Gyroscopic Investing

This is about as quiet as I've ever seen it around here.

I added the Computer Programmer part to this graphic I saw in an article on the Rape Culture that I was reading.

Maybe we're just busy doing other stuff?
Nice graphic, by the way!

Fred wrote: This is about as quiet as I've ever seen it around here.

I added the Computer Programmer part to this graphic I saw in an article on the Rape Culture that I was reading.

Here is one more for you to consider adding to the graphic:

ENGINEER:  The glass is twice as big as it needs to be.



... Mountaineer

SOLIPSIST: The glass and the water do not exist. I am simply a brain in a pan.

TennPaGa wrote: Trumpist

"Sure, that glass looks half-empty, or maybe half-full, but it doesn't matter.  Believe me, once you drink it, you will say that it was the most phenomenal drink of water you've ever had your life.  People be lining up for miles to drink water I provide for people, and they'll all be saying the same thing!  They won't care whether the glass is half-full or half empty because they will realize how awesome the water was!"

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Reub wrote: Some people in these forums love poking at Trump and other Republicans but never have the inclination to utter a bad word about their beloved Obama.

Nobody I can think of here has NOT uttered a bad word about Obama. Perhaps you're confusing adoration with simply thinking that someone is perhaps no better or worse than most of his corrupt predecessors.

No better or worse?  Oh right. The old, tired liberal moral relativism argument again. Obama is the same as Reagan. Iran is the same as Israel. Illegal immigrants are the same as legal ones. Criminals are the same as noncriminals. Gay marriage is the same as traditional marriage. Ad nauseum.

"Abortions are the same as births"!

Thanks for adding that one!

How about debt is the same as surplus?
Or France is the same as the U.S?

Reub wrote: How about debt is the same as surplus?

Debt is the same as surplus?  Who the hell says that?

Reub wrote: No better or worse?  Oh right. The old, tired liberal moral relativism argument again. Obama is the same as Reagan. Iran is the same as Israel. Illegal immigrants are the same as legal ones. Criminals are the same as noncriminals. Gay marriage is the same as traditional marriage. Ad nauseum.

You said some haven't "uttered a bad word."  You are wrong. We all have. We can disagree on the historical within which we should place his ineptitude, but perhaps just admit you're wrong and lay off your hyperbolic buffoonery for once in your existsnce on this board.

Besides, we all know Reagan was far worse than Obama. They're not the same. 

It's totally reasonable to focus on Obama. What is unreasonable is to pretend he's a unique threat. New boss... Same as the old boss.

moda0306 wrote: It's totally reasonable to focus on Obama. What is unreasonable is to pretend he's a unique threat. New boss... Same as the old boss.

Obama may be a "unique threat" to certain things; if those are your big issues, it's reasonable that you might think Obama is worse than other presidents who were "unique threats" to other things. I agree with your general point that they're all bad, but let's not pretend they're all bad in the same ways. Obama just killed the Keystone pipeline but normalized relations with Cuba. One person might think both of those things are great, and another might conclude that these are terrible decisions.

Pointedstick wrote: Obama just killed the Keystone pipeline but normalized relations with Cuba. One person might think both of those things are great, and another might conclude that these are terrible decisions.

Yes and no.

Rapist: the glass was asking for it

Obama:  The glass only appears to contain water.  Glass and water are both clear.  My policies are clear.  Thus, my policies can be compared to a clear glass of clear water; the situation is quite fluid and I will determine the correct definition of the situation, generally speaking about probable outcomes.  You may not understand my policies, even though they are quite clear, but I maintain that since I am a legend in my own mind, the unwashed masses will come to my way of clearly seeing what others are incapable of ascertaining, even though it is completely clear.  The glass only appears to contain water.  Glass and water are both clear.  My policies are clear.  Thus, my policies can be compared to a clear glass of clear water; the situation is quite fluid and I will determine the correct definition of the situation, generally speaking about probable outcomes.  You may not understand my policies ....... oops, the teleprompter recycled, just like the clear water that is before your eyes.  Now, to talk a bit about something really important - my latest golf trip, the one where I bowed down to the village idiot that raised a clear glass of water .......

... M

Reub wrote: Hey! Be nice!

There is a difference between just saying crazy stuff to see how people will react and saying things that might sound crazy, but which actually push the discussion forward.

Saying that no one here is critical of Obama IMHO doesn't push the discussion forward.

Some of your recent posts sound like a guy telling his wife her ass looks big because he thinks she's cute when she's mad.  However fun that sort of thing might be to do in a moment of boredom, it's corrosive to harmony in the relationship.

Simonjester wrote: algoreist the glass is already half full and is filling toward the top at an alarming rate! if we don't do something about it right away, our coastlines will flood and millions of people will have to relocate to higher ground!!

TennPaGa wrote: Jebbist

"The water in the bottom half of the glass kept the top half dry."

Oh my. That was spot-on.

Lemme try lemme try.

Carsonist:

"I used the first half of the glass of water to gargle when I speak. The remaining water could have been used to fill a moat around Jewish communities and prevent the Holocaust."

Too much of a stretch?

Rubioist:

Nope. I can't. Too easy.

Modaist:
The absence of water in the top half of the glass reminds us of just how many of our precious civil liberties we've given up to the endless NSA surveillance state!

Pointedstick wrote: Modaist:
The absence of water in the top half of the glass reminds us of just how many of our precious civil liberties we've given up to the endless NSA surveillance state!

You forgot the part where the water remaining can't be private property because it's naturally occurring, so get your damn eyes off it unless you want to pay me my damn citizen's dividend. 

This could get fun.

Don't forget that the glass was blown from sand that was also naturally occurring. Turning that sand into glass reduced the amount of sand available in the world commons by X%, so the glassmaker owes every living human an amount of money equal to X% of his profit divided by the percentage of all humans who ever lived who are that person's ancestors.

It's only fair.

TennPaGa wrote: Now *this* is a thread!

And I think we are very quickly answering Fred's question.