Alabama House May Overturn 28-Year Ban on Yoga in Public Schools: Alabama’s House of ...

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 14, 2021:

I fled Alabama in 1990 as a refuge and settled in America. I didn't even know about this, but I say "Namaste" all the time, but to be honest my favorite Yoga has fruit on the bottom.

Does everyone have on their time travel suits and are ready to brace for the time quake tonight?

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 13, 2021:

I remain un-upholstered.

As a third grade teacher Shel Silverstein was my favorite poet.

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 13, 2021:

I couldn't tell you how many times I was beat for day dreaming, when I was really just disassociating with life because of the previous beatings... But I remember in Carl Sagan's book "Cosmos" a fragment of the "Four Quartets" by T.S. Eliot that I still remember. We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. I clung to it because it means that I'll someday look back on my life and it'll make sense. In a sense it has, but it wasn't as comforting as I had hoped.

The snow has finally melted from my garden beds, though the soil is still frozen in places.

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 13, 2021:

I hope you put that manure in a pile for a few weeks before putting it on your garden. Manure needs to go through a heat, or it'll kill your garden plants. In high school we'd build mounds of manure eight to ten feet tall, if we went much higher they tended to catch fire because of the chemical heat they go through. I kept three such piles, one fresh, one aging, and one that was ready for lawns and gardens. I kept 15 acres of lawn and garden green like that for years as a high school kid.

Elin Hedstrom - Sculpted

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 13, 2021:

Don't make fun of her big ass like this.

TV remotes & charging cables.

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 13, 2021:

I'd take all the ceiling light fixtures on the East coast and put them in the houses that don't have ceiling light fixtures on the West coast. That should confuse everyone.

Good on both sides???

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 13, 2021:

These weirdo religious people believe in fantasy enemies, like the Devil and demons and God and antifa, and it's all imaginary made up bull shit.

Oh, so it's serious, then...

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 13, 2021:

Timing jokes are always delicious to our species, LIKE: Doctor: So what's your problem? Old Man: I have a BM every morning at 4:30am. Doctor: That just means you're regular. Old Man: But I don't get up until 7:00am Doctor!

Rules are rules...

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 13, 2021:

About as lame as every relationship I've ever had in my entire life. Every situation has a lame excuse behind it, or worse they attempt to explain how it's your fault they can't stand you. But it's like snoring, we all have a nature, and we can't control it for the most part. I seem to have an almost Scarlet Witch level "Piss people the fuck off" mutant ability lately. The conservatives that pretended to be centrist at work are starting to expose themselves. Apparently the fact that I exist is wrong. That sort of thing stopped hurting a long time ago when my parents started the trend in the 60's & 70's.

The Congressional Democrats and President Biden and Team deserve kudos on this achievement.

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 10, 2021:

When exactly will President Biden sign this? Funny, I haven't used that title with any name in years.

Wow ! He literally died to own the libs.

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 10, 2021:

To bad more of them weren’t just like him.

Please welcome @sarahclif to the group.

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 9, 2021:

Welcome sarahclif, and thank you Marionville for the bio suggestion. I took one before posting and found it to be much less stressful.

Stop asking why women hate men, and start asking why men hate women. [vm.tiktok.com]

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 9, 2021:

It’s not hate, it’s about trust. Otherwise good people can be monsters when they’re attracted to another person. They have a fantasy and feel entitled and motivated to take higher than normal risk. Then you have so many silent angry fed up men. Women haters and incels. Being trans and insecure and humble, I have been shocked at how persistent and obsessed certain men become when you fulfill their weird fetish. As an asexual I’m disgusted. Yes, it’s about respect and always will be.

Your life is not a joke.

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 9, 2021:

Life has meaning because it’s merciless. If you’re too pretty you’re a threat, too clever, too fit, too old, too young, too fat, too thin, or perhaps your eyes are too close together or too far apart? Just an endless list of excuses to abandon someone because they trigger your insecurities.

Okay, here's something for everyone.

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 7, 2021:

No, they wouldn't understand anyway.

Hello! Hello! guys☺ I got a question ☺ - What's the sweetest thing you've ever done for a ...

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 6, 2021:

I signed over my portion of our house to my wife in an insane act of generosity during our divorce. I thought she might see how much I cared, it didn't work.

Me too, vending machine.

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 5, 2021:

When the light goes out but you keep going like a science fiction automation. I know exactly what that is.

Austria decriminalised assisted dying last December 😊 [humanism.org.uk]

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 5, 2021:

I completely sympathize with people that are just sick and tired and just want the commercial to end. Our kindness is cruel, we treat our pets better.

In case you stay up at night wondering what Swiss-American Food is like..

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 4, 2021:

I try to avoid ethnic food in foreign countries where that food didn’t come from especially after ordering Mexican food in Quebec. The concept escaped the chef.

Vox The boxing film that was banned around the world [youtube.com]

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 4, 2021:

I can't watch, why is this 1) a sport, and 2) still allowed? I don't understand why people play or watch American football either, I'd rather have a kidney removed than to see this crap.

Mind your business Carol

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 4, 2021:

I get the booze and candy, what's the cucumber for?

So damn pathetic.

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 4, 2021:

WTF? I am trans and this decree makes zero sense.

Texas Republican Files Bill to Inject Bible Readings in Public Schools | Hemant Mehta | Friendly ...

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 3, 2021:

Not a chance I’ll ever let anyone (especially a damn Texan) force me to read the dumbest book in history. Fuck the Bible. Seriously!

Joe Namath Should Run For Governor of New York State 2022

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 2, 2021:

Really? We haven’t had enough entertainers in government yet? After Reagan, Trump, Schwarzenegger, Bono, and Al Franken. And those are just off the top of my head. Then almost government places like the NRA and their one time CEO Charlton Heston. You’ll vote as you like. I don’t vote for celebrities, not even the few I like.

Is that a stimulus in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 2, 2021:

Contrast these comments about Biden’s “package”against comments about Trumps “package” Especially Stormy thought.

Some things never change.

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 2, 2021:

There are a few descriptions attributed to the ant-Christ that exist in the Bible. Perhaps if we read them we’ll see why Christians are so enchanted by Trump. Let’s see Daniel 11:36 - “The king will do as he pleases. He will exalt and magnify himself above every god and will say unheard-of things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been determined must take place Daniel 11:37 - He will show no regard for the gods of his ancestors or for the one desired by women, nor will he regard any god, but will exalt himself above them all. Dan 11:38 - Instead of them, he will honor a god of fortresses; a god unknown to his ancestors he will honor with gold and silver, with precious stones and costly gifts Dan 11:39 - He will attack the mightiest fortresses with the help of a foreign god and will greatly honor those who acknowledge him. He will make them rulers over many people and will distribute the land at a price So who does that sound like to you? Perhaps Christians are acting stupid about all this on purpose to make it seem like this verse came true. 2Th 2:11 - For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie Religion makes people believe stupid crap.

I need to chill like my cat, Mellow.

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 2, 2021:

One hell of a cat there :) I approve. Not that it matters. I do like Mellow.

How about a happy house

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 2, 2021:

That's not happy, that's stoned AF.

Hello! Hello! How is it going guys?

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 2, 2021:

Somewhere we can be alone...

How Many People Did God Kill in the Bible? [youtube.com]

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 2, 2021:

All of them, according to the stories you don't live or die if it's not what God wants, and all Bible characters are dead, so God killed every single one of them.

Lighter is no long brighter but its still light.

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 2, 2021:

Oh WOW man...

Nothing worse in this world than being Tuna Shamed....tisk tisk. TunaSammiesUnite

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 2, 2021:

Well if you’re unashamed then why isn’t the cross on fire, that’s who you’re ashamed you support, the people that burn your cross symbolically. Taking the symbol that you tell us represents divine love and turning it into a terrorist orgy of hate. It must be easier having one symbol for both, but I wouldn’t know, I require neither. I don’t experience love or hate these days. Sure you can piss me off, but my rage decays to sadness then exhaustion. Then I have to let it go or be stuck. If I were a ship I’d have a thousand anchors. I keep a trauma garden in my memories because nothing of relevance will ever be forgotten. I do have a religious question though, why is it that every time I have to deal with road rage behavior it’s always from church vans full of people. Like they’ll cut me off, or worse. If anyone’s going to flip the bird, or drive threateningly it’s always been church vans for like the last twenty years. So that’s my question what verses in the Bible justify the behavior of your van drivers?

Dr Becky New evidence AGAINST dark matter?! [youtube.com]

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 1, 2021:

That sort of explains a great deal. I’m convinced the final part comes from universal expansion itself, since it pushes or carries all the galaxies apart it also presses in on galaxies forming an extra gravity effect. It’s the cosmic beach at the edge of the galaxy and it’s being pounded by the incoming space time pressure wave. In a sense giving each galaxy a standing gravitational wave bubble.

Evangelical Leaders Raise Alarms About Christian Nationalism In Their Ranks : NPR

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 1, 2021:

Lets hope the cult inmates can bring the cult to order. As of right now I have my doubts that the Churches can reign in their mental health cases. All I can say to Evangelical leaders is try harder or someone else will have to do it and none of us really want that, unless we're given no choice.

"Oh, Man .

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 1, 2021:

Was Alexandre an actual Dumass?

Fact checking Trump's CPAC speech - CNNPolitics

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 1, 2021:

Why is anyone, shocked, he'll never talk about anything else, even if he gets his way. His stable genius mind got vapor locked on the 2020 election. Republicans are all such die hard snowflake victims, they make me sick.

Adam Savage, Jamie Hyneman, and Bill Nye at the White House in 2010

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 1, 2021:

That administration did attempt to appear scientifical n stuff until the scientist wouldn't change their story to accommodate the unfounded opinions of the stable genius. I doubt to this day he realizes what an ass he made of himself during hurricane season, wanting to drop a nuke on one and threatening Alabama with his little sharpie on the hurricane course probability map from NOAA on another. This photo is like the three little pigs visiting the wolf, but in this rendition the pigs are science populist and the wolf is a razorback hog(with a little mushroom dick and tiny fingers to make wishes on it, just like Aladdin and the lamp.)

A long list

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 1, 2021:

Satanic Nuns.

Modern Christians on Jesus...

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 1, 2021:

Yes, we all know where their faith is. If they believed what they claim to believe they would need no weapons. So obviously they believe in nothing.

My doggo is almost as happy to see my neighbor as he is to see me.

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 1, 2021:

Isn't that why people have dogs, to meet people that love dogs? Yet another reason I own no pets, preferring to befriend wild crows.

One doughnut to rule them all!

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 1, 2021:

Isn't the inscription supposed to be on the inner ring? I mean you need a much bigger donut. For the writing of course, but on a selfish note sharing's another notion with such a big donut.

“Once you're enthralled to your ego in a relentless pursuit of world domination and shoving your ...

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 1, 2021:

It's a form of insanity, related to Dunning-Kruger effect and narcissistic personality disorder. It makes the incompetent think they're the worlds greatest experts on subjects they're completely ignorant of. Even a little bit of honest humanitarianism is enough to prevent it. When I had time, I did over 10,000 hours of voluntary public service. I suppose I could have spent that time plotting my revenge against people that hurt my feelings, but I prefer to let it go and continue my vain attempt to live well instead. Besides, all the people that hurt me have been hurt themselves, and they live meager compromised lives. My life is meager, but remains uncompromised. I did give up a lot of naivety for a lot of jade, I need to practice acting less jaded.

Looking forward to this day.

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 28, 2021:

I had a dream, I died, I went to hell. Satan said, "You're cursed to burn in eternal hell fire because of your life of mediocrity!" I replied, "At least I'm not an immortal being living in my daddy's basement." Satan, "Fuck you! I don't have to listed to this!" and he ran out of the room crying. So I left, and woke up at the same moment. It was fun.

So over the last couple of months I've been making a foray into the online dating scene.

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 28, 2021:

That's why I have a profile, where it clearly states that I'm here for community only. I couldn't bring myself to scam if my life depended on it.

SPEAKING AT CPAC: Stephen Miller Stephen Miller is the guy who masterminded ripping babies from...

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 28, 2021:

Miller is the Jewish equivalent to an old racist term "Uncle Tom" and he uses his Jewish heritage to leverage arguments that he can't be racist when he's 99% racist by volume. White racism at that, whatever he is, Jewish is way the F down his list of properties and attributes.

“We’re all born princes, and the civilizing process turns us into frogs.” Eric Berne

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 28, 2021:

I don't know, it seems some start out as frogs. Moscow Mitch started as a turtle.

Changing view...

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 28, 2021:

I watched a documentary on marijuana, I liked it so much, I watch everything that way now.

Concise and to the point

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 28, 2021:

I don't care WTF he is, keep him out of all forms of US Government.

Black Widow

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 28, 2021:

She doesn't look black to me.

Real tough bikers....

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 27, 2021:

Powerpuff Girls for pets. The closer one is Bubbles, the other is Buttercup. Blossom couldn't make it, Blossom's a bitch.

February 27, 425 Theodosius II effectively founds a university, the Pandidakterion ...

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 27, 2021:

Wow, I would have loved to visit Constantinople, I hear the nople was constant.

I think my relationship with my religious neighbor may be coming to an end.

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 27, 2021:

At work one of my coworkers came out as a Mormon he also gleefully started selling his religious pitch. I replied, “The worst boss I ever had was a Mormon elder, pushing his mythology and hiring like six of his eighteen kids. Drove the company right into bankruptcy. When I heard he had 18 kids I asked him when he was going to have that little talk with his wife. What talk? The talk where you explain to her that it’s a vagina not a clown car.” Needless to say, he doesn’t talk with me much now. It’s the little things. :hearts:

I can’t remember ever being told I’m a bad listener.

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 27, 2021:

I can. Part of my naive youth was believing some weird shit and my enthusiasm had no bounds. I showed my ass so many times blabbing about stuff that no one knew anything about or worse a bit of every kind of ignorance about racial issues and homophobia. I’ve been a misogynist and an entitled asshole. It’s my story and it all about me it seems. Unfortunately it won’t turn out well, but I at least achieved a level of awareness that makes me a better person from all those awkward moments. I think the worst is when you’re convinced you’re doing the right thing and you hurt everyone you know. Thank goodness that’s over thirty years ago. Seek humility or be humiliated.

Some Catholics Are Eating Plant-Based Burgers to Avoid Eating “Meat” on Fridays | Hemant Mehta |...

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 27, 2021:

That wouldn’t be the weirdest thing I’ve heard about Catholics this month.

The Taliban takes many forms

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 27, 2021:

It's telling that she actually has more weapons then her fellow terrorist.

Dust From Asteroid That Ended Dinosaur Reign Closes Case on Impact Extinction Theory

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 27, 2021:

We've know about the iridium layer for an extremely long time now, by way of human history. 1980 was a damed long time ago, at least according to my reflection in the mirror.

Woman Explains the Difference Between How Men and Women View Friendship After Seeing a Humorous ...

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 26, 2021:

And you'll do it too, hoping for an opening.

Here is a new photograph from the NASA Perseverance rover.

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 26, 2021:

I think you'd find the lighting dim. If you look straight up at any time you can see stars, be careful not to look in the little sun, but stars would be visible at 45 degrees up from the horizon at noon. The wind isn't terribly forceful. If we had 90 times our atmospheric pressure, like Venus, a 10 mph wind is an unstoppable force. On Mars the winds go fast, and make dust devils, but you wouldn't notice it until you realized your space suit was being sandblasted and becoming dangerously threadbare. Have fun in Cleveland. I'll stay in California.

I have noticed that from time to time, a debate will ensue on line here, about whether Jesus was a ...

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 26, 2021:

I find it easier to simply let mythology be mythology. It all belongs in the fiction section of the library.

A simplistic explanation of the way things are!

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 26, 2021:

The government is ordinary folk. Sadly we vote for people we like, not for people that are competent. Should we destroy the government, so there's no policy or paper directives, we would still have a government, it would just be a mob of stupid people, not unlike the last administration, but it would still be a government none the less. Every people deserve the government they have since they ARE that government. So if someone runs for office loudly claiming that government is the problem, don't vote for them, they have no intention of helping. The need is for fair, just government, otherwise it's back to the stone age for the nation stupid enough to accept populist anti-government sentiments. If you want better government, join in and make it better. If you're convinced government is the problem, go hang out with conservatives where you can be safely ignored otherwise STFU or get off your ass and make it better, like BLM has been doing.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews protesting against Eurovision: [youtube.com]

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 26, 2021:

Then the unorthodox Jews found out about it.

The good old days yeah

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 25, 2021:

We had no sidewalks, so skating and stuff was out....

[sciencealert.com] Pfizer vaccine can now be stored at normal freezer temps!

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 25, 2021:

I like the report that Johnson & Johnson vaccine can be stored in normal freezer temps, is a single dose and cheaper than the others while just as effective. I'm getting over my Johnson & Johnson unease, it just always seemed like too many Johnson's to me.

The Fart Jars of 17th Century Europe | Mental Floss

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 25, 2021:

Science has come much further, but there's so many that think like this or worse that claim to have "a good brain" Why would any rational person fall for it? Yet there are millions that are willing to kill for a fantasy dreamed up by a con man of low IQ with maximum arrogance.

Just so you know my priorities

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 25, 2021:

Why would anyone do that? If I was with someone and they knocked all the food off the table I'm already gone. WASTE NOT Even as an atheist I live by these two words.

For some, it is both

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 25, 2021:

I'm aware of so much more music than I can listen to. Honestly there's old music from the late fifties that's still amazing. That's just accidental accumulated information, from the first time I heard a song I actually liked. "In the Jungle the lion sleeps tonight" I was like four or five. I can still recite the poem from the "Diamond Dogs" album. I know every Jethro Tull song and which album it was on. I remember that awkward age living in a hyper religious family when I turned to mysticism thinking maybe they had it right, and there was Kansas asking the same questions with no answers. There's no telling what will come out of my iPhone when mixed. This evenings drive from work had "Bad Company" followed by "The Diva Dance" from The Fifth Element followed by Donovan's Atlantis.

Photo-shopped or hair brushed? :-D

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 25, 2021:

That's why pubes are curly, so you don't put an eye out.

Did people really think the GOP wanted to distance itself from Trump?

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 25, 2021:

Trumps hate and fear reinforcement is his feature, not a bug, according to the everything we can see. His followers will do incredible mental gymnastics to make him sound better, or to make those that oppose him seem worse. It's well documented in my mind that when BLM protest were irritating Trump his MAGA followers would drive in from all over to commit violence so they could claim it was BLM. That's the kind of underhanded domestic terrorism we're having to deal with, but only a minority of Americans acknowledge the scope and intensity of the problem, many just dismissing it entirely, or worse blaming "Antifa" their entirely fictitious mortal enemy.

India

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 25, 2021:

A great place for a slinky, or someone you really don't like.

Well, I haven't been on Agnostics in a good while.

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 25, 2021:

Wow, what was he, like 80?

There should be zero hesitation for this transparent vote supressor! Fire this asshole yesterday!...

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 24, 2021:

Oh, he's gone as soon as the red tape is done. No project is finished until you've properly done the paperwork. Or that's what the person in the porta potty said when I banged on the door.

One of the great pleasures growing up was when we or one of the neighbors got a load of sand, dirt, ...

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 24, 2021:

A couple of years after my father bought his land in Alabama the State put in a road called Gritney Circle and it was exposed red clay and remained a red clay road for at least three years. Yes we played in that dirt. From time to time we lost a shoe, stuck deep in that mud, in fact it's surprising we didn't get stuck like flies on a fly strip, hip deep in red clay.

castle in Scotland, turtle worth $7,000, Notre dam, highest outdoor elevator, old high fort in ...

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 24, 2021:

I just wanted to say that in the photo from the Scottish Castle, I've never seen a dog look so much at home.

AND, for those who DO NO like snakes, try not to LOOK.

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 23, 2021:

The artist desperately needs therapy, I love it!

Iranian woman sentenced to death dies from heart attack, gets hanged anyway [msn.com]

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 23, 2021:

That’ll teach her.

Crapulence at night might lead to dysania in the morning!

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 23, 2021:

I knew tines, tittle (jot isn't mentioned), crapulence, and aglet.

What happened to you America? You want to destroy your country.😒

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 23, 2021:

Holding any given Asian responsible for Covid-19 isn't rational. Especially if they live in America. The really serious hate disciples aren't really blaming anyone for Covid-19, they just found an excuse to be brutal and cruel. Their type always does.

The Republican Party sure have a hellova lot of intellectual lightweights among their leadership ...

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 23, 2021:

They're too stupid to know their vision of America has never happened, and never fucking will.

Try to add your own addition to the list or elaborate on one that's already there.

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 23, 2021:

My Social Security number is 2, I was one of the first couple of people to get one of those. I do remember the first time I saw an eight track. It was in a rich guys car.

Does anyone else here get dizzy spells?

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 22, 2021:

I was always better at hexes and charms than spells.

Yeah. Tell me again how Neil is not an atheist

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 22, 2021:

He's firmly entrenched in his quivering tower of "I don't want controversy" I get it, he's about science, lets talk about science. This would work to promote unity if everyone did it. However evil thrives when good people say nothing. If you don't stand for something, you stand for nothing.

As an infrequent and light weight user - I’ve been there

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 21, 2021:

I'm so high I put out my blunt reading this post. Lighting it back up...

[youtu.be] linclon project

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 21, 2021:

Yet all the fundi Christians just love him as if he were Pat Robertson, the two of them go together like peanut butter and chocolate, if peanut butter were shit and chocolate was jizz.

Skiing has changed

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 20, 2021:

A girl after my own heart.

I am surrounded by churchgoers.

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 20, 2021:

I grew up believing the stories, but they didn't know about my Wednesday Adams side. I had dug up verifiable translations of authentic Medieval grimoires, and learned a lot of ancient Latin. When I was 14 I felt prepared. I slipped out of the house about 11:00pm. and went to the graveyard that would have been visible from our house were a small ground change in altitude just blocked it all off. I was there all night. I saw owls. I saw nothing supernatural. I was deeply disappointed. I felt foolish. Everyone should.

Interesting AND Fasionable.

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 19, 2021:

Body paints can be fun.

It is getting to be old everytime there is a disaster, Texas is not prepared, because it costs money...

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 19, 2021:

The contrast between competence and dogmatic opinion.

[cnn.

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 19, 2021:

Clone hope, it seems endangered.

You caption this

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 19, 2021:

"Can you hear me now?"

Can big science be sustained: [resilience.org]

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 19, 2021:

It's an investment. Much of our modern technology is based on technologies pioneered by Big Science. The economic boom of the 80's and 90's was driven by silicon technologies. We are potentially months away from a functioning high output fusion reactor based on new high temperature super conductors. It was thirty years away since I was born, perhaps the longest thirty years in history will soon come to a conclusion.

Pat Robertson Warns Viewers a New Ice Age is Coming In response to the massive winter storm ...

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 19, 2021:

The only potential hocus pocus I'm aware of is whatever is keeping this mummy animated. Maybe he's giving Rush time to set a place up for him. They believe stupid shit.

Wish I would have caught that on camera!!!

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 18, 2021:

https://youtu.be/mIUk08iYZKE

Oh crap! ...

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 18, 2021:

Science says we had a common ancestor with chimpanzees. I think I’m different, I have a common ancestor with bonobos and much further back in my ancestry there’s probably a thesaurus in the wood pile.

Letters from an American February 17, 2021 By Heather Cox Richardson The crisis in Texas ...

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 18, 2021:

Well said. The conservative reality management reflex is in full effect. Blaming the horrors in Texas on green energy is like blaming elderly Californian Asians for Covid-19. It makes no sense unless you’re part of the conservatives cult.

NOt a meme but just a reminder that the Russians built huge wind farms in the arctic such as this ...

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 18, 2021:

The international standard for wind power generation is to have built in self regulating defrost systems. Conservative Texans in a large area cut their power grid off from much of the rest of the state grid so they could deregulate by saving money on what their culturally biased opinion was “common sense says we’ll never have that problem” so order without the defrost option, maybe pocket the difference? No one in regulated areas are having this problem. Conservatism always fails, it ignores nuances because they’re deficient in the mental capacity to face change. Extraordinary things are beginning to happen in every aspect of life and if we fail to prepare we will suffer. Conservatives say “No nothing changes, its always been this way” but it hasn’t. We directly and dramatically effect our environment and I can give you two solid examples in history The first was the Dust Bowl where dirt farmers had no guidelines for land management and erosion washed off much of the top soil so there were apocalyptic dust storms. Conservatives at the time opposed regulation for land management solutions like contour ploughing that’s erosion resistant and retains moisture better. But a super dust storm blew all the way from the Kansas Oklahoma area to Washington DC. So regulations were implemented and we don’t have dust storms of that magnitude anymore. The second is the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica which grew so large a large part of South America was unprotected from ultraviolet radiation, UV light is blocked by ozone so animals were going blind. So were people, especially those that worked outside, like cattle men. We discovered that CFCs were causing the problem. CFCs are used for air conditioning and refrigeration so regulations to use alternative refrigerants that doesn’t destroy ozone when leaked into the atmosphere were enacted and over the decades since the hole has been closing. However when the regulations were first proposed they were controversial, scandalous really. Conservatives showed their ass with preposterous arguments passionately arguing against it. The financial impact was so slight that the refrigerant industry had for the most part already switched over voluntarily before the regulations were published. Rush Limbaugh for example claimed there would be a bigger black market for CFC refrigerants then the drug black market. If Americans didn’t make it some Latin American country would causing more immigration problems. Then as he slowly realized over the years that companies had voluntarily complied he argued that the regulations had been unnecessary. This is because he failed to realize that the regulations also provided the resources necessary to safely dispose of CFCs, like old refrigerators and ...

So with the crazy weather we're having how is everyone doing?

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 17, 2021:

I’m sure LA will remain mild. For the same reason we get Santa Anna winds. We’re basically on a shelf a half step lower than the continental mean elevation with a mountain range along the boundary between the two elevations. When colder heavier air flows south across the continent the warmer air “piles” up over our mountains and pours in our area and it makes the area have a much milder temperature then most of the rest of the continent.

If you're a sci fi nerd, you'll get it 😉

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 17, 2021:

Remember in the Save the Whales movie, they parked a cloaked bird of prey in a San Francisco municipal park and as Kirk walked out he said “Remember where we parked” like the only thing visible was the pressure depressions from the landing gear. As a fan from episode one I had envisioned cloaking as an energy field with no sharp angles, more like a magnetic bottle, not like the invisible man type of cloak. I was disappointed, I would have found it far more plausible. A shuttle with no cloaking technology at all should be cloaked with the starship if it was close enough and it’s visibility barrier would be a gradient over distance as well. A sneaky probe close enough to see a small percentage of the visible light could potentially go undetected as it monitored internal communications on the starship. I wrote a novella, Star Trek based that I thought would work, then they had to park that damned invisible Starship in a municipal park. I don’t even have the manuscript anymore, but I like to flatter myself that it was really well done. But no point once it’s clear it violates Star Trek cinematic cannon. Continuity is critical and should never be violated in my opinion as a fan. Still I wondered what dumb ass would envision possible future technology so childishly inspired by Wonder Woman’s invisible airplane. Name the SOB that nullified all my hard work on a typewriter because I wrote it before computers were available. William Shatner He wrote it. I hate him.

It's too damned cold here to celebrate, but I might just toss some confetti for the ritual.

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 17, 2021:

In my estimation he was THE Joseph Goebbels of the American conservative movement. We should all be glad he’s gone, he was like an intestinal blockage for democracy. He did things like claiming government assistance made people dependent and weak, and he emphasized it specifically by claiming Democrats did it to keep black people down. As if 75% of all government assistance didn’t go to white people, it does. Meanwhile endlessly endorsing deregulation, the kind Texas likes and suffers from now during this harsh winter. Google it, power failures from fossil fuels and nuclear plants caused many more times the outages than renewable sources which only represent 13% of the states power grid capacity. Deregulation’s that make no sense. With regulations the wind turbines would have defrosting systems as they do elsewhere. Rush was THE source of the vast majority of conservative misinformation on every topic you can imagine. I’m tickled that he’s dead and wish it had happened in the 70’s before the seeds this MF planted could sprout leading to January 6th. I don’t have enough F bombs for this viscous anti human monster. If I could I’d resurrect him so I could kill him after doing a ghost of Christmas future on him as I tour guided through all the suffering he was responsible for.

Understand who should be your heroes.

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 17, 2021:

Fuck Mother Theresa, she worshiped suffering. It takes a special kind of stupid to hate a teenage girl.

My reaction to Limbaugh: "So?" [theweek.com]

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 17, 2021:

The fact that Trump gave this MF the Presidential medal of Freedom is enough for me to support impeachment all on it's own. Both are monsters, but the greater monster is room temperature, but there's room for another.