Showing posts with label emotions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label emotions. Show all posts

Friday, January 14, 2022

Science is making a lot of progress on robot emotions since the Mark Zuckerberg 1.0 model 🤖😬


Trying to replicate human emotions in a robot 🤖🙀😬


Robot Mark Zuckerberg has difficulty containing water (engineers are working on this too)



Albeit an early version...

AoSHQ: Morning Report 01.14.22

Friday, February 8, 2019

New "Tiny Penis" Emoji Is Proving To Be Popular





Alrighty! TMI. I have nothing against Jeff Bezos (for the most part), but his owning the WaPo is hardly heroic. 

USA Today: New Emojis Unveiled

Mediate: Bezos thinks government entity may be leaking




Saturday, March 24, 2018

The March To Repeal The Second Amendment



There were a lot of emotional SJWs out there today and they do want to ban the 2nd Amendment


Victory Girls: A March For Whose Lives?





Well given that, I just have to do a post:  



The Atlantic: Do African Americans have the right to bear arms?  Yes! And inner city gun violence is the result of Democrats restricting those rights to law obeying citizens. 





David L. Burkhead: What he finds sexy (he's absolutely right)

Rule 5 and FMJRA

Woodsterman: Old Guys

Hogewash: Another Podcast

The Right Way: Link-O-Rama

Daily Caller: Paper Sign Protest

The Feral Irishman: Friday Fatale

Powerline: The Children's Crusade

The Chive: Azsae and Post Paddy Kiki

Bring The Heat: Happy St. Patrick's Day

Political Clown Parade: My money is on Mad Tweeter and Flowing Curves

Goodstuffs: 222nd Edition and  St. Patrick Celebration (its never too late or early)

90 Miles From Tyranny: Girls with gunsGirls with gunsGirls with gunsHot pickHot pickMorning mistress

Diogenes' Middle Finger: Lil' Goebbels 2.0Insufferable Anti-Gun Geeks,  A Good Monday Morning and Fishnet Friday

EBL: Governor Bevin is spot on with this, Haley ClausenAustin Bomber stoppedSpringWhere's Zuck?SmoothA Song For St. Joseph's DayGuess who Rod Rosenstein's wife represented?St. Joseph Day Eve

A collection of sites known for appreciation of Rule 5 and proper gun control:

Thursday, March 31, 2016

Separated By Seduction

Donald Trump and Salah Abdeslam have something in common

Donald Trump is definitely NOT the same as Salah Abdeslam. I find the Hitler comparisons of Trump over the top and insulting (and also counter productive if you are trying to win over his supporters). Virginia Hume's article is a tad too alarmist, although the mechanics of what she describes Trump does in winning followers are spot on.  


Trump for all his crassness is not that, but Trump and ISIS leaders like Abdeslam are are trying to draw in followers.  To that extent these two share something. Trump and ISIS play on feeling of anger and disenfranchisement in the groups they are seeking to seduce.  And it works. 

It is not just Trump and ISIS doing this.  Barack Obama seduced a lot of people when he ran for office (how did that mostly turn out--certainly not as promised).  Hillary wishes she could do it.  Bernie Sanders manages to do it with Democrats, just not as much as Obama did and Bernie has been unable to do so with black voters.  The Trump phenomenon is he has managed to win a sizable percentage of Republicans and a smaller chuck of dissatisfied Democrats, enough to give him a plurality with the GOP.  That may not hold (Wisconsin looks like it may go to Cruz) but it is enough to make him the likely favorite to get the nomination.  

ISIS has far limited success (it recruitment numbers are far more limited), but who they recruit are either dedicated hard core jihadis or sympathizers giving them cover to operate.  It is enough to allow them to cause mayhem. 

Trump supporters are not ISIS or terrorists. Not even close. But they are angry (for mostly good reason) and Trump is playing into that.  These voters feel like they have been (mostly economically) abandoned by the Republican and Democrat parties (and that much is absolutely true).  Trump  to them is the alternative (and they recognize his flaws). The unknown part is what Trump is offering as an alternative. Trump is not particularly strong  and certainly not clear on what policy or economic theory he will pursue--other than being mostly against illegal immigration. We are not even sure he will do that.   

Chances are Trump (if he won) would be an American Berlusconi or like that other Austrian. That would probably not be as bad as some think, but that would definitely not be a good thing.  Democrats winning the White House is not good either. Media pundits and some of our politicians say they can't tell what prompts terrorism (or some try to blame poverty or even more incredulously climate change). This is complete nonsense and the left engaging in its own form of cravenness

Which is why the left will come down hard on any person who has the temerity not to bake a pizza or sell flowers to a gay wedding on religious grounds (or even threaten a state), or completely lose their minds over transgendered bathrooms, but look the other way when homosexuals are murdered openly overseas. Democrats appease Iran while Iran continues to do what they do

Meanwhile, ISIS continues its efforts to seduce in Europe (and here too).  

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Monday, January 30, 2012

Disgust: One of the Six Basic Emotions

In the last several years there has been an explosion of research on disgust. Disgust is one of the six basic emotions—along with joy, surprise, anger, sadness and fear—but it is the only one that has to be learned, which suggests something about its complexity.

Recently I am learning a lot about this basic emotion, but not in the context of food.
Among the most hard-core variants of fermented food is the Icelandic delicacy hákarl. Hákarl is made from the Greenland shark, which is indigenous to the frigid waters of Iceland. It is traditionally prepared by beheading and gutting the shark and then burying the carcass in a shallow pit covered with gravelly sand. The corpse is then left to decompose in its silty grave for two to five months, depending on the season. Once the shark is removed from its lair, the flesh is cut into strips and hung to dry for several more months.
Hákarl has a pungent, urinous, fishy odor that causes most newbies to gag. 
Tastes like chicken? No, it doesn't.
An extremely acquired taste, hákarl was described by the globe-trekking celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain as "the single worst, most disgusting and terrible tasting thing" he had ever eaten.
Funny, I know some political candidates that same description could be applied to.  And certain people who insist we eat something we really do not want.

h/t Althouse

Update:   Joy and surprise beats disgust any day.
Update II:   Ace of Spades has a story on micro emotions and the "seven" basic emotions