| Favorite team: | LSU  |
| Location: | Definitely NOT an admin |
| Biography: | I'm 5'2 and 300lbs of sexytime |
| Interests: | Poodles and Jello (but not always together) |
| Occupation: | Being THAT guy... |
| Number of Posts: | 58574 |
| Registered on: | 10/25/2008 |
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re: Lake Bell-my new crush
Posted by Bard on 2/28/26 at 11:09 pm to Gerry Laval
I haven't seen that name in a while. I remember her most from the short-lived series Surface.
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re: Official US/Israel vs Iran war thread
Posted by Bard on 2/28/26 at 10:51 pm to BayouBengal51
Nice of them to all gather together like that.
re: Where's Gazi?
Posted by Bard on 2/28/26 at 6:44 pm to HubbaBubba
He fled Poli a loooooong time ago.
re: Which would you rather be a US Territory - Greenland, Alberta, or Cuba?
Posted by Bard on 2/28/26 at 12:32 am to Ramblin Wreck
Alberta. All day, every day.
Why? Because of their frickton of oil, for starters. Another reason is British Columbia. I say that because if Alberta were to become a US territory or state, BC would be effectively cut off from the rest of Canada. All of BC's electrical, rail, gas and roadways connecting it to the rest of Canada run through Alberta.
If Alberta were to come over, it probably wouldn't be long until BC followed.
Why? Because of their frickton of oil, for starters. Another reason is British Columbia. I say that because if Alberta were to become a US territory or state, BC would be effectively cut off from the rest of Canada. All of BC's electrical, rail, gas and roadways connecting it to the rest of Canada run through Alberta.
If Alberta were to come over, it probably wouldn't be long until BC followed.
re: Study: Young people want more "vulnerable men" in movies/TV, less "masculine stereotypes"
Posted by Bard on 2/27/26 at 1:27 pm to SundayFunday
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So they only asked the gheys?
They call themselves "theater majors", but... yes. :lol:
re: Clinton under oath says Trump wasn’t involved with Epstein
Posted by Bard on 2/27/26 at 1:24 pm to hawgfaninc
Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, et al right about now...
re: Trans dude in Kansas is mad he has to get a new drivers license with his correct gender
Posted by Bard on 2/27/26 at 11:18 am to Frank Black
He's angry because the state isn't allowing him to lie on his legal ID. :lol:
re: Diversity In Basketball Continues To Trigger Players And Commentators
Posted by Bard on 2/27/26 at 11:09 am to onmymedicalgrind
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Thanks for your contribution
You're welcome, now do better. :cheers:
re: Senior DoJ Investigator Confirms Bill Clinton Raped Children on Epstein's Plane
Posted by Bard on 2/27/26 at 10:53 am to SouthEasternKaiju
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Depends on what the definition of ‘rape’ is.
re: Diversity In Basketball Continues To Trigger Players And Commentators
Posted by Bard on 2/26/26 at 3:06 pm to onmymedicalgrind
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Correct, I encourage people to educate themselves. That’s the problem with today’s generation: they want everything spoon fed to them.
Cherry-picking doesn't change the fact that it's your job to provide backing for your arguments, not someone else's. Stop being lazy and take some personal responsibility for your stance.
re: Diversity In Basketball Continues To Trigger Players And Commentators
Posted by Bard on 2/26/26 at 2:56 pm to onmymedicalgrind
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First, look up the question he was responding to and tell me if you think his response is a reasonable one.
Irony. You're the one making the argument that the original context is missing but refuse to provide it. Be at least as reasonable as you seem to want others to be by backing up your claim instead of trying to pawn it off on others.
re: Joy Reid says Christians must reclaim Christian voice from White Christian Nationalist.
Posted by Bard on 2/26/26 at 2:30 pm to Bass Tiger
All you need to know about Joy is that she was outside at the Democrats' alternative SOTU (whatever they called that clown show) singing with them.
re: This plan would save social security *and* reduce elderly poverty. Your thoughts?
Posted by Bard on 2/25/26 at 8:24 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Everyone over 65 who qualifies for SS is given 32,500/year- 150% of poverty line- instead of their current reimbursement. This would *reduce* the elderly poverty rate
Just what we need, another re-packaging of UBI to get people more addicted to the federal tit.
What's the debt at again?
re: An economic collapse scenario by Citrini Research:
Posted by Bard on 2/25/26 at 8:20 pm to Upperdecker
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The faster we get to physical AI, the smoother the transition is when jobs are lost. Physical AI can make everything abundant essentially and make work obsolete
Imagine everyone you know with nothing to do. How do you think that will work out for them.
I know I have friends who would find it constructive. They would work on their homes, their yards, learn new languages, etc. But I have other friends who would just spend their days drinking, smoking, shooting up and fricking.
While it was never meant to be prophetic, I think Idiocracy gives a good view of what that would likely mean for society.
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How new will it be? Somewhere in this thread it was mentioned that up to 40 million jobs could be lost, but that's roughly the same thing we saw a hundred years ago with the mechanization/productivity gains in AG a hundred years ago? Yes, we'd be looking at a 10-10 year period for the AI dislocations to play out compared to 50 years with AG dislocations, but then again - everything has sped up compared to a hundred years ago.
I think it would be very new. A hundred years ago the vast majority of Americans (and even more of the world population) were far more agrarian, had non-municipal water and weren't so dependent on electricity. If they lost their job but still had a home, they could still eat and remain warm on cold nights.
Today? :lol:
It's a bit like if we were to have a recession with the current enormous amount of consumer debt. We've never had a recession where consumers went into it so far in the red already. It would be a painful wakeup call to many, many people and likely spin into a depression as the numbskulls in DC tried to fix it by dumping more debt-created dollars into welfare programs (thus making GDP even more addicted to deficit spending than it already is).
re: An economic collapse scenario by Citrini Research:
Posted by Bard on 2/25/26 at 2:53 pm to Upperdecker
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This issue gets addressed at least partially. Citrini says (and I agree) we eventually move to a form of government benefits/UBI to subsidize the permanent loss of employment. Again, time period is pushed way sooner than I would expect. Citrini also says that they don’t figure out how the economy begins to grow out of the recession, and ends the article at that point.
That's where I was going. We know the knee-jerk reaction from government would be to increase welfare spending to compensate for all the new enrollees. The problem is we're already so deeply in debt that positive GDP growth is pretty much dependent on deficit spending remaining over $1T annually.
When there's far less in taxes coming in, all that's going to do is increase the speed in which the USD collapses under the weight of debt.
But what then?
We could guess there's a big push to tax the big tech companies even harder, but eventually even they will fall under such a scenario (all the QED in the world wouldn't be able to stop a crash at that point).
The only workable outcome I can imagine would be if AI (or AGI) becomes autonomous enough to be loaded into robots (Musk's or anyone else's) that could then harvest resources, refine and manufacture them into goods while also being able to manufacture, improve and repair themselves. At that point we would begin to enter post-scarcity, I would wager a majority of people simply aren't psychologically ready for that type of society.
re: Black ex-Vogue editor says she self-downgraded from first class on flight to Milan
Posted by Bard on 2/25/26 at 2:41 pm to BoomerandSooner
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