Scott Adams Thread (Garfield Cartoonist)

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There's nothing interesting about haiku, yet I was forced to do it anyhow.

How many syllables in 'interesting?

For example, if a vehicle works well but looks terrible, it serves the function of transport, but if a vehicle looks awesome but doesn't work, it's useless.

Mona Lisa isn't best, just vastly over-rated. [IMHO]

He was droll, and musical. My link was mostly ASMR.

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I paused at #2486 at 52:50 and convinced myself that his nose deviates to the right, as does mine. I always wonder whether boys whose father is left-handed tend to deviate to the left.

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I think this is pretty important. I bought and read Bob Toben's book Space, Time and Beyond in the 1970s.

Now Jack Sarfatti is back, with an hour compilation on Prof Simon Holland's Youtube channel, and free admission to his Patreon page (today only?) where there is a PDF titled IMPLICATIONS OF META-PHYSICS FOR PSYCHOENERGETIC SYSTEMS.

Sarfatti was the inspiration for Doc Brown in Back to the Future. And Spielberg has a new UFO movie coming out....

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An interesting topic today. Organoid Computing.

I am immediately reminded of Isaac Asimov's Positronic Brains.

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Today Scott Adams admits he has to look up how to force quit a Macintosh application each time. And it happens all the time.

I'd just put the key combination on a piece tape on the top of the monitor.

Else just remember "three-finger salute", that will trigger a memory.

Now he's on to AI's Overton Window.

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I found the episode to be a bit more interesting today compared to other recent shows, though a rehash of his previous ideas (which is good to get a refresher from time to time).

The difference between wanting and deciding is good to be reminded.

He's asked how to force-quit on a Mac at least a dozen times that I've listened, and he doesn't have to remember because he's got thousands of helpdesk resources within chat distance.

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It's been stored in my motor memory since 1984. OSX reduced the need quite a bit.

I'd paused it for a while. If I ever need to defend my 4473s, I'll use the Hunter defense. We didn't hear a peep about nullification in the last big trial.

Edit: "We don't have to live like that" ==> https://www.geoship.is/

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Scott's got a little bit of whatever the opposite of TDS is and is being manipulated by political season.

Only thing I remember from today's episode is how lovely sounding 'Tesla' is, and how off-putting 'Fisker' is.

But, Elon's a moran who can't tie shoes, as evidenced by all of the impossible accomplishments.

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I was listening, but when I opened this page it froze my little Raspberry Pi (again). Now I have an appointment across town.

I did listen to his affirmation mini-lesson yesterday.

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Scott had extra content in the form of a conversation with Michael Ian Black. Don't know who that is, or why he prefers to be known by his full name, but he was smart and courteous, and flustered Scott a little.

The conversation was instigated by a Tweet Scott made saying you can't have a worthwhile conversation involving politics with people who believe the news is real. There's enough truth in that statement to have a good discussion except...

Too much of the discussion involved the "fine people" hoax. I recently listened carefully to how Biden worded things when he was campaigning, and there was implied meaning in "fine people on both sides", but not explicit accusation. It was a brilliant tactic as evidenced by the outcome. Who's brilliance, is unclear.

I dislike when Scott is high while livestreaming because he's less articulate, even slower than his normal slow self, and is less sharp. This, despite his claim that we couldn't tell if he was high or not.

I'll have to check out Michael Black's ideas. Would have liked to see Scott unpack the reasons why we should be more skeptical of news and his methods of giving weight to the validity of information, instead of boasting about times he was right.

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Would have liked to see Scott unpack the reasons why we should be more skeptical of news and his methods of giving weight to the validity of information...

I bailed about halfway through, not enough of that and too much back and forth.

I recently listened carefully to how Biden worded things .... It was a brilliant tactic

You have to be alert for weasel words.

One of the hoaxes Scott Adams was taken in for, but only for 24 hours, was IIRC the Covington Kid, Nick Sandman's case. I flagged it at once for confirmation when the video that circulated was cut mid-sentence.

It must not work anymore since the Democrats who were doing it right along are now calling out 'cheap fakes'.

On a side note as cRiPpLe_rOoStEr would say, if Ecomodder is headquartered in Canada is it subject to Canada's new speech prohibitions?

https://www.snopes.com › news › 2024 › 05 › 14 › canada-law-hate-speech
Canada's Justin Trudeau Introduced Law To Imprison Anyone Who Ever ...
May 14, 2024 The Trudeau regime has introduced an Orwellian new law called the Online Harms Bill C-63, which will give police the power to retroactively search the Internet for "hate speech" violations and ...

Can we trust Snopes now that they have admitted the Fine People Hoax?