Octopus Overlords

Posted: **Thu Sep 16, 2021 11:00 pm**

stessier wrote: Wed Sep 08, 2021 11:30 am

I really enjoy learning from these - everything seems interesting when he explains it.

Interesting. Now I just need to wait for an opportunity for this information to be useful.

Posted: **Sat Sep 18, 2021 6:21 am**

Funny or sad...hard to say.

Posted: **Sat Sep 18, 2021 10:41 am**

Posted: **Sat Sep 18, 2021 10:49 am**

That is some problematic bullshit.

Posted: **Sat Sep 18, 2021 11:25 am**

lol, I can't explain it - but I'm just so humored by that one lady calmly talking with her cigarette in hand (I think she is #8... although she made a good point.)

And yeah, I don't even know where to begin with the comments in that video... most of em... whether they were pro-feminism or pro-male, problematic is indeed the word.

Posted: **Sat Sep 18, 2021 11:29 am**

I like the redhead at the end.."No one is stopping me....except the IRS"...hahaha.

Posted: **Sat Sep 18, 2021 11:34 am**

Daehawk wrote: Sat Sep 18, 2021 11:29 am I like the redhead at the end.."No one is stopping me....except the IRS"...hahaha.

She was also an idiot. Somehow she let slip in her mock-feminist outcry: "You have to use my pronouns", which is a non-binary 'outcry', and not a feminist one... So - yeah, she's ignorant IMO.

Posted: **Sat Sep 18, 2021 12:41 pm**

Posted: **Sat Sep 18, 2021 9:01 pm**

This is for Blackhawk

Posted: **Sun Sep 19, 2021 5:27 am**

I knew I was doing the right thing in avoiding any classes that talk about this stuff.

Posted: **Sun Sep 19, 2021 1:21 pm**

I made it about 10 minutes before I stopped. Yikes.

Seems like a whole lot of rationalization and over analyzing.

Also, it skipped the part where labels/names/words are all just language that is developed to enhance/simplify communication. Or maybe he got to it later. But if you don't include the understanding that the purpose of words is communication, aren't you kind of missing the point?

Posted: **Sun Sep 19, 2021 3:55 pm**

TheMix wrote: Sun Sep 19, 2021 1:21 pm I made it about 10 minutes before I stopped. Yikes.

Seems like a whole lot of rationalization and over analyzing.

I haven't finished the video, but it seems like a well-done, fun treatment of modern philosophical arguments about ontology (a topic that goes all the way back to Plato by way of Descartes).

Also, it skipped the part where labels/names/words are all just language that is developed to enhance/simplify communication. Or maybe he got to it later. But if you don't include the understanding that the purpose of words is communication, aren't you kind of missing the point?

A big part of the debate is about the relationship between our words/assumptions/ideas and what "actually is" (and about what "actually is" means).

Posted: **Mon Sep 20, 2021 11:00 am**

Posted: **Mon Sep 20, 2021 11:21 am**

Rooster and goat team up to save their chicken friend from a chicken hawk.

Posted: **Mon Sep 20, 2021 2:01 pm**

Posted: **Mon Sep 20, 2021 6:25 pm**

Once again - fascinating and I can't believe I watched the whole thing (albeit on 2x speed).

Posted: **Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:02 pm**

Indeed. Thanks.

Posted: **Tue Sep 21, 2021 1:37 pm**

I figured there was a catch - makes me reconsider all those add on warranties for sure (or at least I need to figure out what is applied in my state).

Posted: **Tue Sep 21, 2021 2:30 pm**

So they rip you off by speaking English.

Posted: **Tue Sep 21, 2021 10:33 pm**

A Scotsman waxes poetic about getting the nuke in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2:

Posted: **Tue Sep 21, 2021 11:17 pm**

stessier wrote:I figured there was a catch - makes me reconsider all those add on warranties for sure (or at least I need to figure out what is applied in my state).

Well that's some real legal bullshit. I looked up the law in CT and he's pretty much spot on...