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Thanks, Reg!

Have a great week everyone!

You can’t convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it’s based on a deep-seated need to believe.

–Carl Sagan

Makes sense to me.

It is hard to read the tea leaves and consequences unforseen and unintended may unfold. If USA deports nine gazillion or attacks Canada/Denmark/Panama or some combination the prospect of war might be untenable so economic war might ensue. Pay me today. You fellas sure owe me a lot of money for the beer you drank, goddammit.

jakelafort wrote:
On a hunch Simon will regard this experiment as relevant to his ideas about morality as they relate to evolution. Either way it is interesting.

https://www.jpost.com/science/science-around-the-world/article-834805

That is interesting.  The little ants can solve a collective lifting/navigation problem better than humans.  They a…[Read more]

Obviously, the ants are trying to be closer to god.

Anthill and the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.

On a hunch Simon will regard this experiment as relevant to his ideas about morality as they relate to evolution. Either way it is interesting.

https://www.jpost.com/science/science-around-the-world/article-834805

This is another take on the topic….

https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-elon-musk-says-unrepentant-racists-support-trump-228379205741

I checked with an LLM whether migrants crossing TX border were committing crimes at a higher rate than rest of us. As expected the answer is no. And if i recall it is much lower in terms of violent crime. Sickening demagoguery from Trump. But it is useful to him and works on his useful idiots. And from the progressives we only hear about cops…[Read more]

After the cowardly attack in New Orleans, Trump linked it to illegal immigration on an unsocial media post. He gave no evidence for this claim.

“When I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in the country … it turned out to be true…

He went on to claim that crime “is at a level that nobody has ever seen.”<…[Read more]

I was contemplating how things in US might play out if a spate of Muslim terror attacks ensue.

My thoughts meander. Coinciding as it would with a Trump administration that has already shamelessly endorsed nativism? Restrictions, restrictions. Very few Muslims would be permitted to immigrate, if any. Would Muslims who are already citizens be…[Read more]

Another Jihadist murdering people having fun. How Shocking.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Jesus, the original NEPO baby.

The “we are in the club” vibe was huge in Catholic school. We are so fuckin HOLY around here; we got it made in the shade!

Jesus, the original NEPO baby.

A holy war was such as this just multiplies the Zionism and Jihadism. The weapons are the high sacrificial Muslim birthrates vs the Israeli war tech/economy. The actual struggle is that of the gods. There is just no way to achieve the prophesies without all the killing in the holy lands. The average Israeli is light years ahead of the average…[Read more]

It is the Zionist government that i despise. I am not a bigot. I judge individuals as individuals. And i judge fairly the government of Israel vis a vis other middle eastern governments.

But if you criticize the beliefs of Muslims you are a bigot and labeled islamophobic. STFU over any constructive sleight even if the calumny is in my mind alone…[Read more]

Simon says:

That is pure patriarchy in action.

It is a living breathing nightmarish expression of religious purity. It is not extreme. Just another outbreak of suppurating oozing righteous rapture. Divorced as it is from basic human impulses its victims languish in obscurity as the world turns its venom on Israel/Jews.

It is unimaginable that…[Read more]

Well said Pope. I am mildly dyslexic and have had to retrain my brain circuits my entire life. I learned to check for certain oddities in my work. For example, when I was a kid 2+2=A. I would interchange 4’s for A’s and never know. Even as an engineer, decibels are called dBs and I would always write Bds. I would also stutter as a kid as did my…[Read more]

Take the example of playing a game, and you know you’re making a mistake when you push that button when you shouldn’t have, but your mind can’t stop your finger in time.

To me, that sounds similar to when your mind has made a decision before you’re conscious of it. And then some outsider know-it-all scientist or philosopher says “See, your…[Read more]