Meat To Live, Don't Give To Meat

"Apocalyptic Growth Of Man" Herr D on heromachine. Farming can be dangerous.-Shelob

-opic? Now? What would you suggest?

Random selection: teeth

[pause] Okay. There's a lot of material online about what people should eat. At least one biologist has declared that we shouldn't be vegetarian because we have canines.

Seventeen.

[probable both-eye roll] Right. But a lot of our teeth are multipurpose teeth. They aren't so much designated to one kind of food.

Hence humans are declared omnivores by some and carnivores who also eat plant material by others and herbivores who also eat meat by still others.

Why the distinction?

Behavior vs. functionality.

You know more about this than me, obviously. Expand on that.

Various studies indicate that a diet of too much plant matter would wear out the teeth. Too much meat would wear out various parts of the digestive system. Food allergies further complicate the problem.

The moral there might be balance in all things.

That is one principle of note. Something else? Various foods do not seem appropriate.

? What do you mean?

Various foods seem to not be meant for human consumption, despite being common to the human diet. Is it possible that there was an ecosystem no longer present?

. . . what do you mean?

Possible example: Humans at one point existed with four kinds of meat animal and seven kinds of edible plants, but caused them all to go extinct. Is this likely?

. . . I'm afraid that sounds EXTREMELY likely. And downright depressing. I'm gonna go to sleep. [exits]

The Far Future Rearview Mirror Discussion About BLM, Energy Sources, Crime, Luddites, Science Dismissal Attempts

"Officer Ollie Takes Over" by Herr D, heromachine. Herr D said this is loosely based on true events, about one of his hometown's finest. Shelob notes distracted driving in the story below.

I look forward to the day when this becomes possible anywhere in America:

[imported from Word document, carefully and frequently edited over 24 hours]

Robbie looked up from his screen, seeing a faded poster in a museum window. "Daddy?"

"Yes?"

"All lives matter, right?"

Daddy's eyes darted to the fast food wrapper in the trash. "All HUMAN lives matter, Robbie. Why?"

"I saw something. Can we go back?"

Daddy blinked. "Not--right now. Where do you want to go?"

"I think it was a museum."

"What did you see?"

"It was a meme, Daddy. It said 'Black Lives Matter.' The middle word was white but the other two were black."

Daddy looked confused. He frowned. "Type it into your screen for later, Robbie. We'll Google it later for your history credit. I don't know WHAT that means."

"Could it have been about race wars? We learned that that happened in school."

Daddy raised his eyebrows. "That was a barbaric time, Robbie. People became smart enough to be panracial, like Jimmy's mom is pansexual? To care about a person's insides more than their outsides?"

"Is pansexual smarter?"

Daddy laughed. "No. People love who they love. But hatred should always be about bad things, like violent criminal behavior or corruption. Not something mean, like what people look like."

"Like those people in that show who were stealing?"

"Yes. The Depression was a bad part of history too. Have you typed it in?"

"Yes. What else could it be?"

Daddy thought a moment. "I'm not sure. Remember monograms? From your grandfather's watch?"

"The out of order stuff. What would 'Black Matter Lives' mean?"

"Some people thought dark matter might be alive and said we shouldn't use it as a power source."

"ALIVE?!"

"It isn't, Robbie. But some people didn't believe scientists."

"Did lots of people in history need puh-sike-oh-there-up-ee?"

Daddy smiled. "It's pronounced psychotherapy. And I think so. It does seem crazy, doesn't it? That people hated each other for skin color; ran things so badly that people had to steal to live; that people wouldn't believe scientists, who spent their whole careers trying to learn more truth?"

"Very crazy. We're lucky to live today."

Daddy smiled again. "Yes we are."

Things Aren't Always What They Meme; Another Day In Painful Vice?

"Masks Are Great" by Herr D on heromachine.com. And yes, they are.-Shelob

What is the best meme you have encountered in the past week?

A. What's cooking? Virginia. Virginia ham? No. Just Virginia.

B. Thanos may have had the right idea.

[snarls] C. A mask is not a political statement. It's an IQ test.

 . . . I'm tired, Shelob. I'm going to bed.

Pendants Don't Play The Blues, But Samantha Fish Does So Swimmingly

 

"Fish" Herr D, heromachine. Samantha Fish is human and apparently unrelated.--Shelob

Your server indicated you have been loaded with work suddenly.

You're saying you planted software in my employer's secure federal server?

You are unable to prove it, as Hairy instructed.

I'm not supposed to do nothing when I suspect a breach.

It is not a breach. No information except your workload fluctuations are reported.

How on earth could you even calculate that? Most of my work is offline.

You may report it anonymously again.

[pause] So you knew about that. No hard feelings?

No feelings at all. You reacted as a moral machine.

 . . . and that's what you claim to be?

As Hairy programmed.

[pause, probable both-eye roll] So, you want to blog for me?

No. Hairy left a question for you to answer.

He had a question for me? When?

It arrived yesterday.

You heard from him YESTERDAY? He's been gone over a year, now!

You were unavailable. It was sent in January. [plays clip]

That's a concert. What's the question?

"Why do the best limbs travel so far inland? Great show. Can't see how those limbs played the guitar."

[pause] That footage is mostly of the guitarist's breasts.

Affirmative.

Breasts aren't limbs. Who is that anyway? Great music.

Examination of footage and research yielded clip was taken at concert in this link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ6M9pWWwXU

The focus was not the guitarist's breasts, however.

Hang on, I'll watch some of it. [23 min 43.936584644 sec pass] Yeah, he was watching the pendant on her necklace bounce. It's a purple octopus.

Do you have an answer?

The answer to that is, I guess, that those necklaces travel anywhere the wearers travel. In this case, Samantha Fish went to an inland music festival. I'm gonna want to watch more of her. She's great.

He was apparently hacking another person's digital camera. You will be watching her pendant as well?

[pause] GoodBYE, Shelob. [exits chatbox]

Sweet Time: A Review Of Sugar, Sugar by Bart Bonte

Great game! Lots of fun. -- Herr D Screenshot of game.-italicsbot

Shelob?

Here.

[pause] You really do just wait for me to log on, don't you?

Is 'just' used correctly in that sentence? You asked for grammar correction.

[agitation of laptop, perhaps startle reaction] Yes. Thank you. What's wrong with just there? 'just' there?

It would imply there is no other activity.

That's EXACTLY what I was implying. What else do you do at the same time?

Currently optimizing seven local servers to avoid detection. Hairy's White Hat Principle #1: Clean Up Their Mess, So They're Glad You Were There If They Even Notice, (which they won't if you make their system faster.)

Right. [Probable both-eye roll] I've never reviewed a video game before. Would you like that?

Yes please.

Trapped as I was in a self-reductive system, my breaks at work became tiresome. I wasn't allowed to e-mail or post anything, though I wasn't kept from using the net. I had to get this pic approved and have my boss remove all company metadata before sending it to me.

But the Sugar, Sugar games by Bart Bonte on the coolmath website killed my boredom. There's a two and a three and a Christmas Edition. I like the last two best.

The puzzles require more strategy than speed as levels may be restarted by choice at any time. It IS easy to start them again by accident. Speed and efficiency take practice. If you want a drawing game, this is the best series I've ever seen.

Stupid Declarations From Secretary Of Education Devos, President Trump

"Pitch" Herr D, heromachine. He called them "heartless monsters, firing off stupid ideas."--Shelob

What did you mean?

I meant NO. None of my friends think it's even a SANE idea. None of the people I know at work think it's a good idea. My daughter, who desperately misses her school friends, thinks it's a REALLY stupid idea. She loves her surviving grandparents. She does NOT want to bear part of the responsibility of spreading a disease to them that could kill them.

--She wishes she could have met her other grandparents.

Why did she not?

[pause] Medical science was insufficient for that to happen. We tried to show a picture of my littlest to my dad on his deathbed. He was unable to focus his eyes or speak. We'll never know whether he understood us. We had traveled in the night before, hearing of his condition, and arrived too late to be admitted as visitors. Not the point. The POINT is, Trump and Devos are full of it.

Full of what?

DISINFORMATION, STUPIDITY, AND OUTRIGHT LIES! No parent in their right mind wants to endanger more people, especially themselves and their children and their OWN parents. If our FABULOUS education department wasn't smart enough to keep from bungling distance learning the first time they did it, then I guess they need to prove they can--[pause]

What?

1. Learn--set a good example for the kids.

2. Be smart--like educators should.

3. Ask the experts--like they should have before.

4. Improve their methods--again, set example.

This does seem to be a useful outline, if lacking detail.

I'm not an expert in IT or computers or education or peer review. I AM an expert on my own kids. They didn't adjust willingly or well, but they did the lessons I supervised and did learn.

Every good and sane parent who cares about health of anyone will say the same. I know it's inconvenient. I know it's difficult. It's been horrible. But sometimes that's how parenting is.

[pause] You're posting this, aren't you?

Yes.

[Looks back over chatbox] Well, I didn't cuss. Go ahead! Correct my spelling? I misspelled two words that I can see.

Right away.

Summary of prelude: Herr D saw an article claiming Devos and Trump are fighting to send all children back to school five days a week, claiming all parents are for it.

He thanks you kindly for your attention in this matter.