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A new study has shown what most of us already know – we Americans are pigs.

racocn8 comments on Apr 18, 2022:

"I have my own opinion on this which I will not share at this time." Awww, C'mon.... (I'm on my knees, pretty please? You're in good company....)

racocn8 replies on Apr 18, 2022:

@Barnie2years I have serious skepticism towards the economists claiming a problem with depopulation. The worker shortage could be compensated for by increases in efficiency, which is the case in many developed countries. Also, I'm betting that nearly all countries suffer from severely (or ridiculously) imbalanced wealth and income. I am all in favor of robots replacing farm workers tasked with severely arduous labor. While people could be depopulated with pandemics, developing a virus that causes sterility is an option. If people won't accept making hard choices, they will be made for them, one way or another.

A new study has shown what most of us already know – we Americans are pigs.

racocn8 comments on Apr 18, 2022:

"I have my own opinion on this which I will not share at this time." Awww, C'mon.... (I'm on my knees, pretty please? You're in good company....)

racocn8 replies on Apr 18, 2022:

@JackPedigo And the good news is... Humans have become stock for experimental breeding by various ET's interested in such pursuits. What they do with their specimens after creating them is unclear, but slavery probably figures into it. Our body plan is more robust than those of several species. We may destroy the planet for our successors, but humans may survive elsewhere. Does it really matter? In the following video, I believe Maria is a marooned experiment. Imagine what level of technology is capable of creating such a hybrid. https://tubitv.com/movies/588613/alien-mummies-of-peru

A new study has shown what most of us already know – we Americans are pigs.

racocn8 comments on Apr 18, 2022:

"I have my own opinion on this which I will not share at this time." Awww, C'mon.... (I'm on my knees, pretty please? You're in good company....)

racocn8 replies on Apr 18, 2022:

@JackPedigo I don't disagree with Malthus or Erlich. The subject reminds me of how bacteria grow on a petri dish agar until they've produced enough toxins that growth stops. I'm also reminded of how commercial products are produced in increasing quantities, until market forces compel a decline and finally a cessation. We live in a chaotic free-for-all sustained by Earth's bounty, but the pollution and exhaustion of resources reduce the reproduction rate. Can we reduce our numbers and still survive? Can we live (culturally) in a state of environmental tolerance? I wish I could survive long enough to see how it turns out, but that's not realistic.

It takes one smart kid

RichCC comments on Apr 18, 2022:

'Proof' would be nice. But I'd just settle for 'evidence'. 🙂 As opposed to fantasizing. Remember Polonium Halos? https://ncse.ngo/origin-polonium-halos When they first came out I got all excited (I was younger and less jaded). I thought creationists might actually have something real to ...

racocn8 replies on Apr 18, 2022:

I remember Polonium Halos as being a standard within Creationist propaganda. I thought it laughable because it was so obscure and poorly understood. That any Creationist would hang their hat on that argument is more pathetic than anything. One should be able to come up with reams of clear evidence if the Earth was 'young'. The proposition that science should have trouble distinguishing between 6000 years versus 4,300,000,000 demonstrates a dishonesty that defines evil.

Ilhan Omar: US 'Hypocritical' to Back War Crimes Probe, Must Join ICC

barjoe comments on Apr 17, 2022:

Oh! Fuck her too. She married her brother.

racocn8 replies on Apr 18, 2022:

Omar is a degenerate bigot, but the allegation that she married her brother appears to be GQP propaganda. https://www.businessinsider.com/unproven-allegations-ilhan-omar-married-her-brother-explained-2019-7

Putin's legacy: [abc.net.au] Some readers may be distressed by this.

Garban comments on Apr 17, 2022:

It is distressing, and enraging. All of it needs to be remembered as it is; another holocaust. 😢

racocn8 replies on Apr 17, 2022:

AFAIK, 4 million Ukrainians were killed in WWII, 1 million of them Jews. This was after 4-5 million Ukrainians had been killed by Stalin using starvation in the 30's.

Whatever Trump says now, we will never forget how he sucked up to Putin during his time in office.

racocn8 comments on Apr 15, 2022:

Trump is STILL sucking up to Putin.

racocn8 replies on Apr 15, 2022:

@Flyingsaucesir "Donald Trump Condemns NATO When Asked About Russia's 'Evil' Actions" https://www.newsweek.com/trump-putin-nato-russia-sean-hannity-ukraine-1697852

It seems our Christfool Adversaries are adding a newer complaint to their ever growing list.

racocn8 comments on Apr 13, 2022:

AFAIK, Austrailia sits west from a region of ocean used for satellite re-entry. Thus, residents periodically report UFO's that are later identified as space trash burning up on it's way in. That may have something to do with this new idiocy. What happened to jewish space lasers?

racocn8 replies on Apr 13, 2022:

https://youtu.be/sPHVvg-dXOs https://youtu.be/pQkgZxjy9ps

Hmm, I wonder why it is so?

racocn8 comments on Apr 13, 2022:

Nor as recent as 2000 years ago. These corpses are from 1700 years ago: https://tubitv.com/movies/588613/alien-mummies-of-peru

racocn8 replies on Apr 13, 2022:

@Triphid Beg away but we don't differ on this. I only meant that, AFAIK, no graves nor corpses are thought to represent those of new testament figures, whether apostles or women (which was the point of the meme). I listened to a course on Ancient Egypt, so I certainly know that mummified corpses dating back 4000 years have been found. A number of corpses go back even further. I am so honored to know someone whose mind and eyes are open. Perhaps you can fix the Standard Model that's been so troubling of late...

It seems our Christfool Adversaries are adding a newer complaint to their ever growing list.

racocn8 comments on Apr 13, 2022:

AFAIK, Austrailia sits west from a region of ocean used for satellite re-entry. Thus, residents periodically report UFO's that are later identified as space trash burning up on it's way in. That may have something to do with this new idiocy. What happened to jewish space lasers?

racocn8 replies on Apr 13, 2022:

@Triphid https://7news.com.au/travel/china/debris-from-chinas-long-march-5b-predicted-to-land-near-australia--c-2789650 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-31/nasa-skylab-fell-to-earth-esperance-retrofocus/12282468

The big baggage of ignorance

TheMiddleWay comments on Apr 12, 2022:

The first premise doesn't line up with facts: China, despite being a atheistic society, has TONS of starving children. Hence it's not true that child hunger is correlated with religious society. The final conclusion doesn't line up with facts. For example, the USA is a religious society and ...

racocn8 replies on Apr 13, 2022:

Shouldn't honesty be part of your philosophy?

The big baggage of ignorance

TheMiddleWay comments on Apr 12, 2022:

The first premise doesn't line up with facts: China, despite being a atheistic society, has TONS of starving children. Hence it's not true that child hunger is correlated with religious society. The final conclusion doesn't line up with facts. For example, the USA is a religious society and ...

racocn8 replies on Apr 12, 2022:

"...the USA is a religious society and yet ...the last 100 years have seen dramatic social and scientific progress... Hence it's not true that lack of progress is correlated with religious societies." So one counter-example disproves a correlation?

FEAR OF TOTAL VICTORY?

racocn8 comments on Apr 11, 2022:

First off, Liz Cheney should shut the fuck up given that her father is a war criminal. He (and Bush) should be flown to the Hague like Milošević. But overall... The Republicans have zero standing to say anything about Biden given their support for a Putin puppet for the previous four years. ...

racocn8 replies on Apr 11, 2022:

@mischl It is easy for us to say we support a complete victory over Russia. Even with carte blanche, Zelenskyy may find it to be a rough road getting there. It is my hope that the Pentagon is significantly mobilized to give Zelenskyy the best tactical advice possible. Ultimately, though, Zelenskyy has to live with Russia being next door forever, and that may require some concessions. I would prefer that Ukraine defang the bear as much as possible, but I don't live there. And I certainly salute Liz Cheney for standing up to the rest of her caucus, who appear to have gone over the cliff. I'd sure like to know what she thinks about the slow or no pace of progress at DOJ.

Breaking news - special report

SnowyOwl comments on Apr 10, 2022:

My sense of humour is at least as twisted as the next person's but I do find it odd as a Canadian on the outside looking in at America that after 4 years of Trumpism, the America people are prepared to kick the last chance that they have left at living in a democracy by throwing President Biden and ...

racocn8 replies on Apr 10, 2022:

The fascists believe (even after WWII) that god is on their side. They want to go back to slavery....(and fuck giving women the vote)

A 26-year-old woman, Lizelle Herrera, was arrested last Thursday in Starr County, Texas, and charged...

Betty comments on Apr 10, 2022:

Outrageous. What right does anyone have to force an unwanted pregnancy on a woman or to dictate what a woman can or can't do with her body. If they want to play that game then they should arrest men for masturbating. Think of all the potential babies they murder each time they do it. Millions.

racocn8 replies on Apr 10, 2022:

The same right I have to shred their prefrontal cortex.

Enough of this cancel culture stuff!

racocn8 comments on Apr 9, 2022:

Missionaries are certainly deserving...

racocn8 replies on Apr 9, 2022:

@Garban They might at last serve some good that way...

Just a very short one about something which almost defies all cataloging.

racocn8 comments on Apr 8, 2022:

(So, what is the third partner?)

racocn8 replies on Apr 9, 2022:

@Fernapple It reminds me of how Clostridium Botulinum could transform into a different pathogenic bacterium by becoming infected by a different bacteriophage. So there are at least two bacteriophages. Then we have one bacterium, either uninfected, or infected with either of the two viruses.

Extracted from link below: A report on Rossiya24, one of Russia's two main state-owned TV ...

rainmanjr comments on Apr 8, 2022:

Would people really put this much effort into a failing strategy? People do.

racocn8 replies on Apr 8, 2022:

The shit-eating Putin-stooges on this site believe it.

The most precise-ever measurement of W boson mass suggests the standard model needs improvement ...

FearlessFly comments on Apr 8, 2022:

So far, nobody has shown the Standard Model to be **wrong**.

racocn8 replies on Apr 8, 2022:

The Standard Model seems to be essentially correct. The tweaking needed should reveal...

If Obama had taken one document from the White House when he left office, Republicans would have ...

racocn8 comments on Apr 6, 2022:

The FBI should be all over that. That they aren't is a bad sign.

racocn8 replies on Apr 6, 2022:

@Flyingsaucesir Yes, that is very good. We should be grateful for whatever scraps of justice come our way. The level of corruption seems so high, and so pervasive, it's hard to sustain hope.

Archeus_Lore posted this reply to the video shown to the UN: "(bullshit deleted).

p-nullifidian comments on Apr 6, 2022:

I recently attempted to engage him in conversation and I believe his main argument to be that nothing Putin might do could match the behavior of the United States over the years. Russia’s ‘might makes right’ in his worldview, irrespective of their many weaker, unnerved neighbors. Because of ...

racocn8 replies on Apr 6, 2022:

Yes... I see people posting lists of places the US has bombed, but such lists strip away the context for the bombing, which was often more than justified. Only a few are questionable, and we don't get all the facts. Shame on the US for so many, many things, but the US is all we've got. Like the Russians, we are obliged to work towards responsible leadership. That seems beyond the understanding of too many. I am still outraged that the Electoral College certified Trump in the face of his obvious unfitness. That was one duty they had, and they ignored it. And now, the acceptance of fascism is dangerous.

Zelenskyy showed a video of the Russian atrocities to the UN.

Archeus_Lore comments on Apr 6, 2022:

Which appeared first, the torture of Russian soldiers by Ukraine, or allegations of atrocities from Ukraine? Torture of Russian soldiers by Ukraine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIzTE3zzSMk If you click the link, you will discover the video showing Russian soldiers being shot in the ...

racocn8 replies on Apr 6, 2022:

Which appeared first, the torture of Russian soldiers by Ukraine, or allegations of atrocities from Ukraine? Would these Russian soldiers be the Russians raping Ukrainian women? Or tying up infants before they are murdered? Your video doesn't work. Mattis must be misinformed: https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Timeline-of-Syrian-Chemical-Weapons-Activity

All of these children were killed in Gaza last May, but not one peep from the American, CIA ...

ChestRockfield comments on Apr 6, 2022:

More fuckin' whataboutism. That's all you have to offer. There is always another atrocity to mention, so if you say you can't mention one without taking about them all, you'd never be able to talk about any.

racocn8 replies on Apr 6, 2022:

That's no guess. It's obvious fact. And a Nazi-wannabe

My sentiments exactly... 5 Reasons to Avoid Ad Hominem Arguments [fee.org] .

ChestRockfield comments on Apr 2, 2022:

I just wish people knew the difference between an insult and an Ad Hominem.

racocn8 replies on Apr 2, 2022:

Speaking of religion, when does a subject of interest become a cult? People advocate an agenda even though the science is BS, or has no real science behind it, and refuse to admit their cause is obviously wrong on various points. The dogmatic dismissing of objections goes from dishonesty to disrespect, even bullying. That's when the douche bag aspect becomes apparent.

My sentiments exactly... 5 Reasons to Avoid Ad Hominem Arguments [fee.org] .

ChestRockfield comments on Apr 2, 2022:

I just wish people knew the difference between an insult and an Ad Hominem.

racocn8 replies on Apr 2, 2022:

One notable extract from Wikipedia: Valid ad hominem arguments occur in informal logic, where the person making the argument relies on arguments from authority such as testimony, expertise, or a selective presentation of information supporting the position they are advocating. In this case, counter-arguments may be made that the target is dishonest, lacks the claimed expertise, or has a conflict of interest. Gee, so like promoting one's pet agenda (Like Yvilletom) using fallacious arguments backed by quasi-scientific articles.

Why is there no holiday for the tooth fairy?

RichCC comments on Apr 2, 2022:

Its a woman of course. She might get more credit if she were a man. /snark 🤔

racocn8 replies on Apr 2, 2022:

It's a fairy, so probably unwise to assume a sex or gender...

Well, that was kinda embarrassing.

LucyLoohoo comments on Apr 2, 2022:

One of our nation's finest moments????

racocn8 replies on Apr 2, 2022:

That is certainly one of Britain's finest moments.

The Evolution of Belief [agnostic.com] .

Toonman comments on Mar 31, 2022:

FINALLY you post something that isn't completely and utterly useless.

racocn8 replies on Apr 2, 2022:

@Triphid @Betty @Fernapple Skado: But the preponderance of evidence suggests that religious thought and practices are a product, or at minimum, a byproduct of natural selection. Which means it has served to enhance our survival and reproduction. (Absurd assertion followed by false conclusion) When you are dealing with immeasurable quantities, there's no way to claim one quantity is greater than another. (That is just hilariously and pathetically stupid. So there's no difference between a pond and a lake...) What are you going to blame for the hideous crimes in history of regimes that outlawed religion? (So Skado accepts the Christian propaganda that communist regimes that committed mass murder didn't control people with a belief system, usually a personality cult). ...psychological traits that formed in the context of pre-human and human hunter/gatherer societies over more than two million years on the African savannas are not likely to be radically altered in a span of only a few thousand years. (The psychological evolution fanatic is somehow ignorant of Gould's Punctuated Equilibrium). Hideous criminality is one of the many capacities innate in human nature, and magnified by evolutionary mismatch. Religion, historically, is the only institution that has tried to offer a counterbalance to that mismatch. (Recall Hitchens's admonition that to make people commit utterly wicked hideous crimes, you need religion.) This is why I currently favor religious reform rather than abolition. (Skado has no problem with the lies being told and believed) From this oversimplified list, and mountains of qualifying and clarifying supportive data, it appears to me... (megalomania much?) ...it appears to me that we have reason to suspect that religion, offensive and controlling and burdensome as it surely is, has acted, and continues to act, as our main counterbalance to evolutionary mismatch (Some new form of Creationism perhaps?)

Judge rejects Christian school's demand to hijack PA system for pre-game prayer

CuddyCruiser comments on Apr 1, 2022:

Waa Waa another loss for faithfools!! I bet they’re tired of winning.

racocn8 replies on Apr 2, 2022:

@angiophone Christians losing the ability to impose their faith is what they call persecution.

How Not To Cope With Vladimir Putin By Drilling and Pumping Stan Cox, Cap the Wells Before It's...

racocn8 comments on Apr 1, 2022:

We have the capability. We should begin a Manhattan Project to begin financing, siting and building fusion reactors, the final form to be determined in two years. Fusion is within reach and should be accelerated.

racocn8 replies on Apr 2, 2022:

@Garban The recent breakthroughs in high temperature superconducting tape may indicate much closer milestones for fusion. I don't like Thorium fusion because it continues to produce highly dangerous long-term radioactive waste. The quantity is much reduced compared to uranium cycle reactors, but it is still being produced and represents an unworthy risk to future generations. Even so, I would approve the construction of a pilot plant, to test out the technology. Note how they said it had to have a concrete cap to protect against an airplane crash. Radioactivity is hard to control. The metallurgy to manage the molten salt must be perfect or near-to.

Pope begs forgiveness of Indigenous for Canada school abuses 'For the deplorable conduct of those ...

Garban comments on Apr 1, 2022:

How many times do they expect people to keep forgiving them for sanctioning and covering up these crimes? Idiots will continue to put their children in danger of these predators.🤮

racocn8 replies on Apr 1, 2022:

(Of course, the indigenous people of Canada had no say. The parents were killed and/or the children kidnapped).

In front of the church across the street.

racocn8 comments on Apr 1, 2022:

Unfortunately, AFAIK, half the Evangelicals support Putin!!! (Presumably as a hold-over of loyalty to Trump, but still, what assholes).

racocn8 replies on Apr 1, 2022:

@MaryChristmas Yes, I'm not that familiar with Episcopalians, but I can believe they don't count themselves as Evangelicals. I'll even guess the same for Presbyterians. AFAIK, Evangelicals solidly supported Trump.

Many people are simply ignorant--and this is not intended as an insult, but just an observation.

Matias comments on Apr 1, 2022:

Maybe your ignorant vet had read something like this: In the UK alone, the number of minors undergoing transgender treatment between 2009 and 2017 increased from 97 to 2,519 cases, a 25-fold increase. Within the group, the percentage of girls with gender dysphoria even increased by 4,500 percent....

racocn8 replies on Apr 1, 2022:

While LBGTQ has always been present, we may be seeing increases from social pressure and social media. Increases may also be due to hormone-like chemicals in our foods, either from processing or leaching from containers. Lastly, sexual changes can also come from crowding or the perception of crowding, and possibly elevated pheromone levels.

Figured I'd join this since I'm getting a divorce. I'll be one of you all soon. :)

racocn8 comments on Apr 1, 2022:

Sorry to hear it. Being with someone who has turned hostile and asshole is wretched. Your sanity is worth a lot. You will recover, someday.

racocn8 replies on Apr 1, 2022:

@TomMcGiverin In my marriage, my wife gave up her job to get another degree in MSW. She also had therapy, that she broke her promise to stop. To make up the shortfall, I set up a payment from my retirement IRA. When the divorce came, even though that was my own money I was receiving, the lawyers counted it as income, which boosted my income enough to force me to pay alimony. Thus, she continued to get MY retirement money after putting her through school. Ugh, and so much more.

Any guesses as to what might happen to Russia when Vladimir Putin dies?

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 31, 2022:

If he is as mad he appears to be, he might attempt to take it with him

racocn8 replies on Mar 31, 2022:

"The official and most common version says that Hitler personally gave the order to flood the Berlin subway so that Soviet troops could not go through the tunnels to the rear of German positions, directly to the Reich Chancellery. After that, on May 2, 1945, SS soldiers blew up the tunnel under the Landwehrkanal. Water gushed into the subway, claiming the lives of tens of thousands of Germans who were hiding there." https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Hitler-flood-the-U-Bahn-Line-during-the-Battle-of-Berlin

I wonder if they are even aware of the irony?

ChestRockfield comments on Mar 30, 2022:

Is he talking about the peons that are [slowly] being prosecuted, or people like Trump that are getting away scott free?

racocn8 replies on Mar 30, 2022:

I'm guessing both...

So I am from Iowa, Senator Grassley is from Iowa.

FvckY0u comments on Mar 29, 2022:

Being from rural nebraska I'll weight in. I'm not sure how racist it is. There are republican african americans that are prominent members of govt. Judge Thomas being one. Is he the stereotypical black man? Probably not but I don't think it is so much skin tone/ethnicity as it is most blacks ...

racocn8 replies on Mar 29, 2022:

"I think opposite opinions drive the hatred more than the color of the skin." I am not that optimistic.

PPOD: Panorama of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko A surface panorama from ESA Rosetta's Philae ...

racocn8 comments on Mar 29, 2022:

You may enjoy this UFO seen above the comet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTfcZlECjbs

racocn8 replies on Mar 29, 2022:

I haven't seen an explanation. @OldGoat43 The resemblance to a bacteriophage is the strongest argument that it is fake. It looks real but unless someone confesses or an analyst finds a flaw, we'll never know.

Citibank is making some very progressive moves lately: [law.com]

Retiredsteve comments on Mar 28, 2022:

That’s good to hear about a company standing up to help. Sadly there are other companies supporting the Republican lawmakers that are making some of the laws against abortion rights. https://youtu.be/gN2OH14Cnm4

racocn8 replies on Mar 28, 2022:

And yet all these companies are publicly owned. I'm sure they didn't consult their shareholders. That is why Citizen's United establishes the approval of corruption. Roberts will go down in history as an utter scumbag. If there is any history.

Irony of Ironies [agnostic.com]

racocn8 comments on Mar 28, 2022:

Except that the species does not have a consistent record of believing in a god. Polytheism, Eastern religions, and rank superstition have played large roles. The Abrahamic religions benefited from increased mobility and ruthless proselytizing.

racocn8 replies on Mar 28, 2022:

@Triphid Your neighbor provides an unending stream of amazing entertainment. Such people provide something of an object lesson to others to value our own misfortunes by comparison to theirs. I also have a hapless and tragically pathetic friend. She has been and remains good looking, but is so beset by depression, confusion and foolish values, her life is miserable. I believe the friendship I provide helps, but it's sad to not be able to help more. I appreciate that Skado believes his study of evolution and religion can provide insight and even epiphany, and I support that, even if in the face of my skepticism. Perhaps it will only lessen his own pain, and kudos for him helping himself.

Irony of Ironies [agnostic.com]

racocn8 comments on Mar 28, 2022:

Except that the species does not have a consistent record of believing in a god. Polytheism, Eastern religions, and rank superstition have played large roles. The Abrahamic religions benefited from increased mobility and ruthless proselytizing.

racocn8 replies on Mar 28, 2022:

@Triphid You will never encounter more skillfully crafted non-sequiturs, each a sparkling gem of irrelevancy. It's always an impressive demonstration of rainman savant genius. But, as I noted above, also always wrong. Such wondrous consistency...

Fight with Devil's Club. This time I won. July 2020

racocn8 comments on Mar 28, 2022:

I like the Sting-eze product for mosquito bites. Melrose oil for spider bites. I don't know what works for the no-see-um tiny biting flies. I only got those once and it was terrible.

racocn8 replies on Mar 28, 2022:

Wow. Interesting. Yeah, sulfur oxidizes into SO2. Actually toxic to breath too.

What a pathetic lack of impulse control.

Secretguy comments on Mar 28, 2022:

Seriously? You’re offended because he jumped to his wife’s defense?

racocn8 replies on Mar 28, 2022:

It was a joke. A bad joke. Thanking God was a worse joke.

Will Smith's 'apology' at the Oscars was a faith-based defense of bad behavior

skeptic70 comments on Mar 28, 2022:

I have zero interest in so-called celebrities. Pay zero attention to them.

racocn8 replies on Mar 28, 2022:

And for these two shitheads, bad publicity is still good publicity.

No more ridiculous than the original story

LucyLoohoo comments on Mar 28, 2022:

"And then...take this and eat of my body. Then, drink of my cherry-flavored blood."

racocn8 replies on Mar 28, 2022:

Like Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. Except that in the NT, the whole human-instead-of-animal-sacrifice is utter bullshit because when an animal sacrifice is made to god, those seeking god's favor are the ones performing the sacrifice. In the NT, Jesus is sacrificed by the Romans. And come to think of it, the Romans fared pretty well after the crucifixion. The Jews and Christians, not so much...

After sustaining heavy losses, Russian soldiers attack commander by running over him with a tank...

Charlene comments on Mar 28, 2022:

Shit happens when you treat soldiers like unfed cattle....

racocn8 replies on Mar 28, 2022:

It looks to be turning into a turkey shoot...

Missouri Radio Station Airs a Russian Radio Program Full of Propaganda

freedom41 comments on Mar 27, 2022:

The radio station should be shut down and that put in jail for treason. There are people in this country guilible enough to believe that bs.

racocn8 replies on Mar 27, 2022:

It isn't much of a marketplace of ideas when half the population only visits one vendor.

Utah Legislature Overrides Governor’s Veto of Transgender Athlete Bill

racocn8 comments on Mar 26, 2022:

Republicans have Qanon. Democrats have the trans movement. Biological males should not compete against biological women in women's sports for money or scholarships. It is a bridge too far and a losing argument. But wonderful for fascists who want to win seats and deprive women AND Trans of what ...

racocn8 replies on Mar 27, 2022:

I agree, but for young ladies seeking those scholarships, it is important. Also, the people in Red States show particular obsession with sports. Upon hearing that their daughters must compete against trans biological males, their sports fanaticism and their religious bigotry are both triggered. That makes this issue a winner in those Red States and in Red counties of Blue States. It's the same sort of emotional hook that got W. Bush reelected in 2004, even after the torture in Abu Ghraib. Except that then it was gay marriage, which also has no importance nor consequence.

Not too topical, I hope.

racocn8 comments on Mar 26, 2022:

Sitting on a high pass overlooking the green valley below (Cone Peak, CA), a wart hog killed me in his sights, and then glided into the valley below. I didn't hear anything until he was past. The A10 finally drifted out of the valley and pulled up along the oceans surface. Probably came from the ...

racocn8 replies on Mar 26, 2022:

Well.... Except that they used depleted uranium shells which, while effective, littered the landscape with super-hazardous material that is extremely hard to clean up, and poisons the area forever.

A month or two ago, one of the folks on this board suggested that the vaccines "didn't work" (or ...

racocn8 comments on Mar 26, 2022:

Trump. and before him, Creationism. Creationism/Christianity fostered a hatred of science and scientists among the Evangelicals for more than 100 years. The anti-abortion movement taught Christians to hate doctors and medical science, including bombing clinics and killing doctors. Knowing ...

racocn8 replies on Mar 26, 2022:

Agree completely. How surprising to see Fauci put up with Trump for as long as he did. I suspected Fauci for merely being in Trump's team, but over time, he revealed his dedication to doing the best job possible within an otherwise completely corrupt administration. Birx showed her lack of character and integrity, almost as a contrast to Fauci.

In order to protect fantasies from the rude illumination of reality, it becomes necessary to ...

LovinLarge comments on Mar 26, 2022:

I am only responding to the meme because I don't read your drivel. Prove the accuracy of the alleged quotation or you are a fraud. The reason you Trumpers don't understand the significance of expertise is because none of you have any. Also, let's see you prove that Rachel Levine is not a woman....

racocn8 replies on Mar 26, 2022:

So, after fathering two children, then choosing to present herself as a woman, she is now a biological woman? The two children are the proof she is a biological male presenting herself as a woman. Perhaps she has had surgery to present herself as a female, though that can only ever be superficially.

In order to protect fantasies from the rude illumination of reality, it becomes necessary to ...

LovinLarge comments on Mar 26, 2022:

I am only responding to the meme because I don't read your drivel. Prove the accuracy of the alleged quotation or you are a fraud. The reason you Trumpers don't understand the significance of expertise is because none of you have any. Also, let's see you prove that Rachel Levine is not a woman....

racocn8 replies on Mar 26, 2022:

She presents her gender as a woman, but having fathered children, she is a biological male. (I doubt she's a gynandromorph.) Every cell in her body has a y-chromosome, and no Barr bodies (inactive x-chromosomes).

In order to protect fantasies from the rude illumination of reality, it becomes necessary to ...

LovinLarge comments on Mar 26, 2022:

I am only responding to the meme because I don't read your drivel. Prove the accuracy of the alleged quotation or you are a fraud. The reason you Trumpers don't understand the significance of expertise is because none of you have any. Also, let's see you prove that Rachel Levine is not a woman....

racocn8 replies on Mar 26, 2022:

How about having fathered two children?

Sex and gender are two different things.

Diaco comments on Mar 25, 2022:

Put aside Gender, But With all due respect, Sex is Binary, and the rest of the variations are NOT Normal and they are Syndromes and Biological Disorders. Do They Exist? absolutely Yes! but are they Normal Humans from Biological Perspective? absolutely No! the same way Humans have 2 hands/2 legs, ...

racocn8 replies on Mar 25, 2022:

@Gwendolyn2018 @LovinLarge @Diaco (I do have a BA in biology with extra years in developmental biology) If a person cannot reproduce, what sex is that person? What they say they are? What their genotype says they are? Or what gametes their body (should have) produced? They are whatever sex that would be able to reproduce, but for whatever medical condition prevents it. If they have or had eggs, they are female, etc. Hermaphrodites exist, and some might be able to reproduce as either one of the two sexes, but that does not make them a third sex. People who change themselves physically may as well get a tattoo for all the difference it makes. People should not disregard social norms and then complain when they get unwanted attention. The campaign to confuse the artifice of gender with sex, and then to declare sex as a social construct actually does harm to those it imagines it is helping. And, they do need help. But they're not about to get it with nonsensical agitprop. People who attach excessive significance to sex or gender should address their obsession.

Sex and gender are two different things.

Diaco comments on Mar 25, 2022:

Put aside Gender, But With all due respect, Sex is Binary, and the rest of the variations are NOT Normal and they are Syndromes and Biological Disorders. Do They Exist? absolutely Yes! but are they Normal Humans from Biological Perspective? absolutely No! the same way Humans have 2 hands/2 legs, ...

racocn8 replies on Mar 25, 2022:

@LovinLarge (Link:) "The categories used for sex and gender are socially constructed. This doesn’t mean that sex and gender aren’t real, but that the way people conceptualize them isn’t set into the fabric of the universe — it can, and does, change." Science might be seen as a social construct, but the objective is non-subjective and not artificial. Sex is binary, with the intersex variations that develop as variations of the binary. Sex IS a binary spectrum. There is no third or other sex. The two sexes ARE set into the fabric of the universe (at least for humans and other mammals), though subject to mutations. Gender, on the other hand, is wholly, totally artificial and thus, not real. Gender may represent the underlying sex, or not, demonstrating its unreliability and meaninglessness (and unreality). Yes, gender is not a matter of biology, unless one chooses to include neurochemisty and the behavior derived from it.

Sex and gender are two different things.

Diaco comments on Mar 25, 2022:

Put aside Gender, But With all due respect, Sex is Binary, and the rest of the variations are NOT Normal and they are Syndromes and Biological Disorders. Do They Exist? absolutely Yes! but are they Normal Humans from Biological Perspective? absolutely No! the same way Humans have 2 hands/2 legs, ...

racocn8 replies on Mar 25, 2022:

@Gwendolyn2018 Your comment is a straw intersex. No, intersex is not another, third or any other sex. Trans propaganda provides ideal ammunition for the GQP crazies. While trans ask for rights protection, women lose their rights, and the whole system goes fascist.

Sex and gender are two different things.

Diaco comments on Mar 25, 2022:

Put aside Gender, But With all due respect, Sex is Binary, and the rest of the variations are NOT Normal and they are Syndromes and Biological Disorders. Do They Exist? absolutely Yes! but are they Normal Humans from Biological Perspective? absolutely No! the same way Humans have 2 hands/2 legs, ...

racocn8 replies on Mar 25, 2022:

Perhaps the bastardization of language cannot be stopped. Those that think that there are more than two sexes should be sure to let us know how any of these other sexes are able to reproduce, and what that non-binary process is. Does it involve an ova-sperm or a sperm-ova? Or are they cloned, parthenogenic, or what...

[nytimes.com] Prosecutor who resigned says Trump is guilty of numerous felonies.

racocn8 comments on Mar 23, 2022:

Deep, severely ugly corruption. And a DOJ that is all in.

racocn8 replies on Mar 24, 2022:

Two impeachments, Bragg, and nothing from Garland. When Trump lost, I felt it was unlikely that Biden would address the mountain of illegality and corruption. Hell, you'd need a whole other government. But nothing? Nothing at all??? I don't appreciate having to live my retirement in a state of perpetual infuriation. So, while I haven't given up entirely on Garland, I'm pretty sure he'll follow the established pattern, unfortunately.

Thanks everyone for your concern.

racocn8 comments on Mar 24, 2022:

Yeah. My yogurt has gone up from $1.67 to $2.29. Pretty frustrating.

racocn8 replies on Mar 24, 2022:

@Astralmax I enjoyed the thrill and feeling of freedom when riding motorcycles. I got thrown once and have been shy about them since.

Cosmic Milestone: NASA Confirms 5,000 Exoplanets – “It Is Inevitable That We’ll Find Some Kind...

racocn8 comments on Mar 22, 2022:

I'm pretty certain that any Nasa staffer that has sufficient security clearance and a need to know has been briefed. If memory serves, supposedly Nasa received whatever was recovered from Kecksburg, but now denies having anything from that incident. "NASA released a statement in 2005 reporting ...

racocn8 replies on Mar 23, 2022:

@darren316 @Robecology "interfering with government operations is the stuff that religion is made of "Shame on you for injecting your own imagination in to these reports. VERY unscientific." Res ipsa loquitur Regarding your assertion that a space scientist must not (have the imagination to) consider an alien hypothesis for a well-documented phenomena, here is where the Pentagon spends more of your taxes: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo/news/galileo-project-welcomes-christopher-mellon-and-luis-elizondo-research-affiliates (The truth is that the Pentagon does have some knowledge of this phenomena, but the classification level doesn't allow that to be disclosed. Also, 80 years of intimidating the scientific community into making the topic off-limits tends to make disclosure problematic. Given this extreme secrecy, a certain amount of imagination is required, and certainly not shameful. Indeed, imagination is a essential part of the scientific process. Science would be badly handicapped without it.

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson faces confirmation hearings: 7 questions answered

racocn8 comments on Mar 23, 2022:

Let us remember that Justices Thomas, Kavenaugh and Barrett are manifestly unqualified to serve because of their psychopathic partisanship. AND, Justices Alito and Roberts are also disqualified insofar as they have shown anti-American allegiance to the corporate kleptocrats that rule by corruption ...

racocn8 replies on Mar 23, 2022:

@RichCC Being a psychopath for whatever reason (very much including being religious) SHOULD disqualify these degenerates.

Cosmic Milestone: NASA Confirms 5,000 Exoplanets – “It Is Inevitable That We’ll Find Some Kind...

racocn8 comments on Mar 22, 2022:

I'm pretty certain that any Nasa staffer that has sufficient security clearance and a need to know has been briefed. If memory serves, supposedly Nasa received whatever was recovered from Kecksburg, but now denies having anything from that incident. "NASA released a statement in 2005 reporting ...

racocn8 replies on Mar 23, 2022:

@Robecology The previous reference describes flight performance characteristics. These descriptions are in line with the pilot and crew observations related to the Pentagon Report released last year. https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf https://agnostic.com/group/LikelyUFOLore/discussion/519641/consider-these-eyewitness-accounts-from-children-https-www-youtube-com-watch-v-1w75hzd8vae

Cosmic Milestone: NASA Confirms 5,000 Exoplanets – “It Is Inevitable That We’ll Find Some Kind...

racocn8 comments on Mar 22, 2022:

I'm pretty certain that any Nasa staffer that has sufficient security clearance and a need to know has been briefed. If memory serves, supposedly Nasa received whatever was recovered from Kecksburg, but now denies having anything from that incident. "NASA released a statement in 2005 reporting ...

racocn8 replies on Mar 23, 2022:

@Robecology @darren316 (I'm very familiar with the Drake equation. ) I'm a scientist and I've done my share of math. Thus, when you say: "There's just no likelihood....none...that alien life forms of any kind...advanced or primitive...exist." Res ipsa loquitur. (Latin for "the thing speaks for itself.")

Cosmic Milestone: NASA Confirms 5,000 Exoplanets – “It Is Inevitable That We’ll Find Some Kind...

racocn8 comments on Mar 22, 2022:

I'm pretty certain that any Nasa staffer that has sufficient security clearance and a need to know has been briefed. If memory serves, supposedly Nasa received whatever was recovered from Kecksburg, but now denies having anything from that incident. "NASA released a statement in 2005 reporting ...

racocn8 replies on Mar 23, 2022:

@darren 316 All indications are that these other species are thousands or tens of thousands of years ahead of humans (or more). How would we communicate with Neanderthals, or Lucy? They have communicated with us: http://www.nicap.org/babylon/missile_incidents.htm All of the recently released tapes from the Pentagon relate to UFO surveillance of military assets. As for religiosity, UFO debunking is a cult whose mantra is "Don't confuse me with facts, my mind is made up."

Chinese officials punished for negligence after investigation finds couple with 15 children

Barnie2years comments on Mar 22, 2022:

Damn! I’m just impressed a 76 year old man could find himself a 46 year old wife! Let alone get it up enough to produce 15 kids (and that’s assuming the didn’t have more that didn’t survive)!

racocn8 replies on Mar 22, 2022:

At the age of 75, he married 25-year-old Heather Harlan, an intern at one of his theatrical programs, on November 17, 1995. They lived in a Manhattan apartment and bought a vacation apartment in Key Biscayne, Florida in 2003. The couple had two children https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Randall

More Fraud in the G.

glennlab comments on Mar 22, 2022:

Why is it nearly every time we find voter fraud, it is a republican.

racocn8 replies on Mar 22, 2022:

Noticed that did you?

New Rule: Apply Precision to the Pandemic | Real Time (HBO) - YouTube

racocn8 comments on Mar 21, 2022:

Covid damaged Maher's stream of income, and watching Fox has rotted his brain, the same way it does to anyone else. He'd gone over the cliff with the GQP. He's picked up the Republican habit of lying with ease.

racocn8 replies on Mar 22, 2022:

@Robecology In his last show, he claimed the CDC said that you couldn't get Covid if you were fully vaccinated. I'm pretty sure they would never say that.

Kyiv - The Tragic History of Ukraine's Capital

Garban comments on Mar 21, 2022:

You are aware that WW3 doesn’t necessitate the deployment of nukes?

racocn8 replies on Mar 21, 2022:

The equivalence of the term WWIII with the widespread use of nukes is a common understanding, if not necessarily being spelled out as such.

Below are some excerpts from Putin (Meeting on socioeconomic support for regions March 16, 2022, ...

Matias comments on Mar 21, 2022:

Is this irony, or sarcasm, or what ??

racocn8 replies on Mar 21, 2022:

The last item about seeking social justice might be sarcasm. Most of it is ironic as being self-evident lies. The bit about avoiding civilian losses is just ugly.

Below are some excerpts from Putin (Meeting on socioeconomic support for regions March 16, 2022, ...

rainmanjr comments on Mar 20, 2022:

So he’s def going with Nazi Ukrainians were going to nuke us. Eh? That’s gonna work well enough for China, India, and 140 others but not for me. It indicates, to me, that Vlad has 0 intention of pulling back. Good because it will likely remain embarrassing. The downside is that he will occupy ...

racocn8 replies on Mar 21, 2022:

If we take Ukraine's claimed kills and destruction as true, the Ukrainians have done well. Once armed with more of the same and perhaps better, the material costs may finally give Putin pause. Another scenario is that he keeps going until the Ukrainians actually decimate the Russian forces. Either way, Ukraine may well want to use a failed war to recover Donbass and Crimea. Using poison gas, bio, or nuclear weapons may insure Putin's loss. Fundamentally, the world and Russia must confront the problem of nuclear weapons being wielded by unfit personalities, people who are psychopathic criminal-minded thugs dedicated to a corrupt kleptocracy. The problem is that Russia is merely a more extreme example of what is wrong with countries across the globe.

My spirit animal

racocn8 comments on Mar 20, 2022:

FYI, no relation to my handle. I've yet to hear of anyone figuring it out, though it shouldn't be that hard.

racocn8 replies on Mar 20, 2022:

@Garban Very close. Meaning to reason out...

My spirit animal

racocn8 comments on Mar 20, 2022:

FYI, no relation to my handle. I've yet to hear of anyone figuring it out, though it shouldn't be that hard.

racocn8 replies on Mar 20, 2022:

@Garban Sound out each letter...

They're so annoying too!

glennlab comments on Mar 19, 2022:

I really believe many of them are practicing self hate. I worked for The UMC Bishop that placed the anti-homosexual clause into the Book of Discipline. He died from AIDS.

racocn8 replies on Mar 19, 2022:

I admit I don't understand homosexuality. However, it does seem that many anti-gay evangelicals express hatred of gays when they themselves feel arousal regarding the subject. What a horrible situation to be deprived of sexuality because of one's religion. Ugly, stupid, and mean, all at the same time...

Life just keeps on ticking me.

racocn8 comments on Mar 15, 2022:

Do you have depression?

racocn8 replies on Mar 19, 2022:

@Annaleda Some suggested supplements: L-methyl-folate, 5-HTP, Saffron, Lithium. Altogether if necessary. CBD if you can get it.

Some Americans are calling some other Americans "Russian assets" and accusing them of spreading ...

racocn8 comments on Mar 18, 2022:

Trolls are drama queens. They are so desperate for attention that they'll say whatever they think will get that attention. They often have a group of idiotic causes, and they'll rotate through them rather than address the absurdities in the position they first post. They are really not interested...

racocn8 replies on Mar 19, 2022:

Yes. I don't know where she's coming from to be such pals with Putin, and parrot his propaganda to disinform regarding the biolabs. It's scary. Was she forcibly brain-washed? What do we do with people like her? And she has a lot of company. I have frustration that only a smattering of politicians will admit that many of their cohorts are compromised. It is very much another demonstration of how our system fails when these traitors are allowed to go about their business, including secretly sabotaging our country.

Can't say that I blame them. Not that my state doesn't have it's own regressive problems.

racocn8 comments on Mar 17, 2022:

The Texans that support Putin and his fascism are in the right state.

racocn8 replies on Mar 18, 2022:

@glennlab I consider them to be despicable and I would not be very sorry if they disappeared tomorrow. I agree they are in the wrong country and should be encouraged to leave for a country more in line with their values.

Day 22: Bad news for Putin he brought guns to a switchblade fight.

racocn8 comments on Mar 17, 2022:

No amount of aid to Ukraine can demonstrate that the US is anything like reliable... Until Trump is convicted and the Republican treason exposed and clearly repudiated. Otherwise, the US is a frightening joke.

racocn8 replies on Mar 18, 2022:

I wouldn't call it desperate; maybe it could be. AFAIK, the campaign to subvert elections and suppress voting rights came from an organization funded by Koch. Representatives went to receptive legislators and crafted recommended actions and laws specific to each state. The legislators have enacted most of these recommendations. This happened because conservatives saw an opening demonstrated by Trump that, without consequences, these laws could create enough confusion that Republicans could get their way whether they won or not (as with Floriday in 2000). Also, Republicans viewed the Supreme Court as sufficiently friendly that only the most egregious laws might get overturned, if it wasn't already too late.

UFO Expert 'Absolutely Floored' By Revelation From Obama Library

AnneWimsey comments on Mar 17, 2022:

Ohferpetessake, "a UFO expert" is just as much of an "expert" on unprovable things as any priest in any church, duuuuhhhhhhh.......