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[#] Wed May 19 2021 10:25:14 EDT from ParanoidDelusions

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Truth. 

Wed May 19 2021 07:19:58 EDT from Nurb432

"A lot changed due to that war."

:)


Wed May 19 2021 12:07:40 AM EDT from ParanoidDelusions

Oh... we may have been off-track. 

But that was the event that was the catalyst for the centralization of Federal authority and the erosion of independent State rights that got us where we are today. 

Things *could* have gone another way. They didn't. 

 

Tue May 18 2021 18:12:22 EDT from Nurb432

Ah, yes i can see how one would think that.  A lot changed due to that war.

But many of us believe we lost our way far earlier, and that entire mess was just a result of that drift. 



 



 



 



[#] Sun Aug 15 2021 14:39:30 EDT from msgrhys

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Long time ago I pulled up a trot line from a river we never caught fish from and there was one catfish on it which proceeded to flip off the hook and roll back into the water. It must have been the only fish in the river, LOL!



[#] Fri Aug 27 2021 14:27:25 EDT from ParanoidDelusions

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So, I have mixed emotions about this YouTube video: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bgsARH_1aw&t=546s

I wish the Democrats hadn't made me such a cynic - because the girl is obviously bad-ass, loves shredding on the skins, and has an incredible presence when she is doing what she loves. 


But it is hard for me to believe that this is organic and unscripted. It fits too many of the narratives of the Left to perfectly. 

It breaks down gender stereotypes - a girl can't play the drums.

It breaks down ethnic stereotypes - black people don't like hard rock and can't shred as good at it as white folks. 

It breaks down age stereotypes. 


And the fact that Dave Ghrol has been doing this "bring an unknown on the stage and have them blow away the audience with their professional level skills," thing for so long further erodes its credibility. It almost seems as if every other example before was building up to *this* - that *this* wouldn't have been believable without the previous performances by more "believable" guest amateur appearances. 

The fact that the Foo Fighters consistently play Democrat functions, fund-raisers, and other events further destroys the believability that this isn't a full scripted, fully planned, fully rehearsed performance constructed *intentionally*. 

That it is just bread and circuses, theater to push more of the agenda of critical race theory and identity politics. 

But even cynically *knowing* all of these things - the performance is still moving. It is what the Right is up against - something that your rational brain tells you is all just a show - not *really* real... 

That the Democrats went out and scoured for the best young black female drummer they could find in the country, and then spent endless resources to make her even better, specifically at this song, then arranged with Ghrol and the Foo Fighters to have her do exactly this, well-staged guest performance, to be captured and distributed, just believably enough with a shaky, badly framed phone camera to add authenticity to it. This girl is really no different than a Chinese gymnast who had the entire mechanism of the state focused on making sure that she was the *best* example the nation could produce at any cost - not just economic ones, but psychological and developmental ones, too. 

This girl has been turned into a propaganda machine for the American Left. She'll do guest appearances on late night TV. She'll be at rallies. She'll be made into a celebrity to promote the agenda of the political Left at any cost - and she'll be rewarded, her family will be rewarded, for her sacrifice. But she'll probably give up everything a child should genuinely experience in the process. 

Another Greta Thunberg. The left weaponizes children to achieve their political goals. 

 



[#] Sat Aug 28 2021 13:58:19 EDT from test2

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Another Greta Thunberg. The left weaponizes children to achieve their political goals.

 

Just because you have ParanoidDelusions doesn't mean they're not out to get you.



[#] Sat Aug 28 2021 14:37:16 EDT from Nurb432

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But, is it delusional if you are right?

 

:)

Sat Aug 28 2021 01:58:19 PM EDT from test2

 

Just because you have ParanoidDelusions doesn't mean they're not out to get you.



 



[#] Sat Aug 28 2021 17:27:28 EDT from ParanoidDelusions

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There is a word for what they're doing... a big $10 word - that is on the tip of my tongue - but I can't verbalize it. Using people with complete disregard for their humanity - the most contemptible and deceptive exploitation of people. 


And it is worse because in many cases the people signing up for this, signing their children up for this - think they're doing a GOOD thing, the RIGHT thing. 

Not a lot about humanity's inhumanity to man bothers me a lot - but this kind of thing is so base and evil - in part because it exploits your desire to want it to be true... 

I just find that I can't come up with the words to fully express my revulsion to it. 






[#] Mon Aug 30 2021 14:40:46 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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If they wanted the real thing they would have brought in Sina.

[#] Sat Feb 05 2022 12:17:58 EST from ParanoidDelusions

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Today in Perfectly reasonable and rational perspectives that I am hesitant to post on mainstream social media but still need to get off my chest somewhere: 


So... In my ongoing drive to get cancelled -


And already people are calling for rules, regulations, enforcement and punishment.
In a world where a man can be a woman, a woman can be a man, you can be any ethnicity you want, any age, good looking or ugly, short or tall. You don't even have to be human. You can be Homer Simpson - or Speed Racer... or Godzilla.
 
And - you can pull the headset off any time you want. You can hit the power.
 
"The woman is vice president of Metaverse Research for Kabuni Ventures, an immersive technology company. "
 
And her name and the name of her small VR company are now making global news.
 
I've been involved in online communities since 1985 - people say the "Wild West" started with the frontier days of the WWW and Internet. If that is so, I'm one of the first colonists who arrived in the New Virtual World and put up a crude fort made out of rough hewn pine trees. There have ALWAYS been women involved in those communities - and most of them were tough, no-nonsense, strong women who would not be silenced or intimidated.
 
More recently, in the genre of First Person Shooters - a male dominated gaming genre - a practice of "Teabagging" arose. After you killed an opponent, you would stand over their corpse and repeatedly do a "crouching" action... simulating dropping your ballsack onto their face. Along with online "taunting" in these games (virtual shit-talking) these eventually caused controversy as more MAINSTREAM folks got into gaming.
 
But the fact of the matter is - and trust me - I've been teabagged more than once after losing a deathmatch - if it happens to you online - it is *implicitly* voluntarism. If it happened to you, it was because you stuck around to figure out exactly how it was playing out.
 
The same people who will insist that Kyle Rittenhouse should have gotten away without using lethal force, that he shouldn't even have been there - will insist that THIS woman had every right to be in a virtual environment and shouldn't have had to run away from her fantasy-world attackers - which was done as easily as just pulling her headset off and closing down the app. That is all she had to do to end the assault - and she claims instead she "froze" and experienced the whole ordeal and that it was psychologically traumatic to her. They'll support stand-your-ground in Virtual Realities and Online Communities - but in the real world, they'll argue that it was Kyle Rittenhouse's fault for being where he shouldn't have been (ignoring the fact that if Kyle was a woman and had been the victim of attempted rape - they would be outraged).
 
I don't really mind all of this - because there will always be places online where intelligent people gather outside of the strict boundaries, rules and controls of places like Facebook and Twitter. Maybe, it is even GOOD that we have destinations like this, for the rest of you, who amount to the mewing herd of online traffic and DEMAND regulation, enforcement, and safe-spaces where someone ELSE is charged with making sure YOU behave. The Kindergarten of Online Experience is where a lot of you belong - where everyone learns how to play nicely with one another and you run to a responsible adult to cry when someone hurts your feelings and breaks the rules.
 
What they need is some sort of Rating System or Seal of Safety that virtual destinations can put on the portal into those worlds. "We adhere to the K-12 Seal of VR Safety Approval."
 
With the implication that if that seal does not exist on a portal, you enter as an adult, at your own risk, with no safety net. One world for the Delores Umbridges of virtual realities - one that is absolutely anarchy - and the Umbridges better stay out of the dark forest, or the Centaurs might have a little party in mind.
 
If you need your carefully manicured online destinations under the eyes and authority of those who are the final, biased, inconsistent arbiters of what is acceptable and not, what is harassments, or abuse, or allowed to be said or spoken or thought or acted out - if you're an adult who thinks that the entire universe should be PG13 - then let's make spaces for you to experience that. If fantasy experiences can traumatize you so badly that you experience real world regrets from online events - you NEED to be in environments where someone else is looking out for you.
 
But in the meantime, let's not let sensationalism and media attention-seeking rush us into making broad and sweeping laws and regulations that cripple the innovation and development of new technologies.
 
I'll give this woman the benefit of the doubt. Despite being the VP of a Virtual Reality startup, maybe she was so taken by surprise, so unaware of the potential for something like this and so shocked by the behavior she experienced that she froze and forgot that she could just turn it all off in an instant - and instead rode out the entire experience (no pun intended) despite the fact that it was causing her fragile and delicate psyche irreparable harm.
 
Clearly she shouldn't be the VP of a Virtual Reality startup. Seems like she should be in a department more like HR - and her experiences online and VR should be carefully curated experiences suitable to her highly emotional, submissive and sensitive nature.



[#] Sat Feb 05 2022 14:24:57 EST from zelgomer

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This post was so long that it prompted me to log in with the web client to reply. So congratulations for that. Now enjoy my utter incompetence with the rich text editor.

Sat Feb 05 2022 12:17:58 ESTfrom ParanoidDelusions
And - you can pull the headset off any time you want. You can hit the power.
Moreover, I would like to know the specific mechanics of her "rape." In every online game I've ever played,  you can't actually physically interact with other players, but rather your avatar just moves through their avatar. Not only does that make the netcode a lot simpler, but it adds no benefit except to provide a tool for griefing; e.g., I could imagine trolls using bot accounts to block players' paths, etc.
 
I would bet what she experienced was other players simulating rude gestures with their own avatars, similar to the custom of tea bagging that you described. In which case, this woman didn't experience virtual rape, she experienced somebody making rude gestures in a VR chat. Oh, the humanity!!
 
The same people who will insist that Kyle Rittenhouse should have gotten away without using lethal force, that he shouldn't even have been there - will insist that THIS woman had every right to be in a virtual environment and shouldn't have had to run away from her fantasy-world attackers - which was done as easily as just pulling her headset off and closing down the app. That is all she had to do to end the assault - and she claims instead she "froze" and experienced the whole ordeal and that it was psychologically traumatic to her. They'll support stand-your-ground in Virtual Realities and Online Communities - but in the real world, they'll argue that it was Kyle Rittenhouse's fault for being where he shouldn't have been (ignoring the fact that if Kyle was a woman and had been the victim of attempted rape - they would be outraged).
Great point! Maybe what Meta needs is a way to arm avatars to defend themselves. I'd love to see how well that would go over.

What they need is some sort of Rating System or Seal of Safety that virtual destinations can put on the portal into those worlds. "We adhere to the K-12 Seal of VR Safety Approval."

The article gave me the impression that invitations to this world were sent to 18+ recipients. I think that such a seal of safety did exist, and she knowingly stepped through it by her own volition.


In seriousness, this sort of segregation does exist. It's the reason why I prefer mediums like IRC, Citadel, or similar. Myspace and Facebook and Twatter - while vile cess pools - do have their place. They serve as honey pots for the unwashed masses. The "social media" that I use generally benefits from self selection. Now if we could just keep this crap out of the news so that we could ignore the adult children entirely, then we could achieve Utopia.



[#] Sun Feb 06 2022 08:43:05 EST from Nurb432

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Haptive-feedback bodysuits are coming. And you can already buy 'interactive sex toys' ( nothing new, just now they are Bluetooth and internet enabled..  ) and other things like gloves that give you physical feedback from your game. Even game controlled shock collars are availble.

Not that i agree with these 'acts' being labeled as such,  just commenting that the 'interaction' can be remotely ( pun intended ) physically interactive today, and options will only increase..   And im sure the woke will adjust to incldue them when they need to.

 
Moreover, I would like to know the specific mechanics of her "rape." In every online game I've ever played,  you can't actually physically interact with other players, but rather your avatar just moves through their avatar.

 



[#] Sun Feb 06 2022 22:26:28 EST from ParanoidDelusions

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Yeah, but these things are fairly sophisticated, and require plug ins and scripting in the environment in order to pass through. I doubt the Metaverse base environment has this without a lot of opting in involved. 

She would have certainly had to give permission to some requester, "Let other avatars interact and activate your haptic feedback devices." 

And once more... she is the VP of a VR company. 

The haptic stuff is expensive and most of it is pre-release at the moment too... so - she would have to run into 3 people with those things, and have them herself, with everyone opted in to full interactive mode with one another - for anything PHYSICAL to have occurred. 

It stinks of a publicity stunt *and* a push to be able to better monitor, control, and limit the experience of players online. 

 

 

Sun Feb 06 2022 08:43:05 EST from Nurb432

Haptive-feedback bodysuits are coming. And you can already buy 'interactive sex toys' ( nothing new, just now they are Bluetooth and internet enabled..  ) and other things like gloves that give you physical feedback from your game. Even game controlled shock collars are availble.

Not that i agree with these 'acts' being labeled as such,  just commenting that the 'interaction' can be remotely ( pun intended ) physically interactive today, and options will only increase..   And im sure the woke will adjust to incldue them when they need to.

 
Moreover, I would like to know the specific mechanics of her "rape." In every online game I've ever played,  you can't actually physically interact with other players, but rather your avatar just moves through their avatar.

 



 



[#] Mon Feb 07 2022 08:25:59 EST from Nurb432

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Didn't mean it was common, just that it does exist.  And as Zucker's perversion of our metaverse happens, stuff like that will come down in price, and be more main stream.

 

( Reduction of prices and better hardware, due to larger demand for better equipment is the ONLY thing i see that is good.  So far we are a nice market, and thus have to suffer with sub-par hardware and in many cases, software.  We have had to live with 1/2 baked solutions like google cardboard. ( which was nice, dont get me wrong, but never advanced beyond what was introduced )



[#] Tue Feb 08 2022 20:46:38 EST from LoanShark

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In a world where a man can be a woman, a woman can be a man, you
can be any ethnicity you want, any age, good looking or ugly, short

Whoppi Goldberg can be any ethnicity she wants. (She's been lying about being Jewish throughout her career)

but YOU can't ;-p

[#] Tue Feb 15 2022 00:22:53 EST from ParanoidDelusions

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I *can* be a white woman, if I want. They'll allow me to change my gender and my sexual preference all I want - and if I do... I suddenly get protected minority status. 

It is the ONLY path they give to a straight white male to be part of the new order. Emasculate yourself. 

Did you read about the TG that was convicted of sexual assault on a minor and because "she" has transitioned and committed the offense as an adolescent - she has to be held in a GIRL'S juvenile facility? 


You can't make this up. California. "This guy who molested an underaged girl now identifies as a girl, so we're going to lock HER up with a bunch of underaged girls." 

They promise to keep her isolated from other prisoners. Like, you know, how they kept Manson separated from the general population, until he got left in the yard and a bunch of gangbangers beat the shit out of him. 

 

Tue Feb 08 2022 20:46:38 EST from LoanShark
In a world where a man can be a woman, a woman can be a man, you
can be any ethnicity you want, any age, good looking or ugly, short

Whoppi Goldberg can be any ethnicity she wants. (She's been lying about being Jewish throughout her career)

but YOU can't ;-p

 



[#] Tue Feb 15 2022 17:10:53 EST from Nurb432

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Which ultimately, was ok. 

Tue Feb 15 2022 12:22:53 AM EST from ParanoidDelusions

 


They promise to keep her isolated from other prisoners. Like, you know, how they kept Manson separated from the general population, until he got left in the yard and a bunch of gangbangers beat the shit out of him. 




 



[#] Wed Feb 16 2022 00:58:06 EST from ParanoidDelusions

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Yeah, but this time when the prison guards fuck up and leave the dude who is supposed to be isolated in the yard when they also let general population out... it isn't going to be Manson getting banged up by a bunch of gangbangers looking for credibility... 

It is going to be some dude who claims he is a girl banging an inmate. 




Tue Feb 15 2022 17:10:53 EST from Nurb432

Which ultimately, was ok. 

Tue Feb 15 2022 12:22:53 AM EST from ParanoidDelusions

 


They promise to keep her isolated from other prisoners. Like, you know, how they kept Manson separated from the general population, until he got left in the yard and a bunch of gangbangers beat the shit out of him. 




 



 



[#] Wed Feb 16 2022 16:58:31 EST from Nurb432

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To me its someone who is in prison for hurting a child.   Don't matter what orientation you are, you are scum and should burn. 

Wed Feb 16 2022 12:58:06 AM EST from ParanoidDelusions

Yeah, but this time when the prison guards fuck up and leave the dude who is supposed to be isolated in the yard when they also let general population out... it isn't going to be Manson getting banged up by a bunch of gangbangers looking for credibility... 

It is going to be some dude who claims he is a girl banging an inmate. 





[#] Fri Feb 18 2022 08:31:41 EST from ParanoidDelusions

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Let me clarify... 


They're putting a man, who now identifies as a woman, in a juvenile hold facility for GIRLS, because he assaulted a girl when he was a minor. 

It feels to me like locking up a guy guilty of stealing candy in a Hershey's factory because he claims he identifies as a Reese's cup. 

If he gets the opportunity to steal more candy while locked in that factory - at that point - YOU put him there, right? It just doesn't seem like the most well executed crime and punishment scenario. 


Kind of like reassigning a Priest accused of abuse to an orphanage. "We'll show YOU, Father McNasty!" 



Wed Feb 16 2022 16:58:31 EST from Nurb432

To me its someone who is in prison for hurting a child.   Don't matter what orientation you are, you are scum and should burn. 

Wed Feb 16 2022 12:58:06 AM EST from ParanoidDelusions

Yeah, but this time when the prison guards fuck up and leave the dude who is supposed to be isolated in the yard when they also let general population out... it isn't going to be Manson getting banged up by a bunch of gangbangers looking for credibility... 

It is going to be some dude who claims he is a girl banging an inmate. 





 



[#] Fri Feb 18 2022 10:19:49 EST from Nurb432

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I must have missed the part of putting an adult with children. I thought it was just women's prison, where he will be taught a lesson, so to speak.



[#] Tue Feb 22 2022 13:12:11 EST from ParanoidDelusions

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Nope. He committed the crime when he was 17, and somehow they screwed up on prosecuting him, and the California law says that although he is now a she and she is now an adult, the crime was a juvenile offense and therefore the convicted has to serve their punishment at a juvenile facility - in this case - one that matches their gender identity. 

So, they're punishing a man who now identifies as a woman - who sexually assaulted a 10 year old girl when she was a 17 year old HE - by incarcerating "her" in a holding facility where they imprison underaged girls. 

What could possibly go wrong? They may have to drag her out when she completes her sentence. 

 

 

Fri Feb 18 2022 10:19:49 EST from Nurb432

I must have missed the part of putting an adult with children. I thought it was just women's prison, where he will be taught a lesson, so to speak.



 



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