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@Jakelafort – This video gives a very cogent explanation of where Iran is at. I don’t agree with all the implications but overall it is difficult to disagree with his lecture. (Note GCC = Gulf Cooperation Council or the 6 nations to the left of Iran)

@jakelafort – I liked the comment from ‘SP’ on the above article in the JPost:

I would recommend buying a white flag and waving it everywhere they go. It would not be a bad idea to take off their uniforms and sell it on eBay they would get many offers from Europe and Canada and the universities.

@jakelafort – I stay out of the “left”, I won’t sign my name to any ideology.  I find them totally nuts.  I saw that Instagram post, and they seem to have forgotten that slavery was invented in the Bronze Age.  I’ve had conversations with feminists who are completely ideology-bound until you shock them out of it.  The big problem is gro…[Read more]

@jakelafort – There is just no stopping this onslaught of bespoke medical advances. Look at just some of the horrors they have instigated in the last 2 years alone.

Teams from Tel Aviv University, Weizmann Institute of Science and others have identified a micro-RNA molecule that in animal and cell models halts nerve-cell degeneration and even…[Read more]

@jakelafort – yes, Jane Goodall totally opened up the field of primatology, changing a great ape from a “what” to a “who”.

@Jakelafort – I agree with the sentiment, but I am more optimistic (or naïve!) about the future. The pace of scientific and technological progress has far outstripped the average person’s ability or willingness to keep up intellectually with these advances. It is not so much that there is a growth in ignorance and stupidity but rather that it now…[Read more]

@Jakelafort – the ‘stopped clock’  cartoon in the current edition of the satirical Private Eye would agree with you 🙂

@jakelafort…. I used to have a t-shirt with that quote. I wore it back in the days when blasphemy was a thing in Ireland. It started  lot of rows and arguments….which was my intention 🙂

If you ever want a ‘different’ book to read, then I would recommend this one. I have it somewhere in the house. Reading the first page of the prologue…[Read more]

@Jakelafort – Is this the video version of the same podcast?

@jakelafort – it doesn’t take a lot to destroy the feeling of “I feel your pain”.  All it takes is if we don’t approve of someone, so for some reason, they are not “deserving” of our empathic concern.  A set of people we don’t approve of is hated out-group members.

This accidental find is for @jakelafort

@jakelafort – First blush i punted. Second blush took me 4 or 5 seconds. Sad but true. 

I hope your head did not start spinning? (Just asking for a friend). 🙂

@jakelafort – I am a coward too when it comes to the midday sun. Anything over the mid 20’s and I am indoors.  Was I chopping chilies? No, just applying sun-cream. Now I can’t read for the next 30 minutes. Silly Billy. SF 50 good, SF 496 bad. If the logocracy takes hold in the mid 2020’s, I am sure you will be on the front line of the resistance,…[Read more]

@Jakelafort, I am sure that if I walked into a sociology class today, the professor would first ask for my preferred pronouns, then remind the class of the intersectional power dynamics of punctuality, and only then ask if I agreed with the modernized version of the statement that now asserts that “A system is a cohesive whole shaped by bounded r…[Read more]

@Jakelafort, I think your posted into the wrong post (like me now)…but no matter.

Your words “Well articulated ideas forming a cohesive something something” reminded me of year one, day one in my Sociology class (it was a business degree course) when the professor announced within the first minute that “a system is a cohesive whole founded…[Read more]

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Iranian crimes against its own people vs. Israeli genocide against its Palestinian subjects

The U.S. should declare “A plague on both your houses” and stay out of it.

@jakelafort – From the earlier article…. One more for your list…..