_Robert_

Come on now, we can’t tax poor Bezos’s Amazon more than 6%, else he can’t afford to fly his space dildo.

Amazon Avoids More Than $5 Billion in Corporate Income Taxes, Reports 6 Percent Tax Rate on $35 Billion of US Income

It’s not like AI is going to reverse entropy. Humans have evolved to do physical work. If you are not digging the soil or chasing zebras across a valley all day, you better be “working”-out.

The human mental state will continue to create an artificial universe perfect for AI. But the real universe doesn’t care a bit. Our tenure as a species so…[Read more]

He’s great if you are pro-Gun, anti-abortion, anti-green, white Christian.

Mexico? Does this guy look out his limo window while driving through his poverty-stricken, high crime, hurricane damaged, oil-polluted, under-educated home state. I have been there, holy fuck.

Unseen wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:

Yes, but it was predictable. He will probably win the nomination. Before the next election there will probably be a recession. Much unhappiness with Biden. And then we shall have our emboldened dictator.

There is no harm in keeping the general public up-to-date. Trump’s worshippers will know about new wrinkles in h…

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Unseen wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:

If Trump would have finally conceded the election and apologized for his treasonous behavior; that would have been “newsworthy”. Otherwise, we may as well have had a podcast on the biology of unicorns or the virtues of practicing voodoo.

Whatever happens happens because of something that happened before it. What Tru…

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If Trump would have finally conceded the election and apologized for his treasonous behavior; that would have been “newsworthy”. Otherwise, we may as well have had a podcast on the biology of unicorns or the virtues of practicing voodoo.

jakelafort wrote:

And beyond the nitwits there is the issue of designer pets. It is artificial selection catering to aesthetic wants and animals suffer as a result.

Yeah, especially against selective breeding of killer/fighting dogs. And of course, stupid people gravitate towards them and then are so shocked when they maul their grandbabies.

Requiring an earned license for pets would at least quell the impulsive buyer who wants a pet on Sunday and wants it gone on Wednesday. Every Easter, thousands of bunny rabbits are sold to nitwits who have no idea how to handle or deal with them and then by Mother’s Day they are dead or abandoned. I wonder what percentage of the US’s societal and…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:

If people had to simply pass a course and obtain a license to prove they are capable of owning and humanly caring for a particular pet species/breed, that would go a long way to prevent the horror show.

OFF TOPIC: Same goes for guns, training course and license to own coupled with a psychological profile. Fingerprint activated…[Read more]

If people had to simply pass a course and obtain a license to prove they are capable of owning and humanly caring for a particular pet species/breed, that would go a long way to prevent the horror show.

Unseen wrote:

@robert There are humane ways to euthanize cats and dogs such as a overdose of an opiate, though they are more expensive than the cheap ways, I imagine, such as a suffocation chamber, which has been used. One hopes blenders, wood chippers, etc., are not an option.

True, but irresponsible pet owners are the real cause of the year in…[Read more]

What about the other ~3,799 cats killed in (US) shelters that day?

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PopeBeanie wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:

Don’t want yet another conspiracy anti-science, anti-vaccine asshat. After thousands died needlessly (thanks to idiotic politicians and religious leaders) we will and end up with a smallpox epidemic or something worse.

I think we can actually vaccinate against smallpox…

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Well don’t throw away a vote would be a start. The lesser of two evils is better than the worst of two evils.

I started becoming a liberal around 2000 when the presidential election actually was stolen from Gore. The supreme court blocked a recount in my swing state of Florida after rampant voting eligibility issues were discovered, cancelling…[Read more]

How many Americans even know what Biden has accomplished besides lowering the cost of key drugs and calling out the GOP freaks who want to squash social security and Medicare.

– a bipartisan infrastructure package. Bridges and other structures are getting repaired.

-the inflation reduction act that included all sorts of green energy aspects

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In this perspective, Gould suggested that science and religion should be viewed as two separate domains (or “magisteria”) with distinct areas of teaching authority – hence the term “non-overlapping.” According to Gould, science’s domain is the empirical realm, including the theory of evolution and all other aspects of the universe that we can obse…

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Yeah, our science isn’t up to snuff yet, so bring in the gods! He sure has been diminished by science. From creating all in a week and mankind from mud (just like Promethius did, lol); now he just nudges planets here and there or maybe guides a football just a bit.