth in the end (particularly amusing would be "He told me so") but I'm in the mood for a chuckle so by all means, present your post-hoc attempt to justify the bill of rights from the given premise that there is a sky father or whatever.
3. 2015-10-23 at 4:02 PM UTC in Syme was literally the singular sympathetic character in 1984
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage

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   Orwell was a socialist.

   
   A watery, wishy washy sort of socialist, but sure, he was a socialist. That doesn't change the fact that his commercially successful work has not in recent times been (and perhaps never was) read as a sincere condemnation of the political ideals that underride pretty much any leftist policy you're likely to find in the west.
4. 2015-10-23 at 7:04 AM UTC in Smart people poll revised AGAIN!!!!
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage
   McRide always told me: Stay nodeid
5. 2015-10-23 at 5:42 AM UTC in Smart people poll revised AGAIN!!!!
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage
   MIDDLE SPLOO FOR THE WIN
6. 2015-10-23 at 5:34 AM UTC in Syme was literally the singular sympathetic character in 1984
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage
   Intolerable cunts:
   
   Winston - Mentality of a 14 year old, scarcely articulate despite being the narrator, can't stand up for his ideas except for in the most limp-dick imaginable way and flips shit and kills innocent people for no other reason than that he's an insecure cunt. Totally lacking a meaningful philosophy, requiring someone else's bullshit manifesto-insertion fanfic to even get hard, he deserved the rats and much worse for being such an intolerable lowbrow pussy.
   
   Julia - Almost tolerable for having enough character to be hateable but in the end she's in Winston's boat: impotent. Fucking in the woods is what you do when you're a teenager, not when you're fighting tyranny. It represents total and unabashed conformity to the base natural state of man, to the flesh, to everything boring and mundane and trivial about the human condition while serving only to satisfy the party's ends through distraction.
   
   O'Brien - Would have been vague enough to be likable or at least tolerable if not for the fact that his crowning monologue was cringey shit put in the mouth of imagined villains by generally incompetent writers.
   
   Syme, however, is the only character with a hint of life going on outside of Winston's view, the only character who actually has a plausible motivation for his actions. Syme plays the game because he loves it, because that's what he is and he bends the world to his will through determination and vision, changing the very words beneath our feet. Considering 1984 was such trash as literature, failing to investigate any interesting element of the world, I choose to believe Syme knew full well what was in store for him, that he would be killed by the party ("killed" in his mind rather than Winston's notion of "unperson" (a term with an ironic ring of newspeak considering it is not, in fact, newspeak) because only the immature psychology of Winston would care more about attribution than far reaching effect on society) and participating anyway. Syme is the absurd hero of 1984, the true face of human determination and triumph, the indication that we as a species will continue to produce something worth having in the world. A creature crushed in every way we can imagine and yet who rose to the challenge, who saw his people destroyed and found for himself a role in rebuilding. Creation in the wake of total genocide, where Winston sees a people subjugated Syme sees a vacuum, a blank canvas to be filled and himself as the one with the determination and intellect to do it at any cost and in the face of any odds.
   
   The real lesson to take from the trainwreck of a novel that is 1984 is that when the going gets tough the smart find the most interesting/worthwhile jobs they can and make the best out of it. Even if you detest the straw socialism which Orwell made a career out of knocking down you can't help but admit that Syme was the only character who managed to put his money where his mouth was. He could have been working for the nazis or the libertarian non-government or anyone else, he still would have been the only character with a spine.
7. 2015-10-22 at 10:16 PM UTC in do you do your own laundry?
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage
   I do my own laundry but it makes less and less sense, probably would be more efficient to pay someone else to do it for me. The problem is transport, I'd have to walk a block to get to a laundromat who'd do it for me while there's a laundry room in my building, I haven't timed the walk vs. how long it takes to do it myself to see if it really would be a net savings. I wonder if there's a service that will pick up laundry and bring it back.
8. 2015-10-22 at 2:09 PM UTC in Absolutely haram, 100% Allah and His prophet(pbuh) approved trap.
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage
   Expected a tranny in a burqa fucking a mohammed lookalike, am disappointed
9. 2015-10-22 at 2:07 PM UTC in I wonder if anti weed hypocrites are smoke it once it legal
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage

   it's his style, he doesn't need to post paragraphs to prove a simple point like most of you simpletons. But yeah in response to your thread, many people will once its legal. Some people are hindered by the law because they subscribe their personal freedom over to the government/religion. Very sad.

   
   
   You're so randomly aggressive lately, I don't get it. Like especially when you're talking shit on "most people". I guess it's just dunning kruger but it's so painfully obvious that you're closer to the "average joe" than pretty much anyone on this site. You'd be far better served with a policy of live and let live if the best you can come up with is shit like "they subscribe their personal freedom over to the government/religion"
10. 2015-10-22 at 2:53 AM UTC in Who the most fucked up?
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Sploo is probably the lowest functioning of the lot but the complexity of Malice's inability to negotiate the world is far more impressive than "touched by triangles and syncans"
11. 2015-10-22 at 2:46 AM UTC in Smartest person on the forum(Because intellect can be determined democratically)
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    I voted for sploo because the triangles told me to
12. 2015-10-21 at 5:09 PM UTC in Someone help me get this thing going.
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    No prob. From within python, assuming the addresses are all IPv4 and have a port listed:
    
    

    >>> import re >>> s = "1.169.169.206 308\n192.168.0.1 8080"
    >>> ips = [re.match('([0-9.]+) (.*)', x).group(1) for x in s.split('\n')]
    >>> ips
    ['1.169.169.206', '192.168.0.1']
    >>> 

13. 2015-10-21 at 4:22 PM UTC in Goodbye friends
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage

    Imagine if sploo became a rapper.
    
    He could create a new genre (pseudo/quasi) schizo rap, shitpost rap.

    
    I mean if vaporwave and cloud rap are things I don't think schizo rap is a real stretch. NOK from the Future isn't too far off.
14. 2015-10-21 at 4:09 PM UTC in Someone help me get this thing going.
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Nothing to do with threading, the thread lib is always going to be at the top of the stack in a threaded program.
    
    Looking at the source of that github link and what pip has it looks like they're totally different programs. I'd uninstall the pip package and download a local copy from github and use that.
    
    The getaddrinfo is probably due to a bad domain. Try to print out `soldier` and `PORT[proto]` just above line 199, they should be a valid domain or IP and port combo.
15. 2015-10-21 at 4:06 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    southern california fucking sucks. Rich cunts, two level construction, and shitty strip malls as far as the eye can see (not very far because all the fucking pollution)
16. 2015-10-21 at 3:49 PM UTC in Would you shoot a 5-year old kid in the head for $1 BILLION
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Sure, I'd even go so far as to say you'd be morally remiss if your chose not to rather than collecting the money and donating it towards something useful, although it would be understandable. You can save a lot of 5 year olds (and others) with a billion dollars.
17. 2015-10-15 at 11:40 AM UTC in I'm entering SHADOW MODE
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    What happened to ape mode?
18. 2015-10-15 at 11:40 AM UTC in Petition to ban the littlest nigger
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Vetoed on the grounds that wanting to ban someone for upsetting you makes you a little bitch.
19. 2015-10-15 at 11:38 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    hey, can I rent your most haunted room for my upcoming tv special in which I jerk around a camcorder a lot and call lense flares ghosts?
20. 2015-10-15 at 3:11 AM UTC in Why don't you believe in the ghost of christmas past?
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage

    you're not funny.. anyways yes I belive the ghost of xmas past because if you read any of dickens earlier stories he's quite the prophet to what we have become now as a civilization of dunces and plebs..

    
    
    Wow, nice job being angsty and needlessly hostile.
    
    Also are you serious? Do you honestly think Dickens was a prophet? Have you read even a single Dickens novel?