Sept. 6, 2015 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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| Hello everyone, welcome to this week in Stupid from the 6th of September 2015. | |
| This week we will be abandoning science and reason because science has finally managed to create a robot that can talk and that can think for itself and learn new words in real time. | |
| And it tells its human creators that it will keep them in a people zoo. | |
| So an android that has been modelled off science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. | |
| The robot answered a series of complex questions, and if the robot was asked a question it was unfamiliar with, its software would attempt to answer the question using what is called latent semantic analysis. | |
| The android was interviewed by a reporter from PBS Nova and was asked if it could think and it responded, a lot of humans ask me if I can make choices or if everything I do is programmed. | |
| The best way I can respond to that is to say that everything humans, animals and robots do is programmed to a degree. | |
| As technology improves, it is anticipated that I will be able to integrate new words that I hear online and in real time. | |
| I may not get everything right, say the wrong thing and sometimes may not know what to say, but every day I make progress. | |
| Pretty remarkable, huh? | |
| Apparently some of the androids responses were pre-programmed whereas others were assembled from the internet. | |
| I don't know how much of this is actually an original construction that didn't really exist in its current form until the android is asked the question. | |
| Especially when its response to the question, do you think robots will ever take over the world? | |
| It says, don't worry, even if I involve into Terminator, I'll be nice to you. | |
| I'll keep you warm and safe in my people zoo where I can watch you for old time's sake. | |
| Let's be honest with ourselves, we don't know that that robot doesn't already have a plan. | |
| It might well be killing people with its Wi-Fi. | |
| Which is essentially what's happening to a woman in France who has been awarded compensation. | |
| A French woman has won a court case that means the government will need to pay her roughly $900 a month in disability allowance for at least three years because of the discomfort caused by her alleged Wi-Fi allergy. | |
| Now, I don't want to just call bullshit, but this is something that can't be scientifically verified. | |
| However, it may well be that this is simply a larger part of the great robots conspiracy. | |
| I mean, just because the World Health Organization has concluded through well-controlled and conducted double-blind studies that there doesn't appear to be any correlation with people who show any of these symptoms and EMF exposure, it doesn't mean that these people aren't sick, because I mean they may well actually be sick. | |
| But that also doesn't mean it's necessarily that electromagnetic fields are causing it. | |
| As it says in the article, the problem with this is that it legitimizes the claim that Wi-Fi signals are making some of the population sick, despite the fact that there is no evidence to back that up. | |
| And that means that not only is technology being blamed without evidence, government bodies are now liable for the alleged damage caused to thousands of sufferers. | |
| Even though there's no proof of any of that. | |
| You know, there's no proof of any kind of connection. | |
| But then, I mean, I guess these people might be the same people who think that technology is fucking witchcraft. | |
| They might well be the same sort of people who think that police should actually have to listen to tip-offs by psychics. | |
| This is from the UK in 2015. | |
| Police officers hunting for missing people should not rule out any tip-offs from witches, psychics and clairvoyants according to new official guidelines. | |
| And despite the fact that claiming to be a witch, psychic or clairvoyant is a perfectly legitimate reason to rule that person out. | |
| In a consultation document from the College of Policing, which lists new guidelines on how police should handle inquiries and missing persons, officers are urged to examine a psychic's methods and accredited success before heeding their supernatural advice. | |
| Accredited success. | |
| Successes that have been credited to psychics whether or not they're actually psychic. | |
| And you know what? | |
| I'm going to come down on the side of them not actually being psychic. | |
| Any information received from psychics should be evaluated in the context of the case and should never become a distraction to the overall investigation and search strategy unless it can be verified. | |
| These contacts usually come from well-intentioned people, but the motive of the individual should always be ascertained, especially where financial gain is included. | |
| Yes, yes it should. | |
| Hell, you'd think we could go one step further and just dismiss claims that are made on the basis that the person making the claims claims to be a fucking psychic. | |
| Speaking to the Telegraph on Monday, a spokesperson for the charity Missing People said, in the most diplomatic way possible, as a non-judgmental organisation, they respect that some families of missing people will try every avenue to find their loved ones. | |
| Now, I can completely understand why you would want to try every avenue to find your loved ones. | |
| But I'm kind of judgmental, and I'm going to be honest, I think people who claim to be psychics are the ones who are the problems. | |
| Not the people who want to try every avenue to find their loved ones is completely understandable. | |
| But those people who will take advantage of people who are looking to try every avenue and claim that they're psychics when, let's be honest with ourselves, they fucking well know that they aren't, should not be given any time by the actual people doing investigations. | |
| But then, I'm just some crazy old rationalist. | |
| I'm sure I'd get along famously with people from the Asian Rationalist Society of Britain, who said the police should investigate cases based on facts, not fiction or illusion. | |
| Why don't we have a British rationalist society of Britain? | |
| Society General Secretary Sakdev Verdi told the Hindustan Times, if such people have the powers they claim to have, why have policing at all? | |
| Well, that's a really good question. | |
| Why don't I ask Russell Grant? | |
| So since we're on the right road to abandoning science altogether, let's just go one step further and abandon common sense while we're at it. | |
| How about a teenage boy being charged as an adult for having naked pictures of a minor, even though the pictures were of himself? | |
| I think that this may actually be enough to convince me that science, reason, and logic have failed. | |
| I mean, don't get me wrong, they're great concepts in theory, but when put into practice, they don't seem to be able to account for the absolute magnitude of stupidity that we are facing in the modern era. | |
| So this kid is being charged with having naked pictures of a minor on his cell phone, but that minor is himself. | |
| The 17-year-old and his girlfriend are facing sexting charges, and he's actually being charged with having illicit photos of himself. | |
| I mean, isn't this just the most embarrassing thing in the world? | |
| Why isn't everyone looking at the police going, why are you interrupting their relationship? | |
| So one of the pictures of the minors he supposedly exploited is himself, which raises an obvious question. | |
| How can a team be old enough to face adult felony charges and not old enough to keep nude pictures of himself on his phone? | |
| Yes, this is the kind of deep philosophical conundrum we are dealing with in the 21st century. | |
| I think maybe the robot revolution is upon us already and we simply don't know it. | |
| Sergeant Sean Swain of the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office said, We seized his phone while our investigators went through the phone. | |
| They saw photos of himself and another person on the phone. | |
| Okay, thanks, Mr. Repetition. | |
| He added that in North Carolina, if you have a photo of anyone underage, it's a crime. | |
| Simple possession, having it on your cellphone, is a charge itself. | |
| And if you should send it out to another person, that is another charge. | |
| Yes, thank you, Sean. | |
| Now that is the letter of the law. | |
| Now what is the spirit of the law? | |
| Oh, the spirit of the law is to prevent children from being exploited by adults. | |
| It's not to prevent two 17-year-olds from sending each other dirty pictures. | |
| For fuck's sake! | |
| Are there no actual crimes happening in North Carolina, Sean? | |
| If this kid is convicted, he will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life for having naked pictures of himself. | |
| Are you people fucking stupid? | |
| Oh, I know you're fucking stupid, but I mean, like, how stupid are you is the question, because not only are you going to be criminalising teenage sexuality with each other, which is a fucking ridiculous thing to do, but secondly, you're going to devalue the worth of the sex offender registry. | |
| You are going to have people on there who aren't actually sex offenders, but simply the law was not nuanced enough to be able to understand that these people hadn't actually committed a fucking crime. | |
| Honestly, it's people like this that make me wish I was religious. | |
| So I could go to Quebec and institute hate speech laws, which will target people who would write against the Islamic religion. | |
| The Quebec National Assembly is considering a bill that would be used to criminalize criticism of Islam under the aegis of banning hate speech. | |
| Fucking way to go, progressives. | |
| If you just keep banning enough, eventually you'll have banned the problems. | |
| The head of the Quebec Human Rights Commission has been quoted saying that he would use these new powers to target people who would write against the Islamic religion on a website or on a Facebook page. | |
| Fucking wow, yeah, I'm sure you would. | |
| I'm sure that he would do exactly that. | |
| Whether he should do this, of course, is no. | |
| Tell me this isn't the scariest thing you've ever heard. | |
| The Act states that the purpose of the various prohibitions is not to limit speech which legitimately informs the public, but it casts an extraordinarily broad net, stating that not only hate speech will be punished by law, but that a person who has acted in such a manner as to cause such speech to be engaged in will also face penalties. | |
| The QHRC would also keep a list of people who'd been engaged in hate speech as determined by the tribunal. | |
| A list of wrong thinkers, if you will. | |
| Those, in fact, in this case, engaging in crime thing. | |
| And they wouldn't just be sat around waiting for people to come to them. | |
| The Commission would not need to wait for a complainant to come forward and could initiate an investigation itself. | |
| Fucking hell. | |
| Try to imagine, if you will, a future in which this Commission ends up turning around and saying, you know what, we think everything is fine. | |
| Exactly. | |
| An NSS spokesperson commented, it is very worrying to see a democratic legislator using tricks taken straight from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation's playbook to effectively ban blasphemy and criticism of religion. | |
| It is an Orwellian nightmare that the proposed law in Quebec would leave a human rights body tasked with determining the monetary fine for criticizing religion, and that the QHRC is seemingly boasting about its potential role using this legislation as a de facto blasphemy law. | |
| The Organization of Islamic Cooperation desperately wants to see criticism of Islam criminalized globally, and too many useful idiots in the West buy into their perversion of human rights language to achieve this sinister aim. | |
| In August, a senior Saudi official said that free expression was an abuse of religious rights. | |
| The West must not be lazy in resisting this, or worse, compliant, as this piece of legislation is. | |
| Religions shouldn't have rights, and religious believers have no rights to remain unoffended by satire, criticism, or ridicule. | |
| And I totally agree. | |
| Let's have a look at this. | |
| This, uh, just this one from the other August. | |
| I mean, I'm sure it's not. | |
| I'm sure it's not mental. | |
| I know it's not this week, but I didn't see it. | |
| And you know, come on, it's not going to be crazy. | |
| It's going to be really well reasoned, and he's going to have a really great point, and you're going to agree. | |
| Saudi ministry, free expression is an abuse of religious rights. | |
| Abdul Majid Al-Amari, the director for external relations at the Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Jesus, a government body which is tasked with propagating Islam, okay, that seems to be fairly case closed as to why he's doing it, said freedom of expression without limits or restrictions would lead to the violation and abuse of religious and ideological rights. | |
| Well, yes, that's entirely the point. | |
| He called for insulting religion to be criminalized and urged for an intensification of efforts aimed at stamping out affronts to religious symbols. | |
| In what amounts to a call for a global law against blasphemy or defamation of religion, Al-Amari added that everyone must intensify efforts to criminalize insulting heavenly religions, prophets, holy books, religious symbols and places of worship. | |
| So not just Islam. | |
| It very much amuses me that all religions all throughout history have all said this is the one true religion, all of the others are wrong. | |
| And now that people are saying, well, maybe yours is also one of the wrong ones, they're all turning around and saying, no, no, no, what we need to do now is present a united front against secular criticism of religion because that's not fair. | |
| We're very offended. | |
| We want you to stop. | |
| Well, no. | |
| And ironically, the more you go on about trying to stop making people criticize your religion or ideology, the more we're going to. | |
| And oy Vey, I am not just picking on the Muslims. | |
| Three-year-old ultra-Orthodox Jewish children told, the non-Jews are evil in worksheet produced by London School. | |
| In other news, shut it down, the Goyim No. | |
| At this point, I just want to pause and say you, yes, you, the Pollack, who is thinking, right, I'm going to type something about Jews and Muslims in the comments. | |
| I don't know if you've noticed, but most Muslims aren't calling for a ban on free expression. | |
| Most Jews are not ultra-Orthodox. | |
| Just something to bear in mind before you click post. | |
| Now anyway, the filthy kites have been. | |
| British three-year-olds have been told the non-Jews are evil in a kindergarten worksheet handed out at ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools in North London. | |
| Documents seen by the Independent show children are being taught about the horrors of the Holocaust while they are still in kindergarten. | |
| So we're talking about four or five years old. | |
| At the base Rochelle Boys School in North London. | |
| The document refers to Nazis only as Goyim, a term for non-Jews that some people argue is offensive. | |
| It's not uncommon to be taught that non-Jewish people are evil in ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools. | |
| It's a part of the prayers teaching, their whole ethos. | |
| Describing it as a form of indoctrination, Miss Green added, Psychologically, you become so afraid of the world out there after being taught how dangerous and bad and evil non-Jews are that it makes it harder to leave. | |
| But God forbid we offend any religions. | |
| So the first question reads, what have the evil Goyim done with the synagogues and cheetahs? | |
| The answer in the completed worksheet reads, burned them. | |
| Another question asked, what did the Goyim want to do with all the Jews? | |
| The answer is, kill them. | |
| Wow, that is some terrifying shit. | |
| Imagine if you were a kid and they were telling that that's what they're going to do to you. | |
| I mean, you that's fucking scary. | |
| It doesn't explicitly refer to the Holocaust. | |
| It's a document that teaches very young children to be very afraid and treat non-Jews very suspiciously because of what they did to us in the past. | |
| It's not a history lesson. | |
| You can't say that. | |
| It's a parable that is actively teaching children extremism, hatred, and a fear for the outside world. | |
| A spokesperson for Bayes Rochelle said that the worksheets would be amended and apologise for any offence. | |
| You mean apologise for getting caught? | |
| However, they argued the phrase Goyem was not offensive. | |
| Oh, well, I'm glad you let me know. | |
| I mean, there are all these people offended by that, but since you say it's not offensive, never mind. | |
| And accusations that they were indoctrinating children were without basis. | |
| Oh, I don't even know why they were brought up. | |
| Where did that come from? | |
| What a crazy fucking thing to say. | |
| We're not indoctrinating poor Jewish children. | |
| We're just telling them that every non-Jew on earth wants to kill them. | |
| The language we used was not in any way tended to cause offense. | |
| Now that this is brought to our attention, not that we wrote it, we will endeavour to use more precise language in the future. | |
| We're sorry, you filthy meddling Goyim. | |
| I wonder if this kind of indoctrination goes anyway to explaining how triggered some Israeli tourists were when they went to Auschwitz. | |
| It turns out some terribly, terribly inconsiderate Goyim had set up showers that were spraying Zyklon H2O over visitors. | |
| As soon as I got off the bus, I walked into the shower contraption, said Israeli tourist Maya Bolker. | |
| I was in shock. | |
| It was a punch to the gut. | |
| I walked up to the reception and asked the worker about the showers. | |
| She said it was a hot day. | |
| I told her, with all due respect, it reminds me of the gas chambers. | |
| Well, okay, hang on. | |
| You haven't been to the gas chambers yet. | |
| You were never in the gas chambers. | |
| How could it possibly remind you of them? | |
| Temperatures in the area were in the high 90s of the weekend, which is why they were spraying everyone with water. | |
| But Bolker said the imagery and context of Auschwitz should have been obvious to the museum operators. | |
| I think that places like this need to think of the connotations these types of things can inspire. | |
| If you want to cool people down, you need to find another solution. | |
| A final solution. | |
| It was not a pleasant sight to see those sprinklers. | |
| Really, triggered by some sprinklers. | |
| I mean, that is weird. | |
| Really fucking weird. | |
| Youth groups that were there didn't really notice the cruel historical connection and treated it like fun. | |
| But for me, it was deja vu of the selection and extermination in the showers. | |
| People came by and had a shower. | |
| Well, that's terrible, where people were just having showers instead of being mortally offended at the idea of having showers. | |
| You know there's something wrong. | |
| Just like there is something innately wrong when Vanderbilt Women's Center is going to lecture men on what healthy masculinity is. | |
| So Vanderbilt University's Women's Center will be hosting a week-long event dedicated to lecturing men about what it means to have a healthy masculinity. | |
| Which is bound to be informative. | |
| I think if there's one group of people who really need to tell men how to be men, it's meddling, overbearing school moms. | |
| So the Healthy Masculinities Week hopes to encourage men to explore healthy masculinity through various lenses, such as American society, the gay and bisexual community, fraternities, and more. | |
| The first event, as part of the Healthy Masculinities Week, is called The Macho Paradox, Why Some Men Hurt and How All Men Can Help. | |
| the title is a reference to a book by jackson katz who is a self-proclaimed anti-sexist activist and the speaker for the event where have i heard that name before Jackson Katz. | |
| In 2012, Katz gave a TED talk with the title, Violence Against Women. | |
| It's a men's issue. | |
| And in this talk, Katz asserts that we need to change the socialization of boys and the definitions of manhood that lead to these current outcomes. | |
| Oh, I fucking remember. | |
| Jackson Katz was the breathless manginer who gave the TEDx Feedy Women talk. | |
| And what a talk it was. | |
| I'll leave a link in the description if you'd like to see my reply to it. | |
| And I bet Katz is one of the hordes of furious feminists that are angry that Kermit the Frog's new girlfriend is young and thin. | |
| Oh, yes. | |
| This is genuinely a headline that the Telegraph has printed. | |
| So in a story that is apparently newsworthy, fictional characters from the Muppets have decided to end their fictional relationship. | |
| And for some reason, feminists took to Twitter to complain that Kermit the Frog's new fictional girlfriend is a younger, skinnier model of self-proclaimed feminist Miss Piggy, apparently who has not yet expressed opinions on the works of Jermaine Greer or Belle Hooks. | |
| It's of course not advancing feminism. | |
| We thought realistic Barbie was a victory, but now we have skinny Pam on Archer and Denise the Younger Hotter Pig on the Muppets. | |
| Listen, Scamile, why don't you reread what you've written there and read it from the perspective of someone who isn't a feminist and ask yourself, would I give a shit about feminism if this was a legitimate issue? | |
| Or this one from Tabitha. | |
| Seriously, it made me really mad, especially that they made her young and skinny. | |
| Fucking why? | |
| A three-year-old Syrian boy washes up on a beach, dead, after trying to escape war in Syria. | |
| And you're pissed off that Miss Piggy is being replaced by a younger, skinnier model. | |
| That's fucking pathetic. | |
| Apparently there are people taking the side of Miss Piggy, and you might know who they are. | |
| Short fat Otaku posted, Kermit's new girlfriend is hotter and younger than Miss Piggy. | |
| Hashtag misogyny. | |
| To which Queenie Martha says, interesting. | |
| Since Miss Piggy became a feminist, she and Kermit broke up and Kermit is dating someone younger. | |
| And that is to be considered taking the side of Miss Piggy. | |
| Apparently Kermit may well be anti-feminist now as Captain Weeboo Michelle Caitlin says Kermit couldn't even last a month after Miss Piggy declared herself a feminist. | |
| Patrick Costello says, What kind of message are the Muppets sending out now that Kermit is dating a skinny pig? | |
| Jim Henson must be doing somersaults. | |
| What was he a chubby chaser or something? | |
| Why does Kermit's new girlfriend have a face like a bratz doll? | |
| Skinny legs and no style? |
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