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2018-02-09 at 12:38 PM UTC in Malice: Should I buy this bong?Or can you find a similar/better bong for cheaper?
https://www.smoketower.ca/store/flame-turbine-disc-with-6-arm-black-tree-perc-glass-bong-18.html
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2018-02-08 at 11:50 PM UTC in The Retardest Thread: Fashionably Late Edition.
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2018-02-08 at 7:29 PM UTC in I'm making a video gameThe Bill Krozbydog vendor should speak like a typical Bill Krozby post.
"My lawyer said I don't have to pay child support anymore" -
2018-02-08 at 12:53 PM UTC in German feminist cunt admits mass muslim immigration isn't working, decides to flee country
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2018-02-08 at 12:51 PM UTC in The Retardest Thread: Fashionably Late Edition.
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2018-02-08 at 12:35 PM UTC in German feminist cunt admits mass muslim immigration isn't working, decides to flee country
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2018-02-07 at 11:52 PM UTC in a scanner darklySo what do you like most about this movie?
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2018-02-07 at 11:51 PM UTC in Can 10 year olds decide they are transgender?I don't believe it should be legal or encouraged. For the same reasons kids cannot consent to sex or cosmetic surgery or piercing or tattoos.
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2018-02-07 at 11:25 PM UTC in Do you think there will ever be self driving cars?The system does not and cannot exist to satisfy human needs. Instead, it is human behavior that has to be modified to fit the needs of the system. This has nothing to do with the political or social ideology that may pretend to guide the technological system. It is the fault of technology, because the system is guided not by ideology but by technical necessity.
Of course the system does satisfy many human needs, but generally speaking it does this only to the extent that it is to the advantage of the system to do it. It is the needs of the system that are paramount, not those of the human being. For example, the system provides people with food because the system couldn’t function if everyone starved; it attends to people’s psychological needs whenever it can CONVENIENTLY do so, because it couldn’t function if too many people became depressed or rebellious. But the system, for good, solid, practical reasons, must exert constant pressure on people to mold their behavior to the needs of the system. To much waste accumulating? The government, the media, the educational system, environmentalists, everyone inundates us with a mass of propaganda about recycling. Need more technical personnel? A chorus of voices exhorts kids to study science. No one stops to ask whether it is inhumane to force adolescents to spend the bulk of their time studying subjects most of them hate. When skilled workers are put out of a job by technical advances and have to undergo “retraining,” no one asks whether it is humiliating for them to be pushed around in this way. It is simply taken for granted that everyone must bow to technical necessity. and for good reason: If human needs were put before technical necessity there would be economic problems, unemployment, shortages or worse. The concept of “mental health” in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress.
While technological progress AS A WHOLE continually narrows our sphere of freedom, each new technical advance CONSIDERED BY ITSELF appears to be desirable. Electricity, indoor plumbing, rapid long-distance communications … how could one argue against any of these things, or against any other of the innumerable technical advances that have made modern society? It would have been absurd to resist the introduction of the telephone, for example. It offered many advantages and no disadvantages. Yet all these technical advances taken together have created a world in which the average man’s fate is no longer in his own hands or in the hands of his neighbors and friends, but in those of politicians, corporation executives and remote, anonymous technicians and bureaucrats whom he as an individual has no power to influence. The same process will continue in the future. Take genetic engineering, for example. Few people will resist the introduction of a genetic technique that eliminates a hereditary disease. It does no apparent harm and prevents much suffering. Yet a large number of genetic improvements taken together will make the human being into an engineered product rather than a free creation of chance (or of God, or whatever, depending on your religious beliefs).
If you think that big government interferes in your life too much NOW, just wait till the government starts regulating the genetic constitution of your children. Such regulation will inevitably follow the introduction of genetic engineering of human beings, because the consequences of unregulated genetic engineering would be disastrous.
Another reason why technology is such a powerful social force is that, within the context of a given society, technological progress marches in only one direction; it can never be reversed. Once a technical innovation has been introduced, people usually become dependent on it, so that they can never again do without it, unless it is replaced by some still more advanced innovation. Not only do people become dependent as individuals on a new item of technology, but, even more, the system as a whole becomes dependent on it. (Imagine what would happen to the system today if computers, for example, were eliminated.) Thus the system can move in only one direction, toward greater technologization. Technology repeatedly forces freedom to take a step back, but technology can never take a step back—short of the overthrow of the whole technological system. -
2018-02-07 at 11:20 PM UTC in Do you think there will ever be self driving cars?
Originally posted by HTS But they would/could happen… they certainly aren't impossible.
And tbh, the people on that bus are the bus's responsibility. I am my car's responsibility. My car should prioritize me and the bus should prioritize itself.
If the bus had to kill me to save the kids, fine. My car shouldn't be worried about anyone but its own occupants.
I don't believe that scenario is possible. -
2018-02-07 at 11:18 PM UTC in Why does the user above you post here?
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2018-02-07 at 9:49 PM UTC in Why does the user above you post here?
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2018-02-07 at 9:37 PM UTC in Why does the user above you post here?
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2018-02-07 at 6:21 PM UTC in Do you think there will ever be self driving cars?
Originally posted by benny vader there can not be self driving cars unless and until every cars are self driving.
self driving cars and human driven ones just dont mix. cant mix.
They will mix. Accidents will happen. Some people will blame self driving cars. Some will blame human error. Eventually human drivers will be made illegal, for your safety.
Unabomber already wrote about this. -
2018-02-07 at 1:59 PM UTC in German feminist cunt admits mass muslim immigration isn't working, decides to flee countryThe large amount of migrants will hurt the already faltering European economy drastically, especially considering many immigrants lack higher education. More unemployment = more welfare = even more government debt. And where will the immigrants go? To nice neighborhoods and suburbs? No, they will go to the HLM and Banlieues and their lives won't even improve at all. They'll riot, riot some more raise local crime rates(areas in france with higher immigrated population have higher crime rates across the board), and raise unemployment rates. That's because a large amount of them are young men. They come to europe because they heard the government will give them free money, and when it doesn't give them enough, they get angry. Sure, some families and refugees are in desperate need of help, but many of them are purely economic.
People still place their own interests above those of others. If you think you're better than them, invite a couple hundred immigrants to your backyard and see how that goes. -
2018-02-07 at 12:50 PM UTC in Why does the user above you post here?
Originally posted by Sophie Posts here because of nostalgia, probably hates facebook and web 2.0 and stuff.
Posts here out of nostalgia, wants everyone to see his l33t skillz, organizes and runs the secrect CP ring with the creepy people, gets high on hard drugs and needs a place to shitpost sometimes. -
2018-02-07 at 12:38 PM UTC in So what strain of weed should I grow?I like that green crack.
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2018-02-07 at 12:58 AM UTC in There is a car in space
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2018-02-06 at 11:51 PM UTC in German feminist cunt admits mass muslim immigration isn't working, decides to flee countryIt's going to be ok, RisiR said the Germans will fix it.
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2018-02-06 at 11:44 PM UTC in What if cows are 4D chessThat's ok but what if the future already happened and a machine was built that could do anything and so it made the past and became everything, and everything you see is really just one possibility, one aspect of the One True Being and what if that's what Life really is, just a bunch of stuff happening?
That would be cool.
