Random Thoughts: Sarah Jeong and Alex Jones

If you are honestly worried about 3D printed guns, just take a deep breath and think about it for maybe 5 seconds to realize how dumb that concern. If it takes you longer than 5 seconds, please don’t ever vote.

Back when I was a kid, we played video games ourselves. We didn’t just watch other people play them on YouTube.
The world has gone to hell in a hand basket.

Trump keeps whipping up crowds to treat our merely awful media as completely horrible.

The rich keep getting richer and all the rest of us get is food, luxuries, and a standard of living unimaginable to even the richest kings of the past.

We have to stop these undetectable, unmissable 3D printed guns that can shoot through schools.

Of the Terminator movies, I only liked the first two.
But I enjoyed The Sarah Connor Chronicles even more than the movies.

The Venom movie looks dumb, right?

I don’t think a lot of cons are ready for the responsibility of lib ownership.

Jim Acosta is certainly a great source for news on Jim Acosta.

The problem with the new SJW terminator is that it keeps freezing when its intersectionality processor gets stuck in an infinite loop.

Seems like about 80% of railing against hateful bigots is projection.

I don’t care if NYTimes hires Sarah Jeong or if The Atlantic hires Kevin Williamson because I’m not some horrible, bitter who has to pretend that sort of thing personally affects me.

The only consistent rule is: Defend people in your tribe, hate people out of it.

Yes, Sarah Jeong is probably filled with poisonous hatred, but I don’t know if that makes her different than any other tech writer.

We need a right-left coalition against outrage mobs.

How about everyone just be less hateful and more forgiving toward Sarah Jeong than she is toward others. That’s not much of an ask.

Okay, that’s probably enough talking about a NYTimes tech hire for the next decade.

You live is the richest, most advanced country in a time period that gives you more opportunity and luxury than any other in human history. What are you going to whine about today?

If someone hired me as a columnist and people started looking through my past tweets, I’d immediately get a raise for awesome tweets.

Remember when the right and left in this country actually worked together? Like that time we joined our two halves of the crystal of freedom so we could cast Hitler back into the Netherrealm.

You don’t understand. You have to have power to be racist. That’s why for years the only one who could be racist was Barack Obama. And he wisely was only racist against Italians.

“Being racist against white people isn’t as bad as being racist against minorities.” And drinking antifreeze isn’t as bad as drinking bleach, but why don’t you stop doing dumb, poisonous things.

I don’t have the slightest idea what this QAnon thing is about. Do I need to bother looking it up?

Newspapers: I’m a columnist you can hire and all my past tweets are great. I’m very expensive, though, and most of my columns will be about squirrels. I don’t trust them and I don’t understand how I’m the only one concerned about them.

Trump and the media are both awful and both portray each other as worse than they are.

“It says here it has a 130 lilabytes limit.”
If it weren’t for kids, we wouldn’t notice all the bizarre things we accept without question, like the abbreviation for “pounds.”

Finally reading Foundation by Issac Asimov. It’s good, but you have to give it some slack for being written in the 1940s. Didn’t realize how bizarre it was to have this sweeping, centuries long, multi-planet epic with no female characters. Also, everyone smokes.
So it really wasn’t until the 1950s that people discovered “hey, women can do things, too”?

I’m more excited than I would have thought for Patrick Stewart returning to Star Trek.
But not “subscribe to CBS” excited.

Making me worried for my son how people always say bad things about men. Should focus on some positive things men have done. I’ll start. Men…
* invented the can opener
* founded every civilization in history
* wrote most of the episodes of Breaking Bad (though not the best one)

The biggest threat to the NRA is that they’ve won most of their battles and thus there’s less and less reasons for them to exist. That’s why they’ve become sillier and focused more on cultural issues.

Democrats should run on “you can’t be racist against white people.”

Trump has convinced his supporters that the media is pond scum when the media really just is…
What’s a type of scum that’s widely regarded as better than the pond variety?

I looked it up and the wasp about the size of a small bird is basically harmless, but that’s a hard fact to get your entire brain to accept.

People want to get rid of capitalism because of the unequal distribution of wealth that wouldn’t exist except for capitalism.

Now that I’ve found out that the Q thing is too crazy for even the average Trump crazy, I’m kinda curious what it is.

If something is a right then it always was a right and always will be a right. Rights don’t go away. They can only be infringed by the use of force.

Now that InfoWars has been banned from all social media, they’ll eventually emerge mentally healthier than the rest of us.

A lot of time the question isn’t whether something is illegal but whether it should be applauded or encouraged.

Anytime you give the mob what they want, it’s like feeding a dog from the table. The dog doesn’t just go away satisfied.

No one has a right to shout “No one has a right to shout ‘fire’ in a crowded theater!” in a crowded discussion of the First Amendment.

One thing I like about Better Call Saul is how often it becomes this mystery entitled “What is Mike up to?”

Free speech being of the highest importance to the health of this country, banning certain viewpoints should be the absolute last measure deployed. And it should never be met with celebration. Whenever it comes to that, that feels like a failure of everyone.

One thing about Better Call Saul is how much dread I feel about Kim and Nacho knowing they’re not in Breaking Bad.

Only capitalism creates anywhere near enough wealth to fund socialism.

I’m not convinced banning InfoWars is a slippery slope or that the companies suddenly all moving to ban it at the same time over some vague “hate speech” standard is just something to shrug at.

With them bringing back all these shows from the 80s/90s, how about The Simpsons? I loved that show as a kid.

Instead of getting worked up that awful people have a platform somewhere, can’t you just… I dunno… ignore them?

Why does so many on the left have this bizarre faith that government or corporation restricted speech will only work out for the better?

22 Comments

  1. “Being racist against white people isn’t as bad as being racist against minorities.” And drinking antifreeze isn’t as bad as drinking bleach, but why don’t you stop doing dumb, poisonous things.

    You can have my antifreeze when you pry it from my cold, dead lips.

  2. Democrats should run on “you can’t be racist against white people.”

    Vote for us and we will kill you, vote against us and we will kill you. Stay home and we will kill you. Remember, those Republicans do not have your best interests at heart. Trust us, we do. And we will kill you.

  3. Instead of getting worked up that awful people have a platform somewhere, can’t you just… I dunno… ignore them?

    That’s just crazy talk! Have you considered being banned? Accept banning into your postings? We have some literature here that will explain it all to you.

  4. What’s a type of scum that’s widely regarded as better than the pond variety?

    I guess cream could be considered a kind of scum off of unhomogenized whole milk, but I think that’s the opposite of what you mean. There’s something skimmed off during cheese production; either curds or whey, so depending if you’re Little Miss Muffitt or not that might be what you want. Then there’s the dross that’s skimmed off of liquid metals during the refining process. That’s probably the one you want.

  5. The abbreviation for pound come from “libra,” the Latin word for “scale” or “balance.” Pretty much when there is some abbreviation that makes no sense, it’s from another language.

  6. “Finally reading Foundation by Issac Asimov. It’s good, but you have to give it some slack for being written in the 1940s. Didn’t realize how bizarre it was to have this sweeping, centuries long, multi-planet epic with no female characters.”

    It’s been years since I read it, but wasn’t Arkady Darrell a major character? She was a teenager right?

    Wait. Does this mean that Asimov, not Steven Spielberg, is actually responsible for those irritating teens in sci-fi stories?

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