I appreciate why Fahlo tried to get you to sign up immediately. The El Torito opt out for selling your information is obnoxious.

I liked Berlin Game. Better than Ipcress File.

FEMA concentration camps don’t run themselves.

Once the inevitable falling-out occurs between Trump and Elon, I wonder if he'll start referring to him as Rocket Man 2.

These guys are too captured to create such a list. They are fully in the camp of anything they don’t absolutely have to believe (for example, if Trump is still denying it) is the definition of hoax.

Those guys deserve a medal.

He could be my grandad. Probably not, but still....

@89th said in Why Anal is better: Damn, I missed George’s goo thread. That would’ve sufficed. Just be thankful I resisted the urge to produce an anal log and post pictures

@Axtremus said in Property Taxes?: Property owners factor in property taxes when setting rent. Of course. When I was a landlord, I did.

@jon-nyc said in Antivaxxer Magat invents….. vaccines.: It remains the case that he basically said ‘let’s not have a vaccine instead let’s have a vaccine’. The only out for him is if, as Horace suggested, he was being ironic. But I think his brand is more in-your-face than subtle and ironic. Actually, that was me referring to it as being ironic, but I would hardly call that subtle. It seems pretty heavy handed to me, but nobody else seems to see it that way.

I was aware of digitalis, just not the comparison to foxglove.

My ass. No, wait… your ass.

No kidding!

The only reason I see him getting such a parachute deal is maybe they don’t want to scare away future presidents? Seems very odd.

Canadian too.

@Doctor-Phibes said in Why Analogy Is Better: @LuFins-Dad said in Why Analogy Is Better: @George-K said in Why Analogy Is Better: @Doctor-Phibes said in Why Analogy Is Better: @Horace said in Why Analogy Is Better: Einsteinian mechanics Those fuckers totally ruined my car. The faster I go, the heavier the bloody thing gets. True, but you live longer. That’s kind of relative… Or do you live the same length of time, but your relatives die sooner? That’s heavy.

@jon-nyc said in Meanwhile, in San Francisco...: @taiwan_girl said in Meanwhile, in San Francisco...: The fact that certain races have different average IQs I disagree with this. I think it is more with upbringing and family involvement in education rather than any actual different in brain capacity between races. It’s an empirical question that has been shown in a variety of contexts. Note that the explanation for a difference in group averages could be anywhere on the spectrum of combinations of nature and nurture. So you can agree that the data are what they are and still attribute the observed difference to cultural practices. That explanation can be studied, but isn't, not in the "serious" mainstream, due to social retribution against the scientists. This is one of the woke things that may remain in perpetuity. Even if most or at least many of us can still understand overlapping distributions.