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TRUMP OF THE YUKON

[on a whim, I took my tired and stilted comment hidden below to ChatGPT for detailing, a better style and a touch of Mordant Wit. Several failures later, what you see below. This one I like , since it underplays the fact that the first Trump in America was born in 1869 in Germany, that he didn't reach its shores until 1885, thus missing slavery's days entirely:

I call ChatGPT Chad. For Chad Jipiti.]

18 hours ago, Peter said:

Odd fact from Business Insider: Donald Trump is the only living US president whose ancestors didn't own slaves, report says

"The first man of the Trump family to set foot in America was Friedrich Trump, President Trump's paternal grandfather."

"Historical records indicate that he lived from 1869 to 1918."

"Interestingly, Friedrich's path to success took an unconventional turn as he made his initial fortune by running a brothel in Yukon during the Klondike gold rush."

"It's worth noting that there's nothing inherently wrong with that. Brothels emerged as efficient capitalist solutions to the overwhelming 99 to 1 sex ratio during the remarkable gold rush, often hailed as the greatest in North American history."

"And here's another intriguing fact: Donald John Trump's father carried the full name of Frederick Christ Trump."

14 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

I betcha climate change caused both the virus and the jab.

It certainly causes the side-effects.

Rhetoricians, take note, do.  The Times of Sunnyville names a possible partly-driving driver, 'dangerous fungi."

And "Queensland researchers" soundS much like plastic waste, yes?

Oh lordt. Hot wet demonic substance secretors. 

Liver cancer rates are surging in Australia – and climate change could be to blame

HEADTOPICS.COM

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Australia’s surging rate of liver cancer – up 306 per cent since 1982 – could be partly driven by climate change spurring the growth of...

Aflotoxins up, ignorance holding steady, curiosity shanked.

On 3/25/2023 at 6:18 PM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

If you have taken the jab, are scared and disgusted, and are looking at the abyss look right back at you, the cavalry is coming. 

Nice. When do they arrive?

5 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

Don't feel bad.

It is possible Stephen  might not 'feel' bad, Michael. I might suggest that we ask him first before concluding we have 'captured' a momentary comment.

That is called 'verification of emotional impression' or something like that. Magistrates sometimes call time out and go back and think and make the clerks 'feel' something. Like maybe a basic emotion like 'anticipation' or in prose terms, 'interest.' In fiction, we would illustrate their posture and choose a detail. "He ran his palms lightly over the sharp pencils. Gary discretely pushed the priority rack behind Darlene, who had her steno pad in its usual place, on her jiggly knee. Judge Fuck said nothing and they relaxed. He was just going to sit there and think. They slowly took belongings and a sense of relief to the break room. Sparkling soda was delivered to Fuck and everybody went into FUCK is working alone mode. Sandwiches were especially satisfing, but the courtyard was where everyone ended up doing Fuck All.

5 hours ago, Guyau said:

 

Wow! It is now about 48 hours since that post was made, and it has received only 7 hits. Perhaps my reputation for being not likely political preceded it. Then too, perhaps number of different viewers checking out the site is very low at present.

Don't pick up bad habits? 

I usually fail with ChatGPT.  99% of the time. Eg, this transcript is how maddening a madman like me can get ... even with a no-emotion superpower computer intelligence experiment. The game changer is the new downloadable engine!

Eg, I rage and sputter and leave. Then come back and try to understand the limits of robot fuck ...

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The Queen of Camden Town ... created with Fotor, animated via Pixlr.  I have to rememeber  that fabricated reports still sucker me right in to dig. Having a sense of Marc's puckish humour helps. 

My mother has given me the silent treatment for over a decade. Just because she hates shopping for doctors.

Amy was her own doctor, which is why her spirit lives on. She never even went to sob on cousin Fidel's bier. She was hammered, so she drifted off with that hoor Maggie, went to Valhalla, and ended up back at the stadium. Margaret meant to visit her 1967-68 rival for fidelspoogy sperm, but no one even knows that hoor was Margaret Thatcher's own lovechild (ha!); Not even the slutty nawzi Double U Eeck Eff Chrystia UkrainilandFreeKorp.

Who will claim the bones of Amy's baby, Mark (je t'appelle Mark, comme Jonny jon dramma boi m'appellait "Billy boy")? Si certains caractères de cet article s’affichent mal (carrés vides, points d’interrogation, etc.) ... c'est la faute de toi. Them fuckheads in Rio Failed to Dislodge Communism, news at 8. Brazilians gave Michael at least five 'love children.' Try Google, if you don't believe the nasty exploitative loses at 

Visit my online mentor Kev Pluck for symbols to paste as easy as pie. SymbolSalad.

How's the pie there, Mark?  I think of your struggles with objectivism while eating fried Cuban pies. Not much in them, frankly.  Not like that hoor Bolania's, but of course that has been sown.

And why would Trumpo grab Horse-face McDaniels 'Orageuse' adult-entertainer's ho-ho. Is it because she knew how to fake multiple Trumpgasms?

Man, it's hard to know in your heart that Trump-ji should be President of Canada. Those brave hammered-on-life Vest People tried. They tried. They are now mostly on trail, trail, trial, led for point by that fake Måtisse what's her name. How come nobody presumes she got horned up the you know what with Fidelo? Not Jonny-jon the angerSmith. I drove him off this chat site. Or was that JT?

Hen Joy:  

On 10/13/2022 at 6:07 PM, Marc said:

 

'How'd that work out for her, do you know?

On 3/1/2023 at 12:24 PM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

According to Angus Fletcher, [...] there are two kinds of neurons. 

Does that mean there are only two types of cells in the brain and nervous systems of a human being? Did it check out in your testing phases of IDing correctly?

9 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

The Kraken was not dead. It was in the depths growing...

I do not understand the faith in Powell's ability to prevail against her erstwhile enemies. She is not in the same objective world as those who are saddened at her descent into crankdom.  Why put faith in an outcome that shows little evidence of ever happening. Buzzwords and hope are not persuasive ...

On 2/5/2023 at 8:56 PM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

Ayn Rand used to say, "God bless America."

We all know she was an atheist, but even so.

I am finishing that thought (but even so [...])

On 2/5/2023 at 8:56 PM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

To balance on the other side, I cannot imagine her saying, "Satan bless America."

Who would say that in the first place. It's not in the Satanic Catechism, and there is no singular text on which to hang (as with Christianity's earliest 'books' (but see Nag Hammadi and the Coptic version of Book of Thomas ... ).  In Cairo.

On 2/5/2023 at 8:56 PM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

It's not that I reject that. (Although I do.)

Reject positive wishes?  I often utter blessings on folks, despite my atheism. It's a way to let people know that you hope they get to where they want to go, with least wear and tear. Beware "Damien Echols" Quickfast Concrete Conviction (pre-cast and 'coached') ... in the case o Miskelly.

On 2/5/2023 at 8:56 PM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

It's that the image doesn't come into my head, not even as make-believe.

No. Nor my come-into-head. It can be *imagined* but so can just about anything. As with dreaming without actual pain, memories of imaginative events on the 'cognitive drawing board' are generally harmless fun. No kidnapping, abuse, stalking, hate rants or exposing a person to the Darkest Urges of morally a-moral trolls and monster personalities. 

On 2/5/2023 at 8:56 PM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

I try to force it to have an internal referent, but it won't come.

Yah. Time to move on. Ayn Rand was not a follower of any strain of stupid "modernist" Shaytanna woo-hoo woo-haw hee-haw.
 

On 10/12/2007 at 1:05 PM, Selene said:

John Dailey said:

~ No two ways about it: whatever it's 'flaws' as one subjectively evaluates it in mere terms of 'likes-dislikes', this movie, then, as well as now, is heads-and-shoulders of a different and 'higher' calibre than most movies made before, then, and since. I said that Gary Cooper was 'adequate' in handling his part and I praised his co-actors higher re their handling theirs. I must add that, movie-buff that I am, I'm not aware of any other actor that YET can really handle (in a more 'believable' manner, which is not to be confused with "I'd prefer/like-more to see 'X' doing it" ) his part better than he did, regardless that some see Cooper as 'wooden' (not I) in doing it. --- An aside: maybe a thread should be started to distinguish the diff between someone showing passion...and, merely showing scene-chewing emoting.

~ If I didn't make it clear, Cooper was 'adequate'...and playing Roark: that's no small feat. God help the actor who plays Galt in the upcoming Atlas Shrugged.

Excellent observation regarding the "...diff between someone showing...passion...and, merely showing scene-chewing...emoting." Cooper did more with micro-facial actions and his total kinesics than most actors do with a "heart wrenching sob scene". I happened to sit in on my colleauge's "The Art of Oral Interpretation" course many years ago and chose Roark's jury summation as my end term performance project. Coop's cadence was not the best, but his iron certainty as to his principles connected to his legal contractual connection in his summation was stunning in its clarity. It took eight [8] minutes in the movie. I extended the time for cadence purposes when I did it and I was more animated. However, it is an intense speech and one of the most difficult tasks to perform it is to sustain it, which he did.

Our Adam ...

On 7/16/2018 at 8:58 AM, william.scherk said:

Adam Selene is no longer here to extend his argument or explain in more detail. 

On 5/29/2011 at 11:48 AM, Selene said:

Metaphors most certainly are processes of reasoning and by definition are reasons.

Idea Farming with ChatGPT ...

On 2/22/2023 at 7:39 AM, Joseph Norris said:

After many misspent years, I first came across The Fountainhead and quickly followed with many more of Ayn Rand's books. I think it was the first clear sign I'd seen in too many years of there being any appreciation for truth and honesty in the world. I guess I had lost hope and it was the start of regaining it.

My boss gave me Atlas Shrugged in ~2005. I had just put down Battlefield Earth -- stinkbomb -- and for five chapters Ayn Rand's authorial voice boomed out in Hubbard's titanic overkill register and hysterical tone, not hers ... I am now delving, doing a re-run with lice comb in my fave bedside collection, a vintage copy of the fifth edition of The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution.

On 2/22/2023 at 7:39 AM, Joseph Norris said:

The relationship between Mallory and Roark in particular stuck me and I could feel Mallory's pain, and the relief of finding something good in the world in Roark.

I've read a lot more philosophy since (most notably Mises and Popper). I've defeated a lot of my own nihilism and suspicion and started forming good values and connecting back to reality. I still think I have a long way to go.

This place is rich with material from top-notch thinkers, and has always tolerated a measure of respectful dissent. Michael is the Owner and leader. He is here every day, despite a busy family and writing life. He is the best-read of all of us, and can intelligently lead a discussion on just about any topic ...

On 2/22/2023 at 7:39 AM, Joseph Norris said:

My life is still not in the place I want it to be. But I'm in a position where I can take the time to make the changes I need to. I came across this forum while looking for places to discuss values and ideas, hopefully meet some good people, and work out how to live a good life. I have wasted far too many years of my life, and I want to make the next few years worth something.

Other interests include maths, programming and games. I'm English.

I am a "mature student" who maintains a 500 gigabyte online archive. Much commentary on this forum reverberates elsewhere online (Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Gettr, Truth Social). I've done a lot of cataloging, indexing and research noting -- including six years of OL commentary, arranged in 80-plus directories. [Please DM me if you ever want to talk CODE. I know HTML5, JQuery, PHP and MySQL and steal effectively. Recently I went crazy with a manic breakdown ... and I blame ChatGPT. I escaped the psych ward by being "Compliant."]

Am basically reborn -- with old circuits fried out. I have a lot of work to do here not being a twit ... and to further understand why Kim Kardashian had to freeze out Ye.  

Prepare for the occasional bout of mindreading, snark, one-upmanship and lordliness. Some have earned the right, I haven't.

Until he went to prison or died or fled to Belize, we had a great fellow here -- pen name "Adam Selene" -- who would often if not always great a new arrival with a couple break-ice queries and corny GIFs.  I'll dig one up. 

It's never to late to grow up and Live Life Fully. Ask Michael. Ask me. Ask anybody ... even those 'regulars' who avoid giving personal information. [Name: Nunya Bidnezz.]

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On 2/9/2023 at 5:47 PM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

On 1/26/2023 at 12:31 PM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

Scott Adams is definitely a creep.

What a fall from grace.

Jabshill! In the land of demented conspiracy ideation, nobody is safe from the likes of Stew Peters!

On 2/5/2023 at 8:56 PM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

People look but many still cannot see.

I am about The Luciferians these days. Even Boydstun is hip to their buzzword kill rate.

On 11/18/2022 at 8:46 AM, Peter said:

After my eye dilations and examinations, I need to sit in my car for at least a half an hour. I wish you well Ellen.

Got Belladonna! Optometrist told me that my old prescription was so wrong it made him wonder if ...

When I got home, avoiding light, got out my old optometry bill, and later realized that I got Dr [Melanie] Sherk's prescription in 2011. Hmmm.

WUT

New Dr {"Yer now-retired Sherk was a fool or fiend, it seems" } Amarjit Dhillon told me that I would get cataract surgery in five years, like everyone does.

He also told me that the titanium frames I really wanted ... could be fitted with no-glare progressive lenses for ~200 loonies. That's roughly 110 $US. Yay insurance, yay a payment plan.

The weirdest thing Dr Dhillon told me was during my "I need contacts for 'performance'" blather. He said, "Cornea feces."  Yes, no one at all should wear 'leave them in for a month' while sleeping. The cornea cleans itself of feces/debris, proteins, mucus, etcetera. So, cleaning them in the NEW solution gives your cornea's work a chance to happen. Them old contacts were basically gummy bears in terms of helpful ...

The new fitted contact temporaries mean ... I no longer need cheaters or reading glasses. 

Moral: have good insurance. Be aware of cornea feces. Let your body do the job and see you soon, Mr Scherk.  

(the Sherks and the Shirks and the Scherks of Canada are all related to the same Mennonite brethren who settled in a few 'counties' in southern Ontario. We are 'not related,' in fact in my birthplace we did not 'mix' with Sherks at all. Which was fine, because we were happy without an active feud that began at the port of entry in 1883: Name? SHHHNEEROCK. SCHNEE, Sherack.  

I lovehate the Shirks the most.  They probably don't even realize what the word means in old English. F*@k them.

https://www.sardisoptical.com

On 8/11/2020 at 1:28 PM, ThatGuy said:

 

______________ ?

On 11/27/2022 at 2:06 PM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

Oh, Lord.

I can't resist.

Here is a direct quote from the NYT article that Revolver News was displaying as the lying fake news.

NYT being quoted by Revolver:

Which?

Blank-out.

If it weren't for shit-ass lousy standards for sources, some people would have no standards at all.

Michael

I don't understand this answer now. 

5 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

James just said he was removed without compensation on Feb. 10.

What is the story we have been hearing? Isn't it that he took time off with pay?

Who told us that, please?

Great opener to the topic. Thanks, Michael.

On 5/1/2006 at 6:57 AM, william.scherk said:

[Edit: as noted, posters here are not moderated. Sorry for the gaffe. I hope my point about that danged newfangled internet still stands.]

I am training Descript's "Overdub" to incorporate a William Scott Scherk voice for text-to-speech rendering. Birthday blessings continue.

Starting with the first post to Objectivist Living ... 

Farm to Table ...