AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
Interesting that you clicked on this...I hope your day is going well and you're at least finding our conversation stimulating, if you're not finding it pleasant. Looking to reinforce your beliefs about about me? Dig up some dirt? Have at it! Only cowards and scam artists make their profile private.
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AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
1d ago
Bad joke trying to show the suppression of fear and shame leading to irrational behavior. Came back to a ban haha.
I think it is way too soon to hang a "mission accomplished" "AI is no big deal" banner on your virtual aircraft carrier. Doing so today is probably going to look foolish in a decade. Most tech takes a few decades to change the world. AI in the newest big data iteration is already moving much faster than that.
I have often fallen into the "overestimate the short term change and underestimate the long term change" trap, in my own life, and in my predictions. I've been working on that a lot and it is starting to pay dividends in my reasoning. I'm usually right but my timing has been desperately early in the past, switching my thinking like this is putting it a lot closer into alignment with future realities.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
4d ago
I don't agree and fuck you.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
4d ago
I do, but I was brought up a certain way. You don't have to be raised to feel shame for certain acts. Can't you model minds outside your own?
The drug addicts are on drugs and "have no choice". The rich guy cheating with 8 different mistresses only "feels shame" insofar as he is found out and it affects his status when they play it on the news. He doesn't feel a "natural shame" when he is fucking #6, or maybe he wouldn't do it. That dumb podcaster science guy being almost the perfect example.
That said, I agree with you personally, and I would never cheat on my wife, but I come on here to exercise the rational part of my brain, not the boyscout part. My behavior isn't always governed by reason. Nor is that the case for most people. But a perfectly rational actor would not feel it. I also have to disagree with the fear portion of your comment. Most is not warranted in this day and age, vestigial nonsense, like people who say they won't sit with their back to the door.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
4d ago
Well hypnosis is fake so it doesn't really matter.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
4d ago
It might be culturally appropriate, but it has no innate value beyond signaling regret for your actions to others in a group.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
5d ago
I mean it isn't what I think, it is borne out by statistics that no one wants to aggerate. I don't want it to be true. But yeah you would need that, basically a Culture drone missile on assignment to deal with every human deviant. Otherwise, just toss 'em in the warehouse. I don't see that as a worse solution than letting people burn to death in winter tents or die from an overdose. I think we are shirking our duty to our fellow humans by letting them run wild.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
5d ago
The people love mike pence! I'm never getting out!
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
5d ago
I'm consistently impressed by the reasoning level of people I don't agree with. That is why I stick around.
Shame is a low class cultural marker. If nothing is a threat to you then you have no shame. The rich and famous certainly have very little of it if it exists at all, mostly just a cultural nod to the lower classes when at that level, and you only feel it in defeat. It is a fear based emotion that only has the power you give it.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
5d ago
They really can't be fixed though, the same personality and mental flaws that lead them down that path in the first place are not going to be fixed by being 5 years sober in a forced environment. You need to keep them in that environment forever because as soon as they are out they are back at it soon enough. Maybe in the future if we have some miracle drugs that can repair brain damage and rewire...at this point in time there is no real solution except prevention and then containment. My spouse worked for a city homeless center as a mental health counselor at the start of her carrier, she saw the same thing. A zero zero percent long term recovery rate for people that far gone and leaking bile on the floor etc...
Can't get away from ol' Lewis on this forum. I prefer Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg "Never be ashamed of who you are". Walk out of that porn store with your pocket pussy held high. It is the act of acting shameful that brings the scorn. Walk out to your Ferrari in a nice suit and people will even try to copy your bold pocket pussy purchase.
C.S. Lewis would probably agree as he was probably a bisexual if not gay
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
5d ago
Have you heard any interviews with the guy that does the soft white underbelly series on YouTube? He basically says by the time he gets to these people they are so far gone they are beyond any kind of reintegration with society at large and can at best only be warehoused.
When asked about success stories, "basically none" is the answer, once you're on the street with multiple addictions and brain rot that is it for you. He has seen millions of medical resources spent on one patient over their lifetime etc... and that anything but warehousing is a resource suck without end. When asked about solutions to "fix" these people I believe the only one he offered was a time machine to go back and intervene in early early childhood.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
6d ago
Just passed some more aid. So a bit more faith eh? I mean you say they are hanging on due to foreign aid and we're giving it to them.
Based on the Russian war machine stalling for so long, I don't think they had a plan B. This is just what a land war in Europe naturally turns into, a trenched out meatgrinder.
Being able to bog down all of Russia's forces using just a fraction of our military budget, some extra last gen weapons systems and no boots on the ground for years in open country is truly amazing. What a bargain! You really couldn't have planned a better way to isolate and deplete Russia. Make them think they can almost do it...then blamo, Russia is fully committed to all out war for 2 1/2 years to take some grain fields and bombed out towns.
Meanwhile Europe is more on the American natural gas and oil teat now, not the Russian one, NATO expanding, Euros actually spending some money on defense for once... We also get to evaluate the current state of Russian war power (not good, getting better). I mean shoot, you almost couldn't plan something this good for the USA and this bad for Russia.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
8d ago
good use of commas!
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
8d ago
Yeah I figured that out when no one showed up. It is kind of a dead zone and I have been trying to get it buzzing the last few days. Anything you can do to help with that would be a huge boon.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
8d ago
I'm confused. Did Epohon advocate for death as an answer to a question or did he use the term "bulversim"? Why not both?
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
8d ago
Kind of a rosy assessment of Russian military power given they are bogged down in the poorest European country right now. This whole war can be seen as nothing but a failure by any objective observer. It is pathetic. They thought they could take Ukraine in a week and now we're watching years go by. It is just sad and I was much more worried about Russia before they revealed exactly how weak they are.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
8d ago
Another C.S. Lewis apologist in the house?
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
8d ago
Great setup for the Brazil joke, but I'm inclined to agree with Hyperion here. There is still a giant bureaucratic apparatus in a monarchy, and you can't even vote out the head of it.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
8d ago
What Jeroboam is trying to say in a very crass and shocking way (he has me blocked and I like it), is that he feels you are victim blaming the guys giving ultrasounds.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
8d ago
Kind of seems like you believe in some shadowy cabal keeping you down because that helps you make sense of your life circumstances and gives you someone to blame. There is no actual conspiracy against you, it is just the banality of the human culture machine that grinds on with or without you. The world isn't zero sum, we've proven that by elevating humanity to heretofore unimaginable heights. There is no conspiracy against you.
AhhhTheFrench
We will sell no wine before its time
9d ago
Those seem like backronyms rather than inseparable conditions with no directional causation.
Thoughts on Trudeau actually being Castro's Son? I've done more research on this than I care to admit just because I love the meme. It is technically possible with the timeline of his mother's honeymoon in the Caribbean approx. 9 months before his birth. I'm thinking of doing an effort post and making a fun conspiracy website here in the USA where the Canadian authorities can't shut it down.
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