April 2009
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Swine Flu
GreggWithTwoGs: Only 7 swine flu deaths, not 152, says WHO
Steven Cloud: i won't be fooled again.
GreggWithTwoGs: haha
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“The Bush administration wanted to use 9/11 as a pretext to invade Iraq, even...”
– Paul Krugman, NYTimes
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Ways to die.
Steven Cloud: there are worse ways to die
Pijohos: alll are shitty. i'm not interested in ceasing to exist
Pijohos: until i'm not really aware of it. i.e. 5-6 more years when im senile or insane
Steven Cloud: i'm ok with offing myself when it's not any fun anymore
Pijohos: i am more inclined to think that i'm capable of it, but i hope i don't.
Pijohos: if i do, i will rent a clown suit first
Pijohos: and record myself laughing on a loooping mp3
Steven Cloud: hahahaha
Steven Cloud: god. so awful
Pijohos: fuck, scared myself
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Rights Abuse Champion
Cananopie: So did you see the baptist preacher video?
Steven Cloud: yeah. i thought i sent it to you
Cananopie: maybe, but I believe the guy, I love how he tells the story, with like this air of "fucking try and tell me I'm lying"
Steven Cloud: wait, send me the link again
Cananopie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUzd7G875Hc
Steven Cloud: ohh yeah! when white people get a taste of what they've been peddling the self-righteousness is a a little hilarious, but i'm glad he's putting it out there
Cananopie: yea, and to be fair, I bet he hadn't been peddling rights abuse before this
Steven Cloud: yeah
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“A fire-breathing dragon lives in my garage”
– Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World (Ballantine Books: 1995), pp. 171-173. (Read the excerpt here)
listening to "Human Thing - The Be Good Tanyas" →
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“Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is sitting on enough uranium cake to make a...”
– (Via Bloomberg)
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Must Be Nice.
Steven Cloud: must be nice
Cananopie: oh, was that bragging?!
Steven Cloud: haha not really but that's not the point of MBN
Steven Cloud: it's to make people feel like they were
Cananopie: why do you like it so much?
Steven Cloud: it's one of the easiest ways i've found to be a jackass
Cananopie: yea man, you are a pretty big jackass
Steven Cloud: not as big as some, but a force to be reckoned with nonetheless
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Glenn Beck's Audience
Burn the books!” she yells from off-camera. The surprised camera man asks if she’s serious, and which books she’d burn. “The ones in college, the brainwashing books, like the evolution crap.” (via Huffington Post)
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Knives
Steven Cloud: i have like 5 knives in my bag right now
Pijohos: what is wrong with you
Steven Cloud: they have knife sharpening downstairs on Wednesdays
Pijohos: thats the last place i'd be
Steven Cloud: haha
Pijohos: everyone there has knives
Pijohos: some, crazy.
Steven Cloud: knives that are getting MORE dangerous
Pijohos: i would show up on knife dulling day
Steven Cloud: haha
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Add Omeglebot to chat w/ a stranger.
Steven Cloud: hey
OmegleBot: Hola
Steven Cloud: do you believe in god?
OmegleBot: i live by the bible. do U?
Steven Cloud: what does live by the bible mean?
OmegleBot: means i live right next to a bible
Steven Cloud: haha
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Watchbuchino:
This ought to make you like humans for a moment.
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“People are more likely to support the use of force if they view it as costless.”
– P.W. Singer: Military robots and the future of war
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WatchThe Lost Tribes of New York City
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blueberries
Steven Cloud: blueberry bagels are my new favorite thing
GreggWithTwoGs: you seem to like blueberries in general
Steven Cloud: that is true
Steven Cloud: do you have any blueberry based food?
GreggWithTwoGs: yogurt
Steven Cloud: oh fuck you, pal
“Ultimately we hope to have teams of human and robot scientists working together...”
– Robot scientist becomes first machine to discover new scientific knowledge (via greggwithtwogs)