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

  1. 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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  2.  @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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  3. 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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  4. Comedians are by nature something of an iconoclastic group. When nobody was looking, the socialists became the establishment and they don't wear it well. They're more authoritarian than the "right wingers" they replaced. But none of this socialism stuff is actually left. It's reactionary, dragging us back to the days of monarchy, when the power of the state was absolute, and the people were chattel that the aristocracy "cared for."
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  5. TAIL WAGGING THE DOG.
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  6. 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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  7.  @smelltheglove2038  Yes. If it's wacko lefties, it's a "movement."
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  8. 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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  9. He's not losing. He hasn't even begun to fight. He's mostly been using militias from the affected regions to do most of the fighting. If the referendum is resoundingly pro Russia, which I expect it will be, then we'll see Putin take off the kid gloves and use Russian forces, and not mostly arming and supporting local forces.
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  10. 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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  11. I despise Bill Maher.
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  12.  @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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18.  @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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  19.  @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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  20.  @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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  21. 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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  22. Nah. I've heard his Med-4-All spiel too many times. The problem with health care is too much - not too little - government involdvement. The man is an economic illiterate. But he has a strong moral compass. I'll give him that. Much integrity. Food is also essential. Do we nationalize food? And if we did, how long would it be before we were all standing in bread lines? Think about it. Shoes are pretty essential. Do we nationalize shoe production? How long before we're wrapping our feet in banana leaves and praising fearless leader for such fine banana leaves?
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  23.  @wagonwheel9426  Horse/Deer flies are assassins.
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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. 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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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30.  @thatindiandude4602  Gain-of-function labs the Fauci crowd don't want anybody investigating.
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  31. 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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  32. 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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  33. 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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  34. Miller is literally associating their product with shit.
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  35. 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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  36. If we're talking about drones, we're not talking about the crooks in government that we just voted out.
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  37. It would be one thing if they were the biggest t.v. advertisers, which means NONE of the networks have a bad word to say about them.
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  38. 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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  39. 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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  40. 2012: When Obama secured his 2nd term in office.
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  41. Not too keen on homeopaths, myself. But I wasn't too keen on the jab, either.
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  42. Stewart's a wit. But he's still a hopelessly statist idiot.
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  43. 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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  44.  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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  45.  @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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  46. SBF should be fine, if he has plastic surgery, goes on a diet and changes his name.
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  47. 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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  48.  @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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  49. I appreciate his work even more, today, after seeing the crappy re-make of GhostBusters.
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  50. Very refreshing: "Joe, ya got me..." when asked something he didn't know the answer to. Would that our "leaders" had a shred of humility. With instant, peer-to-peer communication, and instant data sharing, why are front-line physicians' reports being suppressed? It should ALL be data that gets vetted and thrown into the mix. But only select sources are "approved" and the ones doing the approving have ties to Big Pharma, gain-of-function research, and great-reset types. I'd lump progressives into the toxic mix of people, but here we are with an honest progressive saying "WTF is going on?" Jimmy gets on the wrong side of the establishment shills all the time. He's an economic illiterate, and doesn't understand that all the pie-in-the-sky government programs he wants are exactly what empowers these people to run roughshod over us with big institutions, that are inevitably captured by the big corporations he hates. But no matter. It'll be fine. It's not the institutions that we've grown into giant dragons. We just need "the right" dragon rider (Khaleesi) and everything will be perfect.
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