Scientific American, why do you have to be like this?
Here’s Why Human Sex Is Not Binary
The animal kingdom does not limit itself to only one biological binary regarding how a species makes gametes. Scientifically speaking, animals with the capacity to produce ova are generally called “female” and sperm producers “male.” While most animal species fall into the “two types of gametes produced by two versions of the reproductive tract” model, many don’t. Some worms produce both. Some fish start producing one kind and then switch to the other, and some switch back and forth throughout their lives. There are even lizards that have done away with one type all together. Among our fellow mammals, which are less freewheeling because of the twin constraints of lactation and live birth, there are varied connections between gametes and body fat, body size, muscles, metabolism, brain function and much more.
One might reasonably contend that an anthropologist should know that human beings are not worms, fish, or lizards.
We know that humans exhibit a range of biological and behavioral patterns related to sex biology that overlap and diverge. Producing ova or sperm does not tell us everything (or even most things) biologically or socially, about an individual’s childcare capacity, homemaking tendencies, sexual attractions, interest in literature, engineering and math capabilities or tendencies towards gossip, violence, compassion, sense of identity, or love of, and competence for, sports. Gametes and gamete production physiology, by themselves, are only a part of the entirety of human lives. Plentiful data and analyses support the assertions that sex is very complex in humans and that binary and simplistic explanations for human sex biology are either wholly incorrect or substantially incomplete.
Switching the argument to sexual determinism of behavior and the commonly-observed cultural traits of the binary sexes is dishonest in the extreme.
What a sad joke of an article.
The Schist Disk: Egypt and “Advanced” Technology
Since discovered in 1936 in the Egyptian village of Saqqara, the so-called “Schist Disk” has been used to support the widely-held contention that the ancient Egyptian culture acquired technology far superior to their own at some point in their development from an outside source.
And while this disk may not be definitive proof of that contention, considering all that is known about the Egyptian culture after nearly two centuries of concerted study, the Egyptians of 3000 BCE did not have the capabilities to create such a sophisticated piece of technology. Yet, they did.
Uncovered by renowned British Egyptologist Brian Walter Emery while excavating the tomb of Prince Sabu, son of Adjuib Pharaoh, governor of the First Dynasty (circa 3000 BCE), the Schist Disk was found among some common funerary objects (including stone vessels, flint knives, arrows, and a few copper tools) Emery initially cataloged as “a container in the form of a schist bowl.”
The term schist, derived from the Greek word σχ?ζειν meaning “to split” (referring to the relative ease with which this material can be split along the lateral plane), is a category of medium-grade metamorphic rock rich in what are termed “lamellar” minerals, which include mica, chlorite, talc, hornblende, and graphite.
Derived from clay and mud, which have undergone a series of extreme physical-chemical (transitioning from shale to slate to phyllite), most schists are made of mica, but graphite and chlorite are also quite common.
And while the existence of ancient objects made of this hard but brittle material is far from rare, the design and craftsmanship of this disk, in particular, is astounding—if not more than a little eerie.
Not only did it require extraordinary practice and patience to create, but other similarly-crafted pieces also have never been found.
I spent $160K on leg-lengthening surgery — it changed my sex life
Surgery has heightened this woman’s modeling career — and sex life.
Theresia Fischer, who starred on Germany’s “Celebrity Big Brother,” has undergone two surgeries to lengthen her legs.
She now stands 6 feet tall when barefoot.
The 31-year-old underwent two operations to insert adjustable telescopic rods into her tibiae (shinbones), adding an extra 5.5 inches to her height.
The total surgery cost was $124,000, but medications and physical therapy bumped her total bill up to $161,000 — all of which she paid with the modeling checks she hopes will increase after these procedures.
The increasingly popular operation reportedly costs $70,000 to $150,000, depending on how many inches the patient wants to “grow,” as well as thousands of dollars more in follow-up costs, GQ reported.
The leg-lengthening process requires a painful procedure in which a doctor breaks the femur in each of a patient’s legs and inserts extendable metal nails.
The nails are gradually extended over the next three months by one millimeter a day — eventually making the recovered patient several inches taller.
That magazine when down the toilet like my last shit.
Not like your schist?
Sorry, I don’t speak German.
Play gneiss
“Egyptians of 3000 BCE did not have the capabilities to create such a sophisticated piece of technology. Yet, they did.”
I’m not saying it was aliens.
https://www.liveabout.com/best-aliens-memes-4163627
The Egyptians used illegal alien laborers?
I have a conversation about ancient aliens with my dad nearly every time we see each other. To him an many others, when some sort of well crafted object or structure is found, it’s aliens. We have a natural material that was well crafted in the case of the schist bowl. The material itself is soft and relatively easy to shape compared to say granite or quartz. Isn’t it conceivable that people were relatively smart and skillful with the materials readily available to them, especially in one of the most wealthy civilizations of the ancient world.
The other exceptions are marvelous materials that we can’t replicate today due to “lost knowledge from aliens”. Typically this amazing lost knowledge was in really lost sources of naturally found materials that just happened to have the right composition and properties. You don’t have any record of the shitty Roman Concrete that was made from other recipes and material sources, as it was bad enough that it was never used again after it degraded.
The, “it’s aliens” people have no respect for human intellect.
One things humans have shown over and over again is that we’re also very good at moving very large rocks with simple tools.
Nature itself can move some pretty good size rocks.
I think I wrote this earlier this week, but they had hundreds or thousands of years to perfect that skill. You see the one success but not the many, many failures.
especially with a particularly fragile material that when broken looks like mere rock chips.
Exactly. Whole generations of workers perfecting one skillset like stone cutting or gem polishing. The other thing we forget is that the only stuff remaining from 3000-6000 years ago is going to be stone. Wood, metals, and textiles would oxidize or rot after a few thousand years.
You mean like all those clean white marble statues that look so pristine and pure?
The ones that used to be painted up in gaudy colors?
The girl with the leg lengthening looks like an AI generated idea of a person. And I hope the first time she complains about how hard it is to find a man who’s tall enough to date her someone breaks one of her legs again.
Yeah… I really hope that’s just the photographer using some odd perspective — because if that’s how she looks in real life, 3000BC Egypt should be trying to contact her again.
I think there’s some forced perspective in the picture as well.
Are we sure she’s always been a she?
The up-angle photo also emphasizes that.
Surgery makes her look like she has Marfan Syndrome.
Thats why the “up-angle” site I go to looks weird…
She looks more like a mannerist painting than anything else.
Huh. It turns out $160K can’t cure mental illness.
Can cure AIDS though
Seems its a South Park did it day
“The leg-lengthening process requires a painful procedure in which a doctor breaks the femur in each of a patient’s legs and inserts extendable metal nails.”
So is it femur or tibia?
I would imagine both for that much height.
Having broken a tibia and been around people with broken femurs, I can safely say she’s nucking futs.
Leg bones are a spectrum.
Hippocrates would like a word.
“First, do no harm…”
Such ancient, wise and ethical thinking is forbidden
Meh, it’s not hard to think of many common and helpful medical procedures that begin by doing harm to the patient or to some one else.
The hippocratic oath is over 2,000 years old, it’s hard to say what the meant by “do no harm” probably meant “Do? No, harm!”
And they owned slaves, right?
“No, money down!”
It’s, like, older that the constitution! And that is like a hundred years, man!
This is the part where the experts explain to her loved ones that not artificially lengthening her legs would’ve been catastrophic to her mental health with possible suicidal implications.
Yeah, I’m jaded.
But she was bullied for being a 5’7″ woman!
Tibia would require fibula as well?
But the scars seem to indicate that is what she did?
Maybe both?
RTA, it has x-rays of the pins and screws.
Eating seed-
All fellatio, all the time.
Was just reading a Tweet from Scientific American about how awesome and harmless puberty blockers are.
CWABOA
Blocking puberty to buy some time.
Decades of data on the usage to treat precocious puberty, an actual medical condition.
That’s like saying we have decades of data on chemotherapy for cancer patients so we should administer it to people to believe they have cancer.
Chemotherapy as a diet drug.
This one secret diet trick doctors dont want you to know about!
Did wonders for my mom. The pounds melted away.
BULLSHIT
I could be wrong, but definitely seems like they are conflating the safety claims with the drugs other uses.
They’re absolutely conflating the safety of the drug for treating specific medical conditions with its usage to stop or delay puberty with no consideration for the damage that stopping or delaying puberty will cause.
It’s a motte and bailey argument.
You’re not wrong. None of the listed uses are actually “puberty-pausing”, although that might be a side effect when given to children. I wonder how often, and how long, they are given to children for those other purposes. If the answers are “infrequently” and “not long”, then it’s extremely dishonest to extrapolate to using them to trans children.
One also wonder about their definition of “safe”. In the immediate term? Eh, sure. In the long run, when used for “puberty-pausing”? How much longitudinal data do they actually have?
The models say that there’s no impact at all. Trust the models.
Should rename the mag to Scientific Marxian. The remaining readers would probably be glad to be rid of the old, triggering name.
Of all the black pills that I have swallowed of late, the total corruption of the science media is the thing that makes me most nauseous.
Yep. There is no objective truth anymore, 2+2=4 is racist, a vaccine is whatever we say it is, every science class has to include critical race theory, and now two clearly defined options (XX and XY) are a “spectrum”.
I second that. People have no idea what science actually is. They think it’s this magic thing you can appeal to that automatically wins debates and ends the conversation. It is a blanket appeal to authority that’s just as co-optable as religion. Anytime someone makes a truth claim or says “settled science”, it should set off alarm bells.
I read “They Thought They Were Free” by Milton Mayer recently. It’s a book written in the 50’s where a journalist went to Germany after the collapse of the Nazi regime and interviewed a bunch of people in a small town about what it was like to live under it from their perspective. You’d be amazed how often the phrase “the scientists figured that out” came up to explain a lot of the loony shit they thought was reality.
Separating science from state is even more than separating church and state.
They were skin-suited years ago.
The carcass is rotting off the bones.
The increasingly popular operation
This is the first time I am hearing of this, but of course not surprising.
Maybe it’s a Europe thing.
There was a grouping of articles about it in the past year or so, generally referring to Silicon Valley tech-bros doing it to increase their potential earnings, since taller people generally make more money.
Also, incels.
It’s gone from zero to one. That’s increasing.
The leg-lengthening process requires a painful procedure in which a doctor breaks the femur in each of a patient’s legs and inserts extendable metal nails.
I saw this in Gattaca.
One might reasonably contend that an anthropologist should know that human beings are not worms, fish, or lizards.
That’s not very inclusive of you.
We’re totally the same as worms. Which is why it won’t be a big deal when millions of people are composted to save Gaia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrXZ2D5nqNA
OMG
LOL!
Brilliant!
Try saying “shist disc” 10 times fast.
Holy Schist!
I can’t say it once.
I shist a disc.
a disc I shist.
Upon a shisted disc I sit.
ex Mrs Tres, ever the aspiring thespian, always used to use the “Betty Botter” rhyme.
Listen here shit disk.
The leg-lengthening process requires a painful procedure in which a doctor breaks the femur in each of a patient’s legs and inserts extendable metal nails.
Torquemada did it.
South Park did it.
I swear to god those guys have a time machine. Have you ever seen the episode “Death Camp of Tolerance”?
They predicted liberals applauding teachers waving their sexual deviance in grade-school children’s faces back in like 2004.
Much like Rush Limbaugh, they’re very observant and just take things to their most absurd extreme. Unfortunately for us that absurd extreme really happens.
LOL one of several episodes where I could barely believe what I was seeing.
Uncovered by renowned British Egyptologist Brian Walter Emery while excavating the tomb of Prince Sabu, son of Adjuib Pharaoh, governor of the First Dynasty (circa 3000 BCE), the Schist Disk was found among some common funerary objects (including stone vessels, flint knives, arrows, and a few copper tools) Emery initially cataloged as “a container in the form of a schist bowl.”
I’m thinking to myself, “Well, ain’t that the schist.” But I know that talc is cheap. Once again, we shouldn’t take for granite what the ancients were able to attain.
Gneiss.
I marble at the ability of you folks to quickly churn out puns.
Their just punning for gold.
*They’re
You have to think out of the bauxite to come up with new puns around here.
Naw, he’s made a greedy Conglomerate of references, making it hard for those of us who come later.
It should just whet your apatite to rise to the challenge.
I’m too sedimentary to be goated to erupt with anger.
Take any claims to the contrary with a grain of basalt.
I’m just trying not to take it tufa.
Rocky!
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Janet!
Dr. Scott!
Swiss has some bedrock principles about puns, so once he shows up we’ll all have to gravel for forgiveness.
Everybody must get stoned…
It’s tricky.
I wonder if he’s related to the actual Egyptologist Walter Bryan Emery.
Looks the research on this site is up to the internet’s usual standards.
Plentiful data and analyses support the assertions that sex is very complex in humans and that binary and simplistic explanations for human sex biology are either wholly incorrect or substantially incomplete.
Go tell that to the sex change industry.
Dude, people have different sexual preferences. That means you should totally endorse the fucking and mutilation of children by adults.
SCIENCE
“Switching the argument to sexual determinism of behavior and the commonly-observed cultural traits of the binary sexes is dishonest in the extreme.”
I don’t have much to say beyond this, other than that everything about the transgender trend/fad is dishonest.
https://twitter.com/sappyNFT/status/1653830810024198144
How parents used to deal with it.
We’re totally the same as worms. Which is why it won’t be a big deal when millions of people are composted to save Gaia.
What of those of you (count me out; I’ll be gone by then, one way or another) who will subsist on worm meal? Would that qualify as cannibalism?
If that were true, beef would be a vegetable.
All of these IFLS types using the word “spectrum,” they do know that light is quantized, right? There are discrete wavelengths. If there’s not an electronic transition between two particular colors, that wavelength does not, in fact, exist.
Dude, I can red shift to any wavelength you desire.
Not only that, black body radiation is just one example of a continuum of wavelengths.
You know you’re getting old when your wife suggests that we should go listen to a presentation on replacement windows so we can get the free steak dinner.
The horror…
Next she’ll be responding to a timeshare vacation pamphlet.
How good is the steak and how good is your resolve?
“Ahh, we needed windows anyway.”
Hard pass.
My husband has dragged me to one or two of those things because I’m super awesome at saying “no,” whereas he will let them go on a little longer. I finally put my foot down and reminded him that TANSTAAFL once again. A free steak dinner is not worth the cost of facing down a determined salespimp or 3.
“Salespimp” for the mf’ing win!
It’s good you saw right through that.
The girlfriend sprung something like that on me once.
Once.
My father hung me on a hook once …
Who the fuck would loan someone money for unnecessary leg lengthening surgery?
This is the kind of crazy that zero-interest loans begets. See also the sec change fad.
Most of this idiocy goes away when banks collapse.
Yes
Who the fuck would loan …
Someone with a specific fetish?
This is the kind of crazy that zero-interest loans begets. See also the sec change fad.
Is that making champagne brut or doux?
She says her modeling gig paid for it. The one that she somehow struggled through while being constantly bullied or something. 🙄
Pimp daddy long legs?
Leg Lengthening Surgery: You have GOT to be kidding me!
I know, why is she still wearing the stripper heels?
“They make my legs look longer!”
#science-tific American
You know you’re getting old when your wife suggests that we should go listen to a presentation on replacement windows so we can get the free steak dinner.
I went to the local home show a few weeks ago, to see if there is anybody around here who does pre cast concrete construction (spoiler alert: no. Plenty of pole barn guys, though). As I was walking by one of the booths, a nice young lady offered me a free inspection and estimate for a new roof. I told her I’d burn the fucking place down before I’d put a new roof on it. She was rather taken aback.
Right before we got married we went to one of those time share things because they promised a “free vacation”. It was a classic hard sell, they show you a presentation in a group then break you off with a sales person to close the deal. We were saving up for our wedding so no matter how much they tried to lower the price we were a firm No. About a month later in the news we saw they had busted the operation and a bunch of people lost their money.
I knew somebody who did a few of those things for the freebies, he was mostly amused by the hard sell at the end and had no problem saying no, but it was very stressful for his wife so they had to stop doing them.
As the entire thing was a scam, that “free vacation” never materialized for us.
Schist Disk sounds like a prop in a German porno.
*golf clap*
Or the lead actor.
Two fraulines, one schist disk
Velcome to Schist Disc, zee only radio program about zee hardfloor.
Its amazing what craftsmen can do under threat of death and slavery
“Jackson Mahomes – the younger brother of Super Bowl champion Patrick – is arrested for aggravated sexual battery after ‘forcibly kissing female bar owner, 40, in Kansas City'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-12042533/Jackson-Mahomes-arrested-aggravated-sexual-battery.html
She doesn’t look that upset in the video.
A slap, 86’d and blackballed from the bar used to be the proper punishment
That’s for the guys without deep pockets.
Patrick is a classy dude. His dad (baseball player) used to take him into the locker room and got him acquainted with athletes and how to deal with the media and all the right things to say.
Apparently, Jackson didn’t get the same education because he’s a classless wretch.
Brittany (Patrick’s wife) also needs some lessons because she’s got her own brand of classlessness (although I think after the spraying-champagne-all-over-the-fans-when-it-was-colder-than-a-witch’s-tit-outside episode, she calmed down a little).
Patrick’s mom has made her own faux pas or two.
Does anyone here have any experience with Notepad++?
I find myself in need of a powerful, configurable, ASCII editor.
I do. What’s the question?
Short answer is “it works”
It easily handles large files and the plugin library is quite useful.
I use Notepad++ quite a bit.
I have used it for years.
It’s great. Has tons of features, I’ve barely scratched the surface really.
:: prepares incendiary device ::
:: lights fuse ::
:: hurls device ::
Emacs.
:: runs away ::
People still use that? I thought they lost the editor war years ago.
Until you see Richard Stallman’s obituary, there will emacs users.
Reading through his wikipedia page, I had completely forgotten him being a pedo apologist.
I have used a line-editor on a teletype machine serving as a dumb terminal. You can’t scare me with your fancy 1200 bps CRT displays, and HP smart terminals.
You are a WYSE man Tonio
/IBM AS/400 enters the chat
The system that won’t die.
Real programmers use butterflies.
This is, tentacly elder gods help us, not for code, but to unfuck text.
I need something where I can easily turn
words words words\n
words words words\n
words words words\n
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words words words\n
words words words\n
words words words\n
\n
into
words words words words words words words words words\n
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words words words words words words words words words\n
\n
Ie, in which I can either write a macro to turn single \n into \b and double \n into single \n. I realize this may require three find and replace passes, which is totes okay.
It will do it.
Thankee.
I use Edit Plus 3.
sed?
Perl?
Atom is for writing code, but you can do pretty much anything with it.
I use Visual Studio Code. It can choke on very large files (> around 1GB) but for that I have another editor but it’s not free.
I have no doubt Notepad++ can do almost anything too – but I find it painfully obtuse to figure out how to do what I need.
“Biden’s ‘criminal BRIBERY scheme’ with a foreign national: Whistleblower claims FBI and DOJ have file detailing Joe’s ‘exchange of money for policy decisions’ when he was VP”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12043299/Bidens-criminal-BRIBERY-scheme-foreigner-GOP-claims-VP-offered-cash-access.html
and nothing else happened
No reasonable prosecutor, etc.
You don’t need a reasonable prosecutor, you’ve got that very slim Republican majority in the House.
This almost feels like bait.
I am not an attorney (I dodged that bullet a long time ago) but… looking at google news headlines, I see reports of a parade of women in the Trump Rape Case testifying about his assaults on them. Unless they have specific knowledge of the crime at hand, how are these smears admissible?
Because the judge allowed it.
The judge isn’t an unbiased arbiter.
I wouldn’t be too shocked if someone dropped by his office and told him he needs to allow it and to let as many cameras as they can fit into the courtroom.
It isn’t a criminal trial, it is civil. That widens the aperture quite a bit.
Because fuck you, that’s how.
One might reasonably contend that an anthropologist should know that human beings are not worms, fish, or lizards.
WHY DO YOU HATE TRANSPECIESISTS?!?!?!?!?!?11111!111??
South Park has already been mentioned.
all of which she paid with the modeling checks she hopes will increase after these procedures.
Paid with checks she hopes will increase?
Journalism fail.
Shooty types: any recommendations for an optical sight for a .44 Mag revolver?
Do you need magnification, or would a red dot suffice?
Just red dot is fine. Something that sits down low, preferably.
Crimson Trace grips.
Very interested in what you end up with. And how you mount it.
I have a .357 that could use an optic. Not gonna hunt with it, but I sure could use a little help lol.
I’m probably going to end up with a 3 inch barrel S&W 686 with a tuned trigger from an elderly acquaintance. I’m guessing it’s set to 1-1/2 pounds at most.
It’s a competition gun. I wouldn’t dare carry the thing. But that uber-light trigger sure makes it easier to hit the target..
Mine has a six inch barrel so there is no question of EDC. But I wouldn’t mind putting an optic on it for home and trail.
Real men use this for EDC
https://tse2.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.9dj2lZjodBQWD9e72n5r-AHaGE
Lol!
I’ll stick with my Shield.
I’ve found a rail that mounts using the ring bases integral in the top strap: https://www.jackweigand.com/srh.html. I’d be mounting any optic on that rail.
I’m not much of a hunter, but if needs must I’m thinking a red dot will make the thing more useful, and be less bulky/awkward than a scope.
Cool! Thanks for that.
Is this for hunting? If you put a scope on it, get good rings. Three rings isn’t uncommon.
Three rings due to the .44 mag? Or because revolver generally?
Both. It wouldn’t be an issue with a .22, and recoil on a rifle goes pretty much straight back. Further, if this is a DA, you can’t let it flip up like a SA, so there is the momentum of scope trying to go up while you are trying to keep the muzzle down.
Toxicity is the perfect song for lynx one and three. Disgusting people.
I really want to believe in the Schist Disk. Should I?
Isn’t the bigger question, does the Schist Disk believe in you?
That’s deep, man.
It’s gonna get deeper.
I’ll stick with Tuxicity.
I decided on the Jaime Escalante approach to teaching. After 10 days of that, I was fired. But I received standing ovations from my students and compliments from some teachers. I had a student ask me “what’s arithmetic?” There were some serious knowledge gaps. I introduced them to the bifurcation/chaos theory and the Penrose tiles. A student asked me what would happen if the Penrose tiles were projected into 3 dimensions. I said I don’t know, but you’re definitely getting an A.
I interviewed at a nearby school today and gave a discreet summary of my foray into public school teaching. They asked me what I know about teaching gifted/talented students. So maybe I can do that. I was in that program in elementary and middle school.
Also, I ate an excellent Cuban sandwich today from a food truck. Life is good.
No ‘rithmatic? Did they at least know readin’ and ‘ritin’?
There was at least 1 student who will be getting a diploma after spending 12 years to get a 5th grade education. It is impossible to wake someone who is pretending to be asleep, as the Cherokee say.
I suspect my replacement will be the weight-lifting coach who thinks the earth is flat. So it goes.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Time to build up my tutoring business.
Start your own school. The school choice shit is probably going to just result in megacorp schools, but you could probably build an outlier.
Congrats on getting canned!
Derpy, you’re back!!1!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
I like to start classes off with a joke or words of wisdom. 1 day, it was:
***
It doesn’t matter if you have more degrees than a thermometer if you’re sharp as a marble.
***
I need to work on my Foghorn Leghorn impression.
My ringtone
“that boys as sharp as a bag of wet mice”
So, that disk. What was it for? It definitely looks like it was intended to be mounted on a shaft of some kind (pause for ribaldry), and like it has some kind of mechanical function, but I can’t for the life of me figure it out. And saying “oh, it was decorative/ritual” just seems like a cop out (and, if it had some ritual purpose something that we might have seen more than once).
Another question – since the Egyptians apparently had mad schist-carving skills, what else of theirs do we have made out of schist?
It’s a lazy susan.
Dumbest thing you’ll hear today. Lazy Susans in kitchen redesigns have been renamed Super Susans. True story.
+1 Motel of the Mysteries
I picture some future civilization pondering, “Why did those people spend so much effort fastidiously preserving canine feces in plastic bags?”
Judging by the quantity of them left beside hiking trails, it’s not to throw out later.
It drives me bananas when people bag their dog shit and then drop it on the ground. What is the point of that? Now you have not only littered plastic (quelle horreur!), you have prevented the dog shit from, err, meeting its destiny as compost.
When videos on the internet were fun
Then they get better with animation and rewrote the lyrics a bit.
Yes.
I’m a cow.
Flash was such great software for the time that just unleashed a wide array of creativity
Wow. A trip down memory lane:
GODZILLA!
I wonder what happened to these brilliant dudes.
The good old days.
“Scientific” American lost me when they did a big spread on a tornado that came through Moore Oklahoma and laid the damage at the feet of climate change that he insisted had caused tornados to be more frequent and intense in the last 5 years. I guess the guy hadn’t noticed the nearly identical damage path in Moore in May 1999.
There’s a reason it’s called tornado alley.
Author claimed to be from Oklahoma which apparently qualifies him to make any pronouncement he likes about OK.
I went through Moore a week after the 1999 event. It just missed the factory where I was doing an audit.
The folks working there were nonplussed: since they were kids, tornados had been regularly tearing through the area. The only difference they could see was that those tornados were never carried on national news.
They’re counting on people to not check the actual records.
Unfortunately, they’re usually right.
It is like all the heat waves in Oregon. THE HOTTEST EVA, until someone checks the records, and sees it was hotter 50 years ago.
Or the records only go back a hundred years.
Base rate fallacy
They do it constantly.
This is appalling.
This trans-embrace is no longer a strange quirk—it has real victims.
How can we as a society survive when political cover is given to these assholes?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12043349/Trans-woman-abused-daughter-7-videos-moved-New-Jersey-womens-prison.html?ico=related-replace-2
I got through the first paragraph. I can’t read that.
I suspect we’re about to find out.
Alternate question:
Should we as a society survive if political cover is given for this?
Unequivocally no.
Give people a way to get a “free pass” and they will abuse it.
3% of the population is psychopathic. You don’t want to give them the wrong incentives.
Our society is trying to remove accountability from everyone, even white men (with the right connections/credentials).
The important thing is I’m directly paying for that horror show.
I really hate this state.
I can think of a couple of ways to eliminate that expense from the state’s budget.
Okay, I know you Zoomsters are getting all twitchy, but here is the link, the eternal, holy, unchanging Glibs HumpDay AutoZoom link which autostarts at 20:00 Eastern.