The good thing about all of this circus right now is we can be pretty confident that Kavanaugh doesn't have any skeletons in his closet that might cause him to be turned (ala Roberts)

I don't think Peterson's point is defensible. He certainly hasn't "chosen his words very, very carefully" on that point

Ford's utility is expired, she won't come up again unless you're living in the Leftist perpetual grievance bubble

I mean, what is there to do on Ayers Rock anyway. Take a helicopter up to the top ?

I don't think they let you climb it (AFAIK)

What isn't

In the Grimdark History of the -40th Millenia, there is only speculation

Is that the guy who accused Peterson of being an angry white man?

If academia had any integrity they would strip that race baiting huckster of any title or degree

The openness of homosexuality restrains heterosexual male affection

I remember reading a letter by John Adams or one of the other founding fathers, sleeping in the same bed as another founding father

Yeah, so gay

Every man who ever expressed kinship with another man was gay -Gay Scholars Everywhere

TL;DR internet bloodsports drama is a waste of time

It's like CNN talking heads shows for boomers, except it's for unemployed pre-boomers

There has to be some kind of law about giving money to one person, instead giving it to another person

Imagine leaving a tip for a waiter, but the restaurant owner didn't like your conversation during the meal, so he gives your money to someone else

The law is called "theft"

People giving money on YT's superchat are rather dumb anyway - At least, if they're expressing any kind of nonmainstream opinion

Google is literally attempting to control everything you think and say, giving them money is literally working against your own interest

You can placate the Left by never giving an inch and beating them.

You can't placate them by giving them victory after victory when their arguments are lies and slander

No call in tonight?

is there a stream?

Philosophy & civics, and a masculine culture of expecting your beliefs to be challenged and having to back that up

Lets hop

hope

Wouldn't the Panhandle be the last precincts to be counted?

Given that they are in the later time zone

DeSantis / Scott would be nice

Although I don't think Scott is actually a good senator. He needs to be replaced with someone less compromised

Same as Rubio

I'm aware, I just feel like Scott = GOPe, not Trump/Nationalist

Sadly but still predictably: This midterm election is just halftime for the culture war round 8

FL always takes a long time in Broward & Miami

Takes awhile to manufacture the false chads

I've never seen them both in the same place either

Really need someone covering the election fraud efforts in FL, GA, AZ

If Hillary runs again, Trump should throw her in jail mid-election

Actually, I shouldn't say "If" she is going to run again, the if is whether the D's will nominate her again. Try #3 "I got it this time guys"

Trump would actually have a harder time winning 2nd go round I think. The Dem base is unhinged, and Trump hasn't made good on his central campaign promise

I understand the Swamp issue in DC

I would be more appeased if there was real movement to prosecute Hillary and other swamp creatures for endless law violations

At least then you could say, "We were trying to kill off the Swamp that was roadblocking the wall"

We'll see what the shakeup is like at the DOJ

I had a Trump 20XX game planned

But work got really intense for awhile

I'd really like to make some smaller games with what I'd call positive social messages

I was thinking smaller scale. Like, card games or platformers

Breakout -> WallOut

Missile Command -> Border Patrol

Guess Who -> You're Racist!

https://www.amazon.com/d/Kids-Board-Games/Winning-Moves-Games-1191-Guess/B00S732WJE

FATAL is obviously the best tabletop RPG

It'd be funny to do a FATAL parody. GENITAL

The old WoD games always had quite fascinating ideas I think. The SJ element was semi-present but the overwhelming theme was trying to be dark/edgy, so that got drowned out

Mage: The Ascension really captured my imagination at times

They should change their name to reflect their new constituency

Honestly at this point the loss of free press is the most distressing thing. Before big tech started cracking down I felt like we were finally getting around the stranglehold that big media companies have had on available and legitimate perspectives

Now we just get news coverage (even from Fox) on how taking away some asshole's press privileges at the WH is a breach of the 1A. The hell? Any kid in HS civics class can see what a bogus argument that is.

I think it's 100% necessary at this point. I would support troops marching into Google / FB offices and literally commandeering their hardware and arresting all of the employees.

I've done some work on neural networks and adaptive algorithms and the fact that these companies are developing these tools to use against people is basically like letting them develop nuclear weapons in their basement

Central premise of the 'Internet' Bill of Rights needs to be that companies don't have a right to capture infinite amounts of data about users and store that for all time. Users need to pretty much have total control over what info is available to use and be able to force companies to comply with reasonable requests to stop spying.

That's basically driving a stake into the heart of Google/Facebook, if someone can strongly articulate a sensible and thorough message to that effect

I'm not talking about a specific proposal Beeman, if you're referencing something floating out there. Just musing on what I would expect to see from such a thing

You could probably enforce some kind of anonymization of data with a cryptographic key that's only known when the user accesses it, and then thrown away

Presumably Google might not even be able to access their own stored data on a user

Which of course is assuming whatever anonymization is used is *effective*, but that's a different story. Anything that happens with the big tech companies needs to be done with transparency so that third parties can authenticate what they're doing is on the up-and-up -- One of the bigger problems as it is already is that basically even when FB/Google/Twitter get called in front of Congress

They just lie.

There's no reason to trust anything they say about their methodologies or implementations of anything because they've proven they're totally untrustworthy

@Beeman As much as possible? I remember when people used to get angry at people being able to look up your library records because knowing what books you checked out from the library is an unconstitutional search & invasion of privacy

Now consider that your phone is literally recording your speech passively, sending that off to Google, it's recording your location, it knows everywhere you go even if you turn off location tracking. They probably have all your emails. They have all your search history for decades. Any one of these is creepy as hell and way beyond anything you'd ever see in 1984. They've got it all.

@Beemann the problem is largely that never before in human history has there been potential to record everything someone does in perpetuity, and then just feed that into an algorithm and figure out how to manipulate them based on that

Humans really aren't equipped to handle the level of privacy invasion that we have going on. Sure, "Don't use their thing" is simple to say but reality for my tech-idiot parents is that they are willingly surrendering all kinds of data they probably don't want to

As an intelligent and tech savvy person I can take countermeasures I'm comfortable with to anonymize my identity, but someone with 100IQ or 85IQ is simply not equipped to handle these threats and they have to be able to live in society too. It's not cool when we create a system that's essentially predatory on people who are less fortunate

Require them to take it down?

What's public?

If someone was waiting outside my house and following my every movement I'd get a court order to get the stalker hit with a restraining order and if he continues the behavior he'd face consequences

Right -- Should you be?

I don't think any of these companies have a right to do so, it's part of the problem

I'm not convinced that means they get the right to scan my face, track my biometric data, and stick me into their customer data profile for all eternity

If stepping onto someone's public property means consent to all kinds of invasive shit then you basically have to live like a hermit

Which is inappropriate for a supposedly free society

Should they have the right to sweep up your dead skin cells to scan your genome?

There won't need to be one once it becomes normalized

That's not particularly true since there are cameras literally everywhere, but I've never seen a sticker saying, "You are being recorded" in WalMart

Maybe it's off in the break room

So lets say I walk into the Amazon store with an electronic signal jammer

Anything wrong with that?

So it's okay for the arms race to go in one direction, but not for people to take precautions against intrusions of privacy by corporate entities

Gotcha

Humans aren't perfect recording devices with immutable memory?

Sure. I don't have a problem with that

I do have a problem with making a society where you can't do anything without having data collected about your activity and sent to go reside in various different profiles by the govt & corporate entities for all time.

What's my solution again?

Of what?

I certainly don't feel like I have a solution, just pointing out that laissez faire attitudes towards this are extremely dangerous

Factually they aren't, so don't pretend it's so

Probably more like loneliness epidemic in general

Time to upgrade to Despacito