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Title: The Obamanation or NewYorkExpress
Post by: I spent the winter writing songs about getting better on October 02, 2014, 05:42:31 PM
Great example of why I don't see how people can call The Obamanation the worst poster. Not that he's high quality or anything and often says things that are extremely stupid and/or messed up, but he's occasionally amusing. NYE on the other hand, even when he's not in human RSS feed mode, contributes nothing, I don't think I've ever seen him make a post longer than 2-3 sentences (except for his timeline which is something completely different) and often posts things so ignorant or idiotic it stuns me even by Atlas standards. Example being claiming that e-cigs should be banned since if people want to smoke they might as well just smoke a real cigarette anyway...even though e-cigs in fact have far less carcinogens and toxic chemicals as real cigarettes. By far the poster with the highest facepalm:posts rate.

So yeah. Had to say it.


Title: Re: The Obamanation or NewYorkExpress
Post by: bedstuy on October 02, 2014, 05:53:51 PM
New York Express doesn't evince any sort of individual person's perspective.  It doesn't seem like a person is calling upon what they think and then typing it out.  It's rather like someone is thinking, "this is something a person might say" or "this sentence could be an opinion that a person might have!"

So, to be fair, New York Express might be someone's computer program or robot or clockwork automaton. 


Title: Re: The Obamanation or NewYorkExpress
Post by: I spent the winter writing songs about getting better on October 02, 2014, 06:06:55 PM
Yeah, it has been noted before that he would fail the Turing Test (and not the only Atlas poster who would)


Title: Re: The Obamanation or NewYorkExpress
Post by: ElectionsGuy on October 02, 2014, 06:17:06 PM
NYE easily


Title: Re: The Obamanation or NewYorkExpress
Post by: Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck on October 02, 2014, 06:21:27 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/27/politics/ted-cruz-values-voter-straw-poll/ (http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/27/politics/ted-cruz-values-voter-straw-poll/)

It's deja vu for talking heads, as Senator Ted Cruz (TX) won the influential Values Voters Summit in Washington, though by a vastly smaller margin over Neurosurgeon Ben Carson. Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum rounded out the top four, with Bobby Jindal and Rand Paul finishing tied for fifth.

The Vice-Presidential poll, showed similar results with Carson in first and Cruz in second. Jindal meanwhile surprised observers by taking third, while Michelle Bachmann took fourth, and Rick Santorum finished in fifth.

Who (if anyone) emerged as winners following cattle call, and who ended up as losers?

There's no way a human typed that.


Title: Re: The Obamanation or NewYorkExpress
Post by: Grumpier Than Uncle Joe on October 02, 2014, 07:29:13 PM
Obummer Nation easily


Title: Re: The Obamanation or NewYorkExpress
Post by: SWE on October 02, 2014, 07:42:01 PM
AIDS vs Cancer


Title: Re: The Obamanation or NewYorkExpress
Post by: Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck on October 02, 2014, 07:56:54 PM
What do you think is worse, the RSS feed posts or his appalling What-if timeline?


Title: Re: The Obamanation or NewYorkExpress
Post by: 🦀🎂🦀🎂 on October 02, 2014, 08:09:49 PM
I think OC is more of a pest than either actually.


Title: Re: The Obamanation or NewYorkExpress
Post by: Grumpier Than Thou on October 02, 2014, 08:36:02 PM
D-NY by default.


Title: Re: The Obamanation or NewYorkExpress
Post by: Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook on October 02, 2014, 11:24:28 PM

So I mostly infect gays and Africans while NYX infects everyone?

Ok, that was a terrible post. I apologize.


Title: Re: The Obamanation or NewYorkExpress
Post by: Joe Republic on October 02, 2014, 11:53:12 PM

So I mostly infect gays and Africans while NYX infects everyone?

Ok, that was a terrible post. I apologize.

Well that post just about sealed my vote.


Title: Re: The Obamanation or NewYorkExpress
Post by: NewYorkExpress on October 03, 2014, 12:37:12 AM
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/27/politics/ted-cruz-values-voter-straw-poll/ (http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/27/politics/ted-cruz-values-voter-straw-poll/)

It's deja vu for talking heads, as Senator Ted Cruz (TX) won the influential Values Voters Summit in Washington, though by a vastly smaller margin over Neurosurgeon Ben Carson. Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum rounded out the top four, with Bobby Jindal and Rand Paul finishing tied for fifth.

The Vice-Presidential poll, showed similar results with Carson in first and Cruz in second. Jindal meanwhile surprised observers by taking third, while Michelle Bachmann took fourth, and Rick Santorum finished in fifth.

Who (if anyone) emerged as winners following cattle call, and who ended up as losers?

There's no way a human typed that.

So you doubt a human's ability to type?


Title: Re: The Obamanation or NewYorkExpress
Post by: Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck on October 03, 2014, 12:54:14 AM
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/27/politics/ted-cruz-values-voter-straw-poll/ (http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/27/politics/ted-cruz-values-voter-straw-poll/)

It's deja vu for talking heads, as Senator Ted Cruz (TX) won the influential Values Voters Summit in Washington, though by a vastly smaller margin over Neurosurgeon Ben Carson. Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum rounded out the top four, with Bobby Jindal and Rand Paul finishing tied for fifth.

The Vice-Presidential poll, showed similar results with Carson in first and Cruz in second. Jindal meanwhile surprised observers by taking third, while Michelle Bachmann took fourth, and Rick Santorum finished in fifth.

Who (if anyone) emerged as winners following cattle call, and who ended up as losers?

There's no way a human typed that.

So you doubt a human's ability to type?

Seems like NewYorkExpress is getting snippy with our joke.  Do you really think we don't think humans can type? 


Title: Re: The Obamanation or NewYorkExpress
Post by: bedstuy on October 03, 2014, 01:14:07 AM
NYE Currently endorsing: BOTH Tea Party lunatic Mia Love and Senator Al Franken.  How does someone go about explaining that?


Title: Re: The Obamanation or NewYorkExpress
Post by: NewYorkExpress on October 03, 2014, 01:23:17 AM
NYE Currently endorsing: BOTH Tea Party lunatic Mia Love and Senator Al Franken.  How does someone go about explaining that?

I do appreciate candidates that would make history, such as Love's election would. (Of course if Matheson if were running, I would have endorsed him instead)


Title: Re: The Obamanation or NewYorkExpress
Post by: tik 🪀✨ on October 03, 2014, 07:51:25 AM
NYE Currently endorsing: BOTH Tea Party lunatic Mia Love and Senator Al Franken.  How does someone go about explaining that?

I do appreciate candidates that would make history, such as Love's election would. (Of course if Matheson if were running, I would have endorsed him instead)

I made history a few hours ago but it got flushed.


Title: Re: The Obamanation or NewYorkExpress
Post by: Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck on October 03, 2014, 08:59:38 AM
NYE Currently endorsing: BOTH Tea Party lunatic Mia Love and Senator Al Franken.  How does someone go about explaining that?

The NewYorkExpress advanced preferences algorithm ensures a eclectic array of Congressional endorsements to better mirror human behavior. 


Title: Re: The Obamanation or NewYorkExpress
Post by: Adam Griffin on October 03, 2014, 09:51:17 AM
I'll say it again: I've never really understood the hate-fest for either of these people. They both strike me as relatively innocuous posters who at worst, regurgitate ideas/topics from other places (NYE) or who say some mildly-irritating things (Obamanation), the both of which could easily apply to a lot of other posters here.


Title: Re: The Obamanation or NewYorkExpress
Post by: windjammer on October 03, 2014, 10:43:21 AM
BRTD, you know I like you, but seriously, no need to make polls against people you don't like :(.


Title: Re: The Obamanation or NewYorkExpress
Post by: Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck on October 03, 2014, 10:45:34 AM
BRTD, you know I like you, but seriously, no need to make polls against people you don't like :(.

BRTD has been inspiring fun discussion for over a decade now.  Please do not discourage him.


Title: Re: The Obamanation or NewYorkExpress
Post by: Grumpier Than Uncle Joe on October 03, 2014, 10:46:45 AM
BRTD, you know I like you, but seriously, no need to make polls against people you don't like :(.

It's his trademark.


Title: Re: The Obamanation or NewYorkExpress
Post by: Grumpier Than Thou on October 03, 2014, 10:48:09 AM
BRTD, you know I like you, but seriously, no need to make polls against people you don't like :(.

BRTD has been inspiring fun discussion for over a decade now.  Please do not discourage him.

Who would you rather go to Dudefest with: Opebo or Jesus?


Title: Re: The Obamanation or NewYorkExpress
Post by: windjammer on October 03, 2014, 10:48:55 AM
BRTD, you know I like you, but seriously, no need to make polls against people you don't like :(.

BRTD has been inspiring fun discussion for over a decade now.  Please do not discourage him.
I'm not discouraging him of starting fun discussion, like the correlation between Scotland and opebo, I really like BRTD, there is no need to make poll against posters :(.


Title: Re: The Obamanation or NewYorkExpress
Post by: Cranberry on October 03, 2014, 01:43:48 PM

So I mostly infect gays and Africans while NYX infects everyone?

Ok, that was a terrible post. I apologize.

So why do you post this sh**t, you even said yourself it's a terrible post? That's just special level dumb.


Title: Re: The Obamanation or NewYorkExpress
Post by: Grumpier Than Thou on October 03, 2014, 02:14:00 PM

So I mostly infect gays and Africans while NYX infects everyone?

Ok, that was a terrible post. I apologize.

So why do you post this sh**t, you even said yourself it's a terrible post? That's just special level dumb.

But then he turns around and wants to accuse me of being a terrible poster ::)