@PopeBeanie – Yes, you are correct with the basics of ‘R Nought (12-18). But it does not explain why Canada lost elimination status before the US. But elimination statu…[Read more]

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Strega 🙂

The idea for the 250th anniversary ‘celebrations’ came from a discussion I had with some Americans at the tailgate party for the “Steelers vs Vikings” game in Dublin. I should have put “lol” at the end of my comment….or maybe not 🙂

Using LIDAR and other means, it’s been discovered that Gobekli Tepe, while being perhaps the most important complex, is far from the only one. I’m sure several dozen lesser sites have been found in the vicinity. Also, there are other recently discovered sites, notably Karahan Tepe and Mendik Tepe, which seem to be even…[Read more]

I’m a rock and roller and like electric guitars and loudness. In a past life, I was a particular kind of photographer of women. I shot erotic nudes for websites and I ran several websites of my own to display my photographer. My style fell into the pro/am category: a pro photographer working with amateur models. I worked with many…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
@popebeanie So, if it takes slaying every last Palestinian man, woman, and child to make Israelis feel safe, that’s a valid justification?

PopeBeanie wrote:
But I’m open to hearing humanistic solutions that would actually work.

(In those Trolley Switch scenario studies, it seems I’d be one of the few people who’d be willing to wor…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
@popebeanie So, if it takes slaying every last Palestinian man, woman, and child to make Israelis feel safe, that’s a valid justification? File that along with “We had to destroy the village in order to save it” under the topic “The dystopian ‘logic’ of war.”

The need a change in ideology. The brainwashed goals they strive for ar…[Read more]

So, if it takes slaying every last Palestinian man, woman, and child to make Israelis feel safe, that’s a valid justification?

File that along with “We had to destroy the village in order to save it” under the topic “The dystopian ‘logic’ of war.”

Gabbard refers to “political elite warmongers” and I think we know that she’s referring to rich and/or powerful people, many of the most influential being billionaires who, truth be told, could very well profit in the long run from a third world war.

Eventually, we may have to take the risk of giving up our own nuclear weapons if we…[Read more]

PopeBeanie wrote:
I.e. it’s more like a cosmological distance dimension is increasing.

I think that’s very true, @popebeanie.  Or, more than one dimension.  All the dimensions maybe.

There are other ways.

He might withdraw days before the middle of his term, continuing to rule through his veep and then seek a second term again in the next election, which I think may be perfectly legal.

He might elect a proxy (Don Jr.?) to stand in for him while he rather blatantly is the true President, also probably…[Read more]

That is very similar to a ‘c…[Read more]

Before the emergence of modern people [some time between 200,000-50,000 years ago], the human form and human behavior evolved together slowly, hand in hand. Afterward,…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Bannon and Trump knew how to work it, while the party supporting individual profit over public welfare became more selfish, and capitalized on some lucky breaks. @popebeanie. I agree. Bannon was never going to become a politician but he could work the machinery in the background to help Trump on his path to power.…

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@PopeBeanie. I agree. Bannon was never going to become a politician but he could work the machinery in the background to help Trump on his path to power. Trump would not have the ability…[Read more]

I hope you told them to go and ‘Have a blessed day’. That’s what I say in Georgia 🙂

Okay, I think I’ve got the name thing sorted now.

“Mexican names follow Spanish naming customs: [personal name(s)] [father’s paternal family name] [mother’s paternal family name].”  (source)

Using only two of their three names is probably a bow to naming conventions among English-speaking northerners where we leave the mother’s maid…[Read more]

Martirio, sung in her native language brings out the beauty of her voice more than her songs sung in English.

It was a treat to hear her sing it a cappella.

Like you, I’m waiting for Rick Beato to cover The Warning. In his last video on the deadly sameness of contemporary pop music, I commented something like “What? Is The Warning invisible to Rick Beato?” hoping to kick him in the pants to  talk about them. WTF?!!!

He has a bazillion followers. For him to devote a segment to them would…[Read more]

As someone who was in college during the heyday of The Beatles and Stones, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, and the Who (all of whom I saw live) as well as Led Zeppelin, I feel somewhat qualified to say that if I could somehow get to choose between any of those bands and these three chicas, I’d rather attend a concert by The Warning.

These young…[Read more]

On relistening to “23” I’m realizing that not only is Pau singing and playing drums simultaneously, but she’s not playing a straight thump-thump-thump on the bass drum, but is often playing a syncopated pattern on the bass. I’m pretty sure that’s fairly difficult to master.

It’s always a treat when Pau sings any kind of song, but especially when any sort of sweetness is involved. I just discovered the song “23,” and it’s the fact that she is singing it that makes it special. Dany would be very unconvincing singing it. It needs Paulina’s voice.

If you’re willing to give up on solar and rely on a battery that can last several years you can get the “wave ceptor” frequent time correction function for as little as $29.

Any of my mechanical watches will keep time well enough for your transportation needs. LOL

If a watch is 5 or 10 seconds slow or fast, you’d never know the difference between your watch or any properly functioning mechanical watch.

I agree, mostly.

Trump’s fiercely powerful reality distortion field makes Steve Jobs’ look like amateur hour. Jobs’ RDF only extended to engineers and the design department of Apple. Trump’s extends to vast swathes of America where people habitually vote GOP.

There is a segment of the powerful far-right that knows what’s wrong with…[Read more]

They have benefitted all along from their fact that their Dad is in the business because he owned a recording studio and presumably knew talented people in the business, so five years ago they were already getting professional videos done for them. I’m guessing he either paid for the work out of his own pocket or called in some favors…[Read more]

What can anyone really know about risks on a vaccine that was rushed out at “light speed”?

Many drugs, frustratingly, go through painfully long periods of testing on volunteers before being released, and even then side effects and other risks emerge. Some drugs are even pulled off the market after release despite the rigorous testing.

They seem unable to do anything badly. Even though these are earlier songs from the Queen of the Murder Scene album and not up to the level of their more recent songs from the Error tour (is there an album yet?), they are all quite enjoyable. I do like electric rock more than “unplugged” rock. I think of rock as an electric guitar medium.

What I said.

I posted an article in the latest Sunday School that discusses this point. Here you go.

No, it is not but it is a very good one line summary.

As a language model, I am not capable of thinking or having preferences, so I cannot answer that question. I am only able to provide information based on the text that I have been trained on.

Rick Beato is a musical polymath and a great explainer. He sees music as music and doesn’t specialize, particularly, in rock, pop, jazz, hip-hop, or classical. He’s aware of Western musical history and many of his very numerous videos are lessons in history as well as compositional and performing techniques. I strongly recommend…[Read more]

There is much truth in your post above… AND YET, changes come when it’s time for the change to take hold. There came the day, for example, when the majority of Americans realized that gay marriage wasn’t the end of the world and that a heterosexual couple wanting to marry had nothing to fear from same sex couples coupling up in the…[Read more]

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I am doing a good enough job at derailing it myself.  Your line of thought is admirable and elevates the post. Keep it coming!

I agree. Fortunately hoaxes can be called out with todays investigative technologies, whereas in the 80s this was not so, however I don’t no the history of this particular video.

michael17 wrote:
@popebeanie, I’m afraid that was not me. Besides only the age will end in the future and next the Millenium of peace.

I found it, but I suppose what you wrote could be interpreted as a longer-term prognostication. Maybe we just have to wait a hundred years to see the predicted manifestation? From one of your posts: h…[Read more]

I’m afraid that was not me. Besides only the age will end in the future and next the Millenium of peace.

The problem with bats, I gather, is their vast numbers and the fact that they are social and live in huge colonies facilitating the propagation of disease. I think I read somewhere that in terms of biomass, bats are at the top of the list. Despite the fact that most bats are…[Read more]

“It’s accepted wisdom that the fewer the people who vote, the better GOP does in elections.”

Certainly that seems the intuitive position.  I can’t remember seeing any data to support that claim, but it could be true I guess.

Anyway, it’s been entertaining trying to  predict what Donald will do next.

Read  some pundit this morn…[Read more]

You would be shocked. There are a lot of people who still support him, or a lot of people who may not exactly support in but who are still either not going to vote at all or going to vote for him because they will not vote for Biden. Don’t let the polls fool you. It’s the electoral college that matters in those areas he’s still winni…[Read more]