DagwoodIII

NYC here.

Fuck no.

Glad to see someone is out here asking the real questions!

Old English saying “The wogs begin at Calais.”

Meaning if you aren’t English you really aren’t White.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bynar#Appearances

ACCCCCCCTualy it’s ‘Bynars’

[you see what you made me do???]

Back in the day, Isaac Asimov said that by strict definition, a mousetrap was a ‘robot.’

It’s a machine that can act without a human controlling it, to perform a specific task.

‘The Doctor’ was designed to provide a wide variety of functions, with access to a vast array of medical/social/spiritual information, plus the capacity to diagnose new diseases.

On the other hand, the entertainment holograms Reg was dealing with were little better than current day AIs like Siri or Alexa.

imho

I actually never ate the crayons when I was a kid. But if you want to go out and buy them and eat them, then I respect your right to choose

If voting doesn’t work, why does the Right work so hard to stop people from voting?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_efforts_to_restrict_voting_following_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election#%3A~%3Atext=The+bills+are+largely+centered+around+limiting+mail-in%2C"under+the+radar"+approach+to+achieve+their+goals.

The ice dancing has beautiful music that the participant spent hours agonizing over.

The netowrks have some idiot babbling over the music.

You do realize that you can both vote and work to destroy the system at the same time, right?

It’s like when you were in school and you could do math and then play with crayons and then have a nap, all in one day.

I am a huge fan of these books.

A Berlin police detective resigns after his Jewish boss is fired. He sets up as a private eye and is eventually forced to join the Army.

Bill Cosby - You spend your whole life making yourself the old person you’re going to become.

Actually, he said a lot of really good things…

Also Reagan.

Boris and Ivan are chatting and Ivan says that one day he wants to go to America.

Boris sneers. “Anything they have in America we have in Russia. They have cities and we have cities. Both got mountains and beaches and farms. No difference.”

“In America you have freedom! I can stand in front of the White House and scream that Ronald Reagan is a big dummy and no one will arrest me.”

“You can do that here. Go stand in front of the Kremlin and scream Ronald Reagan is a big dummy. No one will lift a finger.”

In “The Stars My Destination” Alfred Bester wrote that conspicuous consumption was the basis of all civilization

Because that’s what the author chose.

Variation on the joke.

Parents of a high school age boy and girl have a photo on the living room wall.

It’s a picture of a fat, bald old man in a Speedo standing on a yacht with a pretty girl hugging him.

“It’s to inspire our kids to stay in school and get good grades. We want our son to try and be like the man, and our daughter not to be like the woman who is with him.”

I don’t follow Trek as much as I used to.

I’d guess that the problem is that it’s hard to come up with stories in a happy world where everyone gets to choose their own path.

Back in the Cronkite Era, there was an FCC policy called ‘The Fairness Doctrine.’

If a TV or radio station broadcast an editorial, they were required to provide time for the opposition. Also, no one company could own more than one TV station in a town.

Ronald Reagan started the war on that as soon as he took office.

Nope, totally different.

Look at the price of Super Bowl tickets.

First Bowl tickets were $10.00. This year they were going for $6,000.00

Top luxury car in 1960 was $7,500.00 for a sports car and $35,000.00 for a Rolls or Bentley. Most expensive car today is $30 million.

The rich have gotten much, much richer and ‘need’ to spend more so people will notice.

It’s like any other luxury.

Back in 1960, minimum wage was $1.00/hour. You could get a meal at a diner for under $1.00 or go to a really swanky place and spend $4.00 or $5.00.

Today, minimum wage is $7.50, a diner meal is $20.00, and a luxury meal is $100.00

You can go out a find a really well build product that will last, but it will cost ten times as much as the one you can afford.

[off topic]

Short science fiction story. Can’t recall author or title.

Post WW3 magic has returned and almost all tech is gone.

Wizard can control anything he knows the true name of, but humans never tell anyone else their true names and animals can’t speak.

Finds a book from the Before Times; the book lists all the Latin names of animals.

Now the most powerful mage alive.