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    It has ever been an instinct to abhor the different and hate the alien, and like many of those human drives stemming directly from ‘selfish genes’ it is one easily controlled or even banished. Human history is littered with hideous crimes, decades of strife and near genocides because of such drives. It should be different now. Planetary national borders are non-existent, most people are of evidently mixed race, and they can change their racial appearance and sex at will, or even simply cease to be human. One would suppose this has rendered reasons for hate impotent.

    Not so. Catadapts will detest roadapts, who in turn are hostile to ophidapts, for no more reason than reflecting a pale imitation of Terran predator-prey cycles. Many humans consider AIs an abomination, and many loathe them – as the supervisor, or rulers, have always been loathed. Pure-bred humans can find haimans repugnant, and haimans can consider pure humans primitive animals. To dispense with these hatreds, we need not to want them. Unfortunately, people cherish their bigotry, misanthropy and animosities, and they don them like well-worn and well-loved clothes.


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    This should be posted on Avalon too, but maybe it could be considered as common sense overload there.


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    Quote Originally posted by Wind View Post
    This should be posted on Avalon too, but maybe it could be considered as common sense overload there.
    Done.
    Have a great day today

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    Well done, both of you.

    And thanks.

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    I've grown to like JK Simmons. He has a face that can be grandfatherly sweet, drip with sarcasm, and probably be very scary if he chooses.

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    he's been in a number of good movies ... The above series is a very good one...

    This is also J.K. Simmons:

    “El revolucionario: te meteré la bota en el culo"

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    yeah, I remember this but I haven't watched it... Wouldn't take much of that to drive one crazy.

    reminds me of the current Architect that I'm working with ... well, not quite that bad.
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    I watched it, many people say that love to rewatch that movie a lot. I don't think I'd like to see it again, even if it was a good movie.
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    50/50 and he missed it ... no I guess he got it...

    that's just cruel though
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    Quote Originally posted by Catsquotl View Post
    Quote Originally posted by Wind View Post
    This should be posted on Avalon too, but maybe it could be considered as common sense overload there.

    Done.
    Well, that one quickly went sour over there, didn't it?
    = DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR =

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    Quote Originally posted by Aragorn View Post
    Well, that one quickly went sour over there, didn't it?
    Didn't really expect otherwise.. hoped maybe.
    Have a great day today

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    Quote Originally posted by Catsquotl View Post
    Didn't really expect otherwise.. hoped maybe.
    Yeah, I had hoped so too ─ naively perhaps. But all things considered, I guess it was indeed to be expected.
    = DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR =

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    Well, in that case... a little more perspective: It is just my opinion of course, but I think this guy has serious issues. It appears to me he is much more interested in having a political seat in a southern state than anything else. Not exactly a shining example of African-American representation. I read that he also has an Allstate Insurance company. Every now and then I get calls and emails from their representatives. I tell them from the get-go that I will not talk to them until they get rid of that lying b*stard that does their commercials. I have felt that way for years.



    Scott declined to join the Congressional Black Caucus.

    In March 2011, Tim Scott co-sponsored a welfare reform bill that would deny food stamps to families whose incomes were lowered to the point of eligibility because a family member was participating in a labor strike. He introduced legislation in July 2011 to strip the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) of its power to prohibit employers from relocating to punish workers who join unions or strike. The rationale for the legislation is that government agencies should not be able to tell private employers where they can run a business. Scott described the legislation as a commonsense proposal that would fix a flaw in federal labor policy and benefit the national and local economies. The NLRB had recently opposed the relocation of a Boeing production facility from Washington state to South Carolina.
    “El revolucionario: te meteré la bota en el culo"

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    I'm hoping I can get my money back. The geneticist that heads this company ostensibly worked with a Nobel Prize winner. My other two tests are very different though the continents are somewhat similar. Notice the 'Peruvian'?! Really, that is what I get for asking about Alien DNA I guess...What better place to come from than the land of Machu Picchu and the Nazca lines... LOL! Coincidentally, the results unlike the other two tests have no unidentified parts of my genome. Oh, brother!


    The Peruvian

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