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@Anonymous #372F  
Experimental bioweapon is basically more or less guaranteed, given the very existent bioweapon (hidden behind euphemism of “gain-of-function research”) lab in Wuhan that Fauci et al have very strong ties to. Disabilities/chronic diseases, though, it’s not that selective.  
Thus have another, though over a year old by now, theory: “bioweapons need the targets to be pre-treated to be selective and not just mutate and murderkill everyone. Pre-treatments that make the body react differently - lethally - to the bioweapon from the norm, like, say, the jab.”  
For reference, I don’t think that the jab is a bioweapon marker. I, however, do think that it’s a greedy moneygrab with now known consequences of “fucks up your body” and it’s incredibly foolish to take it.

@Anonymous #372F  

 
Wait, how is that a weird one? Far as spoiler alerts go, that one sounds like the most basic, vanilla explanation you could think of.
 
The people running the show are eugenicists, after all, and have openly advocated for “bioethics councils” to kill off the inferiors and all that jazz.
 
I mean, in the UK, the government gave “do not resuscitate” orders for people with learning disabilities in case they suffered adverse effects from vaccines and had a lethal reaction, or were in bad shape from the Rona. Literally what you said: ordering not to bother saving people with disabilities.
 
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/13/new-do-not-resuscitate-orders-imposed-on-covid-19-patients-with-learning-difficulties
 
Edit: my mother thinks it’s designed to kill off the older generation. Lots of young people are weak-minded, spineless, woke snowflake morons licking the government’s boots and calling you a nazi if you oppose the nazi governments. Her theory is that they’re just trying to kill off anyone left with independent thought.
 
Plenty of theories to think up when you take a look at what it’s killing the most: fat people and old people.

@Wingnut  
Weird in the sense of believing the virus is apparently intelligent or so well designed to reliably kill targets and spare non-targets. The response to it is different, and I do believe many deaths are malicious in nature, whether by letting it happen or encouraging it.

@Barhandar  
Remember when we were forthright enough to call genetically tinkering with a virus to make it deadlier biological warfare R&D, instead of hiding behind these mealy-mouthed euphemisms about “gain of function?”

@Anonymous #372F  
ah, alright. I mean, some people with learning disabilities have measurable genetic defects that theoretically could be targeted, like Down’s syndrome, but yeah. It’s killing all kinds of people, so it’s clearly not the case.
 
who knows what level of precision could be achieved with more “gain of function” experiments.

@Anonymous #8778  
This is what happens when you ban bioweapon research but people don’t want to stop doing bioweapon research.
 
@Wingnut  

Without a marker (that you have to administer manually)? About “fuck” and “all”, and even with the marker it’s risky. The whole problem with bioweapons is that they mutate, very quickly, and can will because it lets them survive easier mutate all your “specialization” and “targetting” away.
 
Though in general, bacteria and viruses mutate in the direction* of not killing the host; super-lethal stuff tends to happen because the host is different species, but humans are just similar enough for the pathogen to procreate, but not similar enough for them to survive the experience. It’s also why the “epidemics” of respiratory-ish viruses have always lasted one to two years even with zero sanitation efforts; especially weak hosts and deadly strains die out, the rest mutates into “just another cold”. The evolutionary drive is to leave progeny, and you can’t do that if the host is dead.
 
*it’s not actual direction, it’s not directed in any way, it just allows more procreation/spread.
 
@Wingnut  
Absence of independent thought is self-destructing, always. We don’t have fully self-maintaining robots yet, and once we do, they’ll quickly give remaining humans a series of “unfortunate accidents”.

@Barhandar  
or the robots will abandon us entirely, like on crying suns

@TeamBlueplant  
Or they’ll treat us like aging parents and build care facilities for us. Everyone always assumes they’ll be a legion of unfeeling sociopaths.

@Officer Hotpants  
I know that the genre of science fiction has been used for stories about artificial life and artificial intelligence going back to Mary Shelley. Most of these stories have been cautionary tales about the distressing possibility that our newly-minted artificial slaves might not share our enthusiasm about the arrangement.
 
Scarier still, I think, is the “paper clipper” scenario, in which the artificially intelligent robot paper clip factory learns how to make paper clips so fast and so well out of such a wide variety of materials that it one morning it figures out how to turn the entire planet and everything on it, including us, to a giant mass of paper clips hurtling through space. The self-optimizing, self-improving AI that can learn doesn’t have to hate us to exterminate us. It’s nothing personal. It’s programmed to make matter into paper clips, and hey, we’re made of matter it could be using, so… Oddly enough there’s a rather infamous MLP:FiM fanfiction about it, and I’m guessing everyone here’s already read it.

@Anonymous #8778  
It’s properly called paperclip optimizer, as in, optimizing the production of paperclips.
 
@Officer Hotpants  
Robots are (or rather, can be) rational and optimized. Care facilities are only necessary if that is more optimal for accomplishing the robot’s goals than other options spoiler: human and robot habitation conditions are different enough that once robots own the manufacturing and power plants for themselves, the least risky course of action becomes “freeze the entire planet”.. If euthanizing you leads to less risks and resources spent on accomplishing the goal, then euthanize you it will.

@Anonymous #8778  
So what you’re saying is the first true artificial intelligence should be programmed to turn animals into small pastel horses?

@Anonymous #8778  
Unless they share a unified “self,” you could expect to see factionalism rise in their ranks in the former scenario. By the time we’re capable of practically producing such intelligences, however, it’s most likely that at least some laws pertaining to AI will have already been passed. The question is what kind of laws. I don’t see it going in the full retard direction of Detroit: Become A Racism Allegory but that’s where I see the biggest opportunities to fuck up hard.
 
@Barhandar  
They can be. There’s no guarantee that they won’t be just as bogged down by emotional baggage as the people crafting their brains by the time they reach that level of intellectual sophistication, however. Especially when so much of their development is taking place in fields ranging from personal assistants, digital companions & robotic pets to customer service & care facilities. While the social abilities of those constructs are, of course, all a crude facade right now I would expect them to be substantially more developed a century or two from now.

@Anonymous #372F  
Then it would be a paper clopper, not a paper clipper. I can’t take credit for the joke. It’s from an author at FIMfiction who calls himself Iceman.

>guy involved in the 3d printed firearm community just happens to die two days after being raided by the police  
Hmm…

@Anonymous #372F  
>heart attack, definitely natural cause, not murder or suicide, say investigators and authorities  
>no word about whatever happened to him or where he went directly after the raid  
>just shows up dead days later  
>nothing from family members yet  
This screams CIA assassination with heart attack dart gun/injection.  
How did they actually find him though?

Alec Baldwin killed someone while sperging out about Trump you can’t make this shit up.  

Never mind it’s fake.

@Anonymous #0847  
Never believe anything that comes out less than two weeks after an event like this. The truth means less than views do.

 
“Herp Derp Must be capitalism!” says the free thinkers And not anything the dementia in chief is doing by forcing people out for not taking his miracle cure not like a dictator. Looked it up as well, Biden won Wisconsin so what would they say when faced with the fact they “won” that state? Probably just huff copium like it was still on store shelves. These dipshits could stub their toe and it would be Capitalism’s fault

Is anyone else reminded of Big Bad Beetleborgs?

@Anonymous #0847  
Wow. Between them and Oregon, they’re on the fast track to roll things back to the 1920s. Get the kids out of school and into the mines where they belong, eh?

@Anonymous #0847  
@Officer Hotpants  
Fun fact: USA never actually had a ban on teenager labor. Hence extending the worktime until 11 PM as opposed to re-enacting child labor at all.

@Officer Hotpants  
It’s even sadder watching them demand socialist revolt without any irony cheering corporations that work with the government to silence opposition which is fascism. John Oliver got someone Korean guy banned from youtube after whining like an impotent puke. He was probably salty he can’t get it up and his wife’s boyfriend’s car is nicer.
 
@Barhandar  
Back in school you could get a work permit or something for job experience. Many of these idiots have never even heard of anything like that. Most of them would curl up into the fetal position at the mention of a paper route crying about capitalism or Trump.

@Barhandar  
Yes, I know. But normally it’s not allowed to extend to cusp of midnight.
 
@Anonymous #0847  
John Oliver is still relevant enough to get even feigned attention from Susan?

 
Locking down was racist and was alarmist conspiracy. until they wanted to. Keeping citizens locked down at out of work was fine, Stopping illegals was racist. The virus came from a lab funded by Obama and Pastor Fauci. It’s all somehow just climate change and we should pay attention to rich people flying on private jets and allowing China to pump coal like it’s the 1920’s. These people who believe this are just plane retarding society’s actual progressing.