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jakelafort replied to the topic The Factoid Thread in the forum Science 3 years, 11 months ago
Still in all the Trump haters may be drawn to em in terms of aesthetics and sentimentality. Think dart board where his nuts are the bullseye. Think toilet bowl and urinal which may improve a man’s aim.
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jakelafort replied to the topic The Factoid Thread in the forum Science 3 years, 11 months ago
Enco, i was making a weak joke. Ya know how everything is racist?
100,000, 200,000, half mill. It is all the same. Human fodder. Fungible humans. They can fuck like monkeys and make more of those. The unspeakable disruption, tragedy and pain? The people half a world away who have been fucked over? The risk of nucs? The precedent? The march of…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Ukraine has already lost the war in the forum Politics 3 years, 11 months ago
Get back to your darts at the VFW
That is racist!
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jakelafort replied to the topic The Factoid Thread in the forum Science 3 years, 11 months ago
Piss pot backwards and phonetic is top sip.
amgod backwards is dogma.
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jakelafort replied to the topic Ukraine has already lost the war in the forum Politics 3 years, 11 months ago
I haven’t a clue how accurate or tendentious this guy is. It is a major investment in time to ascertain wtf is reality in Ukraine. It is probably not as great a quagmire as Israel/Palestine conflict but it aint far behind. Everybody with an axe to grind. Everything is fucking biased. Facts? These are great conflicts to get one’s good guy/bad guy…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic The Factoid Thread in the forum Science 3 years, 11 months ago
What is a factoid?
Did you know that Norman Mailer coined the word factoid?
We can thank Norman Mailer for factoid: he used the word in his 1973 book Marilyn (about Marilyn Monroe), and he is believed to be the coiner of the word. In the book, he explains that factoids are “facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Only asking questions. in the forum
The Atheist Agora 3 years, 11 months agoUnseen, i have no intention of going gently into that good nite or knight. On the other hand, the night is where i shall point my light.
Quick perusal and it seems night is derived of norse and night (nicht) saxon germanic.
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jakelafort replied to the topic Only asking questions. in the forum
The Atheist Agora 3 years, 11 months agoUnseen, yeah i have heard exhaust manifold, although no clue other than auto part. Yet manifold is not used in everyday parlance the way it is in literature.
Providence RI sure. But i never hear providence used in the religious sense. Perhaps there are a few religious freaks who use it.
I assumed you were referring to a game with fortnight. I…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic The Factoid Thread in the forum Science 3 years, 11 months ago
A few words popped into my consciousness. Manifold Fortnight Providence. The aforementioned common in literature and i never hear in conversation.
I love pho. Delicious. Used to call it foe until a vietnamese acqauantaince gave me the dope.
As far as i know in birds it is always the male with bells and whistles.
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jakelafort replied to the topic That’s Church yo… in the forum Small Talk 3 years, 11 months ago
Just occurred to me how insects have evolved the equivalent of ritualized behavior. Instinct comes to mind as the explanation. Intuitively it makes sense as being evolved.
Yet the bowerbird seems different to me.
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jakelafort replied to the topic The Factoid Thread in the forum Science 3 years, 11 months ago
Whose brilliant idea was it to add the r in february. It makes it hard to say ten times fast. Febuary ten times fast is like buttah.
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jakelafort replied to the topic That’s Church yo… in the forum Small Talk 3 years, 11 months ago
Pope, i still think it is amazing how complex rituals are inherited. We easily relate to personality traits, physical characteristics, birth defects, sexual orientation as heritable yet complex dances and rituals seem like they should be learned rather than inherited. Bowerbirds for instance are fascinating.…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic The Factoid Thread in the forum Science 3 years, 11 months ago
A word i never hear yet have seen in books a great many times. JEJUNE
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naive, simplistic, and superficial.
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jakelafort replied to the topic Only asking questions. in the forum
The Atheist Agora 3 years, 11 months agoTumble, tumble little world
How Belle wondered what you were
Gleaning meaning
neb by neb
glancing, dreamingFacacta computa may finish it.
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jakelafort replied to the topic The Factoid Thread in the forum Science 3 years, 11 months ago
Here is a worthless fact apropos of nothin: in college i was a dog track announcer. So i wanted to make a name for myself and i observed how announcers had their pet phrases. I decided on…breaks from the gate like a cheetah in heat…so the chart writer falls out of her seat laughing but the general manager, my boss, chastised me…keep it…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Only asking questions. in the forum
The Atheist Agora 3 years, 11 months agoI don’t see much in the way of analysis.
My questions C vu play:
Preface questions as follows: I want to know your opinion. Please refrain from giving a synopsis, consensus or either side of an issue. I want your opinion.
1. What is the probability of the existence of the Christian God or any god?
2. Is the universe intelligible?
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The poem impresses me the most. I do poems off top of my head every day and five seconds for that? Wow.
Here is a kind of cool study in re AI.
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School December 4th 2022 in the forum
Sunday School 3 years, 11 months agoAutumn, 60s arrive way too fast. I am nearly at that crossroads. Time feels like it is accelerating.
I don’t feel old. Not at all. But i guess that is not your worry. It is the part about getting sick of it all. That is addressed in part by the seeming celerity of time passages. It also can make us more daring to do an about-face into the teeth…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School December 4th 2022 in the forum
Sunday School 3 years, 11 months agoI had periods where it was gym, gym and more gym. Sure there is equipment and various ways to exercise but give me outdoors. I let my gym membership lapse during the pandemic and have not renewed it. There is something so valuable being in nature. Occasionally when i walk with someone socially who is not fit i still enjoy hell out of it and see…[Read more]
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