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War Room Lounge v54: I was there for Kimura-Gracie, solid crowd

When did you start watching MMA?

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Another combat sports title for Brock!
 
The closing song for this encapsulates the Trump presidency so well. Whoever came up with this was a genius. Simple but hilarious in many ways.
 
I feel as if I have made a huge mistake.
 
Fawlty said:
Agree or disagree?

"The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in "advanced" countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world.

The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in "advanced" countries."
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I have a lot of trouble with these sorts of claims and the ideologies built around them just because of how difficult they are to assess with any certainty, even when they sound true. (This fragment in particular actually makes pretty measurable claims, but I mean more the spirit of the thing that people respond to.)

Human life and values exist in extraordinarily diverse combinations... and the decisions of the past (with regard to production, at least) reflect people doing the best they could with what they had. Maybe selfishness and greed played a role, but the urgency of finite resources and global capacity are modern constructs.

That said, now that we are conscious of these problems, we can ask if the path that was created by such phenomena as industrialization (and/or capitalism) should still be trodden, or transformed into something new. I think technology will enable whichever decision is made - going back on technology never made a lot of sense as a possibility to me.

There's a building here I walked through the other day that's a old Tannery home to a bunch of small businesses, mostly tech. When you walk in it's this old echo-y building with stained wooden floors and super high ceilings - but the units themselves are encased by fogged glass and branded doorways with neon glowing card scanners beside them. It's a weird combination of old and new that really says a lot to me about what the future might look like.


If you want to criticize technology you should do so as technocracy, or the idea that the philosophy of technology (or techno-capitalism) will become an all-consuming monoculture at the expense of everything else. That's a real threat I think, and not one I really understand how to push against meaningfully.

@Jack V Savage I'd be interested to know if that concern means anything to you or not. Both books I have that sort of cover the topic are a little beyond me at the moment.
 
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Wait people actually tried to argue that Trump's tweets about AOC & co were xenophobic, but not racist?

How da fuck can you be xenophobic towards your own countrymen?
 
AgonyandIrony said:
@HereticBD and @Sketch arguing is like watching shitty stepparents get into a domestic abuse.
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There can be only one.

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"Some of these billionaires have three, four pairs of underwear! Not me. I have one pair and I dry them on the radiator!" is still one of my favorite lines in SNL history
 
I don't know why, but I am sold on Masvidal. I want him to fight relevant people.
 
Maybe this is common knowledge, but why was Kimbo Slice released from the UFC after one loss to a decent fighter in Matt Mitrione?

He was a massive, massive draw and undoubtedly would have produced at least a couple more lucrative losses. As a matter of conservative financial decision making, it would seem that Dana and co would have kept him on for at least a couple more fights against low level contenders. In more cynical terms, I would have expected Dana to keep him around for years longer with tailor-made fights.
 
Prokofievian said:
Like....when the kid gets out of the car?
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Yeah, mindblowing. Clearly wherever they live has a distinct lack of lethal wildlife.
Reading the related stories, and it turns out that it's far from unheard of for tourists to get killed at these "safari" style parks.
Apparently they were very fortunate it was cheetahs, because other big cats would have gone straight for the kill.
 
Ruprecht said:
Yeah, mindblowing. Clearly wherever they live has a distinct lack of lethal wildlife.
Reading the related stories, and it turns out that it's far from unheard of for tourists to get killed at these "safari" style parks.
Apparently they were very fortunate it was cheetahs, because other big cats would have gone straight for the kill.
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That's what I was thinking. Cheetahs have a very limited arsenal as their claws are more like sprinting spikes than actually useful killing tools. Leopards would've fucked them up.
 
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