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It turns out the computer is a homo's devil machine afterall (PIC) (deaddog.com)
submitted 3 years ago by celticagent
[–]MasterMahan 63 points64 points65 points 3 years ago
I'm not sure I've ever seen a sarcastic protest sign before. Come on, folks... rainbow flag? "I agree with the SJC" -- Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial Court? I like it.
[–][deleted] 19 points20 points21 points 3 years ago
Yeah, the rainbow flag gave it away.
[–]ninja-wage-slave 8 points9 points10 points 3 years ago
And the URL on the sign...!
[–]candlejac 0 points1 point2 points 3 years ago
Which happens to go to a suspended page :(
[–]aristideau 0 points1 point2 points 3 years ago*
Plus the fact that she looks like a lesso.
The one thing that has always puzzled me about lesbians is this; Given that lesbians arent attracted to men, then how is it that they go out of their way to look like men?
[–]perb123 12 points13 points14 points 3 years ago
Are you attracted to men? No? Well, how come you really try to look like one then?
[–]zodirento 4 points5 points6 points 3 years ago
I... don't... I just look this way.
[–]pdc03 4 points5 points6 points 3 years ago
Touché
[–]postdarwin 0 points1 point2 points 3 years ago
But he's not trying to attract other lesbians. Well...I suppose he wouldn't say no.
I don't try to look butch, I just let my manliness shine through naturally.
[–]Grue -1 points0 points1 point 3 years ago
I think you're missing the crucial difference here. he tries to attract (straight) women, who like men.
A lesbian should try to attract women who like women. Then why would a lesbian try to look like a man (except maybe to sway some straights/bisexuals)?
[–]Jim_in_Buffalo 1 point2 points3 points 3 years ago
I heard an interview with a lesbian career military woman on NPR years ago, and she stated that lesbian women, in her experience, are attracted to the "butch" look, but like to dress and look "femme." She recounted how she would change her clothes in the car on the way from one lesbian club to another in order to alter her look from the "butch" one to the "femme" one or vise versa, depending on where she was headed.
[–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points 3 years ago
I think most of them (who look like her) just look like that naturally. My theory is that these ladies have a testosterone surplus which makes them more manly in appearance and disposition.
[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points0 points 3 years ago
Because a man is a symbol of power and strength and in any gay relationship there is usually a dominant male like figure and a submissive woman like figure. Men are often tops or bottoms if gay, with matching personalities.
Being gay is natural, but so are sexual roles. They aren't limited to sex though, just implied - I wouldn't mind being led about by a strong woman in a heterosexual relationship and I think many normal men wouldn't mind either.
[–][deleted] 5 points6 points7 points 3 years ago
Or not. This is just a silly story straight people like to tell themselves (it makes it so much easier to shoehorn gay people into preexisting stereotypes). Nowadays: top, bottom, who cares?
[–]accidentallywut 0 points1 point2 points 3 years ago
you can wave around your ultra PC crap as much as you want, saying "come on people, in this day and age, we are simply equal on every level."
when really, it's just genetics. in every intimate relationship (not just physical) between humans there is almost always a dominant role and a submissive one. these days it's much easier for these roles to sort of sway back and forth though, evening things out.
but most of the time, one will assume one of the roles and it will mostly stay like that throughout the entire relationship.
and what do you know? some people actually like things this way. many guys enjoy being the dominant male, and many women enjoy being the submissive female. it's simply in our dna.
[–]hellchick 0 points1 point2 points 3 years ago
Do you actually know many (or any) gay people?
[–]accidentallywut 0 points1 point2 points 3 years ago*
i've known a good number, and have had one or 2 i could call a decent friend.
EDIT: for some reason i only thought of men, but i guess women are gay people too, now aren't they? haha. in this case, add a couple more, and one girl who was a pretty good friend.
I do, and they always have roles. You can tell who is the top and the bottom very easily. I've only known one lesbian couple, but it was the same.
[–]hellchick 2 points3 points4 points 3 years ago
Well I have a lot of close gay friends and I don't see them conforming to this stereotype at all. It's possible you're all just projecting. You think you know who's 'on top', but you might be missing the complexities of intimate relationships.
In fact many hetro relationships are not defined by the dominant/passive roles either.
[–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points 3 years ago*
It's possible you're all just projecting. You think you know who's 'on top', but you might be missing the complexities of intimate relationships.
No, I ask them. Every person I have ever met who has been in a relationship who I have asked about this gay or not says the same thing. You are either passive or dominant in life, introvert or extrovert. There is no middle ground.
People are all just that - people. No PC bullshit is going to change human nature.
Put it this way, if a man pointed a gun to your head or to the face of your children, would you suck his cock on command or kill yourself to stop him? You can't do both.
[–][deleted] -1 points0 points1 point 3 years ago*
No, it's really not. Bottoms tend to stay bottoms. Think about it yourself - do you change from being passive and dominant in all your relationships or do tend you stick to one role?
Genetics is truth, and genes make people what they are. That's why being gay isn't a choice. The PC bull doesn't change the nature of man, we are the same as we were a thousand years ago.
personally i've been in a dominant woman relationship before, and i hated it.
she provided me with most everything, and was making most decisions. it made me feel horrible. my dna/testosterone kept telling me "you are the man, you need to provide for her."
ultimately the relationship ended mostly because of these feelings i had.
it's simply genetics and evolution.
[–][deleted] 1 point2 points3 points 3 years ago
Yes, but not all men are like that. I wouldn't like being ordered about too much but I wouldn't mind fooling around with a cougar too much.
Everyone has different DNA after all, and not all men are dominant types.
[–]kristopolous -1 points0 points1 point 3 years ago
sometimes I see lesbians in the clubs and I'm like "damn that guy is cute" - why's he dancing with that chick? I've even been so careless as to approach a few. Horrible, that.
[–]aristideau 0 points1 point2 points 3 years ago
Same thing happened to me in Sydney.
Thought I had hit the jackpot when this absolute stunner (think Kate Moss with a Mia Farrow haircut (Frank Sinatra era)) starts fliring with me.
My lesbian friends thought she was a dyke, I thought she was a fag hag (a georgeous girl that hangs out with gays because they are safe).
Turned out to be a guy. I tell you though, most guys would not be able to pick it, this guy had no adams apple, was slim and slight like a girl and had exactly the same bone structute/face as Kate Moss.
Damn
[–]aristideau -5 points-4 points-3 points 3 years ago
Plus the fact she looks like a lesso (it is a chick right?)
[–]nobahdi 3 points4 points5 points 3 years ago
Well, the argument is so asinine that it seems like something a homophobic protester would say.
[–]palalab 11 points12 points13 points 3 years ago
Poe's Law in action.
[–]generic_handle 1 point2 points3 points 3 years ago
Uh...most anti-homosexual protest signs that I've seen are unlikely to reference historical events and are unlikely to be typeset and printed on a large-format printer, either.
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[–]cach-e 1 point2 points3 points 3 years ago
It's a classic photoshop. Been around for quite some time.
[–]Mike112233 7 points8 points9 points 3 years ago*
Pretty gutsy calling others stupid when you can't see through pretty blatant sarcasm.
[–]LoveandRockets 1 point2 points3 points 3 years ago
Oh... I just glanced and thought she was from those wackos with the Westboro Baptist Church that picket soldier's funerals. Oops. .
[–][deleted] 24 points25 points26 points 3 years ago
For me it's certainly a homo devil machine. Woo!
[–][deleted] 9 points10 points11 points 3 years ago
agreed.
:D
[–][deleted] 7 points8 points9 points 3 years ago
I invoke rule 34.
[–][deleted] 2 points3 points4 points 3 years ago
which is? (sorry ;0)
[–][deleted] 4 points5 points6 points 3 years ago
Generally accepted internet rule that states that pornography or sexually related material exists for any conceivable subject.
[–]Emowomble 0 points1 point2 points 3 years ago
I thought it was more quantum mechanical than that? The act of looking to see if there is porn of any obscure subject creates said porn somewhere on the internet
[–]akdas 2 points3 points4 points 3 years ago
I've never heard anything relating the rule to uncertainty. That said, the creation of new porn falls under the jurisdiction of Rule 35.
[–]pikatore 13 points14 points15 points 3 years ago
this. NSFW
I couldn't resist the call of rule 34. If anybody needs me, I'll be in the shower scrubbing my eyes.
[–]Charlie24601 5 points6 points7 points 3 years ago
...with lye.
[–]Smight 1 point2 points3 points 3 years ago
I've never heard that euphemism before.
Just make sure you don't go cross-eyed. I know someone who lost a ball that way.
[–]mrblue182 3 points4 points5 points 3 years ago
MY EYES!!!!
[–]jawknee530i 2 points3 points4 points 3 years ago
What did you just do to me?
So wait, he the computer or is the grub?
[–]surfwax95 1 point2 points3 points 3 years ago
Hak-enema Matata.
[–]neilplatform1 0 points1 point2 points 3 years ago
Cryptonomicon
[–]JackRawlinson 6 points7 points8 points 3 years ago
Turing invented the computer? I think Charles Babbage's ghost might have a word or two to say about that.
[–]Enkaybee 6 points7 points8 points 3 years ago*
Alan Turing came up with the idea for what became known as the Turing Machine, which is basically what today's computers are.
Read the informal description on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine
[–]brainburger 0 points1 point2 points 3 years ago
If reddit doesn't refresh automatically when you post a comment, copy the text just in case you need to repost it, and hit refresh in your browser. Hitting 'submit' over and over can cause dupe comments, as in this case.
[–]generic_handle 0 points1 point2 points 3 years ago
Not quite. Turing came up with a theoretical model of an extremely simple computer that is equivalent in capabilities to today's computers. This is important in computer science when demonstrating whether or not one computer is capable of doing the same things as another; today's computers are certainly not Turing machines, as they'd be extremely slow if that were the case.
If one can show that a device or system can reproduce the (very simple, easy-to-analyze) set of operations present in a Turing machine, then given enough time and memory, it can also do everything that your computer today can.
[–]snthaoeu 0 points1 point2 points 3 years ago
Our computers are not Turing machines, but their fundamental structure is based on Turing machines. There are alternative ways to formalize computation, such as lambda calculus, that are equivalent in power. Our computers are not like lambda calculus at all, but they are very much like Turing machines.
Granted, you didn't make much by way of a concrete claim "their fundamental structure is based on Turing machines", "they are very much like Turing machines", but that is certainly not something that I would say. Perhaps you could be more specific as to why you're saying that our computers are like Turing machines.
You have a read/write head (cpu) that deals with symbols on a storage system (main memory). We use random-access memory so you don't have to waste time scrolling back and forth across a tape, but it's the same basic idea.
Compare to lambda calculus which has no isomorphism to our computers at all.
[–]lollerkeet -1 points0 points1 point 3 years ago
He did make the world's first programmable computer.
[–]JackRawlinson 0 points1 point2 points 3 years ago
But Babbage proposed the concept of programmability.
[–]dopplerdog 0 points1 point2 points 3 years ago
The analytical engine was designed to be programmable - the design had it reading programs from punched cards. It was not, however, a stored program computer.
[–]n0t_5hure 2 points3 points4 points 3 years ago
reminds me of this post about turing a while back.
[–][deleted] 2 points3 points4 points 3 years ago*
What if the Germans had a gay-friendly society, and welcomed him with open arms? I shudder to think of how WWII could have turned out very differently without Turing on our side.
Never, ever, ever going to happen.
[–]n0t_5hure 4 points5 points6 points 3 years ago
true, but it was an abstract hypothetical:
What if the Germans had a gay-friendly society, and welcomed him with open arms?
the point was that a society welcoming all stands to gain, while a prejudicial society stands to lose. i recognize that it wasn't a realistic hypothetical, but was arguing that it ought to be our goal.
[–]brainburger 1 point2 points3 points 3 years ago
Don''t forget the Germans lost Einstein because of their non-inclusive policies.
[–]Grue 0 points1 point2 points 3 years ago
I think this point is outshadowed by the fact that under this hypothetical, Turing would betray his own country for the totalitarian regime that murders people based on their nationality, just because of his gayness? Whatever the point he was trying to make, this is just ridiculous.
I get what he was getting at, but there would be no way any hate group would openly befriend gays in the 30's.
It's just impossible. These guys did horrible, horrible things to gays - far worse than what we brits did to Turing, and that's saying something.
[–]n0t_5hure 0 points1 point2 points 3 years ago
you're right. its sort of a "in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" sort of thing.
Didn't he kill himself when he was outed? Doesn't sound like he was welcomed with open arms in the UK either.
[–]Emowomble 3 points4 points5 points 3 years ago
he was convicted of some sodomy charge in the 50's and had to undergo chemical castration, which lead to his suicide. Not exactly the proudest moment in british history....
[–]unamerican 2 points3 points4 points 3 years ago
Manchester has a lovely monument to him; it's a statue of him on a bench, holding an apple.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing_Memorial
I believe Wilde was also put in jail for some time for sodomy, although chem. castration wasn't around and the real thing was too strong a punishment.
Why were people so against buggery? Oscar Wilde was one of our greatest heroes. Why castrate somebody who does men in the poop hole? How does that help society?
Still - the nazis would have done worse. We were horrible, but they were worse and that is saying something.
That'll show him!...Early 20th century mathematicians make me so mad!
[–]andknitting 2 points3 points4 points 3 years ago
I bet that hand illuminated sign took years of meditative artistic devotion by a whole brotherhood of hillside cave-dwelling monks to create just for her. You gotta respect it for the brilliance behind the artistry, at least.
He/She is carrying a rainbow flag, so I rather think the sign is sarcastic. _^
[–]Stick -1 points0 points1 point 3 years ago
She also looks like a dyke.
[–]ironylocks 5 points6 points7 points 3 years ago
Yeah, I didn't notice the Dutch boy with his finger in the hole until you pointed it out.
[–]agbullet 3 points4 points5 points 3 years ago*
Is this a 'shop?
//honest question.
[–]PenguinPwn 0 points1 point2 points 3 years ago
Yes. Yes it is.
[–][deleted] 1 point2 points3 points 3 years ago*
Dag. It looks like www.myage.us is down.
What a shame.
[–]trancertong 1 point2 points3 points 3 years ago
that is what i am going to name my next Dell.
Think I'll name my band 'Homo Devil Machine.' Has a nice ring to it.
[–][deleted] 3 points4 points5 points 3 years ago
nice that the sign is type set and printed
[–]mancunian 4 points5 points6 points 3 years ago*
Me chilling with Turing in my college gardens in Manchester, UK.
[edit] I just found out somebody's painted his fingernail's red. I hope they were being knowingly ironic and not just homophobic.
[–]Daemonax 0 points1 point2 points 3 years ago
Lovely photo, I'll have to get one of myself with him some day when I go to Europe.
"Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition." - Alan Turing.
That's cool. He needs a statue in Whitehall though. He is easily as much of a war-hero as bomber Harris and the rest.
[–]IheartDaRegion 1 point2 points3 points 3 years ago
I live how there is a website listed right above "its a devil's homo machine".
[–]mutatron 7 points8 points9 points 3 years ago
Probably because it's sarcasm.
[–]Lazyninja420 -3 points-2 points-1 points 3 years ago
or just photoshopped
[–]jon_titor 0 points1 point2 points 3 years ago
an oldie but goodie.
[–]monkiman96 0 points1 point2 points 3 years ago
Soo... Has anyone called that phone number yet? i tried the site on the poster but its down.
[–]JumpinJehosephat 0 points1 point2 points 3 years ago
I've always suspected as much! ROFLMAO!
[–]w41k480u7 0 points1 point2 points 3 years ago
LOL thats my desktop now. :)
I say the same thing about Alan Turing whenever I hafta do a CAPTCHA.
[–]rogueman999 -1 points0 points1 point 3 years ago
That made me rage. It could be funny, if you didn't know Turing after the war was treated exactly as these guys would like him treated. In the end he killed himself because of it.
I can't really wish to see them beaten to a pulp, but I do fervently want freedom of speech used against them to the fullest extent, way more then even Dawkins style. At least huge posters with "God is Santa for adults" and banners with statistics of religiousness / any metric per country. Also atheism / IQ.
[–]Splatterh0use -2 points-1 points0 points 3 years ago
Sometimes I wonder if democracy should be abolished just to punish this kind of protests and protestors! Their ignorance is a plague upon the rest of the nation.
[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points0 points 3 years ago*
Got to love a poetic kook. What a nut. He has a "Joan of Arc" facial expression.
[–]rotll -5 points-4 points-3 points 3 years ago
and www.myage.us is hosted on what? Parchment paper somewhere? Or is that computer a hetero devil computer, and therefore ok?
all it takes is a username and password
create account
is it really that easy? only one way to find out...
already have an account and just want to login?
login
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