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[ArtemisVale]

[evensgrey]

While screamingly funny, it's also quite poignant.

(For those not wanting to read through over a decade's worth of thrice-weekly strips, read the spoiler.  For those that do, go here http://freefall.purrsia.com/.)

[spoiler]The chip is Doctor Bowman, a first-generation uplifted animal, intended to be a soldier.  This didn't work at all well, but he ended up becoming a key scientist in the development of a much better and more generalized uplift technology that not only has in-built safeguards to prevent the uplifted from turning out as rage-fueled psychopaths like him, but also is applicable to Terran animals, alien animals, and poorly-built neural network computers.  The wolf is Florence Ambrose, a Bowman's Wolf, second-generation uplifted animal, who grew up essentially like a human child and has trained as an engineer.  He was very upset by how her 'off switch' has been abused recently and has just changed her security settings to prevent her being damaged by such abuse in the future.  In terms of time, the strip has been running for about 16 years, and covered less than one month for the characters.[/spoiler]

[AnCap Dave]

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[Travis Retriever]

"Context determines meaning."--Hawkeye was the one who first said it to me, but I doubt he was the first to ever say it.

This is, by far the best advice in terms of reading/conversation comprehension I've ever gotten. Very helpful for figuring stuff out.  Example, when talking about weight gain, if it's around, say, two women trying to lose weight, they will likely be talking about fat because how many women do you know want to look like Ronnie Coleman?  If it's say, between some skinny guys in the gym, they're likely talking about gaining some muscle.  Context.  It's not just a buzzword used by Christians failing to defend their dogma.

[Dukect45]

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[Dallas Wildman]

A nice little reminder for the SJW's out there
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[ArtemisVale]

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Mentioning the free market and reason magizine without demonizing them? Subscribed!

[AnCap Dave]

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[Travis Retriever]

"If you want to make a lot of noise and get nothing done, join a protest."
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[Travis Retriever]

"Standards of morality are no substitute for economic logic. Economics requires study and systematic thinking about the implications of action, choice, and ownership in a world of scarcity. It is a science that delineates the limits of how far the human mind can wander when thinking about what society can and should be. This is one reason that intellectuals, even great ones, take such pains to avoid studying economics, and instead latch on to fantasies like socialism and syndicalism."--James Ostrowski, Chomsky's Economics:  https://mises.org/daily/1132

[Travis Retriever]

"We are all expendable."--Don't know if this is a fav or fail (too tired), but I suppose I'll just stick it here for now.

"People who brag about how 'experience' is better than books have always annoyed me, and I think I found out why.  They can never ever show or say why or how that is the case.  Don't get me wrong.  The best way to learn something, I've found, is being taught by someone who knows their shit.  But why can't these people ever put their money where their mouth is and just put their guru/sage advice into words and have the rest of us mere bookworms be that much better? Or could it be all their bragging about the 'virtues of experience over books' is nothing but hot air?  That they really don't know the shit as good as they think?"--Me

[Ibrahim90]

Just read this in a book I bought the other day:

Some things have to be investigated, just in case someone else gains an advantage from them. A report that a psychic had killed a goat prompted an investigation in the US military into the possible military application of psychic powers. According to reports, serious research is ongoing into this field, which does indeed involve soldiers determinedly trying to glare livestock to death.

Napoleon laughed at the idea of a ship powered by lighting a fire beneath its decks. Ancient generals would have sneered at the idea of men flying around in machines and attacking one another with self-guided weapons. The concept of directed energy weapons (lasers) or intercontinental missiles bearing the fires of Armageddon would probably have roused Caesar or Alexander to hysterical laughter. It may be that some day our psychic legions will look back at our rifle-armed ancestors with a mix of pity and amusement at their ignorance. It is, however, somewhat unlikely.

don't you just love the sarcasm dripping from this? 

[Ibrahim90]

leave it to the Palestinians to rip into ISIS....

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[MrBogosity]

http://yudkowsky.tumblr.com/post/68510378525/the-lost-dream-of-allegiance

[MrBogosity]

Thoughts for Election Day:

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