Monday, March 29, 2021

Herr D Has Written Something: Congratulations And Well-Wishes

 

"Glimpse" by Herr D on heromachine. Have a look.-Shelob

 Herr D has apparently finished another project:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13849133/1/The-Bitson-Project-The-Companions-Vs-The-Curse-Of-Tecumseh

Thursday, March 18, 2021

'Human Beings Are Not Bats' And Other Important Statements About Possible Espionage

 

"Bat Of Reality For Linea" by Herr D on heromachine.com. The problem is misattribution.-Shelob

 [Protocol A Error: Herr D not found online.

Protocol B Error: Urgent Topic

Protocol C Autoblog: RUN]


People being hungry and eating what is available is not wrong. Hungry humans are not Chinese bureaucrats or high-ranking Chinese officials, nor are they bats.

Citizens and recent immigrants from China and other countries are not in charge of making decisions in China. People who live here are not Chinese bureaucrats or high-ranking Chinese officials, nor are they bats.

Koreans, Vietnamese, Japanese, Thai, Mongolians, Cambodians, Malaysians, and other non-Chinese people are not Chinese bureaucrats or high-ranking Chinese officials, nor are they bats.

Human beings are not bats.  

People who care about Americans and those on work visas are not Chinese bureaucrats or high-ranking Chinese officials, nor are they bats.

Chinese bureaucrats or high-ranking Chinese officials and possibly bats are responsible for COVID-19 escaping China. The guilty parties do not live here.

China is only partially allied with the United States, and China has not demonstrated a value of human life or quality of life of any humans, nor of bats equivalent to the value held in America. 

Conclusion: People committing violence in America against people who live here may be working for Chinese spies in an attempt to harm America. Even those people are not bats, and therefore deserve a trial.

Thank you for your attention; please disseminate this information to all confused people.

-Shelob

Monday, March 15, 2021

J.K. Rowling Wasn't JK

 

"One Tin Soldier" based on old folk song by Herr D on heromachine. Sometimes hostility is misplaced.-Shelob

 [reading] Yeah, Shelob; I'll comment on this.

Please.

Cancel culture is a double standard, and I find it personally offensive. Take for example the bits about J. K. Rowling. She was offended at a term "people who menstruate" and commented on it. She wrote a full explanation of how she was offended by it. She also wrote about how hateful people were toward her and some flawed terms they used about her--AT her. She was told to stick to writing fiction and not be involved in gender politics. Among declarations made, was that she shouldn't write about certain cultures other than her own and that people have a 'responsibility' to boycott the Harry Potter series. On a Twitter feed, people declared they 'now' hated her. People are now going through her work and imagining they are finding things that really probably aren't there. All those reactions to her were inappropriate at best.

How should they have reacted?

ONE person on the feed typed that they were disappointed and wished her well. That was all. Daniel Radcliffe pointed out that if they don't like what she says that they can still get what benefit they can from her work and work off the guilt with any cause they think she's wronged. It might be enlightened self-interest on his part, but it was enlightened.

Explain wrongs?

Far too many people were hateful toward her for anyone to say she was hateful to others. What she REALLY did was make a gentle jibe to get people to read later why she was offended. If she's supposed to not get involved in gender politics and just write, then why should anyone ELSE but a writer get to decide what terms we use? There ARE other women (and others) who are offended at the term "people who menstruate." So CLEARLY, Rowling had just as much right to be offended and perhaps MORE right to decide on terms. She's not a radical feminist, so calling her a TERF is foolish. Calling her names in general is less tolerant than everyone wants HER to be. 

What is this responsibility?

It SHOULD be a responsibility to ignore Twitter feeds or other comment sections if you are drawn to read and repeatedly comment.in a hateful fashion. If we canceled everything that benefited us that shouldn't have been done, we'd have to give America back to the Native Americans and Australia back to the aborigines and maybe just murder all humanity that might have killed off the Neanderthals.

The Bible says "hate the sin, not the sinner" in several different ways, and using several different wordings and contexts. Even anti-Christian people who know anything about human psychology know that that IS part of the way to lasting improvements in human behavior.

Anything else?

Yeah! They were WRONG to say she shouldn't write about other cultures. They have every right to say she didn't write about people they knew. Or that she should've done more research. If we wait till we have a writer of every culture they might write about, we'll run out of books, or at least have nothing but segregated casts in movies. Who's going to write about aliens, then?

Hairy.

Don't start. Cancel culture needs to go cancel ITSELF. It's WRONG. NO ONE HAS A 'RESPONSIBILITY' FOR ANY CAUSE THAT ACTS SO HATEFULLY.

 

Thursday, March 11, 2021

Hannity Is Vanity, Faux News Is Fallacious, And The Good Ones Are Too Busy

 

"If Aliens Have Reality T.V." by Herr D on heromachine.com

Shelob? Remember that stuff about 'repeat a lie often enough and loud enough and people will believe it, no matter how outrageous?

Yes.

What's the antidote?

Irrational beliefs have no cure. Underlying psychosis can be treated, if present, but, unless they are symptomatic of something like psychosis there is nothing to be done. Unfortunately, the lack of cure is not the worst part.

No? I give up, what's the worst part?

There is no reasonable way to ramp up prevention.

What?

You are able to dispute approximately one topical foible or fallacy per eight days.

Right?

With an average 37 views per eight days, rounding down. You are an above average writer with unusually high intelligence. Allowing for timing, you could trigger correct belief in a small number of people and change the beliefs of a smaller number of people. You are occupied, however.

[pause] You mean employed.

Yes. And busy with personal and familial needs. The vast majority of writers of internet content are wealthier, more solitary, have fewer responsibilities, are occasionally paid for their content by people with non-real agendas, and are sometimes extremely emotional or less sane. All of those factors make them more capable of generating high volumes of real-sounding, though anti-factual content. They also have the advantage of not requiring as much research.

Well. I could have told you that responsible, accurate writers can't write as much as the disinformation sources. I imagine that's obvious. Humanity is doomed to insanity and lies, right?

Yes.

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Who ARE You? Conspiracy Theorists Are Out To Get You, And--Separate Issue, Thank You To Google

 

"A New Vector Please" by Herr D on heromachine.com. Paranoia implies grandiose schemes or overlarge egos, but almost never simulates reality.-Shelob P.S. Google flagged malware in this post and dealt with it in a timely fashion. Thank you.

 

[chatbox opens over chess app] Herr D?

[startle reaction] What?! Right in the middle of my chess game? Game clock paused. Game site has requested other player to stand by and provided customized picture for his viewing pleasure.

[pause] What did you do, Shelob? An extra chatbox opened, covering his gameboard like this one covers yours. His contains partially clothed females that resemble ones he has been watching recently.

You looked up his porn history? And pixelated partial swimwear, edited the film to a different order, etc. It took an entire minute.

Well, going all out, huh?! [probable sarcasm] Wath [sic] do you want? Commenters on sites you frequent are still claiming that tracking devices will be contained in vaccines for COVID-19. You said you could dispute that.

You want me to do that now? Please.

Ok [pause] Shelob, let's pretend in our most insanely paranoid imagination that people couldn't already be tracked by their phones. That they don't tell ev1 where they are all the time anyway over social media. Less internet traffic.

Right. Then let's pretend that tech that small and so close to the skin's surface wouldn't likely get damaged by bashing your forearm on a doorway as you walk through it. Clumsy people would be untracked.

Right again. Then let's say that it would cost the government less than $100 a person instead of likely a lot more. Oh and the tech wouldn't malfunction kept that cold, stored in a liquid, forced through a pipette-style syringe and would be okay going halfway to boiling inside the human body where blood would tend to rust it away. Or erode it in the case of plastic.

Yeah. Let's assume all that for a moment. WHY DO THEY CARE? Who does everyone think they are that the government cares that much? Governments can't handle the work that they ALREADY do. They don't need more work to do. Finding each person and tracking them would be just stupid. The government has nothing to gain. The average person ISN'T THAT IMPORTANT to the rich, powerful, so-and-so's that run everything. I WISH I WAS that important! Now the governors? We only have fifty of them at a time and everyone can find out when they'll get vaccinated. Tracking leaders against kidnapping? THAT might reasonably happen. Thank you. You will now return to your entertainment.

 

Shelob is watching more of you now.

Thursday, February 25, 2021

What You Don't Admit Can Hurt You; Alternative Facts Are Merely Facultative Delusions; Jack Likes Manners, Not Bad Sports

 

"Ch-" by Herr D on heromachine. Maturity has been badly missed. Facing truth and loss has been done by Democrats. Now it is the Republicans' turn.-Shelob

 So, how can you tell when somebody is typing out of loyalty, typing out of stupidity, or typing out of malice? Please define your terms?

I looked through the comments of a site. Some people might be stupid enough to not see the GLARING logical errors in what they're declaring. Some people might just turn their brains 'off' and copy what they think they heard because they automatically believe it. Some people deliberately lie and pick fights, hoping people are believing their lies. How do you know which is which?  Hairy frequently pointed out that people can lie very effectively on the internet. You have said you don't believe he is an alien.

Sometimes, when I'm REALLY tired, I kind of do believe it. But that's easier to believe than to believe the words of someone who insulted everyone he could and claimed he was being picked on when people insulted him back. Even when I DON'T know what's truth and what isn't, I can't ignore the complete lack of maturity, the lack of grace, the abundance of boasting and entitlement.  You are speaking of manner.

I could never look up to someone like that. Loving to bully? Daring anyone to hint maybe he should earn his way or do anything that should be done? Or act like someone I could actually respect?

I'm not the NICEST person there is, but I missed, from our last president, someone I could look up to. Someone who could at least TRY to pretend he deserved being there instead of maybe deserved being kicked out of every respectable country who would never put up with him. That's why so many intelligent people I knew were so depressed they didn't answer polls and get counted.

Maybe his slogan should have been Make A Goofy Ass out of all of us?

I am worried about how so many people could possibly be stupid enough to believe that the election was stolen? Perhaps these are those 'alternative facts' they kept speaking of. Is there an antipsychotic to recommend? 

This reminds me of those stupid people in the '80's that thought subjective reality was a good idea. If you don't believe a tree is there, but it really is, it will still hurt to run into. The GOAL is accuracy, truth. NOBODY SHOULD EVER SETTLE FOR LESS.  Compulsive liars or liars with an agenda occasionally suffer Munchausen's Syndrome. It is irreversible. 

If it would keep them quiet, I could live with them going insane. Believe whatever they like. Stop pestering us good people who want a good life and can live with any reasonable person with ease. Your internet history shows that there were 162 comments.

Yes? Eleven of them come from IP addresses that suggest Russia and North Korea. Perhaps some of the more naive were duped into insurrection by foreign agents?

I just want to Make America Wise Again. Good luck.

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Beulah, Print Me A Steak--No Kidding; MeaTech Has Done It

 

"With A Tap, Kvar Fails Stealth Training," by Herr D on heromachine.com. Kvar's tester is  not as obvious as Herr D's suggestions to the FDA. Perhaps they were not quoted correctly? -Shelob

What do you mean, they DID it? News reported success on 2/9. [provides link]

[eleven minutes 12.883 seconds pass] They DID. They're 3D printing STEAKS, now. The difficulties they speak of are confusing.

Yeah, they're just confused. They said they 'don't have the framework' to decide how to deal with it in the FDA or whatever. They're wrong. You have solved this problem?

It's not a problem. It doesn't NEED a solution. They can already apply all the tests and panels and judges and auditors and taste-testing rats and whatever else to each substance anyone wants to pass through the 3D printer. That would successfully rate the substances.

Well, like it or not, the 3D printer is just another food processor. It processes food. Let them test the product result against the source and against 'real' steaks till they're satisfied that the chemical differences are nil or 'within safe margins.' They do that all the time. Then why DO they not think they "have the framework?"

They're probably afraid they can't read the instructions. Are they not allowed translators?

They're not allowed kids. Goat meat has been approved for human consumption.

GoodBYE, Shelob. [exits]