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Because all the baddies have got guns.

Because the U.S. is awash with guns.

Because that's U.S. gun culture.

Just because a city or region bans guns, doesn't mean baddies won't have them, does it?

And let's be honest the good guys with guns aren't going to choose to live in bad neighbourhoods in places like Detroit and Baltimore.

The point still stands. In a Nation State in which private citizens own approximately 400 million guns, someone is inevitably going to get shot.

That's gun culture.

Who owns what gun and shoots who, is totally irrelevant.

Government subsidies is just you paying up front for replacement energy technology, which has been deemed to be an urgent requirement in relation to apparent environmental concerns.

Whether or not one agrees with the scientific basis of such environmental concerns, largely boils down to selfishness or less selfishness relative to cost to the individual.

From my point of view EV's are are still too costly and unpredictable.

Though the EV era is still in it's infancy.

I expect that people said the same about the swap from horses to cars 120 or so years ago.

Doomed if you do and doomed if you don't.

There is never another option.

YFLDT6.

Christianity is the acceptance that certain comparatively recent middle Eastern fantasy tales explain the GOD concept.

Which they don't. They are just very naive and exaggerated  stories about human beings.

The God bit is always an imaginary sub-plot.

What ever floats a mans procreational boat.

Which is basically what it's all about.

Sperm production however it might occur.

And if mincing is a part of the process then so be it.

No one is forcing you to mince.

Nice statistic.

Though I would suggest that the "general population" isn't the problem.

Most general populations just want a quiet ordered existence.

The big problem is over-exaggerated media sensationalism and politicized propaganda.

Yep. Seen that a few times.

Hello from cold and grey Wales.

Hey, live ammo.

This is the U.S. 

What more do you expect?

Second Amendment and all that shit.

Alec was only protecting himself from Government tyranny.

Hope all is well in sunny Florida.

Cops shooting people is American Culture.

People shooting people is American Culture.

I think it's referred to as The Second Amendment.

Why the astonishment when someone gets shot.

Bang Bang you're dead Punk.

Next.

It would be the best way forwards for the Universe. If controlled by a singular Human State, solely for the benefit of Universal progression, albeit from an Earth-bound human perspective.

What the Universe doesn't need is a planet full of stupid and vain social media celebrities.

What the universe requires is clever technological innovators.

 

As I have told Tarik previously.

All thought functions and processes are essentially the same.

The internal electro-chemical acquisition, storage and manipulation of sensory input.

As such, consequent data is always subjective.

In other words, objective morality is just made up stuff, like everything else we make up.

Whether or not data output relates to an external reality is a curious situation.

Because our whole existence, despite sensory capability, is based upon an internal simulation of an assumed reality.

As I always say, I think therefore I am, is as good as it gets.

American culture.

Yep, a lot of sensible stuff there.

Though I'm not sure that levelling out birth rates relative to increased decrepitude relative to over-dependency on healthcare is a good way forwards.

And globally we're a long way from that level of sustainability of population, relative to consensus and any sort of global cooperation.

Time will tell I suppose.

LOL Bro.

You can still give them a good lashing.

Though there is always a fine line between a good lashing and extreme eroticism.

Undoubtedly.

And my point entirely.

It's all cultural.

Nice Ku.

Cops shooting someone is very much a part of  America's systemic gun culture, and therefore also an intrinsic part of American culture in general.

And so one shouldn't be surprised.

Similarly, the race/skin tone debate is also an intrinsic part of systemic American culture, and so one is also not surprised that this subject made it to the forum.

Bang Bang you're dead, is the name of the game.

So discuss if you must, then get over it and move on.

And another one will surely bite the dust, very soon.

Guns, Cops shooting, variable skin tone and a jolly good social debriefing are a big part of what it is to be an American.

Well, there's always leaks and hacking and leakers and hackers.

And cyber-data is by it's very nature, never 100% secure.

When you lash them, will you be wearing some sexy gear?

And I suppose that Prison life will always depend upon functionality and penetrability.

Well.

The future is never quite now.

Now is inevitably always now,

And the future is always,

In a moment,

In an hour,

In a day,

In a month,

In a year,

In a lifetime.

And a tractor beam,

Still sounds, 

Very agricultural.

Population is a huge issue that is avoided or overlooked by most people

And healthy and happy are fleeting moments in mundane lives.

And healthcare is subject to the vagaries of wealth, power and genetic instructions..

How one evaluates the necessity of personhood, depends upon how one evaluates the purpose or intention of Universal progression.

And for sure, as single units most will always be hellbent on survival right here, right now with no real thought of the greater future.

The future is potentially a long time, and Planet  Earth's resources are not unlimited.

So do you think that the human species or the essence of humanity will have migrated before the Earth clock stops ticking?

I think there's a strong chance that we will have (in some form). Maybe it's an evolutionary certainty (Universal evolution).

Or do you think that everything is purposeless?

Well, as I see it, it's 50/50 chance or purpose.

People acquire data and transfer it.

And people also display a variety of skin tones.

And so stuff happens.

Get over it Lighty.

Undoubtedly Bro, if your bottom bottom bottom line is the biblical/ex-Pope comparison.

Though if like me you give little credence to either the Pope or the bible, then you tend to take more interest in the variability of concepts.

And don't mention bottoms to Roman Catholics.

I was never talking about genetic evolution per se. Perhaps you were.

I always refer to universal progress in terms of material evolution, and human augmentation via AI would be very much a part of that process.

Just as stone tools were, and data technology is.

A lot of stuff happened in the pre-human Universal past, and a lot of stuff will happen in the Universal future.

Whether or not, or how much of the Universal future will be post-human remains to be seen. Or not as the case may be.

A Witch is a pretendy super-naturalist.

Actually, rather like a theist.

A Polytheist is therefore doubly so.

And a Polytheist Witch is  obviously trebly so.

Ho Ho Ho said Santa.

That's human evolution for you.

A Crime and Wrong are variable concepts Bro.

The electric car is a solution to a problem other than the misconceived problem of personal transport.

And yes  of course, it's popularity will all depend upon the cost to the average Joe.

It's a phase that will last for a while. Just as the internal combustion engine has lasted for a hundred and twenty years or so.

Why bother to get married at all.

Just fuck as many women as will allow you to fuck them.

Call them a wife, call them whatever. It's all conceptual nonsense at the end of the day.

And then roll over and go to sleep.

And if she's still there in the morning, have a quickie before breakfast.

Sex and procreation human style, what a faff.

And if you find a life partner. Well, you can then do that. Marriage still unnecessary.

Evolution is evolution ebuc.

The development of matter from a start to a finish perhaps.

Though for some, evolution is only synonymous with Mr Darwin.

But the biological is only a recent short bit. 

And soul is or isn't an imaginary concept, depending upon how one chooses to define soul.

And AI does what it does, relative to this stage of it's development. Just as we once relied upon stone tools.

True, you've gotta go once and somehow.

And then there's dinner to prepare.

6. Practice swearing a lot.

Mr President.

On behalf of British debaters, may I extend our sincerest congratulations. 

I would also like to extend our hospitality, for when you will surely undertake your first Presidential visit to the U.K.

Unfortunately due to Brexit, Vice Presidents will have to be vetted in respect of bovine tuberculosis management policy.

And of course, our hospitality will also be extended to the First Lady/LBGTQetc. In all due respect of Trans-Atlantic pronoun and gender fluidity management policy.

PS.

An all inclusive one week package is available, staying at the Buckingham Hotel and Massage Suite, London. (Just ask for Fifi)

Flights courtesy of Yeti Airlines.

Anarchy is the antithesis of government.

Just as tyranny is really.

So one lot has AR15'5 and so does the other lot.

And everyone becomes the anthesis of everyone else.

And as ever, guns are a pseudo-sexual extension of the human libido.

Is impeachment a pseudo-sexual fruit fetish.

Stage 6.

Shambolic military offensive into Eastern Ukraine.

Let's us forget recent shambolic military offensives into Iraq and Afghanistan.

Ideology in tatters until the next time someone forgets that modern warfare however technological, never results in a  perfect solution.

Subverting the subverted is a tough nut to crack.

Though I expect that the average Russian citizen is just as pissed off as they ever were.

Q. What do you call a man with three planks on his head.

A. Headwood Woodwood.

Right and wrong are concepts relative to conceptual Law.

The Law is usually based upon conceptual ideology.

A zygote/foetus is either a blob of organic goo, or a human being, depending upon the definition of a conceptual ideology.

There will always be two or more alternative and valid definitions.

Therefore, nothing can unequivocally be defined as either right or wrong.

 

An enemy is either as valid as a developing child, or not as the case may be.

As the person with the guns and the flag should know.

Let they who are absolute Pro-Lifers cast the first stone.

Whoops, a hypothetical stone of course.

Alternative Intelligence mimicking humans is another evolutionary step.

Alternative Intelligence taking control of material evolution does not seem illogical to me.

Assuming that humans are unsurpassable in terms of intelligence and material manipulation, is perhaps just current species bias.

A human AI chimera is after all, a human reliant upon AI. Just as much as AI reliant upon humans.

I would suggest that the species is already committed to, and the slaves of, rapidly developing technology.

Though sort off one step closer to human redundancy.

Which in one way could still be regarded as exciting.

I would expect that some time in the not too distant future, only elite humans will be necessary.

Let's face it, most of us are already unnecessary.

Yep. Very interesting.

@Poly

Is this the comedy forum.

Cycling to work is good for you.

Go for it.

Supremacy is a pertinent concept for some people who think that they are superior to some other people.

I'm sure that it comes in all shapes, sizes, and colours.

Perhaps building a wall would be a good plan.

It's just boys wanting to be the quickest.

I've outgrown that sort of hormonally inspired angst.

Nope. Go ahead, show me some undeniable proof please.

If there is a GOD I would expect it to be omni-sensible and omni-understanding.

If it isn't then it's clearly an omni-c**t.

And free will?

Now there's another issue.