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Poll: 27% of Democrats support prosecuting GW deniers
AccuTron replied to Alan C.'s topic in Current Events
Glad to see the sense showing in so many people. As to the thugs who hate free speech...and almost guaranteed never look at the research...I've always believed that the left was where bullies go to hide in groups, so they can make lawmakers point guns that anyone who disagrees with them. -
Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet I didn't save the original link of the above, but I suspect keyword searching will bring it up. It has a distinctive look, and easy to quickly spot. If I find a link later, I'll add it here. In this above image, we see many interesting things, so do, do, do, study this in detail. We specifically see that CO2 rises with every interglacial warm period. CO2 has been rising for 18,000 years. Repeat: CO2 has been rising for ~18,000 years. This is normal. So don't sweat any CO2 reading you hear of, we aren't really doing anything. We screw up lots else, which the fraud uses as a foothold, and the fraud is crushing some of the help that should have gone to the real problems. You can easily search that normal climate went to a chill zone early 1800's, and has been warming since about 1850. So of course any reading on record is warmer than earlier, if the records aren't before 1850. There's been tons of data doctoring too. Gore made up this stuff back as a grad student in the eighties, and ultimately worked a gig thru Goldman Sachs, who were frauds leading up to the 2008 crash, and with Ken Lay, of Enron, 11 convictions for fraud, who (I say conveniently) died of a heart attack before sentencing to 10-20 years. Look this up right now, as you read it here, so you believe it. "Gore, Goldman Sachs, Enron, Ken Lay" Some of it is already in my mega-thread. Note here that Ken Lay, 11 convictions for fraud later, had earlier sent a personal rep to Kyoto to see that cap and trade was passed, a subsequent "victory for Enron." (link included in my threads) Cap and trade is a victory for later convictions for fraud. Get that??? Who gets PAID on these trades, what traders? Are you guessing names yet? Gore is on his way to being the world's first carbon billionaire, works thru a shady group called I think AIG, which invests in green carbon projects worldwide, and the powers behind AIG are shady and unknown. Your president had Kerry as Sec.State, instructing State employees that global warming was #1 priority. Pure fraud is priority, follow the voting power on that one. (Source Wall St. Journal in recent years.) Your president wants global warming as his legacy, his words. Pure fraud, his legacy. I'd have to check the link, but I think the Virginia state climatologist recently called this fraud something like "the worst assault on science in history." This is a huge scam, all of it. And it has big name universities...some of which hire known data-fraudster and global warming "discover" Michael Mann as a prof...that pump out real ditzes, wanting to save the planet, can't think for crap, and I know one. A teddy bear is wiser. And don't you know that most staff and students vote Democrat. Alumni donations, anyone? (Sea level has been rising ~20,000 years, several meters. Look it up right now; and tell me why the Maldive Islands are suddenly going to disappear, where they didn't for 20,000 years, except an excuse to sue first world countries.) The entire, thats's 100%, anthro-warming is bogus, total fabrication, and a lot of people such as Michio Kaku (who also fell for TEPCO's line about a Fukushima 40-year cleanup) and The Science Guy have fallen for it. They obviously didn't do real research, which a middle school student could easily manage. Don't listen to anyone who says it's real: they are fraud or incompetent. Hansen for example, is a global warming hero, yet if you look at his 1981 paper re CO2 and climate, you see blatantly illegal math and vastly bogus physics on page one (which he has now put into a locked directory so you can't see it; it's available thru other links, and my mega-thread includes a copy of page one). His own NASA boss called him "an embarrassment to NASA." This is shown to you in my mega links here in FDR, as explained below. In Gore's own Inconvenient graph, you can see that temperature shift preceded CO2 shift in at least 5 places, but Gore -- who's about to become a Billionaire from this, easy to search under "carbon billionaire" -- doesn't mention this. This and so much more has already been assembled by myself in FDR. Follow this primary link, and it will link to some other posts, and pleaaassee plan to spend at least two hours on just my stuff. In my research, I stand upon the shoulders of many very good men, who did years of persistent detective work against the fraudsters and got slandered for it. Gary Cooper types. See what they found, that they are slandered for it. For myself, it is the result of what is now ~75 hours of intense research, and reading every word including all comments on (sic) ~1,500 websites, some of which were 30-40 page documents, primarily over a two week period eight years ago. (Gut feel was that I bookmarked 3-4% of sites, but being conservative with 10%, which it absolutely wasn't, I have 120+ bookmarks. 120*10=1,200. And that's the conservative estimate.) I have yet to have one person recognize the enormity of that research, like it might means something. There are a lot of citizen goober heads, and the bad guys play on that. Obama says "flat earth society" in response to discovery of massive fraud. Of course he does, his party wins office by saving the planet, can't admit it's been a scam all along. This information is mostly a dozen years or so already known, but the scammers cry "big oil" or "flat earth society" and the goober heads, of which I had been one until a chance event, simply don't look at what is right in front of them 24/7. Real scientists, as you will read below, use words like "low confidence, scandal, not science...." You will also see examples of the IPCC's own internal documents saying that humans aren't affecting the climate. Some good researcher did the digging -- instead of listening to slander -- and the excerpts are compared with a senior IPCC official telling US Congress the exact opposite, which requires huge money and gets Democrats huge votes. climate fraud updates - General Messages - Freedomain Radio Message Board Note, it will just be a sampler. Tiny! It's got the main criminals, the origins, but there is vastly more, and I give you mere samples from a very cluttered media terrain. If you wish, search phrases such as these -- "climate fraud, Mann fraud, Hansen fraud, Ken Lay climate" -- and you can spend as many dozen hours as you wish pursuing path after path, especially if you read ALL the reader's comments, for that's where most new pathways originate. You will see a constant fabric of falsified data, illegal math and physics, much much more. This is vastly greater a...and this is the correct word...conspiracy than anyone, including myself, would ever suspect or believe. But spend the hours, at least a dozen hours, and that's just getting your feet wet. Or you won't get it. It's very very big, the disinformation is gigantic, and you must research very very much. Gore is going for a billionaire. He's part of a cabal, and doing the research, this is a planet wide spread. What the heck is Obama and China agreeing upon, if it's not real? Trillion dollar scam, easily. Add in all worldwide voters wanting to save the planet, and it's massive voter manipulation for anyone who is green/liberal/leftist/democrat/etc. Quadrillion dollar crime, easily. Bad guys will go to lots of trouble to keep that going. Don't fall asleep on this.
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blending different sounds into one perception
AccuTron replied to AccuTron's topic in Self Knowledge
A sound designer? (He writes as "An American In Paris" blares loudly in the room.) Hm. Hmmm. Hmm, hmm, hmm. (I'm aware of how "soundy" pure text can be.) Many reactions at once, plus one that arrived later. I described above random events which blurred together perfectly. You blend by intent. Those things I described, do they remind you of any particular sound structures that you've made? There is a comic video clip which I love: TheTreatyOfWestphalia History buffs will like it, and so will everyone else. I also saw a clip of the outtakes of the making of this video. It made me realize how much refinement went into timing, inflection, etc. Verbal sound editing. This one has my personal five stars for applied talent. I made a note to write that earlier today, just now getting around to it. In between, I had a superb bicycle ride. Great workout with breaks and food, perfect sky, mountains, felt really really good getting home. In that state of biological perfection, I entered a happy state of scientific wonder, and following the footsteps of Newton, Einstein, and Darwin (or perhaps some of their more distant cousins), had An Insight. I first thought of it as a new topic, but aha, it has to do with sound, so here it is: The mostly joke, but not entirely, proposal is that "France will always tend toward socialism because of it's use of it's own language." I love language. YouTube with a language that I don't understand, no subtitles, is bliss. Hungarian on YouTube is good. Russian. Almost any British. As an aside, what languages do you think are "cool languages"? French is cool. One notable thing about French that I don't think other languages do as wantonly -- given my limited knowledge -- is the non-pronounciation of letters in a word. In French it's often the trailing letters. An average French paragraph, if spoken, doesn't use many of the letters that are printed. What percentage? 10, 20, 25%? That's Socialism. The letters don't do any work, but get credit for showing up anyway. I think it's throughout the language, plus or minus a region. Does that transfer into other types of thinking? Of course, National Socialism was really keen on syllables, my theory seemingly going down in flames reich there. But is there a sliver of truth to it? Does speaking a language like that reflect a mental aspect? I'm reminded of the Immortals' language in the movie Zardoz. This futuristically refined language was used by people, who as immortals, already knew each other, and the nuance of everything else, so well, that the spoken language was down to a fraction of the sounds we now use. Like a mumble. -
Something happened that I found amusing and mildly intriguing. It reminded me of something similar from a couple of years ago, both while online gaming. Tonight I had Pandora playing while online multiplayer shooter gaming. (UberStrike on Steam.) There is a modern gatling gun type which has a unique continual sound. It was on my team, I could hear its intermittent bursts of fire someplace down the cyber-hallway, and I was in a furious melee which demanded my close attention. Pandora had been playing "Summer In The City" by Lovin' Spoonful. At one break in the vocals, city sound effects are brought in, including a jackhammer. The jackhammer and the gatling gun sound almost identical. With my attention focused close in, the music and something down the game hall became peripheral. My ears blended the sounds, and for a few moments, I had a vague mental image of someone shooting a cyber jackhammer down the hallway. In a few more moments, I chuckled to realize what had happened. Some time ago, I was in a good furious game, where avatars flung about like jackals crossed with hummingbirds, chased by fiery rockets. I had FireSign Theater playing background. As I jumped up to a high cyber-tower, I looked upwards to see an attractive cyber sky, dark of night, filled with stars and celestial wonder. At that moment, the FireSign recording sent a loud group of jets across my real world room in a low altitude audio flyby, like at a US Memorial Day event. I instinctively looked for those 1960's vinyl jets in that 2010's imaginary sky. A moment later I realized what I'd done, amused. You ever do anything like that?
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Altruism: the Ultimate Guilt Trip
AccuTron replied to MysterionMuffles's topic in Peaceful Parenting
I recall from my childhood, observing that one generation after another was miserable so that the next generation was better off, but still miserable. That made no sense to me. There was no way to discuss this of course, not in a home where communication was rare, but it was a major influence on my development. What was the point of anything? Now, I can understand that not everyone might be like that, but back then it was sort of a given, it's source hard to pinpoint. -
Hey, what's that car in your sig? If anyone has to serve on jury, do not drink coffee that day. Restroom breaks aren't what they should be.
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I am skeptical of the artisan angle, whenever I see it mentioned. The term "starving artist" exists for a reason, and that was before the internet. We see already thru YouTube an enormous amount of very creative work by endless random citizens. And yet what does it amount to, how many get paid enough for it? Yet another link among millions. Already, to create something means anyone else can use it, perhaps 3D print it. And the obverse: buyers are saturated with stuff. I try to picture historic or current villages or small towns and there is only one blacksmith, or potter, or weaver, or anything, per given population, unless the whole village does that trade. Vendor saturation seems to occur quickly, and we see the resulting mix of successful businesses, or barely so, or failing, just like always. I'd say we already have saturation, so more tech just means supersaturation. The household will have a RoombaHAL9000 that will blow the socks off any human's management skills. Even the men will crave sweeping the back steps just for some exercise. How about a reasonable sex bomb with an ethical sense that can honestly respond to any situation instead of caving in or running away or lying, and doesn't throw tantrums, ever, and never thinks that extra body fat is really her friend? There's your highway to the future. That last line is almost an equation of natural law. It would be a curious research attempt, to try to define the graph of efficiency vs waste for non-technical issues. I know the idea of switching genders is well addressed in literature, or current events. Current events are not at the level of growing an actual different body or perhaps modified brain. To a large extent, it seems that future things would reshuffle themselves into the same old patterns. Body mods is body mods, to a point. Even someone who grew big muscles on demand is another form of dating a weightlifter. Or super vision means dating Superman. How could we imagine a true game changer? Essentially another creature. A human, but with modifications that include entirely new mate selection considerations. I can't think of anything that isn't just a variant of superman or superwoman. What new abilities could there even be?
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But aren't we already there in some ways? Something like this: the rise of chemistry and factories first made clothing, household goods, etc., amazingly cheap, over the last century or so. They were cheap in part because of cheap local labor. The local labor may or may not be able to afford these very goods. The forces of economics in large part boil down to how many people are there per land space, and what can they actually make for sale? Many people worldwide afford inexpensive clothing. Yet many cannot afford a second shirt. How would better tech change this? I'm not sure what nano means in this case, sort of a magic wand of unseen future possibility, which is good enough. Which almost certainly mean fewer workers. So those shirts would have to grow themselves, which is possible, but with a mere fraction of the workers. I think nano is another way of saying automation. It's a continuum.
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Yes!--back where I was! (Circular ramble re exercise with swords)
AccuTron replied to AccuTron's topic in Miscellaneous
I had to look it up. Burpee, not Slurpee. Learn something each day. They look like great exercise. For joint health, they seem to have a very high value for mere seconds. What do you do re fats and oils? -
Yes!--back where I was! (Circular ramble re exercise with swords)
AccuTron replied to AccuTron's topic in Miscellaneous
No video sorry. One big reason is that I'm, how should I say, more clothed for Nairobi than Spitzbergen. Thanks for the fat loss kudo. Sigh...long ago years of cutting wood for the wood stove. It's a heck of a lot cleaner and easier these days, nudging that widdle biddy lever on the wall thermostat, but I miss that brisk air, the breath of life. Ever hear of this one? Put some volume to it. I can get a good room dance with it, especially if I'm already loosened up: Curved Air - Marie Antoinette - YouTube Plus, it gives me chills. Read the lyrics beforehand: Curved Air - Marie antoinette Lyrics -
A4E: Clearly I'm not an authorized, nor possibly accurate, spokesperson for Evolution. Now that you mention it, if freckles and a tailbone remnant are the exceptions, then by comparison markedly little other clutter is retained. Good point. I was reacting semi-consciously to an assumed list of ailments, heard perhaps decades ago, and now that I think of it, are mostly because we're living longer in general, and stuff just wears out, compared to paleo-people. Yes, that was an ad-hoc comic elbow jab, a touch of online vaudeville, and I guess pretty language specific, and good luck even then. A knee-jerk on my part, reaction to the notion that if it's homosexual, it's superior, needs special laws...which in many ways are quite true statements up to a point...and which reside in my knee-jerk mind along with other items, such as women are always superior/right and facts don't matter; or whites are dirt and blacks are better than gays or is it the other way around or are they the same? A certain collection of things which over time rub raw on one's psyche. No reference at all to your abilities, just a joke. Appendix...oooh, never thought of that. Makes sense in several ways including location, and yes, I'd expect (pun alert) in my gut that evolution would have deleted it entirely if not useful. It's like a little bomb shelter for friendly flora. Only the top layers need to fend against the onset of illness, with plenty of backup. Like tiny Spartans holding against numerous tiny Persians at the pass. Good point about undiscovered human system hierarchies. Relatively recently, new understandings of genetics have been discovered, game changers. Where I'm guessing from is an assumption that if someone is homosexual or not or some variation, it is likely an in-utero event, a trigger or drift, something within a range. If "having a range" is a key characteristic of what I'll here simply call (sexual, but could be anything) development, and most of the range serves very well the overall species survival -- the hyper-hetero perhaps being more useful at snarling at cougars or chopping logs, or more likely to do something dangerous when the females are threatened, either way it's a "keeper" end of the bell curve -- then having a homo end of the range is a mathematical bell curve reality. How does one in mathematically general nip off one end of a (however shaped or skewed) bell curve? Trying to imagine a blur of mathematics to do this, it would seem to require adding from scratch a strong suppressive element at one end -- begging questions of intermediate evolutionary steps, and molecular energy requirements or side effects. It seems like a student mathematician would much rather say Oh the heck with it, rather than do all the extra math add-on constructions required to resolutely push in one side of a bell curve. How would "resolutely" be defined, would it match the general percentage of population homosexuality as is? Important wording note: I do not imply the word "mistake." It's like if I were using a prismatic flashlight, and certain frequencies were not visible to my eye, I wouldn't call them "mistaken frequencies." They're simply the ones at that part of a continuous spectrum. A further discussion of them would likely be in reference to another phenomenon, my eyes in this case.
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Marshmallow Farming [VIDEO]
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I think any driver would know that for a Disney machine to run over little Squeaky Squirrel would be a public relations disaster. Heck, now that I think of it, I wouldn't put it past Disney to have installed animatronic birds for chasing off squirrels. Oh Lord, it could've been an animatronic squirrel....
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Why So Few Women Anarchists?
AccuTron replied to brucethecollie's topic in Men's Issues, Feminism and Gender
"Sigh...why are questions so scary?" Because the answers are. Might tip over a sacred cow. -
David Cameron wants to ban encrypted messaging services
AccuTron replied to Alan C.'s topic in Current Events
"But I say: would we sit back and allow right-wing extremists, Nazis or Klu Klux Klansmen to recruit on our university campuses?" We note the glaring omission of left wing extremists. Oh, must be his power base. -
My pride is stoked.
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Yes, awe. Where to start? May I suggest our Nod To The Future Eloi Burger, drenched in Morlock Juice? (Raise your hand if you spotted the references; revealed below.) I adore this guy's honesty. He's like one of them from They Live, but you don't need the magic glasses, he's just out there. And not looking anywhere as ugly, for doing so. He went the health spa route, saw what he saw, and said essentially, "Goobers to this. If they want to bash their heads against walls, I'm going to build them one heck of a wall." He leaves the blood and brains to dry on the wall, makes no lie about it. Come here, bash your head and sooner or later you'll splatter your own brains. What a message. And yet, it's near casinos, same thing, it's in larger society, same thing.... The people come into his business, pay him money, for the privilege of killing themselves. Kudos for him, similar to those who saw the value as garden fertilizer, in the bones from history's biggest battlefields; gathered, ground, and shipped. (Not to be confused with UPS Ground.) I'm reminded of H.G.Well's The Time Machine. (That's the reference.) Centuries hence, humankind trashed civilization big time and the species split into two distinct types. The Morlock were gnarly, lived underground, where the light was so bad they didn't have to see just how ugly they were. They ran machinery and made stuff. Like the free food and clothing for the Eloi, the other species -- surface dwelling, graceful, and nutritious. The Morlock bred Eloi for food, like cattle. Morlock seems of "mort," root word for dead. Eloi seems to be Hebrew/Greek for "God people." (For those of you with a time machine, a movie Eloi was like if Donovan had never done Hurdy Gurdy Man, what would have remained.) The sixties movie (made during the era of nuclear war fear) did a great job of this story. I forget how it was done in the book, but when it was time to harvest the Eloi, the Morlock would activate huge air raid warning sirens, and the Eloi would get trancelike and walk into what their genes thought was an air raid shelter. When enough Eloi had entered, the doors would close behind them, the sirens turn off, the Eloi outside wander away like dumb cattle, and the Eloi inside suddenly terrified at now being inside a slaughterhouse. Early in their evolution, like right now, the Eloi are not so graceful.
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It just dawned on me that the bird might have had a nearby nest.
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Something reminded me of a minutes-long YouTube video I saw a couple of years ago. No idea of the link and you'd have as good a chance of finding it as I. It was taken by a tourist waiting at a Disney monorail station. A curved bit of track led into the station and the monorail train should've already docked. It was stopped only dozens of feet away, because a squirrel had decided to perch on a rail ledge that the train’s lower edge would scoot right over. No human access was possible. It seemed an impasse, as the squirrel impassively showed little inclination to move. Cute at first, it soon became awkward. But then a bird, can’t recall what kind, maybe a type of black bird, flew down to nudge and harass the squirrel forward. It fluttered and hopped at the squirrel from the far side, and the S would move a few paces towards the station and stop. The train would creep forward. The B would flutter at the S again, which would move a few paces again, which brought the B to flutter again, as the train inched forward again…this went on a long time, but it worked, and when the train could freely move again, the crowd cheered. Why did that bird care in the first place?
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How has your exercise regimen evolved over the years -- inclusive of non-gym/sports things like snow shoveling and manual grass mowing? (This may have a number of other points to stir response.) I've mentioned elsewhere that school P.E. was total blecchh. In later teens, my father enrolled me in a small private gym, which was good for me. Too bad it was against other odds in life, but kudos for those gym owners for some light during those dark times. It was only when I left toxic and too humid surroundings, moving to (link>)Western North Carolina, and a great group of people, that I found I was not a clumsy fat kid loser. I was a natural athlete and martial artist, taking each not very far...no pride in broken necks...and found that I had terrific endurance. I determined to learn good basic habits. Decades later, I can fully say that I've kept to them overall and they've paid off. Food basics. Exercise. From a yoga book: "Enough is necessary, enough is enough." (Or as I would put it, no pride in sprained necks.) This music was new then, more on that later: Yes-Starship Trooper 1973 - YouTube Yes - Yours Is no disgrace live 1972 (Yessongs) - YouTube From yoga and martial arts, not too much, just enough to understand for my own use, I learned things. (Yoga--no chanting thank you; martial arts-- beginner white belt is fine.) One thing became obvious. Rural dogs already do this. That's a sidetrack here, but it was clear. Dogs do enough stuff overall, but don't usually get stupid about it. (Unless it's chasing cars, or catching frisbees or a brick, of which I knew a dog that, without satisfaction, craved being thrown a brick.) I obtained a padded bench for kneeling or sitting cross-legged, and customized it over the years, that when I was at my tinkering table, I should not develop hunch and slouch and aches, as from a standard chair. Rather, I should stretch my hips and leg joints in varied poses, and merely pivot my hips to lean, not curve my poor spine. Yogic soldering, yogic gluing, etc. Forty years later, reupholstered, this bench would play new roles. It is my yogic online combat bench. I get a yoga workout when I shooter game, not chair-cramped. (With a good crew of gamers, this can easily become aerobic.) How many adult gamers do you know that kneel while playing, with screen at proper eye height? I can also pull the bench into the middle of a big enough room, and while kneeling, or doing what is essentially dance floor work, totally boogie to music while staying on the bench. Incredible full body workout. So my bench has probably been my #1 health aid for a few decades. I started another habit in the early seventies. As I was already in good shape with a strong grip, and with a big enough room for it, I'd put on a cassette of Yes!, the same music as those two links above. Then I'd dance with my swords. I pulled a bundle of broken fencing blades from a university gym trashcan, and for a freestyle industrial arts project, made this matching set from epee blades: Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet The guards are ball peened, the front end flaring into a flat spoon shape not clearly shown here. The ends are sharp, as are the front edges for a few inches. Mouth mashing rivets and hole punching pommels complete the user-friendly design. The copper tube is a scrap I found to carry the sharp blades while I worked on them, and I never found a better way to store them. I grab both handles and shlunk them in together firmly, making a very satisfying movie effects sound. I can also whip a blade thru the air fast enough to make whistling sounds. The handles are from a long rectangular scrap of cocobolo wood, very uniform and dense, central America I think. They've been machine turned circularly as a grip, with some of the rough saw cuts still visible, useful as flats for stability, and artistic provenance. The inlays are turquoise scarab beetles my grandmother brought from Egypt in the sixties. I would martial dance (kata) with these for the entirety of the Yes! music. I got good. In addition to the disgrace of poor technique in general, or the worse disgrace of piercing one's artery, the truly overarching awareness was how mortally embarrassing it would be to ruin a good carpet with one's blood. We find the rule sets that work. I did that for many years. Then, life stuff, and I didn't for many years. Just these days, I feel myself kicking in again. I won't go near the blades until I work up strength empty handed, then short stick, then long. Only then. I'm psyched. I had lots of other exercise thru yard work, cycling, etc., but had lost the coherent daily martial drive that served me so well in years past. It may be returning. Also, I just found that due to dietary changes, I've lost 20 lbs since I last weighed, which was Nov. 2014. I don't believe in home scales, they're just distractions. Heck, I know if I'm fat. So what do you do?
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Chicken evolutionary changes in only 15 years
AccuTron replied to shirgall's topic in Science & Technology
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When I think of big social problems, I think "spoiled brat." Such as current feminism ("hideous feminism"), trashing Sweden with immigration, other topics, usually there's a huge base of people clamoring for destructive crap based upon their feeeewings (sic) with utter refusal to listen to rational thought. I wonder how much politicians/business seem like Daddy, with money and rules, and entertainment seems like Mommy, with popsicles and ice cream. Don't want to offend Mommy with the dessert. Also, to criticize a performer, yet pay money for their shows, one must admit an inner schizo state, and I think the decision is more for pleasure than ethics.
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Ouch! Perhaps Bill Gates should call in:)
AccuTron replied to DCLugi's topic in Libertarianism, Anarchism and Economics
You've got my curiosity. Do you have links? I'll clip this paragraph and check it out later on my own. ------------------------ One glaring thing, about all claims that Big Oil is stifling alternative technologies: The energy industry has giant amounts of capital and talent. If something were viable, they'd invest in it. If it competed, so what? -- they eat from both pieces of the pie. Even better, one becomes perhaps a hedge against variations in the other. -
Hmmmmmm. The data here is quite sparse, but there's sort of a clustering, from westernmost Virginny in a swath thru those central southern states that are horizontal on the map, maybe overlaid with mountainous terrain. Will future historians see this as the approximate territory of a future state or province, possibly founded upon principles similar to those of the original American colonial separatists? (Just in case, I'd like to collect any volunteer autographs of anyone who posted here. Some will be worth a lot of money to a future generation. Or just handwrite your kids lots of notes.) (No, I don't know what form of money!!!)