Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "PowerfulJRE" channel.

  1. Brilliant man. Too sensitive for his own good. Praying for him in 2020.
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  2. I've been in a sorta similar workplace environment. Your idea gets shot down at one meeting. A month later, someone else brings up the same idea, and "Gee, what a great idea!" It was great relief getting the hell outta there.
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  3. "The urge to save the world is invariable the urge to rule." - H.L. Mencken
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  4. He's a guy who plays make-believe for a living, and puts on airs about his "process." Only someone living an extremely privileged life would think living on the street was a good idea. Out of touch, pretending to be "down." Not impressed.
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  5. MJW didn't get the movie offers some others did, in spite of being a rare fusion of great actor and martial artist. It's too bad. Wesley got too important to do any of his own stunts. Most of what you see is his stunt double. Still would love to see more BLADE and SPAWN movies. And see them done well, with the kind of blockbuster budgets the Avengers and MCU got, with lesser talent.
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  6.  @Luhzonya  : Pretty eyes. Down-to-Earth. Very attractive. Not super-model beauty. But not at all hard to look at, and a joy to be around. I can see the attraction.
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  7.  @mikejohnson3338  Actually, studies show that mental illness is much greater amongst liberals. That's why they want government to fix everything by force. No faith in themselves or their fellow man. Why that creates such an inordinate faith in politicians to fix things, I'll never know, because politicians, by and large, are the last people you want to fix ANYthing.
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  8. Yes. Seems like he's posing. Very hard to watch. Seems "affected," as in "a man with affectations."
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  9.  K Tipnis  You NPCs make it hard for adults to hold a conversation.
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  10. If you keep your underlings fighting each other, nobody thinks to come after you. It's the leadership model brought to us by A. Hitler.
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  11. 99.9% of the time, making a kill is difficult, and a wolf can't afford to pass up easy opportunities. But just like humans and food or sex, the stuff that you need to do to perpetuate the species FEELS GOOD. That would include sinking your teeth into prey animals if you're a wolf.
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  12. Did you see the burn for that? Some kid munching raw ramen with the 1st Amendment on the screen behind him, pointing to the "peaceably assemble" part.
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  13. That mask on the back of your head thing only worked for a short time. Tigers figured it out and the main result of putting a mask on the back of your head was for tigers to start attacking people from in front. The reason it worked for a while was because in Nature, they only attack from behind, and the mask makes (made) them think you were facing them, even when they were behind you.
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  14. Gender dysphoria is a very rare condition that's getting over-diagnosed and woven in with some creepy sexualization of young kids. Desmond isn't as amazing as the parents who seem to be grooming him to be a sex worker.
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  15.  @frangelelink  He'd be going after the woke religion, if he were still alive, today, tearing into the Democrat establishment. The only difference being that the left would deny him a platform.
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  16.  @gerk7238  The scientific method is a method of multiple working hypotheses. You don't rule anything out, and you lean towards the theory that fits the facts in the most simple way (Occam's Razor - the simpler explanation is preferred/more likely). Wuhan Lab was at the epicenter. They were doing research on this precise strain of bat virus. Early on, we heard of scientists being sent home with corona-like symptoms in November 2019. The prima facie evidence is that it most likely got loose out of the lab, and that theory should've stood as at LEAST as probable as other theories, and more investigation needed to be done. What happened, instead, was the guy who SENT THE MONEY OVER TO WUHAN, Peter Daszak, was the guy whose word everybody took, without fact-checking - indeed, FaceBook made him their head fact-checker! And you know how THEY knew he had no conflict of interest? His word that he had no conflict of interest. And if you have no sense that theories embarrassing to China and Fauci's Funders were ruthlessly and arbitrarily suppressed as "debunked" without ANY real investigative reporting being done, then you haven't been paying attention. The fact that they got it all wrong can NOT be called "an honest mistake." It was pure censorship, implemented by the very person who was likely complicit in the creation of the virus. What YOU do is take the word of ONE GUY you decide to make the arbiter of truth, and then think it's OK to silence all competing theories. That's authoritarian bullshit. That's not how we produce knowledge in the West. That's now how we judge truth in the West. We spent millennia refining how we measure truth and reason to a better understanding of the world around us. Science. You know? All that stuff that made this conversation in the comments section possible? Nope. Once they make it political, nobody cares about truth any more, because to them, the truth is already absolutely known. You make a big show of "following the facts and evidence," but it is clear by the abject FAILURES that our leaders were not following facts and evidence, and many of the measures imposed did more harm than good.
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  17. SPAM.
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  18. SPAM
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  19.  @onefortheroad6186  Liberals have run against the establishment while BEING the establishment for generations. The hypocrisy is thick enough to cut with a knife. "Those evil billionaires (who finance my campaigns)..." The current times remind me of the 1960s, only the roles are reversed, and the liberal elites are MUCH more oppressive than the "right-wingers" they satirized in the '60s. Now they're the butt of the joke, and they don't understand why. They do all the things they campaigned against on their road to power, only they do it more and they do it more blatantly. The hippies protesting for Free Speech in the 1960s are the biggest censors, nowadays.
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  20. People who make it to Yale on grounds of skin color end up feeling VERY out of sorts, because they're not really ready for those courses. I encountered something similar when I went to graduate school, from a small state college. I got one semester of abstract algebra. All my peers got a full year as undergraduates. It was a real struggle for me, but I never got promoted for social-engineering reasons by well-intentioned idiots. I knew what I was in for, and I stayed home working every weekend, while my peers came in every Monday talking about parties and ski trips. Eventually, I caught up. Many of my peers didn't make the cut for a PhD. I BARELY made the cut, but it was because I out-worked everybody else. It never occurred to me to protest my weakish background. I was a rock star at the state college. I was a work-hard nobody in grad school.
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  21. He was competing with criminals who paid for protection. Can't have that. They need the $$$ to go through the proper channels to get their cut.
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  22.  @Gutwrenched  Back when America was a moral country, all the kids were taught spinning back-fist in Sunday School. But nobody goes to church, any more, and people are dying. It's very sad.
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  23. Lots of independents getting great exposure from Joe. And Joe's nice to everybody.
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  24. "I know! Let's go fishing!"
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  25. I worked 7 days a week, going to school and learning hard things, working and paying my way, so I had a good enough gig that I can be the wonderful couch potato I am, today. All due to hard work.
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  26. I read one JFK conspiracy theory by a ballistics expert, who explained away the whole "magic bullet" theory. HIS theory was that it was most likely an unintentional kill shot from a secret-service agent who was the guy with the automatic rifle who sat up on the back rest of the rear seat of a convertible trailing the president. There was the one shot from Lee Harvey Oswald, the cars in the convoy all hit the gas, and in the panic, the agent accidentally squeezed off a couple rounds, as he tumbled backwards from his perch. According to the one author, the "conspiracy" was trying to cover for their own incompetence. It was less embarrassing to assume Oswald was a super-human sniper, who could fire off several well-aimed shots with a bolt-action rifle like it was a lever-action or semi-auto. So without any conspiracy at all to assassinate the president, but with an accidental discharge in the panic from the initial shot from Oswald. He made a pretty good case based on ballistics, just where some of the shots must've come from. His theory didn't require any "magic bullet" or even any real malice. Just a HUGE FUCK-UP by a body guard.
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  27.  @C.S.Sensei  Oh, he definitely spent most of his career going after the right. No doubt. If he were still around, he'd be eviscerating identity politics, CRT and the New Segregation. No doubt. You can already see it in his later material. He was too big-government for my taste in the '80s, but his critiques of the establishment were spot on. He just had no idea what wing of the establishment would turn out to be more authoritarian back then.
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  28. We're programmed to "stick it out," because we fear the unknown. Best thing that can happen in those toxic situations is to be fired or forced out, if you don't have the will to do it, yourself.
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  29. Nobody said it was gonna be easy. The people currently in office are very good at getting and keeping power. That's why they're in power. An endless line of the same kinds of people, and they've made California government their private club.
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  30. Every one of those adult males was RIPPED. Imagine 130 lbs of sheer ferocity coming at you, with its fur standing on end to make it look bigger. Just terrifying. It'd look as big as a man to you, I bet. I feel just as bad when it's chimps hunting monkeys as I do when it's chimps warring with one another. I also root for the seal vs the orca or the polar bear. Have you ever seen a weasel take out a hare? There's a YT clip of weasel taking on a monkey many times its size. That monkey didn't stand a chance, from the minute it was in the weasel's crosshairs. No, I always root for the prey as an observer. I only root for the hunter when I'M the hunter. I'm a total hypocrite. But at least I thank and praise my quarry. I'm kind of primitive that way. "Sorry, but this meat will feed me and my family. Thank you."
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  31. Facebook's "trust and safety board." Reminds me of Comcast's "Loyalty Specialist." You know. The person you have to talk to in order to cancel your cable.
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  32.  @alexanderroche3928  Yes, and every major government institution and all its departments and sub-departments are petty fiefdoms. Unlike your traditional fiefdoms, however, they grow their domains by incompetence, because they get more resources and staff by making problems worse.
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  33. I've been a Hotep Jesus fan since he cry-bullied Starbucks for a free coffee, just to show how idiotic Starbucks is. It worked.
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  34.  @SamHainScott There've been other studies that show how people will do bad things when immersed in a bad culture. There was also a study where they told participants that they were trying to use biofeedback to bring out "psychic powers" in 'test subjects.' If they guessed the wrong figure on the card, they administered a small electric shock. Before long, the participants were administering what they THOUGHT were dangerous or even fatal shocks. They could even hear the 'test subjects' screaming. But they really wanted the experiment to work, and so they were just doing their duty. It was all faked, and the test subjects were the people who thought they had a shock button. The people who herded Jews onto trains were normal, well adjusted members of society. When society goes off the rails, people rationalize atrocities.
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  35. ​ @Cybergrindin INC Let's talk about the genocides committed by the Commanche, when they took over huge chunks of the North American SouthWest. White people's main sin is feeling guilty about their past. All other cultures around the world celebrate their imperial past and yearn for the good old days when THEY were committing genocide on THEIR neighbors. Ahhh, the good old days. We are ALL descended from people who committed atrocities against other people. That's why we're here and their descendants are not. The question is "What's the best way to move forward?" Demonizing one race is not how it's done. It's regressive. It's small-minded. It bespeaks a willful ignorance about human history and human progress. "Things were so much better when most of the people were serfs and only a handful of people were allowed any reasonable degree of prosperity and security." This is the establishment's world view, at present, and you buy in.
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  36. No. It's socialists who keep re-inventing and saying "THIS time, 100 million people WON'T die!"
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  37.  @MrRhys103  YES. IT'S A SPAM THREAD.
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  38.  @randomuser1596  I've only hung out with rock and artifact hounds in and West of the Rockies. I don't keep track of it, but I went to some digs up in Gunnison, and got an earful of the political in-fighting over competing theories. Seemed like if there's room for disagreement, everybody should just work together to find out as much as possible, but it sounded like the two schools of thought were in contention for grant money, and it got political. MY main takeaway from rubbing shoulders with the anthro/archaeo crowd was how extensive the trade routes were. Obsidian points showing up 1,000 miles from their source, etc. Flint and obsidian sites were widely known and people traded finished products and raw materials far and wide, as far back as you'd care to go. That came as sort of a shock to me, at first, but not every valley's gonna have a handy source of flint or obsidian. But people were pretty much everywhere and most were using stone tools. They almost certainly traded furs, too, but there's no record of that. The stone tools last forever in the ground.
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  39. Nobody's perfect. Diversify your sources and fact-check all of them. EPOCH Times, Hoover Institute, American Thought Leaders, and others make a good counter-balance. There are some who make a real attempt to be objective and report the facts, but the press has always had its slant, one way or the other, either in the way they spin the stories or more importantly, how they cherry-pick what stories to report. It's always been this way, but since Hitler, the entire West has pretty much done what Hitler did, in the name of fighting what Hitler did. "Fairness Doctrine" and other myths created to give the impression that the major news outlets are objective, when they're not. Just see who pays their bills and who owns them, and you know who they will lie for. I just watched a thing on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and it's spent something like $320 million on media all over the world, and is the single biggest non-governmental funding source for WHO and FDA.
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  40.  @rishabh5750  It's so funny when a bot pretending to be a real person says "here," admitting they work for the investment instrument they're pushing. It's unintentional truth in advertising.
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  41.  @richvail7551  Do what ya gotta do and look for good people with sense. They're out there. Sometimes, just getting out of the big city or even bigger towns changes EVERYTHING. I'm an hour North of Denver, and it's like night & day, here, compared to Denver. We didn't lock down last year. Most places didn't require masks. The ones that did went on my shit list. The ones pushing the masks at work are the ones who get sick a lot and in the past, considered themselves heroes for coming in sick. "See how dedicated I am?" Pffft. You're giving everybody else your creeping cruds, you asshole! People didn't exercise common sense, before, and now they're overboard in the opposite direction, with zero common sense being the only common denominator.
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  42.  @oiitzME1266  : Meh. Textbook publishers set their prices according to orders already taken, before they eaven move one book. Every book they sell, new, after that, is at that same price and is immensely profitable to the textbook company. BUT they're not in the business of printing extra copies just in case somebody randomly comes along, later. There are some, but not a whole lot beyond what they originally had contracts for. Or that's the way it used to be. They're going through some tough times, right now, with everybody going to open source. The best deal is probably the online license, because it comes with a teacher who's always awake, always ready to take your questions, and who grades your work, instantly. Learning management systems aren't perfect, but they can do a lot of the heavy lifting in education, with very little human interference. IOW, for free.
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  43.  Gui Tard  He has good reasoning powers, but a very weak grasp of the fact set.
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  44. There's always a tension between the collective and the individual. Pakman fosters the illusion that all we need is a sufficiently competent, ethical, and enlightened leadership telling the collective what to do and allocate resources on the collective's behalf, for the benefit of all individuals. The trouble is, you rarely get competent, ethical and enlightened leadership. And it's always the duds who want the most control, just the like the worst driver in the room wants to show you how good their reflexes are out on the road. See? We're DRAFTING! Great fuel efficiency! *CRASH*. Everything would've been fine if that asshole in front of me hadn't slammed the brakes. It's that other guy's fault. Pakman's totally shilling for Democrats. So Trump's not a great speaker. He gets his point across. And if you watch him fence with hostile reporters (like Obama never did) off the cuff, he comes off better, thinking on his feet than any of the Democrat candidates. And no, you're not going to explain away how out of it Joe Biden is by micro-analyzing Trump's body language. I'm about 30 minutes in, and all I'm hearing are Democrat talking points. Give it up. Join Jimmy Dore, who's at least honest about what he sees in a very common-sensical way. He's a hopeless lefty, but he's not makin' shit up to fit his narrative. And I bet he can find 100s of Democrat 'experts' who'll spin you all the things that are wrong with Trump. Use your eyes and your brain and not your hopes and wishes, dude.
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  45. But you're supposed to believe the ones who work for the government or are t.v.-network approved. The government health officials are driven by politics and money. So are the t.v. networks. But believe them or you're a science denier. It's a neat little trap.
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  46. Goes on a camel trek supported by motor vehicles. Makes sense.
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  47. Term limits aren't the answer. You're treating a symptom. The ridiculous size and scope of government itself is the real problem. Even if they wanted to, Congress couldn't possibly oversee all the agencies and programs it has created, willy-nilly, over the years. All the pressure has been in one direction since before the Great Depression. "Government needs to do more" is the non-stop message handed down for over a century. And it's only gotten stronger with the passage of time, and government has only gotten bigger, and taken a bigger and bigger bite out of the economy.
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  48. You're too late.
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  49. That ain't why Parler's been deplatformed. It's the EXCUSE to silence speech Democrats and Socialists don't like. Big-government liberals have been on a slippery slope for decades. Now they've slid clear off the edge of the cliff, and they STILL don't get it.
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  50. Greenwald was a home run, even though he's a delusional leftie, economically.
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  51. Kata is for training by yourself. You go through the forms faster and faster until exhausted. I think.
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  52.  @prodigalbrock  I wouldn't say that. His family sold lots and lots of moonshine during Prohibition.
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  53.  @StevenRecknagelMusic  If you want chapter and verse on WW II, check out TIK channel, where such radical ideas as "Hitler was a socialist" are discussed. Hitler WAS a socialist, but you can't say that in hearing of a Democrat, who thinks national socialism is a right-wing phenomenon, when it's just a different brand name for all the things Democrats now stand for.
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  54. Chinese system is corrupt and they were doing gain-of-function in a lab not equipped to handle it. Level 3 versus recommended Level 4. But those are recommendations from the same clowns who farmed out gain-of-function to fly-by-night Chinese labs, because of fear of outbreaks from Level 4 labs! If they hold China accountable, they will have to indict the entire public-health mafia in the USA. They'll resist that to our last dying breath.
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  55.  @SUPERMOTOJAK  You can die of a million different things. Making ONE thing the big Satan doesn't change that reality. Alcohol kills people every year. Causes miscarriages and birth defects, even still birth. So, the next time you're having a drink, this guy will come up to you and scream "BABY KILLER! YOU'RE LITERALLY KILLING BABIES!"
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  56. SPAM
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  57.  @lamjustadroid  Crypto's an alternative to fiat currency. But it's also subject to manipulation, as is any currency.
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  58. Of all the things they could discuss, they chose a subject neither one understands very well. Fun comments section, but the video is pretty vapid.
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  59. Advising the leaving of 2500 troops in Afghanistan is basically the military and intel leaders refusing to admit that the occupation of Afghanistan indefinitely was WRONG! The reason the withdrawal was a shit show was pure incompetence of intel and military leadership. They could've pulled out without stranding people and equipment. That's an entirely separate issue from the stability of the puppet government installed by the USA. "We can't leave until our conditions are met" is just a way of saying "We're never leaving." Nation-building was bullshit. I'll agree with the guest on THAT. What made the withdrawal such a fiasco was they didn't pull their vulnerable assets before withdrawing the troops. Milley talking crap about the 2500 troops in there indefinitely is just back-filling a failed policy. It's sheer incompetence all up and down the chain on the intel and the military. Milley's actually trying to make the case for the permanent occupation. They're all liars. They're all incompetent.
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  60.  @TheBarnz91  There's nothing more ordinary than the desire to be extraordinary.
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  61. Dunning-Kruger on full display.
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  62. Sounds like he set out like a basic Christian, like Christians are supposed to be, reasoning from "God is love" on his own.
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  63. Sorry, Matt. Where's all this "white domestic terrorism" of which you speak? Or are you talking about pasty-faced Antifa?
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  64. Yes, the news cycle just keeps rolling, but there are millions of us out here who've been keeping score.
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  65. That's what tells me that this big EV push isn't about the environment. And the people who are triggered by pronouns don't care one bit about human rights, or they'd be protesting conditions in Congo! But they're not. They're shaming you for not supporting slave labor! Talk about ironic. Talk about hypocrisy.
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  66. "Kha Khan: was the title for Genghis Khan. It means "Khan of Khans" or "King of Kings."
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  67. The loss of the equipment cost us money, but the equipment itself will be broken down and useless in about 6 weeks.
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  68. Buster Keaton was the bomb. Got his start as a kid, where his folks would throw him - literally - into the orchestra. Nobody does a better chase scene.
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  69.  @Adam-ye6wj  CDC finally admitted the PCR test was worthless for identifying COVID-19. Notice the figures for influenza and deaths by influenza? Notice the deaths due to heart disease? All those numbers miraculously dropped. The numbers are highly suspect. But stick to your one-party news and information sources and keep voting Democrat.
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  70. Maybe Putin is the/a bad guy. But the USA ceded the moral high ground decades ago.
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  71.  @Divinefapper  He needs to delegate all that stuff to someone and enjoy a rich man's retirement.
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  72. "We're pretty sure time began with the Big Bang." "What caused the Big Bang?" "We have no idea, except we're certain it wasn't God."
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  73.  @i_like_pickles_2  I 'd retire after the first $5 million.
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  74. 10X better fight scene than anything they do, nowadays. Now, we take a slow white guy movie star, and jiggle the camera to simulate a fight. Love those old Bruce Lee movies. Maybe one camera. Can't fake it. Didn't have to.
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  75.  @JuanGarcia-tb7ph  : Greatest race-baiter.
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  76. Reading the comments, I shudder to think what alternative to voluntary exchanges by free people you all have on offer. Free-market capitalism is the imperfect best solution to assigning value and exchanging goods and services. Who will determine value under any other system? Your Uncle Joe? A government bureaucrat? The crazy lady from church? Some things are best left up to the people making the exchange, no, ALL things. SMH. Bunch of economic illiterates and people who would rather be self-righteous slaves than be free and allow others to also be free. Because if YOU don't decide, in a free market, somebody else gladly WILL decide, and I GUARANTEE you won't like what they decide YOU get.
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  77. His little brother wrote it for him.
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  78. Alex Jones was right. Atrazine makes frogs gay. So we put it in everything.
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  79. You have NO IDEA what propulsion system is being used, let alone what those vehicles - if they ARE vehicles - are made of, if they're manned, or who mans them if they are. Quit jumping to conclusions. For all WE know, they're punching holes in space time and just moving the holes around, and the "vehicle" that's "breaking the laws of physics" is sitting still within its own inertial reference frame. We just... don't... know.
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  80.  @hoenircanute  Yes. The Vikings had the benefit of a lot of Roman technology. Lucky for the Saxons and Alfred, they weren't really into siege weapons. But they were damn near unbeatable in the open field for hundreds of years.
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  81. Anyone paying attention can see the outlines without having to be crazy.
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  82. COVID-19 was a proof-of-concept, as was BLM, and the transgender movement that ran rampant through all our legacy institutions. Note the term "legacy institutions." Those control systems have been wildly successful, yet at the same time, spell the doom of those control systems and the controllers, thereof. USAID and NED are on the lips of many. Church Committee reforms were thwarted by their creation. This whole public-private thing is the very definition of fascism. It's just fascism by other means, when the direct, socialist path has lost traction. What pisses me off, the most, is the supposedly limited-government Republicans and the supposedly anti-establishment Democrats are uni-partying us into tyranny. They agree on all the worst things, and those with a clear liberty message are considered fringe! Even the election of Trump doesn't really change that, fundamentally, or so I fear.
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  83. Long form has its place, definitely, especially if you're doing something that only uses half of your brain.
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  84. That bit about cults claiming to have absolute truth but telling people not to go out on the Internet to check sounds EXACTLY like the "experts" of the last 10 years telling us not to do our own fact-checking, because of all the misinformation out there, when in fact, the experts were the ones serving up the most misinformation. The Establishment, by that measure, is a cult.
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  85.  @Acemanveryspecial  You think COVID is the only thing that can kill you? Why are you more afraid of the flu than anything else?
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  86. I'd take the temperature of the comments, just to see who I was appealing to and what it brought out in them. But I think beyond a certain point, you're going to have a pretty good idea of the kinds of criticisms you're going to get, and know your own faults more acutely than any of your critics. This makes me think about student evaluations of teachers at the end of every semester. After 30 years, you know what your strengths and weaknesses are. You can be fooled into thinking something's really working great, even when it isn't, because 5 people sing your praises. You can think something sucks, when it doesn't, because lazy students don't understand how many reps it takes for them to master a skill, or they'll tell you that they're fine with the homework, but the test questions are just too hard, even when you went out of your way to just tweak the numbers on homework exercises on the tests. Administrators try to emphasize student evaluations, but other than the most egregious cases of bad teaching that TERRIBLE evaluations can flag for you, they really don't help you improve your teaching craft. I know - as a hoary old goat of a teacher - exactly how to play the students if I want great evaluations, just by planting suggestions and creating an atmosphere of "You're doing great!" even when they're not. I don't have it in me to lie to them. I just act kindly towards all and give them what they earn. It's important to never take anything away from anybody. Just award them the points they EARN, like it's a job. If I were Joe Rogan, with a nice income, I'd probably hire somebody I trusted to monitor the comments and create an irreverent, but welcoming place. It's not that hard to do, and it's as easy or easier to ban bad actors (like the guy who sees Zionist conspiracies everywhere, and quotes Revelation all the time) as it is for the trolls to come up with new identities. Just one person could probably monitor 3 or 4 pretty beefy channels for a uniquely open and troll-free experience.
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  87. TAIL WAGGING THE DOG.
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  88. Survival instinct for stupid people. If you follow the herd, then you're safe, as long as you can run faster than the slowest member of the herd. No member of the zebra herd ever thinks the lion is going to get them, because they're never the last straggler. The last straggler was never the last straggler, before, until the final "Oh $hit!" moment.
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  89. Lists all Amazon's sins and goes on to say how he loves using Amazon. WTF? I dumped my prime and stopped buying thru Amazon a year ago and I'm never going back.
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  90. It's all kind of strange how the Carter administration is judged. I think it all goes to the price of oil and the fact that USA regulations locked up all the oil that would have made OPEC a lot less of a threat to the American economy. There was "old oil" and "new oil." You had to sell "old oil" at "old oil" prices, so if inflation made everything go up, you still had to charge the same old price for oil from your existing well. This really drove up prices, because they'd just cap the old wells, and have to explore for new sites, while the government simultaneously made it more and more expensive to open up new sites. Regardless of that, they should have been able to charge market prices for the oil. A lot of people think we should nationalize the oil. All that would do is make a switch from people in it to make an honest profit to government contractors, overseen by Congress, which would just see dollar signs and a giant piggy bank to buy votes with. In the end, you still end up with a private outfit, only cut off from being responsible to its customers to being responsible to politicians. This is always a bad idea.
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  91. I despise Bill Maher.
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  92.  @wilmarkjohnatty4924  Matt Taibbi is a progressive, so it's like a kid with brain damage winning a spelling bee whenever he gets something right. He's been right about a shocking number of things, like RussiaGate Hoax, Julian Assange, False-flag chemical attacks in Syria, and one or two other things. But he still loves big government and is essentially socialist in his outlook.
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  93. Making you wait 2 or 3 days to see your doctor when you're coming down with something is how you get REALLY sick, if you're GONNA get really sick. The medical "authorities" got this wrong in every conceivable way. I've had a lot of injuries over the years and always tried to be a good patient. My last stay at ONE hospital, I actually started fearing for my life. Weird things kept happening. I'd wake up sweating and it was almost 80 degrees in there. I'd ask them to turn it down to about 68. I'd wake up chilled, and it was set at 60. This happened several times. It was like "Am I crazy?" Then I got to thinking they were gaslighting me and enjoying my misery. I finally found one RN and one LPN who seemed pretty forthright. Family finally flew in a few days in, and things improved, remarkably. To this day, I'm not sure I'd've made it out of there without family there by my side. Even getting OUT of there was a nightmare. I needed a wheelchair-accessible van, because BOTH legs were busted. (Don't ask.). I asked them to arrange it. I sat out in the freezing cold in front of the hospital for a half hour before the taxi - a SEDAN - pulled up. I had NO way of getting in and out of that sedan. The RN I mentioned saw me waiting INside, asking for help, and she kicked some asses. Sent me back to my room to wait. Finally got a wheelchair-accessible bus ride home. I don't know what I said or what I did to those people, or if they just look for vulnerable people to fuck with. I tell everyone I know not to go to that hospital.
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  94. I disagree with Woody on how Orwellian things are, now. We're actually living in a time when the masses are realizing how Orwellian it's been since FDR. Gentleman's agreements and insertion of government personnel into media created a culture that operated in contravention of the U.S. Constitution, but they did it without officially appearing to have done it, even though government censorship was taken for granted and even applauded for the war effort in the 1940s. None of that stuff went away. It just went underground. Those who extended the censorship complex hid behind veils of secrecy, veiled threats, and eventually on the indoctrination of media members, themselves, to serve the Blob without needing to be told.
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  95. Catch-and-release is also bad for fish, especially as those waters receive more and more pressure from more and more "purists." This is especially true on the Gunnison, in Colorado, where you catch a fish and see the marks from previous catches-and-releases. "A lot of fish with sore mouths, here." That's why I like going to remote places, where you can catch and keep, and there's not much pressure from anglers. Do the outdoors thing, and yeah, catch and eat a couple nice fish. Hard to find such places, and harder, yet, to fish them. Like Ouitas Creek ("Weetus") in Idaho, a stone's throw from the Montana border, a stone's throw from Missoula.
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  96. One problem I heard is that the wolves being "re"-introduced are from the far North. They're bigger and more vicious than the old timber wolves. They don't just kill enough cattle to survive. They'll wipe out your entire herd, and leave them to rot. They DON'T just kill enough to survive. They're programmed to kill if they can. Just wait until one winter, when a mega-pack of wolves lay siege to some Colorado town. In Idaho, farmers and ranchers have a saying "Shoot, bury and forget."
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  97. Sadly, the message can not be separated from the messenger. And messengers that don't have any PT Barnum in them don't get noticed.
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  98.  @oldrichpolreich7174  : I don't know who'd watch, after the abysmal Season 8, when they took the greatest series, ever and took a big dump on fans.
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  99.  @yougotjohnwicked1755  : The people who were really into it felt like they butchered the last season. I'm not that into it, but I think the writing tanked after they got beyond where GRR Martin had taken it. HBO lost a shit-ton of subscribers after Season 8. Maybe you're not as smart as you think you are and maybe he's a little smarter than you.
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  100.  @patron5460  : He reminds me of nephews (only he's bigger). I think if he shaved his beard, he'd look like a big overgrown kid.
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  101. I'm not huge on cryptids, but if there WERE a hairy humanoid that was still around without any real proof, it would have to be very smart, and very, very shy. Its entire culture would be built around how dangerous we humans are. And when you hear some of the Indian legends about the big, hairy cannibals they exterminated in their past, maybe there's something to that, and maybe those - some call them nephelem) - who survived made it their business to stay the hell out of our way.
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  102.  @wagonwheel9426  Horse/Deer flies are assassins.
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  103. I couldn't agree more. It's always misdirection and distraction. They never ask the fundamental questions and on the rare occasions that they DO, they're never given straight answers and they accept those non-answers. I've been watching this kind of BS from everything and everyone "government" for 40 years, now. The only thing that changes is things get worse.
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  104. There was a gal at work who only drank coffee if she didn't get any sleep the night before. She kept a Mr. Coffee in her closet and she'd break it out maybe once a month. All it took was one cup and she was wired for the whole day, a day she couldn't get through, otherwise. Like weed or coke or many other drugs, once you're using them, daily, it's to feel normal, and you're no longer getting the full benefit. I've been laid up in the hospital due to injury and been on demerol or whatever, just sleeping and hurting. Off coffee. Off nicotine. After a week without coffee, you're pretty much cleansed, and that first cup will make you high as shit. You don't have to be off it for 3 months for the full kick. Just a week. During that week, you've got to be able to just lay down and sleep whenever you feel like it. Powering through the withdrawal and trying to be normal is extremely hard, and you'll probably get headaches. But if you can let down and sleep when you feel like it, it's not bad, at all.
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  105. What he's saying about 9/11 and cover-your-ass bureaucrats is likely the biggest reason we will NEVER get to the bottom of the Kennedy assassination, because if we do, what will be revealed isn't malice, but sheer fecklessness and incompetence.
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  106. The one issue where Phil Donahue and I saw eye-to-eye was the one issue over which he lost his show and disappeared entirely from the public eye.
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  107. You don't forfeit your property rights just because someone is offended. That sandwich in my hand might be the first morsel I've eaten in days. I don't like this guy's ideas on a lot of things.
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  108. According to the "lore" I learned, reading comic books as a kid, the Hulk basically is as strong as he has to be to take whatever's thrown at him, and heal, instantly. And he simulated flight with ballistic leaping, which I'm pretty sure is physically impossible, because the ground underfoot would give way under the amount of force needed to develop that much vertical with legs even as long as the Hulk's. We're talking reinforced-concrete-destroying forces, here. And yes, aren't we silly to be talking about this?
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  109. There's no question but that Favre's taken a lot of head shots. But he's always been kind of oblivious to things he didn't think were important. Most NFL QBs make almost a fetish of mentoring the younger QBs, but Favre would act like he didn't even know their names. His backup had zero to do with his life. "Aaron Rodgers? Who's he?" It's hard for him to talk away the $60,000 for his daughter's volleyball gym. He's made enough money to drop his own $60,000 on it, if he cared about it. It just doesn't make sense unless he's a ridiculously selfish man.
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  110. Weak people can't compete on the merits, so they have to attack you by other means to win the day.
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  111. The U.S. Government's overt or covert censorship and propagandizing at home dates back to World War II, at least. It's just harder to corral the Internet than it was AP, UPI, a handful of major papers and 3 or 4 national broadcasting networks, so it's a lot harder - hopefully impossible - to hide. They've never been better at manufacturing consent, but they've never been sloppier. Maybe things are so far gone, it doesn't matter if we know. It certainly seems that way.
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  112. Miller is literally associating their product with shit.
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  113. The holding is likely his MMA training taking over in the heat of the fight. One of the hardest things I can imagine is THINKING while some mean SOB is doing his best to hurt you. You'll revert to your training, and MMA is Gotti's training. Everything after the ref ended the fight is just stupid.
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  114. If we're talking about drones, we're not talking about the crooks in government that we just voted out.
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  115. We're ruled by "expert intellectuals" who can't tie their own shoes. Their word is taken as gospel. Bunch of ivory-tower bullshit. I'm a HUGE Thomas Sowell fan on this point. His point is on the economic/social side, but it's true throughout all policy at the federal level. If it's not some out-of-touch egghead, it's some very focused and self-interested representative of weapons manufacturer or Monsanto or some other big corporation. Afghanistan and Vietnam pretty much the same (kinds of) people wrapping stupidity in fancy words and mental gymnastics, and if you question what they're doing, well, that just means you're not smart enough to weigh in.
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  116. Evolution doesn't explain how we made the leap from organic soup to 1-celled to multi-celled to EVERYTHING. Missing links ABOUND in the fossil record. We're not really sure how those major leaps happen, although the fossil record indicates many major leaps. Variation of species doesn't quite cover it. You don't have to be a wacked-out "Earth is 4,000 years old" fanatic to believe that there are huge gaps in the theory of evolution. Look at trilobites. They lasted millions of years, essentially unchanged. Then they're ALL gone. And something else entirely filled up its niche(s). Paleontologists have no idea how things transitioned. They see the one thing. Then they see the totally different thing. I think evolution fits the facts, but doesn't explain all the facts. Most of all, I think we're just damn short on facts. ------ There's a deeply imbedded paradox in contemporary liberal thought. People want to be free, but they also want government to take responsibility for damn near everything. When you give up personal responsibility for a thing, you give up personal authority over that thing. You also agree to abide by the rules set by those to whom you foolishly gave the responsibility. You can't at the same time be free and secure. Liberals want to be secure, but they're always surprised when they realize that it always comes at cost to their liberty. Christian fundamentalism isn't the ONLY traditional dogma that gets in the way of real human progress. Throw God out and somebody else - lately somebody POLITICAL - will eagerly supply you with a world view with its OWN dogmas. Things like Med4All sound really good, but when you make the collective responsible for the cost of your health care, every cigarette you smoke, every donut you eat, every risky behavior in which you engage is at the collective's expense. One economic downturn, cigs are illegal. One bad year, people start REALLY fat-shaming, VICIOUSLY, because that person's self -indulgence is at EVERYBODY'S expense. Very slippery slope, as nice as collective responsibility for the weak and powerless. The answer? A self-sufficient citizen with a little extra to give, who GIVES, because it's RIGHT, and society affirms their generosity with STATUS. ---- This guest sounds like he's getting close to what Adam Smith was saying, but still operates under some myths about "toxic capitalism." When exchanges are voluntary between known individuals in a community, in full light of day, cheating is extremely rare. Word gets out. You need that person's business in the future. Businesses that last, under NO rules beyond basic protection of rights to person and property, are as moral or MORE moral than highly-regulated markets. Only in a highly-regulated market do you see GMO products from big corporations get labeled as "organic" on the shelf. Only with the USDA weighing in does the actual organic farmer get labeled non-organic, because of how they filled out a form. Those rules are written by elites for elites. Written by big business for big business. ------- I've been in rock fights. They're terrifying enough! Especially around the railroad tracks where there's an infinite supply of fist-sized rocks perfect for throwing. Bezing SHOT AT is a whole 'nother level of fear. ---------- Let's make peace between law enforcement and the community. Let's start by thinking about policies that put them at odds in the first place. I'd start with re-thinking our approach to drug addiction. Maybe more of a public-health approach than a law-enforcement approach. Cops already see us at our worst. Honest cops get a low opinion of the community. Dishonest cops have all kinds of drug money in front of them every day. Temptation. Some cops shouldn't be cops. An old security guard at my college in the 1980s was your stereotypical Irish ex-cop. He could tell some stories. One he told (grain of salt) was that when he worked for a big-city police department, he got shipped into corrections almost instantly, because he wouldn't take the envelope. So his fellow cops wouldn't trust him on the street. (And he couldn't trust his fellow officers). He said that he ended up being a jailer because he wouldn't take money. I think the War on Drugs really fuels this kind of thing. Gambling and prostitution are also corruptors of communities and police forces when they're illegal. Legalize and regulate gambling and prostitution, as well. Law enforcement would then only be there to regulate street traffic and investigate and help prevent crimes against persons and property. I don't care if somebody wants to stick a needle in his own arm. Not the cop's business, until and unless he knocks somebody over the head for money for his next fix. THEN he's meat for law enforcement.
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  117. 2012: When Obama secured his 2nd term in office.
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  118. Not too keen on homeopaths, myself. But I wasn't too keen on the jab, either.
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  119. Stewart's a wit. But he's still a hopelessly statist idiot.
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  120. I don't care how good your genetics are, unless they include some SERIOUS ambition and self-discipline, or you don't win Mr. Olympia.
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  121.  James Levy  : Honestly, if I weren't laid up, I don't think I'd spend much time on it. So many other things to do when you're up and about.
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  122.  @bbur75  "Kidneys, man. Kidneys." Was how I learned it. In fact, that was ALL I remembered of the joke. The punchline, all by itself, makes people laugh. Just point to your head and say "Kidneys, man. Kidneys."
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  123. SBF should be fine, if he has plastic surgery, goes on a diet and changes his name.
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  124. It's too late for legacy media to go back to the old pretense of objectivity. They can't maintain their fictions any longer, because they'll be fact-checked to oblivion by independents. There's no going back to the illusions that they preserved so faithfully until Obama: Spin the news, cherry-pick the stories, and pretend like they're giving both sides and keep the public believing them. Obama, for temporary political gain, blew it up. During and immediately after Obama were very heady days for journalist/activists. They could become advocates and the American public believed they were shooting straight. But they lost that unbelievably strong faith the public once had, that let them gin up fake stories and have them be believed. Imagine all the mass-formation psychosis they successfully promoted in the last 16 years. Imagine the power they must have felt. Imagine how it must have gone to their heads. It was fine when it was white and gray propaganda, but they engaged in black propaganda for enormous advantage for around 16 years, and it's finally caught up to them.
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  125.  @BakerySSK  The crooks who brought on that crash were politicians in Washington, who turned traditionally solid mortgage-backed securities into toxic assets. They did it in the name of home ownership.
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  126. I appreciate his work even more, today, after seeing the crappy re-make of GhostBusters.
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  127. Dude. It's not social media that's amplifying our fears of a slippery slope. It's 70 or 80 years of free-fall DOWN that slippery slope that makes us freak. We KNOW where this shit leads, because we know HISTORY, which you apparently do not. Maybe you're great on current events or technology, but I'm a minute in and thinking you're either naïve or you think the listener is. Small increases in authority today lead to great woe tomorrow. It's the nature of power, the nature of humans with power, and the nature of humans who SEEK power. Anything they can do FOR you, today, is 10 things they can eventually do TO you, tomorrow, and will almost certainly TRY to do to you, eventually.
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  128. I went years with really exercising other than whatever work came up that needed doing. But when I had a serious injury, not long back, I'd drag myself to the stationary bike and put MILES on it, 'til my legs started coming back, for real. Without the injury(ies), I don't think I'd've had the will to hop on the bike, and ratchet up how long and how hard I could go at it. But I'd ask myself "Do you want to walk, again? Then you gotta do this. I KNOW the toughest part is getting on the thing. Then the toughest part is the first couple minutes, which pass at a snail's pace. Then as I get close to my target time, with less time ahead than behind, it becomes a sort of Zen thing, and the minutes go by in about 10 seconds of subjective time. Then I'm getting to the goal, and I feel like I can make those pedals go around another 10 seconds. Why not push it to 20? Heck, 12 minutes and 30 seconds? I can do another 30 seconds standing on my head and push the workout to 13 minutes. At first, I was proud just to get the damn thing to spin for a minute...
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  129. I never had any interest in a fanny pack until my friend showed me how his 92F fit perfectly in one, and how innocent it looked. Carrying it in front, his first move towards his gun looked like a frightened person, instinctively covering his you-know-what. I often travel with a pistol in a fanny pack, but I rarely wear it, and mostly out in camp, alone, when one is always in reach, but I've never taken it with me into a crowded place, and I just generally avoid crowded places. My pistol is more for defense against predators (wolves, coyotes, lynx, puma, and bear) and pissed-off ungulates, because I don't run real fast, but I enjoy the woods. A healthy man with a long stout staff (LOL!) might hold off wolves on down, including mountain lion. The sound and fury of hot lead can give you a fighting chance against a bear. But nobody wants to test the theory. People presented with the situation would feel better with the opportunity to at least try. We none of us are Anthony Hopkins and no bear set on killing a man in his situation would fail in the task.
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  130. Dateline 2001 on the David Spade story. He prob'ly was 36 in 2001.
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  131. I don't care if their beer let me walk on water, I wouldn't buy it because I disagree with their agenda(s).
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  132.  @Tampa_tom  The weed is why you're sitting down, quiet, in a lonely place to get high. And you tend to stay quiet. It ain't like the weed makes you rambunctious, all of a sudden. If you're quiet, and mindful of the wind direction, you can get eyes on all kinds of critters.
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  133. I saw a mountain lion in Umatilla National Forest, once. It seemed as though its nose was in the brush on the far side of the road before its tail was out of the brush on the near side of the road. It puts a whole new spin on tent-camping.
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  134. What really bugs me is that they build those devices to wear out in a year or two, when they should last a lifetime. It's the same with the car industry. Doing it the wasteful way WE do it just guarantees that most of the world won't have cars. There's no reason cars need to be as expensive as they are or break down as fast as they do. There are soldiers and militia around the world running around on 4-banger Toyota pickups, who thumb their noses at superpowers. A couple guys on a pickup can easily carry tank-killers and copter-killers. Of course they don't want us to have gasoline-powered vehicles. And an EV that can perform anywhere close to a gasoline-powered vehicle are for rich people, only. And the raw materials used in those EVs are provided by slave labor, as you detail in this video. These people don't really care about human beings OR the planet. They use propaganda and the power of the state to enrich themselves, and shame anyone who calls them out.
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  135. I think the levee's gonna break, and there'll be an upstart platform get traction against YouTube. YouTube's censorship/curatorship is eventually going to spell its doom. They can't stop everybody from building platforms with as good or better look and feel. But the companies like Bit-Chute need to build better/slicker platforms. It defies belief that there aren't superior-to-YouTube asynchronous chat clients for the comments sections. Tom's right about the need to create a proper environment. But his MISTAKE is trying to do it all, himself. Instead, reach out to your regular commenters and train them to monetize their time online making money doing what they enjoy. Train a strong cadré of "hall monitors" who understand the essence of what you're doing. You can get pretty smart people who are THRILLED to make $20/hour doing really good work for you. Think about how much money you have. You can afford to pay a couple helpers. Lots of commenters will curate your comments for you for next to nothing, just feel really good about the extra status they have, and the power to block trolls from the comments. Build a community with intense personal effort, but make sure that the effort is aimed at eliminating YOUR effort. The way the Thorman brothers built up Arrowheadpride.com under the sbnation.com umbrella is a case in point. I think Joel and Cris are way up the administrative ladder, now, making good money. As an individual content creator, you would just stay in your creative space, with motivated, well-paid helpers. Trouble is that most content-creators don't want to mess with managing people. Hmmm. Maybe there's a niche for outfits that'll police your content the way you want it policed, by people who get you, for pretty low fees.
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  136. "I'm not an adrenalin junkie," he says, right before he describes his addiction.
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  137.  @DonBean-ej4ou  Pookie approves this comment.
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  138. Yes, and everybody with any sense already knows that when these people use the phrase 'our democracy,' they're not talking about the people's democracy, but THEIR democracy, meaning the consensus of the donor class and the political class. I hope that the people are reaching herd immunity on this. I think Trump's victory, in spite of all the censorship and provable disinformation from the 'our democracy' crew, suggests that we are building up herd immunity. What scares me is all the "smart" people who are useful idiots in government censorship efforts.
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  139. Or "Listen!" That's when I shut off.
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  140. I don't believe in this "living wage" stuff. It's feel-good policy that doesn't really help the people at the bottom who are affected. It's like the actors winning the strike in Hollywood, but then half of them being unemployed, because the industry's dying back. "Yes. We guarantee we will hire 9 writers for every project from now on." "Great! Sign me up for the next project!" "We don't do projects, any more. Sorry." It's the same with "living wage" or "minimum wage" legislation. What drives up wages is prosperity. You start running into labor shortages and employers have to compete with one another for good workers.
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  141. Sounds more like playing games than a creative collaboration.
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  142. Good, knowledgeable conversation, so far @ 10:38. To me, anybody using a product for free has no expectation of quality. You want better content? Pay for what you want. I just took a big step, today, and cut every nickel out of cable t.v. offerings. Joe's spot on with the observation that since advertisers are paying for ALL of the free stuff, you're going to get corporate media, which, regardless of its good or bad intentions, is always going to pander to the complainers who are the biggest threat to their income streams, and the loudest complainers are the authoritarian, so-called liberal types. A conservative is USED to the public square despising their positions, so they just shrug and move on. internet's only been with our species for a very short time. We're adapting to it as we speak. Most of what government has done, beyond building the basic backbone, has been pretty toxic. People should have total customization of their own experience, and not through the platform's curation. The platform should just give the customer the most options. if you think a person's comments are toxic, you should be able to remove them from your individualized experience. No fuss. No muss. The other person needn't be notified, in fact, should NOT be notified. The troll should not be able to use notifications to set the hook in their next victim. I think that's the perfect way for society to deal with trolls. Just learn to turn that voice off, for yourself. Then the crazy people (Maybe I'm one of them) is shouting at the top of their lungs, and are totally frozen out of the conversation because nobody in the room hears them. I don't think a 12-year-old should have the right to hijack adult conversations. Maybe I'm in a TOYO site, and we're talking about making room for a 3.4 liter in a '93 Toyota pickup that comes with a 3.0 liter, stock. When the 12-year old says "You slept with your sister" you should have a turn-this-off switch that requires no mediation by the platform. A well-run platform should have that option. YouTube does not. YouTube allows you to report someone but not to take agency in a totally nonviolent way and use software a 10-year-old could write to have an "off" switch for people who are rude. Or maybe the kid just interrupts with something else that's not rude, but more a 1 + 1 = 2 question in the middle of Calculus Ii. You can calmly ignore someone, without any hard feelings in an online setting. We really - I really - need to grow up and migrate off the corporate/government platforms.
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  143. I think the tiger's coloration is really good camouflage for their natural environment.
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  144. I thought Puritans were ancient history. That kind of person is now a fervent atheist, but just as judgemental and controlling.
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  145. I've been injured many times, and I'm here to tell you Nietzsche was full of shit. Every time you get hurt, it takes a little something out of you, and any one of those incidents can break you, even though you survive it. Don't believe me, come take a look at my scars and twisted limbs. It ain't pretty. Shit don't work so good. And I don't buy that "It's inner strength," either. You get hurt too bad, you might spend the rest of your life with a nuclear case of PTSD or a crusty shell that you can never break out of for the rest of your life. I chickened out at the CAT scan, the other day. Busted the head of my femur clean through. Told 'em to knock my ass out. Put me on "blockers" and they STILL fucked it up and put me in agony. Moving badly injured individuals on a sheet is a job for MEN or very strong women. Not little girls who want to prove they're as good as a man. A man's strong enough to lift you like you're thistledown. Women will heave and puff out their chests and sneer at you for screaming. I didn't scream, but I let loose an 'F' bomb during the move and told the girl "When there's one part that's badly injured and 3 people lift 3/4 of the body perfectly in unison and the one holding the injury is letting that leg flop around, you messed up." Well, I told her that (without cussing) after the spasms subsided. And in the special case of head injuries, ask an NFL player. The more you take, the more vulnerable you become.
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  146.  @DarkShadow-lb2gb  : Nietszhe's most famous quote: If it doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger. I should've known better than to assume people here actually read stuff.
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  147.  @DarkShadow-lb2gb  : It came up because they were talking about how Rousey didn't seem the same/had a hard time coming back. And I'm poster child for comebacks, and I'm here to tell you it gets harder every single time. Then I gave you too much information. I didn't mean to hurt you. But that's OK. It just made you stronger.
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  148. Nah. Carrot Top was always his own guy. Big fan of both him and Gallagher. I can see why Gallagher would consider him a direct competitor and have a chip on his shoulder. Carving out a career in comedy is highly competitive. It's pretty much a zero-sum game, and you're going to notice other guys getting gigs that you wanted.
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  149. Just remember they've got ex-CIA embedded in media, everywhere. Take what all these guys say with a grain of salt. They'll seem open-minded and clear-sighted, and they'll plant a bunch of outdated and toxic neocon notions throughout. By my estimation, Putin's the only guy in the entire thing who appears to be a true statesman. In the setting in which he lives and the forces that act to destroy what prosperity and liberty there is, "reasonable measures" can seem very bad from the outside. I don't like all of his methods, but he's turned so many things around for the better for the Russian people, and you see how our own leaders appear to be the sinister foes of liberty, prosperity and free expression, all the wars they've started, all the propaganda WE use, all the people WE censor, de-person and de-platform, we've got our OWN bed to make and our OWN house to clean up, before we sacrifice the lives and way of life for millions across the globe, including within our own borders.
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  150. He's a socialist. What's worse, he's got a formal education that makes everybody think he's better than everybody else.
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  151. He admits going in he didn't read Snowden's book. He participates more when he has more of a clue.
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  152. The more knowledgeable you are about what you're searching, the more obvious it is how your searches are being manipulated to show you what THEY want you to see, and not what YOU want to see, starting with advertisements "related to" your query, whether they have any relation or not. "Well, 'the second world war' DOES have the word 'the' in it, and so does 'the new Camry,' so..."
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  153.  @tonyg5132  You'd be surprised at how many companies place their principles above short-term gain. That doesn't mean anybody except a money-launderer sets out to lose money. Giving back is a great way to build brand loyalty. This ESG shit is corporatization of virtue, and it is not very virtuous.
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  154. First time I saw Nicholas Cage was in "Valley Girl." Didn't like him.
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  155. Alert to all duck hunters: Bring your gear.
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  156. Sad thing about human history is that a lot of the most interesting bits were wiped out by floods when the ice sheets retreated.
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  157. The fact that they DELIBERATELY make these phones disposable, so you will buy a new one, is an atrocity against the planet and human life. Your solid-state phone should last you a lifetime and be repairable for a lifetime, as should your vehicle. All durable goods should be truly durable. We consumers should demand it.
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  158. As an honest so-called liberal, Jon Stewart is quick to point out the madness, but lives in denial of his own hand in creating the institutional framework that feeds the madness. Who'd've thought that making government responsible for everyone from cradle to grave would cause mental illness, dependency, and low IQ to proliferate? Everyone, except so-called liberals. Liberal was a good thing when it meant treating people the same and getting the aristocracy off our backs. Liberal is a bad thing when it seeks to usher in a new age of rule by aristocrats. When you look at the highest offices in the land and the top levels of the bureaucracy, you see sons and daughters following daddy and mommy into the "family business," with an inside track to occupying the same or very similar high offices, JUST LIKE THE ORIGINAL ARISTOCRACIES DID, before liberals threw the bastards out and began the Great Experiment in Self-Government that put USA on top and kept it on top, until creeping forms of aristocracy crept in through bloated and powerful institutions created and perpetuated by liars calling themselves liberals.
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  159. Progressives like this guy can always see how the corruption works, but they still love big government and vote for Democrats. smh
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  160. People blaming other people for the tragic, brutish existence imposed by Nature on ALL of us. Of course, they wouldn't have TIME to hate everyone for their plight, if Western Civilization hadn't afforded them the privileges of real progress. What we have isn't perfect, but scrapping that progress and embracing a murderous ideology that killed hundreds of millions in the 20th Century is sheer madness. Sadly, that madness sounds perfectly sane to young people who lack the historical context, who are being spoon-fed this nonsense by people WHO SHOULD KNOW BETTER, in an educational institutions that systematically deprive them of that historical context and the long, hard road to where women CAN steam-roll everybody just by acting sufficiently upset, in an essentially compassionate society that doesn't like oppression.
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  161. Maybe the would-be censors use us to pinpoint the videos to be obliterated. "Here's one Woody's sharing with one of his buddies. It must be something we don't like." Saves them the time and computing power and human resources to locate and destroy content they don't like.
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  162. Yes. 99% of the erosion in the American Southwest desert is ALSO from rain (water erosion), despite its usually arid conditions. This guy says that the Sphinx must be over 10,000 years old because there hasn't been rain in Egypt for thousands of years. That's bullshit. It rains there. In fact, it SNOWED there very recently. It was a freak snow, but it did snow. When it doesn't rain very often, and there's no vegetation mantling that limestone, the rate of erosion from a single rain event is very very high. Ask anybody who's been caught in a gully during a cloudburst in Arizona (a very stupid place to be, btw). This guy's really smart, but he either mis-spoke or he's talking half out of his ass. Yes, a sandstorm can quickly erode your face, if you're out in it, but even in desert, it's WATER that does most of the work eroding outcrops. It's why limestone is a cliff-former in deserts. Cap it with some nice sandstone (that erodes, but isn't generally water-soluble), and it'll give you wondrous structures like the Grand Canyon. This doesn't disprove his hypothesis that archaeologists don't have their shit together. Just listen to them arguing with each other about calculated dates in the Bible, or putting dates on a Clovis point (flint arrowheads/spearpoints) in North America. The one thing he DOES get right is the paucity of evidence and the surplus of opinion on these matters. It turns out that a lot of the dates archaeology establishment has accepted for decades (that supposedly disprove the Bible) were wrong, and calculations from solid scholars and unbiased archaeologists are starting to align quite nicely with Biblical writings. I think the Bible and other ancient (sacred) texts DO chronicle some major catastrophes that actually took place. Velikovsky (if he were alive) would tell you that the planets in our solar system have done a bit of wandering in (poorly) recorded (by Bronze-Age primitives) history, especially in the histories that were handed down orally over the generations BEFORE the written word. He claims that Venus and Mars both had near misses with Earth after themselves being knocked out of orbit by meteor strikes, and that mythology records these events. No wonder Mars and Venus are part of Greek/Roman pantheon. I don't believe everything he said, but his alternate history of Earth squares very nicely with the Bible and other ancient texts, and archaeologists are starting to crank out results that are more in line with Biblical claims than they were 30 or 40 years ago. Don't get me wrong. I'm not gonna sit here and tell you the world is 4,000 years old, because it says so in the Bible. That's easily disproved by the mile-deep sediments in the Grand Canyon, which were deposited slowly, over millions of years, under processes we understand very well, occurring in real-time as we speak. You don't get perfectly graded (grains of same size) 1-inch-high foreset beds and tiny ripple marks from rock that was laid down in one cataclysm. If it were all laid down at once, the sediments would be un-graded, which is to say that big chunks and little chunks would be buried simultaneously, and you'd get flood structures which are in evidence all over the world, in spots, but no way in hell did they form miles of perfectly graded and uniformly bedded sandstones that cover 100s or even 1000s of square miles. Also, either one of those two guys in the video could break me in half by accident.
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  163. But liberals want the state to administer and pay for health care. That gives the state all the excuse it needs to control what you put in your body, acting on behalf of the taxpayer. I'm all for legalizing drugs and holding people strictly accountable for their behavior. If they steal or commit acts of violence against others, no tolerance for that. But I don't want to pay for the health consequences of a coke or heroin addict's bad choices. I feel the same way about the morbidly obese. Eat all you want, all you crave. But don't expect me to foot the bill for your diabetes. The farther down this so-called "liberal" road we go, the closer we come to the government telling us we can't have sugar, fat, or even meat in our diet. It will be "liberals" leading the culture wars against fat people. Just wait. It's coming.
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  164. Cope harder, Bill!
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  165. Twitter files laid bare what we already knew: The U.S. Government actively censors political speech, in clear and direct violation of the U.S. Constitution. It uses "liasons" and NGO cutouts (that it funds) to do some of the heavy lifting, but it has no problem finding eager minions in top spots throughout corporate America.
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  166. Yes, I kind of feel sorry for the woke liberals of whom you speak. I don't hate them. They've been with us since the beginning of time. I kind of fear them, though. That Puritanical zeal comes from something that's missing in their mental makeup. They so want to be smart and be seen as smart. They so want to be virtuous and be seen as virtuous. Following the crowd as you understand the crowd, is a self-defense/survival mechanism by which they try to fit in when they really don't have any idea what's right or wrong, but they focus on what others seem to be doing, saying, and thinking. It's all very sad, really, but it's also very dangerous. You can be the most enlightened person in the world and be crushed by them.
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  167. I heard it put this way the other day: Do you hold an idea or does the idea have a hold on you? Sadly, people who have wisdom always have doubts. This makes them vulnerable to fools who have no doubts.
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  168. Yeah. Entertainers are usually not very scholarly, are they? Read one book and all of a sudden they think they're world-class experts. Or worse, read one book and then read several more pushing the same bullshit, and they start thinking "I've got confirmation!" while ignoring 99% of the literature that's out there, because it's much easier to just read shit that's peddled to lay persons as factual.
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  169.  @GLDENGLOVES  : Meh. A lovely girl such as she, who chooses fighting as a career is already fuckin' cray-cray. All these fuckin' MMA fighters are fuckin' crazy. But if you have that insane warrior's heart, you seek the BEST to test yourself against. Meh. WTF do I know. My craziness is that of a weakling breaking himself on challenges these MoFos would laugh at! I don't see bitterness in this interview. She's not throwin' shade. She's just speaking truth as she understands it, having been there, before, as far as this idiot can tell. When I look at Rousey, it reminds me of Gaithje. Made it hella far on natural gifts, but to be the best, she can't just stand in front of a great striker and overpower her. Fresh off watching that fight, it looks like she'd already had her bell rung before she ever got a chance go for the take-down, and going for a take-down with an addled brain just kept her noggin in reach of some devastating punches. No head movement. No nothing. Just "I gotta get in close."
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  170. Football helmets are also pretty behind-the-times. Rigid outer shell? I think even this semi-enlightened treatment of protective fight gear misses the main harm done by sparring and fighting, which is brain injury. I think the improved foam MADE for fighting is much better than the seat-cushion foam they seem to use. But I think the human toll is far greater from even the BEST gloves. Maybe your metacarpal SHOULD break, rather than moving a guy's whole head in ways it's not designed to move. I'm not a big fan of hand protection. The fight game $$$$ would be in danger, if fighters were injuring their hands. But as a guy who's broken just about every bone in his hands, it sucks, but at least my BRAIN isn't scrambled. But it's more important for the sport to protect the hands, because of $$$$.
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  171. New rule: Campaigns may only accept donations from individuals and no individual may donate more than $1,000. No corporation may make any political speech. If its members wish to, let them do it with their own money, not speaking for or from the corporation. Yes, political action committees are corporations. As long as they limit donations to $1000, they're in that same boat with other political campaigns. Soros money? Illegal. Gates money? Illegal. Zuckeberg money? Illegal. Bezos money? Illegal. Let them contribute up to $1,000 to the cause of their choice, like everyone else. The reason there's so much dark and dirty money is because the Uni-Party likes it this way. Same with the southern border. All this nonsense could be cleaned up overnight if they really wanted to clean it up. My conclusion? Democrats AND Republicans are crooks.
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  172. Good point. Yeah. When people of different races meet for the first time, they can see more of the "monkey" in the other human. Doesn't matter which race. Each will see the other as a big, dangerous ape, because that's what we are. Familiarity humanizes us to one another.
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  173.  @JT-id4zr  What's your point? People are gonna die when you occupy a foreign country. Trump said "enough is enough." What's wrong with that?
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  174. If we don't laugh, we must cry.
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  175. Yes. You're never voting for the president. You're voting for the president's team. No president can get into the weeds of everything the federal government does. He has to delegate authority and trust his top people. This was one of the ways Trump went wrong in his 1st go-round. He trusted people he shouldn't have trusted. Treasury Dept looks like it could be a problem. As far as "trash (crypto) coins" are concerned, they're no worse than the fiat currency issued by the federal government. One of the biggest factors in a sound currency or coinage is the faith the people have in its value. Inflation, bad as it is, routinely lags behind the actual value of the dollar, because it takes time for everyday people to realize. It takes time for inflationary policies to catch up to actual inflation on the street. Fiat currency is very much like the fable of Stone Soup, which probably pre-dates the Biblical tale of the "Loaves and the fish," wherein Jesus supposedly turned 3 loaves and 2 fish into a meal for a multitude. I think they're saying something about the faith of the people in a thing. If everybody BELIEVES there's really something to that pot of boiling water the grifter just threw a rock into and started smacking his lips over, then everybody wants a taste. If the cost of a taste is their participation - a carrot from one guy, a potato from another guy, and so on - then in the end, you get a great big pot of tasty stew! Their BELIEF made it so. In my opinion, that's what the loaves and the fishes was. People were hungry, but everybody shared some of what they had, and the result was everybody getting fed. This phenomenon has propped up Keynesian economics for close to a century. Just pump money into the economy and good things seem to happen. But I don't believe it for a minute. Eventually, the overabundance of money makes a guy charge more - because he CAN - and everybody else joins in, and a loaf of bread goes from a nickel to a dollar to 2 dollars, and so on. Who really benefits from this? Rich people who can inflation-proof their assets and the government that wants to do all manner of things without the actual means to do any of those things. Who suffers? People who live their lives morally and prudently, by working hard and saving money. Who suffers the most? Old people whose live savings and preparations for their retirement go up in smoke, unless they're rich enough to invest in things that keep up with or out-pace inflation.
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  176. Your profession IS a disgrace, and their only argument against you is "You brought us disgrace." No. You lunatics brought this disgrace on yourselves, and you're just angry with Peterson for saying so.
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  177. Keep in mind that CNN's target audience doesn't remember what happened last WEEK. They'll bring Cuomo back in a month or two and it'll be Fake News as usual.
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  178. You never know what the truth is with this guy. It's part of his charm, but also why I wouldn't lend him the keys to my car.
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  179. The video is from 4 months ago, at least.
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  180.  @sora1804  100% of organized religions are about this world for the church and the next world for the parishioners.
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  181. We still haven't gotten to first causes with the evidence of our senses. But we see all around us other life forms and we recognize survival traits that are passed on to future generations because they WORK. We recognize intelligence as a survival trait, which, more or less made self-aware beings such as ourselves not only possible, but inevitable. Within the great chaos that is the Big Is, order happens virtually inevitably. Order that replicates itself will tend to replicate itself. Throw in a dash of time stretching out over billions and trillions of years, and once the ball gets rolling, greater and more complex orderings arise that perpetuate THEMselves, until US. That's as far as we can take it, because we are what we are. Old age and decrepitude seem like a curse, but they are essential. Immortals can't change. Mortals ate all the immortals, because after many generations, small or large improvements to the original design that persist, because they WORK will either survive changes in the environment that the immortals can't, or even just by getting bigger/stronger/smarter, the mortals eventually add slower/smaller/dumber immortals to their diet. Anyway, from what I understand about Natural Law, everything around us, including us, is pretty explainable all the way back to Creation. But even the eggheads who understand the Big Bang can't tell you WHY there was a Big Bang. "Let there be light" is the most profound statement of all time. No one knows why there's light, but everything in the universe around us is a consequence of the fact there is such a thing as light! No more drugs for me, tonight.
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  182. Same guys who tell you "I wouldn't break under torture. My mind is stronger than that." Guy's never even had a broken bone in his life, let alone have a broken bone that somebody starts working over. For hours. Heck, most (including me) wouldn't last many seconds before they passed out. But when it comes to fighting, I'm one of the worst liars on the planet, probably.
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  183. Lots of great video of bigfoot. Turns out, it's just really blurry.
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  184. You couldn't have done it if you hadn't lived within your means. That's where most big stars mess up. They get paid like big stars, so they spend like big stars. They need the next gig, so they can't say "No." I'm the kind of guy who if I made as much as Chappelle must have, during his long run on Comedy Central, I'd pretty much have the truck I wanted, the piece(s) of land I wanted, the structures and the landscaping I wanted, and a big, fat, diversified portfolio. I can totally understand walking away from it all, in his shoes. I'll never wear those shoes, but that's about the extent of my ambitions, and I'm in the low 60s, with pretty much the truck, the land, and half of the structures built. Life is good. Why deal with the entertainment industry? It's full of messed-up people.
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  185. Even in its golden era, SNL was always hit-or-miss and had way too many commercials. Weekend Report was usually pretty good. The skits were choppy. Akroyd, Belushi, Radner, Morris, Chase. I don't remember if Bill Murray was an original. I kind of don't think so. They were pretty stale by the time Eddie Murphy came along and pumped some life back into the show.
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  186. it's very subtle how they minimize the main points and make much of the irrelevancies, thereby preventing anything of substance actually being conveyed.
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  187. I don't know if this is the same thing, but in my undergraduate days, I took way too many classes at the same time. My study method was to have my Linear Algebra laid out on the dining room table at one chair, my Structural Geology at another chair, my History of Modern Europe at another chair, then Modern Physics. I'd move from chair to chair as the night wore on, often 'til the Sun came up. If I hit a roadblock, I wouldn't instantly give up, but eventually I'd just move to the next chair. Frequently, by the time I sat in one place for a while, or hit a roadblock, I'd get another idea for that Linear Algebra proof. I've gone to bed MANY a time, obsessing over an intractable problem, and upon waking up the next day, a totally new strategy would occur to me. I never thought of it as psychic phenomenon. I just figured my subconscious just kept working on it, and the solutions would percolate up to my conscious mind, in some way. Dad was big on Sylva Mind Control, self-hypnosis, and accessing your alpha brainwave state. I'm a fragile person, with a relatively mild case of osteogenesis imperfecta, and I practiced self-hypnosis for pain remediation during many acute-pain periods of my life. Bring that heart rate and blood pressure down through a form of focused meditation and controlled breathing. I don't know if that had anything to do with my "sleep on it" strategy, or my "put it on the back burner, move on, and come back to it" strategy, but it got a pretty dumb guy all the way through a PhD program in mathematics.
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  188. Which brother? Cain or Abel?
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  189. Process as punishment. An establishment drunk on power and running amuck.
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  190. I've heard stories about how they'd line up female members to hook up with him. All he's gotta do is snap his fingers, and they're falling all over themselves to give him whatever he wants.
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  191. The Vegas odds shift so that the bookies are guaranteed to make money. They're not really tracking the sport, but tracking the people who've already bet on the sport.
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  192. The thing that drives me nuts about "good" liberals is that they want freedom to do their own thing and at the same time expect the federal government to swoop to the rescue and kiss all their boo-boos. It's drives me nuts how far down the authoritarian path they're willing to go for a false sense of security.
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  193. Remnants of the Roman Empire remained for centuries after that. It didn't just all collapse at once.
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  194. I've always kind of thought guys with man-buns were a bit 'off.' Not quite sure what they're going for. It's one thing when a Parkour or martial artist do one for movement (and defense) purposes, but just sitting there, talking to people? So they just LIKE wearing all that long hair like a tight-ass all day. I mean, sure. The grill man at McDonald's wears a bun at work, because he HAS to. But YOU don't have to. So it's a LOOK you're going for. You did that to yourself on PURPOSE! You don't even have the excuse of "It's too long to hang down and it's too short to tie back," and even then, it'd take 2 or 3 man buns to tie it all up, because it's too short to tie up in one knot. And that's only in the transitional stage, where most guys just wear a ball cap all the time You went the extra mile and made a man bun, on PURPOSE. Add talking like a soy simp and I start thinking you're doing it for chicks, in a sick, "I get pussy by pretending I'm a total feminist" kind of way, which I kinda despise. Always gotta be the center of attention. Always simping and white-knighting. Ugh. As far as qualifying what you say, rather than just being yourself, that's actually pretty important. Not everybody can read your mind, or understand what you're really getting at. I've always been a bit of a brainiac, and it caused me a lot of problems with people who weren't. They weren't any stupider than me, but they weren't educated the same way I was. And their intelligence was bent more towards practical matters and social skills, where I've always been a bit of a social retard, due to my unique circumstances and heredity. When I was an undergrad, I ran in a lot of rougher circles, mainly due to recreational drugs. I had quite a few conversations that went south, because the guys I was talking to didn't understand all my 60-dollar words. I was never a joke-writer, but always looking for the setup that I could knock down. Some of the cleverest things I've said were taken as insults by the people who should've been flattered and laughed along with me. But they didn't get the reference, and thought I was putting them down by talking over their heads. But I still liked guys like them more than the guys I had to be around in my classes. Over time, I learned how to fit in. By the time I was in grad school, guys would tell me "You ain't like those other eggheads. What you say makes sense." Part of higher intelligence is not speaking your mind, but speaking to your audience. And I don't mean putting on a Southern accent to try to score points at the NAACP convention. Just plain speech. I'm doing just what Joe Rogan was talking about when he discussed the comments section and how invested people are. I don't look at it that way. Sure, there's a lot of "Joe, when you said such-and-such..." directed right at the channel operator, but REALLY, this is a lot of people expressing themselves freely. Some are kooks. I know I'm a kook. My excuse is being laid-up a lot of the time, and not all that mobile when I AIN'T laid-up. We're none of us really talking to YOU, Joe, because we know you're off to the next interview, and don't waste time and energy on the crazy comments section. We're really talking to each other, having a conversation about your conversation. This medium isn't JUST you, Joe. It's also a lot of people, and a lot of people GROWING before our eyes. I write to learn and to tear apart my ideas, refine my ideas, refine how I EXPRESS my ideas. There's a lot of learning taking place in these comment sections, in unexpected ways. The way I think of it is how dumb I think the average incoming college student was 40 years ago, when I left high school. Nowadays, most incoming college freshmen are dumber and less self-reliant (unbelievable how many academic advisers schools have, nowadays!). But go one layer underneath THAT, and the guys who do NOT go to college are hella SMARTER than the same kinds of guys were 40 years ago. We're talking blue-collar workers communicating through the written word on a daily basis, and pickin' up all KINDS of shit along the way. It only SEEMS bad, because the dumbest of us are also the most talkative, and learning new stuff while ruining everyone else's conversations, because they're dumb-asses. I'm here to tell you that 40 years ago, their equivalent couldn't write at all. The high bar is lower, but the low bar is a lot higher. And people are clearing the high bar almost by accident just by getting curious about things and having an Internet connection. It's happening all around us. A lot of people know a lot of things, these days. You'd be surprised.
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  195. Thing about reintroduction of wolves is they're bringing them in from up North, in Canada, and they're bigger and meaner than the timber wolves they're meant to replace. Ranchers in Idaho HATE them, because they don't just kill what they need. They'll kill several cows and only eat part of them. It's just so easy for them, I guess.
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  196. She's a disgrace to her party, the House, and the USA. I'm ashamed she's Speaker of the House.
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  197. The reporting was so bad on the Rittenhouse trial because #1 the establishment wanted to push a certain narrative and #2 it's what the NPC audiences want and demand.
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  198. I'll add a 'like' and a reply, because this is what I wanted to say. And he's not the ONLY governor to do this.
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  199.  @NBALIVETVbroadcast  Look up "DarkHorse Podcast."
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  200.  @HighNoone  : It's BECAUSE it's used as a specific against parasites, it was discovered to have a prophylactic effect against COVID-19. People in India on Ivermectin regimen were not catching the coof. These people were already taking one dose of ivermectin per week to protect against the parasites of which you speak. You know a little, but not the whole picture.
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  201.  @amccibils  Are you sure you're not confusing this with cinchona bark (HCQ)? It was discovered in South America by Jesuits. When I say "discovered," I mean that the Jesuits learned from the natives about quinine, the active ingredient in the bark. Yes. They DEFINITELY wanted everyone to take a Big Pharma vaccine, rather than hear from ANYbody who was successfully treating the coof with off-the-shelf drugs, like HCG, Ivermectin, and remdesivir (sp?). No. Can't patent those drugs. They've been around too long. You've gotta take this experimental vaccine. There're people suing under Nuremberg protocols for crimes against humanity, for their human experimentation. Meanwhile, treating the coof like some world-ending plague got a lot of people with cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and other ailments killed, because everything had to give way to the virus. Nothing else mattered. Not your job, not your business, not your mother locked up in a nursing home... I think we've all had our fill of medical tyranny by mental midgets and crooks.
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  202. You know why we talk about the federal government all the time? Because it's stuck a finger into every aspect of our lives. Want to stop worrying about politics all the time? Shrink the scope and role of the federal government. Social media doesn't cause mental illness. It exposes mental illness.
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  203. Living in the boondocks helps, doing chores, hayin'. You just have to keep going until day is done, no matter how you feel. Older, bigger kids, who are already toughened up makes you toughen up.
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  204. You have to memory-hole Muddy Waters to think that Rock music came from Haight-Ashbury.
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  205. ​ @jesseashford3949  : Very strange for a doper not to know 28 grams.
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  206.  David Meads  : I doubt he wasted much time cultivating low lifes to know. And probably after the 2 joints he smoked and the finder's fee, maybe none of 'em ever weighed more than 20 grams. He prob'ly never even wasted time weighing it. That nickel-and-dime shit is kid stuff, where you have no money and you smoke way too much way too fast.
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  207. Shit like this is why I'm a libertarian.
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  208. If you want to be happy, learn contentment. Don't dwell on what you don't have. Focus on being grateful for what you DO have, and use what you DO have to improve your situation, bit by bit. Maybe you'll never be truly happy, but you can school yourself to be content. "I'm never going to be president or invent a cure for cancer, but that's OK." As someone who's had far more than the average number of injuries, it really sucks when you get hurt, but it absolutely clears your mind. You know you're in a bad way, and it's always very clear what the next thing you must do to improve your situation is. That girl you were trying to impress when tragedy befell you? Meh. She's just a girl. There are other girls. The important thing is setting that broken bone! California's collapse was far from sudden. Decades of mismanagement lead inevitably to what we see, now. As far as managing the forests go, I think the US Dept of Ag and its Forest Service have their fingerprints all over this. By trying to balance the environmentalist wackos and the big corporations, they've ruined it for pretty much everybody everybody, including the environmentalist wackos and the big corporations. The environmentalists think that humans are not a part of Nature and the corporations just want to exploit Nature. Not all corporations. Mainly the ones who are in thick with the federal government, and manipulating the rule set behind the scenes.
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  209. Your grandmother's suffering doesn't fit in the government spreadsheet anywhere. The benefits of the use of government force are always apparent. The HARM caused is more widespread and diffuse. But as long as they can point to one or two winners, their insane policies are upheld and continue. Same deal with poverty programs, crop subsidies, and the whole regulatory network that crushes innovation and competition for the benefit of big corporations.
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  210. I like the old-fashioned kind of virtue signaling, back when rich people built new hospital wings, or made huge contributions to the poor box at church. Or when joe blow signaled his virtue by rescuing a child from a burning building. Nowadays, virtue signaling is not when YOU do something special or nice. It's when you attack somebody else or worse, promise X's money to Y, without putting in one red cent of your own.
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  211. He's still a big-government progressive, which means he's still stuck on the wheel of power, kidding himself that big government can somehow be reformed. All we need is a million genius-saints to keep the corruption from taking over, according to progressives.
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  212. This guy speaks out of both sides of his mouth.
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  213.  @Triwjhd  : Every time I start feeling sorry for myself, I'll see one of these grinning SOBs ramblin' around in a wheelchair, guided by the one finger they sort of control. And I am ashamed.
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  214. Nah. Just get the hell away from soul suckers. Being open is best. You just gotta cut the sociopaths and narcissists out of your circle.
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  215. MY income wasn't interrupted because of the job I have, but I respect the protesters who peaceably assembled with their firearms. The governor in question needed to be reminded that with all the trappings of power and police under their nominal control, they're still answerable to the people, and the ultimate power lies with the people. They can't just run roughshod over everybody because of a nasty flu, especially since we know that the mortality rates are much lower than we originally feared. But to ME, there's a balance to be struck. It's easy to tell yer 'Rona story, and for the foreseeable future, you will find many sympathetic ears and eyes, especially if you're famous, good-looking, and in the apparent bloom of life in your prime. But I always think about the bum who's been dumpster-diving (or trading odd jobs for a plate of food) in the alley behind the Italian restaurant that's now shut down. Or the guy who's been panhandling $50-$100 a day on a street corner, now that the streets are empty. Or the husband-and-wife team operating a small café... ANYbody whose income stream depends on that day's work. And no work? No money. The lock-down is very hard on the most vulnerable among us. And it's all because rich, well-fed white people are afraid of a virus that it appears is bad, but we know how to fight. We see Sweden building herd immunity. They were overwhelmed at first, because they didn't act to 'flatten the curve,' but things have settled down, and we have the benefit of their experiences for what works and what doesn't. I think a combo of social distancing to flatten the curve is enough for us to handle the medical emergency without shutting down every OTHER form of health care. 'Rona ain't the only thing you can die of, no matter how fully it has captured your attention. I'm not a big fan of illegal immigration, but knowing there are millions of such, and wanting the best possible outcome, the disappearance of "day-worker" gigs plus the fact that you're under the government's radar and want to STAY that way, you're much likely to either starve or resort to crime. That's assuming no 'Rona in the equation beyond the lock-down impacts. But because your situation is bad, you're run-down, and more susceptible to 'Rona and every OTHER cold or flu bug. People just focus on the one thing and they lose sight of the fact that the society is SO complex, with SO many inter-dependencies that NObody can really track, and fixing ANY ONE PROBLEM, PERFECTLY always comes at cost to something else. This is the problem with zero-sum thinking. The whole isn't greater than the parts, really. It's just that all the parts make too big an equation for anybody to manage all of them. You have to LET things happen as much as MAKE things happen. The lock-down was (It turns out) not bad decision-making under uncertainty. But as those uncertainties keep getting chipped away, and we find that our health services are NOT going to be overwhelmed, if we're smart about limiting outbreaks and dealing with outbreaks. The hospitals don't need to shut down. They just have to cooperate, so if Area X is hit hard, Area Y can pick up the slack. We're pretty sure that can be done, at this point. We know it can be deadly to the elderly, for obvious reasons, the same as any flu virus. And SOME people without any apparent co-morbidities are hit HARD, like Michael Yo was hit. I love how he gives props to his doctor. A lot of doctors might not be able to "think on their feet" and make intelligent adjustments to his treatment, based on how he's responding. I'm more than a little worried about catchin' the 'Rona, and I've always been appalled at how people will come in to work full of snot, coughing and sneezing, and spreading what they've got to everybody else, out of a misplaced sense of duty (or obsessive-compulsive disorder). The thing is, 10s of thousands die every year from the flu (creepin' cruds). Some take their flu shots every year. I never have, because I'd rather practice sensible distancing and keep my resistance up. And I see the folks who get the flu shots missing time at work because they've got the flu. This life ends for all of us we live the best lives we can. There's a balance between longevity and happiness. I'm tired of people who act like they'd live forever if some authority would just come along and make them safe from everything. "If it saves one life, it's worth it." With that kind of thinking, do away with motor vehicles. Outlaw alcohol. Make kids strap pillows to themselves every time they step outside...
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  216. RussiaGate, Chemical Weapons in Syria, Ukrainegate, Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, ... These two aren't too bad. They're a little ignorant, sometimes, but they're not too bad.
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  217. the USA made WW I a world war. Wilson, who ran on "We won't send our boys to fight in foreign wars." Then he got us into the European war, which was basically declining colonial empires fighting over resources. None of our business. Our participation set the stage for Hitler. No doubt.
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