The WTF thread.

[GilCMassey]

https://happyplace.someecards.com/trapped/couple-near-death-after-being-trapped-in-keyless-car-didnt-think-to-open-it-manually/

[Chickenprotector]

Oh dear god why?

A guy spends $150k to look like Kim Kardashian. No I won’t post photos, they’re uglier than sin.

Everyone has the right to express themselves however they would like with their appearance. Sometimes though, people go a bit too far.

James Jordan is a British makeup artist that has a love of everything Kim Kardashian. So much so, in fact, that he’s gone through 50 different cosmetic procedures to look more like her. Lip injections, eyebrow tattoos, Botox, anything he can do, he’ll do. In fact James has spent over $150,000 on his obsession.

This is the look he’s going for.

I don’t care what any person wants to spend their money on or how they look, but is this really the best thing for James? Are any of the doctors or people doing these procedures concerned with the fact that all of this plastic surgery is very unhealthy, not just for his body but also his mental state too?

I guess that doesn’t matter though. As long as the check cashes, what do they care.

[GilCMassey]

He needs to get his money back.

[Tiki]

Nailed it. Also,

[Shaddy]

@Chickenprotector

What sheer amount of stupid do you have to go to?!

TL;DR: Gender Politics (politically correctness, etc) is moving around and pissed off the metal scene this time. Do these idiots learn?

[CPU]

@0_22one

https://happyplace.someecards.com/trapped/couple-near-death-after-being-trapped-in-keyless-car-didnt-think-to-open-it-manually/

By the time the car’s victims were discovered by neighbors at 7:45 am, 13 hours since they first were trapped, Mrs. Smith had become unconscious, and Mr. Smith was struggling for air. The wife spent three days in a hospital recovering from her robotic attack. Doctors said if they had spent even another 30 minutes inside that car, they would have died.
They are both fine now, though definitely changed from the experience. And they have learned that “the manual lock was the same as the inside door handle on many other vehicles.”

Wow!
Simply Wow!

[_rot_fodder]

Humanity is going to be extinct within the next 100 years.

EDIT: I’m still trying to decide whether the tone I typed that in was meant to be depressed and hopeless, or relieved and hopeful.[/SIZE]

[Chickenprotector]

Why not both? Humanity is destined to fade to oblivion at some point. In a positive or negative fashion.

@Tiki

Nailed it. Also, [IMG]https://www.northeastshooters.com/vbulletin/images/smilies/this_thread_is_worthless_without_pics.gif[ /IMG]

You were just dying to use that gif weren’t you…

[sersoft]

@(rot)(fodder

Humanity is going to be extinct within the next 100 years.

EDIT: I’m still trying to decide whether the tone I typed that in was meant to be depressed and hopeless, or relieved and hopeful.[/SIZE]

I’m sorry, that was way too optimistic. At this rate in 10 years humanity will be past the point of no return, that means the entire food chain(starting with the plankton in the ocean) is going to collapse in 2045 due to overpopulation and pollution and then we all eat each other just like it has always happened historically.

The real reason to be hopeful and optimistic is that maybe in 100 years human population will be on the rise again restarting the same cycle that is about to end… As long as no nation uses any nuclear weapons.

[danielsangeo]

MIKE: Hell, we almost had it coming. Yep, it was looking pretty bad. But then, aliens from outer space showed up and started attacking the Earth. They decimated our defenses in a matter of hours, forcing us to surrender, and the aftermath left us with over 80% of the population dead, and the rest of humanity conquered on its own planet. And suddenly it’s like, boom, problem solved.
DAVE: I’ll give you that. Killing off 5 billion people did wonders for solving most of our social problems.
MIKE: It sure did! Now there are no politics. You either do what the government says or you die. And, what do you know? Now most our energy is renewable, there’s enough food for everyone, and crime is at its lowest in recorded history. It’s a total U-turn.
DAVE: And don’t forget about pollution or global warming. We now have air quality comparable to before the Industrial Revolution! Remember: your decomposing corpse puts out less greenhouse gases than your hybrid car. I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsuJgNjDMSE

I’m not convinced that humanity really is on the cusp of another mass-death event, though. Humanity’s always “on the brink”, but we always manage to pull through in recent history.

[sersoft]

But in the original hl2 story there was air exchange, dried up oceans and the citadel’s purpose was for weather control…

I was just being pessimistic due to the tone of this thread, I know that with sufficiently advanced technology and no corrupt politics to slow it down humanity can do anything.

[Tiki]

@sersoft

I know that with sufficiently advanced technology and no corrupt politics to slow it down humanity can do anything.

I think “advanced technology” and “no corrupt politics” are the same thing. People should vote on algorithms; as you see, any true democracy of the future should include automata on the ballot.

VOTE HEARTBLEED 2032!

[sersoft]

As long as the algorithm is fully open source, not written by the NSA or anyone from the current administration, and expert reviewed to prove it won’t try to execute a mass extinction event, I’m all for it.

[Tiki]

The Secretary of Defense will be run by an AI which was built to test the Prisoner’s Dilemma.

Bam, world peace.

[GilCMassey]

Didn’t system shock teach you anything? Or any sci fi movie with a rampant AI?

[danielsangeo]

https://what-if.xkcd.com/5/

[TheeGoatPig]

I’m not as optomistic about when A.I. will become possible. People keep acting like it will happen any week now, but I don’t think we will have a real thinking A.I. for another 50 to 100 years.

[Chickenprotector]

Until someone writes self-adapting programming code, the chances of dynamic AI that has a human level of sentience and self-autonomy is non-existant.

I don’t think such programming exists quite yet (don’t hold me to that). So TGP’s right, it’ll take quite a few more decades.

[Tiki]

@0_22one

Didn’t system shock teach you anything? Or any sci fi movie with a rampant AI?

You’re right, human voters can’t be trusted to choose the best automatonocracy. We need a genetic algorithm to determine which ruler would have the best effect.

[_rot_fodder]

@TheeGoatPig

I’m not as optomistic about when A.I. will become possible. People keep acting like it will happen any week now, but I don’t think we will have a real thinking A.I. for another 50 to 100 years.

I think the Isolation Alien could be up to the task.

Xenomorph for totalitarian world leader 2015