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nb that you don't actually need an apocalypse for those skills to be valuable

but they could end up being much less valuable than accounting or law skills if you really do trade off one for the other

i always cringed at chuck d's cameo in that sonic youth song.

a most unKOOL conservative belief.

GMOs are good

there is definitely nothing wrong with eating genetically modified food, billions of servings eaten to date, it's the anti-vax of food to be suspicious of gmos

the technology for making GMOs can be used for good and bad things

I'm generally fine with GMOs and don't think there's any reason to fear them, but I don't agree with the anti-vax analogy at all.

I mean vaccines are a long-used, proven thing with pretty much no purpose other than to benefit humanity and stop disease. GMOs I believe are generally safe, but it's still unclear that they'll be used in any widespread way to do anything other than make agribusiness more profitable.

being able to effectively lead a ragtag band of competent farmers, mechanics, masons and electrical engineers is way more useful than knowing how to do stuff

i always cringed at chuck d's cameo in that sonic youth song.

a most unKOOL conservative belief.

― Philip Nunez, Thursday, August 18, 2016

tell it like it is

lol

i think the liberal tendency to harangue someone publicly and relentlessly every time they step outside the bounds of PC speech often just martyrs them rather than shames them and plays into the hands of folks who share even more virulent un-PC beliefs. sometimes (not always) it's probably best to kill them with kindness and prove them wrong that way or something. i don't know if that's a conservative belief or more of a strategic disagreement though.

I'm not unilaterally against public shaming, but I'm hoping that we'll soon see the end of it's period of overuse.

xp mechanics, electric, construction, farming, etc obv we can't predict the future but all seem more valuable than accounting or law

― Mordy, Thursday, August 18, 2016 9:33 AM (2 hours ago)

the underlying concepts of accounting and law are very useful in this scenario though

I believe ideas have consequences

being able to effectively lead a ragtag band of competent farmers, mechanics, masons and electrical engineers is way more useful than knowing how to do stuff

― El Tomboto, Thursday, August 18, 2016 11:29 AM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

first, pvmic. second, I think you meant 'electricians' there.

I don't really foresee a prolonged period of time in which there is no "society." I think some form of society tends to congeal relatively quickly. I figure I'll probably just die in the initial deluge but if I manage to survive I'll find a way to make myself useful.

most useful skill is to learn to play to conch shell. so they keep you around for the announcement of speeches, meal times, and public executions.

iirc the conch system's the first to go in the breakdown

poor piggy

"I've got the conch"

"Oh yeah, well I've got the saxophone"

*plays hot licks*

*plays baker street*

you have to be a nimble, boulder dodging conch player

but you still have to play the conch

It's a political shell game is what it is

it's all Bologna is what it is (abalone)

most meetings are a waste of time and resources

hey keep it down we're riffing in here

Reagan was a damn good public speaker.

i sometimes fantasize about what we could learn if we threw all scientific ethics out the window

I think you meant 'electricians' there.

"makers"

i sometimes fantasize about what we could learn if we threw all scientific ethics out the window

surely Prometheus offers a chilling enough warning to discourage this

i dislike most music

so does half of ILM

you could never listen to even half of all the music. so you'd have to listen to a representative sample of all music, and then predict that you dislike most music

always interpreted that as they just enjoy arguing but okay

xp

you could never listen to even half of all the music. so you'd have to listen to a representative sample of all music, and then predict that you dislike most music

― veggie sticks potato snacks (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, August 18, 2016 8:41 PM (13 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there is a thread for you: http://ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=48

looks like it'd be a thread about me and for others, but ok

call it ilx's desire to include all types

ilx's desire to make Big Bang Theory jokes

some ilxors like to affect a lack of understanding of rhetoric for comic effect. some ilxors maybe don't actually understand rhetoric.

some songs I like. some songs maybe I don't like. it is only appropriate to be conservative about language and the exact numbers itt.

first two sentences sound pretty vague tbh

first two sentences' physical strength and stamina are extraordinary

he understands rhetoric ladies and gentlemen

"I've got the conch"

"Oh yeah, well I've got the saxophone"

*plays hot licks*

Roland Kirk has both,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqXYAcVPDD4

these guys can really play to conch

I was gonna post a Steve Swell vid. If Steve Swell survives the apocalypse, I don't think I'm gonna get the conch gig.

"no no stop stop!"
"not my conch tempo"
"again! 5,6,7,8"

all of my conservative beliefs are the cool ones