KWS Is Doing It Right! The Will To Live Your Dreams

"ENTD" by Herr D on heromachine.

 

I can hardly believe my eyes;  copy-paste this link!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEUbLTJBFrY&list=RDTEqX5CWh7tY&index=29  

While anyone can whine about lockdown, few have the determination and ability and resources to follow through with their intended life pursuits. Thanks go out to the one who sent me this! Nice to have a fan. 

I already was a fan of KWS, though I hadn't had time to look for anything recently. I've been essentially smashed under the weight of IRL for a while now. There's another one I didn't get the link for, but I'm sure YT will find it for you. Enjoy.

Dilbert's Creator Can Find Fault In Others, But Falls For Some, Says Herr D

"Undo One" by Herr D on heromachine. Required updates? -Shelob.

 

 You are overdue.

[startle reaction] Okay. I don't have anything ready yet. Do you have a topic in mind? 

As you appear startled, you should describe something that startled you recently.

Identification and tone. Good strategy.

Okay? Scott Adams, I think his name was, creator of Dilbert? He surprised me.

Dilbert is a cartoon. Did the cartoon startle you?

No. His stances, shown on a talkback on a Fox pundit's show. That surprised me.

How?

He just seemed smarter than that. He really sounded like he's bought into the hype about the left. He seems to imagine, like many, that there aren't a wealth of settling centrists. That all Democrats are extremists and have no thoughts of their own. Ridiculous.

Do you have percentages?

Percentages?! No. But I don't know anyone who is in the radical left. I know a large number of people. I know three radical right-wingers. They alienate everyone else I know that gets near them. I know a LARGE number of people who are mostly centrist. Most of them have an outlying interest or stance, but none of them are radical. I know a large number of Republicans who are disgusted with their own party, or at least say so to anyone who listens to them. Most of the people I know who don't have well-defined beliefs are divided by intelligence. Everyone I know with average intelligence or higher knows we need to get rid of Trump, though many of them disagree about why. Everyone who has common sense knows we'd better rally around one person, rather than split the vote. I like a lot of candidates better than what we have, but the two party SYSTEM is what we have. Until we fix that antiquated notion, that IS the reality we face. 

Your potential viewing does not include a listing of Dilbert's creator.

It was on Fox in a breakroom.

[recalculates over .0000000000628 seconds] You were not a fan of the show or the host either.

Yeah, his comedy wasn't funny. His politics are even sadder.

Greg Gutfeld is your least favorite?

No, Hannity is still worse. Gutfeld is just irritating and pathetic. Hannity is stupidly overblown.

Who is your favorite?

Pundit? . . . Maddow. She finds fault with everyone where she can. She's not always on the mark, but she's clearly intelligent. She's also insightful and fun. Most of the others I listen to are too opinionated for me to listen to for five minutes without noticing bias I have to check on. Maddow might give people a pass on some stuff, but her negatives are spot on. We done? I have to sleep. Work has piled up. 

Thank you, good sleep.

Not The Monster We Need To Watch For

  

"OEOHFPPE" by Herr D on heromachine. He said no one ever believed a certain song.

[inserting chatbox into spreadsheet program to open communications with Herr D] You are overdue.

[startle reaction] Oh, you mean for a blog topic. Can you choose something easy for me to comment on?                                             The difficulties of mail-in ballots.

[laughter] Well, that's easy. There isn't any.      Explain.

You fill out a form. They send you a ballot. You mail it back.  Perhaps the difficulty is for them?

Uh. . . no? The IRS has a complete list of everyone who filed taxes. With addresses. Call me old-fashioned, but people should probably only GET to vote if they paid taxes or showed on paper why they don't have enough money to pay taxes. Examining categories--[.000000000042 seconds pass] There are other categories.

Uh . . . like?   Some show they can legally evade taxes through loopholes. Some are on parent's tax forms. Some are homeless. There is supposedly a separate issue of fraud increase.

Okay. Those uber-rich deadbeats give at least a mailing address, so they can still get a form by mail. Parents or guardians of college kids or other dependents can hand out ballots. That's not hard either. Homeless people? Some of them have PO boxes. Most of them are too poor to pay taxes. Some of them can get mail through various agencies or charitable organizations. There ARE people who handle that. And fraud increase?

Well, I don't think the military would stand by and allow the process to be too flawed. Deployed personnel have to vote by mail. Nobody wants veterans' votes not to count. They paid the biggest price for it. Anybody caught on voter fraud by mail gets tried for mail fraud AND voter fraud. It really just ups the ante against those criminal enough to try it. That do it?      Thank you.

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]