:-) "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" ;-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove
:-) "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" ;-)
Depends on what you mean that.Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑I always took that to be a threat.Steersman wrote: ↑:-)Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑ I'm still hoping for a tl;dr of the Novum Organum.
It's there in my signature line: "Therefore shoddy and inept application of words lays siege to the intellect in wondrous ways." ;-)
https://elizamondegreen.substack.com/p/ ... bscure?s=rWhen it comes to gender identity, no one must speak freely. Everyone must speak in a language that constricts thought and expression alike. The truth of situations must be obscured, not clarified, wrapped in shadows, not brought into the light.
There's no desire to make the public understand, only to make people comply. In fact, the less the public knows and understands the better.
Generally speaking, if you have a cause that matters to you, if you have something to say, you want to speak as clearly as possible and to be understood. The last thing you want is to wring meaning from language. You can’t afford to confuse people.
He maybe belabors the point about "long chains of close reasoning", but it's crucial not just to mathematics but to just about any area of discourse and political action: "If this, then that, and then it follows still further that ..."Our main tool for carrying out the long chains of tight reasoning required by science is mathematics. Indeed, mathematics might be defined as being the mental tool designed for this purpose. Many people through the ages have asked the question I am effectively asking in the title, "Why is mathematics so unreasonably effective?" In asking this we are merely looking more at the logical side and less at the material side of what the universe is and how it works. ....
Perhaps the best way to approach the question of what mathematics is, is to start at the beginning. In the far distant prehistoric past, where we must look for the beginnings of mathematics, there were already four major faces of mathematics. First, there was the ability to carry on the long chains of close reasoning that to this day characterize much of mathematics. ....
The earliest history of mathematics must, of course, be all speculation, since there is not now, nor does there ever seem likely to be, any actual, convincing evidence. It seems, however, that in the very foundations of primitive life there was built in, for survival purposes if for nothing else, an understanding of cause and effect. Once this trait is built up beyond a single observation to a sequence of, "If this, then that, and then it follows still further that . . . ," we are on the path of the first feature of mathematics I mentioned, long chains of close reasoning. But it is hard for me to see how simple Darwinian survival of the fittest would select for the ability to do the long chains that mathematics and science seem to require. ...
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2021/12/ ... nt-1966568The second stereotypical trope of postmodernism is the confusion [by woke astronomer Chandra Prescod-Weinstein, author of "Making black women scientists under White Empiricism"] between relativism and relativity. As Sokal and Bricmont write: “in the former, points of view are subjective and irreconcilable; in the latter, space-time coordinates can be transformed unambiguously between reference frames”.
Service Dog wrote: ↑ Ok: Define VAIDS.
Or so you insist.
Like the VAIDS 'fact-check' article, you insist on framing the discussion-- using a definition of VAIDS which intentionally ignores your Most formidable opponents-- focusing soley on the Least.you have your thumbs - to the elbows - on the scales.
Please: be specific! Exactly-which parts of your Biology For Dummies books debunk VAIDS? Let's see some citations!Steersman wrote: ↑
Relative to the "VAIDS" "idea", you might try paying attention to what is actually being said there:
https://archive.ph/yC2No#selection-577.1041-577.1385“AIDS is a generalized body-wide compromise of a specific subset of immune cells (mostly CD4+ lymphocytes) caused specifically by infection with the HIV-1 virus,” said Dr. Grant McFadden, director of the Biodesign Center for Immunotherapy, Vaccines and Virotherapy at Arizona State University. “There is no vaccine-induced counterpart of AIDS.” Given that billions of people around the world have already been vaccinated against COVID-19, McFadden said, “if such a thing as VAIDS existed, we would have detected it by now.”
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You really might want to try picking up a "Biology For Dummies" type book; generally a useful series - I have several myself. Or even bookmark a bunch of Wikipedia articles thereon. But that might help to minimize the number of times you wind up with egg on your face.
:-) Thanks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_J ... usade#PlotUsing the information in the diary and followed by Donovan and Elsa, Jones safely overcomes the traps (which include fast-moving saw blades, a word puzzle, and a hidden bridge over a bottomless pit) and reaches the Grail's chamber, which is guarded by a knight.
A whole boat-load of red herrings on the field, still flopping about. Calling you an idiot was being overly charitable, and unfair to idiots all across the land. You should write your own "For Dummies" book - "Doubling-Down For Dummies, by Dummies".Service Dog wrote: ↑
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Like the VAIDS 'fact-check' article, you insist on framing the discussion-- using a definition of VAIDS which intentionally ignores your Most formidable opponents-- focusing soley on the Least.
Below is an example of a VAIDS proponent. He's far-from the most formidable. Yet-- even-his description of VAIDS explicitly says that VAIDS IS NOT LITERALLY A FORM AIDS.
And hence-- you & the fact-check you cite-- are galavanting after strawmen, when you insist that Vaids Must Be Some Form Of HIV AIDS. Or some unicorn delusion.
https://i.imgur.com/Ex97pP1.png
you & the fact-checkers offer only non-sequitur arguments. You fail to address the claims of your opponents. You flee from dissent, rather than meet it head-on. And so You Lose the debate.
What the fuck do you think VAIDS stands for there Sport? :roll:Service Dog wrote: ↑Thank you for quoting the part of the fact-check where they INSIST that VAIDS is a form of AIDS, and nothing else.
<snip>Steersman wrote: ↑
Relative to the "VAIDS" "idea", you might try paying attention to what is actually being said there:
https://archive.ph/yC2No#selection-577.1041-577.1385“AIDS is a generalized body-wide compromise of a specific subset of immune cells (mostly CD4+ lymphocytes) caused specifically by infection with the HIV-1 virus,” said Dr. Grant McFadden, director of the Biodesign Center for Immunotherapy, Vaccines and Virotherapy at Arizona State University. “There is no vaccine-induced counterpart of AIDS.” Given that billions of people around the world have already been vaccinated against COVID-19, McFadden said, “if such a thing as VAIDS existed, we would have detected it by now.”
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I've had all of the healing hands that money can buy - surgery (slightly improved my mobility and pain/ache reduction), physio-terrorism (beautiful wee blonde lass, quite upper class*, tortured me on a daily basis - "it's for your own good" was her catchphrase) and a course of barely explained injections into my knees that burned like acid but worked wonders...for about a week. Now I'm done with all of that, my knees are buggered, my lower back has more "snap, crackle and pop" than a bowl of breakfast cereal and on a good day, I can just about walk without looking like a drunken chimp wearing a shat nappy. On a bad day, I make involuntary noises/curses when I hobble around and look like the aforementioned pissed-up primate.
It's a great way to spend a day; you get a beast of a workout, build up a monster appetite for food & booze and is a great way to bond with your social group. Also, it's a gradual process - you start with learning to use your rig/gear, how to maintain and inspect your kit (vital skill!), progress to a period of "bouldering" at a very low/easy rating then, as your confidence and abilities improve, you move to higher and more tricky climbs. It's a personal pace - if you're not happy with a suggested climb, you don't do it - if anyone tries to pressure you into a route you don't want to do, you jettison the bugger from your circle of friends and stick with a chilled out group. It's supposed to move you out of your comfort zone and be a challenge - it's not meant to be a suicide attempt disguised as an outdoor activity.
Zinnia and "her" stank pussy in 3...2...1...Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑ To the closest approximation to 1, The Pit is about things that either going into or coming out of buttholes.
To be honest, that's a bit unfair on everyone else. You can hardly expect a decent standard of conversation from me...
Service Dog wrote: ↑Mon Apr 11, 2022 11:40 amOh man-- I'm still recovering from the long version of Stranger in a Strange Land... waaaay TMI. The editor who insisted it be pared-down did him a huge favor.
Cuck in a Carrier Land... nope nope nope no sir no thanks.
:-) "What's this 'couth' shit?" ;-)Bhurzum wrote: ↑To be honest, that's a bit unfair on everyone else. You can hardly expect a decent standard of conversation from me...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_of_Clairvaux*We are born amidst piss and shit
Inter faeces et urinam nascimur....
Quo me amat amat et canam meum.
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Shit... that would explain why- that particular train stop was selected. This is Sunset Park:mordacious1 wrote: ↑ RE: The NYC subway shooting incident today. The shooter was reportedly black. From the videos and still shots I’ve seen so far, the people with gunshot wounds all appear to be Asian. I saw some blacks getting off the train coughing, but not bleeding. So far, no one that I’ve heard on TV has mentioned a possible Black on Asian hate crime. And no, I’m not surprised.
That trading company will trigger a lot of feminists.Service Dog wrote: ↑
I understand that Alex Jones is a bit short on cash - if you want to send business his way.
My daughter's trans male partner sounds just like Gottfried so there are options. Find any trans male and they sound like Gottfried. The problem is that they have no sense of humor... so that is a hurdle.
:-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BoosterismThe booster's enthusiasm is the motive force which builds up our American cities. Granted. But the hated knocker's jibes are the check necessary to guide that force. In summary then, we do not wish to knock the booster, but we certainly do wish to boost the knocker.
Seem to recollect you follow NPR; if so then you and your trans-poly daughter and "friend" might like this for some serious "head exploding" ...:John D wrote (getting server error ...):
The navel gazing is fucking amazing.... and Jackson Bird sounds like my daughter's partner. A bit of a tweak and they can sound exactly like Gottfried. Haha.
What amazes me is that this is 100% performative... but trans people say they are doing this for themselves. My fucking head explodes
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/14/10863991 ... eral-beastManhunt is a paragon of body horror, and its numerous sex scenes are no exception. The prose is simultaneously erotic and gruesome. Felker-Martin writes into dissociation and the dysphoric insecurities of her characters. ....
And eventually, "the Knights of J.K. Rowling" do come for our protagonists, hard. While the feral men pose a hazard to them — and serve as portents of warning, should Beth and Fran run out of estrogen — the band of TERFs, called "the Legion," are the true villains of the book. In one scene, a Legion squad breaks into a house occupied by a group of trans women. The TERFs capture them, line them up in the back of the house, and take aim.
"'That's not a woman,'" says one TERF, Ramona, to another. "'It's just a man in disguise." ....
Sorry to hear that; sucks big time. Though there seems to have been a few benefits to soften the blow ... ;-)Bhurzum wrote: ↑I've had all of the healing hands that money can buy - surgery (slightly improved my mobility and pain/ache reduction), physio-terrorism (beautiful wee blonde lass, quite upper class*, tortured me on a daily basis - "it's for your own good" was her catchphrase) and a course of barely explained injections into my knees that burned like acid but worked wonders...for about a week. Now I'm done with all of that, my knees are buggered, my lower back has more "snap, crackle and pop" than a bowl of breakfast cereal and on a good day, I can just about walk without looking like a drunken chimp wearing a shat nappy. On a bad day, I make involuntary noises/curses when I hobble around and look like the aforementioned pissed-up primate. ....
* I took an almost perverse pleasure in horrifying her with tales of drunken insanity, pub car-park wrestling all over Europe, borderline psychotic antics on tour and numerous other sparkling conversation topics. She tortured me physically, I tortured her mentally. Still, she was smoking hot - I'd have worn her ass like a gas-mask!
Never should have given women the vote, much less allowed them to be smoking. Bare-foot, pregnant and in the kitchen ... ;-)Bhurzum wrote: ↑Still, can't complain, it's a solid excuse for skipping countless bullshit activities my family attempt to drag me into - birthday parties for kids (no, just no!), watching the kids/uncle duties, driving for my drunk sister-in-law and her coterie of cackling/leering friends (they treat my car like a taxi - leave trash in the back seat, they smoke even though I make it abundantly clear that my car is a no smoking vehicle) or anything that's remotely arse-ache inducing. ....
http://www.feynman.com/science/what-is-science/It turned out that one girl was explaining to the other how to knit argyle socks. I, therefore, did learn a lesson: The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry. Those people who have for years been insisting (in the face of all obvious evidence to the contrary) that the male and female are equally capable of rational thought may have something. The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it.
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/182 ... pAJDrCyERgNicola Sturgeon evidently regarded Self-ID as the new frontier of progressive legislation. With the minimum of public discussion, she committed the Scottish Government to abolishing the very definition of woman as “adult human female”. (That phrase is regarded as hate speech by some police forces).
This advice has been a useful guiding compass.
Does it matter? Inflation was not 'transitory' -- it's continued to climb for a year and keeps on going.Lsuoma wrote: ↑ Did someone mention inflation? This post talks about why it is not a classic case of too much money chasing too few goods (i.e. caused by printing money):
https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartb ... is-hurting
Your boy Adam Tooze claims 'wages are not rising' ... but a strict definition of 'wages' fails to account for unprecedented ways Biden is printing money. Not just unprecidented amounts.Lsuoma wrote: ↑ Did someone mention inflation? This post talks about why it is not a classic case of too much money chasing too few goods (i.e. caused by printing money):
https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartb ... is-hurting
Agree with the general principle, if not the specifics. I think the biggest cause is governments following China off a cliff with lockdowns/restrictions. The flow on effects of destroying just-in-time supply lines (which was arguably something we never should have done in the first place), is the primary cause of the coming financial disaster. Money printing and Russia just put it into turbo drive. The rest of this decade is going to be pretty scary.Lsuoma wrote: ↑ Did someone mention inflation? This post talks about why it is not a classic case of too much money chasing too few goods (i.e. caused by printing money):
https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartb ... is-hurting
Classical economics is not a science - it's mainly applying what people think happened last time to what they think will happen in the future. It's bullshit. Your dogmatism is bullshit too. As it what Cavvers is full of (though is might be equine, not bovine).John D wrote: ↑ Macroeconomics 101
Took this course is 1981
There is this thing that is theoretically called the demand curve.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_curve
So... if supply goes down then prices rise.
So... if demand goes up then prices rise.
This is fucking basic shit. This is so well understood that it is more like an axiom than a theory. It only takes you about an hour of thinking to decide this is a basic truth. Open your fucking head for an hour.... and suck this idea in... and your life will be changed.
Well then... what has happened is that the supply for most things has declined recently. This was mostly caused by Covid disruptions. The supply of many things is still very restricted and limited. This means prices will go up.
Also, governments in many countries have increased their debt to give people money. This money was provided for "free" in a sense that the money was not paid in a way that would increase supply. This means prices will go up.
Increasing the money supply through government debt will increase prices. THIS IS BASIC SHIT. Anyone who denies this is a special kind of idiot. Delaying debt payments for loans WILL have some effect on increasing prices. THIS IS BASIC SHIT.
They did bring back one of my favourite classic Trek characters though...Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑ Star Trek: Diversity Discovery recently featured Stacey Abrams as 'President of United Earth'. Now, Star Trek: Woketard Picard has the crew going back in time to present-day LA to beat up ICE agents and free illegal immigrants undocumented persons.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/ky ... immigrants
It's axiomatic that if you print trillions of more dollars, the value of each dollar goes down. But they did it while simultaneously reducing the GNP. So, not just more dollars for the same amount of product, but more for less.Service Dog wrote: ↑ ... unprecedented ways Biden is printing money. Not just unprecidented amounts.
Normally, the fact that someone is adored by Ezra Klein is enough for me to know they are crap. But I went and read the two pieces I linked. There's nothing of substance in them -- Tooze is a random meme generator. I did see an allusion to how Tooze has previously argued that, like Marxism, Keynesian economics is sound, it's just that no true Keynesian economics has been tried yet. Which explains his guru superstar status among the Big Government Social Engineering Left. Curiously, Tooze's mumbo-jumbo seems to appeal to anarchist/libertarians as well.You can listen to Lsuoma & Tooze & Kelton's voodoo economics... which make a lot of wild claims... and reality doesn't match 3, 6, 9 months later.
Whistling past the graveyard by out-of-touch elites. The anger over prices among ordinary folks is palpable. That ugly toad, Yellen, squeaking that, well actually it's not as bad as you peasants think it is, fools nobody but themselves."If you are the Biden administration facing the midterms in November, the surge in petrol prices is a nightmare. But once adjusted for general inflation, the current rate of petrol prices in the US, is still some way short of historic highs."
So let's do what caused the problem last time, in unprecedented amounts, because we just know that what always happened before definitely won't happen now. Now it is a science?Lsuoma wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 6:46 amClassical economics is not a science - it's mainly applying what people think happened last time to what they think will happen in the future. It's bullshit. Your dogmatism is bullshit too. As it what Cavvers is full of (though is might be equine, not bovine).
Note the year of this turning point in history, 2024, the year the dread Trumpenfuhrer threatens another attack. If Trump wins the future is Nazi.Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑ Star Trek: Diversity Discovery recently featured Stacey Abrams as 'President of United Earth'. Now, Star Trek: Woketard Picard has the crew going back in time to present-day LA to beat up ICE agents and free illegal immigrants undocumented persons.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/ky ... immigrants
Special Kind of Idiot. Reducing supply of goods and increasing fiat money in the economy has always caused inflation before.... but it will not do so now because.... science!Lsuoma wrote: ↑Classical economics is not a science - it's mainly applying what people think happened last time to what they think will happen in the future. It's bullshit. Your dogmatism is bullshit too. As it what Cavvers is full of (though is might be equine, not bovine).John D wrote: ↑ Macroeconomics 101
Took this course is 1981
There is this thing that is theoretically called the demand curve.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_curve
So... if supply goes down then prices rise.
So... if demand goes up then prices rise.
This is fucking basic shit. This is so well understood that it is more like an axiom than a theory. It only takes you about an hour of thinking to decide this is a basic truth. Open your fucking head for an hour.... and suck this idea in... and your life will be changed.
Well then... what has happened is that the supply for most things has declined recently. This was mostly caused by Covid disruptions. The supply of many things is still very restricted and limited. This means prices will go up.
Also, governments in many countries have increased their debt to give people money. This money was provided for "free" in a sense that the money was not paid in a way that would increase supply. This means prices will go up.
Increasing the money supply through government debt will increase prices. THIS IS BASIC SHIT. Anyone who denies this is a special kind of idiot. Delaying debt payments for loans WILL have some effect on increasing prices. THIS IS BASIC SHIT.
My mother-in-law wanted the docs to do EVERYTHING possible to keep her alive. In the end she was so ill they couldn't get her off the vent. Her organs were failing and she had an untreatable bacterial infection. To visit her you needed to put on a full gown and mask so you would not catch the infection she had. God... it was fucking horrifying... really... the worst thing that ever happened to my wife and I. My wife's fibromyalgia went crazy during this time and she never really recovered... ultimately with the fibro destroying her ability to lead a normal life. Finally... it was New Years Eve... the docs said to my wife... "Hey... your mom is totally unconscious and she will not return. We would like to make her comfortable." and so... with permission from my wife to make her comfortable they gave her a lethal dose of morphine and she stopped breathing. It was finally over. God damn.... we suck at dying in this current day. Really, I think the stress of this put my wife over the edge. She was never the same after this. I should have done more but I was not wise enough to see what would happen.Service Dog wrote: ↑This advice has been a useful guiding compass.
I'm burying the lede. I'm dancing-around getting to the point. The real news is that GF's dad didn't wake-up this morning, at the nursing home. He's alive. His brain doesn't show a stroke on the CAT scan. His bloodwork is good. He's got a 101 fever & moisture in his breathing passages... but negative for covid & respiratory stuff like pneumonia. Next step is an MRI-- which may show a stroke in his sleep (which the CAT scan missed). If that's what it is-- sometimes they wake-up/ and sometimes they never-do. GF is at the hospital with her sisters. She has seen both her parents be intubated before... so she has been down this road before. When the old man was first admitted to the nursing home... he marked every Do Resuscitate option. After 2 years of not being allowed outdoors-- and very limited visitation-- and watching others die on ventilators... he changed everything to no-intubation/ Let Me Die. I hope it doesn't come to that. I want to wheelchair him out to Chinatown restaurants... and the bustling streetlife he loved.
Check out "Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End" by Atul Gawande. It's basically the bible of your sentiment I quoted. Very good read, and it's the last book my mother ever read, shortly before she died. It brought her some peace at the end.John D wrote:God damn.... we suck at dying in this current day.
:-) Me "comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable" chapping your hide there pardner? ... ;-)
Seem to recollect that my siblings and I read from "Tuesdays with Morrie" with my mother - gawd rest her soul - when she was on her deathbed. Not sure if that wasn't more for us than for her; she didn't seem to be grasping at any straws as she was checking out.Gumby wrote: ↑Check out "Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End" by Atul Gawande. It's basically the bible of your sentiment I quoted. Very good read, and it's the last book my mother ever read, shortly before she died. It brought her some peace at the end.John D wrote:God damn.... we suck at dying in this current day.