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- about 1 hour ago on Non Sequitur
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about 1 hour ago
on Calvin and Hobbes
Another good recipe: fried cheese.
Heat some butter in a frying pan. Drop in grated cheese to form a circle. Fry until the edges start turning crispy, flip, fry 30 seconds or so, remove, cool and eat.
Think of a large, hard cheese “crunchy”. It is probably terrible for the arteries, but sooooo tasty. Which means it’s perfect for Americans.
For those into trivia, this recipe comes from the Schlock Mercenary comic. Tried it… it’s nahmy.
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about 1 hour ago
on Calvin and Hobbes
Beany-Weenies are delicious. Actually one of my favorite dishes. Honest.
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about 1 hour ago
on Calvin and Hobbes
I had exactly the same though. Swiss cheese and catsup? Bleh! (I am reminded of catsup and eggs.. but many people just love the stuff.)
Nevertheless, I have found some odd sounding things to be really delicious. Hot fudge sundae with a slice of bacon. And if you want something just irresistibly tasty, fry up some hamburger and then simmer it with a large can of pork n beans. I’ve tasted few things so incredibly delicious.
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1 day ago
on Speed Bump
Global Climate Change is real. “Data” that claims it isn’t generally points to individual situations as “proof” are aberrations from the norm, and do not alter the overall trend line and long-term data.
As I read through your message I understood the earnestness behind it and understand you fully believe what you wrote, and I respect that you presented that information in a respectful manner. Kudos there. But I also was able even with the limited information there to separate the relevant facts from the irrelevant ones— because that’s what I trained to do.
I could provide more examples of indications of global instability (earthquakes, health issues based on first world countries vs third world countries, etc etc), but I’m already on the third post in a row. ;D
Suffice to say that there is more that sufficient evidence to prove global climate change is taking place. But when we see someone in our nation’s executive office clamping down on valid information because well, he’s a pathological egotistical narcissist… it can be difficult for people to get the full story. I really wish that NASA website was still up, because I’d simply provide you the link… and all other supposed “data” would pale in comparison, and all doubt would vanish. It was some of the most accurate and condemning data I have ever seen, in any field of scientific research… and left no doubt as to the degree of damage being done to the ecology on a global basis. The warming of the ocean currents alone (very important factors) was alarming.
When I see contradictory information, I feel outrage that someone would be so deluded and dishonest as to try to deceive people as to the reality of our current situation. But we see such “fake news” every day, to the point it has become a buzzword. But it all boils down to Denial Syndrome… and it’s a very dangerous thing: people absolutely refusing to believe the Titanic could sink.
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1 day ago
on Speed Bump
People can believe what they choose to believe, but as I’ve stated many times on these forums: belief does not alter reality. In the field of psychiatry there has been a great increase in what’s layman-termed as “Denial Syndrome”… refusing to believe negative information because people simply don’t want to believe it.
The proof may be right in front of their eyes, the data may be absolute and obvious, yet people will still deny it, because they believe it can’t be true. The most well-known case of this syndrome was the number of people who died aboard the Titanic simply because they refused to believe the ship could sink. Denial Syndrome that cost them their lives.
That is what I am seeing happen today. People are denying obvious and documented dangers to global stability, primarily because subconsciously they don’t want to believe that our very civilization is facing extreme danger. I’ve noted this syndrome even in educated scientists, and they are part of the problem: skewing and misrepresenting hard data to suit their own opinions… and thereby misleading people who trust “they must know what they’re talking about”. But they don’t. They’re not immune to a psychological condition just because they’re “scientists” (a rather broad-use term).
As I stated, the data on the NASA website was verified and validated by hard-core research, was there for ages… and it mysteriously vanished overnight when a particular business-oriented President came into power and started shoving his weight (and funding) around. He didn’t want anything pointing to big business as a major factor in global ecology. Was he responsible for that site being taken offline? I don’t actually know; I’m just connecting the very-coincidental dots… along with hard knowledge of what he did to the CDC during Covid-19 that got 1 million US citizens killed.
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1 day ago
on Speed Bump
I agree with you that there are a lot of conflicting reports, a lot of propaganda, and a lot of fake news and opinionated articles. Some of it is even fanatical.
However, I don’t look at individual incidents. I look at trend lines and overall statistics, which is what I worked in most of my life (and in much more difficult-to-define areas: statistical analysis of psychological traits and abnormalities). Tricky stuff.
There are always deviations from the norm. The most deadly hurricane in 1928 really has little to do with the overall trend an increase in the number and size of hurricanes we have witnessed over the last several years. While measuring hurricane severity and pressure is not invalid, it is not the main issue. One hurricane being extremely powerful does not outweigh the X number of other hurricanes that tore through the world during a time period.
I spoke of the data at NASA, and it was both accurate and condemning. It showed a 70% shrinkage of the Northern icecap over a period of several decades (not centuries, recent decades). They had a series of global photos color-coded by temperature for the last several thousand years (yes, they can actually measure such things). Those photographs showed thousand of years remaining in the blue/green/violet (cool) climates, basically “Earth norm”. Then in the 1800s that started shifting out of that color range on a global scale, and in the 1900s quickly completely left that “cool” range entirely and went into the orange, yellow and finally red spectrum (red indicating dangerously increasing global warming).
That kind of proof— trend lines over hundreds and thousands of years, is not propaganda nor biased information. That is scientifically-accurate and validated data that proves that in the last 100 years our global temperature has increased more that increased in the thousands of years prior to the industrial / technological age— and has entered into the danger zone.
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2 days ago
on Ink Pen
Actually, a tall Internet cartoon rabbit weighs hardly more than a tiny cartoon rabbit. The pixels are nearly identical in mass. Which of course, makes the problem even more difficult to solve. ;D
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2 days ago
on Loose Parts
Whether he gets the job or not, nobody nose.
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2 days ago
on Speed Bump
Regarding the cause of global temperature increase, I have no opinion nor comment on that. My comment was that the phenomena is occurring beyond the historic norm. I’ve seen the hard-core data.
Prior to a certain president’s election, NASA had an entire section on global temperature changes, which included statistics, maps, photographs of the north and south poles, etc. The evidence was accurate, complete and conclusive. NASA requires such evidence in every aspect of their space exploration, and it has to be accurate.
Then suddenly that information vanished when a certain President adamantly denied such things were happening. That same President threatened the CDC when it wanted to take established-protocol steps to counter Covid-19, resulting in the death of over one million Americans.
So one might rightly wonder: what caused a trustworthy agency such as NASA to remove an entire section of their website overnight, when it contained undeniable and detailed information that proved abnormal global temperature increase, based on their own data and satellite photos? These worsening global disasters aren’t happening “just because”. The NASA data was correct.
If the CDC felt threatened enough to cave to what amounted to Presidential dictatorship… NASA could be even more impacted by someone-in-power taking a strong dislike to their difficult-to-refute evidence.
Greenhouse gasses? Carbon emissions? Fluorocarbons? Cattle farts? I don’t know enough about the global-effects of such things to say for a certainty. What I do know for a certainty is that I saw the maps and diagrams and global end-result photos… and those don’t lie.
Whatever is causing the problem, abnormal global climate change is definitely a problem, no matter how much propaganda has appeared on the Internet denying such. Had I not seen those charts and photos on the NASA site I wouldn’t be so certain. However that data left no doubt as to the reality of our global situation.
For those who get their jollies maligning God and faith, who believe that their anti-God opinions are the absolute stuff, I am reminded of the people aboard the Titanic who personally believed it was impossible for the ship to sink. But no matter what they firmly and absolutely believed, their opinion did not stop what was coming… and they met the ultimate consequence for not listening to warnings.
Many here praise Democracy and tell everyone to vote, but forget that this country was founded on freedom of religion. Yet commenters openly badmouth God and faith, for really no valid reason at all other than ego. Don’t confuse the bad history of man-made religion with God and consistently-fulfilled prophecy.
Passengers ignored the people who were trying to warn them and save their lives. The ship was obviously sinking, but they stubbornly refused to believe and get on the lifeboats. So people can post all the sarcastic comments they wish. Such posts will not change what is about to happen… and those attitudes and opinions will come to a definite end.
I will not be surprised (at all) if this country goes into a complete uproar no matter how this election turns out. “Do not put your faith in man, in whom there is no salvation.”
There is still time to be less-opinionated / biased and do some actual research and examination (not to mention earnest prayer for proper guidance) to “see if these things are so”… and get on that lifeboat. But that time lessens with each passing day. Look at the world around us. This society is heading full speed into a brick wall… and there is only one true solution. Politics is not that solution. Never has been. Never will be.