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_Robert_ wrote:
at around 00:18

Yeah, I saw that too, but the fangs seemed to have missed, unless it was in between video frames. But it did look like like a lucky/accidental inch to the snake’s right would have been fatal for the cat, and/or both of them.

My question is, WHY? Surely the cat had a choice, so was it just for fun, or to catch…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
1) it takes some hypocritical nerve for humans to decry an invasive species. Mankind is invasive everywhere but Africa.

I believe in most cases, responsibility for the introduction of an invasive species belongs to one or more humans. The range of these species is huge, from microbes and prion diseases (e.g. HIV, ebola, plagues, mad…[Read more]

Yup, I have my own stories about the 2017 and 2018 fires, but they pale in comparison to tens of thousands of others here. I even made my own breathing mask out of a CPAP mask, a trimmed HEPA filter, and a gallon plastic jug during some days that were so smokey that most people left town (as recommended by health and emergency authorities), but no…[Read more]

Strega said it for me. To make it clear to my kids I told them if they want a permanent resting place they could even sneak my ashes into a construction site and dump them into a cement mixer, but it’s totally their call.

The following clip is especially for younger people who haven’t watched The Big Lebowsky, and it’s from Coen Brothers (whom…[Read more]

Davis wrote:
The closer you approach 100% the more likely you live in a failed state.

I looked into Ethiopia today, found it quite interesting wrt religious mix and its purported secular government, and so added it as an AZ topic. Not knowing beans more about them, I wish them luck, especially those in an apparently really really small secular minority.

Historically, free will is defined as either

1. A gift from God, potentially making everyone completely accountable for their choices and actions; this definition invokes dualism, the assumption that mind/spirit can exist separately from one’s physical brain
2. A meaningless concept in light of a deterministic (albeit unpredictable at quantum…

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Did you know you can whisper to Alexa, and she’ll whisper back?

Now here’s a trick I learned all by myself, which is more fun to do to someone else’s Alexa when the owner is not listening closely:

• “Alexa, give me two hundred decimal places of Pi”

(This works while whispering, too.)

Strangely, wording it as “What is Pi to two hundred decimal…[Read more]

I think that just declaring that we don’t have free will doesn’t automatically invalidate “responsibility”. How we define it and enforce it still has consequences.

I curse you, Determinism! Or I defy you, at least, perhaps in vain, perhaps not, or perhaps because I just don’t know you as well as you know me.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Alexa was very new at the time.

You mean Alessia? And in the last sentence, too? I don’t have the Leykis Balls to edit your post.

jakelafort wrote:
But Beanie, isn’t it an issue when Ivy asserts that she knows it is god …KNOWS IT IS GOD…won’t critique the reasons given why it might not be god?

And then she is sure we are going to end up extinct. After god’s involvement in her life why wouldn’t she assume god will make an appearance or take the necessary steps to arrest the…

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Unseen wrote:
For marriage, they ma go for “Poindexter” (a term Leykis uses to describe clueless guys who don’t understand female wiles) because he’ll be a better provider and will be more likely to respect their marriage vows.

You do realize, of course, you guys can win battles but not the war against the Poindexters, right?

I’m not sure I understand the question or dilemma, but might still be able to add perspective.

I find it difficult to completely separate “personal responsibility” from “social responsibility”. I.e., regardless of to what extent I am personally responsible for my own action, I feel we are built or have evolved to feel at least somewhat…[Read more]

Ivy wrote:
As if we know exactly what God SHOULD do….No?

I would never want this topic to be about “the problem with what Ivy believes”, but an attempt to gain a dispassionate understanding of why human beings believe these things. That said, I cannot remain dispassionate about the lengths to which some humans take their belief in their God. My o…[Read more]

PMJ makes me smile so much and I can’t stop watching but they get millions of views so I think y’all have probably seen them already so I won’t post any more unless someone says PMJ is new to them and so… well, let me know.

Meanwhile that guitar sliding and pickin’ in Human blows me away and I watched it like six times in a row and I still…[Read more]

So anyway…

Do you really want the dick’s position, and are you confident you’re being groomed for it and not just being played? In any case it sounds like you’re assuming he’s on his way out?

I think this one’s got style, aaaaand substance!