AL Supreme Court cites "wrath of a holy God" while claiming frozen embryos are "children" -- ...

annewimsey500 comments on Feb 20, 2024:

I have always been of the opinion that there are far too many humans on the Earth already , and having seen what a friend's daughter went through going the IVF route for over 6 years, the expense, the scarily heightened-by -hormones emotions, the truly wrenching overall stress, the false alarms and...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 20, 2024:

I totally agree with you on the adoption option. This whole "mine" thing is ridiculous. If you have a kid, only half your genes are passed to him/her anyway. Chances are, anyone you adopt is going to have a lot of the same genes. We humans have 98.8 same genes as chimpanzees.

AL Supreme Court cites "wrath of a holy God" while claiming frozen embryos are "children" -- ...

annewimsey500 comments on Feb 20, 2024:

I have always been of the opinion that there are far too many humans on the Earth already , and having seen what a friend's daughter went through going the IVF route for over 6 years, the expense, the scarily heightened-by -hormones emotions, the truly wrenching overall stress, the false alarms and...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 20, 2024:

When my grandpa was born there were 1.5 billion people on Earth. When I was born 40 years later, there were 3 billion. When I turned 40 there were 6 billion. Now there are over 8 billion of us, and if I live to be 80 there could be over 9 billion. (The growth rate is slowing, but not enough imho.)

How to Defeat Modern Day Atheism With Three Easy Questions

nogod4me comments on Feb 20, 2024:

If there were any evidence for gods believers would exploit it until it bled.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 20, 2024:

But there isn't, so instead they exploit their acolytes' pre-existing tendency toward superstition and lack of critical thinking skills.

A match made in Hell

BD66 comments on Feb 19, 2024:

It was all a hoax: WHAT SPECIFICALLY DID DURHAM FIND? Durham found that the FBI acted too hastily and relied on raw and unconfirmed intelligence when it opened the Trump-Russia investigation. He also claimed that FBI investigators fell prone to “confirmation bias,” repeatedly ignoring or ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 20, 2024:

In spite of Attorney General Bill Barr's attempted whitewash of the Mueller Report, we know that Trump obstructed justice at least ten times during the investigation. What was Trump hiding? We also know that Trump's good buddy Rodger Stone lied for him under oath. Hence the conviction for perjury and subsequent pardon to keep his mouth shut. Mueller also concluded that his investigation could NOT rule out collusion between the Trump Campaign and the Russians. The Mueller investigation achieved dozens of serious felony convictions of both Trump Campaign and Russian operatives. And what did Durham achieve? One guilty plea on a low-level infraction (exaggerating on a FISA warrant). These FACTS speak for themselves: the Trump-Russia probe was entirely justified, and the Durham probe was a farce designed to obfuscate the truth.

Eric: "How long before we can go back to our real estate scam?

nogod4me comments on Feb 19, 2024:

The Kool-Aid they gave their followers for free.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 19, 2024:

Touché! 😂

India-bound oil tanker hit by missile in Red Sea attack -- reuters.com

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 17, 2024:

There should not even be any oil tankers plying the seas. We should have already moved past the use of fossil-fuel-burning internal combustion engines and external combustion power plants. Just saying.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 19, 2024:

@Fernapple They're using Iranian drones and ballistic missiles. On 60 Minutes tonight a US Navy officer said they think the Huthies are using the drones for gathering targeting data for the missiles, which can go more than 300 miles. So they're not close up, except when they are...

India-bound oil tanker hit by missile in Red Sea attack -- reuters.com

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 17, 2024:

There should not even be any oil tankers plying the seas. We should have already moved past the use of fossil-fuel-burning internal combustion engines and external combustion power plants. Just saying.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 18, 2024:

@Fernapple If they sink an oil tanker they create an environmental disaster in their own back yard. News footage i have seen shows only damage to superstructures. Just speculating, but I think they are close enough to aim high.

The deceased woman found in Huma Abedin's residence has been identified as Lara Prychodko, aged 48, ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 17, 2024:

🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩 There are 670 units in the Zeckendorf Towers. Since they were completed in 1987, thousands of people have lived there, including some who had connections to Donald Trump, the Koch brothers, Vladimir Putin, and Elon Musk, among other celebrities. It is just ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 18, 2024:

@1patriot That's not an apology or a retraction, but at least it's a tacit acknowledgement of falsity. I guess we can call that progress. 😂 PS: It's not a "news article." It's just right-wing disinformation.

Religion is ...

DenoPenno comments on Feb 18, 2024:

Religion is whatever you want it to be. This why there are so many denominations. Disagreements in religion cause this constantly.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 18, 2024:

Yep, schism is the way of it. Over 40,000 Christian sects and counting.

India-bound oil tanker hit by missile in Red Sea attack -- reuters.com

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 17, 2024:

There should not even be any oil tankers plying the seas. We should have already moved past the use of fossil-fuel-burning internal combustion engines and external combustion power plants. Just saying.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 18, 2024:

@Fernapple IDK...I can tell a tanker from a break-bulk freighter, car carrier, or container ship from quite a distance.

India-bound oil tanker hit by missile in Red Sea attack -- reuters.com

Jolanta comments on Feb 17, 2024:

Seems to me like the whole world will have to suffer for the war that the zionists are engaging in.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 17, 2024:

It's been this way all my life. But let's acknowledge that it's not just the Zionists. The whole world (minus some Arab Palestinians) collaborated in the creation of Israel through the issuance of a United Nations charter.

A geothermal-powered, climate-friendly way to capture carbon dioxide in the air -- TechXplore

Jolanta comments on Feb 17, 2024:

Safely store it underground. Well that statement seems to me like a red flag. How much and how long can something like that be stored?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 17, 2024:

Indefinitely, if the CO2 reacts with calcium to form CaCO3 (calcium carbonate, aka limestone), or with magnesium, to form MgCO3 (magnesium carbonate, aka magnesite), or both calcium and magnesium, to form CaMg(CO3)2, aka dolomite. The question is, where underground can we find hydrothermal waters containing these elements in the quantities necessary to even make a dent in the greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere, not to mention what we continue to emit on a vast scale every goddamn day? If this were really a viable option, we would already be doing it at scale.

Alexei Navalny.

HippieChick58 comments on Feb 17, 2024:

How do we know he was murdered by Putin?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 17, 2024:

It's a reasonable question. The answer is that Navalny was illegally detained on Putin's orders. So anything that happened to him was the responsibility of Putin. Period.

The deceased woman found in Huma Abedin's residence has been identified as Lara Prychodko, aged 48, ...

nogod4me comments on Feb 17, 2024:

https://youtu.be/eWcam7iNryE?si=eSPP_XuCxjaBk_0V

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 17, 2024:

😂😂😂 Perfect!

Satan wins again.

Jolanta comments on Feb 15, 2024:

Asking for trouble in the US, me thinks.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 15, 2024:

@Jolanta Based on the number of mass shootings, the USA is officially in a state of civil unrest. The next step would be civil war. Hopefully we don't get there. It is not a foregone conclusion. Prosecuting Donald Trump may turn out to be a cathartic therapy that will break the fever.

A guide to lower Manhattan, by George Conway:

HippieChick58 comments on Feb 15, 2024:

I think New York needs to offer a guided tour of those sites. They are important!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 15, 2024:

We should hear a verdict in the NY state fraud case by tomorrow. It was pushed back because apparently Allen Weisselberg was pleading guilty to perjury in a previous case. So Judge Engoron might toss out his testimony in this case, which would be very bad for Trumpty Dumpty. 🙂

Remember when impeachment was a serious thing?

yvilletom comments on Feb 15, 2024:

The Dems impeached their hero and they needed to get even

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 15, 2024:

Amazingly, that is exactly what it going on. The GOP congressmen are like elementary school children, acting under threat from the schoolyard bully. It's really a disgusting, shameful display of cowardice. I don't know how they can look in a mirror, or sleep at night.

Remember when impeachment was a serious thing?

HippieChick58 comments on Feb 15, 2024:

The GOP is not working for the best for the American people, they're working for their overlords who want to own the American people.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 15, 2024:

That is a very good and precise description of the situation. 🎯

An Oregon resident was diagnosed with the plague.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 14, 2024:

Thanks. I did not know this.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 14, 2024:

How's your back, by the way?

One loser's ignominy, abasement, and defeat is a nation's hope, vindication and renewal.

yvilletom comments on Feb 13, 2024:

SCOTUS may have to find the courage to say Trump Is a vexatious litigator and order the lower courts to refuse to hear any more cases he files.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 14, 2024:

There's a good chance they won't hear his immunity appeal.

There is No Man Made Climate Emergency!!! The True Causes of Climate Change The following ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 13, 2024:

The first graph is the Keeling curve, and it shows the annual fluctuations of CO2 and the overall increase in concentration since 1958. The data was collected at the top of Mauna Loa, in Hawaii. The second graph is the Keeling curve going back 850,000 years. This data is from air bubbles trapped ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 13, 2024:

@annewimsey500 I'm not trying to convince @1patriot; he appears to be a lost cause. I'm speaking to the community at large, any hapless passerby unlucky enough to read his absurd and misleading postings.

There is No Man Made Climate Emergency!!! The True Causes of Climate Change The following ...

silverotter11 comments on Feb 13, 2024:

Who cares at this point? The fact remains weather patterns are shifting and putting huge population and food production centers at risk. Better to find solutions to help those at risk and stop trying to distract with silly arguments over whether it's real, what it's called and who is to blame. ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 13, 2024:

@silverotter11 Well, details matter. If we don't acknowledge the root of the problem, how are we ever going to solve it? Happily, this numb-nuts denialist poster is part of a shrinking minority. Climate change is in everybody's face now; it's obvious and undeniable. And the message from science is abundantly clear: burning fossil fuels causes global warming. Good thing stodgy old farts are dying off; younger people are especially eager to head it off before it kills them. They don't have time to waste on boneheaded denialism.

For the American audience, regarding the ads during last nights Super Bowl.

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 13, 2024:

Thanks for letting us know. Many of us did not watch the game. But I did see a picture of Taylor Swift in what could be a stadium suite compared to a Vermeer painting. 🙂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 13, 2024:

@Switchcraft The very deep depths they will sink to.

Happy Darwin Day.

racocn8 comments on Feb 12, 2024:

I would like to know if a Biblical concept exists that is as far-reaching in its implications as evolution. Evolution is recognized by science to be accurate and correct. As such, it represents the true answer to the metaphysical question of where we come from. As evolution answers one of ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 13, 2024:

@racocn8 Yup, our whole planet is a speck of dust in the cosmos, and our lives but a momentary glow.

Andrew Jackson’s message to the Rothschild Central Bank: “When you won, you divided the ...

snytiger6 comments on Feb 12, 2024:

Nice to know he had some morality... even if ihe didn't ever apply it to persons of color.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 13, 2024:

The Trail of Tears was all Jackson.

Happy Darwin Day.

racocn8 comments on Feb 12, 2024:

I would like to know if a Biblical concept exists that is as far-reaching in its implications as evolution. Evolution is recognized by science to be accurate and correct. As such, it represents the true answer to the metaphysical question of where we come from. As evolution answers one of ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 13, 2024:

@Betty The idea of destroying all our scientific knowledge and starting over is scary. And once it's gone, there's no guarantee that it takes "only" a thousand years to get it back. Maybe it takes ten thousand years. We could literally bomb ourselves into the stone age.

February 11, 2024 Letters From An American

Druvius comments on Feb 12, 2024:

Unfortunately he didn't finish his work, and the great sickness that is white nationalism is still raging.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 13, 2024:

White nationalism AND Christian nationalism.

Another reason I remain with Agnostic.

Barnie2years comments on Feb 12, 2024:

I love that I have never been in Agnostic.com jail. Unlike Facebook, where on word, regardless of context, can get you a temporary suspension. And much of the conversation on here is far more interesting than what can be discussed on Facebook. And far less trolls.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 13, 2024:

@DenoPenno You don't need them homie.

Fatuous asshole, American lickspittle

Barnie2years comments on Feb 12, 2024:

What a waste of flesh. Can’t we ban him from coming back to the US?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 12, 2024:

Wouldn't that be nice? 😂

Fatuous asshole, American lickspittle

annewimsey500 comments on Feb 12, 2024:

Can i bash him on the head like they did to Curly all the time ? Can I, huh, can I???????

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 12, 2024:

You have my blessing! 😂

The deeper sin against the human mind ...

Mooolah comments on Feb 11, 2024:

Or to not believe things with evidence. One & the same perhaps. The current state of our politics. You are always spot on.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 12, 2024:

@snytiger6 I think that compilation of bad science can rightly be called propaganda or disinformation, because the people who are doing the compiling know that they are simply cherry picking studies to fit their own agenda or preconceived notions. But thank you for articulating that aspect of the problem so clearly and succinctly.

The deeper sin against the human mind ...

Mooolah comments on Feb 11, 2024:

Or to not believe things with evidence. One & the same perhaps. The current state of our politics. You are always spot on.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 11, 2024:

@Betty It could mean that, or it could mean it's disinformation, or propaganda, or unverified, or unverifiable...

The deeper sin against the human mind ...

Mooolah comments on Feb 11, 2024:

Or to not believe things with evidence. One & the same perhaps. The current state of our politics. You are always spot on.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 11, 2024:

@Betty Not at all, my dear! The quotation marks are there to signify that the so-called "evidence" is not really what it is purported to be. (I will add the words "so-called" above to make my meaning clearer.)

Greenland is losing so much ice it's getting taller | Live Science

annewimsey500 comments on Feb 11, 2024:

I wonder what our Resident Deny-er, @1patriot, will have to say about this...... Something smart and entertaining, no doubt..... ( sarcasm!!!!)

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 11, 2024:

@annewimsey500 He's like a cat trying to cover shit on a marble floor. It just ain't happening. 😂😂😂

The deeper sin against the human mind ...

Mooolah comments on Feb 11, 2024:

Or to not believe things with evidence. One & the same perhaps. The current state of our politics. You are always spot on.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 11, 2024:

At least be aware that there is so-called "evidence," and then there is EVIDENCE.

The deeper sin against the human mind ...

Julie808 comments on Feb 11, 2024:

Memes spread through social media are responsible for much of the disinformation that people believe freely without evidence, rarely actually fact checking before sharing it to other gullible folks. The meme becomes the evidence. I do remember something similar to this Aldous Huxley quote in ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 11, 2024:

In science, as in law, the evidence must be independently verifiable. So we can tell fact from fiction, but it may take time. Therefore, we must be willing to withhold judgement until all the facts are in, or at least be flexible enough to recognize when we have been duped, and make adjustments accordingly.

If you haven't figured out that we have a treasonous traitor in the white house you should by now.

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jul 17, 2018:

Yup, the picture comes into focus.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 11, 2024:

@annewimsey500 Well, we do have the biggest economy in the world; bigger than all the EU countries combined. And we did get there by burning more fossil fuels than anyone else (roughly.25% of all that was burned in the 20th century, and our population was only 5% of the world population). So we are more responsible for global warming and its consequences than any other nation. Maybe it's not a bad thing that we give back a little by lending a little stability to the world order. (We would be more effective at it if we didn't engage in blatantly stupid destabilizing actions like invading Iraq the second time, or ousting democratically-elected governments in Central and South America and Iran in order to install puppet regimes friendly to US fruit and fossil fuel corporations).

Global warming, climate change, all these things are just a dream come true for politicians.

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 10, 2024:

Uh, he wasn't awarded a million bucks because he fudged his data. No. He was awarded a million bucks because the guys who said he did were lying, and doing it with malicious intent. Congratulations! You're still batting a thousand! This post is pure bullshit! ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 11, 2024:

@annewimsey500 Oh I know my words have no effect on him. If this were not a public forum, I would not waste my time. I'm writing for the benefit of others who may stumble into his boggy disinformation swamp. 🙂

Climate Cultists at The Guardian: This Time, It’s Evil Propane From RealClearEnergy By Tilak ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 10, 2024:

🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩 What a load of bullsit! Fresh water is a renewable resource, because a reservoir can fill up quickly when the rains come. Lumber is a renewable resource, because trees can grow to maturity in a human lifetime or less. Fossil fuels are only ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 10, 2024:

@1patriot Piece of advice: when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

Climate Cultists at The Guardian: This Time, It’s Evil Propane From RealClearEnergy By Tilak ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 10, 2024:

🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩 What a load of bullsit! Fresh water is a renewable resource, because a reservoir can fill up quickly when the rains come. Lumber is a renewable resource, because trees can grow to maturity in a human lifetime or less. Fossil fuels are only ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 10, 2024:

@1patriot Not only are you full of shit, you're also a plagiarist. You stole this text from someone else, and you didn't cite the true author as the source. How do I know this? Because, though the content is deeply flawed, the punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar are perfect (in stark contrast to your own garbled scratching that (for you) passes for writing, and with which I have had the misfortune to become acquainted over several months).

Climate Cultists at The Guardian: This Time, It’s Evil Propane From RealClearEnergy By Tilak ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 10, 2024:

🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩 What a load of bullsit! Fresh water is a renewable resource, because a reservoir can fill up quickly when the rains come. Lumber is a renewable resource, because trees can grow to maturity in a human lifetime or less. Fossil fuels are only ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 10, 2024:

@1patriot Yes, methane from livestock dung is renewable. I never said it wasn't. And harvesting methane from dung is a good idea. Better to burn it, turn it into CO2; then it has a lower GWP (global warming potential). HOWEVER, the vast majority of methane is a product of mining. It comes out of the ground. It is a fossil fuel. Does it provide more BTUs relative to the CO2 produced when it burns than, say, coal or oil? Yes. But bringing that carbon up out of the ground upsets the balance in the carbon cycle. That carbon accumulated in the ground over hundreds of millions of years. You cannot return all of it, or even half of it, to the atmosphere in only a few hundred years without triggering catastrophic global warming. Such a thing is not unprecedented. The lead-up to the Permian extinction, when 95% of all species then alive on the planet went extinct, was characterized by a massive and relatively quick buildup of CO2 in the atmosphere. Some of this was from an extraordinary period of volcanic activity. Some was from the massive coal beds that were burned by the volcanic activity. A double whammy only outdone by our own mining, extraction, and burning of coal, oil, and natural gas.

Jury awards climate scientist Michael Mann $1 million in defamation lawsuit | AP News

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 9, 2024:

"A 2023 poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that 91% of Democrats believe climate change is happening, while only 52% of Republicans do." Now there's some chilling data about global warming!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 9, 2024:

@anglophone Kellyann is not just a harmless, ditsy blonde; she's a loudmouthed, sycophantic, and dangerously misinformed one. No wonder her husband George Conway divorced her.

Jury awards climate scientist Michael Mann $1 million in defamation lawsuit | AP News

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 9, 2024:

"A 2023 poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that 91% of Democrats believe climate change is happening, while only 52% of Republicans do." Now there's some chilling data about global warming!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 9, 2024:

@anglophone They have this thing called "alternative facts" 🙄

Missouri Breaks (no, not the movie starring Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando).

racocn8 comments on Feb 9, 2024:

Can women be trusted to preserve democracy? Can the government be trusted to run a fair election now that they've learned what they did wrong in 2020?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 9, 2024:

The government did a fine job with the 2020 election. Now some red states have made it harder to vote following the gutting of the Voting Rights Act. That's a problem, but it's not irreversible. As for democracy writ large, that is up to all of us, not just women.

YLE Public Health Emergencies Emergency rooms are not okay 02/08/2024

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 9, 2024:

There was an interesting piece on the PBS NewsHour the other night. In order to free up hospital beds, there is a growing trend of treating patients in their own homes. I'll see if I can find the link.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 9, 2024:

@HippieChick58 Yeah, I tried about 20 different search terms and came up with butkis. Sorry. But I'll try again if I think of anything.

Missouri Breaks (no, not the movie starring Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando).

Switchcraft comments on Feb 9, 2024:

Such a third world country

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 9, 2024:

We are beset with religion and racism.

This is exactly the kind of thing Samuel Johnson had in mind when, in 1775, he said, "Patriotism is...

yvilletom comments on Feb 9, 2024:

Who was that Samuel Johnson? Might patriotism be an earlier refuge?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 9, 2024:

@Fernapple Or this one: Horse: a dangerous and stupid animal.

This is exactly the kind of thing Samuel Johnson had in mind when, in 1775, he said, "Patriotism is...

Marionville comments on Feb 9, 2024:

As you have clarified below…Johnston was referring to William Pitt who he believed to be using false patriotism to further his own political ends. It’s not a quote about patriotism but those who use it falsely. The cartoon of Trump wrapping himself around the US flag and kissing it is a ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 9, 2024:

You understand perfectly. Thank you. 🙂

This is exactly the kind of thing Samuel Johnson had in mind when, in 1775, he said, "Patriotism is...

yvilletom comments on Feb 9, 2024:

Who was that Samuel Johnson? Might patriotism be an earlier refuge?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 9, 2024:

@yvilletom Johnson's comment was actually about a particular scoundrel, one William Pitt, 1st Earle of Chatham.

This is exactly the kind of thing Samuel Johnson had in mind when, in 1775, he said, "Patriotism is...

yvilletom comments on Feb 9, 2024:

Who was that Samuel Johnson? Might patriotism be an earlier refuge?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 9, 2024:

Dr. Johnson is probably most famous for having compiled one of the first dictionaries of the English language. Yeah, sure, I suppose patriotism could be used as a refuge before all other options have been exhausted. 🤣

yea many listen to the lie that fossil fuels would run out in the 1890's rockfeller had his ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 6, 2024:

🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩 What a load of bullshit! 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 8, 2024:

@1patriot 🚰🐴

Catholic elementary school kids were asked questions about the Old and New Testaments.

Julie808 comments on Feb 8, 2024:

Well I'm not sure these were actually written by children, but they are funny!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 8, 2024:

Exactly my thought.

yea many listen to the lie that fossil fuels would run out in the 1890's rockfeller had his ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 6, 2024:

🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩 What a load of bullshit! 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 7, 2024:

@1patriot The graph below shows how the oceans have become more acidic as they have absorbed CO2 from the atmosphere over the last 170 years. When CO2 is dissolved in water it undergoes the following reaction: CO2 + H2O → H2CO3 H2CO3 is carbonic acid. Notice how the acidification tracks the increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration. This is only possible if there is a net increase in ocean water CO2 concentration. The oceans are a CO2 sink.

yea many listen to the lie that fossil fuels would run out in the 1890's rockfeller had his ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 6, 2024:

🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩 What a load of bullshit! 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 7, 2024:

@1patriot The oceans are acting as a CO2 sink, NOT a source! 😂 Across my career I did see a number of students who were too lazy, complacent, or lacking in basic skills to take advantage of the education that was offered to them. (In most cases, the problem was laziness.) Its a sad sight indeed, and your poor spelling, broken sentence construction, sophomoric antics, lack of critical thinking, and eagerness to accept easy answers to complex questions reminds me of them very much. But I always acted on the assumption that every student can learn, and my door was always open to anyone who wanted help. It is in this spirit that I take time to carefully lay out the facts for you. I also know that you can lead a dehydrated horse to water, but you can't make him drink. So if you don't absorb the education that is offered to you,...oh well. Even if you never learn a thing, others will. 🙂

yea many listen to the lie that fossil fuels would run out in the 1890's rockfeller had his ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 6, 2024:

🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩 What a load of bullshit! 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 7, 2024:

@1patriot The "Hasselberger" chart is wrong. Human activity is currently producing 100 times more CO2 than the biggest natural source, which is volcanic activity.

yea many listen to the lie that fossil fuels would run out in the 1890's rockfeller had his ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 6, 2024:

🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩 What a load of bullshit! 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 7, 2024:

@1patriot 1patriot writes, "we were talking about oil and gas your on about climate change....." The meme you posted says "CO2 is fertilizer, not a pollutant," and "global warming mean life explosion, not extinction." First, you should at least know what you posted. Second, both of those meme statements are wildly off the mark. CO2 in the quantities we are emitting IS a pollutant. The extinction rate is WAY higher than ever in human history. I addressed these issues in my comments. If you can't handle feedback relating to your posts, maybe you shouldn't be posting. Don't worry, we won't miss you 😂

yea many listen to the lie that fossil fuels would run out in the 1890's rockfeller had his ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 6, 2024:

🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩 What a load of bullshit! 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 6, 2024:

@1patriot In 1822, Jean-Babtist Joseph Fourier calculated that Earth's atmosphere would be much colder than it is if the incoming radiation from the sun were the only warming effect. His idea that the Earth’s atmosphere acts like an insulator was the first formulation of what we now call the "greenhouse effect." Fourier, however, did not use that term. In 1856, Eunice Newton Foote, an amateur scientist and prominent suffragette, for the first time tested the heat-trapping abilities of different gases. In 1859, John Tyndall wrote, "...the atmosphere admits of the entrance of the solar heat; but checks its exit, and the result is a tendency to accumulate heat at the surface of the planet.” In 1896, Svante Arhenius was the first to use basic principles of physical chemistry to calculate estimates of the extent to which increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide will increase Earth's surface temperature through the greenhouse effect. These calculations led him to conclude that human-caused carbon dioxide emissions, from fossil-fuel burning and other combustion processes, are large enough to cause global warming. Around 1899, Nils Gustaf Ekholm wrote, "The atmosphere plays a very important part of a double character as to the temperature at the earth’s surface, of which the one was first pointed out by Fourier, the other by Tyndall. Firstly, the atmosphere may act like the glass of a green-house, letting through the light rays of the sun relatively easily, and absorbing a great part of the dark rays emitted from the ground, and it thereby may raise the mean temperature of the earth’s surface. Secondly, the atmosphere acts as a heat store placed between the relatively warm ground and the cold space, and thereby lessens in a high degree the annual, diurnal, and local variations of the temperature.” In 1958, while working under the direction of Roger Revelle at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Charles Keeling began monitoring atmospheric carbon dioxide levels from a station on Mauna Loa, in Hawaii. Keeling's data, when plotted on a graph, showed not only the annual fluctuation of carbon dioxide due to seasonal changes in photosynthesis, but also continuous year-to-year increases in overall CO2 concentration that roughly matched the human emissions from burning fossil fuels. This graph, which came to be known as the "Keeling curve," shows that atmospheric CO2 is not only increasing, but that the increase has been accelerating. While Keeling collected his data, other scientists around the world were measuring atmospheric and ocean temperatures. Eventually it became clear that temperatures are rising at a rate consistent with an increased greenhouse effect due to the burning of fossil fuels. Thus Svante Arhenius' hypothesis of ...

yea many listen to the lie that fossil fuels would run out in the 1890's rockfeller had his ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 6, 2024:

🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩 What a load of bullshit! 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 6, 2024:

@1patriot The increase in average global temperature cannot be explained by a change in solar activity. The sun is not putting out more heat. The atmosphere is just getting better at holding on to heat.

yea many listen to the lie that fossil fuels would run out in the 1890's rockfeller had his ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 6, 2024:

🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩 What a load of bullshit! 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 6, 2024:

@1patriot The increase in fossil fuel burning tracks the increase in human population size.

yea many listen to the lie that fossil fuels would run out in the 1890's rockfeller had his ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 6, 2024:

🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩 What a load of bullshit! 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 6, 2024:

@1patriot The increase in Global CO2 emissions tracks the increase in fossil fuel burning.

yea many listen to the lie that fossil fuels would run out in the 1890's rockfeller had his ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 6, 2024:

🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩 What a load of bullshit! 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 6, 2024:

@1patriot Notice how the temperature anomaly tracks the increase in CO2 concentration.

yea many listen to the lie that fossil fuels would run out in the 1890's rockfeller had his ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Feb 6, 2024:

🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩🐂💩 What a load of bullshit! 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 6, 2024:

@1patriot The current atmospheric CO2 concentration is 419.81 ppm. (Increased 11 ppm in only 5 years.) The CO2 concentration is now more than 100 ppm above the highest CO2 levels that occurred in the last 800,000 years. It started going beyond all historic levels during the Industrial Revolution.

Because Trumpty Dumpty wants to have the border as an issue to run on, Speaker Mike Johnson says he ...

HippieChick58 comments on Feb 6, 2024:

We have to stop sending money to Israel. And we have to stop with the border crisis crap, there is no border crisis. That is a figment of Re'puke'lican imagination.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 6, 2024:

Uh, the immigration system is definitely broken. Admittedly, this bill does not address the root of the problem. You have to remove the motivation to migrate, or they will keep coming. Most asylum seekers are fleeing violent drug gangs. The gangs get their power from high prices paid for a product that has practically no intrinsic value. The drugs are only expensive because they are illegal. End the war on drugs and cut off the money supply empowering the drug gangs. Break the drug gang plague and people will not need to leave their homes. But if we are not willing to decriminalize drugs and shift our focus to reduction of harm, then we are left with securing (militarizing) the border as our only option.

"Did you hear my covert narcissism I disguise as altruism Like some kind of congressman?

HippieChick58 comments on Feb 3, 2024:

I am so thrilled she has so many people all riled up just by being GOOD at what she does and a truly GOOD person. It is showing how warped those people truly are.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 3, 2024:

Amazing how the right wing nuts will build a conspiracy theory out out of anything, and believe it! 😐

“I don’t fucking care that they have weapons! They’re not here to hurt me! They’re not here ...

MyTVC15 comments on Feb 1, 2024:

If only they would try him for it.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 2, 2024:

@MyTVC15 If it's true, then somebody should remind him that justice delayed is justice denied.

“I don’t fucking care that they have weapons! They’re not here to hurt me! They’re not here ...

MyTVC15 comments on Feb 1, 2024:

If only they would try him for it.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 2, 2024:

@MyTVC15 Hopefully the appeals court will soon (like Monday next week) issue its ruling that Trump doesn't have immunity, and the SCOTUS will decide not to take the case. Best case scenario. Stay tuned.

“I don’t fucking care that they have weapons! They’re not here to hurt me! They’re not here ...

racocn8 comments on Feb 1, 2024:

The media has quietly censored any mention of weapons recovered in the Capitol. This censorship enables the GOP to claim the insurrectionists were tourists. Absolutely no mention has happened to the traitors who were intercepted with their weapons, much less what sort of rifles they were, whether ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 2, 2024:

I remember photos or video of police standing over supine individuals, but I don't remember seeing any long guns. Not saying there weren't any. I did read that Secret Service communications reflected that they were seeing guns in the crowd outside of the Ellipse.

“Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.

Barnie2years comments on Jan 31, 2024:

Why this man is not in jail just gives me little faith in our justice system. It has been broke a longtime, but this is beyond even that.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 1, 2024:

@kmaz I would have liked to see the ball get rolling sooner too.

“I don’t fucking care that they have weapons! They’re not here to hurt me! They’re not here ...

MyTVC15 comments on Feb 1, 2024:

If only they would try him for it.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 1, 2024:

The DC trial is scheduled for this March. Trump is pulling out all the stops to delay it. He is having only nominal success. March is still doable. Stay tuned.

“I don’t fucking care that they have weapons! They’re not here to hurt me! They’re not here ...

noworry28 comments on Feb 1, 2024:

He will be the end of the United States 🇺🇸

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 1, 2024:

More likely, the United States will be the end of him. 😂

“I don’t fucking care that they have weapons! They’re not here to hurt me! They’re not here ...

HippieChick58 comments on Feb 1, 2024:

He knew what was going on.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 1, 2024:

Yeah, he did. He engineered the whole thing.

“Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.

Barnie2years comments on Jan 31, 2024:

Why this man is not in jail just gives me little faith in our justice system. It has been broke a longtime, but this is beyond even that.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 1, 2024:

@Barnie2years I'm only going by what I see happening. The justice system has got him by the balls, and is not letting go. There was a 5 million dollar judgement against him, then an $83 million judgement, and any day there will be one for probably $370 million. He's already had to pay over $50 million in legal fees. There are 11 congressmen and 3 Capitol police officers suing him for trauma and injuries inflicted on January 6. Each one of those could run into the tens or hundreds of millions. His legal costs are greatly exceeding his political fund raising. He will have to start selling off assets. And he will likely be locked out of his business. The Trump Organization is already in receivership. And there's a fraud suit coming over a ponzi scheme that Trump helped promote in New York. That's just the civil cases. The criminal cases are even higher stakes. The SCOTUS is hearing argument over presidential immunity next wee likely to rule soon after that he doesn't have it. And the DC J6 case will still be on track to go to trial in March or April, soon enough for there to he a verdict before the November election. He's likely to be found guilty there. That would sink his campaign. The slowness of this whole process may be a good thing. It gives time for the country to digest the news.

How to (and not to) boost your immune system YLE 01/25/2024

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jan 31, 2024:

Just as I suspected: given good nutrition, plenty of sleep, plenty of water, exercise, and the body's immune system will do its thing. It makes sense. We did not evolve in a world where there were nutritional supplements, antivirals, or quack remedies.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Feb 1, 2024:

@Zealandia I don't have any info right now either, but I expect there will be some guidance sooner or later.

If you remove the mystical beings from religious text, what are your thoughts on religious books?

Drank_Spear comments on Jan 31, 2024:

if you take mysticism out of the bible you are left with a book of social rules and constraints. Nothing more.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 31, 2024:

@Betty That prejudice, racism, hate, and violence? That's allowed under the religious social rules, according to many disciples. It all depends on your interpretation of scripture.

“Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.

Barnie2years comments on Jan 31, 2024:

Why this man is not in jail just gives me little faith in our justice system. It has been broke a longtime, but this is beyond even that.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 31, 2024:

The wheels of justice turn slowly. The American system has never had to prosecute a former president before. It should be no surprise that it is moving forward cautiously, with all due deliberation. Remember, if you take a shot at the dictator, you better damn well kill him. That being said, I think this takedown is going to be one comprised of a thousand cuts.

How to (and not to) boost your immune system YLE 01/25/2024

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jan 31, 2024:

Just as I suspected: given good nutrition, plenty of sleep, plenty of water, exercise, and the body's immune system will do its thing. It makes sense. We did not evolve in a world where there were nutritional supplements, antivirals, or quack remedies.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 31, 2024:

@Scott321 I was not casting aspersions on vaccines or antivirals. I personally have had 5 covid shots, three shingles shots, countless tetanus shots, flu shots, DTAP shots, and at least one each of the polio and smallpox shots. And if I ever get covid or HIV I am open to taking an antiviral for that. That being said, my point about us having evolved in the absence of vaccines, antivirals, and vitamin and nutritional supplements stands. Our immune systems have evolved over hundreds of millions of years. Individuals with weaker immune systems tended to be eliminated from the population before they could reproduce. The environment is a crucible in which the immunologically strong survive and pass on their genes. Each of us walking around today is descended from an unbroken chain of survivors going back billions of years. Think about it.

"We don't have any evidence, but we have lots of theories.

DenoPenno comments on Jan 31, 2024:

Rudy should know by now that his claims are a part of the big lie.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 31, 2024:

@Shaggy2018 Well that's all over now. Time to pay the fiddler. 😂😂😂

"We don't have any evidence, but we have lots of theories.

DenoPenno comments on Jan 31, 2024:

Rudy should know by now that his claims are a part of the big lie.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 31, 2024:

I think he always knew.

Oklahoma GOP lawmaker wants to ban single people from sexting each other -- Friendly Atheist

bookofmorons comments on Jan 31, 2024:

Off-shoring law enforcement seems to be standard GOP strategy now. Instead of the state prosecuting you, any private citizen can (with the blessing of the state of course) pursue you for money and imposition of personal beliefs. expect more in the coming years

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 31, 2024:

At least that's the way it is with abortion in Texas. 😑

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether or not Donald J.

Switchcraft comments on Jan 30, 2024:

This SCOTUS has the assignment to enable tramp. We are screwed.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 30, 2024:

I place the odds that they rule in Cheato's favor at 50-50.

Baptist leader speaks out: 'Christian nationalism is not Christianity' - YouTube

Betty comments on Jan 30, 2024:

Christian Nationalists are a political dictatorship.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 30, 2024:

@Betty I'm not saying it will be easy, but this country has been through worse and come out better.

Baptist leader speaks out: 'Christian nationalism is not Christianity' - YouTube

bookofmorons comments on Jan 30, 2024:

seems Christianity is always what you want it to be

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 30, 2024:

@Communistbitch She's right. Christian nationalists do make it up as they go along. How else could they justify toting AR-15s, or vilifying immigrants and LGBTQ people, or banning abortions, or trampling the US Constitution? Jesus did not stand for any of those things. Quite the opposite.

Baptist leader speaks out: 'Christian nationalism is not Christianity' - YouTube

anglophone comments on Jan 30, 2024:

"The Church is supposed to direct the Government": the words of an outrageous liar and bully!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 30, 2024:

In a recent straw poll in her new congressional district, where she faces re-election, LB came in 5th. Hopefully we will soon be rid of her. 😉

Baptist leader speaks out: 'Christian nationalism is not Christianity' - YouTube

Betty comments on Jan 30, 2024:

Christian Nationalists are a political dictatorship.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 30, 2024:

Would-be dictators. Let's not cede them any ground they have not yet won.

This is not the end.

Paganpaddy comments on Jan 29, 2024:

I hope he is forced to pay every dime.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 29, 2024:

I think he will be, eventually. He will appeal, but those appeals will fail.

Letters From An American 01/27/2024

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jan 28, 2024:

Lincoln must be spinning in his grave to see what the party he founded has turned into: a lawless, authoritarian cult of personality that spits on the Constitution and embraces ridiculous conspiracy theories. So sad!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 29, 2024:

@Detritus Yes, by a bunch of scruffy cowards who violate their oath and put party over country.

If we really want to solve the problem of illegal immigration into the United States, end the War on...

annewimsey1 comments on Jan 27, 2024:

Nobody in their right mind wants to leave family, friends and home for a Very uncertain "adventure" unless they are desperate for something else in their life besides violence and chaos.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 29, 2024:

@Tejas We have overcome many other silly taboos in the past.

If we really want to solve the problem of illegal immigration into the United States, end the War on...

annewimsey1 comments on Jan 27, 2024:

Nobody in their right mind wants to leave family, friends and home for a Very uncertain "adventure" unless they are desperate for something else in their life besides violence and chaos.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 29, 2024:

@Tejas Desperate people are going to keep on coming as long as our failed war on drugs keeps empowering the criminal gangs that are making life impossible for them in their own countries. The particulars of their entry to this country are irrelevant. They will keep coming.

Trump/Netanyahu Commonalities Authoritarian.

FrayedBear comments on Jan 27, 2024:

No different to Joe Biden then!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 29, 2024:

@FrayedBear BTW, the bombed out maternity hospital is in Mariupol. And the bombed out apartment buildings are in Bakhmut. Asshole.

If we really want to solve the problem of illegal immigration into the United States, end the War on...

Switchcraft comments on Jan 27, 2024:

Hmmmmmmm, maybe, but then laws written by white men to incarcerate black men would no longer be as effective. The war on drugs started right after the passage of the civil rights act.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 28, 2024:

@LenHazell53 Yup, and that's why Trump is telling his GOP minions to vote "no" on any bill that would even begin to solve the immigration problem.

Trump/Netanyahu Commonalities Authoritarian.

FrayedBear comments on Jan 27, 2024:

No different to Joe Biden then!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 28, 2024:

@FrayedBear Same old fascist kleptocrat agitprop from the frayed Russian bear. I hate to break it to you bro, but you're boring me to death. 🥱

Trump/Netanyahu Commonalities Authoritarian.

FrayedBear comments on Jan 27, 2024:

No different to Joe Biden then!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 28, 2024:

@FrayedBear That's exactly what Stalin said when he starved millions of Ukrainians: They did it to themselves." 🙄

Manhattan jury finds Trump must pay E.

HippieChick58 comments on Jan 27, 2024:

I hope it hurts him deeply to pay her money. And I hope she gets the money soon.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 28, 2024:

@Zealandia What passes for knowledge these days is...pathetic.

Manhattan jury finds Trump must pay E.

HippieChick58 comments on Jan 27, 2024:

I hope it hurts him deeply to pay her money. And I hope she gets the money soon.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 28, 2024:

@Zealandia His projection is getting worse as his dementia advances. 😵‍💫

Trump/Netanyahu Commonalities Authoritarian.

FrayedBear comments on Jan 27, 2024:

No different to Joe Biden then!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 28, 2024:

@FrayedBear So you're ok with blowing up random bus, train, and plane passengers. Well, no surprise. You have long supported Putin's missile attacks on people in apartment buildings, hospitals, and schools. 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 Pictured below: a maternity hospital and apartment buildings in Ukraine after Russian missile attacks.

Manhattan jury finds Trump must pay E.

HippieChick58 comments on Jan 27, 2024:

I hope it hurts him deeply to pay her money. And I hope she gets the money soon.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 27, 2024:

@HippieChick58 That would probably be overkill for this case, but a bigger, future one, who knows? 😂

Manhattan jury finds Trump must pay E.

HippieChick58 comments on Jan 27, 2024:

I hope it hurts him deeply to pay her money. And I hope she gets the money soon.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 27, 2024:

Another option is putting up a bond, with some kind of asset as collateral.

Trump/Netanyahu Commonalities Authoritarian.

FrayedBear comments on Jan 27, 2024:

No different to Joe Biden then!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 27, 2024:

@FrayedBear Pretty stupid to go up against "the 4th biggest \ most powerful military in the world" with only fireworks, right? 😂 I think you may have missed my point. Regardless of who has the right to be on the land, using terror tactics, e.g. bombing buses and trains, knifing passerby on the street, shooting journalists for publishing cartoons of the "prophet" Mohammed, bombing civilian aircraft, etc., etc., is out of bounds, inexcusable, totally unjustified. These are the tactics of Islamists, and for that reason I will always struggle to find sympathy for them. And I do try to feel that sympathy. But their behavior is so atrocious, it's hard not to just write them off entirely. Am I impressed by their will and determination? Yes. Do I think they have a point that can be litigated? Yes. Do I support the terrorist tactics they have adopted in lieu of legal litigation in courts of law? No! In all the on-the-ground interviews with the residents of Gaza, I have not seen/heard one single person condemn Hamas for getting them into this mess. They only point the finger at Israel (and sometimes the USA). If someone was using me as a human shield, I would be pretty pissed. But Hamas gets a pass from every Palestinian.

What's your morning motivational music?

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jan 25, 2024:

I had never heard of Propagandhi but they sound like a fun band. You probably figured out that I'm a deadhead. Yeah, punk is not my favorite genre, but I'm still a huge fan of The Clash.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 27, 2024:

@8theist Good to meet you. Glad there are still some of us weirdos around. 😂🤝 "Strangers stopping strangers Just to shake their hand Everybody's playing In the heart of gold band Heart of gold band"

What's your morning motivational music?

Flyingsaucesir comments on Jan 25, 2024:

I had never heard of Propagandhi but they sound like a fun band. You probably figured out that I'm a deadhead. Yeah, punk is not my favorite genre, but I'm still a huge fan of The Clash.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Jan 27, 2024:

@8theist If it's possible to identify one concert as the "best I ever saw/heard," it would have to be the Jerry Garcia Band at the Wiltern Theater, in L.A., sometime in the mid 80s. I may even still have the ticket stub somewhere. The whole building was literally rocking. Quite a memorable musical experience. 😍