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    On 6/28/2025 at 12:51 PM, Gatorubet said:

    Gotcha.  Agree.  I also liked you pointing out the no God before me concept.   Before my paternal grandfather was kicked out of the Mormon church for his alcoholism, that side of the family were all latter-day Saints.   The interesting thing about them is they are actually a polytheist theology.   And I believe Joseph Smith referred to that particular sentence to validate the fact that there was a cosmic father and mother producing spirit babies, and the teaching that with enough time and adherence to theology that a human man can eventually become a God worshiped by people on other planets.

    It's even more polytheistic than that. God was not always divine. God was once human and has become God. When God was human, there was a God over him. A God who created him. When a man dies, he can become God over worlds without number.  

    It's basically a giant pyramid scheme of Gods.  

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    On 6/28/2025 at 12:51 PM, Gatorubet said:

    I have to say, that is a hell of a lot better than hanging around on a cloud twanging on a harp.

    Not for the women. The men get to create and rule over worlds without numbers, but women must spend eternity pregnant and constantly giving birth to billions of babies. 


     

  2. On 6/13/2025 at 2:37 PM, 'stache said:

    I don't know shit about fuck, just speculating. If America get's directly involved, we're all fucked, and I can see it being part of the crazy evangelical bring on the rapture bullshit. I'm convined these days though that most of them don't actually believe their religious bullshit and know it's all a pretext to be a supremecist asshole so they might not do it knowing goddamned well there ain't no rapture coming.

    I also think a nuke is going to be used relatively soon and if its used in war anywhere it's MAD thereafter. I've previously suspected that if Putin is truly in danger of losing to Ukraine outright he might nuke Kyiv out of pure desperation or as an ultimate fuck you before putting a bullet in how own skull. Maybe Bibi does it to Iran for whatever whack job reason. 

     

    Kids today get everything just handed to them. 

    They already get to skip class to run school shooter drills.  

    Now they get to skip even more class to practice the hide under your desk and kiss your ass goodbye drill. 

    Plus, one lucky kid gets to skip even more class. It's straight to the principal's office for the first kid who points out hiding under your desk isn't going to do shit if you are nuked, and you'd probably wish you were dead if you somehow did manage to survive it.

    I wouldn't know what that's like though. It's not like I did that in 4th grade and then again in 6th grade. 

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  3. I had some kids suddenly dart in front of me in a parking lot today. Weirdly, I didn't hit them. Didn't even need to run a flashing stop sign on the side of a bus to not hit them. 

    Probably because when there are children around, I know there is a decent chance one of them will obliviously dart in front of me.

    I anticipate this and up my own vigilance, because I don't want to run over someone's little paste eater. 

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  4. 2 hours ago, Bobby_Batronic said:

    The world will know if they used nukes. 
     

    However, short of actually using those weapons, it’s a matter of logistics. The IAF does not possess the kind of aircraft that can heft the kind of bunker buster needed to penetrate those hardened underground targets. 

    Really appreciate the perspective here and had a quick question.

    Is the IAF's inability to pull this off with their own planes a matter of payload, range and/or defeating Iranian air defense?  Combo of all three?

     

    3 hours ago, staboner said:

    godammit. trying to start off my no nuke friday in peace and well, shit. 

    Did you say Mo' Nuke Friday? Because if so, I've got some good news for you...

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    Gonna have to scooch those hands a bit more clockwise. 

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  5. 20 hours ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

    I always laugh at all the people from flyover states that talk about what a crime ridden wasteland NYC is, but they come here at Christmas, spend thousands, and then go home, knowing that things are not as bad as Fox News or dear Orange Leader tells them, but still go back to repeating the lies that they hear. 

    Sips of truth are quickly drowned out when they drink from a firehose of lies. 

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  6. 5 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

    The stupid thing about that is people arrive to Dodger Stadium from literally every direction on the compass.  This would service a miniscule number for likely  a ridiculous cost.

    Not to mention the earthquake risk. It would take a special kind of mouth breather to get in a Musk built underground tunnel in an area as seismically active as LA. 

    2 hours ago, Firemans4Horn said:

     

     

    Wanting to fuck 14 year olds? Who does he think he is, Joseph Smith?

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  7. His Lawyers closing argument:

    Is my client guilty of stomping on turtles? Yes. 

    Is he guilty of sucking up ghosts with a vacuum cleaner? Also yes.

    Does he drive like a manic and have an issue with road rage? Sure, but who doesn't get a little steamed in traffic? 

    None of that makes him a murderer. Maybe the turtles, but as we showed you, he was stomping those turtles in self-defense.

    Most importantly, I want to remind you that the prosecution introduced video evidence of a silent shooter. Silent. 

    But we've shown you clear evidence that my client is simply unable to enter a scene without announcing himself. 

    Whoever the shooter is, he is completely silent. You never hear the shooter say "ima Luigi", because it wasn'ta Luigi. 

    Defense rests. 

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    On 5/3/2025 at 2:12 PM, Brisketexan said:


    Ok, see…that’s one of the billion reasons I hate AI. The correct answer is “they couldn’t, because Neanderthals lived exclusively in the old world, and turkeys are from the new world/western hemisphere.” It can’t think more than one layer deep.

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  9. 23 hours ago, TheYoungHorn said:

    I had to eat goldfish and maria cookies for lunch because the whole apartment only had 5 euros in it. 

    But fish in the bowl is lucky
    They in for a worser fate
    One day when the boss get hungry
    Guess who's gon' be on the plate

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  10. On 4/26/2025 at 4:47 PM, tx 3 putt said:

    if dart was a 1st round pick, he's a top 5 for sure 

    It's hard to get an accurate read on Dart. He's only played 1 year with a coach that isn't Lane Kiffin and it's the year Clay Helton finally got fired. Dart is boom, or bust, but has the potential to be a good quarterback now that his coach doesn't have the emotional maturity of an angry toddler refusing to take a nap. 

    16 hours ago, Derka said:

     

    Banks at #9 is an absolute steal. Saints fans are going to be really happy with that pick. 

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  11. 1 hour ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    i would add a poll if i could

    Q: how long are we fucked?

    - weeks

    - months

    - quarters

    - years

    - administrations

    - decades

     

    I'll take the over.

    The shining city on the hill is burning all around us and too many Americans are mistaking the fire for the light.

    When there is nothing left to burn, we will find ourselves well into the new Dark Ages. 

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  12. Last one and I'll quit hijacking the thread with La Brea chat, but this helps show how absurd the preservation is.

    This a 3D model of a 14,000 year old leaf cutter bee made from very high resolution CT scans. Each slice is 3 microns thick. 

    Left is the eye, right is the abdomen. The flat spot in the middle is one of the wings. There are individual pollen grains and full internal organ system preserved. There is so much preserved detail, scanning and processing them crashed a supercomputer. 

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    Red arrow is the eye. Blue is the wing. Orange is the abdomen. image.png.5e9dee7fd33b9a2de2c3fa4481d01ea1.png

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  13. Here's a cladogram from the Nature paper, you can think of it as a family tree. From left to right is time. The branches show how closely related they are to each other. Each place the branches diverge represents the common ancestor for that group and the number represents how many millions of years ago the split occurred. For example, Andean foxes split from everyone else 6.8 million years ago.

    Dire wolves split from everyone else 5.7 million years ago. The grey wolf is WAY up the family tree from dire wolves. They are not very close at all. 

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