The Fillmore West (formerly the Carousel Ballroom) at Market & Van Ness Avenue, (10 Van Ness ...

racocn8 comments on Sep 6, 2021:

The famous organist, Virgil Fox, sometimes played there, and generated an LP album. The audience reacted rather more boisterously then on his other albums.

Perfect costume

racocn8 comments on Sep 6, 2021:

Nicely done. I wonder if she'll grow up to be interested in bondage?

'FK Joe Biden' Chants Break Out at College Football Games Across the Country

racocn8 comments on Sep 6, 2021:

More dirty tricks by the GQP a-holes. Considering what Texas is doing with abortion, I doubt how many young girls joined in.

Is this what goes on in America nowadays?

racocn8 comments on Sep 6, 2021:

How often do Conservatives seek to insert Creationism into the curriculum? Or to simply degrade the quality of the instruction when they can't. Being neutral would be the noble objective. The reality is that one side respects the rules with some exceptions. The other side doesn't respect the rules unless ordered by a court. Needless to say, opposing fascism wasn't always a ' leftist ' proposition.

This one usually get a rise out of them

racocn8 comments on Sep 6, 2021:

I'll pray for you = Middle finger

Who embraces being a slut?

racocn8 comments on Sep 6, 2021:

Shaming women for their sexual activity is the real depravity.

hello all! Im new!

racocn8 comments on Sep 6, 2021:

Get another picture. That one makes you look like Hannibal Lecter's brother.

Why is it some women just can't take a compliment?....

racocn8 comments on Sep 6, 2021:

He would be an Incel candidate.

Alaskan Law Requires DNA From Accused Criminals, but Officials Failed to Collect Samples From 21,000...

racocn8 comments on Sep 6, 2021:

No. Not if the collection of DNA is irrelevant to the crime. Otherwise, collect everyone's DNA and see how that is received.

My daughter has sent me the same birthday card for seven years.

racocn8 comments on Sep 6, 2021:

Consider yourself lucky to get a card of any kind.

Weird, I was watching "The Big Bang Theory" and in the dialog mentioned that you can't tie a knot in...

racocn8 comments on Sep 5, 2021:

I like the note that knots in more than three dimensions would slip loose. If one imagines that quarks are wrinkles in space-time, it is reassuring that knots cannot form in the string/wrinkle. As to the photon/Higg's particle combination, it would be an Higg's particle at a slightly higher energy. But I believe Higg's particles decay super-fast, so not much to talk about. I don't know that photons ever confer their timeless nature on any particles.

Religion adapts to the needs and desires of its adherents.

racocn8 comments on Sep 5, 2021:

Please review Eric Hoffer's The True Believer.

Posthumanism: A Philosophy for the 21st Century?

racocn8 comments on Sep 5, 2021:

It seems to be the same old story of rejecting concepts or people out of ever more stringent litmus tests. Humanism is associated with x because y said so, so throw it all out. The bigger issue is that of practicality on the ground. The US might be seen as one of the most advanced countries, and yet we see intractable political problems - - intractable insofar as humanism is in no position to even work towards changing their causes. Really, Humanism is a dodge from the responsibility of fighting to stop the evildoers. Were the Resistance fighters Humanists? Your reference to the Borg is well taken in my opinion. Young people no longer have an option except to plug into the corporation dictated crypto-fascism. We are already enslaved if we have no options to participate in the REAL decision-making.

I coming to be of the opinion that if people want to choose not to protect themselves and others ...

racocn8 comments on Sep 5, 2021:

The principles of triage are based on survivability and don't take into account how the patients came to be in need. From the perspective that does consider the outrageousness of their behavior, the principles of triage seem unfair. The anti-vax conduct is so offensive that it does invite the proposition of denying care altogether. Anti-vaxxers that recklessly threaten others with death plainly exhibit depraved indifference, a felony in many jurisdictions. If our society functioned properly, anti-vaxxers would be charged and sentenced accordingly. However, the GQP has chosen to politicize this issue as a stepping stone to approved violence and civil war. The democrats don't really have the power nor balls to stop them.

Two cowboys get stranded when their horses run off.

racocn8 comments on Sep 5, 2021:

Por que?

God always wants and even encourages wars- Christian wars,Muslim wars, Jewish wars, Hindu wars, even...

racocn8 comments on Sep 5, 2021:

Not just gods, but the personality cults that may claim to have god on their side.

Hi everyone.

racocn8 comments on Sep 5, 2021:

If you don't know, it's unlikely anyone can explain it to you.

Is The US Becoming A Dystopia? [youtu.be]

racocn8 comments on Sep 5, 2021:

The video is correct, the US is already a dystopia. But it's worse than that. Malthus is still right (about the problem, though his solution, abstinence was absurd).

Recently I met a woman on a dating site and this progressed to the point of her coming to visit me ...

racocn8 comments on Sep 4, 2021:

If they won't talk to you live, they're probably a guy trying to scam you. I've encountered that dozens of times on various dating sites. Some of the sites actually have women working phones to keep you on the sites, and they always send you a bunch of "I'm interested in you" when your membership is close to lapsing. These contacts then disappear as soon as you renew.

Truth is more messed up than satire

racocn8 comments on Sep 4, 2021:

Seriously misplaced priorities; crappy triage.

No thanks. I have fun, but I look forward to oblivion when my journey is finished.

racocn8 comments on Sep 4, 2021:

Bait without the switch.

Blameless.

racocn8 comments on Sep 4, 2021:

Or, how is it that those who refused to blame Trump for anything now blame Biden for everything, including making shit up. (I for one, do blame Biden for utterly failing to address the rampant corruption/treason/sedition in the Republican ranks).

"If we are a civilized society, founded on thoughtful intelligence, killing should almost never be a...

racocn8 comments on Sep 4, 2021:

I am a jekyll/hyde schizophrenic with one quasi moral personality and the other socio-psychopath, and several other personalities on the committee. Yours is a quaint sentiment, but I'm pretty sure my condition is commonplace.

Anti-Masker Storms School Threatens Principal - YouTube

racocn8 comments on Sep 4, 2021:

If I were the principal, those guys would leave in body bags.

Cant stop thinking ever since she left

racocn8 comments on Sep 4, 2021:

I love the cheese...

Reminded me of "PARADISE ALMOST LOST," by Joseph Simon Newman, recorded by Biff Rose on his first ...

racocn8 comments on Sep 4, 2021:

Creationists think the Universe is 6000 years old compared to the scientific estimate of 13.4 billion. Well, heck, they're only off by a factor of 2 million times. It's probably a good rule of thumb for the rest of their beliefs.

Let’s go now, Democrats!

racocn8 comments on Sep 4, 2021:

Except that the Democrats only have control of the Senate if you include Manchin and Sinema, who are Putin-paid Boll Weevils. So the purpose of an misleading anti-democrat post is what?

They’ll be going in the opposite direction and none too soon!

racocn8 comments on Sep 4, 2021:

The other direction, 6 feet down is satisfactory.

Fewer spawn of the stupid?

racocn8 comments on Sep 4, 2021:

Can we especially encourage the young conservatives (still able to reproduce) to eat that shit? This is welcome news to the Darwin Award committee

Excellent reasons all

racocn8 comments on Sep 4, 2021:

Cute, but, Not your Concern is more like 100%, and fully overlapping both Mind Your Business and Fuck Off.

Biden Moves to Declassify Some Documents Related to Sept. 11

racocn8 comments on Sep 4, 2021:

So, can the US attack Saudi Arabia now?

My sentiments exactly! Women don’t get pregnant without male participation.

racocn8 comments on Sep 4, 2021:

Ugh. The top meme is hopelessly absurd and not even funny.

Beau of the Fifth Column - Let's talk about patriotic education, dogs, and civic mindedness.

racocn8 comments on Sep 4, 2021:

The stupid want to dumb down the rest of us. What they think is patriotism is loyalty to a treasonous puppet. The rest of us want no part of that.

Vasectomies needed for all the GOP men in Texas!

racocn8 comments on Sep 3, 2021:

How about post-natal abortions.

A Small victory: [alternet.org]

racocn8 comments on Sep 3, 2021:

Guilty by reason of insanity.

Despite studies showing successful treatment, the media and government officials continue to vilify...

racocn8 comments on Sep 3, 2021:

By all means, consume as much of the Ivermectin as you can, just to be sure. If you feel sick, do NOT go to a hospital - - all the doctors are communists. God will heal you.

That's a valid point

racocn8 comments on Sep 3, 2021:

What would a wholly mythical non-entity do?

Kind of drives home what happened

racocn8 comments on Sep 3, 2021:

Putin is laughing his ass off.

US defeat in Afghanistan

racocn8 comments on Sep 3, 2021:

And Texas?

I'm outa here!

racocn8 comments on Sep 3, 2021:

Are you ready to have your guts cored out?

Unhinged Karen Goes on INSANE School Board Rant [youtube.]

racocn8 comments on Sep 3, 2021:

This is what low IQ people do with their lives. They know they're low on the spectrum, and the low self-esteem expresses itself in gravitating to cultist behaviors. The cult becomes their support system. Take a good look and try to understand the challenge of governing a population which includes these people. The weird beliefs can become a dangerous hazard, as was all too clear on Jan 6. But consider the impact of Maga cultists on Covid mortality and the economic knee-capping that comes with it. And, their paranoia supports, oddly enough, a support for fascism. Yes, they are an existential threat to us and the species.

A stupid clown.

racocn8 comments on Sep 3, 2021:

When did conspiring with a hostile foreign power to gain power in a illegally slanted election become OK?

Anti-vaxxers storm the wrong BBC building in botched U.K. protest [globalnews.ca]

racocn8 comments on Sep 2, 2021:

Wow, a stampede of fresh meat. Get the body-bags ready. Can't we increase the mortality?

This is something I wrote awhile back when a romantic partner hurt me pretty bad.

racocn8 comments on Sep 2, 2021:

Disney princesses strike again...

Me at this point in the dating game.

racocn8 comments on Sep 2, 2021:

One acquires a level of expertise, not only in pleasuring, but in fantasizing too. A partner might be nice, but can they do as well? Is it enough to make up for the drama and other costs? It would be so much better to just take a pill that kills off the libido. Would men take it?

Science is important.

racocn8 comments on Sep 2, 2021:

The odds appear to be excellent... Correction to the article: If you're exposed to a low level of Covid, hopefully that will act like a booster shot to your immune system, and that you may feel some effects.

More Trump truths!

racocn8 comments on Sep 2, 2021:

Think of the Capitol as a classy upstanding lady. On Jan. 6, somehow a rapist drugged her and removed her clothes, and, by the time the rapist was done, she was black and blue and her legs were spread. So far, no pregnancy from the rape, but the rapist is still on the loose and has made threats to come back.

OF COURSE IT'S UNAPPROVED FOR FIGHTING COVID!!! IT"S A FUCKING HORSE DEWORMER!!! Joe Rogan tests...

racocn8 comments on Sep 2, 2021:

Hoo-ha-hah-hahh

I very much hate to see her go. [apnews.com]

racocn8 comments on Sep 2, 2021:

I can't say I know that much about her domestic policies, but from a distance, she seemed to have conducted herself with class and respectability. Nothing bad that I recall (except for only slowly decriminalizing cannabis and not allowing Germans to grow it.).

U.S. Capitol Police prepare for a rally in support of Capitol riot - Axios

racocn8 comments on Sep 2, 2021:

Can we disguise some Antifa to start a scuffle or light some firecrackers...

What are your thoughts on a Perpetual Motion Machine (P.M.M) functioning?

racocn8 comments on Sep 2, 2021:

No. However, in my ignorance, I think it may be possible to generate or capture energy from ' space/vacuum ' along the lines of so-called ' zero-point energy. '

It seems to me that the Texas legislature was voted into power by mad men and by insane women who ...

racocn8 comments on Sep 2, 2021:

Th US is now a fascist country but we don't realize it yet. The dictator will be here shortly. (and I don't mean Biden)

Step-mom, bad. Step-mom, good!

racocn8 comments on Sep 2, 2021:

Disney princesses have been poisoning the minds of young girls for what, 83 years?

This nauseates me. [twitter.com]

racocn8 comments on Sep 2, 2021:

The guy that enabled Trump to win the election, also offered bounties on American soldiers and bankrolled the Taliban and the NRA.

Christian Preacher: I Was in the Hospital with COVID, But Prayer Alone Cured Me | Hemant Mehta | ...

racocn8 comments on Sep 2, 2021:

Another Liar's Club Whopper. How do these people look at themselves in the mirror? Oh, yeah, no shame...

I think Texas is eventually going to see a spike in the sale of metal coat-hangers.

racocn8 comments on Sep 2, 2021:

Or these instruments... https://www.glowm.com/section-view/heading/surgical-techniques-for-first-trimester-abortion/item/439#30495

Have you heard about this?

racocn8 comments on Sep 1, 2021:

Pretty sad given they support Putin's puppets.

The Supreme Court just allowed Texas to ban nearly all abortion in the state, effectively ...

racocn8 comments on Sep 1, 2021:

Too late. The GQP have power in the legislatures, SCOTUS, and FBI and they are not allowing fair elections any time soon. Only the SCOTUS or FBI could have stopped them. Get ready. Facism is right around the corner, along with Civil War.

THE FLAWED EPISTEMOLOGY It seems an obvious hypocrisy to me that there are pundits who can't ...

racocn8 comments on Sep 1, 2021:

Please thank 100 years of Creationism.

High News: Presidential Pajama Party - YouTube

racocn8 comments on Sep 1, 2021:

Too young to be a beatnick.

Any one in Texas, do you remember back in the 1950's when one could find fetuses in trash cans and ...

racocn8 comments on Sep 1, 2021:

Women voted for Donald Trump in 2016 or didn't vote at all. Minorities also withheld their votes for Hillary. The so-called progressives who didn't get their precious Sanders as a candidate stayed away from the polls. A lot of this was orchestrated by Putin's social media bots, but a lot was motivated by animus, apathy, misogyny, and even self-hatred. With abortion gone, contraception is next. Perhaps Ivermectin works on unwanted pregnancies?

Copied from someone who copied it from a very conservative friend.

racocn8 comments on Sep 1, 2021:

Not that conservatives have credibility, but this is a perfect reason why. Absurd silliness: "the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob." "the Right has continued to act with dignity, collegiality and propriety." "Yes, Obama was “articulate” and “polished” but in no way was he in the least bit “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper.”" "The Left has been engaged in a war against America since the rise of the Children of the ‘60s. " So that makes it OK to embrace a traitor who has been proven to have conspired with Putin to rig the 2016 election? Sorry, but that makes the GQP traitors, every one, in my book.

I have mixed feelings about MSNBC news presenter Mehdi Hasan; I think he talks too fast.

racocn8 comments on Sep 1, 2021:

Hasan has interviewed or debated Dawkins and, as expected, Hasan's faith in Islam is problematic and badly impacts his competence as a respectable human. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QZcuwWj1CA

After a COVID skeptic falls to the disease, people ask an awkward question: Should we care?

racocn8 comments on Sep 1, 2021:

Those who put the rest of us at risk of death or disability as a shallow expression of defiance certainly don't deserve sympathy. We can suppress our disgust for only so long, and that point is now passed.

House GOP Fractures Over Right-Wing Calls To Oust Biden And His Officials

racocn8 comments on Sep 1, 2021:

Silly and childish, as always.

Money can't buy you happiness? Well, check this out, I bought myself a Happy Meal.

racocn8 comments on Sep 1, 2021:

Can I buy a life insurance policy for you?

So now asking, expecting, that your superiors take accountability for their actions means you need ...

racocn8 comments on Aug 31, 2021:

We don't know and we will never know what the real situation was or is. We don't have a need to know, and it's certain it would only make us mad if we found out. While it's true we went into Afghanistan after 9/11 to pursue Bin Laden and Al Qaida, remember that Saudi Arabians bankrolled Al Qaida, and others in the region fund Isis. Having bases in Afghanistan facilitates attacks on bad actors, but frankly, there are so many bad actors that it's like using a sponge to soak up the ocean. In the meantime, our own country has toppled, electing a destructive foreign agent as president, an event tacitly approved by our own military and intelligence establishment. Having trashing whatever reputation had been cultivated, no one will or should trust this country. None of this is really acknowledged by our ' leadership ', much less a plan to deal with it. United States of America? I hate to break it to you, but we're on our own now; we just don't know it.

And... here's your sign.

racocn8 comments on Aug 31, 2021:

This is a perilous moment. The whole of the GQP has embraced delusion and lying as SOP. They don't have positions, only hate and a bad attitude. They have no credibility and have lost standing to participate in policy discussion. It's mass insanity, plain and simple. They're a plague of locusts that we're supposed to live with and treat as fellows. We have a real problem...

Look what I found! 😂😂😂😂

racocn8 comments on Aug 31, 2021:

The problem with Trump's treason is that he is not alone. The Russians have established a beachhead and our whole culture has been compromised. And yet, this aspect is nowhere in the news. Except for photographs of politicians with Maria Butina or with Putin, no one cares. That is the existential threat that Trump's legacy leaves. That and the complete disrespect for law and order, where someone who is plainly guilty of a myriad of crimes is allowed freedom. Just because he's a cult leader? Yikes, we are so fu.

I have to admit I thought it was hysterical I got booted from the group "Conservative Atheists" even...

racocn8 comments on Aug 30, 2021:

Very much like Christians, who view atheism, or even other religions as a repudiation of their own. The true believer is all too aware of the conflict between their nonsense and the real world, hence the cognitive dissonance. They are already so insecure that they (think they) need their beliefs as a crutch. Knock that crutch out and they collapse. That is always happening to some degree, and their whole personality distorts until anger and hatred replace anything constructive.

How is everyone coping these days?

racocn8 comments on Aug 30, 2021:

We don't have democracy in this country. Corruption is totally rampant and standard operating procedure right here in the US. We certainly are total hypocrites to complain about corruption in Afghanistan. It's absurd to suppose we could enable others to attain a workable system when we don't have one ourselves.

Explaining Humans to Aliens - YouTube

racocn8 comments on Aug 30, 2021:

Absolutely great. (It's really too bad we don't have concubines anymore, though.)

When One Believes in Fairy Tales.... [rawstory.com]

racocn8 comments on Aug 30, 2021:

Not just a net gain, but a significant net gain for society. It would be so much better if we had a policy to help society in the same way.

Former COVID skeptic Marcus Birks dies. [bbc.com]

racocn8 comments on Aug 30, 2021:

...and another one bites the dust...

This video was enlightening.

racocn8 comments on Aug 30, 2021:

Fission must persuade the public that it can safely dispose of the existing nuclear waste, before it can move forward to produce more fission plants. Without a working model, the fusion path seems problematic. Possibly the most promising technique is Germany's mobius-strip-like tokamak, and yet that also seems hamstrung on public opinion. The advent of superconducting electromagnetic materials is also encouraging. https://www.pnas.org/content/114/6/1217 Given the large amount of open deserts in the world, solar power seems to be a good solution. The best means to have enough power, and to not decimate the planet, is to have fewer people.

I am doing a survey for work-life balance

racocn8 comments on Aug 30, 2021:

If you don't have time to enjoy it properly, let it wait.

Apparently this is a real thing in certain circles. Darwin do your thing!

racocn8 comments on Aug 30, 2021:

Sadly not as good as cyanide-laced kool-aid.

Some things are just wrong.

racocn8 comments on Aug 30, 2021:

Now if you replace the tomato sauce with fudge and peanut butter....

Joe Biden's critics on Afghanistan exit are wrong in almost every way

racocn8 comments on Aug 30, 2021:

It's opportunistic hate-speech, and anti-patriotic while they're at it.

I'm finding that putting the forever block on the anti-vax members very satisfying.

racocn8 comments on Aug 30, 2021:

Anti-vaxxers are mainly interested in FITE: Finger In The Eye. They know their bullshit is a lie, but they also know putting it out there is a frustration to everyone else. It's like a Proud Boy who wants a fight for the sake of fighting. Along with the malignant narcissism, these anti-vax psychos thrive on drama. Again, like their idol, Trump. You're not going to be able to reason with them, and their whole agenda is to piss off the rest of us. Just block 'em. (In the fullness of time, they should be institutionalized).

The Goddess Eating Gods Son

racocn8 comments on Aug 30, 2021:

I'd say it is very likely that Christianity will be gone within 1000 years. The question is whether Humanity will still be here.

Julia Yaroshenko is positively cute! Don't you agree?

racocn8 comments on Aug 29, 2021:

The whole age difference issue is so unfair. Adults should be able to be with whoever they wish. What we chiefly need is a reliable means of turning women into nymphomaniacs.

you know she wants some of it.

racocn8 comments on Aug 29, 2021:

I'm sure she got a laugh out of it. Wanting any of it? I doubt it.

Jesus Who? [alternet.org]

racocn8 comments on Aug 29, 2021:

A curious analogy here: The absence of evidence for an actual human Jesus has no evidence, just as the evidence for an actual god of the universe has no evidence. In both cases, given the importance of such claims, only a trickster god would go to such extreme lengths to erase every trace of existence. The proposition that the absence of evidence compels faith, this also has no basis. And, in the absence of clarity distinguising regurgitated myth versus what actually happened, confusion and division are inevitable. Indeed, too little of any real Jesus remains after one strips out the pre-existing stories, and what is left lacks coherent meaning.

[theatlantic.

racocn8 comments on Aug 29, 2021:

The US democracy has been a joke for a very long time. The government is a clothes-horse, a figure-head for what should be there. The wealthy make the consequential decisions behind closed doors. The government only fiddles around the edges, taking blame for the wealthy, and providing illusory power to the masses (democracy).

Who's the genius that decided to call it "Emotional baggage"... .... and not "griefcase."

racocn8 comments on Aug 29, 2021:

Not enough room in a griefcase...

We eat with our eyes, too.

racocn8 comments on Aug 29, 2021:

Yeah, I'm not eating that with my mouth...

It’s obviously a winning strategy!

racocn8 comments on Aug 29, 2021:

Probably more like 85 AD...

For those of you who remember FlippantLlama, she posted this on her FB page.

racocn8 comments on Aug 28, 2021:

Mixed metaphor?

It just might work!!

racocn8 comments on Aug 28, 2021:

I predict a seriously ugly winter for GQP, but frankly, they deserve much worse.

Miss America, 2121.

racocn8 comments on Aug 28, 2021:

Too much LSD...

I am a fucking feminist and I refuse to cower under an onslaught of recent right wing infiltration.

racocn8 comments on Aug 28, 2021:

The war is already lost because everyone is cowed into refusing to admit the problem/solution. It's a circular firing squad surrounding wingnuts pulling pins on the grenades they're holding.

Dan Bauman: Anti-Mask Florida Dad Attacked Student, Cops Say [heavy.com]

racocn8 comments on Aug 28, 2021:

Prick.

I had a lady today tell me that she'll pray for me.

racocn8 comments on Aug 28, 2021:

Praying is the same as giving the middle finger.

A new study says that atheists care more about others than the religious do, Flordelis is arrested ...

racocn8 comments on Aug 28, 2021:

That really isn't news. It's more like grudging acknowledgment

I didn’t think it was possible to hate Trump more!

racocn8 comments on Aug 28, 2021:

And, he totally screwed up the visa process to try to prevent Afghanis from emigrating to the US... And denied visas to Afghanis who had already applied. Helped by Jewish Nazi Stephan Miller.

China set to begin first trials of molten salt nuclear reactor using thorium instead of uranium ...

racocn8 comments on Aug 28, 2021:

I wonder what China does with its nuclear waste?

I am totally amazed at any human beings still believe it this creature

racocn8 comments on Aug 28, 2021:

It's not just that conservatives are morons, they have a basket of symptoms including zero empathy, no sense of humor and an addiction to cruelty, which they think is funny. Did I mention being pathological liars like their idol?

No stars this place is a real dump.... an absolute shithole!

racocn8 comments on Aug 28, 2021:

That kind of teasing is cruel...

No surprise.

racocn8 comments on Aug 28, 2021:

Ah, but the churches are slowly emptying...