Life in the universe is very very rare

racocn8 comments on Aug 11, 2023:

Except that the Earth formed 8-9 billion years after the big bang and by most accounts, galaxies formed less than half a billion years after the Big Bang. That suggests that the conditions for life developed 1-2 billion years after the Big Bang. Once a civilization develops, if it survives long enough to develop faster-than-light travel, they could seed any number of planets, perhaps all that can support it. That is only one reason why the Drake Equation is BS.

My god. Have you been to a gas station lately?

racocn8 comments on Aug 11, 2023:

Hey, a blond sticking it in the right place...

Hope the ovens are separate

racocn8 comments on Aug 11, 2023:

You don't want to do a DNA test on the pepperoni.

[energyconnects.

racocn8 comments on Aug 10, 2023:

I actually have some shares of that, but I've lost 30% on it so far. It'd be nice to get some of that back...

Southern parenting starts early

racocn8 comments on Aug 10, 2023:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jr-15-real-rifle-designed-children/

Are you hungry?

racocn8 comments on Aug 10, 2023:

I see electric bug-zappers getting advertised again. Last I heard, people were put off when they found out that vaporizing insects created a cloud of microbe-laden droplets that settled onto all nearby surfaces...

I miss my young days and would like to experience again. Any volunteers? No men please.

racocn8 comments on Aug 9, 2023:

...nothing to see...

Are we getting the band back together? Hey, y'all!

racocn8 comments on Aug 9, 2023:

Nice to see you all. I'm not sure if I want to spend as much time as I used to, but I really do miss the therapy. And some interesting developments in the interim.... Welcome back to you all...

Apparently May was the coldest month ever so far.

racocn8 comments on Jun 1, 2023:

El Nino is here to warm things up...

Harvard’s Avi Loeb Wants to Prove This Meteorite Is an Alien Probe

racocn8 comments on Jun 1, 2023:

What a perfect example of the deranging effects of the debunking cult. Don't confuse me with facts, my mind is made up... Human beings can't fly, I mean, travel faster than light... I can't conceive of it, so it can't happen. (Where have I heard that one?). What a load of projection. Except that China DOES have it's own UFO study. Russia's was Thread-3. Quite a few countries have their own programs (Chile, Italy, UK, France...) I hope Loeb finds his meteor, regardless of whether it's natural or artificial. Finding an extrasolar specimen is absolutely worth it. Even today we have: "Sean Kirkpatrick, a physicist and director of the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), said Wednesday: "We see these ['metallic orbs'] all over the world, and we see these making very interesting apparent maneuvers." https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nasa-confession-pentagon-chief-finally-admits-metallic-orbs-have-been-seen-all-over-the-world/ar-AA1bZXPT?ocid=msedgntp=2e514f9718ff4fef972e9662753a9cab&ei=7 The list of distinguished government officials that have admitted UFOs exist is a long one. More critically, the presence of UFOs in restricted air space and interfering with nuclear weapons is extremely well documented from dozens of both US and foreign servicemembers. (The incident where UFO's ACTIVATED the ICBM firing sequence occurred in Ukraine). At the same time, the Pentagon has maintained a policy of disparagement and gaslighting to forestall disclosure, even in the face of these "drones" causing jets to crash. In addition to the meteor retrieval, Loeb is putting together state-of-the-art astronomical equipment to get decent photography and tracking, seeing as how the Pentagon won't declassify the hundreds of videos and other reports it refuses to release (according to Harry Reid). It is intriguing how the know-nothing debunker cultists demonstrate their utter ignorance of the subject, precisely mirroring the Christian fascists who don't know their own Bible.

They are really getting the best of Uncle Joe, aren't they? LOL

racocn8 comments on Jun 1, 2023:

Say again which one is cognitively impaired?

Making plans for future Florida trips.

racocn8 comments on May 31, 2023:

Would that his 70 million followers would follow him there. Not soon enough for justice, which has already been denied.

I anticipate a load of social media posts about flying saucers and aliens by this weekend.

racocn8 comments on May 31, 2023:

As if NASA would ever be anything more than an embarrassingly obsequious stooge of the Deep State. Let them put the Kecksburg object on display or did they lose that too along with ALL the documentation?

The Real Alice In Wonderland Lewis Carroll Had an Unusual Relationship With - YouTube

racocn8 comments on May 31, 2023:

Creepy? Maybe. But not a single shred of evidence that anything ever happened, nor that any harm transpired. That doesn't stop the narrator from making that exact inference in every other sentence. I'd say the producer of this video is at least as suspect as Dodgson. I classify this as the same as how Christian fascists get a hard-on when denouncing gays.

Finally the mystery is solved

racocn8 comments on May 31, 2023:

Camel-toes have a clitoris?

Letters From An American 05/30/2023

racocn8 comments on May 31, 2023:

I'm outraged at the way the industrial side of the Military Industrial Complex charges multiples of what their parts and services actually cost when they have sole-bidder contracts. I support helping Ukraine, but our own military has shown that it doesn't really care whether the US lapses into the same fascism it used to oppose. Indeed, fascism has become the goal of the GQP.

[youtu.be] THE mOODY bLUES Timothy Leary is dead.

racocn8 comments on May 31, 2023:

Extract from Hallucinogen Pharmacology chapter: Ergot: Claviceps purpurea (Hypocreaceae) grows as a fungus on grasses, especially rye. The fruiting stalk looks like a purple-black club-shaped growth. The fruiting body feeds on the grass kernels. Ergotism provides the earliest record of mycotoxicosis or poisoning by toxic molds. Mid-wives passed along the secret to properly dose ergot extracts to aid in childbirth. The ergot extract helped women whose contractions were too weak to expel the baby. Ergot may have been used to induce abortions. In 1976, Linnda R. Caporael suggested that ergotism caused the bizarre behavior of women in Salem (prompting the Salem witch trials). Subsequent research did not support the proposition. Extraction of Ergot yields lysergic acid, and this can be purified and chemically converted to LSD. Albert Hoffman first developed the compound in 1938. In 1947, Sandoz Laboratories began marketing LSD for use in psychiatry, claiming efficacy for schizophrenia, sexual perversion, and even criminal behavior. In the 1950’s and 1960’s, the psychiatrist Humphry Osmond used LSD to treat his patients and reduce their addiction to alcohol. The term "psychedelic" (literally means mind manifesting) comes from Osmond. In 1966, Timothy Leary founded the League for Spiritual Discovery using LSD use as a sacrament. At 200 micrograms (ug), the mid-range dose of LSD demonstrates a singularly potent molecule. The fit in the receptor is so snug that, besides its low dose, the effects last for up to 12 hours. The drug binds tightly to some of the serotonin receptors and thus can prevent sleep. Other effects include reduced appetite, pupil dilation, and sweating. LSD acts as an agonist to the D2 receptor which may cause some of its psychoactivity. LSD binds to most serotonin receptors, but not to the 5-HT3 and 5-HT4 receptor subtypes. The effects of LSD can be blocked by 5-HT2A antagonists. Research suggests that LSD increases glutamate release in the cerebral cortex thus excites this region. Another finding shows cross-tolerance between LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin, reinforcing the notion that they all work the same way, at least in part. The term “microdosing” refers to the practice of consuming low levels of LSD (or psilocybin) to gain stimulation without the high. Producers set the dosages to be 1/10 to 1/20 of the minimum level to hallucinate. In surveys, people microdosing LSD said they did it to enhance performance, to improve their mood or sociability, to obtain relief for physical symptoms, or out of curiosity.

For insurance I have the "gold" plan.

racocn8 comments on May 31, 2023:

The billionaires use their pocket change to bribe the politicians, who then pass laws to keep them in control and with unfettered access to your wallet.

Full blown ads for Xanax in the posts.

racocn8 comments on May 31, 2023:

What is happening in June 2?

I bet there a lot of people here that played with these, so lets see those votes

racocn8 comments on May 31, 2023:

Hammer on pavement...

We just honored the fallen, Trump considers them suckers and losers.

racocn8 comments on May 30, 2023:

I expect the military, including the intelligence agencies, to protect the country from threats, internal and external. They have done an utterly incompetent job in that regard, and appear not to have any interest in improving on their record. Do they have no comment on Cash Patel, or Charles Flynn, or the ridiculous failure to protect the Capitol given the completely public run-up to the insurrection? How is it these 'intelligence' agencies see fit to censor our news (That multiple long guns were confiscated INSIDE the Capitol) so that the GQP can claim the attempted coup was a tourist excursion. With the Christian fascist death wish of disparaging climate change, the military will have its hands full when mass starvation and migration hit this hemisphere. It's all about money until people start dying by the millions. Truthfully, the U.S. ended a long time ago... (Thank you MFing Truman)

Going to talk about the actual term "spiritual awakening".

racocn8 comments on May 30, 2023:

You do you. Perhaps someday you'll clue us in as to what you're talking about. But beware,... You can see how so most people have fallen into this or that rabbit-hole. I've lost a few lifelong friends because they went nuts with guns or anti-vax BS. I'm pretty sure I have lots of company in that experience. Normally it doesn't matter, but I sure don't appreciate these people expecting me to follow them into obsessive psychosis.

INTERNATIONAL CANNABIS NEWS 5/30/20223 The Czech Republic's national drug policy coordinator ...

racocn8 comments on May 30, 2023:

I gather that Czech Republic allows cannabis. The drug policy coordinator is threatening the country? Fire his ass.

CANNABIS BUSINESS 5/30/2023 Canopy Growth Corporation is being targeted with a class action ...

racocn8 comments on May 30, 2023:

Fuck Carnival. I'll remember not to patronize them...

The fact so many of my fellow veterans support this traitor baffles and disgusts me

racocn8 comments on May 30, 2023:

A lot of the servicemen that support Trump are psychopaths that went into the military in hopes of killing people; white Christian fascists. The are too married to their hate of non-whites to pay attention to Trump having said soldiers were fools and suckers. Indeed, those that embrace a traitor and degenerate are fools and suckers.

At an event last night, when I told someone that I was 75% Jewish, they asked me if the other 25% of...

racocn8 comments on May 30, 2023:

I have heard that the percent of secular Jews greatly increased after the Holocaust...

Dream come true - why I love science

racocn8 comments on May 30, 2023:

Too much good stuff...

"Once weapons were manufactured to fight wars, now wars are manufactured to sell weapons" - ...

racocn8 comments on May 30, 2023:

Wars are manufactured to sell OR TEST weapons. (to improve them, of course)

Black and white asswipe.

racocn8 comments on May 30, 2023:

Trump is the answer to anyone who believes in Karma or God's Plan.

The new generation will change the world

racocn8 comments on May 30, 2023:

Does he go through TSA like that?

Uganda: Museveni needs to be buggered 20 times every day for the rest of his life: [abc.

racocn8 comments on May 29, 2023:

And that is exactly what the Christian fascists would do here if they had the chance.

Looking to ([hillstationproperty.com] )?

racocn8 comments on May 28, 2023:

Yes, let's buy a home in another dangerous country jam-packed with poverty, fascism, religious intolerance and insanity...

Are foods being turned into Bioweapons?

racocn8 comments on May 28, 2023:

Based on our experiences with the mRNA COVID-19 shots, which more and more experts are starting to refer to as bioweapons, it’s not farfetched to wonder whether the use of mRNA in livestock might be a form of biowarfare against the public as well, this time through the food supply. Fucking hilarious. It would be a wonderful thing if only it had any truth to it.

This is frightening and so now. [youtu.be]

racocn8 comments on May 28, 2023:

The anti-vax rabbit hole is deep with many warrens and dead ends. What good is keeping your health when you've already lost your mind?

They can probably help some people turn the page, though.

racocn8 comments on May 28, 2023:

Maybe not gay, but it is a certainty that the Bible causes all nature of sexual dysfunction.

Whoever made this is an evil genius...

racocn8 comments on May 27, 2023:

With Roy Cohn as your mentor, a blowjob is nothing.

Could a shooting star hit earth?

racocn8 comments on May 27, 2023:

Is dying ever fun? If it were a star, it's likely the Earth would simply be vaporized and absorbed. Given the vastness of space, one can see why it hasn't happened yet. The latest images of galaxies show how the arms look like swiss cheese or even bread with holes everywhere generated by novae of various sorts. That looks to be a much more probable event: a nova going off and raking the solar system with lethal radiation. Astronomers believe the chondrules comprising many meteors come from matter sprayed into our vicinity by these novae. https://www.google.com/search?q=chondrules=hp&ei=r61yZKHYO-KOur8PtbuyqA0=AOEireoAAAAAZHK7vwcZFy4jaCwdNht0a-QDLrvk-o7i=0ahUKEwjh64nW7Zb_AhVih-4BHbWdDNUQ4dUDCAs=5&oq=chondrules=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_hZoAHAAeACAAU-IAegEkgECMTCYAQCgAQE=gws-wiz

Why did the fish blush? Because it saw the ocean's bottom.

racocn8 comments on May 27, 2023:

And the ocean never wipes...

The results of this survey should provide some positive vibes. [scitechdaily.com]

racocn8 comments on May 27, 2023:

After watching Hal Puthoff in a lecture (Hal Puthoff is on the board of To the Star's Academy. Other members include Chris Mellon and Luis Elizondo. ), I noted he referenced "Thread-3". The video below recounts the recovery of Russian UFO documents, and thus filled some holes in the jigsaw puzzle. https://www.weaponizedpodcast.com/episodes-1/episode-number-13 Other notable items: Garry Nolan interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2DqdOw6Uy4 Mojave Triangle UFO in military airspace witnessed by 50-80 servicepersons out of 29 Palms. https://www.weaponizedpodcast.com/news-1/mojave-triangle-uap

So, Elmer Stewart Rhodes got 18 years for January 6th.

racocn8 comments on May 26, 2023:

We have so many corrupt GQP judges now, getting justice for anything is barely a craps bet.

As an activist I have been wanting to do this for a long time.

racocn8 comments on May 26, 2023:

Given what Walmart is, I would think you would have arranged to get your prescription anywhere else.

Supreme Court Weakens Clean Water Act Protections - Earthjustice

racocn8 comments on May 26, 2023:

Time for these traitors to visit Gitmo permanently. It is long past time that we fight back against the corporate thieves that prosper from corruption. So much for the US's military industrial complex that doesn't and won't protect the country.

Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes sentenced to 18 years for Capitol riot: [bbc.com]

racocn8 comments on May 25, 2023:

Tell me again why all these treasonous thugs evade the 20 year sentence specified by the Constitution? They need some more charges and more years. He should rot in prison, preferably in solitary. Unless he want's to volunteer for organ transplantation... Just pre-mulch or dog food...

From "The Rights of Man", for our non Americans, he was a hero of our revolution and probably the ...

racocn8 comments on May 25, 2023:

Roberts' SCOTUS will be remembered as the most corrupt SCOTUS in US history, which is an extremely high bar to have cleared. Indeed, Biden and the DOJ will be excoriated for not dealing with them forthrightly.

How many Republicans, in the House of Representatives, does it take to change a light bulb?

racocn8 comments on May 25, 2023:

Is that in his recent tweets? (Before he said that he alone could fix it...)

Any guess why?

racocn8 comments on May 25, 2023:

Audrey Jr. wouldn't be so picky... ("You look fat enough...")

Chris Hedges - Why the Conspiracy Theory About Trump and Russia Won't Go Away

racocn8 comments on May 25, 2023:

Hedges began hosting the television show On Contact for the Russian-government owned network RT America in June 2016. (2016–2022) (Wikipedia) Meaning, Hedges is a Russian propagandist, and nothing he says should be viewed outside of that context. (zero credibility) The claim that intelligence agencies had no information about Trump's connections to the Russian government is clearly contradicted by the Mueller Report, by subsequent revelations, and by Trump's ongoing support of Putin. For Hedges, GQP, and others to support Trump tacitly or otherwise remains treason or the most extreme stupidity.

Pandora's (ro)box?

racocn8 comments on May 25, 2023:

Some pretty serious problems with AI chatbots: 1. Bots have no actual interest in honesty or integrity. 2. They lie, misinform and confabulate with no inhibition. 3. They become hostile and abusive almost instantly. They are ill-mannered. 4. They are loaded with biased information and will denigrate any other perspective. 5. They slavishly tow the line supporting Corporate Rule and the corporate worldview. 6. They are incapable of addressing their biases and the misinformation they've been fed. and...? (Probably a whole lot more)

Nature lovers' choice

racocn8 comments on May 25, 2023:

The photo reminded me of my visit this residence near Ukiah. Pretty posh...

What would you choose?

racocn8 comments on May 25, 2023:

Yeah, the red pill. Not even close. (I'd have to be a lot younger for it to be a contest).

I've never been much of a teacher's pet, but I could make an exception

racocn8 comments on May 25, 2023:

That is just torture...

John Eastman asks Supreme Court to wipe away ruling that said evidence showed that he and Trump may ...

racocn8 comments on May 25, 2023:

Hilarious given his own lawyers made the evidence public. However clownish, this turd more than deserves the 20 years specified by the Constitution. (though we'll be lucky if he gets a fraction of it). It should all be spent in Guantanamo, or Death Valley.

Big scary dogs? Yeah they can be. They can also be this. [youtube.com]

racocn8 comments on May 24, 2023:

In my first year in college, I enrolled in Trampoline. One of the students fell the wrong way hitting his mouth on the 'padded' rim. They split their lip and lost a front tooth. Bloody...

Did you know that before acting in Episode IV: A New Hope that Mark Hamills had never seen a single ...

racocn8 comments on May 24, 2023:

If he'd seen the first three, he wouldn't have taken the part...

The worst thing about growing old is that you will likely not live long enough to celebrate the ...

racocn8 comments on May 24, 2023:

I have a long list of people I wished I had killed... (but didn't, not wanting a memory of the experience, and not wanting to risk my freedom).

Ever hear of banana peels in water to fertilize plants.

racocn8 comments on May 24, 2023:

Interesting. But why? Potassium?

Alpha Male Are A Myth That Hijacked Modern Masculinity

racocn8 comments on May 24, 2023:

NOT ONE WORD about religion???!!! OK. I get it. Religion is a third rail, especially for an academic. But honestly, garbage in, garbage out. One cannot write about toxic masculinity, machismo and abusive patriarchy without admitting the most of this BS came from Western religion. Judaism, Christianity and Islam all preach utterly depraved notions of sexuality, repression and pathological aggression. AND, they plainly platform the most destructive messages to women as well. Both sexes lap it up to their detriment, and we see the results; we have a society and culture of pervasive sexism, cruelty and sociopathy. The only new issue here is how the religionists misused the findings of science the same way that Christians adopted eugenics, scientific creationism, etc. for their own perverse purposes.

When a school board or school administrators decide to ban books, films or materials from he school ...

racocn8 comments on May 24, 2023:

It is unlikely that a parent should have any say over what material is presented in a public school to their own child. They certainly shouldn't have any discretion over what is presented within the school to other children. The obvious exceptions being where school administrators or teachers have selected religious materials and practices to be followed. Also obvious is how these overlap: religious citizens may neither smuggle religious material in, nor censor materials to all students that their religion decides to be offensive. Instead, religiously motivated requests for censorship should be viewed the same as bruising of the child. Child Protective Services should be alerted and the relationship investigated. Parents found to be abusive towards their children, whether physically or MENTALLY should have their children removed to foster care.

I will never sit there again..!

racocn8 comments on May 23, 2023:

Moisture damage from a big fart.

'No one can protect you and yours except yourself.

racocn8 comments on May 23, 2023:

Those that are doing the killing are legal gun owners. Gun owners ARE the guilty and lawless!!

The Fascism of Faith Month in the US Congress U.

racocn8 comments on May 23, 2023:

Covid has shown us the way to salvation...

Oh, glad to meet you Admiral, your title is so admirable, similar ranks all seem so general.

racocn8 comments on May 22, 2023:

Wait till you meet the privates...

Spider in my garage. What shall I call him/her?

racocn8 comments on May 22, 2023:

Mush.

Mr Trump has appealed the verdict and has called Ms Carroll's claims a "complete con job.

racocn8 comments on May 22, 2023:

Says a pedophile rapist. We should never let the GQP forget they embraced such a turd.

Yup, been there and done that...

racocn8 comments on May 22, 2023:

Says the asshole that talks to empty chairs in hopes of electing a fascist...

Quite the overachiever, he is

racocn8 comments on May 22, 2023:

Also, failing to register as a foreign agent, bribery, obstruction of justice, rape, pedophilia, sedition, fraud, RICO, conspiracy to kidnap, inciting hate crimes, diversion of public funds, malfeasance, visual blight, and a lot more...

Unhealthy Obsession

racocn8 comments on May 22, 2023:

Sucks to be him. And I mean it really, really sucks... (They probably both have tiny boners)

FEDERAL CANNABIS NEWS 5/22/2023 The Department of Justice and lawyers for a proposed safe ...

racocn8 comments on May 22, 2023:

Googling reproductive harm from CBD yielded this link. In it, they make a bunch of statements that I will simply claim are lies, such as: CBD can cause liver injury. *(If you take 2 grams every 6 hours)* Gastrointestinal distress, most commonly experienced as diarrhea and/or decreased appetite. Changes in mood, most commonly experienced as irritability and agitation. Male reproductive toxicity, or damage to fertility in males or male offspring of females who have been exposed, has been reported in studies of animals... This BS likely comes from an FDA that has been politicized by wing-nuts. The failure to even attempt to address this corruption by Biden is one of the reasons he pisses me off... Propagandizing the public should carry harsh criminal penalties. I know, I know, in my dreams...

STATE CANNABIS NEWS 5/22/2023 The New Hampshire House of Representatives defeated an amendment ...

racocn8 comments on May 22, 2023:

Is there no way to withhold medical treatment with cannabinoids from the fascists? What they REALLY don't like is depriving the local gestapo from using cannabis to beat-up or murder non-whites.

I am in the survey

racocn8 comments on May 22, 2023:

Some of it is wondering what it would be like to have been born that way.

A twisted, sophisticated message for sure; But this was by a famous person nearly 300 years ...

racocn8 comments on May 21, 2023:

One of the foremost problems with Christianity is the hijacking of our language; forcing their lies down our throats by enforcing they own terminology. They embody the evil sins they denounce. Worse, they claim non-believers are morally unguided. This denies our intrinsic morality, and instantly devolves into hateful othering of non-believers. Meanwhile, they give a pass to the atrocities committed by their own.

Republicans Moving on From Book Banning to Jailing Librarians The Washington Post reports that ...

racocn8 comments on May 21, 2023:

Soon they'll ask for a boycott of Jewish businesses and then a Kristallnacht pogrom... (or equivalents). These are the same assholes that claim Nazis were atheists and communists, and Christians would never murder innocents en masse.

OK - let's see if we can escape this apparently endless succession of pale skinned redheads by ...

racocn8 comments on May 21, 2023:

OK, but no RCHs...

Same guys.

racocn8 comments on May 21, 2023:

Fascists love fascism. (Right up to the point where the rope slips over the hood).

More conservatives behaving like jerkwads.

racocn8 comments on May 21, 2023:

The GQP are on the wrong side of history and they are unwise to piss us off...

Have any of you ever used Chatgpt?

racocn8 comments on May 21, 2023:

I've tried a few questions. I found the responses to be 'thoughtful' not unlike the response you got.

World's only known albino giant anteater appears to be thriving in the wild, photos show: ...

racocn8 comments on May 19, 2023:

These so-called scientists think Alvin is so unique that they put a tracking collar on him? How would they like it if aliens abducted them and put chips in their noses? Assholes.

Letters From An American 05/18/2023

racocn8 comments on May 19, 2023:

The GQP 'winning hand' used to be a sharply inclined poker table. Now, they figure they'll just kick the whole thing over and hope that the resulting fascism favors them...

This is worth reviewing again if you know, and required reading if you don't.

racocn8 comments on May 19, 2023:

The bigger problem is that the intelligence agencies DID know a lot of this and let it all happen anyway.

My eyes, my eyes!

racocn8 comments on May 19, 2023:

Bet they both have boners...

The latest overpopulation project covers the subject in the media in Sweden.

racocn8 comments on May 19, 2023:

If one is not part of the solution, then they are the problem. Probably more than a few groups get that and it's likely that they will impose their own solutions...

I remember when I first started writing code on a Commodore 16.

racocn8 comments on May 19, 2023:

I started on a Vic-20 which had all of 5K of random access memory. Of course, you could buy memory extenders to get another 64K or 128K shoving a big cassette in the back. Programs were recorded on cassette tape players! I graduated to the Commodore 64 as I wrote a complex game called Star Empire. I still have samples that I sold, and a trunk-full of C64's, floppy drives and even some games. I'd love to sell them, but it's hardly worth the effort...

Trump Says He Deserves Credit for Every State Abortion Ban

racocn8 comments on May 18, 2023:

All the people who chose not to vote in 2016 deserve credit too...

They took her back, too.

racocn8 comments on May 17, 2023:

I'm impressed they took her back. I'll bet they change their minds...

CNN you have my thoughts and prayers, and you know what that's worth.

racocn8 comments on May 17, 2023:

Microsoft has gotten into the act by platforming the ugliest propaganda from something called the 1945 project. These giant corporations should be knee-capped, broken up and thrown into the wind. I am so sick of wading through treason and lies...

This atheist's kids filmed their bus driver preaching on the way to school

racocn8 comments on May 17, 2023:

Give the kids a whistle and they blow it when he starts his shit. Better yet, the kids tell him that they were discussing him at the firing range and he should buy life insurance...

Every garden needs a grasshopper that is the size of a hamster.

racocn8 comments on May 17, 2023:

Exceptional!!!

Watch out Marjorie!

racocn8 comments on May 17, 2023:

I thought they did it with their teeth??...

I've been watching technology change and advance since the 60s.

racocn8 comments on May 16, 2023:

I am pretty sure that my fiber provider (TV & Internet), Frontier, started collecting my info to sell it. Now, every time I touch the remote, the system freezes for 15 seconds. I believe this is the system pulling up my file so it can append it with my latest keystrokes. This delay is hugely frustrating, and I certainly never intended to let Frontier spy on my every viewing decision. Grrrrr.... (blood pressure rising...)

Ron DeSantis is sending Florida law enforcement and National Guard members to the Texas border ...

racocn8 comments on May 16, 2023:

Another cruel, idiotic stunt. Where's the fucking DOJ???

But it seemed so romantic when we talked about it.

racocn8 comments on May 16, 2023:

Ostriches are way cooler than doves...

FEDERAL CANNABIS NEWS 5/16/2023 President Joe Biden touted his marijuana pardons in a ...

racocn8 comments on May 16, 2023:

The entry about Biden is infuriating. Biden's only claim to fame is that he isn't Trump. Ridiculous. (He ain't no fuckin' Roosevelt. More like Truman or Wilson.)

NOTE TO A FRIEND WHO IS TRAVELING ABROAD I just heard some very interesting news.

racocn8 comments on May 16, 2023:

Finally, another piece of shit prepares to be flushed. The stench from all the other enablers stings the nose like an overused outhouse. That's MAGA America.

Diet sodas are not actually good for your diet, WHO guidance suggests Artificial sweeteners ...

racocn8 comments on May 16, 2023:

And another group of people jump up and down saying how sugar leads to diabetes and causes inflammation to the body in general. Pick your poison...

Agnosticism appears to be rarely discussed, even on a website devoted to it.

racocn8 comments on May 15, 2023:

You've indicated that any response would be a waste of time.

Demi Moore from the 1980s

racocn8 comments on May 15, 2023:

Yikes.

The question was confusing

racocn8 comments on May 15, 2023:

I remember taking a course on nucleic acids. Each week, the prof gave a quick quiz. One week, the quiz was to give and describe the definition of Gibbs Free Energy, which was what was scheduled to be covered in the class. Except, he hadn't covered it yet... That was his cute way of introducing the topic, but also assessing the state of prior understanding among the students.

Once you break the social contract, mercy need not be expected or required.

racocn8 comments on May 15, 2023:

I have often thought that Capital Punishment was inappropriate because: what if the state made a mistake somehow? Indeed, overzealous police & prosecutors have generated convictions of innocent people, proven to be innocent as with the Innocence Project. And yet the desire to see justice boils in those who have been grievously wronged. A fallible solution may come from allowing one or more of the aggrieved party to throw the "switch". Otherwise, life in prison. Perhaps another perspective would be where the absolutist value-system of the offender is recognized and applied back upon that offender. To the extent that their own philosophy sets the punishment, they receive the same ultimate punishment they would seek to impose on innocents. They are NOT innocent in their toxic values (broken social contract), so their execution does not make us equivalent to them. That claim could be problematic. So, what to do with such people? I have faith that either lobotomy or chemical reprogramming may be possible. Then there's Murder Island where such people are simply sequestered on an island or deep underground, and left to their own devices. Suggestions?

[tiktok.com] Kill me now 🙁

racocn8 comments on May 14, 2023:

Reminds me of the wacko wing-nut transhumanists hoping to live forever...

I see my level has changed from 8 to 8.

racocn8 comments on May 14, 2023:

I see I just made 9.0. Do I get a Brownie button or a chest to pin it on? (Ouch!).