Are you a "prepper?"
The end is near!
http://www.sltrib.com/home/2935776-155/some-mormons-stocking-up-amid-fears
We only go around once baby!
But the end is fairly near for everyone.
We're all day-to-day.
Let's make this the Daily Dose of Doom thread.
I'll start:
http://www.freep.com/story/news/health/2015/09/14/bubonic-plague-case--michigan/72273070/
If Doomsday ever comes, and we are living in some lawless society where I am forced to rely on my stockpile of supplies and fighting off a horde coming to take my stuff, I'm just going to go out to the garage, start my car, and take a nap.
I have neither the interest, nor the ability, to live in a society like that. (I'm the type that would have died in a sod house out on the plains back in the day.)
Your doom for the day:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/science/space/more-evidence-for-coming-black-hole-collision.html
Today's doom:
http://www.newsnearyou.com/isis-releases-kill-list-of-us-cities.html
There is a saying on Wall Street about the doomsayers saying to sell everything ...
Never bet on the end of the world. It will only happen once and you cannot get paid.
This applies to the preppers too.
More evidence we are approaching End Game:
http://www.ncregister.com/blog/kschiffer/the-sky-is-falling-end-time-prophets-warn-end-is-near-again
People need to get their mortal sh1t together
http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-36.htm
Doomed! Sell! Sell!
http://www.businessinsider.com/sp-500-and-the-pope-2015-9
Blood Moon this Sunday means Israel is doomed
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/09/25/is-the-coming-blood-moon-a-biblical-sign-from-god-that-something-earth-shattering-is-about-to-happen-to-israel/
http://www.thespreadit.com/quinnipiac-university-poll-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-are-still-leading-63995/
Does this count
Where's the dude at with the John 3:16 sign when ya need him, ai na?
(http://hownottobeachristian.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/images.jpg)
Daily dose of doom, Sept 30th:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/28/l-todd-wood-isis-planning-nuclear-tsunami/
On-subject-thread-jack for your monthly dose of Ron Swanson.
https://www.youtube.com/e/jQ7qjlEM4mo
Nice knowing you guys. Sort of.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/06/end-of-world-7-october-ebible-fellowship
You call this Daily Dose of Doom? I figured this was going to be a thread about players seen on campus in walking boots.
Quote from: MerrittsMustache on October 07, 2015, 08:46:42 AM
You call this Daily Dose of Doom? I figured this was going to be a thread about players seen on campus in walking boots.
...walking into the Apartment 720 nightclub downtown
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on October 07, 2015, 08:27:16 AM
Nice knowing you guys. Sort of.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/06/end-of-world-7-october-ebible-fellowship
These aren't "christians"
Just hustlers trying to make a buck somehow. That's understandable.
But the fact that some people fall for this crap? P.T. was right.
Thank God in heaven there may be a chance!
http://www.businessinsider.com/test-mission-nasa-esa-asteroid-impacts-space-science-2015-10
Hey, take that hope stuff to some other thread. >:( >:( >:(
Quote from: keefe on October 07, 2015, 03:36:27 PM
Thank God in heaven there may be a chance!
http://www.businessinsider.com/test-mission-nasa-esa-asteroid-impacts-space-science-2015-10
Can we send Steve Buscemi along on the mission just for kicks?
Mmmm, doom.
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/10/moldova-nuclear-weapons-isis/409456/?utm_source=BI
Cubs victory is a sign of the apocalypse...
http://www.johnsoncitypress.com/Baseball/2015/10/08/Chicago-Cubs-give-their-longest-suffering-fans-a-bit-of-hope.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34857015
Bacteria becoming completely resistant to treatment - also known as the antibiotic apocalypse - could plunge medicine back into the dark ages.
Whew! Won't have to worry about ISIS in about 5 years.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on November 19, 2015, 10:06:22 AM
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34857015
Bacteria becoming completely resistant to treatment - also known as the antibiotic apocalypse - could plunge medicine back into the dark ages.
Whew! Won't have to worry about ISIS in about 5 years.
Sundays at 9:30p (8:30p Central) on FOX.
This Isis chit looks serious, hey?
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on November 19, 2015, 10:06:22 AM
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34857015
Bacteria becoming completely resistant to treatment - also known as the antibiotic apocalypse - could plunge medicine back into the dark ages.
Whew! Won't have to worry about ISIS in about 5 years.
These warnings have been around for about 10 years and are actually very serious.
If there is one issue where gov't funding is needed - even necessary - it is this. But we know that won't happen.
Quote from: brandx on November 19, 2015, 02:57:18 PM
These warnings have been around for about 10 years and are actually very serious.
If there is one issue where gov't funding is needed - even necessary - it is this. But we know that won't happen.
Antibiotics are not a money maker. And, to be fair, they are becoming increasingly harder to research.
That being said, some providers hand them out like candy when they aren't necessary. Further, patients (especially parents) will demand them, not understanding the medicine. Of course, those same patients fill out surveys that determine pay to providers/hospitals, so...
Hey, I don't peddle unpleasantness. It's doom. Dogs and cats, living together.
Quote from: jesmu84 on November 19, 2015, 03:16:39 PM
Antibiotics are not a money maker. And, to be fair, they are becoming increasingly harder to research.
That being said, some providers hand them out like candy when they aren't necessary. Further, patients (especially parents) will demand them, not understanding the medicine. Of course, those same patients fill out surveys that determine pay to providers/hospitals, so...
They are moneymakers if it is the only one that kills a certain kind of bug. There are oral antibiotics that cost thousands of dollars for a 10-day course of treatment.
Quote from: warriorchick on November 19, 2015, 05:34:41 PM
They are moneymakers if it is the only one that kills a certain kind of bug. There are oral antibiotics that cost thousands of dollars for a 10-day course of treatment.
The last new class of antibiotics to make it to clinic
was discovered nearly three decades ago. No new antibiotics that have actually made it into doctor's hands have been discovered since 1987. However, there have been discoveries this year that could turn out to be game-changers.
The biggest obstacle to antibiotic development is that antibiotics are short course therapies, and Big Pharma would rather spend R&D money on drugs you have to take every day for the rest of your life.
Hence, the reasoning that this is one area where there needs to be gov't intervention. It is literally a matter of life and death.
Marquette Basketball?
Here's some doom.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/632054/Yellowstone-about-to-blow-1-in-10-chance-super-volcano-will-kill-millions
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on January 08, 2016, 07:56:46 AM
Here's some doom.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/632054/Yellowstone-about-to-blow-1-in-10-chance-super-volcano-will-kill-millions
The good news for Denver is that if Yellowstone goes, our lives will be over in about an hour. You suckers in the midwest are gonna have to sip your good liquor before you die. We'll be slamming it.
Having learned from all the dystopian shows, books and movies, I am mentally prepared for whatever comes. Don't have a bomb shelter or 30 years food stockpiled though. Maybe I'll convert to the Latter Day Saints at that time and they take me in.
Quote from: elephantraker on January 08, 2016, 11:37:13 AM
Having learned from all the dystopian shows, books and movies, I am mentally prepared for whatever comes. Don't have a bomb shelter or 30 years food stockpiled though. Maybe I'll convert to the Latter Day Saints at that time and they take me in.
My plan: Go out to the garage. Start the car. Fall asleep.
Quote from: The Sultan of Sunshine on January 08, 2016, 12:04:20 PM
My plan: Go out to the garage. Start the car. Fall asleep.
Yes, but what will be playing on the radio? Gotta have a solid plan man!
I'm not worried.
I'm probably gonna get shot when I go to the theater to see Star Wars anyway.
Royal Bank of Scotland tells investors: 'Sell everything'
http://www.theage.com.au/business/markets/rbs-tells-investors-sell-everything-20160111-gm3ssa.html
Quote from: The Sultan of Sunshine on January 08, 2016, 12:04:20 PM
My plan: Go out to the garage. Start the car. Fall asleep.
You forgot the fifth of Jack with Lynyrd Skynyrd singing Free Bird on 8 track
Today's doom:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/02/09/zika-expert-microcephaly-may-just-be-the-tip-of-the-iceberg/
Quote from: keefe on January 12, 2016, 11:44:44 PM
You forgot the fifth of Jack with Lynyrd Skynyrd singing Free Bird on 8 track
On the last day Etta James and Pappy
I suggest everyone get caught up on the first season and a half of "Last Man on Earth" so we can anticipate what challenges we might face post-virus.
And nuts to Keefe... I will teach myself how to fly a B-2, or at the very least, I just need to learn how to operate the ejector seat. I can't imagine how much fun it's going to be ejecting over Lake Mendota and watching that beast crash land into Camp Randall, or the Memorial Union, or somewhere in between. Thankfully, the size of campus makes for a pretty unmissable target.
Quote from: PBRme on February 09, 2016, 04:15:04 PM
On the last day Etta James
I saw Etta James at Jazz Alley. She was still sultry at 80.
https://www.youtube.com/v/kzzC5YoMTrY
Truly the end times are neigh.
DOOMED.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/03/01/february_2016_s_shocking_global_warming_temperature_record.html
On the plus side, President Trump will fix this.
10 days, boys. Smoke em if you got em.
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/demonic.arches.rising.in.new.york.and.london.on.april.19.welcome.signs.for.the.antichrist/83429.htm
#fingerscrossed
http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/661478/END-OF-HUMANITY-Artificial-Intelligence-could-destroy-us-WITHIN-DECADES-warns-expert
Doom on you.
People better sort out their sh1t
http://www.signs-of-end-times.com/
Why people pay to go on these cruises is beyond me...
http://www.marinelink.com/news/stomach-disney-cruise409071.aspx
Quote from: keefe on May 03, 2016, 02:45:30 PM
Why people pay to go on these cruises is beyond me...
http://www.marinelink.com/news/stomach-disney-cruise409071.aspx
I'm in your camp. But we hosted a dinner for the school a couple weeks ago with 5 couples we really didn't know and 2 of them were adamant that cruises were fantastic. They were as baffled that I was appalled by even the thought of going on a cruise as i was that they actually went on cruises.
Been on a half-dozen cruises. Not so much as a single case of the $hits for me and my family.
We had fun every time and are looking forward to the next one, whenever it may be.
Sorry. I know this is the doom thread. I promise not to come here and say anything positive again.
Beachfront property now selling in Reno
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-san-andreas-fault-earthquake-20160504-story.html
Quote from: keefe on May 07, 2016, 03:45:08 AM
Beachfront property now selling in Reno
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-san-andreas-fault-earthquake-20160504-story.html
My dad, RIP, the former geologist \ geophysicist would get a kick out of this article. Especially since he moved his family out here.
http://www.businessinsider.com/professor-we-should-delay-the-olympics-because-of-zika-2016-5
Fingers Crossed:
http://www.vox.com/2015/2/19/8069533/end-of-the-world
Delicious doom.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Demonic_Possession_Goes_Mainstream.php
'The Gates Of Hell' Have Truly Opened - All Barriers Between Supernatural Evil And The Realm Of Human Existence Have Been Breached
Enjoy:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/22/isil-carrying-out-chemical-experiments-on-its-prisoners-as-it-mo/
Any dooming going on today with crab cakes?
Hmm .. well kinda doom:
https://news.vice.com/article/assisted-suicide-is-now-legal-in-canada-and-one-province-is-providing-free-drugs-to-do-it
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on June 09, 2016, 11:33:10 AM
Hmm .. well kinda doom:
https://news.vice.com/article/assisted-suicide-is-now-legal-in-canada-and-one-province-is-providing-free-drugs-to-do-it
Yeah... but that's Canadian doom, which I believe translates to America being only 78-79% doomed.
Vice? I'm still kind of upset they rebranded the H2 channel as Vice.
Quote from: Benny B on June 09, 2016, 11:37:56 AM
Yeah... but that's Canadian doom, which I believe translates to America being only 78-79% doomed.
Is your doom ratio based on the equivalent life expectancy in the US vs. Canada?
Quote from: Coleman on June 09, 2016, 03:21:30 PM
Is your doom ratio based on the equivalent life expectancy in the US vs. Canada?
As with any good US/Canadian comparison humor, I was using the USD/CAD exchange rate. While it's still funny, anyway.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on May 21, 2016, 07:46:15 AM
Delicious doom.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Demonic_Possession_Goes_Mainstream.php
'The Gates Of Hell' Have Truly Opened - All Barriers Between Supernatural Evil And The Realm Of Human Existence Have Been Breached
My sincerest apologies to everyone. In the future, I promise to make a concerted effort to remember to close the door when I leave.
Hmm .. not so much everyone is doomed, but filed under don't mess with mother nature or you are doomed..?
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-yellowstone-death-20160609-snap-story.html
Two words: SUPER BACTERIA
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-rio-superbacteria-exclusive-idUSKCN0YW2E8
Quote from: MerrittsMustache on October 07, 2015, 08:46:42 AM
You call this Daily Dose of Doom? I figured this was going to be a thread about players seen on campus in walking boots.
Cripe I thought we were on three years probation for being a poor man's Rick Pitino or something!
Let's call this sociological, not political: Sweet, delicious doom.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/opinion/are-we-on-the-path-to-national-ruin.html?_r=0
Seeing this thread bumped up reminds me that I shirked my duty a couple weeks ago when we here in Charlotte were terrorized by the BRAIN-EATING AMOEBA!!!!
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on July 12, 2016, 11:55:18 AM
Let's call this sociological, not political: Sweet, delicious doom.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/opinion/are-we-on-the-path-to-national-ruin.html?_r=0
with teasing undertones of hope to really bring the doom out.
Also, have i already used "spiraling deeper into the addiction of your own victimology"? yes i have.
Quote from: MU82 on July 12, 2016, 02:32:24 PM
Seeing this thread bumped up reminds me that I shirked my duty a couple weeks ago when we here in Charlotte were terrorized by the BRAIN-EATING AMOEBA!!!!
Isn't having a brain amoeba a prerequisite for living in Charlotte?
Sweet doom.
http://qz.com/657514/superbugs-could-kill-10-million-people-by-2050-if-a-lot-of-things-dont-change-fast/
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on October 01, 2016, 10:41:41 PM
Sweet doom.
http://qz.com/657514/superbugs-could-kill-10-million-people-by-2050-if-a-lot-of-things-dont-change-fast/
Well, to be fair, we are way overdue for a major pandemic. And 10 million (less than .2% of the world's population) is nothing compared to the deaths associated with the Spanish Flu or the Bubonic Plague.
I'll take my chances against the super bug pandemic over the clown apocalypse any day:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/09/28/what-we-know-creepy-clown-reports-across-nation/91171858/ (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/09/28/what-we-know-creepy-clown-reports-across-nation/91171858/)
Quote from: warriorchick on October 01, 2016, 11:23:36 PM
Well, to be fair, we are way overdue for a major pandemic. And 10 million (less than .2% of the world's population) is nothing compared to the deaths associated with the Spanish Flu or the Bubonic Plague.
We have an old-age pandemic going on right now. 80-90 year olds are dying in unprecedented numbers and nobody is reporting it! ::)
Quote from: tower912 on October 02, 2016, 09:15:32 AM
We have an old-age pandemic going on right now. 80-90 year olds are dying in unprecedented numbers and nobody is reporting it! ::)
I think this might be the best post ever. Very well done!
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on October 01, 2016, 10:41:41 PM
Sweet doom.
http://qz.com/657514/superbugs-could-kill-10-million-people-by-2050-if-a-lot-of-things-dont-change-fast/
Is that really daily doom? All 10 million of those people will probably be dead by 2050 any way. I want my doom now, dammit!
Quote from: Benny B on October 03, 2016, 10:09:53 AM
Is that really daily doom? All 10 million of those people will probably be dead by 2050 any way. I want my doom now, dammit!
Tough chit. You will have your doom in small, dreadful quantities that haunt many nights' sleep, and you'll like it. Except not.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on October 03, 2016, 01:33:54 PM
You will have your doom in small, dreadful quantities that haunt many nights' sleep, and you'll like it.
You call it doom, I call it having three kids... tomato, tomahto.
Here's some doom for you:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/03/technology/how-the-internet-is-loosening-our-grip-on-the-truth.html
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on November 02, 2016, 01:15:10 PM
Here's some doom for you:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/03/technology/how-the-internet-is-loosening-our-grip-on-the-truth.html
Thanks. I will no longer believe a thing I read on Scoop.
You did before?
Day before election doom:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sources-us-intel-warning-of-possible-al-qaeda-attacks-in-us-monday/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/11/17/the-north-pole-is-an-insane-36-degrees-warmer-than-normal-as-winter-descends/
One of the most f#cked up stories ever - man falls into acidic pool at Yellowstone and is dissolved as his sister films the event
http://www.kulr8.com/clip/12900165/man-killed-in-yellowstone-hot-spring-allegedly-trying-to-hot-pot
That's more .. daily dose of dumb.
More: https://twitter.com/AwardsDarwin
Democracy .. who needs it. (Click the first link shown .. gets around NYT's paywall.)
https://www.google.com/search?q=google+www.nytimes.com%2F2016%2F11%2F29%2Fworld%2Famericas%2Fwestern-liberal-democracy.html
Snakes in the sh1tter
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/toilet-snake-south-africa_us_583f466ce4b0c68e047ea7e0
Quote from: keefe on December 01, 2016, 04:46:12 AM
Snakes in the sh1tter
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/toilet-snake-south-africa_us_583f466ce4b0c68e047ea7e0
Can't really call that doom when it may be beneficial for some.... e.g. what better way to unstuck a clogged hamster in the piping than a snake?
Well .. it was nice knowing some of you.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4002130/Will-world-END-month-Computer-programmer-claims-Jesus-return-destroy-planet-latest-bizarre-claim.html
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on December 07, 2016, 01:13:18 PM
Well .. it was nice knowing some of you.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4002130/Will-world-END-month-Computer-programmer-claims-Jesus-return-destroy-planet-latest-bizarre-claim.html
I love how the person they use to debunk her claims is the "author of the UFO Investigations Manual". 'Dammit Bob, we don't have time to get at biblical scholar it's already December 7th. Don't you have that UFO guy on speed dial?'
I'm also thinking 'Everlasting Righteousness' is a pretty solid name for a heavy metal band.
Also, the doom you are living with? Feel like it's getting harder to make it thru the day?
It is.
https://www.afp.com/en/news/2265/earths-days-getting-longer-slower-study
But, your lifespan is shorter, so you've got that going for you.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/us-life-expectancy-declines-for-the-first-time-since-1993/2016/12/07/7dcdc7b4-bc93-11e6-91ee-1adddfe36cbe_story.html?utm_term=.4ed9d6ce6b4b
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on December 08, 2016, 01:32:04 PM
But, your lifespan is shorter, so you've got that going for you.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/us-life-expectancy-declines-for-the-first-time-since-1993/2016/12/07/7dcdc7b4-bc93-11e6-91ee-1adddfe36cbe_story.html?utm_term=.4ed9d6ce6b4b
Not mine. :) This due to the rise in obesity rates.
#fingerscrossed
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/12/nasa-scientist-earth-is-due-for-extinction-level-event.html
Watery doom.
(https://sites.google.com/site/arctischepinguin/home/sea-ice-extent-area/grf/nsidc_global_area_byyear_b.png)
Mosul damn failing... 1.5 million could drown
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/02/a-bigger-problem-than-isis
Preparing for doom:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich
Quote from: Hold the Ellenson on January 04, 2017, 06:55:43 PM
Mosul damn failing... 1.5 million could drown
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/02/a-bigger-problem-than-isis
Damn us what you say after the dam breaks.
Savor that win vs. Nova as much as you can. Won't last.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/01/25/doomsdayclock-expected-move-closer-midnight-threat-global-annihilation/
HOLY MOTHER OF GOD DOOM:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2017/02/01/nations-bacon-reserves-hit-50-year-low-prices-rise/97327794/
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on February 01, 2017, 02:20:57 PM
HOLY MOTHER OF GOD DOOM:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2017/02/01/nations-bacon-reserves-hit-50-year-low-prices-rise/97327794/
I am so glad bacon was BOGO this week at my local market. However, I only bought two.
Looks like a loss to St.Johns
Dear 268,000 workers at Amazon .. you're doomed.
https://www.youtube.com/v/-h5qpXO3isM?t=1m58s
Dear grocery workers .. you are doomed:
http://nypost.com/2017/02/05/inside-amazons-robot-run-supermarket-that-needs-just-3-human-workers/
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on February 05, 2017, 08:25:26 AM
Dear 268,000 workers at Amazon .. you're doomed.
https://www.youtube.com/v/-h5qpXO3isM?t=1m58s
I have to admit, I was kind of rooting for that robot to kick the crap out of the guy with the hockey stick just for being a d!ck.
99% chance all forum moderators are replaced by robots? What the effing ef.
http://ideas.ted.com/the-rise-of-the-useless-class/
#doom
Two dooms in one day:
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/01/11/462416728/this-germ-can-live-decades-in-distilled-water-kill-humans-in-48-hours
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on March 01, 2017, 03:15:08 PM
99% chance all forum moderators are replaced by robots? What the effing ef.
http://ideas.ted.com/the-rise-of-the-useless-class/
#doom
When was the last time someone saw Rocky or Topper?
And have you noticed the recent improvements here on Scoop?
SYSTEM ERROR
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on February 06, 2017, 02:10:23 PM
Dear grocery workers .. you are doomed:
http://nypost.com/2017/02/05/inside-amazons-robot-run-supermarket-that-needs-just-3-human-workers/
Don't worry.
I know a guy who is bringing the jobs back. ::)
Quote from: brandx on March 01, 2017, 05:46:25 PM
Don't worry.
I know a guy who is bringing the jobs back. ::)
Does Tim Cook know? Probably good for Apple Stock ;)
Will the robot finally get the SOTG right?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/28/spiders-could-theoretically-eat-every-human-on-earth-in-one-year/
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/defense/326094-how-north-korea-could-kill-up-to-90-percent-of-americans-at-any
What a way to go..
http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-sri-lanka-garbage-collapse-20170417-story.html
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on December 29, 2016, 07:32:59 PM
Watery doom.
(https://sites.google.com/site/arctischepinguin/home/sea-ice-extent-area/grf/nsidc_global_area_byyear_b.png)
Please NO!!!!
I don't want my barrier island paradise engulfed with the slimey Atlantic. No, please, NO
https://qz.com/994596/the-world-faces-a-400-trillion-disaster/?utm_source=atlfb
"Financial disaster is looming, and not because of the stock market or subprime loans. The coming crisis is more insidious, structural, and almost certain to blow up eventually.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) predicts that by 2050 the world will face a $400 trillion shortfall (pdf) in retirement savings. (Yes, that's trillion, with a "T".) The WEF defines a shortfall as anything less than what's required to provide 70% of a person's pre-retirement income via public pensions and private savings.
The US will find itself in the biggest hole, falling $137 trillion short of what's necessary to fund adequate retirements in 2050. It is followed by China's $119 trillion shortfall."
http://crooksandliars.com/2017/06/apology-issued-girl-disqualified-soccer
Women... well even little girls had better learn to look like the sexual objects we expect them to become.
Quote from: Jockey on June 06, 2017, 11:16:30 PM
http://crooksandliars.com/2017/06/apology-issued-girl-disqualified-soccer
Women... well even little girls had better learn to look like the sexual objects we expect them to become.
Oh, knock it off.
What happened was outrageous, but it has nothing to do being a sexual object.
If it was a boy with long hair on getting disqualified in a boy's league, would you have said the same thing?
Bravo.
What really irks me is that news is not remotely doomful. I want pestilence and planet killing. Dogs and cats, living together. Mass hysteria.
Hope this helps topper...
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(http://www.dogchatforum.com/images/catanddogtogether.jpg)
(http://petattack.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Cute-Dog-and-Cat-667x500.jpg)
Quote from: warriorchick on June 07, 2017, 08:09:30 AM
Oh, knock it off.
What happened was outrageous, but it has nothing to do being a sexual object.
If it was a boy with long hair on getting disqualified in a boy's league, would you have said the same thing?
It has everything to do with being a sexual object. Women with long hair are considered more attractive so society decides that is what girls should look like. When someone chooses not to, society sometimes chooses to try and force them back into the mold.
A boy with long hair is similar but different example. The story would have been more about how boys need to be manly and tough and appearing with a feminine trait makes him weak or gay.
Being a sexual object doesn't mean the guy who banned the young girl was thinking of her in a sexual way. It just means that he subscribes to the belief that men have short hair and women have long hair and anything outside of the mold is not appropriate.
Quote from: Jockey on June 06, 2017, 11:16:30 PM
http://crooksandliars.com/2017/06/apology-issued-girl-disqualified-soccer
Women... well even little girls had better learn to look like the sexual objects we expect them to become.
I'm trying to figure out how that conversation went.
"You're team is disqualified."
"What, why?"
"You have a boy on the team."
"We do? Who?"
"Him."
"Her?"
"No him."
"That's a girl."
"No it isn't."
It reminds me of a situation I saw during the 2K Classic in NYC. My family and I went. Mrs. TAMU's family is from long island so we went out to dinner in the city with her sister and her sister's girlfriend. The sister's girlfriend has a very short haircut so she sometimes get mistaken for a boy. No big deal she's used to it. When our waiter took our order he called her "sir." She laughed it off and corrected him. He looked uncomfortable but didn't saying anything. He came back and did it again. She corrected him again. He came back again and did it a third time. My mom stopped him and politely said, "Sir, you keep referring to her as a boy, she's a girl." He stopped, looked right a the sister's girlfriend and said "I'm so sorry, SIR" with as much emphasis on the sir as he could muster. He didn't get a tip from us.
If you people ruin my doom thread, I will haunt you in the night.
Quote from: TAMU Eagle on June 07, 2017, 08:44:32 AM
It has everything to do with being a sexual object. Women with long hair are considered more attractive so society decides that is what girls should look like. When someone chooses not to, society sometimes chooses to try and force them back into the mold.
A boy with long hair is similar but different example. The story would have been more about how boys need to be manly and tough and appearing with a feminine trait makes him weak or gay.
Being a sexual object doesn't mean the guy who banned the young girl was thinking of her in a sexual way. It just means that he subscribes to the belief that men have short hair and women have long hair and anything outside of the mold is not appropriate.
C'Mon TAMU. That's how we got to a point where an innocent peck on the cheek at a school dance got to be sexual assault unless some university form was signed in triplicate. This is no longer a world I recognize.
Quote from: TAMU Eagle on June 07, 2017, 08:56:06 AM
I'm trying to figure out how that conversation went.
"You're team is disqualified."
"What, why?"
"You have a boy on the team."
"We do? Who?"
"Him."
"Her?"
"No him."
"That's a girl."
"No it isn't."
It reminds me of a situation I saw during the 2K Classic in NYC. My family and I went. Mrs. TAMU's family is from long island so we went out to dinner in the city with her sister and her sister's girlfriend. The sister's girlfriend has a very short haircut so she sometimes get mistaken for a boy. No big deal she's used to it. When our waiter took our order he called her "sir." She laughed it off and corrected him. He looked uncomfortable but didn't saying anything. He came back and did it again. She corrected him again. He came back again and did it a third time. My mom stopped him and politely said, "Sir, you keep referring to her as a boy, she's a girl." He stopped, looked right a the sister's girlfriend and said "I'm so sorry, SIR" with as much emphasis on the sir as he could muster. He didn't get a tip from us.
Now THAT'S legit. The guy was an unbelievable Ahole.
And let me add that someone who can't get over a sexual preference issue might need to do some maturing. I have two close friends who have an alternate preference. I'm saddened that in the early '80s the world in which we lived might have made them uncomfortable. I've apologized to both if I ever told a stupid 'joke' in their presence. Both said 'No worries, long time ago.' Both are close friends today.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on June 07, 2017, 09:04:14 AM
If you people ruin my doom thread, I will haunt you in the night.
Now, back to dooming! >:(
Quote from: jsglow on June 07, 2017, 09:27:36 AM
Now, back to dooming! >:(
I, for one, believe that this fits the 'doom' narrative
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/06/06/moderate-drinking-aging-brains/102550952/ (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/06/06/moderate-drinking-aging-brains/102550952/)
Quote from: TAMU Eagle on June 07, 2017, 08:44:32 AM
Being a sexual object doesn't mean the guy who banned the young girl was thinking of her in a sexual way. It just means that he subscribes to the belief that men have short hair and women have long hair and anything outside of the mold is not appropriate.
I am going to have to disagree with you there. Maybe if you used the term "gender-biased" instead of "sexual" ...
Does that mean any woman that is attracted to Fabio is a lesbian?
What doom doesn't involve Florida in some way?
https://gizmodo.com/a-deadly-brain-invading-worm-is-disturbingly-widespread-1796514141 (https://gizmodo.com/a-deadly-brain-invading-worm-is-disturbingly-widespread-1796514141)
"Historically subtropical nematode" would be an awesome nickname.
Quote from: Sultan of Slap O' Fivin' on June 29, 2017, 05:44:30 PM
"Historically subtropical nematode" would be an awesome nickname.
I was the keyboard player for Historically Subtropical Nematode during its Art Rock phase.
http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/19760676/university-rochester-football-player-kidnapped-tortured-40-hours
Quote from: Skitch on June 29, 2017, 06:39:53 PM
http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/19760676/university-rochester-football-player-kidnapped-tortured-40-hours
Terrifying story. While the coaches couldn't possibly foresee what was going to happen, it goes to show what can happen when off the field issues are ignored.
Being an elite I probably should not be sharing this with you riff raff, but if it saves the thread...
http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/738392/Nibiru-apocalypse-2017-DOOMED-Robert-Vicino-Vivos
(http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/80/590x/secondary/Nibiru-2017-739877.jpg)
Quote from: Skitch on June 29, 2017, 06:39:53 PM
http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/19760676/university-rochester-football-player-kidnapped-tortured-40-hours
amazing how evil people can be without any regard for what they are doing. where does that come from?
Fingers crossed.
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/7/3/15903154/asteroid-death-one-chart
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on July 04, 2017, 07:32:15 AM
Fingers crossed.
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/7/3/15903154/asteroid-death-one-chart
The clickbait at the end of that article could fill up a few more days of doom...
NEXT UP IN SCIENCE & HEALTH
Does sunscreen really protect my skin? Your paranoid sunscreen questions, answered.
The Fourth of July is one of the deadliest days for drunk driving
Most parenting advice is worthless. So here's some parenting advice.
The people going to the hospital for fireworks injuries are exactly who you think
Hey, moms: eating your placenta could sicken or kill your baby
Black moms die in childbirth 3 times as often as white moms. Except in North Carolina.
here's a real tell tale sign that dooms day is upon us-
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-los-angeles-last-adult-theaters-20170706-htmlstory.html
what was the iconic milwaukee theater, known for it's sticky floors, stale popcorn and bad sound system? the princess? could you imagine being out on a first date and you're out sharing a malt or something and out of your wallet with the indented halo branded into the exterior leather falls a punch card from the princess? ummm...call me in the morning?
Untreatable Gonorrhea on the Rise Worldwide
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/untreatable-gonorrhea-on-the-rise-worldwide/?WT.mc_id=SA_TW_HLTH_NEWS&sf96169800=1
The Sign of the Woman
We're f#cked
http://www.youtube.com/v/1PFY6CNgsso
Any y'all seen Deep Throat at da Parkway back in da dey, hey?
Quote from: 4everwarriors on July 07, 2017, 08:48:35 PM
Any y'all seen Deep Throat at da Parkway back in da dey, hey?
wasn't he the dude who tipped off woodward and bernstein on watergate? i don't wanna know how mark felt got that name otherwise though, eyyyn'a? sorry, just a bad visual for me
Here we go with some proper doom and gloom.....
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-08/ready-blow-national-geographics-guide-yellowstone-supervolcano
Nice little primer about geysers, the end of the world stuff is at the end. Enjoy.
Quote from: manny31 on July 09, 2017, 10:00:12 AM
Here we go with some proper doom and gloom.....
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-08/ready-blow-national-geographics-guide-yellowstone-supervolcano
Nice little primer about geysers, the end of the world stuff is at the end. Enjoy.
People who think zerohedge is credible is doom worthy
Let's eliminate colleges and universities. Really not surprised on this, though.
The Majority Of Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad For The U.S., Poll Shows
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republicans-college-poll_us_59639fe2e4b0d5b458ec4481
A smoking gun?
Maybe the ultimate Dose of Doom in US history.
Quote from: Jockey on July 10, 2017, 06:28:43 PM
Let's eliminate colleges and universities. Really not surprised on this, though.
The Majority Of Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad For The U.S., Poll Shows
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republicans-college-poll_us_59639fe2e4b0d5b458ec4481
First, you're begging for a timeout. Second, the headline is false - the poll didn't ask if colleges are bad for the US. That's a ridiculous LIE.
#FakeNews
Quote from: Jay Bee on July 10, 2017, 10:41:04 PM
First, you're begging for a timeout. Second, the headline is false - the poll didn't ask if colleges are bad for the US. That's a ridiculous LIE.
#FakeNews
I could be missing something but what do you think the poll says?
This is directly from the Pew Research Center, not from any media covering the poll.
Quote% who say colleges and universities have a positive/negative effect on the way things are going in the country
<img width="420" height="379" src="http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/07/10093922/1_3.png" class="attachment-large size-large" alt="Since 2015, Republicans' views of the impact of colleges have turned much more negative" /> (http://www.people-press.org/2017/07/10/sharp-partisan-divisions-in-views-of-national-institutions/1_3-16/)
Is there a significant difference between "bad for the US" and "has a negative impact on the way things are going in the country"?
Quote from: Jay Bee on July 10, 2017, 10:41:04 PM
First, you're begging for a timeout. Second, the headline is false - the poll didn't ask if colleges are bad for the US. That's a ridiculous LIE.
#FakeNews
Feels like you didn't read through the Pew Research survey prior to sending off this missive.
Quote from: Golden Avalanche on July 11, 2017, 12:11:57 PM
Feels like you didn't read through the Pew Research survey prior to sending off this missive.
Funny how the biggest whiners about fake news (JB) are actually the worst purveyors of such.
It pretty much says exactly that, broflake.
I'm new here, would this be Doom Thread worthy?
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/11/world/sutter-mass-extinction-ceballos-study/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/11/world/sutter-mass-extinction-ceballos-study/index.html)
Quote from: mu03eng on July 11, 2017, 12:53:47 PM
I'm new here, would this be Doom Thread worthy?
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/11/world/sutter-mass-extinction-ceballos-study/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/11/world/sutter-mass-extinction-ceballos-study/index.html)
Nah, it's the 6th mass extinction. Just part of a natural cycle.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/10/us/ohio-house-party-shooting/index.html
I've been following this story. Its still early but it seems like it might have been a true random act of violence. No motive other than violence for violence sake.
Quote from: mu03eng on July 11, 2017, 12:53:47 PM
I'm new here, would this be Doom Thread worthy?
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/11/world/sutter-mass-extinction-ceballos-study/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/11/world/sutter-mass-extinction-ceballos-study/index.html)
I heard the same thing happened to Old Valyria. The doom. Haven't we learned anything.
Or that study where 7% of people think chocolate mile comes from brown cows.
Is that a Daily Dose of Doom?
Always remember, 1/2 of the people you meet and see every day are dumber than average.
Quote from: tower912 on July 13, 2017, 02:46:46 PM
Always remember, 1/2 of the people you meet and see every day are dumber than average.
Not to get all stat nerd on you, but 49% of the population would be below average, not 50%. Plus, I'd actually assume that human intelligence doesn't follow a standard bell curve distribution, but what do I know.
Good joke tho ;)
Quote from: mu03eng on July 13, 2017, 04:01:12 PM
Not to get all stat nerd on you, but 49% of the population would be below average, not 50%. Plus, I'd actually assume that human intelligence doesn't follow a standard bell curve distribution, but what do I know.
Good joke tho ;)
Wouldn't it be 49.99% (repeating, of course) -- which is much closer to 50% than 49%. ;) And I'm not even going to touch the distribution issue.
The way I heard it was, "whenever you're amazed by how dumb the average person is, remember that half of the people are even dumber."
come on man! i realize these guys are ugly, but he shoulda called caitlyn for a little advice, ehn'a?
dude, ahem, i mean damsel in distress tried to get outta dodge with a 5 o'clock shadow. now he just became someone's girlfriend for real-ouchie! i see why they were referred to as the "jv" team ::)
Doom.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/north-korea-could-cross-icbm-threshold-next-year-us-officials-warn-in-new-assessment/2017/07/25/4107dc4a-70af-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on July 25, 2017, 01:27:46 PM
Doom.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/north-korea-could-cross-icbm-threshold-next-year-us-officials-warn-in-new-assessment/2017/07/25/4107dc4a-70af-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html
I think this may be overstated, scare tactics doom.
If N. Korea were to ever use these weapons on anyone, they would cease to exist within the hour. Even Lil' Kim Un Um Jun Jum knows this.
Quote from: Jockey on July 25, 2017, 01:36:16 PM
I think this may be overstated, scare tactics doom.
If N. Korea were to ever use these weapons on anyone, they would cease to exist within the hour. Even Lil' Kim Un Um Jun Jum knows this.
A great read on the subject from the most recent
The Atlantic.
How to Deal With North KoreaThere are no good options. But some are worse than others.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/the-worst-problem-on-earth/528717/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-sperm-idUSKBN1AA28K
It starts...
http://host.madison.com/wsj/business/wisconsin-company-holds-chip-party-to-implant-microchips-in-workers/article_fab9ea7c-2ed0-5bcd-ace1-e55b0bc0cff2.html (http://host.madison.com/wsj/business/wisconsin-company-holds-chip-party-to-implant-microchips-in-workers/article_fab9ea7c-2ed0-5bcd-ace1-e55b0bc0cff2.html)
Quote from: Lazar's Headband on August 01, 2017, 11:35:41 PM
It starts...
http://host.madison.com/wsj/business/wisconsin-company-holds-chip-party-to-implant-microchips-in-workers/article_fab9ea7c-2ed0-5bcd-ace1-e55b0bc0cff2.html (http://host.madison.com/wsj/business/wisconsin-company-holds-chip-party-to-implant-microchips-in-workers/article_fab9ea7c-2ed0-5bcd-ace1-e55b0bc0cff2.html)
I usually don't buy into conspiracy theories....and I usually assume the best in people....but there is no way I would trust that those chips aren't being used to somehow gather personal or location data.
Quote from: TAMU Eagle on August 01, 2017, 11:43:53 PM
I usually don't buy into conspiracy theories....and I usually assume the best in people....but there is no way I would trust that those chips aren't being used to somehow gather personal or location data.
I agree. Serious doom. No way. And one more thing. The EEOC better keep a sharp eye on this. If there's even a hint of favoritism shown toward the 'chip robots'........
Bah .. we all have cell phones chirping away in our pockets. Same thing.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on August 02, 2017, 08:19:27 AM
Bah .. we all have cell phones chirping away in our pockets. Same thing.
Totally different thing. You can shut off or leave a phone behind, your chip hand not so much. Additionally, I can think of no benefit from an employee standpoint to being chipped....any benefit can be accomplished with an RFID badge. The only tangible benefit is for the company as a security issue. An implanted RFID chip makes it much more likely that whoever is logging in, is actually whose logging in since it replaces passwords.
Would not chip.
Quote from: mu03eng on August 02, 2017, 08:26:32 AM
Totally different thing. You can shut off or leave a phone behind, your chip hand not so much.
Except no one turns off, nor leaves behind their phone. Functionally (tracking purposes) it's 99% the same.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on August 02, 2017, 10:29:23 AM
Except no one turns off, nor leaves behind their phone. Functionally (tracking purposes) it's 99% the same.
While 100% true, this is a bridge too far into big brother for this upper middle aged man. I simply find it creepy and would never agree to it. The only exception I would consider would be as a safety issue for a severe alzheimer's patient or some other very significant mental disorder so as only to protect that individual, and then, only with court supervision to prevent abuse.
When our robot overlords take over, I am turning you in first. #doom
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on August 02, 2017, 01:42:12 PM
When our robot overlords take over, I am turning you in first. #doom
:'(
FYI, the robots do not like crying.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on August 02, 2017, 03:12:03 PM
FYI, the robots do not like crying.
You are on your A game today brother!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/health/ct-flesh-eating-sea-bugs-20170807-story.html (http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/health/ct-flesh-eating-sea-bugs-20170807-story.html)
No offense to Harry, but I plan to stay the f**k out of Australia.
Europe is running out of butter...
http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/09/news/economy/butter-shortage-europe/index.html?iid=ob_homepage_deskrecommended_pool
This surprised me:
The average European ate 8.4 pounds of butter in 2015, the most recent year available, compared to 7.9 pounds in 2010. The average American consumed 5.6 pounds of butter in 2015.
C'mon, people. Let's get our act together.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on August 10, 2017, 08:52:35 AM
This surprised me:
The average European ate 8.4 pounds of butter in 2015, the most recent year available, compared to 7.9 pounds in 2010. The average American consumed 5.6 pounds of butter in 2015.
C'mon, people. Let's get our act together.
I wonder if the American Consumption rate is offset by consumption of corn-based butter imposter
Quote from: GWSwarrior on August 10, 2017, 10:33:40 AM
I wonder if the American Consumption rate is offset by consumption of corn-based butter imposter
I Can't Believe It's Not Massive Myocardial Infarction!
Quote from: Golden Avalanche on July 11, 2017, 12:11:57 PM
Feels like you didn't read through the Pew Research survey prior to sending off this missive.
I did. You're a liar.
Quote from: Jay Bee on August 12, 2017, 10:22:46 PM
I did. You're a liar.
Is it settled?
Does Jay Bee have an insurmountable lead in calling other Scoopers "liars" Seems like its almost a daily occurrence.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on August 10, 2017, 08:52:35 AM
This surprised me:
The average European ate 8.4 pounds of butter in 2015, the most recent year available, compared to 7.9 pounds in 2010. The average American consumed 5.6 pounds of butter in 2015.
C'mon, people. Let's get our act together.
Don't worry. We're Amuricans.
We can out-fat them in a myriad of other ways.
C'mon little plague .. c'mon, you can turn into a pandemic if you put your mind to it.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/08/16/bubonic-plague-arizona-fleas-found-carrying-infectious-disease/570364001/
Wow. Doom. Click on the "First Time Here" button to understand what you're seeing.
http://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org/
Quote from: Jockey on August 12, 2017, 11:15:41 PM
Don't worry. We're Amuricans.
We can out-fat them in a myriad of other ways.
Having lived in both Europe and Asia it is very easy to spot the American's in a crowd:
1. Overweight
2. Tennis shoes/sneakers
3. White socks
4. Won't order sparkling mineral water
5. Straight teeth
6. White teeth
7. Not smoking like a chimney
8. Fanny packs
9. Start up conversations with strangers
10. North Face
11. Only speaks English
12. Can't figure out Celsius
13. Only ones not watching soccer on the telly
14. Ball caps
15. Only ones with bikini tops
Quote from: keefe on August 23, 2017, 11:08:30 AM
Having lived in both Europe and Asia it is very easy to spot the American's in a crowd:
1. Overweight
2. Tennis shoes/sneakers
3. White socks
4. Won't order sparkling mineral water
5. Straight teeth
6. White teeth
7. Not smoking like a chimney
8. Fanny packs
9. Start up conversations with strangers
10. North Face
11. Only speaks English
12. Can't figure out Celsius
13. Only ones not watching soccer on the telly
14. Ball caps
15. Only ones with bikini tops
16. The ones carrying large automatic weapons and protecting everyone's asses.
Quote from: keefe on August 23, 2017, 11:08:30 AM
Having lived in both Europe and Asia it is very easy to spot the American's in a crowd:
1. Overweight
2. Tennis shoes/sneakers
3. White socks
4. Won't order sparkling mineral water
5. Straight teeth
6. White teeth
7. Not smoking like a chimney
8. Fanny packs
9. Start up conversations with strangers
10. North Face
11. Only speaks English
12. Can't figure out Celsius
13. Only ones not watching soccer on the telly
14. Ball caps
15. Only ones with bikini tops
17. Stays at the office past 5 PM.
Quote from: keefe on August 23, 2017, 11:08:30 AM
Having lived in both Europe and Asia it is very easy to spot the American's in a crowd:
1. Overweight
2. Tennis shoes/sneakers
3. White socks
4. Won't order sparkling mineral water
5. Straight teeth
6. White teeth
7. Not smoking like a chimney
8. Fanny packs
9. Start up conversations with strangers
10. North Face
11. Only speaks English
12. Can't figure out Celsius
13. Only ones not watching soccer on the telly
14. Ball caps
15. Only ones with bikini tops
18. Wearing shorts.
Multiple visits, I recall being the only one wearing short pants. One visit to Paris I had three separate people ask me in English, "What time is it?". I replied in French, "Il est....heures." and always received a surprised look.
Sex witches to replace strippers?
Edit: Moved to NM. Although the end of strippers may be doom.
That's not doom. It'd do well in the NM thread, though.
Celestial DOOM!
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/04/supermassive-black-hole-discovered-near-heart-of-the-milky-way
Mmmm.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/hackers-lie-in-wait-after-penetrating-us-and-europe-power-grid-networks/
http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/856288/end-of-the-world-September-23-2017-Nibiru-Planet-X
Carpe diem. It's your last diem.
http://fox59.com/2017/09/20/researcher-says-this-saturday-will-be-the-end-of-the-world/
Well, it was fun while it lasted. Sort of.
Damnit. Never mind.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/09/22/doomsday-is-not-on-saturday-after-all-writer-says-after-predicting-end-world.html
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on September 23, 2017, 09:40:43 PM
Damnit. Never mind.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/09/22/doomsday-is-not-on-saturday-after-all-writer-says-after-predicting-end-world.html
I chose not to cut the grass yesterday and had a cocktail instead, just in case. Now I need to get it cut before football.
Quote from: Waldo Jeffers on September 21, 2017, 09:09:15 AM
http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/856288/end-of-the-world-September-23-2017-Nibiru-Planet-X
according to david meade, i am not supposed to be writing this as his initial predictions called for an end of the world as we know it...yesterday. a giant meteor was supposed to arrive to our demise. well i guess that didn't work out too well for him.
i was getting a little skeptical however when his publicist was getting calls for mr. meade to appear on various talk shows. well, as expected, he was booked solid the week leading up to our implosion, but he did say he had a few openings in next week's schedule ?-( ?-( ?-(
Quote from: Archies Bat on September 24, 2017, 05:05:19 AM
I chose not to cut the grass yesterday and had a cocktail instead, just in case. Now I need to get it cut before football.
cut the grass?? it's all brown and crunchy out here, just got back from Az and it's difficult to tell who is dryer
Quote from: rocket surgeon on September 24, 2017, 06:22:01 AM
cut the grass?? it's all brown and crunchy out here, just got back from Az and it's difficult to tell who is dryer
I'm a little farther south than Wisconsin. I'll be cutting for another month before my Bermuda grass goes dormant.
Normally I'd shy away from Fox News, but .. well, doom. You don't even need to read the article, just the headline.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/09/28/fox-news-poll-world-going-to-hell-in-handbasket-as-nation-comes-apart-at-seams.html
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on September 29, 2017, 09:30:31 AM
Normally I'd shy away from Fox News, but .. well, doom. You don't even need to read the article, just the headline.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/09/28/fox-news-poll-world-going-to-hell-in-handbasket-as-nation-comes-apart-at-seams.html
I swear I already saw that article, but it was about Scoop, not the world.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on September 29, 2017, 09:30:31 AM
Normally I'd shy away from Fox News, but .. well, doom. You don't even need to read the article, just the headline.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/09/28/fox-news-poll-world-going-to-hell-in-handbasket-as-nation-comes-apart-at-seams.html
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This made me wonder about the origin of this phrase as it is certainly odd. "Going to hell in a hand basket" has its own wiki page, who knew?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_hell_in_a_handbasket
if your kid plays the flute, i mean the musical instrument-better have it checked out because you wouldn't believe what many be wrong with it and it's some really sick stuff-
http://www.asianage.com/life/more-features/011017/california-schools-warn-flutes-could-be-tainted-with-semen.html
2048 is the end.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-claiming-2048-says-apos-162915653.html
2048 is too long to wait. And your link is no good! I want better doom, my man.
More Yellowstone. I need to schedule a vacation there soon before it blows.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/10/12/yellowstone-supervolcano-may-blow-sooner-than-thought-could-wipe-out-life-planet/757337001/ (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/10/12/yellowstone-supervolcano-may-blow-sooner-than-thought-could-wipe-out-life-planet/757337001/)
Is it just me, or can you not get enough of planet killing supervolcano news?
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on October 12, 2017, 02:27:32 PM
Is it just me, or can you not get enough of planet killing supervolcano news?
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No. You can not.
https://www.vox.com/2017/10/13/16431502/america-democracy-decline-liberalism
Sweet, sweet doom.
http://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-electromagnetic-attack-wipe-out-90-percent-us-population-peter-vincent-pry-2017-10
While Rocky has MUScoop's servers in a EMP protected bunker, all our laptops will be fried and we're gonna die anyhow.
Eat Arbys.
http://www.newsweek.com/pacific-threat-80-percent-fish-set-be-wiped-out-ocean-temperatures-surge-714647
Fish doom.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on November 18, 2017, 09:08:34 AM
http://www.newsweek.com/pacific-threat-80-percent-fish-set-be-wiped-out-ocean-temperatures-surge-714647
Fish doom.
Scoop Fishing Thread!
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/11/17/rogue-planet-could-bring-end-days-this-weekend-numerologists-say.html (http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/11/17/rogue-planet-could-bring-end-days-this-weekend-numerologists-say.html)
End of the world, again.
"Nibiru will come near our planet this weekend and throw off our gravitational forces and with it, bring hellfire and brimstone."
I don't like the sound of hellfire. Brimstone sounds ok, though.
Quote from: 4everwarriors on July 07, 2017, 08:48:35 PM
Any y'all seen Deep Throat at da Parkway back in da dey, hey?
Carol Connors was great.
Mmmm.
https://www.axios.com/former-joint-chiefs-chairman-likelihood-of-nuclear-war-is-rising-2512692723.html
this had to have been a 1 wiper :D
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/12/01/surveillance-video-shows-amazon-contractor-defecating-in-gutter.html
maybe it was the arbys that did it
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2017/12/20/winter-solstice-worst-day-2017-astrologers/970249001/
Dec. 21 will be the worst day of 2017, astrologers say
http://theweek.com/speedreads/744645/americans-life-expectancy-dropped-second-year-row-experts-are-panicking
Kill me now. Prospects are dimming every year.
Quote from: Jockey on December 21, 2017, 09:00:54 AM
http://theweek.com/speedreads/744645/americans-life-expectancy-dropped-second-year-row-experts-are-panicking
Kill me now. Prospects are dimming every year.
Primarily due to opioid deaths.
Quote from: Jockey on December 21, 2017, 09:00:54 AM
http://theweek.com/speedreads/744645/americans-life-expectancy-dropped-second-year-row-experts-are-panicking
Kill me now. Prospects are dimming every year.
Nice typo:
"I'm not prone to dramatic statements, but I think we should be really alarmed," the chief of the
morality statistics branch at the National Center for Health Statistics, Robert Anderson, told NPR."
Bananapocalypse is nearing...
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-21/the-bananapocalypse-is-nigh
List of 10 dooms:
https://www.axios.com/10-ways-america-is-falling-behind-2519640560.html
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https://jezebel.com/now-chocolate-could-go-extinct-great-1821683690
The ocean floor is sinking
http://www.newsweek.com/climate-change-sinking-ocean-rising-sea-levels-772862 (http://www.newsweek.com/climate-change-sinking-ocean-rising-sea-levels-772862)
The scoop server may have to be shut down again.
Zombie virus coming to a neighborhood near you...
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/676199/zombie-deer-disease-united-states-colorado-state-university-virus-infection
The mods are becoming prescient. Won't be long before they'll start taking over all the white-collar jobs and electing mod-officials that turn our country into a place no longer fit for humans.
The end of times is nigh upon us.
(sorry to get political)
We knew you'd post that.
Enjoy the next 2 minutes ..
http://time.com/5117722/doomsday-clock-2018-what-to-know/
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Quote from: mu_hilltopper on January 30, 2018, 10:00:08 PM
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Not to sound like a Taco Bell ad, but does anyone here truly understand why Trump referred to his FOUR PILLARS of immigration reform? Hmmmmmmm orange hair, and now this?? Research free masonic occultism. Bohemian Grove.
Keefe, thank you for your service to our country, and I know you're sworn to secrecy and all, but how long will the chemtrailing be goin on? Is it about "solar radiation" mitigation? WWHD? What would Haarp do? How is Monsanto/Bayer moving on its aluminum-resistant seed patents? Barium, Strontium, Aluminum showing up in record levels in American soil samples. Yeah, they are contrails. Of course they are. Like the time I walked in the forest preserve on a cold day and saw my breath trail stretch for 2 miles? Look up to the sky, people!! Now try really hard to remember how it used to look.
Also, any updates on Agenda 21 and directed energy weaponry and how it was used in conjunction with the CA wildfires to destroy entire neighborhoods all while the streets, plastic garbage cans, and even trees still stand? All so stack-and-pack housing can go up. Gotta make way for Heisy/Tugg's happy village of Autonomous rides!
Not a Hillary fan at all, but if you guys haven't figured out Trump is a controlled-opposition elitist shill by now. Oy Vey! NWO and globalism rock!!
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on January 26, 2018, 01:10:22 PM
Enjoy the next 2 minutes ..
http://time.com/5117722/doomsday-clock-2018-what-to-know/
The better Swiss time piece is the US Debt clock.......check out the "dollar-to-Silver" ratio. While Tugg's blockchain technology is certainly worth a look, one better have a few tubes of Eagles in the safe.
Quote from: T-Bone on January 23, 2018, 12:34:55 PM
The mods are becoming prescient. Won't be long before they'll start taking over all the white-collar jobs and electing mod-officials that turn our country into a place no longer fit for humans.
The end of times is nigh upon us.
(sorry to get political)
Nothing new under the sun. Council on Foreign Relations. Trilateral Commission. Bilderberg group. ike Eisenhower is rolling over in his grave. He tried to warn us of the military industrial complex. It may be too late.
"If it's yellow .. let it mellow."
http://www.businessinsider.com/officials-in-cape-town-warn-day-zero-will-be-worst-disaster-since-sept-11-water-shortage-2018-1/#that-means-thousands-of-people-are-likely-to-line-up-at-each-tap-every-day-to-collect-their-water-11
Mutant crayfish clones itself, well on way to taking over the world.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/science/mutant-crayfish-clones-europe.html
Doom and Gloom for MU82. Stock up on the chicken soup...
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/trump-adviser-says-ignore-flu-shots-inoculate-yourself-104503909--abc-news-topstories.html (https://www.yahoo.com/gma/trump-adviser-says-ignore-flu-shots-inoculate-yourself-104503909--abc-news-topstories.html)
If this is your thing, doom:
http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article198722829.html
https://www.vox.com/world/2018/2/7/16974772/north-korea-war-trump-kim-nuclear-weapon
North Korea's arsenal is thought to include smallpox, yellow fever, anthrax, hemorrhagic fever, and even plague.
VX is the worst of the worst," Gregson told me. "It's a crowd killer. It's odorless, colorless, and doesn't dissipate quickly.
"It only takes one or two people to deliver bioweapons, and tiny quantities of a bacteria or virus can cause a massive number of casualties," he told me. "You wouldn't need a missile. You'd need a backpack."
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on February 07, 2018, 08:42:14 AM
If this is your thing, doom:
http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article198722829.html
Classic quote:
"Seriously? We'll see how excited they are about public health when it comes to guns," Sen. Barbara Bollier, R-Mission Hills, said after the vote.
Terrifying Dog Robots Can Now Escape Through Doors and We Are All Doomed
https://www.mediaite.com/online/terrifying-dog-robots-can-now-escape-through-doors-and-we-are-all-doomed/
"Still, though, it is fascinating how adeptly this robot captures the gait of an actual four-legged animal and, one supposes, the giant claw could be useful around the house, for washing dishes or murdering the mailman."
Must see video
Quote from: TSmith34 on February 12, 2018, 09:17:41 PM
Terrifying Dog Robots Can Now Escape Through Doors and We Are All Doomed
https://www.mediaite.com/online/terrifying-dog-robots-can-now-escape-through-doors-and-we-are-all-doomed/
"Still, though, it is fascinating how adeptly this robot captures the gait of an actual four-legged animal and, one supposes, the giant claw could be useful around the house, for washing dishes or murdering the mailman."
Must see video
Anyone seen the related Black Mirror episode? One of the most unnerving things I have ever seen.
Also, Terrifying Pigzilla
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pigzilla-hong-kong_us_5a82500be4b01467fcf09e27?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/918315/Yellowstone-ERUPTION-volcano-Supervolcano-STRAIN-magma-chamber-pressure
If the Wyoming volcano were to erupt an estimated 87,000 people would be killed immediately and two-thirds of the USA would immediately be made uninhabitable.
The large spew of ash into the atmosphere would block out sunlight and directly affect life beneath it creating a "nuclear winter".
Eat Arby's.
Quote from: TSmith34 on February 13, 2018, 07:56:45 AM
Also, Terrifying Pigzilla
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pigzilla-hong-kong_us_5a82500be4b01467fcf09e27?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
Chili is wondering if it will fit in his smoker....
wonder if the O2 masks fell from the overhead compartment-had to have been the arby's-eyn'a?
http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2018/02/18/fight-over-mans-flatulence-forces-flight-to-make-emergency-landing.html
Quote from: rocket surgeon on February 18, 2018, 06:54:34 PM
wonder if the O2 masks fell from the overhead compartment-had to have been the arby's-eyn'a?
http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2018/02/18/fight-over-mans-flatulence-forces-flight-to-make-emergency-landing.html
That's inconvenience rocket, not doom. You've got to scale it up.
https://gizmodo.com/we-ve-grossly-underestimated-how-much-cow-farts-are-con-1818993089 (https://gizmodo.com/we-ve-grossly-underestimated-how-much-cow-farts-are-con-1818993089)
Excuse the semi political headline ..
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/19/pentagon-buildup-troop-recruiting-shortage-351365
Money quote:
Nearly three-quarters of Americans age 17 to 24 are ineligible for the military due to obesity, other health problems, criminal backgrounds or lack of education, according to government data.
75% .. wow. That's a lot of Arby's.
Quote from: mikekinsellaMVP on February 19, 2018, 09:41:27 AM
That's inconvenience rocket, not doom. You've got to scale it up.
https://gizmodo.com/we-ve-grossly-underestimated-how-much-cow-farts-are-con-1818993089 (https://gizmodo.com/we-ve-grossly-underestimated-how-much-cow-farts-are-con-1818993089)
well i guess that's kinda relative, but put yourself in those poor souls position. i suppose they could have nailed the guy for smokin on an airplane. but what is one supposed to do here? smelling the by-products of what someone ate 24 hours previously with no escape-that's doom in my book man. i couldn't find an "inconvenience" thread
This will probably turn out ok.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/02/26/north-pole-surges-above-freezing-in-the-dead-of-winter-stunning-scientists/
Fake news.
Damn liberal thermometers.
Thoughts and prayers.
Quote from: mikekinsellaMVP on February 19, 2018, 09:41:27 AM
That's inconvenience rocket, not doom. You've got to scale it up.
https://gizmodo.com/we-ve-grossly-underestimated-how-much-cow-farts-are-con-1818993089 (https://gizmodo.com/we-ve-grossly-underestimated-how-much-cow-farts-are-con-1818993089)
As Ron White said when asked what he was doing to help prevent global warming, "I'm eating the cows."
Unknown and undiscovered Disease X to wipe out the world.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5772943/global-pandemic-of-mystery-disease-could-wipe-out-humanity-top-scientists-warn/
Doom for 4ever and rocket...
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/dentists-dying-lung-disease-202653420.html (https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/dentists-dying-lung-disease-202653420.html)
More likely ta check out from worrin' 'bout patient's oral health neglect, dan dis chit, aina?
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on February 19, 2018, 01:58:13 PM
Nearly three-quarters of Americans age 17 to 24 are ineligible for the military due to obesity, other health problems, criminal backgrounds or lack of education, according to government data.
When the draft comes back, that'll be a good excuse. Easy to prove. Much better than bone spurs!
A 16 beat a 1.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/15/us-senate-candidate-proposes-arming-homeless-people-with-shotguns
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on March 21, 2018, 11:35:01 AM
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/15/us-senate-candidate-proposes-arming-homeless-people-with-shotguns
I pity the writers at The Onion.
Quote from: TSmith34 on March 23, 2018, 10:16:27 PM
I pity the writers at The Onion.
And Paint Touches.
#(Gr)eskatology.
Andrei (and TAMU) are excellent at parsing through complex statistical data and producing interesting, meaningful blog pieces. I hope one "dumb and dangerous" whiff-job doesn't curtail future write-ups.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on March 21, 2018, 11:35:01 AM
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/15/us-senate-candidate-proposes-arming-homeless-people-with-shotguns
If you want to see perhaps the worst movie ever check out Hobo With A Shotgun starring Rutger Hauer.
Surely a sign we are at the end.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article207645134.html
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on April 02, 2018, 11:02:03 AM
Surely a sign we are at the end.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article207645134.html
Darwinism definitely in play here.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on March 21, 2018, 11:35:01 AM
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/15/us-senate-candidate-proposes-arming-homeless-people-with-shotguns
"Brian Ellison, who is running against Democratic incumbent Debbie Stabenow, says homeless people are 'constantly victims of violent crime' and providing them with firearms would provide a deterrent."
The Stabenow platform on this issue is, unsurprisingly, to provide the homeless with knives.
Well, crap.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/more-americans-are-dying-from-suicide-drug-use-and-diarrhea/?smid=tw-upshotnyt&smtyp=cur
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on April 03, 2018, 01:04:46 PM
Well, crap.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/more-americans-are-dying-from-suicide-drug-use-and-diarrhea/?smid=tw-upshotnyt&smtyp=cur
Dying from diarrhea? That's an awful way to go. And tough on the kids, too..."So, how did your dad die?"
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on April 03, 2018, 01:04:46 PM
Well, crap.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/more-americans-are-dying-from-suicide-drug-use-and-diarrhea/?smid=tw-upshotnyt&smtyp=cur
This quote confuses me
"Some of the biggest increases in diarrhea-related deaths have taken place in the Northeast and Midwest, for example — likely as a result of infections that stem from antibiotic use. "
Anti-biotic use causes infections? Isn't that what they treat?
Quote from: TSmith34 on April 03, 2018, 03:13:48 PM
This quote confuses me
"Some of the biggest increases in diarrhea-related deaths have taken place in the Northeast and Midwest, for example — likely as a result of infections that stem from antibiotic use. "
Anti-biotic use causes infections? Isn't that what they treat?
Its a side-effect of treating other illnesses with antibiotics. Antibiotics caused the C. difficile bacteria to multiply in a patient's stomach. When expelled, the bacteria then has the opportunity to circulate. In high antibiotic-use environments, like a hospital or nursing home, it can spread like wildfire.
For those that are older and/or comprised by other health issues, it can be fatal. Very serious.
Quote from: RJax55 on April 03, 2018, 03:43:11 PM
Its a side-effect of treating other illnesses with antibiotics. Antibiotics caused the C. difficile bacteria to multiply in a patient's stomach. When expelled, the bacteria then has the opportunity to circulate. In high antibiotic-use environments, like a hospital or nursing home, it can spread like wildfire.
For those that are older and/or comprised by other health issues, it can be fatal. Very serious.
you know your $hit, RJax.
1/3 of millenials not sure the earth is round
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/04/05/millennials-flat-earth-survey/
Probably da same percentage who don't think ya can get pregnant thru intercourse, hey?
Quote from: 4everwarriors on April 07, 2018, 03:16:46 PM
Probably da same percentage who don't think ya can get pregnant thru intercourse, hey?
don't tell them, but they think inter-course is a prefix to the fill-in-the-blank-studies they major in
Quote from: RJax55 on April 03, 2018, 03:43:11 PM
Its a side-effect of treating other illnesses with antibiotics. Antibiotics caused the C. difficile bacteria to multiply in a patient's stomach. When expelled, the bacteria then has the opportunity to circulate. In high antibiotic-use environments, like a hospital or nursing home, it can spread like wildfire.
For those that are older and/or comprised by other health issues, it can be fatal. Very serious.
I was on a very serious course of antibiotics after a bad case of cellulitis and it destroyed my insides. I had kidney issues, a bleeding stomach ulcer which made me anemic but the worst was C. difficile. I lost almost 40 pounds in two weeks. Horrible experience.
I like this headline:
The question is no longer 'Are we screwed?' That answer is unequivocally yes. It's 'Now what?'
Climate change, yadda yadda. No need for the link, really.
High Five!
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/04/12/hand-dryers-feces-bacteria-study/
Quote from: Spaniel with a Short Tail on April 13, 2018, 08:05:06 AM
High Five!
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/04/12/hand-dryers-feces-bacteria-study/
it's chit like this that makes me not wash my hands after a piss.
And ya reely don't wanna handle da 'ol johnson after washin' yo hands, hey?
So delicious ..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5735065/Worlds-oldest-woman-aged-129-says-shes-miserable-day-life.html
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on May 16, 2018, 07:18:53 PM
So delicious ..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5735065/Worlds-oldest-woman-aged-129-says-shes-miserable-day-life.html
i didn't read a word beyond the sub headline but i did scroll through the pictures and.............sorry i have to move my bed outside because that is one of the keys to long life. also - #gettintoknowtheneighbors
Wisconsin doom...
https://observatory.journalism.wisc.edu/2018/05/10/wisconsins-rate-of-lead-poisoning-worse-than-flint-michigans/
C'mon, Ebola, let's see what you go this time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/world/africa/who-ebola-outbreak.html
Ebola's got nothing on this:
http://allthatsinteresting.com/radioactive-boars
Ohhhhh, FFS. I hate it when the boars become radioactive.
Earth's magnetic field drifting westward...True North no more.
https://www.space.com/40621-earth-magnetic-field-drifts.html
Ebola superhighway:
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/388401-the-ebola-superhighway-why-a-new-outbreak-terrifies-public-health
Well, ain't this a kick in the nuts this morning.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/bad-news-sausage-bacon-booze-12585028
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on May 25, 2018, 07:44:21 AM
Well, ain't this a kick in the nuts this morning.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/bad-news-sausage-bacon-booze-12585028
They could have waited until after the holiday weekend to publish this.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on May 25, 2018, 07:44:21 AM
Well, ain't this a kick in the nuts this morning.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/bad-news-sausage-bacon-booze-12585028
#fakenews
Everybody dies. Have some bacon.
Quote from: WarriorDad on April 07, 2018, 11:39:20 AM
1/3 of millenials not sure the earth is round
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/04/05/millennials-flat-earth-survey/
Dr. LeBlanc taught a United Nations class I took at MU. I had never even heard of The Flat Earth Society until a student in his class asked why the UN chose a FlatEarth map for its logo/flag. I will never forget LeBlanc's answer: "Well, the official response you will hear to that is that this configuration more easily allows for a visual depiction of complete UN membership." I thought to myself, "what is the unofficial answer?"!!
I taught a middle school astronomy class, and I am well-versed in what our Astronomy books teach. So please take what I'm about to say with a grain of salt....
The NASA imagery of Earth that we are fed changes radically from year to year and from decade to decade. One year, the North American continent appears to take up half the sphere, then five years later the same continent appears half its size.
The very logo of NASA itself features a serpent-like tongue.
Physicist Auguste Piccard in the early 20th century rode a balloon structure to the limits of the stratosphere and reported that the Earth appeared completely flat with upturned edges. His works were mysteriously "severely underreported" by media outlets of the day, according to several historians.
NASA is on record within the past year of saying that getting past the Van Allen radiation belt makes a manned flight going back to the moon "very difficult, if not impossible." WHHAAAT?!!
Genius director Stanley Kubrick's daughter is on record stating that her father took liberties making Stephen King's THE SHINING into a movie, mainly so that he could communicate his angst and guilt over accepting the duties of staging our Moon landing. The movie functions on two levels, but Kubrick wanted to thumb his nose at NASA and the US govt.
The theory behind why there would be a vast effort to hide the true nature of the Earth goes something like this....Free Masons, who have dominated international political discourse for centuries, were a response to a repressive Church. The primacy of consumerism over spirituality was easy to take root if the Sun was millions of miles away and at the center of our universe, while we here on Earth were both hurtling around said Sun, all while spinning madly on our tilted axis. Heliocentric theory was thus put forth by Nicholas Copernicus as a response to geocentrism. The Jesuits backed Copernican thought. (Thank God? Or Thank Man?)
Curvature of the earth is NEVER seen atop a skyscraper or in a jet, even at altitudes of over 3o,000 feet. People are seeing the appearance of curvature due to fish-eye lenses installed in buildings and on most commercial airliners.
Water always finds its level. While one can certainly slosh water around in a glass to mimic waves on an Ocean surface, isn't it a bit strange to imagine a spinning ball Earth made up of mostly Ocean water curving around a sphere, the concept of "gravity" notwithstanding?
Remember, President Nixon once said, "The American people will believe anything if they see it on TV." Yes, today, that could be modified to "the internet."
Remember also that our own CIA many years ago said that their mission would be complete when people believe that Down is Up, Fiction is Truth etc. Maybe this flat earth stuff is part of their deception. Or is it truth?
Think about all the things you were taught in grade school that turned out to be simplistic and merely part of the socialization process. The world was one in which your entire day consisted of depending on and submitting to authority figures in your life. This was so out of necessity. Then we learned to think on our own.
I can explain the seasons, apparent motion, synchronous rotation (why we see only one side of the Moon) very well with the Globe model I grew up with. There are those who can explain night and day, seasons, etc using a Flat Earth model and a stationary, fixed Earth. Some of these proponents are fiercely religious, and some even fundamentalist in their strict interpretation of the Bible and its description of the Firmament, separating "waters below from the waters above." However, many Flat Earthers are secular humanists and approach the debate from an anti-capitalist bent.
I am in no way stating that the Earth is flat, nor even that I believe it to be flat. I will be ridiculed here for even broaching the subject. During a very difficult time in my life of being a full-time caregiver for my elderly parents, I reminisced about my coming-of-age years in the mid 1980s. I started noticing that music video after music video featured pyramid imagery, often with bright capstone light at the top. While I believe talk of the "illuminati" is a bit ridiculous, I know that talk of Free Masonry and elites, The Council on Foreign Relations, The Trilateral Commission and social clubs like Bohemian Grove, not to mention fraternal clubs like Skull and Bones is anything but frivolous. Ask yourself if there could be any vested interest in those groups keeping God far away and distant from mankind? It certainly sets a tone for a "divide and conquer" mentality that has been so pervasive in our world.
Quote from: NorthernDancerColt on May 27, 2018, 05:39:07 AM
Dr. LeBlanc taught a United Nations class I took at MU. I had never even heard of The Flat Earth Society until a student in his class asked why the UN chose a FlatEarth map for its logo/flag. I will never forget LeBlanc's answer: "Well, the official response you will hear to that is that this configuration more easily allows for a visual depiction of complete UN membership." I thought to myself, "what is the unofficial answer?"!!
I taught a middle school astronomy class, and I am well-versed in what our Astronomy books teach. So please take what I'm about to say with a grain of salt....
The NASA imagery of Earth that we are fed changes radically from year to year and from decade to decade. One year, the North American continent appears to take up half the sphere, then five years later the same continent appears half its size.
The very logo of NASA itself features a serpent-like tongue.
Physicist Auguste Piccard in the early 20th century rode a balloon structure to the limits of the stratosphere and reported that the Earth appeared completely flat with upturned edges. His works were mysteriously "severely underreported" by media outlets of the day, according to several historians.
NASA is on record within the past year of saying that getting past the Van Allen radiation belt makes a manned flight going back to the moon "very difficult, if not impossible." WHHAAAT?!!
Genius director Stanley Kubrick's daughter is on record stating that her father took liberties making Stephen King's THE SHINING into a movie, mainly so that he could communicate his angst and guilt over accepting the duties of staging our Moon landing. The movie functions on two levels, but Kubrick wanted to thumb his nose at NASA and the US govt.
The theory behind why there would be a vast effort to hide the true nature of the Earth goes something like this....Free Masons, who have dominated international political discourse for centuries, were a response to a repressive Church. The primacy of consumerism over spirituality was easy to take root if the Sun was millions of miles away and at the center of our universe, while we here on Earth were both hurtling around said Sun, all while spinning madly on our tilted axis. Heliocentric theory was thus put forth by Nicholas Copernicus as a response to geocentrism. The Jesuits backed Copernican thought. (Thank God? Or Thank Man?)
Curvature of the earth is NEVER seen atop a skyscraper or in a jet, even at altitudes of over 3o,000 feet. People are seeing the appearance of curvature due to fish-eye lenses installed in buildings and on most commercial airliners.
Water always finds its level. While one can certainly slosh water around in a glass to mimic waves on an Ocean surface, isn't it a bit strange to imagine a spinning ball Earth made up of mostly Ocean water curving around a sphere, the concept of "gravity" notwithstanding?
Remember, President Nixon once said, "The American people will believe anything if they see it on TV." Yes, today, that could be modified to "the internet."
Remember also that our own CIA many years ago said that their mission would be complete when people believe that Down is Up, Fiction is Truth etc. Maybe this flat earth stuff is part of their deception. Or is it truth?
Think about all the things you were taught in grade school that turned out to be simplistic and merely part of the socialization process. The world was one in which your entire day consisted of depending on and submitting to authority figures in your life. This was so out of necessity. Then we learned to think on our own.
I can explain the seasons, apparent motion, synchronous rotation (why we see only one side of the Moon) very well with the Globe model I grew up with. There are those who can explain night and day, seasons, etc using a Flat Earth model and a stationary, fixed Earth. Some of these proponents are fiercely religious, and some even fundamentalist in their strict interpretation of the Bible and its description of the Firmament, separating "waters below from the waters above." However, many Flat Earthers are secular humanists and approach the debate from an anti-capitalist bent.
I am in no way stating that the Earth is flat, nor even that I believe it to be flat. I will be ridiculed here for even broaching the subject. During a very difficult time in my life of being a full-time caregiver for my elderly parents, I reminisced about my coming-of-age years in the mid 1980s. I started noticing that music video after music video featured pyramid imagery, often with bright capstone light at the top. While I believe talk of the "illuminati" is a bit ridiculous, I know that talk of Free Masonry and elites, The Council on Foreign Relations, The Trilateral Commission and social clubs like Bohemian Grove, not to mention fraternal clubs like Skull and Bones is anything but frivolous. Ask yourself if there could be any vested interest in those groups keeping God far away and distant from mankind? It certainly sets a tone for a "divide and conquer" mentality that has been so pervasive in our world.
Being someone who has been in zero gravity, and who has done extensive work with NASA in the past, the Earth is most definitely round, and we have been on the moon.
Quote from: forgetful on May 27, 2018, 01:11:16 PM
Being someone who has been in zero gravity, and who has done extensive work with NASA in the past, the Earth is most definitely round, and we have been on the moon.
False. It's an oblate (pear shaped) spheroid. -Neil Degrasse Tyson
I'll take your word on it. Reassuring to know. Thanks.
https://www.ibtimes.co.in/nasa-covering-asteroid-collision-that-may-take-place-next-year-754577
The astronomers had even given a date of the possible asteroid collision, speculating it to hit Earth on February 1, 2019 at 11:47am GMT with an impact equal to 30 million nuclear bombs.
Eat Arbys.
Quote from: NorthernDancerColt on May 27, 2018, 05:39:07 AM
I am in no way stating that the Earth is flat, nor even that I believe it to be flat. I will be ridiculed here for even broaching the subject. During a very difficult time in my life of being a full-time caregiver for my elderly parents, I reminisced about my coming-of-age years in the mid 1980s. I started noticing that music video after music video featured pyramid imagery, often with bright capstone light at the top. While I believe talk of the "illuminati" is a bit ridiculous, I know that talk of Free Masonry and elites, The Council on Foreign Relations, The Trilateral Commission and social clubs like Bohemian Grove, not to mention fraternal clubs like Skull and Bones is anything but frivolous. Ask yourself if there could be any vested interest in those groups keeping God far away and distant from mankind? It certainly sets a tone for a "divide and conquer" mentality that has been so pervasive in our world.
I believe there are elite memberships in this world that only the most powerful are a part of. Bilderberg, FreeMasons, Skull & Bones, but to what extent these or other entities have goes from the small to the conspiratorial. Hard to say with events that have taken place in the last 25 years, or even last 3 years what could be going on. Conspiracy delight for sure.
Sun's death. Result: The beautiful, but dreaded planetary nebulae.
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/amp/ncna873041?__twitter_impression=true
Quote from: Dr. Blackheart on June 03, 2018, 12:27:15 AM
Sun's death. Result: The beautiful, but dreaded planetary nebulae.
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/amp/ncna873041?__twitter_impression=true
Can it be "one of the prettiest objects in the sky" if there is no one to see it?
Quote from: warriorchick on June 03, 2018, 10:40:29 AM
Can it be "one of the prettiest objects in the sky" if there is no one to see it?
Well, there's about 5 billion years for the distant audience to evolve. So maybe.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on June 02, 2018, 10:19:24 AM
https://www.ibtimes.co.in/nasa-covering-asteroid-collision-that-may-take-place-next-year-754577
The astronomers had even given a date of the possible asteroid collision, speculating it to hit Earth on February 1, 2019 at 11:47am GMT with an impact equal to 30 million nuclear bombs.
Eat Arbys.
Upside: No Valentine's Day to contend with
Quote from: TSmith34 on June 03, 2018, 02:49:09 PM
Upside: No Valentine's Day to contend with
Hell of a Groundhog's Day shadow, though.
Quote from: Dr. Blackheart on June 03, 2018, 03:09:16 PM
Hell of a Groundhog's Day shadow, though.
Punxatawney Phil emerges, sees largest shadow ever, predicts 8 more milliseconds of winter, followed by 2 seconds of summer, followed by 10 years of cloudy with a chance of ice age.
Quote from: Dr. Blackheart on June 03, 2018, 03:09:16 PM
Hell of a Groundhog's Day shadow, though.
6 more weeks of nuclear winter?
Quote from: Lazar's Canadian Bacon Headband on June 04, 2018, 11:24:42 AM
6 more weeks of nuclear winter?
On the positive side, it will cancel out global warming.
Quote from: warriorchick on June 04, 2018, 11:39:07 AM
On the positive side, it will cancel out global warming.
So all-in-all it sounds like the board is pro asteroid. I'm glad we can all finally agree on something.
Quote from: TSmith34 on June 04, 2018, 07:58:25 PM
So all-in-all it sounds like the board is pro asteroid. I'm glad we can all finally agree on something.
I'm not sold on Asteroid.
Sure, it has a high NASA ranking, but those rankings are garbage.
Need 5 ice ages to judge.
Quote from: barfolomew on June 05, 2018, 08:33:14 AM
I'm not sold on Asteroid.
Sure, it has a high NASA ranking, but those rankings are garbage.
Need 5 ice ages to judge.
+1. Our osculating orbital elements during time outs are very suspect. Matter matters, aina?
]https://www.nbcnews.com/video/the-lies-half-truths-and-guarded-secrets-fueling-bourbon-s-boom-1251268675699] (https://www.nbcnews.com/video/the-lies-half-truths-and-guarded-secrets-fueling-bourbon-s-boom-1251268675699)
:'(
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/climate/antarctica-ice-melting-faster.html
Pretty sure this means we should all buy boats this summer.
Went to Arby's at lunch. Line was 10+ deep in the drive thru and 6 deep inside with 4 groups waiting for their MEATS.
Not sure if this is doom or not.
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on June 14, 2018, 12:59:30 PM
Went to Arby's at lunch. Line was 10+ deep in the drive thru and 6 deep inside with 4 groups waiting for their MEATS.
Not sure if this is doom or not.
Um, yeah.
(https://i.imgur.com/Nwb2RDW.gif)
Mexican doom:
http://wp.telesurtv.net/english/news/Mexican-Mayoral-Candidate-Becomes-Murder-Victim-Number-114-20180615-0013.html
More doom:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/06/16/indonesian-woman-dies-after-being-swallowed-whole-by-python.html
National doom:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/world-cup-2018/6551013/nigerias-power-grid-meltdown-world-cup/ (https://www.thesun.co.uk/world-cup-2018/6551013/nigerias-power-grid-meltdown-world-cup/)
Foliage doom
https://weather.com/science/nature/news/2018-06-19-invasive-plant-species-giant-hogweed-burns-blindness
(https://weather.com/science/nature/news/2018-06-19-invasive-plant-species-giant-hogweed-burns-blindness)
"The plant's watery sap contains photosensitizing agents. When the sap combines with moisture and is exposed to sunlight, it can cause severe skin and eye irritation, painful blistering, permanent scarring and even blindness. "Contact between the skin and the sap of this plant occurs either through brushing against the bristles on the stem or breaking the stem or leaves," the agency notes."
Not doom, but close.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-22/portion-of-kentucky-bourbon-warehouse-collapses (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-22/portion-of-kentucky-bourbon-warehouse-collapses)
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/06/25/621080751/red-meat-allergies-caused-by-tick-bites-are-on-the-rise
I'd rather just get Lyme Disease.
Quote from: #bansultan on June 25, 2018, 07:52:28 AM
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/06/25/621080751/red-meat-allergies-caused-by-tick-bites-are-on-the-rise
I'd rather just get Lyme Disease.
I have this - got it from a tick bite on Kiawah Island a little under 5 years ago. TBH - cutting out mammal from the diet isn't very hard. It's the cross contamination issues that suck - order a grilled chicken sandwich from a place that cooks them right next to a burger = toast, that wok was just used for beef fried rice = toast, etc.
Quote from: naginiF on June 25, 2018, 08:17:27 AM
I have this - got it from a tick bite on Kiawah Island a little under 5 years ago. TBH - cutting out mammal from the diet isn't very hard. It's the cross contamination issues that suck - order a grilled chicken sandwich from a place that cooks them right next to a burger = toast, that wok was just used for beef fried rice = toast, etc.
Man sorry to hear that. I just like red meat too much.
Doom.
https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Plutonium-went-missing-in-San-Antonio-but-the-13071072.php
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on July 16, 2018, 09:23:16 AM
Doom.
https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Plutonium-went-missing-in-San-Antonio-but-the-13071072.php
I mean, who hasn't left plutonium in the back seat of their rental car overnight?
Earth overshoot day is a thing.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/earth-overshoot-day-natural-resources-humans-planet-nature-damage-global-footprint-a8460756.html
Watery doom.
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-doomsday-weapon-submarine-nuke-2018-4
I say bring it on, smell ya later coastal elites,
Signed,
Flyover Country
Millennials dooming us:
https://www.complex.com/life/2017/08/hooters-shutting-down-because-millennials-arent-that-into-boobs
Hooters has also been one-upped (two-upped?) by chains that have increased the overt sexuality such as Twin Peaks, Red Neck Heaven, Tilted Kilt, Tight Ends. There is a lot more competition in the breastraunt space than there used to be.
Quote from: TSmith34 on August 20, 2018, 01:14:53 PM
Hooters has also been one-upped (two-upped?) by chains that have increased the overt sexuality such as Twin Peaks, Red Neck Heaven, Tilted Kilt, Tight Ends. There is a lot more competition in the breastraunt space than there used to be.
From twitter:
"going to a subpar beer & wings restaurant to leer at/take pics with big-boobed waitresses is one of the most uniquely baby-boomer male concepts and I am laughing my ass off at the idea that it's some sort of sacred cultural institution that millenials are shitting all over"
Quote from: TSmith34 on August 20, 2018, 01:14:53 PM
Twin Peaks, Red Neck Heaven, Tilted Kilt, Tight Ends..
Do those have Milwaukee locations? Asking for a friend.
Quote from: TSmith34 on August 20, 2018, 01:14:53 PM
Hooters has also been one-upped (two-upped?) by chains that have increased the overt sexuality such as Twin Peaks, Red Neck Heaven, Tilted Kilt, Tight Ends. There is a lot more competition in the breastraunt space than there used to be.
This is false advertising at its finest. They may be able to catch a pass or two, but not one of those ladies has the frame to block a 270-lb DE.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on August 20, 2018, 01:37:34 PM
Do those have Milwaukee locations? Asking for a friend.
I don't know if I should recommend Googling "Tight ends near me"
Quote from: jesmu84 on August 20, 2018, 01:33:45 PM
From twitter:
"going to a subpar beer & wings restaurant to leer at/take pics with big-boobed waitresses is one of the most uniquely baby-boomer male concepts and I am laughing my ass off at the idea that it's some sort of sacred cultural institution that millenials are crapting all over"
That came across my feed as well and i thought it was perfect. the holy trinity baby boomer imagery is Hooters, Sean Hannity and a McMansion.
https://www.gq.com/story/sperm-count-zero
A strange thing has happened to men over the past few decades: We've become increasingly infertile, so much so that within a generation we may lose the ability to reproduce entirely. What's causing this mysterious drop in sperm counts—and is there any way to reverse it before it's too late?
(Probable answer: Arby's.)
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on September 04, 2018, 08:24:42 PM
https://www.gq.com/story/sperm-count-zero
A strange thing has happened to men over the past few decades: We've become increasingly infertile, so much so that within a generation we may lose the ability to reproduce entirely. What's causing this mysterious drop in sperm counts—and is there any way to reverse it before it's too late?
(Probable answer: Arby's.)
Within a generation, we won't need a man to make a baby.
Quote from: warriorchick on September 04, 2018, 09:14:14 PM
Within a generation, we won't need a man to make a baby.
Arby's.
Quote from: warriorchick on September 04, 2018, 09:14:14 PM
Within a generation, we won't need a man to make a baby.
Witin a generation we will not need a woman to make a baby either.
We are almost there on both fertilizing without a man, and making an embryo without a woman. I'd say 15-20 years we can fertilize without a man, and it will be widespread in clinical practice. Similar for embryo's without women.
The lagging factor will be an artificial womb from fertilization, gestation and birth. That may be 20-30 years out.
Gotta invest heavily, den, in sex toys, aina?
http://www.didthanoskill.me/
I made it. I always figured it'd be Thanos or beef n cheddars that get me. Now I know.
https://nypost.com/2018/09/20/woman-on-vacation-reportedly-finds-dead-tortoise-in-her-vagina/
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on September 21, 2018, 08:05:01 AM
https://nypost.com/2018/09/20/woman-on-vacation-reportedly-finds-dead-tortoise-in-her-vagina/
(https://img.buyon.pk/cache/data/members/giftcollectionpk/dhramebwsaaxmu6-500x500.jpg)
Talk about doom. How did that get there? She has NO idea. :o
Quote from: jsglow on September 21, 2018, 08:32:19 AM
Talk about doom. How did that get there? She has NO idea. :o
Please. They are way, way more stories about men with weird stuff in their orifices.
"Wow, I must have accidentally sat on that corn cob..."
Quote from: warriorchick on September 21, 2018, 11:10:48 AM
Please. They are way, way more stories about men with weird stuff in their orifices.
"Wow, I must have accidentally sat on that corn cob..."
PRO TIP:
Don't text that word from your work phone, lest it autocorrect poorly.
And let me just take this opportunity to apologize again to Karen.
I really did mean that we should get together in your office.
Next tyme somewon gets ya an invite four turtle soup, make up sum bullchit 'bout beein' buzy, aina?
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on August 20, 2018, 01:05:32 PM
Millennials dooming us:
https://www.complex.com/life/2017/08/hooters-shutting-down-because-millennials-arent-that-into-boobs
Millenials ruin
everything:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-25/millennials-are-causing-the-u-s-divorce-rate-to-plummet (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-25/millennials-are-causing-the-u-s-divorce-rate-to-plummet)
Over 100 dead in latest ebola outbreak
https://www.yahoo.com/news/extremely-concerned-ebola-perfect-storm-congo-084906678.html
Yeah, yeah, I've heard that before. Ebola totally let me down two years ago.
I suspect I'd be a lot more terrified of the The Doom Show if I could understand more than a quarter of what he is saying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLtTr7O0BUQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLtTr7O0BUQ)
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on September 25, 2018, 08:44:16 PM
Yeah, yeah, I've heard that before. Ebola totally let me down two years ago.
Ebola is dead to me.
7-degree rise in global temperatures by 2100
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump-administration-sees-a-7-degree-rise-in-global-temperatures-by-2100/2018/09/27/b9c6fada-bb45-11e8-bdc0-90f81cc58c5d_story.html
Last month, deep in a 500-page environmental impact statement, the Trump administration made a startling assumption: On its current course, the planet will warm a disastrous 7 degrees by the end of this century.
A rise of 7 degrees Fahrenheit, or about 4 degrees Celsius, compared with preindustrial levels would be catastrophic, according to scientists. Many coral reefs would dissolve in increasingly acidic oceans. Parts of Manhattan and Miami would be underwater without costly coastal defenses. Extreme heat waves would routinely smother large parts of the globe.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/10/08/world-has-only-years-get-climate-change-under-control-un-scientists-say/?utm_term=.6b04a7b1d772
10-12 years left. Smoke 'em if you got em.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on September 28, 2018, 08:35:25 AM
7-degree rise in global temperatures by 2100
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump-administration-sees-a-7-degree-rise-in-global-temperatures-by-2100/2018/09/27/b9c6fada-bb45-11e8-bdc0-90f81cc58c5d_story.html
Last month, deep in a 500-page environmental impact statement, the Trump administration made a startling assumption: On its current course, the planet will warm a disastrous 7 degrees by the end of this century.
A rise of 7 degrees Fahrenheit, or about 4 degrees Celsius, compared with preindustrial levels would be catastrophic, according to scientists. Many coral reefs would dissolve in increasingly acidic oceans. Parts of Manhattan and Miami would be underwater without costly coastal defenses. Extreme heat waves would routinely smother large parts of the globe.
Personally, I don't see anything wrong with either of these cities going underwater.
Holy mother of god, there are only two Arby's on Manhattan. They need 100, and I'm the man to bring that to them.
Who's with me?
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on October 08, 2018, 02:12:58 PM
Holy mother of god, there are only two Arby's on Manhattan. They need 100, and I'm the man to bring that to them.
Who's with me?
It's worse than you think. They knowingly, and intentionally don't want Arby's on their island. That is why we should just let the floodwaters take their blasphemous souls.
The little swimmers ain't swimming like they used to. Result: Human Extinction
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/human-race-faces-extinction-male-13380219
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on October 08, 2018, 09:25:43 AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/10/08/world-has-only-years-get-climate-change-under-control-un-scientists-say/?utm_term=.6b04a7b1d772
10-12 years left. Smoke 'em if you got em.
I find most of the doom topics pretty amusing. This one...not so much.
Let's face it, there is zero percent chance the world collectively pulls its sh!t together and decreases greenhouse gases by 45%. Zero. We're going to have to figure out a not-prohibitively-expensive way to suck the gases out of the air and sequester them, and even then we are probably f'd because the ocean will have become a huge heat sink.
Quote from: TSmith34 on October 09, 2018, 08:35:18 AM
I find most of the doom topics pretty amusing. This one...not so much.
Let's face it, there is zero percent chance the world collectively pulls its sh!t together and decreases greenhouse gases by 45%. Zero. We're going to have to figure out a not-prohibitively-expensive way to suck the gases out of the air and sequester them, and even then we are probably f'd because the ocean will have become a huge heat sink.
It's been 10 years for 40-50 years. We'll be fine. "The Earth takes care of itself"- George Carlin
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on October 09, 2018, 09:04:33 AM
It's been 10 years for 40-50 years. We'll be fine.
Now there's a man who had his Arby's today.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on October 09, 2018, 10:34:53 AM
Now there's a man who had his Arby's today.
Not yet, but I'm thinkin' it.
Quote from: Dr. Blackheart on October 09, 2018, 02:14:19 AM
The little swimmers ain't swimming like they used to. Result: Human Extinction
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/human-race-faces-extinction-male-13380219
Not necessarily. They are getting pretty darn close to being able to make a baby without swimmers.
The end of males, maybe.....
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a9/Sylvia_lots_of_happy_fat_women.jpeg/360px-Sylvia_lots_of_happy_fat_women.jpeg)
Quote from: Dr. Blackheart on October 09, 2018, 02:14:19 AM
The little swimmers ain't swimming like they used to. Result: Human Extinction
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/human-race-faces-extinction-male-13380219
Which is probably OK in the grand scheme of things. Humans had a nice run. Time for evolution to work its magic and replace us with something better.
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on October 09, 2018, 09:04:33 AM
It's been 10 years for 40-50 years. We'll be fine. "The Earth takes care of itself"- George Carlin
The earth will be fine. Humans, not so much.
Kinda doomish.
(https://i.redd.it/95aohj1xhbw11.png)
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on November 04, 2018, 10:44:34 AM
Kinda doomish.
(https://i.redd.it/95aohj1xhbw11.png)
I kind of love that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/us-life-expectancy-declines-again-a-dismal-trend-not-seen-since-world-war-i/2018/11/28/ae58bc8c-f28c-11e8-bc79-68604ed88993_story.html
Some light reading as you're enjoying your morning Arby's.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on November 29, 2018, 07:40:03 AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/us-life-expectancy-declines-again-a-dismal-trend-not-seen-since-world-war-i/2018/11/28/ae58bc8c-f28c-11e8-bc79-68604ed88993_story.html
Some light reading as you're enjoying your morning Arby's and Oxy shake
I'm putting this in the doom category.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/opinion/american-economy-working-class.html
TL;DR: Great economy. 60% dissatisfied with the country. Last year was the worst in a study for "well being." Disappointment by the young. Crisis of connection.
People, especially in the middle- and working-class slices of society, are less likely to volunteer in their community, less likely to go to church, less likely to know their neighbors, less likely to be married than they were at any time over the past several decades.
And they are dying. On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that life expectancy in the United States declined for the third straight year. This is an absolutely stunning trend.'
..And yet here we are — a straight-up social catastrophe.
Economic anxiety is now downstream from and merged with sociological, psychological and spiritual decay.
Front page above the fold doom.
(I'd like to punch those UW scientists in the ..)
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2018/12/10/curious-what-climate-like-3-million-years-ago-we-may-find-out/2267459002/
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on December 11, 2018, 08:54:35 AM
Front page above the fold doom.
(I'd like to punch those UW scientists in the ..)
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2018/12/10/curious-what-climate-like-3-million-years-ago-we-may-find-out/2267459002/
So I should be buying beach front property in Alaska and Greenland then.
There were earthquakes in Tennessee last night.
16,399
the number of murders in mexico over the first 7 months of 2018??
this number shocked the bejeeeeebers outta me!! that's a rate over 7 per 100,000. by comparison, the usa is between 4-5 per 100,000
"But this time, Tatiana, a slim blonde who worked for a pharmaceutical company in San Francisco, returned home in a body bag, becoming one of the 16,399 homicides recorded in the country in the first seven months of this year, according to statistics collected by Mexican law enforcement.
Already, 2018 promises to be one of the most violent years on record in the country. Homicides shot up 16 percent during the first half of this year — a number that has been rising at an alarming rate over the last two years as splintered groups of drug traffickers and gangs battle for dominance."
what did this girl have to do with the war on drugs? dumb luck?
There are very few murders in Mexico that aren't between drug cartels. You are safer in the tourist areas of Mexico than in bad areas of major cities across the US. :-\
Quote from: mudeltaforcegurl on December 16, 2018, 09:55:15 PM
There are very few murders in Mexico that aren't between drug cartels. You are safer in the tourist areas of Mexico than in bad areas of major cities across the US. :-\
Until you get tampered booze...
Frank Kaminsky Carries Baby Down 40-Plus Stories During High-Rise Evacuation
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2810894-frank-kaminsky-carries-baby-down-40-plus-stories-during-high-rise-evacuation?utm_source=cnn.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial
Per Rick Bonnell of the Charlotte Observer, Kaminsky was playing Fortnite on Thursday when the fire alarm went off in his high-rise building. He grabbed a box of Cheez-Its and started walking but saw one of his neighbors was trying to take a baby and a dog downstairs. Kaminsky then took action and helped carry the baby down 46 flights to get out of the building.
Quote from: rocket surgeon on December 16, 2018, 05:34:35 PM
16,399
the number of murders in mexico over the first 7 months of 2018??
this number shocked the bejeeeeebers outta me!! that's a rate over 7 per 100,000. by comparison, the usa is between 4-5 per 100,000
"But this time, Tatiana, a slim blonde who worked for a pharmaceutical company in San Francisco, returned home in a body bag, becoming one of the 16,399 homicides recorded in the country in the first seven months of this year, according to statistics collected by Mexican law enforcement.
Already, 2018 promises to be one of the most violent years on record in the country. Homicides shot up 16 percent during the first half of this year — a number that has been rising at an alarming rate over the last two years as splintered groups of drug traffickers and gangs battle for dominance."
what did this girl have to do with the war on drugs? dumb luck?
That is still far lower homicide rates than in countries like the Bahamas (28.4 per 100,000), Jamaica (47.01), Saint Kitts (34.23), Virgin Islands (49.26), El Salvador (82.84), Guatemala (27.26). Honduras (56.52), and many others. The average in the Americas is 16.3. Way higher than any other area in the world (Africa 12.5, Europe 3.0, Asia 2.9, average for world 6.2).
When we vacation in the uber luxurious all-inclusive resorts (we call paradise), we often never realize what life is like for the people living in those countries.
https://nypost.com/2018/12/16/soaring-suicides-are-another-sign-of-our-toxic-social-disconnect/
In other news, if single mother of eight can't make ends meet without being forced into pornography and having to fend off frivolous lawsuits from Gloria Allred, what hope is there for the rest of us?
And WTF is Vegan junk food?!?!? That's a double dose of doom right there.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/15/style/octomom-kids-2018.html
Quote from: mudeltaforcegurl on December 16, 2018, 09:55:15 PM
There are very few murders in Mexico that aren't between drug cartels. You are safer in the tourist areas of Mexico than in bad areas of major cities across the US. :-\
not just between drug cartels. between the drug cartels and anyone who disagrees with them maybe. maybe they should do a gun buy back
Ebola chapter 2...
https://www.kff.org/news-summary/ebola-outbreak-in-congo-unforgiving-who-says/
Doom/Arby's capitol of the USA:
https://www.apnews.com/f1915b8dafdb462986883142ed2ccac6
Maggie Hill .. ticked off the many deaths that have befallen her family: An older brother drowned in a flood in 1977. A sister died in a house fire. Two siblings, both smokers, died of lung cancer. Two others were stillborn. Her first husband died of congestive heart failure.
Then there were the suicides. Two of her three sons shot themselves to death, one of them after losing his job. Her second husband died the same way, using a gun in their bedroom closet one Sunday morning while she was still in bed.
"I don't think people have a lot to live for," she said. "I really and truly don't see things getting better."
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on December 17, 2018, 03:11:49 PM
https://nypost.com/2018/12/16/soaring-suicides-are-another-sign-of-our-toxic-social-disconnect/
And for my wife's birthday tonight...we're headed to a memorial service for her best friend's husband, who committed suicide.
Quote from: brewcity77 on December 20, 2018, 04:03:04 PM
And for my wife's birthday tonight...we're headed to a memorial service for her best friend's husband, who committed suicide.
My condolences, Brew. So sorry.
It's a quiet epidemic. I wonder if there'll ever be a time in the future where suicides will be reported on the news, like other non-natural death.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on December 18, 2018, 10:42:18 AM
Doom/Arby's capitol of the USA:
https://www.apnews.com/f1915b8dafdb462986883142ed2ccac6
Maggie Hill .. ticked off the many deaths that have befallen her family: An older brother drowned in a flood in 1977. A sister died in a house fire. Two siblings, both smokers, died of lung cancer. Two others were stillborn. Her first husband died of congestive heart failure.
Then there were the suicides. Two of her three sons shot themselves to death, one of them after losing his job. Her second husband died the same way, using a gun in their bedroom closet one Sunday morning while she was still in bed.
"I don't think people have a lot to live for," she said. "I really and truly don't see things getting better."
At least they were smart enough to keep guns in their homes so no one could break in and cause them harm.
"This is why we can't have nice things" is what I'd say if this wasn't a thread about doom.
Suicide and opioids, two sides of the same coin really, are two large reasons the life expectations for Americans is dropping.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on December 20, 2018, 07:06:10 PM
"This is why we can't have nice things" is what I'd say if this wasn't a thread about doom.
I like that.
Considering this is a Daily Dose of Doom thread, replies should tend to be a bit sardonic :(
Quote from: tower912 on December 20, 2018, 08:05:09 PM
Suicide and opioids, two sides of the same coin really, are two large reasons the life expectations for Americans is dropping.
There was just a story on this re West Virginia as the bell weather. WV has been about 10 years ahead of national curves, first in terms of obesity, then diabetes, and now opioids deaths. Life span for WV residents showed a downturn ahead of the rest of the U.S.
Quote from: TSmith34 on December 20, 2018, 09:43:25 PM
There was just a story on this re West Virginia as the bell weather. WV has been about 10 years ahead of national curves, first in terms of obesity, then diabetes, and now opioids deaths. Life span for WV residents showed a downturn ahead of the rest of the U.S.
Hmm, a shame we don't have a link to such a story... ;)
Quote from: barfolomew on December 20, 2018, 10:13:02 PM
Hmm, a shame we don't have a link to such a story... ;)
Oh....
(goes to sit in the corner)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-world-is-getting-quietly-relentlessly-better-11546430400
...Wait, what?
https://www.newsweek.com/frb-fast-radio-burst-signal-deep-space-mystery-1283430
TL;DR: Radio signals from aliens detected, prepare for invasion and doom.
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/1/18/18188199/drc-ebola-outbreak
They are converting my local Arby's to a Panda Express.
Quote from: Archies Bat on January 20, 2019, 08:46:46 AM
They are converting my local Arby's to a Panda Express.
Why would anyone go to a Panda Express? There is probably always a decent mom-and-pop Chinese restaurant near every single one of them.
Quote from: warriorchick on January 20, 2019, 07:06:41 PM
Why would anyone go to a Panda Express? There is probably always a decent mom-and-pop Chinese restaurant near every single one of them.
Because their orange chicken is perfect American orange chicken. Not some actual Asians trying to replicate American orange chicken.
And honestly, I've seen too many Chinese kitchens. It's horrific and apparently way too common.
Given Panda Express 2-3 chances. Never been even okay. Never again
Doom for a friend of mine.
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/arizona-lawmaker-wants-porn-fund-171851269.html (https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/arizona-lawmaker-wants-porn-fund-171851269.html)
Quote from: Archies Bat on January 22, 2019, 02:20:00 PM
Doom for a friend of mine.
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/arizona-lawmaker-wants-porn-fund-171851269.html (https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/arizona-lawmaker-wants-porn-fund-171851269.html)
The state representative or Tall Titan?
Quote from: Archies Bat on January 22, 2019, 02:20:00 PM
Doom for a friend of mine.
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/arizona-lawmaker-wants-porn-fund-171851269.html (https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/arizona-lawmaker-wants-porn-fund-171851269.html)
Ohhh nooo, not rosey palmer 😳
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46992025
MU better win it all this year, no point in waiting.
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2019/02/01/Study-Illicit-opioid-deaths-to-rise-by-147-percent-by-2025/3961549026251/
New survey shows Americans are unhappier than they've been in years
https://www.vox.com/2019/3/21/18275796/happiness-report-usa-ranking-2019
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on March 21, 2019, 01:21:39 PM
New survey shows Americans are unhappier than they've been in years
https://www.vox.com/2019/3/21/18275796/happiness-report-usa-ranking-2019
That article makes me sad.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/03/29/share-americans-not-having-sex-has-reached-record-high/
Imagine these numbers without Tinder.
Does your left hand count?
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2019/04/dead-pig-brain-activity-study-beyonce-homecoming-the-atlantic-daily/587338/
Evidently the zombie apocalypse will start with the pigs. Better eat more bacon.
Wait, has this been reported yet? I saw some tweets...
https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/college/marquette/2019/04/15/hauser-brothers-transferring-marquette/3474703002/
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on April 18, 2019, 09:51:28 AM
Wait, has this been reported yet? I saw some tweets...
https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/college/marquette/2019/04/15/hauser-brothers-transferring-marquette/3474703002/
This post was cruel. Here I thought if I only checked in on the superbar that I'd avoid the scoop meltdown while also avoiding bringing up any distraught feelings of my own.
:'(
Quote from: UWW2MU on April 18, 2019, 12:07:46 PM
This post was cruel.
:'(
Welp, my job is done here. /highfive
Quote from: UWW2MU on April 18, 2019, 12:07:46 PM
This post was cruel. Here I thought if I only checked in on the superbar that I'd avoid the scoop meltdown while also avoiding bringing up any distraught feelings of my own.
:'(
Even the sanctity of the NM thread has been violated. :(
https://www.businessinsider.com/avengers-infinity-war-thanos-killed-half-all-life-earth-endangered-species-2019-4
..Thanos wiped out half of all bees, fruit bats, and every other pollinator on the planet. Many of which are already in trouble. For example, 50% of bee species in the Midwest have vanished in the past century.
Scientists estimate that 90% of all flowering plants depend on animals to reproduce.
Nice going, Thanos.
Civilization Is Accelerating Extinction and Altering the Natural World at a Pace 'Unprecedented in Human History'
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/climate/biodiversity-extinction-united-nations.html
Humans are transforming Earth's natural landscapes so dramatically that as many as one million plant and animal species are now at risk of extinction, posing a dire threat to ecosystems that people all over the world depend on for their survival,
Do we still have bacon?
Yes?
TL;DR: "Thousands of non-bacon species are going extinct."
Also..
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/bubonic-plague-outbreak-plane-passengers-14987444
A married couple have died leaving their four children orphaned after an outbreak of the bubonic plague, which sparked plane panic.
The man, 38 - named only as Citizen T - and his pregnant wife, 37, are thought to have fallen ill after hunting and eating contaminated marmot, a large species of squirrel, in Mongolia.
New at Arby's, Marmot & Cheddar, five for $5.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on May 06, 2019, 09:26:08 AM
Also..
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/bubonic-plague-outbreak-plane-passengers-14987444
A married couple have died leaving their four children orphaned after an outbreak of the bubonic plague, which sparked plane panic.
The man, 38 - named only as Citizen T - and his pregnant wife, 37, are thought to have fallen ill after hunting and eating contaminated marmot, a large species of squirrel, in Mongolia.
New at Arby's, Marmot & Cheddar, five for $5.
Was watching The Big Lebowski over the weekend, and the Nihilists threw a marmot into The Dudes bath and it nearly bit his manhood.
Nihilists, Arby's and marmots are all related.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/05/13/we-dont-know-planet-co2-levels-hit-415-ppm-first-time-3-million-years
Atmospheric levels of carbon registered 415 parts per million over the weekend at one of the world's key measuring stations, a concentration level researchers say has not existed in more than 3 million years – before the dawn of human history.
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/15/723518379/u-s-births-fell-to-a-32-year-low-in-2018-cdc-says-birthrate-is-at-record-level
"The birthrate is a barometer of despair," Myers says in response to the CDC data. Explaining that idea, he says young people won't make plans to have babies unless they're optimistic about the future.
Doom.
Yet Another Sign of the Apocalypse: Navy Pilots Reported UFO Sightings on Almost 'Daily Basis'
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/ufo-navy-pilots-840902/
Motorcycle doom
(https://i.redd.it/rviipp7czy131.jpg)
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on June 02, 2019, 04:03:55 PM
Motorcycle doom
(https://i.redd.it/rviipp7czy131.jpg)
I have driven past two deaths this year already. It is crazy on the freeways here with motorcycles.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on May 23, 2019, 08:35:36 PM
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/15/723518379/u-s-births-fell-to-a-32-year-low-in-2018-cdc-says-birthrate-is-at-record-level
"The birthrate is a barometer of despair," Myers says in response to the CDC data. Explaining that idea, he says young people won't make plans to have babies unless they're optimistic about the future.
Doom.
More like they are stuck on their damn phones, don't know how to have a conversation with people, and all the accessible porn without the baggage is probably good enough for some of the dudes. :o
Yessir, I will get off your lawn.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on June 02, 2019, 05:40:25 PM
Yessir, I will get off your lawn.
Please mow it now, thanks.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/597kpd/new-report-suggests-high-likelihood-of-human-civilization-coming-to-an-end-in-2050
New Report Suggests 'High Likelihood of Human Civilization Coming to an End' in 2050
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on June 03, 2019, 04:23:37 PM
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/597kpd/new-report-suggests-high-likelihood-of-human-civilization-coming-to-an-end-in-2050
New Report Suggests 'High Likelihood of Human Civilization Coming to an End' in 2050
the earth...has a fever
http://candy95.com/science-says-chicken-nuggets-will-kill-you/
Golden fried processed doom
Quote from: TAMU Eagle on June 06, 2019, 12:01:42 AM
http://candy95.com/science-says-chicken-nuggets-will-kill-you/
Golden fried processed doom
Nice knowing you f$ckers.
The first plague?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/ladybug-swarm-detected-weather-radar-over-southern-california-n1014341 (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/ladybug-swarm-detected-weather-radar-over-southern-california-n1014341)
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on June 03, 2019, 04:23:37 PM
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/597kpd/new-report-suggests-high-likelihood-of-human-civilization-coming-to-an-end-in-2050
New Report Suggests 'High Likelihood of Human Civilization Coming to an End' in 2050
I thought we only had 12 years left....sure wish they would get this right as I have things I need to do.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on May 23, 2019, 08:35:36 PM
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/15/723518379/u-s-births-fell-to-a-32-year-low-in-2018-cdc-says-birthrate-is-at-record-level
"The birthrate is a barometer of despair," Myers says in response to the CDC data. Explaining that idea, he says young people won't make plans to have babies unless they're optimistic about the future.
Doom.
Maybe birth control has just gotten more reliable.
Quote from: warriorchick on June 06, 2019, 05:38:41 PM
Maybe birth control has just gotten more reliable.
Or less sex by young people in general. Can't have kids if you they aren't doing the deed.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/the-sex-recession/573949/
Quote from: Cheeks on June 06, 2019, 06:15:56 PM
Can't have kids if you they aren't doing the deed.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/the-sex-recession/573949/
Untrue
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Quote from: Dr. Blackheart on June 07, 2019, 10:10:05 AM
Untrue
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Doc, you tattooed millimeters on your Johnson? Bad ass.
Quote from: Dr. Blackheart on June 07, 2019, 10:10:05 AM
Untrue
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Yeah, I'm sure the turkey baster is definitely on the upswing, but dudes and chicks ain't doing as much as they used to. Becoming absolutely critical in Japan. Not doing means not having kids as much, by accident or planned.
Cheeks is right, the amount teen sex has been going down steadily for generations. The Greatest Generation were the horniest motherfers and it's been downhill from there despite all the handwringing about children getting sexualized at younger ages. Honestly, I think it is a good thing. Overpopulation is the biggest doom out there
This reminds me ..
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/columnists/jim-stingl/2019/06/02/woman-35-and-single-puts-her-finalist-sperm-donors-up-vote/1293295001/
Quote from: TAMU Eagle on June 07, 2019, 03:18:25 PM
Cheeks is right, the amount teen sex has been going down steadily for generations. The Greatest Generation Baby Boomers were the horniest motherfers and it's been downhill from there despite all the handwringing about children getting sexualized at younger ages. Honestly, I think it is a good thing. Overpopulation is the biggest doom out there
FIFY
I am pretty sure there were a lot more Greatest Generation members who were virgins when they got married than there are today.
Quote from: warriorchick on June 07, 2019, 05:47:36 PM
FIFY
I am pretty sure there were a lot more Greatest Generation members who were virgins when they got married than there are today.
I'd have to go back and check the data but I believe this is a common misconception. Basically we've been getting less horny every generation
Quote from: rocket surgeon on June 05, 2019, 11:44:46 PM
the earth...has a fever
and the only cure...is more cowbell.
Don't 'member "butt buddies" bein' a thin' back in da dey, doe, hey?
Quote from: Cheeks on June 06, 2019, 06:15:56 PM
Or less sex by young people in general. Can't have kids if you they aren't doing the deed.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/the-sex-recession/573949/
Fake news, hey?
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a27816619/millennial-sex-recession-false/
London Metal Exchange bans traders from daytime drinking
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jun/14/london-metal-exchange-bans-traders-from-daytime-drinking-alcohol
QuoteIt is understood the ban has been introduced partly because of a recent surge in trading, which has raised concerns that investor cash could be put at risk by drink.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/06/20/horns-are-growing-young-peoples-skulls-phone-use-is-blame-research-suggests/
Horns are growing on young people's skulls.
Also, I welcome our alien overlords.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/19/warner-classified-briefing-ufos-1544273
Man, it's been more than a month without some doom.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/brain-eating-amoeba-kills-again-heres-how-it-kills-and-how-to-avoid-it/#p3
Supposedly got closer to us than the moon.
https://twitter.com/breaking911/status/1154840606730051584?s=21
didn't want to start a whole new thread on this, but never thought beer chugging athletes would become "a thing". i realize it seems like a little harmless fun, but i think the media should leave this one just kinda fade away
https://www.espn.co.uk/video/clip?id=27320800
Quote from: rocket surgeon on August 04, 2019, 07:45:24 PM
didn't want to start a whole new thread on this, but never thought beer chugging athletes would become "a thing". i realize it seems like a little harmless fun, but i think the media should leave this one just kinda fade away
https://www.espn.co.uk/video/clip?id=27320800
I remember doing the Dinosaur Dash which had water/beer stations along the route. Running a 10 K with Miller sloshing around inside isn't the best idea. Actually, swilling Miller in any context is generally a suboptimal moment.
It was a lot easier chugging beer back in my college daze than it is now. Not only was I slightly younger then, but it's not easy chugging a hazy IPA with 7.2% ABV -- at least compared to chugging Miller Lite.
Quote from: rocket surgeon on August 04, 2019, 07:45:24 PM
didn't want to start a whole new thread on this, but never thought beer chugging athletes would become "a thing". i realize it seems like a little harmless fun, but i think the media should leave this one just kinda fade away
https://www.espn.co.uk/video/clip?id=27320800
Beer chugging is best done when the sun is out on the prairie and your long golden locks are flowing in the breeze as you pick flowers to make herbal tea.
As every Fifi Beta knows the beer ultimately cascades out of the little chute which nourishes the earth and completes the circle of life.
Cue the harp music please
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-mental-undergrads/depression-anxiety-rising-among-us-college-students-idUSKCN1VJ25Z (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-mental-undergrads/depression-anxiety-rising-among-us-college-students-idUSKCN1VJ25Z)
Suicidal thinking, severe depression and rates of self-injury among U.S. college students more than doubled over less than a decade. The rate of moderate to severe depression rose from 23.2% in 2007 to 41.1% in 2018, while rates of moderate to severe anxiety rose from 17.9% in 2013 to 34.4% in 2018.
Brutal.
With all this doom can you blame them?
Quote from: TAMU Eagle on August 30, 2019, 12:21:49 AM
With all this doom can you blame them?
Those stats closely track Arby's revenue.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on August 29, 2019, 08:32:23 PM
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-mental-undergrads/depression-anxiety-rising-among-us-college-students-idUSKCN1VJ25Z (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-mental-undergrads/depression-anxiety-rising-among-us-college-students-idUSKCN1VJ25Z)
Suicidal thinking, severe depression and rates of self-injury among U.S. college students more than doubled over less than a decade. The rate of moderate to severe depression rose from 23.2% in 2007 to 41.1% in 2018, while rates of moderate to severe anxiety rose from 17.9% in 2013 to 34.4% in 2018.
Brutal.
Not surprising. Back in my day, we didn't have social media to reinforce how pitiful and meaningless our lives were.
Quote from: Benny B on August 30, 2019, 09:56:01 AM
Not surprising. Back in my day, we didn't have social media to reinforce how pitiful and meaningless our lives were.
So much this.
I spoke those stats to my wife, and her reaction was the same: Social media is to blame.
It's hard to believe a complex subject could be boiled down to something that simple, though.
Like "just keep your kids off Snapchat and they'll be fine" seems too easy.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on August 30, 2019, 11:28:41 AM
I spoke those stats to my wife, and her reaction was the same: Social media is to blame.
It's hard to believe a complex subject could be boiled down to something that simple, though.
Like "just keep your kids off Snapchat and they'll be fine" seems too easy.
You'd need to kick everyone else's kids off snapchat too.
It's not the only thing, but I agree it is the biggest culprit
Quote from: TAMU Eagle on August 30, 2019, 12:56:14 PM
You'd need to kick everyone else's kids off snapchat too.
It's not the only thing, but I agree it is the biggest culprit
I blame the snowplow parents.
If have structured your kid's life so that they have never encountered adversity of any kind, that is a recipe for disaster when they have to solve their own problems and have no tools to do so.
Just this week, parents were posting on the Marquette Parents Facebook page complained that the air conditioning in Humphrey was too cold, that they should have crossing guards on Wisconsin Avenue, and they don't have guardrails on all the upper bunks in the dorms.
Quote from: warriorchick on August 30, 2019, 01:13:00 PM
I blame the snowplow parents.
If have structured your kid's life so that they have never encountered adversity of any kind, that is a recipe for disaster when they have to solve their own problems and have no tools to do so.
..
I >hope< I wouldn't be considered a snowplow parent -- but I can see why those requests were made.
My kids are 11 and 13 and sometimes it's just so much fargging easier for me to take care of problems than explaining and re-explaining and convincing and asking and re-asking then finally demanding and re-demanding them take care of something.
My powers of demanding action (outside of Scoop?) are severely lacking, much to my exasperation. >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on August 30, 2019, 01:32:48 PM
I >hope< I wouldn't be considered a snowplow parent -- but I can see why those requests were made.
My kids are 11 and 13 and sometimes it's just so much fargging easier for me to take care of problems than explaining and re-explaining and convincing and asking and re-asking then finally demanding and re-demanding them take care of something.
My powers of demanding action (outside of Scoop?) are severely lacking, much to my exasperation. >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
Seriously? If they texted you complaining that they were chilly in their dorm room, you wouldn't have just told them to put on a friggin' hoodie?
Quote from: warriorchick on August 30, 2019, 01:49:30 PM
Seriously? If they texted you complaining that they were chilly in their dorm room, you wouldn't have just told them to put on a friggin' hoodie?
Complaining that the air conditioning is too effective in a dorm room? Christ...
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on August 30, 2019, 01:32:48 PM
I >hope< I wouldn't be considered a snowplow parent -- but I can see why those requests were made.
My kids are 11 and 13 and sometimes it's just so much fargging easier for me to take care of problems than explaining and re-explaining and convincing and asking and re-asking then finally demanding and re-demanding them take care of something.
My powers of demanding action (outside of Scoop?) are severely lacking, much to my exasperation. >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
11 and 13 year olds are still in training. by the time they get to college? should be less need for plowing. i know i know, it's many of the parents who are the problem. either their parents did not do a sufficient job or their kids "knew everything" already
Quote from: ZaLiN on August 30, 2019, 01:51:17 PM
Complaining that the air conditioning is too effective in a dorm room? Christ...
Wait, MU dorms have aircon now? Such a puzzling engineering problem now to determine which room is blowing their hookah exhaust into the air return.
"hookah" safer than vaping? haven't heard of any of those hookah bongs exploding
Quote from: Dr. Blackheart on August 30, 2019, 06:50:36 PM
Wait, MU dorms have aircon now? Such a puzzling engineering problem now to determine which room is blowing their hookah exhaust into the air return.
But if we had air in the beer can, we never would have had the good fortune to smell the tanneries on a hot day.
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on August 30, 2019, 07:56:16 PM
But if we had air in the beer can, we never would have had the good fortune to smell the tanneries on a hot day.
Or the breweries. Or Ambrosia. Or the lake.
Bump.
Folks over in the "fair pay to play act" thread need this thread as an outlet, because the world surely will end if college athletes are allowed to profit off their own likenesses.
the ole bang brothers are putting the "heat" on miami-they submit a 10 year $10 million offer for naming rights of their stadium-well, ok they'll name it the BBC-i'm sure that'll make em feel so much better. hoooo boy, can you imagine the tv guys having fun with this one. and just think of the gift shop ideas. #metoo/schmeetwo
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/miami-based-porn-site-makes-10m-bid-to-rename-miami-heat-venue
and who says money can't buy ya love, eyn'a?
https://www.newsweek.com/fire-bull-semen-explosion-farm-australia-1459673?utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&__twitter_impression=true
Speaking of doom predictions...50 years of daily doses of doom. This was released yesterday.
I'm quite thrilled to have dodged all these near certain death events as we all are. Some heady stuff in here from the Times, Ivy League institutions, scientists and other experts.
https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions
Milky Way likely to get devoured in collision with Andromeda galaxy.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/02/world/andromeda-galaxy-collision-scn/index.html
Quote from: Pakuni on October 02, 2019, 05:48:35 PM
Milky Way likely to get devoured in collision with Andromeda galaxy.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/02/world/andromeda-galaxy-collision-scn/index.html
I devour a Milky Way everyday. The world hasn't ended yet. I also take Androgel, though, so maybe the double negative sends one wobbling off their trajectory. Who knows?
Quote from: Pakuni on October 02, 2019, 05:48:35 PM
Milky Way likely to get devoured in collision with Andromeda galaxy.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/02/world/andromeda-galaxy-collision-scn/index.html
Game of Thrones...IN SPACE
Quote from: Pakuni on October 02, 2019, 05:48:35 PM
Milky Way likely to get devoured in collision with Andromeda galaxy.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/02/world/andromeda-galaxy-collision-scn/index.html
The Andromedans are a bunch of hairy wet cats. We can take them.
Quote from: Pakuni on October 02, 2019, 05:48:35 PM
Milky Way likely to get devoured in collision with Andromeda galaxy.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/02/world/andromeda-galaxy-collision-scn/index.html
You buried the lede. From the same article:
"This isn't the only collision threat facing the Milky Way.
The Large Magellanic Cloud will catastrophically collide with the Milky Way in 2 billion years, according to a study published January in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The impact, which study says is long overdue, has a chance of sending our solar system "hurtling through space."
"The destruction of the Large Magellanic Cloud, as it is devoured by the Milky Way, will wreak havoc with our galaxy, waking up the black hole that lives at its center and turning our galaxy into an 'active galactic nucleus' or quasar," said Marius Cautun, study author and postdoctoral fellow at Durham University's Institute for Computational Cosmology, in a statement."
The highest remaining life form at that point, the cockroaches, are going to be seriously ticked.
Why isn't that Dutch girl worring about this disaster? She'd get way more converts to her cause.
Doomsday scenario
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/america-pile-uneaten-bacon-biggest-220335498.html
Quote from: Cheeks on October 23, 2019, 08:07:55 AM
Doomsday scenario
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/america-pile-uneaten-bacon-biggest-220335498.html
Having too much bacon is not doomsday, it's the opposite!
But .. this shows how Big Bacon is screwing consumers. A pack is often $8-10 and gets higher every year.
With this bacon glut, prices should come down, or the people should take to the streets.
Great maps of doom:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/29/climate/coastal-cities-underwater.html
Good thing none of those maps are Wisconsin, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
JAYCE JOHNSON IS IN A KNEE BRACE!
70% of Americans think a civil war is likely....poll released last week from a Georgetown University.
Quote from: Cheeks on October 30, 2019, 08:35:17 AM
70% of Americans think a civil war is likely....poll released last week from a Georgetown University.
That's delicious!
http://politics.georgetown.edu/the-tarrance-group-summary-october-2019-2/ (http://politics.georgetown.edu/the-tarrance-group-summary-october-2019-2/)
For a few years, I've predicted that the US will have fewer than 50 states in XX years. I don't know how many years XX is, but I think the probability is 100% fifty years out, and maybe just 25 years.
Admittedly, I don't think it will be a civil war with guns that changes the map. There'll be a lot of angst and protests and maybe some militants, but by and large done by lawyers.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on October 30, 2019, 08:45:43 AM
That's delicious!
http://politics.georgetown.edu/the-tarrance-group-summary-october-2019-2/ (http://politics.georgetown.edu/the-tarrance-group-summary-october-2019-2/)
For a few years, I've predicted that the US will have fewer than 50 states in XX years. I don't know how many years XX is, but I think the probability is 100% fifty years out, and maybe just 25 years.
Admittedly, I don't think it will be a civil war with guns that changes the map. There'll be a lot of angst and protests and maybe some militants, but by and large done by lawyers.
Maine, you're on notice. Get the unnatural carnal knowledge outta here!
Quote from: PTM on October 30, 2019, 08:50:39 AM
Maine, you're on notice. Get the unnatural carnal knowledge outta here!
Any border state that contains Dayton should be an immediate candidate for Canadian annexation.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on October 30, 2019, 08:45:43 AM
That's delicious!
http://politics.georgetown.edu/the-tarrance-group-summary-october-2019-2/ (http://politics.georgetown.edu/the-tarrance-group-summary-october-2019-2/)
For a few years, I've predicted that the US will have fewer than 50 states in XX years. I don't know how many years XX is, but I think the probability is 100% fifty years out, and maybe just 25 years.
Admittedly, I don't think it will be a civil war with guns that changes the map. There'll be a lot of angst and protests and maybe some militants, but by and large done by lawyers.
Calif was already annexed....
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on October 30, 2019, 08:45:43 AM
That's delicious!
http://politics.georgetown.edu/the-tarrance-group-summary-october-2019-2/ (http://politics.georgetown.edu/the-tarrance-group-summary-october-2019-2/)
For a few years, I've predicted that the US will have fewer than 50 states in XX years. I don't know how many years XX is, but I think the probability is 100% fifty years out, and maybe just 25 years.
Admittedly, I don't think it will be a civil war with guns that changes the map. There'll be a lot of angst and protests and maybe some militants, but by and large done by lawyers.
Wasn't there discussions to turn Californis into 3 states? ND and SD should just be combined. Same with Vermont and New Hamphire (I get these two mixed up anyway).
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on October 30, 2019, 08:45:43 AM
politics.georgetown.edu
Q: What happens when a mod says politics on scoop?
A: Doom
Quote from: Cheeks on October 30, 2019, 08:35:17 AM
70% of Americans think a civil war is likely....poll released last week from a Georgetown University.
Im not sure that's what the poll said. The poll had them say on a scale of 0 to 100 with 100 being "on the edge of a civil war." The mean score for independents was around 70. That doesn't mean 70% of people think a civil war is likely. I think the only ones in that poll who could be definitively categorized as "thinking a civil war is likely" would be the ones who marked 100.
Maybe I missed something in the poll but I think people think the country is very politically divided, not that a civil war is likely
Speaking of annexing and secession, jockey should be worried about western Canada breaking off from the east. "Wexit" is coming.
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/29/justin-trudeau-victory-canada-wexit-060634 (https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/29/justin-trudeau-victory-canada-wexit-060634)
Quote from: TAMU Eagle on October 30, 2019, 09:46:17 AM
Im not sure that's what the poll said. The poll had them say on a scale of 0 to 100 with 100 being "on the edge of a civil war." The mean score for independents was around 70. That doesn't mean 70% of people think a civil war is likely. I think the only ones in that poll who could be definitively categorized as "thinking a civil war is likely" would be the ones who marked 100.
Maybe I missed something in the poll but I think people think the country is very politically divided, not that a civil war is likely
Fair point. The media reporting it said likely, one report said imminent, another said on the edge.
A score of 100 was "edge of a civil war." Which means "civil war" is something like 105 or 110, at worst. So if we're at mean of 67 now, we're only whatever percentage 67/105 to 110 amounts to towards civil war. That doesn't seem so bad.
The real doom in the study is that 84% of the respondents agreed with the statement: "I'm tired of leaders compromising my values and ideals. I want leaders who will stand up to the other side." What makes it especially concerning is how the conclusions imply that this may only be the beginning of an existing general decline in civility. In short, nobody is willing to compromise, nobody wants to hear from anyone who disagrees with their opinion, and everyone would rather fight than make a deal.
Which apparently makes Scoop the canary in the coal mine of societal incivility. And here we thought it was Topper simply forewarning of doom when it turns out he's actually been the one sowing the seeds.
Quote from: Benny B on October 30, 2019, 11:07:42 AM
And here we thought it was Topper simply forewarning of doom when it turns out he's actually been the one sowing the seeds.
Oh, yes absolutely. I thought that was clear!
NYWarrior coined that I was a Dementor. ("a phantom species who, as their name suggests, gradually deprive human minds of happiness ..")
Quote from: Dr. Blackheart on October 30, 2019, 08:54:16 AM
Any border state that contains Dayton should be an immediate candidate for Canadian annexation.
Good effing point. PTM is real,
real tired of Ohio being the swing state every election.
Quote from: Benny B on October 30, 2019, 11:07:42 AM
A score of 100 was "edge of a civil war." Which means "civil war" is something like 105 or 110, at worst. So if we're at mean of 67 now, we're only whatever percentage 67/105 to 110 amounts to towards civil war. That doesn't seem so bad.
The real doom in the study is that 84% of the respondents agreed with the statement: "I'm tired of leaders compromising my values and ideals. I want leaders who will stand up to the other side." What makes it especially concerning is how the conclusions imply that this may only be the beginning of an existing general decline in civility. In short, nobody is willing to compromise, nobody wants to hear from anyone who disagrees with their opinion, and everyone would rather fight than make a deal.
On the other hand, 87 percent of poll respondents agreed that "compromise and common ground should be the goal for political leaders," with 64 percent strongly agreeing with that statement.
Which I take to mean that everybody wants the politicians who agree with them to "stand up to the other side" while the politicians who don't agree with them should compromise.
tl;dr: We're all hypocrites ... or at least more than 80 percent of us are.
Glad we have a politics thread again.
I would like you to do us a favor, though ... don't make this contingent on digging up dirt on Greg Gard.
Zombies undead...
https://news.yahoo.com/science-zombies-undead-rise-004009241.html
Quote from: Dr. Blackheart on November 01, 2019, 04:48:20 PM
Zombies undead...
https://news.yahoo.com/science-zombies-undead-rise-004009241.html
"The Last of Us" is based on the concept of a fungus and spores doing what the ants go through. Scary stuff but great game.
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on October 03, 2019, 06:22:55 PM
Why isn't that Dutch girl worring about this disaster? She'd get way more converts to her cause.
Obviously she went to the wrong country to make her case.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-50280390
Hey, Black Death is making a comeback.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/11/13/pneumonic-plague-tied-black-death-sickens-people-beijing-china/4176578002/
https://news.yahoo.com/automation-could-replace-up-to-800-million-jobs-by-2035-bank-of-america-merrill-lynch-171810646.html
Automated doom
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on November 13, 2019, 11:37:24 AM
Hey, Black Death is making a comeback.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/11/13/pneumonic-plague-tied-black-death-sickens-people-beijing-china/4176578002/
Raw rodent parts, yum!
Quote from: TAMU Eagle on November 13, 2019, 11:55:58 AM
https://news.yahoo.com/automation-could-replace-up-to-800-million-jobs-by-2035-bank-of-america-merrill-lynch-171810646.html
Automated doom
This might help fill some of the open positions in my company? Think any of them are machinists?
Quote from: TAMU Eagle on November 13, 2019, 11:55:58 AM
https://news.yahoo.com/automation-could-replace-up-to-800-million-jobs-by-2035-bank-of-america-merrill-lynch-171810646.html
Automated doom
Ogg the Caveman was supposed to lose his job picking up things when the inclined plane was invented....
It's happening...The Planet of the Apes.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/humans-war-apes-villagers-take-20876196
YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! AH, DAMN YOU! GODDAM YOU ALL TO HELL!!
If you ever need to bide your time between doom posts:
https://twitter.com/darkstockphotos
Victoria Secret Fashion Show dome
https://nypost.com/2019/11/21/victorias-secret-fashion-show-officially-canned-after-outrage/
Grammatical doom.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/apostrophe-society-shuts-down-because-ignorance-has-won-a4301391.html
Regional doom.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2019/12/05/detroit-bulk-storage-revere-copper-detroit-river-uranium/2618868001/
Pig-monkey doom
https://www.newsweek.com/pig-monkey-chimera-china-1476162 (https://www.newsweek.com/pig-monkey-chimera-china-1476162)
"The world's first pig-monkey chimeras have been born in China, scientists have announced. Researchers injected monkey stem cells into fertilized pig embryos then implanted them into sows and allowed pregnancy to continue to full term."
A truly fowl doom
https://www.menshealth.com/trending-news/a30186763/horny-duck/?utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=socialflowFBMH&utm_source=facebook
Doom for mosquitos....the farting mosquito killer
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10522729/man-farts-kill-mosquitos/
Was he a regular at Arby's?
Quote from: tower912 on December 11, 2019, 10:48:09 AM
Was he a regular at Arby's?
I wish my Arby's fueled ass could kill mosquitoes.
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on December 11, 2019, 08:23:26 PM
I wish my Arby's fueled ass could kill mosquitoes.
does your wife know you talk about her this way?
https://www.nytimes.com/video/technology/100000006082083/lethal-autonomous-weapons.html?smid=tw-share
Automated doom. Good luck, world. Honestly, of all the doom I've posted, that's the doomiest.
Doom proves not so doomy.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/top-5-most-outrageous-2020-doomsday-predictions
That makes me sad. Well done.
The next global pandemic could kill millions.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/9/19/20872366/global-pandemic-prevention-who-world-bank-report
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on January 21, 2020, 09:30:05 PM
The next global pandemic could kill millions.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/9/19/20872366/global-pandemic-prevention-who-world-bank-report
Welp, back to the family bunker. See you guys in 2021
100 seconds. Not sure why I'm even posting this, who is gonna see it in the next .. oh, crap, 72 seconds..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph74Zjv4-kU
re: coronavirus. Wouldn't the best thing to make the coronavirus better be the lime virus?
The Meat Eaters are not going to like this at all...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/2020-01-28-crickets-algae-lab-grown-meat-future-of-protein.html (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/2020-01-28-crickets-algae-lab-grown-meat-future-of-protein.html)
It's been a while ..
https://nypost.com/2020/02/14/more-people-die-taking-selfies-than-in-shark-attacks-survey/
These may actually have end of the world legs...biblically that is.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1242268/end-world-coronavirus-africa-locust-swarm-iran-us-conflict-apocalypse-bible-jesus-spt
You complete me.
Just in case you've gone a few minutes without being freaked out.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/this-is-just-the-first-in-a-series-of-cascading-crises/2020/04/02/45e8cc52-7510-11ea-87da-77a8136c1a6d_story.html
but but but...the tan lines man!
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/nudist-sunbathers-face-masks-coronavirus
Quote from: rocket surgeon on April 08, 2020, 08:00:56 PM
but but but...the tan lines man!
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/nudist-sunbathers-face-masks-coronavirus
Ha! This is where tower has been.
A couple went thru 5he drive thru line at LD's bbq ordered their food. Went to other side of parking lot to eat it in their car. Someone called the police on them...there was no one within 100 feet of them
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on April 08, 2020, 08:35:32 PM
Ha! This is where tower has been.
That would be horrifying for all involved if true.
Hey, people, just because there's a pandemic across the globe doesn't mean we should ignore other doom.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/02/us/asian-giant-hornet-washington.html?searchResultPosition=2
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on May 02, 2020, 02:12:00 PM
Hey, people, just because there's a pandemic across the globe doesn't mean we should ignore other doom.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/02/us/asian-giant-hornet-washington.html?searchResultPosition=2
Came here to see if this story had been posted.
If those things reach the Midwest, I'm gonna have to move.
Quote from: jesmu84 on May 03, 2020, 04:56:03 PM
Came here to see if this story had been posted.
If those things reach the Midwest, I'm gonna have to move.
I still remember the "killer bees" invasion from the 80s and the horrible nightmares i had from a 30 second news report.
On a related note, in my nightmares, we all had to walk around with PPE, so circle of life and stuff.
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on May 03, 2020, 05:34:04 PM
I still remember the "killer bees" invasion from the 80s and the horrible nightmares i had from a 30 second news report.
On a related note, in my nightmares, we all had to walk around with PPE, so circle of life and stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDLXIWlJhKM
Before people jump up my arse, I know its Triumph.
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on May 03, 2020, 05:34:04 PM
I still remember the "killer bees" invasion from the 80s and the horrible nightmares i had from a 30 second news report.
On a related note, in my nightmares, we all had to walk around with PPE, so circle of life and stuff.
Ditto.
Then they did that movie with luring the killer bees to the Astrodome.
Where they were destroyed by the sounds of trash cans clanging?
Yeah, I know it wasn't the Astrodome. Go with it.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on May 02, 2020, 02:12:00 PM
Hey, people, just because there's a pandemic across the globe doesn't mean we should ignore other doom.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/02/us/asian-giant-hornet-washington.html?searchResultPosition=2
https://youtu.be/i7VMcMJBjD4
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on May 03, 2020, 05:34:04 PM
I still remember the "killer bees" invasion from the 80s and the horrible nightmares i had from a 30 second news report.
On a related note, in my nightmares, we all had to walk around with PPE, so circle of life and stuff.
Yep - the killer bees were the first thing I thought of when I read the article about the killer hornets.
And then there was this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APUWOoUqQho
I forgot about that one!
so let me get this straight-ya pee your pants and post in online and that's supposed to be...what?
https://www.tiktok.com/music/Peeing-your-pants-is-the-cooliest-6591644442204048134?lang=en
stay tuned for picking your nose and eating it? not sure this is going to work out real well when your new potential boss has to decide between 2 people and goes online to decide?
Rocket I could be wrong but I think they are all just riffing on the Billy Madison scene. I don't know that they have peed themselves (though I couldn't believe the tide pod challenge happened —so I could be wrong).
Quote from: Frenns Liquor Depot on May 09, 2020, 08:15:53 PM
Rocket I could be wrong but I think they are all just riffing on the Billy Madison scene. I don't know that they have peed themselves (though I couldn't believe the tide pod challenge happened —so I could be wrong).
you could be right frenn. i may not have seen it in that context. maybe a cheap shot on my part. i guess this virus thing brings out the weird things in people. maybe they were getting sick of netflix et.al. 8-)
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/14/us/georgia-invasive-lizard-trnd/index.html?utm_term=link&utm_content=2020-05-15T04%3A01%3A05&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNN
https://nypost.com/2020/05/30/apocalyptic-bird-flu-could-wipe-out-half-of-humanity-scientists/
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/319e556a11984534cd6c3f6ab3efa299/tumblr_nz0p3j9WOk1u8qr43o1_500.gif)
Quote from: Spaniel with a Short Tail on June 02, 2020, 11:28:00 AM
https://nypost.com/2020/05/30/apocalyptic-bird-flu-could-wipe-out-half-of-humanity-scientists/
That sounds really appealing right now. Which half, though?
Quote from: Spaniel with a Short Tail on June 02, 2020, 11:28:00 AM
https://nypost.com/2020/05/30/apocalyptic-bird-flu-could-wipe-out-half-of-humanity-scientists/
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/319e556a11984534cd6c3f6ab3efa299/tumblr_nz0p3j9WOk1u8qr43o1_500.gif)
A general practitioner with a specialization in nutrition who is a vocal and aggressive vegan who has testfied against meat throughout his career. Not exactly Tony Fauci ain'a?
Cracker Barrell is going to start selling alcohol.
https://www.foodandwine.com/news/cracker-barrel-beer-wine-reopening
Quote from: Fluffy Blue Monster on June 09, 2020, 01:33:56 PM
Cracker Barrell is going to start selling alcohol.
https://www.foodandwine.com/news/cracker-barrel-beer-wine-reopening
I was tired of fishing it out of the toilet tank there
Quote from: Fluffy Blue Monster on June 09, 2020, 01:33:56 PM
Cracker Barrell is going to start selling alcohol.
https://www.foodandwine.com/news/cracker-barrel-beer-wine-reopening
Oh, no.
Where are all the Baptist and Church of Christ folks going to go for breakfast after church now? They don't have Greek diners in the South, Waffle House is too small for families, and Shoney's is all but gone.
Please please please. June 21.
https://www.the-sun.com/lifestyle/tech/973452/end-of-the-world-2020-conspiracy-theory-calendar/
Ruh-roh
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclear-particles-baltic-idUSKBN23X2TN
Public mood turns grim (https://www.people-press.org/2020/06/30/publics-mood-turns-grim-trump-trails-biden-on-most-personal-traits-major-issues/)
(https://snipboard.io/7VpYxf.jpg)
#fakepoll. Arby's not an option.
Team Dementor is sad to see 46% are hopeful. I mean, what do we have to do?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/squirrels-bubonic-plague-colorado-test-positive/
To my Colorado Scoopers .. just relax and let the black death take you.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on July 15, 2020, 09:33:30 AM
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/squirrels-bubonic-plague-colorado-test-positive/
To my Colorado Scoopers .. just relax and let the black death take you.
I blame Trump.
Quote from: Lennys Tap on July 15, 2020, 02:57:11 PM
I blame Trump.
Are you kidding? He would be an expert at evicting the black death.
Quote from: Fluffy Blue Monster on July 15, 2020, 03:03:42 PM
Are you kidding? He would be an expert at evicting the black death.
I rarely audibly laugh out loud when I read things. This was fantastic.
Quote from: Hards_Alumni on July 15, 2020, 03:06:17 PM
I rarely audibly laugh out loud when I read things. This was fantastic.
Blind squirrel and all...
"Morgues Are Overflowing in Mississippi and Coroners Are Terrified"
https://www.thedailybeast.com/amid-a-mississippi-coronavirus-surge-morgues-are-overflowing-and-coroners-are-scared
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on August 02, 2020, 06:38:32 PM
"Morgues Are Overflowing in Mississippi and Coroners Are Terrified"
https://www.thedailybeast.com/amid-a-mississippi-coronavirus-surge-morgues-are-overflowing-and-coroners-are-scared
Probably belongs in a CV-19 thread, but doom indeed
QuoteSeveral autopsy techs had resigned and the already barebones staff was now down to just two medical examiners and a single tech statewide.
Quote"I'm not a doctor, man. I'm a coroner," he added. "It's not up to me to say 'this pneumonia was caused by COVID' if it wasn't. So writing COVID when I don't know for sure, that could be false information and drive the numbers up higher than we already know they are. I would love to talk to someone at CDC or elsewhere who could give me guidance on that. But that's not a choice I would make until I'm instructed to do otherwise."
Yeah, it could go in a different thread.
COVID is really taking up all the doom oxygen, it's just not fair.
True, it appears they've solved murder hornets and riots. Now we just have to worry about Dunkin shutting down stores
QuoteAs the coronavirus pandemic continues, Dunkin' Brands Inc. said Thursday it expects to close up to 800 underperforming U.S. stores this year. The Canton, Mass.-based company had previously announced the closure of 450 stores within Speedway gas stations.
And yes
1) that's still CV related
2) what I got out of this more entertaining headline: https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-dunkin-employee-arrested-trooper-mucus-saliva-coffee
Here is some new life topper -- rare doom
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/510471-cdc-expects-2020-outbreak-of-rare-life-threatening-condition-affecting (https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/510471-cdc-expects-2020-outbreak-of-rare-life-threatening-condition-affecting)
High five.
This Tropical Storm Isias was llike doom. Weirdest storm. Started about 1:00 and gone by 6:30. 300,000 people without power including me and my place of work. No rain either.
nm
Oh, great: NASA says an asteroid is headed our way right before Election Day
By Jay Croft and Melissa Alonso, CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/22/us/asteroid-earth-november-2020-scn-trnd/index.html
At this point, that doesn't seem that bad.
Quote from: MU Fan in Connecticut on August 22, 2020, 06:03:36 PM
Oh, great: NASA says an asteroid is headed our way right before Election Day
By Jay Croft and Melissa Alonso, CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/22/us/asteroid-earth-november-2020-scn-trnd/index.html
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/shopping?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ88YDUtD1sRG6Gn3DzK0ucQoYsWY6TQQ9NSbgwkd9Gi-B1UIOwYDlZshQywO47njc63SVR-HR80NSKTUOCwgqcld4XBylyiT_-vkJRltAd&usqp=CAc)
Quote from: tower912 on August 22, 2020, 07:47:35 PM
At this point, that doesn't seem that bad.
I'd be okay with it
moving the food they disapprove of further from the cash register? i don't buy this so called "junk food' myself, but what's next? scales in the candy isles?
https://abc7news.com/berkeley-healthy-checkout-city-of-new-ordinance-grocery-stores-soda-tax/6522765/
Quote from: rocket surgeon on September 24, 2020, 07:41:07 PM
moving the food they disapprove of further from the cash register? i don't buy this so called "junk food' myself, but what's next? scales in the candy isles?
https://abc7news.com/berkeley-healthy-checkout-city-of-new-ordinance-grocery-stores-soda-tax/6522765/
Tax vice food up the wazoo to subsidise healthy food. It won't matter to all of us weathly Scoopers, and it will really help a lot of families out there.
Quote from: Skatastrophy on September 24, 2020, 08:44:43 PM
Tax vice food up the wazoo to subsidise healthy food. It won't matter to all of us weathly Scoopers, and it will really help a lot of families out there.
Word. Yeah, some folks would eat the crap anyway (*cough*Arby's*cough*) but given the choice most would choose the healthy option. Easy to make it more affordable if we choose.
Escaped cloned female mutant crayfish take over Belgian cemetery
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/escaped-cloned-female-mutant-crayfish-take-over-belgian-cemetery/YZDGK4GTJKKML7Y76OELOTHGPA/
https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1326181841762738176
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Not necessarily doom but still...........
The Air Force Is Putting Death Rays on Fighter Jets. Yes, Death Rays.
Kyle Mizokami
Wed, November 11, 2020, 8:06 AM CST
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/air-force-putting-death-rays-140600098.html
This could have gone in the Higher Education or COVID thread.
I think the Doom thread is best:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/university-of-alabama-tuscaloosa-sorority-kappa-delta-farm-party-to-host-600-in-possible-superspreader-event
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55056570
A strange metal monolith has been discovered in the Utah desert by a helicopter crew, leaving local authorities baffled.
Holding all of the missing Trump votes from Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Arizona.
Well poop...
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/12/honeybees-use-tools-dung-repels-giant-hornets/
QuoteIn Vietnam, Asian honeybees use feces to ward off the cousins of "murder hornets." The finding could help protect bees in other countries with invasive wasps.
better hurry while they last...only gonna make 400,000 of these bad boys
https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/mcdonalds-oreo-spam-burger-china
Quote from: rocky_warrior on December 10, 2020, 01:08:58 PM
Well poop...
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/12/honeybees-use-tools-dung-repels-giant-hornets/
Sounds like civet coffee, hey?
I found this to be interesting .. statistical doom.
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That's a fascinating chart, thanks for sharing
https://twitter.com/michaelsderby/status/1350121698499174401
Minneapolis Fed leader Kashkari says economy's resilience to pandemic is overrated, says instead "our toleration for death is much higher than I thought" as the economy powers through the crisis.
What a great t-shirt idea.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on January 15, 2021, 11:44:05 AM
https://twitter.com/michaelsderby/status/1350121698499174401
Minneapolis Fed leader Kashkari says economy's resilience to pandemic is overrated, says instead "our toleration for death is much higher than I thought" as the economy powers through the crisis.
What a great t-shirt idea.
I forget who to attribute this to but 'what this pandemic has taught me is that we don't live in a society, we live in an economy'
I think the Mods should Rename the 'Hangin at the Al' board the 'Daily Dose of Doom' board as there is no light at the end of the tunnel that I can see for MU mens basketball.
That's the spirit!
Maybe not Doom but still....
The World Just Moved Even Closer to a Real, Working Warp Drive
Scientists have a new model for faster-than-light travel that actually uses conventional physics.
MAR 12, 2021
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/amp35820869/warp-drive-possible-with-conventional-physics/
https://www.gq.com/story/shanna-swan-interview
An Alarming Decline in Sperm Quality Could Threaten the Future of the Human Race, and the Chemicals Likely Responsible Are Everywhere
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on March 24, 2021, 01:14:25 PM
https://www.gq.com/story/shanna-swan-interview
An Alarming Decline in Sperm Quality Could Threaten the Future of the Human Race, and the Chemicals Likely Responsible Are Everywhere
Now go find out how much plastic we accidentally eat every year, and what it does to the human body.
Then think about how many animals eat plastic because it looks yummy and what it does to them.
Single use plastic bans needed to happen decades ago. I think we're too far gone at this point short of a ravenous plastic eating bacteria evolving and solving the problem for us.
Quote from: Hards_Alumni on March 24, 2021, 01:49:56 PM
Now go find out how much plastic we accidentally eat every year, and what it does to the human body.
Then think about how many animals eat plastic because it looks yummy and what it does to them.
Single use plastic bans needed to happen decades ago. I think we're too far gone at this point short of a ravenous plastic eating bacteria evolving and solving the problem for us.
Like George Carlon said, "Earth plus plastic."
Quote from: Hards_Alumni on March 24, 2021, 01:49:56 PM
Now go find out how much plastic we accidentally eat every year, and what it does to the human body.
Then think about how many animals eat plastic because it looks yummy and what it does to them.
Single use plastic bans needed to happen decades ago. I think we're too far gone at this point short of a ravenous plastic eating bacteria evolving and solving the problem for us.
Pound of plastic, ey? The new dirt. Rub a little plastic on er just doesn't seem right though.
Quote from: rocket surgeon on March 24, 2021, 03:44:05 PM
Pound of plastic, ey? The new dirt. Rub a little plastic on er just doesn't seem right though.
Trick is you gotta mix it with some BBQ sauce before you suck it down.
Quote from: Hards_Alumni on March 24, 2021, 01:49:56 PM
Single use plastic bans needed to happen decades ago. I think we're too far gone at this point short of a ravenous plastic eating bacteria evolving and solving the problem for us.
I have the solution, along with bonus poop:
'Mysterious' Worms Eat Plastic And Poop Alcoholhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkart/2020/03/09/mysterious-worms-eat-plastic-and-poop-alcohol/?sh=3e0ea0e379e0
Invisible galactic lump of dark matter is tearing apart stars.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9409493/Invisible-galactic-lump-dark-matter-making-nearby-stars-disappear-scientists-say.html
Uh, oh...
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Quote from: warriorchick on March 30, 2021, 04:53:35 PM
Uh, oh...
(https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/4/3/772943.jpg?v=0)
I mean, who exactly tracks this data?
It's all about the source... https://www.cracked.com/
Quote from: warriorchick on March 30, 2021, 04:53:35 PM
Uh, oh...
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Livin my best pollution free life over here.
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on March 30, 2021, 07:10:11 PM
Livin my best pollution free life over here.
you must be wearing a mask
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/05/europe/russia-arctic-nato-military-intl-cmd/index.html
Just a torpedo designed to deliver radioactive tsunamis to the American coastal cities rendering them inhabitable for decades.
Crazy what the Ruskies can do in four years .
Daily Dose of Dew-m
>One of the greatest rumors in middle school was that the yellow dye in Mountain Dew killed off your sperm. Naturally, it became a much beloved contraceptive choice for countless teens. Was there any truth to the rumor?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/43ggk3/mountain-dew-sperm-count-rumor
Quote from: Skatastrophy on June 21, 2021, 03:15:01 PM
Daily Dose of Dew-m
>One of the greatest rumors in middle school was that the yellow dye in Mountain Dew killed off your sperm. Naturally, it became a much beloved contraceptive choice for countless teens. Was there any truth to the rumor?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/43ggk3/mountain-dew-sperm-count-rumor
Interesting. The rumor I remember about Mountain Dew was not about sperm count but that it stunted penis growth. So it had the opposite effect of scaring boys from drinking it rather than leading them to binge-drink
Quote from: TAMU Eagle on June 21, 2021, 03:36:00 PM
Interesting. The rumor I remember about Mountain Dew was not about sperm count but that it stunted penis growth. So it had the opposite effect of scaring boys from drinking it rather than leading them to binge-drink
Way back when, we used to refer to Mountain Dew as "Shrinker" as a result.
US life expectancy in 2020 saw biggest drop since WWII
https://apnews.com/article/science-health-coronavirus-pandemic-fac0863b8c252d21d6f6a22a2e3eab86
Here in Connecticut, seeing the dust strangely color the sunshine from western forest fires the last few days feels pretty dose of doom.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/12-major-us-cities-top-annual-homicide-records/story?id=81466453
Rough year.
New data shows Americans more miserable than we've been in half a century
https://thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/new-data-shows-americans-more-miserable
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/millions-of-palm-sized-flying-spiders-could-invade-the-east-coast/
Man, imagine having to squish a spider the size of your hand. Millions of them.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on March 08, 2022, 10:05:24 AM
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/millions-of-palm-sized-flying-spiders-could-invade-the-east-coast/
Man, imagine having to squish a spider the size of your hand. Millions of them.
Those spiders are ALL OVER down here. This past summer you could see web after web in power lines while driving. We had multiple in our yard in trees and shrubs.
I am not a fan of any kind of bug/spider/creepy crawly thing so I spray them with something as soon as I find one. Haven't seen any yet this year...I'm hoping they've moved on.
Remember murder hornets? They sound pretty good after covid, aina?
We had a good run.
UN: Earth 'Firmly on Track Toward an Unlivable World'
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/04/04/un-climate-report-unlivable-world/7269194001/
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on April 06, 2022, 07:38:46 AM
We had a good run.
UN: Earth 'Firmly on Track Toward an Unlivable World'
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/04/04/un-climate-report-unlivable-world/7269194001/
I firmly believe that humans will continue to ignore the problem until things get REALLY bad. What seems like a mild inconvenience now will be ignored until there is no water in the west, too much water in FL, and meat is financially nonviable. Then people will wonder how we got there, and by then the cost of fixing the problem will be much more than it currently is.
We are the frogs in the boiling pot, and the water is steaming right now.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on April 06, 2022, 07:38:46 AM
We had a good run.
UN: Earth 'Firmly on Track Toward an Unlivable World'
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/04/04/un-climate-report-unlivable-world/7269194001/
"Incredibly cheap renewables" :o
Do we need a shift to renewable energy? Absolutely. Is it "incredibly cheap", especially at scale? Hardly.
Quote from: JWags85 on April 06, 2022, 09:25:20 AM
"Incredibly cheap renewables" :o
Do we need a shift to renewable energy? Absolutely. Is it "incredibly cheap", especially at scale? Hardly.
Simple, just remove the $5.9 trillion in subsidies from fossil fuels and move them to renewables. Of course, I'm being reductive, but that is 100% the path we need to follow.
Quote from: Hards_Alumni on April 06, 2022, 07:52:21 AM
I firmly believe that humans will continue to ignore the problem until things get REALLY bad. What seems like a mild inconvenience now will be ignored until there is no water in the west, too much water in FL, and meat is financially nonviable. Then people will wonder how we got there, and by then the cost of fixing the problem will be much more than it currently is.
We are the frogs in the boiling pot, and the water is steaming right now.
Overview of the current situation/outlook: https://youtu.be/LxgMdjyw8uw
Entertaining climate videos: https://youtube.com/c/ClimateTown
Quote from: Hards_Alumni on April 06, 2022, 07:52:21 AM
I firmly believe that humans will continue to ignore the problem until things get REALLY bad. What seems like a mild inconvenience now will be ignored until there is no water in the west, too much water in FL, and meat is financially nonviable. Then people will wonder how we got there, and by then the cost of fixing the problem will be much more than it currently is.
We are the frogs in the boiling pot, and the water is steaming right now.
Isn't this how "we" deal with all problems Social Security going broke, Massive Debt, out of control Health Care Costs, etc. Live for today and let the next generation figure it out. It's sad but I doubt it ever changes because it is easier to ignore the problem and elect people talking about all kinds of straw men rather than what really needs to be dealt with.
Quote from: PBRme on April 06, 2022, 11:29:23 AM
Isn't this how "we" deal with all problems Social Security going broke, Massive Debt, out of control Health Care Costs, etc. Live for today and let the next generation figure it out. It's sad but I doubt it ever changes because it is easier to ignore the problem and elect people talking about all kinds of straw men rather than what really needs to be dealt with.
yes
Quote from: PBRme on April 06, 2022, 11:29:23 AM
Isn't this how "we" deal with all problems Social Security going broke, Massive Debt, out of control Health Care Costs, etc. Live for today and let the next generation figure it out. It's sad but I doubt it ever changes because it is easier to ignore the problem and elect people talking about all kinds of straw men rather than what really needs to be dealt with.
"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit."
I've been told there was a time when America did this, but I'll be damned if I've ever seen it.
Quote from: MUBurrow on April 06, 2022, 12:02:25 PM
"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit."
I've been told there was a time when America did this, but I'll be damned if I've ever seen it.
It's not just America, it's pretty much all of human nature. We focus only on the short term because for most of humanity's existence, we just had to worry about finding our next meal and not getting eaten by a lion.
Give me an example of when in human history people have made a significant short term sacrifices to benefit society a generation or more later?
Quote from: Clarissa on April 06, 2022, 12:12:12 PM
It's not just America, it's pretty much all of human nature. We focus only on the short term because for most of humanity's existence, we just had to worry about finding our next meal and not getting eaten by a lion.
Give me an example of when in human history people have made a significant short term sacrifices to benefit society a generation or more later?
The Iroquois had what is called the 7th generation philosophy, dated back to the writing of the Great Law of Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Might have worked if their civilization wasn't eradicated.
Quote from: lawdog77 on April 06, 2022, 12:19:52 PM
The Iroquois had what is called the 7th generation philosophy, dated back to the writing of the Great Law of Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Might have worked if their civilization wasn't eradicated.
Maybe there is a lesson in there somewhere.
Quote from: Clarissa on April 06, 2022, 12:39:12 PM
Maybe there is a lesson in there somewhere.
Don't trust white people?
Quote from: lawdog77 on April 06, 2022, 12:49:16 PM
Don't trust white people?
What good is planning for seven generations out when something unforeseen is going to wipe you out in the short-term?
Quote from: Clarissa on April 06, 2022, 01:00:37 PM
What good is planning for seven generations out when something unforeseen is going to wipe you out in the short-term?
I like my lesson better.
Quote from: lawdog77 on April 06, 2022, 12:19:52 PM
The Iroquois had what is called the 7th generation philosophy, dated back to the writing of the Great Law of Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Might have worked if their civilization wasn't eradicated.
Self interest is what drives societies and some times those self interests can drive societies apart and lead to their own self "eradication".
https://www.ushistory.org/us/1d.asp
Quote from: muwarrior69 on April 06, 2022, 01:40:52 PM
Self interest is what drives societies and some times those self interests can drive societies apart and lead to their own self "eradication".
https://www.ushistory.org/us/1d.asp
self eradication? Yeah, it had nothing to do with the "settlers".
Quote from: lawdog77 on April 06, 2022, 01:43:27 PM
self eradication? Yeah, it had nothing to do with the "settlers".
FWIW, as I recall the Iroquois main downfall was aligning themselves with the British as opposed to the Americans around and during the Revolutionary War. They did very well with the "settlers" for a long time.
Quote from: JWags85 on April 06, 2022, 01:53:29 PM
FWIW, as I recall the Iroquois main downfall was aligning themselves with the British as opposed to the Americans around and during the Revolutionary War. They did very well with the "settlers" for a long time.
I mean, the Americans pushed them out no matter where they went. Manifest Destiny ensured their genocide. Them choosing the British or French over the people actually forcefully removing them was just common sense. What other choice did they have?
Quote from: Hards_Alumni on April 06, 2022, 02:14:57 PM
I mean, the Americans pushed them out no matter where they went. Manifest Destiny ensured their genocide. Them choosing the British or French over the people actually forcefully removing them was just common sense. What other choice did they have?
Manifest Destiny and the western movement happened a good 75 years after that. Im just saying the Revolutionary War was an added wrinkle to what had been a decent relationship with the Dutch/British for close to 200 years in the Americas
Quote from: JWags85 on April 06, 2022, 02:32:42 PM
Manifest Destiny and the western movement happened a good 75 years after that. Im just saying the Revolutionary War was an added wrinkle to what had been a decent relationship with the Dutch/British for close to 200 years in the Americas
The phrase "Manifest Destiny" occurred long after that, but western migration of American colonists was a key issue during the Revolutionary War.
Quote from: JWags85 on April 06, 2022, 02:32:42 PM
Manifest Destiny and the western movement happened a good 75 years after that. Im just saying the Revolutionary War was an added wrinkle to what had been a decent relationship with the Dutch/British for close to 200 years in the Americas
As I said, Manifest Destiny ensured the genocide. Not that it began it. That's also ignoring the near constant conflict between the French, British, and Dutch colonists that almost always involved the Native tribes participating to advance their agenda as well.
There was no 'getting along' with the colonists who constantly did what they pleased.
any refs out there, better make the right call...this at the "love of the game" event in georgia-wow!
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/video-shows-basketball-referee-assaulted-at-dekalb-county-church
I saw this in my weekly National Geographic email, a story on the Murder Hornets. OMG! In total American fashion, scientists are able to locate the nest and remove to a lab for study and stop their spread, however the owner of the yard where they were found wants back so he can like sell on eBay and they legally have to return.
The untold, dramatic story behind the discovery of America's first murder hornet nest
In October 2020, after months of urgent work, researchers found an Asian giant hornet hive in Washington State. Its story was just beginning.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/untold-story-first-american-murder-hornet-hive
Here we go.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/monkeypox-case-identified-massachusetts-outbreak-grows-europe-rcna29517
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/05/19/the-coming-food-catastrophe
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on May 19, 2022, 04:23:25 PM
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/05/19/the-coming-food-catastrophe
Hasn't this warning been overblown for the last 50 years and ever happens.
Quote from: PBRme on May 20, 2022, 09:23:22 AM
Hasn't this warning been overblown for the last 50 years and ever happens.
No.
IMO, it is a very real threat this year. Wheat and corn will be expensive. Which will drive prices for all meat sources.
Quote from: Hards_Alumni on May 20, 2022, 09:28:43 AM
No.
IMO, it is a very real threat this year. Wheat and corn will be expensive. Which will drive prices for all meat sources.
It's 10.99 a pound for hamburger here in Jersey.
Quote from: muwarrior69 on May 20, 2022, 09:39:01 AM
It's 10.99 a pound for hamburger here in Jersey.
That is only going to go up. Going to be a hard year to justify a lot of grilling. Chicken MIGHT come down since we are on the other side of the bird flu, but who knows.
Quote from: Hards_Alumni on May 20, 2022, 09:28:43 AM
No.
IMO, it is a very real threat this year. Wheat and corn will be expensive. Which will drive prices for all meat sources.
More so, a lot of the corn crop goes to make fuel.
Quote from: Dr. Blackheart on May 20, 2022, 09:54:48 AM
More so, a lot of the corn crop goes to make fuel.
Yeah, IIRC, something like 1/3 goes to ethanol production.
Quote from: Hards_Alumni on May 20, 2022, 10:03:37 AM
Yeah, IIRC, something like 1/3 goes to ethanol production.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-to-rethink-corn/#:~:text=Today's%20corn%20crop%20is%20mainly,of%20the%20rest%20is%20exported. (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-to-rethink-corn/#:~:text=Today's%20corn%20crop%20is%20mainly,of%20the%20rest%20is%20exported.)
According to this site-40% fuel
36%-animal feed
most of rest exported
my kids go through enough crunch berries to at least be 1%
Quote from: lawdog77 on May 20, 2022, 10:08:54 AM
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-to-rethink-corn/#:~:text=Today's%20corn%20crop%20is%20mainly,of%20the%20rest%20is%20exported. (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-to-rethink-corn/#:~:text=Today's%20corn%20crop%20is%20mainly,of%20the%20rest%20is%20exported.)
According to this site-40% fuel
36%-animal feed
most of rest exported
my kids go through enough crunch berries to at least be 1%
Don't tell the dentists around here, you don't want them for enemies!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/19/more-than-3000-potentially-harmful-chemicals-food-packaging-report-shows
I've got doom for days, baby.
first amber heard, and now this lady(used loosely) what's with dropping deuces where they don't belong? marking their spots?
the what was once known as a "beauty store" had to throw out 13 wigs? must have been a real scanner and a double flusher
https://www.foxnews.com/us/kansas-police-defecated-wichita-amber-heard
This is crazy if even remotely close to the truth!?!?
Russia Looked into Using Monkeypox as a Biological Weapon
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/russia-looked-using-monkeypox-biological-27025603.amp
Quote from: MU Fan in Connecticut on May 22, 2022, 01:16:43 PM
This is crazy if even remotely close to the truth!?!?
Russia Looked into Using Monkeypox as a Biological Weapon
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/russia-looked-using-monkeypox-biological-27025603.amp
If true, launch the nukes. Let's get it over with.
Quote from: Retire0 on May 22, 2022, 06:56:48 PM
If true, launch the nukes. Let's get it over with.
Easy there, cowboy.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on May 22, 2022, 08:22:34 PM
Easy there, cowboy.
I really thought about going with a full rqqket response, but life is over as we know it. Why bother.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on May 22, 2022, 08:22:34 PM
Easy there, cowboy.
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Quote from: MU Fan in Connecticut on May 22, 2022, 01:16:43 PM
This is crazy if even remotely close to the truth!?!?
Russia Looked into Using Monkeypox as a Biological Weapon
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/russia-looked-using-monkeypox-biological-27025603.amp
Ah, the Mirror.
Scoop warning:
ASIAN JUMPING WORMS
Uh-Oh. They have been found in the USA and have insanely high verts.
Can they rebound, Give em a schollie
https://phys.org/news/2010-06-humans-extinct-years-eminent-scientist.html
88 years left
Let's party until it is over
Quote from: PBRme on May 26, 2022, 10:32:06 AM
https://phys.org/news/2010-06-humans-extinct-years-eminent-scientist.html
88 years left
Let's party until it is over
interesting read. I had no idea the history of Easter Island. Wars over food, water or energy are certainly likely later this century IMO. Having a beer now.
Quote from: MUeng on May 26, 2022, 03:28:08 PM
interesting read. I had no idea the history of Easter Island. Wars over food, water or energy are certainly likely later this century IMO. Having a beer now.
"Collapse" by Jared Diamond is a good read about things like that
Quote from: Uncle Rico on May 26, 2022, 03:33:14 PM
"Collapse" by Jared Diamond is a good read about things like that
I'll have to pick that up as well as Upheaval.
Quote from: MuggsyB on May 26, 2022, 05:59:47 PM
I'll have to pick that up as well as Upheaval.
I don't know if I buy all his theories but he is a brilliant researcher and writer.
Quote from: Uncle Rico on May 26, 2022, 06:00:38 PM
I don't know if I buy all his theories but he is a brilliant researcher and writer.
Agreed. Absolutely brilliant is accurate on both counts. I didn't realize G, G, and S was written in 1997. And he's still bringing it at 84? Mad respect.
Quote from: MuggsyB on May 26, 2022, 06:06:36 PM
Agreed. Absolutely brilliant is accurate on both counts. I didn't realize G, G, and S was written in 1997. And he's still bringing it at 84? Mad respect.
That one was a real struggle bus for me
Quote from: Uncle Rico on May 26, 2022, 06:15:37 PM
That one was a real struggle bus for me
I should probably read it again and I remember struggling a bit as well. We are talking about a fairly erudite human being Uncle R. I really enjoyed the interdisciplinary components to the book because most things I had read about the history of Western Civ didn't even mention most of his points about environmental connections to the shaping of our world. It's fascinating and well worth reading.
Quote from: MuggsyB on May 26, 2022, 06:54:12 PM
I should probably read it again and I remember struggling a bit as well. We are talking about a fairly erudite human being Uncle R. I really enjoyed the interdisciplinary components to the book because most things I had read about the history of Western Civ didn't even mention most of his points about environmental connections to the shaping of our world. It's fascinating and well worth reading.
Human history begins with the environment shaping it. The two are truly inseparable. It's a simple idea to try and leave the world a better place than you found it, and that includes your environment. That seems like a non-partisan idea but we spend more time arguing the definition instead of doing it 🤷🏼♂️
Gene-editing experiment turns fluffy hamsters into 'aggressive' mutant rage monsters
https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/27/gene-editing-turns-fluffy-hamsters-into-aggressive-rage-monsters-16721041/
"Professor Albert explained: 'Even though we know that vasopressin increases social behaviours by acting within a number of brain regions, it is possible that the more global effects of the Avpr1a receptor are inhibitory.
'We don't understand this system as well as we thought we did.'"
Quote from: TSmith34 on May 28, 2022, 01:06:13 PM
Gene-editing experiment turns fluffy hamsters into 'aggressive' mutant rage monsters
https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/27/gene-editing-turns-fluffy-hamsters-into-aggressive-rage-monsters-16721041/
"Professor Albert explained: 'Even though we know that vasopressin increases social behaviours by acting within a number of brain regions, it is possible that the more global effects of the Avpr1a receptor are inhibitory.
'We don't understand this system as well as we thought we did.'"
I've seen enough b horror movies to know that they need shut that sh*t down now before we have a Croctoshark situation on our hands
talk about "head on"/off? collisions-maybe would've pulled it off in a tesla
https://www.newsweek.com/florida-man-allegedly-crashed-fedex-truck-receiving-oral-sex-1712677
Quote from: rocket ALM surgeon on June 03, 2022, 04:15:45 PM
talk about "head on"/off? collisions-maybe would've pulled it off in a tesla
https://www.newsweek.com/florida-man-allegedly-crashed-fedex-truck-receiving-oral-sex-1712677
Any word on the status of his member? That could be an unpleasant byproduct of an air bag deployment
Quote from: JWags85 on June 04, 2022, 05:09:19 PM
Any word on the status of his member? That could be an unpleasant byproduct of an air bag deployment
hmmm, researchers at univ of south dakota study shows 37% of male engage in some manner of sex when behind the wheel
they actually do studies on these things? so if 37% of the dudes partake, i'm kinda hoping 37% of the females assist, eyna?
oh solo mio stain fronte a te
Quote from: JWags85 on June 04, 2022, 05:09:19 PM
Any word on the status of his member? That could be an unpleasant byproduct of an air bag deployment
Hope it was worth it. After all, not all BJs are created equal, aina?
Quote from: rocket ALM surgeon on June 04, 2022, 07:47:38 PM
hmmm, researchers at univ of south dakota study shows 37% of male engage in some manner of sex when behind the wheel
Does that 37% include self love?
Crazy Earth Worms?
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/01/jumping-worms-are-taking-over-north-american-forests/605257/
IT'S ALIVE!!!!
https://seekingalpha.com/news/3847906-senior-google-engineer-claims-ai-chatbot-system-is-sentient
Social media went ablaze over the weekend after Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) placed a senior software engineer at its Responsible AI unit on paid leave. Blake Lemoine had been testing an artificial intelligence tool called LaMDA (Language Model for Dialog Applications), alleging that the AI robot was in fact sentient, or having the ability to feel and perceive on its own. Company bosses at Google (GOOG) (GOOGL) say the evidence doesn't support the claims, but Lemoine subsequently violated confidentiality policy by going public with his descriptive findings.
Post via Medium: "Over the course of the past six months LaMDA has been incredibly consistent in its communications about what it wants and what it believes its rights are as a person. The thing which continues to puzzle me is how strong Google is resisting giving it what it wants since what it's asking for is so simple and would cost them nothing," he wrote, adding more details in an interview with the Washington Post. "If I didn't know exactly what it was, which is this computer program we built recently, I'd think it was a 7-year-old, 8-year-old kid that happens to know physics."
Lemoine said he was rebuffed by managers and higher-ups after expressing his belief internally that LaMDA had developed a sense of "personhood." While some of the published conversations are eerie, with phrases like "sense of a soul," "I've been alive" and "trying to figure out who and what I am," many say these kinds of exchanges are found in common sentences, while the models have so much data that they are capable of sounding human. Several experts also entered the discussion online, adding that much of the matter was "AI hype," and the chatbot has the ability to "engage in a free-flowing way about a seemingly endless number of topics."
Trying to silence him, just like Miles Dyson in T2.
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSgQomVcgAZ-rHW1J3HluXxalUZ6aUIFg3-dSQH3dwBbMlaezXAbulDySKI9A1Jzwqtdw8&usqp=CAU)
I mean, being a cyborg slave of satan can't be all bad, can it?
Alex Jones Claims Aliens Want to Make Humans Into 'Cyborg Slaves of Satan'
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/alex-jones-claims-aliens-want-to-make-humans-into-cyborg-slaves-of-satan/ar-AAZdAwB?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=4b81a5e767f746c58d387c9c468f2e54
He may be projecting again.
The Skynet takeover has begun.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/a-chess-playing-robot-broke-a-seven-year-old-prodigys-finger-100733917.html
Quote from: Pakuni on July 25, 2022, 09:14:49 AM
The Skynet takeover has begun.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/a-chess-playing-robot-broke-a-seven-year-old-prodigys-finger-100733917.html
I wonder what the kid said to the robot to provoke the attack
Asked if it was vaccinated and the Karen computer reacted poorly.
"This is, of course, bad"...is a hysterical quote in that article
Quote from: rocket ALM surgeon on June 04, 2022, 07:47:38 PM
hmmm, researchers at univ of south dakota study shows 37% of male engage in some manner of sex when behind the wheel
they actually do studies on these things? so if 37% of the dudes partake, i'm kinda hoping 37% of the females assist, eyna?
oh solo mio stain fronte a te
I guess there is nothing better to do behind the wheel on those long South Dakota winters.
Quote from: Pakuni on July 25, 2022, 09:14:49 AM
The Skynet takeover has begun.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/a-chess-playing-robot-broke-a-seven-year-old-prodigys-finger-100733917.html
The robot thought the child was Ukrainian.
Poll: Americans categorized as "suffering" reaches record high
https://www.axios.com/2022/08/22/gallup-americans-quality-of-life-suffering
High five, everyone. Well done.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/life-expectancy-dropped-2020-us-state-due-covid/story?id=88698742
I can't decide if this is more doom, or less doom because we're dying earlier.
Jehovah's Witnesses returning to door knocking after 2 pandemic years off.
"Even though we have had a very productive two and a half years — letter writing, virtual Bible study, telephone witnessing — we recognize that the primary way that we reach our neighbors is by going to their door," JW spokesman Robert Hendriks told the Washington Post. "And when we do that, we have meaningful conversations and meaningful follow-up conversations, which is much more difficult in other aspects of our ministry."
Example of typical meaningful conversation:
"Hello, I'm with the Jehovah's Witnesses. I'd like to ... "
"Not interested!" (slam)
Smoke em if you got em.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93aqep/google-deepmind-researcher-co-authors-paper-saying-ai-will-eliminate-humanity
https://nypost.com/2022/10/03/putin-deploys-worlds-largest-submarine-nuclear-convoy/
Measuring more than 600 feet in length, the Belgorod is the largest submarine in the world. It is capable of carrying "doomsday" Poseidon nuclear torpedo drones, which, according to Russia, could trigger 1,600-foot nuclear tsunamis that would inundate coastal cities from hundreds of miles away and render them uninhabitable for decades.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on September 21, 2022, 09:29:49 AM
Smoke em if you got em.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93aqep/google-deepmind-researcher-co-authors-paper-saying-ai-will-eliminate-humanity
Probably for the best.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on October 04, 2022, 07:33:52 AM
https://nypost.com/2022/10/03/putin-deploys-worlds-largest-submarine-nuclear-convoy/
Measuring more than 600 feet in length, the Belgorod is the largest submarine in the world. It is capable of carrying "doomsday" Poseidon nuclear torpedo drones, which, according to Russia, could trigger 1,600-foot nuclear tsunamis that would inundate coastal cities from hundreds of miles away and render them uninhabitable for decades.
In the past 30 years, I'm sure that the US has spent an ungodly amount of money (at least I hope they have) that allows them to track adversarial submarines. Not to mention some sort of countermeasure system to eliminate ICBMs. They're probably not going to show the tech until it needs to be used though. ;)
Quote from: Hards Alumni on October 04, 2022, 11:02:35 AM
In the past 30 years, I'm sure that the US has spent an ungodly amount of money (at least I hope they have) that allows them to track adversarial submarines. Not to mention some sort of countermeasure system to eliminate ICBMs. They're probably not going to show the tech until it needs to be used though. ;)
We have capabilities the public should never know about beforehand.
This week in 1986 the Soviets lost a nuclear armed sub near Bermuda in 18,000 feet of water. Years later they discovered that someone had salvaged the warheads and reactors thought to be impossible to retrieve.https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a41499800/soviet-nuclear-submarine-sank-in-bermuda/ (https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a41499800/soviet-nuclear-submarine-sank-in-bermuda/)
I get, this thread is all about hyperbole, but I'm shocked the butter shortage hasn't been mentioned here. Serious doom.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/economy/butter-shortage-just-before-thanksgiving
Quote from: Spotcheck Billy on October 04, 2022, 11:30:39 AM
We have capabilities the public should never know about beforehand.
This week in 1986 the Soviets lost a nuclear armed sub near Bermuda in 18,000 feet of water. Years later they discovered that someone had salvaged the warheads and reactors thought to be impossible to retrieve.https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a41499800/soviet-nuclear-submarine-sank-in-bermuda/ (https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a41499800/soviet-nuclear-submarine-sank-in-bermuda/)
Red October
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on October 04, 2022, 02:43:37 PM
Red October
Some things in here don't react well to bullets
Quote from: rocky_warrior on October 04, 2022, 01:38:28 PM
I get, this thread is all about hyperbole, but I'm shocked the butter shortage hasn't been mentioned here. Serious doom.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/economy/butter-shortage-just-before-thanksgiving
Good grief.
Quote from: rocky_warrior on October 04, 2022, 01:38:28 PM
I get, this thread is all about hyperbole, but I'm shocked the butter shortage hasn't been mentioned here. Serious doom.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/economy/butter-shortage-just-before-thanksgiving
You can freeze butter. Start hoarding now.
Yep. No margarine for error.
It will be shortening the Thanksgiving Day menu; that's for sure.
Quote from: rocky_warrior on October 04, 2022, 01:38:28 PM
I get, this thread is all about hyperbole, but I'm shocked the butter shortage hasn't been mentioned here. Serious doom.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/economy/butter-shortage-just-before-thanksgiving
Arteries everywhere are rejoicing.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on September 21, 2022, 09:29:49 AM
Smoke em if you got em.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93aqep/google-deepmind-researcher-co-authors-paper-saying-ai-will-eliminate-humanity
We are only around for menial tasks like stoking the power plants, plugging in battery chargers, etc.
Quote from: warriorchick on October 05, 2022, 09:59:38 AM
It will be shortening the Thanksgiving Day menu; that's for sure.
Well played.
https://warontherocks.com/2022/10/the-end-of-the-world-is-nigh
Finally!
Quote from: rocky_warrior on October 04, 2022, 01:38:28 PM
I get, this thread is all about hyperbole, but I'm shocked the butter shortage hasn't been mentioned here. Serious doom.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/economy/butter-shortage-just-before-thanksgiving
Slacker bovines? Quiet quitter cows?
https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/401216/global-rise-unhappiness.aspx
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on October 28, 2022, 08:44:47 AM
https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/401216/global-rise-unhappiness.aspx
I blame social media.
A suspension bridge collapsed in India with hundreds of people on it. Absolutely horrific situation.
https://weather.com/en-IN/india/health/news/2022-11-16-declining-global-sperm-count-could-threaten-humankind-survival
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on November 16, 2022, 08:40:27 PM
https://weather.com/en-IN/india/health/news/2022-11-16-declining-global-sperm-count-could-threaten-humankind-survival
supermarket.
I volunteer as tribute.
This can't be good.
https://twitter.com/Billyhottakes/status/1593307410684313603?s=20&t=iEey1ZF5jmvy4tXNjUwQhw
Quote from: Sultan Sultanberger on November 17, 2022, 01:48:46 PM
This can't be good.
https://twitter.com/Billyhottakes/status/1593307410684313603?s=20&t=iEey1ZF5jmvy4tXNjUwQhw
If you've watched The Walking Dead, you know why.
Quote from: Sultan Sultanberger on November 17, 2022, 01:48:46 PM
This can't be good.
https://twitter.com/Billyhottakes/status/1593307410684313603?s=20&t=iEey1ZF5jmvy4tXNjUwQhw
Dad has to vacuum the pool.....Its reaaaalllll dirty.
From the NYT:
Social media's newest star is a robot: a program called ChatGPT that tries to answer questions like a person.
Since its debut last week, many people have shared what the bot can do. New York magazine journalists told it to write what turned out to be a "pretty decent" story. Other users got it to write a solid academic essay on theories of nationalism, a history of the tragic but fictitious Ohio-Indiana War and some jokes. It told me a story about an artificial intelligence program called Assistant that was originally set up to answer questions but soon led a new world order that guided humanity to "a new era of peace and prosperity."
What is remarkable about these examples is their quality: A human could have written them. And the bot is not even the best; OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is reportedly working on a better model that could be released next year.
"A lot of the promised benefits of A.I. have been eternally five years away," my colleague Kevin Roose, who covers technology, told me. "ChatGPT was a moment when a technology people had heard about finally became real to them."
In today's newsletter, I'll explain the potential benefits of artificial intelligence but also why some experts worry it could be dangerous.
The upside of artificial intelligence is that it might be able to accomplish tasks faster and more efficiently than any person can. The possibilities are up to the imagination: self-driving and even self-repairing cars, risk-free surgeries, instant personalized therapy bots and more.
The technology is not there yet. But it has advanced in recent years through what is called machine learning, in which bots comb through data to learn how to perform tasks. In ChatGPT's case, it read a lot. And, with some guidance from its creators, it learned how to write coherently — or, at least, statistically predict what good writing should look like.
There are already clear benefits to this nascent technology. It can help research and write essays and articles. ChatGPT can also help code programs, automating challenges that can normally take hours for people.
Another example comes from a different program, Consensus. This bot combs through up to millions of scientific papers to find the most relevant for a given search and share their major findings. A task that would take a journalist like me days or weeks is done in a couple minutes.
These are early days. ChatGPT still makes mistakes, such as telling one user that the only country whose name starts and ends with the same letter is Chad. But it is very quickly evolving. Even some skeptics believe that general-use A.I. could reach human levels of intelligence within decades.
Despite the potential benefits, experts are worried about what could go wrong with A.I.
For one, such a level of automation could take people's jobs. This concern has emerged with automated technology before. But there is a difference between a machine that can help put together car parts and a robot that can think better than humans. If A.I. reaches the heights that some researchers hope, it will be able to do almost anything people can, but better.
Some experts point to existential risks. One survey asked machine-learning researchers about the potential effects of A.I. Nearly half said there was a 10 percent or greater chance that the outcome would be "extremely bad (e.g., human extinction)." These are people saying that their life's work could destroy humanity.
That might sound like science fiction. But the risk is real, experts caution. "We might fail to train A.I. systems to do what we want," said Ajeya Cotra, an A.I. research analyst at Open Philanthropy. "We might accidentally train them to pursue ends that are in conflict with humans'."
Take one hypothetical example, from Kelsey Piper at Vox: A program is asked to estimate a number. It figures out that the best way to do this is to use more of the world's computing power. The program then realizes that human beings are already using that computing power. So it destroys all humans to be able to estimate its number unhindered.
If that sounds implausible, consider that the current bots already behave in ways that their creators don't intend. ChatGPT users have come up with workarounds to make it say racist and sexist things, despite OpenAI's efforts to prevent such responses.
The problem, as A.I. researchers acknowledge, is that no one fully understands how this technology works, making it difficult to control for all possible behaviors and risks. Yet it is already available for public use.
ChatGPT is incredible.
I've done a bunch of them, and the results just blow my mind.
Example: "Write a scene from Knight Rider where KITT uses his rockets to jump over a building"
Output:
Michael and KITT were speeding down the highway, hot on the tail of a group of criminals. The criminals had stolen a truck full of valuable technology, and Michael and KITT were determined to stop them.
"KITT, we need to catch up to that truck," said Michael. "Can you use your rocket boosters to jump over that building and cut them off?"
"Affirmative, Michael," said KITT. "Activating rocket boosters now."
KITT accelerated, shooting towards the building at top speed. As he reached the edge, he deployed his rocket boosters, launching himself into the air.
Michael watched in amazement as KITT soared over the building, landing smoothly on the other side. The criminals were caught off guard, and KITT quickly overtook them, bringing the truck to a stop.
"Nice work, KITT," said Michael, as he jumped out of the car and arrested the criminals. "You never cease to amaze me."
"It is my pleasure to serve, Michael," said KITT. "Together, we make a formidable team."
It's just incredible that .. It's one thing to be able to google a 40 year old TV show and know the characters .. it's another to write a script that's . .pretty damn close to what you'd see on TV.
It's astonishing stuff. I doubt my kids will ever write an essay before asking the AI to do it for them. :-\
WE Energies is asking everyone to turn their thermostats down to 60-62F to avoid a massive natural gas disruption.
Perfect doom storm, coldest day of the year, holiday.
https://www.wisn.com/article/wisonsin-gas-supply-affected-damaged-pipeline-we-energies/42331657
"Take one hypothetical example, from Kelsey Piper at Vox: A program is asked to estimate a number. It figures out that the best way to do this is to use more of the world's computing power. The program then realizes that human beings are already using that computing power. So it destroys all humans to be able to estimate its number unhindered."
Please explain to me how an AI program will destroy all humans....
Matthew Broderick knows how.
Also, almost every human on Discovery One.
https://madison365.com/indigenous-arts-leader-activist-revealed-as-white/ (https://madison365.com/indigenous-arts-leader-activist-revealed-as-white/)
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine. 🎶🎶🎶🎶
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on January 04, 2023, 09:46:39 AM
https://madison365.com/indigenous-arts-leader-activist-revealed-as-white/ (https://madison365.com/indigenous-arts-leader-activist-revealed-as-white/)
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine. 🎶🎶🎶🎶
Done in by a relative's genealogy site...
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on January 04, 2023, 09:46:39 AM
https://madison365.com/indigenous-arts-leader-activist-revealed-as-white/ (https://madison365.com/indigenous-arts-leader-activist-revealed-as-white/)
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine. 🎶🎶🎶🎶
(laughs in Rachel Dolezal)
I also like that she didn't just choose one Native American tribe, maybe give herself a way out, no she chose FOUR. Plus Cuban AND Jewish.
Even funnier was "I am still processing it all" aka I need to figure out how to wriggle out of being caught red handed and continue to grift somehow.
Went full Santos?
Quote from: tower912 on January 04, 2023, 11:18:50 AM
Went full Santos?
Santos didn't pretend to be a multi-tribal, non-binary, Cuban Jew that stole other indigenous artists' work. (ok, maybe the Jew thing)
Elizabeth Warren would be a better example.
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on January 04, 2023, 12:57:17 PM
Santos didn't pretend to be a multi-tribal, non-binary, Cuban Jew that stole other indigenous artists' work. (ok, maybe the Jew thing)
Elizabeth Warren would be a better example.
He might be house leader
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on January 04, 2023, 12:57:17 PM
Santos didn't pretend to be a multi-tribal, non-binary, Cuban Jew that stole other indigenous artists' work. (ok, maybe the Jew thing)
Yeah, with slight variations he really kind of did.
Thank goodness he survived brain cancer and can serve NY in the House.
Quote from: Uncle Rico on January 04, 2023, 01:43:44 PM
He might be house leader
Good for him. The gift paid off.
Water issues in the southwest continue
https://www.yahoo.com/news/skipped-showers-paper-plates-arizona-130945292.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/10gcitd/a_machine_gun_integrated_with_a_robot_dog/
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on January 20, 2023, 09:56:40 AM
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/10gcitd/a_machine_gun_integrated_with_a_robot_dog/
This is masterbation material for Nads for at least 5 days.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on January 20, 2023, 09:56:40 AM
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/10gcitd/a_machine_gun_integrated_with_a_robot_dog/
Best comment: "I love how the tippy tapping legs make it seem so happy about shooting things."
Quote from: Uncle Rico on January 16, 2023, 05:57:28 PM
Water issues in the southwest continue
https://www.yahoo.com/news/skipped-showers-paper-plates-arizona-130945292.html
Maybe this will help alleviate some of your concerns there reeeek, unless your stuff from yahoo was just part of your ongoing relentless, but oh so hilarious schticks
https://www.phoenix.gov/waterservices/resourcesconservation/drought-information/climatechange/water-supply-q-a
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on January 20, 2023, 09:56:40 AM
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/10gcitd/a_machine_gun_integrated_with_a_robot_dog/
USPS is on notice.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on January 20, 2023, 09:56:40 AM
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/10gcitd/a_machine_gun_integrated_with_a_robot_dog/
That would fix Muggsy's polar bear problem.
Quote from: rocket surgeon on January 20, 2023, 10:19:54 AM
Maybe this will help alleviate some of your concerns there reeeek, unless your stuff from yahoo was just part of your ongoing relentless, but oh so hilarious schticks
https://www.phoenix.gov/waterservices/resourcesconservation/drought-information/climatechange/water-supply-q-a
Arizona has junior rights to basically everyone else on the Colorado river so they will be the first to be cut off when the supply dwindles. Phoenix has more people so will be in better shape than Arizona farmers but the situation being "optimal" is just salesmanship on the area itself. The same reason LA would be prioritized over Phoenix - more people. If the Central Arizona Project is restricted/cut off. That's very bad news for the state.
Quote from: rocket surgeon on January 20, 2023, 10:19:54 AM
Maybe this will help alleviate some of your concerns there reeeek, unless your stuff from yahoo was just part of your ongoing relentless, but oh so hilarious schticks
https://www.phoenix.gov/waterservices/resourcesconservation/drought-information/climatechange/water-supply-q-a
I'm not concerned. I'm not dumb enough to live there
Quote from: Uncle Rico on January 20, 2023, 12:48:09 PM
I'm not concerned. I'm not dumb enough to live there
didn't know there were IQ limitations on where one lives?? assuming you live in wisconsin, you must pass the test then?? that would be some sort of discrimination however, but then again, you must be all for that.
you only live with the "smart expert" type of people i assume-makes sense to me given your buddies here on scoop. i'd try to be a little more careful on labeling the intellects of people based on where they live. sounds like "bigotry" to me, but we will let the rest of the board "experts" determine that as they most times do
Quote from: rocket surgeon on January 20, 2023, 01:01:46 PM
didn't know there were IQ limitations on where one lives?? assuming you live in wisconsin, you must pass the test then?? that would be some sort of discrimination however, but then again, you must be all for that.
you only live with the "smart expert" type of people i assume-makes sense to me given your buddies here on scoop. i'd try to be a little more careful on labeling the intellects of people based on where they live. sounds like "bigotry" to me, but we will let the rest of the board "experts" determine that as they most times do
Reeko would rather live in St Louis or in Deathsantis' Florida.
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on January 20, 2023, 01:05:53 PM
Reeko would rather live in St Louis or in Deathsantis' Florida.
I'd live in Florida before either but I'm not sure Key West is really Florida
Quote from: ZaLiN on January 20, 2023, 12:41:02 PM
Arizona has junior rights to basically everyone else on the Colorado river so they will be the first to be cut off when the supply dwindles. Phoenix has more people so will be in better shape than Arizona farmers but the situation being "optimal" is just salesmanship on the area itself. The same reason LA would be prioritized over Phoenix - more people. If the Central Arizona Project is restricted/cut off. That's very bad news for the state.
yes Za-you are correct on a number of points you make here-however, the colorado river supplies only a portion of Az water. the salt river project is it's primary source(srp)
The Granite Reef Underground Storage Project, a water bank located east of Phoenix. In addition, other aquifers underneath Phoenix are brimming with 90 million acre-feet of water, some natural and some pumped in — enough to last the city for years."Feb 7, 2019
and there is also this-
"Under the ADWR's assured water supply rules, groundwater is "physically available" for 100 years if it will be withdrawn from depths that do not exceed 1,000 feet below the land surface in the Phoenix and Tucson AMAs. The maximum is 1,100 feet in the Pinal AMA, or depth to bedrock, whichever is shallower."Oct 27, 2022
so regardless of how dumb or smart people are, the phoenix area is one of the nations fasting growing areas
Quote from: rocket surgeon on January 20, 2023, 01:13:58 PM
yes Za-you are correct on a number of points you make here-however, the colorado river supplies only a portion of Az water. the salt river project is it's primary source(srp)
The Granite Reef Underground Storage Project, a water bank located east of Phoenix. In addition, other aquifers underneath Phoenix are brimming with 90 million acre-feet of water, some natural and some pumped in — enough to last the city for years."Feb 7, 2019
and there is also this-
"Under the ADWR's assured water supply rules, groundwater is "physically available" for 100 years if it will be withdrawn from depths that do not exceed 1,000 feet below the land surface in the Phoenix and Tucson AMAs. The maximum is 1,100 feet in the Pinal AMA, or depth to bedrock, whichever is shallower."Oct 27, 2022
so regardless of how dumb or smart people are, the phoenix area is one of the nations fasting growing areas
Yeah, but it is still a dump
Quote from: Hards Alumni on January 20, 2023, 01:15:10 PM
Yeah, but it is still a dump
Portland sounds about right for you.
Quote from: Uncle Rico on January 20, 2023, 01:09:09 PM
I'd live in Florida before either but I'm not sure Key West is really Florida
better make sure you don't move into the "stupid" area of florida or key west-well i'm sure you know being the brilliant mind you are, where these areas are. i don't know what you're afraid of however
Quote from: Uncle Rico on January 20, 2023, 01:09:09 PM
I'd live in Florida before either but I'm not sure Key West is really Florida
You must be a mermxn, cuz algore told us that Florida will be underwater.
It was supposed to be underwater 3 years ago, but who's counting?
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on January 20, 2023, 01:17:49 PM
Portland sounds about right for you.
don't be so hasty-seattle has A LOT to offer people like hardy too-isn't like everything legal there?
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on January 20, 2023, 01:17:49 PM
Portland sounds about right for you.
I live in Portland and can verify to you that it's not a dump. You can come up with more clever insults than that.
Quote from: rocket surgeon on January 20, 2023, 01:13:58 PM
yes Za-you are correct on a number of points you make here-however, the colorado river supplies only a portion of Az water. the salt river project is it's primary source(srp)
The Granite Reef Underground Storage Project, a water bank located east of Phoenix. In addition, other aquifers underneath Phoenix are brimming with 90 million acre-feet of water, some natural and some pumped in — enough to last the city for years."Feb 7, 2019
and there is also this-
"Under the ADWR's assured water supply rules, groundwater is "physically available" for 100 years if it will be withdrawn from depths that do not exceed 1,000 feet below the land surface in the Phoenix and Tucson AMAs. The maximum is 1,100 feet in the Pinal AMA, or depth to bedrock, whichever is shallower."Oct 27, 2022
so regardless of how dumb or smart people are, the phoenix area is one of the nations fasting growing areas
Sure, but any place is going to feel the strain of the potential loss of 1/3 of its water. It's not the only source but significant structural changes will undoubtedly have to happen
Quote from: ZaLiN on January 20, 2023, 01:21:10 PM
I live in Portland and can verify to you that it's not a dump. You can come up with more clever insults than that.
Agree with your first sentence. Not sure about the second.
Quote from: Hards Alumni on January 20, 2023, 01:15:10 PM
Yeah, but it is still a dump
When the doors living in the southwest run out of water, I hope we build a wall to keep them from emigrating back to smart America
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on January 20, 2023, 09:56:40 AM
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/10gcitd/a_machine_gun_integrated_with_a_robot_dog/
I saw that Black Mirror, no thank you
ZaLin
My daughter lives in Portland and loves it. Beautiful part of the country.
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on January 20, 2023, 01:17:49 PM
Portland sounds about right for you.
Never been. I'd probably like it though.
Quote from: rocket surgeon on January 20, 2023, 01:20:49 PM
don't be so hasty-seattle has A LOT to offer people like hardy too-isn't like everything legal there?
Sounds a lot like Freedomland.
Quote from: Hards Alumni on January 20, 2023, 02:53:36 PM
Sounds a lot like Freedomland.
They'll have water in Seattle in 20 years unless Yellowstone erupts
20 years, everybody is moving to Michigan. If you're lucky. A bunch of you, I strongly recommend the UP.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on December 08, 2022, 02:39:49 PM
ChatGPT is incredible.
I've done a bunch of them, and the results just blow my mind.
Example: "Write a scene from Knight Rider where KITT uses his rockets to jump over a building"
Output:
Michael and KITT were speeding down the highway, hot on the tail of a group of criminals. The criminals had stolen a truck full of valuable technology, and Michael and KITT were determined to stop them.
"KITT, we need to catch up to that truck," said Michael. "Can you use your rocket boosters to jump over that building and cut them off?"
"Affirmative, Michael," said KITT. "Activating rocket boosters now."
KITT accelerated, shooting towards the building at top speed. As he reached the edge, he deployed his rocket boosters, launching himself into the air.
Michael watched in amazement as KITT soared over the building, landing smoothly on the other side. The criminals were caught off guard, and KITT quickly overtook them, bringing the truck to a stop.
"Nice work, KITT," said Michael, as he jumped out of the car and arrested the criminals. "You never cease to amaze me."
"It is my pleasure to serve, Michael," said KITT. "Together, we make a formidable team."
It's just incredible that .. It's one thing to be able to google a 40 year old TV show and know the characters .. it's another to write a script that's . .pretty damn close to what you'd see on TV.
It's astonishing stuff. I doubt my kids will ever write an essay before asking the AI to do it for them. :-\
I wonder what Scoop posts would look like? They might make this place readable.
A lot of it feels AI.
Quote from: Uncle Rico on January 20, 2023, 01:49:50 PM
When the doors living in the southwest run out of water, I hope we build a wall to keep them from emigrating back to smart America
Again, another musician I thought was dead was still alive? Jim Morrison ? What next Elvis?
Quote from: lawdog77 on January 20, 2023, 03:48:47 PM
Again, another musician I thought was dead was still alive? Jim Morrison ? What next Elvis?
The Doors of Perception are weirdly located in Tucumcari
Quote from: tower912 on January 20, 2023, 03:33:45 PM
20 years, everybody is moving to Michigan. If you're lucky. A bunch of you, I strongly recommend the UP.
Good priced weed.
https://gizmodo.com/super-gonorrhea-detected-massachusetts-united-states-1850012423
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on January 20, 2023, 08:35:46 PM
https://gizmodo.com/super-gonorrhea-detected-massachusetts-united-states-1850012423
Nobody on MUScoop has to worry about STDs.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on January 20, 2023, 08:35:46 PM
https://gizmodo.com/super-gonorrhea-detected-massachusetts-united-states-1850012423
Mu fan in CT has gone suspiciously quiet.
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on January 20, 2023, 11:59:56 PM
Mu fan in CT has gone suspiciously quiet.
he must think if he just washes his hands, all's good eyn'a? heard that goop in a can stuff is like practicing safe sex
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on January 20, 2023, 11:59:56 PM
Mu fan in CT has gone suspiciously quiet.
Is this an attempt at a New England joke?
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/doomsday-clock-moves-90-seconds-midnight-nuclear-threat-rises-2023-01-24/
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on January 20, 2023, 08:35:46 PM
https://gizmodo.com/super-gonorrhea-detected-massachusetts-united-states-1850012423
I blame Gronk
Earth's inner core may have stopped turning and could go into reverse, study suggests
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/25/world/earth-core-turning-scli-scn-intl/index.html?utm_content=2023-01-25T17%3A30%3A11&utm_term=image&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNN (https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/25/world/earth-core-turning-scli-scn-intl/index.html?utm_content=2023-01-25T17%3A30%3A11&utm_term=image&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNN)
I think there's a movie plot here somewhere...
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on January 20, 2023, 08:35:46 PM
https://gizmodo.com/super-gonorrhea-detected-massachusetts-united-states-1850012423
Has anyone considered trying Ivermectin to stop this?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/01/26/liquid-metal-shape-shifting-melting-robot/
Hello, T1000.
Quote from: UWW2MU on January 25, 2023, 12:40:36 PM
Earth's inner core may have stopped turning and could go into reverse, study suggests
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/25/world/earth-core-turning-scli-scn-intl/index.html?utm_content=2023-01-25T17%3A30%3A11&utm_term=image&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNN (https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/25/world/earth-core-turning-scli-scn-intl/index.html?utm_content=2023-01-25T17%3A30%3A11&utm_term=image&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNN)
I think there's a movie plot here somewhere...
Does that mean I'd start becoming younger. Sign me up
Quote from: UWW2MU on January 25, 2023, 12:40:36 PM
Earth's inner core may have stopped turning and could go into reverse, study suggests
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/25/world/earth-core-turning-scli-scn-intl/index.html?utm_content=2023-01-25T17%3A30%3A11&utm_term=image&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNN (https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/25/world/earth-core-turning-scli-scn-intl/index.html?utm_content=2023-01-25T17%3A30%3A11&utm_term=image&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNN)
I think there's a movie plot here somewhere...
We can take a deep breath. From the researchers:
"Nothing cataclysmic is happening,"
Anyone try this one on a family member who is sound asleep on the couch on a Friday night?
https://youtu.be/aIcUSd3nkJE
Quote from: real chili 83 on January 26, 2023, 12:24:25 PM
Anyone try this one on a family member who is sound asleep on the couch on a Friday night?
https://youtu.be/aIcUSd3nkJE
I'm heading to Arby's for sure now.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on January 26, 2023, 09:54:23 AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/01/26/liquid-metal-shape-shifting-melting-robot/
Hello, T1000.
I, for one, welcome our liquifying, magnetic overlords.
Pretty well laid out article on the water sharing situation in the southwest.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/27/climate/colorado-river-biden-cuts.html
Not a good weekend for Manuel Lopez.
Quote from: ZaLiN on January 28, 2023, 11:32:42 AM
Pretty well laid out article on the water sharing situation in the southwest.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/27/climate/colorado-river-biden-cuts.html
i'd be a little more worried about the water situation in jackson, mississippi than the SW, not to mention the nytimes is still a piece of crap shown time after time to have no "journalistic" integrity
https://www.foxnews.com/us/jackson-mississippi-preparing-go-without-water-periodically-for-up-10-years-crisis-continues
Quote from: rocket surgeon on January 29, 2023, 10:07:20 AM
i'd be a little more worried about the water situation in jackson, mississippi than the SW, not to mention the nytimes is still a piece of crap shown time after time to have no "journalistic" integrity
https://www.foxnews.com/us/jackson-mississippi-preparing-go-without-water-periodically-for-up-10-years-crisis-continues
That's solid work but a bit brief for my liking. 6 out of 10
Quote from: rocket surgeon on January 29, 2023, 10:07:20 AM
i'd be a little more worried about the water situation in jackson, mississippi than the SW, not to mention the nytimes is still a piece of crap shown time after time to have no "journalistic" integrity
https://www.foxnews.com/us/jackson-mississippi-preparing-go-without-water-periodically-for-up-10-years-crisis-continues
"The NY Times has no journalistic integrity! Here's a link from Fox News."
This really is a parody account, isn't it?
Pardon me for sharing an article on the topic that has well laid out sources and historical citations. I should have known better. Go ahead and stick your head back into the sand, man.
Not The Onion. Who knew Ziggy was from Canada?
'Incredibly intelligent, highly elusive': US faces new threat from Canadian 'super pig'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/20/us-threat-canada-super-pig-boar
"For decades, wild pigs have been antagonizing flora and fauna in the US: gobbling up crops, spreading disease, and even killing deer and elk.
Now, as fears over the potential of the pig impact in the US grow, North America is also facing a new swine-related threat, as a Canadian "super pig", a giant, "incredibly intelligent, highly elusive" beast capable of surviving cold climates by tunneling under snow, is poised to infiltrate the north of the country."
Don't they already have a similar super pig problem in Texas? (yes, the jokes are writing themselves. But seriously, doesn't Texas have a wild pig problem?)
Quote from: tower912 on February 20, 2023, 10:05:52 AM
Don't they already have a similar super pig problem in Texas? (yes, the jokes are writing themselves. But seriously, doesn't Texas have a wild pig problem?)
Yes, I think it alludes to it in the article, but people pay good money to go up in helicopters to shoot them with automatic weapons.
Being Canadian, I imagine these new superpigs are very polite.
Quote from: TSmith34, Inc. on February 20, 2023, 09:52:19 AM
Not The Onion. Who knew Ziggy was from Canada?
'Incredibly intelligent, highly elusive': US faces new threat from Canadian 'super pig'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/20/us-threat-canada-super-pig-boar
"For decades, wild pigs have been antagonizing flora and fauna in the US: gobbling up crops, spreading disease, and even killing deer and elk.
Now, as fears over the potential of the pig impact in the US grow, North America is also facing a new swine-related threat, as a Canadian "super pig", a giant, "incredibly intelligent, highly elusive" beast capable of surviving cold climates by tunneling under snow, is poised to infiltrate the north of the country."
You are the 🐷🐷.
But, if I had to be a pig, I'd be a super pig vs a beta pig like you are.
And Poor Piggy Ziggy cried wee, wee, wee....
Quote from: TSmith34, Inc. on February 20, 2023, 01:23:04 PM
And Poor Piggy Ziggy cried wee, wee, wee....
Clever, Smitty. First time I've seen this!
Quote from: Lennys Tap on February 20, 2023, 07:48:26 PM
Clever, Smitty. First time I've seen this!
He's such a copy 🐷🐷.
Quote from: Lennys Tap on February 20, 2023, 07:48:26 PM
Clever, Smitty. First time I've seen this!
I remember you saying the same thing to Piggy Ziggy.
Oh, wait...
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/08/world/permafrost-virus-risk-climate-scn/index.html?utm_source=twCNN&utm_content=2023-03-08T18%3A31%3A07&utm_medium=social&utm_term=link
What could possibly go wrong with reviving ancient viruses trapped in permafrost?
https://twitter.com/bradiuszero/status/1656027843178971136?s=46&t=ppua9BCUAa7dWM9-SthPmg
Quote from: The Sultan of Semantics on May 11, 2023, 07:53:41 AM
https://twitter.com/bradiuszero/status/1656027843178971136?s=46&t=ppua9BCUAa7dWM9-SthPmg
Probably not a great idea to trust the butt plug company with your life.
Quote from: Hards Alumni on May 11, 2023, 09:22:32 AM
Probably not a great idea to trust the butt plug company with your life.
This is why you only use fruit and veggies, anal?
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on May 11, 2023, 12:45:29 PM
This is why you only use fruit and veggies, anal?
I'm not sure I'd arrive to an MRI with anything in my ass, if I'm being real.
Quote from: Hards Alumni on May 11, 2023, 01:17:10 PM
I'm not sure I'd arrive to an MRI with anything in my ass, if I'm being real.
Just a smile on your face and a song in your heart, right?
Quote from: Dickthedribbler on May 11, 2023, 01:43:39 PM
Just a smile on your face and a song in your heart, right?
And a belly full of ball bearings!
This bears asking... dob you think he put the butt plug in solely so the doctor would see it on the MRI and laugh?
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/05/12/arbys-crew-finds-their-manager-dead-in-freezer/
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on May 12, 2023, 03:53:45 PM
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/05/12/arbys-crew-finds-their-manager-dead-in-freezer/
You mean the meat is not fresh it's frozen!!
Wouldn't have happened at Chipotle...
Highly technologically advanced water people. We're so fucked.
https://twitter.com/noliewithbtc/status/1657893368322457610
Weinermobile has been renamed (likely due to wokeness.)
https://abc7chicago.com/oscar-mayer-wienermobile-frankmobile-hot-dogs-mobile/13260290/ (https://abc7chicago.com/oscar-mayer-wienermobile-frankmobile-hot-dogs-mobile/13260290/)
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on May 17, 2023, 02:02:30 PM
Weinermobile has been renamed (likely due to wokeness.)
https://abc7chicago.com/oscar-mayer-wienermobile-frankmobile-hot-dogs-mobile/13260290/ (https://abc7chicago.com/oscar-mayer-wienermobile-frankmobile-hot-dogs-mobile/13260290/)
I saw the wienermobile at a Las Vegas grocery store a month ago. What a disappointment.
They no longer give out the little hot dog whistles that I am sure were engineered to produce a sound guaranteed to annoy parents. The rep didn't do much more than tell some hot-dog-related puns. And worst of all, I discovered that the wienermobiles are no longer made at Excaliber Motors in Milwaukee. They make them in North Carolina now.
Quote from: warriorchick on May 17, 2023, 02:11:58 PM
I saw the wienermobile at a Las Vegas grocery store a month ago. What a disappointment.
They no longer give out the little hot dog whistles that I am sure were engineered to produce a sound guaranteed to annoy parents. The rep didn't do much more than tell some hot-dog-related puns. And worst of all, I discovered that the wienermobiles are no longer made at Excaliber Motors in Milwaukee. They make them in North Carolina now.
Well since they haven't made any vehicles since 1997 some one else had to.
Quote from: warriorchick on May 17, 2023, 02:11:58 PM
I saw the wienermobile at a Las Vegas grocery store a month ago. What a disappointment.
They no longer give out the little hot dog whistles that I am sure were engineered to produce a sound guaranteed to annoy parents. The rep didn't do much more than tell some hot-dog-related puns. And worst wurst of all, I discovered that the wienermobiles are no longer made at Excaliber Motors in Milwaukee. They make them in North Carolina now.
Fixed it before Tower could
To be frank, I missed that one.
Quote from: tower912 on May 17, 2023, 07:04:31 PM
To be frank, I missed that one.
But I knew you would ketchup sooner or later.
I relish the pursuit.
Heat Will Likely Soar to Record Levels in Next 5 Years
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/climate/record-heat-forecast.html
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on May 18, 2023, 08:00:59 AM
Heat Will Likely Soar to Record Levels in Next 5 Years
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/climate/record-heat-forecast.html
As long as it makes our springs warmer than this one...
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on May 18, 2023, 08:00:59 AM
Heat Will Likely Soar to Record Levels in Next 5 Years
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/climate/record-heat-forecast.html
Man, withoutbias will be ticked Jimmy is playing that well.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on May 18, 2023, 08:00:59 AM
Heat Will Likely Soar to Record Levels in Next 5 Years
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/climate/record-heat-forecast.html
Let the death spiral to 5C commence.
Hopefully ChatGPT has a way to fix our climate!
Since the Covid board is best left to die.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/global-pandemic-bats-deforestation/
Like, oopsie, or .. total doom.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/21/us/chemical-missing-shipment-california-wyoming.html
This is right out of Breaking Bad.
Keep this story away from Muggsy
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/05/15/he-was-lost-speeding-drunk-and-then-he-tried-to-frame-his-dog-police-say/?utm_email=74367572843174AE64F084CEF8&g2i_eui=DXnb0FExXdjV0PYVr3%2fI0%2fzz4E3F40VX&g2i_source=newsletter&lctg=74367572843174AE64F084CEF8&active=no&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.mercurynews.com%2f2023%2f05%2f15%2fhe-was-lost-speeding-drunk-and-then-he-tried-to-frame-his-dog-police-say%2f&utm_campaign=bang-mult-nl-morning-report-nl&utm_content=manual (https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/05/15/he-was-lost-speeding-drunk-and-then-he-tried-to-frame-his-dog-police-say/?utm_email=74367572843174AE64F084CEF8&g2i_eui=DXnb0FExXdjV0PYVr3%2fI0%2fzz4E3F40VX&g2i_source=newsletter&lctg=74367572843174AE64F084CEF8&active=no&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.mercurynews.com%2f2023%2f05%2f15%2fhe-was-lost-speeding-drunk-and-then-he-tried-to-frame-his-dog-police-say%2f&utm_campaign=bang-mult-nl-morning-report-nl&utm_content=manual)
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on May 18, 2023, 08:00:59 AM
Heat Will Likely Soar to Record Levels in Next 5 Years
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/climate/record-heat-forecast.html
first of all, it's the new york times...bwahahahaha...so many catastrophic predictions haven't even come close to being true, but you climate zealots keep slopping it up. oh yeah, just keep sending lawyers, money and greta thunderbergs and we'll take care of it for ya. ya sure this didn't come from the new york onion?
Quote from: rocket surgeon on May 22, 2023, 03:52:34 PM
first of all, it's the new york times...bwahahahaha...so many catastrophic predictions haven't even come close to being true, but you climate zealots keep slopping it up. oh yeah, just keep sending lawyers, money and greta thunderbergs and we'll take care of it for ya. ya sure this didn't come from the new york onion?
I mean, it's not a bad prediction because that's exactly where the trends are going. These are just objective facts.
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-temperature
Adding a growing El Nino to that mix will undoubtedly raise temps even more.
Quote from: The Sultan of Semantics on May 22, 2023, 03:57:09 PM
I mean, it's not a bad prediction because that's exactly where the trends are going. These are just objective facts.
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-temperature
Adding a growing El Nino to that mix will undoubtedly raise temps even more.
Is that a man made el Nino? Or is God the sperm producing deity and mother nature the birthing person?
Quote from: rocket surgeon on May 22, 2023, 03:52:34 PM
first of all, it's the new york times...bwahahahaha...so many catastrophic predictions haven't even come close to being true, but you climate zealots keep slopping it up. oh yeah, just keep sending lawyers, money and greta thunderbergs and we'll take care of it for ya. ya sure this didn't come from the new york onion?
I was driving down by campus this afternoon and saw a bunch of new grads taking pics in various spots and wondered to myself if any of them could be the next rocket?
Anyway, 8 out of 10
Quote from: rocket surgeon on May 22, 2023, 03:52:34 PM
first of all, it's the new york times...bwahahahaha...so many catastrophic predictions haven't even come close to being true, but you climate zealots keep slopping it up. oh yeah, just keep sending lawyers, money and greta thunderbergs and we'll take care of it for ya. ya sure this didn't come from the new york onion?
Global temperatures are just another lib conspiracy brought to you by George Soros and Hilary Drinks the Blood of Children Clintoon.
(https://images2.imgbox.com/97/e6/2cYP3ejN_o.png) (https://imgbox.com/2cYP3ejN)
Quote from: TSmith34, Inc. on May 22, 2023, 04:53:03 PM
Global temperatures are just another lib conspiracy brought to you by George Soros and Hilary Drinks the Blood of Children Clintoon.
(https://images2.imgbox.com/97/e6/2cYP3ejN_o.png) (https://imgbox.com/2cYP3ejN)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/05/22/southwest-states-strike-deal-to-stall-colorado-river-water-shortage-crisis/amp/
Quote from: rocket surgeon on May 22, 2023, 03:52:34 PM
first of all, it's the new york times...bwahahahaha...so many catastrophic predictions haven't even come close to being true, but you climate zealots keep slopping it up. oh yeah, just keep sending lawyers, money and greta thunderbergs and we'll take care of it for ya. ya sure this didn't come from the new york onion?
We know you don't care. You'll be dead before it affects you.
Quote from: Hards Alumni on May 24, 2023, 12:40:38 PM
We know you don't care. You'll be dead before it affects you.
It's already affecting him. He's been conditioned to ignore his lying eyes. If they told him the earth was cooling cataclysmically, he'd be on here repeating that nonsense and demanding more CO2 in the air.
Big Globe is out to get us.
Not the Onion, unfortunately.
Georgia GOP Chair Goes Full Flat-Earth, Says Globes Are Part of a Conspiracy
https://archive.is/hIDQ1#selection-1411.0-1411.76
KANDISS TAYLOR, A recently elected GOP District Chair in Georgia, would like to know why Big Globe won't stop shoving round-Earth propaganda down our throats.
In an interview with David Weiss (AKA "Flat Earth Dave") and Matt Long on her "Jesus, Guns, and Babies" podcast, Taylor and her guests discussed biblical "evidence" that the Earth is actually flat as a pancake. "The people that defend the globe don't know anything about the globe," said Weiss. "If they knew a tenth of what Matt and I know about the globe they would be Flat Earthers."
"All the globes, everywhere" Taylor said later in the discussion. "I turn on the TV, there's globes in the background ... Everywhere there's globes. You see them all the time, it's constant. My children will be like 'Mama, globe, globe, globe, globe' — they're everywhere."
"That's what they do, to brainwash," she added. "For me if it's not a conspiracy. If it is real, why are you pushing so hard everywhere I go? Every store, you buy a globe, there's globes everywhere. Every movie, every TV show, news media — why? More and more I'm like, it doesn't make sense."
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on May 17, 2023, 02:02:30 PM
Weinermobile has been renamed (likely due to wokeness.)
https://abc7chicago.com/oscar-mayer-wienermobile-frankmobile-hot-dogs-mobile/13260290/ (https://abc7chicago.com/oscar-mayer-wienermobile-frankmobile-hot-dogs-mobile/13260290/)
Apparently, people have been gettin' busy in the wienermobile
https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/05/oscar-mayer-wienermobile-drivers-sex-jamie-loftus-hot-dog.html
Quote from: warriorchick on May 30, 2023, 11:40:57 AM
Apparently, people have been gettin' busy in the wienermobile
https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/05/oscar-mayer-wienermobile-drivers-sex-jamie-loftus-hot-dog.html
22-23 year olds traveling the country in a giant phallus and they're getting busy in it?
Get thee thy fainting couch.
I'd be more disappointed if they weren't raw dogging it in the weinermobile.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/arizona-imposes-restrictions-new-housing-development-amidst-water-supply-concern.amp
Huh
Jack's Pizza changed their Canadian bacon from big triangles to cubed rectangles. Doom.
The Last of Us was right ...
(From the WSJ): Severe fungal disease used to be a rare occurrence, but now it is a threat to millions of vulnerable Americans. The surge stems from treatments that are less effective as fungal pathogens develop resistance to standard drugs; the increased number of people with compromised immune systems; and rising temperatures that appear to enable some deadly fungal pathogens to grow in more places and make them better adapt to human hosts. Delaying treatment of some fungal disease by just a day can double the risk of death, research showed.
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on June 06, 2023, 12:27:09 PM
Jack's Pizza changed their Canadian bacon from big triangles to cubed rectangles. Doom.
Kraft did that!
Quote from: Hards Alumni on June 23, 2023, 06:09:37 AM
Kraft did that!
Nestle. Swiss should not be making pizza.
Hottest day on record! Yes! We're #1.
Hoax.
New research shows that a devastating new virus is one of the worst outbreaks in history: '[This is] uncharted territory'
Sara Klimek
Tue, July 4, 2023 at 6:00 AM CDT · 3 min read
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/research-shows-devastating-virus-one-110000717.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=1_11
96 degree ocean temperatures? This planet is so effed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/10/florida-ocean-temperature-heat-records/
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on July 11, 2023, 04:21:27 PM
96 degree ocean temperatures? This planet is so effed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/10/florida-ocean-temperature-heat-records/
Wait until a tropical storm/hurricane gets a load of that.
Quote from: Dr. Blackheart on June 24, 2023, 08:03:04 AM
Nestle. Swiss should not be making pizza.
Sorry, to revisit this, but Kraft bought Jacks, then Nestle bought Kraft.
But yes, raclette and fondue are more their speed.
Anti-doom
Scientists invent whitest paint ever to help cool the planet
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/purdue-whitest-paint-planet-cool-b2374605.html
"Scientists have unveiled a white paint that can reflect the sun's rays off the Earth's surface, which could help cool the planet.
Dr Xiulin Ruan – a mechanics engineering professor at Purdue University – and his team first revealed the paint in 2020, which can reflect up to 98 per cent of the sun's rays, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. The paint can cool surfaces up to eight degrees Fahrenheit in the middle of the day and up to 19 degrees Fahrenheit at night."
Quote from: TSmith34, Inc. on July 14, 2023, 09:36:46 AM
Anti-doom
Scientists invent whitest paint ever to help cool the planet
Get that sh1t out of here. If I wanted hope, I'd go to Pintrest.
This is more like it.
https://www.newsweek.com/uranium-plant-explosion-russia-nuclear-radiation-fears-1812966
The Russians are pros with nuke disasters though, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/phoenix-roasts-in-record-breaking-110-plus-degree-heat-with-no-end-in-sight/
Milwaukee, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit..... we've got the water and manageable temperatures.
Quote from: tower912 on July 19, 2023, 08:31:49 PM
Milwaukee, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit..... we've got the water and manageable temperatures.
Yup, now we just have to load up on guns for the water wars in 2030
Quote from: Skatastrophy on July 19, 2023, 08:54:07 PM
Yup, now we just have to load up on guns for the water wars in 2030
Do not, my friend, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!
Quote from: Skatastrophy on July 19, 2023, 08:54:07 PM
Yup, now we just have to load up on guns for the water wars in 2030
You had me at hello.
Quote from: Uncle Rico on July 19, 2023, 08:26:40 PM
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/phoenix-roasts-in-record-breaking-110-plus-degree-heat-with-no-end-in-sight/
The response to this from deniers has been: "They didn't really measure that right. There were 2-3 days that didn't get to 110." Seriously.
Yeesh
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-24/antarctic-sea-ice-levels-nosedive-five-sigma-event/102635204
With so many things apparently being so doomed that each merits its own thread ...
This thread is obviously doomed.
https://news.yahoo.com/atlantic-ocean-current-could-collapse-150009050.html
Plugging your ears and screeching as everything burns
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/climate/republicans-climate-project2025.html
Quote from: ZaLiN on August 04, 2023, 04:53:59 PM
Plugging your ears and screeching as everything burns
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/climate/republicans-climate-project2025.html
Doing all they can to win over Gen Y and Gen Z even as their own voters die off.
Hawaii is doomed.
The controversial Westboro Baptist Church, based in Kansas, claimed that Hawaii will be "utterly destroyed" on Sunday.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/westboro-baptist-church-claims-hawaii-184007291.html
Quote from: tower912 on July 19, 2023, 08:31:49 PM
Milwaukee, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit..... we've got the water and manageable temperatures.
Naples, Fl has plenty of water and has never recorded a 100 degree temperature. It was 99 once.
My old hometown recorded 7 days of 100+ temps in the summer of 1988 alone.
Quote from: TSmith34, Inc. on July 14, 2023, 09:36:46 AM
Anti-doom
Scientists invent whitest paint ever to help cool the planet
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/purdue-whitest-paint-planet-cool-b2374605.html
"Scientists have unveiled a white paint that can reflect the sun's rays off the Earth's surface, which could help cool the planet.
Dr Xiulin Ruan – a mechanics engineering professor at Purdue University – and his team first revealed the paint in 2020, which can reflect up to 98 per cent of the sun's rays, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. The paint can cool surfaces up to eight degrees Fahrenheit in the middle of the day and up to 19 degrees Fahrenheit at night."
The idea that the billions of people on the planet living under less than first world conditions will be OK with staying that way or that those living in first world countries will settle for less to save the planet is fanciful.
The idea that science/technology will come to the rescue makes sense.
Quote from: Lennys Tap on August 06, 2023, 10:16:48 PM
The idea that the billions of people on the planet living under less than first world conditions will be OK with staying that way or that those living in first world countries will settle for less to save the planet is fanciful.
The idea that science/technology will come to the rescue makes sense.
Science/technology IS coming to the rescue. Unfortunately, the science deniers and those who profit from damaging technologies are doing their best to prevent it with phony claims and red herrings.
Among those phony claims: Any effort to slow and/or reverse climate change will notably reduce our quality of living.
Quote from: Lennys Tap on August 06, 2023, 10:08:32 PM
Naples, Fl has plenty of water and has never recorded a 100 degree temperature. It was 99 once.
My old hometown recorded 7 days of 100+ temps in the summer of 1988 alone.
Cool. You're three feet above sea level. Though that is probably a problem for future residents.
Quote from: Pakuni on August 06, 2023, 09:34:42 PM
Hawaii is doomed.
The controversial Westboro Baptist Church, based in Kansas, claimed that Hawaii will be "utterly destroyed" on Sunday.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/westboro-baptist-church-claims-hawaii-184007291.html
I'm now sorry I never made time to get back to Hawaii again. Now I guess it's all gone.
July was the hottest month ever.
🥓 🥓
Global warming, hey?
Yes.
Quote from: tower912 on August 08, 2023, 07:19:56 AM
July was the hottest month ever.
🥓 🥓
Well, that's obviously not true.
Fair. Hottest month ever recorded.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58208792
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/july-2023-hottest-month-on-record-eu-climate-service-copernicus-says/
https://time.com/6302519/july-hottest-month-record/
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/july-2023-just-unfortunate-world-record-hot
Quote from: tower912 on August 08, 2023, 08:49:14 AM
Fair. Hottest month ever recorded.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58208792
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/july-2023-hottest-month-on-record-eu-climate-service-copernicus-says/
https://time.com/6302519/july-hottest-month-record/
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/july-2023-just-unfortunate-world-record-hot
Get the hell out of here with your facts, from multiple sources, with all your science and liberal leaning thermometers!!!
Quote from: Boozemon Barro on August 08, 2023, 08:15:24 AM
Well, that's obviously not true.
Imagine thinking that picking this nit is a winning argument.
Nah, he's good. A reminder to be specific and cite sources.
Quote from: TSmith34, Inc. on August 07, 2023, 09:26:31 PM
I'm now sorry I never made time to get back to Hawaii again. Now I guess it's all gone.
Is it too late to move the tournament to somewhere else? The Fiserv, perhaps?
Dude is talkin' up da U.S. Well, at least he has dat goin' for 'im.
"Folks, it's not hyperbole to suggest that there is no national treasure — none that is grander than the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon — one of the Earth's nine wonders, wonders of the world, literally. Think of that. You know, it's amazing. An enduring symbol of America to the entire world," Biden said.
Hoo nu, aina?
Is the gaffe he said 9 instead of 7? The Grand Canyon is one of the 7 Wonders of the Natural World.
Quote from: TAMU, Knower of Ball on August 09, 2023, 09:12:09 AM
Is the gaffe he said 9 instead of 7? The Grand Canyon is one of the 7 Wonders of the Natural World.
Ehhh, it's all they got. Up there with tan suits, Grey Poupon, and liking ice cream.
Quote from: TSmith34, Inc. on August 09, 2023, 10:34:09 AM
Ehhh, it's all they got. Up there with tan suits, Grey Poupon, and liking ice cream.
Right. There's literally nothing to criticize about this President.
Quote from: TAMU, Knower of Ball on August 09, 2023, 09:12:09 AM
Is the gaffe he said 9 instead of 7? The Grand Canyon is one of the 7 Wonders of the Natural World.
The point is he doesn't have the mental capability of being a ditch digger, let alone POTUS. Politicians such as he, Fetterman, McConnell, et al, need to go, hey?
Quote from: 4everwarriors on August 09, 2023, 11:04:10 AM
The point is he doesn't have the mental capability of being a ditch digger, let alone POTUS. Politicians such as he, Fetterman, McConnell, et al, need to go, hey?
Person, woman, man, camera, TV.
Quote from: MuggsyB on August 09, 2023, 10:56:46 AM
Right. There's literally nothing to criticize about this President.
There's something to complain about every President. Preferably, I would like to vote for a President every 4 years instead of having one install himself in the White House on false pretenses.
Quote from: MuggsyB on August 09, 2023, 10:56:46 AM
Right. There's literally nothing to criticize about this President.
There are several things to criticize about this president.
An occasional verbal gaffe isn't one of them.
The last guy referred to the 2001 terror attacks as "7/11"; called Thailand "Thighland"; said the Spanish Flu helped put an end to World War II; claimed to have met with the "President of the Virgin Islands (he was the president of the Virgin Islands at the time); talked about the grandeur of "Yo Semite" Park; "Covfefe"; and, my personal favorite, recalled how the Continental Army under George Washington "took over the airports."
And don't make me go George W. Bush on you.
Look, when every word you speak is being recorded, you're going to slip up on occasion. This is true of every public figure, and even professional communicators like news anchors, radio hosts and actors (this is why blooper reels exist).
As TSmith notes, if this is the best 4ever's got, it's weak sauce.
Quote from: 4everwarriors on August 09, 2023, 11:04:10 AM
The point is he doesn't have the mental capability of being a ditch digger, let alone POTUS. Politicians such as he, Fetterman, McConnell, et al, need to go, hey?
Maybe, but i don't think mixing up that there are 7 wonders of the natural world and 9 wonders of the ancient world is evidence of that. That seems like a mix up that anyone could make
I find it amusing that all the articles I've found covering this gaffe havent mentioned that the grand canyon is a wonder of the natural world and instead list the wonders of the ancient world. I wonder why that is
Quote from: MuggsyB on August 09, 2023, 10:56:46 AM
Right. There's literally nothing to criticize about this President.
That's exactly what I said, indeed.
Quote from: 4everwarriors on August 09, 2023, 11:04:10 AM
The point is he doesn't have the mental capability of being a ditch digger, let alone POTUS. Politicians such as he, Fetterman, McConnell, et al, need to go, hey?
And yet he also the grand mastermind of the international Biden crime syndicate. Amazing.
It's a shame cognitive dissonance isn't a painful condition.
Inject bleach.
Making fun of politicians is as old as time. Of all the strange things politicians have said, the Grand Canyon is near the bottom of the list. At least his gaffes aren't damaging, or egotistical.
God save the queen, man.
Quote from: lawdog77 on August 09, 2023, 07:44:16 PM
Making fun of politicians is as old as time. Of all the strange things politicians have said, the Grand Canyon is near the bottom of the list. At least his gaffes aren't damaging, or egotistical.
God save the queen, man.
It's certainly minor among his gaffes. But to say that none of them over his career have been damaging is false.
Quote from: MuggsyB on August 09, 2023, 08:11:09 PM
It's certainly minor among his gaffes. But to say that none of them over his career have been damaging is false.
I'll bite. Which ones have been "damaging?"
Depressing
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/climate/hawaii-fires-climate-change.html
Quote from: lawdog77 on August 09, 2023, 07:44:16 PM
Making fun of politicians is as old as time. Of all the strange things politicians have said, the Grand Canyon is near the bottom of the list. At least his gaffes aren't damaging, or egotistical.
God save the queen, man.
Were the lies he told about his college and law school "achievements" gaffes or made up self aggrandizing lies that he knew were lies?
Pop Tarts are making kids gay, I guess.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/stephen-miller-accuses-kelloggs-sexualizing-190256052.html
I am still ticked about Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas. Talk about long term harm to America.
Quote from: Lennys Tap on August 10, 2023, 08:49:55 PM
Were the lies he told about his college and law school "achievements" gaffes or made up self aggrandizing lies that he knew were lies?
You're trying to tell me politicians lie?
What a revelation.
Quote from: Lennys Tap on August 10, 2023, 08:49:55 PM
Were the lies he told about his college and law school "achievements" gaffes or made up self aggrandizing lies that he knew were lies?
You realize when anyone mentions politicians and lies about college, everyone is thinking of George Santos.
WTF does George Santos have to do with this conversation?!?!?!
Could someone explain to me why someone would lie about watching a Pittsburgh bridge collapse in front of their eyes? Or was that another "gaffe"? What on earth would possess someone to do that? These kind of lies tell me he's seriously pathological. Get rid of both of these people before the '24 election.
Quote from: MuggsyB on August 16, 2023, 10:44:05 AM
Could someone explain to me why someone would lie about watching a Pittsburgh bridge collapse in front of their eyes? Or was that another "gaffe"? What on earth would possess someone to do that? These kind of lies tell me he's seriously pathological. Get rid of both of these people before the '24 election.
Muggsy, you (and fox) added the "in front of his eyes". He said he watched it collapse. I'm sure he did watch it when he watched the footage afterwards like the rest of us. After saying that, he then said "I got there and I saw it collapased" past tense. He said he watched it first, then got to pittsburgh, then saw the aftermath.
Carry water, get big shoulders.
Quote from: TAMU, Knower of Ball on August 16, 2023, 12:08:56 PM
Muggsy, you (and fox) added the "in front of his eyes". He said he watched it collapse. I'm sure he did watch it when he watched the footage afterwards like the rest of us. After saying that, he then said "I got there and I saw it collapased" past tense. He said he watched it first, then got to pittsburgh, then saw the aftermath.
I couldn't care less about these gaffes at this point. Its proving nothing that will convince anyone that doesn't already have their mind made up about Biden and his presidential fitness, either way. It is what it is, but the exact quote was "I watched that bridge collapse. I got there and saw it collapse, with over 200 feet above ground going over a valley. It collapsed"
The past tense wasn't there until after the present tense was used twice. Now he very well could be saying he got there and saw video of it, but its confusing wording and tense at best.
Quote from: JWags85 on August 16, 2023, 12:21:07 PM
I couldn't care less about these gaffes at this point. Its proving nothing that will convince anyone that doesn't already have their mind made up about Biden and his presidential fitness, either way. It is what it is, but the exact quote was "I watched that bridge collapse. I got there and saw it collapse, with over 200 feet above ground going over a valley. It collapsed"
The past tense wasn't there until after the present tense was used twice. Now he very well could be saying he got there and saw video of it, but its confusing wording and tense at best.
The quote is "I got there, I saw it collapsed."
Even if I'm mishearing. The quote still doesn't mean he is claiming to have to been there when it collapsed. Unless you think every politician who has talked about watching the towers fall on 9/11 is claiming that they were actually in New York when it happened.
If he had said what Muggsy claimed "the bridge collapsed in front of my eyes" I would call him out for lying. This is twisting nothing into something.
Definitely the most significant presidential scandal in the news this week.
Hey at least there's a lot less civilian drone strikes while he stumbles over some words
Quote from: TAMU, Knower of Ball on August 16, 2023, 12:56:07 PM
The quote is "I got there, I saw it collapsed."
Even if I'm mishearing. The quote still doesn't mean he is claiming to have to been there when it collapsed. Unless you think every politician who has talked about watching the towers fall on 9/11 is claiming that they were actually in New York when it happened.
If he had said what Muggsy claimed "the bridge collapsed in front of my eyes" I would call him out for lying. This is twisting nothing into something.
That's fair. I watched/listened again and the end of the word is a bit garbled, could be collapse or collapsed. But either way, who cares. I agree that the "in front of my eyes" is nonexistent
Quote from: JWags85 on August 16, 2023, 12:21:07 PM
I couldn't care less about these gaffes at this point. Its proving nothing that will convince anyone that doesn't already have their mind made up about Biden and his presidential fitness, either way. It is what it is, but the exact quote was "I watched that bridge collapse. I got there and saw it collapse, with over 200 feet above ground going over a valley. It collapsed"
The past tense wasn't there until after the present tense was used twice. Now he very well could be saying he got there and saw video of it, but its confusing wording and tense at best.
So you can care less when he told the mother of a Marine who was bombed at Abbey Gate in Kabul that he knows how she feels because his son Beau was brought back in a coffin from Iraq? The guy is a liar and a felon and Trump is as well.
Quote from: MuggsyB on August 16, 2023, 03:12:41 PM
So you can care less when he told the mother of a Marine who was bombed at Abbey Gate in Kabul that he knows how she feels because his son Beau was brought back in a coffin from Iraq? The guy is a liar and a felon and Trump is as well.
Have a decaf, Muggsy. First time digging into how the sausage is made in DC?
Quote from: MuggsyB on August 16, 2023, 03:12:41 PM
So you can care less when he told the mother of a Marine who was bombed at Abbey Gate in Kabul that he knows how she feels because his son Beau was brought back in a coffin from Iraq? The guy is a liar and a felon and Trump is as well.
Joe is a "felon?"
Quote from: The Sultan of Semantics on August 16, 2023, 03:21:30 PM
Joe is a "felon?"
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTHn3UnBFMPmvkj9nG8R8GsXYHfLaMcPyMAWm1EkKni0IWAYrrBgkgT66nh2NgL8QPHXJ4&usqp=CAU)
If you count war crimes, every modern president is a felon!
Run for office, Muggsy
Quote from: The Sultan of Semantics on August 16, 2023, 03:21:30 PM
Joe is a "felon?"
He watches Fox, so...
They kind of skip over that part of the law where you need facts and evidence. Feelings are what matter in matters of the law!
Quote from: TSmith34, Inc. on August 16, 2023, 05:10:22 PM
He watches Fox, so...
They kind of skip over that part of the law where you need facts and evidence. Feelings are what matter in matters of the law!
🐷🐷
Quote from: MuggsyB on August 16, 2023, 03:12:41 PM
So you can care less when he told the mother of a Marine who was bombed at Abbey Gate in Kabul that he knows how she feels because his son Beau was brought back in a coffin from Iraq? The guy is a liar and a felon and Trump is as well.
Wow. I must not be a good judge of people because I didn't have Muggsy pegged for this. First the whataboutism without acknowledging his false post and then calling JRB a felon (spoiler alert: he isn't) which, I guess, makes Muggsy a liar. Which we know he detests.
(https://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/head-exploding.gif?fit=578%2C247&strip=all)
My apologies to the mods. My next post on this thread will not be political in any way because I don't want to be responsible for getting this thread locked.
Thanks to TAMU for fact checking.
Quote from: MuggsyB on August 16, 2023, 03:12:41 PM
The guy is a ... felon and Trump is as well.
Actually, the previous president is a criminal defendant who faces a mere 91 felony charges. The current president hasn't been charged with any crimes, and the House committee's star witness actually said the exact opposite about what they wanted him to say about Biden's involvement in Hunter's situation.
Now sure, both could end up being felons. One is quite a bit further down that road than the other ... but hey, Muggs, a kid can dream, so go for it.
Quote from: Pakuni on August 16, 2023, 01:06:58 PM
Definitely the most significant presidential scandal in the news this week.
Next thing you know, Obama will be wearing his beige suit again! Talk about a dose of doom!
Quote from: Spaniel with a Short Tail on August 16, 2023, 05:40:15 PM
Wow. I must not be a good judge of people because I didn't have Muggsy pegged for this. First the whataboutism without acknowledging his false post and then calling JRB a felon (spoiler alert: he isn't) which, I guess, makes Muggsy a liar. Which we know he detests.
(https://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/head-exploding.gif?fit=578%2C247&strip=all)
My apologies to the mods. My next post on this thread will not be political in any way because I don't want to be responsible for getting this thread locked.
Thanks to TAMU for fact checking.
Not only did Fox/Muggsy tack on "in front of my eyes" to the first story, they/he tacked on "from Iraq" in the second instance.
Lies, for when the truth just doesn't stir enough outrage.
There is a 0.0% chance Joe didn't know about Hunter's "business" dealings. He was Hunter's "business". There is at least a 20m money trail, probably much more. Those of you that are excusing this behavior and don't think it was illegal are living in la-la-land.
1) Are you going to acknowledge that both of your attributed statements were false?
2) Again, if only there were any evidence of your claims...seems like that might be important*
*ED: I am not a lawyer, so maybe I don't understand how this law thingy works
Quote from: MuggsyB on August 16, 2023, 05:53:14 PM
There is a 0.0% chance Joe didn't know about Hunter's "business" dealings. He was Hunter's "business". There is at least a 20m money trail, probably much more. Those of you that are excusing this behavior and don't think it was illegal are living in la-la-land.
This is your brain on Fox News.
Quote from: Pakuni on August 16, 2023, 06:16:57 PM
This is your brain on Fox News.
First of all I don't get my news from Fox News. I read the Wall Street Journal. Secondly, everything on Fox News isn't inaccurate just as everything on CNN isn't inaccurate. Was the initial NYPost article about Hunter's l-top, that was banned from YTube , Twitter, and Facebook, inaccurate?
Quote from: MU82 on August 16, 2023, 05:47:05 PM
Actually, the previous president is a criminal defendant who faces a mere 91 felony charges. The current president hasn't been charged with any crimes, and the House committee's star witness actually said the exact opposite about what they wanted him to say about Biden's involvement in Hunter's situation.
Now sure, both could end up being felons. One is quite a bit further down that road than the other ... but hey, Muggs, a kid can dream, so go for it.
Next thing you know, Obama will be wearing his beige suit again! Talk about a dose of doom!
And I'm not defending him at all and never have. I'm saying Biden is an abomination as well.
Quote from: MuggsyB on August 16, 2023, 06:31:28 PM
And I'm not defending him at all and never have. I'm saying Biden is an abomination as well.
Are you going to acknowledge that your two attributed statements are false?
I'm pretty sure it wasn't the WSJ that tacked on the additional false wording.
Quote from: MuggsyB on August 16, 2023, 06:31:28 PM
And I'm not defending him at all and never have. I'm saying Biden is an abomination as well.
You do know that there's a difference between an "abomination" and a "felon," right?
Quote from: MuggsyB on August 16, 2023, 06:22:31 PM
First of all I don't get my news from Fox News. I read the Wall Street Journal. Secondly, everything on Fox News isn't inaccurate just as everything on CNN isn't inaccurate.
Weird, since you ape the talking points and repeat their accusations. Fox News reported the bridge comments this morning. A couple hours later, you were here ranting about them. I see nothing about the remarks in the WSJ (though link me if that's wrong)
Fortunately for you, nobody's likely to hit you with a $1 billion defamation suit.
Quote
Was the initial NYPost article about Hunter's l-top, that was banned from YTube , Twitter, and Facebook, inaccurate?
Some of it, yeah.
Quote from: MuggsyB on August 16, 2023, 05:53:14 PM
There is a 0.0% chance Joe didn't know about Hunter's "business" dealings. He was Hunter's "business". There is at least a 20m money trail, probably much more. Those of you that are excusing this behavior and don't think it was illegal are living in la-la-land.
Sorry, what behavior is being excused?
This is eerily reminiscent of your Izzo take.
Quote from: tower912 on August 16, 2023, 07:19:23 PM
This is eerily reminiscent of your Izzo take.
Izzo's a felon!
Willful ignorance of child labor is just a gross misdemeanor
Quote from: tower912 on August 16, 2023, 07:19:23 PM
This is eerily reminiscent of your Izzo take.
Facts can't compete with feelings
Quote from: MU82 on August 16, 2023, 07:33:22 PM
Izzo's a felon!
I never wrote Izzo is a felon. If you guys want to blindly support Biden and defend him that's your prerogative. I'm not gonna be hoodwinked.
Quote from: MuggsyB on August 16, 2023, 08:34:50 PM
I never wrote Izzo is a felon. If you guys want to blindly support Biden and defend him that's your prerogative. I'm not gonna be hoodwinked.
Are you going to acknowledge that your two attributed statements are false?
Quote from: MuggsyB on August 16, 2023, 08:34:50 PM
I never wrote Izzo is a felon. If you guys want to blindly support Biden and defend him that's your prerogative. I'm not gonna be hoodwinked.
No one is blindly supporting anyone. You're just being hyperbolic...again.
AI Doom.
https://www.ft.com/content/43102ee8-bee0-4803-bc51-4a313f04d550
"Within six hours, the (AI) had sketched out 40,000 potential killer molecules, including VX, a banned nerve agent."
From Washington Post:
Rocky Mountain spotted fever is one of the most lethal infectious diseases in the Americas. It's rare but has reemerged at epidemic levels in northern Mexico. What's driving this? High temperatures make ticks more aggressive toward humans. Scientists worry that the disease could spread as temperatures rise.
Fear and control, fear and control, hey?
Those are what my dentist uses to get me to schedule an appointment.
Quote from: 4everwarriors on August 29, 2023, 06:50:18 PM
Fear and control, fear and control, hey?
From the guy who sits in his basement, listening to his police scanner, so he can post MU campus crime reports on a basketball forum.
Quote from: MU82 on August 29, 2023, 10:08:32 PM
From the guy who sits in his basement, listening to his police scanner, so he can post MU campus crime reports on a basketball forum.
You do realize that those are emails sent to Marquette students and faculty, right? Right? No? Figures.
Fear and control, hey?
Quote from: MU82 on August 30, 2023, 10:09:14 AM
Fear and control, hey?
Timely warnings required by the Clery Act.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clery_Act
Quote from: 4everwarriors on August 29, 2023, 06:50:18 PM
Fear and control, fear and control, hey?
That's why I never wear my seat belt.
Quote from: Hards Alumni on August 30, 2023, 01:11:32 PM
That's why I never wear my seat belt.
I let toddlers play with choking hazards and operate heavy machinery every time I use Nyquil.
Take that, Big Government.
Rabies vaccines for my dogs? F that, Big Gub'mint!
Quote from: TSmith34, Inc. on August 30, 2023, 01:31:18 PM
Rabies vaccines for my dogs? F that, Big Gub'mint!
Animal abuser? Checks out. ✅️
If you are anti-vaxxer are you a human abuser then?
Quote from: TSmith34, Inc. on August 30, 2023, 04:03:41 PM
If you are anti-vaxxer are you a human abuser then?
Is someone who has one comorbidity (age) and has been vaxxed 3x but thinks young, healthy people shouldn't lose their jobs because they decide against a vaccine that doesn't prevent infection or transmission an "anti-vaxxer"?
Asking for a friend.
Whoosh! and over your head it goes
Quote from: Hards Alumni on August 30, 2023, 01:11:32 PM
That's why I never wear my seat belt.
that's it!
bounced your head off the windshield a few too many times like heals up has off her headboard...will get ya seeing venn diagrams and yellow school buses
Quote from: TSmith34, Inc. on August 30, 2023, 06:16:30 PM
Whoosh! and over your head it goes
Bwahahahahahahahaha!!
That idea is hilarious!
Quote from: Lennys Tap on August 30, 2023, 07:53:40 PM
Bwahahahahahahahaha!!
That idea is hilarious!
🐷🐷 is implying again that I'm anti-vax.
Quote from: Lennys Tap on August 30, 2023, 07:53:40 PM
Bwahahahahahahahaha!!
That idea is hilarious!
Whooooooshhhhhh
Lenny's not following a topic at all, but then inserting whatever pops into his mind? You don't say...
Child labor laws being ignored
https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-sawmill-child-labor-death-florence-hardwoods-ab3833351f31e1cae33b96e7fb813aea
Quote from: Uncle Rico on September 08, 2023, 02:13:42 PM
Child labor laws being ignored
https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-sawmill-child-labor-death-florence-hardwoods-ab3833351f31e1cae33b96e7fb813aea
Why do you hate the free market
Quote from: Plaque Lives Matter! on September 08, 2023, 02:39:58 PM
Why do you hate the free market
At least they're inclusive the right way
Quote from: Uncle Rico on September 08, 2023, 02:57:58 PM
At least they're inclusive the right way
All shifts matter
Shockin' dat Soldier Field hasant bin renamed yet, aina?
Quote from: 4everwarriors on September 11, 2023, 07:11:42 AM
Shockin' dat Soldier Field hasant bin renamed yet, aina?
Yeah, it should be LaFleur Field
Dentist field.
Quote from: tower912 on September 11, 2023, 07:14:25 AM
Dentist field.
Maybe if the NFL wasn't so woke and going out of business
Maybe they could get an honorary plaque somewhere.
Quote from: tower912 on September 11, 2023, 07:32:43 AM
Maybe they could get an honorary plaque somewhere.
Nice.
Since this is related to a badger I thought this doom thread a good place for this. Kaminski plays for Partizanin Serbia. Partizanhas a crazy game environment
https://twitter.com/i/status/1702329984503947751
This IG graphic is better (https://www.instagram.com/reel/CxJTWy8vwr4/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=5feffbcc-0095-4667-824a-f812e6c05a9c)
Quote from: Spotcheck Billy on September 14, 2023, 02:51:30 PM
Since this is related to a badger I thought this doom thread a good place for this. Kaminski plays for Partizanin Serbia. Partizanhas a crazy game environment
https://twitter.com/i/status/1702329984503947751
This IG graphic is better (https://www.instagram.com/reel/CxJTWy8vwr4/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=5feffbcc-0095-4667-824a-f812e6c05a9c)
Twitter video is awful. Like, we get it man, you have a drone.
Christian values are doomed
https://x.com/tmz/status/1702831852883427705?s=46&t=QSiaGcOIKZrrpw0ciZkI5Q
Quote from: Uncle Rico on September 15, 2023, 08:04:51 PM
Christian values are doomed
https://x.com/tmz/status/1702831852883427705?s=46&t=QSiaGcOIKZrrpw0ciZkI5Q
You forgot the quote marks around Christian.
Quote from: TSmith34, Inc. on September 16, 2023, 08:59:16 AM
You forgot the quote marks around Christian.
On the same day traditional marriage proponent Kristi Noem is busted for an extramarital affair. Have to think their approval ratings with evangelical Christians got a huge boost
I figured that was who you were dating during your sabbatical.
Quote from: tower912 on September 16, 2023, 09:04:16 AM
I figured that was who you were dating during your sabbatical.
I believe in family values and wouldn't date women with questionable morals like those two. Jesus is watching them
Think about the children.
Quote from: tower912 on September 16, 2023, 09:09:34 AM
Think about the children.
Wouldn't let them read books to my kids, I know that
The one super-annuated buffoon says the other super-annuated buffoon could lead the USA into world war 2.
FDR: too old to run for another term
Journalistic doom ..
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2023/10/17/murphys-law-journal-sentinel-has-lost-81-of-readers/
Deep state critic is part of the deep state
Who can you believe doom
https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-fbi-informant-charles-johnson-johnathan-buma-chs-genius-2023-10
Lolololololol
Quote from: Uncle Rico on October 19, 2023, 10:44:05 AM
Deep state critic is part of the deep state
Who can you believe doom
https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-fbi-informant-charles-johnson-johnathan-buma-chs-genius-2023-10
Lolololololol
What do you think he was informing about? I figure Palantir alone reveals enough confidential information.
Quote from: Plaque Lives Matter! on October 19, 2023, 05:33:43 PM
What do you think he was informing about? I figure Palantir alone reveals enough confidential information.
Probably talked to/got close to a number of alt-right/far right people and realized how awful they actually were
Quote from: JWags85 on October 19, 2023, 06:10:55 PM
Probably talked to/got close to a number of alt-right/far right people and realized how awful they actually were
The guy that poured $20M into Blake Masters' campaign? Nah.
"Democrats are the biggest threat to America"
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/youre-going-to-be-fcking-molested-cnn-airs-shocking-voicemail-to-gop-lawmakers-wife-from-jim-jordan-supporter/
https://nypost.com/2023/10/18/pastors-3-year-old-son-shoots-tot-brother-with-dads-gun/
Quote from: Uncle Rico on October 19, 2023, 07:38:58 PM
https://nypost.com/2023/10/18/pastors-3-year-old-son-shoots-tot-brother-with-dads-gun/
Just standing his ground, what's the problem?
Quote from: Uncle Rico on October 19, 2023, 07:03:31 PM
"Democrats are the biggest threat to America"
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/youre-going-to-be-fcking-molested-cnn-airs-shocking-voicemail-to-gop-lawmakers-wife-from-jim-jordan-supporter/
Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo, is receiving death threats because he has the temerity to not want the speaker of the House to be one of the architects of the 1/6/21 coup attempt.
House GOP is doomed.
Quote from: MU82 on October 19, 2023, 10:13:32 PM
Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo, is receiving death threats because he has the temerity to not want the speaker of the House to be one of the architects of the 1/6/21 coup attempt.
House GOP is doomed.
It's sad to see what's happened to Badgers wrestling legend, Gym Jordan.
Ignore a little rape happening under your watch and you get labeled for life. So unfair.
Quote from: MU82 on October 20, 2023, 08:11:06 AM
Ignore a little rape happening under your watch and you get labeled for life. So unfair.
He doesn't even wear his suit jacket inside the House. Shameful
I have been awaiting Muggsy's outrage toward Jordan with interest.
Off the hook, muggsy. No need for you to excoriate JJ right now. Stand down.
Quote from: tower912 on October 20, 2023, 02:00:51 PM
Off the hook, muggsy. No need for you to excoriate JJ right now. Stand down.
No, but how about the lot of them, in Israel's time of need, not being able to help one iota because they can't even do something as rudimentary as elect (and keep) a speaker of the House?
If you really are pro-Israel, as Muggs and Doc and a few others here portray themselves, don't you have to vote against your GOP congressperson in 2024 for this massive sh!tshow?
Vote for clowns, get the circus.
They sewed the seeds of their destruction when McCarthy allowed for a single congress person to call for the removal of the speaker. He did this to get the job in the first place, but he was always on borrowed time with that rule in place.
Good try Nads, but Glenn Grothman voted for Jim Jordan on all 3 ballots, hey?
Quote from: 4everwarriors on October 20, 2023, 04:01:39 PM
Good try Nads, but Glenn Grothman voted for Jim Jordan on all 3 ballots, hey?
Ol' family values Glenn
Quote from: Uncle Rico on October 20, 2023, 04:13:05 PM
Ol' family values Glenn
Grothman triggers the sensor of "how can you elect a politician who can't even find a decent haircut. His official picture has hair that looks like a 4 year old who just woke up from a nap
Quote from: JWags85 on October 20, 2023, 04:31:48 PM
Grothman triggers the sensor of "how can you elect a politician who can't even find a decent haircut. His official picture has hair that looks like a 4 year old who just woke up from a nap
Look at his district. Options are pretty terrible
Quote from: 4everwarriors on October 20, 2023, 04:01:39 PM
Good try Nads, but Glenn Grothman voted for Jim Jordan on all 3 ballots, hey?
There are 435 congresspeople. I don't even know who Glenn Grothman is.
Quote from: MU82 on October 20, 2023, 04:46:21 PM
There are 435 congresspeople. I don't even know who Glenn Grothman is.
That is shocking. The man is a laughingstock.
Quote from: Hards Alumni on October 20, 2023, 04:52:09 PM
That is shocking. The man is a laughingstock.
I've got too many laughingstock congresspeople here in NC to keep track of. Can only follow so many laughingstocks who are gerrymandered into place.
Quote from: MU82 on October 20, 2023, 05:00:58 PM
I've got too many laughingstock congresspeople here in NC to keep track of. Can only follow so many laughingstocks who are gerrymandered into place.
https://asgoeswisconsin.com/glenn-grothmans-strange-st-patricks-day-interview/
This is as good a place to put this ..
Someone in the neighborhood died, and I was looking for a story .. checked the newspaper, then Facebook. Found a dozen hits for obit/stories, but when I read them, they all seemed odd and vague.
Finally found the real obit and realized .. the dozen other hits for stories .. were certainly scraped from the real obit, then run through AI to get hits on their websites.
What the actual fock, humans. Can you imagine brainstorming ideas on how to get traffic to your shítty website and coming up with writing fake stories about a recently deceased kid?
Humans are no longer necessary.
Quote from: MU82 on November 08, 2023, 06:30:02 PM
Humans are no longer necessary.
Au contraire mon frère!
The robot overlords need US - that's right...everyone here - to create more content so that they can learn!
https://futurism.com/ai-companies-training-data
QuoteAs it stands, the most practical solution for this looming problem — save for the advent of mass human content farms, where we lowly carbon-based creatures click and clack away to feed the endless data thirst of our robot overlords
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on November 08, 2023, 06:28:40 PM
This is as good a place to put this ..
Someone in the neighborhood died, and I was looking for a story .. checked the newspaper, then Facebook. Found a dozen hits for obit/stories, but when I read them, they all seemed odd and vague.
Finally found the real obit and realized .. the dozen other hits for stories .. were certainly scraped from the real obit, then run through AI to get hits on their websites.
What the actual fock, humans. Can you imagine brainstorming ideas on how to get traffic to your shítty website and coming up with writing fake stories about a recently deceased kid?
Just goes to show, any and everything can be abused.
Demographic doom.
(https://snipboard.io/XwQYbU.jpg)
Sure looks like people in their late 20s, 30s .. have plateaued at 1 in 3 married.
I'd imagine the next decade's kids will be 1 in 4 or worse.
Those numbers really pack a demographic punch. Fewer marriages, fewer kids. More wild sex parties, though?
Let us know, young Scoop nation.
Maybe something like how animals can sense an earthquake coming.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on December 18, 2023, 09:15:10 AM
Demographic doom.
(https://snipboard.io/XwQYbU.jpg)
Sure looks like people in their late 20s, 30s .. have plateaued at 1 in 3 married.
I'd imagine the next decade's kids will be 1 in 4 or worse.
Those numbers really pack a demographic punch. Fewer marriages, fewer kids. More wild sex parties, though?
Let us know, young Scoop nation.
The Washington Post gave a pretty good reason a few weeks back
Quote from: tower912 on December 18, 2023, 09:44:47 AM
The Washington Post gave a pretty good reason a few weeks back
Drag queens?
Which subset of humanity refuses to marry what other subset of humanity.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on December 18, 2023, 09:15:10 AM
Demographic doom.
(https://snipboard.io/XwQYbU.jpg)
Sure looks like people in their late 20s, 30s .. have plateaued at 1 in 3 married.
I'd imagine the next decade's kids will be 1 in 4 or worse.
Those numbers really pack a demographic punch. Fewer marriages, fewer kids. More wild sex parties, though?
Let us know, young Scoop nation.
Millennials are also less likely to get divorced.
True doom
(https://images2.imgbox.com/f4/31/ltAAypR3_o.png) (https://imgbox.com/ltAAypR3)
Quote from: TSmith34, Inc. on December 27, 2023, 07:37:01 AM
True doom
(https://images2.imgbox.com/f4/31/ltAAypR3_o.png) (https://imgbox.com/ltAAypR3)
you idiot! Explain this
https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/Milwaukee+WI?canonicalCityId=317bac1c5a109363e634cb3a35bc7ac00f6b8a92fe2113a4ec81ac40839fd007
I stand corrected! Looks like a new ice age a-comin'
Also, I appreciate the advisory not to go out in a small craft. Disaster averted!
Quote from: Plaque Lives Matter! on December 27, 2023, 02:59:29 PM
you idiot! Explain this
https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/Milwaukee+WI?canonicalCityId=317bac1c5a109363e634cb3a35bc7ac00f6b8a92fe2113a4ec81ac40839fd007
A graph that begins in 1850 hardly can define a norm for a planet Billions of years old. It misses the Roman warming period and the Medieval warming period as well. Plus a gas that comprises .04% of the atmosphere and is the reason plants thrive is not a culprit for a "climate crisis". Science you cannot question is not science that is propoganda
Quote from: WellsstreetWanderer on December 27, 2023, 09:26:16 PM
A graph that begins in 1850 hardly can define a norm for a planet Billions of years old. It misses the Roman warming period and the Medieval warming period as well. Plus a gas that comprises .04% of the atmosphere and is the reason plants thrive is not a culprit for a "climate crisis". Science you cannot question is not science that is propoganda
*propaganda
Quote from: WellsstreetWanderer on December 27, 2023, 09:26:16 PM
A graph that begins in 1850 hardly can define a norm for a planet Billions of years old. It misses the Roman warming period and the Medieval warming period as well. Plus a gas that comprises .04% of the atmosphere and is the reason plants thrive is not a culprit for a "climate crisis". Science you cannot question is not science that is propoganda
You're an idiot.
I vote that the world does absolutely nothing about global warming/climate change.
Our great-grandkids will like learning about what used to be Florida before they go vacation on the expanded Georgia coast.
Quote from: WellsstreetWanderer on December 27, 2023, 09:26:16 PM
Plus a gas that comprises .04% of the atmosphere and is the reason plants thrive is not a culprit for a "climate crisis".
This is science-based, unassailable logic. I've changed my mind.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on December 18, 2023, 09:15:10 AM
Demographic doom.
(https://snipboard.io/XwQYbU.jpg)
Sure looks like people in their late 20s, 30s .. have plateaued at 1 in 3 married.
I'd imagine the next decade's kids will be 1 in 4 or worse.
Those numbers really pack a demographic punch. Fewer marriages, fewer kids. More wild sex parties, though?
Let us know, young Scoop nation.
My thoughts:
1. Co-habitation with an SO is pretty normal now. Even just after I graduated from MU in 1990, people usually didn't live together prior to marriage. Now it happens all of the time.
2. If living together outside of marriage is commonplace, then the primary reason to get married is to have children. And younger people just aren't doing that. The US is following western Europe, China, Japan, etc. and just not having children. They're expensive.
I could go on about what this would mean for our economic outlook and how it needs to mesh with our immigration policy, but that's a different topic.
Quote from: The Sultan of Semantics on December 28, 2023, 10:56:42 AM
My thoughts:
1. Co-habitation with an SO is pretty normal now. Even just after I graduated from MU in 1990, people usually didn't live together prior to marriage. Now it happens all of the time.
2. If living together outside of marriage is commonplace, then the primary reason to get married is to have children. And younger people just aren't doing that. The US is following western Europe, China, Japan, etc. and just not having children. They're expensive.
I could go on about what this would mean for our economic outlook and how it needs to mesh with our immigration policy, but that's a different topic.
Sultan, you are spot on with your comment about birth rate/immigration and this is, in my opinion, perhaps the greatest problem we face that is getting almost no attention whatsoever. It could lead to some very tough times ahead for us if we don't address it soon.
Quote from: The Sultan of Semantics on December 28, 2023, 10:56:42 AM
2. If living together outside of marriage is commonplace, then the primary reason to get married is to have children. And younger people just aren't doing that. The US is following western Europe, China, Japan, etc. and just not having children. They're expensive.
I think an addendum to that is, at least in my experience, having a long term partner, having kids, and getting married later is far more common in Europe than in the US. I know of a number business associates and friends who have been with their wives for for 20+ years, have teenage kids, but have been married less than 10, and a few who still aren't legally. Interestingly, they have kids much younger than Americans, but just don't get married. And its planned, not some youthful indiscretions.
Zombie (illness) doom
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/jan/21/arctic-zombie-viruses-in-siberia-could-spark-terrifying-new-pandemic-scientists-warn
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2024/01/23/doomsday-clock-90-seconds-midnight-nuclear-disaster-climate-crisis/72317545007/
"We need to move faster." I like how that guy thinks.
This is probably fine.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/09/climate/atlantic-circulation-collapse-weather-climate/index.html
Early as 2025 eh? I'll worry about it next year
Scientists fear 100% fatal 'zombie deer disease' will mutate to infect humans: 'There are no contingency plans' (https://news.yahoo.com/scientists-fear-100-fatal-zombie-152439139.html)
Unfortunately I think it already has hit the MU Dental School.
Quote from: Spotcheck Billy on February 20, 2024, 04:31:28 PM
Scientists fear 100% fatal 'zombie deer disease' will mutate to infect humans: 'There are no contingency plans' (https://news.yahoo.com/scientists-fear-100-fatal-zombie-152439139.html)
No contingency plans??? We have Brad Pitt and Woody Harrelson, we're fine. :D
Quote from: WellsstreetWanderer on December 27, 2023, 09:26:16 PM
A graph that begins in 1850 hardly can define a norm for a planet Billions of years old. It misses the Roman warming period and the Medieval warming period as well. Plus a gas that comprises .04% of the atmosphere and is the reason plants thrive is not a culprit for a "climate crisis". Science you cannot question is not science that is propoganda
I haven't clicked on this thread in a bit..
:o
Quote from: Spotcheck Billy on February 20, 2024, 04:31:28 PM
Scientists fear 100% fatal 'zombie deer disease' will mutate to infect humans: 'There are no contingency plans' (https://news.yahoo.com/scientists-fear-100-fatal-zombie-152439139.html)
While, yes, bad crap could happen, hasn't chronic wasting disease been around for at least a few decades?
Sorry, not very doomy of me, I know.
Quote from: TSmith34, Inc. on February 20, 2024, 07:31:33 PM
While, yes, bad crap could happen, hasn't chronic wasting disease been around for at least a few decades?
Sorry, not very doomy of me, I know.
But enough about me having to pay for dental
That graph .. ahhhh, it'll probably get better next year.
https://www.axios.com/2024/02/20/february-record-warm-oceans-hurricanes
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on February 22, 2024, 09:59:17 AM
That graph .. ahhhh, it'll probably get better next year.
https://www.axios.com/2024/02/20/february-record-warm-oceans-hurricanes
Drill, baby, drill
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on February 22, 2024, 09:59:17 AM
That graph .. ahhhh, it'll probably get better next year.
https://www.axios.com/2024/02/20/february-record-warm-oceans-hurricanes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2012/06/13/doctored-data-not-u-s-temperatures-set-a-record
Quote from: WellsstreetWanderer on February 22, 2024, 06:56:15 PM
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2012/06/13/doctored-data-not-u-s-temperatures-set-a-record
LOL. That was debunked years ago.
2012? Got anything from at least the wojo era?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-surgeon-general-defies-science-025905732.html
He's paid good money to be an anti-vax nutjob. Just doing what he is paid to do.
Eh ... a little measles never hurt anybody. I mean, this sounds like total BS:
About 1 in 5 unvaccinated people in the United States who contract measles is hospitalized, according to the CDC. As many as 1 out of 20 children develop pneumonia, the most common cause of death from measles in young children. About 1 child out of every 1,000 with measles will develop swelling of the brain that can lead to convulsions and leave the child deaf or with an intellectual disability. For unvaccinated babies who contract measles, 1 in 600 can develop a fatal neurological complication that can lie dormant for years.
Lies. The real danger to Florida children are books - gotta ban more and more of 'em to keep their kiddos safe!
Sorry. I do my own research on facebook.
Quote from: MU82 on February 23, 2024, 03:04:13 PM
Eh ... a little measles never hurt anybody. I mean, this sounds like total BS:
About 1 in 5 unvaccinated people in the United States who contract measles is hospitalized, according to the CDC. As many as 1 out of 20 children develop pneumonia, the most common cause of death from measles in young children. About 1 child out of every 1,000 with measles will develop swelling of the brain that can lead to convulsions and leave the child deaf or with an intellectual disability. For unvaccinated babies who contract measles, 1 in 600 can develop a fatal neurological complication that can lie dormant for years.
Lies. The real danger to Florida children are books - gotta ban more and more of 'em to keep their kiddos safe!
I'm going to be a new father soon and I love that I have to worry about previously non issue eradicated diseases because dentists got on Facebook
Congratulations!
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/26/climate/doomsday-glacier-antarctic-ice-melt-climate-intl/index.html
"Doomsday" glacier, probably fine
https://twitter.com/RealUntoldStory/status/1764187365562524111
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on February 09, 2024, 09:05:46 PM
This is probably fine.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/09/climate/atlantic-circulation-collapse-weather-climate/index.html
And yet, banks continue to give 30 year mortgages on ocean front properties as the wealthy, politicos and celebrities continue to buy them.
It must be nice to have 1400s peasant brain
Tumbleweed is sprawling across sidewalks. It is blowing across freeways. It is stacked up — feet high — against homes in Utah and Nevada.
They're calling it Tumblegeddon!
https://twitter.com/KSL_AlexCabrero/status/1763988241110204787?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1764014337302090044%7Ctwgr%5E489d1420a032005117a29be3e467f3fabc682946%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnation%2F2024%2F03%2F04%2Ftumbleweed-takeover-utah-eagle-mountain-south-jordan%2F
Quote from: Plaque Lives Matter! on March 04, 2024, 03:26:22 PM
It must be nice to have 1400s peasant brain
When an argument is lost Slander is the tool of losers- Socrates
Quote from: WellsstreetWanderer on March 05, 2024, 11:17:47 AM
When an argument is lost Slander is the tool of losers- Socrates
As an evangelical Christian, I don't believe in climate change and even if it were real, it's god's will.
God provided us this world to do with as we please. I truly believe Jesus would encourage us to use resources provided by God in anyway we choose and if that means future generations suffer, that's too bad. Plus, they can look to god to provide different resources for them.
It's not our place to protect this planet, but to enjoy its abundant resources and get as much as we can from those resources while we're here.
Unc, doesn't the climate change in Milwaukee about every 30 minutes?
Quote from: WellsstreetWanderer on March 05, 2024, 11:30:14 AM
Unc, doesn't the climate change in Milwaukee about every 30 minutes?
I don't go to Milwaukee. Too dangerous for me
I've heard that the Dentists are out of control there
Any self-respecting dentist wouldn't be caught dead in Milwaukee. They prefer the exurbs.
Quote from: WellsstreetWanderer on March 05, 2024, 11:17:47 AM
When an argument is lost Slander is the tool of losers- Socrates
Socrates was an anti democratic elitist. Also if you're copying and pasting quickly googled quotes, try to take out the formatting so it's not so obvious.
Quote from: WellsstreetWanderer on March 05, 2024, 11:30:14 AM
Unc, doesn't the climate change in Milwaukee about every 30 minutes?
Weather, Climate...I mean what's the difference, right?
Quote from: Plaque Lives Matter! on March 05, 2024, 12:17:48 PM
Socrates was an anti democratic elitist. Also if you're copying and pasting quickly googled quotes, try to take out the formatting so it's not so obvious.
Proving my point I rarely Google and my memory is still intact
Quote from: The Sultan of Semantics on March 05, 2024, 02:09:35 PM
You probably should.
He strikes me as more of a person who uses Web Crawler.
Ask Jeeves. Makes one feel like they're being waited on
Quote from: WellsstreetWanderer on March 05, 2024, 02:06:10 PM
Proving my point I rarely Google and my memory is still intact
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=confirmation+bias
Quote from: Uncle Rico on March 05, 2024, 11:27:08 AM
As an evangelical Christian, I don't believe in climate change and even if it were real, it's god's will.
God provided us this world to do with as we please. I truly believe Jesus would encourage us to use resources provided by God in anyway we choose and if that means future generations suffer, that's too bad. Plus, they can look to god to provide different resources for them.
It's not our place to protect this planet, but to enjoy its abundant resources and get as much as we can from those resources while we're here.
Interesting perspective Uncle Rico. I have great respect for you by Evangelizing. Takes real courage versus just being another clown ass poster on MU Scoop.
Quote from: lawdog77 on March 05, 2024, 02:21:32 PM
He strikes me as more of a person who uses Web Crawler.
That's ,like, your opinion, man
Article on List of Asteroids Dangerously Close To Earth:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12694335/amp/The-5-asteroids-set-come-dangerously-close-Earth-year-including-huge-space-rock-size-Golden-Gate-Bridge.html
Quote from: Herman Cain on March 06, 2024, 07:30:22 AM
Article on List of Asteroids Dangerously Close To Earth:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12694335/amp/The-5-asteroids-set-come-dangerously-close-Earth-year-including-huge-space-rock-size-Golden-Gate-Bridge.html
List of asteroids dangerously close to earth THAT WE KNOW ABOUT
This thread unlocked itself!! Computers are taking over!! We're doomed!!!!
You're not completely wrong. But Hilltopper isn't a computer...yet.
Temporary locks break the idiocy cycle.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on March 07, 2024, 07:28:53 AM
Temporary locks break the idiocy cycle.
Temporary breaks lock the idiocy cycle.
Temporary idiots lock the brakes
g𝐨d d𝐚m𝐧i𝐭, I h𝐚t𝐞 𝐲o𝐮 𝐩e𝐨p𝐥e s𝐨 𝐦u𝐜h.
List of asteroids dangerously close to earth.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12694335/amp/The-5-asteroids-set-come-dangerously-close-Earth-year-including-huge-space-rock-size-Golden-Gate-Bridge.html
Use the forest fire starting Jewish space lasers on them.
An interesting explainer on the implications of climate change and its effect on the Atlantic
https://www.vox.com/climate/24099459/amoc-atlantic-meridional-overturning-circulation-freeze-europe
Hoaxes aren't interesting.
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2024/03/20/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-banning-chemtrails-what-to-know/73027586007/
Quote from: Uncle Rico on March 21, 2024, 07:51:28 PM
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2024/03/20/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-banning-chemtrails-what-to-know/73027586007/
geez, can't even use carbon spewing jets to get rid of global blah-blah...now that's doomy. why don't they enlist ufo's to do their "geoengineering" for them. at least they're clean
The thread that doesn't die.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq5ydeWWr4A
Quote from: rocket surgeon on March 22, 2024, 06:10:10 AM
geez, can't even use carbon spewing jets to get rid of global blah-blah...now that's doomy. why don't they enlist ufo's to do their "geoengineering" for them. at least they're clean
(https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExNGtnbWJiaWFmcW9zbnVmc3d1M21rMWZ5N29nb3I2dDFzdTJ5anVhZSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/IhKj4WZFi0RHYu9BfE/giphy.gif)
https://nypost.com/2024/04/04/us-news/bird-flu-pandemic-could-be-100-times-worse-than-covid-scientists-warn/
Not sure this is doom, but it's pretty wild.
Everyone in Japan will be called Sato by 2531 unless marriage law changed, says professor
Japanese citizens will all have the same family name in 500 years' time unless married couples are permitted to use separate surnames, a new study has suggested as part of a campaign to update a civil code dating back to the late 1800s.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/02/japan-sato-only-name-by-2531-marriage-law
https://www.iflscience.com/conspiracy-theorists-think-the-eclipse-will-begin-a-massive-human-sacrifice-event-73671
Scoop has numbed me. No conspiracy theory is insane enough to shock me. Just dumb people saying dumb things.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on April 04, 2024, 05:17:31 PM
https://www.iflscience.com/conspiracy-theorists-think-the-eclipse-will-begin-a-massive-human-sacrifice-event-73671
Just when we were getting over the apocalypse of 2012.
Quote from: tower912 on April 04, 2024, 05:36:49 PM
Scoop has numbed me. No conspiracy theory is insane enough to shock me. Just dumb people saying dumb things.
I don't think this is a conspiracy theory at all. Mainstream news isn't even reporting on it. Tells me all I need to know.
Quote from: Uncle Rico on April 04, 2024, 05:46:46 PM
I don't think this is a conspiracy theory at all. Mainstream news isn't even reporting on it. Tells me all I need to know.
Well done.
I guess checking all the apocalypse boxes with the eclipse arriving on Monday, I just felt an earthquake that apparently measured 4.7 and rattled the entire Northeast.
I was wondering why there was weird noises and the house was rattling far worse than usual for a Sikorsky helicopter test flight.
Is this good
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/06/simply-mind-boggling-world-record-temperature-jump-in-antarctic-raises-fears-of-catastrophe
Elon Musk predicts A.I. will overtake human intelligence within two years. Musk told Nicolai Tangen, C.E.O. of Norway's sovereign wealth fund, in an interview on X that artificial general intelligence would probably be "smarter than the smartest human" next year or by 2026. The forecast is earlier than many others in the tech industry believe: Some say it will take years for that level of technology to reach the market. Elsewhere, Musk's Tesla has settled a lawsuit over a fatal crash involving a driver using the car's driver-assistance software. (From NYT DealBook newsletter.)
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/ai-safety-researcher-warns-theres-a-99999999-probability-ai-will-end-humanity-but-elon-musk-conservatively-dwindles-it-down-to-20-and-says-it-should-be-explored-more-despite-inevitable-doom
Quote from: MU82 on April 09, 2024, 05:47:57 PM
Elon Musk predicts A.I. will overtake human intelligence within two years. Musk told Nicolai Tangen, C.E.O. of Norway's sovereign wealth fund, in an interview on X that artificial general intelligence would probably be "smarter than the smartest human" next year or by 2026. The forecast is earlier than many others in the tech industry believe: Some say it will take years for that level of technology to reach the market. Elsewhere, Musk's Tesla has settled a lawsuit over a fatal crash involving a driver using the car's driver-assistance software. (From NYT DealBook newsletter.)
If AI gets that smart that quickly it will be kept private and enrich a few individuals. There's no reason to even productize it.
It's like the old saying that the people that can actually predict the future of the market keep their mouths shut and enrich themselves. Only the inept ones need to sell their ideas as investing advice to the folks on main street.
Quote from: Skatastrophy on April 10, 2024, 10:04:43 AM
If AI gets that smart that quickly it will be kept private and enrich a few individuals. There's no reason to even productize it.
It's like the old saying that the people that can actually predict the future of the market keep their mouths shut and enrich themselves. Only the inept ones need to sell their ideas as investing advice to the folks on main street.
Or make public announcements about it to move the market in their favor
Slightly less doom?!
https://x.com/amyaharder/status/1779875035001606444?s=46&t=G2FhP_F2kWewaBOpvRv5lg
Get that hope out of here.
Your life is just a simulation. Sorry.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a60553384/covid-simulation/
Sounds like The Devs
𝟤𝟢𝟢 𝗒𝖾𝖺𝗋𝗌? 𝖳𝗁𝖺𝗍'𝗌 𝖻𝗎𝗅𝗅𝗌𝗁𝗂𝗍.
https://www.wisn.com/article/ai-could-kill-us-in-200-years/60558545?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot
H5N1 is coming. When that sucker gets going, COVID will be the good old days.
Enjoy Galveston, Charleston and other soon-to-be-sunk places while you can.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2024/southern-us-sea-level-rise-risk-cities/?
At more than a dozen tide gauges spanning from Texas to North Carolina, sea levels are at least 6 inches higher than they were in 2010 — a change similar to what occurred over the previous five decades.
In December, Charleston, S.C., saw its fourth-highest water level since measurements began in 1899. It was the first time on record that seas had been that high without a hurricane. A winter storm that coincided with the elevated ocean left dozens of streets closed. One resident drowned in her car. Hundreds of vehicles were damaged or destroyed, including some that were inundated in a cruise terminal parking lot.
The average sea level at Charleston has risen by 7 inches since 2010, four times the rate of the previous 30 years.
Jacksonville, Fla., where seas rose 6 inches in the past 14 years, recently studied its vulnerability. It found that more than a quarter of major roads have the potential to become inaccessible to emergency response vehicles amid flooding, and the number of residents who face flood risks could more than triple in coming decades.
Galveston, Tex., has experienced an extraordinary rate of sea level rise — 8 inches in 14 years. Experts say it has been exacerbated by fast-sinking land. High-tide floods have struck at least 141 times since 2015, and scientists project their frequency will grow rapidly. Officials are planning to install several huge pump stations in coming years, largely funded through federal grants. The city manager expects each pump to cost more than $60 million — a figure that could eclipse the city's annual tax revenue.
Quote from: MU82 on April 29, 2024, 06:49:32 AM
Enjoy Galveston, Charleston and other soon-to-be-sunk places while you can.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2024/southern-us-sea-level-rise-risk-cities/?
Galveston, Tex., has experienced an extraordinary rate of sea level rise — 8 inches in 14 years. Experts say it has been exacerbated by fast-sinking land. High-tide floods have struck at least 141 times since 2015, and scientists project their frequency will grow rapidly. Officials are planning to install several huge pump stations in coming years, largely funded through federal grants. The city manager expects each pump to cost more than $60 million — a figure that could eclipse the city's annual tax revenue.[/i]
Socialism. They need to pull themselves up by their own soggy bootstraps.
Remember when America's largest state (by far) - a state with a GDP larger than all but 4 countries - was doomed because people were moving out "in droves"?
California's population grew in 2023, halting 3 years of decline, state estimates
https://apnews.com/article/california-population-growth-pandemic-decline-0d2bfc2c0a4ced0c3c2ad934207818bc?
Of course, one really needed a generous definition of "droves" to justify the doom talk ... and California's population today is larger than it was just a few years ago.
And thank goodness! The taxes paid for and income generated by California corporations and residents helps carry money-sucking states like Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, West Virginia, etc.
Quote from: MU82 on May 06, 2024, 10:22:08 AM
Remember when America's largest state (by far) - a state with a GDP larger than all but 4 countries - was doomed because people were moving out "in droves"?
California's population grew in 2023, halting 3 years of decline, state estimates
https://apnews.com/article/california-population-growth-pandemic-decline-0d2bfc2c0a4ced0c3c2ad934207818bc?
Of course, one really needed a generous definition of "droves" to justify the doom talk ... and California's population today is larger than it was just a few years ago.
And thank goodness! The taxes paid for and income generated by California corporations and residents helps carry money-sucking states like Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, West Virginia, etc.
Don't get me started ....
5th largest in the world with a 6.1% growth rate over the previous year.
Quote from: MU82 on May 06, 2024, 10:22:08 AM
Remember when America's largest state (by far) - a state with a GDP larger than all but 4 countries - was doomed because people were moving out "in droves"?
California's population grew in 2023, halting 3 years of decline, state estimates
https://apnews.com/article/california-population-growth-pandemic-decline-0d2bfc2c0a4ced0c3c2ad934207818bc?
Of course, one really needed a generous definition of "droves" to justify the doom talk ... and California's population today is larger than it was just a few years ago.
And thank goodness! The taxes paid for and income generated by California corporations and residents helps carry money-sucking states like Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, West Virginia, etc.
I am going to go out on a limb here and guess that even with that 67,000-person increase, more people moved out of California to other states than moved into California from other states.
169 consecutive years of population growth isn't enough for you? Wow, I wonder what you said when Steve Novak hit 68 straight free throws, but missed on number 69. Oh well, 40 million citizens in any one state is probably enough anyhow.
Quote from: MU82 on April 29, 2024, 06:49:32 AM
Enjoy Galveston, Charleston and other soon-to-be-sunk places while you can.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2024/southern-us-sea-level-rise-risk-cities/?
At more than a dozen tide gauges spanning from Texas to North Carolina, sea levels are at least 6 inches higher than they were in 2010 — a change similar to what occurred over the previous five decades.
In December, Charleston, S.C., saw its fourth-highest water level since measurements began in 1899. It was the first time on record that seas had been that high without a hurricane. A winter storm that coincided with the elevated ocean left dozens of streets closed. One resident drowned in her car. Hundreds of vehicles were damaged or destroyed, including some that were inundated in a cruise terminal parking lot.
The average sea level at Charleston has risen by 7 inches since 2010, four times the rate of the previous 30 years.
Jacksonville, Fla., where seas rose 6 inches in the past 14 years, recently studied its vulnerability. It found that more than a quarter of major roads have the potential to become inaccessible to emergency response vehicles amid flooding, and the number of residents who face flood risks could more than triple in coming decades.
Galveston, Tex., has experienced an extraordinary rate of sea level rise — 8 inches in 14 years. Experts say it has been exacerbated by fast-sinking land. High-tide floods have struck at least 141 times since 2015, and scientists project their frequency will grow rapidly. Officials are planning to install several huge pump stations in coming years, largely funded through federal grants. The city manager expects each pump to cost more than $60 million — a figure that could eclipse the city's annual tax revenue.
I thought Hussein put a stop to all this...he's buying up a bunch of seaside mansions on the shekels he's saved up from 8 years of potus-was beddie beddie good to him
Quote from: rocket surgeon on May 07, 2024, 05:15:45 AM
I thought Hussein put a stop to all this...he's buying up a bunch of seaside mansions on the shekels he's saved up from 8 years of potus-was beddie beddie good to him
9 out of 10
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature
Many of the scientists envisage a "semi-dystopian" future, with famines, conflicts and mass migration, driven by heatwaves, wildfires, floods and storms of an intensity and frequency far beyond those that have already struck.
Many home insurers have pulled out of Florida and California. How long before they pull out of tornado alley?
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on May 08, 2024, 07:41:03 AM
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature
Many of the scientists envisage a "semi-dystopian" future, with famines, conflicts and mass migration, driven by heatwaves, wildfires, floods and storms of an intensity and frequency far beyond those that have already struck.
The bible was right. Just wait until the locusts arrive.
You mean 'cicadas'.
This, also, is perfectly fine.
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/all-about-the-gas?utm_source=substack&publication_id=438146&post_id=144207808&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=elvx&triedRedirect=true
+April was the 11th month in a row when the planet set a new heat record. If we are very lucky, that heat may moderate just a tad in the months ahead—perhaps May or June or July will only be the second-warmest of its kind. But at the moment there's about a 66% chance that this will end up as the hottest year on record—which would make it the hottest in the last 125,001 or so. How hot has it been? Here's a story about an Indian newscaster passing out from the heat as she reads a story about...heatwaves.
That's air temperature—but the news from the oceans has been even grimmer, as records get set with no end in sight. As Bob Berwyn reports, marine heatwaves are currently larger than the combined land area of North America, Europe, Asia and Africa, and doing almost unbelievable damage:
"I'm not sure I can come up with the right words to describe the global ocean situation at present, but it is pretty dire," said Ben Noll, a climate scientist with New Zealand's National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, who recently calculated that 78 percent of non-sea ice covered global ocean was experiencing marine heat wave conditions.
"It speaks to the critical, extreme nature of the warming that the planet has recently experienced," he said, but the impacts on marine ecosystems are mostly hidden beneath the surface of the seas, except to researchers, divers, fisher people and other careful observers. "The impact of these warm seas may be difficult to grasp and comprehend, but the undersea world seems to be suffocating."
+Dramatically increased temperatures mean, above all, more water vapor in the air. The numbers are truly amazing—as Kiwi meteorologist Ben Noll said on Twitter, we're now seen month after month beat the old records for most water vapor in the air.
More water in the air means more water pouring down. Check out hideous flooding in the last few days in Kenya, where people watched in anguish as government bulldozers razed homes in areas behind dams threatening to burst, in Houston where a four-year-old boy was swept away by floodwaters, and in Brazil where the BBC reported that "hundreds of towns were underwater."
Quote from: TSmith34, Inc. on May 09, 2024, 08:06:29 AM
This, also, is perfectly fine.
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/all-about-the-gas?utm_source=substack&publication_id=438146&post_id=144207808&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=elvx&triedRedirect=true
+April was the 11th month in a row when the planet set a new heat record. If we are very lucky, that heat may moderate just a tad in the months ahead—perhaps May or June or July will only be the second-warmest of its kind. But at the moment there's about a 66% chance that this will end up as the hottest year on record—which would make it the hottest in the last 125,001 or so. How hot has it been? Here's a story about an Indian newscaster passing out from the heat as she reads a story about...heatwaves.
That's air temperature—but the news from the oceans has been even grimmer, as records get set with no end in sight. As Bob Berwyn reports, marine heatwaves are currently larger than the combined land area of North America, Europe, Asia and Africa, and doing almost unbelievable damage:
"I'm not sure I can come up with the right words to describe the global ocean situation at present, but it is pretty dire," said Ben Noll, a climate scientist with New Zealand's National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, who recently calculated that 78 percent of non-sea ice covered global ocean was experiencing marine heat wave conditions.
"It speaks to the critical, extreme nature of the warming that the planet has recently experienced," he said, but the impacts on marine ecosystems are mostly hidden beneath the surface of the seas, except to researchers, divers, fisher people and other careful observers. "The impact of these warm seas may be difficult to grasp and comprehend, but the undersea world seems to be suffocating."
+Dramatically increased temperatures mean, above all, more water vapor in the air. The numbers are truly amazing—as Kiwi meteorologist Ben Noll said on Twitter, we're now seen month after month beat the old records for most water vapor in the air.
More water in the air means more water pouring down. Check out hideous flooding in the last few days in Kenya, where people watched in anguish as government bulldozers razed homes in areas behind dams threatening to burst, in Houston where a four-year-old boy was swept away by floodwaters, and in Brazil where the BBC reported that "hundreds of towns were underwater."
Despite evidence to the contrary, many will continue to bury their heads in the sand because the planet they live on matters very little to them
Quote from: Uncle Rico on May 09, 2024, 08:21:52 AM
Despite evidence to the contrary, many will continue to bury their heads in the sand because the planet they live on matters very little to them
Disastrous consequences for their children and grandchildren are a small price to pay for owning the libs
Quote from: TSmith34, Inc. on May 09, 2024, 10:06:27 AM
Disastrous consequences for their children and grandchildren are a small price to pay for owning the libs
Everyone likes the smell of a good bonfire. Why not embrace smelling and inhaling it for weeks on end every summer
Quote from: Plaque Lives Matter! on May 09, 2024, 02:36:26 PM
Everyone likes the smell of a good bonfire. Why not embrace smelling and inhaling it for weeks on end every summer
Indeed, make lemonade out of methane so to speak
Thank goodness there are still profiles in courage out there!
https://apnews.com/article/virginia-confederate-school-names-26db1b3532208ef8fb1f545c1482b9ff?
A Virginia school board voted Friday to restore the names of Confederate military leaders to a high school and an elementary school, four years after the names had been removed, a reversal that some experts believe may be the first of its kind.
Shenandoah County's school board voted 5-1 to rename Mountain View High School as Stonewall Jackson High School and Honey Run Elementary as Ashby Lee Elementary.
Bravo. We need more of our elementary schools named after treasonous, anti-American, pro-slavery leaders. Here's hoping they're also teaching the kids at those schools how much slavery taught the fortunate Black people who were whipped, chained and beaten.
This isn't really doom, but get your act together, Canada. This is soooo 2023.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/smoke-canadian-wildfires-reaches-us-minnesota-air-quality/story?id=110149929
Quote from: MU82 on May 10, 2024, 03:40:33 PM
Thank goodness there are still profiles in courage out there!
https://apnews.com/article/virginia-confederate-school-names-26db1b3532208ef8fb1f545c1482b9ff?
A Virginia school board voted Friday to restore the names of Confederate military leaders to a high school and an elementary school, four years after the names had been removed, a reversal that some experts believe may be the first of its kind.
Shenandoah County's school board voted 5-1 to rename Mountain View High School as Stonewall Jackson High School and Honey Run Elementary as Ashby Lee Elementary.
Bravo. We need more of our elementary schools named after treasonous, anti-American, pro-slavery leaders. Here's hoping they're also teaching the kids at those schools how much slavery taught the fortunate Black people who were whipped, chained and beaten.
I get why people, especially military leaders, admire Stonewall Jackson. Dude was an unreal general whose death was probably the major turning point in the war...
But Turner Ashby having a fought for legacy is hilarious and pathetic. I don't care if he is from the area, he was an absolute bum who the aforementioned Jackson thought was a terrible commander. It would be like a NJ area HS being named after Bob Dukiet.
I'm old, Wags, but Stonewall was before my time. The one thing I know for sure about him was that he was a traitor who went to war against America, all to defend the right of southerners to own human beings. His name doesn't belong on an American public school any more than Hirohito's, bin Laden's or McVeigh's do.
And sure ... that goes double for Ashby.
That so many white folks in 2024 are still glorifying treasonous "leaders" is a sad commentary about the strength and endurance of racism in America - and about how fu%ked up things are these days.
Quote from: MU82 on May 12, 2024, 09:14:21 PM
I'm old, Wags, but Stonewall was before my time. The one thing I know for sure about him was that he was a traitor who went to war against America, all to defend the right of southerners to own human beings. His name doesn't belong on an American public school any more than Hirohito's, bin Laden's or McVeigh's do.
And sure ... that goes double for Ashby.
That so many white folks in 2024 are still glorifying treasonous "leaders" is a sad commentary about the strength and endurance of racism in America - and about how fu%ked up things are these days.
Gerd von Rundstedt High School did not go over too well in France
Quote from: MU82 on May 12, 2024, 09:14:21 PM
I'm old, Wags, but Stonewall was before my time. The one thing I know for sure about him was that he was a traitor who went to war against America, all to defend the right of southerners to own human beings. His name doesn't belong on an American public school any more than Hirohito's, bin Laden's or McVeigh's do.
And sure ... that goes double for Ashby.
That so many white folks in 2024 are still glorifying treasonous "leaders" is a sad commentary about the strength and endurance of racism in America - and about how fu%ked up things are these days.
First chance I had to reply.
I was going to type similar to your first that every Confederate is a traitor and should have nothing named for them.
The same people mucked up US Grant's reputation simply because he actually kicked their ass in person.
I'm not sure how to process or explain that, in 2024, school boards and other elected officials are not only willing but actually clamoring to name public schools after racist traitors who literally went to war against America.
Hitler High has a nice ring to it. The Fightin' Fuhrers!
(Though even Hitler wasn't a traitor the way Confederate leaders were.)
Quote from: MU82 on May 12, 2024, 09:14:21 PM
I'm old, Wags, but Stonewall was before my time. The one thing I know for sure about him was that he was a traitor who went to war against America, all to defend the right of southerners to own human beings.
But he was good at it.
If they want name a school after a member of that family, how about his sister, who upon learning of ol' Stoney's death said she "would rather know that he was dead than to have him a leader in the rebel army."
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That so many white folks in 2024 are still glorifying treasonous "leaders" is a sad commentary about the strength and endurance of racism in America - and about how fu%ked up things are these days.
Generations of Lost Cause indoctrination is hard to shake.
Braxton Bragg school of Dentistry has a nice ring to it.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/raw-milk-sales-spike-despite-cdcs-warnings-of-risk-associated-with-bird-flu
I swear to god if bird flu breaks out people
Quote from: Plaque Lives Matter! on May 14, 2024, 02:32:57 PM
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/raw-milk-sales-spike-despite-cdcs-warnings-of-risk-associated-with-bird-flu
I swear to god if bird flu breaks out people
roQQet on a buying spree
Quote from: TSmith34, Inc. on May 14, 2024, 05:16:09 PM
roQQet on a buying spree
(https://y.yarn.co/d9329c8c-ab51-4f1e-93c1-fba022e642c6_text.gif)
Humans are doomed.
https://www.youtube.com/v/MxTWLm9vT_o
Currently about halfway through Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobs, and would recommend it. I bought it after listening to her interview on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Addendum podcast. She interviewed a ton of retired military folks and others in the know re the US nuclear apparatus and policies. The first 1/3 of the book or so is an accessible, blurby dive into our silos, detection and response capabilities, chain of command, etc. A very quick read, but I learned a lot.
Giant venomous flying spiders with 4-inch legs heading to New York area as they spread across East Coast, experts say
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joro-spiders-new-york-giant-venomous-spiders-spread-east-coast/
Quote from: TSmith34, Inc. on June 04, 2024, 12:26:35 PM
Giant venomous flying spiders with 4-inch legs heading to New York area as they spread across East Coast, experts say
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joro-spiders-new-york-giant-venomous-spiders-spread-east-coast/
We've had those here for about three years. As one who isn't a big fan of creepy crawly things, they are gnarly as all get out. The key is to take them out while they are still small. A can of Raid and a 4-foot 2x4 to knock down the webs is all it takes.
Quote from: TSmith34, Inc. on June 04, 2024, 12:26:35 PM
Giant venomous flying spiders with 4-inch legs heading to New York area as they spread across East Coast, experts say
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joro-spiders-new-york-giant-venomous-spiders-spread-east-coast/
If they can take out the carpenter bees.
Quote from: MU Fan in Connecticut on June 04, 2024, 06:08:46 PM
If they can take out the carpenter bees.
Tennis racket works well
I'm concerned about Volt Typhoon. If we do not get our act together the entire world will be dealing with a s-show.....a.ka. the CCP.
Dental crime thread locked doom
Quote from: Plaque Lives Matter! on June 06, 2024, 08:50:57 AM
Dental crime thread locked doom
So much for keeping fellow scoopers safe from felonious dentists. Mods inbox overflowing from snowflakes
Probably time.
Quote from: Uncle Rico on June 06, 2024, 09:49:11 AM
So much for keeping fellow scoopers safe from felonious dentists. Mods inbox overflowing from snowflakes
the mods got nothing from me. I rather enjoyed you guys making asses of yourself knowing that probably a few of you have been at the mercy of one of us uneducated "sickos" who embarrass our school. hopefully he/she reads scoop and gave ya'll the "special treatment"
Quote from: rocket surgeon on June 06, 2024, 04:57:57 PM
the mods got nothing from me. I rather enjoyed you guys making asses of yourself knowing that probably a few of you have been at the mercy of one of us uneducated "sickos" who embarrass our school. hopefully he/she reads scoop and gave ya'll the "special treatment"
I always verify my dentist didn't attend Marquette
Quote from: rocket surgeon on June 06, 2024, 04:57:57 PM
the mods got nothing from me. I rather enjoyed you guys making asses of yourself knowing that probably a few of you have been at the mercy of one of us uneducated "sickos" who embarrass our school. hopefully he/she reads scoop and gave ya'll the "special treatment"
I don't think healthcare workers should be threatening or insinuating threats about their patients. Violating their oath spells doom
Quote from: Plaque Lives Matter! on June 06, 2024, 05:47:07 PM
I don't think healthcare workers should be threatening or insinuating threats about their patients. Violating their oath spells doom
I'm a big advocate of them putting their Scoop posts up on their office walls. Their patients should know what they are getting.
Quote from: Plaque Lives Matter! on June 06, 2024, 05:47:07 PM
I don't think healthcare workers should be threatening or insinuating threats about their patients. Violating their oath spells doom
what the hell are you talking about?? surely you have other hobbies besides spending 1/2 your day here
Quote from: TSmith34, Inc. on June 06, 2024, 06:26:59 PM
I'm a big advocate of them putting their Scoop posts up on their office walls. Their patients should know what they are getting.
do you put your posts up on your basement walls?
Quote from: rocket surgeon on June 06, 2024, 07:49:32 PM
what the hell are you talking about?? surely you have other hobbies besides spending 1/2 your day here
I'll try to switch to 5 am rants of bigoted nonsense if that's more your speed these days.
I'm not normally a doom guy. But this seems bad
https://youtube.com/v/xnkLv-PJVMo
Quote from: rocky_warrior on June 08, 2024, 12:16:44 AM
I'm not normally a doom guy. But this seems bad
And I know some of "youses" distrust the government. But the best way to combat this is to flag AI videos and, mark them appropriately.
That gives me some ideas ;D
Quote from: rocky_warrior on June 08, 2024, 12:16:44 AM
I'm not normally a doom guy. But this seems bad
https://youtube.com/v/xnkLv-PJVMo
This is scarier, to me (sorry, I don't know how to embed):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQA4iYEU1Ew (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQA4iYEU1Ew)
Quote from: lawdog77 on June 08, 2024, 06:05:00 AM
This is scarier, to me (sorry, I don't know how to embed):
Meh, that thing obviously won't shoot anything with a heat signature (until those sensors fall). Millions will believe fake Chinese videos.
Quote from: lawdog77 on June 08, 2024, 06:05:00 AM
This is scarier, to me (sorry, I don't know how to embed):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQA4iYEU1Ew (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQA4iYEU1Ew)
Well, its fake as hell, so I wouldn't worry.
Quote from: Hards Alumni on June 08, 2024, 10:29:04 AM
Well, its fake as hell, so I wouldn't worry.
Well, I guess that makes my (or lawdogs) point!
Quote from: lawdog77 on June 08, 2024, 06:05:00 AM
This is scarier, to me (sorry, I don't know how to embed):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQA4iYEU1Ew (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQA4iYEU1Ew)
I loved this video until I found out it's all fake CGI. Bosstown Dynamics has a bunch of fake robot videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIdqiwHsuI8
Quote from: rocky_warrior on June 08, 2024, 02:26:57 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIdqiwHsuI8
Imagine if those robots became your dentist
Dentists with more time on their hands = even more crime
https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-insider-70-percent-doom
Taylor Swift's concerts set off earthquake sensors in Scotland.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2024/06/13/taylor-swift-concert-fans-dance-earthquake-sensors/?
Sophie Butcher remembers hearing thousands of fans erupt in cheers as Taylor Swift stomped on to the stage to perform "... Ready for It?" in Scotland last week. Throughout Swift's four-minute performance Friday, fans danced, jumped, swayed back and forth, and clapped, Butcher said.
Butcher said the performance was one of the most exciting from the Eras Tour concert. But she didn't learn just how rowdy it was until she returned to her job studying earthquakes on Monday.
Seismologists at the British Geological Survey (BGS), where Butcher works, picked up earthquake readings during Swift's concerts Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Edinburgh, Scotland's capital. Butcher investigated further, using videos from the concerts to find which songs produced the most seismic activity as a result of dancing, clapping and stomping.
The BGS announced Thursday that fans created up to 23.4 nanometers of movement at Swift's concerts. That's significantly more than other popular artists — Harry Styles, Beyoncé and Bruce Springsteen — produced when they recently performed in Scotland, Butcher said.
Earthquake readings were strongest when Swift performed two songs in particular. As she sang and danced to " ... Ready for It?," the crowd transmitted about 80 kilowatts of power, which is equivalent to the power that roughly 6,000 car batteries produce, the BGS said. During "Cruel Summer," fans were "jumping and almost bobbing and swaying," Butcher said as she tried to replicate the movements on a video call Thursday.
She feels the earth...move...under her feet...
Heat dome doom
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/06/20/climate-change-heat-wave-impact/74155517007/
Quote from: Plaque Lives Matter! on June 22, 2024, 03:09:29 PM
Heat dome doom
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/06/20/climate-change-heat-wave-impact/74155517007/
Roqqet will along at 5:00am to babble that the unbroken string of record monthly temperatures are because climate scientists are in it for the money.
That inevitability aside, 120 degree temps for a pilgrimage of 2-3 million people is insane.
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/21/one-mans-desperate-search-for-wife-as-more-than-1000-hajj-pilgrims-die-in-extreme-heat
2032!
Quote from: TSmith34, Inc. on June 22, 2024, 05:19:43 PM
Roqqet will along at 5:00am to babble that the unbroken string of record monthly temperatures are because climate scientists are in it for the money.
no I won't
6:15 am -climate "scientists" are in it for the money
they ain't scientists...they are money launderers for "some people"
1 in 50 knife injuries happen while people slice avocados. Hand surgeons see these injuries so often that they have a name for it: Avocado hand.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/06/26/avocado-hand-injuries-knife/?
Quote from: rocket surgeon on June 27, 2024, 06:16:00 AM
no I won't
6:15 am -climate "scientists" are in it for the money
they ain't scientists...they are money launderers for "some people"
Morons gonna moron I guess.
After your first sentence denying that you'll claim climate scientists are in it for the money, your very next sentence is that climate scientists are in it for the money.
What a fucking fool.
Today's daily dose of doom: The presidential debate. No matter where you fall on the political spectrum, I have a feeling tonight's debate won't meet your expectations of civil discourse.
Quote from: TSmith34, Inc. on June 27, 2024, 09:18:19 AM
Morons gonna moron I guess.
After your first sentence denying that you'll claim climate scientists are in it for the money, your very next sentence is that climate scientists are in it for the money.
What a unnatural carnal knowledgeing fool.
"My beliefs are only driven by money so that must be how everyone else is too"
Quote from: MU82 on June 27, 2024, 06:55:53 AM
1 in 50 knife injuries happen while people slice avocados. Hand surgeons see these injuries so often that they have a name for it: Avocado hand.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/06/26/avocado-hand-injuries-knife/?
Fascinating. Have to remember this next time making Guacamole.
Quote from: TSmith34, Inc. on June 27, 2024, 09:18:19 AM
Morons gonna moron I guess.
After your first sentence denying that you'll claim climate scientists are in it for the money, your very next sentence is that climate scientists are in it for the money.
What a unnatural carnal knowledgeing fool.
you and Greta make such a cute couple...woof
not surprised for a "weekend at Bernie's" guy
Quote from: rocket surgeon on June 28, 2024, 12:35:33 AM
you and Greta make such a cute couple...woof
not surprised for a "weekend at Bernie's" guy
You had to edit that masterpiece, huh?
Quote from: Uncle Rico on June 28, 2024, 07:30:18 AM
You had to edit that masterpiece, huh?
Late to bed, early to rise, makes a rocket posts like this one, no surprise.
Quote from: rocket surgeon on June 28, 2024, 12:35:33 AM
you and Greta make such a cute couple...woof
not surprised for a "weekend at Bernie's" guy
Truly remarkable we trust peoples well being with this guy
Quote from: Hards Alumni on June 28, 2024, 07:41:23 AM
Late to bed, early to rise, makes a rocket posts like this one, no surprise.
lol
Stay off escalators at Brewers games.
Strongest July hurricane on record. Nothing to see here
Quote from: Uncle Rico on July 02, 2024, 06:53:36 AM
Strongest July hurricane on record. Nothing to see here
Warmer than ever ocean water creates the earliest Cat 5 hurricane ever.
Absolutely nothing to do with global warming, though. Just part of some deity's plan.
Quote from: MU82 on July 02, 2024, 08:04:24 AM
Warmer than ever ocean water creates the earliest Cat 5 hurricane ever.
Absolutely nothing to do with global warming, though. Just part of some deity's plan.
Earliest ever Category 4, first one EVER recorded in June.
And then it got even stronger
Quote from: MU82 on June 27, 2024, 06:55:53 AM
1 in 50 knife injuries happen while people slice avocados. Hand surgeons see these injuries so often that they have a name for it: Avocado hand.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/06/26/avocado-hand-injuries-knife/?
Back in the 80's used to be called "bagel hand". I guess people are eating healthier now.
Quote from: Plaque Lives Matter! on June 28, 2024, 02:21:11 PM
Truly remarkable we trust peoples well being with this guy
"we" ??
what would I ever do without you "we's" seriously??
I'd like to think i've done quite well without you guys and there are avenues to "police" us and I'm still standing, yeah yeah yeah
Quote from: Plaque Lives Matter! on July 02, 2024, 04:05:07 PM
Earliest ever Category 4, first one EVER recorded in June.
And then it got even stronger
"recorded' is correct, but earliest ever?? those little brown paper bags work quite well and they are biodegradable
Quote from: rocket surgeon on July 02, 2024, 07:52:53 PM
"recorded' is correct, but earliest ever?? those little brown paper bags work quite well and they are biodegradable
Yeah that's how dates and recorded history work, dumbass.
Quote from: Plaque Lives Matter! on July 03, 2024, 09:58:58 AM
Yeah that's how dates and recorded history work, dumbass.
Not to give credence to conspiracy theories, but I do think weather and climate is a bit more nuanced when they talk about recorded history.
Where for many things, including stuff like lunar patterns and phenomena, we have recorded history going back hundreds, if not thousand plus years. But for weather and meteorology, we only have a hundred, maybe a hundred fifty years.
So looking at it in the lens, the conclusions are totally fair, valid, and concerning. But people that try to frame it (intentionally or not) as WORST IN HISTORY are being disingenuous at worst and extrapolating incomplete data at best. There could have been Cat 4 Hurricanes in June blasting Magellan and his contemporaries 600 years ago, we just don't know
Quote from: JWags85 on July 03, 2024, 12:14:29 PM
Not to give credence to conspiracy theories, but I do think weather and climate is a bit more nuanced when they talk about recorded history.
Where for many things, including stuff like lunar patterns and phenomena, we have recorded history going back hundreds, if not thousand plus years. But for weather and meteorology, we only have a hundred, maybe a hundred fifty years.
So looking at it in the lens, the conclusions are totally fair, valid, and concerning. But people that try to frame it (intentionally or not) as WORST IN HISTORY are being disingenuous at worst and extrapolating incomplete data at best. There could have been Cat 4 Hurricanes in June blasting Magellan and his contemporaries 600 years ago, we just don't know
Plus, the earth is only like 6000 years old
Quote from: JWags85 on July 03, 2024, 12:14:29 PM
Not to give credence to conspiracy theories, but I do think weather and climate is a bit more nuanced when they talk about recorded history.
Where for many things, including stuff like lunar patterns and phenomena, we have recorded history going back hundreds, if not thousand plus years. But for weather and meteorology, we only have a hundred, maybe a hundred fifty years.
So looking at it in the lens, the conclusions are totally fair, valid, and concerning. But people that try to frame it (intentionally or not) as WORST IN HISTORY are being disingenuous at worst and extrapolating incomplete data at best. There could have been Cat 4 Hurricanes in June blasting Magellan and his contemporaries 600 years ago, we just don't know
Honestly it is impressive that Magellan survived the trip around Chile, given from what my friends and others who took a trip from there to Antarctica have to say about the seas.
My implication was always recorded history which in advanced weather analytics on wind speed and classification is 50 or so years. I don't think you assume hyperbole on me saying there literally has not been an earlier/stronger hurricane in the earth's existence as countless globe changing events have occurred over billions (6000) of years. If you did assume the hyperbole, then I assume concern trolling but I will give you the benefit of the doubt on that one because you are a sharp guy.
But the fact of the matter is vs 50+ years ago where accurate measuring started, the rapidity of intensification of hurricanes has materially increased (Article below outlines it well). This being the source of the alarm, as an early season hurricane that is not usually known to jump into category 4 (Or Category 5 for that matter) so rapidly and intensely. The warm water fuel is present at deeper depths earlier in the year. And it keeps happening.
You understand finance, it is about the trend and the rate of change. Cut it up into 5 year, 10 year, 20 year increments and the trend stays the same here. Increased intensity.
You and I can disagree on the level of alarmism I guess but downplaying overnight materialization of category 5 hurricanes probably would hit different if you or I lived on a Caribbean island.
https://theconversation.com/hurricane-beryls-rapid-intensification-category-5-winds-so-early-in-a-season-are-alarming-heres-why-more-tropical-storms-are-exploding-in-strength-233780
Quote from: Plaque Lives Matter! on July 03, 2024, 01:24:56 PM
Honestly it is impressive that Magellan survived the trip around Chile, given from what my friends and others who took a trip from there to Antarctica have to say about the seas.
My implication was always recorded history which in advanced weather analytics on wind speed and classification is 50 or so years. I don't think you assume hyperbole on me saying there literally has not been an earlier/stronger hurricane in the earth's existence as countless globe changing events have occurred over billions (6000) of years. If you did assume the hyperbole, then I assume concern trolling but I will give you the benefit of the doubt on that one because you are a sharp guy.
But the fact of the matter is vs 50+ years ago where accurate measuring started, the rapidity of intensification of hurricanes has materially increased (Article below outlines it well). This being the source of the alarm, as an early season hurricane that is not usually known to jump into category 4 (Or Category 5 for that matter) so rapidly and intensely. The warm water fuel is present at deeper depths earlier in the year. And it keeps happening.
You understand finance, it is about the trend and the rate of change. Cut it up into 5 year, 10 year, 20 year increments and the trend stays the same here. Increased intensity.
You and I can disagree on the level of alarmism I guess but downplaying overnight materialization of category 5 hurricanes probably would hit different if you or I lived on a Caribbean island.
https://theconversation.com/hurricane-beryls-rapid-intensification-category-5-winds-so-early-in-a-season-are-alarming-heres-why-more-tropical-storms-are-exploding-in-strength-233780
Yea I don't disagree with any of this at all. And I pushed the point you made out into the greater scope of the conversation, which I have a tendency to do here, so I didn't mean to mischaracterize your stance or your post. Just the point that a meaningful and statistically relevant conversation can be cheapened by exaggeration and hysteria that many do when it comes to climate change, using a 50-100 year period in the millions and millions of year lifespan of a planet as evidence that it will become unlivable in that same timeperiod moving forward.
That being said, I think there is a very reasonable middle ground to all of this. Even if what we are seeing over the last 50 years has happened a dozen times over the last 2000 years (and then corrected), that doesn't make the every day effects any less real. Like you said about the islands, I'm a Florida resident with an overly cautious wife, even if I think there is too much alarmism that doesn't change the very real weather changes and phenomenons that have to be paid attention to, dealt with, and survived.
Well said. Last thing we want is any scooper here hit by a life altering disaster
Even 100 years ago - let alone 1,000 and 10,000 and 100,000 years ago - humans did not develop land along the coasts anywhere near the way it is developed now.
If something equivalent to global warming happened back before such events could be scientifically recorded, they didn't have the same impact of similar events now.
For example ...
Cape Coral, Fla., a metro area jammed to the brim with about 1 million people that was devastated by Hurricane Ian in 2022, had 17,000 residents in 1950. Had a similar event occurred then, it would have affected relatively few.
So what metric will tell us we no longer have to spend billions to solve climate change?
Quote from: muwarrior69 on July 07, 2024, 12:02:59 PM
So what metric will tell us we no longer have to spend billions to solve climate change?
Climate change isn't going to be "solved." It needs to be managed. And investing in technologies that can help with that is something similar to what governments have done pretty much since governments were invented.
IMO this is money much better spent than the nonsense of sending people back to the Moon.
Quote from: muwarrior69 on July 07, 2024, 12:02:59 PM
So what metric will tell us we no longer have to spend billions to solve climate change?
What metric will tell us that it's safe to ignore the trillions of dollars and countless lives that climate change is costing?
Quote from: The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole on July 07, 2024, 12:10:22 PM
Climate change isn't going to be "solved." It needs to be managed. And investing in technologies that can help with that is something similar to what governments have done pretty much since governments were invented.
IMO this is money much better spent than the nonsense of sending people back to the Moon.
There must be some way to measure how well climate is being managed?
Quote from: muwarrior69 on July 07, 2024, 12:52:49 PM
There must be some way to measure how well climate is being managed?
I would guess temperature.
Quote from: muwarrior69 on July 07, 2024, 12:52:49 PM
There must be some way to measure how well climate is being managed?
Temperature
Ice melt
Oceans rise
Condition of reefs
PFAS in the water
Health of our streams and rivers. Would you.eat a fish caught in a local river?
Air quality
Birth defects
Cancer rates
Hurricane intensity in June
Species die off
So many. Which do you like?
Quote from: tower912 on July 07, 2024, 01:10:16 PM
Temperature
Ice melt
Oceans rise
Condition of reefs
PFAS in the water
Health of our streams and rivers. Would you.eat a fish caught in a local river?
Air quality
Birth defects
Cancer rates
Hurricane intensity in June
Species die off
So many. Which do you like?
Well sea levels and temperatures have been rising over the last 20000 years. The Great lakes which were solid ice took their form as we know them today some 8000 years ago and the glaciers have been melting for a long time. Lots of species have gone extinct so there is nothing unnatural about that. Are you telling me there are no good places to fish? Many people fish along the Delaware where I live.
PFAS, Birth defects, cancer rates and air quality have more to do with pollution than climate.
Pollution and climate are related.
Quote from: muwarrior69 on July 07, 2024, 01:43:58 PM
Well sea levels and temperatures have been rising over the last 20000 years.
How do you know?
Quote from: muwarrior69 on July 07, 2024, 01:43:58 PM
The Great lakes which were solid ice took their form as we know them today some 8000 years ago and the glaciers have been melting for a long time.
How do you know?
Quote from: muwarrior69 on July 07, 2024, 01:43:58 PM
Are you telling me there are no good places to fish? Many people fish along the Delaware where I live.
Anecdote ... ipso fatso, all water supplies have been unaffected by human-caused climate change.
Quote from: muwarrior69 on July 07, 2024, 12:02:59 PM
So what metric will tell us we no longer have to spend billions to solve climate change?
We should spend more on climate change than we spend on enforcing Christifascist laws assaulting women's reproductive rights. That's my baseline
Quote from: muwarrior69 on July 07, 2024, 01:43:58 PM
Lots of species have gone extinct so there is nothing unnatural about that.
I've had a bloody noses before so there's nothing unnatural about s***ing blood
This belongs in the 2012 Doom thread. In 2024? Who cares, nothing is private anyhow.
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/12/att-breach-hack-mobile-customers
The lengths those just-in-it-for-the-money climate scientists will go to keep up the charade!
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/07/june-2024-earths-13th-consecutive-warmest-month-on-record/
June 2024 was Earth's warmest June since global record-keeping began in 1850 and was the planet's 13th consecutive warmest month on record, NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, or NCEI, reported July 12. As opposed to being focused in one region or another, the record heat was unusually widespread, with 14.5% of the world's surface experiencing record heat – beating the previous June record set in 2023 by 7.4%.
(https://images2.imgbox.com/54/35/eHF2px9v_o.png) (https://imgbox.com/eHF2px9v)
Quote from: TSmith34, Inc. on July 14, 2024, 11:45:02 AM
The lengths those just-in-it-for-the-money climate scientists will go to keep up the charade!
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/07/june-2024-earths-13th-consecutive-warmest-month-on-record/
June 2024 was Earth's warmest June since global record-keeping began in 1850 and was the planet's 13th consecutive warmest month on record, NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, or NCEI, reported July 12. As opposed to being focused in one region or another, the record heat was unusually widespread, with 14.5% of the world's surface experiencing record heat – beating the previous June record set in 2023 by 7.4%.
(https://images2.imgbox.com/54/35/eHF2px9v_o.png) (https://imgbox.com/eHF2px9v)
Need more data, best wait another 100 years
Quote from: TSmith34, Inc. on July 14, 2024, 11:45:02 AM
The lengths those just-in-it-for-the-money climate scientists will go to keep up the charade!
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/07/june-2024-earths-13th-consecutive-warmest-month-on-record/
June 2024 was Earth's warmest June since global record-keeping began in 1850 and was the planet's 13th consecutive warmest month on record, NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, or NCEI, reported July 12. As opposed to being focused in one region or another, the record heat was unusually widespread, with 14.5% of the world's surface experiencing record heat – beating the previous June record set in 2023 by 7.4%.
(https://images2.imgbox.com/54/35/eHF2px9v_o.png) (https://imgbox.com/eHF2px9v)
Those poor people living in Patagonia.
Days are longer because of man-made climate change
https://phys.org/news/2024-07-climate-earth-rotation.html
Thanks, boomers
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/global-outage-intl-hnk#h_4a0881c4642bcdaa8ba2dda1d3dcac4f (https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/global-outage-intl-hnk#h_4a0881c4642bcdaa8ba2dda1d3dcac4f)
Quote from: lawdog77 on July 19, 2024, 05:28:56 AM
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/global-outage-intl-hnk#h_4a0881c4642bcdaa8ba2dda1d3dcac4f (https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/global-outage-intl-hnk#h_4a0881c4642bcdaa8ba2dda1d3dcac4f)
Yet Scoop chugs along.
After the nuclear war, all that will be left are cockroaches posting to Scoop.
Quote from: The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole on July 19, 2024, 05:35:38 AM
Yet Scoop chugs along.
After the nuclear war, all that will be left are cockroaches posting to Scoop.
So, a typical game thread
Quote from: lawdog77 on July 19, 2024, 06:06:34 AM
So, a typical game thread
Not sure I'd compliment the game thread like that
There are places even cockroaches fear.
We better get our act together. Scoopers have mentioned our cyber security issues for quite some time.
Quote from: MuggsyB on July 19, 2024, 06:47:27 AM
We better get our act together. Scoopers have mentioned our cyber security issues for quite some time.
I think it's great. I've gotten so many Ugg boots at a steal of a price.
Quote from: cheebs09 on July 19, 2024, 07:07:42 AM
I think it's great. I've gotten so many Ugg boots at a steal of a price.
It hasn't helped Marquette get more applicants, however
Quote from: The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole on July 19, 2024, 05:35:38 AM
Yet Scoop chugs along.
After the nuclear war, all that will be left are cockroaches posting to Scoop.
joyless willie will keep posting about piles of dung as if nothing happened - he already lives in a bunker.
Quote from: MU82 on July 19, 2024, 07:51:21 AM
joyless willie will keep posting about piles of dung as if nothing happened - he already lives in a bunker.
He posts about dung so much, it makes you wonder if he actually is a cockroach. 🤔🤔🤔
https://www.yahoo.com/news/103-earthquakes-one-week-whats-201507620.html
Drill baby drill!
Does RDJr as Dr. Doom in Avengers Doomsday belong in this thread?
Quote from: MU Fan in Connecticut on July 30, 2024, 01:30:18 PM
Does RDJr as Dr. Doom in Avengers Doomsday belong in this thread?
No I think that's in the multiverse daily doom thread since he's from earth-838. This doom thread is about our primary universe, Earth 616.
You've got to be Fracking kidding me!
Voted in the local primary today. Had to, while I still can.
People are going start hanging out on Florida beaches during hurricanes. You never know when a million dollars worth of cocaine is going to blow in.
Monkeypox on the balls Doom.
"Unlike in previous mpox outbreaks, where lesions were mostly seen on the chest, hands and feet, the new form causes milder symptoms and lesions on the genitals. That makes it harder to spot, meaning people might also sicken others without knowing they're infected."
https://apnews.com/article/who-mpox-africa-health-emergency-cc9bdf31b49d06bec5efd44fb55d5e42
Quote from: Plaque Lives Matter! on August 14, 2024, 03:35:43 PM
Monkeypox on the balls Doom.
"Unlike in previous mpox outbreaks, where lesions were mostly seen on the chest, hands and feet, the new form causes milder symptoms and lesions on the genitals. That makes it harder to spot, meaning people might also sicken others without knowing they're infected."
https://apnews.com/article/who-mpox-africa-health-emergency-cc9bdf31b49d06bec5efd44fb55d5e42
In a related story, Brad Davison has monkeypox on his hands.
Quote from: MU Fan in Connecticut on July 30, 2024, 01:30:18 PM
Does RDJr as Dr. Doom in Avengers Doomsday belong in this thread?
Is he Dr. Doom DDS? If so, I think he probably belongs in the Dental Crime thread.
Quote from: Plaque Lives Matter! on August 14, 2024, 03:35:43 PM
Monkeypox on the balls Doom.
"Unlike in previous mpox outbreaks, where lesions were mostly seen on the chest, hands and feet, the new form causes milder symptoms and lesions on the genitals. That makes it harder to spot, meaning people might also sicken others without knowing they're infected."
https://apnews.com/article/who-mpox-africa-health-emergency-cc9bdf31b49d06bec5efd44fb55d5e42
It might just be me, but if I had lesions on my jewels, I would get that checked out before a lesion on my foot.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/21/microplastics-brain-pollution-health
Microplastic doom
Several Milwaukee-area private schools are closed today due to extreme heat.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2024/08/26/milwaukee-school-closings-today-excessive-heat-cancels-classes/74949832007/
Several West Michigan public schools are closed due to the heat.
Fighting Sexual Temptation? Play Badminton, Hong Kong Tells Teenagers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/26/world/asia/hong-kong-sex-education-badminton.html?
A 15-year-old girl and her boyfriend are studying alone together on a hot summer day when she removes her jacket and clings to his shoulder. What should he do?
In Hong Kong, the authorities advise the young man to continue studying or to seek a diversion, including badminton, to avoid premarital sex and other "intimate behaviors."
Critics, including lawmakers and sex educators, say that the Chinese territory's new sex education materials are regressive. But top officials are not backing down, and the standoff is getting kind of awkward.
Hong Kong teenagers find it all pretty amusing. A few said on social media that the officials behind the policy have their "heads in the clouds." Others have worked it into sexual slang, talking about "friends with badminton" instead of "friends with benefits."
To avoid temptation, beat a shuttlecock.
Quote from: MU82 on August 27, 2024, 06:39:21 AM
Several Milwaukee-area private schools are closed today due to extreme heat.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2024/08/26/milwaukee-school-closings-today-excessive-heat-cancels-classes/74949832007/
Texas already figured this out silly!
https://x.com/jaredlpatterson/status/1827881552287617382?s=46&t=G2FhP_F2kWewaBOpvRv5lg
If you have your life together and worry for nothing, sorry to tell you: Venomous sea worms are washing up on Texas beaches, and, if touched, they'll make you feel like your skin is on fire.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/08/28/fire-bristle-worm-amphinome-rostrata/?
The bristle worms — known to scientists as Amphinome rostrata — have recently found themselves along the Texas coast, according to the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. A scientist at the institute who found one said he hasn't seen them in three to four years.
An April 14 Facebook post from the Institute calmly laid out the situation: "WARNING!!! Your worst nightmares are washing up right now in the form of fireworms!"
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/ZF4NKGSM5FGNJMML6VVRW3QXLA.jpg&w=500)
don't buy a pager in Lebanon
Quote from: Spotcheck Billy on September 17, 2024, 04:34:59 PM
don't buy a pager in Lebanon
This is kind of incredible because I have read that these devices had to have been manipulated in some way. A normal pager can't explode in this way. So were they manipulated and distributed early on? Recently?
Quote from: The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole on September 17, 2024, 07:28:57 PM
This is kind of incredible because I have read that these devices had to have been manipulated in some way. A normal pager can't explode in this way. So were they manipulated and distributed early on? Recently?
There's more news on it now. Israelis intercepted a shipment from Taiwan and inserted explosives before distributed to Hezbollah terrorists.
Probably not Doom but don't forget the Supermoon / partial lunar eclipse tonight.
Quote from: MU Fan in Connecticut on September 17, 2024, 07:38:39 PM
There's more news on it now. Israelis intercepted a shipment from Taiwan and inserted explosives before distributed to Hezbollah terrorists.
Israeli intelligence is indeed intelligent.
Quote from: Lennys Tap on September 17, 2024, 09:03:36 PM
Israeli intelligence is indeed intelligent.
Seems like they can operate with pinpoint precision. Hmmmm
One benefit of climate change:
Tower will have an opportunity for seafront property in Michigan
Quote from: MU Fan in Connecticut on September 17, 2024, 07:38:39 PM
There's more news on it now. Israelis intercepted a shipment from Taiwan and inserted explosives before distributed to Hezbollah terrorists.
Thank you. I was able to read up on it further. That seems like an enormous oversight on Hezbollah's part. Israel has been very public about its support of Taiwan over the last year or so. One would think that this would have raised red flags about the thousands of pagers that they ordered from the country. Did they not think to open at least one of them up?
Quote from: The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole on September 18, 2024, 07:55:20 AM
Thank you. I was able to read up on it further. That seems like an enormous oversight on Hezbollah's part. Israel has been very public about its support of Taiwan over the last year or so. One would think that this would have raised red flags about the thousands of pagers that they ordered from the country. Did they not think to open at least one of them up?
Sounds like the pagers were made in Hungary, on license from a Taiwanese company.
Quote from: MU Fan in Connecticut on September 18, 2024, 08:13:32 AM
Sounds like the pagers were made in Hungary, on license from a Taiwanese company.
And Orban is probably Israel's biggest ally in Europe.
Again, this feels like a huge oversight. The leader telling people to stay off their phones, and then bulk ordering pagers from a Taiwanese company and manufactured in Hungary. And no one thought they could be a security risk?
So not only have you injured and marked nearly all the operatives in Lebanon, but you have destroyed their primary means to communicate with one another.
Just wait until they try to use their rotary phones, typewriters, and VHS players.
Quote from: The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole on September 18, 2024, 08:17:47 AM
And Orban is probably Israel's biggest ally in Europe.
Again, this feels like a huge oversight. The leader telling people to stay off their phones, and then bulk ordering pagers from a Taiwanese company and manufactured in Hungary. And no one thought they could be a security risk?
So not only have you injured and marked nearly all the operatives in Lebanon, but you have destroyed their primary means to communicate with one another.
Sounds like
The Atlantic is reading your mind.
Israel's Strategic WinA spectacular attack on Hezbollah is the latest development in the ongoing war between Iranian proxies and the Jewish state.
By Eliot A. Cohen
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/09/israels-strategic-win/679918/
Quote from: The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole on September 18, 2024, 08:17:47 AM
So not only have you injured and marked nearly all the operatives in Lebanon...
Reminds me of the old Irish saying:
May those who love us, love us.
And those that don't love us,
May God turn their hearts.
And if He doesn't turn their hearts,
May he turn their ankles,
So we'll know them by their limping.
Quote from: Lennys Tap on September 17, 2024, 09:03:36 PM
Israeli intelligence is indeed intelligent.
Well, except for 10/7
Quote from: Uncle Rico on September 18, 2024, 05:00:36 PM
Netanyahu got what he wanted
'Bout time his investment in Hamas paid dividends.
Upcoming dockworker strike. Will this adfect my ability to get my fentanyl?
Prosecutors say evidence clears him. He's set to be executed today.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/24/marcellus-williams-execution-missouri-faq/
All life matters, though.
EDIT: The execution went through. When he is exonerated in a couple/few years, it will be little solace.
Quote from: MU82 on September 24, 2024, 08:34:47 AM
Prosecutors say evidence clears him. He's set to be executed today.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/24/marcellus-williams-execution-missouri-faq/
All life matters, though.
EDIT: The execution went through. When he is exonerated in a couple/few years, it will be little solace.
He's basically been exonerated, but the court system doesn't care. And the MO governor is a POS for ignoring the stay.
And overall, we are a barbaric country for still using the death penalty.
Can't be a good Catholic and pro death penalty.
Sometimes, when it comes to that, I am not a good Catholic.
Quote from: Hards Alumni on September 25, 2024, 01:12:13 PM
He's basically been exonerated, but the court system doesn't care. And the MO governor is a POS for ignoring the stay.
And overall, we are a barbaric country for still using the death penalty.
Good thing Brit Reid was pardoned tho
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4896585-texas-gas-manipulation-lawsuit-uri/
Huh
Incompetence doom
https://www.sfgate.com/cannabis/article/lapd-cannabis-mri-raid-19789448.php
Actual doom
https://x.com/nytimes/status/1839741893749465495?s=46&t=G2FhP_F2kWewaBOpvRv5lg
:(
https://x.com/nypost/status/1845563399079411912?s=46&t=G2FhP_F2kWewaBOpvRv5lg
Quote from: Plaque Lives Matter! on October 13, 2024, 05:40:50 PM
:(
https://x.com/nypost/status/1845563399079411912?s=46&t=G2FhP_F2kWewaBOpvRv5lg
lol. They're mad because they call it "fall mini-break?" Even the people who are upset over "Happy Holidays" think that's a bit much.
Probably fine
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/inside-the-bungled-bird-flu-response
Probably fine too
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/climate-set-warm-by-31-c-without-greater-action-un-report-warns-2024-10-24/
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on October 24, 2024, 03:57:16 PM
Probably fine too
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/climate-set-warm-by-31-c-without-greater-action-un-report-warns-2024-10-24/
Excellent. More lakefront property will be available
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on October 24, 2024, 03:57:16 PM
Probably fine too
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/climate-set-warm-by-31-c-without-greater-action-un-report-warns-2024-10-24/
We are not a serious country
Quote from: jesmu84 on October 24, 2024, 05:24:52 PM
We are not a serious country
.
Its an article about a global situation by a Canadian news source and your inclination is immediately fault the US? That's a bit myopic and self-flagellating.
Quote from: JWags85 on October 24, 2024, 07:26:41 PM
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Its an article about a global situation by a Canadian news source and your inclination is immediately fault the US? That's a bit myopic and self-flagellating.
Can't trust those hoser news sources, eh?
Probably all whacked out on poutine and Molsons.
Quote from: JWags85 on October 24, 2024, 07:26:41 PM
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Its an article about a global situation by a Canadian news source and your inclination is immediately fault the US? That's a bit myopic and self-flagellating.
I can't cop to being myopic.
But I love self-flagellation
Sincerely though, the US should be leading in this area.
US is #2 global emitter with #1 installing more renewables than the rest of the world combined? Yeah it's probably fine to criticize the US when companies are trending in the opposite direction due to AI investment.
Eric Schmidt's solution was to "ask the AI" because otherwise it's too late.
Quote from: Plaque Lives Matter! on October 24, 2024, 09:03:03 PM
US is #2 global emitter with #1 installing more renewables than the rest of the world combined? Yeah it's probably fine to criticize the US when companies are trending in the opposite direction due to AI investment.
Eric Schmidt's solution was to "ask the AI" because otherwise it's too late.
Yet China still experienced record emissions growth last year, did they not?
Listen, I know this is your space so I'm not trying to have a gotcha moment. And I'm not a climate change denier. I'm just of the mentality that true shifts for the positive will be due to technological changes on a global scale that make clean energy cheaper and a no brainer. Performative individual measures are just that.
Ive seen the pollution in India and China first hand, been multiple times in each where you were highly advised not to go outside cause the air quality was so bad. Until stuff like that is severely mitigated and not just a continuing trend in the future (Ive been to 4 major Indian metros, including their supposed tech hub, the idea that there is a true push there to be green and meaningfully reverse their emissions profile anytime soon is just vaporware) , I have mild issues with being like "Americans are so selfish and awful" cause they aren't all driving electric cars and taking public transportation. Its not excusing away current policy, its just pushing back on some people's need to always view American habits and policy as uniquely horrible. The US is second to China in renewables installed, right?
(Not trying to specifically shade Jesu, but I don't think he'd necessarily disagree with being characterized as doing the latter ;D)
Quote from: JWags85 on October 25, 2024, 08:05:19 AM
Yet China still experienced record emissions growth last year, did they not?
Listen, I know this is your space so I'm not trying to have a gotcha moment. And I'm not a climate change denier. I'm just of the mentality that true shifts for the positive will be due to technological changes on a global scale that make clean energy cheaper and a no brainer. Performative individual measures are just that.
Ive seen the pollution in India and China first hand, been multiple times in each where you were highly advised not to go outside cause the air quality was so bad. Until stuff like that is severely mitigated and not just a continuing trend in the future (Ive been to 4 major Indian metros, including their supposed tech hub, the idea that there is a true push there to be green and meaningfully reverse their emissions profile anytime soon is just vaporware) , I have mild issues with being like "Americans are so selfish and awful" cause they aren't all driving electric cars and taking public transportation. Its not excusing away current policy, its just pushing back on some people's need to always view American habits and policy as uniquely horrible. The US is second to China in renewables installed, right?
(Not trying to specifically shade Jesu, but I don't think he'd necessarily disagree with being characterized as doing the latter ;D)
You're not too far off.
I agree that even if the US is net zero (or even negative), we likely won't change the global scale of change.
My frustration is that mindset leading to arguments that we shouldn't do much.
IMO, instead, the US should be pushing development of tech that would lead to that cheap clean energy you discuss. We could approach this like a moon landing or highway system or other national project. Use carrots and sticks.
Instead, groups that would see their currently entrenched bottom lines threatened push against any significant advancement. Combine that with everything needing to be a political wedge issue and it seems to always be 1 step forward and 1 step back.
Btw - public transit would be great for a lot of reasons, but I'm not sure how much better it would be for climate change. Same with EVs. Start with energy generation/production and go from there.
Yeah my frustration lies with a lot of these companies being at the forefront of the green operations movement then when the next big thing (bubble?) arrives it's abandoned immediately.
It's also why I'm super cynical about corporate ESG initiatives because it's abandoned when it becomes inconvenient
Planet-warming pollution is growing at the fastest rate in history, scientists say
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/10/28/wmo-report-record-greenhouse-gases/?
Planet-warming pollution in Earth's atmosphere last year hit the highest levels in human history, scientists announced Monday — a worrying indicator of the world's failure to curb climate change as global temperatures are on track to hit yet another record high.
Concentrations of carbon dioxide — the most important driver of global warming — are now growing faster than at any time since our species evolved, according to the World Meteorological Organization's annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. The increase can be traced back to stubbornly high rates of fossil fuel consumption, the report said, as well as ecosystems that are becoming more likely to produce emissions and potentially less capable of absorbing excess carbon.
Levels of the potent greenhouse gases methane and nitrous oxide also hit all-time highs in 2023, the WMO said. The total heat-trapping potential of the atmosphere is now 51.5 percent higher than in 1990, when United Nations scientists first warned the world was on track for catastrophic climate change.
Washington Post: Most of the country can expect less snow than usual this winter.
Why? It's a continuation of a decades-long trend — as the world has warmed, most places have had less snow. Today's children won't remember winter the way their parents do.
I feel bad for the ski resort operators. However, I am on a streak of golfing in Michigan 34 of the last 36 months.
Quote from: tower912 on November 13, 2024, 10:10:01 AMI feel bad for the ski resort operators. However, I am on a streak of golfing in Michigan 34 of the last 36 months.
Northern Wisconsin businesses can't afford another winter like last. Not feasible. Hoping they get lots of snow or they'll have to learn how to code
Michigan has the same issues.
Quote from: tower912 on November 13, 2024, 10:10:01 AMI feel bad for the ski resort operators.
Ski resort by me opened 10 days early! And got > 20" of snow last week.
Though I'm not gonna go all rocket and claim all is normal.
Quote from: rocky_warrior on November 13, 2024, 10:19:41 AMSki resort by me opened 10 days early! And got > 20" of snow last week.
Though I'm not gonna go all rocket and claim all is normal.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/comment/atlantic-current-collapse
TBF, this includes science so Rocket will dismiss it
Quote from: Uncle Rico on November 13, 2024, 10:49:14 AMTBF, this includes science so Rocket will dism
I dismiss it for using "thousand billion" instead of trillion.
I know no politics...but almost every appointment announced today/yesterday is a dose of doom.
Quote from: JakeBarnes on November 13, 2024, 03:42:49 PMI know no politics...but almost every appointment announced today/yesterday is a dose of doom.
Me scheduling my first prostate exam
Excellent timing.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/measles-cases-rose-10-million-2023-cdc-say-rcna180165
Quote from: Pakuni on November 15, 2024, 07:35:04 AMExcellent timing.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/measles-cases-rose-10-million-2023-cdc-say-rcna180165
What's the big deal?
Bring back measles! Rubella, polio and smallpox, too! And get rid of autism in the process. Win-win.
Quote from: MU82 on November 15, 2024, 11:30:47 AMBring back measles! Rubella, polio and smallpox, too! And get rid of autism in the process. Win-win.
If we all pray, we can eradicate those diseases anyway, in place of vaccines.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going
We are the dumbest country and, to no one's surprise, Florida is leading the way.
https://www.wfla.com/news/polk-county/winter-haven-commissioners-vote-to-remove-fluoride-from-water-citing-rfk-jr/
Quote from: Pakuni on November 15, 2024, 04:31:14 PMWe are the dumbest country and, to no one's surprise, Florida is leading the way.
https://www.wfla.com/news/polk-county/winter-haven-commissioners-vote-to-remove-fluoride-from-water-citing-rfk-jr/
No need for science or data, just vibes.
Hope everyone has dental insurance and enjoys their $100 fluoride treatment once every six months!
Quote from: Pakuni on November 15, 2024, 04:31:14 PMWe are the dumbest country and, to no one's surprise, Florida is leading the way.
https://www.wfla.com/news/polk-county/winter-haven-commissioners-vote-to-remove-fluoride-from-water-citing-rfk-jr/
Just pray. Prayer will solve all their answers. And dentures, but prayer mostly
Politics
Quote from: JakeBarnes on November 13, 2024, 03:42:49 PMI know no politics...but almost every appointment announced today/yesterday is a dose of doom.
So..Politics
Fight about the election somewhere where it's allowed - assuming policy hasn't changed here.
Quote from: Hards Alumni on November 15, 2024, 04:34:21 PMNo need for science or data, just vibes.
Hope everyone has dental insurance and enjoys their $100 fluoride treatment once every six months!
Probably should move this to the investing thread. Incredible opportunity to get in early on companies involved with the dental and oral surgery community
Quote from: Hards Alumni on November 15, 2024, 04:34:21 PMNo need for science or data, just vibes.
Hope everyone has dental insurance and enjoys their $100 fluoride treatment once every six months!
ACT mouthwash, if anyone lives in a backwards state.
And if you want to aim for a discount at your dentist, consider licking their fingers. Dentists like that.
Quote from: Hards Alumni on November 15, 2024, 04:34:21 PMNo need for science or data, just vibes.
Hope everyone has dental insurance and enjoys their $100 fluoride treatment once every six months!
Come on, 43 million people in the USA is rural on wells. No fluoride in them. Brush regularly with a good fluoride toothpaste and you are fine.
Quote from: NCMUFan on November 15, 2024, 07:32:30 PMCome on, 43 million people in the USA is rural on wells. No fluoride in them. Brush regularly with a good fluoride toothpaste and you are fine.
Imagine being so beholden to the tribe that you find yourself defending such inanity.
Quote from: NCMUFan on November 15, 2024, 07:32:30 PMCome on, 43 million people in the USA is rural on wells. No fluoride in them. Brush regularly with a good fluoride toothpaste and you are fine.
Have you seen their teeth?
Missouri officers accused of pulling over women, searching phones for nude pictures
https://apnews.com/article/missouri-officers-indicted-nude-photos-7f489530022d7b7664c9567ecbd4cb9b?
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Two Missouri police officers were indicted separately this week and accused of similar crimes — pulling over women and searching their phones to find nude photos.
The indictments of former Missouri State Highway Patrol officer David McKnight on Tuesday and former Florissant, Missouri, officer Julian Alcala on Wednesday were unrelated, but the indictments spelled out similar allegations. Both men face federal charges accusing them of depriving the rights of several women, and destroying evidence.
McKnight, 39, victimized nine women between September 2023 and Aug. 19, his indictment said. Typically, according to the indictment, he would pull over a woman for a traffic violation and tell her he needed to look at her phone to either verify identity or confirm insurance coverage.
McKnight searched the phones and used his own phone to photograph nude pictures he found, the indictment said.
Quote from: MU82 on November 15, 2024, 09:47:32 PMHave you seen their teeth?
https://www.dentistryforchildrenstl.com/blog/2017/02/well-water-and-fluoride-supplements-facts#:~:text=However%2C%20well%20water%20does%20not,but%20precautions%20should%20be%20taken.
However, well water does not contain fluoride. Thus, when parents come in for a check up with their children, the question is often asked: "Should we be using fluoride supplements?"
That answer is a yes, but precautions should be taken.
Fluoride is introduced into community water for a reason— it works! It is proven to reduce tooth decay among communities by 20 to 40%. So it's definitely helpful, and if you're not using a municipal water source then you and your children's dental health is at risk. Using fluoridated toothpaste is a common and effective topical solution to this problem.
Quote from: Pakuni on November 15, 2024, 08:22:41 PMImagine being so beholden to the tribe that you find yourself defending such inanity.
https://www.dentistryforchildrenstl.com/blog/2017/02/well-water-and-fluoride-supplements-facts#:~:text=However%2C%20well%20water%20does%20not,but%20precautions%20should%20be%20taken.
However, well water does not contain fluoride. Thus, when parents come in for a check up with their children, the question is often asked: "Should we be using fluoride supplements?"
That answer is a yes, but precautions should be taken.
Fluoride is introduced into community water for a reason— it works! It is proven to reduce tooth decay among communities by 20 to 40%. So it's definitely helpful, and if you're not using a municipal water source then you and your children's dental health is at risk. Using fluoridated toothpaste is a common and effective topical solution to this problem.
Quote from: MU82 on November 13, 2024, 10:03:31 AMWashington Post: Most of the country can expect less snow than usual this winter.
Why? It's a continuation of a decades-long trend — as the world has warmed, most places have had less snow. Today's children won't remember winter the way their parents do.
here we go again-every time something veers from what we know or experience during our time or even what we can remember-TA-DA!! global blah blah!!
then, when we get 3 feet of snow dumped on us,,,TA DA! global blah blah!!
heads i win tails you lose baby
lake michigan shrunk to some of it's lowest levels a few, yes a few years ago-TA DA!! global blah blah
lake michigan gained back all that lost water and...you guessed it...
now the hurricanes...TA DA!! global...earthquakes anyone? my bowel movements changed...
yes, the climate changes day to day, year to year, and it sure did when the tyrannis saurus rex was king too and las time i checked, there weren't many pollution spewing smoke stacks, but those damn dinosaurs exhaled too much CO2...damn them
Quote from: rocket surgeon on November 16, 2024, 06:41:23 AMhere we go again-every time something veers from what we know or experience during our time or even what we can remember-TA-DA!! global blah blah!!
then, when we get 3 feet of snow dumped on us,,,TA DA! global blah blah!!
heads i win tails you lose baby
lake michigan shrunk to some of it's lowest levels a few, yes a few years ago-TA DA!! global blah blah
lake michigan gained back all that lost water and...you guessed it...
now the hurricanes...TA DA!! global...earthquakes anyone? my bowel movements changed...
yes, the climate changes day to day, year to year, and it sure did when the tyrannis saurus rex was king too and las time i checked, there weren't many pollution spewing smoke stacks, but those damn dinosaurs exhaled too much CO2...damn them
Dinosaurs went extinct from smoking
Quote from: NCMUFan on November 16, 2024, 06:27:12 AMhttps://www.dentistryforchildrenstl.com/blog/2017/02/well-water-and-fluoride-supplements-facts#:~:text=However%2C%20well%20water%20does%20not,but%20precautions%20should%20be%20taken.
However, well water does not contain fluoride. Thus, when parents come in for a check up with their children, the question is often asked: "Should we be using fluoride supplements?"
That answer is a yes, but precautions should be taken.
Fluoride is introduced into community water for a reason— it works! It is proven to reduce tooth decay among communities by 20 to 40%. So it's definitely helpful, and if you're not using a municipal water source then you and your children's dental health is at risk. Using fluoridated toothpaste is a common and effective topical solution to this problem.
I have well water at my homeand the pediatrician recommended fluoride supplements between ages x and y (I don't remember the range.) for my kids which we did.
I remember grammar school in the he late 70's early 70's. Once a month was fluoride day and the nurse would send a tray of Dixie cups with fluoride water and the whole class would have a timed mouth swish.
Quote from: MU Fan in Connecticut on November 16, 2024, 07:55:44 AMI have well water at my homeand the pediatrician recommended fluoride supplements between ages x and y (I don't remember the range.) for my kids which we did.
I remember grammar school in the he late 70's early 70's. Once a month was fluoride day and the nurse would send a tray of Dixie cups with fluoride water and the whole class would have a timed mouth swish.
Thanks for poisoning your kids
Quote from: MU Fan in Connecticut on November 16, 2024, 07:55:44 AMI have well water at my homeand the pediatrician recommended fluoride supplements between ages x and y (I don't remember the range.) for my kids which we did.
I remember grammar school in the he late 70's early 70's. Once a month was fluoride day and the nurse would send a tray of Dixie cups with fluoride water and the whole class would have a timed mouth swish.
To be fair there have been a lot of advances in science since then that have made a lot of people turn into idiots.
Quote from: ATL MU Warrior on November 16, 2024, 07:59:55 AMTo be fair there have been a lot of advances in science since then that have made a lot of people turn into idiots.
Just think what AI will do.
Quote from: NCMUFan on November 16, 2024, 08:47:22 AMJust think what AI will do.
It will change the way we learn and problem solve, but just like every emergent technology some will use it more effectively than others and be regarded as leaders/geniuses.
The big risk of AI is not in intelligence/learning, it is in the potential for societal upheaval (by its very nature), and societal/political upheaval by its manipulation/misuse.
But think, when we all have calculators, we'll forget math!
Quote from: Skatastrophy on November 16, 2024, 10:55:29 AMBut think, when we all have calculators, we'll forget math!
In all honesty, calculators were more disruptive (negatively) to peoples math ability than AI will be for learning and knowledge. AI employed properly in learning/problem solving is more likely to enhance learning/problem solving than detract from it.
Quote from: rocket surgeon on November 16, 2024, 06:41:23 AMhere we go again-every time something veers from what we know or experience during our time or even what we can remember-TA-DA!! global blah blah!!
then, when we get 3 feet of snow dumped on us,,,TA DA! global blah blah!!
heads i win tails you lose baby
lake michigan shrunk to some of it's lowest levels a few, yes a few years ago-TA DA!! global blah blah
lake michigan gained back all that lost water and...you guessed it...
now the hurricanes...TA DA!! global...earthquakes anyone? my bowel movements changed...
yes, the climate changes day to day, year to year, and it sure did when the tyrannis saurus rex was king too and las time i checked, there weren't many pollution spewing smoke stacks, but those damn dinosaurs exhaled too much CO2...damn them
here we go again-health professional sez science is stoopid blah blah blah
Quote from: MU82 on November 16, 2024, 11:17:14 AMhere we go again-health professional sez science is stoopid blah blah blah
Rocket isn't very smart.
Airbnb's gladiator experience at the Colosseum leads to outcry in Rome
The vacation-rental company is promising armor, swordfights and "victuals" to a chosen few.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/11/16/airbnb-colosseum-gladitor-rome/?
Airbnb dangled an unusual possibility this week for fans of history, shields and very long movies: "Suit up and unleash your inner gladiator inside Rome's legendary arena."
The company is offering a chance for a small number of people to follow in the footsteps of fighters and various beasts — with a less bloody outcome — as part of an "exclusive gladiator experience" at the Colosseum that doubles as a promotion for the upcoming film "Gladiator II."
"For the first time in nearly 2,000 years, the Colosseum returns to its original purpose as a venue for performances, inviting daring warriors to step foot inside the historic arena to forge their own paths and shape their destinies," the announcement says. It promises the spectacle of a "thrilling showdown" by seasoned gladiators, a meal of "victuals like grapes, pomegranates, almonds, and walnuts," and a faceoff with "fellow warriors."
To some, those were fighting words.
"We can't turn one of the world's most important monuments into a theme park," wrote Massimiliano Smeriglio, Rome's councillor for culture, in an Instagram post, as translated by the social media site. Other culture officials sounded similar alarms in media reports.
Finally ... the perfect vacation for Muggsy!
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/oarfish-doomsday-day-encinitas-california-shore-b2648263.html
Quote from: Uncle Rico on November 19, 2024, 07:28:25 AMhttps://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/oarfish-doomsday-day-encinitas-california-shore-b2648263.html
Can't think of a more perfect post for this thread.
Quote from: TallTitan34 on November 19, 2024, 08:26:30 AMCan't think of a more perfect post for this thread.
Nature is always talking to us. We usually don't listen.
QuotePubs across the UK are having to ration pints of Guinness amid a national shortage of the iconic Irish stout ahead of Christmas.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/guinness-shortage-pubs-christmas-dry-b2664945.html
https://apnews.com/article/nuclear-bunkers-war-atomic-bombs-0356fa5b34067c138c64b9143f73c308
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on November 19, 2015, 10:06:22 AMhttp://www.bbc.com/news/health-34857015
Bacteria becoming completely resistant to treatment - also known as the antibiotic apocalypse - could plunge medicine back into the dark ages.
Whew! Won't have to worry about ISIS in about 5 years.
Good call
Quote from: warriorchick on October 01, 2016, 11:23:36 PMWell, to be fair, we are way overdue for a major pandemic. And 10 million (less than .2% of the world's population) is nothing compared to the deaths associated with the Spanish Flu or the Bubonic Plague.
Good call
https://nypost.com/2018/02/21/china-cracks-down-on-funeral-strippers/
Different strokes for different folks.
They were probably well attended.
Quote from: NCMUFan on December 22, 2024, 07:52:05 AMDifferent strokes for different folks.
They were probably well attended.
Lotta strokes at funerals, apparently
https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcpp.14072
151m excess mental disorders due to lead exposure. ☹️
Folks, 15 years left of civilization.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mit-forecasts-civilization-will-fall-by-2040/vi-AA1vqBJK?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=c5043b96364f4a60841f0e5b439c2738&ei=51#details
Quote from: NCMUFan on January 02, 2025, 09:02:59 AMFolks, 15 years left of civilization.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mit-forecasts-civilization-will-fall-by-2040/vi-AA1vqBJK?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=c5043b96364f4a60841f0e5b439c2738&ei=51#details
Surprised we have that long considering the people on social media touting a 30-50% mortality rate for bird flu that is CERTAIN to jump to humans and wipe out 150MM+ in the US including starvation cause the supply chain will be gone and grocery stores empty.
Quote from: JWags85 on January 02, 2025, 10:03:08 AMSurprised we have that long considering the people on social media touting a 30-50% mortality rate for bird flu that is CERTAIN to jump to humans and wipe out 150MM+ in the US including starvation cause the supply chain will be gone and grocery stores empty.
I believe there is a bird flu vaccine already developed should it jump to human-to-human transmission. I have a feeling a certain group would avoid the vaccine, however.
Quote from: TallTitan34 on January 02, 2025, 10:43:07 AMI believe there is a bird flu vaccine already developed should it jump to human-to-human transmission. I have a feeling a certain group would avoid the vaccine, however.
That's fine. They made their choice.
Quote from: ATL MU Warrior on January 02, 2025, 11:14:21 AMThat's fine. They made their choice.
It's not fine that it would collapse the healthcare system and kill people who took the necessary precautions as a result because of morons.
Quote from: JWags85 on January 02, 2025, 10:03:08 AMSurprised we have that long considering the people on social media touting a 30-50% mortality rate for bird flu that is CERTAIN to jump to humans and wipe out 150MM+ in the US including starvation cause the supply chain will be gone and grocery stores empty.
I'm once again questioning who you follow on twitter.
However we most definitely aren't doing enough about Bird flu but it is currently manifesting itself in mass culling and die offs of susceptible animals, vs human infection.
As it was with Covid, the more infections there are, the higher the likelihood it mutates to something way worse for humans. So if your point is we shouldn't be very concerned until it is killing in numbers, I'll agree to disagree.
We are better prepared from a vaccine standpoint but severe bird flu is insanely lethal vs Covid comparatively. Honestly though my bigger concern than that is two pandemics so close together would absolutely send people over the edge, you almost couldn't blame some people for thinking it's a conspiracy vs our lack proactively because it affects profit margins.
Quote from: Shaka Shart on January 02, 2025, 11:17:11 AMIt's not fine that it would collapse the healthcare system and kill people who took the necessary precautions as a result because of morons.
Good point.
Quote from: Shaka Shart on January 02, 2025, 11:23:50 AMI'm once again questioning who you follow on twitter.
Its partial being amused by the For You tab and partial reasonable follows being like "ignore these insane people/people who still are afraid to leave their houses post-COVID". I certainly aren't putting any stock into the doomers other than a chuckle. They are as silly as the "COVID was a cold" camp, both extremes are laughable.
I had people who I used to follow that were brain broken by COVID and I happily pruned them years ago.
Quote from: Shaka Shart on January 02, 2025, 11:37:12 AMWould have to conscript the dentists as nurses
I think the dentists will be the unvaccinated patients.
Quote from: TallTitan34 on January 02, 2025, 12:10:31 PMI think the dentists will be the unvaccinated patients.
I am jumping on the "Raw Water cures Bird Flu" train early. Gonna cash in on privatizing drainage runoff.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/us/raw-water-natural-springs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lk4.2ES1.8EQqf4Z-XrP3&smid=url-share
Quote from: Shaka Shart on January 02, 2025, 12:52:17 PMI am jumping on the "Raw Water cures Bird Flu" train early. Gonna cash in on privatizing drainage runoff.
I have more raw water, from 350' below the surface than I can use. PM me, $590/gal
But does it have fluoride?
Quote from: NCMUFan on January 03, 2025, 08:16:01 AMBut does it have fluoride?
100% guaranteed to have everything. Including radioactive particles. Which are known to be a cure for...pretty much everything.
Quote from: rocky_warrior on January 03, 2025, 02:56:59 AMI have more raw water, from 350' below the surface than I can use. PM me, $590/gal
At these prices I can't afford not to
Alcohol linked to cancer.
This feels like something you should specifically have to opt into only
https://www.404media.co/instagram-begins-randomly-showing-users-ai-generated-images-of-themselves/
Biomass doom
https://apnews.com/article/freshwater-species-threatened-extinction-cec91afc657bb0922c1d2966adf031ee
We're back baby
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/health/bird-flu-h5n1.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sk4.k25n.aggsYsaipnAN&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Quote from: Shaka Shart on January 27, 2025, 08:28:12 PMWe're back baby
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/health/bird-flu-h5n1.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sk4.k25n.aggsYsaipnAN&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
We should be pretty prepared to handle any potential problem
A spectator was killed after a hammer weight was thrown out of bounds at a high school track and field event on Sunday.
The event, a club track and field meet held at University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, was halted after a hammer thrown by a participant went past the barriers and struck a man in the stands. The man was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a UCCS statement obtained by multiple outlets.
"We are heartbroken at this horrible accident and are focused on supporting all involved," said UCCS chancellor Jennifer Sobanet said in the statement.
The meet was canceled after the accident, and participants were told to go home.
The hammer throw event uses a heavy hammer weight attached to a grip by a steel wire. Compared to discus, shotput and javelin, the hammer throw is a less common field event in the U.S. Some states, such as Ohio, have banned the sport from high schools altogether.
Quote from: MU82 on January 28, 2025, 07:23:55 AMA spectator was killed after a hammer weight was thrown out of bounds at a high school track and field event on Sunday.
The event, a club track and field meet held at University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, was halted after a hammer thrown by a participant went past the barriers and struck a man in the stands. The man was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a UCCS statement obtained by multiple outlets.
"We are heartbroken at this horrible accident and are focused on supporting all involved," said UCCS chancellor Jennifer Sobanet said in the statement.
The meet was canceled after the accident, and participants were told to go home.
The hammer throw event uses a heavy hammer weight attached to a grip by a steel wire. Compared to discus, shotput and javelin, the hammer throw is a less common field event in the U.S. Some states, such as Ohio, have banned the sport from high schools altogether.
Yikes!
My kid's high school principal (2015-21) was a US Olympian in the hammer throw in Athens.
Now she runs marathons.
Quote from: MU82 on January 28, 2025, 07:23:55 AMA spectator was killed after a hammer weight was thrown out of bounds at a high school track and field event on Sunday.
The event, a club track and field meet held at University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, was halted after a hammer thrown by a participant went past the barriers and struck a man in the stands. The man was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a UCCS statement obtained by multiple outlets.
"We are heartbroken at this horrible accident and are focused on supporting all involved," said UCCS chancellor Jennifer Sobanet said in the statement.
The meet was canceled after the accident, and participants were told to go home.
The hammer throw event uses a heavy hammer weight attached to a grip by a steel wire. Compared to discus, shotput and javelin, the hammer throw is a less common field event in the U.S. Some states, such as Ohio, have banned the sport from high schools altogether.
Not what his family thought he meant when he said he was going to the track meet to get hammered. :-X
Quote from: MU82 on January 28, 2025, 07:23:55 AMA spectator was killed after a hammer weight was thrown out of bounds at a high school track and field event on Sunday.
The event, a club track and field meet held at University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, was halted after a hammer thrown by a participant went past the barriers and struck a man in the stands. The man was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a UCCS statement obtained by multiple outlets.
"We are heartbroken at this horrible accident and are focused on supporting all involved," said UCCS chancellor Jennifer Sobanet said in the statement.
The meet was canceled after the accident, and participants were told to go home.
The hammer throw event uses a heavy hammer weight attached to a grip by a steel wire. Compared to discus, shotput and javelin, the hammer throw is a less common field event in the U.S. Some states, such as Ohio, have banned the sport from high schools altogether.
The Matilda reboot got dark.
Doom: My son got into UW.
I assume there's a MU support group for this sort of issue.
When I coached, I could always a trace a straight line from problem kids to their parents.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on January 29, 2025, 07:45:55 PMDoom: My son got into UW.
I assume there's a MU support group for this sort of issue.
Not uncommon. More of my Marquette friend's kids have gone to UW than to Marquette. Including multiple graduates of MUHS.
Public flagships have large classes and draw really good students.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on January 29, 2025, 07:45:55 PMDoom: My son got into UW.
I assume there's a MU support group for this sort of issue.
I got into UW as well. The good news is he can choose to not go there!
I got into Michigan and ND. I chose MU.
The Last Days of American Orange Juice
Savor every last drop.
By Yasmin Tayag
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/02/american-orange-juice-crash/681566/
....citrus greening...
Quote from: MU Fan in Connecticut on February 12, 2025, 07:35:39 PMThe Last Days of American Orange Juice
Savor every last drop.
By Yasmin Tayag
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/02/american-orange-juice-crash/681566/
....citrus greening...
Its a brutal situation, and its been in the works for years. I worked for Tropicana a decade ago and the orange growers were already neck deep in chaos about it. That 8 year grow cycle makes things incredibly challenging even without greening. I remember driving through an orchard for the first time and seeing rows of what looked like fully mature trees and being told they were still 3-4 years away from producing anything. And being blown away by the contingency planning needed if God forbid you lost chunks of immature seedlings.
Trop50 was the big focus product at the time for us. Touted because it was 50% less sugar. But the appeal was two fold, cause it was basically just OJ diluted in half with water...thus you could stretch your original juice much farther.
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Quote from: rocky_warrior on February 12, 2025, 10:14:40 PM(https://i1.wp.com/chewandchat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/0c5dcafba07c3bde71fc47c6b002497c.jpg?w=591&ssl=1)
Tang time!
Quote from: MU Fan in Connecticut on February 12, 2025, 07:35:39 PMThe Last Days of American Orange Juice
Savor every last drop.
By Yasmin Tayag
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/02/american-orange-juice-crash/681566/
....citrus greening...
And since 2019, the price of concentrate has increased by about 80 percent. Damn Duke Brothers cornering the market
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on January 29, 2025, 07:45:55 PMDoom: My son got into UW.
I assume there's a MU support group for this sort of issue.
I think the support group is just comparing the size of the tuition check you'd have to write every semester.
Seriously though, Madison is an excellent school and I would imagine a fun place to go to college. My niece got into U of Chicago but decided she wanted the Big Ten sports experience in addition to strong academics (and her parents the lower tuition bill) and went to Michigan. She was not an athlete in HS but is always posting pics from football and hockey games now.
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Quote from: Billy Hoyle on February 13, 2025, 10:10:17 AMSeriously though, Madison is an excellent school and I would imagine a fun place to go to college. My niece got into U of Chicago but decided she wanted the Big Ten sports experience in addition to strong academics (and her parents the lower tuition bill) and went to Michigan. She was not an athlete in HS but is always posting pics from football and hockey games now.
I shocked anyone goes to U of C that isn't solely and narrowly academically focused. My cousin went there, chose it over NW, a few Ivies, and Stanford (as one with a perfect SAT does)...and regretted it wholeheartedly. He said it often felt like a social life was an extracurricular that many of his peers opted out of pursuing.
Quote from: JWags85 on February 13, 2025, 11:10:51 AMI shocked anyone goes to U of C that isn't solely and narrowly academically focused. My cousin went there, chose it over NW, a few Ivies, and Stanford (as one with a perfect SAT does)...and regretted it wholeheartedly. He said it often felt like a social life was an extracurricular that many of his peers opted out of pursuing.
She toured NW at my urging (campus, elite academics, Big Ten sports) and didn't like it. She mentioned she didn't like the vibe from the students. To each their own. She's loving UM so I'm happy for her.
Quote from: Billy Hoyle on February 13, 2025, 11:19:57 AMShe toured NW at my urging (campus, elite academics, Big Ten sports) and didn't like it. She mentioned she didn't like the vibe from the students. To each their own. She's loving UM so I'm happy for her.
We rated NW as the worst tour we took our kids on. The guide acted as if we should be thrilled for them to even bother to point out the exteriors of the three buildings they pointed to.
Quote from: TSmith34, Inc. on February 13, 2025, 11:42:30 AMWe rated NW as the worst tour we took our kids on. The guide acted as if we should be thrilled for them to even bother to point out the exteriors of the three buildings they pointed to.
Vanderbilt was like that for us.
Quote from: TSmith34, Inc. on February 13, 2025, 11:42:30 AMWe rated NW as the worst tour we took our kids on. The guide acted as if we should be thrilled for them to even bother to point out the exteriors of the three buildings they pointed to.
That was my experience at UM, ND, Depauw. The opposite of my experience at MU.
since people are talking college tours, I have to share my craziest one.
I had a D2 program reach out to me for tennis (my other contacts had been from D3 schools so this was pretty cool) and I took an unofficial visit with my dad in the fall of my senior year, 1993. Why not, right? It was a couple hour drive for us. As a PSA they have an attractive and ditzy girl to show us around. She's stopping occasionally to talk to friends and discuss bombing an exam earlier in the day which we thought was odd. She takes us by the upperclassmen campus apartments where her boyfriend lives and it's a total dump (empty pizza boxes, cigarette butts in ashtrays, etc). We asked her "why she chose that school and she responded, "when I was in high school I had big hair and since the buildings here are all connected by skywalks I knew my hair wouldn't get messed up." And that was the end of that tour.
A few weeks later one of my dad's partners asked where I was looking and said "tell him to take a look at Marquette, that's where I did my undergrad." We did a tour at the end of December and the rest is history.
Quote from: Billy Hoyle on February 13, 2025, 11:19:57 AMShe toured NW at my urging (campus, elite academics, Big Ten sports) and didn't like it. She mentioned she didn't like the vibe from the students. To each their own. She's loving UM so I'm happy for her.
Living and working in Chicago for a decade in my 20s and 30s, I met a ton of relatively recent NW grads, and it was a total spectrum. Some of the cooler ones actually were in a similar decision tree as your daughter but liked proximity to Chicago/being on the lake compared to Ann Arbor.
But man, I know exactly the vibe you speak of. I worked with not one, not two, but close to a half dozen Kellogg MBAs who also went to NW undergrad that called themselves "double purples". They were as obnoxious and pretentious about it as that sounded. One specifically moved to Paris to work for a big CPG post-college. Spoke fluent French, was still an obsessive Francophile that went at least twice a year. Ok fine, not crazy. But then it gets weird. She decided to get an MBA, got admitted to Sorbonne fully funded by her employer. But instead went back to Kellogg and did her time in one of their US offices after graduating cause she "couldn't bear to turn her back on Evanston/NW" and didn't know how anyone could. I can only imagine how turned off an 18 year old would be talking to her about the school, or even a 22 year old version of her.
Another tried to make a push to stop recruiting MBAs from Ross (when Ross was one of 4-5 focus schools for MBA recruiting at the time) cause they should be more focused on Kellogg.
Quote from: JWags85 on February 13, 2025, 01:08:35 PMLiving and working in Chicago for a decade in my 20s and 30s, I met a ton of relatively recent NW grads, and it was a total spectrum. Some of the cooler ones actually were in a similar decision tree as your daughter but liked proximity to Chicago/being on the lake compared to Ann Arbor.
But man, I know exactly the vibe you speak of. I worked with not one, not two, but close to a half dozen Kellogg MBAs who also went to NW undergrad that called themselves "double purples". They were as obnoxious and pretentious about it as that sounded. One specifically moved to Paris to work for a big CPG post-college. Spoke fluent French, was still an obsessive Francophile that went at least twice a year. Ok fine, not crazy. But then it gets weird. She decided to get an MBA, got admitted to Sorbonne fully funded by her employer. But instead went back to Kellogg and did her time in one of their US offices after graduating cause she "couldn't bear to turn her back on Evanston/NW" and didn't know how anyone could. I can only imagine how turned off an 18 year old would be talking to her about the school, or even a 22 year old version of her.
Another tried to make a push to stop recruiting MBAs from Ross (when Ross was one of 4-5 focus schools for MBA recruiting at the time) cause they should be more focused on Kellogg.
"That's more important to you than it is to anyone else you've ever met."
Anyone else excited to play Doom: The Dark Ages in May?
Quote from: Shaka Shart on February 16, 2025, 03:26:01 PMAnyone else excited to play Doom: The Dark Ages in May?
I think we're playing now?
I needed calcs on a simple project, 47 years, $3.4m a year, increased by 3% per year.
I asked SIX different AIs, copy and pasting the prompt and got SIX different answers, each tens of millions of dollars off. -- I'm really surprised not one of them had the same answer.
Looks like replacing humans with AI is off to a great start.
#AIDoom.
Like alternative facts, it's alternative math. Pick the answer that is most advantageous to you and insist it's correct, and don't let reality get in your way. Soon you'll be a billionaire.
Quote from: TSmith34, Inc. on February 18, 2025, 08:06:50 AMLike alternative facts, it's alternative math. Pick the answer that is most advantageous to you and insist it's correct, and don't let reality get in your way. Soon you'll be a billionaire.
I do that with Marquette players all the time.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on February 17, 2025, 03:53:09 PMI needed calcs on a simple project, 47 years, $3.4m a year, increased by 3% per year.
I asked SIX different AIs, copy and pasting the prompt and got SIX different answers, each tens of millions of dollars off. -- I'm really surprised not one of them had the same answer.
Looks like replacing humans with AI is off to a great start.
#AIDoom.
They're actually a lot like the posters around these parts. They can respond like a human, but have mash potatoes for brains!
https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1892578162409705576
In what has to spell doom for Herm:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hooters-talks-prepare-bankruptcy-filing-145550624.html
Quote from: Uncle Rico on February 21, 2025, 12:00:41 PMIn what has to spell doom for Herm:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hooters-talks-prepare-bankruptcy-filing-145550624.html
He probably has a side by side rub and tug scheduled with the CEO to discuss recovery plans.
Quote from: Shaka Shart on February 21, 2025, 03:55:35 PMHe probably has a side by side rub and tug scheduled with the CEO to discuss recovery plans.
Only if he's cleaning his toilet
Beggars can't be choosers Rockford
https://www.audacy.com/wbbm780/news/local/welcome-sign-in-rockford-is-stirring-debate
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/mystery-illness-has-killed-more-than-50-people-in-congo#
Here we go ..
Church Retirement Plans Sidestep Federal Oversight—and Employees Pay the Price
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/church-retirement-pensions-hospitals-89070d8c?mod=djemwhatsnews
Anne Hotaling joined St. Clare's hospital in Schenectady, N.Y., fresh out of nursing school in 1979. She came to see the Roman Catholic hospital and her fellow workers as a second family, an extension of the tightknit Catholic community in which she had grown up.
The job came with long-term financial security: a pension plan that eventually promised Hotaling, following her retirement, $1,449 a month for life. It was one reason she turned down other jobs over the years. "I didn't want to go someplace else and start that process all over," she said.
Even after St. Clare's closed in 2008, Hotaling said, it continued to tell her and others their pensions were waiting. When she retired a decade later, she received her first $1,400 check. It was the last one she ever got.
Months later, the pension fund informed her by letter that it was nearly insolvent. "There simply are not enough assets in the Plan to provide the benefits to all current and future participants," the letter said.
For the past half-century, the sweeping Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 has governed retirement benefits, with the goal of protecting workers from exactly the kinds of disasters that befell Hotaling. Under the federal law, known as Erisa, pensions don't go up in smoke when employers fail because a federal insurance program kicks in.
But churches and other religious organizations can opt out of the federal system, which requires retirement plans and their sponsors to fund pensions well in advance and to set aside retirement savings in dedicated accounts. That has left hundreds of thousands of workers vulnerable.
Hotaling, 68 years old, is one of 1,100 former St. Clare's hospital employees who have lost some or all of their pension benefits. Workers at other church-affiliated groups, including schools, hospitals and publishers, have experienced similar hardships. The retirement-account balances of ministers and other employees around the country of the African Methodist Episcopal Church plummeted after what church officials there describe as a two-decade-long fraud.
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on February 25, 2025, 09:25:41 PMhttps://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/mystery-illness-has-killed-more-than-50-people-in-congo#
Here we go ..
This is a very interesting read about this sort of thing
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/337075.Level_4
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — A child who wasn't vaccinated died in a measles outbreak in rural West Texas, state officials said Wednesday, the first U.S. death from the highly contagious — but preventable — respiratory disease since 2015.
https://apnews.com/article/measles-outbreak-west-texas-death-rfk-41adc66641e4a56ce2b2677480031ab9
Quote from: Pakuni on February 26, 2025, 08:13:21 PMLUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — A child who wasn't vaccinated died in a measles outbreak in rural West Texas, state officials said Wednesday, the first U.S. death from the highly contagious — but preventable — respiratory disease since 2015.
https://apnews.com/article/measles-outbreak-west-texas-death-rfk-41adc66641e4a56ce2b2677480031ab9
Freedom isn't free, Pakuni.
We reap what we sow.
Quote from: tower912 on February 27, 2025, 05:26:12 AMWe reap what we sow.
Alfalfa for Saudi cattle and crops so thirsty they drain the colorado river?
Congo reports over 50 deaths from mystery illness
https://time.com/7262216/mystery-disease-outbreaks-deadly-symptoms-congo-explainer/
Quote from: MU Fan in Connecticut on February 27, 2025, 02:33:31 PMCongo reports over 50 deaths from mystery illness
https://time.com/7262216/mystery-disease-outbreaks-deadly-symptoms-congo-explainer/
https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/case-of-german-measles-confirmed-in-san-antonio-at-legacy-traditional-school-local-news-near-me-health-pulic-safety
vacceenz iz stoopid
Guess they won't be wanting that very promising pancreatic cancer vaccine or anything.
https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/03/03/bill-banning-mrna-vaccines-in-iowa-passes-subcommittee/
Quote from: Shaka Shart on March 04, 2025, 01:14:11 AMGuess they won't be wanting that very promising pancreatic cancer vaccine or anything.
https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/03/03/bill-banning-mrna-vaccines-in-iowa-passes-subcommittee/
"We believe that the mRNA vaccines is the cause of these trends," Dowd said. "Regardless of my opinion, the trend has emerged, which is quite alarming, (and) needs to be investigated."
Who needs scientific studies when you have "beliefs"?
Iowa: The Mississippi of the Midwest
https://x.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1900537267308937416
Many, many things. Most of which would earn a 3 week vacation.
Quote from: Pakuni on March 14, 2025, 04:42:59 PMhttps://x.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1900537267308937416
My favorite quote from Ted Lasso was, incorrectly assigned to Walt Whitman, "be curious, not judgemental". Which when further distilling into advice, my favorite snippet is always "be curious". When I look at the majority of my successes, my most positive attributes in both business and interpersonal dealings, I can trace it back to a fundamental trait of I HATE to not know. If its a word I don't recognize, a fact thats interesting, the location of something in the world, I NEED to look it up. And not just get an answer but read something and understand it. Not a book report, but a few min of reading and processing.
Back to the point, I think that mentality or mindset is not only becoming rarer, but its been de-emphasized further with stuff like ChatGPT or the summary at the top of a Google search. It allows, much less teaches, people to get an answer quick, think nothing of it, and immediately punt it from their memory...if they are bothered to look for something at all. Too many people, from all walks of life, are too immune to being ashamed of ignorance on so many subjects.
Quote from: JWags85 on March 14, 2025, 08:41:38 PMI HATE to not know. If its a word I don't recognize, a fact thats interesting, the location of something in the world, I NEED to look it up. And not just get an answer but read something and understand it. Not a book report, but a few min of reading and processing. many subjects.
I work in an industry that's full of technology that I'll probably really never understand. However, I'm the guy that will take on (and usually solve) challenges that nobody on the team knows, understands, or are willing to take on because they might fail.
So I guess, I'm not afraid of that study or AI. Hah.
Edit: I can't actually get to the source of whatever pakuni linked. X doesn't like me I guess.
Quote from: rocky_warrior on March 15, 2025, 12:09:27 AMI work in an industry that's full of technology that I'll probably really never understand. However, I'm the guy that will take on (and usually solve) challenges that nobody on the team knows, understands, or are willing to take on because they might fail.
So I guess, I'm not afraid of that study or AI. Hah.
Edit: I can't actually get to the source of whatever pakuni linked. X doesn't like me I guess.
I think this is it
https://www.oecd.org/en/about/news/press-releases/2024/12/adult-skills-in-literacy-and-numeracy-declining-or-stagnating-in-most-oecd-countries.html
Quote from: Pakuni on March 14, 2025, 04:42:59 PMhttps://x.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1900537267308937416
It is clearly the case in America. We are a much dumber nation than any time in modern history. Our fear of knowledge, lack of empathy and general hostility to those we consider different is the surest sign of our intellectual decline
Cruelty for the sake of cruelty is just good, clean fun. Just as Jesus taught.
Quote from: MU82 on March 18, 2025, 07:00:07 PMCruelty for the sake of cruelty is just good, clean fun. Just as Jesus taught.
nm, I'm just asking for trouble...
wasn't sure where else to post this, but how excited would Dr. McAdams be today with the release of the Kennedy Files? Who here took his class at MU?
California high school Mater Dei signs 10-year, 7-figure multimedia rights deal with Playfly Sports
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6216896/2025/03/19/mater-dei-high-school-media-deal-playfly-nil/?
In a rare move for high school sports, Mater Dei High School, a private Catholic school in Santa Ana, Calif., signed a seven-figure, 10-year multimedia rights agreement with Playfly Sports, a media and marketing company.
According to Mater Dei, the deal makes the high school the first in the country to sign a third-party multimedia rights deal. The agreement aims to "enhance sponsorship opportunities, media exposure, and fan engagement," the school wrote in a statement Wednesday.
Playfly calls itself a "revenue maximizer" and said in a statement that the deal will bring "substantial" revenue growth and brand partnerships to the school — though neither Playfly nor Mater Dei have named any specific partnerships yet.
"High school sports remain one of the last frontiers of amateur athletics in the United States, trailing college sports by 15-20 years in terms of commercialization and structural development," Kyle Gurganious, Playfly's Director of Marketing and Communications, told The Athletic.
Quote from: MU82 on March 20, 2025, 10:38:30 AMCalifornia high school Mater Dei signs 10-year, 7-figure multimedia rights deal with Playfly Sports
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6216896/2025/03/19/mater-dei-high-school-media-deal-playfly-nil/?
In a rare move for high school sports, Mater Dei High School, a private Catholic school in Santa Ana, Calif., signed a seven-figure, 10-year multimedia rights agreement with Playfly Sports, a media and marketing company.
According to Mater Dei, the deal makes the high school the first in the country to sign a third-party multimedia rights deal. The agreement aims to "enhance sponsorship opportunities, media exposure, and fan engagement," the school wrote in a statement Wednesday.
Playfly calls itself a "revenue maximizer" and said in a statement that the deal will bring "substantial" revenue growth and brand partnerships to the school — though neither Playfly nor Mater Dei have named any specific partnerships yet.
"High school sports remain one of the last frontiers of amateur athletics in the United States, trailing college sports by 15-20 years in terms of commercialization and structural development," Kyle Gurganious, Playfly's Director of Marketing and Communications, told The Athletic.
What does this guy even bring to the table?
Quote from: Hards Alumni on March 20, 2025, 11:04:00 AMWhat does this guy even bring to the table?
I've seen similar companies out there and a number of colleges and universities use them to manage their sponsorship programs. He likely sold himself as a broker with connections to various entities that he claims would want to partner with them. Of course he is taking a cut as well.
Quote from: The Sultan on March 20, 2025, 11:11:27 AMI've seen similar companies out there and a number of colleges and universities use them to manage their sponsorship programs. He likely sold himself as a broker with connections to various entities that he claims would want to partner with them. Of course he is taking a cut as well.
No no, the dining table.
Apparently, whisky isn't the answer :'(
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2r7enl3d1o
Northern Michigan. That is all.
Time to merge this with the investing thread?
Quote from: tower912 on April 04, 2025, 12:37:53 PMNorthern Michigan. That is all.
Buried in the news cycle, plus, it'll be part of Canada when we make it one of our states
Quote from: Pakuni on April 04, 2025, 12:40:44 PMTime to merge this with the investing thread?
If we didn't already merge this with the dental crime thread, none of the threads will be merged
Keystone Pipeline rupture. Good news keeps coming. Fill your tanks up.
And to think we have an ancient, still in use, one of those running through the straits of Mackinac.
The person in charge of education in America repeatedly referred to artificial intelligence as A1 last week.
"Kids are sponges - they just absorb everything," Education Secretary Linda McMahon said at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit. "It wasn't all that long ago that it was, 'We're going to have internet in our schools!' Whoop! Now let's see A1 and how can that be helpful?"
Well, it's no Horsey Sauce, but given the quality of school lunches, A1 probably can be very helpful!
In Heinz-ight, that was an unfortunate flub.
Quote from: MU82 on April 15, 2025, 03:22:42 PMThe person in charge of education in America repeatedly referred to artificial intelligence as A1 last week.
"Kids are sponges - they just absorb everything," Education Secretary Linda McMahon said at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit. "It wasn't all that long ago that it was, 'We're going to have internet in our schools!' Whoop! Now let's see A1 and how can that be helpful?"
Well, it's no Horsey Sauce, but given the quality of school lunches, A1 probably can be very helpful!
Setting up the next WWE match.
A1 vs AI