Comments by "William Cox" (@WildBillCox13) on "JRE Clips" channel.

Even though I am a fan of weed, a dealer I knew made a connection with a guy who sold him pounds of "superbud" which turned out to have treated with synthetic cannibanoids. The dealer friend (a guy for whom more was better and too much is just right) literally went crazy smoking that treated ** at a rate of about a quarter ounce per day. Just for him. Synthetic cannibanoids are spin-off chemistry from US Army experiments in keeping soldiers functional in degraded and/or poisonous environments. Those soldiers would serve until they collapsed end then written off . . . they would not be going home again. There is nothing good about idiots treating street weed with that garbage . . . but they do. In forty years of weed smoking and contact with the drug counterculture I never saw a psychotic episode in a weed smoker until that treated garbage appeared on the streets. Now I've seen several. Conscienceless bastards profiting on human misery. The dark, sick, underbelly of capitalism.
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Professionals measure sharks by PCL (Pre Caudal Length), which is without the tail. A 7 meter PCL Great White female has been measured and confirmed. That's 21 feet plus 2.1 feet = 23.1 feet. With its tail, TL (Total Length) can be as much as 27' (more, if the measurer stretches it, like they do with squid). That's a huge elasmobrabch! SImilarly, Greenland sharks have been reliably measured at 6m PCL and are widely supposed to reach or exceed 7m PCL. For perspective, Basking Sharks can reach 10m PCL. Many "Megalodon" sightings have been misreported Basking shark encounters. Check for details at Elasmo-Reasearch dot org. http://www.elasmo-research.org/education/ecology/id-guide.htm
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Little Richard is a fine performer. My vote for best in Rock and Roll. His contributions are many and his life was wild as anything in the annals of Rock.
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Good look at the idea. Each fighting art evolved over time to meet changing philosophical criteria. Some were meant from the start as compensation for debility, or lack of weapon or size, or were directed over time into specialties unforeseen by their creators. No martial or fighting art is a direct lineage, for, if the student does not improve on his master's lessons, experiment by testing them against other schools, and goes on to teach the improved form*, no change takes place and the forms stagnate and become stylistic, rather than retaining utility for modern situations. Ju-Jutsu or Jiu-Jutsu(called Jiujitsu or Jujitsu in the west) was taught as self defense in japan during WW2 and came to America through a Dutch emigre and police self defense instructor who codified it into a number of pamphlets in the '50s and '60s. I got my first taste of the fighting arts through those pamphlets, around 1960. ^The Martial Dialectic is as follows: Hypothesis/Style > Antithesis/Guy who gives you a rough time, Synthesis/Solution the changed "lineage form" reflecting practical realities.
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I've never smoked a Lake Gar, but I've smoked a Sea Gar.
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Gustav. And Google Lolong, from the Philippines.
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Joe-Chinese factories are turning out all the merch. That's why it's a big deal.
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There is no "percentage of the possibility of life". There is exactly zero evidence of life anywhere we did not take it. Putting it into fresh perspective: to say "there must be--" is exactly the same thing that we folks who believe in God get laughed at for saying. Zero evidence. Zero proven system for locating or identifying. Zero effort into looking outside what we already know. But somehow you guys all claim there "must be" life out there, somewhere. Closed minds are to be expected in Religion, but to see one in Science is unsettling.
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Like any good scientist (which I am most certainly not) I will gleefully change my tune if proven wrong, using circular logic to explain how "I knew that all along. You were misinterpreting my statements is all". Science is nothing more than billions of mistakes codified, collated, and selectively interpreted, so as to make Scientists seem smarter than they are. Which they're not.
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The strangler isn't safe. They will have to silence him*. In fact, he may soon be proof of how easy it is to have someone killed, if you have the power to swing it. All of those holes in our penal system exposed . . . and no one will be held responsible for the comprehensive evidence this case provides for comprehending the scope of what must be system-wide incompetence. 1) Cameras that don't work. Who was paid for camera testing and maintenance work they did not provide? 2) Guards not on duty. Who okayed their pay for those hours? 3) Prisoner checks not made. That's El Chapo level negligence, which means fat payoffs. Whether this travesty of our federal punishment system was bought and paid for by the friends of Epstein, or those of his enemies, it should be recognized that a culture of bribery exists in a place where it is both destructive and devolutionary. *Depending on where he's placed. If he's a member of the right prison gang, in a place the gang's influence is strong . . . he'll be effectively immune . . . for a while. Even in the heart of a cult, money buys loyalty.
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I'm with you on that. I tell you in advance that I am an old hippy, too, so I am chiming into a convo I might not be appreciated for. I have worked out with poetry, blogging (google me), songwriting, novel writing, studied Shorin Ryu, re-invented myself with WuShu variations, watched college lectures in a dozen subjects, read philosophy, practiced with bokuto, katana, and jian (and piano and guitar, pen and Mark One Eyeball), all through my adulthood, just to keep my edge; I don't consider myself capable of fighting experts or educating professionally. I know about the difference between dojo fights and street fights, and I have won fights in some cases simply by being the more willing to mix it up. I am all about cross training between body, mind, and soul. My specific interest is not about competing for females (or shemales, if that's your deal) by physical perfection . . . or about scaring pure posers away from my harem . . . it's about being a well rounded man. I want to be able to understand what learned folks are talking about, I want to be able to audit and discuss great lessons in philosophy, art, and fighting technique. AND I want to help struggling folks with everyday difficulties-hold doors, offer to carry packages . . . all that boy scout stuff . . . because it's the Right Thing to Do. Rock's a great guy and all, but he's specialized too well and is leaving behind that well rounded paradigm in favor of more physical appeal. If asked by him for advice (don't laugh: rich guys seek philosophical advice from poor men all the time-that's what trainers are: philosophers; whether they like it or not), I would suggest that he has peaked; all that remains if he goes on is an enlarged heart and organ failure. He won't make himself younger or prettier. Believe me, I've tried. Great listening to you talk, Joe.
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My thought is that judo is the best physical fitness course any school could offer. First off: it teaches the student how to fall without hurting him or herself. Since most real life fights go to the ground on asphalt or concrete, you better know how to fall. Additionally, I have employed lessons learned from both judo and karate in all sorts of real life situations not involved with combat or killing. Try that with firearms, or dodgeball.
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An alien culture might become aware of the negative impact it has on existing systems, cultures, or the growth of life, and seek actively to limit that negative impact to a reasonable degree. Considering the energy requirements for transstellar/interdimensional travel, an advanced alien culture wouldn't send out expensive expeditions, or colonists, without an ironclad necessity driving the activity. I agree with Neil in that they could be here already, or have come and gone, and we (our less than global civilizations in constant flux from wars of economic mobilization or armed aggression, or expansion) did not have the ability to assemble all the available evidence into the sort of coherence that could subsequently enlighten us to that reality. Why would they let us-the most aggressive killers of other species on the planet-know anything?
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Conor showed his mettle. Floyd showed his experience. Conditioning on the two men has, perhaps, emphasized slightly different balances of qualities. That would be understandable, given the difference in nature of the two arts. Floyd did play Conor, winning every clinch, but one, which surprised me, until I decided that the reason was Conor is canny on the ground, whereas Floyd is canny upright; he never has to consider the prone game at all. Floyd also used the rules of boxing-and its tricks-extremely effectively, amusing all the experts, as they hoped he would. Those elbows were mean. I am still amazed Conor did not expect them. Consider that MMA is all about crossing the GAP to reach the clinch, whereas a lot of boxing technique is about lightning counterstrikes launched as the referee separates you after the clinch. MMA wants to close the GAP, but the boxing Ref wants to reset the GAP . . . weird and counterintuitive. Anyway, in my view, Floyd and his team analyzed the situation, set this up, worked it like a con, and won the prize: public perception that Boxing stands up as valid against other violent contact sports and fighting arts. We all know how important that pop is. On the other side, who is going to disrespect Conor after a great showing against the "best in the world"? I'm pretty sure everyone won this time,especially the fans.
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