America is dumber than a box of hammers

Yes. I can’t wait to get the hell out of this country.

For years me and my ex-husband have been arguing about getting my son his dual citizenship to Mexico (I am for it, his dad is not). Now that things are going in this direction, I’m questioning whether it would be a good thing or not because I’m…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
@robert – why were those things done? For what reasons?

To enrich the billionaires. The systematic dismantling of the Federal government is the circle jerk billionaires dream about because it is the only organization that can redistribute their wealth to the masses through taxation. It is stupid of them because eventually a…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
@robert “Evil” is defined in different ways in different times, places, and communities. In Sparta, for example, it wasn’t evil to murder deformed or weak babies. Even today, is abortion evil? Depends who you ask, doesn’t it?

Evil in the context of a “loving, all powerful god” is all and any suffering that he could easily prevent…[Read more]

“Evil” is defined in different ways in different times, places, and communities. In Sparta, for example, it wasn’t evil to murder deformed or weak babies. Even today, is abortion evil? Depends who you ask, doesn’t it?

Belle Rose wrote:
@robert I wouldn’t classify JP as an atheist. I didn’t see the Sam Harris one I’ll have to watch that. I guess I view him completely differently because i watched his lectures so I understand the framework from where he’s coming and there are many things I took away from his lectures that I still use and remember to this day. I…

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Getting closer to that all the time. I saw some video of Ohio Nazis today, walking down a busy street with swastika flags, shouting racial obscenities.

I’ve been seeing shit like that too, it’s really scary. I’m really sad that my intuition about all this was right, I knew Trump was going to be the antichrist 😂

The human race has de-evolved so much since the COVID 19 plague that now I find myself uncaring about events. Just living day to day and avoiding “the news” and focus on family, health, art, music and happiness.

I hear you! I feel the same way. The only thing I am focused on is getting my son raised. Keeping him alive with the dan…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:

Davis wrote:
I’m less concerned by men who get defensive over the above, and more by the general slowness in tackling rape culture in general.

I don’t seem to come across it much. Andrew Tate is the patron saint of rape culture. It was @robert who said that rape culture is a spectrum of behaviour from mild to severe, and thi…

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Davis wrote:
I’m less concerned by men who get defensive over the above, and more by the general slowness in tackling rape culture in general.

I don’t seem to come across it much.  Andrew Tate is the patron saint of rape culture.  It was @robert who said that rape culture is a spectrum of behaviour from mild to severe, and this would be a goo…[Read more]

True. As it was from Day 1 so that we could make it to Day 2.

I recently explained to a student of psychology that he will only “get us” when he views human problem from an evolutionary perspective. Forget about the Woo, the Spirituality and bogus self-help books. Strip…[Read more]

Interesting, a dead god. The Norse also worshipped mortal gods many of whom will die at Ragnarok. In fact, the course of Ragnarok is laid out in detail. Which ones live and which ones die along with how they die. So, they believe in Fate, predestination, predeterminism.

Simon Paynton wrote:

Unseen wrote:
My “one that got away” would probably be thought of as a bit chubby by many. Her main attraction was her personality. She was the nicest girl I ever met and being with her was just…easy.

@robert – you see, a pretty face can’t make you laugh or hold your interest (in itself).

Don’t underestimate my superfici…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
My “one that got away” would probably be thought of as a bit chubby by many. Her main attraction was her personality. She was the nicest girl I ever met and being with her was just…easy.

@robert – you see, a pretty face can’t make you laugh or hold your interest (in itself).

Despite the grossly lopsided GDPs of Russia vs. America and the NATO combined GDP, the war in Ukraine is far from over. It’s so desperate now that the U.S. is resorting to weapons most countries regard as a war crime. And the reason just given by Biden is that we are running out of nice weapons, so we’re resorting to using a weapon so…[Read more]

Almost too much there to respond to. Let’s start with this. I’ll answer more as I get time, unless you keep posting, but I see there are other posts by other people wanting to hear from me.

I’m going to set WW1 aside because I know much less about it beyond how The Great War started stupidly with a bungled assassination. We wisely…[Read more]

Luckily for us, Muslims tend to assimilate pretty well in the U.S., able to find work, buy homes, and enjoy the American way of life about as well as Christians. Of course, like Jews and Asians, they do suffer a degree of harassment from idiots who assume every Muslim is wearing a suicide vest.

The proof of successful…[Read more]

It was mainly the elderly and people with compromised immune systems who died of Covid, and it turned out that not only didn’t vaccination save many lives among the rest of the population, but it didn’t prevent one from becoming reinfected or becoming an asymptomatic carrier, did it? Contrary to what the drug manufacturers and the CDC…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
@robert Did you watch the interview? Not Pakman’s, the one in the top post. I think he makes some great points.

Yeah, and his so-called “good points” are all garbage that could have all been addressed by a real scientist or two. Instead he assembles an echo chamber of freaks. Here is what happened to thousands of people who bought i…[Read more]

Did you watch the interview? Not Pakman’s, the one in the top post. I think he makes some great points.

Surely, there must be a specific academic refutation of the ScienceDigest research article. Can you find it?

The idea that cold causes more deaths over time under normal conditions is well established and is backed by solid data and rigorous analysis.

Cold weather kills 20 times as many people as hot weather, according to an international study analyzing over 74 million deaths in 384 locations across 13 countries. The findings, published…[Read more]

And yet, more people die of cold than heat. I’m not sure exactly why. Perhaps people in refugee camps are counted, but it’s generally accepted that cold kills more.

Even in an apartment, if the temperature outside is subzero, sooner or later the apartment temp will equalize and the same is true of clothing. Heavy clothing can put off the…[Read more]

According to a Google Sumarizer if you ask “Does cold kill more people than heat?” you get this:

…In 2019, cold temperatures killed nearly four times as many people as warm temperatures, and deaths due to moderately hot or cold weather substantially exceed those resulting from extreme heat waves or cold spells. The Institute for Health…[Read more]

It should be obvious. Arguing from analogy, if you have more cars, you’ll have more auto accidents; if you have more swimming pools, you’ll have more drownings; and if you have more guns, there will inevitably be more gun-related deaths. And that’s without regard to concentrating only on murder and mayhem.

Do you honestly believe (and I mean believe in your figurative heart and soul) that Putin could defeat a coalition of UK, France, Germany and the rest of NATO?

If so, you need to go into therapy.

They shouldn’t need us.

Humans refuse to see that we are the problematic introduced species. Though, because we are highly adaptable and resourceful, we would have sooner or later gotten to the Americas anyway, which is the argument I make regarding cats. A creature with the wild cat’s* survival skills and flexibility would have spread here eventually…[Read more]

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]

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.

PopeBeanie wrote:
Thanks a lot Unseen, you just cost me a couple of hours. Where’s our musician @robert? He should be here by now, mocking our obsession. I wanted to post a longer, more relevant response, but don’t want to take attention away from Sunday School.

Well, prepare to lose more time. Here is their song “Martirio” (Martyr) which loo…[Read more]

PopeBeanie wrote:
Thanks a lot Unseen, you just cost me a couple of hours. Where’s our musician @robert? He should be here by now, mocking our obsession. I wanted to post a longer, more relevant response, but don’t want to take attention away from Sunday School.

LOL, I think they play really well and have some interesting riffs. It’s good to hea…[Read more]

I wanted to post a longer, more relevant response, but don’t want to take attention away from Sunday School.

The post isn’t about you.

The point is that, for many Americans, who rely on the mainstream media, many will be largely unaware that there were other candidates. When the Dem convention happens, they’ll be confused because they thought Biden had already been nominated.

Yes, webloggers do need to make money if they are going to earn a…[Read more]

What does Qanon have to do with anything? And who is creating fear if it’s not those seeming hell-bent on dragging us into a shooting war with a nuclear power?

This proxy war could have been avoided if we had simply let Ukraine declare itself a neutral country, as it had offered to do in March of last year. Back then, talks were…[Read more]

You’re pulling the old “answering a question with a question” trick, followed by a rambling smatter of disparate personal opinions and prognostications.

Africa has rich resources, so one can either bargain with them by providing something they can use in exchange for future consideration based on good relations and friendship, or you can…[Read more]

Yes, internally China has issues, but they haven’t prevented it from becoming the fastest growing economy in history and they are homing in on eventually being the world’s #1 military power as well with destroyers which are rated as more powerful than ours and hypersonic missiles which are making our aircraft carriers with their ability…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
@robert You totally avoided my question. If you want to make friends, is it better to give them a helping hand or to play the role of the militaristic colonialist?

They don’t need help from anyone. I’d bet China is just gonna go in, talk a bunch of shit while behind the scenes it’ll be draining resources and creating warlords and…[Read more]

You totally avoided my question. If you want to make friends, is it better to give them a helping hand or to play the role of the militaristic colonialist?

The world has plenty of grievances against the U.S., many of which are more serious than not respecting intellectual property rights.

Perhaps we can agree on this: The UN is and always would be a ball-less disaster. If it actually took a stand on a controversial matter and went about enforcement, members would drop out and it’d collapse into a mutual admiration society of like-minded nations. As for the Security Counsel…what a joke.

Where does “the right to be a country come from”? God? According to your thinking, that right apparently comes from us.

In that part of the world, borders have been fairly fluid for centuries. All of a sudden, they are written in granite? Where is Poland? Depends on when you are talking about? For that matter, where is Texas? How did it…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
@robert Don’t stand on your metaphorical head to paint me as pro-Russian. I’m pro-civilized human. Of course Russia’s invasion was wrong, but it’s Putin to blame for the inevitable (as you yourself pointed out) atrocities of war. That Ukraine has been far from perfect in its treatment of ethnic and linguistic Russians within its bor…

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Don’t stand on your metaphorical head to paint me as pro-Russian. I’m pro-civilized human. Of course Russia’s invasion was wrong, but it’s Putin to blame for the inevitable (as you yourself pointed out) atrocities of war.  That Ukraine has been far from perfect in its treatment of ethnic and linguistic Russians within its borders isn’t…[Read more]

And the other shooter was a pretty good shot as well.

“I’d like that gallon of milk. Do you have change for this gold ingot?” More seriously, if things get really bad gold will become worthless. Having an AK-47 would be more useful.

As far as the American economy and the dollar, many feel it’s clear we’ve already gone past the economic event horizon. We got there by overspending on the…[Read more]

Your argument—and Buffet’s—that Bitcoin prod9uces nothing could be applied to any of many sorts of nonfungible assets, could it not? A Rembrandt sketch, a Babe Ruth home run ball, diamonds, gold, etc.

People want to get away from fiat currencies, currencies published by governments. So far—except for the ones functioning now and produ…[Read more]