stingpie

I don't think the Chinese room is a good analogy for this. The Chinese room has a conscious person at the center. A better analogy might be a book with a phrase-to-number conversion table, a couple number-to-number conversion tables, and finally a number-to-word conversion table. That would probably capture transformer's rigid and unthinking associations better.

No, you're thinking of the first scene of the movie where a fly falls into the teletype machine and causes it to type 'tuttle' instead of 'buttle'.

Ok. I'm getting tired. You bested me this round. Have a nice day.

You say it's the goal of the proletariat to protect the revolution, but why would they? Each proletariat would benefit from the revolution's failure- they could live better lives as the bourgeois. You talk about the proletariat like they are some monolithic entity, with a single mind and goal. You talk big about helping the individual, but cannot see beyond their class. The proletariat is a person, with needs, desires and opinions. What father would hold the abstract ideals of the "revolution" over the life of his sick daughter? Any father I know would do anything for the safety of his children, even hoard life-saving medicine from others.

Communist logix

we need to abolish private property so everybody has equal power.

we class of people to maintain public ownership

After all, how can we enforce public ownership without a more powerful class of enforcers?

Fahernhaters are always like, "nooo!! 40 degrees is so hot!!" Meanwhile, the fahrenchad's resting body temperature is nearly 2.5 times hotter. All fahernhaters would die at that temperature.

I always find it very funny when someone suggests anarcho-something as a solution to all of capitalism's problems. How exactly do you plan to enforce that? Do you think social pressure & shunning will do anything more than create a class of extremists with an oppositional philosophy?

What do you mean by offensive?

It's a poop scooper. The joke is that the snake is long, it has long poops, and so the lady needs a long poop scooper to grab it.

As knowing random facts is second nature to us trivia fans, it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows a couple pop cultural references from the 30's.

This is such a a good visual gag.

I think snakes would probably use tunnels, but I think snakes would probably use just as much concrete as us. We don't use concrete because we like how it looks, we use it despite it's looks. Concrete is just cheap and useful. It wouldn't be any less useful for snakes. Though snakes would probably coat the concrete in something softer & higher friction, like rubber.