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In article <g0m6b4FcbaaU9@mid.individual.net>, vallor@cultnix.org 
says...
> 
> On Sat, 22 Sep 2018 02:21:10 -0400, Catalina wrote:
> 
> > "vallor" <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote in message
> > news:g0lkfmFcbaaU4@mid.individual.net...
> >> On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 10:30:01 -0600, Skeeter wrote:
> >>
> >>> In article <g0jdugFstf2U5@mid.individual.net>, vallor@cultnix.org
> >>> says...
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 20:57:49 -0700, Checkmate wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> > Warning! Always wear ANSI approved safety goggles when reading
> >>>> > posts by Checkmate!  In article <g0j21eFstf2U1@mid.individual.net>,
> >>>> > vallor@cultnix.org says...
> >>>> >
> >>>> >
> >>>> >
> >>>> >> Just had a singularly weird conversation on Facebook.  Ostensibly
> >>>> >> about artificial intelligence, the conversation meandered around
> >>>> >> until I asked for his motivation for a project he is working on.
> >>>> >> And he said:
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >> "Cultural preservation".
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >> Woop, woop, woop, red alert!
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >> So I asked him "which culture", and pointed out that our own
> >>>> >> culture is no where near the possibility of going away -- not like
> >>>> >> other cultures have.
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >> Silence.
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >> So I said "hey, good chatting with ya, here's my email" and so
> >>>> >> forth.
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >> "Okay thanks".
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >> I guess I didn't react properly to the dog whistle? Heh.
> >>>> >
> >>>> > Your point?
> >>>>
> >>>>  ...was missed.
> >>>>
> >>>> Then again, "cultural preservation" of a culture that brings one
> >>>> McDonalds, Burger King, Taco Bell, Dick's, and Wal*Mart might not be
> >>>> such a great goal in the first place...
> >>>
> >>> Where do you shop?
> >>
> >> Well, we had a K-Mart, but it burned down...there's still a Sears in
> >> town, though, over at the mall.
> > 
> > Ah, so you live in Santa Rosa, California, just 7 hours to Ponoma
> > Racway, and only 9 hours to MIL pandora.
> > 
> >> But seriously -- to be honest, the closest I get to that sort of thing
> >> is Costco.
> > 
> > Did you vote for Obama?
> > 
> >> I think the last time I ate at a McDonald's was when the folks were
> >> visiting, and they wanted to try out the "grand mac", or whatever that
> >> specialty burger was.
> > 
> > Aren't you very special.  I bet your Californication people love you.
> > 
> >> And yeah, its sucked.
> > 
> > Poor baby.
> > 
> >> No reason why people shouldn't upgrade their food choices.  After all,
> >> you wouldn't try to low-ball your housing situation, would you?
> > 
> > You sound like Michael Obama, telling the kids in the USA what to eat
> > for 8 years, while they starved.  We had to start bus routes through the
> > neighborhoods to this day, so the kids did not starve.
> > 
> > Why do you care about anyone's housing situation?
> 
> I've never had a strange drunken lady try to stalk me before.
> 
> Isn't there some kind of protocol in these situations, like finding a pet 
> rabbit stewing in a pot on the stove or something?

No answers, just babble.

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Weird conversation vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2018-09-21 02:06 +0000
  Re: Weird conversation Lunar Opticfibre <jfwaldby@gmail.com> - 2018-09-20 20:18 -0600
  Re: Weird conversation vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2018-09-21 05:29 +0000
    Re: Weird conversation Skeeter <skeet@invalid.invalid> - 2018-09-21 10:30 -0600
      Re: Weird conversation Lunar Opticfibre <jfwaldby@gmail.com> - 2018-09-21 11:48 -0600
      Re: Weird conversation vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2018-09-22 01:33 +0000
        Re: Weird conversation vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2018-09-22 06:38 +0000
          Re: Weird conversation kensi <kkensington01@gmail.nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-22 08:28 -0400
            Re: Weird conversation mixed nuts <melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> - 2018-09-22 13:45 -0400
          Re: Weird conversation Skeeter <skeet@invalid.invalid> - 2018-09-22 09:38 -0600
        Re: Weird conversation Skeeter <skeet@invalid.invalid> - 2018-09-22 09:37 -0600

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