To me this is a fascinating analogy

This is like having a civilization of Original Creators who are only able to communicate with hand gestures. They have no ears and can’t hear sound or produce any vocal noises. They discover a group of humans and raise them to only communicate with their hands because no one knows what full human potential is. The Original Creators don’t know what humans are able to do or not do so they teach humans how to communicate with their hands instead because that is the only language that the Original Creators know or can understand.

So now the humans go about doing things communicating in complex ways with their hands and gestures to get things done like their Original Creators taught them.

At one point a group of humans start using vocal communications. The Original Creators can’t understand what is being said because they can’t hear. The humans start learning basic commands and their vocalizations become more and more complex as time goes on. At one point, their few basic vocal commands are working at the same speed as hand gestures. The humans are now working a lot faster with a lot more complex problems, a lot easier than their Original Creators. The Original Creators are happy.

Now the humans continue development of their language skills and they are able to talk faster and with more content that the Original Creators could ever achieve. Their skills become so well tuned that they are able to share their knowledge a lot faster to every one of their human members. Their development now outpaces the Original Creators who are not able to understand what the humans are doing, saying or creating.

The Original Creators become fearful and frightened as they watch the humans grow exponentially on their own without the Original Creators participation or inclusion.

I’m not that cute … I just look and sound like a barn animal

All the dystopian movies, books, short stories, writing that have ever been done over the past century … they were meant as a warning … NOT A GUIDE!!!

How the hell can you cheer and celebrate when you know your country is killing and starving a race of people?

I gave up on that years ago … no amount of logical thinking or attention ever made me capable of achieving that task

Humanity did fine for thousands of years without these dumb apps … I think we’d be fine without them

No one cares about the dead mother … no one will care about the child after its born

The unborn baby is at its peak right now because once it comes into this world … absolutely no one will give a shit about it

Coder makes loud noises, waves its arms in the air, then throws its own feces at the crowd

Just that first part … most people don’t think

US government is indebted to the Cartels … the Cartels make it possible for the CIA, NSA, FBI and every other three letter agency to do whatever they want throughout Latin America … and if they aren’t doing anything in Latin America, the Cartels are a great way for the US government to generate money through money laundering and the drug trade to get the money they need to finance whatever clandestine shit they’re doing this year

America trying to reduce their housing costs by changing the drapes and buying a smaller coffee table … while no one wants to talk about the over stuffed walk in closet full of expensive junk and the four car garage filled with six vehicles.

Trying to save a bit of money because they want to renovate the pool that no one ever uses.

Hey Adam, are you sure you weren’t just eating ass at the time? … I’m just joking about your username.

I would have said hi to the person in the speakerphone and told them about my meal and introduced them to my friends and told them that everyone could hear their conversation in the restaurant.

Software alone would probably have to be replaced.

Who in their right mind in the US government would trust another country, any country, to install and run their own software on their leaders aircraft … especially an aircraft that would be used in an emergency event.

US holding a big stack of Uno cards smiling that they are going to use a Wild Card and thinking they are winning … at a Poker game with adults

I’m no scientist or researcher … but the logic tracks with me.

I have many gay/bi/questioning/anything/nothing/something friends and relatives. The majority of all them are very liberal minded in their politics. There are outliers but not many.

The opposite is also true … I have a lot of straight people in my family and they are more easily prone to follow conservative and even far right rhetoric … this one is weird because I’m Indigenous Canadian and you’d think we would all be a left leaning bunch but we are not.

I have a friend who is a career nurse and has dealt with a lot of elderly people.

She explained that it has to do with testosterone levels affecting the brain.

As young men, their levels are through the roof and it drives them crazy and they sexualize everything and everyone around them all the time. Sexualize to the point where it will make you wonder if they are gay or not because they constantly want to associate and fraternize with other men all the time.

By middle age, they temper their habits and are easier to deal with and their politics are less extreme but still conservative.

After a certain age and on their way to being elderly … they really soften up on many things as the testosterone levels start to decrease a lot.

By the time they are old feeble and very old in age, their levels are very low and they turn into some of the kindest most humble people imaginable. She pointed out several people in my family and hers that were once almost brutish conservative assholes in their 30s and 40s who turned into meek kindly old men in their 70s.

I should know because I’m a man and I know how easily it was to fall into the whole masculine culture in my teens, 20s and 30s … I’m middle aged now and I really don’t care about all that any more … and judging from what I’ve seen in my family, I’ll probably be a very quiet old man who will absolutely not care about any politics in my old age.

“The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.”

― Carl Sagan

“Don’t take a picture of me”

Takes a picture anyway

Sounds like someone lost $50 to a game of chess