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MUScoop => The Superbar => Topic started by: keefe on September 14, 2015, 10:42:42 PM
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Are you a "prepper?"
The end is near!
http://www.sltrib.com/home/2935776-155/some-mormons-stocking-up-amid-fears
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We only go around once baby!
But the end is fairly near for everyone.
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We're all day-to-day.
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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/
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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.)
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Your doom for the day:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/science/space/more-evidence-for-coming-black-hole-collision.html
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Today's doom:
http://www.newsnearyou.com/isis-releases-kill-list-of-us-cities.html
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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.
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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
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http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-36.htm
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Doomed! Sell! Sell!
http://www.businessinsider.com/sp-500-and-the-pope-2015-9
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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/
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http://www.thespreadit.com/quinnipiac-university-poll-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-are-still-leading-63995/
Does this count
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Where's the dude at with the John 3:16 sign when ya need him, ai na?
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(http://hownottobeachristian.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/images.jpg)
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Daily dose of doom, Sept 30th:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/28/l-todd-wood-isis-planning-nuclear-tsunami/
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On-subject-thread-jack for your monthly dose of Ron Swanson.
https://www.youtube.com/e/jQ7qjlEM4mo
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Nice knowing you guys. Sort of.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/06/end-of-world-7-october-ebible-fellowship
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You call this Daily Dose of Doom? I figured this was going to be a thread about players seen on campus in walking boots.
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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
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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.
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Thank God in heaven there may be a chance!
http://www.businessinsider.com/test-mission-nasa-esa-asteroid-impacts-space-science-2015-10
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Hey, take that hope stuff to some other thread. >:( >:( >:(
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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?
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Mmmm, doom.
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/10/moldova-nuclear-weapons-isis/409456/?utm_source=BI
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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
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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.
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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.
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This Isis chit looks serious, hey?
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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.
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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...
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Hey, I don't peddle unpleasantness. It's doom. Dogs and cats, living together.
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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.
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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.
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Marquette Basketball?
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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I'm not worried.
I'm probably gonna get shot when I go to the theater to see Star Wars anyway.
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Royal Bank of Scotland tells investors: 'Sell everything'
http://www.theage.com.au/business/markets/rbs-tells-investors-sell-everything-20160111-gm3ssa.html
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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
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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/
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You forgot the fifth of Jack with Lynyrd Skynyrd singing Free Bird on 8 track
On the last day Etta James and Pappy
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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.
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On the last day Etta James
I saw Etta James at Jazz Alley. She was still sultry at 80.
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https://www.youtube.com/v/kzzC5YoMTrY
Truly the end times are neigh.
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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.
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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
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#fingerscrossed
http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/661478/END-OF-HUMANITY-Artificial-Intelligence-could-destroy-us-WITHIN-DECADES-warns-expert
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Doom on you.
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People better sort out their sh1t
http://www.signs-of-end-times.com/
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Why people pay to go on these cruises is beyond me...
http://www.marinelink.com/news/stomach-disney-cruise409071.aspx
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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.
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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.
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Beachfront property now selling in Reno
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-san-andreas-fault-earthquake-20160504-story.html
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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.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/professor-we-should-delay-the-olympics-because-of-zika-2016-5
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Fingers Crossed:
http://www.vox.com/2015/2/19/8069533/end-of-the-world
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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
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Enjoy:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/22/isil-carrying-out-chemical-experiments-on-its-prisoners-as-it-mo/
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Any dooming going on today with crab cakes?
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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
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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.
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Vice? I'm still kind of upset they rebranded the H2 channel as Vice.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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
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Two words: SUPER BACTERIA
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-rio-superbacteria-exclusive-idUSKCN0YW2E8
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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!
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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
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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!!!!
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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.
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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?
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Sweet doom.
http://qz.com/657514/superbugs-could-kill-10-million-people-by-2050-if-a-lot-of-things-dont-change-fast/
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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.
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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/)
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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! ::)
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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You did before?
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Day before election doom:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sources-us-intel-warning-of-possible-al-qaeda-attacks-in-us-monday/
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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/
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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
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That's more .. daily dose of dumb.
More: https://twitter.com/AwardsDarwin
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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
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Snakes in the sh1tter
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/toilet-snake-south-africa_us_583f466ce4b0c68e047ea7e0
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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?
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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#fingerscrossed
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/12/nasa-scientist-earth-is-due-for-extinction-level-event.html
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Watery doom.
(https://sites.google.com/site/arctischepinguin/home/sea-ice-extent-area/grf/nsidc_global_area_byyear_b.png)
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Mosul damn failing... 1.5 million could drown
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/02/a-bigger-problem-than-isis
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Preparing for doom:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich
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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.
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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/
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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/
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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.
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Looks like a loss to St.Johns
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Dear 268,000 workers at Amazon .. you’re doomed.
https://www.youtube.com/v/-h5qpXO3isM?t=1m58s
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Dear grocery workers .. you are doomed:
http://nypost.com/2017/02/05/inside-amazons-robot-run-supermarket-that-needs-just-3-human-workers/
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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.
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99% chance all forum moderators are replaced by robots? What the effing ef.
http://ideas.ted.com/the-rise-of-the-useless-class/
#doom
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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
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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?
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SYSTEM ERROR
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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. ::)
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Don't worry.
I know a guy who is bringing the jobs back. ::)
Does Tim Cook know? Probably good for Apple Stock ;)
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Will the robot finally get the SOTG right?
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/28/spiders-could-theoretically-eat-every-human-on-earth-in-one-year/
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http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/defense/326094-how-north-korea-could-kill-up-to-90-percent-of-americans-at-any
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What a way to go..
http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-sri-lanka-garbage-collapse-20170417-story.html
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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
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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."
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Hope this helps topper...
(https://vetstreet-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com/ed/0dbae093b111e1aa99005056ad4734/file/Cat%20and%20dog%20on%20bed136238525.jpg)
(http://www.dogchatforum.com/images/catanddogtogether.jpg)
(http://petattack.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Cute-Dog-and-Cat-667x500.jpg)
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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.
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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.
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If you people ruin my doom thread, I will haunt you in the night.
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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.
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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.
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If you people ruin my doom thread, I will haunt you in the night.
Now, back to dooming! >:(
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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/)
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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?
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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)
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"Historically subtropical nematode" would be an awesome nickname.
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"Historically subtropical nematode" would be an awesome nickname.
I was the keyboard player for Historically Subtropical Nematode during its Art Rock phase.
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http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/19760676/university-rochester-football-player-kidnapped-tortured-40-hours
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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.
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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)
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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?
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Fingers crossed.
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/7/3/15903154/asteroid-death-one-chart
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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.
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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?
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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
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The Sign of the Woman
We're f#cked
http://www.youtube.com/v/1PFY6CNgsso
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Any y'all seen Deep Throat at da Parkway back in da dey, hey?
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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A smoking gun?
Maybe the ultimate Dose of Doom in US history.
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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
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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.
% 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"?
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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.
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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.
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It pretty much says exactly that, broflake.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Or that study where 7% of people think chocolate mile comes from brown cows.
Is that a Daily Dose of Doom?
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Always remember, 1/2 of the people you meet and see every day are dumber than average.
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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 ;)
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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."
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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 ::)
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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
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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.
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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 Korea
There are no good options. But some are worse than others.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/the-worst-problem-on-earth/528717/
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-sperm-idUSKBN1AA28K
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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)
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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.
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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'........
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Bah .. we all have cell phones chirping away in our pockets. Same thing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When our robot overlords take over, I am turning you in first. #doom
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When our robot overlords take over, I am turning you in first. #doom
:'(
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FYI, the robots do not like crying.
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FYI, the robots do not like crying.
You are on your A game today brother!
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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!
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Feels like you didn't read through the Pew Research survey prior to sending off this missive.
I did. You're a liar.
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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.
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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.
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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/
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Wow. Doom. Click on the "First Time Here" button to understand what you're seeing.
http://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org/
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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
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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.
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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.
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17. Stays at the office past 5 PM.
Not this American!
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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.
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Sex witches to replace strippers?
Edit: Moved to NM. Although the end of strippers may be doom.
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That's not doom. It'd do well in the NM thread, though.
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Celestial DOOM!
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/04/supermassive-black-hole-discovered-near-heart-of-the-milky-way
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Mmmm.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/hackers-lie-in-wait-after-penetrating-us-and-europe-power-grid-networks/
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http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/856288/end-of-the-world-September-23-2017-Nibiru-Planet-X
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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.
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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
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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.
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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 ?-( ?-( ?-(
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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
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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.
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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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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.
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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
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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
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2048 is the end.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-claiming-2048-says-apos-162915653.html
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2048 is too long to wait. And your link is no good! I want better doom, my man.
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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/)
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Is it just me, or can you not get enough of planet killing supervolcano news?
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Is it just me, or can you not get enough of planet killing supervolcano news?
(http://d3819ii77zvwic.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/http-makeagif.com-media-7-24-2014-BihmpD.gif)
No. You can not.
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https://www.vox.com/2017/10/13/16431502/america-democracy-decline-liberalism
Sweet, sweet doom.
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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.
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http://www.newsweek.com/pacific-threat-80-percent-fish-set-be-wiped-out-ocean-temperatures-surge-714647
Fish doom.
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http://www.newsweek.com/pacific-threat-80-percent-fish-set-be-wiped-out-ocean-temperatures-surge-714647
Fish doom.
Scoop Fishing Thread!
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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.
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"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.
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Any y'all seen Deep Throat at da Parkway back in da dey, hey?
Carol Connors was great.
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Mmmm.
https://www.axios.com/former-joint-chiefs-chairman-likelihood-of-nuclear-war-is-rising-2512692723.html
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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
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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
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http://theweek.com/speedreads/744645/americans-life-expectancy-dropped-second-year-row-experts-are-panicking
Kill me now. Prospects are dimming every year.
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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.
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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."
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Bananapocalypse is nearing...
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-21/the-bananapocalypse-is-nigh
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List of 10 dooms:
https://www.axios.com/10-ways-america-is-falling-behind-2519640560.html
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(https://m.popkey.co/7763f3/NGAgZ.gif)
https://jezebel.com/now-chocolate-could-go-extinct-great-1821683690
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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)
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The scoop server may have to be shut down again.
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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
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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)
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We knew you'd post that.
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Enjoy the next 2 minutes ..
http://time.com/5117722/doomsday-clock-2018-what-to-know/
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(https://i.imgur.com/5I9c1RH.png)
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(https://i.imgur.com/5I9c1RH.png)
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!!
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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.
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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.
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"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
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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
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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)
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If this is your thing, doom:
http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article198722829.html
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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.”
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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.
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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
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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.
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Also, Terrifying Pigzilla
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pigzilla-hong-kong_us_5a82500be4b01467fcf09e27?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
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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.
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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....
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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
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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)
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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.
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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
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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/
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Fake news.
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Damn liberal thermometers.
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Thoughts and prayers.
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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."
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Damn liberal thermometers.
natural cycle 🙄
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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/
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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)
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More likely ta check out from worrin' 'bout patient's oral health neglect, dan dis chit, aina?
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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!
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A 16 beat a 1.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/15/us-senate-candidate-proposes-arming-homeless-people-with-shotguns
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Surely a sign we are at the end.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article207645134.html
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Surely a sign we are at the end.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article207645134.html
Darwinism definitely in play here.
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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.
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Well, crap.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/more-americans-are-dying-from-suicide-drug-use-and-diarrhea/?smid=tw-upshotnyt&smtyp=cur
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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?"
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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?
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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.
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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.
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1/3 of millenials not sure the earth is round
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/04/05/millennials-flat-earth-survey/
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Probably da same percentage who don't think ya can get pregnant thru intercourse, hey?
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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
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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.
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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.
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High Five!
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/04/12/hand-dryers-feces-bacteria-study/
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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.
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And ya reely don't wanna handle da 'ol johnson after washin' yo hands, hey?
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So delicious ..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5735065/Worlds-oldest-woman-aged-129-says-shes-miserable-day-life.html
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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
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Wisconsin doom...
https://observatory.journalism.wisc.edu/2018/05/10/wisconsins-rate-of-lead-poisoning-worse-than-flint-michigans/
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C'mon, Ebola, let's see what you go this time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/world/africa/who-ebola-outbreak.html
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Ebola's got nothing on this:
http://allthatsinteresting.com/radioactive-boars
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Ohhhhh, FFS. I hate it when the boars become radioactive.
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Earth's magnetic field drifting westward...True North no more.
https://www.space.com/40621-earth-magnetic-field-drifts.html
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Ebola superhighway:
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/388401-the-ebola-superhighway-why-a-new-outbreak-terrifies-public-health
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Well, ain't this a kick in the nuts this morning.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/bad-news-sausage-bacon-booze-12585028
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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.
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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
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Everybody dies. Have some bacon.
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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.
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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.
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BACON
Everybody dies. Have some bacon.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sun's death. Result: The beautiful, but dreaded planetary nebulae.
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/amp/ncna873041?__twitter_impression=true
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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?
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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.
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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
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Upside: No Valentine's Day to contend with
Hell of a Groundhog's Day shadow, though.
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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.
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Hell of a Groundhog's Day shadow, though.
6 more weeks of nuclear winter?
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6 more weeks of nuclear winter?
On the positive side, it will cancel out global warming.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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]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)
:'(
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/climate/antarctica-ice-melting-faster.html
Pretty sure this means we should all buy boats this summer.
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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.
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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)
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Mexican doom:
http://wp.telesurtv.net/english/news/Mexican-Mayoral-Candidate-Becomes-Murder-Victim-Number-114-20180615-0013.html
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More doom:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/06/16/indonesian-woman-dies-after-being-swallowed-whole-by-python.html
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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/)
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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."
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Doom.
https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Plutonium-went-missing-in-San-Antonio-but-the-13071072.php
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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?
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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
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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
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Millennials dooming us:
https://www.complex.com/life/2017/08/hooters-shutting-down-because-millennials-arent-that-into-boobs
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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.
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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 crapting all over"
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Twin Peaks, Red Neck Heaven, Tilted Kilt, Tight Ends..
Do those have Milwaukee locations? Asking for a friend.
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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.
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Do those have Milwaukee locations? Asking for a friend.
I don't know if I should recommend Googling "Tight ends near me"
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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Within a generation, we won't need a man to make a baby.
Arby's.
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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.
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Gotta invest heavily, den, in sex toys, aina?
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http://www.didthanoskill.me/
I made it. I always figured it'd be Thanos or beef n cheddars that get me. Now I know.
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https://nypost.com/2018/09/20/woman-on-vacation-reportedly-finds-dead-tortoise-in-her-vagina/
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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)
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Talk about doom. How did that get there? She has NO idea. :o
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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..."
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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.
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Next tyme somewon gets ya an invite four turtle soup, make up sum bullchit 'bout beein' buzy, aina?
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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)
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Over 100 dead in latest ebola outbreak
https://www.yahoo.com/news/extremely-concerned-ebola-perfect-storm-congo-084906678.html
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Yeah, yeah, I've heard that before. Ebola totally let me down two years ago.
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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)
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Yeah, yeah, I've heard that before. Ebola totally let me down two years ago.
Ebola is dead to me.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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It's been 10 years for 40-50 years. We'll be fine.
Now there's a man who had his Arby's today.
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Now there's a man who had his Arby's today.
Not yet, but I'm thinkin' it.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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Kinda doomish.
(https://i.redd.it/95aohj1xhbw11.png)
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Kinda doomish.
(https://i.redd.it/95aohj1xhbw11.png)
I kind of love that.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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/
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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.
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There were earthquakes in Tennessee last night.
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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?
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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. :-\
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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...
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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.
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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.
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https://nypost.com/2018/12/16/soaring-suicides-are-another-sign-of-our-toxic-social-disconnect/
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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
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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
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Ebola chapter 2...
https://www.kff.org/news-summary/ebola-outbreak-in-congo-unforgiving-who-says/
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"This is why we can't have nice things" is what I'd say if this wasn't a thread about doom.
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Suicide and opioids, two sides of the same coin really, are two large reasons the life expectations for Americans is dropping.
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"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 :(
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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.
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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... ;)
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Hmm, a shame we don't have a link to such a story... ;)
Oh....
(goes to sit in the corner)
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-world-is-getting-quietly-relentlessly-better-11546430400
...Wait, what?
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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.
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https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/1/18/18188199/drc-ebola-outbreak
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They are converting my local Arby's to a Panda Express.
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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.
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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.
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Given Panda Express 2-3 chances. Never been even okay. Never again
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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)
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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?
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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 😳
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46992025
MU better win it all this year, no point in waiting.
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https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2019/02/01/Study-Illicit-opioid-deaths-to-rise-by-147-percent-by-2025/3961549026251/
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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
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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.
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That article makes me sad.
Well, my job here is done.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/03/29/share-americans-not-having-sex-has-reached-record-high/
Imagine these numbers without Tinder.
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Does your left hand count?
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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.
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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/
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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.
:'(
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This post was cruel.
:'(
Welp, my job is done here. /highfive
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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. :(
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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/
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Motorcycle doom
(https://i.redd.it/rviipp7czy131.jpg)
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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.
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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
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Yessir, I will get off your lawn.
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Yessir, I will get off your lawn.
Please mow it now, thanks.
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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
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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
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http://candy95.com/science-says-chicken-nuggets-will-kill-you/
Golden fried processed doom
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http://candy95.com/science-says-chicken-nuggets-will-kill-you/
Golden fried processed doom
Nice knowing you f$ckers.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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/
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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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Untrue
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Doc, you tattooed millimeters on your Johnson? Bad ass.
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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.
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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
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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/
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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.
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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
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the earth...has a fever
and the only cure...is more cowbell.
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Don't 'member "butt buddies" bein' a thin' back in da dey, doe, hey?
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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/
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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
It 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.
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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.
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Also, I welcome our alien overlords.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/19/warner-classified-briefing-ufos-1544273
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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
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Supposedly got closer to us than the moon.
https://twitter.com/breaking911/status/1154840606730051584?s=21
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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With all this doom can you blame them?
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With all this doom can you blame them?
Those stats closely track Arby's revenue.
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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.
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Not surprising. Back in my day, we didn't have social media to reinforce how pitiful and meaningless our lives were.
So much this.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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. >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
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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?
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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...
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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
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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.
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"hookah" safer than vaping? haven't heard of any of those hookah bongs exploding
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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https://www.newsweek.com/fire-bull-semen-explosion-farm-australia-1459673?utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&__twitter_impression=true
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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.
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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."
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The highest remaining life form at that point, the cockroaches, are going to be seriously ticked.
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Why isn't that Dutch girl worring about this disaster? She'd get way more converts to her cause.
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Doomsday scenario
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/america-pile-uneaten-bacon-biggest-220335498.html
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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.
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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)_/¯
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JAYCE JOHNSON IS IN A KNEE BRACE!
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70% of Americans think a civil war is likely....poll released last week from a Georgetown University.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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....
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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).
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politics.georgetown.edu
Q: What happens when a mod says politics on scoop?
A: Doom
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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
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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 ..")
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Zombies undead...
https://news.yahoo.com/science-zombies-undead-rise-004009241.html
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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.
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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
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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/
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https://news.yahoo.com/automation-could-replace-up-to-800-million-jobs-by-2035-bank-of-america-merrill-lynch-171810646.html
Automated doom
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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!
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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?
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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....
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It’s happening...The Planet of the Apes.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/humans-war-apes-villagers-take-20876196
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YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! AH, DAMN YOU! GODDAM YOU ALL TO HELL!!
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If you ever need to bide your time between doom posts:
https://twitter.com/darkstockphotos
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Victoria Secret Fashion Show dome
https://nypost.com/2019/11/21/victorias-secret-fashion-show-officially-canned-after-outrage/
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Grammatical doom.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/apostrophe-society-shuts-down-because-ignorance-has-won-a4301391.html
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Regional doom.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2019/12/05/detroit-bulk-storage-revere-copper-detroit-river-uranium/2618868001/
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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."
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A truly fowl doom
https://www.menshealth.com/trending-news/a30186763/horny-duck/?utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=socialflowFBMH&utm_source=facebook
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Doom for mosquitos....the farting mosquito killer
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10522729/man-farts-kill-mosquitos/
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Was he a regular at Arby's?
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Was he a regular at Arby's?
I wish my Arby's fueled ass could kill mosquitoes.
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I wish my Arby's fueled ass could kill mosquitoes.
does your wife know you talk about her this way?
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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.
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Doom proves not so doomy.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/top-5-most-outrageous-2020-doomsday-predictions
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That makes me sad. Well done.
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The next global pandemic could kill millions.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/9/19/20872366/global-pandemic-prevention-who-world-bank-report
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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
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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
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re: coronavirus. Wouldn't the best thing to make the coronavirus better be the lime virus?
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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)
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It's been a while ..
https://nypost.com/2020/02/14/more-people-die-taking-selfies-than-in-shark-attacks-survey/
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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
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You complete me.
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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
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but but but...the tan lines man!
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/nudist-sunbathers-face-masks-coronavirus
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but but but...the tan lines man!
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/nudist-sunbathers-face-masks-coronavirus
Ha! This is where tower has been.
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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
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Ha! This is where tower has been.
That would be horrifying for all involved if true.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Where they were destroyed by the sounds of trash cans clanging?
Yeah, I know it wasn't the Astrodome. Go with it.
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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
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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
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I forgot about that one!
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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?
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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).
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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-)
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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
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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)
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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?
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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?
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Cracker Barrell is going to start selling alcohol.
https://www.foodandwine.com/news/cracker-barrel-beer-wine-reopening
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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
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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.
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Please please please. June 21.
https://www.the-sun.com/lifestyle/tech/973452/end-of-the-world-2020-conspiracy-theory-calendar/
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Ruh-roh
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclear-particles-baltic-idUSKBN23X2TN
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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)
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#fakepoll. Arby's not an option.
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Team Dementor is sad to see 46% are hopeful. I mean, what do we have to do?
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/squirrels-bubonic-plague-colorado-test-positive/
To my Colorado Scoopers .. just relax and let the black death take you.
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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.
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I blame Trump.
Are you kidding? He would be an expert at evicting the black death.
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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.
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I rarely audibly laugh out loud when I read things. This was fantastic.
Blind squirrel and all...
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"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
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"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
Several autopsy techs had resigned and the already barebones staff was now down to just two medical examiners and a single tech statewide.
“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.”
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Yeah, it could go in a different thread.
COVID is really taking up all the doom oxygen, it's just not fair.
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True, it appears they've solved murder hornets and riots. Now we just have to worry about Dunkin shutting down stores
As 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
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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)
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High five.
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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.
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nm
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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
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At this point, that doesn't seem that bad.
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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)
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At this point, that doesn't seem that bad.
I’d be okay with it
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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/
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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.
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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.
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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/
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https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1326181841762738176
(https://i.imgur.com/kJF7qBD.gif)
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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
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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
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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.
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Holding all of the missing Trump votes from Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Arizona.
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Well poop...
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/12/honeybees-use-tools-dung-repels-giant-hornets/
In 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.
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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
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Well poop...
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/12/honeybees-use-tools-dung-repels-giant-hornets/
Sounds like civet coffee, hey?
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I found this to be interesting .. statistical doom.
(https://i.redd.it/h3xuhbbw9i661.png)
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That's a fascinating chart, thanks for sharing
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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.
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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'
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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.
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That's the spirit!
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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/
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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
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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 Alcohol
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkart/2020/03/09/mysterious-worms-eat-plastic-and-poop-alcohol/?sh=3e0ea0e379e0
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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
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Uh, oh...
(https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/4/3/772943.jpg?v=0)
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Uh, oh...
(https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/4/3/772943.jpg?v=0)
I mean, who exactly tracks this data?
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It's all about the source... https://www.cracked.com/
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Uh, oh...
(https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/4/3/772943.jpg?v=0)
Livin my best pollution free life over here.
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Livin my best pollution free life over here.
you must be wearing a mask
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you must be wearing a mask
3 of em.
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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 .
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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
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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
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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.
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US life expectancy in 2020 saw biggest drop since WWII
https://apnews.com/article/science-health-coronavirus-pandemic-fac0863b8c252d21d6f6a22a2e3eab86
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Here in Connecticut, seeing the dust strangely color the sunshine from western forest fires the last few days feels pretty dose of doom.
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https://abcnews.go.com/US/12-major-us-cities-top-annual-homicide-records/story?id=81466453
Rough year.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Remember murder hornets? They sound pretty good after covid, aina?
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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/
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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"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?
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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.
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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.
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Maybe there is a lesson in there somewhere.
Don't trust white people?
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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?
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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.
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I like my lesson better.
LOL, yeah...
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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
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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".
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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.
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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?
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Here we go.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/monkeypox-case-identified-massachusetts-outbreak-grows-europe-rcna29517
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https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/05/19/the-coming-food-catastrophe
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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More so, a lot of the corn crop goes to make fuel.
Yeah, IIRC, something like 1/3 goes to ethanol production.
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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%
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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!
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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If true, launch the nukes. Let’s get it over with.
Easy there, cowboy.
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Easy there, cowboy.
I really thought about going with a full rqqket response, but life is over as we know it. Why bother.
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Easy there, cowboy.
(https://media1.giphy.com/media/5eM4x8fxZNzPO/giphy.gif)
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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.
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Scoop warning:
ASIAN JUMPING WORMS
Uh-Oh. They have been found in the USA and have insanely high verts.
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Can they rebound, Give em a schollie
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https://phys.org/news/2010-06-humans-extinct-years-eminent-scientist.html
88 years left
Let's party until it is over
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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.
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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
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“Collapse” by Jared Diamond is a good read about things like that
I'll have to pick that up as well as Upheaval.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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 🤷🏼♂️
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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.’"
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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?
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Crazy Earth Worms?
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/01/jumping-worms-are-taking-over-north-american-forests/605257/
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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."
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Trying to silence him, just like Miles Dyson in T2.
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSgQomVcgAZ-rHW1J3HluXxalUZ6aUIFg3-dSQH3dwBbMlaezXAbulDySKI9A1Jzwqtdw8&usqp=CAU)
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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
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He may be projecting again.
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The Skynet takeover has begun.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/a-chess-playing-robot-broke-a-seven-year-old-prodigys-finger-100733917.html
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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
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Asked if it was vaccinated and the Karen computer reacted poorly.
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"This is, of course, bad"...is a hysterical quote in that article
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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Smoke em if you got em.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93aqep/google-deepmind-researcher-co-authors-paper-saying-ai-will-eliminate-humanity
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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.
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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.
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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. ;)
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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/)
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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
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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
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Red October
Some things in here don't react well to bullets
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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.
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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.
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Yep. No margarine for error.
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It will be shortening the Thanksgiving Day menu; that's for sure.
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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.
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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.
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It will be shortening the Thanksgiving Day menu; that's for sure.
Well played.
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https://warontherocks.com/2022/10/the-end-of-the-world-is-nigh
Finally!
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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?
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https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/401216/global-rise-unhappiness.aspx
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https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/401216/global-rise-unhappiness.aspx
I blame social media.
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I blame social media.
And Wojo
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A suspension bridge collapsed in India with hundreds of people on it. Absolutely horrific situation.
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https://weather.com/en-IN/india/health/news/2022-11-16-declining-global-sperm-count-could-threaten-humankind-survival
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https://weather.com/en-IN/india/health/news/2022-11-16-declining-global-sperm-count-could-threaten-humankind-survival
supermarket.
I volunteer as tribute.
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This can't be good.
https://twitter.com/Billyhottakes/status/1593307410684313603?s=20&t=iEey1ZF5jmvy4tXNjUwQhw
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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.
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This can't be good.
https://twitter.com/Billyhottakes/status/1593307410684313603?s=20&t=iEey1ZF5jmvy4tXNjUwQhw
Dad has to vacuum the pool.....Its reaaaalllll dirty.
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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.
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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. :-\
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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
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"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....
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Matthew Broderick knows how.
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Matthew Broderick knows how.
Also, Sarah Connor.
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Also, almost every human on Discovery One.
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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. 🎶🎶🎶🎶
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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...
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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.
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Went full Santos?
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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.
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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
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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.
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He might be house leader
Good for him. The gift paid off.
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Water issues in the southwest continue
https://www.yahoo.com/news/skipped-showers-paper-plates-arizona-130945292.html
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/10gcitd/a_machine_gun_integrated_with_a_robot_dog/
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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.
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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."
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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
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/10gcitd/a_machine_gun_integrated_with_a_robot_dog/
USPS is on notice.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/10gcitd/a_machine_gun_integrated_with_a_robot_dog/
That would fix Muggsy's polar bear problem.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Yeah, but it is still a dump
Portland sounds about right for you.
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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
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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?
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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?
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/10gcitd/a_machine_gun_integrated_with_a_robot_dog/
I saw that Black Mirror, no thank you
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ZaLin
My daughter lives in Portland and loves it. Beautiful part of the country.
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Portland sounds about right for you.
Never been. I'd probably like it though.
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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.
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Sounds a lot like Freedomland.
They’ll have water in Seattle in 20 years unless Yellowstone erupts
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20 years, everybody is moving to Michigan. If you're lucky. A bunch of you, I strongly recommend the UP.
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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.
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A lot of it feels AI.
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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?
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Again, another musician I thought was dead was still alive? Jim Morrison ? What next Elvis?
The Doors of Perception are weirdly located in Tucumcari
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20 years, everybody is moving to Michigan. If you're lucky. A bunch of you, I strongly recommend the UP.
Good priced weed.
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https://gizmodo.com/super-gonorrhea-detected-massachusetts-united-states-1850012423
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https://gizmodo.com/super-gonorrhea-detected-massachusetts-united-states-1850012423
Nobody on MUScoop has to worry about STDs.
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https://gizmodo.com/super-gonorrhea-detected-massachusetts-united-states-1850012423
Mu fan in CT has gone suspiciously quiet.
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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
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Mu fan in CT has gone suspiciously quiet.
Is this an attempt at a New England joke?
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https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/doomsday-clock-moves-90-seconds-midnight-nuclear-threat-rises-2023-01-24/
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https://gizmodo.com/super-gonorrhea-detected-massachusetts-united-states-1850012423
I blame Gronk
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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...
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https://gizmodo.com/super-gonorrhea-detected-massachusetts-united-states-1850012423
Has anyone considered trying Ivermectin to stop this?
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/01/26/liquid-metal-shape-shifting-melting-robot/
Hello, T1000.
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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
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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,”
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Anyone try this one on a family member who is sound asleep on the couch on a Friday night?
https://youtu.be/aIcUSd3nkJE
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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.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/01/26/liquid-metal-shape-shifting-melting-robot/
Hello, T1000.
I, for one, welcome our liquifying, magnetic overlords.
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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
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Not a good weekend for Manuel Lopez.
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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
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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
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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?
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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.
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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."
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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?)
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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.
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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.
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And Poor Piggy Ziggy cried wee, wee, wee....
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And Poor Piggy Ziggy cried wee, wee, wee....
Clever, Smitty. First time I’ve seen this!
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Clever, Smitty. First time I’ve seen this!
Got him!
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Clever, Smitty. First time I’ve seen this!
He's such a copy 🐷🐷.
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Clever, Smitty. First time I’ve seen this!
I remember you saying the same thing to Piggy Ziggy.
Oh, wait...
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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?
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https://twitter.com/bradiuszero/status/1656027843178971136?s=46&t=ppua9BCUAa7dWM9-SthPmg
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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.
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Probably not a great idea to trust the butt plug company with your life.
This is why you only use fruit and veggies, anal?
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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.
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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?
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Just a smile on your face and a song in your heart, right?
And a belly full of ball bearings!
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This bears asking... dob you think he put the butt plug in solely so the doctor would see it on the MRI and laugh?
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https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/05/12/arbys-crew-finds-their-manager-dead-in-freezer/
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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!!
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Wouldn't have happened at Chipotle...
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Highly technologically advanced water people. We're so unnatural carnal knowledgeed.
https://twitter.com/noliewithbtc/status/1657893368322457610
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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/)
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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.
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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.
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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
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To be frank, I missed that one.
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To be frank, I missed that one.
But I knew you would ketchup sooner or later.
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I relish the pursuit.
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Heat Will Likely Soar to Record Levels in Next 5 Years
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/climate/record-heat-forecast.html
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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...
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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.
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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!
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Since the Covid board is best left to die.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/global-pandemic-bats-deforestation/
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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.
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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)
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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?
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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.
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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?
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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
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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)
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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/
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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
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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.
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https://www.foxnews.com/us/arizona-imposes-restrictions-new-housing-development-amidst-water-supply-concern.amp
Huh
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Jack's Pizza changed their Canadian bacon from big triangles to cubed rectangles. Doom.
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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.
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Jack's Pizza changed their Canadian bacon from big triangles to cubed rectangles. Doom.
Kraft did that!
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Kraft did that!
Nestle. Swiss should not be making pizza.
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Hottest day on record! Yes! We're #1.
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Hoax.
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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
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96 degree ocean temperatures? This planet is so effed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/10/florida-ocean-temperature-heat-records/
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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)_/¯
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/phoenix-roasts-in-record-breaking-110-plus-degree-heat-with-no-end-in-sight/
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Milwaukee, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit..... we've got the water and manageable temperatures.
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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
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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!
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Yup, now we just have to load up on guns for the water wars in 2030
You had me at hello.
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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.
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Yeesh
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-24/antarctic-sea-ice-levels-nosedive-five-sigma-event/102635204
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With so many things apparently being so doomed that each merits its own thread ...
This thread is obviously doomed.
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https://news.yahoo.com/atlantic-ocean-current-could-collapse-150009050.html
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Plugging your ears and screeching as everything burns
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/climate/republicans-climate-project2025.html
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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July was the hottest month ever.
🥓 🥓
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Global warming, hey?
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Yes.
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July was the hottest month ever.
🥓 🥓
Well, that's obviously not true.
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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
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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!!!
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Well, that's obviously not true.
Imagine thinking that picking this nit is a winning argument.
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Nah, he's good. A reminder to be specific and cite sources.
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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?
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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?
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Is the gaffe he said 9 instead of 7? The Grand Canyon is one of the 7 Wonders of the Natural World.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Right. There's literally nothing to criticize about this President.
That's exactly what I said, indeed.
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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.
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Inject bleach.
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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.
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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.
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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?"
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Depressing
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/climate/hawaii-fires-climate-change.html
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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?
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Pop Tarts are making kids gay, I guess.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/stephen-miller-accuses-kelloggs-sexualizing-190256052.html
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I am still ticked about Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas. Talk about long term harm to America.
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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.
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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?!?!?!
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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.
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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.
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Carry water, get big shoulders.
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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.
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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.
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Definitely the most significant presidential scandal in the news this week.
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Hey at least there’s a lot less civilian drone strikes while he stumbles over some words
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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
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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.
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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?
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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?"
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Joe is a "felon?"
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTHn3UnBFMPmvkj9nG8R8GsXYHfLaMcPyMAWm1EkKni0IWAYrrBgkgT66nh2NgL8QPHXJ4&usqp=CAU)
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If you count war crimes, every modern president is a felon!
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Run for office, Muggsy
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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!
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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!
🐷🐷
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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.
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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.
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!
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
Was the initial NYPost article about Hunter's l-top, that was banned from YTube , Twitter, and Facebook, inaccurate?
Some of it, yeah.
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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?
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This is eerily reminiscent of your Izzo take.
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This is eerily reminiscent of your Izzo take.
Izzo's a felon!
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Willful ignorance of child labor is just a gross misdemeanor
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This is eerily reminiscent of your Izzo take.
Facts can't compete with feelings
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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."
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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.
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Fear and control, fear and control, hey?
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Those are what my dentist uses to get me to schedule an appointment.
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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.
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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.
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Fear and control, hey?
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Fear and control, hey?
Timely warnings required by the Clery Act.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clery_Act
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Fear and control, fear and control, hey?
That's why I never wear my seat belt.
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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.
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Rabies vaccines for my dogs? F that, Big Gub'mint!
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Rabies vaccines for my dogs? F that, Big Gub'mint!
Animal abuser? Checks out. ✅️
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If you are anti-vaxxer are you a human abuser then?
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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.
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Whoosh! and over your head it goes
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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
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Whoosh! and over your head it goes
Bwahahahahahahahaha!!
That idea is hilarious!
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Bwahahahahahahahaha!!
That idea is hilarious!
🐷🐷 is implying again that I'm anti-vax.
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Bwahahahahahahahaha!!
That idea is hilarious!
Whooooooshhhhhh
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Lenny's not following a topic at all, but then inserting whatever pops into his mind? You don't say...
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Child labor laws being ignored
https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-sawmill-child-labor-death-florence-hardwoods-ab3833351f31e1cae33b96e7fb813aea
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Child labor laws being ignored
https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-sawmill-child-labor-death-florence-hardwoods-ab3833351f31e1cae33b96e7fb813aea
Why do you hate the free market
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Why do you hate the free market
At least they’re inclusive the right way
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At least they’re inclusive the right way
All shifts matter
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Shockin' dat Soldier Field hasant bin renamed yet, aina?
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Shockin' dat Soldier Field hasant bin renamed yet, aina?
Yeah, it should be LaFleur Field
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Dentist field.
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Dentist field.
Maybe if the NFL wasn’t so woke and going out of business
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Maybe they could get an honorary plaque somewhere.
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Maybe they could get an honorary plaque somewhere.
Nice.
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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)
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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.
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Christian values are doomed
https://x.com/tmz/status/1702831852883427705?s=46&t=QSiaGcOIKZrrpw0ciZkI5Q
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Christian values are doomed
https://x.com/tmz/status/1702831852883427705?s=46&t=QSiaGcOIKZrrpw0ciZkI5Q
You forgot the quote marks around Christian.
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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
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I figured that was who you were dating during your sabbatical.
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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
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Think about the children.
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Think about the children.
Wouldn’t let them read books to my kids, I know that
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The one super-annuated buffoon says the other super-annuated buffoon could lead the USA into world war 2.
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FDR: too old to run for another term
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Journalistic doom ..
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2023/10/17/murphys-law-journal-sentinel-has-lost-81-of-readers/
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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“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/
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https://nypost.com/2023/10/18/pastors-3-year-old-son-shoots-tot-brother-with-dads-gun/
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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?
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“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.
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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.
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Ignore a little rape happening under your watch and you get labeled for life. So unfair.
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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
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I have been awaiting Muggsy's outrage toward Jordan with interest.
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Off the hook, muggsy. No need for you to excoriate JJ right now. Stand down.
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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?
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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.
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Good try Nads, but Glenn Grothman voted for Jim Jordan on all 3 ballots, hey?
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Good try Nads, but Glenn Grothman voted for Jim Jordan on all 3 ballots, hey?
Ol’ family values Glenn
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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
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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
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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.
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There are 435 congresspeople. I don't even know who Glenn Grothman is.
That is shocking. The man is a laughingstock.
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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.
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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/
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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?
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Humans are no longer necessary.
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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
As 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
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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.
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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.
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Maybe something like how animals can sense an earthquake coming.
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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
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The Washington Post gave a pretty good reason a few weeks back
Drag queens?
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Which subset of humanity refuses to marry what other subset of humanity.
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Drag queens?
Pronouns
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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.
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True doom
(https://images2.imgbox.com/f4/31/ltAAypR3_o.png) (https://imgbox.com/ltAAypR3)
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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
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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!
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Zombie (illness) doom
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/jan/21/arctic-zombie-viruses-in-siberia-could-spark-terrifying-new-pandemic-scientists-warn
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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.
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This is probably fine.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/09/climate/atlantic-circulation-collapse-weather-climate/index.html
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Early as 2025 eh? I’ll worry about it next year
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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)
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Unfortunately I think it already has hit the MU Dental School.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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That graph .. ahhhh, it'll probably get better next year.
https://www.axios.com/2024/02/20/february-record-warm-oceans-hurricanes
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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
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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
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2012/06/13/doctored-data-not-u-s-temperatures-set-a-record
LOL. That was debunked years ago.
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2012? Got anything from at least the wojo era?
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-surgeon-general-defies-science-025905732.html
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He's paid good money to be an anti-vax nutjob. Just doing what he is paid to do.
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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!
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Sorry. I do my own research on facebook.
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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
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Congratulations!
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/26/climate/doomsday-glacier-antarctic-ice-melt-climate-intl/index.html
“Doomsday” glacier, probably fine
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https://twitter.com/RealUntoldStory/status/1764187365562524111
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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.
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It must be nice to have 1400s peasant brain
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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
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It must be nice to have 1400s peasant brain
When an argument is lost Slander is the tool of losers- Socrates
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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.
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Unc, doesn't the climate change in Milwaukee about every 30 minutes?
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Unc, doesn't the climate change in Milwaukee about every 30 minutes?
I don’t go to Milwaukee. Too dangerous for me
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I've heard that the Dentists are out of control there
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Any self-respecting dentist wouldn't be caught dead in Milwaukee. They prefer the exurbs.
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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.
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Unc, doesn't the climate change in Milwaukee about every 30 minutes?
Weather, Climate...I mean what's the difference, right?
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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
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I rarely Google
You probably should.
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You probably should.
He strikes me as more of a person who uses Web Crawler.
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Ask Jeeves. Makes one feel like they're being waited on
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Proving my point I rarely Google and my memory is still intact
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=confirmation+bias
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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.
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He strikes me as more of a person who uses Web Crawler.
That's ,like, your opinion, man
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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
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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
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This thread unlocked itself!! Computers are taking over!! We're doomed!!!!
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You're not completely wrong. But Hilltopper isn't a computer...yet.
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Temporary locks break the idiocy cycle.
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Temporary locks break the idiocy cycle.
Temporary breaks lock the idiocy cycle.
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Temporary idiots lock the brakes
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g𝐨d d𝐚m𝐧i𝐭, I h𝐚t𝐞 𝐲o𝐮 𝐩e𝐨p𝐥e s𝐨 𝐦u𝐜h.
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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
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Use the forest fire starting Jewish space lasers on them.
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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
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Hoaxes aren’t interesting.
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https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2024/03/20/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-banning-chemtrails-what-to-know/73027586007/
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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
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The thread that doesn't die.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq5ydeWWr4A
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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)
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https://nypost.com/2024/04/04/us-news/bird-flu-pandemic-could-be-100-times-worse-than-covid-scientists-warn/
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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
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https://www.iflscience.com/conspiracy-theorists-think-the-eclipse-will-begin-a-massive-human-sacrifice-event-73671
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Scoop has numbed me. No conspiracy theory is insane enough to shock me. Just dumb people saying dumb things.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Is this good
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/06/simply-mind-boggling-world-record-temperature-jump-in-antarctic-raises-fears-of-catastrophe
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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.)
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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
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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.
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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
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Slightly less doom?!
https://x.com/amyaharder/status/1779875035001606444?s=46&t=G2FhP_F2kWewaBOpvRv5lg