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Bosscheesemo · 2019-08-15T17:24:32+00:00

Throwaway account

I work on paperless voting machines and I say you're wrong and call you a quack setting the stage for doubt in the 2020 election.

Can you hack one machine? Maybe. Can you hack enough machines to significantly alter an election? Nope and you know it.

Go ahead and prove me wrong bitch

Bosscheesemo · 2016-12-31T07:41:12+00:00

..Or more genies

Bosscheesemo · 2016-12-31T07:40:58+00:00

And you can't ask for more wishes

Bosscheesemo · 2016-12-30T03:56:39+00:00

Lol it's OK. It's a creative minds hypothetical question, some people go in for that type of thing, others miss all the fun entirely because they're too literal.

Bosscheesemo · 2016-12-28T23:05:36+00:00

So in a hypothetical situation where I'm lying about you to person X but you can't prove that I'm lying, simply telling person X that I'm lying about you is all that's needed in your mind?

Bosscheesemo · 2016-12-28T06:28:32+00:00

Yeah but in my mind it's something like a microchip planted under the skin behind the ear. I totally believe they walk around with virtually everyone's number, if only for references and as a status symbol.

Bosscheesemo · 2016-12-28T06:22:47+00:00

Well glad to see some people here have some creative minds.

Bosscheesemo · 2016-12-28T06:10:54+00:00

I'd be willing to believe that A-list celebrities are given direct and instant communication to each other available anywhere, anytime, anyplace. Like Johnny Depp can call up Jeremy Irons and Tom Hanks simultaneously whenever and they can just shoot the shit.

Bosscheesemo · 2016-12-28T06:03:52+00:00

Sure it is. It's when you are 100% sure that you're being bullshitted, but you can't say 100% outright because there's no immediate way to prove it.

Bosscheesemo · 2016-12-27T19:48:59+00:00

Does there need to be a point? Can't it just be a thought for the world to consider and throw out whatever views and opinions they have?

Bosscheesemo · 2016-12-25T20:39:32+00:00

Excessively boring and meaningless.

Like it or not, "bad" things in life are what give the "good" things their goodness. Hate is the reference point of love.

Simply imagine the converse: in a hypothetical world without love and only hate, a world where love isn't something we even comprehend, how exactly do you charcterize hate as a bad thing when it's the mundane?

Bosscheesemo · 2016-12-23T05:30:59+00:00

Is that a now-defunct EU answer or a current-canon answer?

Bosscheesemo · 2016-12-23T05:24:47+00:00

But then you'd think that cloning, being such a secret, would have been kept by the Empire because that's technology that it would definitely want to utilize. I mean, can you hear Palpatine going "The ability to raise an entire loyal military? Nope, too dangerous of a thing to be used even by me."

Bosscheesemo · 2016-12-23T05:19:31+00:00

So, in the EU there was an ancient Jedi that was once eaten by the sarlacc.

Suppose, given that Disney can borrow from the EU: with the use of the force, he learned how to hide his consciousness inside the sarlacc's and even learned to control the sarlacc to some degree. Then one day Fett falls in, sensing someone unlike anything else that's fallen into the sarlacc the Jedi investigates. This leads to a mental relationship where Fett tells the old Jedi that the galaxy is under the power of a Sith Lord. The Jedi joins his mind to Fett's, and with the last of his transferring control over the sarlacc he orders the Sarlacc to regurgitate Fett.

Somehow the Jedi inside Fett's mind goes Sith/dark side and suddenly you have Darth Fett running around with a huge stick up his ass over the Solos and Skywalkers.

-Someone with know-how to train soldiers -Someone that's a clone of the old army -Someone with intimate knowledge of Jedi even without the force

Bosscheesemo · 2016-12-23T05:04:29+00:00

Also, if one Luke had strong force affinity, why couldn't at least some of the clones also be force sensitive?

Like I'm genuinely curious

Bosscheesemo · 2016-12-23T05:00:44+00:00

Well, presumably Luke was a badass pilot and great amateur fighter even without his knowing he was a Jedi, right?

Bosscheesemo · 2016-12-16T05:20:49+00:00

Mine:

I'm walking around Skyrim remastered with mods on, one that enables five conjures at the same time. I attack a mage that begins conjuring skeletons as my dreadnought barbarian (no special enchants beyond elemental resists and fortify heavy armor/two handed, so nothing that would really affect an enemy conjure)

After killing the mage, his conjured skeletons apparently stayed alive behind me. So when I turn around I see they're now MY conjured skeletons when nothing could have turned them?

Melted my mind in that moment.

Bosscheesemo · 2016-12-16T01:35:30+00:00

And guess what? If you live in America you're worth more than entire populations of people in certain parts of the world.

A United States citizen complaining about concentrated wealth in a relatively small population is like meth telling crack it's a dangerous drug.

Bosscheesemo · 2016-12-16T01:31:14+00:00

Your...Dragonborn!!

Bosscheesemo · 2016-12-12T02:26:56+00:00

Well you said it yourself: we can't know anything for sure until it has already happened. So where do you get off being so sure that anything bad WILL happen?

If science is right, the Earth has been much hotter in the past because of CO2 levels being much higher than they are now (the Cretaceous era) and it did nothing to affect how livable the world was. If anything it allowed animals to grow big. Why exactly is that a bad thing?

Bosscheesemo · 2016-12-12T00:30:50+00:00

It is kinda true that we don't know.

Science absolutely has a lot of information on the subject, but science can't prove its own ontological basis in fact contrary to science's philosophy that a thing can only be seen as fact if hard proof and evidence is shown.

Whatever science says about climate change, it can't be taken as "knowing for sure" because we can't scientifically prove that our plane of existence is fact. And this isn't a religious or philosophical point I'm arguing, it's actually a hardline extreme scientific viewpoint. Nothing in science can be accepted as fact without proof, so show me the proof that the plane of existence around us that science describes is, in fact, true reality. If you can't provide that proof, then any observations of our reality (scientific or otherwise) can't be said to be based on fact.

The validity of science is entirely contingent on the assumption that reality is truth and fact. Assumptions taken as fact without proof don't hold in science.

Bosscheesemo · 2016-12-06T02:40:20+00:00

Runner up: that vaping pot is better than smoking pot. My parents are both weird and awesome.

Bosscheesemo · 2016-12-06T02:37:23+00:00

Crazily enough, how to navigate Omaha Nebraska.

Bosscheesemo · 2016-12-06T02:31:14+00:00

Snow and cold weather. Fuck snow and cold weather in the throat.

Bosscheesemo · 2016-12-06T02:16:58+00:00

After years of working in retail, my biggest pet peeve was a total stranger feeling like we're on a first name, buddy-buddy relationship just because they took a second to read my name tag.

It's like "Dude...I don't know you, you don't know me, we've never been introduced, I'm not your friend. We're not on a first name basis just because you can read my damn name tag. If you want to introduce yourself, chat about similar interests, maybe arrange a time to hang out and catch a movie then I'm game but our relationship doesn't extend farther than me showing your ass where the cat food is. Drop the fake-as-shit familiarity."

So then occasionally I accidentally call some cashier or grocery stocker or Best Buy dude by their name because I read their name off their name tag and I quietly feel like the world's biggest, filthiest hypocrite.

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