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  1. Re:Republicans on FBI Investigating Fake Texts Sent To GOP House Members (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Things would be better if we had 5 or 6. Then none could have a majority whereby they could force their agenda through without at least working with other groups.

  2. Re:If plants are sentient creatures on Once Considered Outlandish, the Idea That Plants Help Their Relatives is Taking Root (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    If you want to succumb to darwinism. Survival of the fittest. If you limit yourself to scavenging you’re going to be one of the weak, sickly creatures they get picked off by the faster predator. Plants kill other plants, and when they dont, They still feed on the dead remains of former plants. Ultimately your choice is to either perish or accept that you will always have to kill something in order to survive.

  3. Imagine what all those cloned Cannabis plants are saying to each other? Probably something about where the hell are all the men?

  4. Thats a fruit. Vegetables are the whole plant or a criticsl part that destroys the plant. Asparagus, broccoli, cauliflower, eggplant, potatoes, turnips, carrots, do I really need to keep going?

    Your usually eating the roots (potatoes, radishes, turnips, carrots,etc)
    Or your eating tge tops (letuces, broccoli, etc)
    Even legumes end up killing the whole plant to harvest.

  5. Other applications.. on Scientists Have 'Hacked Photosynthesis' To Boost Crop Growth By 40 Percent (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    So taking the Frankenstein Food aspect off the table, what sbout using this same technique to scrub CO2 out of the air? If it uses thess resources to detoxify then it stands to reason that all that reclaimed energy could go into plant growth. Re-seeding the rain forest (our biggest counter to CO2 levels) could take less time if this were to be applied to those species. One thing to be on the alert for is to ensure we are not creating new invasive species. 40% efficiency boosts can also mean sustainability in normally hostile environments. Perhaps a potential need for lunar or martian food crops?

  6. Exactly. In fact the term was supposed to represent ones fiscal apporach to other peoples money. Conservatives do not like to spend a lot of your money on anything. Or at least that used to be the case. Liberalls still beat the tax-and-spend-like-the-worlds-gonna-end montra all day long.

  7. Re:Economic pressures on The EU is Banning Almost All Coal Mining on Jan 1 (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Im in no way 100% anti-coal. I am sure, eventually, we might find some unique use for it. But if its not turning a profit then I see no reason to subsidize it. Eventually something will happen economically where it makes economic sense to use it. If not, natural selection had the final say. Any tampering to accellerste this will eventually have a market correction and it will return practically on steroids. Just let natural selection run its course. If other sources fit the economic model better, then so be it. The real truth will present itself in how much I have to pay for energy. If my bill goes up, then I know that some bullshit took place. Natural selection doesnt work that way.

  8. But their bank is FDIC insured. If they refuse cash the bank MUST revoke their status for transfers meaning their credit card clearinghouses can deposit the transactions.

    Back in the 90s when we got paid in the military, before days of direct deposit, banks tried to refuse to cash checks if you didnt habe an account. I had 5 or 6 banks GROVELING once I started the process of revoking their FDIC for refusing to cash a governement check. Think they wont fire a customer to keep their FDIC status? Think again.

  9. It will force people to buy prepaid visa gift cards.

  10. If they bank with a bank that is FDIC insured, they are required BY LAW to accept legal tender. If they refuse then contact their bank to get their accounts closed. Good luck getting your card payments approved through their clearinghouse when the account got closed.

    Better yet play the race card. If the race card is sufficient to fight voter ID because a $20 ID oppresses poor people then those same poor people cannot always afford plastic money. Thin at best, but they cannot dismiss this AND maintain the bullshit cover of voterID is intended to disenfranchise poor people. Double edged sword. They either keep their illegal voters, or they get to refuse paper money.

  11. Re:What is of real value? on Hacker Steals Ten Years Worth of Data From San Diego School District (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Thats 500,000 more illegals whenever the SSN getd of age to vote, drive, etc.

  12. Re: Oh Apple on iPhone Owners Irate After iOS Update Bricks Cellular Data (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    have you seen his house lately? Neither has he... all that money and power, still dead and I bet his family barely knew him. Maybe he was happy, but I doubt it bought him much happiness.

  13. Re:"Bricks cellular data"?!?! WTF?!?! on iPhone Owners Irate After iOS Update Bricks Cellular Data (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    remember several years ago when Websters added 'figurative' as part of a definition for 'literal' because too many people were misusing it?

  14. Re:Other interesting statistics on 2018 Statistic of the Year: 90.5 Percent of Plastic Waste Has Never Been Recycled (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Whats worse is a 18yo who has a 17yo g/f can find himself forever on the registered sex offenders database. He will never be able to live within 1000 yards of a school, daycare, or church. Do you know how hard it is to live outside 1000yards of one of those in the bible belt? Within 1000yds of my house is a public elementary school, a public middle school, a private religeous school k-12, a daycare, and 3 churches. We dont even categorize them like class 4 vs class 1. Forever the persons life is ruined. It shows up in job interview background checks often without details, so he gets denied jobs because someone assumes he will cause problems with female employees, etc. its not just politics here that is polarized. Jumoing to conclusions is pervasive throughout our news. Everything is guilty till proven innocent, tried in courts of public opinion. Whats worse is that I see this spreading past just the US. Its like a cancer. I read it on the internet so it must be true.

  15. Re:Other interesting statistics on 2018 Statistic of the Year: 90.5 Percent of Plastic Waste Has Never Been Recycled (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Thats not a statistic you idiot. Thats a poll. No nobody would ever just go on your show to merely ‘raise awareness’ of assault and ‘for the cause’ show up and go along with your raise of hands survey that was thrown ar them on the spot. The best anyone can say is that its ESTIMATED thst half of all sexual assaults go unreported. Of course those statements also included cases of statutory rapes where both teens were consenting and also did not report it. Lumping teenage sex into the numbers in order to boost the records to ‘raise awareness’ is a stupid and detrimental thing to do. Its as bad as the asshats that altered temperatures because an anomole skewed their paper on faster-than-predicted warming. In fact deliberately inflating these numbers and including things that ‘technically’ count as assault (he grabbed my ass at the company christmas party and i slapped the shit out of him but didnt file a police report) makes the number SO high that it might in fact cause more women to NOT report real cases.

    But 68.4%? Thats complete bullshit. Fractional math only happens when you have REAL numbers of confirmed cases. None of that can happen without an actual report. There is a difference between a poll and a statistic. Your example did a poll. People can claim anything they want in a poll. HRC was ahead 65% acording to some polls, but some people lied to the polsters and voted otherwise. Never take a poll number to the bank. Your check will likely bounce.

  16. Re:Put water in aluminum cans, no plastic bags on 2018 Statistic of the Year: 90.5 Percent of Plastic Waste Has Never Been Recycled (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I use them for sports but maybe some other material. Metal always has me concerned for similar reasons.

  17. Re:Other interesting statistics on 2018 Statistic of the Year: 90.5 Percent of Plastic Waste Has Never Been Recycled (bbc.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Talk about made-up, on the spot, fake-ass statistics.

    68.4% of sexual assaults against women went unreported

    If they are unreported then you cant do the math on them dumbass. How do you know if there were only 17 or 17,000? The only thing worse than a pansy-ass liar who hides behind AC postings is a pansy-ass liar that isnt even smart enough to make his lies at least somewhat believable. Lets hope Darwin comes along and removed you before you fuck the planet up further by reproducing. Its a shame your mom missed woty that coathanger.

  18. Re:Put water in aluminum cans, no plastic bags on 2018 Statistic of the Year: 90.5 Percent of Plastic Waste Has Never Been Recycled (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Dasani already makes their bottles out of recycled plant waste. I was reusing the same 4 bottles for a month at a time, refilling with filtered water, until another report came out indicating I was at higher risk of ingesting toxins by doing that.

    No good deed goes unpunished.

  19. Re:Thanks, America? How about China? on 2018 Statistic of the Year: 90.5 Percent of Plastic Waste Has Never Been Recycled (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Good point. Counterfeiting is so bad there that infants have died from malnutrition because they even counterfeit baby formula. Thats a special kind of fucked up right there. A few years ago they found one of their pork producers was dumping dead pigs in their rivers. Hundreds.

  20. Re:Trump's poll numbers don't drop on Senate Report Shows Russia Used Social Media To Support Trump In 2016 (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Not just Vlad, read Radio Warfare. We've been doing it to our own citizens for about 60 years now. I think this whole thing is a good thing, because Russia wont go down without a fight and in the process will continue to air the dirty laundry our government has been doing to us for a while too. In the end everyone will demand an end to all of it, not just Russia's part.

  21. Re:Clinton Lost Because of Clinton on Senate Report Shows Russia Used Social Media To Support Trump In 2016 (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    NONE of those are the job of the president. Why the fuck does everyone think the president is a fucking king? He works for fucking congress. Read the constitution. Congress gives the president the laws and direction, the president then EXECUTES those orders and puts people in charge of ensuring they get followed. Hence the term Executive Branch. Tell congress to get off their fucking ass and stop pushing that responsibility on the president simply because its inconvenient to their re-election strategy to have a record of vote on specific hot topic items where promises were made to various groups in contradiction to promises made to other various groups. Its not the president's job to rewrite immigration law, his job is to enforce it as written. Its not the president's job to create climate change policy, its his job to enforce laws that congress makes in that regard. VETO is the only power a president really has in regards to laws being passed by congress.

  22. Re:Clinton Lost Because of Clinton on Senate Report Shows Russia Used Social Media To Support Trump In 2016 (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Not so much, over half of his voters just play along because of the massive amount of trump derangement syndrome. Nobody got this bent out of shape when Obama campaigned on repealing the patriot act as a civil rights violation and then not only did nothing, but auto-penned its renewal multiple times. He didnt even have the courage to sign it himself. Heads did not implode when he ordered an assassination of a US Citizen without a trial in violation of several constitutional rights. Heads did not go crazy threatening impeachment when he imprisoned reporters for refusing to reveal their sources that outage corruption and abuse of power within the government. Nor was there any extreme outrage when he put provisions in the NDAA that allowed him to black-bag and hold any citizen indefinitely without a trial in violation of Habeas Corpus, as well as the 6th amendment. Trump could literally send out a tweet about the Seattle Seahawks and half the country would go into seizures followed by a million tweets, name calling, etc. The irony is the constitution was written that the President position was second in importance to congress, yet everyone pretends like its an elected king.

    btw your rock-solid evidence sits entirely on the testimony of a lawyer who plead guilty to 14 counts of lying in order to cut a deal to save his hide. Your idea of rock solid is based on the court of public opinion, which has no relevance in courtroom proceedings that require beyond-reasonable-doubt level evidence. No jury convicts when the only evidence is a testimony of a convicted criminal who has already been caught lying multiple times, that's a recipe for a mistrial.

  23. Re:Oh Trump, silly Trump on Senate Report Shows Russia Used Social Media To Support Trump In 2016 (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    if the reward for coming here was not being deported, but at the same time no free fucking shit then sure. Traveling thousands of miles for a free $2000/mo paycheck plus healthcare that is superior to the best policy a working stiff can afford (another $1200/mo for a family of 4) on top of all the other free shit?? Who the fuck wouldn't do that?

    Let them in, dont give them a fucking dime for free. They can earn it, after all there are 'millions of jobs nobody else wants to do' right? They are fleeing places like Venezuela who a decade ago was talking all kinds of shit about how socialism is so fucking awesome. Now people are fleeing to come here trying to make us socialists too, because it worked so fucking well from the shitholes they came from right?

  24. Re:Clinton Lost Because of Clinton on Senate Report Shows Russia Used Social Media To Support Trump In 2016 (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Biden is not nearly as bad as you think. His age is a major issue and that alone will cause him to lose. He does say some stupid shit, but what he does in action is not always the same thing as the first words out of his mouth. He listens to his advisers and he doesnt always assume that the other person is always wrong. In fact many people in the republican party still have a lot of respect for him from when he was a Senator. There are few Democrats in congress since 2001 that struck me as non-partisan (ie party line politics at any cost). Joe Biden was one, Joe Lieberman was the other. John Kerry, in the 90s was also among that group.

  25. Re:It's more complicated than that on Senate Report Shows Russia Used Social Media To Support Trump In 2016 (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    she got caught cheating and it caught up with her. Russians hacked the DNC to find out how she cheated democracy in the DNC primary debates then made that public. Then it was discovered she as given advanced copies of all the debate questions. Oh and then the hearing aid, the hearing aid that was ONLY worn during the debate... NO NOBODY IS FEEDING HER THE ANSWERS... yea right. So some of her support slipped away. People arent stupid. The stupid shit she did suppressed some of her voters. The stupid shit Trump did suppressed some of his. IT came down to the Never Hillary's vs the Never Trumps. A terrible platform to become the primary force of an election. The Never Hillary's won. Do you know how many people registered as Democrat in 2008 in order to vote AGAINST her during the primary elections? She knew that and tried again, and will try a third time it seems. Forget whats best for the country. How dare she be denied her ascension to the throne! Her fucking smug, power hungry, all about me elitism did not sit well with a lot of people. Trump was no better, but we already saw how they (the media) deliberately stacked the deck to 1) get Hillary to be the DNC candidate and 2) get trump elected as the RNC candidate, because early polls showed he was the one candidate she had a real shot at beating out of the others polled. Like I said, people aren't stupid. To think we didnt see this shit was rediculous. People that became disgusted with this either didnt vote, voted for Johnson, or voted against hillary to stick it to the media. 4 years of Trump hopefully will teach the media to stop fucking trying to influence people and just do their goddamn jobs. I can promise one thing, history WILL eventualy repeat itself. The media once again will assume people are fuckign sheep to be told what to do.