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I still get two-week long earworms after each dose of The Warning.

@Unseen, I’ll pass this on to Rebel, who may or may not be able to fix it or remove the search icon.

Meanwhile, there’s a Search Tips post that’s been around for years, which I’ve also just updated for you and everyone.

E.g. for google search, you could select/highlight the line below, then copy/paste (or right-click) it:
site:atheistzone.com…[Read more]

@Simon thank you, great link. I listened to the whole thing, and my favorite episode is #7 because it presents a nice overview. The other episodes are also great, while I’d add that #1 through #6 are basically in order of their historical occurrence.

Simon Paynton wrote:
@unseen – you might be interested in this BBC programme https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001mdfw/episodes/player

It’s several 30 minute episodes of audio only, which I like because it allows me to do other work while listening. This link makes it slightly easier to skip the first, intro episode, and then jump from one e…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Color me ignorant. But i am not sure why ascertaining the origin is so important.

Autumn wrote:
We have to know the right way to play victim over it.

I’ve mentioned more than a few times by now, it’s important to know BOTH possible origins, even when I believe in probable zoonotic origin. As technology evolves and knowledge…[Read more]

You keep repeating shit over and over. Another video with Jeremy Sachs, nine months old really? How about the one below from that far back, another guest on This Week in Virology. At this point I don’t see any responses to my previous suggestions of what pro-zoonotic sources are presenting, and there’s no evidence you’ve even spent a single minute…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
This researcher found that the more vaccines one has had (any kind) the greater the likelihood of getting Covid.

Didn’t he admit that selection bias was not accounted for in the results? And it’s not the government who’s actually forcing people to take vaccines, right?

I understand how some seasonal vaccines don’t always cover the…[Read more]

I started a long response to a back and forth between Unseen and I, and haven’t finished it. Real life gets in the way. Like Reg’s recommended article!

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Here is an article from today’s NYT magazine. It is a long read.

Wow, that was the most comprehensive and well written overview I’ve seen on zoonotic vs lab leak o…[Read more]

In the video at 2:05, he says “Even given the information  that surfaced the three years since the covid-19 pandemic began, some have contended that there’s really no point in investigating the origin of this virus.” Oh really? Only idiots would say that, like some probably in his audience.

While the more serious problems are the idiots that say…[Read more]

I wonder if the terrible trend of “liberals making conservatives angry enough to destroy democracy and minorities” might beget a terrible trend of “authoritarians making the populous angry enough to destroy government buildings and their autocratic occupants”?

Everyone grab your guns and ammo. Buy more, if necessary. Hey clueless assholes, YOU…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Name as little as three movies about family life where the father is smarter than the mother or even the children. If you can, then they will be the famous “exception that proves the rule.”

I’ve not been vigilant in remembering movies that way. I hate the whole topic of woke now, but I may try to answer this specific challenge you…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Autumn, I don’t think I’m alone in wondering what you find attractive in men or even if you are attracted to men. I mean, other than complete and total congruity with your rather highly politicized way of looking at the world. I can’t imagine you’d get along with anyone who didn’t share it almost 100%

These opinions strike me as exa…[Read more]

Nice, good old days on tape, instantly accessible via YouTube. She was a groundbreaker, indeed. Maybe middle school teachers in Florida (and a few other states) could play a lot like these for their students? 🙂

_Robert_ wrote:
A humorless, romantically void, 100 lb stick (yet somehow physically strong) woman who is kicking the hell out of 200 lb bad guys is just never gonna be popular. Hero to no one.

Well then, I give myself permission to describe my taste in physically well trained woman heroes as eclectic, while some people just replace one fad or…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
Liberals practically handed them the keys. So busy focusing on superficial suppression and political correctness that millions of people are looking for an authoritarian to come out and center it all.

Unseen wrote:
There’s a pernicious doggedness to resisting the notion that there exists more than one way of looking at things w…

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jakelafort wrote:
A few manipulators or leaders and a whole slew of followers. I assume it was the glue that insured social cohesion and inured to the benefit of the group. But it aint working as well.

It started way back before human cultural behaviors started usurping Mother Nature’s genetic evolution, in bands and tribes. Even before that, in…[Read more]