Downloading now! Just realized my wife hasn’t seen this and needed a movie for tonight.

Sounds like an Issac Asimov plot. Hell, pretty sure it is an Asimov plot from one of the Robots books.

Some of these people never had to manage a fleet of computers.

That’s where I learned about this! Love me some Ian.

Visited Manhattan around ‘91 or so, gayest place I’ve ever seen. And I’m from Tulsa, which believe it or not, has a rockin’ gay scene!

This was in Florida, unless I missed the joke?

Out of time for a video than long, but you can bet I saved it! Love examining how we hominids came to be, how we came to behave. So many arguments as to how we “should” act clash with how we “evolved” to act. Untangling “should” vs. “is” would take us farther than arguing about ideal behavior.

Aim for a better world keeping in mind as it is, not how it should be. Am drunk. Making sense?

If the truth is in between, it’s because we’re arguing different things. I think everyone in this chain gets “it”, but we’re meandering a bit. Great conversation!

Recharacterize hate and anger as fear, human behavior makes more sense.

Yeah, racism is taught, as OP’s talking about, but fear of the other, the other outside our tribe, is genetic.

People take that opinion to mean racism is natural. Nope. It’s not skin color, it’s “other”. It’s a big world now, too big for us to easily parse, so we try to break each other into manageable chunks we can understand, skin color is an easy shortcut.

For example; I’m a middle-aged, American white guy. I understand, and am far closer, to my black friend down the street than I could be to any European, even one who looks exactly like me. My friend is in my tribe, my Monkeysphere, the European is not. Despite wildly different backgrounds, I share more in common with my friend than a random Spaniard. And if nothing else, he’s close, literally and figuratively, part of my tribe. Does that make sense?

(I’m replying to you and the post you’re replying to, if that makes sense.)

Racism is a single aspect of in and out groups. We didn’t evolve to work in groups of more than 150, maybe 200 individuals max. People of any skin tone can be in my Monkeysphere, but if they’re outside of it, they’re somewhat less than human, less real. No one is above this.

I’m sure I’ll get comments from people who think they are above it. “Fuck you, you inhuman monster! I value ALL human life equally!” Nah, no one does.

It’s like this: which would upset you more, your best friend dying, or a dozen kids across town getting killed because their bus collided with a truck hauling killer bees? Which would hit you harder, your Mom dying, or seeing on the news that 15,000 people died in an earthquake in Iran?

https://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html

Plenty of research out there, aside from what’s included in the article. The author is mostly explaining Dunbar’s Number.

I cannot imagine any business leader crunching the numbers and concluding it’s better to stay with Oracle. I would order an all-hands-on-deck effort to rejigger the company database needs to get out from under these parasites.

Only explanation I got it that they are unwilling to stall current projects and/or hire more backend devs while sorting it out. And yes, I am well aware it’s a monstrous task, even for a small company.

LOL, have a look at what was posted, totally tame. I poked around last night and found some horrifying shit. This is not that.

Sure that’s the pic you wanted? Because I looked last night and found some heinous shit, nothing like that pic. Hell, my wife’s 54 and is the flatter version on doll second from right; Asian, hair color, all that.

Not going to post what I found, anyone curious can see for themselves, but what you posted isn’t even slightly offensive to me.

Damned interesting! Where’s the Homer Simpson quote about old guys having all the cool names like Carol and Meredith and Lesley?

Nah, his complaint was lack of torque. Very strange, never got it. Figured he was repeating fossil fuel propaganda. But he was a motorhead!

And yes, energy density is the thing no one talks about when raging against fossil fuels. A gallon of refined gasoline packs insane energy. I’ve run my 5-gallon, crappy Harbor Freight generator all night into the morning, powering the camp, heaters and all, never came close to emptying it. Contrast that with a monster LIPO4 battery that died in 48-hours only powering LED lights. (Gotta admit, something weird happened there.)

I’m more worried about the buyers than the sellers. Want something? Someone makes it. <goose_chasing_meme.jpg.>

My wife buys clothes from Shien now and again, but the vast majority of our “fashion” is used. We make enough selling used, flea market and FB, to finance buying more used clothes.

I have so many nice shoes, shirts, pants, jackets, etc., I’m begging her to stop bringing home shit even if it’s FREE. Fuck me, there’s a pile of new scrubbed Vans and Converse in the hallway right now. I spend ZERO on clothes. I have two tuxedos, with accessories, and everything on down.

If you think one has to have the latest sweater to impress, or be cool, you don’t know how to dress yourself.

Here I am wearing women’s clothes from the thrift. $20 total, watch, shoes, pants and jewelry included.

Not sure data is available due to the nature of the thing. Who is going to put in for a grant to study childlike fuck dolls and their effects? Topic’s poison, no data coming.

My ex-wife turned our baby sitter onto the ACA and she was ecstatic! “At least it isn’t that damned Obamacare!” Wife: “It’s the same thing.” Wish I had been there to see her face.

That’s a thought! Even fishing line could snag them, doesn’t even have to cut.