U.S. sea levels to rise by a foot through 2050, causing "profound" flooding - Axios

racocn8 comments on Feb 16, 2022:

Except that the Thwaites ice shelf is poised to slip into the sea in the next 3-5 years and that will raise sea levels by more than 2 feet. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/doomsday-glacier-thwaites-antarctica-climate-crisis-1273841/

ROTFLMGDAO!!! "Pages of videos" reminds me of Mitt Romney's "binders of women" slip-up back in 2012.

racocn8 comments on Feb 16, 2022:

Would a lobotomy help?

Working on the assumptions: 1 Covid and or other diseases can be spread from person to person by ...

racocn8 comments on Feb 16, 2022:

Assumption 5: People who have no empathy are capable of feeling guilt. Q1: Y; Q2: Y. (A2: N)

Do you shop at WalMart and if so does it bother you or do you think it is just capitalism at work?

racocn8 comments on Feb 16, 2022:

Fore-runner to Buy-N-Large...

Not even two months in to 2022, ladies and gentlemen, and we already have a legitimate contender for...

racocn8 comments on Feb 16, 2022:

Truly a classic specimen. One lie after another like a machine gun. That's their strategy. One could go back and try to expose each lie, but they don't care, they're on to the next one. It's a cult, and more dangerous for it. The takehome is that evolution in the marketplace of ideas doesn't work when Fox exerts a monopoly hypnotic control. Those programmed by Murdoch & company become devoted to being malign actors. It's not just mass hypnosis, but very much also mass psychosis. Parroting strings of lies is their speaking in tongues and having a fit on the floor.

He tells too much truth

racocn8 comments on Feb 15, 2022:

Usually one comes from the other...

Stole this, mansplaining is correctile dysfunction.

racocn8 comments on Feb 15, 2022:

Only when the victim isn't genuinely stupid, nor just playing stupid. Wait,.. is anyone left?

Fox News Talking About Migrant Caravans But Make The Footage Canadian Truckers | The Daily Show - ...

racocn8 comments on Feb 15, 2022:

Almost certainly, many of them were rapists and drug runners... (and probably some pedophiles too).

Letters From An American 02/14/2022

racocn8 comments on Feb 15, 2022:

Durham's probe continues to look contrived and little more than partisan bullshit. They'll have to do better than that. It should have been shut down last year, and it's victims pardoned/exonerated.

This is an intriguing read.. [sciencealert.com]

racocn8 comments on Feb 15, 2022:

Whatever form that iron is in, it must also be able to account for the shifting of the magnetic poles. At the moment, the data suggest two north magnetic poles. That seems to argue against a solid core.

Has anyone used the Facebook dating app?

racocn8 comments on Feb 15, 2022:

Avoid texting as much as possible. Unless you're talking to a live person, you don't know who it is. Do NOT disclose any personal information until you're actually with them, and really, not even then. Wait until you've actually established trust.

THE TOWN THAT Q-ANON NEARLY SWALLOWED Right-wing demagogues tried to take over a small town in ...

racocn8 comments on Feb 15, 2022:

The fascists CAN be defeated. Great story.

My opinion of some folks plummeted.

racocn8 comments on Feb 15, 2022:

What, you aren't impressed with their loyalty?

Valentine's Day Special

racocn8 comments on Feb 15, 2022:

Way, way, way too familiar. This is exactly why monogamy is a crock, why prostitution should be legal, and pre-nuptuals should be required for every marriage. (etc., etc., etc....) I certainly would have done better with whores than getting married. Marriage is often just conferring respectability on women trading sex for money.

Cary Watkins confirms embalmer Richard Hirschman's story about the telltale blood clots

racocn8 comments on Feb 15, 2022:

Very dubious. More partisan propaganda.

Baptists got it going on, lol

racocn8 comments on Feb 15, 2022:

I thought that was the whole idea...

Why the Pentagon’s latest UFO report is a turning point on the issue - YouTube

racocn8 comments on Feb 15, 2022:

After 70 years of intimidation and threats from the Air Force, people still think that they'll be looked at sideways and receive disparaging comments. Actually incorporating non-humans, entities that are far ahead of us technologically, into our environment could cause psychological trauma to quite a few people. Many who see these things are indeed traumatized because of the implications.

Now would be a good time to round up all of the non-Canadian protesters who have been occupying ...

racocn8 comments on Feb 14, 2022:

They should be putting them in a database to exclude them from Canada in the future. If they suffer financial loss, it's karma. Deserved karma.

[cnn.com] Judge in Sarah Palin's defamation suit against the NYT says he will dismiss the case.

racocn8 comments on Feb 14, 2022:

From the article: "The editorial in question was called "America's Lethal Politics" and...erroneously said that there was a "clear" link between a map that had crosshairs over congressional districts, including Giffords', and the shooting that injured her. Bennet testified that he added language about there being a clear link and that once he realized his error, he worked to quickly issue a correction." Given Palin's depraved killing of wolves from a helicopter, the question as to whether a 'clear' link is not that unclear. These psychos play with people's lives with abandon, but go completely bonkers when one of their own (Scalise) becomes a victim. Actually, they don't care; they're just all about playing the game of intimidation. Best of luck to the NY Times on Palin's appeals.

Did you know? [youtube.com]

racocn8 comments on Feb 14, 2022:

So how do the UAP's travel so fast without generating a shock wave?

Teaching moment, wingnut style .

racocn8 comments on Feb 14, 2022:

Yup. Loyalty to party first. Loyalty to Country LAST. (and truth be told, not even then).

Three Canadian Special Forces members under investigation for protest involvement | Reuters

racocn8 comments on Feb 14, 2022:

Where ever we can, whether military, police, but especially election operations, these psychos need to be rooted out.

CANNABIS IN SCIENCE & HEALTH 2/14/2022 A review concluded that "cannabis and cannabinoids may ...

racocn8 comments on Feb 14, 2022:

@Triphid See above.

Who here likes Jordan Peterson?

racocn8 comments on Feb 14, 2022:

Just another conservative pandering demagogue and Incel founder.

OMG she got COVID on purpose for 'natural immunity,' and then things didn't go so well "These ...

racocn8 comments on Feb 14, 2022:

It is sad and horrific. This is Donald Trump's America where the lust for political power and money gladly kills the people who show loyalty. The conservative message is ugly enough with its racism, but the way the GQP murder their own with the anti-vax litmus test... If they hate liberals that much, maybe death is a good way out.

Recent headlines : 1.

racocn8 comments on Feb 14, 2022:

Tell us how you really feel, but this time, don't hold back...

I'm laughing so hard I can't breathe!

racocn8 comments on Feb 13, 2022:

Yeah, in their freedom to be individuals, they act like robots.

I realize that Pakistan is not in the Middle East strictly speaking, but am avoiding standing on ...

racocn8 comments on Feb 13, 2022:

Is that any different from lynching here in the US?

He is such a ham.

racocn8 comments on Feb 13, 2022:

You forgot the Disappearing Act.

You can ban books, but you will never stop ideas

racocn8 comments on Feb 13, 2022:

Those who compare minor inconveniences to the Holocaust do so to show disrespect to Jews and to signal their bigotry to like-minded morons.

I think it was posed not 'shopped but awesome either way

racocn8 comments on Feb 13, 2022:

About 23 seconds.

I came across this today and laughed out loud in the parking lot lol

racocn8 comments on Feb 13, 2022:

Yeah, they were bribed.

Not like the old days

racocn8 comments on Feb 13, 2022:

Multi-tasking - - I like it...

That did not age well

racocn8 comments on Feb 13, 2022:

Lord have mercy....

A simple contradiction caused a whole religion to fail.

racocn8 comments on Feb 13, 2022:

It's a story. It's a psychotic, perverse, degenerate story, 'enhanced' from another deranged story. Basically, it's spiritual pornography, except that saying so insults pornography.

The lonesome Monks.

racocn8 comments on Feb 12, 2022:

If only they would stick to grabbing each other, but they don't.

How strong is the Faith NOW?

racocn8 comments on Feb 12, 2022:

Amazing to see the photo of the crown and realizing every one of those dots is an irredeemable loony tune.

Sixty degrees at the beach today! Read and weep?

racocn8 comments on Feb 12, 2022:

89 F here in L.A. That is scary.

Follow the Sharpie: Prosecutors probing Donald Trump are sitting on 'tons' of documents bearing ...

racocn8 comments on Feb 12, 2022:

At this point, an FBI raid is more than warranted. Allowing Trump's acolytes to decide what to turn over proves the DOJ is corrupt.

Did religion give an advantage to pre-industrial revolution societies?

racocn8 comments on Feb 12, 2022:

Did religion facilitate or impede the technology that led to the industrial revolution?

And yet another TRUTH about Religion.

racocn8 comments on Feb 12, 2022:

A lot of them aren't even cafeteria Christians. They just figure their 'loyalty' gives them a blank check.

Wow this is pretty bad.

racocn8 comments on Feb 12, 2022:

If people won't bother to vote, or willingly vote against their own interests, what can be done? And then some of them blame democrats for not being progressive enough... So, is this suicide by fascism?

Ain't religion grand!?

racocn8 comments on Feb 12, 2022:

And that's another problem with books claiming to be God's word. Horrific insanity is sanctioned and can't be deleted even when it's apparent that it is hugely immoral.

Jan 2022 Media Bias chart is out. Where do your favorite news sources fall on this chart?

racocn8 comments on Feb 12, 2022:

Except that the supposedly central "Bias" centerpoint should be two grid squares to the left.

Here is an interesting article on whether or not we should stop calling addiction a disease.

racocn8 comments on Feb 12, 2022:

From the article: "The term "disease" was introduced in association with "addiction" to open doors for hospitals to aid the addicts in receiving medical attention." So because we want to encourage self-reliance so much, we should close off medical care to people who have become addicted. Talk about being cheap and uncaring.

Religion is Not about God [agnostic.com] .

racocn8 comments on Feb 12, 2022:

Maybe it shouldn't be, but if you ask the religionists, what percent say that it is about god?

Resurrection

racocn8 comments on Feb 12, 2022:

Norse religion: There is evidence that the Norse believed in reincarnation where one's hugr would pass into the body of a newborn relative while one's hamingja continued on in the family at large and one's fylgja seems to have just ceased to exist at the person's death. And Scientology...

'Don't put handcuffs on!': The aftermath of a 6-year-old's arrest at school - CNN Video

racocn8 comments on Feb 12, 2022:

A 6 year-old is charged with hitting an assistant principal? What color is that assistant principal? Either way, the child needed a time-out, not an arrest record. The assistant principal is unfit and should find another job. I hope they sue the school for a ton of money.

This can only be a good thing.

racocn8 comments on Feb 12, 2022:

I love my friend's pug, but the notion that we encourage producing pets that suffer their entire lives is sick, perverse and unfathomably selfish.

If god has a great plan, why pray?

racocn8 comments on Feb 12, 2022:

Among the usual: ego, greed, envy, lust, sloth, gluttony, wrath, etc. Even helping others is only done to make one feel better. Pure selfishness.

Man Killed Wife After QAnon Told Him She Was a CIA-Linked Sex Trafficker

racocn8 comments on Feb 12, 2022:

Is it possible for him to be deprogrammed? Mfer

For most of my adult life I have been in continual cycles in search of.

racocn8 comments on Feb 12, 2022:

To what end does one seek enlightenment? Self-gratification? Escape from ones own noisy ego? Or from loneliness? To what end does one use their self-actualization?

One of Trump's many disgusting legacies - a Russian tyranny, (fostered and emboldened by a pliant ...

racocn8 comments on Feb 12, 2022:

Trump supporters have disqualified themselves from having standing. They'll have to prove otherwise in the future.

This is pure gold.

racocn8 comments on Feb 12, 2022:

Most sex is either mutual masturbation or self.

New Rule: That's Not Karma | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - YouTube

racocn8 comments on Feb 12, 2022:

If there were any karma, Maher would be dead from Covid. A-hole.

Engineering Evaluation: Religion<>Morality Religion <> Objective consideration of evidence ...

racocn8 comments on Feb 11, 2022:

The problem is that religionists brainwash their kids from birth. It is child abuse that society chooses to tolerate. That is the vertical transmission mechanism for the parasitic memes of religion.

Protesters defy injunction order, continue to occupy key U.S.-Canada bridge | Reuters

racocn8 comments on Feb 11, 2022:

If those a-holes had anything like a legitimate reason for protesting, I'd say give them a hearing. But they don't have a good reason, other than thinking that being white supremacists gets them a pass like at Charlottesville. If anything, authorities should be looking at this as an opportunity to round up bad actors. Put them in mental hospitals where they can be deprogrammed. But mainly, these scum seek to devalue genuine, legitimate protests. We now know the social media they use is being funded by foreign entities, but the media is playing that down. Very frustrating...

It seems that life is getting quite tough for Priests these days, thankfully.

racocn8 comments on Feb 11, 2022:

Alterboyts ? ?

Seriously, who does that?

racocn8 comments on Feb 11, 2022:

But we knew that in 2015.

“The practise of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the ...

racocn8 comments on Feb 11, 2022:

How much forgiveness shall we give to those seeking genocide?

It’s a GOP eat GOP world. [bipartisanreport.com]

racocn8 comments on Feb 11, 2022:

Now if we could just get them to smoke some weed, perhaps the process would speed up?

Crazy fashion statements, not big on the practical.

racocn8 comments on Feb 11, 2022:

I don't think there'd be any space for water to condense.

Tell me I was wrong...

racocn8 comments on Feb 11, 2022:

Too funny!!! Reminds me of two-headed Zephod Bebelbrox in HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy.

Messages from God. 😆

racocn8 comments on Feb 11, 2022:

Thwaites glacier may slip into the ocean within 3-5 years, raising sea levels more than 2 feet.

FEDERAL CANNABIS NEWS 2/11/2022 Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said he worries there is "a ...

racocn8 comments on Feb 11, 2022:

Apparently US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy is unfit for his job in that his capacity to render a professional judgment regarding this critical issue is compromised (eg: he is biased, ignorant, and willing to propagandize).

Trump Clogged the White House Toilet Trying to Flush Documents Because Of Course He Did - YouTube

racocn8 comments on Feb 11, 2022:

And yet PBS still announces the headline saying it represented the possibility of wrongdoing. Ugh.

Maybe China too.

racocn8 comments on Feb 11, 2022:

Yeah, we're all so much better off that she lost to Trump.

Scientism is defined as the view that science and scientific method are the best or only objective ...

racocn8 comments on Feb 11, 2022:

It depends on one's definition of science and scientism. I believe science to be open-minded as far as willing to entertain all propositionS with the understanding that the reception is proportional to the quantity and quality of evidence. With no evidence for wormholes, time travel or alternate universes, those propositions can't go anywhere except further, more arcane speculation. Within the culture of scientists, some may become rigid and toss out propositions without a hearing. What scientist wants to hear another defender of Creationism? For sure, science is far from pure. The campaign by the Air Force et. al. to discredit any and all UFO reporting has had the chilling effect that sightings relevant to national security don't get reported, and the scientific community has been cowed into disparaging all UAP reports to show their loyalty to the orthodoxy. UFO debunking has become its own cult. These debunking cultists are intentionally ignorant and without understanding of the issues, and still refuse to address the evidence. A good example of other dimensions may be interpreted from the way that quantum physics requires mathematical solutions that employ complex or imaginary number systems (link below). One other instance of this is network analysis of electrical circuits. Equations are formulated as defined by the circuit elements, and only by using complex numbers can a correct result be calculated. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/quantum-physics-imaginary-numbers-math-reality One cannot become too doctrinaire given Schroedinger's Cat and the wave-particle duality, and good scientists take this to heart. Science has significant mystical or at least mysterious aspects to it. The beauty is that speculation leads to theories, theories to calculations, and calculations to findings; When the findings agree with reality, maybe we don't even have the right theory, but what we do have yields accurate predictions. (I saw today how this happens with Big Bang nucleosynthesis - - mind blowing!!!) Tell me what you think might be disclosed that will rock the world?

Apparently many of the Canadian antivaxxer truckers are right winger spouting racist and homophobic ...

racocn8 comments on Feb 11, 2022:

Slap them with a $1,000 per day traffic tickets, and refuse future entry to Canada. Make it profitable to Canada.

Competitors for the Most Relentlessly Stupid Person Ever Elected To Congress: Rep.

racocn8 comments on Feb 11, 2022:

"Rock Bottom" ??? Hey, Nancy, when it comes to depravity, there is no limit. If we LET them keep going, they will. The real question is whether there is a point where they are so buried and sinking in their own shit, glubbering and clawing for air that they give up their loyalty? Or must they take cyanide kool-ade as the only way to provide relief???

Ted Cruz: 'Mistake' for GOP to Call January 6 an 'Insurrection'

racocn8 comments on Feb 10, 2022:

Once again we see that the censoring that long guns were seized INSIDE the capitol results in hopelessly absurd news reporting. When will this flaw in the matrix get uncovered???

'Lord of the lies': Acosta says all of the lies are catching up to Trump - YouTube

racocn8 comments on Feb 10, 2022:

Once again we see that the censoring that long guns were seized INSIDE the capitol results in hopelessly absurd news reporting. When will this flaw in the matrix get uncovered???

US consumer prices rise at fastest since 1982 [bbc.]

racocn8 comments on Feb 10, 2022:

You may be sure that GQP-owned businesses are raising their prices to screw with the economy. Same with the Fed raising its rates. Anti-democratic, anti-American, anti-Human traitors. Un-flushed human waste.

Fusion race kicked into high gear by smart tech [bbc.]

racocn8 comments on Feb 10, 2022:

May the wind be at their backs...

Bright future

racocn8 comments on Feb 10, 2022:

Link?

Once again "I love the poorly educated" defines the GOP

racocn8 comments on Feb 10, 2022:

I was worried for a moment that they'd forget the methamphetamine, but they remembered!

Trump takes top secret documents out of the white house to MaraLago.

racocn8 comments on Feb 10, 2022:

Did you hear that he was flushing shredded documents down the toilet!!!! The guy's loony tunes never stop.

Hudson, Ohio Mayor Argues That Ice Fishing Will Directly Lead to Prostitution

racocn8 comments on Feb 9, 2022:

MAGA's elect these morons and then wonder why we think they're idiots.

Researchers use tiny magnetic swirls to generate true random numbers [phys.org]

racocn8 comments on Feb 9, 2022:

I wrote a computer game that I wanted to start up randomly, but the system always started with the same number booting up. My solution was to take a number from the jiffy clock and put that in the random number generator when the game booted.

Take your time.

racocn8 comments on Feb 9, 2022:

Three of hearts.

Racist raids: See breakdown on 50 year, bipartisan 'no knock' scandal 

racocn8 comments on Feb 8, 2022:

Lets be clear what this is: Lynching. Lynching by police. Lynching of non-whites by racist police and by racist judges.

Woke war: How social justice and CRT became heresy for evangelicals [religionnews.com]

racocn8 comments on Feb 8, 2022:

The problem with trying to find common ground with a religionist is that they have no interest in it. Indeed, rejecting common ground is key to their identity; rejecting common sense is what religion is all about. Religionists are TAUGHT to be immoral, and abused into mental illness. Innate empathy is destroyed. Sympathy for the downtrodden, the claimed foundation of Christianity, is replaced with genocide. There can be no common ground with Nazis.

Aliens?

racocn8 comments on Feb 8, 2022:

Look at this one description from the Cometa Report!!! Too funny!!! After 30 to 45 minutes, the RAF sent a night fighter, a Venom two-seater, in pursuit of the object. The Lakenheath air traffic radar control center guided it in the direction of the object 10 km east of the center. The pilot acquired the target visually and on radar, then lost it. The center then directed the plane 16 km to the east of Lakenheath; the pilot again acquired the target and said, "my machine guns are locked onto him. " A short time afterward, he once again lost his target; but the target was followed by the radar operators at the center. They informed the pilot that the object had made a rapid movement to position itself behind him and was following him at a short distance. The pilot confirmed [this]. Watched by the radar technicians, the pilot tried every maneuver for about 10 minutes in order to move back behind the object (steep climbs, dives, sustained turns), but he didn't succeed: the UFO followed him at a constant distance according to the ground radars. Finally, low on fuel, he returned to base, asking that someone tell him whether the object continued to follow him. The UFO did, in fact, follow him for a short distance, then came to a standstill. The radar technicians then saw the object make several short moves, then leave in a northerly direction at about 950 km/h and disappear from radar range at 0330 hours. https://www.narcap.de/dokumente/COMETA-Report-englisch.pdf

Eric Lander: White House science adviser resigns after investigation into workplace policy ...

racocn8 comments on Feb 7, 2022:

it's asinine to have a story without some idea of the offending behavior.

So was there a master plan or was the omniscient creator just winging it?

racocn8 comments on Feb 7, 2022:

There was this writer's strike...

The end times for religion - Freethought Now

racocn8 comments on Feb 7, 2022:

Yes, but... I recall research done on modernizing countries that showed the populace turned to conservatism as a rejection of technology. This was before the internet, so it may be harder to bury one's head in the sand. I believe this research received a pejorative award from Senator Proxmire, but it proved all too accurate in essentially predicting the revolution in Iran. In our own case, the US has been much more religious than other Western countries, so it has farther to go. My guess is we're approaching the sharpest slope in the change curve, and that's good. However, the shift could be jarring to many.

Almost works, if you can stand the squeel

racocn8 comments on Feb 7, 2022:

European plug...

Newest Recruiting Method being utilized by the Southern Baptist Churches....LOL.

racocn8 comments on Feb 7, 2022:

Cheesus inside...

I really feel the anguish, etc, of the cat...LOL.

racocn8 comments on Feb 7, 2022:

Oh, the Humanity....

4 years ago, this was funny; now, it is becoming real life, except for possibly the ending.

racocn8 comments on Feb 7, 2022:

The tragedy is that it is precisely that asinine, moronic behavior that has killed almost a million people, and brought the country to its knees.

I don't believe in spirits or aliens.

racocn8 comments on Feb 7, 2022:

Sadly, the longer video of John Mack's interviews appears to have been removed, but this is a fair summary. https://youtu.be/1W75HZD8VaE

But they tried to make him a one term president…….

racocn8 comments on Feb 7, 2022:

You may have noticed that the GQP don't have a platform, and don't want to debate. They have one goal only and that is to bring about a combination of the Fourth Reich and pre-Civil War slavery.

Yeah, I MIGHT be a deviant in our so-called modern society.

racocn8 comments on Feb 7, 2022:

Automation is getting better every day... In short order, it'll be better than the real thing... Same with AI... ...but seriously, our social morals still have a way to go, and as always, are mainly being held back by the religionists.

MO Gov: I only nominate people with 'Christian values' to positions of power

racocn8 comments on Feb 7, 2022:

Again the bigots make clear that they blow off their loyalty to the Country when it comes to (obeying the law against) applying religious tests to public servants.

I'll take that as a maybe then.

racocn8 comments on Feb 7, 2022:

It depends on how you ask the question...

Trump Confused by Staff Not Liking Him Rewatching Capitol Riot: Report

racocn8 comments on Feb 7, 2022:

The ARMED insurrection was his political discourse - - Now embraced by the GQP.

Aliens?

racocn8 comments on Feb 6, 2022:

Please have a look at this video. Chris Mellon is a serious player having managed to compel the Pentagon to validate videos he had a hand in releasing. And I've tried to put thoughtful posts in the group. https://agnostic.com/group/LikelyUFOLore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW5UaqQFaOk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LjlmAY54yI And then there is Luiz Elizondo who is very cagey in what he'll say. It's a good interview though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wULw64ZL1Bg

Well, they would be hopping mad!

racocn8 comments on Feb 6, 2022:

Um, no, kangaroos do have teats, but they're inside the pouch, AFAIK.

So last time I was on here I talked about the difficulties of coming out to my family, both as an ...

racocn8 comments on Feb 6, 2022:

Sorry to hear of the estrangement from your family. That's a harm that cuts deep and keeps stinging. What's worse is realizing that (very likely), they are incapable of feeling any shame for their hurtfulness. Just know that you aren't the one doing the hurting, and that life is too short to waste time on on people who can't and won't ennoble your life.

Cracking down on methane ‘super emitters’ is a quick, low-cost way to combat climate change, ...

racocn8 comments on Feb 6, 2022:

Maybe... Complete apart from CO2 and methane is the particulate pollution that comes from sulfur content. These sulfur particulates typically have a carbon coating that absorbs sunlight. When the particles settle on snow or ice, the sunlight converts to heat that melts the ice. I've never seen any discussion of trying to separate the effects of warming from particulates melting glacial ice.