[ExI] Internet age verification spreads worldwide

[spike at rainier66.com]

...> On Behalf Of Kelly Anderson via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] Internet age verification spreads worldwide

On Sun, Sep 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> Second pointless aside: imagine...what if... you were the model for 
> Michelangelo 's David.  I would be so damn insulted!  He carved what 
> he actually saw!  Wouldn'ta cost Mr. Angelo a damn thing to carve me a 
> little favor down there for the ages.  He had enough marble there to 
> start with in order to create a kindhearted lie.  Now tourists will be 
> parading by for centuries, making fun.  Cruel-ass artist he is.  Harrumph.

Spike,

  I know you are probably enough of a history buff to know this, but just in case someone else isn't... and doesn't get the joke, the Greeks and Romans saw a large phallus as vulgar and unattractive. So, by those standards, David's junk is just gorgeous. Since Michelangelo was copying the realistic style of the Greeks and Romans and not the weird shit the Egyptians did, this was a very reasonable and valid choice.

-Kelly

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Kelly!  Those Greeks and Romans were just SICK, I tells ya!  No way it can improve a man's view of himself to see what that bastard Angelo did, to keep chipping away when he coulda stopped last week to better effect.  I woulda told him Mike, that is just CRUEL, I don't care what we Greeks and Romans thought.  This is ITALY fer cryin out loud, and OF COURSE size matters!

Now Mr. Angelo mighta come up with some flimsy side-stepping excuse, such as No David, I didn't use YOU as a model for that... em... part.  I got a mirror, I used myself!  

When you think about the actual MECHANICS of chipping marble while viewing the subject in a mirror, well, one would think it is hard to hold still and carve simultaneously.  Perhaps this further establishes old Michael Angelo as one of history's greatest artists.

Kelly just because we face possible species-wide doom from our own AI monster doesn't mean we can't have a little fun on the way out the evolutionary door.  And just think: what AI could ever come up with a commentary like silliness that above?  Nevah gonna happen!

spike