TheEncogitationer

Jake:

So wouldn’t it be prudent to conduct experiments in which people identifying as trans pass those tests? Seems like validation would have multiple benefits. Where is Autumn to rip me a new asshole for a stupid query?

I think Autumn ran away after I told her to fuck off after she called me a bigot after I defended Jewish students on New Y…[Read more]

Jake:

Don’t forgot Trump also abandoned the Kurds. And i think it was Trump who got US out of Afghanistan which enabled the Taliban to be purely Islamic and the consequent suffering and misery to follow.

Afghanistan was the end result of four Administrations dithering about it starting with Bush, going through Obama and Trump 1.0, and ending w…[Read more]

Jake:

There’s some of that fake sympathy for the Iranian people already, even without blaming the Jews. Starting with Trump. Not only did he posture and hem and haw while Iranians were being slaughtered, but now he’s feeding more in to the meat-grinder:

Trump Is Deporting Iranians to a Country That Will Kill…[Read more]

Jake:

Just some heart-warming news to be aware or not…

More like blood-curdling than heart-warming. The Islamic Republic is a human slaughterhouse.

Never mind Panpsychism. Is there UN-psychism, Woke-psychism, Peacenik-psychism, MAGA-psychism, Trump-psychism, Media-psychism, Academia-psychism…

Reg:

Another thing about food recommendations:

The committee saw a number of papers in Hispanic, Black, and Asian communities where dairy wasn’t a prevalent part of the diet, whether due to lactose intolerance or cultural food preferences. DGAC suggested changing the language to make dairy an optional, not integral, part of a good dietary…

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Reg:

Panpsychism is an attempt to avoid “consciousness from nothing” by baking mind-like properties into the foundations of physics. That is almost like an argument for Creationism. For me, consciousness is an emergent property, not a fundamental physical property. It is not present in parts that can be assembled. In the same way that water mol…

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Reg:

RFK Jr. on the Food Pyramid and Tylenol.

Will everybody stop with the talk about Ultra-Processed Foods!

Nobody has yet given a coherent, sensible definition of what Ultra-Processed Food is, and as is the case with our favorite Omnific Being, if you can’t say what it is, you can’t say that it is.

And where in the U.S. Constitution is…[Read more]

Reg:

Is Panpsychism just Snake Oil?

The article didn’t fully define what Panpsychism was, (fundamental property of what?) so already there is at least one entity in the Natural Universe that isn’t fully conscious, and certainly not Omniscient.

Wikipedia as usual is more specific, precise, and…[Read more]

Jake:

One would hope there is more going with apes than that, and with us. Otherwise, neither will be going concerns.

Jake:

I meant to ask: Where is the Apes’ study of Jane Goodall. I’ll accept an recorded oral report if they haven’t yet mastered the written word. 🦍🎙️😁

Jake:

Now, now sacred cow!

Degrade what we’ve made what we’ve taken for granite. Feldspar. On a lark. On your mark. Ready, set go!

Time can certainly include different things in different places, as evidenced by where you posted this and where everyone else is posting about the subject of time.😁

Time study. Time dilation. Time in a cra…

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Reg:

Your beliefs can change without your permission.

Only if you operate based on evidence, which barring mental defects, is a choice.

Jake:

So yea annex Greenland. OKaaaaay. Seems reasonable.

Put Putin, Turkey and Qut the shittar on Gaza board of peace. What could go wrong?

Yes, and Trump is doing all this and imposing tariffs on Europe precisely when the U.S. needs European allies against CRINK–China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.

Interesting note: The nation name Qatar…[Read more]

Jake:

Sorry, I misread you. I thought you typed “Is it” not “It is”.

The former would make it a Trump impersonation, along with a “Covfefe” and “Thank you for your attention to this matter” thrown in.

Jake:

It is so wrong to abandon the Iranians to their theocracy. I was about to rant but i just can’t.

Good Trump impersonation, except his vocabulary wouldn’t include Theocracy and his style wouldn’t include such sophisticated rhyming.

Reg:

World of Woo: The new Dietary Guidelines.

Listening to RFK Jr. or Trump talk is better than GLP-1 drugs to suppress appetite for anything.

Jake:

I saw that about the chemical weapons. Not confirmed yet by Western intel but very credible given the history of chemical weapons use by adjacent forces in the Iran-Iraq War and in the Syrian Civil War.

Oh, and it turns out Trump didn’t destroy all of Iran’s fissible nuclear material:

DEADLY ARSENAL How wounded Iran could be planning…[Read more]