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[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

What fifty years of data tells us about Religion and Place.

Nope….the ‘Wall of Separation’ is not an attack on religious freedom. Get your comments in today! You could even try to pray it away!

Most Australians have no religion, census could show if question was changed.

“Attempts to define British identity in religious terms are divisive and risk excluding millions of people who contribute equally to our society.” But remember that the Liars for Jesus are never far away and will continue with attempts to indoctrinate children.

It will be a lot more difficult to stop the deranged Christian Nationalist mental onslaught on the children in Texas. It will get worse.

FFRF asks USDA again to stop official promotion of Christianity.

“And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.” 2 Cor 11:14.

World of Woo: How to prepare for your psychic reading.

Environment: Scientists built a solar reactor that eats plastic bottles.

What makes humans stupider more.

Is recursive self‑improvement the dawning of AI superintelligence?

The Hydration Break World Cup.

Gene-edited babies are now closer to becoming a reality. The ethical debate is far from settled.

Why does everyone insist that there is a “hard problem” to consciousness?

The single day of Carl Sagan.

Sunday Book Club: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe – Sean Carroll.

Some photographs taken last week.

While you are waiting for the kettle to boil……

Coffee Break Videos:  150th Anniversary of the National Liberal League.  The Slimy Tricks of Christian “Experts”. Creationist tries debating Evolution.

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

Have a great week!

[Strega]

Thanks, Reg!!

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

The single day of Carl Sagan.

A world of high technology demanded an equally high understanding of the underlying science, but Sagan recognized that there was more to the equation. We badly needed to be able to understand each other.

Here’s where the importance of Occham’s Razor comes in. It’s there to make the complex simple and further understanding between practitioners of science. If you can’t implement Occham’s Razor, no falsification, no independent corroboration, no peer review, and no science education or popularizing is possible.

And Occham’s Razor never was the supreme judge of scientific truth. That would be a Strawman. Occham’s Razor is just one of several requirements for a scientific explanation. A scientific explanation also has to be falsifiable, non-self-contradictory, and non-contradictory of the larger context of existing knowledge.

Just providing the diamond sharpener here, because contrary to Proverbs 27:17, Iron does not sharpen Iron and Iron isn’t the best component for tools, implements, and weaponry anyway.

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

The Hydration Break World Cup.

So today’s Twain-ians and Bierce-ians would define Soccer as: “A good grazing in the grass that is NOT a gas, baby, can you dig it?”

😁😄

[jakelafort]

Recursive self-improvement.

In biology self improvement is adapting to envirnoment to pass on genes. The quotidian life struggle reacting to its environment. Human environment is post natural and our capacity to adapt is overwhelmed and our demise is imminent.

We have overcome every obstacle to this point including however many prehistorical challenges may have limited our options and made other human lineages fail where homo sapiens survived. Ok does it follow in a Humean way that our path forward will also see us overcome? Gawd, no! Our defenses and capabilities are so overmatched it is game set match. Soon.

Oh, and the notion that there will be global cooperation and regulation and limitation of the evolution of AI? What a silly joke. Oh, and i like how the author mentions the Pope and his wisdom. Another fucking joke.

[jakelafort]

The MOA which was always a joke and its violation a sure thing is a tinder box. Not the MOA rather the war between US/Israel and Islamic Republic of Jihad fka Iran.

Trump is so transparent. When he says he is a very stable genius he is projecting self awareness in being an unstable and impulsive half-wit. When he says how Jihad export the revolution cult of Iran badly wants an agreement he means I BADLY WANT AND NEED A FUCKING END TO THIS SHIT.

Israel uncovered a plot to assassinate him. Imagine if they had executed the plan and Trump barely survived? How many innocents would die in that war? On other hand it could change the course of history and put an end to a disgusting and degenerate ideology that is causing untold suffering. Oh, what a disappointment to the lefty filth if the victims of Islamism were to have a reprieve. But i do think it is like the German’s ideology. We had to pay in rivers of blood to discredit the ideology and send it to the dustbin of history.

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

I have not heard this conspiracy theory yet so I might as well kick start it…..Lindsey Graham goes to Ukraine. He had just organized a major weapons shipment for them. He goes back to America and dies of a sudden cardiac event. Putin hated him……….

[Strega]

@Reg so you don’t think this last weeks record breaking heatwave was caused by the gates of hell being opened for him?

[jakelafort]

Among the looming sword of Damocles existential/humanitarian crises is the increasing heat and soon to be unlivable climates. Mass migration will be attempted. Many of those would-be migrants will be Muslims. By then the pendulum will have swung much farther to the right and resistance to immigration will be strident. Oh what a blood bath ensues. It is a consequence of the stupidity of lefties and their goddamn moral relativism and identity politics. Stupid mofos.

It is also our failure as a species to recognize common humanity and human nature. instead of cooperating we do what we do.

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

Twenty past midnight here in Dublin. 18C / 66f but a cool breeze….

[TheEncogitationer]

Fellow Unbelievers:

I just noticed I misspelled. It’s supposed to be:’Occam’s Razor. I thus practice Occam’s Razor by removing an unnecessary letter “h” and a false assumption about my spelling from the explanations. Simple.

I also give to the AI and AI creators of the world a loving example of self-correction and self- improvement. Also simple, if they only pay heed…

[jakelafort]

Occam soccam robots. Yea i remember dat from my yute.

Dublin? I think i read a series or anthology of plays known as Dubliners. But i was a wee lad.

Climate change. So being in the woods as often as i am have come to know when berries are berry ripe. No more. It has changed so dramatically.

Just finished a book by a fisherman aristocrat Scot who bemoans the serious decline of sea run salmon in the rivers of Scotland. He ascribes it to climate change and river lice & parasites due to acquaculture.

I don’t know the data but sure seems like shit is changing quickly. Here in CT of USA just had a spate of days with highs in the low 100s. So F’g hot even i did not hike although when i do suffer the slings and rays of outrageous heat i try to sort of embrace the pain.

[TheEncogitationer]

Jake:

What is a “MOA”? I’ve always heard it was an “MOU”. In between these two, is there a “MOE” (Hey MOE! *Nyuk-Nyuk!*😁), a “MOI” (MOI, Monsieur? 🥐🧀🍾🇫🇷), and a “MOO” (MOO 🐄🐂)? Is there a Sometimes “MOY” at the end after all these? (Whatever MOY is?)

Trump and the Mullahs are sure making a lot of vows and vowels that mean chaos and destruction and are not consonant with human flourishing.

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

I have not heard this conspiracy theory yet so I might as well kick start it…..Lindsey Graham goes to Ukraine. He had just organized a major weapons shipment for them. He goes back to America and dies of a sudden cardiac event. Putin hated him……….

Putin is the Mikey of World Politics. He hates everything and everybody, including his best and brightest, just like Stalin in WWII.

Reg, alls you have to do is set the baited rabbit box trap in front of the hole. No need to crawl in. 🪤 🥕🐇🕳️

Last night I seen that Ben Shapiro is evidently fallen in and is apparently accusing Candace Owens of being part of the plot to murder Charlie Kirk, after all her months of accusing everyone else of doing it. These rabbit holes are turning into Watership Down meets The Hare of Caerbannog! Best to stay away and let all be revealed!

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