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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 – that’s a fantastic story.  The thing about pre-industrial people is their strong community ethos.  It shows how good it is for us.

Enco: the buzz is now snoring.

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…

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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]

According to my studies, one of the big differences between chimps (and the other great apes) and humans, is that we are “domesticated” (compared with them, our society is not structured around male-male dominance relations).  That means that we are able to cooperate and share.  Chimps can’t share, and therefore there’s no point cooperating.

We t…[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]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Why humans are not clever chimps. (interesting site)

Theophilus Painter was not a very rigorous thinker, he kept making mistakes, of assuming things when he didn’t know, sometimes rooted in racial bias it is probably true.

New data from the National Institutes of Health show the human genome varies from the chimp…

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Simon Paynton:

But it has to be facilitated to some extent – someone has to be there to interpret and read out loud what someone is pointing to.

Ah, but I’m not facilitating your communication by reading your post.

And you’re not facilitating my communication by reading my post.

We’re both conveying, exchanging, and absorbing each o…[Read more]