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Why is the government and news media not doing a better job of managing this virus?
racocn8 comments on Oct 1, 2020:
My opinion is that Trump is following Putin's instructions. By screwing this up, the destruction of the economy is maximized. Both are psychopaths with no concern for the death toll. Trump's behavior in exploiting cultural flaws in the government reflects massive GRU-style scrutiny. Russia's ...
racocn8 replies on Oct 1, 2020:
@Flowerwall According to the attached graph, that list would be Germany, South Korea, maybe Italy. (Probably China too).
As to the governors, NY, NJ and CA have done as well as they could with limited resources and open travel. NY and CA have sought to enact their own programs of testing, and track and trace where feasible. The Northeast states have also had minimal effect so far, though probably more due to using masks, SD. The inability to limit travel or to enact test/track/trace makes it a near lost-cause.
racocn8 comments on Oct 1, 2020:
My opinion is that Trump is following Putin's instructions. By screwing this up, the destruction of the economy is maximized. Both are psychopaths with no concern for the death toll. Trump's behavior in exploiting cultural flaws in the government reflects massive GRU-style scrutiny. Russia's ...
racocn8 replies on Oct 1, 2020:
@Flowerwall According to the attached graph, that list would be Germany, South Korea, maybe Italy. (Probably China too).
As to the governors, NY, NJ and CA have done as well as they could with limited resources and open travel. NY and CA have sought to enact their own programs of testing, and track and trace where feasible. The Northeast states have also had minimal effect so far, though probably more due to using masks, SD. The inability to limit travel or to enact test/track/trace makes it a near lost-cause.
We are at a crossroads, even if Biden is elected.
JackPedigo comments on Oct 1, 2020:
The republican party has lowered the bar sooo low we can only go up. However, the Democrats can get a message from all the shenanigans from the conservative and play a few tricks of their own. They can try to get an impeachment going for the new so-called judges or, it has been said, they can ...
racocn8 replies on Oct 1, 2020:
I am hoping that somewhere in the FBI or in another agency, a counter-intelligence investigation is ongoing. Plainly a lot of senators and representatives are compromised. Somehow, these people would be notified that the jig is up and invited to leave or else. Following that purge, announcements would be made disclosing that Trump and McConnell were working as stooges and following Putin's orders. That being the case, all judicial appointments would also come under review by the new administration and those that were obviously not qualified or culturally inappropriate (wing nuts) would be out of a job. That's my fantasy best case scenario.
JackPedigo comments on Oct 1, 2020:
The republican party has lowered the bar sooo low we can only go up. However, the Democrats can get a message from all the shenanigans from the conservative and play a few tricks of their own. They can try to get an impeachment going for the new so-called judges or, it has been said, they can ...
racocn8 replies on Oct 1, 2020:
I am hoping that somewhere in the FBI or in another agency, a counter-intelligence investigation is ongoing. Plainly a lot of senators and representatives are compromised. Somehow, these people would be notified that the jig is up and invited to leave or else. Following that purge, announcements would be made disclosing that Trump and McConnell were working as stooges and following Putin's orders. That being the case, all judicial appointments would also come under review by the new administration and those that were obviously not qualified or culturally inappropriate (wing nuts) would be out of a job. That's my fantasy best case scenario.
We are at a crossroads, even if Biden is elected.
zeuser comments on Oct 1, 2020:
I've been wondering since the embarrassment of the American empire in Vietnam, the criminality of Nixon, through the travesty of the deification of deficits under Reagan, the corporatization of the democrats under Clinton, the expensive debt exploding folly of the blunder into Afghanistan and Iraq ...
racocn8 replies on Oct 1, 2020:
@JackPedigo With Trump's finger on the button, he is loony enough to press it to see what happens. Helloooo, How do you give the football to someone without ensuring he is sane enough to have that responsibility?
zeuser comments on Oct 1, 2020:
I've been wondering since the embarrassment of the American empire in Vietnam, the criminality of Nixon, through the travesty of the deification of deficits under Reagan, the corporatization of the democrats under Clinton, the expensive debt exploding folly of the blunder into Afghanistan and Iraq ...
racocn8 replies on Oct 1, 2020:
@JackPedigo With Trump's finger on the button, he is loony enough to press it to see what happens. Helloooo, How do you give the football to someone without ensuring he is sane enough to have that responsibility?
We are at a crossroads, even if Biden is elected.
Redheadedgammy comments on Oct 1, 2020:
Where does that leave our Country? Up shit creek without a paddle.😒
racocn8 replies on Oct 1, 2020:
We've been up that creek since the 50's thanks to Truman's Nat'l Security Act that created the real Deep State/Military Industrial Intelligence Complex.
Redheadedgammy comments on Oct 1, 2020:
Where does that leave our Country? Up shit creek without a paddle.😒
racocn8 replies on Oct 1, 2020:
We've been up that creek since the 50's thanks to Truman's Nat'l Security Act that created the real Deep State/Military Industrial Intelligence Complex.
Given the presidential election debate performance, should other debates proceed?
If so, why?
Killtheskyfairy comments on Oct 1, 2020:
Personally, I think the debates should be held remotely on zoom so there’s no possibility of bullying and blustering. The person whose turn it is, is unmuted for answer and then muted for rebuttal from opponent. Times are respected and no one can talk over someone else.
It’s 2020, we have ...
racocn8 replies on Oct 1, 2020:
If it should change to something like you describe, I am hoping that Trump's uncontrollable motor-mouth will. when he is muted, make him appear absurdly foolish. Frankly, I'm pretty sure that would only last for a few minutes and he'd walk off.
Killtheskyfairy comments on Oct 1, 2020:
Personally, I think the debates should be held remotely on zoom so there’s no possibility of bullying and blustering. The person whose turn it is, is unmuted for answer and then muted for rebuttal from opponent. Times are respected and no one can talk over someone else.
It’s 2020, we have ...
racocn8 replies on Oct 1, 2020:
If it should change to something like you describe, I am hoping that Trump's uncontrollable motor-mouth will. when he is muted, make him appear absurdly foolish. Frankly, I'm pretty sure that would only last for a few minutes and he'd walk off.
"This Country is Not Well":
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Freedompath comments on Sep 30, 2020:
Some of this I can go along with, part of it isn’t valid critique to me. Yes...the Country is in trouble, BIG TIME! People from all walks of life are speaking out, they’ve written books with first hand knowledge of what is ‘going down’ and what do they get? Agreement from lots of people ...
racocn8 replies on Sep 30, 2020:
The problem is that, even if Democrats get the House, and Senate, and even the presidency, nothing significant will get done. The Republicans are a psychotic criminal treasonous party, even with Trump gone. Joe is too middle of the road and still has dreams of bringing the country together. You can't govern with a chimpanzee throwing shit at you. Even with Democrat majorities, Putin has enough Democrat stooges to thwart meaningful legislation. They used to be boll weevils, now they're Putin-weevils.
Freedompath comments on Sep 30, 2020:
Some of this I can go along with, part of it isn’t valid critique to me. Yes...the Country is in trouble, BIG TIME! People from all walks of life are speaking out, they’ve written books with first hand knowledge of what is ‘going down’ and what do they get? Agreement from lots of people ...
racocn8 replies on Sep 30, 2020:
The problem is that, even if Democrats get the House, and Senate, and even the presidency, nothing significant will get done. The Republicans are a psychotic criminal treasonous party, even with Trump gone. Joe is too middle of the road and still has dreams of bringing the country together. You can't govern with a chimpanzee throwing shit at you. Even with Democrat majorities, Putin has enough Democrat stooges to thwart meaningful legislation. They used to be boll weevils, now they're Putin-weevils.
We are at a crossroads, even if Biden is elected.
Freedompath comments on Sep 30, 2020:
I agree with you, if some unknown block cannot keep her off the Court, then the Dems will need to add more judges! However, it just occurred to me, if a judge does not follow the Constitution, can they be removed?
racocn8 replies on Sep 30, 2020:
It probably depends on how serious it is. Of course there's nothing about abortion in the constitution, and the constitution says nothing about rights of privacy. The latter has been discussed as needing an amendment after Snowden's revelations. Or, maybe you were referencing Stare Decisis, the obligation to follow precedent. I believe it has been argued that Citizen's United violated that one, and nothing happened, except outrage.
Freedompath comments on Sep 30, 2020:
I agree with you, if some unknown block cannot keep her off the Court, then the Dems will need to add more judges! However, it just occurred to me, if a judge does not follow the Constitution, can they be removed?
racocn8 replies on Sep 30, 2020:
It probably depends on how serious it is. Of course there's nothing about abortion in the constitution, and the constitution says nothing about rights of privacy. The latter has been discussed as needing an amendment after Snowden's revelations. Or, maybe you were referencing Stare Decisis, the obligation to follow precedent. I believe it has been argued that Citizen's United violated that one, and nothing happened, except outrage.
Just when I think I've found all the males in my garden, I find another, this little 8-incher was ...
freeofgod comments on Sep 30, 2020:
Could the regular spaced dots on #8 and 10 be thc oozing out? I noticed in the background of the same photos there are smaller white dots that seem to follow the same pattern.
racocn8 replies on Sep 30, 2020:
@glennlab It is my understanding that the THC/CBD and terpenes are within the trichomes. You don't get too many trichomes on the males. I have attached a picture that shows these on a flower. You may have to zoom in. Trichomes are a general class of structures that protrude from leaf surfaces.
https://www.medicaljane.com/2017/03/11/trichomes/
As for the regularly spaced large white dots, I tried to research what those are and couldn't find anything. It may be at a scale that no one has bothered to name them. I don't know what those are. I don't believe they are insect eggs. They are on all of the pollen sacs and I believe they are part of the sacs, purpose unknown. They are much bigger than the pollen.
On the picture with the ruler, the pollen are quite tiny. I estimated them to be 43 microns or micrometers, though I saw a picture that suggested they were more like 22 um.
freeofgod comments on Sep 30, 2020:
Could the regular spaced dots on #8 and 10 be thc oozing out? I noticed in the background of the same photos there are smaller white dots that seem to follow the same pattern.
racocn8 replies on Sep 30, 2020:
@glennlab It is my understanding that the THC/CBD and terpenes are within the trichomes. You don't get too many trichomes on the males. I have attached a picture that shows these on a flower. You may have to zoom in. Trichomes are a general class of structures that protrude from leaf surfaces.
https://www.medicaljane.com/2017/03/11/trichomes/
As for the regularly spaced large white dots, I tried to research what those are and couldn't find anything. It may be at a scale that no one has bothered to name them. I don't know what those are. I don't believe they are insect eggs. They are on all of the pollen sacs and I believe they are part of the sacs, purpose unknown. They are much bigger than the pollen.
On the picture with the ruler, the pollen are quite tiny. I estimated them to be 43 microns or micrometers, though I saw a picture that suggested they were more like 22 um.
Hearing the pandemic death toll mount day after day is gut-wrenching.
Cutiebeauty comments on Sep 28, 2020:
Why didn't Trump stop the pandemic?
Because it initially began in blue states...
racocn8 replies on Sep 28, 2020:
@Cutiebeauty I don't think Trump cares about the US enough to intentionally let people die to actually improve economic performance. The question always boils down to what's in it for him. I'm sticking with: it makes Putin happy/Putin told me to do it (I'm always open to other suggestions tho). I very much appreciate your response.
Cutiebeauty comments on Sep 28, 2020:
Why didn't Trump stop the pandemic?
Because it initially began in blue states...
racocn8 replies on Sep 28, 2020:
@Cutiebeauty I don't think Trump cares about the US enough to intentionally let people die to actually improve economic performance. The question always boils down to what's in it for him. I'm sticking with: it makes Putin happy/Putin told me to do it (I'm always open to other suggestions tho). I very much appreciate your response.
Reversing or gutting Roe v.
LucyLoohoo comments on Sep 27, 2020:
That's one way to look at it but....overturning Roe would NOT be a good thing. I see so many women in dire circumstances, desperate to end their pregnancy! I wish every one of these ''right to lifers'' could come and sit with me at Planned Parenthood and really, genuinely LISTEN!
racocn8 replies on Sep 28, 2020:
@LucyLoohoo I want to express my appreciation for your reply. I hadn't heard of hyperemesis gravidarum. It sounds like we still need better forms of birth control, cheaper and more reliable. I salute you for your work and encourage you to stick with it. Your willingness to take on the emotional pain is extremely commendable.
LucyLoohoo comments on Sep 27, 2020:
That's one way to look at it but....overturning Roe would NOT be a good thing. I see so many women in dire circumstances, desperate to end their pregnancy! I wish every one of these ''right to lifers'' could come and sit with me at Planned Parenthood and really, genuinely LISTEN!
racocn8 replies on Sep 28, 2020:
@LucyLoohoo I want to express my appreciation for your reply. I hadn't heard of hyperemesis gravidarum. It sounds like we still need better forms of birth control, cheaper and more reliable. I salute you for your work and encourage you to stick with it. Your willingness to take on the emotional pain is extremely commendable.
Hearing the pandemic death toll mount day after day is gut-wrenching.
Cutiebeauty comments on Sep 28, 2020:
Why didn't Trump stop the pandemic?
Because it initially began in blue states...
racocn8 replies on Sep 28, 2020:
Very good point. Still, wouldn't he have been briefed that it wouldn't stay there? It will be interesting to see the effect on the election in that the pandemic appears to be gearing up to totally hammer the red states. The MAGA could be limping to the polls. Trump's encouragement should bestow herd immunity on those morons in record time. And, chances are they'll have a maximal fatality rate given their macho arrogance. I just hope the non-whites reduce their losses by being safe, when they can.
Cutiebeauty comments on Sep 28, 2020:
Why didn't Trump stop the pandemic?
Because it initially began in blue states...
racocn8 replies on Sep 28, 2020:
Very good point. Still, wouldn't he have been briefed that it wouldn't stay there? It will be interesting to see the effect on the election in that the pandemic appears to be gearing up to totally hammer the red states. The MAGA could be limping to the polls. Trump's encouragement should bestow herd immunity on those morons in record time. And, chances are they'll have a maximal fatality rate given their macho arrogance. I just hope the non-whites reduce their losses by being safe, when they can.
I want justice for being imprisoned, and getting the Trump golden water torture of drip, drip, drip,...
Pralina1 comments on Sep 28, 2020:
I don’t care for his supporters and don’t care what happens to them . What worse can happen to them ?? Stupidity is a pretty bad already . They got their punishment for life , and stupidity is never good news one way or another .
What I care is for this asshole to be out of here . Preferably in...
racocn8 replies on Sep 28, 2020:
So Putin just takes over, Checkmate? What happened to American Exceptionalism? No one but no one will ever be able to use that term with a straight face ever again. What a fucking joke. Half the country will vote for a proven traitor and asset for a hostile foreign power? This has to be a twilight zone episode. Hell, it's not even good TV. We don't need fucking aliens to have Monsters on a Maple Street, just Trump's secret police. Where's the goddamn Military Industrial Complex when you need them? If Putin takes over, where ya gonna sell all those weapon systems?
As far as their stupidity, they embrace being deplorable which is a good bookend for their delusions. I'd like to see their religion in tatters, and them having nowhere to go. For a start...
Pralina1 comments on Sep 28, 2020:
I don’t care for his supporters and don’t care what happens to them . What worse can happen to them ?? Stupidity is a pretty bad already . They got their punishment for life , and stupidity is never good news one way or another .
What I care is for this asshole to be out of here . Preferably in...
racocn8 replies on Sep 28, 2020:
So Putin just takes over, Checkmate? What happened to American Exceptionalism? No one but no one will ever be able to use that term with a straight face ever again. What a fucking joke. Half the country will vote for a proven traitor and asset for a hostile foreign power? This has to be a twilight zone episode. Hell, it's not even good TV. We don't need fucking aliens to have Monsters on a Maple Street, just Trump's secret police. Where's the goddamn Military Industrial Complex when you need them? If Putin takes over, where ya gonna sell all those weapon systems?
As far as their stupidity, they embrace being deplorable which is a good bookend for their delusions. I'd like to see their religion in tatters, and them having nowhere to go. For a start...
Hearing the pandemic death toll mount day after day is gut-wrenching.
OldMetalHead comments on Sep 28, 2020:
All of your choices seem to assume he had a plan. I think the closest thing he had to a plan was "sacrifice some elderly and already sick for the economy/reelection". Since then, he's just too narcissistic to admit he was wrong.
racocn8 replies on Sep 28, 2020:
Plainly Trump has made a large number of very strategic moves. The moves are so strategic that they appear far outside the competence of Trump's team. Given that Trump is a proven stooge for Putin, these moves are best understood as having come from Putin. It boggles one's credulity that Trump would slow-walk the pandemic response on Putin's instructions. Apparently he is utterly devoid of patriotism even as he wraps himself in the flag. It is a level of hypocrisy that is breathtaking in its extremity. I am inclined to agree with your inference, Trump has the attitude that those dying are expendable. If wounded and killed soldiers are losers and suckers, where does that leave seniors?
OldMetalHead comments on Sep 28, 2020:
All of your choices seem to assume he had a plan. I think the closest thing he had to a plan was "sacrifice some elderly and already sick for the economy/reelection". Since then, he's just too narcissistic to admit he was wrong.
racocn8 replies on Sep 28, 2020:
Plainly Trump has made a large number of very strategic moves. The moves are so strategic that they appear far outside the competence of Trump's team. Given that Trump is a proven stooge for Putin, these moves are best understood as having come from Putin. It boggles one's credulity that Trump would slow-walk the pandemic response on Putin's instructions. Apparently he is utterly devoid of patriotism even as he wraps himself in the flag. It is a level of hypocrisy that is breathtaking in its extremity. I am inclined to agree with your inference, Trump has the attitude that those dying are expendable. If wounded and killed soldiers are losers and suckers, where does that leave seniors?
Reversing or gutting Roe v.
LucyLoohoo comments on Sep 27, 2020:
That's one way to look at it but....overturning Roe would NOT be a good thing. I see so many women in dire circumstances, desperate to end their pregnancy! I wish every one of these ''right to lifers'' could come and sit with me at Planned Parenthood and really, genuinely LISTEN!
racocn8 replies on Sep 27, 2020:
C'mon, they have their fingers securely planted in their ears, and there's no digging them out.
Can't Planned Parenthood do a failure analysis and reduce abortions by addressing the causes? Is the problem logistics? Cost? Competence? There are so many forms of contraception to pick from. it seems potentially ugly as to why abortions still take place at all.
LucyLoohoo comments on Sep 27, 2020:
That's one way to look at it but....overturning Roe would NOT be a good thing. I see so many women in dire circumstances, desperate to end their pregnancy! I wish every one of these ''right to lifers'' could come and sit with me at Planned Parenthood and really, genuinely LISTEN!
racocn8 replies on Sep 27, 2020:
C'mon, they have their fingers securely planted in their ears, and there's no digging them out.
Can't Planned Parenthood do a failure analysis and reduce abortions by addressing the causes? Is the problem logistics? Cost? Competence? There are so many forms of contraception to pick from. it seems potentially ugly as to why abortions still take place at all.
Reversing or gutting Roe v.
Freedompath comments on Sep 27, 2020:
Your last thought is very interesting. Something else, what pretense issue would they motivate the Evangelicals with after that?
racocn8 replies on Sep 27, 2020:
Contraception is next. Creationism is also waiting in the wings.
What is critical is that states still set the law, so abortion will only be illegal in the red states. As people leave the churches, and non-white populations expand, red states will shift purple and even anti-abortion laws will be eliminated. It will be a short, if obnoxious revolution. Christianity will revert to the weirdo cult it really is.
Freedompath comments on Sep 27, 2020:
Your last thought is very interesting. Something else, what pretense issue would they motivate the Evangelicals with after that?
racocn8 replies on Sep 27, 2020:
Contraception is next. Creationism is also waiting in the wings.
What is critical is that states still set the law, so abortion will only be illegal in the red states. As people leave the churches, and non-white populations expand, red states will shift purple and even anti-abortion laws will be eliminated. It will be a short, if obnoxious revolution. Christianity will revert to the weirdo cult it really is.
Things Exist Without Being Tangable | Ram - New Delhi, India | Atheist Experience 21.08 - YouTube
Triphid comments on Sep 27, 2020:
Geez Louise, what are they putting the water over there in India?
racocn8 replies on Sep 27, 2020:
Too much naval contemplation. If it had a shred of utility, it wouldn't be so laughable.
Triphid comments on Sep 27, 2020:
Geez Louise, what are they putting the water over there in India?
racocn8 replies on Sep 27, 2020:
Too much naval contemplation. If it had a shred of utility, it wouldn't be so laughable.
Personal Experience of God Through Meditation | Ram - New Delhi, India | Atheist Experience 22.
racocn8 comments on Sep 26, 2020:
Congratulations on having a gratifying experience. Even better if you can apply something you learned.
A lot of different experiences are possible from meditation or drugs, but unless they can provide actual new information that can be shared and put to use, where are you going with the story? ...
racocn8 replies on Sep 27, 2020:
@Paganlyl To what are you referring?
racocn8 comments on Sep 26, 2020:
Congratulations on having a gratifying experience. Even better if you can apply something you learned.
A lot of different experiences are possible from meditation or drugs, but unless they can provide actual new information that can be shared and put to use, where are you going with the story? ...
racocn8 replies on Sep 27, 2020:
@Paganlyl To what are you referring?
The SCOTUS has become an Evangelistic’s male wet dream!!!
The obstructionist republicans ...
KKGator comments on Sep 26, 2020:
FUCK HER.
racocn8 replies on Sep 26, 2020:
But only after making her properly submissive.
KKGator comments on Sep 26, 2020:
FUCK HER.
racocn8 replies on Sep 26, 2020:
But only after making her properly submissive.
I have never been depressed nor disgusted over a President in my life until Trump.
Lavergne comments on Sep 24, 2020:
His followers will not believe any of the negative things being said about him......until the chickens come home to roost. When they see their health insurance disappear (ACA...poof) and then the Medicaid goes bye bye. Their kids don't get the free school lunches anymore....and the last shoe to...
racocn8 replies on Sep 25, 2020:
@Redheadedgammy And getting rid of Roe. So it's sexist racist bigots. Or, just hate mongers...
Lavergne comments on Sep 24, 2020:
His followers will not believe any of the negative things being said about him......until the chickens come home to roost. When they see their health insurance disappear (ACA...poof) and then the Medicaid goes bye bye. Their kids don't get the free school lunches anymore....and the last shoe to...
racocn8 replies on Sep 25, 2020:
@Redheadedgammy And getting rid of Roe. So it's sexist racist bigots. Or, just hate mongers...
America has a sheep tick on It's ass who wants to stay in the WH forever and bask in his own glory ...
BitFlipper comments on Sep 24, 2020:
His people DO love him, and I'm starting to understand why. His disciples are so afraid of the emerging world that they would rather see our country destroyed than permit continued evolution. For them it's a mercy killing. They see no alternative, and they blame us Libtards for it all.
racocn8 replies on Sep 25, 2020:
@BirdMan1 I'm sure you're familiar with the term "Future-Shock.' I remember it was William Proxmire who awarded researchers with a waste award after their findings of Future Shock among Iranians essentially predicted the Shah's overthrow. The researchers correlated the rise of religious conservatives. Very much the same as we are now seeing here.
BitFlipper comments on Sep 24, 2020:
His people DO love him, and I'm starting to understand why. His disciples are so afraid of the emerging world that they would rather see our country destroyed than permit continued evolution. For them it's a mercy killing. They see no alternative, and they blame us Libtards for it all.
racocn8 replies on Sep 25, 2020:
@BirdMan1 I'm sure you're familiar with the term "Future-Shock.' I remember it was William Proxmire who awarded researchers with a waste award after their findings of Future Shock among Iranians essentially predicted the Shah's overthrow. The researchers correlated the rise of religious conservatives. Very much the same as we are now seeing here.
I thought it would be useful to put these three videos together.
wolf041 comments on Sep 24, 2020:
And the religious right will still think he's a saint after seeing this. You can't fix delusional.
racocn8 replies on Sep 24, 2020:
You can, but it might require surgery.
wolf041 comments on Sep 24, 2020:
And the religious right will still think he's a saint after seeing this. You can't fix delusional.
racocn8 replies on Sep 24, 2020:
You can, but it might require surgery.
Let's make this crystal clear
HumanistJohn comments on Sep 23, 2020:
Not quite sure about that.
They envisioned both- that's why there were/are checks-and-balances.
But they didn't envision both at the same timr.
racocn8 replies on Sep 23, 2020:
It reminds me of my refinery days when we were tasked to find every possible fault and how to deal with it. One of the rules was to forego double jeopardy where two elements failed at the same time, because that created an exponentially large set of failure modes to address.
The problem here is that we are dealing with human agency (Putin) intent on exploiting multiple faults simultaneously. Again, the better analogy is the Stuxnet attack on Iran's nuclear processing. The virus exploited multiple zero-day defects, meaning they had never been deployed before and thus no countermeasures were present to stop them.
HumanistJohn comments on Sep 23, 2020:
Not quite sure about that.
They envisioned both- that's why there were/are checks-and-balances.
But they didn't envision both at the same timr.
racocn8 replies on Sep 23, 2020:
It reminds me of my refinery days when we were tasked to find every possible fault and how to deal with it. One of the rules was to forego double jeopardy where two elements failed at the same time, because that created an exponentially large set of failure modes to address.
The problem here is that we are dealing with human agency (Putin) intent on exploiting multiple faults simultaneously. Again, the better analogy is the Stuxnet attack on Iran's nuclear processing. The virus exploited multiple zero-day defects, meaning they had never been deployed before and thus no countermeasures were present to stop them.
I thought it would be useful to put these three videos together.
zeuser comments on Sep 23, 2020:
Oh that poor sweet woman! She is ruined, she may never recover, this was awful to watch.. This monster is the president. I just, I can't...
racocn8 replies on Sep 23, 2020:
Yeah. Ugh. Even with her face blurred, her credibility is 100%. Compared to Tara Reade at 0%, another psycho for Bernie.
zeuser comments on Sep 23, 2020:
Oh that poor sweet woman! She is ruined, she may never recover, this was awful to watch.. This monster is the president. I just, I can't...
racocn8 replies on Sep 23, 2020:
Yeah. Ugh. Even with her face blurred, her credibility is 100%. Compared to Tara Reade at 0%, another psycho for Bernie.
It appears that Labor Day kicked Covid into high gear and we're getting a spike.
BirdMan1 comments on Sep 22, 2020:
Mid-west in trouble, is it?
racocn8 replies on Sep 22, 2020:
For the moment, that's what the data shows. All those red-hatted morons will wonder if defeating ROE was worth living in poverty to cover their new kidney dialysis.
BirdMan1 comments on Sep 22, 2020:
Mid-west in trouble, is it?
racocn8 replies on Sep 22, 2020:
For the moment, that's what the data shows. All those red-hatted morons will wonder if defeating ROE was worth living in poverty to cover their new kidney dialysis.
Casualty 200,001 = CDC
WonderWartHog99 comments on Sep 22, 2020:
## Is India still number one?
racocn8 replies on Sep 22, 2020:
That depends on how you look at it. Per the website, India is at 88K dead, less than half the US number. The US also led the number of cases at 6.8M, followed by India, Brazil and Russia having 5.5M, 4.5M, and 1.1M respectively. San Marino, a tiny microcountry inside Italy had the highest death rate of 124/100K. The US took 11th place with 61/100K. You can click on the headings to resort the data:
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
WonderWartHog99 comments on Sep 22, 2020:
## Is India still number one?
racocn8 replies on Sep 22, 2020:
That depends on how you look at it. Per the website, India is at 88K dead, less than half the US number. The US also led the number of cases at 6.8M, followed by India, Brazil and Russia having 5.5M, 4.5M, and 1.1M respectively. San Marino, a tiny microcountry inside Italy had the highest death rate of 124/100K. The US took 11th place with 61/100K. You can click on the headings to resort the data:
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
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"A white business owner charged with ...
HippieChick58 comments on Sep 21, 2020:
Other sources in Omaha have said that Gardner was messing around with some Oregon pot growers... I don't know if justice was served or not, but he really wasn't a nice guy and I'm glad he is out of Omaha.
racocn8 replies on Sep 21, 2020:
It sounded like he was bringing it up from Mexico for a while. He may have been caught; At one point he went to prison, and perhaps that's where he got the swastika tattoo. Probably he associated with the white supremacists in prison, helping to radicalize him. He was in the business of cannabis, so his spending time in Oregon and Northern California was possibly for that reason. Some parts of Oregon are rife with white nationalists; It's survivalist country. Although he doesn't deserve sympathy, I could speculate that he used weed to help deal with PTSD from his time in Iraq.
HippieChick58 comments on Sep 21, 2020:
Other sources in Omaha have said that Gardner was messing around with some Oregon pot growers... I don't know if justice was served or not, but he really wasn't a nice guy and I'm glad he is out of Omaha.
racocn8 replies on Sep 21, 2020:
It sounded like he was bringing it up from Mexico for a while. He may have been caught; At one point he went to prison, and perhaps that's where he got the swastika tattoo. Probably he associated with the white supremacists in prison, helping to radicalize him. He was in the business of cannabis, so his spending time in Oregon and Northern California was possibly for that reason. Some parts of Oregon are rife with white nationalists; It's survivalist country. Although he doesn't deserve sympathy, I could speculate that he used weed to help deal with PTSD from his time in Iraq.
Not only Russian girls !!
Spongebob comments on Sep 20, 2020:
True love is transactional for them. Who is to say they are wrong? 😂
racocn8 replies on Sep 20, 2020:
Far too many marriages are transactional for the same reason. Men and Women settle for much less because people are shit (Destroyed by their upbringing, religion and 'culture').
Spongebob comments on Sep 20, 2020:
True love is transactional for them. Who is to say they are wrong? 😂
racocn8 replies on Sep 20, 2020:
Far too many marriages are transactional for the same reason. Men and Women settle for much less because people are shit (Destroyed by their upbringing, religion and 'culture').
Should Women have reproductive freedoms?
resserts comments on Sep 19, 2020:
54% of women voted for Clinton in 2016; 41% voted for Trump.
By contrast, 52% of men voted for Trump; 41% voted for Clinton.
It was white, middle-aged men who were statistically most responsible for electing Trump.
*Source: https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-2016 *
racocn8 replies on Sep 19, 2020:
I stand corrected. I based the statement on what I had heard and it has some basis, albeit possibly incorrect. The article describes the misinformation...
"The idea that 52% of white women voted for Trump—compared to 43% who supported Hillary Clinton—comes from the 2016 exit polls,..."
https://time.com/5422644/trump-white-women-2016/
resserts comments on Sep 19, 2020:
54% of women voted for Clinton in 2016; 41% voted for Trump.
By contrast, 52% of men voted for Trump; 41% voted for Clinton.
It was white, middle-aged men who were statistically most responsible for electing Trump.
*Source: https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-2016 *
racocn8 replies on Sep 19, 2020:
I stand corrected. I based the statement on what I had heard and it has some basis, albeit possibly incorrect. The article describes the misinformation...
"The idea that 52% of white women voted for Trump—compared to 43% who supported Hillary Clinton—comes from the 2016 exit polls,..."
https://time.com/5422644/trump-white-women-2016/
Should Women have reproductive freedoms?
Cutiebeauty comments on Sep 19, 2020:
What about all the foolish men who voted for trump? Should we cut off their cocks so they don't have reproductive freedom?
racocn8 replies on Sep 19, 2020:
I'm totally down with that too.
Cutiebeauty comments on Sep 19, 2020:
What about all the foolish men who voted for trump? Should we cut off their cocks so they don't have reproductive freedom?
racocn8 replies on Sep 19, 2020:
I'm totally down with that too.
Here is my latest theory on Q-Anon.
BirdMan1 comments on Sep 17, 2020:
My hunch has been that it is Putin, as the thesis of QAnon so closely resembles the old KGB bull shit, known as "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." And it feeds into the discredited myth of the Jews feeding on Xtian babies.
Could be the Family, and any combination of groups with a dastardly ...
racocn8 replies on Sep 17, 2020:
That was my first guess. The problem with that is the lack of Christian mention. Also, there's a general lack of referencing the extreme racism and bigotry of Trump. The GRU has sought to create division in that way in the rest of its propaganda, so it makes no sense that they'd steer clear of it in this genre. Christians are self-conscious about their bigotry and DO try to hide it, unless that's the focus, as with the Klan. Similarly, Q pretends to a degree of ecumenism, even depicting Muslims is an inoffensive light. Putin wouldn't do that.
BirdMan1 comments on Sep 17, 2020:
My hunch has been that it is Putin, as the thesis of QAnon so closely resembles the old KGB bull shit, known as "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." And it feeds into the discredited myth of the Jews feeding on Xtian babies.
Could be the Family, and any combination of groups with a dastardly ...
racocn8 replies on Sep 17, 2020:
That was my first guess. The problem with that is the lack of Christian mention. Also, there's a general lack of referencing the extreme racism and bigotry of Trump. The GRU has sought to create division in that way in the rest of its propaganda, so it makes no sense that they'd steer clear of it in this genre. Christians are self-conscious about their bigotry and DO try to hide it, unless that's the focus, as with the Klan. Similarly, Q pretends to a degree of ecumenism, even depicting Muslims is an inoffensive light. Putin wouldn't do that.
How do you and your partner go about choosing positions?
nicknotes comments on Sep 17, 2020:
IS "AROUND THE WORLD" a 360?
racocn8 replies on Sep 17, 2020:
That make perfect sense to me, except that it describes the use of several positions, not the next position to be taken. I'd think that multiple positions are relatively standard. Only at my age do I go for one and that's enough.
nicknotes comments on Sep 17, 2020:
IS "AROUND THE WORLD" a 360?
racocn8 replies on Sep 17, 2020:
That make perfect sense to me, except that it describes the use of several positions, not the next position to be taken. I'd think that multiple positions are relatively standard. Only at my age do I go for one and that's enough.
Here is my latest theory on Q-Anon.
Lorajay comments on Sep 17, 2020:
Please explain who the family is.
racocn8 replies on Sep 17, 2020:
Wikipedia: "The Fellowship, also known as The Family[2][3][4] and the International Foundation,[5] is a U.S.-based religious and political organization founded in 1935 by Abraham Vereide. The stated purpose of The Fellowship is to provide a fellowship forum for decision makers to share in Bible studies, prayer meetings, worship of God, and to experience spiritual affirmation and support.[6][7]
The Fellowship has been described as one of the most politically well-connected and most secretly-funded ministries in the United States. They shun publicity and its members share a vow of secrecy.[8] The Fellowship's former leader, the late Douglas Coe, and others have explained the organization's desire for secrecy by citing biblical admonitions against public displays of good works, insisting they would not be able to tackle diplomatically sensitive missions if they drew public attention.[8]
The Fellowship holds one regular public event each year, the National Prayer Breakfast, ...."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fellowship_(Christian_organization)
Lorajay comments on Sep 17, 2020:
Please explain who the family is.
racocn8 replies on Sep 17, 2020:
Wikipedia: "The Fellowship, also known as The Family[2][3][4] and the International Foundation,[5] is a U.S.-based religious and political organization founded in 1935 by Abraham Vereide. The stated purpose of The Fellowship is to provide a fellowship forum for decision makers to share in Bible studies, prayer meetings, worship of God, and to experience spiritual affirmation and support.[6][7]
The Fellowship has been described as one of the most politically well-connected and most secretly-funded ministries in the United States. They shun publicity and its members share a vow of secrecy.[8] The Fellowship's former leader, the late Douglas Coe, and others have explained the organization's desire for secrecy by citing biblical admonitions against public displays of good works, insisting they would not be able to tackle diplomatically sensitive missions if they drew public attention.[8]
The Fellowship holds one regular public event each year, the National Prayer Breakfast, ...."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fellowship_(Christian_organization)
WHAT ARE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS GOING TO DO?
racocn8 comments on Sep 15, 2020:
Putin has hacked the US like a network, using every zero-day defect the GRU could find. The system is thoroughly crashed with multiple infinite-loop hang-ups. The biggest failure is the GOP disloyalty to the country. While some are genuinely treasonous, the rest are seditious, and neither ...
racocn8 replies on Sep 15, 2020:
@St-Sinner I agree. But they are not facing just Republicans but the combined forces of the Russian government. How could they not be out-matched? Especially when the Republicans are helping Trump? This war cannot be fought without some organization and competence. Democrats are politicians, not soldiers. The Game you write of has rules we don't yet know. That's the Fog of War. The only way we survive is if some part of our society starts making up their own rules.
racocn8 comments on Sep 15, 2020:
Putin has hacked the US like a network, using every zero-day defect the GRU could find. The system is thoroughly crashed with multiple infinite-loop hang-ups. The biggest failure is the GOP disloyalty to the country. While some are genuinely treasonous, the rest are seditious, and neither ...
racocn8 replies on Sep 15, 2020:
@St-Sinner I agree. But they are not facing just Republicans but the combined forces of the Russian government. How could they not be out-matched? Especially when the Republicans are helping Trump? This war cannot be fought without some organization and competence. Democrats are politicians, not soldiers. The Game you write of has rules we don't yet know. That's the Fog of War. The only way we survive is if some part of our society starts making up their own rules.
WHAT ARE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS GOING TO DO?
racocn8 comments on Sep 15, 2020:
Putin has hacked the US like a network, using every zero-day defect the GRU could find. The system is thoroughly crashed with multiple infinite-loop hang-ups. The biggest failure is the GOP disloyalty to the country. While some are genuinely treasonous, the rest are seditious, and neither ...
racocn8 replies on Sep 15, 2020:
@K9Kohle789 @St-Sinner Trump is in this for his lifetime, not just the next four years. Who can and will stand up to Trump as he completes his power grab? What could the Supreme Court, Election Commission, FBI or even CIA do? The FBI is under Barr, so it's not clear they could do anything without Barr stopping them.
Anyone who shows opposition can be fired. Or killed. Probably some elements of the real Deep State could stop Trump, but I think they're the ones who put him in there. The Deep State is fickle, and have their own agenda apart from Trump, Putin or even the U.S.
As it becomes clear that Trump is seeking to install himself as king, some elements of the military might revolt, but they would be entirely on their own, acting as a rogue entity without orders or chain-of-command. And they would be fighting militias, not only from Barr, but potentially secreted into the country by Putin to maintain control.
As I say, the GRU has been working non-stop to figure all the contingencies and prepare against them. I'd like to believe that the actual population would turn out against Trump and march against the White House. I'm afraid of what the GRU will do in that case. They might bomb the shit out of them in a callous display of force.
This is WAR, make no mistake about it. It's war we've never seen before, and it's clear we're not prepared.
racocn8 comments on Sep 15, 2020:
Putin has hacked the US like a network, using every zero-day defect the GRU could find. The system is thoroughly crashed with multiple infinite-loop hang-ups. The biggest failure is the GOP disloyalty to the country. While some are genuinely treasonous, the rest are seditious, and neither ...
racocn8 replies on Sep 15, 2020:
@K9Kohle789 @St-Sinner Trump is in this for his lifetime, not just the next four years. Who can and will stand up to Trump as he completes his power grab? What could the Supreme Court, Election Commission, FBI or even CIA do? The FBI is under Barr, so it's not clear they could do anything without Barr stopping them.
Anyone who shows opposition can be fired. Or killed. Probably some elements of the real Deep State could stop Trump, but I think they're the ones who put him in there. The Deep State is fickle, and have their own agenda apart from Trump, Putin or even the U.S.
As it becomes clear that Trump is seeking to install himself as king, some elements of the military might revolt, but they would be entirely on their own, acting as a rogue entity without orders or chain-of-command. And they would be fighting militias, not only from Barr, but potentially secreted into the country by Putin to maintain control.
As I say, the GRU has been working non-stop to figure all the contingencies and prepare against them. I'd like to believe that the actual population would turn out against Trump and march against the White House. I'm afraid of what the GRU will do in that case. They might bomb the shit out of them in a callous display of force.
This is WAR, make no mistake about it. It's war we've never seen before, and it's clear we're not prepared.
WHAT ARE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS GOING TO DO?
racocn8 comments on Sep 15, 2020:
Putin has hacked the US like a network, using every zero-day defect the GRU could find. The system is thoroughly crashed with multiple infinite-loop hang-ups. The biggest failure is the GOP disloyalty to the country. While some are genuinely treasonous, the rest are seditious, and neither ...
racocn8 replies on Sep 15, 2020:
@St-Sinner Trump has already signaled his intention to steal the election or otherwise defer any procedure that would work to install Biden. This is a coup that has ALREADY happened. After his militias stoke violence, he'll declare martial law, destroy uncounted ballots and do whatever Putin says he should do. Expect him to disband Congress next year, regardless of who wins what. Putin is in charge. Look at how Belarus became a dictatorship. That's the model.
(I really liked your summary above)
racocn8 comments on Sep 15, 2020:
Putin has hacked the US like a network, using every zero-day defect the GRU could find. The system is thoroughly crashed with multiple infinite-loop hang-ups. The biggest failure is the GOP disloyalty to the country. While some are genuinely treasonous, the rest are seditious, and neither ...
racocn8 replies on Sep 15, 2020:
@St-Sinner Trump has already signaled his intention to steal the election or otherwise defer any procedure that would work to install Biden. This is a coup that has ALREADY happened. After his militias stoke violence, he'll declare martial law, destroy uncounted ballots and do whatever Putin says he should do. Expect him to disband Congress next year, regardless of who wins what. Putin is in charge. Look at how Belarus became a dictatorship. That's the model.
(I really liked your summary above)
Trump Directly Encouraging Murder:
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dalefvictor comments on Sep 13, 2020:
He figures the people who die are the one's that do not like him. It is all about him.
racocn8 replies on Sep 13, 2020:
And, in his adoration of Putin, the willingness to let Putin rule the US through him.
dalefvictor comments on Sep 13, 2020:
He figures the people who die are the one's that do not like him. It is all about him.
racocn8 replies on Sep 13, 2020:
And, in his adoration of Putin, the willingness to let Putin rule the US through him.
How can the world take the US serious with this clown in the White House?
racocn8 comments on Sep 11, 2020:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbFJWo3gdRI=youtu.be
racocn8 replies on Sep 11, 2020:
@Freedompath Yes, the recording is grotesque and chilling. I simply don't believe someone could describe those details without having gone through it. It is unfortunate that the face is blurred, but the sincerity is there, so even without the facial expressions, the vocal intonations make me believe it is true. Trump had done so much evil before he was elected, his presidency casts a very dark shadow on the U.S. The Trump supporters are stupid, cult-loyal, often disordered, often psychopaths, morally degenerate, and a whole lot more. Many of them don't deserve to breathe, and are a danger to the rest of us. Their presence in such numbers strongly argues against the notion of democracy. And with them, the GOP has revealed itself to be so badly compromised as to not be a viable negotiating partner in government going forward. We are in some deep sh*t and we don't have time to screw around with their infantility. Frankly, the prognosis for evading extinction is very poor. Assuming Trump doesn't start WWIII on his way out.
racocn8 comments on Sep 11, 2020:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbFJWo3gdRI=youtu.be
racocn8 replies on Sep 11, 2020:
@Freedompath Yes, the recording is grotesque and chilling. I simply don't believe someone could describe those details without having gone through it. It is unfortunate that the face is blurred, but the sincerity is there, so even without the facial expressions, the vocal intonations make me believe it is true. Trump had done so much evil before he was elected, his presidency casts a very dark shadow on the U.S. The Trump supporters are stupid, cult-loyal, often disordered, often psychopaths, morally degenerate, and a whole lot more. Many of them don't deserve to breathe, and are a danger to the rest of us. Their presence in such numbers strongly argues against the notion of democracy. And with them, the GOP has revealed itself to be so badly compromised as to not be a viable negotiating partner in government going forward. We are in some deep sh*t and we don't have time to screw around with their infantility. Frankly, the prognosis for evading extinction is very poor. Assuming Trump doesn't start WWIII on his way out.
Yeah . . wonder where they are?
racocn8 comments on Sep 11, 2020:
Like Fauci's estimate of Trump's attention span, negative numbers...
With any luck, a goodly number of them and their guns got burned up in those fires. Never enough though.
racocn8 replies on Sep 11, 2020:
@Freedompath There are some in Michigan, but plainly a lot in California and Pennsylvania, Tennessee (and through Appalachia) and in a line from Missouri to Florida. It does look like some groups are in the areas of the fires.
https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map
racocn8 comments on Sep 11, 2020:
Like Fauci's estimate of Trump's attention span, negative numbers...
With any luck, a goodly number of them and their guns got burned up in those fires. Never enough though.
racocn8 replies on Sep 11, 2020:
@Freedompath There are some in Michigan, but plainly a lot in California and Pennsylvania, Tennessee (and through Appalachia) and in a line from Missouri to Florida. It does look like some groups are in the areas of the fires.
https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map
If you believe one or the other, why?
WonderWartHog99 comments on Sep 11, 2020:
## My favorite conspiracy theory was Obama did it. (He wasn't in office at the time). It's repeated by Trump supporters, dumb little #%&# . . . .
racocn8 replies on Sep 11, 2020:
Perhaps the term you're searching for is: "racists"?
WonderWartHog99 comments on Sep 11, 2020:
## My favorite conspiracy theory was Obama did it. (He wasn't in office at the time). It's repeated by Trump supporters, dumb little #%&# . . . .
racocn8 replies on Sep 11, 2020:
Perhaps the term you're searching for is: "racists"?
The White House has consistently portrayed Trump as having been a slow learner regarding Covid, But ...
zeuser comments on Sep 10, 2020:
Oh he's gonna fry for all of this. We'll find him no matter where he tries to hide.
racocn8 replies on Sep 10, 2020:
The revelation that Trump withheld aid to blue states wasn't unexpected. His hostility toward Cuomo was palpable. It must be a certainty that he likes the greater mortality of non-whites, but is that documented? I believe the UN has laws designating genocide as a crime against humanity. I would like to see him go down, one way or the other, but no conceivable punishment would be fair or just. And really, the multitude of his enablers deserve sterilization at a minimum.
zeuser comments on Sep 10, 2020:
Oh he's gonna fry for all of this. We'll find him no matter where he tries to hide.
racocn8 replies on Sep 10, 2020:
The revelation that Trump withheld aid to blue states wasn't unexpected. His hostility toward Cuomo was palpable. It must be a certainty that he likes the greater mortality of non-whites, but is that documented? I believe the UN has laws designating genocide as a crime against humanity. I would like to see him go down, one way or the other, but no conceivable punishment would be fair or just. And really, the multitude of his enablers deserve sterilization at a minimum.
How do you and your partner go about choosing positions?
Green_Soldier71 comments on Sep 10, 2020:
Since I just graduated monastery, can some one explain these numbers to me - except 69 - I get that!
Also how is cunnilingus = C & L = 150.
racocn8 replies on Sep 10, 2020:
C is 100 and L is 50 in roman numerals; CunniLingus. 44 is man's leg over hers with the second leg under. her other leg is bent or on man's torso. 88 is doggy style; 88 referencing two sets of buttocks. 62 is man laying on his side and her legs are up in the air. This affords penetration and manual stimulation; his 5 fingers and member to her clitoris and vagina, 62. Being older and injured, our options are somewhat limited. Numbers are my idea of extending the notion of 69...
Green_Soldier71 comments on Sep 10, 2020:
Since I just graduated monastery, can some one explain these numbers to me - except 69 - I get that!
Also how is cunnilingus = C & L = 150.
racocn8 replies on Sep 10, 2020:
C is 100 and L is 50 in roman numerals; CunniLingus. 44 is man's leg over hers with the second leg under. her other leg is bent or on man's torso. 88 is doggy style; 88 referencing two sets of buttocks. 62 is man laying on his side and her legs are up in the air. This affords penetration and manual stimulation; his 5 fingers and member to her clitoris and vagina, 62. Being older and injured, our options are somewhat limited. Numbers are my idea of extending the notion of 69...
Sadly True
Theresa_N comments on Sep 8, 2020:
What a traitor we have for a president.
racocn8 replies on Sep 9, 2020:
@LucyLoohoo You're on. You sound like an interesting person and get major credit for liking weed. I have studied cannabis in particular detail. I was the first professional cannabis scientist in California and maybe the world, back in 2009! So, when we've been inoculated with something that works, let's get coffee.... Maybe you could message me with your contact info?
Theresa_N comments on Sep 8, 2020:
What a traitor we have for a president.
racocn8 replies on Sep 9, 2020:
@LucyLoohoo You're on. You sound like an interesting person and get major credit for liking weed. I have studied cannabis in particular detail. I was the first professional cannabis scientist in California and maybe the world, back in 2009! So, when we've been inoculated with something that works, let's get coffee.... Maybe you could message me with your contact info?
A while back, a post was submitted asking about a Conservative group on Agnositic.
BitFlipper comments on Sep 9, 2020:
I have Associates on Facebook who post that shit all the time. It gives me a workout every morning just responding to them. I know it doesn't convince them, but at least my conscience is clear.
racocn8 replies on Sep 9, 2020:
Those folks are so degenerated, are they really worthy of your time? Mostly, they are psychotically in need of fomenting drama, so your responses only feed their illness. I suggest you consider leaving them to their own devices.
BitFlipper comments on Sep 9, 2020:
I have Associates on Facebook who post that shit all the time. It gives me a workout every morning just responding to them. I know it doesn't convince them, but at least my conscience is clear.
racocn8 replies on Sep 9, 2020:
Those folks are so degenerated, are they really worthy of your time? Mostly, they are psychotically in need of fomenting drama, so your responses only feed their illness. I suggest you consider leaving them to their own devices.
Sadly True
Theresa_N comments on Sep 8, 2020:
What a traitor we have for a president.
racocn8 replies on Sep 9, 2020:
@LucyLoohoo I have no proof, purely my speculations. I strongly suspect Kirsten Gillibrand given how New York is so corrupted with Russian mafia, her success, and her dishonest behavior. The vengeance with which she destroyed Al Franken is not forgivable. He was way too valuable an asset to be thrown under the bus. Another likely suspect is Tulsi Gabbard. She was outed by Hillary at one point, but she has sat next to Putin and met with Assad (See link). Every one of the politicians that went on the NRA junket to Moscow should be put in a cell. Sadly, only the Deep State could root out these creeps, but they're the entity that wrote traitor Trump into the script. How does that work?
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-25/tulsi-gabbard-russian-asset-republican
Theresa_N comments on Sep 8, 2020:
What a traitor we have for a president.
racocn8 replies on Sep 9, 2020:
@LucyLoohoo I have no proof, purely my speculations. I strongly suspect Kirsten Gillibrand given how New York is so corrupted with Russian mafia, her success, and her dishonest behavior. The vengeance with which she destroyed Al Franken is not forgivable. He was way too valuable an asset to be thrown under the bus. Another likely suspect is Tulsi Gabbard. She was outed by Hillary at one point, but she has sat next to Putin and met with Assad (See link). Every one of the politicians that went on the NRA junket to Moscow should be put in a cell. Sadly, only the Deep State could root out these creeps, but they're the entity that wrote traitor Trump into the script. How does that work?
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-25/tulsi-gabbard-russian-asset-republican
Sadly True
Theresa_N comments on Sep 8, 2020:
What a traitor we have for a president.
racocn8 replies on Sep 8, 2020:
It's not just Trump. Many GOP and a few Dem Senators are Putin stooges; same for the House. Putin has succeeded where Stalin didn't. Clearing out these traitors is not going to be easy. We'll have to pry them out...
Theresa_N comments on Sep 8, 2020:
What a traitor we have for a president.
racocn8 replies on Sep 8, 2020:
It's not just Trump. Many GOP and a few Dem Senators are Putin stooges; same for the House. Putin has succeeded where Stalin didn't. Clearing out these traitors is not going to be easy. We'll have to pry them out...
We know the history: racism, grifting, fraud, serial rape, pedophilia, micturition fetishism, ...
TheGreatShadow comments on Sep 2, 2020:
You do know that only about 30% of research done on the medical science via web search is correct, right?
I had an article from Web MD once that was incorrect. A doctor told me so.
racocn8 replies on Sep 2, 2020:
My source was a psychiatrist who didn't have access to Trump, and the analysis was passed along as informed speculation. On the other hand, Trump has a preference for lying and dishonesty, so even if we had a genuine medical report, its reliability would be zero or less (that is, presumed to be false).
It should be standard practice to evaluate the probability that information is credible.
TheGreatShadow comments on Sep 2, 2020:
You do know that only about 30% of research done on the medical science via web search is correct, right?
I had an article from Web MD once that was incorrect. A doctor told me so.
racocn8 replies on Sep 2, 2020:
My source was a psychiatrist who didn't have access to Trump, and the analysis was passed along as informed speculation. On the other hand, Trump has a preference for lying and dishonesty, so even if we had a genuine medical report, its reliability would be zero or less (that is, presumed to be false).
It should be standard practice to evaluate the probability that information is credible.
If the religious don't recognize the devil incarnate, we agnostics need to spread the message, ...
racocn8 comments on Sep 1, 2020:
The evangelicals always said that they would worship the Beast as one of their own. I'm sure some of this is more of their hoping to manifest the Apocalypse on their own. They want heaven so bad they're willing to go to hell to get there. The depravity they're willing to embrace, and they say ...
racocn8 replies on Sep 2, 2020:
@AgnoBill By all means, feel free. It is so far as I know... Probably someone has said it before though...
racocn8 comments on Sep 1, 2020:
The evangelicals always said that they would worship the Beast as one of their own. I'm sure some of this is more of their hoping to manifest the Apocalypse on their own. They want heaven so bad they're willing to go to hell to get there. The depravity they're willing to embrace, and they say ...
racocn8 replies on Sep 2, 2020:
@AgnoBill By all means, feel free. It is so far as I know... Probably someone has said it before though...
Shooting on Fifth Avenue times two hundred thousand...
HippieChick58 comments on Sep 1, 2020:
Should there be a link here?
racocn8 replies on Sep 1, 2020:
No link. Just venting my frustration that Trump's refusal to address the pandemic is allowed at the cost hundreds of thousands of lives; usually lost under the worst conditions. Not only does he get away with it, but his party of morons have no consequences. The injustice is very hard to bear.
HippieChick58 comments on Sep 1, 2020:
Should there be a link here?
racocn8 replies on Sep 1, 2020:
No link. Just venting my frustration that Trump's refusal to address the pandemic is allowed at the cost hundreds of thousands of lives; usually lost under the worst conditions. Not only does he get away with it, but his party of morons have no consequences. The injustice is very hard to bear.
Below I have pasted a few extracts from Wikipedia's page on QAnon, for your consideration:
Theory...
mcgeo52 comments on Aug 31, 2020:
QAnon is, from what I have seen, an incredibly effective psy-op. It is probably run by, or with serious help from, the Russians, and involves at least one person with access to inside information from the Trump "administration." I have suspected Steve Bannon, but given the above I have to put ...
racocn8 replies on Aug 31, 2020:
I strongly suspect that you are correct; that this is coming from Russia with help from one or more US insiders. I wouldn't put it past Trump himself to be at the center. Recall how he has a history of impersonating others to promote himself.
mcgeo52 comments on Aug 31, 2020:
QAnon is, from what I have seen, an incredibly effective psy-op. It is probably run by, or with serious help from, the Russians, and involves at least one person with access to inside information from the Trump "administration." I have suspected Steve Bannon, but given the above I have to put ...
racocn8 replies on Aug 31, 2020:
I strongly suspect that you are correct; that this is coming from Russia with help from one or more US insiders. I wouldn't put it past Trump himself to be at the center. Recall how he has a history of impersonating others to promote himself.
Yesterday I listened to a webinar given by Dr.
OldGoat43 comments on Aug 28, 2020:
Herd immunity might occur in two years and maybe I can stay indoors for two years to avoid contacts with carriers. So far it's worked for me. Remember there used to a word for this situation: Hobbies.
racocn8 replies on Aug 28, 2020:
Hobbies I got, but cabin fever is starting to set in... I never would have dreamed that I would spend months like this. And I hate not being able to travel... My lady is keeping me as near sanity as possible, and I am so very grateful for that.
OldGoat43 comments on Aug 28, 2020:
Herd immunity might occur in two years and maybe I can stay indoors for two years to avoid contacts with carriers. So far it's worked for me. Remember there used to a word for this situation: Hobbies.
racocn8 replies on Aug 28, 2020:
Hobbies I got, but cabin fever is starting to set in... I never would have dreamed that I would spend months like this. And I hate not being able to travel... My lady is keeping me as near sanity as possible, and I am so very grateful for that.
Well you wouldn't believe or read about But it has happened.
racocn8 comments on Aug 23, 2020:
Hell of a kidney stone...
racocn8 replies on Aug 23, 2020:
@Triphid Yeah, they scratch & stab every inch and leave an open gouge that makes peeing like childbirth. Too much meat...
racocn8 comments on Aug 23, 2020:
Hell of a kidney stone...
racocn8 replies on Aug 23, 2020:
@Triphid Yeah, they scratch & stab every inch and leave an open gouge that makes peeing like childbirth. Too much meat...
Can we combine Plan A and B?
racocn8 comments on Aug 18, 2020:
Bzzzt, wrong.
racocn8 replies on Aug 18, 2020:
@EyesThatSmile You seem like a sweet, lovely lady. You should have no trouble finding someone. I only meant that it seems too many women will settle for someone who is abusive. On the other hand, I'd say that women should improve their game by lowering their standards when it comes to shy and nerdy types, and maybe some other categories. I get that women want someone strong to protect them, but "strong" men are often abusive, and once women give their heart away, they get stuck in a situation they have difficulty leaving. Too many of them will accept being battered. Life is too wonderful and short to endure that.
racocn8 comments on Aug 18, 2020:
Bzzzt, wrong.
racocn8 replies on Aug 18, 2020:
@EyesThatSmile You seem like a sweet, lovely lady. You should have no trouble finding someone. I only meant that it seems too many women will settle for someone who is abusive. On the other hand, I'd say that women should improve their game by lowering their standards when it comes to shy and nerdy types, and maybe some other categories. I get that women want someone strong to protect them, but "strong" men are often abusive, and once women give their heart away, they get stuck in a situation they have difficulty leaving. Too many of them will accept being battered. Life is too wonderful and short to endure that.
I'll Try to Stop After This One:
[rawstory.com]
LucyLoohoo comments on Aug 16, 2020:
Nancy Pelosi's going to call the House back into session next week....just to address this!
racocn8 replies on Aug 17, 2020:
That's an entirely appropriate gesture, but certainly hopeless to do anything but put a spotlight on it.
LucyLoohoo comments on Aug 16, 2020:
Nancy Pelosi's going to call the House back into session next week....just to address this!
racocn8 replies on Aug 17, 2020:
That's an entirely appropriate gesture, but certainly hopeless to do anything but put a spotlight on it.
Loser-Yet Another Psychiatrist on Trump;
[rawstory.com]
BitFlipper comments on Aug 17, 2020:
Donald will never leave the White House alive. He will either succeed in being president for life, or he will be removed. And the only way he will be removed will be on a stretcher.
racocn8 replies on Aug 17, 2020:
I vote for stretcher with a big body bag on top.
BitFlipper comments on Aug 17, 2020:
Donald will never leave the White House alive. He will either succeed in being president for life, or he will be removed. And the only way he will be removed will be on a stretcher.
racocn8 replies on Aug 17, 2020:
I vote for stretcher with a big body bag on top.
What color was Jesus?
racocn8 comments on Aug 17, 2020:
I've never heard of an objective scale of skin color; the closest would be a paint department chip, and those are given arbitrary names. Really what you're asking to respond like a rorschach test of people's concept of race.
racocn8 replies on Aug 17, 2020:
@Grecio Can you now? How? In the US, Black is anyone with less than 100% 'White' ancestry or otherwise having "African" features and coloration. My cousin worked as a lifeguard one summer and he became as dark skinned as an average American 'Black.' European Jews were considered to not be 'White.' Can you tell European Jews from 'Whites'? What color is Gal Gadot?
racocn8 comments on Aug 17, 2020:
I've never heard of an objective scale of skin color; the closest would be a paint department chip, and those are given arbitrary names. Really what you're asking to respond like a rorschach test of people's concept of race.
racocn8 replies on Aug 17, 2020:
@Grecio Can you now? How? In the US, Black is anyone with less than 100% 'White' ancestry or otherwise having "African" features and coloration. My cousin worked as a lifeguard one summer and he became as dark skinned as an average American 'Black.' European Jews were considered to not be 'White.' Can you tell European Jews from 'Whites'? What color is Gal Gadot?
Makes no sense
DharmaBum50 comments on Aug 15, 2020:
I personally don't understand it at all, but this is yet another demographic filled with self-defeating voters. The only explanation I can figure is that seniors' racism and homophobia trumps (pun intended) their economic well-being.
racocn8 replies on Aug 15, 2020:
Once hypnotized, only actual deprogramming can remove the loyalty.
DharmaBum50 comments on Aug 15, 2020:
I personally don't understand it at all, but this is yet another demographic filled with self-defeating voters. The only explanation I can figure is that seniors' racism and homophobia trumps (pun intended) their economic well-being.
racocn8 replies on Aug 15, 2020:
Once hypnotized, only actual deprogramming can remove the loyalty.
Scientists Disagree on the Universe’s Age, So Creationists Are Claiming Victory | Hemant Mehta | ...
racocn8 comments on Aug 10, 2020:
Hey, folks. I just learned about the Concordance Model of Cosmology. I strongly endorse learning about it. I suppose the Cosmologists wanted something cool-sounding to keep up with the Standard Model of Physics. But, it IS cool and mind-stretching. I really liked the nucleosynthesis angle explaining...
racocn8 replies on Aug 14, 2020:
@yvilletom I personally have no evidence for it. It was covered in the Teaching Company course on Cosmology. I have read about the supposition of both Dark Energy and Dark Matter, and the cosmic background radiation surveys, the red-shift, etc. I am especially interested in the problem of how the super-massive black holes developed so quickly. I remember seeing intertwined galactic jets and supposing that they must be coming from a pair of orbiting giant black holes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda-CDM_model
racocn8 comments on Aug 10, 2020:
Hey, folks. I just learned about the Concordance Model of Cosmology. I strongly endorse learning about it. I suppose the Cosmologists wanted something cool-sounding to keep up with the Standard Model of Physics. But, it IS cool and mind-stretching. I really liked the nucleosynthesis angle explaining...
racocn8 replies on Aug 14, 2020:
@yvilletom I personally have no evidence for it. It was covered in the Teaching Company course on Cosmology. I have read about the supposition of both Dark Energy and Dark Matter, and the cosmic background radiation surveys, the red-shift, etc. I am especially interested in the problem of how the super-massive black holes developed so quickly. I remember seeing intertwined galactic jets and supposing that they must be coming from a pair of orbiting giant black holes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda-CDM_model
I recently reposted a blurb I posted here to a neighborhood blog.
zeuser comments on Aug 14, 2020:
How did your neighbors who read the blog take it?
racocn8 replies on Aug 14, 2020:
@zeuser It's only JUST NOW dawning on them that with all Trump has done, he has lost the Independents. It is pretty obvious that he intends to try to hold onto power. We make the mistake of underestimating Trump What no one understands is that the GRU has had three years or more to game out how to keep him in power.
Trump is not Trump. Trump is a Putin sock-puppet, and Putin has thousands of people working on the problem. Putin has scores of Congressmen, many of them Senators, probably quite a few in the military, and moles in the agencies If we see the other side of the election, it is going to be the Aegean Stable to shovel out all the shit. I like Biden, but he's not up to the task. I'm not sure anyone is.
I hope that enough of our military will honor their oaths, and will remember how Trump has treated veterans, effed up our foreign policy, betrayed the Kurds, allowed ISIS to escape, dissed those who suffered from the Soleimani counter-attack, the firing of Brett Crozier and the Vindmans, misuse of Federal Law Enforcement, violation of Constitutional Rights, and all the other crap he's pulled.
zeuser comments on Aug 14, 2020:
How did your neighbors who read the blog take it?
racocn8 replies on Aug 14, 2020:
@zeuser It's only JUST NOW dawning on them that with all Trump has done, he has lost the Independents. It is pretty obvious that he intends to try to hold onto power. We make the mistake of underestimating Trump What no one understands is that the GRU has had three years or more to game out how to keep him in power.
Trump is not Trump. Trump is a Putin sock-puppet, and Putin has thousands of people working on the problem. Putin has scores of Congressmen, many of them Senators, probably quite a few in the military, and moles in the agencies If we see the other side of the election, it is going to be the Aegean Stable to shovel out all the shit. I like Biden, but he's not up to the task. I'm not sure anyone is.
I hope that enough of our military will honor their oaths, and will remember how Trump has treated veterans, effed up our foreign policy, betrayed the Kurds, allowed ISIS to escape, dissed those who suffered from the Soleimani counter-attack, the firing of Brett Crozier and the Vindmans, misuse of Federal Law Enforcement, violation of Constitutional Rights, and all the other crap he's pulled.
I recently reposted a blurb I posted here to a neighborhood blog.
zeuser comments on Aug 14, 2020:
How did your neighbors who read the blog take it?
racocn8 replies on Aug 14, 2020:
I got a couple of likes and the Republicans pretended not to have read it.
zeuser comments on Aug 14, 2020:
How did your neighbors who read the blog take it?
racocn8 replies on Aug 14, 2020:
I got a couple of likes and the Republicans pretended not to have read it.
FACT!
Or, why it is asinine to believe in the proposition "you have your opinion and I have ...
OldMetalHead comments on Aug 13, 2020:
Probably an anti-vaxxer too. Spreading false information can do real harm.
racocn8 replies on Aug 14, 2020:
About 7 years ago, I got the annual flu vaccine. The actual flu was going around and people would be out for a couple of weeks. About two months after getting the vaccine, I did get the flu, and I felt quite wretched, but I believe my body successfully developed the secondary response and I felt better after two days. While I had frustration for getting sick, I was very glad I got the vaccine.
OldMetalHead comments on Aug 13, 2020:
Probably an anti-vaxxer too. Spreading false information can do real harm.
racocn8 replies on Aug 14, 2020:
About 7 years ago, I got the annual flu vaccine. The actual flu was going around and people would be out for a couple of weeks. About two months after getting the vaccine, I did get the flu, and I felt quite wretched, but I believe my body successfully developed the secondary response and I felt better after two days. While I had frustration for getting sick, I was very glad I got the vaccine.
Christian Bigot Flips Out After Airbnb Guest’s Review Tells People Who He Is | Hemant Mehta | ...
racocn8 comments on Aug 12, 2020:
If you shoot a Nazi, slave-owner, or child-molester, is that a crime, or justice? Sometimes it is just time to take out the trash... And get them before they get you. I do wish I could be more harmonious, but the reality is they aren't either.
racocn8 replies on Aug 13, 2020:
@Willow_Wisp Agreed.
racocn8 comments on Aug 12, 2020:
If you shoot a Nazi, slave-owner, or child-molester, is that a crime, or justice? Sometimes it is just time to take out the trash... And get them before they get you. I do wish I could be more harmonious, but the reality is they aren't either.
racocn8 replies on Aug 13, 2020:
@Willow_Wisp Agreed.
Christian Bigot Flips Out After Airbnb Guest’s Review Tells People Who He Is | Hemant Mehta | ...
racocn8 comments on Aug 12, 2020:
If you shoot a Nazi, slave-owner, or child-molester, is that a crime, or justice? Sometimes it is just time to take out the trash... And get them before they get you. I do wish I could be more harmonious, but the reality is they aren't either.
racocn8 replies on Aug 13, 2020:
@Willow_Wisp We know the president obtained his election by illegal and unconstitutional means: colluding with Putin's GRU. These secret, covert troops are being marshalled entirely outside of their mandate, and in violation of their Constitutional oaths. Their illegal behavior is TREASON and denotes them as TRAITORS in service to the foreign agent Trump; they are essentially spies, saboteurs and worse. As such, anyone brave enough to consider themselves to be a member of the American Resistance has a DUTY to interfere and to degrade their operation by ANY means necessary. That duty IS Constitutional! Come November, that body armor won't be enough for them, or their enablers, and that includes the local police. I'm pretty sure I have a lot of company on this view. If it's war they want,...
racocn8 comments on Aug 12, 2020:
If you shoot a Nazi, slave-owner, or child-molester, is that a crime, or justice? Sometimes it is just time to take out the trash... And get them before they get you. I do wish I could be more harmonious, but the reality is they aren't either.
racocn8 replies on Aug 13, 2020:
@Willow_Wisp We know the president obtained his election by illegal and unconstitutional means: colluding with Putin's GRU. These secret, covert troops are being marshalled entirely outside of their mandate, and in violation of their Constitutional oaths. Their illegal behavior is TREASON and denotes them as TRAITORS in service to the foreign agent Trump; they are essentially spies, saboteurs and worse. As such, anyone brave enough to consider themselves to be a member of the American Resistance has a DUTY to interfere and to degrade their operation by ANY means necessary. That duty IS Constitutional! Come November, that body armor won't be enough for them, or their enablers, and that includes the local police. I'm pretty sure I have a lot of company on this view. If it's war they want,...
Friday, August 07, 2020
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racocn8 comments on Aug 8, 2020:
1. You need therapy and probably medication. ADHD is my guess.
racocn8 replies on Aug 9, 2020:
@KWAPELL7 BZZZZT, Wrong again, wacko woo. Shit for intuition.
racocn8 comments on Aug 8, 2020:
1. You need therapy and probably medication. ADHD is my guess.
racocn8 replies on Aug 9, 2020:
@KWAPELL7 BZZZZT, Wrong again, wacko woo. Shit for intuition.
Republicans remained intransigent this week after dragging their feet to even negotiate for 10 weeks...
racocn8 comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Republicans weren't even in the negotiations. It was between the Democrats and the White House. Mitch signed off on whatever the White House agreed to.
racocn8 replies on Aug 8, 2020:
No argument from me. Let's hope that translates to defeat in the election. The revelation that Moscow has been feeding anti-Biden propaganda to Senators demonstrates that a goodly part of the GOP has been compromised. Where is McCarthy when we really do need him? Joking there, but really, we need to actively root out Russian interference.
racocn8 comments on Aug 8, 2020:
Republicans weren't even in the negotiations. It was between the Democrats and the White House. Mitch signed off on whatever the White House agreed to.
racocn8 replies on Aug 8, 2020:
No argument from me. Let's hope that translates to defeat in the election. The revelation that Moscow has been feeding anti-Biden propaganda to Senators demonstrates that a goodly part of the GOP has been compromised. Where is McCarthy when we really do need him? Joking there, but really, we need to actively root out Russian interference.
(Massachusetts Representative Seth.
Charlene comments on Aug 3, 2020:
McGrath is a self proclaimed Trump Democrat..she's no better than McCornhole in this..🤬🤬
racocn8 replies on Aug 3, 2020:
The horses are smarter than the people there, so you can't expect much.
Charlene comments on Aug 3, 2020:
McGrath is a self proclaimed Trump Democrat..she's no better than McCornhole in this..🤬🤬
racocn8 replies on Aug 3, 2020:
The horses are smarter than the people there, so you can't expect much.
US coronavirus: Nation could see deaths in the 'multiple hundreds of thousands,' group says - CNN
linxminx comments on Jul 29, 2020:
I imagine cases will accelerate when the schools open in August.
racocn8 replies on Jul 30, 2020:
Once the figures for hospitalized children penetrate the public consciousness, schools will remain shut down.
linxminx comments on Jul 29, 2020:
I imagine cases will accelerate when the schools open in August.
racocn8 replies on Jul 30, 2020:
Once the figures for hospitalized children penetrate the public consciousness, schools will remain shut down.
Another crack in the Deep State’s disinformation campaign.
Storm1752 comments on Jul 29, 2020:
I don't know about what the 'Deep State' has to do with it, but it seems to me anybody with an open mind who's looked into the matter has to think UFOs/extraterrestrials are here, have always been here, and always will be here.
The only people laughing and scoffing are those who do NOT have an open...
racocn8 replies on Jul 29, 2020:
The Deep State, the controlling principals of the Military-Industrial-Intelligence-Complex seek to keep the presence of ET observers a secret in order to maintain the religious and energy generation landscape. At the same time, whatever technology can be back-engineered from ET is used to help fund their operation.
Storm1752 comments on Jul 29, 2020:
I don't know about what the 'Deep State' has to do with it, but it seems to me anybody with an open mind who's looked into the matter has to think UFOs/extraterrestrials are here, have always been here, and always will be here.
The only people laughing and scoffing are those who do NOT have an open...
racocn8 replies on Jul 29, 2020:
The Deep State, the controlling principals of the Military-Industrial-Intelligence-Complex seek to keep the presence of ET observers a secret in order to maintain the religious and energy generation landscape. At the same time, whatever technology can be back-engineered from ET is used to help fund their operation.
Steven Miller's Grandmother Dies of Covid After Effects, and the W.H. Lies!
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altschmerz comments on Jul 24, 2020:
I really wonder how Miller came to be the monster he is now, given his family's history. It's sad.
racocn8 replies on Jul 26, 2020:
@Birdman1 Quite a few descendants of the Holocaust have become "Self-Hating Jews". Now they can express that hatred in a myriad of ways, but pretty often, being anti-Semitic is part of it. I've run across it in a bunch of college professors, i.e. ultra-liberal profs in Women's Studies. Some of them have fanatical support for the Palestinians.
I guess that the Holocaust functioned as a repudiation of the religion they'd been brainwashed with as kids. They like the identification as being Jewish, but not the horror of having ones relatives murdered for the sake of politicized Christian bigotry. The added insult is the storyline wherein Jews deem themselves to be a superior genetic group, but were murdered with the claim that they were somehow inferior.
Another toxic meme is how, In the U. S., the girls were raised as Disney Princesses, and told that they should hold out for doctors or lawyers (princes). Lots of fertile ground to create trauma. Based on the accounts, Miller has a strong case of OCD, and thus has a psychotic need to impose some sort of order, and probably has guilt for subscribing to the same absolutist attitudes the Nazis embraced.
Note that in terms of politics, only a minority of American Jews, usually Reform, have liberal politics. However they are more vocal than the rest. The Orthodox and Conservative are usually Republican. That is my understanding.
altschmerz comments on Jul 24, 2020:
I really wonder how Miller came to be the monster he is now, given his family's history. It's sad.
racocn8 replies on Jul 26, 2020:
@Birdman1 Quite a few descendants of the Holocaust have become "Self-Hating Jews". Now they can express that hatred in a myriad of ways, but pretty often, being anti-Semitic is part of it. I've run across it in a bunch of college professors, i.e. ultra-liberal profs in Women's Studies. Some of them have fanatical support for the Palestinians.
I guess that the Holocaust functioned as a repudiation of the religion they'd been brainwashed with as kids. They like the identification as being Jewish, but not the horror of having ones relatives murdered for the sake of politicized Christian bigotry. The added insult is the storyline wherein Jews deem themselves to be a superior genetic group, but were murdered with the claim that they were somehow inferior.
Another toxic meme is how, In the U. S., the girls were raised as Disney Princesses, and told that they should hold out for doctors or lawyers (princes). Lots of fertile ground to create trauma. Based on the accounts, Miller has a strong case of OCD, and thus has a psychotic need to impose some sort of order, and probably has guilt for subscribing to the same absolutist attitudes the Nazis embraced.
Note that in terms of politics, only a minority of American Jews, usually Reform, have liberal politics. However they are more vocal than the rest. The Orthodox and Conservative are usually Republican. That is my understanding.
I just watched Soylent Green on TV last night.
racocn8 comments on Jul 24, 2020:
The movie lists the date as 2022 (As I recall; I re-watched it recently.). So maybe it was one or two decades ahead. The movie suggested that the ecosystem had collapsed, and we do seem to be on our way. We would need a pandemic with >99% fatality to survive our own lust and consumption, so the ...
racocn8 replies on Jul 25, 2020:
@Aristippus I have those tools on hand, but life changes have been too troubling to indulge. It was fun to see the shaman with the Ayahuasca stalk. I got a 12" cutting about 16 years ago. It grew up into a dying apricot tree, and when the tree finally died, the vine had a ready made trellis. Two years ago, the trunk finally toppled, so I designed a tensile structure prototype for the vine to grow up into again. I'm training the tendrils now, but have put a sail over the structure for shade. You can see the Ayahuasca in the center left of the attached picture.
racocn8 comments on Jul 24, 2020:
The movie lists the date as 2022 (As I recall; I re-watched it recently.). So maybe it was one or two decades ahead. The movie suggested that the ecosystem had collapsed, and we do seem to be on our way. We would need a pandemic with >99% fatality to survive our own lust and consumption, so the ...
racocn8 replies on Jul 25, 2020:
@Aristippus I have those tools on hand, but life changes have been too troubling to indulge. It was fun to see the shaman with the Ayahuasca stalk. I got a 12" cutting about 16 years ago. It grew up into a dying apricot tree, and when the tree finally died, the vine had a ready made trellis. Two years ago, the trunk finally toppled, so I designed a tensile structure prototype for the vine to grow up into again. I'm training the tendrils now, but have put a sail over the structure for shade. You can see the Ayahuasca in the center left of the attached picture.
Here are some photos of eggs deposited on the underside of leaves.
Cutiebeauty comments on Jul 25, 2020:
Why kill the caterpillars.?
racocn8 replies on Jul 25, 2020:
The caterpillars damage the plant and leave their poop behind. As these plants are intended for consumption, the presence of caterpillars is minimized. It seems the moths and butterflies can 'smell' the presence of the bacteria, and fly to more promising food sources. The bacteria are harmless to humans.
Cutiebeauty comments on Jul 25, 2020:
Why kill the caterpillars.?
racocn8 replies on Jul 25, 2020:
The caterpillars damage the plant and leave their poop behind. As these plants are intended for consumption, the presence of caterpillars is minimized. It seems the moths and butterflies can 'smell' the presence of the bacteria, and fly to more promising food sources. The bacteria are harmless to humans.
Here are some photos of eggs deposited on the underside of leaves.
t1nick comments on Jul 24, 2020:
No idea? Not indigenous to my area.
racocn8 replies on Jul 24, 2020:
The common Cabbage Butterflies and Fiery Skippers seem too small to have deposited that quantity of eggs. I love those guys, so long as they keep flying.
t1nick comments on Jul 24, 2020:
No idea? Not indigenous to my area.
racocn8 replies on Jul 24, 2020:
The common Cabbage Butterflies and Fiery Skippers seem too small to have deposited that quantity of eggs. I love those guys, so long as they keep flying.
Not really related to cannabis, but here are some bug pictures.
Besalbub comments on Jul 15, 2020:
Did the beetle eat your plant ?
racocn8 replies on Jul 15, 2020:
@Besalbub Low grade microscope connected to computer
Besalbub comments on Jul 15, 2020:
Did the beetle eat your plant ?
racocn8 replies on Jul 15, 2020:
@Besalbub Low grade microscope connected to computer
Not really related to cannabis, but here are some bug pictures.
Besalbub comments on Jul 15, 2020:
Did the beetle eat your plant ?
racocn8 replies on Jul 15, 2020:
No, just a lot of them flying around. At least not that I know of. I think I did find some of the big Japanese Beetle grubs at the bottom of the pots from last year (see pics).
Besalbub comments on Jul 15, 2020:
Did the beetle eat your plant ?
racocn8 replies on Jul 15, 2020:
No, just a lot of them flying around. At least not that I know of. I think I did find some of the big Japanese Beetle grubs at the bottom of the pots from last year (see pics).
Not my research or authorship, but good details.
Theresa_N comments on Jul 13, 2020:
The latest data is that this is like the "cold." Same family of virus. Immunity might last less than 90 days perhaps much less. Antibodies last just a few weeks. The vaccination must account for this. We may need it much more often than the "flu" vaccine.
racocn8 replies on Jul 14, 2020:
@AnneWimsey It has been a little while since I saw the article, and firstly, I may have misrepresented because this only works on rhinoviruses (40% of colds). Apparently, they do all share a common feature which is a cleft in a critical protein. The cure is a drug which is not toxic, etc. and binds irreversibly into this cleft such that, while bound, changes the three-dimensional conformation. This change stops the protein from functioning, and the virus is no longer infectious. I gather that UCI is pursuing a similar strategy on Covid's protease. I expect this is being sought for the spike protein too. It is no small feat to find a molecule with all the electromagnetic features in the right 3D shape, and, not be toxic in some way. Obviously, this is a task for supercomputers, but still not at all simple or even straightforward. You don't want to know how the immune system develops binding for unknown antigens. Unbelievable. Evolution to the rescue... again!!! (Hint: variable and hypervariable DNA regions).
Theresa_N comments on Jul 13, 2020:
The latest data is that this is like the "cold." Same family of virus. Immunity might last less than 90 days perhaps much less. Antibodies last just a few weeks. The vaccination must account for this. We may need it much more often than the "flu" vaccine.
racocn8 replies on Jul 14, 2020:
@AnneWimsey It has been a little while since I saw the article, and firstly, I may have misrepresented because this only works on rhinoviruses (40% of colds). Apparently, they do all share a common feature which is a cleft in a critical protein. The cure is a drug which is not toxic, etc. and binds irreversibly into this cleft such that, while bound, changes the three-dimensional conformation. This change stops the protein from functioning, and the virus is no longer infectious. I gather that UCI is pursuing a similar strategy on Covid's protease. I expect this is being sought for the spike protein too. It is no small feat to find a molecule with all the electromagnetic features in the right 3D shape, and, not be toxic in some way. Obviously, this is a task for supercomputers, but still not at all simple or even straightforward. You don't want to know how the immune system develops binding for unknown antigens. Unbelievable. Evolution to the rescue... again!!! (Hint: variable and hypervariable DNA regions).
Not my research or authorship, but good details.
nicknotes comments on Jul 13, 2020:
Where did you get this 1% figure? There have been over 3 million cases of the virus so far in the USA and over 135,000 deaths. If you do the math you see that the death rate is over 4%.
racocn8 replies on Jul 13, 2020:
@Triphid No, nothing like that. I have no idea how you could have inferred that!! This country should have been placed on a war footing with the same attitude. We see what works in Europe and elsewhere. The people who should be sacrificed are our fake dictator and administration who, in circumstances requiring him to lead or get out of the way, does neither. As long as he obstructs real action, we are on a road to maximum casualties, and the blood will be on the GOP's hands forever.
nicknotes comments on Jul 13, 2020:
Where did you get this 1% figure? There have been over 3 million cases of the virus so far in the USA and over 135,000 deaths. If you do the math you see that the death rate is over 4%.
racocn8 replies on Jul 13, 2020:
@Triphid No, nothing like that. I have no idea how you could have inferred that!! This country should have been placed on a war footing with the same attitude. We see what works in Europe and elsewhere. The people who should be sacrificed are our fake dictator and administration who, in circumstances requiring him to lead or get out of the way, does neither. As long as he obstructs real action, we are on a road to maximum casualties, and the blood will be on the GOP's hands forever.
Not my research or authorship, but good details.
Theresa_N comments on Jul 13, 2020:
The latest data is that this is like the "cold." Same family of virus. Immunity might last less than 90 days perhaps much less. Antibodies last just a few weeks. The vaccination must account for this. We may need it much more often than the "flu" vaccine.
racocn8 replies on Jul 13, 2020:
Actually, the cold is either a rhino virus 40% or Coronavirus 20%. An anti-viral agent is being developed that should be effective for ALL the rhinoviruses! A similar technique should be possible for the coronaviruses; just not that quickly, unfortunately. I've been led to understand that a vaccine for covid would confer longer lasting immunity. The problem is this thing mutates frequently, so it is unclear if the vaccine will be effective for newer strains.
Theresa_N comments on Jul 13, 2020:
The latest data is that this is like the "cold." Same family of virus. Immunity might last less than 90 days perhaps much less. Antibodies last just a few weeks. The vaccination must account for this. We may need it much more often than the "flu" vaccine.
racocn8 replies on Jul 13, 2020:
Actually, the cold is either a rhino virus 40% or Coronavirus 20%. An anti-viral agent is being developed that should be effective for ALL the rhinoviruses! A similar technique should be possible for the coronaviruses; just not that quickly, unfortunately. I've been led to understand that a vaccine for covid would confer longer lasting immunity. The problem is this thing mutates frequently, so it is unclear if the vaccine will be effective for newer strains.
Not my research or authorship, but good details.
nicknotes comments on Jul 13, 2020:
Where did you get this 1% figure? There have been over 3 million cases of the virus so far in the USA and over 135,000 deaths. If you do the math you see that the death rate is over 4%.
racocn8 replies on Jul 13, 2020:
@HippieChick58 @AnneWimsey However, the 3 million cases number is believed to be undercounting the true number by ten times. That makes the mortality rate more like 0.4%. The undercounting rate is an unsubstantiated estimate, so mortality may be anywhere from 0.4 to 4%. Thus, 1-2% is still a pretty good number.
nicknotes comments on Jul 13, 2020:
Where did you get this 1% figure? There have been over 3 million cases of the virus so far in the USA and over 135,000 deaths. If you do the math you see that the death rate is over 4%.
racocn8 replies on Jul 13, 2020:
@HippieChick58 @AnneWimsey However, the 3 million cases number is believed to be undercounting the true number by ten times. That makes the mortality rate more like 0.4%. The undercounting rate is an unsubstantiated estimate, so mortality may be anywhere from 0.4 to 4%. Thus, 1-2% is still a pretty good number.
Tucker Carlson claims Tammy Duckworth hates America.
AnneWimsey comments on Jul 9, 2020:
If Tucker Carlson had a decent bone in his body he would live in his basement for the rest of his life with no Wi-Fi....he & his ilk at Fox have done At Least as much damage to this country as drumpy....maybe more!
racocn8 replies on Jul 9, 2020:
Given the utter fiasco of the Trump Administrations response to the pandemic, I fantasize that the successor would deem Fox (and Facebook, etc.) to have been complicit co-conspirators in a criminal scheme imperiling our national security. Under this aegis, the offending corporations would be nationalized and broken up, sold off, or shut down.
AnneWimsey comments on Jul 9, 2020:
If Tucker Carlson had a decent bone in his body he would live in his basement for the rest of his life with no Wi-Fi....he & his ilk at Fox have done At Least as much damage to this country as drumpy....maybe more!
racocn8 replies on Jul 9, 2020:
Given the utter fiasco of the Trump Administrations response to the pandemic, I fantasize that the successor would deem Fox (and Facebook, etc.) to have been complicit co-conspirators in a criminal scheme imperiling our national security. Under this aegis, the offending corporations would be nationalized and broken up, sold off, or shut down.
Racism has been with us a long time, we now have cameras in nearly everyone's hands to record it so ...
Redheadedgammy comments on Jul 8, 2020:
A nasty republicunt and her pimp. I hope they both do time in prison for their stupidity!
racocn8 replies on Jul 9, 2020:
@HumanistJohn I've got them on my list, I've got them on my list and they'd none of them be missed, they'd none of them be missed.
Please see my related post, thanks to your inspiration.
Redheadedgammy comments on Jul 8, 2020:
A nasty republicunt and her pimp. I hope they both do time in prison for their stupidity!
racocn8 replies on Jul 9, 2020:
@HumanistJohn I've got them on my list, I've got them on my list and they'd none of them be missed, they'd none of them be missed.
Please see my related post, thanks to your inspiration.
8 Reasons Why Christianity is False.
TEXTOM85 comments on Jul 6, 2020:
https://medium.com/@johnhawks/neanderthals-and-covid-19-beyond-the-hype-c258dc8bc2c9 WATCH OUT NOW FOR THE UNHAPPY
racocn8 replies on Jul 8, 2020:
@AnneWimsey Several categories of biochemical differences may be seen between 'races'. The DNA is different, buy these difference are extremely slight. Note, I don't acknowledge that different races exist. Perceptions of races are based on superficial characteristics that are almost never significant. However, those differences DO reflect biochemical and genetic differences.
Different people have different Human Leukocyte Antigens, and these associate with different gene sets that may be marshalled against infections. The many types of HLA's are not evenly distributed across the world, and do associate with different demographics. While these different genes may make a difference when fighting an infection, they only rarely impact organ or blood donation. Matching HLA does reduce organ rejection.
Some Blacks have sickle cell anemia genes that provide improved survival against sleeping sickness. From the CDC: The U.S. incidence estimate for sickle cell trait (based on information provided by 13 states) was 73.1 cases per 1,000 black newborns, 3.0 cases per 1,000 white newborns, and 2.2 cases per 1,000 Asian or Pacific Islander newborns. The incidence estimate for Hispanic ethnicity (within 13 states) was 6.9 cases per 1,000 Hispanic newborns.
TEXTOM85 comments on Jul 6, 2020:
https://medium.com/@johnhawks/neanderthals-and-covid-19-beyond-the-hype-c258dc8bc2c9 WATCH OUT NOW FOR THE UNHAPPY
racocn8 replies on Jul 8, 2020:
@AnneWimsey Several categories of biochemical differences may be seen between 'races'. The DNA is different, buy these difference are extremely slight. Note, I don't acknowledge that different races exist. Perceptions of races are based on superficial characteristics that are almost never significant. However, those differences DO reflect biochemical and genetic differences.
Different people have different Human Leukocyte Antigens, and these associate with different gene sets that may be marshalled against infections. The many types of HLA's are not evenly distributed across the world, and do associate with different demographics. While these different genes may make a difference when fighting an infection, they only rarely impact organ or blood donation. Matching HLA does reduce organ rejection.
Some Blacks have sickle cell anemia genes that provide improved survival against sleeping sickness. From the CDC: The U.S. incidence estimate for sickle cell trait (based on information provided by 13 states) was 73.1 cases per 1,000 black newborns, 3.0 cases per 1,000 white newborns, and 2.2 cases per 1,000 Asian or Pacific Islander newborns. The incidence estimate for Hispanic ethnicity (within 13 states) was 6.9 cases per 1,000 Hispanic newborns.
It's clear that Trump's evil knows no bounds.
WonderWartHog99 comments on Jul 8, 2020:
## As a disagreeable old cuss, I have a different theory.
Trump has been washing Russian money. QED, Putin approval of Trump and their "friendship."
racocn8 replies on Jul 8, 2020:
I'm pretty sure that theory has been proven to be fact. We'll know more if NYSD gets into Deutsche Bank's records. I don't see how that negates the scenario above.
WonderWartHog99 comments on Jul 8, 2020:
## As a disagreeable old cuss, I have a different theory.
Trump has been washing Russian money. QED, Putin approval of Trump and their "friendship."
racocn8 replies on Jul 8, 2020:
I'm pretty sure that theory has been proven to be fact. We'll know more if NYSD gets into Deutsche Bank's records. I don't see how that negates the scenario above.
Who do you think should be in the VP slot and why?
bigjac comments on Jul 8, 2020:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/18/politics/biden-vp-harris-demings-lance-bottoms-warren-vice-president/index.html
racocn8 replies on Jul 8, 2020:
I can't believe that Kamala Harris was given front-runner status. She is much worse than Hillary in being obnoxious and quickly going for the low road. She'd never make it to a second term if she inherited the presidency; she is not presidential timber and couldn't win the primary unless she cheated, which she would. That is NOT what we're looking for. We need competence and a steady hand. AND, she is a coward based on her complete refusal to deal with Long Beach.
bigjac comments on Jul 8, 2020:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/18/politics/biden-vp-harris-demings-lance-bottoms-warren-vice-president/index.html
racocn8 replies on Jul 8, 2020:
I can't believe that Kamala Harris was given front-runner status. She is much worse than Hillary in being obnoxious and quickly going for the low road. She'd never make it to a second term if she inherited the presidency; she is not presidential timber and couldn't win the primary unless she cheated, which she would. That is NOT what we're looking for. We need competence and a steady hand. AND, she is a coward based on her complete refusal to deal with Long Beach.
8 Reasons Why Christianity is False.
TEXTOM85 comments on Jul 6, 2020:
https://medium.com/@johnhawks/neanderthals-and-covid-19-beyond-the-hype-c258dc8bc2c9 WATCH OUT NOW FOR THE UNHAPPY
racocn8 replies on Jul 7, 2020:
From the article: "There is no genetic test that can predict Covid-19 risk. " Even though the article notes the higher mortality among non-whites. While some of that mortality may be linked to poor health factors derived from non-white culture or lower economics. The author asserts without evidence that it is due to spread within low-income locations. I would counter, without evidence, that non-whites may well be more susceptible for purely genetic reasons. The history of disease spreading and inflicting high mortality among indigenous peoples is also well recorded. If whites are more successful at surviving Covid, it is more likely to be PARTLY due to whites having encountered similar diseases in the past. Those past pandemics would have killed off the more susceptible gene carriers.
TEXTOM85 comments on Jul 6, 2020:
https://medium.com/@johnhawks/neanderthals-and-covid-19-beyond-the-hype-c258dc8bc2c9 WATCH OUT NOW FOR THE UNHAPPY
racocn8 replies on Jul 7, 2020:
From the article: "There is no genetic test that can predict Covid-19 risk. " Even though the article notes the higher mortality among non-whites. While some of that mortality may be linked to poor health factors derived from non-white culture or lower economics. The author asserts without evidence that it is due to spread within low-income locations. I would counter, without evidence, that non-whites may well be more susceptible for purely genetic reasons. The history of disease spreading and inflicting high mortality among indigenous peoples is also well recorded. If whites are more successful at surviving Covid, it is more likely to be PARTLY due to whites having encountered similar diseases in the past. Those past pandemics would have killed off the more susceptible gene carriers.
Interesting to see how many members of Congress and other elected officials as well as businesses ...
bookofmorons comments on Jul 7, 2020:
Seems the Swamp may need more draining
racocn8 replies on Jul 7, 2020:
And just how do you drain a swamp by dropping a cesspool on top of it?
bookofmorons comments on Jul 7, 2020:
Seems the Swamp may need more draining
racocn8 replies on Jul 7, 2020:
And just how do you drain a swamp by dropping a cesspool on top of it?
Immature male-parts on cannabis, June beetle and bee.
Budgie comments on Jul 6, 2020:
Love the close ups. What was the insect?
racocn8 replies on Jul 7, 2020:
I have only know them as June Bugs. Researching: Cyclocephala sp, also known as the Masked Chafer, is one of the more common June Beetles. The small ones are from the genus Cyclocephala, also known as masked chafers. As larvae they’re lawn pests known as ‘white grubs’ and commonly feed on grass roots and thatch near the surface of the soil. They take two years to grow from egg to adult. June beetles are attracted to lights.
https://askentomologists.com/2015/06/11/june-beetles-what-are-they-and-how-do-i-deal-with-them/
Budgie comments on Jul 6, 2020:
Love the close ups. What was the insect?
racocn8 replies on Jul 7, 2020:
I have only know them as June Bugs. Researching: Cyclocephala sp, also known as the Masked Chafer, is one of the more common June Beetles. The small ones are from the genus Cyclocephala, also known as masked chafers. As larvae they’re lawn pests known as ‘white grubs’ and commonly feed on grass roots and thatch near the surface of the soil. They take two years to grow from egg to adult. June beetles are attracted to lights.
https://askentomologists.com/2015/06/11/june-beetles-what-are-they-and-how-do-i-deal-with-them/
Immature male-parts on cannabis, June beetle and bee.
HumanistJohn comments on Jul 6, 2020:
Great detail!
What macro lens were you using?
racocn8 replies on Jul 6, 2020:
These were taken with an computer microscope.
HumanistJohn comments on Jul 6, 2020:
Great detail!
What macro lens were you using?
racocn8 replies on Jul 6, 2020:
These were taken with an computer microscope.
Unity 2020
"Save the republic"
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Flowerwall comments on Jul 3, 2020:
What does he mean "the rght hasn't played their cards and over the next year we are in grave danger"?
I think the overall idea is creative. I can't see it ever working though. Would the two sides ever really agree to a coin flip? When Dr. Weinstein describes his position as radical, I think he is...
racocn8 replies on Jul 4, 2020:
@Flowerwall Yeah, like you give a shit about that community.
Flowerwall comments on Jul 3, 2020:
What does he mean "the rght hasn't played their cards and over the next year we are in grave danger"?
I think the overall idea is creative. I can't see it ever working though. Would the two sides ever really agree to a coin flip? When Dr. Weinstein describes his position as radical, I think he is...
racocn8 replies on Jul 4, 2020:
@Flowerwall Yeah, like you give a shit about that community.
So my parent's church which I visited for Father's Day is now experiencing members coming down ...
racocn8 comments on Jul 3, 2020:
Just imagine for a moment what would happen if, instead of paying out trillions of dollars to the unemployed and business owners, just a single trillion was spent on vaccine research. Maybe a little of that is happening now...
racocn8 replies on Jul 4, 2020:
@JeffMurray What I meant was, what if we actually gave sufficient priority to biomedical research at a much higher level on a routine basis, rather than what it actually gets.
Yes, at this point now, time is the bottleneck rather than money.
What if Trump had taken Obama's pandemic preparations seriously, and set to work on stockpiling PPE and ventilators for an inevitable pandemic, instead of trashing it all.
I don't see a connection between our failed leadership and the poor outcomes you mention. What are you referencing there?
racocn8 comments on Jul 3, 2020:
Just imagine for a moment what would happen if, instead of paying out trillions of dollars to the unemployed and business owners, just a single trillion was spent on vaccine research. Maybe a little of that is happening now...
racocn8 replies on Jul 4, 2020:
@JeffMurray What I meant was, what if we actually gave sufficient priority to biomedical research at a much higher level on a routine basis, rather than what it actually gets.
Yes, at this point now, time is the bottleneck rather than money.
What if Trump had taken Obama's pandemic preparations seriously, and set to work on stockpiling PPE and ventilators for an inevitable pandemic, instead of trashing it all.
I don't see a connection between our failed leadership and the poor outcomes you mention. What are you referencing there?
Unity 2020
"Save the republic"
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[medium.com]
Flowerwall comments on Jul 3, 2020:
What does he mean "the rght hasn't played their cards and over the next year we are in grave danger"?
I think the overall idea is creative. I can't see it ever working though. Would the two sides ever really agree to a coin flip? When Dr. Weinstein describes his position as radical, I think he is...
racocn8 replies on Jul 3, 2020:
The only protests that devolved into riots were the ones where police were instructed to riot. Looters piggybacked on the protests, but they were not protesters. The rioting does not even figure into the top ten biggest concerns facing the nation (Paragraph 3), unless you're a Faux zombie. Why am I wasting electrons on you?
Flowerwall comments on Jul 3, 2020:
What does he mean "the rght hasn't played their cards and over the next year we are in grave danger"?
I think the overall idea is creative. I can't see it ever working though. Would the two sides ever really agree to a coin flip? When Dr. Weinstein describes his position as radical, I think he is...
racocn8 replies on Jul 3, 2020:
The only protests that devolved into riots were the ones where police were instructed to riot. Looters piggybacked on the protests, but they were not protesters. The rioting does not even figure into the top ten biggest concerns facing the nation (Paragraph 3), unless you're a Faux zombie. Why am I wasting electrons on you?
The following is part 1 of a 3 part series:
"Understanding Donald Trump, Part I"
I do not know...
phoenixone1 comments on Jul 1, 2020:
All very good points but I would like to add that the minute he is NOT POTUS...NY is going to be slamming his bloviated ASS with Indictments for TAX EVASION...and the minute that happens the proverbial "cat" is out of the bag for all his financial dealings...that will open the floodgates of exposure...
racocn8 replies on Jul 1, 2020:
@Powder I'm pretty sure that the Iranian general was killed for the benefit of MBS. The General was heavily involved in the Saudi war in Yemen. This was partly payback for the bombing of the Saudi refineries (That the General arranged). What did Trump get out of it? Money.
phoenixone1 comments on Jul 1, 2020:
All very good points but I would like to add that the minute he is NOT POTUS...NY is going to be slamming his bloviated ASS with Indictments for TAX EVASION...and the minute that happens the proverbial "cat" is out of the bag for all his financial dealings...that will open the floodgates of exposure...
racocn8 replies on Jul 1, 2020:
@Powder I'm pretty sure that the Iranian general was killed for the benefit of MBS. The General was heavily involved in the Saudi war in Yemen. This was partly payback for the bombing of the Saudi refineries (That the General arranged). What did Trump get out of it? Money.
[theweek.
EllenDale comments on May 29, 2020:
Not a viable choice. Susan Rice— now she’s intelligent, young, energetic, and ready to be POTUS now!
racocn8 replies on Jun 29, 2020:
One of my top preferences too...
EllenDale comments on May 29, 2020:
Not a viable choice. Susan Rice— now she’s intelligent, young, energetic, and ready to be POTUS now!
racocn8 replies on Jun 29, 2020:
One of my top preferences too...
Russia paid bounties to kill US troops, US intel says; Trump mum: NYT
racocn8 comments on Jun 27, 2020:
Seriously? The CIA just made it for whatever reasons? I suppose they could, but would they? Maybe they wanted to force Trump's hand? It is such an extreme claim, that drops the falsity probability a lot. Mainly, though, it doesn't change anything regarding Russia, Putin, the Taliban, or even ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 27, 2020:
@Archeus_Lore Why do you think Trump is doing that?
racocn8 comments on Jun 27, 2020:
Seriously? The CIA just made it for whatever reasons? I suppose they could, but would they? Maybe they wanted to force Trump's hand? It is such an extreme claim, that drops the falsity probability a lot. Mainly, though, it doesn't change anything regarding Russia, Putin, the Taliban, or even ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 27, 2020:
@Archeus_Lore Why do you think Trump is doing that?
Reverend reveals what evangelicals are saying behind closed doors .....[youtu.be]
LucyLoohoo comments on Jun 27, 2020:
He can't find anyone inspiring other than an old anti-Nazi?
racocn8 replies on Jun 27, 2020:
That is because the only assholes left inside the Evangelical movement are Nazi wannabee's.(or at least those who have no problem with the Nazi value system, which was largely based on Christian values to begin with.).
LucyLoohoo comments on Jun 27, 2020:
He can't find anyone inspiring other than an old anti-Nazi?
racocn8 replies on Jun 27, 2020:
That is because the only assholes left inside the Evangelical movement are Nazi wannabee's.(or at least those who have no problem with the Nazi value system, which was largely based on Christian values to begin with.).
I got around to setting up my computer microscope and took these.
AncientNight comments on Jun 27, 2020:
Those pictures look like sections of leaves. I wonder what the Buds would look like under the Microscope.
I remember having a cheap, little microscope when I was a kid. I would look at all kinds of things, like dirt and was amazed at the little things that you couldn't see with only your eyes. ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 27, 2020:
I hope to document whatever I can find in my garden, so stay tuned...
AncientNight comments on Jun 27, 2020:
Those pictures look like sections of leaves. I wonder what the Buds would look like under the Microscope.
I remember having a cheap, little microscope when I was a kid. I would look at all kinds of things, like dirt and was amazed at the little things that you couldn't see with only your eyes. ...
racocn8 replies on Jun 27, 2020:
I hope to document whatever I can find in my garden, so stay tuned...
I got around to setting up my computer microscope and took these.
OldGoat43 comments on Jun 27, 2020:
Very good photos of those trichomes. Which microscope do you use?
racocn8 replies on Jun 27, 2020:
I bought this as a gift that never got given. Otherwise, I'd have something a bit better, but for under $30, very worth it. I have to see how long it stays working. My experience with the $100 range is they last a year.
https://www.lightinthebox.com/en/p/adjustable-8-led-1000x-usb-digital-microscope-endoscope-loupe-otoscope-magnifier-with-stand_p2664546.html?currency=USD=bing_shopping=us=bingshopping=cpc=bingshopping&=bing=cpc==%5BEN%5D%5BBSC%5D%5BLITB%5D%5Bc2619%5D%5BP%26E%5D(US)(shopping)(L1)=1e8fad7b28b817ee84def38ca5fd331e
OldGoat43 comments on Jun 27, 2020:
Very good photos of those trichomes. Which microscope do you use?
racocn8 replies on Jun 27, 2020:
I bought this as a gift that never got given. Otherwise, I'd have something a bit better, but for under $30, very worth it. I have to see how long it stays working. My experience with the $100 range is they last a year.
https://www.lightinthebox.com/en/p/adjustable-8-led-1000x-usb-digital-microscope-endoscope-loupe-otoscope-magnifier-with-stand_p2664546.html?currency=USD=bing_shopping=us=bingshopping=cpc=bingshopping&=bing=cpc==%5BEN%5D%5BBSC%5D%5BLITB%5D%5Bc2619%5D%5BP%26E%5D(US)(shopping)(L1)=1e8fad7b28b817ee84def38ca5fd331e
This could be a moneymaking opportunity! While researching stocks, I found that dozens of ...
FearlessFly comments on Jun 26, 2020:
"This could be a moneymaking opportunity"
"it’s a certainty that these stock prices will go down again"
"I don’t do that myself"
"A fool and his money are soon parted" :O
. . . btw, I don't see how this is about Politics :P
racocn8 replies on Jun 26, 2020:
I suspect that Mnuchin is behind this manipulation to enable the family to make money.
FearlessFly comments on Jun 26, 2020:
"This could be a moneymaking opportunity"
"it’s a certainty that these stock prices will go down again"
"I don’t do that myself"
"A fool and his money are soon parted" :O
. . . btw, I don't see how this is about Politics :P
racocn8 replies on Jun 26, 2020:
I suspect that Mnuchin is behind this manipulation to enable the family to make money.
[getpocket.
mischl comments on Jun 24, 2020:
I once receive a message (it must have been from "god") at 4am one morning. The message was, "All religious are bullshit. Don't believe any of it." So, now I am enlightened. Or perhaps just deluded.
racocn8 replies on Jun 25, 2020:
Everyone believes religions, that is, other religions, are bullshit. Believing your own religion is right and all the other ones are wrong, is not just bullshit, its dim, deluded, retarded, asinine, moronic, effed-up, etc.
mischl comments on Jun 24, 2020:
I once receive a message (it must have been from "god") at 4am one morning. The message was, "All religious are bullshit. Don't believe any of it." So, now I am enlightened. Or perhaps just deluded.
racocn8 replies on Jun 25, 2020:
Everyone believes religions, that is, other religions, are bullshit. Believing your own religion is right and all the other ones are wrong, is not just bullshit, its dim, deluded, retarded, asinine, moronic, effed-up, etc.
Alternet and Patheos report:
Many Christian fundamentalists and evangelicals have been ...
racocn8 comments on Jun 20, 2020:
These bigots can't cash in their Darwin Awards fast enough. Perhaps their disrespect for science and medicine will translate into a high mortality.
In a way, Trump lucked out that the mortality was only 1-4% rather than the 40-90% with Ebola. Next time...
racocn8 replies on Jun 23, 2020:
@Observer-Effect I'm with you there. It's not unlike the extraterrestrial-UFO issue. I'd like to know so much more, but really, it's an open-ended quantity of information. Perhaps it's better if we simply objectify that our insatiable curiosity is a feature of our consciousness.
racocn8 comments on Jun 20, 2020:
These bigots can't cash in their Darwin Awards fast enough. Perhaps their disrespect for science and medicine will translate into a high mortality.
In a way, Trump lucked out that the mortality was only 1-4% rather than the 40-90% with Ebola. Next time...
racocn8 replies on Jun 23, 2020:
@Observer-Effect I'm with you there. It's not unlike the extraterrestrial-UFO issue. I'd like to know so much more, but really, it's an open-ended quantity of information. Perhaps it's better if we simply objectify that our insatiable curiosity is a feature of our consciousness.
Alternet and Patheos report:
Many Christian fundamentalists and evangelicals have been ...
racocn8 comments on Jun 20, 2020:
These bigots can't cash in their Darwin Awards fast enough. Perhaps their disrespect for science and medicine will translate into a high mortality.
In a way, Trump lucked out that the mortality was only 1-4% rather than the 40-90% with Ebola. Next time...
racocn8 replies on Jun 23, 2020:
@Observer-Effect Things happen, not necessarily good or bad, except from a chosen perspective. That said, devastating humanity might provide a respite to the planet's ecosystem. It may already be too late.
racocn8 comments on Jun 20, 2020:
These bigots can't cash in their Darwin Awards fast enough. Perhaps their disrespect for science and medicine will translate into a high mortality.
In a way, Trump lucked out that the mortality was only 1-4% rather than the 40-90% with Ebola. Next time...
racocn8 replies on Jun 23, 2020:
@Observer-Effect Things happen, not necessarily good or bad, except from a chosen perspective. That said, devastating humanity might provide a respite to the planet's ecosystem. It may already be too late.
WHO'S WHO AND WHAT'S WHAT!
Austin-Cambridge comments on Jun 22, 2020:
OK, I'll put it another way, is the man behind the mask a seasoned statesman or a dip-shit? :-D
racocn8 replies on Jun 22, 2020:
How about where it matters: compared to Trump.
Austin-Cambridge comments on Jun 22, 2020:
OK, I'll put it another way, is the man behind the mask a seasoned statesman or a dip-shit? :-D
racocn8 replies on Jun 22, 2020:
How about where it matters: compared to Trump.
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