Scott Adams Thread (Garfield Cartoonist)

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edit to #919: He concluded today with parents losing all influence over their children about the[ir] age of seven. I saw that with my son who was born in the 1970s, when he went to first grade. I barely saw him in his teenage years, even though we lived together half time.

I'm getting more from other sources, Alex Christoforou in Cyprus and Palki Sharma in India (Afghanistan: Has Taliban Handed Over Bagram Airbase to US? | Vantage with Palki Sharma.

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Originally Posted by freebeard

edit to #919: He concluded today with parents losing all influence over their children about the[ir] age of seven. I saw that with my son who was born in the 1970s, when he went to first grade. I barely saw him in his teenage years, even though we lived together half time.

My daughter is approaching 7. I expect she'll be more influenced by us than typical girls her age since she has a difficult time making friends and seeks rule-following. The next older one will be a complete rebel.

I suppose that partially explains whey big societal changes occur generationally, as one cohort abandons the ways of the older generation.

My grandfather always said that academia was the "golden ticket", and that I need to pursue that as hard as possible. I hated 99 out of every 100 seconds of school. No way was I going to subject myself to that until I was 30 so that I can sign things with PhD

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I was the first and only member of my immediate family to obtain a B. S. degree. All it got me was a cushy assignment int the one-time Republic of South Vietnam.

I stepped out my door at noon and there was a Cahoot's van parked next door. They were interacting with my next door neighbors for an hour or so. They told me White Bird Clinic has fallen on hard times.

KLCC
White Bird, City end CAHOOTS in Eugene over contract, funding issues - KLCC
4 days agoOn Monday, the City of Eugene and White Bird Clinic announced that mobile crisis response service CAHOOTS would no longer serve Eugene due to contract and funding issues.. White Bird said it did not have the financial capacity to continue the nationally-known program, and had laid

In 1969, I left the most socialist environment I'd ever been in (the U S Army) and went directly into White Bird Clinic, a hotbed of anarchism. Most informative at the time.

White Bird Clinic
White Bird Clinic History
Out of this effort came White Bird Socio-medical Aid Station (later White Bird Clinic), incorporated in February 1970 as a 501(c)3 non-profit agency. With the help of many volunteers, the group could rent a house, staff it 24/7, train folks in crisis intervention, hold medical clinics with doctors and nurses, offer...

edit: Oh yeah, what I was going to say. No cats today; but it looks like I haven't been missing much.

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Idiots are mad that the federal government isn't forcibly taking their money to spend on a particular thing instead of that individual deciding to spend that money on that thing. I see idiots, all the time.

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And they're mad all the time to boot?

#923 described an interaction between a 501C non-profit and the City of Eugene, so

I do wonder if there was USAID money flowing into the Eugene Weekly. They are exceedingly doctrinaire.

Kat pictures again, so I listened to Alex Christoforou talk about things other than himself, and watched pictures of the streets of Limssol, Cyprus, and the surf and snails on the sidewalk.

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This is pretty wild. Another channel I follow on the 'Tube is The Lunduke Journal. He's one of the 'Internet Greybeards', and the story today is massive.

4Chan Hack Reveals University Professor Moderators, 10 Million Bans, 10 Year Old Software

This is [likely] the end of the 4Chan era, they were running on 10-year-old unsupported software, and the moderators used their .edu addresses. Some interesting stuff in the wreckage -- 10 million users were banned from an anonymous board. No apparent government involvement, else they're not a stupid as the educators.

The technical term for this is 'pants around the ankles'.

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I've been fixing friend's cars, on the road, in Boise for work, and on the road. Haven't listened recently and am too sleep deprived to recall anything if I had.

Somehow I never fell into the 4chan hole, so I don't know anything about it except that it was a primitive (for the information age) forum where photos of unclothed people existed.

As SA would say, don't do anything on the internet you wouldn't want others knowing about.

There's some saying that takes the premise further, that the only way to keep a secret between 2 people is if 1 of them is dead. This goes back to my prior comment that technology will make it increasingly difficult to maintain privacy, hold secrets, or to deceive (yet also be susceptible to deception via deep-fakes and such).

SA has been off his game recently, and he mentioned pain of some sort and a muscle relaxer. Hope he recovers back to normal acuity and energy.

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IIRC Boise, ID, was the third largest city in the West in the 1800s.

He's been wearing t-shirts that look like they're on backwards lately.

4chan, like Internet itself, is one of those things that was awesome, but then turned vile. It was started as you say as an image board, like 2chan. By a teenaged kid named Moot, down upon whom came the full weight of the deep state. Thoroughly taken over by the Marxists, then they get doxxed by a rival image board. And it's all laid bare as a lesson for us all.

Reddit followed a similar tragectory*, free speech platform to echo chamber. I avoid both after the early days.

* Misspelt, but I like it that way.

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'4chan is kill'

4chan Just Got Nuked Off the Internet... (A Full Breakdown)

A good summary, with reminders on why 4chan was important ("He will not divide us", the Internet hate machine) and the details on the exploit.

Long-time user Styxhexenhammer appreciates the irony of the Last Post. The comments here are prophesying revenge.

The perpetrators of the felony, Soyjack Party, have made some powerful enemies.

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Scott hasn't mentioned the 4-Chan story, though he's often responding to commentors saying they fell for a 4-chan hoax. I wonder if he'll use a different forum as an insult now? Q-anon perhaps?