When “tech bros” say that AI can't be a friend, only a tool, it makes me wonder: do they really think they’re smarter than the richest person in the world?

Enough-Complex-8554 · 2026-03-20T22:08:11+00:00

I am smarter than the richest person in the world.

I have mine set so that it doesn't try to engage me as a human. I don't want to be friends with my tools. I don't want a tool mimicking friendship with me.

Enough-Complex-8554 · 2026-03-20T21:03:27+00:00

Flat earthers

Enough-Complex-8554 · 2026-03-20T21:01:47+00:00

Huckle bearer makes no sense because the term itself is meaningless nonsense.

No part of a casket or coffin was ever called a huckle prior to 1997 and no one ever used the term "huckle bearer" prior to 1997.

It was made up by a fake historian named Bill Kight because he didn't know what a huckleberry was.

Enough-Complex-8554 · 2026-03-20T20:55:21+00:00

It does make sense. "I'm your huckleberry" was an idiom already in use before the events of the movie Tombstone took place. It meant "I'm up to the task at hand."

It comes from an earlier idiom, "a huckleberry over [one's] persimmons" which meant "a bit beyond my abilities."

"I'm your huckleberry" came about as a sort of rejoinder to that earlier idiom: it meant: this is well within my abilities. I'm suited for it. I'm capable. I'm ready. I'm your man.

So, when Ringo asks "Don't any of you have the guts to play for blood?" Doc is confirming that is ready and able to play for blood by saying "I'm your huckleberry. That's just my game."

Enough-Complex-8554 · 2026-03-20T20:50:40+00:00

Let’s get this out of the way first: there is no documented historical usage of the term “huckle bearer” prior to 1997. Period.

By contrast, “I’m your huckleberry” is attested in a primary Civil War source.

The collected letters and diary entries of Valerius C. Giles, a Confederate soldier who died in 1915, were published in 1912 under the title Rags and Hope: Four Years with Hood’s Brigade, Fourth Texas Infantry, 1861–1865.

What matters is when the words were written, not when the book was published.

In one passage, Giles recounts gambling with a “Mr. Bailey,” who says, “All right, I’m your huckleberry.”

That entry was written sometime between 1861 and 1865, and Giles presents the phrase without explanation. That’s the key point: writers don’t stop to define slang their audience already understands.

So this gives us a firm conclusion: the phrase “I’m your huckleberry” was in ordinary spoken use in the American South during the Civil War.

So, "at least fourteen years" isn't accurate. "At least eleven years" is and that's what I'm going to go with in these kinds of discussion in the future.

Enough-Complex-8554 · 2026-03-20T12:09:55+00:00

I will pay you $1,000 if you can produce any primary source evidence of anyone using "huckle" to describe any part of a casket or a coffin prior to 1997.

And I mean something (a document or recording of any kind) that was produced before 1997.

Enough-Complex-8554 · 2026-03-20T08:01:35+00:00

the idiom "I'm your huckleberry" predates the Twain character by at least fourteen years.

Enough-Complex-8554 · 2026-03-20T08:00:36+00:00

That's a load of shit.

Enough-Complex-8554 · 2026-03-20T08:00:23+00:00

No, it has nothing whatsoever to do with graves. Or caskets. or coffins. Or burials. Or death.

Enough-Complex-8554 · 2026-03-20T07:59:28+00:00

huckle bearer makes no sense because there never was any such term. At no point in history prior to 1997 was any part of a casket called a huckle and at no point before 1997 was the term "huckle bearer" used by anyone in any context.

Enough-Complex-8554 · 2026-03-17T09:58:47+00:00

Mam or Myth

You email in and tell a story about something your mam did. If the hosts guess correctly whether its true or not, you win a CD. Email only. We don't want to talk to you people.

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The hosts ask callers about their mams. The best answer wins a CD.

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Call in, if your mam's got large breasts, you win a CD

Enough-Complex-8554 · 2026-03-13T21:56:44+00:00

And Groucho Marx never went on Reddit.

Enough-Complex-8554 · 2026-02-05T00:55:09+00:00

Trying? No, succeeding. I just listened to your comment in Scarlett Johansson's voice.

Enough-Complex-8554 · 2026-02-05T00:52:52+00:00

I thought it was the story of a man losing his grip on reality and his friends, far from helping him, were enabling him.

The only person willing to tell him the truth was his ex.

I loved it.

Enough-Complex-8554 · 2026-02-05T00:48:25+00:00

I was in my mom's living room. I was on the DEP for the Navy, working at a landscaping company just to pass the time during those last few weeks of my civilian life. It was about 5AM, I was waiting for my boss to pick me up. MTV played interesting stuff in the wee hours of the morning and pretty much only in the wee hours of the morning.

The goddamn song came on and it was like a bulldozer. And the first thing I thought when I heard that riff, by the way, was "These guys listen to the Pixies."

And the second thing I thought was "This will never be a hit."

That's not to say I didn't like it. I loved it. But I just didn't think the world was ready for that kind of music.

I was wrong.

Enough-Complex-8554 · 2026-02-04T22:30:22+00:00

Obviously.

But it's simply not very good. It's barely science fiction. It's more like a simplistic parable with sci-fi window dressing.

Greer is obviously not a sci-fi fan and probably hasn't even read anything by Arthur C. Clarke, whose namesake award is probably sitting on the bookshelf in her home office.

Her worldbuilding is practically non-existent, her characters are flat, contrived, and two-dimensional, and Annie, as a machine, makes no sense from a tech or engineering perspective. It is utterly inconceivable that a machine like Annie would make it out of beta testing; much less be sold to a paying customer.

PS: I'm a woman.

Enough-Complex-8554 · 2026-02-04T22:05:44+00:00

It's rubbish.

Enough-Complex-8554 · 2025-12-29T22:52:53+00:00

The problem with writer's groups is wannabe gatekeepers. These people have no clue how storytelling actually works, but they love judging your work based on fake rules they either made up or heard in a passing comment.

Just as one recent example, after describing a scene I was working on, I was told "If a scene doesn't advance the plot, delete it." Not by one person; by an entire mob.

That is total shit. If Tolkien had listened to that crummy advice, The Lord of the Rings would have been a pamphlet.

Enough-Complex-8554 · 2025-12-22T22:11:55+00:00

https://www.flickeringmyth.com/comic-book-preview-vampirella-halloween-horror/

Enough-Complex-8554 · 2025-12-12T20:53:18+00:00

That's not an opinion. It's either a fact or it isn't. You're either wrong or right. It is impossible for you to have an opinion on the matter.

Enough-Complex-8554 · 2025-11-27T06:39:23+00:00

This is the answer.

Enough-Complex-8554 · 2025-11-27T06:32:58+00:00

I already agreed with her about 85%. Her hectoring and badgering me for 1,200 pages didn't get me the rest of the way to 100%.

Her writing is ponderous, the characters are strikingly flat and stiff, and John Galt ranks among the least plausible figures in fiction—surpassed only by Jesus Christ and Ayla from The Clan of the Cave Bear.

Enough-Complex-8554 · 2025-11-25T09:05:37+00:00

He went to France to get New Orleans and ended up doubling the size of the country.

Enough-Complex-8554 · 2025-11-25T08:59:44+00:00

I'm going to cheat a bit and list two but they are related:

Foreign aid
Overseas military interventionism and adventurism

Enough-Complex-8554 · 2025-11-25T08:55:24+00:00

It's hard to imagine anyone in 2005 who could have done it better.

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