The Trump Card...
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If you watched the premier episode of Westworld on HBO last Sunday (second episode was last night just before the debate), you know what the entire episode features flies on the host's (robot) faces (well, about 4 or 5 scenes), and them not reacting to the flies at all. In a later scene we see a guest swat a fly. It's important, because the hosts cannot kill any living thing (the guests and the flies are the only living things in Westworld).
But the guy who runs Westworld (Anthony Hopkins) introduces reveries (a state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing) into the robots. The reveries allow the robots to go beyond their core programming and recall memories from past experiences, and from observations of guests, to make them seem more human. It causes them, for example, to absentmindedly rub their lip, scratch an earlobe, mindlessly twirl their hair. They constantly see guests swatting flies, but that's an action they shouldn't be able to replicate, as it goes against their core code of not harming any living thing.
But this introduction of reveries accidentally creates a paradox, and that's what's causing the hosts to glitch. At the very end of the first episode, to reinforce how the paradox has caused them to glitch, Delores (the one in the gif below), after doing her "Ground Hog Day" thing for the umpteenth time, just hammers a fly that landed on her neck. And did it just like a human would have done it. Ruh, roh!
It's a hella-good show. It's the best kind of sci fi - It entertains you and makes you think. Westworld is a fascinating exploration of what it means to be human, and a thoughtful critique of violent entertainment (while also being violent entertainment) without bludgeoning you over the head with the differences between man and machine. And for all the violence in the premier episode, the most startling and unsettling is the swatting of that fly.
So just a week on the heels of the premier episode of Westworld, when the Internet sees a fly landing on Hillary's face and her remaining utterly unaware that a fly landed on her face, not react to it at all, nearly mirroring the scene in the show, the Internet rightfully and properly craps itself.
But the guy who runs Westworld (Anthony Hopkins) introduces reveries (a state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing) into the robots. The reveries allow the robots to go beyond their core programming and recall memories from past experiences, and from observations of guests, to make them seem more human. It causes them, for example, to absentmindedly rub their lip, scratch an earlobe, mindlessly twirl their hair. They constantly see guests swatting flies, but that's an action they shouldn't be able to replicate, as it goes against their core code of not harming any living thing.
But this introduction of reveries accidentally creates a paradox, and that's what's causing the hosts to glitch. At the very end of the first episode, to reinforce how the paradox has caused them to glitch, Delores (the one in the gif below), after doing her "Ground Hog Day" thing for the umpteenth time, just hammers a fly that landed on her neck. And did it just like a human would have done it. Ruh, roh!
It's a hella-good show. It's the best kind of sci fi - It entertains you and makes you think. Westworld is a fascinating exploration of what it means to be human, and a thoughtful critique of violent entertainment (while also being violent entertainment) without bludgeoning you over the head with the differences between man and machine. And for all the violence in the premier episode, the most startling and unsettling is the swatting of that fly.
So just a week on the heels of the premier episode of Westworld, when the Internet sees a fly landing on Hillary's face and her remaining utterly unaware that a fly landed on her face, not react to it at all, nearly mirroring the scene in the show, the Internet rightfully and properly craps itself.
RLENT
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I'm still wondering if the fly buzzing Hillary during the debate committed suicide?
Yeah ... It flew over off-camera and landed on Trump ...
jujubeans
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That fly was a Russian drone sent in by Putin at the request of Trump.I'm still wondering if the fly buzzing Hillary during the debate committed suicide?
I liked the after debate karaoke party.
Especially their version of a Sonny and Cher classic.
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Especially their version of a Sonny and Cher classic.
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JohnWC
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I think it's bull
They both spend more time showing what's wrong with the outher than on the facts
They both spend more time showing what's wrong with the outher than on the facts
RLENT
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Probably a safe bet that TX Representative Blake Farenthold won't be considering going on Chris Hayes show again anytime soon ... In fact, he may wish to reconsider any further appearances in support of his candidate ... in light of the clusterflop that this turned out to be:
VIDEO: Trump Surrogate Unsure He'd Condemn Trump if He'd Bragged About Rape | RedState
Hilarious ... and at the same time incredibly sad ...
Ben Howe - a principled #NeverTrump conservative - makes a good case for the downsides of supporting a madman ...
VIDEO: Trump Surrogate Unsure He'd Condemn Trump if He'd Bragged About Rape | RedState
Hilarious ... and at the same time incredibly sad ...
Ben Howe - a principled #NeverTrump conservative - makes a good case for the downsides of supporting a madman ...
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RLENT
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Wonder if there was any "grabbing" going on at this event:
Trump Walked in on Miss Teen USA Contestants While They Were Changing -- Some As Young as 15 | RedState
Trump Walked in on Miss Teen USA Contestants While They Were Changing -- Some As Young as 15 | RedState
JohnWC
Veteran Expediter
Gary keeps looking better maybe it's time to shake them up in Washington
Lol if trump winning wouldn't be shaking up Washington I'm not sure what is. Remember Johnson is a politician
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Windsor
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If you're not a politician when you're running for president then what are you? He's been running for a year and a half. What do you have to run for 2 years before your a politician?
Yeah, probably not. I don't read Wonkette much anymore, not since shortly after Rebecca Schoenkopf took over. From the beginning Wonkette was always a liberal, left-leaning Website. And that's fine. But it was always smart, witty and funny regardless of your politics. That's because they never let an agenda take priority over a punchline. That started to change a little bit over the years, but it's become really blatant under Schoenkopf. Now it's only smart, funny and witty if you share the same agenda.
Wonkette has become nothing more than political spin. Especially in this election cycle. The article Schoenkopf wrote giving Bill Clinton a pass as a rapist (and Hillary a pass an an apologist/enabler), and then 3 days later making the lame attempt to walk it back but not really walk it back, was more gut churning than Trump's and Bush's comments on the bus.
It's not all that unlike the late night comedy shows. Most of them are no longer funny, because instead of doing jokes about the two main presidential candidates, they are unapologetically functioning as Hillary Clinton surrogates to take out Donald Trump. Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Samantha Bee, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, they are all doing the same thing. Jimmy Fallon stays away from the partisan proselytizing, and his ratings are twice that of the other shows. SNL also does a good job of not letting an agenda get in the way or a good joke. Even this past Saturday on the heels of the Trump Tape, they skewer Trump pretty good, but Hillary doesn't get off so easily, either.