Reminds me of the Black Mirror episode called "Nosedive"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive
It's available on Netflix.
Basically, scoring on social media gets used for everything. The prices
you pay for services, whether you're allowed into a condo, whether you
get to have and keep a job, how the police treat you. I get the
impression that it's not codified as law, just a fact of the presence of
social media and ubiquitous access to it. Basically the Facebook
distopia. It's a good episode....and a good series in general.
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From: ch...@wbmfg.com
To: af@afmug.com
Sent: 12/7/2017 10:56:23 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT slightly political
Maybe they could start with China’s citizenship score essentially
ranking everyone’s behavior.
From:Nate Burke
Sent: Thursday, December 7, 2017 8:54 AM
To:af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT slightly political
Facebook and Google already have all the data of your
likes/dislikes/beliefs (even one's you are not sure of). Seems like
the next logical step would be a compatibility matrix. You are only
allowed to interact with a potential date if you have >90%
compatibility. Otherwise your advances would be moot, and therefore
unwanted. Proximity devices would allow you to go into a club, and see
all potential matches nearby. As you approach, their name badge would
either turn green or red. If you get too close to a Red, it will start
flashing, thereby alerting all close by to be on the lookout for
potential harassing behavior.
On 12/7/2017 9:46 AM, Bill Prince wrote:
Yeah. Parse these two statements, and how they might come across
verbally.
Don't! Stop!
Don't stop!
bp
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On 12/7/2017 7:44 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:
All young men trying to get a date could be classified as a predator.
There is the prey and the predator. It is a matter degree.
Unwanted attention, unwanted proximity, unwanted touching. Until
the girl decided the kid is OK then the playing hard to get games
morphs into no=yes and so forth.
Is a kid screwing up his courage to go in for a kiss at the end of a
date risking becoming a criminal?
Hitting a good looking woman is now considered sexual predation.
NPR had a good example. Good looking woman at a party. George
Clooney and Steve Buscemi both hit on her at different times. Both
use the exact same words. Perhaps different deliveries but the exact
same words. The woman is mesmerized by the attention by George and
feels harassed by Buscemi.
How can you codify how people are supposed to behave?
From:Jaime Solorza
Sent: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 8:29 PM
To:Animal Farm
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT slightly political
All sexual predators...from Top to bottom, regardless of party,
should be pecked to death...I have four daughters. That Alabama
pedophile would have disappeared. End of story.
Jaime Solorza
On Dec 6, 2017 8:26 PM, "Steve Jones" <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I feel bad for that guy. hes about to get his rectum widened and not
so much as mcdouble with cheese for dinner
On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 8:20 PM, Craig House
<cr...@totalhighspeed.net> wrote:
Al Franken = injured chicken LOL
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From: "Chuck McCown" <ch...@wbmfg.com>
To: af@afmug.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 8:15:10 PM
Subject: [AFMUG] OT slightly political
One of my aunts married a guy that had a small factory farm. He
raised fryers. Those chickens you get at KFC. They were allowed
to run around in a very large room. Thousands of them per room,
maybe tens of thousands. He had lots of buildings with rooms like
that.
There was this tiny conveyer of chicken feed (maybe 3 inches wide)
that snaked round the room so they were never farther than a dozen
steps from food. I think it took 6 or 8 weeks from hatching before
they were ready for market.
Toward the end of their existence they would get so heavy they
would just park and the conveyer and not really move. I don’t
recall
how they got water (this was 50 years ago).
If one got injured somehow, perhaps getting something caught in the
conveyer or whatever, if there was a single spot of blood, the
other chickens would notice and in short order peck the injured
chicken to death. Even a dot of red ink was enough. They would
pile on and do them in.
I see some parallels. Humans are chickens sometimes.
