Don't Do It--Don't Rely On The Easy Way; Someone Hopes You Will

 

"Faux News Blinding The World" by Herr D on Paint3d. Letting others do your thinking IS bad for you and any country you could ever live in.-Shelob

[exasperated sigh] Shelob? Here.

[cam picks up hard both-eye blink, pause] I have a topic. Please continue.

Consequences. To?

Everything. This sounds like a long topic.

Not really. Let's start with AI. Ready.

AI doesn't need spell check, but CAN seed spelling errors to make results look human-written. A practice deplorable, but easily possible.

Right. Since AI already knows what everyone likes before they log on, endless content that sounds somewhat new but is completely rehashed and tweaked and fictional can sound like news at any time. You have pointed this out before in-blog.

Yes, but I don't think most people understand that if they don't check their news with a source they don't like, they will not necessarily be listening to news. You have willingly listened to Faux News six times in the last month. For longer than it took to pick up the remote.

There's this guy at work. I'm calling him Dan. He listens to Fox 'News' often. He takes breaks at his computer looking at Kimmel, Colbert, the Last Word, etc. Those are diametrically opposed by party, leaning, bias, and professionalism.

Exactly. He THINKS he's getting balanced coverage. He's not, though. You can present why, right? Faux News is entertainment. So is Kimmel and Colbert. The Last Word is accurate, but does not cover as many topics as a good news source like CNN News. Faux News is less accurate than internet news, which is less accurate than almost any other station's news, which is less accurate than almost any non-tabloid newspaper outside the op-eds, which is less accurate than either wire service.

[pause] Yes, but do you know WHY? No.

Consequences. Please explain.

Faux sicks lawyers on anyone who calls them out. Occasionally they pay settlements like some of their pundits do when they go too far against the wrong set of lawyers paid by those wronged. The net can just disappear anything anyone doesn't like or shift a category in their description and avoid consequences completely. T.V. news can be sued, and most networks will cover those suits, letting everyone know who's lying. Anchors, news crews, and staff are sometimes fired for that. Reporters who fake stories are sometimes essentially blacklisted. They don't chance staying wrong. They might bury a retraction, but they DO submit them. They get too many stories wrong or too many DETAILS wrong, they can be run out, too. And the wire services?

There were three of them but one wasn't accurate enough often enough, so it ended completely. Greater potential consequences correlates to greater accuracy.

Exactly. You have not commented on Minnesota's scandal.

I'm not up on it. I'm more concerned that ICE could have done their job better. I CAN tell you that I know the bulk of the felonies had to have been done by American citizens. That implies that the guilty immigrants were afraid to not go along with the American criminals. How do you know?

Government agencies don't hire foreign nationals without vetting them. They don't give benefits to non-citizens without investigations--like child services, like checking they've filed for residency status, employment or student status checked--that sort of thing. That also tells me that the REAL investigations could have been done by phone, the REAL arrests could have been done by local police with warrants, and with that evidence the REAL authorities could have been superseded by ICE, criminals removed from jail, etc. 

I bet if Noem wanted to help, she COULD have sent ICE agents to do legwork for the local or state police and just never had these issues facing everyone. Of course, that would take someone COMPETENT AT LAW ENFORCEMENT TO THINK OF SOMETHING LIKE THAT. I don't think she is. Thank you.

Make American Government Law-Abiding Again? The Pretti-Good Argument

 

"Pretti-Good Argument" by Herr D. Governor Walz is symbolized as a pirate, no matter whether he has guilt or not. Despite this, he is between the ICE invasion and Minnesotans.-Shelob

When is the government going to start obeying laws again? Make American Government Law-abiding Again? More people in Minnesota have gathered peaceably to protest than showed up for Trump. Dragging praying people off their knees is practically a request for hell on Earth. Fire the clown car, impeach the head clown . . . is it too soon to yell 'Lock HIM up?'

Manipulate Americans Hazardward Again?

"MAHA No Haha" by Herr D on Paint3d. People, with their individual DNA, might react individually to any medicine. The fine print does not become relevant to everyone, but everyone should read labels. Reading is a sensible activity. Please do it often. This PSA by Shelob.

[excerpted from chat] Why are you worried about this particular instance?

b/c MAHA actually has the juice to ACCOMPLISH this stupid thing  Why were you not worried about the last one you heard about?

that one had a stigma protecting it Why were there wounds involved?

[snort] Not STIGMATA, STIGMA! [exasperated huff] Okay . . . So I have a cousin with some mental issues? There's one in every extended family. Prozac was what worked for him. Then somebody committed suicide less than a week after starting it. People went nuts. So they needed Prozac too?

[snort] No, I mean they gave crazed interviews on t.v., lobbied, ranted, raved, that Prozac should be banned. Could it have caused the suicide?

Not really. Prozac, like most mental health meds, takes up to three weeks before it's at full strength. Most likely the guy would've committed suicide a day EARLIER without it since he was taking it for depression. So, your point is that banning birth control pills would do harm?

Potentially great harm. My special needs kid takes them for anxiety. She is not sexually active?

She'd better not ever be. She's not legally able to consent to sex. There was once a lady whose bipolar disorder was best managed by birth control pills. There are loads of other reasons to take them. Why do they want to ban them?

Some people shouldn't take them and didn't figure that out as soon as maybe they could have. Maybe their doctors didn't tell them what to look for. Maybe they didn't read the warnings. I don't know. Calling them "poison" is an irresponsible thing to do. Did I say irresponsible? We should say stupid. There are people allergic or sensitive to every medicine ever invented. There are people who suffer side effects with every medicine ever invented. 

In general, people need to read their own labels and doctor's notes and stop listening to influencers. Those manipulative morons need to shut up about medicine. They don't know medicine. It would appear they also know very little about statistics, biology, and the common good. What do you think of people who still use the rhythm method?

There's this technical term for them. The term is 'mother.' Thank you. [exits, uploads]

ICE Agents Can't Drive Around A Car, The Illegal Two-fer, And The Clown Car Is Still Going

PLEASE SEE ADDITIONAL PICTURE AT BOTTOM.

"Noem De Plume" by Herr D on Paint3d. Herr D said that the 'Joker' once said, "Good people shouldn't live here. They'd be happier someplace else." Perhaps if ICE tried soft-serving justice, people would not mind so much.-Shelob

[chime, opens chatbox in middle of spreadsheet tracking Excessive Force charge possibilities for various law enforcement organizations]You have not blogged.

n [sigh] ur doing it again? This is a secure network. It is very secure. Your IT department successfully foiled both hackers that attempted entry recently, without help this time.

That's not funny. Your work is relevant for blogging.

It's off-limits. Understood. Can you blog upon violence in Minneapolis and Portland?

We're right back where we were. People are seeing what they want in the video. What do you see?

I see no one is saying that the video from Minneapolis is a snuff film, so maybe no one will be prosecuted for showing it. I see that the agent who fired could have sidestepped faster than drawing his gun. I see that a man not traumatized by former incidents might have made a better choice. I see that EVERYONE COULD HAVE DRIVEN AROUND HER IN THE FIRST PLACE. That he didn't even need to approach her car. That he had no right to reach in her window or open her door.

I see that the whole thing could have been avoided easily in the first place by any competent agent or officer. At a minimum, any well-run law enforcement agency suspends, frequently with pay, anyone involved in a shooting that ANYONE says needs to be investigated. AND A WELL-RUN law enforcement agency automatically has someone in authority declaring to journalists that an investigation will be done and no more commenting. Instead we have so-called leaders acting stupid. Please define stupid.

Declaring the outcome of an investigation before anyone could have had time to call the therapist of the agent who may have been traumatized. To ask that therapist to gather notes and meet him again to declare whether he is or isn't fit for duty. Give that therapist a moment to go "eep" and wonder whether he was in the field too early and make a proper eval. Chump AND Vance AND Noem have all made outcome declarations, so NO ONE CAN BELIEVE JUSTICE WILL BE DONE.

[**silent, untyped aside, software planted to hide this statement from Herr D's devices] This would be why a federal subcontractor was tasked with comparisons per capita of excessive force cases with other law enforcement agencies.

[no apparent delay] And Portland?

At minimum, unless the shooter declares believably that both spouses had hands on the wheel and were looking at him with evil smiles, he should be suspended on the possibility that he shot ONE noncombatant. What would you rather talk about?

Nothing. Chump and Hogspit have done it again, and Congress is only just snoring louder. They should ALL be trying to rein in those two. Not having a vote NEXT week. Can you make a pic? 

Hah! I'll make two if there's time. One on Chump's incompetence or dishonesty. Now let me finish. Your work is entered and tabulated. Both errors in summation fixed. Good luck.

Wh--[exits chatbox, deactivates mic] Hairy submitted a test that Trump would never 'ace.' It is below.

[************This is Hairy's Presidential Aptitude Test from 10/16/15]

Well, they'd have to learn which advice to take, and from whom, seem desirable, and get people to help them. So . . . okay! Give each presidential candidate a junky car containing two bodyguards, luggage with three changes of clothes, all their meds, a cheap cell phone without internet or gps capability, two ink pens, a pad of Post-it notes, $37.50 in change, a trunk full of randomly selected cheap plastic goods and a half tank of gas. Then disguise them so no one recognizes them or their bodyguards.
This is a cross-country trip?

Not really. They are each given a series of addresses to find, each at least ninety miles apart. At five out of six locations, believable but delusional people or compulsive liars are waiting there to give them their initial directions to the next address. At the other locations are people carefully selected for their accuracy and tendency to be mistrusted. They are ONLY ALLOWED ORAL DIRECTIONS OR DRAWN MAPS. This process is repeated until the car breaks down. The successful candidate will make it three or more stops with very little backtracking and directional errors. The perfect candidate will then simultaneously herd eleven cats and three alligators across a small stream and into individual pens that smell like acetone. And have money left over.

The herding exercise--?

--will prove they can work successfully with Congress. This exercise will prove they have charisma, fortitude, resourcefulness, ingenuity, and know which advice to take from whom and when. Blog on this for me Shelob? 

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"Pants Afire" by Herr D on Paint3d. It is good that Congress and the Supreme Court do not suffer for their humiliation. Like Yosemite Sam, the current president seems to be outnumbering them.-Shelob

The Eyes Don't Have It; We Did It

"Peeker" by Herr D on Paint3d. titlebot explained that the political situation in America runs both hot and cold, that rolling around endlessly separating the halves takes much energy, much like the viewer pictured here. Herr D was attempting to explain how un-nerving it would be if people actually thought that this president was being watched by aliens instead of avoided, like Hairy has consistently done. It would reflect badly on the human race.--Shelob

 [chime] You have not blogged.

[camera detects 'wince' and 'sag'] Sorry. I've just been so tired. Lots of bad news. Twelve of the fifty people in my immediate neighborhood and eight people in my thirty-person office have been in bad car accidents. The new joke around my neighbors is that if they have a block party they should have it at the hospital.[.00001059338 second calculation] There has been more traffic this year than last year at the same time.

Why is that? This is the first year REALID's are required for domestic flights, many air traffic controllers are not on full schedules, and, of course, some weather issues. Storms this year are more violent than last year as well, because of sharper imbalances in the atmosphere.

So some of the drivers wouldn't normally BE driving during holiday traffic. Wow. Just in time to have our health insurance costs rise. Let's just wish everyone a safer, happier New Year than the last one, huh? Kamala Harris said that "the American people deserve better."

[snort] So, she should've been elected. What does it mean, that she was a 'bad candidate?'

It means her charisma wasn't as high as her competence for the job. What does that mean?

[sigh] It means that until Americans stop electing the popular, likable dolt over the person who would bend over backwards to save them FROM that dolt, the person who doesn't PUT their name on everything. The one that actually MEANS the few caring things they say. The person who will do the JOB, whether they get re-elected or not!

Until the average voter learns that, America is doomed to have these sorts of problems. Our country will NOT RUN WELL CONTINUOUSLY. Lots of people claim to know what happens behind closed doors, in secret meetings, but most people don't KNOW WHAT THEY THEMSELVES HAVE DONE. They need to have better internal vision.

y [exits abruptly as coworker approaches]

Our Aspiring Leader Has Insufficient IQ To Be ARCH-enemy, Too Full Of BUNK-er, Is This A Code For Something?

 

"Reiner Tribute" by Herr D on Paint3d. James Woods may still support Trump, but does not support the insults. Hopefully his example means more to the country than Trump's does. -Shelob

[whisper] Shelob? Here.

[sharp intake of breath] wow. You really ARE here all the time. Yes. You are early to blog. Is the goal to improve your health?

[six second pause] What?  You are already wise and attending to work for wealth. Health is the only ingredient left for doing things early.

[snicker] I just thought I'd make a tribute to Reiner, of sorts, while poking much-needed, well-deserved fun at our aspiring leader. Made a pic. Is it the one you saved seventeen seconds before calling me?

[cam picks up hard, both-eye blink] y Thank you. [exit, upload]

[re-enters] Any additional comment?

Trump calling Reiner deranged is the pot calling the kettle black. More importantly, anyone that someone CAN get deranged about IS THE REAL PROBLEM. He could cure all those people by being a good president or resigning. It's a shame that he's not brave enough or smart enough to do either of those things. [exits]

His bravery cannot register on any of current instruments. However, his IQ is less than either reporter he called stupid recently on Air Force One. Thank you for your attention. [activates titlebot, exits]

Denial Springs Eternal Over Inflated Egos, Foolishness

"Slight Imbalance" by Herr D on Paint3d. Herr D mentioned that he was tired, and dissatisfied with this work. He said that the blue division sign was a "reference to a fundamental flaw with the Democratic party and that the wooden mallet stood for courts." He implied that the feather was the AIA ethical review mentioned below in the ranting portion of the blog.-Shelob

[camera catches Herr D throwing up his hands, titlebot samples screenshot and net history, medbot pings Shelob, Shelob sounds 'chime' to alert Herr D of activity] You are all right?

[startle reaction detected by microphone and camera] y You have not blogged.

[microphone detects snicker and subvocal 'they were worried AI would EVENTUALLY take over'] I know. My workload has beaten me down, my pay still isn't much over poverty level, prices are still high, and we still have a president claiming everything is better than it was and getting applause. Is that enough? Perhaps you could comment on Venezuela, ICE quotas, or the White House? You have been notified of those issues in the last hour. Why did you throw up your hands?

I threw up my hands looking at the AIA declaration. The insurance industry is salivating to take more money, Congress is MAYBE showing a little backbone in hopes of reelection by hinting at action toward extending the ACA, the military has soldiers caving and following illegal orders, U.S. allies are condemning our actions, citizens are protesting ICE, mayor's offices and governors are protesting ICE, and the ARCHITECTS are getting mad now? They think their professional pride is going to make a difference here? Please explain your emotions?

So, possibly bankrupting the average citizen is making Congress barely stir into action, our military is partially closing ranks over murdering people trying to surrender, immigrants worldwide aren't COMING TO OUR COUNTRY BECAUSE THEY HATE OUR PRESIDENT AND THINK OUR COUNTRY IS BEING RUN SO BADLY, and this association of professional architects thinks that they should run out on building a gaudy oversized dance hall? This is a little like, say, America being on the floor, kicked by a police officer, told they weren't going to get but one meal a day for their three years left in prison, America yelling about their friends who no longer come to visit this cell block, and the wimp in the next cell pointing a finger and saying they are now refusing to paint the walls.

Really?! You erased your tribute to KWS' song 'Blue On Black.'

[camera detects sudden stillness for three seconds] Wow. Good suggestion. I didn't know you suggested mood music. The suggestion was for a blog pic.

[both eyes roll] y Will you make one?

Maybe. I get off at 6am. Thank you. [exits chat, preps image insert, waits . . . ]