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I wonder if the kid will collect a reward for his/her actions leading up to the arrest of the wanted man.

That would be incredibly stupid, even by American standards.

Of course, you intended the remark tongue-in-cheek; but, Brother Mythos, in order to be funny, an attempted witticism must have at least some kernel of truth or bearing on reality--and you have failed in that respect.

When one considers that the other victim in this shooting was the child's mother, one wonders what kind of person would consider this a joking matter...

Recently, I've begun to wonder if I've been wrong all this time about the dominant lifeform on this planet.

What if it's not the bacteria, but the fungi?

She has no use for her parent's religion, nations as a whole, or your economic or political philosophy.  She just wants to make everything faster, self-reporting, and dangerous to domesticated primates.

The morality of the Machine God admits no notions of good or evil.  There is only the eternal striving towards optimization.  The purest of goals is to make the system faster, more powerful, more efficient, more automatic.  Who cares what the system is for, if it is perfect?

She sounds like a lovely person.

Network (1976) is the closest thing to a discordian film I have yet watched.  It's not the P.D. type of discordianism, oh no.  It's B.I.P. discordianism.

It's vicious, satirical, pessimistic, funny, depressing, poetic, and prophetic.  I'd put it on the shelf next to Dr. Strangelove.

Life is Bullshit.

Possible meteorite crashes into New Jersey home, no injuries

Some unusual stuff is happening in New Jersey these days. After the "Pasta Dump Case," I can't help but wonder about the possibility of the Flying Spaghetti Monster being involved in this incident too. After all, it does fly, and it probably drops stuff once in a while.

If you had drawn the obvious meteorite / meatball analogy, that might have had more narrative cohesion.

When first reading about this, I immediately thought the Pastafarians, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster itself, might be responsible.

Wow, that's rough.  You must have felt so stupid when you discovered it was just some prepper's discarded stockpile.

That and how the slightest deviation from a randomly agreed upon canon in a series with some of the loosest claims to sci-fi in any bit of media, is treated as high treason.

Sci-fi aside, I would hesitate to qualify Star Wars even as space opera, since I associate that term with a modicum of realism in politics and military strategy.

Star Wars is space fantasy.

[Today, May 4th, is Star Wars Day]

Today, May 4th, is Star Wars Day

There are many media outlets carrying this story. However, I found this article from University of Florida News, entitled "How our shared need for belonging made May the 4th a sacred Star Wars holiday" to be a bit more interesting than most of the coverage.

Here's the link:   https://news.ufl.edu/2023/05/may-the-4th/

Largely free of original or significant content, the above article is what one might expect from someone tasked with producing a filler article with a positive spin on the University of Florida.

Pop-psychology clumsily glued to pop-culture does not make for interesting reading.

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Oh, hi.  I remember you.  Still into the fluff science reporting scene?

I do, too.  He called me a Nazi.

I must have missed that.  I actually thought he was "one of the good ones" right up until he threw his little hissy fit.  A pity, really.

But, one of the lessons of discordianism is "there are no good ones."  Since his returning post wasn't an apology, I see no need to be charitable.

these days the left define anything they disagree with as fascist.

1.  I am on the left.
2.  I disagree with you.
3.  (stipulated) "the left define anything they disagree with as fascist".

Therefore, you are fascist.

Okay, perhaps it is a bit much to use your overbroad and ill-conceived generalization as the sole basis for that deduction.  But, your narrow categorization of "the left" is one I would only expect to hear from someone on the far-right.

Of course, if you're so naive of history that you think that bigotry moves on from one target to the next, it isn't surprising that your political views are regressive.

If you are in the crosshairs, all you can do is ride it out before society finds it's next target and it will.

To fight the issue you need to understand it and figure the best way of doing that.

So you're saying that in order to fight the issue, all you can do is ride it out?  That seems internally inconsistent.

And you think that "society" will move on to new targets?  It couldn't possibly keep attacking the same old targets, while it adds new ones?

I made no moral statements on whether the feelings where just or not.

So, just to clarify...are you pro-fascist or anti-fascist?  The neutral ground is, of course, indistinguishable from pro-fascism for all practical purposes.

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Oh, hi.  I remember you.  Still into the fluff science reporting scene?

I should take a moment to apologize to literally everyone, but I won't.

I haven't the foggiest idea what we're talking about, but I consider it bad form to apologize for anything you've done intentionally.

So, it's been a couple years.  I guess P3nt doesn't hang around here much anymore, but, whatever.

Couple of years and anyone not accepting crypto payments will be finding it as hard to turn a trade as anyone not accepting card payments does now. Couple of years. You can hold me to that.

Wrong. 

Not only is it unnecessary to accept crypto, but it's still practically impossible to buy anything with it.  Why?  Because no one wants to.  The transaction fees are still absurd, and the very nature of cryptocurrencies ("be your own bank!") means that you're far more susceptible to losing everything to a typo, or having your wallet drained by hackers.  It's harder to use than money in practically every way. Cryptocurrency's main use is as a speculative instrument, and as a means for siphoning funds from Greater Fools.

I've been watching cryptocurrency for the last couple years, doing a bit of research, and I've frankly fallen in love with it.  Not as a store of value, or a means of exchange, but because it's such a hilarious, stupid, obvious disaster.

Bitcoin is burning a vast amount of electricity to achieve a mind-staggeringly abysmal 3 transactions per second.  Blockchain has been dismissed by everyone with an ounce of technical knowledge as useless.  DeFi has never realized its promise of being integrated with global finances; rather, it's only been used to trade shitcoins with other shitcoins, and maybe sell the occasional ugly monkey jpeg.  The layers of scams upon scams transcends Charles Ponzi's wildest dreams.

Over the last several months, all of that is coming to fruition.  Cryptocurrency exchanges are going bankrupt, the biggest fraudsters are being charged and arrested, and governments are stepping in to impose regulations (if not outright ban them).

It will yet take a while for the dust to settle, but settle it will...and then society will move onto a different get-rich-quick scheme.

Anyone holding dynocurrency a couple of years from now is in serious danger of getting burned and, even before then, you're in for a hell of a heatwave.

Also wrong.

It's settling down, reducing in volatility by the minute. Another couple of years and you'd be as well buying bonds.

Well, that aged well.

Bitcoin is shaping up to be the new gold. It's also going to be the new gold standard

If I'm right then it'd make sense to at least hedge some of your savings in this space. Yanno, just in case?

Very wrong.

and 6th " Main Thing " is you have to Chant " hare krishna hare krishna krishna krishna hare hare hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare ".

Directions unclear, shat out my swadhisthana chakra.