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What? Waste service? "How is waste service like North Korea?" -- The bin for Kims and bottles always overflows. -- The female code enforcement officers are strict but real hotties. -- They'd like to send it all to Japan. -- ?

I'm of course seeing your dream thru my own lens, but here goes: Your dream strikes me as a fair description of what Western civilization is dealing with right now, indeed almost a summary of these entire forums. In the distance is a civilization, almost the Emerald City, where honesty is achieved and corruption a thing forgotten. Iron bars of entrenched power and deceit block the way. A fearsome gator deters you/us from even trying to get past the bars, for we shall be eaten if we do. (Whether or not this is actually true.) Behind you is the suffocating flood of, among other things, feminism (water=feminine?), and associated socialism, and it can't be blocked. You can't even get a grip on a piece of it. The immediate solution seems to be "Grow gills and get used to low light conditions."

I don't answer my phone or door unless it's my cousin calling or the postman has something to sign. Everyone else is just marketing something I absolutely don't want. So don't think it's a bad thing to do. Also, it strikes me as a larger metaphor: "Something I absolutely don't want." Your suspected introversion might have components that make good sense, even be protective.

Never even heard it mentioned until this forum.

" I suspect the only real safety in such a situation may be the oceans." That would be the Fukushima Pacific Ocean?

Welcome!

I was wanting to add this to the forums someplace, and this seems like the place. I don't know about sentient per se, but it is perhaps THE cutest thing I've ever seen: A few years ago, I was at a mountain home in the western USA, on an upper deck, observing a dormant terraced garden. A blur of chipmunks appeared, all tussling with each other. After a moment I realized that it was a litter of pups out playing in the world. My attention was drawn to two of them by themselves, with one having it's head under the other, face up. I watched this a bit, and realized that the top chipmunk was the slightly larger mother, and one pup just didn't want to stop nursing. The other pups were a blur of fur a few feet away. The mother would move, but the one pup would follow her, and jam his head underneath her, and this was repeated a few times. Eventually, the mother took her pup aside, both of them standing facing each other, little arms hanging down at their sides, looking for all the world like charming Disney characters. The pup moved towards the mother, and the mother put her paws on the pup's shoulders and straight-armed him back. This repeated 2-3 times. They stared at each other for a moment. Then the mother reached over and hugged the pup, arms around it's shoulders. Then they took off back to the other pups, problem apparently solved.

I also used to have stained teeth, from coffee, tea, etc. On my own, I asked for whitening treatments (from my second and "good dentist," not the creep mentioned above). That's the kind you put in little plastic tooth trays with a syringe, and keep inside your mouth against your teeth for hours or overnight. It worked very well. I'd never trusted advertisements in general, so for a long time I ignored this product: Crest Whitening with baking soda and peroxide. Eventually, I tried it, with my inexpensive electric toothbrush with reciprocating circular brush head. Works great! The last dose of that expensive tooth bleach is still in my refrigerator, been there many months unneeded.

Or that the prophet was a warlord.

"The alternative is to buy a pack of cigarettes and talk to people at an AA meeting or on the street," NO CIGARETTES!!! You smoke to relax, knowing full well it's like sucking on plutonium laced flesh eating bacteria, which is NOT relaxing your insides. Every suck is an internal lie, reinforced. Instead, get some Cracker Jacks, assuming your teeth are up to it. Gives ya' something to do, doesn't kill you, annnnndddd....you get a little prize, which can surely stir up more conversation, reading the inner meaning of a small plastic puzzle. -------------------------------------------- "I've heard that many cluster Bs are attracted to the profession to learn how people work to exploit them further. " I know of a woman who has some kind of psychology degree, and she is one of the most manipulative and own-family destructive people I've ever met, I have no hesitation in calling her evil. My sister is a psychologist in San Francisco, hotbed of critical and honest thinking , and is pompous, impossible to reason with, and some other things I shouldn't think about. The man I went to years back was excellent. He had no agenda, was very healthy in his own mind, and cost real money, which I was pleased to (be able) pay, for his benefit. His approach was to listen and ask questions, and listen more, and occasionally to steer me on a line of thinking. This was before the internet was as much as it is, and before FDR. Referencing Ferssitar's question #13, very much of that successful approach is exactly what is done here at FDR.

What struck me is the lack of explaining HOW to clean the griddle. Some things, not just in the kitchen, are a bitch to clean or maintain...UNLESS you know technique. Such as rinse with a stiff brush, then soak with detergent for so many minutes, then use that brush again. Or why is the griddle a pain to begin with, did someone go too light on non-stick oil? It would've made more sense for the Oak to stand next to the child and explain step by step as the griddle gets cleaned by the child. For one thing, the child doesn't feel alone in the task, which is probably part of the problem. He also learns that there IS a solution, which he probably doesn't know.

"We clearly have an issue with attracting female applicants appropriately to our workforce," Professor Owczarek said. Yeah, like all the women I ever met were sooooo into math. I know one woman who went into a STEM career, and ditched it to become a stage performer, and quite good at it. And...if a woman is admitted as part of DISCRIMINATION, I think she's gonna carry that luggage a long time, and the incentive to NOT promote her would increase.

How so?

Dentist tried to sell me a $100 Sonicare toothbrush, which nearly ripped off my lips. Discovered I really just needed a $13 basic electric toothbrush. (Long story.) Tried to scrape under my gums for blood money and pain; got a coma instead; new dentist later said I had "gums of a twenty year old." I no longer trust anyone in a medical/dental environment until they prove themselves. I came from a medical family, did not used to feel that way.

I found these to be well done and of high value: Arising from the Rouble - Al Jazeera English Kremlin Rules - Al Jazeera English State of the Arts - Al Jazeera English Reclaiming the Empire - Al Jazeera English

As an isolated point, one should be cautious about that flag bit. What was the context? Nobody else had a flag. For example, I just saw a video of the huge Chinese Victory Day military parade. Putin was a guest, shown but for a moment, which is fine. Point being, would it make sense for Putin to be standing there holding a small Russian flag? In the Merkel clip, it struck me that somebody off screen "had a good idea" and didn't clear it with the choreographer. Like at a dance recital and reacting with "this is a hula number, what's that kid in toe shoes doing here?" It's manipulative, which isn't even necessary, as there's plenty of yuck already presented in the video.

Per 3:07: Sort of like saying "you have a complete car" when actually what we may have is all the car parts, but some might not be assembled. I'd be cautious about driving a car very fast that doesn't quite have all it's steering parts installed. Per 4:19: "...after his most recent (prison) sentence..." I guess it polishes his gold heart to keep going back.

Our choices: local, and teach creationism; or federal, and teach global warming. At least creationism isn't taxable on utility bills.

Re video 1: (+) I really don't see how that nose could've made it thru the building and still be shaped like an airliner at all. Also the point is made, if it did come out, where's the exit hole big enough? I just did a quick search and oddly didn't find photos of building exit wounds. They must be there, so if anyone could help with that... (-) Composite pasting of airliners still doesn't provide the answer to where the heck did two airliners and a bunch of passengers get to. I did find some still images of the plane(s) approaching the buildings. Video 2: Could jet fuel be ignited by electrical sparking from many power wires being hit? (I see by shirgall's video this is moot.)

Republicans are less likely to believe in widely accepted scientific ideas such as climate change and the theory of evolution (Kohut, Doherty, & Dimmock, 2009). Indeed, Mooney (2005) argues that, over the last couple of decades, members of the Republican Party have attempted to system- atically undermine certain fields of scientific research. And in his latest book, Mooney (2012, pp. 59–126) contends that Republicans' denial of science stems not only from perceived political advantage, but from psychological traits that incline Republicans to prize certainty above all else. This is from the article's introduction. Climate change! And it says the Repubs are benefitting from it's denial, when it's the Democrats who are making out like bandits from fraud! So right away, we know that this article has little to do with honesty.

This reminds me of a forum topic elsewhere, about how women taught self defense might be taught delusion instead of reality.

I was going to add that I am in no way current and this is new stuff. Yet I can follow discussions or math just fine. There are so many links I pursued, that many topics large or small were touched upon. The plasma topic is extremely interesting. There are other topics scattered about, so it's tricky to make completely general statements. Do you have refutations links? Keeping in mind, we haven't really detailed what's being refuted. Someplace starting from the link way above, I found a paper about the groupthink in astrophysics. I didn't bookmark it, but it was easy enough to find. I'm just finishing this, all about black holes. The title is theatrically dramatic, it's quite fascinating. The Black Hole Wars: My Battle with Stephen Hawking - YouTube Bottom line: I'm mind boggled and enjoying the journey.

I have a BS in Physics.

A person might be receptive, or disinterested, but at least you'll learn something. Closure is better if you know what it is that's being closed. Someone from long ago might value the conversation, and as long as you avoid stalkers, I don't see an obvious downside.

sb's link is worth checking. At least two sub links are garbage, what are they doing there? But don't let it steer you away. I've just had two days of I don't know how many hours following them. There is very good material in there. Resist the urge to blow off all of it because of those two bogus links or any pre-conceptions. In the Crothers video, follow the math discussion, good points are made. In the two part series, watch it, then judge. Seems like pretty good science to me, and the point is made in an article about sociology of scientists, plus those two parters, about groupthink and job threat if not on the bandwagon. Same crap as global warming or medical fraud, so don't dismiss out of hand that mainstream isn't going along. Anyone even asks questions, valid and good questions, and it's goodbye job.