Facebook is cold inside

I've been getting so sick of going on Facebook and seeing the same garbage.  Tired, illogical political memes, ad's and selfies seem to be the only thing left.  I never really was bothered by selfies, I mean, at least it's original content.  Now, all the snarky memes making fun of them seems to have cause people to stop posting those.

I don't know why this hurts my heart so much right now.  It feels like society itself is letting me down.

"Baby, it's cold outside" was taken off of rotation on CBC, Bell, Rogers and other radio stations earlier in the week.  I thought that it should have never been played in the first place.  Didn't think it would be a big deal.  There's a lot more important things out there that deserve our attention.

But the following day, I saw memes by right wing people saying, "Left wingers listen to hardcore rap music, but "baby it's cold outside" is offensive?"  (those hardcore rap songs would also be taken off rotation if they were being played on Christmas songs.  Christians would complain, they'd take them off).  And I made these statements but then the next day it was the same memes, but different people, sometimes the same people I had talked to.  People saying, "what's next, 'I saw Santa kissing mommy'?", like, maybe if he was slipping something in to her drink, then yea, it should be banned.

Why are people so fucking stupid?

reddit post about a troll factory plot: The shills that divide

I'm not sure where to put this but we may be on a path towards destruction and it looks like there are people that are deliberately pushing us in that direction.

There have been a lot of people ready to hit the streets and protest if Mueller gets fired (the rapid response plan). Trump knew this when he spoke to religious leaders in August (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/28/donald-trump-midterms-private-meeting-church-antifa). He's also been pushing the "democrats bring mobs" rhetoric.

I have a religious family member who has shared links of pastors that suggest that Trump has given a prophecy.

All Trump had to do was fire Jeff Sessions, conveniently the day after the mid-terms, and now there's probably thousands of shills working over time ready to prove him right.

Trump looks guilty and if he's going to try and massacre the justice system that is coming for him, the protests are going to happen.

I think the troll factory agenda is to get people to act violently while doing this.

People are already riled up to a very high level.

This looks like an act of desperation and it could fall apart if we shine a light on it before it happens. At the same time, there is a cult-like following that are going to make him out to be some prophet and fanatical religious people can do the worst things.

(I'm not sure if this is witch hunt related but I think it's relevant. I'll leave details out, but if people look through my comment history to see those details, please let me know if that's against the rules and I'll edit out this portion of the post) Yesterday, I got banned from a subreddit that is against the alt-right. An admin posted this comment with a post:

"With the Dems taking the House, I see that the Russian Cyber-Interference operatives have given marching orders to the trumpjugend and activated their own hordes of alt-accounts to mobilize and spread “civility” and “cooperation” propaganda now that their divisive con-man cult-leader is in danger of being held accountable for his crimes and the debasement of his office. Such concern trolling and nonsense here will only be removed and the accounts will be banned.

(one of the comments further down said, "Yea, fuck civility and cooperation")

Uh... like, isn't the rule "be civil" usually number 1 in every subreddit? This bothered me because I've been worried about admins "taking over" subreddits and cultivating the users to fit the narrative they want(like in TD).

I had to put my thoughts out there and commented this:

... but what about honest people that promote civility and cooperation?

Religious leaders were told by Trump that the left would react violently after the mid terms.

I think it's also likely that trolls are trying to incite incivility just to make Trump out to be some prophet.

What proof do you have that trolls are trying to "encourage civility" and why would you think that would help their cause anyway?

People cooperating is going to cause congress to look the other way?

Banned, muted from contacting admins, and post shut down.

what the fuck is up with that?

Water you talking about?

Maybe it's time I took my writing from this puddle and in to a minor stream.

Maybe I need to look, for sea, if you know what I mean.

Look in to the future,

Find what you can know for sure.

Bring it back on a river that was created in a dream.


I've been smoking a lot of pot ever since they've legalized it here in Canada.  I was smoking a lot before too and I'm still smoking a lot. 

I've been thinking about quitting again.  I've also been thinking about doing stand up comedy again:  "I like how they've legalized it but they still made it fun by making it illegal to smoke in public.  I still get to feel like I'm James Bond when I use my pipe that's shaped like a cigarette.  Like some sort of shitty version that instead of having adventures solving crimes, I'm evading fines and playing disc golf."  (Need to find something funnier for the last part)

Firing to avoid obstruction charges

I'm just going to put this out there.  I think Trump is going to say that firing Comey wasn't obstruction because he fires everybody.  A lot of people are suspecting that it's so that firing Mueller will seem normal, and I think that's probably a factor as well, but if this comes up in the future, I hope the courts see through it.

Shilling

I never ever thought about the idea of people being paid to pretend to be real people online until around 2016.  If I did, I never really thought it could be that bad.  I figured that companies may go online and pay for reviews of their products once in a while.  I could see how easy that was.  I never thought about the bigger ideas like, creating distrust in our governments, in our scientists, and influencing elections.

One idea that keeps coming back to me is not only how AI can make this worse, but also how we might need AI to fight this.

There are going to be certain campaigns at the root of these things that should be noticeable with the right kind of program, something that can see the right phrases in the right areas of the world.

For example, it should detect when there's an abnormal amount of people suddenly invading certain comment sections or active areas of the internet.

People can be pushing lots of different campaigns out there

-  Climate change denial

-  Pro gun

-  Who to vote for

-  Smear campaigns

-  Justifying wars

-  Influencing public opinion about war (encouraging it)

The last one in particular is a scary prospect.  What if you put a lot of money in to influencing a country to go to war?  How effective is propaganda?  At what point do people say, wait a second, why the fuck is this your agenda?  Who does that?

We can find where it comes from.  The internet leaves many trails, even now, AI can scour over the 2016 election propaganda and find who did what.

I read a comment where someone said they've seen an abnormal amount of people trying to say that North Korea shelling South Korea "wouldn't be that bad".  I thought, what if someone like Putin would want America to go to war with North Korea so they could step in, act like the peace makers and use that as an argument to release sanctions.  Ever since the new administration took office, it's seemed like they've been pushing for a war.

They need to know that you can't try to control people anymore, the internet is more advanced then anything before it and these dumb old fucks that think they can convince people of what to do are going to be exposed and dragged through the muds of history.

It's only a matter of time.

Death Penalty

I remember thinking about how the worldwide population boom that we've been going through, and how there will probably be signs that we are reaching a critical limit.  Things like:

Less value in human life

1. War will not seem as bad.
2. Abortions will become more prevalent, with more places having forced abortions
3. The death penalty will become more common.

So yesterday when Trump was giving a speech about the opiate problem, it wasn't too surprising to see him suggest the death penalty for drug dealers.  In the Philippines, where things are a lot more crowded, we can see Rodrigro Duterte committing human rights atrocities as he kills criminals left and right.  The world condemns his actions but are we becoming normalized to this?

Another shooting and crosswalks

In the past two days, there was a shooting in Florida and a little boy was killed on a crosswalk near me.

We need to create better crosswalks.  We need better gun control and mental health accessibility.

There's too many problems.  Not enough people to solve them.

There are a lot of things that we can do to make street crossing safer.  Better lighting, raised crosswalks, in-road lighting, above road paths, tunneling.

On the ark

How do we know how long a body can freeze?

We didn't even know when we took off with that damn thing.  We had a research lab onboard and some people on ice that were most likely going to be ... recycled.

Living conditions were difficult, but we made it work.  There were many species that we had the dna for, lots of different seeds... we didn't really know what we were doing.

Horse\Car Trainer

This whole idea started with a dream. I think I have to use myself as the main character (but younger).  I think I want to try and write it in a way that anyone could see themselves as the protagonist, and it could just as easily be switched from male to female.

In the future, vehicles become banned, except for renegade groups.  Some are in the water like modern pirates, roaming through flooded cities in boats and jet-skis.

The kid training the horses wants to do something bigger with his life, so he discovers a secret group that's being paid by the government to develop a new cop car.  The cop car is an automated self driving car... maybe even a cross between a "big dog" robot and a motorbike.  The kid is training them because he's the best driver they've found... maybe it starts with him escaping to a modern day arcade, (he uses skills he developed while horse riding.)

There's a big competition, all the winners have their best driving skills programmed in to the AI. 

The David Ark Ages (theory)

I was thinking of the name David Ark, or Raymond Ark, possibly something like the Diamond Ark because has "dark" in the title. (Dark Ages)

So this is based on the idea that leaving the planet would cause an environmental melt down as a reaction to all the pollution.

One thing running through my mind is, "What if this has happened before?"

What if life dropped us off and took some resources with them?  Maybe when they left they took out the dinosaurs... As a story idea, what if they hunted the dinosaurs?

We could write all of this happening in a futuristic world but the viewers themselves can figure out the analogy to previous times.  History repeats itself.

So... basic plot:

- Earth becomes too full

- Cars become banned

- Horse industry takes off

- Horse trainer notices horses refuse to work with humans

- Start building ark

- Things start changing, animals working with humans, plants grow better, fish are more populous, etc.

- Leave planet, the planet enters a "dark age"

- Get to new planet

- Hunting alien dinosaur type species on new planet

- They're forced to leave the planet because they fuck up

- Some humans are left behind on new planet.

The idea is to leave the notion that this has happened before, that long ago, "human like species" may have discovered Earth and just hunted the dinosaurs for sport.  

When they left, they try to leave messages with us but the wake of their alien rocket engines destroys anything they leave behind, forcing us to rediscover the universe.

Noah's Ark

What if the story of Noah wasn't about a tale from the past but a premonition about the future?

It's a story that's been told before except with names like Gilgamesh instead of Noah, and maybe in countless generations before.

We can't know for certain that we were created and put on this planet.  Maybe we were from another planet and we took that story from our ancestors but we lost the technology.  The story of putting life on a giant space ship and taking it to another planet. 

Maybe the flood is a warning about filling up your planet with any type of destruction.  Could be global warming, asteroid, etc.  When the story was told in the past, a flood was probably the simplest way to understand it.

(At some point we're going to reach our population cap.  The higher our population limit is, the lower the variation of species.)

We need to get as many different animals as we can in a space ship and fly them to another planet.  Two by two.  Which ones would we choose?

I've been thinking of this science fiction story where that is the overall goal.

Based off this dream I had, it's about a horse trainer in a new future where cars are banned and the horse industry takes off.  In the dream, the horses were becoming harder and harder to break.  The plot I've been thinking about is a metaphor to the animals that "magically listened" in the story of Noah's ark.  When the world starts actually building this space ship, the animals start working together, like all of life wants this goal.

How could we build a space ship that could contain as much life as possible?

Where would we go?

One dilemma I was thinking of is where people on the planet don't want to build it because the process would cause too many greenhouse gases.

I think it's an interesting conflict.

How do we really know that solving this problem isn't a quest from God?

If one ever did exist

Maybe there were multiple "Gods", maybe when these stories were told they were referring to the "people from the past".

It makes me think about how the technology of the past could have been lost.  Like, if there was a space ship that had the capability to keep on going, maybe our "creators" left to discover new lands.

As a plot development idea, when we discover a new planet, we have a scene where they're picking and choosing what plants/animals will go where, and about making a paradise for the people.

One giant plot twist could be that we discover our former selves (where their space ship ended up)

Our future selves are more like robots.  In the story they could be at times an antagonist, at times a warning about our future and maybe in the end, a helper.