Jim

World of woo: Mewing:
I mew at my cat all the time, but I haven’t seen any change in my jaw-line. I haven’t seen any change in my cat’s misbehavore either.
So I’m trying hissing at him, but he doesn’t seem impressed. I can’t wait for AI to be used to learn cat language.

Reg and Fellow Unbelievers,

I am so glad that Paul Ehrlich lost his bet with Julian Simon and The Population Bomb is slowing to a fizzle, because I wouldn’t eat Ms. Greene-Teeth (in any sense of the word “eat”) if she were the last person on Earth!

(And as for the double-entendre sense of “eat,” I would only do that with healthy, clickable,…[Read more]

The news from Türkiye is looking good.

Thanks Reg!!

Reg and Fellow Unbelievers,

A recently developed cancer vaccine for dogs could benefit humans.

To reverse the movie title, it should happen to a dog 🐕…and a human🤕…And any PETA freaks and FDA pencil-pushers who stand in the way of this are sadists and ghouls🧟‍♀️💀…the lot of them!

@_Robert_ – I stumbled this earlier – it may be of some interest to you.

Soylent Greene works so long as she has to listen to some Radiohead when her trip gets to the cartoon stage 🙂

Killing her ego would make her a better person.

“Empty Greene”? I call her “Soylent Greene.”

Reg,

“Respawn Sunday” is an excellent designation for Easter! And the “magical” mushroom treatment for Marjorie Taylor-Greene-Teeth is a fitting tie-in for the name!
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Of course, I don’t think it would change her mind. “Magical” mushrooms a.k.a. Psylocybin, was no doubt how those who wrote of Moses, Daniel, Amos, Ezekiel, and St. John The…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Have a great week!! Yesterday, during a conversation about Easter and forgiveness with a few theist callers: Reg, can I ask you a serious question? Yes, please do. For the record I did not find the comment about you calling tomorrow “Respawn Sunday” funny. In fact, I found it a somewhat offensive but I am pre…

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Have a great week!!

Yesterday, during a conversation about Easter and forgiveness with a few theist callers:

Reg, can I ask you a serious question?

Yes, please do.

For the record I did not find the comment about you calling tomorrow “Respawn Sunday” funny. In fact, I found it a somewhat offensive but I am prepared to forgive and for…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
If you are constrained by religious doctrine then, no matter you age, your moral code remains static especially if you just swallow it in ‘tablet form’ without ever thinking about it.

I do think that religious people think about these things all day long, and they’re bound to make progress of some kind.  Reli…[Read more]

@Simon – My moral reasoning has definitely been strengthened a lot as I have got older. 

Aging in and of itself does not raise ones moral standards. Thinking about morality does. The more you think about life and the more you ponder various scenarios that require a moral response, the higher your standards will become. If you are constrained by…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Can our capacity for moral reasoning be strengthened.

My moral reasoning has definitely been strengthened a lot as I have got older.  I don’t know whether it’s experience, or learning about theory, or both.

What has made it get better are two or three things: more compassion, more (cognitive) empathy – figuring out…[Read more]

Up, up and away to the atheist meetup today. Up so high in the quest for shoe fly pie. Below the spaghetti monster flies by. Me oh my, up so high, never knew dialogue and polemics could make me fly. Be contentious without a clue spewing narratives is what we do. Freethinkers are chimerical tinkers. We are determined and blinded in blinkers.…[Read more]

Jake,

It sounds like a wonderful dish from a beautiful server, but until the steel-plated or vat-grown pancreas arrives in the mail, I could only have a sliver on my plate. I’d savor every crumb and morsel, tho.
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Enco, read about adverse possession. It is English in origin and dates back to 1600 or so. It really is contrary to our sensibilities. Or is it further back from the 14th century during the plague years? That would make for a good story. I can’t remember and i aint looking it up. But it is like legal theft.

In usa states have statutes that…[Read more]

Reg,

Continuing, “squatter’s rights” may have made sense at a time when there were actual unclaimed parcels of land on the North American Continent unoccupied even by Indigenous tribes. It might even make sense in a hypothetical Post-Apocalyptic scenario where much of Humankind is wiped out. But with already-claimed, labor-mixed, built-upon…[Read more]