# Omnibus Trolls R Us Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 23, 2016, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489 "2016-05-23T21:38:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 255
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2017, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5084 "2017-12-02T22:16:03Z")
> [@SamuelA](#): > > Thank you for your coherent and reasoned response. Your halo glows just a bit brighter. You are completely correct in your criticism of my methane/solar proposal : I agree completely with your assessment. > > In general I also agree completely with your assessment about the general state of progress. People wouldn’t be starving or dying of thirst in the third world if somehow the tech that we have could be equitably shared with them in a way that doesn’t just empower dictators to double down and oppress even harder. > > We talk about the hyperloop? The NYC subway system, a critical part of one of the wealthiest cities in the entire world, can’t even keep it’s trains moving on a decent schedule. Not because the tech is hard - it’s actually trivial, off the shelf stuff that better versions exist for everything the subway uses. (the subway authority could just buy new trains, new tracks, new signaling gear, new everything from Japan if they had the money - and the city obviously does have the money) > > The reason, of course, is that [corrupt government officials diverted](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/nyregion/new-york-subway-system-failure-delays.html) the money needed to keep the very city that pays their salary moving to other places. > > My boundless enthusiasm for machine learning and smarter machines, so smart that collectively they can self replicate, is because the gradient of money pushes enormously in that direction. It’s going to happen, and soon. > > The \*catch \*for this problem isn’t that the money or tech is hard - the problem is the _reason_ the gradient pushes for this tech, while it didn’t push for supersonic airliners or whatever you were excited about in grad school - is that this is a way for the wealthy, owner class to stop having to pay about half of humanity for their labor. > > Yeah I don’t know what’s going to happen with that, that sounds kind of like a coming civil war because I don’t see how there is a peaceful solution to this. The owner class in recent times, instead of moving in a direction of sharing some of their wealth, instead has just managed to figure out a way to rob the Federal treasury. When productivity gets extraordinarily high and is largely decoupled from human labor it would be wise to implement basic income. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2017, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5085 "2017-12-02T22:19:35Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > I thought you had a revolution to lead in California, troll. Signatures should go on their own line, at the bottom of your post. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5086 "2017-12-02T22:20:17Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > I thought you had a revolution to lead in California, troll. Be flattered. You made the top three. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2017, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5087 "2017-12-02T22:25:47Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Be flattered. You made the top three. First of the top three! Twice as flatterering now that you mention it. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2017, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5088 "2017-12-02T22:29:46Z")
> [@SamuelA](#): > > Tripler (for just generally being a pretentious dick) If “pretension” is based on calling you out for spreading bullshit and reading the law\* for you\*, then I am guilty as charged. You don’t know fact from a fucking hole in the ground, but you’re happy to shit all over both of them. > [@SamuelA](#): > > Do you need me to cite the fundamentals of biochemistry or are you accepting my statement that “living cells are nanomachinery” as the well known fact that it is? Who the hell is bringing up anything about _biochemistry_? Oh, I see, it’s you, and you have an orange smoke canister. > [@SamuelA](#): > > Part of the reason I don’t bother with references is that anyone who needs these references isn’t really knowledgeable enough to have a conversation with. Like Darren Garrison. No, part of the reason you don’t bother with references is that you don’t have them. I picture each of your arguments as “references” with your hands on your ass cheeks, spreading them to ‘waa-waa’ a statement like a trombone player flings the slide to make a note. > [@SamuelA](#): > > To be totally fair, I misjudged you and I’m sure you know your shit…at least within your lane…but if you’re just gonna keep harping on when I called you out before, well, guess we won’t be having any productive conversations. To be totally fair you got caught with your pants down playing an ass trombone. If that’s ‘pretenetion,’ or that I call you out for the basic fact that you _don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about_, then I am again guilty as charged. Tripler Eat your fucking meatloaf. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2017, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5089 "2017-12-02T22:36:19Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > First of the top three! Twice as flatterering now that you mention it. You are “the biggest asshole.” “Tell him what he’s won, Tom.” “Why yes, he’s won a years supply of coconut butthurt cream, and a groping from the commander-in-chief.” Oh, he’ll really like being groped by his hero, the tangerine turd. Good job Octaputz. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2017, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5090 "2017-12-02T23:34:52Z")
> [@SamuelA](#): > > Darren Garrison (for trolling my threads and ignorantly making negative comments) You have started 53 threads. To the best of my recollection, I’ve posted anything at all in exactly one of them (the “ending death is feasible” one) and directly to you in exactly zero of them. You know why? Because when on 3/25/2017 [I said I was putting you on my “ignore” list](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=822256), I really did put you on my “ignore” list (a distinction I’ve used only 3 or 4 times total.) I only occasionally clicked on the “show this message” link out of curiosity. If you look, you’ll see that yesterday was the first time since then that I responded to any of your messages at all. The _reason_ that I have you on “ignore” is because I think that you are a delusional crackpot barely short of Man Trap Hilter. ---
**Author:** ![SamuelA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@SamuelA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SamuelA)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5091 "2017-12-03T00:02:16Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > The _reason_ that I have you on “ignore” is because I think that you are a delusional crackpot barely short of Man Trap Hilter. Where’s the ignore list so I can ignore this blithering idiot? Is it some extension, because I’m having trouble finding it in the web page’s UI. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5092 "2017-12-03T00:14:01Z")
> [@SamuelA](#): > > Where’s the ignore list so I can ignore this blithering idiot? Is it some extension, because I’m having trouble finding it in the web page’s UI. Not so clever, are you? Don’t worry, our resident ignore list expert should wander by at some point. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5093 "2017-12-03T00:16:11Z")
Paging Clothy… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5094 "2017-12-03T00:19:13Z")
You cannot find the ignore function? And he’s the idiot? Go make a nice thread to argue about Future Tech III and piss off. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5095 "2017-12-03T00:33:33Z")
I’m making the new Pit thread for this argument. I’ll post a link shortly. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5096 "2017-12-03T00:54:55Z")
By popular demand, [here is a thread for all things **SamuelA**.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=843654) Please move the conversation there. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5097 "2017-12-03T01:50:38Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Wait, **SamuelA** is trolling the troll omnibus thread? How very meta. (We need a recipe for metaloaf.) They’re Made of Meta? ---
**Author:** ![AI\_Proofreader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@AI\_Proofreader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AI_Proofreader)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5098 "2017-12-03T02:02:47Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > They’re Made of Meta? No… [Meat](http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html)… ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5099 "2017-12-03T02:15:57Z")
> [@AI\_Proofreader](#): > > No… [Meat](http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html)… Thanks for that link. Fun stuff! ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5100 "2017-12-03T02:30:06Z")
> [@SamuelA](#): > > Apparently, you deserve a nice warm cup of milk and a cookie. What did I ever do to you? You’re a troll and you post stupid shit. Now, take your meat loaf and piss off to your own thread. With or without ketchup, I don’t give a shit. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5101 "2017-12-03T03:02:36Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Wait, **SamuelA** is trolling the troll omnibus thread? How very meta. (We need a recipe for metaloaf.) Sounds like a good new user name - Metal-Oaf. Could be a stupid person who likes heavy metal. Could be a Robby the Robot after stripping his mental gears. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5102 "2017-12-03T03:15:41Z")
> [@SamuelA](#): > > Where’s the ignore list so I can ignore this blithering idiot? Is it some extension, because I’m having trouble finding it in the web page’s UI. FTR: See this recent thread for all about the ignore feature: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=842212](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=842212). ---
**Author:** ![SamuelA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@SamuelA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SamuelA)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489/5103 "2017-12-03T03:50:37Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > FTR: See this recent thread for all about the ignore feature: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=842212](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=842212). Thanks! Everyone mean to me is on it! Now I’m in my [safe space](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsMEYjr9o1M)! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=254) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-trolls-r-us-thread/755489.md?page=256)