TheEncogitationer

Jake:

Who knows? May one day sooner than later, this will be what politics will look like in Iran and the rest of the Middle East, where they won’t even be able to get the name of their scapegoat right.…[Read more]

Jake:

Maybe someone could made judicious use of Hollywood special FX and an AI holographic image of The Twelveth Imam coming out of his hidey hole and seeing his shadow at The Cave of Hira.

The wielder of the AI holograph could then convince a whole bunch of Shia pilgrims at The Cave of Hira to rise against the remaining Mullah Regime and the…[Read more]

Reg:

Of course, your friend would need his physician to verify that he has no other conditions that also produce symptoms of sciatica e.g. Rhabdomyolytis for leg weakness, neuropathy for numbness, phantom disk syndrome for nerve pinching, etc. Then, once Sciatica has been established, the Doctors would need to verify what larger conditions could…[Read more]

Reg:

World of Woo: Acupuncture is essentially astrology.

I recently searched YouTube with the words “Acupuncture” and “Pseudoscience” and found a whole deluge of videos from Ivy League Universities, medical sites like WebMD, and supposedly legitimate M.D.s touting Acupuncture! And you could count on one hand the number of videos calling…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

Yet another distraction from a poorly-executed war, an economy in the crapper, the Epstein Files, and a Hantavirus outbreak that could be worse than COVID-19. The pictures aren’t even as good as past ones:

Any SETI programs on other worlds is surely up for a ton of let-down…[Read more]

PopeBeanie:

Whoa, nice factoid. I think I’ll remember this. I mean, I want to transmute enough brain cells to accomodate a more permanent memory. Salamandering, too? I always recall seeing districts with only a highway-wide corridor connecting two distinctly separated areas.

Well, the proper lesson to derive from the factoid is that G…[Read more]

Reg,

I forgot to add something else: The Guillain-Barré Syndrome the woman got from the camylobacter caught from raw milk is a Syndrome which is contraindicative with certain vaccines. The Pharmacist or Physician always asks if you have Guillain-Barré Syndrome on the vaccine form.

So, drinking tainted raw milk increases the number of people w…[Read more]

PopeBeanie:

Y’all know that SCOTUS just defanged the Voting Rights Act, right? So incumbent legislators are already celebrating by ramping up gerrymandering. (An incumbent majority is even more empowered now to remain incumbent regardless of the majority of votes cast.)

Shifting goalposts in the middle of a game is always a crap deal, but w…[Read more]

PopeBeanie,

It could have been either Trump or Biden. Both are proof that you don’t need to be drunk or stoned to have deranged faculties.

Reg:

Will e-coli parties be as successful as measles parties are?

Not just e-coli but anything the cow’s udder touches or anything the cow isn’t innoculated to prevent. (And Anti-Vaxxerism tends come with Raw Milk Cultism and tends to be a cross-species pathology.) The e-coli party could also include Amoebic Dysentery, Botulism, Bird Flu,…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

Ecumunism does not always mean peace or tolerance. Sometimes it just means sharing a common hatred:

The Islamo-Christian Right
https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=5972b94cae7e8a1cf4ae043a&s=69f487b2748d746ddbabed8e&linknum=2&linktot=46

Simon,

A very quick-witted reply.

Strega,

I think the top killer for the tribe is heart attacks or heart disease, closely followed by untreated diabetes. Sleep apnea would be a long way down that list.

They are all interrelated and even reinforcing. Obstructed sleep affects the brain which also affects heart and pancreas gland functioning. It also affects strength to exercise…[Read more]

Jake:

When I think of Mantras, I think of the old Matt Groening cartoon from his pre-Simpsons days doing the comic strip “Life in Hell.”. He drew an anthropomorphized cow sitting in a lotus position and saying: “Your Mantra is: Moooo!” 🐮😁

Strega:

I hate to be a buzz-harsher, but that snoring you heard could be a sign of potentially deadly sleep apnea.

I hope the Maori of today are not so isolated from medical modernity that they don’t see a Physician about that.

Jake:

The Dumbnamic Duo on the Democratic Left side is Bernie Sanders and Graham Platner:

Democrats support Graham Platner because there’s a ‘D’ next to his name: Joe Concha
Story by Britta Miller, Washington Examiner • 9h…[Read more]

Jake:

Chimps can be culturally morphed to alternate behaviors. The whole debate is like nature/nurture. If you ascribe all to one or other you have missed the fed ex delivery.Chimps can be culturally morphed to alternate behaviors. The whole debate is like nature/nurture. If you ascribe all to one or other you have missed the fed ex…

[Read more]

Jake,

All true, and again, chimps are like that without human assistance or encouragement.

Strega:

This fits in with the behaviours of some of the far flung tribal groups I’ve lived with. For them, religion is a comfort, not a cause. They still have aggression, but the dividers between ‘them’ and ‘us’ are more commonly tribal root orientated, or territorially driven rather than ideological

Interesting. Sometime, whenever you’re so…[Read more]

Reg, Simon Paynton, and Jake:

Why humans are not clever chimps. (interesting site)

Well, there are lots of things to be said here.

A 13.5 percent difference in DNA versus 1.4 percent difference is still comparatively close and humans, chimps, and apes are still close enough to all be equally on the primate branch of the Darwinian Tree of Life.…[Read more]