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Einstein explained gravity over one hundred years ago: He said it was warped space-time and told ...
racocn8 comments on Jul 4, 2022:
Errata:
1. He explained the bending of light was caused by space rising from the surface of the Sun,
2. and as the space rises it exits lower on our side as it travels toward us
3. With matter moving toward the core, matter applies pressure on the core, anything put under pressure radiates heat...
racocn8 replies on Jul 6, 2022:
As you see with other posters, you'll enjoy posting more if you present the content accurately.
racocn8 comments on Jul 4, 2022:
Errata:
1. He explained the bending of light was caused by space rising from the surface of the Sun,
2. and as the space rises it exits lower on our side as it travels toward us
3. With matter moving toward the core, matter applies pressure on the core, anything put under pressure radiates heat...
racocn8 replies on Jul 6, 2022:
As you see with other posters, you'll enjoy posting more if you present the content accurately.
If democracy loving liberals were like Christian Nationalist applications for Churches would seldom ...
racocn8 comments on Jul 5, 2022:
Being Christian is a mental illness whose treatment should be mandated. The Christian fascists are providing the justification for that.
racocn8 replies on Jul 5, 2022:
They cannot live harmlessly. Teaching children religion is child abuse and causes permanent brain damage. Raising a child in Christianity often inflicts a variety of sexual and social maladjustments to the extreme detriment of society. Christians are taught to be dumb, forsaking their obligations to be informed citizens. Christian stupidity now poses an existential threat to the species as they laugh off concerns over climate change and resource degradation. The time for being charitable is over.
racocn8 comments on Jul 5, 2022:
Being Christian is a mental illness whose treatment should be mandated. The Christian fascists are providing the justification for that.
racocn8 replies on Jul 5, 2022:
They cannot live harmlessly. Teaching children religion is child abuse and causes permanent brain damage. Raising a child in Christianity often inflicts a variety of sexual and social maladjustments to the extreme detriment of society. Christians are taught to be dumb, forsaking their obligations to be informed citizens. Christian stupidity now poses an existential threat to the species as they laugh off concerns over climate change and resource degradation. The time for being charitable is over.
threeinone transgender
Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 5, 2022:
Personally I can't wait for Jesus to come back so he can take all these stubborn fucking Christians away before they kill the rest of us.
racocn8 replies on Jul 5, 2022:
Please God, Rapture yesterday you MF'er.
Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 5, 2022:
Personally I can't wait for Jesus to come back so he can take all these stubborn fucking Christians away before they kill the rest of us.
racocn8 replies on Jul 5, 2022:
Please God, Rapture yesterday you MF'er.
Fourth Of July Shooting Suspect Robert E. Crimo Attended Trump Rally in a Where's Waldo Costume
TomMcGiverin comments on Jul 5, 2022:
Let's see: Mentally ill. Trump fan. Gun lover. Mass shooter. Why are none of us here surprised to see this combination of traits in the same person? Ever since I first saw the photo of this creep, he looked to me like the typical kind of smug, young punk that I would just as soon smack in the face ...
racocn8 replies on Jul 5, 2022:
Dinesh D'Souza: (from WP): D'Souza pleaded guilty in federal court to one felony charge of using a "straw donor" to make the illegal campaign contribution. He was sentenced to eight months in a halfway house near his home in San Diego, five years' probation, and a $30,000 fine.[29][30] In 2018, D'Souza was issued a pardon by President Donald Trump.
The film shows the Georgia ballot counting alleging ballots were pulled from under a table, but the Jan 6 televised interviews of election workers noted that it was normal practice to store the ballots there. BS propaganda.
TomMcGiverin comments on Jul 5, 2022:
Let's see: Mentally ill. Trump fan. Gun lover. Mass shooter. Why are none of us here surprised to see this combination of traits in the same person? Ever since I first saw the photo of this creep, he looked to me like the typical kind of smug, young punk that I would just as soon smack in the face ...
racocn8 replies on Jul 5, 2022:
Dinesh D'Souza: (from WP): D'Souza pleaded guilty in federal court to one felony charge of using a "straw donor" to make the illegal campaign contribution. He was sentenced to eight months in a halfway house near his home in San Diego, five years' probation, and a $30,000 fine.[29][30] In 2018, D'Souza was issued a pardon by President Donald Trump.
The film shows the Georgia ballot counting alleging ballots were pulled from under a table, but the Jan 6 televised interviews of election workers noted that it was normal practice to store the ballots there. BS propaganda.
I'm pretty well out of options.
Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 5, 2022:
I just assume anyone I'm actually interested in isn't a paleontologist, I doubt I'd be into someone that digs fossils.
racocn8 replies on Jul 5, 2022:
(Carbon dating doesn't work more that 50,000 years back, so it wouldn't be a paleontologist. Archeologist maybe.)
Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 5, 2022:
I just assume anyone I'm actually interested in isn't a paleontologist, I doubt I'd be into someone that digs fossils.
racocn8 replies on Jul 5, 2022:
(Carbon dating doesn't work more that 50,000 years back, so it wouldn't be a paleontologist. Archeologist maybe.)
Given that the United States is diving head first into the cesspool of theocracy, what can we ...
racocn8 comments on Jul 4, 2022:
I forgot to add:
Discrimination against anyone for any reason becomes legal.
racocn8 replies on Jul 4, 2022:
As these are supposedly Originalists, they'll likely also revert to only allowing land-owning males to vote, although voting becomes meaningless in a theocratic dictatorship.
racocn8 comments on Jul 4, 2022:
I forgot to add:
Discrimination against anyone for any reason becomes legal.
racocn8 replies on Jul 4, 2022:
As these are supposedly Originalists, they'll likely also revert to only allowing land-owning males to vote, although voting becomes meaningless in a theocratic dictatorship.
Reminds me of a little book I read back in the 70s.
racocn8 comments on Jul 4, 2022:
You have to wonder?
racocn8 replies on Jul 4, 2022:
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar? I'd say 'not buyin' it', but realistically... Sex toys are abundant or readily improvised without resorting to vegetables or fruit. And males likely think about sex more than women?
racocn8 comments on Jul 4, 2022:
You have to wonder?
racocn8 replies on Jul 4, 2022:
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar? I'd say 'not buyin' it', but realistically... Sex toys are abundant or readily improvised without resorting to vegetables or fruit. And males likely think about sex more than women?
Someone here was recently complaining about the VP.
racocn8 comments on Jul 4, 2022:
She beats the daylights out of ANY Republican, but that's not saying much. The GQP have turned the country into a laughingstock dystopia. In decades past, Republicans were much better and more near comparable. But then, their ugliness was enshrined in drug laws and voter suppression, ad nauseam....
racocn8 replies on Jul 4, 2022:
A few nations have had female leaders, and it is my recollection that they were pretty popular despite their detractors. (i.e. Thatcher, Meir, Gandhi). Being female means they are more likely to be empathetic and rule accordingly. And yet I'm betting they had to fight to get the same level of cooperation as male leader. Misogyny runs deep and saturates our culture, alongside the misandry it generates. As we should see with recent experience, personality is everything. Although unelectable at the moment, in my utopia, we have a slew of highly competent women available: Gretchen Whitmer, Michelle Obama, Liz Warren and I'm sure many more. after a few thousand women die, and women are mobilized to vote, maybe being unelectable could change? Part of the problem is that vast swaths of women accept their second-class status to the point of becoming 'self-hating'. They then project that lack of confidence onto a candidate of the same sex, and embrace the misogyny of religion.
racocn8 comments on Jul 4, 2022:
She beats the daylights out of ANY Republican, but that's not saying much. The GQP have turned the country into a laughingstock dystopia. In decades past, Republicans were much better and more near comparable. But then, their ugliness was enshrined in drug laws and voter suppression, ad nauseam....
racocn8 replies on Jul 4, 2022:
A few nations have had female leaders, and it is my recollection that they were pretty popular despite their detractors. (i.e. Thatcher, Meir, Gandhi). Being female means they are more likely to be empathetic and rule accordingly. And yet I'm betting they had to fight to get the same level of cooperation as male leader. Misogyny runs deep and saturates our culture, alongside the misandry it generates. As we should see with recent experience, personality is everything. Although unelectable at the moment, in my utopia, we have a slew of highly competent women available: Gretchen Whitmer, Michelle Obama, Liz Warren and I'm sure many more. after a few thousand women die, and women are mobilized to vote, maybe being unelectable could change? Part of the problem is that vast swaths of women accept their second-class status to the point of becoming 'self-hating'. They then project that lack of confidence onto a candidate of the same sex, and embrace the misogyny of religion.
The only way you can mention "all men are created equal" and "merciless Indian savages" in the same...
Petter comments on Jul 4, 2022:
Every one of the men who wrote "all men are created equal" also owned slaves for themselves, this giving the lie to their hallowed declaration. Only hypocrites would quote such a fallacy laden document in order to promote their personal agenda.
Reasonable men (I use the word to describe all ...
racocn8 replies on Jul 4, 2022:
...but Blacks, other non-Whites, and Women DON"T vote. Which is why the US is an empty shell.
Petter comments on Jul 4, 2022:
Every one of the men who wrote "all men are created equal" also owned slaves for themselves, this giving the lie to their hallowed declaration. Only hypocrites would quote such a fallacy laden document in order to promote their personal agenda.
Reasonable men (I use the word to describe all ...
racocn8 replies on Jul 4, 2022:
...but Blacks, other non-Whites, and Women DON"T vote. Which is why the US is an empty shell.
"I urge Americans to remember that the breed of Christian Fascism we are up against is an apocalypse...
twill comments on Jul 4, 2022:
Everything they do is aimed at the toppling of governments, anarchy, chaos....the breakdown of Secular Law. ( NOW Doesn't Sharia Law look good ???? We knew you'd see the light)
Supreme Court is moving us into the Vigiliantism. Then....it's just a matter of time. First some sporadic killings,...
racocn8 replies on Jul 4, 2022:
@phoenixone1 Civil War is already here.
twill comments on Jul 4, 2022:
Everything they do is aimed at the toppling of governments, anarchy, chaos....the breakdown of Secular Law. ( NOW Doesn't Sharia Law look good ???? We knew you'd see the light)
Supreme Court is moving us into the Vigiliantism. Then....it's just a matter of time. First some sporadic killings,...
racocn8 replies on Jul 4, 2022:
@phoenixone1 Civil War is already here.
10 Scriptures That Show The Bible Is Mythology
rainmanjr comments on Jul 4, 2022:
I'm not going to bother reading "scripture" but I do not believe logic means a thing to zealots. They need control of everything/everyone and their best ally is god. That's what it's about and starts with a flock. If that flock grows, and they actually begin to take "leadership," then god help us ...
racocn8 replies on Jul 4, 2022:
Carter was a bible thumper. Most of them seemed to be believers.
Sick.
rainmanjr comments on Jul 4, 2022:
I'm not going to bother reading "scripture" but I do not believe logic means a thing to zealots. They need control of everything/everyone and their best ally is god. That's what it's about and starts with a flock. If that flock grows, and they actually begin to take "leadership," then god help us ...
racocn8 replies on Jul 4, 2022:
Carter was a bible thumper. Most of them seemed to be believers.
Sick.
"Jayland Walker suffered at least 60 wounds in fatal police shooting.
racocn8 comments on Jul 3, 2022:
If he had killed a bunch of non-White kids, they'd have waited and talked about it for an hour.
racocn8 replies on Jul 4, 2022:
Supposedly 90-some rounds were fired by the officers to murder one unarmed Black man. At the end of the tape, you can hear one officer shouting "Cease fire, cease fire". Seriously, did they have many more rounds left? Do they shame anyone who didn't empty their magazine? Anyone with a live round left buys pizza?
racocn8 comments on Jul 3, 2022:
If he had killed a bunch of non-White kids, they'd have waited and talked about it for an hour.
racocn8 replies on Jul 4, 2022:
Supposedly 90-some rounds were fired by the officers to murder one unarmed Black man. At the end of the tape, you can hear one officer shouting "Cease fire, cease fire". Seriously, did they have many more rounds left? Do they shame anyone who didn't empty their magazine? Anyone with a live round left buys pizza?
Why aren't we marching to the polls?
racocn8 comments on Jul 1, 2022:
This is all about revenge for their (self-imposed) feeling of disenfranchisement. Sucks to be them.
racocn8 replies on Jul 1, 2022:
@anglophone And they believe that anyone opposing them is controlled by Satan and thus can be (should be) murdered. (So, shoot first)
racocn8 comments on Jul 1, 2022:
This is all about revenge for their (self-imposed) feeling of disenfranchisement. Sucks to be them.
racocn8 replies on Jul 1, 2022:
@anglophone And they believe that anyone opposing them is controlled by Satan and thus can be (should be) murdered. (So, shoot first)
Smokey knows!
HankSherman comments on Jul 1, 2022:
Can understand the ability to focus only being so strong,
racocn8 replies on Jul 1, 2022:
Yeah, shame about Lois Lane, her first time and he blows her head off.
HankSherman comments on Jul 1, 2022:
Can understand the ability to focus only being so strong,
racocn8 replies on Jul 1, 2022:
Yeah, shame about Lois Lane, her first time and he blows her head off.
So let me see if I've got this straight.
racocn8 comments on Jul 1, 2022:
Biden should unpack the court. Or, he can shut it down. The Republican justices have violated their oaths and their loyalty to the country to further their religious agenda. That kind of sedition deserves the most severe penalty, even if it isn't outlined in the constitution. This judicial coup ...
racocn8 replies on Jul 1, 2022:
@rainmanjr What is MOGUL 3? Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, & Barrett? If Trump can send Proud Boys to murder Congress, those justices should get all the prejudice that put them there. The GQP have shown they won't give quarter; neither should we. It's war; might as well get down to it.
racocn8 comments on Jul 1, 2022:
Biden should unpack the court. Or, he can shut it down. The Republican justices have violated their oaths and their loyalty to the country to further their religious agenda. That kind of sedition deserves the most severe penalty, even if it isn't outlined in the constitution. This judicial coup ...
racocn8 replies on Jul 1, 2022:
@rainmanjr What is MOGUL 3? Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, & Barrett? If Trump can send Proud Boys to murder Congress, those justices should get all the prejudice that put them there. The GQP have shown they won't give quarter; neither should we. It's war; might as well get down to it.
Attended my first Star Trek convention, in Vulcan, Alberta two weeks ago
racocn8 comments on Jul 1, 2022:
Star Trek interests me in the idea of seeking to portray an interplanetary ecology of intelligent species. It projects Humanity as being one among many intelligent species exploring the Universe. Compare what might be to what seems to be...
If one supposes UFO reporting to be nominally accurate, ...
racocn8 replies on Jul 1, 2022:
Receiving advanced knowledge may have already happened. That's why the issue of crash retrievals is pursued when questioning the DOD. For scientists, answers only mean more questions. Motivation comes from a thirst for knowledge that can never be sated. The question is whether our minds are capable of perceiving the answers. Already, many aspects of physics present themselves as unresolved paradoxes.
racocn8 comments on Jul 1, 2022:
Star Trek interests me in the idea of seeking to portray an interplanetary ecology of intelligent species. It projects Humanity as being one among many intelligent species exploring the Universe. Compare what might be to what seems to be...
If one supposes UFO reporting to be nominally accurate, ...
racocn8 replies on Jul 1, 2022:
Receiving advanced knowledge may have already happened. That's why the issue of crash retrievals is pursued when questioning the DOD. For scientists, answers only mean more questions. Motivation comes from a thirst for knowledge that can never be sated. The question is whether our minds are capable of perceiving the answers. Already, many aspects of physics present themselves as unresolved paradoxes.
Falling into the (non) religious trap?
racocn8 comments on Jun 30, 2022:
What part of your post has correspondence with reality? I see little fealty to Dawkins or Harris; some respect them, others hate them. If you've spent any time with other non-believers, you know that they are extremely diverse and group-think is not applicable. Can you point to an example of ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 30, 2022:
Dawkins is an outstanding author with many subtle stories and insights into the details of evolution. Similarly, Hitchens provides exceptional historical and social analysis. If you haven't read any of their books, it's more likely that you aren't inclined to read books. Similarly, I'm betting that you do indeed avoid non-religious groups, but that's your own behavior of avoiding socializing. Socializing performs the functions of putting yourself out there and opening up your views to criticism and challenge. That's not a risk-free activity. Not having done it means you have no basis to say what it's like, or who those people are. Whatever criticism you have appears to be imaginary. That you make such criticism without basis suggests you may need counseling for psychological issues.
racocn8 comments on Jun 30, 2022:
What part of your post has correspondence with reality? I see little fealty to Dawkins or Harris; some respect them, others hate them. If you've spent any time with other non-believers, you know that they are extremely diverse and group-think is not applicable. Can you point to an example of ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 30, 2022:
Dawkins is an outstanding author with many subtle stories and insights into the details of evolution. Similarly, Hitchens provides exceptional historical and social analysis. If you haven't read any of their books, it's more likely that you aren't inclined to read books. Similarly, I'm betting that you do indeed avoid non-religious groups, but that's your own behavior of avoiding socializing. Socializing performs the functions of putting yourself out there and opening up your views to criticism and challenge. That's not a risk-free activity. Not having done it means you have no basis to say what it's like, or who those people are. Whatever criticism you have appears to be imaginary. That you make such criticism without basis suggests you may need counseling for psychological issues.
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racocn8 comments on Jun 30, 2022:
She shouldn't talk. Evangelical Women who supported Trump in 2016 voted against their own interests. Democratic Women were poorly represented at the polls as well. Certainly, misogyny played a significant part in Hillary's loss. Hillary shouldn't have run if she couldn't win. Our nation is poorly ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 30, 2022:
@Sierra4 Progressives seem to exhibit many of the same cult-like behaviors as the MAGA's, They worship Sanders (or whoever) with little understanding of how shallow the electorate is in terms of responding to image and reliability of dog-whistles (communist, socialist). They absolutely refuse to take responsibility for losing elections. Progressive measures, however wonderful they sound, still have to get through Congress. Look at what a squeeker ACA has been...
racocn8 comments on Jun 30, 2022:
She shouldn't talk. Evangelical Women who supported Trump in 2016 voted against their own interests. Democratic Women were poorly represented at the polls as well. Certainly, misogyny played a significant part in Hillary's loss. Hillary shouldn't have run if she couldn't win. Our nation is poorly ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 30, 2022:
@Sierra4 Progressives seem to exhibit many of the same cult-like behaviors as the MAGA's, They worship Sanders (or whoever) with little understanding of how shallow the electorate is in terms of responding to image and reliability of dog-whistles (communist, socialist). They absolutely refuse to take responsibility for losing elections. Progressive measures, however wonderful they sound, still have to get through Congress. Look at what a squeeker ACA has been...
If they are going to go back to the way the Constitution was written, then it is illegal for ...
racocn8 comments on Jun 27, 2022:
"The first American corporations were developed in the 1790s, almost instantly becoming key institutions in the young nation's economy. Although corporations existed in Europe in the early 19th century—particularly in Great Britain and the Netherlands—no country took to corporate development ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 28, 2022:
Corporations serve various purposes: 1) Legal protections against wrongful suits. 2) Recognition as a legal entity. 3) Raising capital to fund growth, and many others. Corporate accounting is subject to taxation, and becoming wielders of political power, have lobbied for various loopholes.
I believe that many states have their own individual laws governing corporations so that as example, it is more advantageous to incorporate in Delaware than in most other states. Thus, arguing that Corporations are illegal at a national level may not get far. I'm no expert on this.
racocn8 comments on Jun 27, 2022:
"The first American corporations were developed in the 1790s, almost instantly becoming key institutions in the young nation's economy. Although corporations existed in Europe in the early 19th century—particularly in Great Britain and the Netherlands—no country took to corporate development ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 28, 2022:
Corporations serve various purposes: 1) Legal protections against wrongful suits. 2) Recognition as a legal entity. 3) Raising capital to fund growth, and many others. Corporate accounting is subject to taxation, and becoming wielders of political power, have lobbied for various loopholes.
I believe that many states have their own individual laws governing corporations so that as example, it is more advantageous to incorporate in Delaware than in most other states. Thus, arguing that Corporations are illegal at a national level may not get far. I'm no expert on this.
If only people were anything like this.
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Lilac-JadeCanada comments on Jun 27, 2022:
I posted this yesterday.
racocn8 replies on Jun 27, 2022:
I missed it. Youtube must be promoting it.
Lilac-JadeCanada comments on Jun 27, 2022:
I posted this yesterday.
racocn8 replies on Jun 27, 2022:
I missed it. Youtube must be promoting it.
" First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a ...
racocn8 comments on Jun 26, 2022:
In 2016, the apathy of Women, Blacks and Progressives elected Donald Trump. It may well be too late to pull it together... Liberals either mobilize a strong showing or allow the bigots to take over.
racocn8 replies on Jun 27, 2022:
@Robecology From the link: "A small collective community in northern Israel, modeled after the communist ideals of the Soviet Union, may hold clues to the development of U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ political beliefs.
Sanders is Jewish and a self-described “democratic socialist.” In the 1960s, he spent several months volunteering on an Israeli collective farm, or kibbutz, that functioned according to communist principles."
https://www.cnn.com/2016/02/09/politics/bernie-sanders-kibbutz-volunteer-israel/index.html
The Republicans planned to dredge this out and use the term 'communist' as their dog-whistle.
I recall reading that Sanders had friends in the kibbutz who were communists. Hell, Lucille Ball was a communist (at least for a while). People are entitled to their beliefs in this country, last I looked.
racocn8 comments on Jun 26, 2022:
In 2016, the apathy of Women, Blacks and Progressives elected Donald Trump. It may well be too late to pull it together... Liberals either mobilize a strong showing or allow the bigots to take over.
racocn8 replies on Jun 27, 2022:
@Robecology From the link: "A small collective community in northern Israel, modeled after the communist ideals of the Soviet Union, may hold clues to the development of U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ political beliefs.
Sanders is Jewish and a self-described “democratic socialist.” In the 1960s, he spent several months volunteering on an Israeli collective farm, or kibbutz, that functioned according to communist principles."
https://www.cnn.com/2016/02/09/politics/bernie-sanders-kibbutz-volunteer-israel/index.html
The Republicans planned to dredge this out and use the term 'communist' as their dog-whistle.
I recall reading that Sanders had friends in the kibbutz who were communists. Hell, Lucille Ball was a communist (at least for a while). People are entitled to their beliefs in this country, last I looked.
Does anyone else think the Court overriding Row v Wade is just distraction to get people to forget ...
Redheadedgammy comments on Jun 27, 2022:
They could be working hand in hand to distract us, but I do think the catholics on the court were thrilled to get this done for their church!!
racocn8 replies on Jun 27, 2022:
Their actions are inane because: 1) Women will continue to get abortions. 2) People see this as religious over-reach and will seek vengeance in return. 3) Young people will continue to disenfranchise religion. 4) All of their rulings will be overturned and deemed illegitimate (unconstitutional) eventually in some way, and the court will be reviled as corrupt in both the near and long term.
Redheadedgammy comments on Jun 27, 2022:
They could be working hand in hand to distract us, but I do think the catholics on the court were thrilled to get this done for their church!!
racocn8 replies on Jun 27, 2022:
Their actions are inane because: 1) Women will continue to get abortions. 2) People see this as religious over-reach and will seek vengeance in return. 3) Young people will continue to disenfranchise religion. 4) All of their rulings will be overturned and deemed illegitimate (unconstitutional) eventually in some way, and the court will be reviled as corrupt in both the near and long term.
So the Right Wing 'Justices' just voted for Allowing Prayer in public schools.
Willow_Wisp comments on Jun 27, 2022:
Is it News to you that Christian fascist took control over the United States last week?
racocn8 replies on Jun 27, 2022:
I'd say they took over in 2016.
Willow_Wisp comments on Jun 27, 2022:
Is it News to you that Christian fascist took control over the United States last week?
racocn8 replies on Jun 27, 2022:
I'd say they took over in 2016.
" First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a ...
racocn8 comments on Jun 26, 2022:
In 2016, the apathy of Women, Blacks and Progressives elected Donald Trump. It may well be too late to pull it together... Liberals either mobilize a strong showing or allow the bigots to take over.
racocn8 replies on Jun 27, 2022:
@mcgeo52 Hillary should not have run. And the Democrats who did that certainly share responsibility for Trump, although it's highly unlikely Bernie could have won with all his communist affiliations. That may well be the excuse progressives use for not voting. Especially after being bombarded with that message by hundreds of thousands of Russian social media bots.
racocn8 comments on Jun 26, 2022:
In 2016, the apathy of Women, Blacks and Progressives elected Donald Trump. It may well be too late to pull it together... Liberals either mobilize a strong showing or allow the bigots to take over.
racocn8 replies on Jun 27, 2022:
@mcgeo52 Hillary should not have run. And the Democrats who did that certainly share responsibility for Trump, although it's highly unlikely Bernie could have won with all his communist affiliations. That may well be the excuse progressives use for not voting. Especially after being bombarded with that message by hundreds of thousands of Russian social media bots.
We need to understand that Ukraine was NEVER a willing part of Russia.
KKGator comments on Jun 26, 2022:
Earlier today, some whacko tried telling me that the US installed a puppet government, and Russia is stopping a genocide in the eastern portion of Ukraine.
Then he called me a fascist for saying I didn't believe him.
This is why we can't have nice things.
racocn8 replies on Jun 26, 2022:
While most Putin-Americans come from half of the Evangelical base, a few Russophiles hail from the extreme left, and they are reliably indifferent to the truth.
KKGator comments on Jun 26, 2022:
Earlier today, some whacko tried telling me that the US installed a puppet government, and Russia is stopping a genocide in the eastern portion of Ukraine.
Then he called me a fascist for saying I didn't believe him.
This is why we can't have nice things.
racocn8 replies on Jun 26, 2022:
While most Putin-Americans come from half of the Evangelical base, a few Russophiles hail from the extreme left, and they are reliably indifferent to the truth.
Abortions on Federal Lands - YouTube
racocn8 comments on Jun 26, 2022:
This is something that Biden CAN do: Allow abortion clinics to set up within military facilities or Federal buildings. Better yet, make abortion provision part of the military's mission. Or, if that offends, put it under the Department of Health and Human Services.
racocn8 replies on Jun 26, 2022:
@LucyLoohoo I don't know. I'm trying to blue sky to reduce my frustration.
racocn8 comments on Jun 26, 2022:
This is something that Biden CAN do: Allow abortion clinics to set up within military facilities or Federal buildings. Better yet, make abortion provision part of the military's mission. Or, if that offends, put it under the Department of Health and Human Services.
racocn8 replies on Jun 26, 2022:
@LucyLoohoo I don't know. I'm trying to blue sky to reduce my frustration.
They Aren't Stopping With Roe v. Wade
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LucyLoohoo comments on Jun 25, 2022:
I think we know....contraceptives, same-sex marriage, anything the evangeloons dislike.
I've been thinking.....having a growing segment of your population be poor and uneducated really makes life happier for OLIGARCHS, doesn't it?
That court isn't about theocracy....it's about GREED.
racocn8 replies on Jun 25, 2022:
It's about sadism, racism, and megalomania.
LucyLoohoo comments on Jun 25, 2022:
I think we know....contraceptives, same-sex marriage, anything the evangeloons dislike.
I've been thinking.....having a growing segment of your population be poor and uneducated really makes life happier for OLIGARCHS, doesn't it?
That court isn't about theocracy....it's about GREED.
racocn8 replies on Jun 25, 2022:
It's about sadism, racism, and megalomania.
If any woman dies as a result of SCOTUS allowing abortions to be banned, should any of the six ...
Alienbeing comments on Jun 25, 2022:
No because travel to States allowing abortion is easy.
racocn8 replies on Jun 25, 2022:
racist asshole
Alienbeing comments on Jun 25, 2022:
No because travel to States allowing abortion is easy.
racocn8 replies on Jun 25, 2022:
racist asshole
Catholic Church
racocn8 comments on Jun 22, 2022:
Homosexuality is not the same as pedophilia, about which scriptures say essentially nothing. Shame on the authors of scripture for claiming to be teaching and seeking love, but cruelly rejecting homosexuality. The failure to accept homosexual love as a form of love is one of the strongest arguments ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 25, 2022:
So by today's standards, God is a statutory rapist!! And really, it was more like God implanted himself, almost the same as a Xenomorph (alien).
racocn8 comments on Jun 22, 2022:
Homosexuality is not the same as pedophilia, about which scriptures say essentially nothing. Shame on the authors of scripture for claiming to be teaching and seeking love, but cruelly rejecting homosexuality. The failure to accept homosexual love as a form of love is one of the strongest arguments ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 25, 2022:
So by today's standards, God is a statutory rapist!! And really, it was more like God implanted himself, almost the same as a Xenomorph (alien).
If any woman dies as a result of SCOTUS allowing abortions to be banned, should any of the six ...
Alienbeing comments on Jun 25, 2022:
No because travel to States allowing abortion is easy.
racocn8 replies on Jun 25, 2022:
The voice of white privilege speaks.
Alienbeing comments on Jun 25, 2022:
No because travel to States allowing abortion is easy.
racocn8 replies on Jun 25, 2022:
The voice of white privilege speaks.
Seeing the Democrats on TV after the SCOTUS ruling on abortion talk about how young people need to ...
TomMcGiverin comments on Jun 24, 2022:
No shit! The root cause of what happened today is the forty years of voting for corporate Dems, who then abandoned the working class in favor of their corporate masters. Which led to the working class voters, esp. white males, abandoning the Dem Party and voting instead for Repubs. Which led to ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 25, 2022:
Hillary was a terrible, corrupt candidate, but the working class are morons for continuing to buy GQP lies because of their religion. The election was razor thin, so any number of blocks could have changed the election, whether it was Hillary not campaigning in certain states, Blacks, Women and Progressives not voting. Progressives were certainly part of the mix. And for certain, the working class, Blacks, Women and Progressives are all much worse off for their apathy and stupidity.
TomMcGiverin comments on Jun 24, 2022:
No shit! The root cause of what happened today is the forty years of voting for corporate Dems, who then abandoned the working class in favor of their corporate masters. Which led to the working class voters, esp. white males, abandoning the Dem Party and voting instead for Repubs. Which led to ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 25, 2022:
Hillary was a terrible, corrupt candidate, but the working class are morons for continuing to buy GQP lies because of their religion. The election was razor thin, so any number of blocks could have changed the election, whether it was Hillary not campaigning in certain states, Blacks, Women and Progressives not voting. Progressives were certainly part of the mix. And for certain, the working class, Blacks, Women and Progressives are all much worse off for their apathy and stupidity.
Seeing the Democrats on TV after the SCOTUS ruling on abortion talk about how young people need to ...
TomMcGiverin comments on Jun 24, 2022:
No shit! The root cause of what happened today is the forty years of voting for corporate Dems, who then abandoned the working class in favor of their corporate masters. Which led to the working class voters, esp. white males, abandoning the Dem Party and voting instead for Repubs. Which led to ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 25, 2022:
"Wrong, the Russiagate stuff is fairly tales..." And your basis for dismissing half of the Mueller Report is what? Your position is like the QAnon of the GQP: extremist, conspiratorial (denying Russia's involvement), absolutist, and paranoid (fearing D as much as R and equating them).
TomMcGiverin comments on Jun 24, 2022:
No shit! The root cause of what happened today is the forty years of voting for corporate Dems, who then abandoned the working class in favor of their corporate masters. Which led to the working class voters, esp. white males, abandoning the Dem Party and voting instead for Repubs. Which led to ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 25, 2022:
"Wrong, the Russiagate stuff is fairly tales..." And your basis for dismissing half of the Mueller Report is what? Your position is like the QAnon of the GQP: extremist, conspiratorial (denying Russia's involvement), absolutist, and paranoid (fearing D as much as R and equating them).
Seeing the Democrats on TV after the SCOTUS ruling on abortion talk about how young people need to ...
TomMcGiverin comments on Jun 24, 2022:
No shit! The root cause of what happened today is the forty years of voting for corporate Dems, who then abandoned the working class in favor of their corporate masters. Which led to the working class voters, esp. white males, abandoning the Dem Party and voting instead for Repubs. Which led to ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 24, 2022:
So because progressives listened to Putin's bots, giving the election to Trump, that's the fault of the corporate Democrats? Progressives like you gave Trump his win, and bear major responsibility for the loss of Roe. And, you continue to claim the obvious false equivalence between the corporate Democrats and the Republicans? Yeah, Democrats and Republicans, good people on both sides. Nader's run enabled the SC to do what they did. Protest voting is what loses elections, and that is all it is, a protest vote; a wasted vote.
TomMcGiverin comments on Jun 24, 2022:
No shit! The root cause of what happened today is the forty years of voting for corporate Dems, who then abandoned the working class in favor of their corporate masters. Which led to the working class voters, esp. white males, abandoning the Dem Party and voting instead for Repubs. Which led to ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 24, 2022:
So because progressives listened to Putin's bots, giving the election to Trump, that's the fault of the corporate Democrats? Progressives like you gave Trump his win, and bear major responsibility for the loss of Roe. And, you continue to claim the obvious false equivalence between the corporate Democrats and the Republicans? Yeah, Democrats and Republicans, good people on both sides. Nader's run enabled the SC to do what they did. Protest voting is what loses elections, and that is all it is, a protest vote; a wasted vote.
Roe vs Wade, just the tip of the iceberg.
[facebook.com]
racocn8 comments on Jun 24, 2022:
So that's what she looks like (Ms. Richardson).
racocn8 replies on Jun 24, 2022:
@SnowyOwl I haven't seen her picture with the posts that display her blog. I only meant that I gained a face to go with the name, by no means commenting on her looks.
racocn8 comments on Jun 24, 2022:
So that's what she looks like (Ms. Richardson).
racocn8 replies on Jun 24, 2022:
@SnowyOwl I haven't seen her picture with the posts that display her blog. I only meant that I gained a face to go with the name, by no means commenting on her looks.
Seeing the Democrats on TV after the SCOTUS ruling on abortion talk about how young people need to ...
TomMcGiverin comments on Jun 24, 2022:
No shit! The root cause of what happened today is the forty years of voting for corporate Dems, who then abandoned the working class in favor of their corporate masters. Which led to the working class voters, esp. white males, abandoning the Dem Party and voting instead for Repubs. Which led to ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 24, 2022:
If we followed your advice, Trump would have gotten his second term.
TomMcGiverin comments on Jun 24, 2022:
No shit! The root cause of what happened today is the forty years of voting for corporate Dems, who then abandoned the working class in favor of their corporate masters. Which led to the working class voters, esp. white males, abandoning the Dem Party and voting instead for Repubs. Which led to ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 24, 2022:
If we followed your advice, Trump would have gotten his second term.
Roe vs Wade, just the tip of the iceberg.
[facebook.com]
racocn8 comments on Jun 24, 2022:
So that's what she looks like (Ms. Richardson).
racocn8 replies on Jun 24, 2022:
@SnowyOwl I nearly always look at her posts.
racocn8 comments on Jun 24, 2022:
So that's what she looks like (Ms. Richardson).
racocn8 replies on Jun 24, 2022:
@SnowyOwl I nearly always look at her posts.
Ohio health department fires employee after mention of abortion pill in newsletter - The Washington ...
rainmanjr comments on Jun 24, 2022:
Soon they'll be imprisoned and killed. That's how Theocrats work.
racocn8 replies on Jun 24, 2022:
Time to start putting that 2nd Amendment to work...
rainmanjr comments on Jun 24, 2022:
Soon they'll be imprisoned and killed. That's how Theocrats work.
racocn8 replies on Jun 24, 2022:
Time to start putting that 2nd Amendment to work...
CANNABIS IN SCIENCE & HEALTH
6/23/2022
A review concluded that "there is promising evidence ...
racocn8 comments on Jun 23, 2022:
Flies get depressed? What's grim is the FST. Oh well, I guess if they're 'only' flies.
racocn8 replies on Jun 23, 2022:
@OldGoat43 How does a hallucinating fly fly?
racocn8 comments on Jun 23, 2022:
Flies get depressed? What's grim is the FST. Oh well, I guess if they're 'only' flies.
racocn8 replies on Jun 23, 2022:
@OldGoat43 How does a hallucinating fly fly?
These dirty cockroaches have names: 🪳 Donald Trump 🪳 Steve Bannon 🪳 Roger Stone 🪳 Rudy ...
HippieChick58 comments on Jun 22, 2022:
And a supporting cast of hundreds of thousands slimy worms, aka as your neighbors.
racocn8 replies on Jun 22, 2022:
The whole of the GQP is infested with fake-Americans. As the shit is expose, they claim to be surprised at what they've embraced. Real Americans will never be able to travel in the world without being reviled and regarded as evil.
HippieChick58 comments on Jun 22, 2022:
And a supporting cast of hundreds of thousands slimy worms, aka as your neighbors.
racocn8 replies on Jun 22, 2022:
The whole of the GQP is infested with fake-Americans. As the shit is expose, they claim to be surprised at what they've embraced. Real Americans will never be able to travel in the world without being reviled and regarded as evil.
By way of illustration...
Lizard_of_Ahaz comments on Jun 22, 2022:
What about non-conductors?....
racocn8 replies on Jun 22, 2022:
A dieclectic?
Lizard_of_Ahaz comments on Jun 22, 2022:
What about non-conductors?....
racocn8 replies on Jun 22, 2022:
A dieclectic?
If He Loses, Trump Will Concede Gracefully - WSJ
FvckY0u comments on Jun 22, 2022:
Having once been republican I think back to the days of Obama and the conservatives/republicans making statement after statement that Obama will never leave office and will instead be a dictator.
It certainly seems as though they they accused democrats of exactly what they wanted for their ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 22, 2022:
Most of what they complain about is projection because they know nothing else. They are too stupid and hateful to learn anything.
FvckY0u comments on Jun 22, 2022:
Having once been republican I think back to the days of Obama and the conservatives/republicans making statement after statement that Obama will never leave office and will instead be a dictator.
It certainly seems as though they they accused democrats of exactly what they wanted for their ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 22, 2022:
Most of what they complain about is projection because they know nothing else. They are too stupid and hateful to learn anything.
Donald Trump, blackmailer: [abc.net.au]
racocn8 comments on Jun 22, 2022:
Even though most of this is known, and the entire Covid debacle, MAGAs continue to support Trump. To be that disloyal to the country, these people clearly lack anything resembling honor or integrity. Christian?
racocn8 replies on Jun 22, 2022:
@anglophone It is absolutely true that the say that allegiance to God overrides everything. However, giving cover to someone who has been nothing less than a continuous incompetent crime spree, and cannot reasonably be squared with a devotion to piety.
Should we take them at their word? Are they forgiving of lying and betrayal, or do they embrace those values for themselves, excusing their own bad behavior? Should we forgive this form of dementia? How do we deal with it?
racocn8 comments on Jun 22, 2022:
Even though most of this is known, and the entire Covid debacle, MAGAs continue to support Trump. To be that disloyal to the country, these people clearly lack anything resembling honor or integrity. Christian?
racocn8 replies on Jun 22, 2022:
@anglophone It is absolutely true that the say that allegiance to God overrides everything. However, giving cover to someone who has been nothing less than a continuous incompetent crime spree, and cannot reasonably be squared with a devotion to piety.
Should we take them at their word? Are they forgiving of lying and betrayal, or do they embrace those values for themselves, excusing their own bad behavior? Should we forgive this form of dementia? How do we deal with it?
I have not understood this at all
racocn8 comments on Jun 19, 2022:
The brain damage caused by intense religious belief stunts both normal sexual development and empathic capability (and much more). This damage results in a significant shift in sexual proclivities, and indifference to the pain of others. Those suffering from these defects feel guilt when faced with ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 19, 2022:
Indeed, the Bible makes no mention of pedophilia. Obviously, just an oversight...
racocn8 comments on Jun 19, 2022:
The brain damage caused by intense religious belief stunts both normal sexual development and empathic capability (and much more). This damage results in a significant shift in sexual proclivities, and indifference to the pain of others. Those suffering from these defects feel guilt when faced with ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 19, 2022:
Indeed, the Bible makes no mention of pedophilia. Obviously, just an oversight...
Acting is hard.
glennlab comments on Jun 18, 2022:
looks like they are board.
racocn8 replies on Jun 18, 2022:
Or, they're leaning into it...
glennlab comments on Jun 18, 2022:
looks like they are board.
racocn8 replies on Jun 18, 2022:
Or, they're leaning into it...
Trump the Traitor: [abc.net.au]
ChurchLess comments on Jun 16, 2022:
"Trump the Traitor" is redundant.
racocn8 replies on Jun 16, 2022:
The real traitors are all his supporters who knew he was a traitor.
ChurchLess comments on Jun 16, 2022:
"Trump the Traitor" is redundant.
racocn8 replies on Jun 16, 2022:
The real traitors are all his supporters who knew he was a traitor.
This officially offends all the nerd groups
justkidding butnotreally
racocn8 comments on Jun 15, 2022:
Trekkies, LoTH, SW, HP,... What's the fifth group?
racocn8 replies on Jun 15, 2022:
@ErichZannIII I assume that's the face. Very much thanks for that. I'm behind in my fandom.
racocn8 comments on Jun 15, 2022:
Trekkies, LoTH, SW, HP,... What's the fifth group?
racocn8 replies on Jun 15, 2022:
@ErichZannIII I assume that's the face. Very much thanks for that. I'm behind in my fandom.
I would like to suggest a debate for critical thinkers in this group! Is GOD, as the religious ...
racocn8 comments on Jun 15, 2022:
Why does anything exist? The Big Bang hypothesis accounts for much of what we see. The story is far from complete. However, a purely naturalistic explanation has worked for most of it, and the need to invoke a supernatural explanation is unsupported by any facts. Those claiming a god have the burden...
racocn8 replies on Jun 15, 2022:
@darren316 I do believe in magic - - the magic of spooky action at a distance (quantum entanglement), quantum tunneling, Schroedinger's Cat, wave-particle duality, the Plank Length, the utility of imaginary numbers, super-massive black holes, UAPs - - and so much more... The tragedy is that real magic surrounds us, but people's ennoblement by its apprehension is blocked by the fake magic.
racocn8 comments on Jun 15, 2022:
Why does anything exist? The Big Bang hypothesis accounts for much of what we see. The story is far from complete. However, a purely naturalistic explanation has worked for most of it, and the need to invoke a supernatural explanation is unsupported by any facts. Those claiming a god have the burden...
racocn8 replies on Jun 15, 2022:
@darren316 I do believe in magic - - the magic of spooky action at a distance (quantum entanglement), quantum tunneling, Schroedinger's Cat, wave-particle duality, the Plank Length, the utility of imaginary numbers, super-massive black holes, UAPs - - and so much more... The tragedy is that real magic surrounds us, but people's ennoblement by its apprehension is blocked by the fake magic.
And the US intelligence is not saying a thing.
phxbillcee comments on Jun 15, 2022:
& the major thing about 'UFO's' is that first letter - "Unidentified"! That doesn't automatically translate to ET's!
racocn8 replies on Jun 15, 2022:
Except that the flight characteristics of some UFOs don't leave any other options.
phxbillcee comments on Jun 15, 2022:
& the major thing about 'UFO's' is that first letter - "Unidentified"! That doesn't automatically translate to ET's!
racocn8 replies on Jun 15, 2022:
Except that the flight characteristics of some UFOs don't leave any other options.
The land shark has learned how to pop open the garbage lid.
racocn8 comments on Jun 13, 2022:
Animals engage in coprophagy as a means of supplementing their folic acid. You might want to provide a vitamin package for a while.
racocn8 replies on Jun 13, 2022:
I'm sure pet stores have a variety of products containing Folic Acid, but you may want to consult your veterinarian.
racocn8 comments on Jun 13, 2022:
Animals engage in coprophagy as a means of supplementing their folic acid. You might want to provide a vitamin package for a while.
racocn8 replies on Jun 13, 2022:
I'm sure pet stores have a variety of products containing Folic Acid, but you may want to consult your veterinarian.
One of my pet ideas is that one can hardly overestimate the hidden influences Christian ideas still ...
BufftonBeotch comments on Jun 12, 2022:
Ridiculous.
Christianity has been the driving force behind social injustice far more than any thing resembling rational thought.
Burning witches was social justice?
Justifying slavery was social justice?
Claiming that the North American continent was intended for white men all along, so ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 12, 2022:
@Matias By all means, enlighten me. (Except that if you think justice, social or otherwise, originated with Christianity, you have a lot of work to do).
BufftonBeotch comments on Jun 12, 2022:
Ridiculous.
Christianity has been the driving force behind social injustice far more than any thing resembling rational thought.
Burning witches was social justice?
Justifying slavery was social justice?
Claiming that the North American continent was intended for white men all along, so ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 12, 2022:
@Matias By all means, enlighten me. (Except that if you think justice, social or otherwise, originated with Christianity, you have a lot of work to do).
One of my pet ideas is that one can hardly overestimate the hidden influences Christian ideas still ...
skado comments on Jun 12, 2022:
Yep. Scapegoating is a common theme in many mythologies, but Christianity was the first, last, and only mythology in which the scapegoat (Christ) was considered innocent. Like it or not, Christianity remains the most highly evolved moral system produced by humans, whether we acknowledge it or not. ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 12, 2022:
"Christianity remains the most highly evolved moral system produced by humans"
Completely wrong, both in practice and in theory. How in heck do you come up with this shit?
What religions are less moral than Christianity and how did you make your assessment? (And do truthfulness and validity have no bearing on morality?)
skado comments on Jun 12, 2022:
Yep. Scapegoating is a common theme in many mythologies, but Christianity was the first, last, and only mythology in which the scapegoat (Christ) was considered innocent. Like it or not, Christianity remains the most highly evolved moral system produced by humans, whether we acknowledge it or not. ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 12, 2022:
"Christianity remains the most highly evolved moral system produced by humans"
Completely wrong, both in practice and in theory. How in heck do you come up with this shit?
What religions are less moral than Christianity and how did you make your assessment? (And do truthfulness and validity have no bearing on morality?)
One of my pet ideas is that one can hardly overestimate the hidden influences Christian ideas still ...
BufftonBeotch comments on Jun 12, 2022:
Ridiculous.
Christianity has been the driving force behind social injustice far more than any thing resembling rational thought.
Burning witches was social justice?
Justifying slavery was social justice?
Claiming that the North American continent was intended for white men all along, so ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 12, 2022:
Bingo. The OP forgets all the other parts of Christianity that prescribe violence and hatred of others. The social justice was plagiarized from pre-existing philosophy, and given no special status among all the other crap. And, we can all see how Christians have had zero notion of social justice over the millennia. What a bullshit proposition.
BufftonBeotch comments on Jun 12, 2022:
Ridiculous.
Christianity has been the driving force behind social injustice far more than any thing resembling rational thought.
Burning witches was social justice?
Justifying slavery was social justice?
Claiming that the North American continent was intended for white men all along, so ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 12, 2022:
Bingo. The OP forgets all the other parts of Christianity that prescribe violence and hatred of others. The social justice was plagiarized from pre-existing philosophy, and given no special status among all the other crap. And, we can all see how Christians have had zero notion of social justice over the millennia. What a bullshit proposition.
Opinion: The US and NATO Helped Trigger the Ukraine War.
racocn8 comments on Jun 11, 2022:
Sweden and Finland applying for Nato membership disproves that it was because Ukraine might do the same some day.
Mass murdering ethnic Russians disproves that it was related to seeking to rescue them.
Fostering White supremacy in Russia, France, Hungary, the US and elsewhere proves its wasn't...
racocn8 replies on Jun 11, 2022:
Looks like Curiosity Stream. The video runs 39 minutes, but several minutes at the start and end are advertising/self-promotion.
racocn8 comments on Jun 11, 2022:
Sweden and Finland applying for Nato membership disproves that it was because Ukraine might do the same some day.
Mass murdering ethnic Russians disproves that it was related to seeking to rescue them.
Fostering White supremacy in Russia, France, Hungary, the US and elsewhere proves its wasn't...
racocn8 replies on Jun 11, 2022:
Looks like Curiosity Stream. The video runs 39 minutes, but several minutes at the start and end are advertising/self-promotion.
So a stoner, a whoremonger, and an alcoholic are all on the bus together when they get in a fatal ...
racocn8 comments on Jun 10, 2022:
Yeah, eating cannabis is really tricky...
racocn8 replies on Jun 11, 2022:
Lizard_of_Ahaz You'll get some from that, but literature I've seen lists decarboxylation as requiring 230-250 F. I've done significant testing on this myself, with the best results at 250F for 40 minutes (as in a pressure cooker). CBDA to CBD takes 80 minutes.
racocn8 comments on Jun 10, 2022:
Yeah, eating cannabis is really tricky...
racocn8 replies on Jun 11, 2022:
Lizard_of_Ahaz You'll get some from that, but literature I've seen lists decarboxylation as requiring 230-250 F. I've done significant testing on this myself, with the best results at 250F for 40 minutes (as in a pressure cooker). CBDA to CBD takes 80 minutes.
([dailykos.
racocn8 comments on Jun 10, 2022:
Note from article: "2. “It wasn’t an insurrection” Yes, it was, and it was armed. And “armed,” according to the Department of Justice, applies to lethal weapons beyond just firearms—though firearms were confiscated from those who stormed the Capitol."
Though again, no mention of the ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 10, 2022:
@nogod4me I have read that. However, the seizing of guns within the capitol, while documented by a reliable source, has been otherwise censored across all of the MSM. Had these seditionists not been stopped, it is certain that a bloodbath would have ensued.
An FBI representative was questioned in front of Congress and was asked if weapons had been seized. She evaded the question saying that the FBI had not recovered any weapons. This misleading and misrepresenting of Jan 6 is infuriating.
Whose purpose is served by this coverup? The best I can guess is that they are seeking to shield the security measures used at the Capital (sources and methods) that stopped the seditionists.
racocn8 comments on Jun 10, 2022:
Note from article: "2. “It wasn’t an insurrection” Yes, it was, and it was armed. And “armed,” according to the Department of Justice, applies to lethal weapons beyond just firearms—though firearms were confiscated from those who stormed the Capitol."
Though again, no mention of the ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 10, 2022:
@nogod4me I have read that. However, the seizing of guns within the capitol, while documented by a reliable source, has been otherwise censored across all of the MSM. Had these seditionists not been stopped, it is certain that a bloodbath would have ensued.
An FBI representative was questioned in front of Congress and was asked if weapons had been seized. She evaded the question saying that the FBI had not recovered any weapons. This misleading and misrepresenting of Jan 6 is infuriating.
Whose purpose is served by this coverup? The best I can guess is that they are seeking to shield the security measures used at the Capital (sources and methods) that stopped the seditionists.
Geography lesson ...
racocn8 comments on Jun 10, 2022:
How might the Chicxulub impact have affected the Deccan eruptions?
The most recent efforts to date these eruptions have clearly shown that the Deccan Traps began spewing lava before the meteorite impact and the mass extinction occurred. But the Berkeley-led study suggested that the Chicxulub impact...
racocn8 replies on Jun 10, 2022:
What, you can't find humor in mass extinction?
racocn8 comments on Jun 10, 2022:
How might the Chicxulub impact have affected the Deccan eruptions?
The most recent efforts to date these eruptions have clearly shown that the Deccan Traps began spewing lava before the meteorite impact and the mass extinction occurred. But the Berkeley-led study suggested that the Chicxulub impact...
racocn8 replies on Jun 10, 2022:
What, you can't find humor in mass extinction?
Please advise what you would use this for. No, not on the market for obvious reasons.
[msn.com]
racocn8 comments on Jun 9, 2022:
Given the propensity of police to abuse the population with their toys, I can see why it would be a problem. However, the seemingly obvious utility in some situations means that such devices are inevitable. The same for taser-equipped robot dogs or other robotic devices.
The bigger problem comes ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 9, 2022:
@Darren316 One of the more amusing (for me) moments in the recent Congressional questioning of Pentagon officials regarding UAPs occurred when the official inferred that the objects in the infrared video were drones. The problem being that no one has drones that can hang out for hours at a time, plus the fact that the objects hovered without any visible means of propulsion.
racocn8 comments on Jun 9, 2022:
Given the propensity of police to abuse the population with their toys, I can see why it would be a problem. However, the seemingly obvious utility in some situations means that such devices are inevitable. The same for taser-equipped robot dogs or other robotic devices.
The bigger problem comes ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 9, 2022:
@Darren316 One of the more amusing (for me) moments in the recent Congressional questioning of Pentagon officials regarding UAPs occurred when the official inferred that the objects in the infrared video were drones. The problem being that no one has drones that can hang out for hours at a time, plus the fact that the objects hovered without any visible means of propulsion.
I totally support what the Jan 6 Committee claims to be trying to do.
Garban comments on Jun 9, 2022:
New source for me so I checked them out.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-19th-news/
racocn8 replies on Jun 9, 2022:
I have a lot of frustration that the DOJ has failed to respond in a timely manner, and the sentences have been so light as to be insultingly offensive. It's clear the DOJ has been manifestly reluctant to deliver justice. For the MSM to exhibit that same sort of resistance, cooperating in a coverup of a crucial detail is just sickening. This country has an ugly history, and it's getting much worse very quickly.
Garban comments on Jun 9, 2022:
New source for me so I checked them out.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-19th-news/
racocn8 replies on Jun 9, 2022:
I have a lot of frustration that the DOJ has failed to respond in a timely manner, and the sentences have been so light as to be insultingly offensive. It's clear the DOJ has been manifestly reluctant to deliver justice. For the MSM to exhibit that same sort of resistance, cooperating in a coverup of a crucial detail is just sickening. This country has an ugly history, and it's getting much worse very quickly.
I totally support what the Jan 6 Committee claims to be trying to do.
Garban comments on Jun 9, 2022:
New source for me so I checked them out.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-19th-news/
racocn8 replies on Jun 9, 2022:
Why do you think the recovery of long guns is being censored?
Garban comments on Jun 9, 2022:
New source for me so I checked them out.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-19th-news/
racocn8 replies on Jun 9, 2022:
Why do you think the recovery of long guns is being censored?
Our Home is actually in the Milky Way Galaxy, one in a 100+ Billion Galaxies.
Fernapple comments on Jun 9, 2022:
Very good. Though its not so much inhabiting a grain of sand, as inhabiting the very tiny layer of gas between the thin crust on a droplet of very hot liquid, and space. And the habitable layer of atmosphere, even the, fly in a plane, layer, is only about five to ten miles thick at most. Which in a ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 9, 2022:
I've heard an analogy that if you put a single drop of water on an egg, that drop represents more water than is in all the oceans of the Earth.
Fernapple comments on Jun 9, 2022:
Very good. Though its not so much inhabiting a grain of sand, as inhabiting the very tiny layer of gas between the thin crust on a droplet of very hot liquid, and space. And the habitable layer of atmosphere, even the, fly in a plane, layer, is only about five to ten miles thick at most. Which in a ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 9, 2022:
I've heard an analogy that if you put a single drop of water on an egg, that drop represents more water than is in all the oceans of the Earth.
Dating stories, who's got them?
racocn8 comments on Jun 8, 2022:
Who was better?
racocn8 replies on Jun 8, 2022:
Sorry, I'm already partnered.
Once I was standing in line with a co-worker who was describing a motorcycle trip he had taken with his wife. I asked him who was the better ride...
racocn8 comments on Jun 8, 2022:
Who was better?
racocn8 replies on Jun 8, 2022:
Sorry, I'm already partnered.
Once I was standing in line with a co-worker who was describing a motorcycle trip he had taken with his wife. I asked him who was the better ride...
Imagine you are Jewish, and you have ancestors who died in the Holocaust, and whenever you go to ...
St-Sinner comments on Jun 8, 2022:
But I am from India. Is there anythin 'bout Gandhi?... the guy with the biggest diaper?
racocn8 replies on Jun 8, 2022:
I heard a story recently that went something like... A government official got a swath of cloth from Gandhi as a present but believed that it was Ghandi's loin cloth, rather than a cloth that Gandhi made on his own loom.
St-Sinner comments on Jun 8, 2022:
But I am from India. Is there anythin 'bout Gandhi?... the guy with the biggest diaper?
racocn8 replies on Jun 8, 2022:
I heard a story recently that went something like... A government official got a swath of cloth from Gandhi as a present but believed that it was Ghandi's loin cloth, rather than a cloth that Gandhi made on his own loom.
CANNABIS IN SCIENCE & HEALTH
A study suggested that "certain high-CBD extract has a high potential...
racocn8 comments on Jun 8, 2022:
Just FYI, all that ratio of THC to CBD is horse shit. Why? Think about it...
racocn8 replies on Jun 8, 2022:
The variation of dose-response to cannabinoids is huge, varying from 2 mg to 2 grams. THC have a very complicated relationship: CBD is thought to interfere with THC binding to CB1, and to interfere with the P450 enzyme system that metabolizes THC to the stronger 11-hydroxy-THC. Then there are the variables of differing absorption in different parts of the GI. Genetic variation, other metabolic influences... A meaningful study would likely need hundreds of participants.
racocn8 comments on Jun 8, 2022:
Just FYI, all that ratio of THC to CBD is horse shit. Why? Think about it...
racocn8 replies on Jun 8, 2022:
The variation of dose-response to cannabinoids is huge, varying from 2 mg to 2 grams. THC have a very complicated relationship: CBD is thought to interfere with THC binding to CB1, and to interfere with the P450 enzyme system that metabolizes THC to the stronger 11-hydroxy-THC. Then there are the variables of differing absorption in different parts of the GI. Genetic variation, other metabolic influences... A meaningful study would likely need hundreds of participants.
Many atheists don't like it at all, to say the least, when science is called the child of religion.
Garban comments on Jun 8, 2022:
Maybe siblings of mother Creativity would be a better analogy. Religion being the selfish child that never grew up; and Science being the responsible mature contributor.
racocn8 replies on Jun 8, 2022:
@skado "I think the most recent science is coming to the consensus that people do need religion." Citation, please?
Garban comments on Jun 8, 2022:
Maybe siblings of mother Creativity would be a better analogy. Religion being the selfish child that never grew up; and Science being the responsible mature contributor.
racocn8 replies on Jun 8, 2022:
@skado "I think the most recent science is coming to the consensus that people do need religion." Citation, please?
Proud Boys Face Prison Time For Sedition | Stephen Will Go LIVE After Jan 6 Hearing - YouTube
freedom41 comments on Jun 8, 2022:
Proud boys need to go to prison for a couple of decades.
racocn8 replies on Jun 8, 2022:
Betcha none of them sees the mandatory 20.
freedom41 comments on Jun 8, 2022:
Proud boys need to go to prison for a couple of decades.
racocn8 replies on Jun 8, 2022:
Betcha none of them sees the mandatory 20.
Well worth the 20 minutes.
racocn8 comments on Jun 7, 2022:
As long as the shootings benefit the fascist MAGA Evangelicals, the shootings will continue.
But if you think AR-15s turn children into hamburger, wait till you get a load of the new rifle being made available that is fully twice as powerful. Instead of hamburger, it'll just be pink slime.
racocn8 replies on Jun 8, 2022:
@Flyingsaucesir @misstuffy I have little knowledge in this area, but heard about it from Beau of the Fifth Column podcast. I assume one or both of the weapons noted below were what he was referencing.
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3005746/army-announces-2-new-rifles-for-close-combat-soldiers/
racocn8 comments on Jun 7, 2022:
As long as the shootings benefit the fascist MAGA Evangelicals, the shootings will continue.
But if you think AR-15s turn children into hamburger, wait till you get a load of the new rifle being made available that is fully twice as powerful. Instead of hamburger, it'll just be pink slime.
racocn8 replies on Jun 8, 2022:
@Flyingsaucesir @misstuffy I have little knowledge in this area, but heard about it from Beau of the Fifth Column podcast. I assume one or both of the weapons noted below were what he was referencing.
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3005746/army-announces-2-new-rifles-for-close-combat-soldiers/
AS THE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA GOES ON.
anglophone comments on Jun 6, 2022:
It saddens me that Putin the Putrid chose to use the Russian Army as his penis substitute.
racocn8 replies on Jun 6, 2022:
What a stupid, ugly, horrific waste of human life.
anglophone comments on Jun 6, 2022:
It saddens me that Putin the Putrid chose to use the Russian Army as his penis substitute.
racocn8 replies on Jun 6, 2022:
What a stupid, ugly, horrific waste of human life.
Do not respond to a post by FrayedBear.
Petter comments on Jun 5, 2022:
He is also a brown nose when it comes to Russia.
racocn8 replies on Jun 5, 2022:
Yikes. That figures. I've yet to see anyone taking the Russian side who wasn't a psychotic troll.
Petter comments on Jun 5, 2022:
He is also a brown nose when it comes to Russia.
racocn8 replies on Jun 5, 2022:
Yikes. That figures. I've yet to see anyone taking the Russian side who wasn't a psychotic troll.
You wouldn't know how I feel
racocn8 comments on Jun 5, 2022:
I thought men weren't supposed to get pregnant? Let's hope a scientist figures out a remedy.
racocn8 replies on Jun 5, 2022:
I am somewhat barrel-chested, and I don't know where that came from. I had a co-worker whose father had an enlarged chest, and was operated on to remove a football sized benign tumor. That has haunted me because of my condition.
racocn8 comments on Jun 5, 2022:
I thought men weren't supposed to get pregnant? Let's hope a scientist figures out a remedy.
racocn8 replies on Jun 5, 2022:
I am somewhat barrel-chested, and I don't know where that came from. I had a co-worker whose father had an enlarged chest, and was operated on to remove a football sized benign tumor. That has haunted me because of my condition.
Pachyderm pivot, mammoth mendacity, elephantine evasion 🦣
racocn8 comments on Jun 4, 2022:
Being dishonest is THE integral feature for owning the libs. It is an exploitation of the double standard that distinguishes the two parties, and what disproves the false equivalence (again, dishonestly) claimed against both parties (typically by the extreme progressives who 'unintentionally' help ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 4, 2022:
@Flyingsaucesir The Liar's Club being the oldest and biggest tribe there is.
racocn8 comments on Jun 4, 2022:
Being dishonest is THE integral feature for owning the libs. It is an exploitation of the double standard that distinguishes the two parties, and what disproves the false equivalence (again, dishonestly) claimed against both parties (typically by the extreme progressives who 'unintentionally' help ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 4, 2022:
@Flyingsaucesir The Liar's Club being the oldest and biggest tribe there is.
Clinton campaign lawyer found not guilty on charge of lying to FBI in loss for Durham
racocn8 comments on May 31, 2022:
Shame on Biden, Wray and Garland for not shutting down Trump's vindictive farce (and this after more than a year of tax money wasted on partisan malfeasance). Durham should be demoted with a cut in pay and pension for this base violation of his oaths.
racocn8 replies on Jun 4, 2022:
@mcgeo52 The GQP is always outraged. We might enjoy their minor setbacks, but they have no shame and are incapable of embarrassment. Not suffering consequences for their corruption, and being spineless is what generates contempt for democrats.
racocn8 comments on May 31, 2022:
Shame on Biden, Wray and Garland for not shutting down Trump's vindictive farce (and this after more than a year of tax money wasted on partisan malfeasance). Durham should be demoted with a cut in pay and pension for this base violation of his oaths.
racocn8 replies on Jun 4, 2022:
@mcgeo52 The GQP is always outraged. We might enjoy their minor setbacks, but they have no shame and are incapable of embarrassment. Not suffering consequences for their corruption, and being spineless is what generates contempt for democrats.
I don't care what the founding fathers would say or want. They aren't here.
p-nullifidian comments on Jun 3, 2022:
Maybe it’s time we all get over the Founding Fathers’ so-called intent? The Constitution, if it is to mean anything, should be a living breathing and constantly evolving document. Otherwise, one may just as well accept the Holy Bible as a foundational and fundamentalist document and be a ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 3, 2022:
Ah, but when was the last time we had an amendment? And have we ever made an amendment to address the rampant and pervasive corruption that now undercuts everything that should be happening? So-called "Originalists" vying to get on SCOTUS shouldn't even get a hearing if that is their perspective.
p-nullifidian comments on Jun 3, 2022:
Maybe it’s time we all get over the Founding Fathers’ so-called intent? The Constitution, if it is to mean anything, should be a living breathing and constantly evolving document. Otherwise, one may just as well accept the Holy Bible as a foundational and fundamentalist document and be a ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 3, 2022:
Ah, but when was the last time we had an amendment? And have we ever made an amendment to address the rampant and pervasive corruption that now undercuts everything that should be happening? So-called "Originalists" vying to get on SCOTUS shouldn't even get a hearing if that is their perspective.
'Quit filibustering it': Republican's town hall heats up over gun laws
racocn8 comments on Jun 3, 2022:
I don't think you can meaningfully claim this is coming from the Baby Boomers. Do you have any arguments to support the assertion? Certain very few of the shooters are Baby Boomers.
racocn8 replies on Jun 3, 2022:
I'm not at all impressed with The Greatest Generation. They conveniently looked the other way as the Holocaust was committed, and Manzanar built. They started the Deep State with the Nat'l Security Act of 1947, and all the cold war paranoia that went with it. I will say that the BB's were weak in standing up against bigotry and the excesses of Conservatism.
racocn8 comments on Jun 3, 2022:
I don't think you can meaningfully claim this is coming from the Baby Boomers. Do you have any arguments to support the assertion? Certain very few of the shooters are Baby Boomers.
racocn8 replies on Jun 3, 2022:
I'm not at all impressed with The Greatest Generation. They conveniently looked the other way as the Holocaust was committed, and Manzanar built. They started the Deep State with the Nat'l Security Act of 1947, and all the cold war paranoia that went with it. I will say that the BB's were weak in standing up against bigotry and the excesses of Conservatism.
Toy Story Part 19?
Beowulfsfriend comments on Jun 3, 2022:
Toy Story 20, The Rescue. A group of surviving toys plan and initiate an undertaking to dig up Andy's grave in order to save their friends trapped in the bony remains.
racocn8 replies on Jun 3, 2022:
Do they resurrect Andy as a zombie? I'd watch that.
Beowulfsfriend comments on Jun 3, 2022:
Toy Story 20, The Rescue. A group of surviving toys plan and initiate an undertaking to dig up Andy's grave in order to save their friends trapped in the bony remains.
racocn8 replies on Jun 3, 2022:
Do they resurrect Andy as a zombie? I'd watch that.
Hope you have your sunglasses on.
racocn8 comments on Jun 2, 2022:
Is that like a skinned elephant seal or what?
racocn8 replies on Jun 2, 2022:
Triphid taking a day off at the beach... Or a picture of Tor?
racocn8 comments on Jun 2, 2022:
Is that like a skinned elephant seal or what?
racocn8 replies on Jun 2, 2022:
Triphid taking a day off at the beach... Or a picture of Tor?
Time to bring back the Darwin Awards.
racocn8 comments on Jun 2, 2022:
I was hiking near the Catalina Island isthmus and thought to take a shortcut down a ravine. I was down a ways and saw a clearing ahead of me. Sitting in the middle was a mature male bison. I was unsure of any other way around, so I decided to go back up to the crest and continue down what would ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 2, 2022:
@Beowulfsfriend @dalevictor Per Google: "In 1924, the film The Vanishing American was being filmed on Catalina Island, and one of the scenes required bison. The film crew brought 14 bison to the island from the Great Plains with the intention of eventually returning them home. They never made it off the island."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/catalina-island-bison-herd#:~:text=In%201924%2C%20the%20film%20The,made%20it%20off%20the%20island.
racocn8 comments on Jun 2, 2022:
I was hiking near the Catalina Island isthmus and thought to take a shortcut down a ravine. I was down a ways and saw a clearing ahead of me. Sitting in the middle was a mature male bison. I was unsure of any other way around, so I decided to go back up to the crest and continue down what would ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 2, 2022:
@Beowulfsfriend @dalevictor Per Google: "In 1924, the film The Vanishing American was being filmed on Catalina Island, and one of the scenes required bison. The film crew brought 14 bison to the island from the Great Plains with the intention of eventually returning them home. They never made it off the island."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/catalina-island-bison-herd#:~:text=In%201924%2C%20the%20film%20The,made%20it%20off%20the%20island.
The shooting at Uvalde is bringing forth many concerns.
racocn8 comments on Jun 1, 2022:
You cannot expect White police officers to protect Black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish or Muslim children (nor adults).
racocn8 replies on Jun 1, 2022:
@p-nullifidian I wish it was beyond the pale. It should be. And yet the Red state GQP have been working hard to subvert the 2022 and 2024 elections. If a MAGA mayor and police chief will stop the intervention of a shooter, how much easier will it be to help corrupt officials destroy the election. As Florida goes, the others will follow.
"Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs bill creating election police force"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/desantis-florida-election-police-force-bill/
racocn8 comments on Jun 1, 2022:
You cannot expect White police officers to protect Black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish or Muslim children (nor adults).
racocn8 replies on Jun 1, 2022:
@p-nullifidian I wish it was beyond the pale. It should be. And yet the Red state GQP have been working hard to subvert the 2022 and 2024 elections. If a MAGA mayor and police chief will stop the intervention of a shooter, how much easier will it be to help corrupt officials destroy the election. As Florida goes, the others will follow.
"Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs bill creating election police force"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/desantis-florida-election-police-force-bill/
The shooting at Uvalde is bringing forth many concerns.
racocn8 comments on Jun 1, 2022:
You cannot expect White police officers to protect Black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish or Muslim children (nor adults).
racocn8 replies on Jun 1, 2022:
@p-nullifidian So revisiting the Rittenhouse case, when police hear shots and see a young White man walk away from a BLM protest carrying a rifle, they just exchange thumbs up. Then a MAGA judge manipulates the trial so the killer is released.
I certainly wish it were otherwise. It should be as you say. But it isn't.
But Uvalde simple repeats the theme, except you have dozens of police stand around, seeing their duty as being to PREVENT parents from acting to protect their children.
What do you think is going to happen in November when White police work with their state officials to overturn or fully invalidate all the voting in non-White districts? At gun-point...
racocn8 comments on Jun 1, 2022:
You cannot expect White police officers to protect Black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish or Muslim children (nor adults).
racocn8 replies on Jun 1, 2022:
@p-nullifidian So revisiting the Rittenhouse case, when police hear shots and see a young White man walk away from a BLM protest carrying a rifle, they just exchange thumbs up. Then a MAGA judge manipulates the trial so the killer is released.
I certainly wish it were otherwise. It should be as you say. But it isn't.
But Uvalde simple repeats the theme, except you have dozens of police stand around, seeing their duty as being to PREVENT parents from acting to protect their children.
What do you think is going to happen in November when White police work with their state officials to overturn or fully invalidate all the voting in non-White districts? At gun-point...
My dream list of national gun laws.
racocn8 comments on Jun 1, 2022:
You REALLY want to stop mass shooting? For every victim, burn a church. And make it clear which victim is being avenged.
racocn8 replies on Jun 1, 2022:
@Flyingsaucesir Look at how the mass shootings take place in temples, mosques and Black churches. That is their war on everyone else; they have no respect for other people's places of worship. Until these massacres have a negative impact on them, they'll keep terrorizing everyone else. They approve of the fear that they (supposedly indirectly) impose on the rest of us. What's worth more, a White church or a child?
racocn8 comments on Jun 1, 2022:
You REALLY want to stop mass shooting? For every victim, burn a church. And make it clear which victim is being avenged.
racocn8 replies on Jun 1, 2022:
@Flyingsaucesir Look at how the mass shootings take place in temples, mosques and Black churches. That is their war on everyone else; they have no respect for other people's places of worship. Until these massacres have a negative impact on them, they'll keep terrorizing everyone else. They approve of the fear that they (supposedly indirectly) impose on the rest of us. What's worth more, a White church or a child?
Sorry, I'm on a tear this morning.
racocn8 comments on May 29, 2022:
People of both sexes can be assholes. The trick is to not let it get to you. Some people WANT to be assholes. It may be harder to let that go, but that is still necessary.
racocn8 replies on May 31, 2022:
@TomMcGiverin Other responses remind me of the paradox where women complain of being bombarded by unimaginative asks, tailored just to them, versus men felt compelled to automate their asks as much as possible because of the tiny percent of responses coming back. That trauma seems to sour both sides. The challenge of our time is how social media perverts our personalities.
racocn8 comments on May 29, 2022:
People of both sexes can be assholes. The trick is to not let it get to you. Some people WANT to be assholes. It may be harder to let that go, but that is still necessary.
racocn8 replies on May 31, 2022:
@TomMcGiverin Other responses remind me of the paradox where women complain of being bombarded by unimaginative asks, tailored just to them, versus men felt compelled to automate their asks as much as possible because of the tiny percent of responses coming back. That trauma seems to sour both sides. The challenge of our time is how social media perverts our personalities.
A member on here, recently asked. Does love exist ?
Lorajay comments on May 30, 2022:
Can I surmise that cold-blooded species are also cold-hearted?
racocn8 replies on May 30, 2022:
Not at all. Many decades ago, I came across an article where a Japanese fishing boat rescued a woman whose vessel had sunk. The was buoyed in the water by what appeared to be an oil barrel, but as the rescue vessel drew closer, they saw she was being supported and kept alive by a large sea turtle. Once the woman was safe, the turtle disappeared into the depths. Also, films show alligator mothers to be quite caring of their young, at least in some species.
Lorajay comments on May 30, 2022:
Can I surmise that cold-blooded species are also cold-hearted?
racocn8 replies on May 30, 2022:
Not at all. Many decades ago, I came across an article where a Japanese fishing boat rescued a woman whose vessel had sunk. The was buoyed in the water by what appeared to be an oil barrel, but as the rescue vessel drew closer, they saw she was being supported and kept alive by a large sea turtle. Once the woman was safe, the turtle disappeared into the depths. Also, films show alligator mothers to be quite caring of their young, at least in some species.
Democrats making fake hamburger meat for Bill Gates!
Republican Rep.
p-nullifidian comments on May 30, 2022:
Marjorie Taylor Greene was concocted in a Petri dish and Georgia is the Petri State! 😉
racocn8 replies on May 30, 2022:
I could have sworn her father fucked a mare.
p-nullifidian comments on May 30, 2022:
Marjorie Taylor Greene was concocted in a Petri dish and Georgia is the Petri State! 😉
racocn8 replies on May 30, 2022:
I could have sworn her father fucked a mare.
__________
LiterateHiker comments on May 29, 2022:
Online forums and social media have continued to serve as vital tools for spreading racist ideologies, misinformation, conspiracies and hate. It's led to the rapid radicalization of people like the alleged Buffalo shooter, Payton Gendron, according to an ABC News analysis of what authorities have ...
racocn8 replies on May 29, 2022:
A large share of the mass murder events are in schools. Now what group has sought to defund and undercut public education? Does that group support politicians that prevent gun legislation which would reduce these atrocities? (Pro-life?!!!) And remember that a large share of the other mass murder targets are similarly denounced and hated from the pulpit: Blacks, Gays, Jews,...
Mass murders serve the purposes of the Evangelical White Supremacists, and a goodly share of shooters are racists or bigots. Christian Nationalists have a stranglehold on the GQP, and these shootings serve their interest in intimidating those deemed as lesser. Even with Biden as president, we have slipped into an authoritarian fascist state so long as the police departments side with the neo-Nazis.
LiterateHiker comments on May 29, 2022:
Online forums and social media have continued to serve as vital tools for spreading racist ideologies, misinformation, conspiracies and hate. It's led to the rapid radicalization of people like the alleged Buffalo shooter, Payton Gendron, according to an ABC News analysis of what authorities have ...
racocn8 replies on May 29, 2022:
A large share of the mass murder events are in schools. Now what group has sought to defund and undercut public education? Does that group support politicians that prevent gun legislation which would reduce these atrocities? (Pro-life?!!!) And remember that a large share of the other mass murder targets are similarly denounced and hated from the pulpit: Blacks, Gays, Jews,...
Mass murders serve the purposes of the Evangelical White Supremacists, and a goodly share of shooters are racists or bigots. Christian Nationalists have a stranglehold on the GQP, and these shootings serve their interest in intimidating those deemed as lesser. Even with Biden as president, we have slipped into an authoritarian fascist state so long as the police departments side with the neo-Nazis.
Fit for Texas
silverotter11 comments on May 29, 2022:
Never been to Texass, no desire to go there and after *all* I've seen and heard this image is probably very accurate. :(
racocn8 replies on May 29, 2022:
I remember traveling through the Texas countryside, passing through one cloud of toxic stench to another.
silverotter11 comments on May 29, 2022:
Never been to Texass, no desire to go there and after *all* I've seen and heard this image is probably very accurate. :(
racocn8 replies on May 29, 2022:
I remember traveling through the Texas countryside, passing through one cloud of toxic stench to another.
This Fruit Could Help Improve Memory and Ward Off Dementia, Study Says
[goodnewsnetwork.org]
racocn8 comments on May 27, 2022:
Good information if correct (Who funded the study?). Hopefully it will be replicated?
racocn8 replies on May 27, 2022:
@xenoview Ok, yeah, what I was afraid of. Maybe it's true, but I'd prefer to see industry-free funding.
From the paper itself:
"This research was supported by a Cranberry Institute grant (R204719). The Cranberry Institute was not involved in the design, implementation, analysis, and interpretation of the data."
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2022.849902/full
racocn8 comments on May 27, 2022:
Good information if correct (Who funded the study?). Hopefully it will be replicated?
racocn8 replies on May 27, 2022:
@xenoview Ok, yeah, what I was afraid of. Maybe it's true, but I'd prefer to see industry-free funding.
From the paper itself:
"This research was supported by a Cranberry Institute grant (R204719). The Cranberry Institute was not involved in the design, implementation, analysis, and interpretation of the data."
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2022.849902/full
The kids had a ball.
racocn8 comments on May 27, 2022:
Eye don't get it...
racocn8 replies on May 27, 2022:
Those pupils sclera me.
racocn8 comments on May 27, 2022:
Eye don't get it...
racocn8 replies on May 27, 2022:
Those pupils sclera me.
[castanet.
LovinLarge comments on May 27, 2022:
Believe me, they would not be willing to give up their quality of life!
racocn8 replies on May 27, 2022:
I'm betting they all make more than $150,000.
LovinLarge comments on May 27, 2022:
Believe me, they would not be willing to give up their quality of life!
racocn8 replies on May 27, 2022:
I'm betting they all make more than $150,000.
[castanet.
anglophone comments on May 27, 2022:
It's not going to happen. The wankers in Austin are too fucking arrogant and too fucking ignorant and too fucking self-absorbed to think outside their own tiny venal boxes.
racocn8 replies on May 27, 2022:
@Moravian Yeah, the teachers are supposed the do the job the police are afraid to do. Thats what Abbott and Cruz mean by hardening the schools. And where will the teachers have the guns stored?
anglophone comments on May 27, 2022:
It's not going to happen. The wankers in Austin are too fucking arrogant and too fucking ignorant and too fucking self-absorbed to think outside their own tiny venal boxes.
racocn8 replies on May 27, 2022:
@Moravian Yeah, the teachers are supposed the do the job the police are afraid to do. Thats what Abbott and Cruz mean by hardening the schools. And where will the teachers have the guns stored?
Don't know if this is real or not.
Betty comments on May 27, 2022:
And some people say politicians are not selfishly corrupt.
racocn8 replies on May 27, 2022:
The GQP scarcely pretend at being honorable anymore. It's more like smirking that they've got theirs and everyone else can go F themselves.
Betty comments on May 27, 2022:
And some people say politicians are not selfishly corrupt.
racocn8 replies on May 27, 2022:
The GQP scarcely pretend at being honorable anymore. It's more like smirking that they've got theirs and everyone else can go F themselves.
How can one fix something that's out of control
Gwendolyn2018 comments on May 26, 2022:
I wrote on FB:
"If there were a kind and loving god, 18 kids would not be dead tonight, at least 36 parents would not be stunned, crying, and raging, and people who cry about the Second Amendment while clutching their guns would not exist.
Christians? Nah. The people who decry gun control ...
racocn8 replies on May 26, 2022:
Your cousin shows breathtaking hypocrisy for giving God credit for the good things but not for the bad. I've seen hypnotized people rationalize barking like a dog when the hypnotist asked why. Ultimately, such people have given up their ability to think in exchange for the security of belonging to a cult.
Gwendolyn2018 comments on May 26, 2022:
I wrote on FB:
"If there were a kind and loving god, 18 kids would not be dead tonight, at least 36 parents would not be stunned, crying, and raging, and people who cry about the Second Amendment while clutching their guns would not exist.
Christians? Nah. The people who decry gun control ...
racocn8 replies on May 26, 2022:
Your cousin shows breathtaking hypocrisy for giving God credit for the good things but not for the bad. I've seen hypnotized people rationalize barking like a dog when the hypnotist asked why. Ultimately, such people have given up their ability to think in exchange for the security of belonging to a cult.
Spirituality is emotionality.
xenoview comments on May 26, 2022:
You need evidence for your claims.
racocn8 replies on May 26, 2022:
Speaking of trolls, the same applies to TheMiddleWay. Both are vacuous maroons who seek meaningful discourse but are incapable. Pathetic and grim.
xenoview comments on May 26, 2022:
You need evidence for your claims.
racocn8 replies on May 26, 2022:
Speaking of trolls, the same applies to TheMiddleWay. Both are vacuous maroons who seek meaningful discourse but are incapable. Pathetic and grim.
Spirituality is emotionality.
xenoview comments on May 26, 2022:
You need evidence for your claims.
racocn8 replies on May 26, 2022:
"I make statements to generate conversation. I’m not here to prove anything." Meaning, I am a troll who is so insecure and needy, I'll post the silliest bullshit to get the attention I crave. If anyone doesn't like it, that's great too because I crave drama too, and I'm all about hit-and-run.
xenoview comments on May 26, 2022:
You need evidence for your claims.
racocn8 replies on May 26, 2022:
"I make statements to generate conversation. I’m not here to prove anything." Meaning, I am a troll who is so insecure and needy, I'll post the silliest bullshit to get the attention I crave. If anyone doesn't like it, that's great too because I crave drama too, and I'm all about hit-and-run.
Does love exist?
Matias comments on May 26, 2022:
Is this a trap, a trick question?
If somebody answers Yes, although love is nothing but a feeling, you could conclude that God exists too, even if he may be nothing but a shared feeling...
racocn8 replies on May 26, 2022:
Nah. Just more vacuous trolling as usual.
Matias comments on May 26, 2022:
Is this a trap, a trick question?
If somebody answers Yes, although love is nothing but a feeling, you could conclude that God exists too, even if he may be nothing but a shared feeling...
racocn8 replies on May 26, 2022:
Nah. Just more vacuous trolling as usual.
Letters From An American 05/25/2022
Redheadedgammy comments on May 26, 2022:
How do we save our Democratic Republic? Is it already too late?
racocn8 replies on May 26, 2022:
It is too late. The arrogance of Putin and Hillary have killed us.
Redheadedgammy comments on May 26, 2022:
How do we save our Democratic Republic? Is it already too late?
racocn8 replies on May 26, 2022:
It is too late. The arrogance of Putin and Hillary have killed us.
Letters From An American 05/25/2022
Flyingsaucesir comments on May 26, 2022:
Bingo! 🎯 A very accurate explanation for how we got here. One thing I would add: it's not just capitalism that the right has been touting; it's UNREGULATED capitalism they want. They want corporations to be able to lay waste to the Earth with impunity. They don't care if they leave nothing for ...
racocn8 replies on May 26, 2022:
Having stoked doubt in the election process, followed by a campaign to undermine elections, it's impossible to imagine the Civil War NOT going from cold to HOT in November.
Flyingsaucesir comments on May 26, 2022:
Bingo! 🎯 A very accurate explanation for how we got here. One thing I would add: it's not just capitalism that the right has been touting; it's UNREGULATED capitalism they want. They want corporations to be able to lay waste to the Earth with impunity. They don't care if they leave nothing for ...
racocn8 replies on May 26, 2022:
Having stoked doubt in the election process, followed by a campaign to undermine elections, it's impossible to imagine the Civil War NOT going from cold to HOT in November.
Make it make sense....
phoenixone1 comments on May 26, 2022:
About the only way this is going to get fixed is a National Boycott...no kids go to school...no teachers go to school...no Board of Education members go to work...NOTHING...TOTAL WALK OUT. States withhold Federal Taxes...SHUT THE DAMN COUNTRY DOWN. Fuck this...no more sacrificing our children to ...
racocn8 replies on May 26, 2022:
The GOP DON'T CARE. It wasn't their kids that were murdered. Being pro-gun is one of the primary litmus tests. Loyalty is more important, way more important than humanity. They may have been born human, but they're devoted to being inhuman.
phoenixone1 comments on May 26, 2022:
About the only way this is going to get fixed is a National Boycott...no kids go to school...no teachers go to school...no Board of Education members go to work...NOTHING...TOTAL WALK OUT. States withhold Federal Taxes...SHUT THE DAMN COUNTRY DOWN. Fuck this...no more sacrificing our children to ...
racocn8 replies on May 26, 2022:
The GOP DON'T CARE. It wasn't their kids that were murdered. Being pro-gun is one of the primary litmus tests. Loyalty is more important, way more important than humanity. They may have been born human, but they're devoted to being inhuman.
Essence of stupidity
mischl comments on May 26, 2022:
In the long term, what kind of children are we raising? When they grow up and some of them run the government (if it still exists), what will they do? What will they change?
racocn8 replies on May 26, 2022:
If they are raised Christian, watching Fox news, they will be lacking empathy like their parents. It is a cycle of violence AND depravity.
mischl comments on May 26, 2022:
In the long term, what kind of children are we raising? When they grow up and some of them run the government (if it still exists), what will they do? What will they change?
racocn8 replies on May 26, 2022:
If they are raised Christian, watching Fox news, they will be lacking empathy like their parents. It is a cycle of violence AND depravity.
Texass!!!! 😭😡🤬
racocn8 comments on May 25, 2022:
Can we remember that the NRA has received millions from Russia, and acted as a conduit to funnel that money to GQP (and a couple of dems!). Investigation of these traitors was blocked by the GQP during Trump's administration:
...
racocn8 replies on May 25, 2022:
@anglophone (Apologies for the screwup).
racocn8 comments on May 25, 2022:
Can we remember that the NRA has received millions from Russia, and acted as a conduit to funnel that money to GQP (and a couple of dems!). Investigation of these traitors was blocked by the GQP during Trump's administration:
...
racocn8 replies on May 25, 2022:
@anglophone (Apologies for the screwup).
([https]
Top administrative leaders for the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant ...
rainmanjr comments on May 24, 2022:
Great. If, after this and the insurrection hearings, Americans can't vote for Dems then they deserve everything that's happened and is happening to them. Everything. Doesn't seem a hard decision to me.
racocn8 replies on May 24, 2022:
Many democrats are hopelessly corrupt. The claim that they are as bad as the GQP is a meme meant to confuse the weak minded, and it works very, very well.
rainmanjr comments on May 24, 2022:
Great. If, after this and the insurrection hearings, Americans can't vote for Dems then they deserve everything that's happened and is happening to them. Everything. Doesn't seem a hard decision to me.
racocn8 replies on May 24, 2022:
Many democrats are hopelessly corrupt. The claim that they are as bad as the GQP is a meme meant to confuse the weak minded, and it works very, very well.
What is a thermoelectric cloud chamber?
rainmanjr comments on May 23, 2022:
That's what Tao looks like.
racocn8 replies on May 23, 2022:
Can you explain further?
rainmanjr comments on May 23, 2022:
That's what Tao looks like.
racocn8 replies on May 23, 2022:
Can you explain further?
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