Posts by Obbe

1. 2016-08-21 at 2:57 AM UTC in Help me identify this plant
   

   Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
   You ever read Alan Moores version of Swamp Thing?
2. 2016-08-21 at 1:29 AM UTC in Help me identify this plant
   

   Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
   Plants are pretty interesting.
3. 2016-08-21 at 1:27 AM UTC in Do you think I'm a bad person?
   

   Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
   I can agree with that. Of course, not everyone would agree with each other's justifications.
4. 2016-08-21 at 1:16 AM UTC in Help me identify this plant
   

   Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
   Thanks RisiR. How did you know this?
5. 2016-08-20 at 11:47 PM UTC in Help me identify this plant
   

   Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]

   This is driving me nuts. I know it. 100%. I know the name, it just won't come out.
   
   You've ruined my night with this.

   
   It's been driving me nuts too. I believe it may be related to dock but I'm not sure. Either way, it looked like it was dying so I up rooted it and now it's drying hanging upside down.
6. 2016-08-20 at 4:21 PM UTC in Help me identify this plant
   

   Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]

   Well, when life gives you mint, make mojitos.

   
   What do you do when life gives you a fake-bud plant?
7. 2016-08-20 at 2:32 AM UTC in Help me identify this plant
   

   Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
   I happen to have some mint growing along the side of my house
8. 2016-08-19 at 6 PM UTC in Help me identify this plant
   

   Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
   What is this?
   
   
   
9. 2016-08-19 at 4:46 PM UTC in Human Rights
   

   Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
   I don't know. At least in that old movie I think the idea is that the robots stopped violence from happening. Like if you picked up a gun and aimed it at someone, the robot would vaporize the gun. Or if you were attempting to protect someone from a violent person, the robot would already subdue the violent person before you could do so yourself.
   
   In this hypothetical scenario where human error no longer is a problem as we are guided by a super human intelligence, would there ever be a situation in which we would need to turn to violence? If the world is changed in such a way that it was impossible for anyone to harm anyone else, would we need laws?
   
   Maybe you can imagine a scenario where we/our thoughts/ideas are not being monitored by some judgmental authority but rather we are all connected to each other and can talk to each other kind of like how we are now, but instantly, human beings enhanced with technology granting us direct access to this superhuman intelligence, what would we need thought police for?
10. 2016-08-19 at 1:26 PM UTC in Identity
    

    Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    What if the subjective consciousness is something that is illusory like freewill? What if it's just a creation of words? Like you said Lanny, words/thoughts are required to make the argument. Without that what are we? What is left to identify with?
11. 2016-08-19 at 1:20 PM UTC in Human Rights
    

    Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    Looks like most of you agree with Malice. This is understandable, liberty is important.
    
    However I tend to think a lot of problems in our world stem from what is sometimes called human error. I mean, sometimes humans make mistakes. Sometimes we fuck up. Even those humans who hold positions of authority over others. This is where I think a superhuman intelligence could be very useful/helpful. If we created an intelligence that far surpassed our human ability to reason and analyze and predict, it could potentially guide us better than any individual or human leader ever could.
    
    There is an old movie called the day the Earth stood still. In this movie an alien comes to earth and he brings with him a large metal man. The metal man is a robot, created by the people who live on the aliens home planet. The robots there are like the police. They simply uphold the law and are completely unbiased. They stop violence. They don't make human errors. I always thought that was a neat idea.
12. 2016-08-19 at 1:11 PM UTC in Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever – CRISPR
    

    Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]

    Bad things happen when you try to play god

    
    Well already do this. In the developed world we already screen pregnancies for genetic defects like down syndrome and the vast majority of those pregnancies are terminated.
    
    Would you really want to be the type of parent who would deny their child the cure, to condemn them to cancer or heart disease or diabetes or whatever, just because it's "playing god"? Look at the world we live in with all our technology, modified crops, industrial farms, tell me we aren't already playing God.
13. 2016-08-19 at 1:01 PM UTC in Do you think I'm a bad person?
    

    Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    Ok. What would someone need to do for you to consider them to be bad?
14. 2016-08-19 at 12 AM UTC in Do you think I'm a bad person?
    

    Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]

    I'm in full control but that's probably an illusion. I'm just pretty destructive for no reason.
    
    I know nothing about people online but I have crippled some minds and gave ePTSD to many people. Imagine I know everything about you. I can be a real dick.

    
    Does that make you a bad person?
15. 2016-08-18 at 9:14 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
    

    Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]

    Life is what you make of it: "You don't believe in causality?"

    
    I don't believe in "freewill" but I do believe life is what you make it. Just because your life sucks doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't try to make it better, just because you made mistakes doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't try to correct them.
16. 2016-08-18 at 7:57 PM UTC in Do you think I'm a bad person?
    

    Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    I like to think a man is what he does and should try to be the best he can be. In what way do your behavioral problems bother you? Do you feel as though you lose self control? Have you tried seeking professional help?
17. 2016-08-18 at 6:13 PM UTC in Do you think I'm a bad person?
    

    Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    I don't know you. From what I have seen you seem like a regular guy. Do you think you're a bad person?
18. 2016-08-15 at 4:51 PM UTC in How did/do you look for a job?, motivation, effort, reward.
    

    Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    Bill Krozby stopped supporting his daughter? But I really truly thought he cared about her. Whenever someone would "shit on" him calling him a deadbeat dad, abandoning his daughter, etc, he was always quick to remind them "Hey! At least I pay my child support!" but he stopped?
    
19. 2016-08-15 at 4:35 PM UTC in How did/do you look for a job?, motivation, effort, reward.
    

    Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
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20. 2016-08-15 at 4:21 PM UTC in How did/do you look for a job?, motivation, effort, reward.
    

    Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    Bill Krozby i thought you had a bigger sense of humor then that. You know it's a joke right?