what are you talking about?
you called me sugar.
you are implying that you get to police what gender people find acceptable?
besides, I literally said those are the facts Jack.
which is a very common phrase and Jack isn't even a gendered name.
Why are you assigning gender to it?
"You're closer to Trump's ideology than I am"
Trump is obsessed with gender.
I'm not.
you seem obsessed with gender.
so who's closer to trump?
"I really just don't want to sit and argue with you."
... so you proceed to write a treatise?
"You can call that rabbit-hole diving or tangential if you want. I call it critical thinking."
that should make you feel better, and accurate though and maybe.
We have nine computer scientists talking about facts.
One of which goes one step further.
you think that maybe he is wrong.
based on you thinking that maybe he is wrong.
fine. maybe he is.
doesn't change anything about the other eight scientists linked or any of the relevant facts.
"probably at too much length at this point."
definitely, with some unnecessary redundancy.
"I'm not interested in an extended argument "
yeah, I can tell by all your rehashed arguments that you're not interested in arguing.
thanks for those.
go ahead and call me sugar, Jack.
Why is Jack used in a common phrase a gendered name to you?
do you get angry if people say "guys" to a mixed group?
your concerns seem unnecessarily exhausting. for you.
true that. exactly.
do the manual recounts since the software was compromised and tons of computer specialists are worried about that and let's put it to rest.
"Guess which one is horrible?"
are they the ones you're making up?
"That's what the madman shouting gibberish at the town square claims"
literally what you said in the last comment, you're calling yourself a mad man.
"Sugar, you're adorable"
Thanks, Jack.
"Willie doesn't care."
you should, Willie. it means you've basically been arguing against yourself this whole time because you didn't know that it's all already happened before.
don't be a trump, take personal responsibility and adjust your behavior accordingly.
your gender?
what the tangent are you talking about?
okay, you don't understand how manipulating software means voting machines could be compromised.
dang, really?
I'm going to try and analogize this....
okay, you can think about compromising a software program like physical sabotage.
so let's say you have an ice cream machine with two levers sticking out front that gives out chocolate and vanilla ice cream.
If you pull the chocolate tap, you'll get chocolate ice cream.
If you pull the vanilla tap, you'll get vanilla ice cream.
let's say you only like chocolate and have access to the inside of the ice cream machine.
so if you can get inside the machine, you connect both lovers to the chocolate press tab but remove the vanilla press tab, so now, pulling either the chocolate or vanilla will only dispense chocolate ice cream.
The machine might look normal on the outside, but now regardless of the input, it's giving you the output that you want.
so if you get inside something, you can change how it works, so that it gives you the result you want.
does that make sense?
you can do the same thing with a computer program.
you can go inside, change what it says, to do what you want.
*courtroom admissions
okay, that one was pretty bad.
sorry, I've got like three other people who have never heard of the fake elector's plot talking to me at the same time as you are, so I have to basically explain it over and over to you guys.
and then you're like yeah. but what about conspiracies not being real?
haha, nope, there are groups of people that do things together.
happens all the time.
"you're trying to engineer some disagreement with me"
nope.
I disagree with your inaccuracy and tangential rabbit hole diving.
you're criticizing one instance of limited speculation with your own limited speculation, and ignoring the majority of other scientists who are only using unassailable facts, that is "the crux of the matter".
you're sticking with this one detail of this one guy so that you don't have to come to terms with the facts.
I'm not engineering anything, you're upset that I'm not allowing you to fabricate an inaccurate narrative.
don't pretend you're not the one holding those goalposts.
Unless you actually believe that you're not...in which case, take a deep breath, read your comments through again, and try to pare down what you're saying to the things that actually make a difference instead of just argumentative quibbling.
you agree with everything I'm saying, you don't like how I'm saying it because I'm not being polite to your less consequential narratives.
well, I'm not going to be polite because you started making things up or changing the topic either so, don't go that route.
so you don't mind edits, but then you tell me that you specifically think me editing my comments is a terrible way to write?
yeah dude if you don't understand what I'm saying that's on you.
"I'd like a quote."
bully for you. I'm not getting bogged down in your tangential nitpicking.
Jack.
what, did I guess your actual name accidentally? The most common name in the states?
maybe don't broadcast that.
it's insane you don't know about the fake electors scheme and you have the hollow temerity to speak about politics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot
okay, but I guess if you don't even know about the fake electric spot I understand why you keep making things up and don't understand what I'm talking about.
I'll let the rest of this slide
go read up on the conspiracy that involved voting and fabricating votes 4 years ago, maybe you'll find it less outlandish that your buddy Trump might be trying it again.
diaper? is that what magaheads are called now?
I'll always remember Ax and Cinnabons and cigarette butts, and then the
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later horror of that one Shakira getting his tail cut off.
Real opposite ends of the memory spectrum there.
It really bothered me when Ax listenibg to the andalites instead of Jake when I first read this book, I didn't understand how onerous or tangible culture was for another decade or so until I started traveling.
It's also pretty scary when
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they start disappearing out of nowhere and nobody even had a theory as to what has happened to the disappeared Animorphs for several chapters.
As much as time travel Deus ex machina stuff gets my eye rolls going, I very much enjoy a lot of the arcs here, especially ax's burgeoning identity crisis.
The oatmeal debacle!
This is a pretty good one to read through again. It's fast-paced, has a lot of pretty big and exciting events, and seriously examines some pretty dark moral arguments and behaviors in war.
I remember almost all of this book, this one is pretty great and pretty dark. I didn't remember Arnold Schwarzenegger though.
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The debate about whether they should give the yeerks a highly addictive substance that causes the yeerks to go insane is already serious, but then they decide to go ahead with the plan to poison the yerks with the toxic oatmeal.
Child soldiers using biological warfare in a war they feel they must continue is pretty rough.
So cool. I love that off-angle phase 4
I remember this book fairly accurately, there's so much going on on it. So exciting. It's difficult to forget.
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The failed attempts to sneak into the rich guy's house, the gunshot wounds on Jake's rhino, the new exciting internet chat rooms where they find out that other people know about the yeerks, and especially the disgusting fact that they find out one yeerk is killing hosts to extract yeerks to eat.
That cannibal murder part actually slipped my mind until this reread, perhaps out of a wee bit o' trauma.
Anybody else remember this one?
Dang Thanh Tam back in top form with a stunning illustration for the Vietnamese covers.
Not as action-packed as I've come you expect, but still so immersive. I remember the spider morph on tge original cover was so smoothly transitioned and seemed at odds with the disgusting morphing process described in the books.
This is also pretty smooth, but more organic and representative of how I imagine the morphing process.
I like how the front paw is clawing over the title block.
Comin' at ya!
have fun believing facts aren't real.
actually must be pretty fun.