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Pattern Ghost

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    Pattern Ghost got a reaction from Burrito Boy in In other news...   
    It was pretty good, but it kind of lost its appeal after Dave and Maddie got together.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    ah, no -ing . . . nope, haven't seen of it, or heard of it until Oscar time.
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    Pattern Ghost got a reaction from BoloOfEarth in In other news...   
    It was pretty good, but it kind of lost its appeal after Dave and Maddie got together.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    ah, no -ing . . . nope, haven't seen of it, or heard of it until Oscar time.
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    Pattern Ghost reacted to Netzilla in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)   
    Small town in Kentucky, according to this article.
    http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/article134722264.html
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    Pattern Ghost got a reaction from Netzilla in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)   
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    Those 30 year lifespans are skewed by extremely high infant mortality.
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    Pattern Ghost got a reaction from DasBroot in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)   
    I just want the machines to advance enough to provide us with immortality but not far enough that they realize what a colossally bad idea it is.
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    Pattern Ghost got a reaction from TheDarkness in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)   
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    Those 30 year lifespans are skewed by extremely high infant mortality.
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    Pattern Ghost reacted to Lord Liaden in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)   
    I must respectfully disagree with you in part. The only thing that ever improved the human condition, is compassion for the condition of our fellow humans leading to attempts to improve it. Science motivated by compassion has led to great advances in education, medicine, nutrition, and more. Science motivated by our baser impulses has led to environmental degradation, nuclear proliferation, rampant global warming, and more. There's no inherent ethical dimension to technology, and no guarantee that the benefits of technology will trickle down to the disenfranchised. In much of the world we see the opposite happening.
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    Pattern Ghost got a reaction from Bazza in Marvel Cinematic Universe, Phase Three and BEYOOOOONND   
    Sure, but it's 44 times better than The 100.
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    Pattern Ghost got a reaction from Netzilla in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)   
    I tend to think of Media Objectivity as about as mythical as the Questing Beast. I don't think it's ever actually been a thing. It's just more obvious now, because the journalists are a bit stupider lately with the rush to be first to print in an internet-driven 24 hour news cycle. Though, the TV-driven 24 hour news cycle directly preceding it wasn't too great either.
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    Pattern Ghost reacted to Starlord in In other news...   
    It's all just to make up for the downgrading of Pluto.  *shakes fist*  You take away our planet, we add a continent!
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    Pattern Ghost got a reaction from assault in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)   
    I tend to think of Media Objectivity as about as mythical as the Questing Beast. I don't think it's ever actually been a thing. It's just more obvious now, because the journalists are a bit stupider lately with the rush to be first to print in an internet-driven 24 hour news cycle. Though, the TV-driven 24 hour news cycle directly preceding it wasn't too great either.
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    Pattern Ghost got a reaction from Cancer in Complicate the Person Above   
    Cancer won the Double Secret Nobel Prize in Economics for his Invisible Proctologist theory, proving for once and for all who the owner of Adam Smith's Invisible Hand is.
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    Pattern Ghost got a reaction from massey in Marvel Cinematic Universe, Phase Three and BEYOOOOONND   
    Silly theories about the Soul Stone when it's so obvious:
     
    Aretha Franklin has it, but she's distracted by an ongoing struggle for control with the soul of James Brown, which it contains. Brown will possess Aretha, momentarily creating an opening that Thanos will exploit to gain control of the stone.
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    Pattern Ghost got a reaction from drunkonduty in Marvel Cinematic Universe, Phase Three and BEYOOOOONND   
    Silly theories about the Soul Stone when it's so obvious:
     
    Aretha Franklin has it, but she's distracted by an ongoing struggle for control with the soul of James Brown, which it contains. Brown will possess Aretha, momentarily creating an opening that Thanos will exploit to gain control of the stone.
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    Pattern Ghost got a reaction from TheDarkness in Complicate the Person Above   
    TheDarkness ironically owns every issue of the Dazzler comic series. He reads them in a dimly-lit room while wearing hipster glasses and sipping a warm mocha latte.
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    Pattern Ghost got a reaction from Pariah in Complicate the Person Above   
    Cancer won the Double Secret Nobel Prize in Economics for his Invisible Proctologist theory, proving for once and for all who the owner of Adam Smith's Invisible Hand is.
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    Pattern Ghost got a reaction from Bazza in Complicate the Person Above   
    Cancer won the Double Secret Nobel Prize in Economics for his Invisible Proctologist theory, proving for once and for all who the owner of Adam Smith's Invisible Hand is.
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    Pattern Ghost reacted to zslane in Marvel Cinematic Universe, Phase Three and BEYOOOOONND   
    Luke, Misty, Shades, and of course Claire Temple were all great.
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    Pattern Ghost got a reaction from assault in In other news...   
    There'd be less deaths if they quit cutting the children in half!
     
    :puts on reading glasses:
     
    Ohhh . . . nevermind.
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    Pattern Ghost got a reaction from tkdguy in In other news...   
    There'd be less deaths if they quit cutting the children in half!
     
    :puts on reading glasses:
     
    Ohhh . . . nevermind.
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    Pattern Ghost reacted to Old Man in In other news...   
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    Pattern Ghost got a reaction from Bazza in Marvel Cinematic Universe, Phase Three and BEYOOOOONND   
    IMO, they should go more cosmic for Phase 4. Get out into space, using GotG and Captain Marvel as the new anchors. Moving to mostly space-based with the occasional Earth-based story might give the franchise some staying power. Plus, the space/cosmic stuff is some of my favorite bits of Marvel.
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    Pattern Ghost reacted to Kaspar Hauser in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)   
    I think the difference between the Vietnam era and today is the rapidly growing divide between rich and poor and the commensurate immiseration of the working class. In the Vietnam era there was at least some realistic hope of economic security and that your children would have a better life than you have enjoyed.  That's all gone now, especially since the Great Recession and in the face of environmental degeneration, an ever-growing refugee crisis, automation, the dissolution of real journalism and the ascendance of propaganda-laden Internet trash journalism.  I think the world looks a lot more like it did in the 1930s following the 1929 stock market crash, minus the vast unused productive capacity that era had waiting in reserve.  As the election of a kleptocratic porn-president demonstrates beyond reasonable doubt, the world is being strip-mined of its moral capital as thoroughly as its natural capital.  
     
    For a long time liberal democracy seemed to be the best political environment for capitalist expansion, but the Asian models strongly suggest that isn't the case anymore.  If anything resembling an equitable and democratic social order comes out of this, it will be due to forces outside the limited boundaries of my intellect and imagination, because I just can't see it right now.
     
    On the bright side: thank God for effective anti-depressants.  My apologies for my preceding histrionics: I was in a deep depressive state and I wasn't thinking rationally.  Sorry for subjecting all of you to that.
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    Pattern Ghost got a reaction from tkdguy in The cranky thread   
    @Enforcer ... Good to hear! Tell her I said "Hi," and I'm glad she's feeling better.
     
    @ Xavier... Ouch! My sympathies. Hope you get a good resolution.
     
    @ tkdguy... Valid crankiness! The downside to the wonder of ordering stuff from the internet is the damned shipping. Hope it gets to you.
     
    @ Hermit ... Hope the disturbance to your Hermitage ends soon.
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    Pattern Ghost reacted to Enforcer84 in The cranky thread   
    She's bouncing back pretty well. She works child care so insurance was a fear. But her employers have been very fair and adore her (Ayr's mom is her backup when she misses time) It sounds like she's going to be fine.
    But yeah, the bleeding always worries me. 
     
    Oh and she thanks you guys for the well-wishes and is embarrassed I shared  
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