Absent father, separated from his mother at an early age, unstable moods, unstable interpersonal relationships, dysfunctional experiences of self and others, dissociative episodes, difficulty controlling his anger, drastic shifts in identity….
Infantile illusions of omnipotence.
Sound like someone you know?
It affects 2 percent of adults (mostly young women).
I never understood why they made band-aids flesh colored. Who are you kidding? Did they really think that camouflaging a wound was somehow better? Wouldn’t it be better to make them BRIGHT ORANGE like traffic cones to serve as a warning: HEY, DON’T BUMP HERE!?
The same theory has gone for years in hearing aid design. They try to make the hearing aid flesh-colored so you can’t see it. But you can see it. Everyone can see it.
So why not make it look cooler?
Bluetooth Hearing Aid Design for the Hearing Impaired to Enjoy Music Too | Walyou.
A YouTube video from Uruguay got over 5 million views in 2 months, and landed a $30 million contract for producer Fede Alvarez.
The video is reported to have cost $300 to make.
The movie Mr. Alvarez has been asked to produce is a sci-fi film to be shot in Uruguay and Argentina. He says he intends to start from scratch and develop a new story for the project. Here’s the entire video:
Meet the Roxxxy TrueCompanion. This doll has an artificial intelligence engine programmed to learn your likes and dislikes. She can listen, feel, and speak to her owner.
The doll features five “girlfriend personalities,” including, Frigid Farrah, Wild Wendy, Mature Martha, and more. Users can also built custom profiles online and swap them with friends. The doll goes on sale next week for roughly $7,000-9,000 plus a subscription fee, which is “comparable to a cell plan,” according to Roxxxy’s creator.
Jim Hu, a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, has removed more than 600 cancerous prostates with the help of a robot called the da Vinci HD Surgical System. He says that robotic assistance allows him to overcome the limitations of human doctors, allowing smaller incisions and less blood loss.
But can robots replace surgeons?
“Unless they develop artificial intelligence that can recognize variations in human anatomy, physicians will always be needed,” Hu says. “But who knows? If you had told me when I was in medical school in the ’90s that I would be using a robot to make incisions one day, I wouldn’t have believed it.”
In Philip K. Dick’s novel, “Do Andriods Dream of Electric Sheep” (the book on which the film “Blade Runner” was based), technology has advanced to the point that humans can build very realistic-looking (and acting) synthetic animals and androids. Some of the androids escape and walk among the human population undetected, which is against the law. The main character, Rick Deckard, is a bounty hunter who is charged with hunting down rogue androids and, um, “retiring” them.
In the novel, the latest and greatest androids are practically indistinguishable from humans in any way. No white-blooded Data-skin R2-D2 droids here, Deckard is a one-man death panel and has to ensure they are NOT humans before he can, gulp, “retire” them. Which leads the book to explores the issue: What does it mean to be human? It drills to the very core of human thoughts, emotions, religion and morality.
Unlike humans, the androids possess no empathic sense. They have no emotions at all, and some are not even aware they’re NOT human. This makes for some interesting reading, which is probably one reason why Philip K. Dick’s writings were the basis of Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, Paycheck and many other films. He’s got the steak and the sizzle.
So how do you tell if someone has no empathy? You have them watch something like this and you watch them very carefully for empathetic reactions:
If they didn’t start crying, they’re most likely a robot.
“Star Wars Uncut has taken a novel approach to remaking Star Wars IV: A New Hope. You merely sign up for a 15 second clip, film it and submit it. The trailer is now complete and I will suspect you might enjoy the high quality (and low quality) of some of the already accepted scenes. 251 scenes remain in need of claiming with 688 claimed and 291 finished. Do your part to remake one of the greatest movies by filming fifteen seconds of yourself and your friends!”
I just want to say FOR THE RECORD, that I didn’t buy this book. A certain Pirate Fembot left it at my house while she is out sailing the high seas. The book is called The Game and it’s about picking up chicks and is a prime example of why this particular Pirate Fembot is a menace. Fortunately she never reads my blog so I can say whatever I want about her and she’ll never even notice.
Amazingly, this girl is like 10x smarter than everyone around her. That’s partly because she’s a heartless robot. But it’s also partly because she spends her time reading bestselling non-fiction books on the secrets of pickup artists. For six months this book has been sitting in my living room and I’ve only picked it up long enough to wipe under it.
Until today.
Before today I’d never even heard of Neil Strauss. I’d never heard of his book, “The Game” (despite its apparent new home in my living room).
So today I started reading it. And it’s got some really good info in it.
Stuff you would never ever want a crafty Pirate Fembot to know.
I’ve always loved performing magic. I’ve never been particularly impressed with the big Vegas illusion kind of magic…I like the Harry Anderson street magic. Cons, Coins, Cards…pocket magic. I never have given it nearly as much practice at it takes to be good. But I’ve read a magic book or two.
The Game is kinda presented like a magic book. It’s very matter-of-fact, it has diagrams, and terms like selecting a target (or a mark). But instead of dealing with how to make people think you just read their mind, it’s about the practicality of meeting people….specifically girls.
How you present yourself, how you speak, the clothes you wear…all the things that actually make up “YOU”…are dealt with. As are, the things you say, how much you listen, what to listen for, and some actual tricks…ahem…techniques to achieve your goals with members of the opposite sex….whatever they may be. Maybe you’re looking to get laid, maybe you’re just looking for someone to hang out with…whatever.
None of this information, whatsoever, will help me solve this Pirate Fembot issue. If she knows all the stuff in this book, she’s probably already been reverse using it on me.
Wait…I’m just assuming she read it. Maybe she just wants me to THINK she’s read it? BLARG! This is the kind of trickery that Pirate Fembots are known for! They trick you and then they steal your booty.
I think this is my favorite track so far from the Cybraphon. The Cybraphon consists of a number of instruments, antique machinery, and found objects from junk shops operated by over 60 robotic components, all housed in a modified wardrobe.
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