Seconded! I went through the same transition. Incidentally, I was the only one in my immediate surrounding that saw Trump coming [not that I support him; also as no-US citizen I could not vote]. Somebody above objected that the arrogance of the left could never be the reason for people switching to Trump. I agree with that actually, but almost half the population did not vote - it was those people that the Democrats failed to engage....
Yeah, Jim Cameron did it all the way back in the 'macho' 80's. Aliens has no less than 4 great female characters - Ripley, Rebecca, Vasques and the Queen. It covers completely the feminist criteria - more than one woman, they have a talk and the talk is not about men. I mean the final showdown is between 3 females and half an android. Two mothers fighting for their children. It is not a surprise then that when Empire ran a 'most favorite movie character' pool the only female in the top 10 was Ripley. The top 3 were for the biggest womanisers in cinema - Han Solo, Indiana Jones and 007. I think would piss some feminists even though the readership of Empire is gender balanced....poor modern girls, they think they invented emancipation...
Ha....National Geographic...one of the biggest disappointments ever.
A "documentary" on NG running for 1 hour has useful content that can be presented in less than 5 minutes. First they show you the "human element" - a scientist going to work in the car, entering the lab while ominous deep voice narrates "And then he/she had a thought that would revolutionize the world...the most amazing insight...and he/she struggled so hard against orthodoxy and...we will tell you this amazing, incredible revelation....after the commercial break. Commercial break, back to film. "As we said before scientist X had this incredible idea" - we are given the summary of the previous, utterly dull and boring 15 minutes before the last break - "What she found shook the world - the SKY IS BLUE. WOW!"
The above happened somewhere 20 years ago and it only gets worse....
I call BS. We talk about scientist and engineers here....do try convincing a woman to put back the tools in the tool box and come back to us...cause I have worked all my live in tech and I am constantly, daily, cleaning after the women. Men in this field are much, much bigger perfectionists, more orderly, "use the right tool and procedure for the job" - the kind of people that label the cables at home and arrange the screwdrivers by size. I hear over and over again from my male colleagues how they [just like me] always keep items in the same location, the same drawer, the same pocket - we know what is available and where it is at any moment.
House work? - my ex did less than 40% of the "female" house work and none of the "male" - effectively I was doing 70-80% of everything...even when I was working and she did not....for many years....and that work included the bathroom, the toilet and the kitchen [did I mention I often cooked as well]. One of the major reasons for our divorce was that I refused to live in squalor with someone who thinks that house work is oppression against women....
Where is this bias coming from? Recent study in UK says that he reason women do not go into tech [this is only valid for western women] is the bad image they will acquire in the eyes of.......ready for it....ready.....other girls!
Why does no one talk about difference in motivation. If it is not 50/50 then male conspiracy. Fuck off! Seriously!
'The problem with mercenaries' said the Patrician, 'is that they need to be paid to start fighting. And, unless you are very lucky, you end up paying them even more to stop–' Selachii thumped the table. 'Very well, then, by jingo!' he snarled. 'Alone!'
'We could certainly do with one,' said Lord Vetinari. 'We need the money. I was about to say that we cannot afford mercenaries.'
'How can this be?' said Lord Downey. 'Don't we pay our taxes?'
'Ah, I thought we might come to that,' said Lord Vetinari. He raised his hand and, on cue again, his clerk placed a piece of paper in it. 'Let me see now... ah yes. Guild of Assassins... Gross earnings in the last year: AM$13,207,048. Taxes paid in the last year: forty–seven dollars, twenty–two pence and what on examination turned out to be a Hershebian half–dong, worth one–eighth of a penny.'
'That's all perfectly legal! The Guild of Accountants––'
'Ah yes. Guild of Accountants: gross earnings AM$7,999,011. Taxes paid: nil. But, ah yes, I see they applied for a rebate of AM$200,000.'
'And what we received, I may say, included a Hershebian half–dong,' said Mr Frostrip of the Guild of Accountants. 'What goes around comes around" said Vetinari calmly. He tossed the paper aside. 'Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum of moo. And I am afraid to say that these days all I get is moo.'
'Are you telling us that Ankh–Morpork is bankrupt?' said Downey. 'Of course. While, at the same time, full of rich people. I trust they have been spending their good fortune on swords.'
'And you have allowed this wholesale tax avoidance?' said Lord Selachii. 'Oh, the taxes haven't been avoided,' said Lord Vetinari. 'Or even evaded. They just haven't been paid.'
'That is a disgusting state of affairs!' The Patrician raised his eyebrows. 'Commander Vimes?'
'Yes, sir?'
'Would you be so good as to assemble a squad of your most experienced men, liaise with the tax gatherers and obtain the accumulated back taxes, please? My clerk here will give you a fist of the prime defaulters.'
'Right, sir. And if they resist, sir?' said Vimes, smiling nastily. 'Oh, how can they resist, commander? This is the will of our civic leaders.' He took the paper his clerk proffered. 'Let me see, now. Top of the list––' Lord Selachii coughed hurriedly. 'Far too late for that sort of nonsense now,' he said. 'Water under the bridge,' said Lord Downey. 'Dead and buried,' said Mr Slant. 'I paid mine,' said Vimes.
There is a story from "The man who mistook his wife for a hat" about a young student of medicine who [if memory serves, due to trauma] for a period of several months acquired sense of smell well beyond that of our everyday experience. It seems that the " hardware" is capable of doing this, but something in the head had to go click to re-enable it.
It is argued that present sense of smell is weak because we do not need it so much for our survival. And a speculation that a more acute sense requires more computational power so in a way poorer sense frees computational power to be used elsewhere.
This man reported that he could identify all people in the ward of the hospital where he studied before entering. That he could smell intentions and feelings [just like dogs that can detect malicious intent] , pheromones and what not....but gradually the sense took over his reactions and he found more and more himself reacting to the smell without too much abstract thought. "The nose is taking over" - he reported. After the effect disappeared he was glad to get his higher brain functions back to normal levels but he also felt that the world was so much poorer and duller without that marvelously enhanced sense.
I don't know if T.P. read that story but in his books one of the constant themes is how Angua's nose takes over when she is in a wolf form, suppressing the "human mind" because the sense of smell is so overwhelming and demanding.
And yet, science can actually give an answer to some of the "why" questions or at least attempt an answer - to me 5% truth is still better than 0% which is offered by religious answers.
For instance "why do we die?" - because unchanging organisms in a forever changing environment cannot adapt. You need death to promote life in this Universe we live in. Even the "eternal" microorganisms change when cloning so after a time it is not the same organism; the previous version disappeared [i.e. died].
"Why are we here?" - the answer is "because". And it is a good answer, much better than any "concrete" answer for which we have no proof. Since self-organizing structures [including the very beginning of life on Earth, i.e. organic molecule - replicator] stem from fundamental laws and considering the vast amount of time, space and matter available [hence the statement - everything that can happen happens, at least once] it is inevitable that life will arise. It is an emerging property of the system which means that likely no one "modeled" it in advance and things just go along within the frame of natural laws. Thus, we had no say, no plan, no direction, no nothing. It just happened. Therefore - "because".
"The meaning of life" - now that one is very easy. You just look around and you notice that [almost] all people strive for survival, procreation and happiness, where happiness is defined as the maximum fulfillment of the human needs [not wants!] - part of those needs are physiological and hence connected to survival and procreation and part are - let's call them "emotional needs" - the need to belong, to care and be cared for, to love and be loved, to be appreciated, to have dignity and sense of self-appreciation to feel useful to your family and the group you belong to and so on...... All the above is measurable and completely understandable to anyone that studied evolutionary biology, ecology and anthropology. Of course we have invented 1 000 000 other meanings of life but upon inspection they all break down to the above 3 points.
The ongoing scam "low fat - high sugar" is well documented; do a search - some doctors and even some politicians have apologized already for misleading the public decades ago. Of course the corporations were soooooooooooooo happy about it - a piece of bread has the same calorie content as a piece of meat but the price difference is 10 fold. Economy 101 states that corps will do anything to lower costs - it is a race to the bottom; capitalism always is , you don't need to know the particular case.....
Consider:
If most of the food is eventually converted to glucose for powering the body, why then you cannot feed a person on glucose only? You can add the vitamins and mineral and so on as well and still anyone will die horribly if left on such diet for a long period of time. Why? Isn't it logical that it should work? Why bother processing, just pour into the blood stream "the final products". In that respect there was a drive many years ago to raise cattle on sugar. The farmers REALLY tried , since that would have been so much cheaper. None succeeded... bottom line - nutrition is way more complicated than we imagine. In such situations, where we understand nothing or very little the best rule is - do what has been done for the last 500 000 years and you won't go wrong. The system has evolved over countless millennia; we have barely begun to scratch the surface when it comes to gut flora and its absolutely PROFOUND influence on everything in our bodies and minds - from cancer to mental disorders - all of those can be mitigated or exasperated by the bugs in our gut. And those bugs, although being rather diverse and in different relative abundances from human to human (it truly is a fingerprint) they all have the same underlying behavior - put too much sugar and easy carbs in the system and it goes wrong. Every time! Vegetarians I can understand to a certain degree, although I would not have liked to be born vegetarian (I like being tall and strong rather than a midget) but vegans are downright wrong and crazy because there is no way to supply the calories on vegan diet without massive amounts of carbs and sugars. What cretins!
BTW, I cured myself from very nasty issues (and 150 euro per month medication) by going against the above-mentioned scam - the best thing I did in my life. So I am talking from personal experience too.
Wasn't there, rather recently, a claim by some scientists that that the calculations for the movement of galaxies are not correct thus we get results that can be explained only if you introduce the concept of dark matter/energy. I have no idea how serious this is...just some vague memory that it was in the news.
Since the Cold War, Russia has always tested the will and reactions of he U.S., especially when there's a new sheriff in town
Absolutely! I find it "fascinating" that they do that...but you forgot to mention that this is standard procedure exercised by ALL serious military powers. For instance, air space is regularly and deliberately violated by all sides to test readiness and the capabilities of their respective detection systems.
What do we do to appease the gender balance people when we finally admit our failure?
Send the ladies you described to explain to the gender balance people that their views are inaccurate and their efforts unhelpful. Fact and reason has to count for something, no?
I opened this tread with enthusiasm and what do I see - it's about clothing and white men. Well, I think this is the least of our problems. How about this - my company might be soon a subject of a hostile take over from US corporation. Now, I would very much like if the employees had any say about THAT, you know.....tens of thousands of jobs are at the stake plus enormous losses to the country and society should my company disappear. Not to mention the hit on the environment - the US corp has a dismal record and gives less than shit about it - that is why they have the money, cause we spend extra cash on sustainability..... But it's private business and we are all hostages to the whims and greed of as handful of individuals. Game over, man!
OK, then listen up - I have a fact to tell you about the white men - hopefully it might provoke a bit of that moron thing that we sometimes do - you know it is called thinking [RIP George]. I am studying advanced Dutch ATM and the text book is very recent and modern - talks about all the social issues of the day. Pity I can't post screenshot from the book - statistics from 2014 - percentage of women in high management positions per country. Guess who are the champions [top ten] - the former Soviet countries with Russia NUMBER ONE in the world. China plus Philippines and Indonesia are also in. At the same time US and UK are at the BOTTOM ten on that account with [attention!] the Netherlands being second to last before only Japan.
Now look again and explain to me how those facts fit the narrative of the big bad eastern bear and other fucking communists [China, China, China, China, China]. But are really the former communist state less sexists? You mean the Russians who on other counts [gays] are adamant enemies to the humanistic values - they are less sexists than us - yhea it is true. Reason - communism. One - no strong religion [it's coming back though], two - equality between people also implies equality between genders. My mom did much better career than dad, brought more money home and noone batted an eyelid.
But think again - is the Netherlands a hell hole of sexism? Or Japan for that matter....no they are not [NL certainly isn't]. So perhaps, just perhaps such statistic does not tell the whole story and maybe we should concentrate on things I described in the first paragraph rather than how many white men are at the top.
And these extra people won't need anything else but food? Look, there is enough air for 100 times more population, let's go...honestly how many times...oh forget it
I do just like the parent, only I commute with public transport so no audio books, just the regular ones. Is that fairer in your [ha-ha] book?
My family has about 1000 volumes. I live in another country now...what am I supposed to do - transport all of it? I'd do it if there was no other alternative...but there is.
My most beloved author is Terry Pratchett. I have bought everything he ever wrote in two languages; I regularly purchased and still do merchandise and not just small trinkets [posters, bags, key holders, jewelry] but clothing too - lots of T-shirts and hoodies. Did I download all his books in both languages after e-books came around - yes. Have I inflicted any financial damage to Terry or Paul Kidby - no.
I did "hurt", however, the greedy assholes who say I do not own anything except the right to enjoy a book or song or a movie for life, yet never provided me [for a price recovering the manufacture and transport costs] with the digital copy of the CD [bought] of the tape [bought] of the vinyl [bought] of say "Made in Japan" by Deep Purple.....no, I purchased the full rights 3 times already and still can't get the file. Well, screw them!
Let's burn some karma...long ago, when I considered medicine as career someone told the following joke:
Court case - gynecologist sued for homicide. The judge asks the accused to explain himself. " Well, your honor, in my line of work [sorry for the french] I see pussies every day, all day long. I go home and it continues - the wife has some pains, the daughter needs spiral adjustment, it never stops! So that night I was going home after particular heavy day and this woman stops me and says - mister, give me five bucks and I'll show you what a pussy is! - I could not resists myself!"
I think at this point every sensible person agrees that one of the most important tasks for today's parents is to teach good food habits in their kids. It is proven to work. And junk food for kids is significant portion [ha-ha] of advertising. Even if this is the only help to the parents from non-ad childhood it is still worth it, big time!
People who grew in the 70's and 80's behind the wall participated in this experiment. No commercialism and then suddenly the wildest and most unregulated [for a time] one. My observation - it was good in the long run. I am rather immune to ads and companies installing desires and insecurities in me and see the same in virtually everyone from my generation. The kids who grew up during the wildest changes however are damaged forever - I was horrified to see it real time. Now they determine the zeitgeist...it is a mess!
Most ladies do not want to actually kill themselves; it is a cry for help - not because they choose a method that is less reliable. That is not my opinion, although I have seen it first hand (and hope never to see it again) - it is the opinion of all the research I was forced to read and comprehend.
Interestingly enough in the last couple of decades certain societies closed the gap between the male/female " successful" suicides. You know where that is - in Scandinavia, the most emancipated society on Earth. Bottom line - once society starts treating women as men, the women kill themselves. So much for the privileged male...
And let's not forget his apt comment to the most beloved quote form Aliens [I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure]: - Fucking A! In my head both quotes are always linked...if I say the Ripley's line I always add Hudson's as well...
Oh yhea? Man, I feel so privileged to be in the top 2.5%! BTW, the poor bastard in say, Kazakhstan, does he pay 1000 Euro per month just for a place to live? How expensive is the kindergarten there [here it is 900 euro per month]? What about insurance?
Is the above enough to give you a hint how incredibly wrong you are? Try to continue on your own from here....
I got that beaten. 7 yrs old when got the key and went to school alone. Dinner at home rule stopped at the age of 13. I would call only if stayed overnight at a party. We [bunch of boys] could go hiking the mountains and our parents would not hear from us for 3 weeks! More astonishing, around age of 15 the girls joined us! Can you imagine a parent of today sending her daughter at age of 15 with a bunch of boys to a remote location that has transport in and out once per 3 days, no communication whatsoever [even post], 50 km from the nearest city that has hospital? And you know what? Nobody got molested in any way, nobody got pregnant. In fact from 36 people class in high school 5 families emerged [still going strong; kids and all]. At the same time if somebody of today could eavesdrop on us we would be labeled the most PC incorrect people. Nobody back then took imaginary offense [or micro, even nano-offense] from people speaking their mind.
Fuck the fucking communists, but they did give us carefree, crime-free [totalitarian societies have very little petty crime, mostly it is big, state crimes that happen] advertisement-free, religion-free, no gadgets, play outside childhood. For that, together with the education [critical thinking was a must, it was actually thought even though at the end it back-fired against the communist party], I am grateful.
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Seconded! I went through the same transition. Incidentally, I was the only one in my immediate surrounding that saw Trump coming [not that I support him; also as no-US citizen I could not vote]. Somebody above objected that the arrogance of the left could never be the reason for people switching to Trump. I agree with that actually, but almost half the population did not vote - it was those people that the Democrats failed to engage....
Finally, the perfect illustration of yours and my sentiments - https://www.amazon.com/Girls-N...
Yeah, Jim Cameron did it all the way back in the 'macho' 80's.
Aliens has no less than 4 great female characters - Ripley, Rebecca, Vasques and the Queen. It covers completely the feminist criteria - more than one woman, they have a talk and the talk is not about men.
I mean the final showdown is between 3 females and half an android. Two mothers fighting for their children.
It is not a surprise then that when Empire ran a 'most favorite movie character' pool the only female in the top 10 was Ripley. The top 3 were for the biggest womanisers in cinema - Han Solo, Indiana Jones and 007. I think would piss some feminists even though the readership of Empire is gender balanced....poor modern girls, they think they invented emancipation...
Ha....National Geographic...one of the biggest disappointments ever.
A "documentary" on NG running for 1 hour has useful content that can be presented in less than 5 minutes. First they show you the "human element" - a scientist going to work in the car, entering the lab while ominous deep voice narrates "And then he/she had a thought that would revolutionize the world...the most amazing insight...and he/she struggled so hard against orthodoxy and...we will tell you this amazing, incredible revelation....after the commercial break. Commercial break, back to film. "As we said before scientist X had this incredible idea" - we are given the summary of the previous, utterly dull and boring 15 minutes before the last break - "What she found shook the world - the SKY IS BLUE. WOW!"
The above happened somewhere 20 years ago and it only gets worse....
I call BS. We talk about scientist and engineers here....do try convincing a woman to put back the tools in the tool box and come back to us...cause I have worked all my live in tech and I am constantly, daily, cleaning after the women. Men in this field are much, much bigger perfectionists, more orderly, "use the right tool and procedure for the job" - the kind of people that label the cables at home and arrange the screwdrivers by size. I hear over and over again from my male colleagues how they [just like me] always keep items in the same location, the same drawer, the same pocket - we know what is available and where it is at any moment.
House work? - my ex did less than 40% of the "female" house work and none of the "male" - effectively I was doing 70-80% of everything...even when I was working and she did not....for many years....and that work included the bathroom, the toilet and the kitchen [did I mention I often cooked as well]. One of the major reasons for our divorce was that I refused to live in squalor with someone who thinks that house work is oppression against women....
Where is this bias coming from? Recent study in UK says that he reason women do not go into tech [this is only valid for western women] is the bad image they will acquire in the eyes of.......ready for it....ready.....other girls!
Why does no one talk about difference in motivation. If it is not 50/50 then male conspiracy. Fuck off! Seriously!
'The problem with mercenaries' said the Patrician, 'is that they need to be paid to start fighting. And, unless you are very lucky, you end up paying them even more to stop–' Selachii thumped the table. 'Very well, then, by jingo!' he snarled. 'Alone!'
'We could certainly do with one,' said Lord Vetinari. 'We need the money. I was about to say that we cannot afford mercenaries.'
'How can this be?' said Lord Downey. 'Don't we pay our taxes?'
'Ah, I thought we might come to that,' said Lord Vetinari. He raised his hand and, on cue again, his clerk placed a piece of paper in it. 'Let me see now... ah yes. Guild of Assassins... Gross earnings in the last year: AM$13,207,048. Taxes paid in the last year: forty–seven dollars, twenty–two pence and what on examination turned out to be a Hershebian half–dong, worth one–eighth of a penny.'
'That's all perfectly legal! The Guild of Accountants––'
'Ah yes. Guild of Accountants: gross earnings AM$7,999,011. Taxes paid: nil. But, ah yes, I see they applied for a rebate of AM$200,000.'
'And what we received, I may say, included a Hershebian half–dong,' said Mr Frostrip of the Guild of Accountants. 'What goes around comes around" said Vetinari calmly. He tossed the paper aside. 'Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum of moo. And I am afraid to say that these days all I get is moo.'
'Are you telling us that Ankh–Morpork is bankrupt?' said Downey. 'Of course. While, at the same time, full of rich people. I trust they have been spending their good fortune on swords.'
'And you have allowed this wholesale tax avoidance?' said Lord Selachii. 'Oh, the taxes haven't been avoided,' said Lord Vetinari. 'Or even evaded. They just haven't been paid.'
'That is a disgusting state of affairs!' The Patrician raised his eyebrows. 'Commander Vimes?'
'Yes, sir?'
'Would you be so good as to assemble a squad of your most experienced men, liaise with the tax gatherers and obtain the accumulated back taxes, please? My clerk here will give you a fist of the prime defaulters.'
'Right, sir. And if they resist, sir?' said Vimes, smiling nastily. 'Oh, how can they resist, commander? This is the will of our civic leaders.' He took the paper his clerk proffered. 'Let me see, now. Top of the list––' Lord Selachii coughed hurriedly. 'Far too late for that sort of nonsense now,' he said. 'Water under the bridge,' said Lord Downey. 'Dead and buried,' said Mr Slant. 'I paid mine,' said Vimes.
Correction: it was drugs that did it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
and according to this article:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/boo...
that happened to Sacks himself experimenting with LSD.
There is a story from "The man who mistook his wife for a hat" about a young student of medicine who [if memory serves, due to trauma] for a period of several months acquired sense of smell well beyond that of our everyday experience. It seems that the " hardware" is capable of doing this, but something in the head had to go click to re-enable it.
It is argued that present sense of smell is weak because we do not need it so much for our survival. And a speculation that a more acute sense requires more computational power so in a way poorer sense frees computational power to be used elsewhere.
This man reported that he could identify all people in the ward of the hospital where he studied before entering. That he could smell intentions and feelings [just like dogs that can detect malicious intent] , pheromones and what not....but gradually the sense took over his reactions and he found more and more himself reacting to the smell without too much abstract thought. "The nose is taking over" - he reported. After the effect disappeared he was glad to get his higher brain functions back to normal levels but he also felt that the world was so much poorer and duller without that marvelously enhanced sense.
I don't know if T.P. read that story but in his books one of the constant themes is how Angua's nose takes over when she is in a wolf form, suppressing the "human mind" because the sense of smell is so overwhelming and demanding.
And yet, science can actually give an answer to some of the "why" questions or at least attempt an answer - to me 5% truth is still better than 0% which is offered by religious answers.
For instance "why do we die?" - because unchanging organisms in a forever changing environment cannot adapt. You need death to promote life in this Universe we live in. Even the "eternal" microorganisms change when cloning so after a time it is not the same organism; the previous version disappeared [i.e. died].
"Why are we here?" - the answer is "because". And it is a good answer, much better than any "concrete" answer for which we have no proof. Since self-organizing structures [including the very beginning of life on Earth, i.e. organic molecule - replicator] stem from fundamental laws and considering the vast amount of time, space and matter available [hence the statement - everything that can happen happens, at least once] it is inevitable that life will arise. It is an emerging property of the system which means that likely no one "modeled" it in advance and things just go along within the frame of natural laws. Thus, we had no say, no plan, no direction, no nothing. It just happened. Therefore - "because".
"The meaning of life" - now that one is very easy. You just look around and you notice that [almost] all people strive for survival, procreation and happiness, where happiness is defined as the maximum fulfillment of the human needs [not wants!] - part of those needs are physiological and hence connected to survival and procreation and part are - let's call them "emotional needs" - the need to belong, to care and be cared for, to love and be loved, to be appreciated, to have dignity and sense of self-appreciation to feel useful to your family and the group you belong to and so on...... All the above is measurable and completely understandable to anyone that studied evolutionary biology, ecology and anthropology. Of course we have invented 1 000 000 other meanings of life but upon inspection they all break down to the above 3 points.
Brilliant summary of this post:
https://xkcd.com/1123/
The ongoing scam "low fat - high sugar" is well documented; do a search - some doctors and even some politicians have apologized already for misleading the public decades ago. Of course the corporations were soooooooooooooo happy about it - a piece of bread has the same calorie content as a piece of meat but the price difference is 10 fold. Economy 101 states that corps will do anything to lower costs - it is a race to the bottom; capitalism always is , you don't need to know the particular case.....
Consider:
If most of the food is eventually converted to glucose for powering the body, why then you cannot feed a person on glucose only? You can add the vitamins and mineral and so on as well and still anyone will die horribly if left on such diet for a long period of time. Why? Isn't it logical that it should work? Why bother processing, just pour into the blood stream "the final products". In that respect there was a drive many years ago to raise cattle on sugar. The farmers REALLY tried , since that would have been so much cheaper. None succeeded... bottom line - nutrition is way more complicated than we imagine. In such situations, where we understand nothing or very little the best rule is - do what has been done for the last 500 000 years and you won't go wrong. The system has evolved over countless millennia; we have barely begun to scratch the surface when it comes to gut flora and its absolutely PROFOUND influence on everything in our bodies and minds - from cancer to mental disorders - all of those can be mitigated or exasperated by the bugs in our gut. And those bugs, although being rather diverse and in different relative abundances from human to human (it truly is a fingerprint) they all have the same underlying behavior - put too much sugar and easy carbs in the system and it goes wrong. Every time! Vegetarians I can understand to a certain degree, although I would not have liked to be born vegetarian (I like being tall and strong rather than a midget) but vegans are downright wrong and crazy because there is no way to supply the calories on vegan diet without massive amounts of carbs and sugars. What cretins!
BTW, I cured myself from very nasty issues (and 150 euro per month medication) by going against the above-mentioned scam - the best thing I did in my life. So I am talking from personal experience too.
Wasn't there, rather recently, a claim by some scientists that that the calculations for the movement of galaxies are not correct thus we get results that can be explained only if you introduce the concept of dark matter/energy. I have no idea how serious this is...just some vague memory that it was in the news.
Since the Cold War, Russia has always tested the will and reactions of he U.S., especially when there's a new sheriff in town
Absolutely! I find it "fascinating" that they do that...but you forgot to mention that this is standard procedure exercised by ALL serious military powers. For instance, air space is regularly and deliberately violated by all sides to test readiness and the capabilities of their respective detection systems.
What do we do to appease the gender balance people when we finally admit our failure?
Send the ladies you described to explain to the gender balance people that their views are inaccurate and their efforts unhelpful. Fact and reason has to count for something, no?
I opened this tread with enthusiasm and what do I see - it's about clothing and white men. Well, I think this is the least of our problems. How about this - my company might be soon a subject of a hostile take over from US corporation. Now, I would very much like if the employees had any say about THAT, you know.....tens of thousands of jobs are at the stake plus enormous losses to the country and society should my company disappear. Not to mention the hit on the environment - the US corp has a dismal record and gives less than shit about it - that is why they have the money, cause we spend extra cash on sustainability..... But it's private business and we are all hostages to the whims and greed of as handful of individuals. Game over, man!
OK, then listen up - I have a fact to tell you about the white men - hopefully it might provoke a bit of that moron thing that we sometimes do - you know it is called thinking [RIP George]. I am studying advanced Dutch ATM and the text book is very recent and modern - talks about all the social issues of the day. Pity I can't post screenshot from the book - statistics from 2014 - percentage of women in high management positions per country. Guess who are the champions [top ten] - the former Soviet countries with Russia NUMBER ONE in the world. China plus Philippines and Indonesia are also in. At the same time US and UK are at the BOTTOM ten on that account with [attention!] the Netherlands being second to last before only Japan.
Now look again and explain to me how those facts fit the narrative of the big bad eastern bear and other fucking communists [China, China, China, China, China]. But are really the former communist state less sexists? You mean the Russians who on other counts [gays] are adamant enemies to the humanistic values - they are less sexists than us - yhea it is true. Reason - communism. One - no strong religion [it's coming back though], two - equality between people also implies equality between genders. My mom did much better career than dad, brought more money home and noone batted an eyelid.
But think again - is the Netherlands a hell hole of sexism? Or Japan for that matter....no they are not [NL certainly isn't]. So perhaps, just perhaps such statistic does not tell the whole story and maybe we should concentrate on things I described in the first paragraph rather than how many white men are at the top.
And these extra people won't need anything else but food? Look, there is enough air for 100 times more population, let's go...honestly how many times...oh forget it
I do just like the parent, only I commute with public transport so no audio books, just the regular ones. Is that fairer in your [ha-ha] book?
My family has about 1000 volumes. I live in another country now...what am I supposed to do - transport all of it? I'd do it if there was no other alternative...but there is.
My most beloved author is Terry Pratchett. I have bought everything he ever wrote in two languages; I regularly purchased and still do merchandise and not just small trinkets [posters, bags, key holders, jewelry] but clothing too - lots of T-shirts and hoodies. Did I download all his books in both languages after e-books came around - yes. Have I inflicted any financial damage to Terry or Paul Kidby - no.
I did "hurt", however, the greedy assholes who say I do not own anything except the right to enjoy a book or song or a movie for life, yet never provided me [for a price recovering the manufacture and transport costs] with the digital copy of the CD [bought] of the tape [bought] of the vinyl [bought] of say "Made in Japan" by Deep Purple.....no, I purchased the full rights 3 times already and still can't get the file. Well, screw them!
Let's burn some karma...long ago, when I considered medicine as career someone told the following joke:
Court case - gynecologist sued for homicide. The judge asks the accused to explain himself. " Well, your honor, in my line of work [sorry for the french] I see pussies every day, all day long. I go home and it continues - the wife has some pains, the daughter needs spiral adjustment, it never stops! So that night I was going home after particular heavy day and this woman stops me and says - mister, give me five bucks and I'll show you what a pussy is! - I could not resists myself!"
I think at this point every sensible person agrees that one of the most important tasks for today's parents is to teach good food habits in their kids. It is proven to work. And junk food for kids is significant portion [ha-ha] of advertising. Even if this is the only help to the parents from non-ad childhood it is still worth it, big time!
People who grew in the 70's and 80's behind the wall participated in this experiment. No commercialism and then suddenly the wildest and most unregulated [for a time] one. My observation - it was good in the long run. I am rather immune to ads and companies installing desires and insecurities in me and see the same in virtually everyone from my generation. The kids who grew up during the wildest changes however are damaged forever - I was horrified to see it real time. Now they determine the zeitgeist...it is a mess!
Overall I applaud the news!
Now the powers to be really have an incentive to outlaw encryption. Great!
Most ladies do not want to actually kill themselves; it is a cry for help - not because they choose a method that is less reliable. That is not my opinion, although I have seen it first hand (and hope never to see it again) - it is the opinion of all the research I was forced to read and comprehend.
Interestingly enough in the last couple of decades certain societies closed the gap between the male/female " successful" suicides. You know where that is - in Scandinavia, the most emancipated society on Earth. Bottom line - once society starts treating women as men, the women kill themselves. So much for the privileged male...
I strongly recommend the book "Is there anything good about men" - https://gendertruce.files.word...
Alverez? Wasn't that Vasquez?
And let's not forget his apt comment to the most beloved quote form Aliens [I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure]:
- Fucking A!
In my head both quotes are always linked...if I say the Ripley's line I always add Hudson's as well...
Oh yhea? Man, I feel so privileged to be in the top 2.5%! BTW, the poor bastard in say, Kazakhstan, does he pay 1000 Euro per month just for a place to live? How expensive is the kindergarten there [here it is 900 euro per month]? What about insurance?
Is the above enough to give you a hint how incredibly wrong you are? Try to continue on your own from here....
I got that beaten. 7 yrs old when got the key and went to school alone. Dinner at home rule stopped at the age of 13. I would call only if stayed overnight at a party. We [bunch of boys] could go hiking the mountains and our parents would not hear from us for 3 weeks! More astonishing, around age of 15 the girls joined us! Can you imagine a parent of today sending her daughter at age of 15 with a bunch of boys to a remote location that has transport in and out once per 3 days, no communication whatsoever [even post], 50 km from the nearest city that has hospital? And you know what? Nobody got molested in any way, nobody got pregnant. In fact from 36 people class in high school 5 families emerged [still going strong; kids and all]. At the same time if somebody of today could eavesdrop on us we would be labeled the most PC incorrect people. Nobody back then took imaginary offense [or micro, even nano-offense] from people speaking their mind.
Fuck the fucking communists, but they did give us carefree, crime-free [totalitarian societies have very little petty crime, mostly it is big, state crimes that happen] advertisement-free, religion-free, no gadgets, play outside childhood. For that, together with the education [critical thinking was a must, it was actually thought even though at the end it back-fired against the communist party], I am grateful.