July 11, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Go ahead. Rick Rosner: Yeah, so there are numerous problems, even if achieving technological immortality were feasible. There are metaphysical issues that arise with living indefinitely. One of them is the need to continually acquire more memory to give meaning to your endless existence. Without …
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July 11, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Rosner: Yeah, uh, just before we started recording in the previous session, you asked if I feel relieved now that things are better. I responded by saying that I'm not relieved because the situation is not clearly better. Allow me to elaborate on that. It's true that we …
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July 11, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: So, I've been collecting items from the past two hundred years, mainly for my wife but also for myself. I recently purchased a sampler from 1812, made by a girl named Philadelphia Henderson from South Eastern England. It came with a detailed genealogy, allowing us to …
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July 11, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: All right, so let's discuss the topic we left off from the last session, which pertains to the proliferation of good and bad ideas. Rosner, what are your further thoughts on this? Rick Rosner: Well, building upon what I mentioned last time, the situation in …
July 4, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Along with the rise in dickishness, has been the rise of the Karen. The Karen is the white lady who complains about bullshit, often involving black people doing virtually nothing or literally nothing. You know, black people, they park. White lady calls the cops because, for …
July 4, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What do you expect from the Biden-Harris administration? Also, what have you seen from the Biden-Harris administration? Should I reverse the order of those questions based on how you were answering them? Rick Rosner: Are we recording? Jacobsen: Yes. Rosner: Ok. So, I don't remember …
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July 4, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Okay, so new session. Rick Rosner: Okay. Scott: Do you want to start this one or do you want me to? Rosner: I can start. You asked, "What is it?" I said we haven't talked about this before. So I thought about it. And I …
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July 4, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Yeah. So what are the down lifting forces? Rick Rosner: All right. So, we ended the last session on uplifting people in the future with me bitching about Rupert Murdoch. The deal is that, well, there are a couple of things. One is to some …
July 4, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So we both have different kinds of neighbors. Mine are Canadian. My experience with them is a lot lighter where it's just different forms of jackassery. Yours is more severe. Rick Rosner: All right. So yeah, we both have problematic neighbors. Our neighbor has been …
July 4, 2021 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Okay, so, what are you thinking along the lines of, on the one hand just giving up on humanity versus trying to uplift or bring people into kind of this science fiction in near future that is likely on the… Rick Rosner: So, I'm writing …
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