You are free to disagree. You are also wrong and a hypocrite.
You would be the first to whine and DEMAND government intervention if FB google twitter etc were banning your favorite socialist candidates and manipulating search result against your team.
Just because you treat our politics like a team sport, doens't mean the rest of us do. There should be no "sides", just citizens trying to best govern their society.
You mean like with all the conservatives being deplatformed?
Notable users of this tactic to to destroy opposition include Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and the Nazis
Are conservatives being de-platformed, or are people spewing bullshit being de-platformed?
And later they didn't need to implement such tactics (at least against the media) because they gained control over all the outlets. I'll go out and protest with you if Trump starts taking over media outlets, until then it's all just talk and fear-mongering on both sides.
Trump doesn't have to take over anything. Fox news is a willing participant. Some of their on-air personalities get up on stage with Trump at his rallies, FFS.
And Trudeau is a whiny and inadequate leader who is a threat to all of Canadian society because of his inability to make proper decisions or lead the country in any positive direction so I guess we're even then.
What does that have to do with a robust free press? How are we "even"?
It seems going forward to have any hope of privacy not being tracked, I'm gonna need silly walks from Python, and a scramble suit from A Scanner Darkly....
....you're hearing less and less English spoken in the US these days.
You're saying that like it's a bad thing. The US doesn't have an official language. I would think that in the Land of the Free people could speak whatever language they want.
Serious answer: For laundering Russian mob money for decades. He has also obstructed justice and violated campaign finance laws. I'm not sure if breaking campaign finance laws carries a punishment of jail time, however.
We pushed away from factory farming to help the welfare of the animals. Maybe it is time to go back to those methods as well as taking other extreme measures to ensure the longevity of our own species?
I'm pretty sure the article is talking about wild animals. No one is concerned about the size of the population of pigs. We need more pigs, we grow more pigs.
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"When you don't stand for something, you'll fall for everything."
Okay, I just read the article at Huff post. As a left-leaning person, I think that is fucking stupid. You are clearly out of real problems to solve if you are concerned about what position people are in when they pee. Shit like that gives the left a bad name.
Tell me, having the categories "theist" and "not theist", what other possibility remains?
That's like saying, having the numbers 0 and 1, what other possibilities for numbers remain? Your numbering system is too limited. For any question there are at least three answers: yes, no, and I don't know. Thus we have theists, atheists and agnostics. If you want to believe that there is no god, power to you. There is nothing wrong with that personal belief. Just recognize that it is a personal belief.
Being unable to prove a god doesn't exist is not evidence for existence. If there is no evidence, then there is no reason at all to think something exists. You can't prove a flying being made of pasta didn't create the universe after a night of heavy drinking. That theory is just as likely as there being a "god" (whatever that means to you) who did it.
Of course. But, like I said, there used to be no evidence for germs or atoms. Did they not exist before we discovered them? Do things only exist when we know about them? We're getting pretty philosophical here!
We discovered germs and atoms when our methods and instruments of detection became more sophisticated and powerful. We have made great strides, but there is still a lot we don't know and can't know with our current level of capability. To think we have the ability to fully understand reality is the height of arrogance. Physics, as I understand it, has mathematical evidence of dimensions beyond the three or four that we can perceive. Well, what is in those dimensions? Are there beings that can perceive and travel within them, unseen to us? Maybe, I don't know!
Again, I am not saying that the God of Abraham exists. I am saying that we need to allow for the possibility of a being or beings that operate on a level that is simply beyond us. We don't need to worship them, or fear them, or consider them at all in our daily endeavors. But to say we know they don't exist is simply wrong.
The ridiculous accounts of Genesis and Revelation, and everything in between, may not stand up to science, but the notion of an outside creator itself? Mr. Hawking advances his atheism with as little evidence as the Creationists.
I thought the same thing. He must have been quite a scientist if he could prove a negative.
Yet somehow we don't feel bad, or think about us having "wiped out" our ancestors. Almost as if fear of change isn't logical.
Unless you're white, then you're expected to bear the burden of every atrocity your ancestors may or may not have been involved in.
I think most people would be satisfied if we just dealt with the atrocities being committed here and now. If you're not involved in them, I don't think you have anything to be concerned about. Don't let some overheated activist tell you how to feel about yourself. You only hear more about white people today because the pendulum is swinging back.
Being an atheist is an evidence-based worldview. This obviously isn't your wheelhouse either, and nobody has perfected AI or even come anywhere close. Thanks for your boar tits though, tasty.
Being Agnostic is an evidence-based world view. You cannot prove a negative and therefore cannot prove that god does not exist. The most science has to say about god is that there is no scientific evidence for its existence. There also used to be no evidence for germs or atoms. The best we can say is that we don't know.
Whether or not we are living in a simulation is a hot topic today. If we are, it implies that there is a reality outside our own, and beings that inhabit it to run the simulation. Perhaps when we die here, we exit the simulation and re-enter the other reality. Well, does that sound familiar?
I'm not saying the God of the Bible is necessarily real or described accurately in that book. I am saying that foreclosing the possibility of a greater, unseen intelligence or consciousness existing outside of, or in concert with, our observed reality is not scientific.
Just to be clear, it is commercial banks that do the majority of this lending and monetary creation.
Yes, indeed. Many of those banks are members of the Federal Reserve system, while some are not. Regardless, they are all creating money from debt, in the form of federal reserve notes, or numbers on a screen representing such notes.
Your sig says "debt is slavery". Are you suggesting those that accumulated debt are putting people into slavery? No one asked them to sign up for credit cards, car loans, home loans, or anything else. Slavery means "without consent". When you apply, sign, and shop, you consented.
Under the Federal Reserve system, all money is lent into existence. Every American dollar represents a debt owed back to the Federal Reserve. A few people manage to have no debt, but that just shifts the debt burden onto other people.
You and I have little choice but to participate in this system. Signing up for home, business or car loans is essentially required. In order to participate in capitalism you need capital. For the vast majority that means borrowing it from a bank or someone with a lot of money. So yes, we are forced into a system based on debt without our consent (or perhaps with coerced consent), and must work to pay that debt. The term slavery is a bit stark, but its not far off when you look at how the monetary system actually operates.
Doesn't matter about the addiction potential. What matters is that you're trying to treat anxiety by having hallucinations. And I compared that to treating your restless leg syndrome with a medication that can kill you.
Is anti-lock braking even needed in a car that light??
I would expect it is more important in a light car. Less weight means less grip, and it being easier to lock up the wheels during braking. Anti-lock brakes enable you to brake and turn at the same time without worrying about pumping the brakes. You want it.
There's almost no such thing as "actual" Republicans anymore, just cowards blowing in the winds of nationalist strongmen's blathered self-praise. If they had any pride or self respect, they'd have resigned long before now.
Yep, same with Scotsmen. It's not by chance that the Republican party has become what it is.
First, Snowden contacted the media BEFORE he actually started working as a Help Desk guy at the NSA.
Then, he was never authorized to view the stuff he leaked. That's because he was an IT help desk worker, not a developer or analyst. He did not have the need-to-know to access that stuff. That's why he had to use his help desk position to trick people into giving him their passwords.
Next, Snowden never contacted his supervisors, the NSA IG, the IC IG, the Federal IG's office, and of the Congressional Oversight committee members in either house. If he'd been concerned about any programs, those were the people to contact - and like eery other NSA contractor, he took training that explicitly stated how to contact the IG anonymously.
Finally, when Snowden left, he took *everything* he could download; millions of pages of stuff. There is no way in hell he had any idea what he was actually taking. Like Manning, Snowden was out to leak.
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You are free to disagree. You are also wrong and a hypocrite.
You would be the first to whine and DEMAND government intervention if FB google twitter etc were banning your favorite socialist candidates and manipulating search result against your team.
Just because you treat our politics like a team sport, doens't mean the rest of us do. There should be no "sides", just citizens trying to best govern their society.
You mean like with all the conservatives being deplatformed?
Notable users of this tactic to to destroy opposition include Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and the Nazis
Are conservatives being de-platformed, or are people spewing bullshit being de-platformed?
And later they didn't need to implement such tactics (at least against the media) because they gained control over all the outlets. I'll go out and protest with you if Trump starts taking over media outlets, until then it's all just talk and fear-mongering on both sides.
Trump doesn't have to take over anything. Fox news is a willing participant. Some of their on-air personalities get up on stage with Trump at his rallies, FFS.
And Trudeau is a whiny and inadequate leader who is a threat to all of Canadian society because of his inability to make proper decisions or lead the country in any positive direction so I guess we're even then.
What does that have to do with a robust free press? How are we "even"?
I was thinking the same.
It seems going forward to have any hope of privacy not being tracked, I'm gonna need silly walks from Python, and a scramble suit from A Scanner Darkly....
So like a pimp, I'm pimpin'
I got a boat to eat shrimp in
Nothing wrong with my leg, I'm just B-boy limpin'
We should pass laws stating that English IS the official language in this country.....other countries have an official language.
We should too.
Other countries have universal health care and better patient outcomes too, but what are ya gonna do?
....you're hearing less and less English spoken in the US these days.
You're saying that like it's a bad thing. The US doesn't have an official language. I would think that in the Land of the Free people could speak whatever language they want.
serious question: why should trump go to jail?
Serious answer: For laundering Russian mob money for decades. He has also obstructed justice and violated campaign finance laws. I'm not sure if breaking campaign finance laws carries a punishment of jail time, however.
Here come the NPCs who propose torturing those they disagree with.
The fact that you go around using a right-wing meme to accuse people of not thinking independently is kind of ironic.
We pushed away from factory farming to help the welfare of the animals. Maybe it is time to go back to those methods as well as taking other extreme measures to ensure the longevity of our own species?
I'm pretty sure the article is talking about wild animals. No one is concerned about the size of the population of pigs. We need more pigs, we grow more pigs.
Basically rampant Feminism and Stupid Juvenile Whiners such as Sweden's Feminizing Boys with Genderless Schools
-- "When you don't stand for something, you'll fall for everything."
Okay, I just read the article at Huff post. As a left-leaning person, I think that is fucking stupid. You are clearly out of real problems to solve if you are concerned about what position people are in when they pee. Shit like that gives the left a bad name.
Plain and simple.
No, lavender oil. It says so right in the summary!
I clicked on the comments hoping someone would tell me where to get some of this stuff.
Alas, I'm one of the first one's here.
So, like, where can I get some of this stuff. You know... for a friend.
I have found that this shit actually works. https://www.thisworks.com/us/d...
Can you speak to it?
Sir, my first job was programming binary loadlifters—very similar to your vaporators in most respects.
Tell me, having the categories "theist" and "not theist", what other possibility remains?
That's like saying, having the numbers 0 and 1, what other possibilities for numbers remain? Your numbering system is too limited. For any question there are at least three answers: yes, no, and I don't know. Thus we have theists, atheists and agnostics. If you want to believe that there is no god, power to you. There is nothing wrong with that personal belief. Just recognize that it is a personal belief.
Being unable to prove a god doesn't exist is not evidence for existence. If there is no evidence, then there is no reason at all to think something exists. You can't prove a flying being made of pasta didn't create the universe after a night of heavy drinking. That theory is just as likely as there being a "god" (whatever that means to you) who did it.
Of course. But, like I said, there used to be no evidence for germs or atoms. Did they not exist before we discovered them? Do things only exist when we know about them? We're getting pretty philosophical here!
We discovered germs and atoms when our methods and instruments of detection became more sophisticated and powerful. We have made great strides, but there is still a lot we don't know and can't know with our current level of capability. To think we have the ability to fully understand reality is the height of arrogance. Physics, as I understand it, has mathematical evidence of dimensions beyond the three or four that we can perceive. Well, what is in those dimensions? Are there beings that can perceive and travel within them, unseen to us? Maybe, I don't know!
Again, I am not saying that the God of Abraham exists. I am saying that we need to allow for the possibility of a being or beings that operate on a level that is simply beyond us. We don't need to worship them, or fear them, or consider them at all in our daily endeavors. But to say we know they don't exist is simply wrong.
The ridiculous accounts of Genesis and Revelation, and everything in between, may not stand up to science, but the notion of an outside creator itself? Mr. Hawking advances his atheism with as little evidence as the Creationists.
I thought the same thing. He must have been quite a scientist if he could prove a negative.
Yet somehow we don't feel bad, or think about us having "wiped out" our ancestors. Almost as if fear of change isn't logical.
Unless you're white, then you're expected to bear the burden of every atrocity your ancestors may or may not have been involved in.
I think most people would be satisfied if we just dealt with the atrocities being committed here and now. If you're not involved in them, I don't think you have anything to be concerned about. Don't let some overheated activist tell you how to feel about yourself. You only hear more about white people today because the pendulum is swinging back.
Being an atheist is an evidence-based worldview. This obviously isn't your wheelhouse either, and nobody has perfected AI or even come anywhere close. Thanks for your boar tits though, tasty.
Being Agnostic is an evidence-based world view. You cannot prove a negative and therefore cannot prove that god does not exist. The most science has to say about god is that there is no scientific evidence for its existence. There also used to be no evidence for germs or atoms. The best we can say is that we don't know.
Whether or not we are living in a simulation is a hot topic today. If we are, it implies that there is a reality outside our own, and beings that inhabit it to run the simulation. Perhaps when we die here, we exit the simulation and re-enter the other reality. Well, does that sound familiar?
I'm not saying the God of the Bible is necessarily real or described accurately in that book. I am saying that foreclosing the possibility of a greater, unseen intelligence or consciousness existing outside of, or in concert with, our observed reality is not scientific.
Just to be clear, it is commercial banks that do the majority of this lending and monetary creation.
Yes, indeed. Many of those banks are members of the Federal Reserve system, while some are not. Regardless, they are all creating money from debt, in the form of federal reserve notes, or numbers on a screen representing such notes.
Your sig says "debt is slavery". Are you suggesting those that accumulated debt are putting people into slavery? No one asked them to sign up for credit cards, car loans, home loans, or anything else. Slavery means "without consent". When you apply, sign, and shop, you consented.
Under the Federal Reserve system, all money is lent into existence. Every American dollar represents a debt owed back to the Federal Reserve. A few people manage to have no debt, but that just shifts the debt burden onto other people.
You and I have little choice but to participate in this system. Signing up for home, business or car loans is essentially required. In order to participate in capitalism you need capital. For the vast majority that means borrowing it from a bank or someone with a lot of money. So yes, we are forced into a system based on debt without our consent (or perhaps with coerced consent), and must work to pay that debt. The term slavery is a bit stark, but its not far off when you look at how the monetary system actually operates.
Doesn't matter about the addiction potential. What matters is that you're trying to treat anxiety by having hallucinations. And I compared that to treating your restless leg syndrome with a medication that can kill you.
Have you ever tried mushrooms?
Is anti-lock braking even needed in a car that light??
I would expect it is more important in a light car. Less weight means less grip, and it being easier to lock up the wheels during braking. Anti-lock brakes enable you to brake and turn at the same time without worrying about pumping the brakes. You want it.
At this point, we can just wait out this degenerate administration.
You haven't been keeping up with the party line. Trump is going to declare martial law and declare himself Führer for life.
Meh, so what is he does? We know that even his own staff doesn't follow his directions.
There's almost no such thing as "actual" Republicans anymore, just cowards blowing in the winds of nationalist strongmen's blathered self-praise. If they had any pride or self respect, they'd have resigned long before now.
Yep, same with Scotsmen. It's not by chance that the Republican party has become what it is.
First, Snowden contacted the media BEFORE he actually started working as a Help Desk guy at the NSA.
Then, he was never authorized to view the stuff he leaked. That's because he was an IT help desk worker, not a developer or analyst. He did not have the need-to-know to access that stuff. That's why he had to use his help desk position to trick people into giving him their passwords.
Next, Snowden never contacted his supervisors, the NSA IG, the IC IG, the Federal IG's office, and of the Congressional Oversight committee members in either house. If he'd been concerned about any programs, those were the people to contact - and like eery other NSA contractor, he took training that explicitly stated how to contact the IG anonymously.
Finally, when Snowden left, he took *everything* he could download; millions of pages of stuff. There is no way in hell he had any idea what he was actually taking. Like Manning, Snowden was out to leak.
Citations?