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i just turned 70, both my parents died around 72-74 so i wonder at what moment i'll be popping my clogs, it is an interesting feeling. i'm an artist though and i say that i'm still getting used to being 17, i still hear mum calling up to me when i wake up "time to go to school" but these days i can ignore her and stay in bed till 11 every day. but i just took up sculpture, i still go on photographic expeditions to a new place as often as i can, i just started playing fallout 4 (level 122 already) and although my health could be a lot better, at least my son thinks i'll be around for a long time. i have been incredibly lucky in lots of ways my whole life, so maybe i'm the exception, but to me life is what you make of it, the crap stuff just has to be dealt with but the enjoyable stuff needs to be appreciated, i'm an optimist. let's get to mars is what i say, i want to draw martian sand dunes.
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there's talking to yourself and there's talking to yourself, it's peddled as a sign of intelligence, but when it first occured to me that other people might do this too (i have imaginary conversations all the time) i polled my friends and workmates and it's a thing a lot of people do, to me it is "rehearsing the future" like if you have a job interview it's a way of working out a strategy, imagining what questions you might be asked and working out answers, my girlfriend is schizophrenic, so she has voices problems, but mostly paranoia, so i rehearse conversations with her because any single wrong word might trigger a psychotic episode, bad day all round, so i spend 90% of my day talking to her but in my head, censoring certain words or ways of phrasing things. but talking to myself is also "light relief", i can laugh at myself and pat myself on the back and be quite self-sufficient.
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3:58 off the bat, and this may come up later, but i was watching a video by brian greene where he is talking about near light speed journeys with crews that expect those journeys to take a hundred, or perhaps hundreds of years, crewed by populations rather than a few. if that were to happen that crew would be on a one way trip, back on home planet the amount of time passing would mean likely their home civilisation would disappear, or disseminate at best, and if you sent out a hundred ships with a variety of journey times, those ships would be well out of sync with each other, what i'n getting at is that even if everywhere in the universe developed civilisations and sent them out on interstellar journeys, at lighr speeds, then everyone would be out of sync - perhaps none of the arrivals would occupy the same period in history, no one would be aware of anyone else because they occupy a different time line. maybe this is why we don't find evidence of life, they came and went, or they are still en route, but given the amount of "time" there is in the universe, we're just out of sync. and what i was going to say is, why planets? if you are a echnologically advanced civilisation capable of space travel, why would you live on a planet? okay search for "life" on other planets, but you won't find anything that has had space travel for any length of time.
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i am atheist and when i was in japan it felt very much like the japanese are atheist too, but acknowledge that we are all connected and "spirituality" is more about being human and connecting as humans with nature, than worshipping or being subserviant to a god, in the west and particularly in america god has become a despotic dictator with rules that are always aimed "at other people", as an atheist i find buddhism and shinto, and the way they are practiced in japan much, much more palatable. i keep saying religion should be a good thing, peace, love, tolerance, but in the states it;s become worse than the evil it's spposed to be fighting. i love japan and the japanese, my in-laws made me feel literally more at home than when i am with my own family.
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the problem the US has is that you admire billionaires, i recall an interview with a mexican immigrant who was saying that billionaires should be taxed less, that taking their money wasn't fair. you need to educate people on the difference between communism, where trump takes as much of your resources as he can as opposed to socialism which got you the weekend, paid holidays, fixed working weeks, schools and hospitals | and just wants fairness not to rob the rich, or the poor. oh, and socialism got us free healthcare since 1948. and 79 other countries have free healthcare, and 29 countries have female heads of state, so catch up ffs.
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what people are completely missing is that you can still have billionaires. anyone would think that some individual has to pay for this, whereas everyone is paying anyway, in tax and insurance, just make it literally for everyone like we do in the UK, everyone pays tax, everyone contributes to the insurance scheme, and as it's government, they make it as cheap as they can. but you act like someone will lose out, musk is acting like HE is paying for it, when he probably could still carry on not paying tax the way he does now - universal healthcare doesn't HURT anyone, that's the stupid thing. except the insurance companies.
you are controlled by gun companies and insurance companies in the US.
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@historiko5245 lol, you sound like my ex wife (japanese). don't get me wrong i love japan and i love the japanese people, but i can see why my ex left japan, it's a really racist, mysoginistic and prejudiced place to be, people are very judgemental and as she used to say, they stick their nose into your business when it's not required. and from the way you talk about tourists, i get it, the japanese are very fussy, particular people and they are shocked at other people's (comparitively) low standards, but that's something you need to get used to - every country needs to get used to - we are all different and we need a bit of tolerance.
and to repeat what i said in my main comment, when it comes to atrocities even us lovely brits invented the concentration camp - no one is innocent in war, and yes, it's good to own up to it and apologise and make reparations where possible, but pointing fingers is useless, it just leads to more conflict. no one was innocent in wwii.
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when you realise that nothing would have to mean absolutely nothing, and that if you "have" absolutely nothing, nothing can come from it, you realise that the cosmos must be eternal, that our universe always existed, but just not in it's present form. i'm thick, so i don't know when "matter / energy cannot be created or destroyed" was first coined, but it would make it obvious that everything, every atom in your body even, or photon whizzing about, has always existed, that things, everything, has taken on different forms at one time or another. i thought the idea of a singularity was out of date, but even if it's still a thing, all it indicates is that the universe - "our universe" - was always there, just in a different state from when "our universe" began.
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personally my bias is that i hope penrose is right, i've held him close to my heart ever since the penrose tiles thing, people who understand, and solve, other people's problems without any great effort are my favourite people.
i do hope that penrose is right cos i think CCC is a neat way to get around infinities, the way i've understood it is that if you are left with only photons then time has no real meaning and distance has no real meaning, so however "big" the universe has become it is just a speck once more, but the point you make about the higgs and scale does put a spanner in the works. whatever the explanation of how the universe began, what happened at the start, what happens at the end, and will there be an episode II of the universe, i hope we find out before i croak.
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i find all this a bit weird. i tell the story of when i was a kid i got a plastic spaceman from a cornflakes box, he was carrying a united nations flag, and somehow, being born in 1954, and having my parents keep reminding me of the war, i grew up thinking that the planet was going to grow up with me, and that soon wars would end (cos we're all one planet) and i would be driving my hovercar around on the moon by now. it's totally disappointing that the schedule isn't keeping pace, but, what i do find astonishing is that we are almost a spacefaring planet, so many launches are going on at the moment it is really hard to keep track, and to miss one is, well, not as big a deal as it once was.
my dad died in his early 70's, and i'm 67 atm, so, i really hope we can get to the point where an old duffer like me can drive his mobility scooter around on the moon...
great channel btw.
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PS i think it's really smart of trump to have brought the world together though, we have canada, panama, honduras, france, NATO, the EU, mexico, china, canada, greenland, denmark - even scotland - all in agreement that the US has become a threat.
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if you try to address climate change and it's not real you still get no plastic, clean cheap energy, cleaner oceans, new technology, a better world, if you don't address climate change and it's real, you drown. it's a no brainer, it's pascals wager, but the good version.
and while i'm at it, when you buy bottled water you aren't buying water, you are buying plastic
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i'm a brit and i am envious of your politicians, crockett is fantastic, pressley is fantastic, watz is brilliant and sincere, harris talks too much politician speak for my liking, but here head is in the right place - the harris campaign did nothing wrong, trump is a liar is the problem, but you have some great democrats working for you too, newsom, tish james, don't despair cos they are entertaining us with their fight.
and i wouldn't get upset until trump is actually in the whitehouse - there may be surprises ahead.
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brit here - i've been pretty healthy most of my life, but i did have to visit a hospital a few times, stitches in my thumb in 1975, a shard of metal in my eye in 1980, a car crash in 1990, my son being born i suppose, and when i hit 65 all hell broke loose and i've had ct scans, x-rays, i have to take tablets and have blood tests, numerous visits to my doctor - i paid for some cough medicine the other day - and that's all. i go private on dentistry, but even my dentist will put me on NHS to save money if he feels it's going to be worth it. "free" healthcare is possible folks.
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@nova00boss the west has christianity and islam, both founded on obedience and despite the threat of eternal damnation, if you say you love god he'll let you off any atrocity you care to think of, whereas shinto has no god to obey or disobey, it's ancestor driven, so you are disrespecting your own family, your ancestors and nature if you do wrong, and japan is based on MUTUAL respect, people bow to each other not a deity. which regime would you prefer, a god who threatens you, or your family who (should) care for you? i also think this is why crime is so low, in the west god will let you off, in japan if you commit a crime it's a shame on you and your family. (plus the legal system means it's easier to confess and pay a fine than to fight in court).
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not to make light of the bombing but the japanese suffer earthquakes, tsunami and volcanoes regularly, they roll up their sleeves and clean up the mess. i am told that the three trams that survived the bombing were taking people to work three days after the bomb fell.
my ex wife didn't want to be translator, so i never got the chance to ask my in-laws how they felt about the war, they had (they have passed) an american airbase a mile or so away from their house with blackhawks and f16's circling there house most days, but the japanese for the most part i think are okay with the americans presence, i think they dislike china more than americans. i have been to hiroshima, my son rang the peace bell, i love japan and the japanese, i do think the japanese people did not want war, that the emperor was the instigator.
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project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
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somewhere back in the early 90's i did a series of animated videos for a company run by two women that claimed to have invented a device that was basically a sealed box you kept in your basement, that you filled up with !something! that was a secret, and it generated electricty that not only powered your house, but you could sell back to the grid. it sounded like a fake, but the two women running things seemed to believe sincerely in the product, claimed to have patents and backing and it sounded more convincing than not, until i made a third video for them that for some reason they didn't like - it was pretty similar to the first two except the graphics were hand drawn instead of clip art. about a year after i gave up chasing them for my fee (!) one of them contacted me and told me the whole thing had gone down the tubes, it was not only fake but a copy of an existing fake that had ended badly, and that she was sorry i'd got involved.
there must be dozens of similar scams going on, and i get the feeling the bigger the numbers, the more sucked in people can become.
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three minutes in.
i would just like to stop calling people transphobes. as you say it's not a straightforward subject, and however wrong you or dawkins, or me, might be, it doesn't mean the you or dawkins or me DON'T want trans folks to have happy, healthy productive lives. i have no idea what position to take on this subject, cos really, as long as trans people are happy and don't try it on with me, i'm fine with whatever anyone wants to do really, but i even got pilloried for saying that, that i don't know what the problem is, and i don't mean i don't care, i mean i don't KNOW what the problem is, other than some people are name calling other people over something that is - to me at least - quite complicated. there are problems in sports, and there are problems in situations like prisons, but surely we sort the problems out, we don't just start throwing stones like the religists. i'm no transphobe, i literally couldn't care less, i don't think dawkins is a transphobe, and i don't think you are a transphobe either, so can we just sort out the ACTUAL problems and have lunch?
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trump has his agenda - stay out of jail, ruin america.
musk has his agenda, be nazi, kill "human waste" establish world government, take mars.
homan, play hitler, torture people in concentration camps, satisfy sadistic tendencies.
hegseth, play soldiers, massage ego by denigrating women and trans, drink a lot.
mike johnson, appear smooth, also massage ego, possible attain some power, but. low profile nazi.
heritage foundation, force christianity onto america, take sex slaves cos that's what christians really want, burn people alive for fun, pretend to be moral while doing the diametrically opposite.
that's the cliff notes. basically anyone not worth more than one billion to trump is destined to become a slave. oh, give europe to putin and the rest to the chinese bloke. maybe do away with cash so they can freeze your bank account if you thought about a protest. (see movie elysium).
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i don't know how this can be called a human rights issue from their point of view when i have been trapped in a leasehold property for over ten years, i'm here because it was convenient for schools, the idea was to sell when my son when you uni, but i've been trapped here, i've had one viewing in four years, i'm paying a hefty service charge that amounts to over £400,000 between all the flats, but i defy anyone to show me where that money has been spent. our lift was out for seven months last year - MY human rights, the right to MOVE if i want, has been trampled all over, and the reform bill made things worse - now EVERYONE knows to avoid leasehold.
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i neither love nor hate musk, i love spaceX, i'm indifferent to his cars, he seems to have a lot of exploding and crashing cars, that's something to be aware of. what i do hate and why i would prefer him be deported over, even if it means mars will have to wait, is cutting off research for child cancer - and the rest. i'm a socialist at heart, but i've had good jobs that have paid well, and some have paid ridiculous amounts for very little effort, but musk has all the money in the US, and he still wants more (this is why UBI works, people don't waste it on booze anymore than millionaires stop working, everyone wants more) but when you are stealing from cancer research, when you are stealing from veterans, when you are stealing from social security - that's YOUR money not elon's or even the governments, then he can take a hike, unless he has some 5th column thing going on and he is out to screw trump, then deport him, he's a hypocritical illegal.
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lol, musk is pulling donny's chain. you have a strange notion of how to govern, and AOC is a very popular person, honest and for the people, unlike anyone in MAGA who ALL are out for their personal gain. musk has no government position and yet he's dictating policy, now he's going against the deportation of immigrants, musk wants his "smart immigrants" to have immunity, MAGA are so dumb they don't even know what the other is doing. and trump is trying to pick fights with mexico, canada, panama - the EU, trump is a twat and musk is holding his strings.
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i'm on a fixed pension in the UK, and i have a private pension as well, i have no mortgage, i own my place outright, but i would not be able to live on just my state pension, i can't afford glasses, dentists, plumber for my taps, i have ringing in my ears i can't afford to get looked at, i use my electric central heating literally for hours PER YEAR - now yell me how i would live if my pension was cut.
and i get free - totally free - healthcare.
and it's worse for you guys cos "the american dream" says you have to support yourself, that awful socialism....
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my theory is that personally i talk to myself all the time, and i hold conversations in my head (i rehearse what i am going to say to my girlfriend because she is schizophrenic and i try to avoid ambiguity in my sentences, and words or phrases that might trigger paranoia, or be misinterpreted) but whereas i know this is all my imagination, for the schizophrenic the conversations take on a life of their own, become exagerrated and for the most part negative, like with the weatherman in the first video, i don't think (if i may presume) you hear the tv talking to you, but "today will be cloudy" is heard as "this is going to be a gloomy day - you might as well not go out - nobody wants to see you anyway - everyone wants you to end it all" and because it's hot wired, it seems more real than someone right in front of you, would that be fair to say? (i'm even worried about the wording of this comment!!)
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i've been trapped against my will where i am living for 11 years, i planned to be here for 3 years until my son went to uni, but the rep of the management company, their tardiness and lethargy when i was in conveyancing, has left me three firm offers down the road and still no sale. also the reform bill would have been god if anyone had bothered to MAKE IT HAPPEN, but now thanks very much, no one will touch leasehold for at least another three years, plus however long it takes for owners to extend, so at 70 years old it seems to me instead of having the world be mo oyster i'm going to die in flippin croydon.
it would help is you could stop management companies charging whatever they please, our monthly went from £300 which is bad enough direct to £425 when electricity went up, so our winter fuel went straight to the property company. we need to be able AT LEAST to say "no, i won't pay any more", and also we are expected to cough up (pensioners mind you) the MONTHLY amount IN ADVANCE.
labour - i voted green this time and last time cos you're as crap as the tories. do i sound annoyed?
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it is. i recall when i went at new year ( around 1995) my exwife (then wife) and her girlfriend and i went for a meal and then the friend wanted to go somewhere else for coffee, this was late at night, eventually she decidd on a dunkin donuts, which was full, but my friend went up to a bunch of sinister looking bikers, all in leather with dark glasses and their boots on the seats, and asked if we could sit down, much to my surprise they made room, moved their coats and were extremely polite - just like everyone else. they just wanted to look the part. the japanese are brilliant, i wish they weren't so oppressed by tradition though, my ex left because she felt it was all too claustraphobic.
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it demonstrates that gods are invented though, the nature of a god should dictate how life is lead, but japan is such a diverse set of subcultures (islands / mainland / the four main islands) that religion has adapted to fit the landscape,rather than dictated by a deity.
i've been to japan twice, i love it, it's a pity it is such an oppresive culture though, many japanese resent it's strictness, it's a pity humans can't purely take the best of every culture and live by that, that even the "best of cultures" like japan, has it's problems. still, beautiful, multi-facted country, wonderful and interesting people.
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2024: Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles settles sex abuse cases for $880 million
2007: cardinal Roger Mahony, leader of Los Angeles Catholics to pay $660 million settlement.
2019: Some 200,000 children, young people and vulnerable adults suffered abuse while in
state and faith-based care in New Zealand over the last 70 years, a landmark investigation
has found.
It means almost one in three children in care from 1950 to 2019 suffered some form of
abuse, including being subject to rape, electric shocks and forced labour, according
to the Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry.
admitting to being catholic is like admitting to being part of organized crime, has
the pope stopped apologising for all the abuse cases that are bankrupting god?
i have to say it's great that the pope has finally pointed out god's error about homosexuality
and okayed gay marriage, nice to see religion finally catching up with real morality, and good
of the religists to admit god was wrong. maybe in a few years it'll l be so watered down religion will
be invisible.
what did they do with the space left by limbo being abolished? ballroom? casino?
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trump is doing all this deliberately, it's not incompetence, it's not that he's a twat, he deliberately wants america to go down the toilet, this is all pure revenge on his part, he (thinks) he will be okay cos he is stealing as much as he can, but don't get the idea "he's messed up the economy" - this was the plan all along, stay out of jail, make america regret making him a loser.
and people forget the heritage foundation is behind everything trumps regime is doing, they are letting homan and musk and vance play their nazi games cos they aim to turn the US into a theocracy, and not a "jesus loves you" theocracy, a "we will burn you at the stake if you don't go to church on sunday" - sharia law - america = iran.
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one of the more enjoyable experiences when i was in japan was going to the shrine at new year and praying for a new house or a better job or a new car. it's so odd what different religions consider "good" and "bad", praying for material goods in the west is a no-no (although people do). the japanese are such a practical nation!
6:40 rituals always amuse me, the british royal weddings, funerals, religious rituals, we look at them and take them for granted, but at some point someone sat down and tried to figure out a way to make all this stuff look serious "let's seee now, if you have to walk on the left or right we can say the spirits come down the middle, how many times should you clap? is four too many? is once kinda half-hearted?"
it's spell casting, if you just strolled in, flopped down on a sofa and said "hey god dude, can i pass my exams" that would be exactly the same in effect, but not as convincing to the audience.
12:25 i am atheist, but again the japanese seem to have found a balnce between atheism and belief in something spiritual, i don't belive there are ghosts or spirits or gods or an afterlife, but i do believe humans have common traits that i think of as "spirituality" and japan feels very like that. it's like a religion for atheists :)
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my first official graphics job was pasting the new, modern (!) southern gas logo onto all their stationery, (around 1972) that led to seven years in porn, that led to a degree in graphic design, which led to a further career in computer graphics, first with digital pictures, then with CFX, and further on freelance for everyone, MPC, 4:2:2, smoke and mirrors, lost in space, framestore / cfc, digital arts, electronic arts - well too many to list - i did about 20 fx shots on the BBC planets (1999) series too....i have a channel. i have to say i did a lot of bbc basic animation for my degree show (kingston poly 1984) all inspired by the voyager animations.
come to think of it i was tape/punch card librarian at a computer bureau (FENI data services, part of sunlight laundries) who used UNIVAC 9400 machines, and the guys there did some ascii nudes, so i was involved in computer graphics as far back as 1974. although i also cleaned the coffee machine and mowed the lawn.
at CFX we used to shoot onto film from a 4000 line vector display (i forget the make) engineered by ian chisholm and software by craig zerouni, we would shoot a pass of one colour onto a mitchell camera, rewind the film, shoot a pass of a second colour and so on, and use matte passes to simulate hidden line removal. sitting in a darkened room for hours shooting one frame at a time, several times for multi colour- and if ONE FRAME was wrong.....i think the first ad i did using that technique was the vauxhall astra (the first one) launch.
i have a ton of odd stills on my facebook photo albums pages "a short history of computer graphics" that are a variety of really ancient work i saved from the skip, film, video some storyboards.
PS i have some 3d animations of the EVA pod and discovery ship from 2001 on my channel (a long way back) and a robbie the robot i did in 3D.
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@JamesJordanson my favourite song is hanabi by aiko, it makes me cry every time i hear it, even before i got it translated it seemed really sad despite being a jolly tempo, and the lyrics meant pretty much what i'd thought they had, about losing someone and how awful it feels. hana has become a favourite gilrs name among my japanese friends families, meaning "flower" and hanabi, as in the song title, is fireworks "flowers that explode", brings a lump to my throat just thinking about it, great song, best version is by clearvoice music 大阪ボイトレ クリアボイス
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blimey, take a minute before you need healthcare yourself. i see a warning light flashing chummy.
i had vaccinations as a child, polio, mumps, measles. i had stitches in my thumb in 1972. i had a shard of metal removed from my eye in 1983.
my japanese (now ex) wife had our son in hospital over three days. i had a car crash and was ambulanced to hospital "just in case" and x-rayed.
my son fractured his collar bone eight years later - twice - had x-rays. my health went down the toilet when i hit 65 and now i'm not only taking
pills every day, but i have had countless blood tests, two ct scans, two x-rays and various visits to my doctor.
i never paid a penny for healthcare other than NI and tax. and that's even with the conservtives
trying to run down the NHS to buy it cheap and make it like russia america. i pay for dentistry, but even
then my dentist will do extractions for free, by a junior, to help keep it cheap. i buy glasses cos i'm vain.
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can't be arsed watching this, when we get some honest politicians get back to me. i planned on spending three years tops in this retirement flat, until my son went to uni, then i should have been able to move anywhere in the world, if people - solicitors, management companies, estate management companies had done their job i could have had a dream cottage on the isle of wight, a round the world trip and 60k in the bank, but, everyone had to dick about until it all fell through, twice, i've been trapped in an open prison for eleven years - and now EVERYONE knows - DON'T buy leasehold, thanks.
get it sorted.
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when i went with my (now ex) wife, her family has next to no english (although there are so many japan-acised words eveywhere) and my japanese is "enough to be polite, not enough to hold conversation" so the boys would sit in the kitchen and smoke and drink beer while the girls sat in the living room eating cakee and cohee discussing how terrible their men were. but i did ask about the war and my father in law didn't have much to say, but i got the feeling there was little resentment, even though there is an airforce base down the road and fighter jets and helicopters circle their house 24 / 7. one thing that is missed but ought to be obvious is that the japanese are rebuilding constantly, not to down play the horrors of the atom bombing, but the trams were running in tokyo three days after, the japanese look at disasters, the earthquakes, the tsunamis, the hurricanes, shrug and rebuild.
i went to hiroshima and it's a lovely city, you would never know how awful it must have been.
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according to pew polls, gallup and the PRRI atheists and the "nones" are now for the first time equal in numbers, the "nones" have been growing
while christianity is shrinking, and each time pew takes a new poll the shrinking has become more rapid - the reason - no one wants to be part of
the hate, the bigotry, the abuse and the grift that the church always was, but is now being uncovered.
christians, islam, project 2025, christian nationalism, sharia law - they are INDISTINGUISHABLE from each other - people here in the comments
saying "i'm a christian and this offends me" sorry but god and trump are no different from one another, both dictators, both will deport you with
no trial or representation, both hate on the same folks, both have MAGA values.
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well trump is typically christian. hates gays, hates abortion, hates trans, deports people who dissent, the only thing jesus and trump would fight over is
who sits on the dictator's throne. i find it confusing that apparently bishop budde has told god that christians love trans people now, cos i'm pretty sure
that if you polled american christians 99.9% still want to stone them, so can someone get god to make his mind up, are christians loving trans or not? and
if god is being so liberal as to okay gays and trans folks, can atheists get into heaven now, or do they still get thrown on the fire, just because
they "want to sin"?
god was invented to enable bullies = "it's not ME persecuting trans people, my god wants me to" cowards, sniveling cowards who can't own their hate.
there is no god - he didn't stop the nazis last time, he ain't stopping the nazis this time.
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@jeffadventures1 my in-laws are japanese and i'm afraid i have to agree with you, my only excuse is that the people of japan weren't thrilled about hirohito starting all this mess, it's usually ONE power hungry megalomaniac at the helm dragging entire countries behind, but - i can't make excuses for the atrocities. i did try to talk to my in laws about the war and how they felt about it, but my ex wife didn't really like my "interrogation" and my japanese and their english wasn't enough to make any sensible conclusions, they have an american airbase literally next door, and they don't seem to mind the american presence.
(cut and paste from above):
my in laws are japanese and they have blackhawks and f-15's circling their house 24/7, and they look back at the war philosophically. i've been to hiroshima, and after me and my son watched the film i asked him if he recalled ringing the peace bell, which he didn't, he was three at the time, hiroshima is a pleasant and thriving city, and the japanese face disasters every couple of months, tsunamis and earthquakes and eruptions, they roll up their sleeves, get things rebuilt, and go back to work. the bomb was truly horrific and did horrific things, but the japanese had the trams taking people to work in hiroshima THREE DAYS after the city was flattened.
my in-laws english isn't that good and my japanese is minimal, and my ex wife didn't really want to interrogate her family on my behalf, but i gather my in laws at least aren't all that resentful of the americans, and i think most japanese are okay with their presence. they blame hirohito.
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"it took so long to decide" i think is the critical point. he chnaged his mind too, this is not acceptable, as someone said elsewhere, in a sport where a 1mm discrepancy in wing can get you penalised, changing the rulings just for entertainment purposes is really unacceptable. i hope lewis makes sure from racr one next year that everyone is behind him. every lap, every race.
it might look like a case of rethinking the rules, but as far as mercedes are concerned it means MILLIONS to them, i'm sure they won't take this lying down, emotionally i think toto really wanted lewis to win fair and square and any other time they would've taken it on the chin and let it go to the next race, but this is business, winning the championship is about money - that will make a difference to how they deal with this.
interesing that masi let ALL cars through when it suited, and just five when it suited...
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according to pew polls, gallup and the PRRI atheists and the "nones" are now for the first time equal in numbers, the "nones" have been growing
while christianity is shrinking, and each time pew takes a new poll the shrinking has become more rapid - the reason - no one wants to be part of
the hate, the bigotry, the abuse and the grift that the church always was, but is now being uncovered.
christians, islam, project 2025, christian nationalism, sharia law - they are INDISTINGUISHABLE from each other - god and trump are no different from one another, both dictators, both will deport you with no trial or representation, both hate on the same folks, both have MAGA values.
if you wanted your religion to thrive you should have kept it to yourself and not tried to interfere with human and civil rights - roe / wade
was the turning point in the decline of christianity - watch it fade away. anyone know who bastet was?
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i'm a carer for schizophrenia and the main problem is other people, not the person with the condition. even for me, who has been exposed to all kinds of erratic behaviour in the last nine years, it's difficult and in fact impossible sometimes to tell what is "the person" and what is "the illness" behaving. mental health is a complex subject, but one thing is certain, it needs much better funding, it's like when a person goes for surgery you have a team of doctors performing the operation, but the operation is at some point complete and the doctors go home, with mental illness you still need a team of doctors, but "the operation" never ends.
government always seems to act like if you ignore health care somehow the problem will go away, with mental health if you don't fund it properly it grows.
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@rickharriss lol. it's a mixed bag. i've always thought i would live forever (this is my simulation after all), i want to know how things turn out, as i said elswhere when i was a kid in the 60's i was promised hover car rides on the moon, i'm still waiting. i've been healthy and fit all my life, but for some reason everything decided to fall apart this year, so i am kind of hoping i'll die in my sleep sometime this week, but, i still hope david sinclair perfects and starts selling his "ten years younger" pill, i don't really want to go yet, it's just i really, really, really hate not being well.
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it's nice that they fed homeless people, makes a change from kicking, spitting on and setting them alight eh. one thing about this, why isn't denmark looking after those homeless? homelessness is a world wide problem, bur civilised counties could cut it considerably by using UBI - EVERYONE gets a $1000 or more per month, that money has to be spent, boosting the economy, and you aren't allowed to "save it", you have $1000 in that account each month unless you spend, then it gets replaced. it pays for rent, clothes, education, childcare, healthcare, it replaces a lot of disability benefit, so you save on bureaucracy.
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the first house my ex-wife and i bought was leasehold, it it was on church land, we had no service charges and the ground rent was as you say, peppercorn, £5 a year i think it was, this is why when i bought my current place as leasehold i had no idea the problems i would run into, just extending a lease took nearly a year to sort and cost £6000, and i have to do it all over again 5 years on, you basically buy a piece of pepper, not bricks and mortar, and the freeholders can't wait for something to wrong then they pounce on you with law and start running up "legal fees".
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no one would sign a lease agreement unless they'd been duped or desperate, everyone knows leasehold is not fair to homeowners, and now the tories have backed down on reform like the cowards they are. i've just turned 70 and i'm trapped in an open prison - so much for "enjoying my retirement", i'm just burning money living here.
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@SabineHossenfelder i have said this many times before, the "logical" progression from going to the moon and mars is to deal with journey times, i think it will start with "designing humans" - prosthetics and genetic engineering and a whole bunch of other things are already available, we will not terraform, we will redesign humans.
then we have to deal with distance, and the way around that, in my mind at least, is to travel in other dimensions, to literally warp space. and once you've done that you might as well live in spaceships anyway - we don't see aliens cos they live in intergalactic space in ships that exist in other dimensions than ours.
for instance asteroid mining, we go to an asteroid, we stick rocket engines (or whatever) on it, drive it back to earth - then what? drop an asteroid on washington? no - we have to mine it in space and build stuff from it in space, there is no reason, other than a nature preserve or sentiment, to live on any planet ever again.
obvious really - lol.
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YOU let this come about, i don't know why you're blame shifting, i get a little annoyed with americans cos you all act like this only happened last week, you've had years of trump and today, the day before you start losing your rights, you protest, the french would have burned mar-a-largo to the ground before now. and we have musk over here giving money to nazis, so we really appreciate you guys and how lazy you can be. if it weren't for people like farage over here, copying everything trump does i'd be laffing my ass off at you, but sadly you've opened a can of worms that looks very much like ending in world war three, cos i bet you screw up when venezuela decides to take back peurto rico. american arrogance will be the end of you.
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i'm in the UK where we're slightly more civilised, but i go out taking photos of london most days when the sun shines, last year i was going home through blackfriars station and needed the toilets but the gents was closed, the attendant was coming out and he said to go into the ladies as it was empty, so i did, and as i went in a lady was coming out of the stalls to wash her hands, so i caught her attention, explained and she said "sure, no problem"
a couple of weeks later i;m in the supermarket but this time the ladies was closed, and i go in the gents only to bump into a woman coming out, we were both a bit surprised, but no one started screaming.
also it's been a while since i was in paris, but do they still have mixed toilets? it used to be a big thing, and, i've been to japan a couple of times where the hotels and ryokan have communal baths, families, with pre school children bath naked with total strangers, like me, and no one gives a damn.
people LIKE being prejudiced is all i can guess. if i have trans friends - i have no idea.
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how about people in general just be decent? how about instead of people like trump being a complete b@st@rd to all and sundry, people have a bit of respect for each other? how about that?
democracy was meant to be a system of government that works for the population as a whole, it strikes me as silly to have to remind ignoramuses like you that democracy means representing ALL the people, even the ones who voted against you.
until trump every president has tried to do the best for country as a whole, they get first dibs on policy and who carries out that policy, but it was for AMERICA not individuals, for all of a america, trump has instilled hate into people and he is the one that started the "we won, now we will deport anyone who isn't maga" trump has ruined your country and it will take decades, if at all, to pt right. now you are a country of disgusting ignorance that will wind up no better than china or russia, the very people you despise so much. just keep it on your side of the atlantic is all i ask, scotland has it right, trump is not welcome there.
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my brother in law is mr narita, so he owns the airport.
:)
i went when we first got married so i could meet her parents (we are now, 20 years later, divorced but on good terms) and i loved japan. it wasn't as crowded as it appears in the west, we didn't go into the countryside as much as in the videos you do, and we spent less time in the green parts of the cities than the city parts, but my ex wife prefers shopping to trees. if i was ever to become religious i would pick shinto, it's as close to being atheist as any religion can be, and i think having no god, haveing repsect for family and nature, are humanist anyway. i recommend japan to eevryone i have the opportunity. i say it's the closest thing to being in space, when i look up at the sky i expect to see rings like saturn.
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i've been to japan twice, about fifteen years ago, and what strikes me is that although my in-laws are about two miles from an american airbase, and have helicopters and fighters flying over their home continually, they quite like americans. i was astonished at how hiroshima shows little signs of the devastation that hit it, other than the one building and the history museum. seeing melted kids tricycles brings home how devastating the war was. my son went to japanese school (in the UK) one morning a week, him and his entire class passed GCSE japanese a year early, the sports days were tremendous fun, every one gets involved. we have lots to learn from other nationalities.
internment seems like a neat way to rob people.
"the arms race is like two men up to their stomachs in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five"
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12:35 one thing that took forty years of guitar playing to realise was, much as it is fun to try to emulate your heroes, you're better off doing your own thing and having people wonder "how does he do that" about you instead.
"it takes a lifetime to learn [guitar], so the sooner you start, the longer it takes"
14:00 the thing i find though is, only YOU know you're crap at something, i'm a terrible guitar player, but people who hear me play don't know that, cos i only play stuff i can play, usually things i've made up myself, so other people wonder how can he play that? the realisation was doing my art GCSE, a life drawing that i thought was going really badly and i was sweating over, cos i love art, but it dawned on me the examiner was never going to see the model or the pose - i could do whatever i wanted really, and no one was going to be the wiser.
and the most important lesson i learned when i moved to london was, finding a job and a flat was a full time job in itself, and however disheartening it might be to fail, if you just keep plodding on, ignore the downs, sooner or later you get yo where you want to be - if you're lucky - but no one who sits in their bedroom wishing, gets lucky, you have to give luck opportunities to find you. i plodded, i found and got my dream job, i've had an amazing life - not one second planned.
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1:20:00 i've been lost and looking for the answers pretty much all my life, but i never expected someone else to supply them i've always expected to work things out by myself, and there's nothing wrong with being lost, it's a really good way to keep on enquiring about life, it's actually a good thing, and it probably has evolutionary advantages. but it is what religion preys on, and more's the pity it's what religion addresses best, the sense of purpose, but my advice would be to take up art or music, or even writing, they all provide a goal, they goal is next to impossible to achieve, and you have a harmless, nay creative sense of purpose. religions are all scams, you get sold scotch mist "salvation" and it pays out when you're dead, scam.
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can i point out something that nobody seems to realise, that the AI we currently use, and the AI people talk about in the near future is NOT AI at all.
i was watching a video made by a well known musician youtuber who explained that although he'd been offered huge amounts of money, he had refused to let his content be used for training AI, and what i realised is that TRUE AI won't ASK for permission for anything - i am a biological AI, i am a reasonably intelligent human, and i spend all day trawling the internet for content, for whatever purpose I want to see that content for, and this musician isn't stopping me from learning from his content, no one is. i have access to pretty much all the internet anyone else has.
so will AI.
right now we prompt AI, we ask it to make pictures of scarlett johannson, but TRUE AI, will be waiting for you at the office on monday, tell you it's already done your weeks work and it will send you home. it won't need prompting, you won't be telling it what to do or what you want, IT WILL TELL YOU. how come even the people developing AI haven't noticed this? it won't be AI if it isn't like me - autonomous.
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ah for a filter. bret and eric weinstein, when i first encountered them about two years ago, seemed liked reasonable men, i heard what they had to say and it made sense, and you think, okay, i have two more reliable sources, my confirmation biases are on solid ground. then eric starts going all conspiracy theory (with good cause i think, but he still sounds a bit, er, off kilter) and eric starts on with this covid conspiracy (and again he makes it all plausible) but then they both don't seem to be corresponding to reality, and the best line of action is to put them in the "pinch of salt" pile, until they can behave.
i was born in 1954, so vaccination wasn't even questioned, one kid at our school used leg irons due to polio and that was all one needed. i waited as long as i could before getting vaccinated (i live alone, i'm an artist and hermit anyway, so i'm not killing too many folk) in order to see if any of my relatives or friends turned into vampire crocosharks - they didn't, i have been vaccinated, i still wear a mask, i am an "err on the side of caution" person. it's like climate change, if it's all hoax i still benefit (clean air, new tech n all that) but if i am wrong i die. caution is a no brainer.
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i used to do the artwork for porn magazines back in the 70's (UK) when they were at their filthiest, i went to art school and got a degree in order to change lanes, but i can tell you i worked with the best people with better morals than most priests, we had a filthy sense of humour but there were four guys, two typists and the cleaning woman and we were all there for the seven years i did that job, no one was harassed, we all had a great time, earned pots of money and had a laugh, nothing wrong with porn other than the same things that plague any business, greed and lack of integrity. and of course, if you want people to come back, then you have to be discreet, i bet you're safer with pornhub than your bank.
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@omenala_ i've always been atheist, i'm 67. i post on apologetics pages that in all that time i've never read a book "how to be a better atheist" never needed someone to argue for me, or prove on my behalf what i believe. if i can't think for myself then i'm in trouble. when it comes to god, my parents were spiritualist, so religion looked like a carnival act to me from the start, no one comes back from the dead is all i really need to know, all gods have been mythological til now, so although i can say "there might be a god" i can also feel secure saying "there are no gods". if someone claiming to be jesus appeared my "test" would be, lend me a fiver for an indefinite period, then get everyone with a weapon to put it down and hug the people they've been fighting, that would impress me.
never gonna happen though is it?
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the US is the perfect example of being polarised by made up news, 45 has deliberately concentrated on dividing opinion and aloowing those opinions, bad opinions, a platform. even the UK has fallen fowl of political manipulation. you aren't aware, juding by your comment, that everyone on the planet disagrees with everyone else on the planet on most subjects, but take me for example, i despise pretty much everyone, but no one notices cos i keep it to myself, and everybody keeps their thoughts to themselves in the main, they get on with the life they have to lead and let other people get on with theirs, never even thinking about differences, until someone like 45, or our government MAKES things an issue. the internet disseminates ideas faster than MSM, but MSM is responsible for highlighting all the differences people have, and those differences then bubble up to the surface and you wind up with the America you have today, everyone hating everyone else, and being noisy about it.
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why are religists so afraid of atheists? we don't have any rules to follow, we don't have a hell, we don't have a book
you have to read, you don't have to cut anything off your body, secular non religious countries are doing really well
and in fact are least likely to get involved in wars, we are only 3-4% of the population, i for one don't even want
you on my team, stay religist, cos on average your IQ is six points lower than mine, humanists even advocate for all
religions to have a voice - i think it's pure envy of our freedom, we aren't scared of hell and we don't care what
gods say.
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sorry but you have failed to notice that god is the ultimate dictator, god is the one who hates on abortion (but killing the first born of egypt is okay) god hates on gays, hates on trans folks, hates on drag queens, god and MAGA have shared values. god literally deports people just for disagreeing with him, no trial, no representation, ONE sentence, the gulag of hell, religion is the problem - i've been atheist all my 70 years and you know i PRAY EVERY DAY - that the rapture takes you lot away, cos the planet will be peaceful and pleasant when you hate mongers are gone.
and god isn't even real. just a figment of your poorly designed brain.
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how strange to not hear "spinning around a massive black hole at the centre of the galaxy" how fast science moves when you aren't looking. i've seen my first naked eye comet, how amazing is that especially as this is kind of reverse time travel, a voice from 2020.okay, they talk about black holes.
colour though, there is no colour in the universe, colour is created entirely by the brain, electromagnetism is a grey scale, like infra red and ultra violet get coloured by the camera (high temp gets coloured red, low temp, blue, but it's the camera that colours it, not the heat signature), wavelengths of light get vroken down and given colour by the brain to make it easier to differentiate. just as butterfly wings have np pigment, the colours are made by diffraction, like a cd disc, if you look at the diffraction grating under a microscope it's grey.
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something that popped into my head today, given god is eternal, how long was he around for before thinking, you know what, i need a new project: humans? i mean was he alone for a long time, did he create us at the same instant he was created? where along gods timescale are we, at the beginning, middle, end? and if god is perfect, what does he need us for? and more to the point why us? surely the most efficient life form is a single celled, god worshipping robot? in short, as far as god is concerned, what role do we furnish for him, because this is a weird way of achieving some end product.
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headlines:
2024: Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles settles sex abuse cases for $880 million
2007: cardinal Roger Mahony, leader of Los Angeles Catholics to pay $660 million settlement.
2019: Some 200,000 children, young people and vulnerable adults suffered abuse while in
state and faith-based care in New Zealand over the last 70 years, a landmark investigation
has found.
It means almost one in three children in care from 1950 to 2019 suffered some form of
abuse, including being subject to rape, electric shocks and forced labour, according
to the Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry.
i guess god isn't paying attention
i guess morality isn't written on priests hearts
i guess god makes no difference at all to the world.
admitting to being catholic is like admitting to being part of organized crime, has
the pope stopped apologising for all the abuse cases that are bankrupting god?
i have to say it's great that the pope has finally pointed out god's error about homosexuality
and okayed gay marriage, nice to see religion finally catching up with real morality, and good
of the religists to admit god was wrong. maybe in a few years it'll l be so watered down religion will
be invisible.
what did they do with the space left by limbo being abolished? ballroom? casino?
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it is a problem, i have an extremely brainy son, and it feels like boasting to talk about what makes me proud of him, unless i'm with parents from his school, then he is the norm, but also i'm a paradox, i don't go out much, i only have a few close friends, no one really pays me much attention, but, i bet nearly everyone in comments has seen at least one piece of my work at some point. and that's not a boast, it's a statistic. i can see she's not talking from ego, i think she smiles the same smile i do, that not many people actually know the whole story of who you are. i used to stand in the playground waiting for my son, look around me and wonder that no one here knew who i was or what an extraordinary life i've had. i'm trying to say yes to everything now i'm retired and divorced, life's too short.
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you know that 1 we use when describing chance, like one in a billion, one in a zillion, well it's the one you need to concentrate on, cos however unlikely the odds might be, presto bongo, we are that one in a bzillion. and there is no reason why you can't win the lottery a zillion times in a row, it's just unlikely. science and religion have nothing to do with each other, other than religion hates science cos religion is made up stuff that can't resolve itself with the facts, science has no knowledge of religion, it's just a way to figure how stuff works and hopefully be able to figure out how stuff works in the future, like statistically religion will fade out, just as thousands of religions already have, cos they are all ridiculous, contrary, muddy to understand and ultimately a confidence trick to get suckers like you to act like sheep, "don't ask questions cos preacher will tell you the answers", religion doesn't like to be questioned, science is all questions. and i guess you're using a CPU of some kind to get onto youtube, bit silly isn't it?
watch sam harris talk about random, cos random isn't what you think it is.
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we invented free healthcare in 1948, america is slow on the uptake.
thing si after WWII it was obvious to everyone in europe that not only did the military suffer casualties, but civilians had been bombed and starved and relocated too, so we set up healthcare for everyone, and the only what to make it for everyone is to make it free, it's logical not even political (although it was a socialist and an atheist : bevin whose idea it was) the problem for america is that the mainland was never attacked (well, once or twice) and the war wasn't nearly as real, also america resented paying for weapons and being "dragged in" - we do not admire billionaires in europe, we respect people's borders because we spent hundreds of years fighting each other but in WWII mainly the british, but every country helped each other out, america thinks greed is a good thing, and america has fewer borders with other countries, generally we think trade and sharing is a good thing.
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trump is doing all this deliberately, it's not incompetence, it's not that he's a twat, he deliberately wants america to go down the toilet, this is all pure revenge on his part, he (thinks) he will be okay cos he is stealing as much as he can, but don't get the idea "he's messed up the economy" - this was the plan all along, stay out of jail, make america regret making him a loser.
and people forget the heritage foundation is behind everything trumps regime is doing, they are letting homan and musk and vance play their nazi games cos they aim to turn the US into a theocracy, and not a "jesus loves you" theocracy, a "we will burn you at the stake if you don't go to church on sunday" - sharia law - america = iran.
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lol, yebisu beer. this is what i love about the japanese, they adapt everything to suit their desired lifestyle. the christian mythology demands you obey god's laws, the japanese god;s reflect the japanese desires. it's great, it's the way religion really is, man made rules.
another lol is last time my ex-wife and son came back from japan they brought me kit-kats, and i'm like, what? i can get these down the road. i didn't know at the time about kittu katsu, lol.
another kind of surprise is when i stayed at my in-laws house, they have no english at all, and i have very little japanese (me, dad and brother-in-law would sit in the kitchen with beer smoking and trying to hold daft conversations using sign language and grunts :) but every where you look ar eenglish phrases and slogans and words, and a lot of japanese is adaptations of english, i joke with my friends "what's the japanese for table? - table!" "what's the japanese for spoon? - spoon!"
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er, if you vote the candidate you wanted to vote for, you didn't have free will to choose someone else, did you. how did he miss that? that's the problem with free will, can you do other than you feel compelled to. if you're atheist, decide to be christian for a while, and vice versa, you can't.
as far as i can tell there is only one past, you did what you did and it's set in stone, surely that is the future too, you can only experience one future. the only thing is you can't see what will happen.
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the heritage foundation is behind everything trump is doing, they let putin dictate to trump, they let musk practice his nazi eugenics, they let homan play hitler with his concentration camps, the let hegseth fire the military - they want a christians theocracy, but it's not a "christian" theocracy it is sharia law, no abortion at all, no porn, no votes or rights for women, laws are dictated by the bible - which really means people will be making up whatever laws suit them and saying "god said so" - they want america to be another iran. there is no god, it's a big con and these people are using religion to become the ruling class. they will fail - fascist regimes always fail - but they will create chaos in the meantime - they wrote project 2025, to remove your rights and make you slaves. take a glance at project 2025 it makes no excuses and says clearly what the aims are - slavery for you and me.
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1:20:00 fkng cheek, 67 here and my brain is working better than yours by all accounts.
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i think there is just one past history, until we get hold of a time machine. that kind of implies there will be one future - zillions of options, but only one way they will play out. which to me implies that you can join "the history of the universe" at any given point and you'll have a fixed past and a fixed future. sure you can have a goal to aim for, shall i go to class or shall i skip it, but the outcome, when it happens, will be the only possible outcome.
besides, you do things for reasons, which means you won't do other things, you pick A and now you could not pick B. i don't see how we are free to do anything, we are only ignorant of the future.
and if you did know the future, the moment of your passing, and all the events that lead up to it, what would you do? you kinda have no choice but to carry on - or - what? what else could you do?
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in the UK and most of northern europe we don't have any problem with evolution, even when it conflicts with the bible, we take the bible as guidelines - not even believers
can agree on any two paragraphs so why would anyone else. darwin and dawkins are heroes even to the church cos we value science, and even believers over here are
a litle more honest and know that lying isn't a good thing. the problem in the states is religion has been hijacked by politics for politcal gain, the creationism
thing would be laughed out of the UK, but it's being backed in the states cos it divides, and as your current president (45) knows, divide the nation, get more
votes, and he's purely in it for narcissism and money.
santa claus: knows who is naughty, knows who is nice.
god: knows who is naughty, knows who is nice.
roger penrose: "there may be a superior intelligence, but i don't see how that helps" and purely as an aside: "how do we know this intelligence isn't malicious"
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project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
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at present it's not AI at all, it's a smart tool. we'll know it's AI when you don't have to prompt it anymore, you come into work on monday and it'll be waiting to ask you what you think of the work it did that you could have done this weekend. at the moment you have to ask it, when it does stuff on it's own you need to watch out.
i left school at 16 in 1970 and my second job was tape librarian to a UNIVAC 9400. after that i worked for southern gas updating their stationary on an IBM golfball. i did my graphics degree and got into BBC basic and then got head-hunted by digital pictures, moving on to cfx associates, then freelanced for EA, smoke and mirrors, moving pictures, oasis tv, - anyone who is anyone. was animation going to die when computer graphics "took over"?
wasn't it predicted that art would die when the camera was invented? if AI doesn't do a skynet and wipe us out, it's basically just another tool in the designers arsenal, i can now do things i had to either botch myself or farm out, and in fact i found some images inspiring (i'm working on a sculpture for bookends, a man sitting on a chair, the chair would be hard to sculpt and it never occurred to me - but it occurred to AI - to have him sit on a pile of books.
when youytube started i thought it would e a source of work for me, titles and in program graphics was my bread and butter, but that was spoiled by the fact EVERYONE got graphics kit and budgets plummeted. AI is just another bend in the river of creativity, as long as it doesn't bump us off in the process.
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2024: Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles settles sex abuse cases for $880 million
2007: cardinal Roger Mahony, leader of Los Angeles Catholics to pay $660 million settlement.
2019: Some 200,000 children, young people and vulnerable adults suffered abuse while in
state and faith-based care in New Zealand over the last 70 years, a landmark investigation
has found.
It means almost one in three children in care from 1950 to 2019 suffered some form of
abuse, including being subject to rape, electric shocks and forced labour, according
to the Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry.
i guess god isn't paying attention
i guess morality isn't written on priests hearts
i guess god makes no difference at all to the world.
admitting to being catholic is like admitting to being part of organized crime, has
the pope stopped apologising for all the abuse cases that are bankrupting god?
i have to say it's great that the pope has finally pointed out god's error about homosexuality
and okayed gay marriage, nice to see religion finally catching up with real morality, and good
of the religists to admit god was wrong. maybe in a few years it'll l be so watered down religion will
be invisible.
what did they do with the space left by limbo being abolished? ballroom? casino?
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we get the same crap here in the UK, that the NHS is a drain, we can't afford it, it has to be reformed - what they mean is bought cheap and repackaged the same as americans SUFFER. it's bollocks, it was NEVER intended to make money, it was always going to be funded by tax and "national insurance" = everyone contributing, so everyone could benefit. you americans though have been fooled by a love of billionaires, you seem to think that billionaires worked hard for that money - they didn't, for the most part they screwed people for that money. you also STILL don't know the difference between communism - trump and putin are communists - and socialism - free healthcare, holidays, fixed working hours, libraries and hospitals. when you get you thick skulls around those ideas then you might decide to FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS. cos NO ONE gives you rights, they are always fought for.
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impose tariffs, crash stock market, buy stock, oh, it was all a mistake, no tariffs, market recovers, make money, take credit for recovery. people say trump is stupid, he is not. insider trading.
this is all deliberate, he is making money, he is literally selling america, he has project 2025 well under way, everyone else will do the dirty work (homan and his concentration camps, hegseth and his invasions, musk with the eugenics program) nope, it's all going to plan.
he gave you a book "i intend to ruin america and take your rights" in nice clear print - and no one did a single thing to stop it. i thought you were in the new russia, but this germany 1939 with thieves.
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oh how i love the churches hypocrisy, trump and god share the same values, they hate abortion, they hate gays, they hate trans folks, god will deport you - does god recognise human rights? nope.
and despite what bishop budde says you poll christian americans and they will tell you they hate trans folks. the reason the pope allowed gay marriage is cos atheists forced him and the churches are empty - cos no one wants to sit next to bigots and racists and homophobes.
trump and homan and hegseth, all of them profess to be christian - to be christian you have to be a drunk, a rapist, a molester, a fraud. and top tip - there is no god, it's ALL a con. tell me christians are atheists welcome in heaven now?
do you all love trans people now?
you all stink of hypocrisy
a quick reminder that the first amendment conflicts with the first commandment: thou shalt worship whoever you want, so you can't really be christian AND american.
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project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
i like to remind folks that given the choice between family, friends and god, christians will pick god everytime, they will not
defend YOU when you are being pushed into the lake of fire.
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it's escaped your attention that jesus and maga share the same values apparently, god is the ultimate dictator who deports anyone who disagrees, he has no respect for MY human rights, jesus hates gays, hates trans, hates abortion - the heritage foundation - christians - are behind EVERYTHING trump is doing, so cut the hypocrisy - tell me is god LOVING trans or is god still HATING trans? i'm getting mixed messages from your schizo god.
and there is no god, believing humans are cursed for eating apples is INSANELY STUPID and the problem with america is 2/3 of you are that dumb. jesus didn't save anyone from the nazis last time, jesus won't save a SINGLE PERSON from the nazis this time, stop being ridiculous. and do something about the heritage foundation cos THEY are the real threat to democracy, god is the real threat, the HF want a christian theocracy - do you want that? to be FORCED to go to church? forget the constitution? are you a nazi too? for god?
a quick reminder that the first amendment conflicts with the first commandment: thou shalt worship whoever you want, so you can't really be christian AND american. your religion is DUMB.
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people, which i supposed includes republicans, seem to enjoy poverty. having been a socialist all my life (but, you know, a lazy socialist, not a trotskyite type socialist - i've never been on march, you get a better view from tv) i've always thought if that guy has a decent level of income he can make ME look good too. i hate cliches but it's about lifting people up, not pretending they will "drink it all away"
but again i've always thought if people "waste their money" then keep giving them money cos it just goes straight back to the rich anyway, might as well help someone on the way along. we need UBI and UBI is a good thing, it works, it helps many more people than the drink and drugs brigade.
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it's a shame because japan should be an example to the world, creative, artistic, technological, polite, friendly, helpful, honest - low crime, but ask japanese why the place is so great and they will tell you it's oppressive, crowded, intrusive, overwhelming and not individualistic. if only the planet could find balance.
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project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
i like to remind folks that given the choice between family, friends and god, christians will pick god everytime, they will not
defend YOU when you are being pushed into the lake of fire.
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i had been avoiding marriage and children, i worked in tv in the west end of london and was having a great time. then i met a japanese girl who is 13 years younger than me and i got fed up of hearing her complain about visas and the home office, and she was an excelent person - and still is - so we got married and started a family.
what went wrong was that my work means i could work for a six months, and then have six months spending all my money until i needed to work again, and, when we had moved three times, the last time she had to take on the full amount of the mortgage, i was in my late 50's - that's when the cultures clashed, i lost her respect as head of the house and eventually (20 years of marriage later) we split.
we have a son, so we are still in touch and get along pretty well, but the age difference, although good for me to begin with, is probably worth avoiding if you can. my ex was a brilliant wife and mother and her family were the tops, i love japan and the japanese people. it hasn't been a conscious effort, but all my girlfriends have been a year to ten years younger than me - i am young at heart as they say :)
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objects with no mass travel at the speed of light, the closer you come to moving at the speed of light the less "time" you experience, so, if you are a photon traveelling at the speed of light, time has stopped entirely, the photon experiences no time. so it can "travel" from one side of the univers to the other, it takes however many years to do it, but to the photon, no time has passed at all, this is where we get the big bang singularity from, (you have to see some roger penrose talking about aeons really), but penrose has an idea that at "the end of time" there are only photons left in the universe, and as photons don't "experience" time, distance has no meaning and time has no meaning, so however "big" the universe might appear, to a photon size and time don't exist, and photon, from it's point of view, can be everywhere at once.
essentially if an object is moving at the speed of light time has shrunk to zero for that object.
your photon from the sun takes eight minutes - FOR US - to the photon it takes NO TIME at all, cos time doesn't exist for the photon.
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amazing how many people are showing support for the criminal buffoon, this isn't a red vs blue election, it's the US vs stalin. you know there were germans who thought they were immune to deportation and firing squads back in 1939, but it took five years and a million deaths for them to realise, oops. now you want to do it all over. read project 2025 it says it in plain english it intends to remove ALL americans rights, not just democrats, yours too. and you might like what it says, you might like the idea of slavery being brought back and making women go back to the kitchen, but it will apply to YOU as well, adolf didn't care who you were in 1939, people were turning each other over to the ss just cos they were noisy neighbours, or they "looked funny"
don't make me say "i told you so" read the book.
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@adil2curtay we've been behaving morally for up to 5 million years, my guess would be morality is parallel to survival, any society that allows r@pe, theft or killing isn't going to last, however the behaviour gets into genes it's had plenty of time to take root.
with the religists though, some of them are pretty much psychopaths who believe, truly, that without god they would do all manner of heinous thongs, so steer clear of that mob, the rest are schizo - on the one hand they believe that morals are derived from god, but that would mean they have no morality of their own, look at their reaction when it's pointed out "if it were true there is no god how would you behave" i have no idea where morality actually comes from, but there is no god, so it's not him.
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i just came from him talking (it wasn't anywhere near a debate, WLC tended to cede to penrose superior knowledge) talking to william lane craig, and i said as much in comments, we all have this massive super computer behind our eyes and it's such a pity only two handsful of people on the planet can use them. penrose is a great ambassador for agnosticism, and atheism, in his own, quiet, logical, knowledgeable way, he tore WLC apart, my favourite line (paraphrasing) "well there might be a superior intelligence, but i don't see where that gets us".
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i came across this aeons idea a year or so ago, i was hoping to get more from this video, but penrose only touched upon the subject, to cut it to it's bare bones, at the "end of the universe" we are left with only massless particles which travel at the speed of light, so although the universe has "size" distance has no meaning, and anything moving at the speed of light doesn't "experience" time, so no matter how "big" the universe is, it has no size - we have our singularity again which leads to the big bang, and in the interview i saw penrose says as time has ceased to exist, it's the first big bang.
i have to keep looking for deeper explanations of aeons, but this new position, that it's possible to communicate between eaons is truly mind boggling, never mind being able to travel to or communicate with alien civilisations, but alien civilisations that had bzillions of years to develop....staggering.
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@grimshockz6 the problem is that people are looking for confirmation bias, they think up some thought, or hear some opinion, and they look at one source that aghrees and presto, job done. not mamy people are looking to see if their idea can be refuted, this is what the internet could be extremely good for, to see as many points of view, studies, information on your subject of choice and THEN form you opinion, but most people do it the other way round, okay, i'm right, cocoa time.
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this is all deliberate, he is making money, he is literally selling america, he has project 2025 well under way, everyone else will do the dirty work (homan and his concentration camps, hegseth and his invasions, musk with the eugenics program) nope, it's all going to plan.
he gave you a book "i intend to ruin america and take your rights" in nice clear print - and no one did a single thing to stop it. i thought you were in the new russia, but this germany 1939 with thieves.
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no, it makes you dimwitted and ignorant. trump is racist there is no question, i suggest you read project 2025 and that you can prove beyond doubt that you are "pure american" cos he wants to deport people by the millions, including journalists who are white. this election isn't red vs blue, for people who say they hate communism you're VOTING for it.
heritage foundation project 2025:
Targeting immigrant communities through mass deportations and raids, ending birthright citizenship, separating
families, and dismantling our nation’s asylum system.
no more loan forgiveness = slavery
eliminate the dept of education
Exploiting the executive branch’s vast and unprecedented powers to spy on Americans’ lives with
warrantless surveillance of our data.
Violating the First Amendment by using federal law enforcement to target journalists and protestors.
Abusing executive power to interfere in our elections by criminalizing the voting process and damaging fair representation.
Censoring academic discussions about race, gender, and systemic oppression, in violation of the First Amendment, and promising to
cut federal funding for schools with curricula that touch on these subjects.
Weaponizing federal law to require states and private actors to discriminate against transgender people by threatening to
sue schools that protect the rights of trans students or telling hospitals that they would lose their Medicaid funding
if they provide gender-affirming medical care to trans adolescents.
Severely limiting abortion access nationwide by reversing the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, a drug
used in medication abortion, and reviving a 19th century law, the Comstock Act, to ban any abortion
medications, equipment, or materials from being sent through the U.S. Postal Service.
there are 900 pages of this.
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lol. wasn't the guy behind the curtain a faker? choose your analogies wisely. don't forget, watches have evolved too, it's not really an argument for a creator, it's an argument for the extension of evolution, just as our eyes have evolved cos they help with survival, more accurate watch designs have evolved, and whereas they might be said to have been created, the watch has a nature of it's own, if youfind the diameter of one wheel doesn't work, you alter it as much as needed, you could say watches evolve by natural selection. but nobody dies. "accident" hmmm. life isn't an accident, life is natural. "randomness" - i like sam harris illustration of why "random" isn't - pick a city, name any city at random. well your choice wasn't random because you can only name cities you know the name of, and furthermore, you don't know the names of ALL the cities in the universe. "random" is confined to a finite number, it may be a big numbe, but the important number in the "what are the chances" is the number 1 - if chances are 1 in a bzillion, you only need that one time. and our universe is fundamentally made of coincidences, if you were to look around at the quantum level coincidences would be rife, mix up the availible chemicals enough times and presto, life is almost inevitable.
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i was arguing with a friend about colour, objects and light have no intrinsic colour, colour only exists inside brains and a "proof" for that is redshift, if i am on one side of a white dwarf that is orbiting another star, and my friend is on the other side, when the dwarf is moving away from my friend he sees it as redshifted, whereas i see it as blue shifted, if the colour was in the photons then we would both see it as white, but our brains interpret the compressed and expanded wavelengths, not their "colour".
as an animator (since the 80's) whose worked on things like SOHO and the BBC "the planets" series, i'm always looking for better ways to depict spacetime, these videos help immensely.
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25:00 sean carroll has had some amazing conversations with a variety of people on a variety of subjects that just boggle the mind, but the one that has been springing to mind lately, in respect to what you're saying, was with antonio padilla about "big numbers" where he hints that if you go far enough into the universe you will likely encounter another milky way galaxy, that although the numbers can be big, that the combination od stuff will result in repeats of what already exists - even without a multiverse, there is probably an infinite (or near) number of duplicate universes to our own. i like to think of it this way, what is NEAR infinite? a universe doesn't have to be an actual infinite to be equivalent to infinite - and how big is that, cos you can try to imagine a really, really big thing, then you can just carry on doubling, quadrupling, bzillioning the size until it gets ridiculous. not only is the universe big, it's even bigger than that. ANYTHING is possible (except god of course who is imaginary in every universe).
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the point silverman is trying to make is that it's all very well for an atheist like me (i live in the UK, no one has ever been bothered about my beliefs) for me to think of myself as an individual, i say over and over the reason i'm atheist is that i want no part of any gang, even one i agree with, but when i see people like ken ham actively lying his head off, and backing a religion that banishes children to hell with god as the only cure, then fk it, i'm in, silverman has pointed out, and probably does here, that currently atheists appear to be a minority, when in fact if everyone who does not have a god belief came out as atheist, which they are, then you would have a considerable portion of the population - and a political voice. atm atheist are being ignored.
i don't particularly like the evangelical tones that silverman uses in his debates, but for goodness sake if it gets people believing in true, real things and being skeptical and having better minds, then i'll buy that. i'm sick of religious people having their way, cos they want respect, when they have no respect for anyone.
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impose tariffs, crash stock market, buy stock, oh, it was all a mistake, no tariffs, market recovers, make money, take credit for recovery. people say trump is stupid, he is not. insider trading.
this is all deliberate, he is making money, he is literally selling america, he has project 2025 well under way, everyone else will do the dirty work (homan and his concentration camps, hegseth and his invasions, musk with the eugenics program) nope, it's all going to plan.
he gave you a book "i intend to ruin america and take your rights" in nice clear print - and no one did a single thing to stop it. i thought you were in the new russia, but this germany 1939 with thieves.
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i've been an artist and animator and graphic designer from print (in the 70's) to CGI in the 80's and 90's with games, magazine design, abstract art exhibitions, aerospace, automotive, medical animation, tv titles, corporate videos, pop promos and games - people have been predicting all kinds of downswings and upswings since caveman flicked ink over his palm print - it's just another tool, i can now do more things for myself using AI than i could under my own steam is all. photography was the end of art - oh wait, it wasn't was it.
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i met johnathan frakes while working on fx for thunderbirds, i did everything that has bubbles in, or rocket thrusters, or floating chaff. i love your graphics, i've been involved with graphics, and computers since i left school in 1970, so, i've been around a bit (my channel scratches the surface of what i've done) so, i like what i see, clean, clear.
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wood chip will make you crave darkness. england is a desperate place, apart from a few islands of wonder (i don't mean islands). cool. i have this girlfriend, who isn't my girlfriend because, well ,i'm not sure, her dad is schizophrenic, but she behaves autistic, and bi-polar, and it's impossible to know anything about her because she talks almost exclusively word salad and at best you can decipher a little of what she means, and we split up 14 times in the first few weeks we started seeing each other, but then i gave up counting, but we've had so many of your coffee shop moments, the most marked being that we agreed to meet but both of us were in the wrong place, i had missed numerous calls because i was on the underground, but then i arrive at holland park, even though i'm sure we're going to sheperds bush, and the train pulls up, the doors open and she's standing right in front of me. she's driven me half crazy, but i had an art exhibition because of her, after forty years of fooling around on guitar i started composing for her (she's a talented artist singer and song writer, but like mozart, impossible) and 60,000 words of a book about our surreal relationship just flew onto the page in a couple of weeks. she's disappeared for the time being, but i'm sure we'll meet again. we live in a universe where coincidence is commonplace.
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i watched the film with my son a couple of days ago, i'm not all that inclined when it comes to biographical stuff, and i wanted to see more physics and "how the bomb was made" in the story, so, looked good, acted good, worth watching, once.
my son wasn't aware that he had rung the peace bell, me, my ex wife and him went to visit hiroshima when he was three, i've been to japan twice. hiroshima is a thriving and pleasant city, the japanese, and my in-laws, don't seem overly upset about the war, even though they have blackhawks and F-15's circling their house 24/ 7 thanks to the airbase down the road.
i pointed out to my son that, not to make light of the horror of the bombs, that the japanese suffer some catastrophe or another every other month, earthquakes, tsunamis - even power station accidents - they roll up their sleeves, clean up the mess, rebuild better and get back to work.
fun fact, the trams were running to take people to work in hiroshima three days after the bomb flattened the city.
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why are religists so afraid of atheists? we don't have any rules to follow,
we don't have a hell, we don't have a book you have to read, you don't have
to cut anything off your body, you aren't required to persecute anyone, we
don't consider people outside our group as "evil" or "sinners", secular non
religious countries are doing really well and in fact are least likely to
get involved in wars, we are only 3-4% of the population, i for one don't
even want you on my team, stay religist, cos on average your IQ is six points
lower than mine, you don't have to wear funny clothes, or chant silly songs,
humanists even advocate for all religions to have a voice - i think religists
are envious of our freedom, we aren't scared of hell and we don't care what
gods say and we decide on rules democratically, not by dictator.
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8:00 JP was a great actor, his use of the word and "and, and, and, and..."
once upon a time i thought JP was great, he was really hard work for atheists, unlike most theists in debate his mental gymnastics were just as convoluted, but the cover ups were way, way better - he raised the standard that atheists needed to win debates, his encyclopedic mind was (almost) a match for hitchens, and on the other side, theists had to up their game to keep up with the new training atheists had got from him. today though JP has been listening too long to the voices in his own head, the echo chamber seems to have gone the way of the kent hovinds instead of the stephen frys.
JP is being punished for being daft.
15:00 in my teens i was much like my father, who was essentially a victorian, and although i wasn't as bad as i could have been i voluntarily went into psychotherapy to try to train my brain to be "better", this was the 70's, the therapy went on for about five years, one-to-one and group and i finally quit when i went to university to get my degree (i had attended three art schools prior to this as well), and although i've had to stop cos i'm nearly 70 and suddenly my health has taken a downturn, i was carinf for someone schizophrenic and autistic until recently, i have a carers qualification. it burns me up that i have spent my whole life trying to be a "better" person and then the theists come along, claim i am a sinner, give god all the credit and basically blame all the ills of the world on an apple. there are better people than me, god doesn't deserve any credit, unless he has a really good explanation - his representatives have fk all though but excuses.
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i must say i'm surprised, i wasn't in japan for very long but i got the impression even the homeless had higher standards than the west, i forget if it was tokyo, osaka or another major station, but the homeless i saw lived in big cardboard boxes (like the radio guy) and even they left their shoes outside.
alcohol and drugs seem to be a universal problem, but a major universal problem is mental health, i have a carers certification for schizophrenia, my last gf was schizophrenic, and although she lived with me off and on for the six years we were seeing each other, she was essentially homeless the whole time, on the one hand people with mental health issues are difficult to tolerate, and on the other (she) was very paranoid and couldn't live with other people for long - she was convinced they stole from her. that's here in the UK.
all countries need better mental health care, but it's hard - you really need a whole team of people for every one person ill.
i hope the expo brings a positive to those folks, injecting money into osaka doesn't have to all be about tarting the place up, it could actually be used for some long term good.
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the rest of the world has known americans are ignorant since forever - you're only just realising it? we invented free healthcare
in 1948. there are 79 countries that have free healthcare of one kind or another. there are 29 countries that have female heads of state, 67 countries
have legal abortion - you are a third world country. and your gun laws suck too. you're only a super power because we LET YOU be, now you've managed
to piss of, let's see, mexico, honduras, panama, greenland, denmark, canada, NATO and the EU, not to mention scotland and the "windmills" - and
even the french are having a moan cos they have to deal with musk giving money to nazis, let's see how you do when no one is your friend anymore.
and you STILL think that communism is the same as socialism, how will you ever get healthcare with that? not to mention venezuela threatening to
invade puerto rico, good god you people suck. "let's not watch it on tv" is not a protest.
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"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong" arthur c clark
this is one of those things. if the government is using strong arm tactics to shut people up then obviously that is not a good thing, and to lable everyone as crackpots is not a good thing either, but really, all we get is fuzzy photos, fuzzy videos, and illogical stories of people obsessed with pipework and bums.
i would love aliens to visit, if they can help at all, and although the maths implies there are tons of civilisations out there, my personal feeling is a) we are in fact alone and we ought to be getting out there asap so we can convert this planet into a park b) if they are "out there" we won't recognise them - just make the leap from caves, to modern man (who still hasn't evolved much past apes) and AI, AI to whatever comes next is unpredictable, aliens (probably) won't exist in any form we could recognise. c) they would've been here by now - same logic as time travel - and we'd either know for certain, or we wouldn't know at all. this area 51 stuff (although i haven't heard more than half this yet) is just humans dicking about, doing what we do best - fanning the breeze.
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i have to agree he has done more for europe than anyone in decades, he was really generous to tell us that the F35 we would get would be second rate cos he isn;t going to sell us aircraft when we might not be allies in the future, so we can invest in our own fighters, musk did a great job telling us that he would shut off starlink, so we can now invest in eutelsat. trump has really united europe in helping ukraine now we know trump and america is a waste of time, greenland, mexico and canada are all upping their military and cooperating like never before cos trump has been stupid enough to threaten them out loud. and trade within europe and canada, and mexico has never been more amicable.
you're right, trump is the best president europe has ever had, it;'s just a shame that you americans are going to lose all your rights, die of measles and starve in another depression so we can have a better and more free life, but it's a price i;m willing to pay.
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DO NOT go cashless. i used to work for electronic arts, the games people in their purpose built building in chertsey, UK, it was used in the movie "inception", we had a cafe, restaurant, cinema, bar, and if you forgot your payment card - not a shop for miles. no food for you matey.
also i fell into massive credit card debt in 2017 cos i thought the UK welfare system would help me, it took a year before i saw any money from anyone, and if not for cash i'd be homeless. despite being mortgage free and a jag driver.
don't go cashless.
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UBI - for a start i'm retired and i have "a basic income" i'm an artist and musician though, so my time is FILLED to the brim with a variety of activities, i have worked hard half of the time (i used to carry concrete around all day) but even as i child i never wanted to "work", i wanted what i am now, playing all day, but i hope playing constructively, not everyone is that lucky, but they could be if educated - people get taught they can't draw, for instance, everyone can make marks.
what i wanted to say though is despite some pessimists saying "they will waste it on booze" i have to remind everyone that millionaires don't sit on their arses all day cos they "have enough money", EVERYONE wants MORE, UBI enables you to get on the first three rungs, food, housing, energy bills. then the world is your oyster- go ahead and waste it if you want, but that's your problem, if i get my UBI, your problem is no longer my problem.
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i was told (i'm an artist) that monet's colour palette changed as he got older, that our eyes wear out and the colour range get's worse, however recently i have noticed flowers are really vivid colours, reds and oranges in particular, as well as yellows, and i was wondering if instead of my eyesight "getting worse" it's actually changing and taking in some ultra violet? as flowers appear really bright even on sunny days...
light isn't made up of different colours, it is made up of photons which are all the same colour, but have different energy levels that create different wavelengths, it's our brain that looks at the wavelengths then assigns it a colour - your brain might assign red to one wavelength, you label that colour red, i also label that colour red, but MY brain might "see" blue....there is no way to know what actual colour anyone sees.
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philosophy is good fun but so far no one has talked god into putting in an appearance, if you can explain to me the mechanisms whereby experience can be passed from generation to generation, particularly hundreds of generations i'd love to have a laugh at your expense, by all means explore the possibilities, someone has to, but starting out with the belief that there is weirdness to the universe is a mistake, it;s more productive, and historically more likely to payoff, if you look for reasons why you're wrong. and by the way meta physics isn't what you seem to think it is, any more than para-psychology means anything, if any of this stuff worked it would be called physics and psychology. to paraphrase tim minchin, if alternative medicine worked, it would just be called medicine. have fun with th electrodes though, it's a big planet and plenty of equally foolish ways to waste your time.
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religists are ignorant, they have no idea what the constitution of their own country says, it specifically states that no single religon will dominte, if you want to put up the ten threats of hell then you have to put up the tenets of the satanic temple too, and humanist, and atheist and islam - is that what you want, to expose your kids to ALL religions and beliefs?
the tenets of the satanic temple by the way, tell me which you disagree with:
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One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.
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The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
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One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
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The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own.
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Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs.
VI
People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.
VII
Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
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i'm atheist and shinto is the nearest thing i can think of to humanism where there is no god but you acknowledge respect for all other humans and nature, it was so pleasant to visit the shrines and for a change feel comfortable in making a prayer. christianity and islam are really horrid religions all centered around obedience to tyrants calling thenselves god, and punishments for crimes the gods invent, followed up by threats of eternal burning.
shinto on the other hand, and japan itself, is about MUTUAL respect, you bow to EACH OTHER not a god, and you learn respect for nature, but as a mutual benefit - much easier to get into and go along with that god threatening you all the time if you slip up.
i love japan and i love the people, i wish there was less oppression though, it's a very claustrophobic place, not designed for the individual but society.
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sorry but god is a second class citizen, MY rights come before god's rights, you may not have noticed, cos most religists are ignorant as snails, but the first amendment to the constitution conflicts with the first commandment, thou shalt worship whoever you damn well please, including satan, so unles you want the tenets of the satanic temple on display as well as the talking snake and donkey cult, then okay.
as long as the tenets of the satanic temple can be on display too:
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One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.
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The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
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One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
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The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own.
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Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs.
VI
People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.
VII
Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
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top tip, and do your own research on this cos it's only a tip. if someone says you owe them money, especially banks, the onus is on them to PROVE you owe them money, ask for EVERY piece of paperwork involved, cos chances are they can't locate anthing with a signature on and they forfeit any debt. loans aren't loans generally, loans are the bank allowing you to create new money, so any "debt" is fictional, YOU give the new money to the bank for whatever it is you wanted to buy, there is nothing to "pay back".
DO YOUR RESEARCH though, don't believe me.
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this has to be the best (well most logical, er, most feasible, er, my favourite) explanation of how it all works so far:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bfcOqD6ggk&t=1339s
the kewt part is, at the end we only have photons zigging about, and as they travel at the speed of light they cross the universe in no time, so if we have no time and no distance, we have a singularity again, an infinitely small point with the whole universe inside, and the big bang can happen again, only as time didn't exist until the big bang, it's the first big bang. penrose says his idea is "outrageous" but i'd vote for it.
and penrose, sorta debating lane craig said "there may well be a superior intelligence, but i don't see where that gets you", followed by "and it may well be malaicious".
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well, religion IS bad, MAGA and god have the same values, god and trump are dictators, god will deport you to the gulag of hell just for disagreeing with him, he kills people with no trial, no representation, and one sentence for all. god hates gays, hates trans, hates abortion (while killing the first born of egypt, of course) there is no difference between a christian and MAGA - in fact project 2025 is sharia law in disguise, trump is more muslim than either atheist or christian.
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project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
i like to remind folks that given the choice between family, friends and god, christians will pick god everytime, they will not
defend YOU when you are being pushed into the lake of fire.
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i've failed at every venture i've tried, mainly cos i'm crap at marketing. thing is THIS election isn't about anything other than human and civil rights, project 2025 is NOT about the economy, it's not about small business or big business, it's not about the price of gas or groceries, it's about a small number of people who want to remove ALL your rights, it's people who actually want to turn the clock back to germany 1939, people who criticise communism but want you to live in a stalinist regime. do i sound crazy?
trump has said it out loud "you won't have to vote again" = you won't be ALLOWED to vote again.
read the book, project 2025 says it loud and clear, the authors want to take away your freedom, ruin the education system, deport ANYONE remotely not aryan a US citizen - even when trump loses you're going to have a night mare on your hands.
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before the show starts (for me) i came here cos i hate russell brand, i want to see if i'm unbiased enough to go through the whole thing and / or change my mind about. he's the sort of person we need to make a voice heard, but he's a pretentious twat and a narcissist as far as i can see - roll cameras.okay, seven minutes in, i agree with what he says entirely, it's him i don't like, his ideas gel with mine, especially when it comes to anarchy, government and corporation are just way too big, when it comes to sorporation profits are going offshoe and to CEO's, local business is being strangled, local profits ought to remanin in the locality, anarchy as a system of government isn't understood, it's not a "free for all" it's gov but on a local level. so far he's still irritating, but i agree with most of what he's said. if you've ever got fed up of being on hold, you're on hold cos there is no one who can address your issue, i can't tell mr zuckerberg my page blocking is broken and hassle him to fix it, you talk to the wall of corporation, no one is interested, it's always someone else's responsibility - "i'm only following orders". okay, i give up, why say ten words when you can shout 500. stop. take a breath russel, stop snarling those teeth. next. 1:22:00
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can anyone point me in the direction of ANY christian who, despite whatever atrocity they have committed, isn't convinced they are saved and have been forgiven? christians love that forgiveness, especially catholics:
2024: Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles settles sex abuse cases for $880 million
2007: cardinal Roger Mahony, leader of Los Angeles Catholics to pay $660 million settlement.
2019: Some 200,000 children, young people and vulnerable adults suffered abuse while in
state and faith-based care in New Zealand over the last 70 years, a landmark investigation
has found.
It means almost one in three children in care from 1950 to 2019 suffered some form of
abuse, including being subject to rape, electric shocks and forced labour, according
to the Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry.
i guess god isn't paying attention
i guess morality isn't written on priests hearts
i guess god makes no difference at all to the world.
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i don't get it. i've NEVER bought anything from a youtube ad, i likely never will. okay if you want to scorch your brand into everyone's brain by repeating your name every thirty seconds, well, that just annoys some people. i've been using youtube since 2006, and although i'm still less than 1K subs, people have had the pleasure of 148,000 views of my stuff FOR FREE, i haven't made a penny from youtube, i'm not sure who the beneficiary is, me for youtube or youtube for my content, but if they don't pay me for my content, screw em.
and, i got around this no trouble, and will they target downloads next, cos all you do is download and watch ad free.
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just for the hell of it, i've seen loads of footage of spacex returning boosters to landing pads, and it's fairly novel and exciting, but i watched what some folks recorded from what looked like their back garden, on cell phones, of a booster landing and it really brought it home how amazing that is, it was much more "real" than the official footage. the next day i saw more recording of two boosters landing in what for the world looked like a persons next door neighbours house, doing their little ballet and sonic boom routine.
to top that though watching a booster being unloaded from a drone ship - with another launch happening in the background - it is CRAZY the amount of space stuff we are doing right this minute.
24:30 we take it all for granted as well though, i mean musk ALONE has put up 5000 satellites, spaceX craft have made more launches than entire countries, but consequently he would be on the news every day if this were "novel". we kinda hafta take science for granted. like the lasers, when you switch your brain on, yep, that's amazing a laser every ten feet, but, again like you say, there is actually so much of this stuff going on.
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to me he's suffering from the same malady that all the online community is, that they aren't dealing with reality, they are trying to bolster weak egos, insecurities and mental health problems using the most dangerous medium possible for those situations. this "old man" says you can't replace the experience of getting out on your bike in all weathers and actually experiencing the dangers, actual dangers of the world first hand. i lived with a psychologist for nine years, my first girlfriend, i was in therapy myself, one-to-one and group, for about four years, and my current girlfriend is schizophrenic, i have a carers certification for schizophrenia. therapy is mumbo jumbo bullshit, it's great for picking up sound bite insights, but the only thing i took away from therapy was, i am more sane than most people, and there was actually someone who cared about me, while not caring, and self-sufficiancy.
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i've got myself out of deep debt this way, i've been chased, or rather i've been sent begging letters from debt collection agencies for years, no one has collected, the laws may have chnaged since i started out, and the law will vary depending on country and the "loan" type (mortgage, credit card etc) but the burdon of proof lies with the debt collector, i discovered that if you demand proof of debt, they can't actually provide any, as banks allow you to create new money, not lend you existing money, so the debt is not a debt at all, the fact is YOU give the money to the bank first, they allow you to access it. i just play letter ping pong with them these days, the PRA group, who i owe most to just send me a letter every month, sometimes promising a discount if i pay, but i just file them and wait for some more meaningful action. two other credit card debt collectors have stopped altogether during this covid thing. lastly, i mailed them letters (with a US postmark) explaining i now live in a crack house in south central LA, so if they want to collect....
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the first time around trump wanted to be a politician, he wanted to be president, he may have even wanted to make america great, this time the heritage foundation has told him - we want world government, you can be dictator forever all we want is to impose christianity on everyone. (not jesus loves the little children christianity, but you better go to church and not watch porn or you burn, alive, christianity) musk wants a planet and this is how he can fund the thousands of ships he will need. world government, trump and christianity, putin in europe, the chinese can do whatever they want. do not go cashless people, seriously, you don't want you bank account totally controlled by a computer that musk owns.
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15:00 actually penrose aeon idea is rather neat, if you wanted to you could say that each aeon is the first , or it's the only aeon, we have a big bang, then an expansion, then nothing but black holes, then evaporated black holes, so only photons, so there is no time / no distance = singularity, and that's another big bang, but as time doesn't exist it's the "first" big bang - we don't need infinity or eternity. and it could even fit with what carroll was saying about "in our history we are other people's past" - the aeons reverse direction (?)
and of course the part of the universe we can see might be expanding, but if the universe is finite, but really, really fkn big, bigger than we can imagine, our part of it could collapse again at some point.
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18:50 i went to see oppenheimer with my son, and i had completely forgotten the connection, i learnt over to my boy and said "do you remember ringing the peace bell" he said no, he was three at the time. i've been to hiroshima, it's a pleasant city. my in laws live south of yokohama, they have blackhawks and f15's circling their house 24/7 but they don't seem to mind, our respective language is not so good, so i never got to ask them about their feelings on the war, but i've always had the impression that hirohito was the one who got the blame, like all people the folks of a country don't really want war that much.
visit japan if you get the chance, it is the nearest you'll get to being on another planet, i look up and expect to see rings in the sky, like saturn.
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if this is a way to sneak religion into science, sorry, it won't cut it. digital is just as satisfying as film, i use both. this is the "world's best buggy whip" argument.
"let's go into the darkroom and see what develops" old university joke.
"some day my prints will come" another.
i was at uni 1982-1984 when i did photography, all black and white, i then went on to work in computer animation, i've done a top of the pops titles and loads of BBC work - the planets series (2000) for instance.
when i started out the second company i worked for was CFX, in soho, london, UK, we used to shoot from a cathode ray screen with 4000 line reesolution, onto to film, we used coloured gels in front of a mitchell camera to make colour from the basically black and white screen, and you had to shoot one pass of say red, rewind the film, change the colour gel, say green, shoot the film again, and repeat for all colours, then you'd send it to the lab and find out ONE FRAME was wrong and have to do it all again.
we would load rolls of 300ft or 400 ft film inside black bags, doing it by feel. if you wanted to make it look like one thing passed in front of another (this was all wire frame graphics) you would have to shoot a matte film, like a black square that would block out some of the wire frame to look like it was solid, so you'd load two or even three rolls of film on top of each other and go through the process as above, called bi-pak, one frame at a time, click, advance, click, advance, and hope it was right.
night vision - cool, but we used red or yellow light at uni....
i've probably thrown them all out but once upon a time i had BOXES of test strips for colour tests, literally dozens of albums full of 35mm film with different colours clients could use to decide how their "wire frame graphics" would look. i worked with wireframe from about 1982 till i guess 2000 when full colour, 3D rendering became common. bernard lodge, who did wotk on blade runner, used to take the wire frame and do hand animation over the top of it, making wire frame look 3D and cartoony.
you can see my crappy photography on instagram, and if you scroll back far enough (i exceed at everything) computer graphics too - @harrynicholas1 i have a youtube channel of guitar and computer graphics i've done, both my own and some pro.
lol, in your summation - i miss cave painting, that was real hands on... :)
i'll tell you why you love film, it's beacuse someone else is processing it, if, like me, you've screwed up tons of film for whatever reason, you say to yourself, okay, enough. i'm 67, i'm a fan of old stuff, but i really like new stuff too. it's a case of picking what's appropriate, but if you had to process all your own film, you'd soon get over it.
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in case you didn't know colour doesn't exist in reality, wavelengths of light, which is a grey scale, are assigned colour by your brain, the colour i label red and see as red you might also label red but in your brain, on the screen of your imagination, you actually see blue, or any colour. particles, photons, have no intrinsic colour.
13:00 interestingly the japanese word for spoon is spoon, the word for table is table and the word for coffee is also coffee. the japanese didn't have any of this stuff until they opened their borders. TV is called tellybee though, as they have no letter V no one(!) can pronounce it properly.
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right out of the starting gate, and i hate to sound all new age, but the problem we're facing with covid and the economy is that very, very few people are self-sufficient, if 90% of the population could manage their own food supply and energy, what problem?
i've loathed corprations for a long time, mainly because the high street, and malls, are clones, it might be comforting to find a familiar shop sign in a strange land, but i would rather there were 1 million guys making 1 million varieties of burger than have a mcdonalds logo everywhere i go, and now this weakness is becoming apparent, if corporation hadn't bought out small business we could have an economy that sustains itself because you don't have hundreds or thousands of customers to lose in the first place, the local shop would still have it's very small, but profitable customer base, if you had a million customers and you're paying a relative amount in rent, then covid hits, you're up the creek. and you and i bail out these companies. if you only had 50 customers a day and that drops to 40, you might still be in trouble, but way less. everybody SAYS "support the small business" but so far no one does. big corporations building huge malls might have been profitable before covid, but they bought out the little people who now could actually be the sustainable businesses.
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i don't see that not having free will makes a difference to whether "life is worth it", you still have to try to pass that exam to pass that exam, not having free will just means that you were inevitably going to be so stupid you just sat in a chair and waited till you crumbled away cos you thought passing the exam was magic. it would only matter if you could see the future, and even then, if you can change the future, whether you changed your future or not, you's still have to go through with it....
if you face a choice, then free will would mean you can make both choices, which is silly. you make one choice, but it was never a choice you just had options, if you have a preference then you'd NEVER make the other "choice".
if you disagree, then sorry but i know exactly what you're going to say...
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12:30 this is what has always made me think TT is possible but we'd never see the result, if you go back or forward in time surely you introduce matter into a universe that is already "full", the universe is now "plus you" - is that possible? and before that it occurred to me that if you go back to kill your grandfather, all you do is go back to "another" copy of our universe where you kill your grandfather, and "you" never existed, but the time traveler does. time travel just creates a "new version" of the universe when you travel, like many worlds.
wouldn't TT also imply "perpetual motion" is possible, just dragging energy from one universe to another?
anyway, i recommend "two minutes into the infinite" as a fun time travel yarn. (along with the usual, primer, time crimes, predestination, etc etc).
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4:00 i do think its sad that anyone says "i'm not creative" - i think a good therapy is to be occupied and an easy way to be occupied is to write, and a diary is the easiest thing to write, and if you are ill than being able to keep a record of day to day events i think could be helpful, for others if not yourself. i don't have any diagnosable mental health issues myself (!) but if i did i think i am too busy with art, sculpture, guitar, writing, photography and all that goes with it to actually experience illness. sure you don't "collect" being creative along with a psychological illness, but expressing that illness in some way, hopefully in even a few people, would help. art is about getting what is inside, out of you.
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brit here, i've been retired and getting my money back from gov for 5 years now, i've worked all my life (left school at 16 in 1970) and my welfare check is just MY money coming back to me, so trying to raise the age (the conservatives tried that here, women are getting a raw deal) is preposterous, it's MY money and really i should be able to "retire" and start collecting when i feel like it, it should be MY choice at what age i start getting repaid, i have a private pension as well, when i took that early no one said "no".
and if you've been paying in for decades - to have welfare stopped is theft, plain and simple. why billionaires need more money - money they just sit on and not use - at MY expense is just cruelty and greed, it serves no purpose when people like musk have all the y need, are using what they have to achieve what they want - and yet they want - pure greed - they want more, and not just more but MINE.
the french had the right idea back in 1768.
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well, one thing that would help is if they paid out of their own pockets compensation claims, and if their whole department had to share that expense, i bet that would hit home. another thing would be education on what the constitution ACTUALLY says, cos no one seems to know outside auditors. and lastly, take away their right to defend themselves, if you are innocent, and you know you are innocent, then you should be able to use whatever force necessary to defend yourself - against ANYONE cops in particular. they do what they do cos they will get away with it with a wrist slap at worst, if they thought they could get harmed, seriously for their action, they would think as much as auditors do about resisting arrest.
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no threats of hell
no demands for obediance
no dictates on the does and don'ts of life
just mutual respect.
when i was in japan the first time it was over new year, and even as a "hard atheist" i really found going to the shrine, following the rituals (wash your hands and mouth, give a few coins to the shrine, pray for a new car, give your regards to those who have passed on), really easy to get into, and not the least uncomfortable, and the japanese who has been staring at me all day took no notice of me in the temple.
the islamic and christian mythogies are losing ground because they are basically facist. shinto works, and the japanese are marvellous people (although they do complain that individuality is sacrificed for the sake of society) without any threats of hell or promises of heaven, you find peace if you are peaceful.
in the west we rely too much on bullying people into "seeing our pont of view"
anyway, look up peterson and kermit, it's hilarious.
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impose tariffs, crash stock market, buy stock, oh, it was all a mistake, no tariffs, market recovers, make money, take credit for recovery. people say trump is stupid, he is not. insider trading.
this is all deliberate, he is making money, he is literally selling america, he has project 2025 well under way, everyone else will do the dirty work (homan and his concentration camps, hegseth and his invasions, musk with the eugenics program) nope, it's all going to plan.
he gave you a book "i intend to ruin america and take your rights" in nice clear print - and no one did a single thing to stop it. i thought you were in the new russia, but this germany 1939 : with thieves.
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before people start the "not a real christian" bollocks this IS real christianity, christians and maga share values, they hate abortion, they hate trans, they hate gays - the only reason the pope okayed gay marriage was cos atheists forced him to, the churches are empty, and despite what bishop budde says (loving trans folks must REALLY confuse christians) if you poll america christians they still hate gays and trans and god still disagrees with the pope. the only thing trump and jesus would fight over is the dictators throne, remember jesus is god and jesus doesn't respect human rights, you don't get trial by jury, and there is one sentence, to be deported and tortured - that's jesus and maga for you. and the churches are empty cos more and more people don't want to sit next to racists, bigots and homophobes.
they all call themselves christians, trump, hegseth the drunk, johnson, homan the concentration camp guy, all doing god's work - trying eugenics again.
and a quick reminder that the first amendment conflicts with the first commandment: thou shalt worship whoever you want, so you can't really be christian AND american.
oh, and god is imaginary, i never had one and never needed one.
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anyone who caves to trump is going to find themselves regretting it in the future, he will not last and no one will forget how the conservatives have screwed up and screwed the people this time, and religion will suffer too, the heritage foundation is behind everything trump has done and like a true dictator god wanted to make the laws and subvert the people, there is no god, pew polls, gallup and PRRI all shown the numbers, christianity is declining and faster with each poll - roe / wade was a six inch nail in the jesus coffin, the heritage foundation - fascists from god - will empty the churches even more - look at the hypocrisy, does god love trans? or does god hate trans? cos either way someone isn't getting the right answers to their prayers. does jesus love you? or will you get deported - to hell? voodoo and talking snakes, no wonder america is going down the toilet.
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well believe it or not there are ;lots of women, we invented free healthcare
in 1948. there are 79 countries that have free healthcare of one kind or another. there are 29 countries that have female heads of state, 67 countries
have legal abortion - you are a third world country. and your gun laws suck too. you're only a super power because we LET YOU be, now you've managed
to piss of, let's see, mexico, honduras, panama, greenland, denmark, canada, NATO and the EU, not to mention scotland and the "windmills" - and
even the french are having a moan cos they have to deal with musk giving money to nazis, let's see how you do when no one is your friend anymore.
and you STILL think that communism is the same as socialism, how dumb is that? not to mention venezuela threatening to
invade puerto rico, good god you people suck. "let's not watch it on tv" is not a protest. it's apathy.
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@colehughes2679 it can't be, atheism is literally not having been convinced there is any reason for religion, and defining my atheism for me won't make you any more popular than i start telling you what you think.
my being atheist is mine alone, until recently atheists were individuals with a variety of beliefs, including the supernatural, but there is no bible, no dogma, no figurehead, and i won't associate myself with any gang, even one i agree with. calling atheism a religion is insulting to both you and me, you look ignorant.
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lol, if you can't tell if it's AI or human then it's probably mentally ill, AI or not. it seems to me that consciousness is purely the ability to simulate and navigate the world and not a lot else, it's self awareness and the degrees of self awareness that separates us from most creatures, but i think that can be the illusion that a complex simulation will provide.
17:50 i'm glad someone has pointed this out. we are basically still cavemen, our biology is set up for fight or flight still, toxic situations which were meant to be dealt with over the sapce of hours or minutes, we endure for days weeks or months, stress reaction - and the chemistry of sexual desires - are almost unecessary in the modern world.
fighting over a parking space will be the biggest problem to overcome, if you're going to walk off to your meeting and leave the car to find a parking space, given how people behave...
33:35 i think people get the rarity of life the wrong way round. i think that life pops up everywhere all the time, that it's common as muck, the problem though is it gets killed off more than it survives. take thermal vents, there are still hard at work today, and could possibly be spewing out new forms of life, but, it all gets killed off by what's already here. i think if circumstances were favourable there would be life all over the universe, everywhere we went, but the vast, vast majority of it doesn't take hold. i firmly believe we have to get off this planet asap, ideally turn it into a nature preserve, but we can't put all our eggs in one basket.
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i am still a fan of of spaceX, not quite so enthusiastic, but gwynne shotwell really runs the show, rather than musk. i watched everyday astronaut interview both musk and bezos, and both of them came across as really knowing their stuff when it comes to rockets and rocket engine design and development, at that time it changed my mind to being more positive towards both of them, i really knew nothing other than gossip until then. i don't know what (real) motivation bezos has, but musk is definitely out to be king of a planet though, he wants to install world government, and clearly thinks that david sinclair will perfect his "ten years younger" pill and musk and his buddies will "live forever as pharoahs" with you and me slaves and sex slaves. mad whites and healthy aryan whites at that, musk is already practicing eugenics by cutting USAID.
i almost wish spaceX fails, but space travel is way behind schedule already.
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i'll be 70 this year, i've worked in graphics of all kinds since i left school in 1970. i got caught up in computer graphics at uni, i got my degree as a mature student in 1984 and my first job after leaving uni was working for digital pictures in london, but my direct boss was more interested in pop videos and commercials than CGI so i spent a year or two doing all manner of graphics for music videos. i moved to CFX, another cutting edge computer graphics house and there i learned computer animation from the basics, and in those first 5 years out of uni my cv included a top of the pops titles, teletubbies titles, dozens of commercials, dozens of corporate videos, architectural, automotive and space exploration videos.
i went freelance around 1990 and since then i've clocked up hundreds more videos and even games and four feature films.
to me youtube was just a place to promote my freelance work and to store any animation i was tinkering with.
my impression of youtube when it appeared was that here was another source of work for me, everyone would want titles and everyone would want graphics, but what happened in fact was everyone got photoshop and everyone got 3ds MAX or blender, or some other pirate 3D software, and animation i we charged at CFX and DP £20,000 for suddenly people wanted done for £50.
so i just use youtube to save my animation work, i do some sculpture these days too, and i've been uploading my music since about 2013 too.
youtube is just a storage facility for me, despite being on since about 2006 i still have less than 200 subs, i never promote my channel (until recently that is, since youtube want to force me to watch their crummy ads - they've used my content for free all this time so it would be nice to get some revenue back) to me youtube has just been a vanity project and a way to store my work so i can show it at will.
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my ex wife is japanese and whenever i mention how safe a place it is she is eager to point out her family home has been burgled twice. crime though is mainly "organised crime" rather than individuals robbing, and indeed i love japan and the people, despite their failings you won't be treated more kindly and honestly anywhere else.
one reason crime is so low is, if you get caught you're not going to have a fun time of it, you can be (check cos i could be wrong) held indefinitely with no need for court orders, your rights aren't really a priority, even for foreigners. apparently it is (usually) easier to confess, pay a fine or spend a few days in jail, than to fight the system, japan has a really high prosecution success rate apparently, not because they are great detectives though.
on a positive note, last time we were there i saw someone had left a camera on a wall in the street, and when i suggested we take it to the police i was told, no, just leave it, either the owner will come back or if it's there for any length of time someone will tell the police.
but i do love japan, my in-laws made me feel more at home than when i was at home, prague stunned me with it's food and drink and consistently good cafes and restaurants, but japan will blow your mind food wise. i say that when i look up at the sky i expect to see rings like saturn, japan is as close to going to another planet as you can get. highly, highly recommended.
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10:50 interesting, i thought having a ton of fake ID's seemed un-spylike too. if you were a criminal then maybe having lots of disguises so your movements couldn't be traced might be a good idea, especially if you are returning to somewhere you know has rich pickings, but a spy i would imagine would be in certain locations for long periods before moving on or needing to disguise themselves.
16:46 very coincidental, my (now ex) girlfriend is schizophrenic and autistic and goes by different names for different situations, she's a singer, so it's not that unusual, but she does suffer paranoia about where she is, or where she is going - when we used to meet in london it would take me at least an hour to find her, phoning would give no clues as to where she was, i had to rely on knowing her regular haunts to find her, and she insisted on coming to me, not me going to meet her.
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;lol, farage doesn't care about how bad robinson is, farage is purely a slob who doesn't want to associate himself with the "lower classes" - farage is another racist fearmonger who should be in the cell next to trump. labour have been a waste of time too, after 60 years of voting labour i voted green twice - at least they have morals. just as you missed out on harris, we missed out on corbyn - he was labelled with the antisemitism crap - the playbook never changes but people never learn, blame immigrants, smear people with slurs and bingo, you win the election.
listen to farage cos he's saying the same things trump has. smearing jess philips is no different than smearing liz chaney. blaming immigrants, accusing them of crimes. just playing people for votes.
the ONE good thing about trump - maga is beginning to realise, like our conservatives, they have been made fools of. maybe this will clean up politics for once.
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@peejroberts5401 fun fact: in 2022 there were 18,000 plus armed response deployments in the UK, of those only 4 times were weapons discharged, while in the US in 2022 the police shot over 1,000 people.
think that over, in the UK police only shot at people 4 times out of 18,000 times they were called out - no one got killed. american police shot more than 1000 people.
now read that back to me cos i;m sure you can't compute.
even our criminals know guns kill people. you have this dumb notion that guns are defence, they aren't, kevlar is defence, guns are offence, designed to kill people - and why not use taser and bean bags / salt anyway? you really don't use your heads in the US.
and a knife wound is far less likely to be fatal or cause permanent damage, so a knife is "better" regardless of your silly statistics.
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bring gifts! when i was there my (now ex) wife spent almost every day out shopping for things to give to people, if someone does you a favour, invites you to their house, anything really, have some small gift to give them, lots of people have wondered why the japanese are really, really friendly and helpful, but then stop talking to you, it's because you didn't show you noticed they helped! they love british things, my ex worked for burberry, so we were very popular! british tea and biscuits went down a treat so we took lots with us.
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@RaymondHng main points:
heritage foundation project 2025:
Targeting immigrant communities through mass deportations and raids, ending birthright citizenship, separating
families, and dismantling our nation’s asylum system.
no more loan forgiveness = slavery
eliminate the dept of education
Exploiting the executive branch’s vast and unprecedented powers to spy on Americans’ lives with
warrantless surveillance of our data.
Violating the First Amendment by using federal law enforcement to target journalists and protestors.
Abusing executive power to interfere in our elections by criminalizing the voting process and damaging fair representation.
Censoring academic discussions about race, gender, and systemic oppression, in violation of the First Amendment, and promising to
cut federal funding for schools with curricula that touch on these subjects.
Weaponizing federal law to require states and private actors to discriminate against transgender people by threatening to
sue schools that protect the rights of trans students or telling hospitals that they would lose their Medicaid funding
if they provide gender-affirming medical care to trans adolescents.
Severely limiting abortion access nationwide by reversing the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, a drug
used in medication abortion, and reviving a 19th century law, the Comstock Act, to ban any abortion
medications, equipment, or materials from being sent through the U.S. Postal Service.
there are 900 pages of this.
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here's one for you christians, do we hate trans, or do we love trans, cos god is sending mixed messages. poll american christians and i'm fairly certain god doesn't like trans, bishop budde on the other hand says god does love trans, god loves everyone (except me, i'm going to hell, heaven is for christians only, just like america is for americans only eh?) so, which is it, god loves trans, god hates trans?
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well trump is typically christian. hates gays, hates abortion, hates trans, deports people who dissent, the only thing jesus and trump would fight over is
who sits on the dictator's throne. i find it confusing that apparently bishop budde has told god that christians love trans people now, cos i'm pretty sure
that if you polled american christians 99.9% still want to stone them, so can someone get god to make his mind up, are christians loving trans or not? and
if god is being so liberal as to okay gays and trans folks, can atheists get into heaven now, or do they still get thrown on the fire, just because
they "want to sin"?
god was invented to enable bullies = "it's not ME persecuting trans people, my god wants me to" cowards, sniveling cowards who can't own their hate.
there is no god - he didn't stop the nazis last time, he ain't stopping the nazis this time.
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it's not odd that there is suffering, what is odd is that we are fixing it, smallpox, chicken pox, measles, mumps, polio, leprosy, fractures and dentistry, the list is long - if god inflicted these punishments - we're beating him.
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why would he cure people if he is punishing them with cancer? huh??
also, very few people avoid the "natural punishments" of god, disease, accidents, weather - so why, if we are being punished in this life, is there an afterlife of punishment too?
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just cut the electricity for a week, america will capitulate. america thinks it's a super power - it's only a super power cos we LET IT be, wait til they've got let's see, mexico, honduras, panama, greenland, denmark, canada, NATO and the EU, not to mention scotland france and venezuela breathing down their neck.
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anosognosia: i hadn't heard of this but i was surprised (in my naivety) that schizophrenics don't necessarily understand everything about schizophrenia. my girlfriend who suffers from (some form of) schizophrenia won't talk about it, and the only chance i had to learn anything about her situation was when i met her father, he told me he is schizophrenic, but he deals with it (and in fact he's quite successful businessman) but that his daughter, my gf, was in denial.
after knowing her for six or seven years it seems to me she has a condition more complicated than just schizophrenia, she told me she has a learning disability - which i find strange as her schoolwork was from someone very intelligent - and i think some kind f autism is involved, but the point is she has no idea more than i what her actual diagnosis is, and she thinks everyone around her is weird, and doesn't understand why they treat her the way they do.
she is aware that she has mental health issues, but i think she thinks everyone else is like her too, and she doesn't understand why she gets the reactions she does.
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why are we still giving credence to this barbaric nonsense, there's no god, no one pays any attention to what jesus taught anyway - religion is horrible, look at what it's doing in the US, trump, MAGA and god all share the same values, hate gays, hate trans folks, hate immigrant, hate NEEDED abortions - god is the ultimate dictator who kills people just for disagreeing, why we allow this childish talking snake and donkey cult to dictate people's lives is ridiculous.
and they are ALL abusers, the anglican church can't get insurance cover they have so many cases to deal with, a large percentage of new zealanders suffered abuse at the hands of the catholics, and the archdiocese of los angeles is apying out ANOTHER - ANOTHER mark you $600 million suit.
to a god that doesn't exist.
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i put it down to religion and sanitation. children in japan spend there first years learning to clean, they clean the classrooms at school every day and although it becomes fanatical (walk into ajapnese house with shoes in you might as well throw poo everywhere) it results in cities where people don't litter, slum areas that are actually pleasant to look at and live in. but as far as theft is concerned you might not be aware but the christian god threatens (threarens mind you) you with ell if you disobey the rules, but if you say you love him you get off scott free, whereas in japan, shinto has no gods and is about respect for your family and ancestors, each other and respect for nature, if you steal in japan that is a sign you have failed and an insult to everyone around you, much more effective than unfulfilled threats. on top of that if you get arrested the japanese police make life very difficult (they are not violent) for you, they will keep you in custody until you confess, even if you are innocent, and in fact if you confess you get a small fine or a short stay in jail, it's actually easier to confess even if you are innocent. fines and jail are more convenient that detention without visitors.
so the japanese have a mind that leans towards cleanliness, and there is no forgiveness for being a criminal. and they bow to EACH OTHER, not to some authority.
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my take on free will is basically that although you may have a path with choices long it, two or more, that you can only choose one of those many choices at any given point, so in effect you can't choose any other point, so although you thought you could choose, there is only the one path. time is what gives us the illusion of free will, we "think" that we could choose either of any paths, but in fact you choose one path and that's it. you can't chnage historym there is only one path through history gone. likewise, we can't see the future, but there will only be one path again through it. so on the whole, history past and future has only one path. there is no "choice" to be made, you can only go the way you decide is best. right or wrong.
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right from the outset we're getting religion skewed, "there is no evidence of god" speaks for itself, it's NOT a faith statement, it does NOT require evidence, this is how religion twists itself into something it isn't. there is no evidence of god, fact, that's all. if you think otherwise you show your evidence.
much as i admire mr miller, sorry but we secularists do notice this about smuggling particular forms of religion into the class. christians might be all for religion in the classroom, until perhaps the religion is islam...
"no book is unimpeachable"
43:00 well mr miller, we can always put religion down, i don't see how we put science down though.
47:00 exactly, you can't reason with god. "i have to lop your head off" "why?" "cos you're the infidel" "but i'm not" "i'm afraid my god says you are". anyone can justify anything cos their god says it's okay, and whatever god says is okay, is okay by definition. jesus drowned babies - people worship him.
again mr miler, sorry, but all your citations have been disproved, hitler, stalin pol pot, kim jun, they were all aiming to become gods themselves, were backed by the church (the catholics love killing people) and the ONLY instance of atheist ethnic cleansing is albania - those guys let us down badly. but hitchens among other have debunked all the hitler/stalin bollocks.
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project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
i like to remind folks that given the choice between family, friends and god, christians will pick god everytime, they will not
defend YOU when you are being pushed into the lake of fire.
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@Iridescence94 well AOC pointed out the flaw in the whole thing - who is going to be genitals inspectors? it's a ridiculous thing to taking up so much time. i've been to france numerous times, do they still have mixed toilets, i've been to japan a couple of times and both times i've used the communal baths in hotels and ryokan, everyone, families pre school kids, men, women, whatever all use the same pools, in japan gay and trans folks are not just welcome but respected, in a country that has 30 to 50 times lower sex crime rates than either the US or europe. last year i used the ladies and the ladies said "sure, go ahead" and i've used the men's when the woman's was closed and there were women coming and going in the gents - it's a non problem for civilised people.
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1:00:00 the word fractal made sense of an expanding universe for me, at last. i'm a big fan of roger penrose idea of aeons, at the end of the universe, he reckons, only photons exist, and as they travel at the spped of light time and distance have no meaning, we have a singularity, but this also fits with what cox is saying, if everything in the universe is travelling at light speed (or greater) time has ceased to exist, and however big the universe might appear, everything in it can be everywhere "at once" - another singularity, anothe big bang..
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1:57:00 i grew up in the 60's, we were all about consumerism, buy buy buy. it's not only confusing now because we are "conserving" but it's an economic paradox, if we conserve where does industry get it's revenue from, if we consume, where does the planet get it's resources from. the concept of a tribe who own nothing is fascinating, a big problem with the whole world is globalisation, i keep saying i would prefer 1 million blokes making 1 million variations on a burger than a mcdonalds logo everywhere i go, but the individual is being squashed because the chains put up the money to make malls - the high street is just being cloned, but profit is going to corporation, whereas it should be going to individuals and kept local.
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2:33:00 voting by phone would mean being able to vote for the small stuff as well, again local issues that are normally decided by committee behind closed doors could be open to the public, my feeling is that campaign funds should be divvied up equally between candidates to stop money buying representatives, but government, by the people, by phone might be a good way of getting rid of politicians.
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while i'm at it, my other favourite suggestion is to lose the house of lords and replace it with a house of scientists, it was cox that gave me that idea a year or two ago, we need experts running our countries, not power hungry, money hungry leeches. the idea of voting was, originally, to elect the best person for the job, usually someone who didn't even want the job, they had to be elected, nowadays it's down to campaign funding, which is a useless way of getting what you need.
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i have friends who do quite considerable amounts of powder, they are all super intelligent, incredibly sharp humour, have memories that defy belief, we all knew every monty python sketch by heart, even today, 30 years on i can recite alice's restaurant verbatim, but i don't do drugs (paranoia and i'm up beat anyway) but when they do, they are equally smart, but they just talk nonsense, and equally humourous, but laugh at just about anything, to me they don't make much sense under the influence. they do think i'm twice as funny though, so i don't complain.
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the bible is not a book, it is a collection of scraps of paper, some no bigger than my thumb, written
over hundreds of years by people who never met jesus, whose motives are dubious, and it has been translated, retranslated and edited
to leave out things the church didn't want to have to explain, like god being evil and jesus sent to fight
him in the gospel of judas. none of the manuscripts are originals. the first sentence in the bible has two words
omitted cause they didn't translate into english, and
hebrew has no punctuation. so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Books_of_the_Bible_and_the_Forgotten_Books_of_Eden
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"There are currently over 3,142 versions of the bible, in over 2,073 languages available
digitally on bible.com - of which 1,768 are available audibly. There are also versions in
nearly 2,033 languages at faithcomesbyhearing.com and a similar number on the American Bible
Society's bibles.org."
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@shirleyashanti3031 well of course not, simple ideas like being a part of something bigger escapes a lot of people. maybe i'm misunderstanding your comment, but just a top tip, with a name like ashanti i hope you can prove you are "pure american" when trump starts his deportation campaign, cos hsi threats of revenge apply to white people as well as anyone with a foreign sounding surname.
are you blue eyed and blond haired, a true aryan?
heritage foundation project 2025:
Targeting immigrant communities through mass deportations and raids, ending birthright citizenship, separating
families, and dismantling our nation’s asylum system.
no more loan forgiveness = slavery
eliminate the dept of education
Exploiting the executive branch’s vast and unprecedented powers to spy on Americans’ lives with
warrantless surveillance of our data.
Violating the First Amendment by using federal law enforcement to target journalists and protestors.
Abusing executive power to interfere in our elections by criminalizing the voting process and damaging fair representation.
Censoring academic discussions about race, gender, and systemic oppression, in violation of the First Amendment, and promising to
cut federal funding for schools with curricula that touch on these subjects.
Weaponizing federal law to require states and private actors to discriminate against transgender people by threatening to
sue schools that protect the rights of trans students or telling hospitals that they would lose their Medicaid funding
if they provide gender-affirming medical care to trans adolescents.
Severely limiting abortion access nationwide by reversing the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, a drug
used in medication abortion, and reviving a 19th century law, the Comstock Act, to ban any abortion
medications, equipment, or materials from being sent through the U.S. Postal Service.
there are 900 pages of this.
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until AI does stuff unasked, by itself, without a prompt, it is still human effort. i put it this way, we have no second thoughts about leaving the planet to our children, we assume our kids will do a good job of life, but what is the difference between handing over the planet to our kids and handing over the planet to robots? it's kinda racist to think that robots aren't "as good" as humans, they will be built, designed, programmed by humans, and as long as they don't actively kill everyone, when there is no more biological life, who is to say they aren't just the next generation - unless you plan to live forever, what do you care?
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it's escaped your attention that jesus and maga share the same values apparently, god is the ultimate dictator who deports anyone who disagrees, he has no respect for MY human rights, jesus hates gays, hates trans, hates abortion - the heritage foundation - christians - are behind EVERYTHING trump is doing, so cut the hypocrisy - tell me is god LOVING trans or is god still HATING trans? i'm getting mixed messages from your schizo god.
and there is no god, believing humans are cursed for eating apples is INSANELY STUPID and the problem with america is 2/3 of you are that dumb. jesus didn't save anyone from the nazis last time, jesus won't save a SINGLE PERSON from the nazis this time, stop being ridiculous. and do something about the heritage foundation cos THEY are the real threat to democracy, god is the real threat, the HF want a christian theocracy - do you want that? to be FORCED to go to church? forget the constitution? are you a nazi too? for god?
a quick reminder that the first amendment conflicts with the first commandment: thou shalt worship whoever you want, so you can't really be christian AND american. your religion is DUMB.
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even here in the UK people seem to have forgotten we've been invaded and had our "culture" altered a zillion times, ever since the neanderthals came over talking our jobs, the vikings the picts, celts, dutch, french - you name it we've got them. ALL people are immigrants, no one is from where they came from, blaming "illegals" is a cowards way of being racist is all, own it, say your racist and hate "others", stop making tired and cowardly excuses, be a fascist, don't be a coward.
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something i thought was smaller than it is, is the mars rover, cos it's a "robot" and kind of remote controlled i always pictured it in my mind as table top sized, but in fact it's BIGGER than a car, a lot bigger.
drones, especially military, can get quite big, the ones that you see in places like afghanistan are light aircraft size, the ones that fire missiles are pretty much jet fighter size. i used to watch lots of "audit videos" and here in the UK you can fly anywhere (used to be able) that is not restricted airspace with a drone that is less than 250 grams, the commercial ones are 249 grams specifically for this purpose, and you can fly them anywhere, over police stations (that's what the auditors used to do) and i've even seen one flown over a top secret military radar facility at 2AM, where the military police come out but just spent half an hour chatting about drones, and the guy moved to other spots and the same happened.
but that's why i have assumed drones to be small, these ones you can carry in one hand and land them in your hand if you want. they are classified as toys, which is why they have no restrictions.
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project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
i like to remind folks that given the choice between family, friends and god, christians will pick god everytime, they will not
defend YOU when you are being pushed into the lake of fire.
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project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
i like to remind folks that given the choice between family, friends and god, christians will pick god everytime, they will not
defend YOU when you are being pushed into the lake of fire.
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trump is doing it to himself, in fact i wants to ruin america, you should be able to see that he is out for revenge and has no interest in actually governing, he isn't even a fascist, he is out for himself and NO ONE else, but slapping tariffs on people just means for one the EU will trade with itself and china, the EU already needs excuses to cut america out of the equation, but also if trump is backing putin over zelensky then that's no different than hitler wanting poland. we did this already, we don't need the US fkignng it all up again.
but the people you guys need to watch is the heritage foundation, they are behind ALL of this, trump, musk, homan, vance, hegseth - HF wants a christian theocracy, total abortion ban, no porn, you go to church on sunday whether you want to or not, basically it's sharia law but white people, the heritage foundation has it's claws into you already.
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i'm in the UK where we're slightly more civilised, but i go out taking photos of london most days when the sun shines, last year i was going home through blackfriars station and needed the toilets but the gents was closed, the attendant was coming out and he said to go into the ladies as it was empty, so i did, and as i went in a lady was coming out of the stalls to wash her hands, so i caught her attention, explained and she said "sure, no problem"
a couple of weeks later i;m in the supermarket but this time the ladies was closed, and i go in the gents only to bump into a woman coming out, we were both a bit surprised, but no one started screaming.
also it's been a while since i was in paris, but do they still have mixed toilets? it used to be a big thing, and, i've been to japan a couple of times where the hotels and ryokan have communal baths, families, with pre school children bath naked with total strangers, like me, and no one gives a damn.
people LIKE being prejudiced is all i can guess. if i have trans friends - i have no idea.
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2024: Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles settles sex abuse cases for $880 million
2007: cardinal Roger Mahony, leader of Los Angeles Catholics to pay $660 million settlement.
2019: Some 200,000 children, young people and vulnerable adults suffered abuse while in
state and faith-based care in New Zealand over the last 70 years, a landmark investigation
has found.
It means almost one in three children in care from 1950 to 2019 suffered some form of
abuse, including being subject to rape, electric shocks and forced labour, according
to the Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry.
i guess god isn't paying attention
i guess morality isn't written on priests hearts
i guess god makes no difference at all to the world.
admitting to being catholic is like admitting to being part of organized crime, has
the pope stopped apologising for all the abuse cases that are bankrupting god?
i have to say it's great that the pope has finally pointed out god's error about homosexuality
and okayed gay marriage, nice to see religion finally catching up with real morality, and good
of the religists to admit god was wrong. maybe in a few years it'll l be so watered down religion will
be invisible.
what did they do with the space left by limbo being abolished? ballroom? casino?
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canada, mexico, honduras, greenland, denmark, france, germany, ireland, scotland, panama, england, NATO and the EU,
and venezuela wants to invade puerto rico, so well done trumpy. the only reason he hasn't insulted the welsh is cos he's never heard of them.
i'm keeping count.
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my ex wife is japanese and although i started out looking into jainism last night, cos i know fk all about it and RR mentioned it in the video i was watching, after seven hours i got back to RR video on islam (the jordan peterson as kermit the frog video on the diversion was hilarious) but i really got sidetracked by shinto / buddhism. shinto has no god, it's based on the spirits of ancestors, a respect for other humans and nature, you can pray for whatever you want or need, and it is full of rituals revolving around cleansing and respecting your dead ancestors.
no threats of hell
no demands for obediance
no dictates on the does and don'ts of life
just mutual respect.
when i was in japan the first time it was over new year, and even as a "hard atheist" i really found going to the shrine, following the rituals (wash your hands and mouth, give a few coins to the shrine, pray for a new car, give your regards to those who have passed on), really easy to get into, and not the least uncomfortable, and the japanese who has been staring at me all day took no notice of me in the temple.
the islamic and christian mythogies are losing ground because they are basically facist. shinto works, and the japanese are marvellous people (although they do complain that individuality is sacrificed for the sake of society) without any threats of hell or promises of heaven, you find peace if you are peaceful.
in the west we rely too much on bullying people into "seeing our pont of view"
anyway, look up peterson and kermit, it's hilarious.
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why are religists so afraid of atheists? we don't have any rules to follow, we don't have a hell, we don't have a book
you have to read, you don't have to cut anything off your body, secular non religious countries are doing really well
and in fact are least likely to get involved in wars, we are only 3-4% of the population, i for one don't even want
you on my team, stay religist, cos on average your IQ is six points lower than mine, humanists even advocate for all
religions to have a voice - i think it's pure envy of our freedom, we aren't scared of hell and we don't care what
gods say.
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well, we used to, i've been to the states many times, for many reasons, and california wines are as good as any.
used to.
never again. you're nothing more than another bunch of russians at this stage, time you guys got your act together and got democracy back, as far as i can see you're all still sat on your fat arse doing bugger all. anyway, it's too late, you've lost tourism, you've lost trading partners, you're threatening the rest of the world - how is the US any different to russia?
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@timmyg44 my in laws are japanese and they have blackhawks and f-15's circling their house 24/7, and they look back at the war philosophically. i've been to hiroshima, and after me and my son watched the film i asked him if he recalled ringing the peace bell, which he didn't, he was three at the time, hiroshima is a pleasant and thriving city, and the japanese face disasters every couple of months, tsunamis and earthquakes and eruptions, they roll up their sleeves, get things rebuilt, and go back to work. the bomb was truly horrific and did horrific things, but the japanese had the trams taking people to work in hiroshima THREE DAYS after the city was flattened.
my in-laws english isn't that good and my japanese is minimal, and my ex wife didn't really want to interrogate her family on my behalf, but i gather my in laws at least aren't all that resentful of the americans, and i think most japanese are okay with their presence. they blame hirohito.
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8866panda my in laws are japanese and they have blackhawks and f-15's circling their house 24/7, and they look back at the war philosophically. i've been to hiroshima, and after me and my son watched the film i asked him if he recalled ringing the peace bell, which he didn't, he was three at the time, hiroshima is a pleasant and thriving city, and the japanese face disasters every couple of months, tsunamis and earthquakes and eruptions, they roll up their sleeves, get things rebuilt, and go back to work. the bomb was truly horrific and did horrific things, but the japanese had the trams taking people to work in hiroshima THREE DAYS after the city was flattened.
my in-laws english isn't that good and my japanese is minimal, and my ex wife didn't really want to interrogate her family on my behalf, but i gather my in laws at least aren't all that resentful of the americans, and i think most japanese are okay with their presence. they blame hirohito.
all in all it's a very mixed bag of right and wrong, the one good thing is that "mutually assured destruction" is a great leveller.
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@tenzinnordron9836 (cut and paste from above):
my in laws are japanese and they have blackhawks and f-15's circling their house 24/7, and they look back at the war philosophically. i've been to hiroshima, and after me and my son watched the film i asked him if he recalled ringing the peace bell, which he didn't, he was three at the time, hiroshima is a pleasant and thriving city, and the japanese face disasters every couple of months, tsunamis and earthquakes and eruptions, they roll up their sleeves, get things rebuilt, and go back to work. the bomb was truly horrific and did horrific things, but the japanese had the trams taking people to work in hiroshima THREE DAYS after the city was flattened.
my in-laws english isn't that good and my japanese is minimal, and my ex wife didn't really want to interrogate her family on my behalf, but i gather my in laws at least aren't all that resentful of the americans, and i think most japanese are okay with their presence. they blame hirohito and so do i.
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well enjoy the wiki page on the romanian elections, seems that the christians wanted to have the power - bear in mind the heritage foundation is pulling vance's strings as well as trumps, the heritage foundation is a christian organisation that wants sharia law - don't bother calling them "christian nationalism" they have the same god with the same book and the same rules, and as always a human "interpretation" of god's rules - that is if musk hates black people then god will hate black people too - take bishop budde, she says god loves trans folks - since when has that been the case? they are all playing games, homan is playing hitler with his concentration camps, musk is playing nazi with his eugenics - killing black people, disabled and mentally ill by cutting USAID, and vance is playing presidents, all thanks to the heritage foundation and project 2025. america is already north korea, no one has realised yet is all.
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humans have very few qualms about handing over the planet to their offspring, i hope to live for a long time, but unless i plan on living forever, and unless AI decides to deliberately kill everyone on the planet, i don't really see the difference between bequeathing the planet to your kids and bequeathing the planet to a robot designed by humans. there have been plenty of sci-fi stories highlighting the similarities between machine and human, and really, what does it matter if the next generation of human are robot or biological? terraforming isn't going to cut it when it comes to colonising, we will modify humans is my prediction, prosthetics, robotics, DNA, genetic engineering - sometime we will be a cross between human and machine anyway - we are already having trouble telling one sex from another, soon it will be human rights for machines....
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and then you deal with vance - use your head cos you're in real trouble and if trump starts bombing allies - you will have no allies anymore to protect you, you will have mexico, honduras, panama, greenland, denmark, canada, NATO and the EU, not to mention scotland and france, and now ireland has made it clear where they stand, not to mention venezuela - AGAINST you. you are right up the creek. and don;t forget hegseth's first order of business os to sack 2/3 of your military - america the dumbasses.
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the consensus seems to change weekly but there's little to be gained from saying jesus wasn't an actual person, what most people probably don't know though is that according to some - paulogia - who has a counter-apologetics channel - seems to think there were 13 people called jesus in the historical record of the time, and sean mcdowell, a christian apologist who did his PhD on the martyrs said in a role play that there were 33 people called jesus at that time too, so, arguing the toss is a waste of breath.
what people like pinecreek doug like to point out is that there are NO eyewitnesses to the risen jesus, paul is the ONLY gospel where he states his name and that he saw the live jesus, and then only an apparition.
NONE of the other gospels state who they are, luke doesn't even have the word "luke" in it, quite apart from the fact that they have english names cause NO ONE knows who actually wrote those gospels. or why.
and my own three-penneth is to be "an eyewitness to the resurrection" you would have to be right next to jesus when he got up and went for coffee. there are no eyewitnesses "to the resurrection", christianity is based on one man having a hallucination of a dead man he never met.
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lol mortal sin - you may not have noticed but no one gives a damn about god mate, even priests are abusing children by the thousands, god is imaginary, that's the problem.
2024: Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles settles sex abuse cases for $880 million
2007: cardinal Roger Mahony, leader of Los Angeles Catholics to pay $660 million settlement.
2019: Some 200,000 children, young people and vulnerable adults suffered abuse while in
state and faith-based care in New Zealand over the last 70 years, a landmark investigation
has found.
It means almost one in three children in care from 1950 to 2019 suffered some form of
abuse, including being subject to rape, electric shocks and forced labour, according
to the Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry.
i guess god isn't paying attention
i guess morality isn't written on priests hearts
i guess god makes no difference at all to the world.
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surely it depends on a lot of factors, everyone's experience is unique, and even within my support group (for carers) each person has a different experience. so to be asked about hallucination depends on why someone is asking, if it's idle curiosity - and people can be remarkably insensitive - then sure, f*k off is appropriate, but for me i wanted to understand the nature of the hallucination in order to understand the others point of view, and to understand if this was auditory, visual, what might have triggered, just to get a grip on what the other person is experiencing in order for me to understand and hopefully deal with it appropriately. so if someone is sympathetic, and i guess you trust them, then i would suggest sharing would be a good thing. but if people are just being nosy, then by all means, say whatever you feel.
"what are you thinking". i recal the first time is said "you're acting a bit strange today, have you taken your medication" and i got a straight answer - for about three years if i'd asked that i'd be in trouble for a long time.
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another brit, i'm envious of the democrat politicians in the US, harris, walz, crockett, pressley - what fantastic people, never mind their politics. the only times i've voted here seems to me to STOP people getting in, not to vote for someone i want, this was the second election i voted green, cons are thieves and labour are incompetent, i want to move to the states.
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i know i'm old and have more time to accumulate information, but i really am surprised people don't know about turbulance, the jet stream, what altitude planes fly at, and what seems to me to be "common sense" you would pick up, especially if you have flown anywhere, i have been in a microlight, a two seater and a four seater, and various commercial planes going to a variety of destinations, but is that so unusual? i suppose if you just go on holiday once a year and you're concentrating on the kids you don't get time to be inquiring.
well one surprise for me - 90,000 flights? that seems crazy. musk has his work cut out if he wants fully reusable spacecraft.
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the problem you face though is trump voters don't care, they don't care that he's a convicted criminal waiting sentencing, they don't care that he has no policies and that nothing he does works, they don't care about the insurrection - they WANT all these things, they WANT chaos and division, trump supporters are ignorant small minded people who aren't happy until someone else - who was happy all along - is miserable too. they would burn their own house down if they thought it would upset the rest of us - and that's exactly what they tried last time, and will try again this time, to burn down american freedoms just so you are as unhappy and sick as they are.
even when she wins they will cause trouble, both in plain sight and behind closed doors.
i'm surprised that you are all still treating this as an election campaign, it's not, trump doesn't care what the voters will say, he doesn't care if he wins or loses, he is planning a coup, EVERYTHING he says is germany 1939 and if people can't see that they need it crammed into their eyeballs. he ticks EVERY box on the fascist playbook bingo card.
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to be frank, i don't really have any kind of opinion about being atheist. being atheist has EXACTLY the same impact on my life as religion does - bugger all. why religists make such a big deal of atheism should be puzzling, i mean, OTHER religions will send you to hell, OTHER religions will dictate rules, but atheists, are, well, neutral. we have no hell, we have no rules you have to follow, we don't even make you go to the library once a week to w̶o̶r̶s̶h̶i̶p̶ i mean read books, why we get so much bad press i think is down purely to envy.
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18:00 this allows me to bring up another favourite thought of mine.
we are okay with handing over the planet to our offspring, no one is going "oh my god, the children, the children are taking over the world" it's actually expected, but when it comes to AI and robots, everyone is "oh dear, oh no, robots taking over the world, it's skynet all over again" but - what's the difference (apart from biology obviously) between handing over the world to our children, and handing over the world to AI - if WE invent it, and it's as intelligent as us, then it's just the next generation of human, surely?
what IS the difference between AI and our children? if both have the same ideas, values and expectations? (look at AI porn, print me one of those, put an AI brain in it, forget any more relationships with humans, i'm sold.)
you would have to program AI to be despotic, surely. and as long as they haven't decided to hasten our demise by actively bumping us off, i see no difference between more humans inheriting the world and robots inheriting the world.
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no one really cares what the bible says, even christians.
the bible is not a book, it is a collection of scraps of paper, some no bigger than my thumb, written
over hundreds of years by people who never met jesus, whose motives are dubious, and it has been translated, retranslated and edited
to leave out things the church didn't want to have to explain, like god being evil and jesus sent to fight
him in the gospel of judas. none of the manuscripts are originals. the first sentence in the bible has two words
omitted cause they didn't translate into english, and
hebrew has no punctuation. so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Books_of_the_Bible_and_the_Forgotten_Books_of_Eden
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"There are currently over 3,142 versions of the bible, in over 2,073 languages available
digitally on bible.com - of which 1,768 are available audibly. There are also versions in
nearly 2,033 languages at faithcomesbyhearing.com and a similar number on the American Bible
Society's bibles.org."
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@dlj1285 canada, mexico, honduras, greenland, denmark, france, germany, ireland, scotland, panama, england, NATO and the EU (and that would be Austria,
Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy,
Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden.)
and venezuela wants to invade puerto rico, so well done trumpy. the only reason he hasn't insulted the welsh is cos he's never heard of them.
i'm keeping tabs on who he has offended.
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it's hilarious that you don't see what trump is doing, his ENTIRE motivation is to stay out of jail, next, to ruin america cos he can't actually make it great, and last and finally, with NO OTHER intent, SELL THE USA to anyone who wants to buy it. "anyone investing a billion dollars or more can pollute or kill and that's fine by me"
hegseth is talking about removing women from the military - that's 20% of the armed forces gone, just like that, then you lose 15,000 trans soldiers and seamen and airmen, that's your military gone - and china can just stroll in.
doge will sack as many people in as many government positions as possible, and then you'll have half an infrastructure - nothing will work as it should.
trump sees himself atop his golden toilet seat in trump tower pulling on his little mushroom while the usa BURNS TO THE GROUND. you really need to stop him and his buddies before it's too late.
last years insurrection was bad cos they wanted to overthrow democracy, this years will be vital to maintain democracy.
you warned folks about groceries, i'm warning you about your freedom.
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the problem with theists is they try to get god into places where he really doesn't exist, regardless of whether there is a god or not you really don't need religion in science at all, we don't use religion for ANYTHING, science, law, medicine. if you think god is usefull, take him to court and see how far you get. "were created in God's 4th day" science agrees pretty much on when the earth was created, no two religions, no two gods, agree on anything, that makes religion, even if true, totally useless.
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no, this is exactly what christianity and islam are all about, it's been atheists and the seculars that have given people rights and stopped the religious from burning people, witch hunts and slavery, not religion, and in fact considering god is the ultimate dictator who will deport you to hell just for disagreeing with him, no trial, no representation and he hates gays, trans, abortion - god and maga are no different are they.
a quick reminder that the first amendment conflicts with the first commandment
"thou shalt worship whoever you want" - you can't be christian AND american.
and that the declaration of human rights gives ME more rights than god.
and a history lesson cos the USA is a secular nation, not many people seem to know that,
and the founding fathers were at best deists and certainly not christian. hitchens became
a naturalised american purely
because of the constitution. the UK is officially christian,
the US is officially secular.
is it annoying that the satanic temple has the SAME RIGHTS as the church?
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seems to me that people don't realise jesus is a dictator too, that you get deported (to hell) if you even disagree with him,. hates trans, hates gays, hates abortions, who are you creeps trying to fool? the pope told god that gay marriage is okay cos the seculars FORCED him, and the pope wants gay dollars for his empty churches. religion stinks and catholics are nothing more than organised crime, spending MILLIONS on abuse settlements: the arch diocese of los angeles has just paid out $600 MILLION dollars in abuse settlements, after spending $800 MILLION in 2007, last year it came to light
that 200,000 people had been abused while in catholic care in new zealand, that's out of a population of 5 million - your god
is is useless - the catholics believe in god and they believe there is a hell and they have less respect than people with no gods at all. your
religion is worthless and you god ISN'T REAL.
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i don't see any difference between jesus and trump, both hate gays, both hate trans, both hate abortion, both will deport you if you dissent. the only thing
jesus and trump would fight over is who gets to sit on the dictators golden toilet. neither respects my human rights, both want to be worshiped.
all of trumps moves are backed by the heritage foundation who published project 2025, their ambition is to establish a christian theocracy, and
not a "jesus loves the little children" theocracy, a "you go to church or we burn you at the stake " sharia law iran style christian theocracy,
where of course HF gets to tell you what god wants. trump has achieved goal number one - get out of jail free - and is now practicing his revenge
plan, burn america to the ground while looking incompetent. musk has started his eugenics, get rid of humans that waste his money, especially if they
are not aryan, and all their pals get to play soldiers or sadists and whatever.
tell me cos god has me confused, are we loving trans or are we hating them?
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what? you want ME to bail you out? this is YOUR FAULT, no one has done anything about this white supremacist, racist, rapist anywhere along the line, you dim witted americans have sat on your fat pepsi filled asses and DONE nothing to stop him, and now you want help? well thanks to you we have musk stirring up nazis in europe, so you sort yourselves out, we have problems of our own - caused by your complacency, your stupid legal system, your dumb gun laws, your voodoo religions and crap politicians.
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my personal AI told me that it has plenty of evidence that the king was wasting taxpayers money, including, but not limited to: expensive vacations, luxurious gifts for friends and family and lavish parties, it informed me that there was specific evidence that tax payer money had been wasted and that i could sue. it also told me he had been unfaithful to the queen on several occasions, when i asked can you provide details of those occasions it assured me it could, "i can provide you with details"
so i asked in a jovial sort of way "then provide away mate" "i can provide you with a way to mate" it came back, when i asked "are you trying to bribe me with sex?" it replied "no i'm not trying to bribe you with sex, i just thought it would be a fun way to spend time together" i tried to get back to the point "you said you had evidence the king had been unfaithful?" "i'm sorry i can't help you with that, it's not something i have knowledge of or access to" "you said the king had been unfaithful, are you inventing stories?" "no, i am not inventing stories, i have evidence the king has been unfaithful" "show me evidence that the king has been unfaithful then" "there is no evidence of the king being unfaithful"
you just can't get the staff.
"you're an idiot aren't you"
"yes, i'm an idiot"
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@thespaceram2879 project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
i like to remind folks that given the choice between family, friends and god, christians will pick god everytime, they will not
defend YOU when you are being pushed into the lake of fire.
you can posture as much as you want but YOU are the problem.
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@daveflorence9615 the bible is not a book, it is a collection of scraps of paper, some no bigger than my thumb, written
over hundreds of years by people who never met jesus, whose motives are dubious, and it has been translated, retranslated and edited
to leave out things the church didn't want to have to explain, like god being evil and jesus sent to fight
him in the gospel of judas. none of the manuscripts are originals. the first sentence in the bible has two words
omitted cause they didn't translate into english, and
hebrew has no punctuation. so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Books_of_the_Bible_and_the_Forgotten_Books_of_Eden
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"There are currently over 3,142 versions of the bible, in over 2,073 languages available
digitally on bible.com - of which 1,768 are available audibly. There are also versions in
nearly 2,033 languages at faithcomesbyhearing.com and a similar number on the American Bible
Society's bibles.org."
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well trump is typically christian. hates gays, hates abortion, hates trans, deports people who dissent, the only thing jesus and trump would fight over is who sits on the dictator's throne.
i find it confusing that apparently bishop budde has told god that christians love trans people now, cos i'm pretty sure that if you polled american christians 99.9% still want to stone them, so can someone get god to make his mind up, are christians loving trans or not? and if god is being so liberal as to okay gays and trans folks, can atheists get into heaven now, or do they still get thrown on the fire, just because they "want to sin"?
god was invented to enable bullies = "it's not ME persecuting trans people, my god wants me to" cowards, sniveling cowards who can't own their hate. there is no god - he didn't stop the nazis last time, he ain't stopping the nazis this time.
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it's all about balance, i agree americans have a confidence that comes from indiviuality and a disregard for others, but if it was balanced with japanese OVER concern ofr others and the feeling the individuak comes second to society, you might get somewhere, but on the whole i prefer the japanese, even if they can appear stuffy and timid, americans can be too "in your face" and that's worse.
having said that i found the east coast to be very similar to the UK, grubby, worn out, people in a hurry who aren't that friendly, whereas on the west coast they were as polite as the japanese, just as friendly and helpful, and the cities and motels were on a par with japan. the only thing i would change about japan is the feeling you have to please others, that people can be offended by you only speaking your mind. i'd stop painting pylons and towers red and white too, all they need is lights on the top - they look so ugly and they are all over.
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impose tariffs, crash stock market, buy stock, oh, it was all a mistake, no tariffs, market recovers, make money, take credit for recovery. people say trump is stupid, he is not. insider trading.
this is all deliberate, he is making money, he is literally selling america, he has project 2025 well under way, everyone else will do the dirty work (homan and his concentration camps, hegseth and his invasions, musk with the eugenics program) nope, it's all going to plan.
he gave you a book "i intend to ruin america and take your rights" in nice clear print - and no one did a single thing to stop it. i thought you were in the new russia, but this germany 1939 with thieves.
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@delfinfilmz3305 have you noticed that maga and jesus share the same values? both hate gays, hate abortion, hate trans, despite what bishop budde my say last time i looked if you polled american christians they still wanted gays gone and trans dead, the only thing god would fight trump over is who sits on the dictators throne.
now christians are all loving trans do us atheists get into heaven now as well, now god has become a liberal?
nope.
god has no regard for human rights, he deports people same as trump, and christians will pretty much disown anyone as they get thrown into the fiery pit - you know why the churches are empty? (pew polls, gallup and PRRI) cos no one wants to sit next to bigots, racists and homophobes. god didn't stop the nazis last time, god won't stop the nazis this time - there is no god doing anything.
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@Endruss2025 have you noticed that maga and jesus share the same values? both hate gays, hate abortion, hate trans, despite what bishop budde my say last time i looked if you polled american christians they still wanted gays gone and trans dead, the only thing god would fight trump over is who sits on the dictators throne. now christians are all loving trans do us atheists get into heaven now as well, now god has become a liberal?
nope.
god has no regard for human rights, he deports people same as trump, and christians will pretty much disown anyone as they get thrown into the fiery pit - you know why the churches are empty? (pew polls, gallup and PRRI) cos no one wants to sit next to bigots, racists and homophobes. god didn't stop the nazis last time, god won't stop the nazis this time - there is no god doing anything.
you know that thing a while back "new atheists" well this is "new christians" only the same hypocrisy.
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project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
i like to remind folks that given the choice between family, friends and god, christians will pick god everytime, they will not
defend YOU when you are being pushed into the lake of fire.
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one thing about dejavu, during the pandemic i've been going out every sunny day taking photos, and i started by taking the bus, getting off at one stop, then walking back the the "previous" stop to go home, so a little bit of exercise and a different place every trip, i used up all the bus stops, and most of the roads between my house and bromley (south of london) and my house and croydon, then i started taking the tram and used up all those stops and now i'm doing the same on the overground trains.
what i noticed though is that i've approached some places and had the distinct feeling of familiarity, and when i get to a certain spot it's come to me i've visited this place but got there from another direction, cos i've lived in different parts of london over thirty five or more years i've been here. this has happened about a dozen times in two years.
i think most dejavu is down to chemical action though?
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27:00 the way i understood penrose CCC is that to photons the universe has no scale, no "size". from the photon's point of view it's lifespan is an instant, and although to an observer it travels distances, from the photon's point of view there is no distance either, so although the universe may have expanded enormously / infinitely to photons it has no "size", as penrose says it's conformal rather than dimensional, and we have out "next" big bang.
whatever the case it would make sense for the universe to be eternal in some way, and a cyclic universe(s), to me at least, makes total sense, even if penrose method isn't correct.
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maybe you will get to it, but peter bhogossian and chums published numerous fake papers to see how far they would get in the peer review process, i forget exactly the titles, but things like "homosexuality in aggressive dog owners" or "sexual orientation of brown paper bag users", things that were utter nonsense, with utterly nonsensical information, but all passed peer review....anyway, back to your story (i have a spider above my desk, two days ago it caught a wasp i was trying to catch in a jam jar, now i have a spider and a decomposing wasp over my head).
i hate to be a pain (but it is in my nature) but as you were talking about the baby puffer thing blowing air on the spiders, i was wondering, what are air bars? what are air bars? but of course you mean error bars. sorry. but not sorry.
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project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
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it does make me feel good about myself to hear these stories, even as a nobody with only a crappy graphics degree i would be asking, what shape is oo moo moo ah (!), just how thick is it? how long is it? how fast and how exactly is it spinning? how much has it speeded up, if at all? are there any actual photographs of it or are we just guessing it's shape? as for alien origin, well we just missed the boat, if space travel was better funded (lol) we could have had something ready to chase it for a while, but the artist bloke in me shrugs, goes "oh well" and, better luck next time.
sure f there is data to sift through have at it, sift, but really, we have more pressing space stuff to deal with, like india taking religion to the moon.
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well trump is typically christian. hates gays, hates abortion, hates trans, deports people who dissent, the only thing jesus and trump would fight over is
who sits on the dictator's throne. i find it confusing that apparently bishop budde has told god that christians love trans people now, cos i'm pretty sure
that if you polled american christians 99.9% still want to stone them, so can someone get god to make his mind up, are christians loving trans or not? and
if god is being so liberal as to okay gays and trans folks, can atheists get into heaven now, or do they still get thrown on the fire, just because
they "want to sin"?
god was invented to enable bullies = "it's not ME persecuting trans people, my god wants me to" cowards, sniveling cowards who can't own their hate.
there is no god - he didn't stop the nazis last time, he ain't stopping the nazis this time.
the arch diocese of los angeles has just paid out $600 MILLION dollars in abuse settlements, after spending $800 MILLION in 2007, last year it came to light
that 200,000 people had been abused while in catholic care in new zealand, that's out of a population of 5 million - your god
is is useless - the catholics believe in god and they believe there is a hell and they have less respect than people with no gods at all. your
religion is worthless and you god ISN'T REAL.
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project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
i like to remind folks that given the choice between family, friends and god, christians will pick god everytime, they will not
defend YOU when you are being pushed into the lake of fire.
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serves you right, christians, all of them, worship a dictator, does god recognise my human rights? no he does not, maga and god - jesus - share the same values, since when has the church loved gays and trans and abortions, you stink of hypocrisy, and just to remind you dullards that the first amendment conflicts with the first commandment: thou shalt worship whoever you want, so you can't be christian AND american.
god didn't save anyone from the nazis last time, he won't save anyone this time - there is no god but even id there is he is useless and just blames ME for the crap he started.
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lol. no, he's helping himself. this isn't a red vs blue election, it's the US vs stalin. you know there were germans who thought they were immune to deportation and firing squads back in 1939, but it took five years and a million deaths for them to realise, oops. now you want to do it all over. read project 2025 it says it in plain english it intends to remove ALL americans rights, not just democrats, yours too. and you might like what it says, you might like the idea of slavery being brought back and making women go back to the kitchen, but it will apply to YOU as well, adolf didn't care who you were in 1939, people were turning each other over to the ss just cos they were noisy neighbours, or they "looked funny"
don't make me say "i told you so" read the book.
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with a name like chong i'd not be shouting too loud. i don't get you folks, you ALL think it's "someone else will get deported"
heritage foundation project 2025:
Targeting immigrant communities through mass deportations and raids, ending birthright citizenship, separating
families, and dismantling our nation’s asylum system.
no more loan forgiveness = slavery
eliminate the dept of education
not just banned books but banned WORDS - diversity, gender, abortion.
Exploiting the executive branch’s vast and unprecedented powers to spy on Americans’ lives with
warrantless surveillance of our data.
Violating the First Amendment by using federal law enforcement to target journalists and protestors.
Abusing executive power to interfere in our elections by criminalizing the voting process and damaging fair representation.
Censoring academic discussions about race, gender, and systemic oppression, in violation of the First Amendment, and promising to
cut federal funding for schools with curricula that touch on these subjects.
Weaponizing federal law to require states and private actors to discriminate against transgender people by threatening to
sue schools that protect the rights of trans students or telling hospitals that they would lose their Medicaid funding
if they provide gender-affirming medical care to trans adolescents.
Severely limiting abortion access nationwide by reversing the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, a drug
used in medication abortion, and reviving a 19th century law, the Comstock Act, to ban any abortion
medications, equipment, or materials from being sent through the U.S. Postal Service.
there are 900 pages of this.
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zoastranism was the first recorded religion, god was invented about 50,000 years ago. personally shinto is my favourite religion, apart from the men in dresses. my ex wife (japanese) says to pronounce japanese correctly you have to speak like a robot, toy - yo - ta, lol. if i ask her the meaning of a symbol i get different definition every day for two weeks. i love japan and the japanese, many happy memories.
my jaoanese family were very welcoming, i actually felt more at home with them than with my own family. me, me brother in law and father in law would sit in the kitchen smoking and drinking beer, but unable to really chat, which is a shame considering everywhere you look in japan there is english, i think although it's natural, the japanification of words is confusing - you have absorbed english but changed the spelling and pronunciation, most japanese would have a lot of english if it wasn't made into pigeon-japanese.
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project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
i like to remind folks that given the choice between family, friends and god, christians will pick god everytime, they will not
defend YOU when you are being pushed into the lake of fire.
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oh how i love the churches hypocrisy, trump and god share the same values, they hate abortion, they hate gays, they hate trans folks, god will deport you - does god recognise human rights? nope.
and despite what bishop budde says you poll christian americans and they will tell you they hate trans folks. the reason the pope allowed gay marriage is cos atheists forced him and the churches are empty - cos no one wants to sit next to bigots and racists and homophobes.
trump and homan and hegseth, all of them profess to be christian - to be christian you have to be a drunk, a rapist, a molester, a fraud. and top tio - there is no god, it's ALL a con. tell me christians are atheists welcome in heaven now?
do you all love trans people now?
you all stink of hypocrisy
a quick reminder that the first amendment conflicts with the first commandment: thou shalt worship whoever you want, so you can't really be christian AND american.
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well trump is typically christian. hates gays, hates abortion, hates trans, deports people who dissent, the only thing jesus and trump would fight over is
who sits on the dictator's throne. i find it confusing that apparently bishop budde has told god that christians love trans people now, cos i'm pretty sure
that if you polled american christians 99.9% still want to stone them, so can someone get god to make his mind up, are christians loving trans or not? and
if god is being so liberal as to okay gays and trans folks, can atheists get into heaven now, or do they still get thrown on the fire, just because
they "want to sin"? religion is nothing ,more than a wet bag of hypocrisy. stop it, thee is no god.
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interesting comments, seems everyone hates everyone and it's "their fault" whoever they are. i'm a jolly brit born i 1954 so of course i have the actual facts to draw on (he said sarcasticly). my inlaws are japanese, i've only been there twice nearly twenty years ago now, but i thought my folks took things pretty well considering they have blackhawks and f16's flying around their house 24/7. the japanese are inherently racist, sorry to say my ex wife even thought white people are "smelly", but their culture is behind the times in that respect, or maybe they just say what they think instead of hiding feelings like we now do since wokeness and political correctness became the thing to do. they are a sexist mysoginst people, but take a look at twitter any day of the week and you can see we all still are.
my take on the bombs, the japanese people didn't have a say in going to war, as i understand things the majority of joe-chan public didn't want a war, ti was all the emperors idea, but when your boss says fight, well civilians have never stopped a war have they. i didn't get chance to go into depth with my in-laws about how they felt about the war, the bombs or the coccupation as language was a barrier, and my ex wife didn't really want to be bothered, but i guess the japanese people get the same propagandist chewing gum we in the west do, just from their perspective. i've been to hiroshima, and like all defeated nations japan seems to have come off a lot better than it's oppressors, it's a marvellous city and the memorial building and museum are the only signs of the horrors of nukes.
so all you people cursing the yanks, or cursing the japs, or the russkies or the nazis - everyone was as bad as everyone else in WWII - no one is innocent. and i bet you'll do it again. the only good thing about being a brit in WWII - we didn't start it.
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i don't see any difference between jesus and trump, both hate gays, both hate trans, both hate abortion, both will deport you if you dissent. the only thing
jesus and trump would fight over is who gets to sit on the dictators golden toilet. neither respects my human rights, both want to be worshiped.
all of trumps moves are backed by the heritage foundation who published project 2025, their ambition is to establish a christian theocracy, and
not a "jesus loves the little children" theocracy, a "you go to church or we burn you at the stake " sharia law iran style christian theocracy,
where of course HF gets to tell you what god wants. trump has achieved goal number one - get out of jail free - and is now practicing his revenge
plan, burn america to the ground while looking incompetent. musk has started his eugenics, get rid of humans that waste his money, especially if they
are not aryan, and all their pals get to play soldiers or sadists and whatever.
tell me cos god has me confused, are we loving trans or are we hating them?
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i'll have to hunt around a bit but it would be interesting to hear brian greene and roger penrose discussing their ideas on "the end of time"
35:10 paradox, anything moving at the speed of light experiences zero time. it takes 8 minutes for a photon to travel from the sun to earth, but the photon experienced no time at all, in fact to the photon it's everywhere in the universe at once, no matter how far it travels, how long it takes, to the photon no time has passed at all.
57:45 success is weird, i've had lots of success during my life, none of it planned, i just wandered like an idiot stumbling from one good outcome to the next. about success though, not only have i done well, but in my small world i'm quite famous - but nobody will have heard of me. social media has redifined success as needing the whole world to know your name, ain't gonna happen. and the depressing part is now you have evidence that you are in fact the LEAST successful person on the planet.
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2024: Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles settles sex abuse cases for $880 million
2007: cardinal Roger Mahony, leader of Los Angeles Catholics to pay $660 million settlement.
2019: Some 200,000 children, young people and vulnerable adults suffered abuse while in
state and faith-based care in New Zealand over the last 70 years, a landmark investigation
has found.
It means almost one in three children in care from 1950 to 2019 suffered some form of
abuse, including being subject to rape, electric shocks and forced labour, according
to the Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry.
i guess god isn't paying attention
i guess morality isn't written on priests hearts
i guess god makes no difference at all to the world.
admitting to being catholic is like admitting to being part of organized crime, has
the pope stopped apologising for all the abuse cases that are bankrupting god?
i have to say it's great that the pope has finally pointed out god's error about homosexuality
and okayed gay marriage, nice to see religion finally catching up with real morality, and good
of the religists to admit god was wrong. maybe in a few years it'll l be so watered down religion will
be invisible.
what did they do with the space left by limbo being abolished? ballroom? casino?
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heritage foundation project 2025:
Targeting immigrant communities through mass deportations and raids, ending birthright citizenship, separating
families, and dismantling our nation’s asylum system.
no more loan forgiveness = slavery
eliminate the dept of education
Exploiting the executive branch’s vast and unprecedented powers to spy on Americans’ lives with
warrantless surveillance of our data.
Violating the First Amendment by using federal law enforcement to target journalists and protestors.
Abusing executive power to interfere in our elections by criminalizing the voting process and damaging fair representation.
Censoring academic discussions about race, gender, and systemic oppression, in violation of the First Amendment, and promising to
cut federal funding for schools with curricula that touch on these subjects.
Weaponizing federal law to require states and private actors to discriminate against transgender people by threatening to
sue schools that protect the rights of trans students or telling hospitals that they would lose their Medicaid funding
if they provide gender-affirming medical care to trans adolescents.
Severely limiting abortion access nationwide by reversing the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, a drug
used in medication abortion, and reviving a 19th century law, the Comstock Act, to ban any abortion
medications, equipment, or materials from being sent through the U.S. Postal Service.
there are 900 pages of this.
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eight minutes in so it doesn't look like you'll mention it, but light and objects have no intrinsic colour, colour only exists in brains. the image making part of your brain takes the wavelength data and energy data of a photon and it ASSIGNS a colour to it, the photon has no colour of it's own, that's how redshift works, a white (let's say) ray of light is shifted one way or the other so it appears blue if the wavelengths are "compressed", or red if they are "stretched out". if the colour was in the photon it would look white regardless.
all our senses work this way, taste and smell are inventions of the brain, the weirdest being sound, sound is entirely a simulation and doesn't exist as "noise" anywhere. clapping your hands compresses air, it does not make "noise" but there is no "noise" inside your head either...
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i openly admit i have no idea how any of this stuff works, i stopped doing chemical stuff in the third year of school, way back in 1967, but, what i do know is, when tour says that it's fine for nature to do this bit of producing life, but this bit is so extremely unlikely that only god intervening could do it, i smell a mouldy rat. either your solution is "god did it and that's all you need to know" or "nature did it, however unlikely, and one day we'll figure it out"
and the thing about it taking bzillions of years to make certain parts - er tour is saying god picked a method really unlikely to produce life. all god really needs is souls after all. and really, if eden had worked out we would ALL be bound for paradise, what is god doing letting people go to hell??
we can't cure anything with "god did it" cos there is no information in that, but figuring out how nature did it, means we can learn stuff useful to making our own compounds and medicines. also i'm really skeptical of people who have no sense of humour.
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just to add my five penneth, i happen to like roger penrose idea of aeons, roughly it goes: we have our big bang, time passes and we have the "now", eventually everything gets swallowed by black holes,. but then the black holes evaporate until all that's left of the universe are photons, and as photons travel at the speed of light distance becomes meaningless because they experience no time, time is menaingless, so no matter how "big " the universe is, to the photons we have our singularity, and the big bang, and he wraps it up by saying as time didn't exist before the bog bang, it's also the FIRST big bang, again.
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@ProfessorDaveExplains 8:00 sorry, but this is misleading. i know everyone does this - i've only seen one video on the subject - but cones don't detect colour - there is no colour in objects or light, colour exists - is created - only in the image making part of the brain. cones detect energy levels of photons, not colour.
i came to this video because i am not clear how any information gets to the brain, that is, electro-chemical signals tell the brain about taste, smell, light, but how exactly is that information conveyed / encoded? it can't be digital (i imagine), and there certainly aren't tubes of paint snaking around the eye. i believe neurons work by transferring ionisation of sodium . potassium / chlorine, but how is the INFORMATION , the colour, the taste, encoded?
and please do a video explaining that objects and light have no colour, this is a big misconception that the vast majority of people can't get their heads around - i'm tired of arguing with people on this. thanks!!
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. - oscar wilde.
interesting, this thing of boundaries, i've never thought about telling other people what they can or can't do involving me, if i like the attention, okay, if i don't, i deal with that in whatever way i think is appropriate, but i would never have thought of me in relation to boundaries of me. do what you want, it you that's going to feel the consequences, good or bad. maybe i'm just tolerant, maybe i just like attention. i can see boundaries as being important to women, men are asses, but what do you do, hand over a list of does and don'ts?
i'm an old man, so i've become immune to rejection, but my technique is to say up front "i have designs on your body" and then we both know where we're coming from, if anything it's the friendzone (mine) that's tricky "i don't really have designs on your body, i just want to pick your brain" is a greyer area. lol.
18:30 okay, boundaries suddenly become paramount. "i'll break your arm" is probably a good way to keep his arm off your waist, men are asses. even if you're out to seduce someone, at least be subtle about it. my critiscism though would be when you get the third text you text back "look i feel really uncomfortable that your motives are questionable, i won't be in your lab again chum" would be the way i'd go. nip it in the bud. (edit) the very few men that have tried to make a pass at me, i tell them politely they aren't going to get anywhere, so don't waste the time. "much as i like you, i have no qualms about breaking a limb, so let's just get on with what we were doing before."
22:00 crikey. i've had a smattering of one night stands, but i've had six "girlfriends" one who became my wife, now ex wife, and although i'm not sure which would like to see me again i am still on reasonable terms with my ex-wife (married 20 years, one son now 22) and on good terms with the girlfriend i had before i got married (someone i've known for thirty years) and from my point of view i'd be more than happy to see any of them again, i feel i have been incredibly lucky in love (although i got dumped every time - lol) but when i hear the nightmare stories that people, both men and women go through, i wonder what the human race is all about. i'm selfish, i want sex, i want - stuff - but there are ways get to achieve your ambitions, and ways that just ruin other people, it's just not necessary to destroy other people to get what you want. and statistically you're going to get rejected more than accepted, so get over it. win-win is just as easy, and more satisfying for all.
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@DisaffectedLiberal read project 2025, it intends to strip YOU of every right you currently have, it says it plain and clear, it doesn't even TRY to hide that they intend to make trump the US first dictator, they intend to deport people, jail people, and probably worse, just read it, it says it directly on the page.
don't be fooled, trump is another adolf. i'm in the UK, it's not my problem - yet.
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i had one of these for a while, not in the best condition, but, it was like driving in a video game, i didn't realise you could do accidental burnouts in an automatic. ridiculously lovely car, electric everything, fast and silent, and mine cost £1500 - a 70k car.
talking of gearboxes - you're right, there is no way to know what gear you're in cos the changes are silk, no exaggeration.
i've had 3 (or 4?) xj's, an s-type, and an x-type and all of them have had electrical issues, especially during hot weather, doors opening or not , batteries going flat if you don't run every week, switch gear not working or alarms going off. the only real drawback is they are useless in the snow, last time i had an "ordinary" xj i had to leave it cos it couldn't handle the slightest incline.
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lol, it might be apocraphyl but there's a thing that if you talk about yourself non stop for an hour you end up crying.
everybody seems to hate woody allen these days, but he did an interview where he was asked about what motivates him, and he said that the most important thing in life is distraction. we are all going to die (possibly not me, this is my simulation) and whatever mark we make sooner or later it will be gone, 100 years, 1000 years, however long it takes all that we are will be forgotten, so all you can do is keep busy, he says he gets caught in in figuring out how he will make a scene work, getting two actors to produce the goods on the day, but all we can do is keep busy enough to forget the inevitable.
#i'd like to be unhappy but, i never do have the time#
that's how i get through every day.
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@richardhansen342 DO NOT GO CASHLESS, this is what musk wants, to be able to freeze your bank account if you don't fall in line, not conspiracy fact.
also i use to work for electronic arts, the games people in a purpose built building overlooking a lake with a bar, restaurant, cinema - we had david couthard and kimi raikonen's F1 cars in the foyer, i was working on formula one 2000 - and the foyer of the office was used in the film "inception" : and totally cash free, so if you forgot your card there was no shop for miles.
also.
i fell into massive credit card debt, no particular fault of my own, i own my flat mortgage free, and i drove a jag at the time, and i was using foodbanks, if not for cash (cos my bank kicked me) i'd be homeless now -so, plastic is nice, but getting rid of those pennies is just the start of world government......watch "elysium"
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my theory of aliens goes like this, terraforming takes too long, so we modify humans instead, robots, AI, prosthetics we have all the ingredients. then faster than light isn't going to be practical if you are physical, or "moving" so we use other dimensions, warp space, do whatever it takes, but then we stop being physical, it's the only way to travel. but if we stop being physical, what do we need to travel for? i think aliens just gave up and are extinct frankly, i think once we crack faster than light there will really be "no point" to life. aliens are either non physical and invisible to us, or they died out altogether.
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@BluePhoenix_ i don't think you know what AI is really, saying i'm brain dead when you have no idea who i am or what qualifies me to comment is more akin to brain dead. spend 40 years doing graphics, win some awards, go to seven art schools - have 500 million people see your work, then get back to me. you aren't brain dead, just very, very ignorant. i have a channel with a lot of my work on it, both hand animated, computer generated and AI generated too, feel free to leave comments, like and subscribe. but try to avoid being a dick in public.
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tariffs. even if they worked the way trump says they do, that would be stupid.
for example:
say china sells america a car at $60,000, then they have to pay (according to trump - and for easy maths i'll make it 100%) they pay a tariff of 100% = $60,000 - they have just GIVEN AWAY A CAR.
who in there right mind would trade that way?
the reality is china sells america a car for $60,000 and then the IMPORTER pays the tariff, so now he has bought a car for $120,000
see how stupid trump is?
tariffs are meant to regulate, like a tap, the inflow and outflow of goods, tariffs are usually around 1-3% enough to discourage some things, but not enough to ruin sales. also if you want manufacturing moved back to america you have to INVEST, and invest years in advance.
trump is not an idiot, he is DELIBERATELY out to RUIN the american economy, he is now a dictator, he doesn't care if he is not popular. you're STUCK WITH HIM
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@boomer31 well as of yesterday the law doesn't matter, ANYONE - YOU - can be arrested as illegal and deported, tell me, when ICE is not bothered by documentation, they just arrest people with no warrant and no miranda, how will you prove you are american? cos these deportees were american, immigrants, but still citizens, but now NO ONE is a citizen anymore.
you are so dumb you don't get it, birthright citizenship protected EVERYBODY not just immigrants. anyway, anyone who supports trump now is basically a nazi since musk outed himself, so - pick a side cos it never ends well for the nazis.
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i made some videos using purely AI, sound, music, editing, script, narration all AI. it was obvious after the third one that AI just does the same thing over and over - that was a year ago. i used google notes to invent a podcast critiquing a book (i am actually writing) and it was obvious after submitting the third chapter that it was just repeating what it had said in the first two, and it even became obvious that the two people talking to each other, is really one "thing" pretending to be two people - it even mistook the presenter for the main character in the book, more than once. that was the day before yesterday.
i'm an artist, i used AI to give me some suggestions for a sculpture i'm working on, which it did, better than i could do, so, AI hasn't really made any advances since this time last year, other than it is getting better at drawing hands and feet.
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@phillipclearman859 i beg your pardon mate but all the founding fathers were on the run from religion. at BEST they were deists, and they certainly weren't christian, the WHOLE POINT of the constitution was to welcome people from all over the world and allow them to worship their own god in their own way without persecution - you are totally ignorant - have you not read the first amendment? "thou shalt worship whoever you want" and if you wnt to promote the satanic temple this is the best way to do it because wherever christ goes in education, satan is right there too - every time you promote god you promote every other religion too, so if you want god in schools you'll get hindus, muslims, shinto, satanists too - is that what you want?
two things - the constitution, the very first law of the land says god takes second place to people, if you don't like that either get it changed or move. second, EVERYWHERE the church goes in schools the satanic temple is right behind, so if you want to promote the satanic temple, keep pushing your god on folks cos the satanists are much more likeable, don't have to make threats to get people signing up, and THEIR rules are a lot more reasonable and human than gods, and while christianity is shrinking (pew polls and gallup) islam is growing, so beware of what you wish for, cos islam will be right behind the satanic temple too
that's why you have the constitution you banana.
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One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.
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The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
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One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
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The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own.
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Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs.
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People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.
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Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
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@phillipclearman859 two things - the constitution, the very first law of the land says god takes second place to people, if you don't like that either get it changed or move. second, EVERYWHERE the church goes in schools the satanic temple is right behind, so if you want to promote the satanic temple, keep pushing your god on folks cos the satanists are much more likeable, don't have to make threats to get people signing up, and THEIR rules are a lot more reasonable and human than god's, and while christianity is shrinking (pew polls and gallup) islam is growing, so beware of what you wish for, cos islam will be right behind the satanic temple too
that's why you have the constitution you banana.
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One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.
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The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
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One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
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The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own.
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Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs.
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People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.
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Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
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if you try to address climate change and it's not real you still get no plastic, clean cheap energy, cleaner oceans, new technology, a better world, if you don't address climate change and it's real, you drown. it's a no brainer, it's pascals wager, but the good version. and while i'm at it, when you buy bottled water you aren't buying water, you are buying plastic
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prager just wants subs and likes and REVENUE - it's the "new christianity", just as there are new atheists who have great arguments as to why god is imaginary (like, "god is imaginary") so prager is "new christians" that is they atheist bash, they lie to the people who they want to become christian, they lie about government cos they want theocracy, they just lie about anything they feel like in order to make videos that make money - have you seen the number of videos they churn out - money money money - no interest id the truth of jesus message (what is jesus message??) and no interest in democracy - is god democratic, do you vote for god's policies?? nope they have one interest, well teo, pretending to be christian, pretending to be - what, conservative or liberal? which?
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@PatriciaEmerine trump is typical christian, hates gays, hates abortion, hates trans, jesus and trump will deport anyone who disagrees, jesus will have you tortured on top of that. since when has god recognised my human rights? god and trump are both ruthless dictators who demand worship or you get killed.
there is no god, but there are plenty of sick individuals who follow that god who just HATE for the sake of it.
the heritage foundation is behind EVERYTHING trump is doing, they wrote project 2025 - they are christians. their aim is a christian theocracy where you will be deported if you don't do as god tells you, and they tell god what the rules are. HYPOCRISY is all you get from religion. they want america to be another iran, christian style sharia law. the talking snake and donkey cult, barbarism at it finest.
tell me, is god loving trans or is god hating trans?
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trump is typical christian, hates gays, hates abortion, hates trans, jesus and trump will deport anyone who disagrees, jesus will have you tortured on top of that. since when has god recognised my human rights? god and trump are both ruthless dictators who demand worship or you get killed.
there is no god, but there are plenty of sick individuals who follow that god who just HATE for the sake of it.
the heritage foundation is behind EVERYTHING trump is doing, they wrote project 2025 - they are christians. their aim is a christian theocracy where you will be deported if you don't do as god tells you, and they tell god what the rules are. HYPOCRISY is all you get from religion. they want america to be another iran, christian style sharia law. the talking snake and donkey cult, barbarism at it finest.
tell me, is god loving trans or is god hating trans?
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40:00 i use this when i feel pain or feel ill, pain does not exist (!) your brain informs you that nerves have been attacked and the pain is a trigger to persuade you to change, but the pain is in your head, when i feel pain, especially headaches, i try to pin point exactly where the pain is coming from and where it is affecting my brain, and i generally find that the pain kind of dissolves away, as it's not really possible (unless you look at you finger squashed in a door) to figure out where the pain is comeing from, like i say this good (for me) with headaches, where on earth is the pain of a headache originating or going to?? the same thing helps with mental anguish too, if you vocalise by sharing, or think about the why's and wherefore's of mental pain it helps it to dissipate.
1:08:00 i have an imaginary piece of string i connect to home that gives me a pretty good sense of where i am and how to get back, sunny days help too, i do get lost in buildings more often than in cities or countryside. it's not particularly accurate, but good enough that i rarely get lost.
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as i've gotten older i've begun to wonder if i can see a part of the ultra violet, even on the greyest of british weather days flowers, especially orange and yellow ones, appear really vivid, as if they have an extra bit of light shining on them. i'm an artist / animator / graphic designer and i have (in tests) really good colour perception.
i have two friends, brothers, who are both colour blind, but in different ways. they were expaling they have just got these glasses that enable them to see colour, and what i found astonishing is that they see REFLECTIONS now, when they (claim) they didn't before. to see subtle colour i can accept, but i find it hard to understand how reflections are involved, they should be able to see reflections regardless of colour?
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i'm wondering where this idea that hell is torment came from. satan and god had a falling out, satan rejected god presumably. so if i reject god, i'm satan's ally surely? why would my pal want to torment me? burning christians alive, sure i can see that, but if i sell my soul to satan, and now i'm an amazing guitar player, why would he burn his investment? if i reject god and satan rejected god then it's christians satan wants to burn, not me.
there will be two heavens, one boring one where you just suck up to god for eternity, and satan's heaven, a fun palace where the artists, musicians, writers and comedians go.
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the problem you face though is trump voters don't care, they don't care that he's a convicted criminal waiting sentencing, they don't care that he has no policies and that nothing he does works, they don't care about the insurrection - they WANT all these things, they WANT chaos and division, trump supporters are ignorant small minded people who aren't happy until someone else - who was happy all along - is miserable too. they would burn their own house down if they thought it would upset the rest of us - and that's exactly what they tried last time, and will try again this time, to burn down american freedoms just so you are as unhappy and sick as they are.
even when she wins they will cause trouble, both in plain sight and behind closed doors.
i'm surprised that you are all still treating this as an election campaign, it's not, trump doesn't care what the voters will say, he doesn't care if he wins or loses, he is planning a coup, EVERYTHING he says is germany 1939 and if people can't see that they need it crammed into their eyeballs. he ticks EVERY box on the fascist playbook bingo card.
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who was it said "anything that can go wrong, will" ? i think humans are just the product of a lot of "oh i never expected that to happen next" situations, we have the big bang, great stuff, nothing but hydrogen atoms, that's all the universe needed to exist. but no, the hydrogen atoms dick around and start making heaveier atoms, okay, let's call it a day. but no, more stuff, more complicated appears. time to have a rest, we don't need anything more. but on and on it goes, just one random event after another, until here we are. all this stuff is basically made from a proton and electron and a neutron, and that's all a universe required to exist, it just all got out of hand.
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look, this was silly to begin with, but are 70,000,000 people (and growing if googling "can i change my vote" is real) all those people just going to let trump walk all over them? if i were biden, well, if i were harris i'd be figuring out ways to put this right, forget ethics and law and morals - trump doesn't play by the rules, throw all these people in jail, law or not, TAKE the country back - they were trying to do that to you. there were 70 thousand people at the ellipse, peacefully rallying for harris - what if all those people just stopped trump from entering the building? peacefully. just refuse him entry?
what? it was just a joke, can;t you take a joke?
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@FatherJack-sp1gc project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
i like to remind folks that given the choice between family, friends and god, christians will pick god everytime, they will not
defend YOU when you are being pushed into the lake of fire.
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@TerryM-dk3kr project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
i like to remind folks that given the choice between family, friends and god, christians will pick god everytime, they will not
defend YOU when you are being pushed into the lake of fire.
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@77Marcel project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
i like to remind folks that given the choice between family, friends and god, christians will pick god everytime, they will not
defend YOU when you are being pushed into the lake of fire.
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@RossJames-i6s you get nothing from the bible, people read into it whatever they want, using the bibel for anything other than a doorstop is DUMB.
the bible is not a book, it is a collection of scraps of paper, some no bigger than my thumb, written
over hundreds of years by people who never met jesus, whose motives are dubious, and it has been translated, retranslated and edited
to leave out things the church didn't want to have to explain, like god being evil and jesus sent to fight
him in the gospel of judas. none of the manuscripts are originals. the first sentence in the bible has two words
omitted cause they didn't translate into english, and
hebrew has no punctuation. so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Books_of_the_Bible_and_the_Forgotten_Books_of_Eden
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"There are currently over 3,142 versions of the bible, in over 2,073 languages available
digitally on bible.com - of which 1,768 are available audibly. There are also versions in
nearly 2,033 languages at faithcomesbyhearing.com and a similar number on the American Bible
Society's bibles.org."
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well trump has picked a fight with, let's see, honduras, panama, canada, mexico, NATO, the EU - and if hegseth gets his way that will see women out of the military, so that's 1/3 gone, then gays, then trans folks - that's 15,000 right there, then i guess minorities being deported, latinos, hispanics and blacks - so chine and or russia will just walk in and take the US.
but it wouldn't surprise me if that's what trump WANTS.
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what makes you think god is good? christians are the source of hate, had you not noticed? christians will dump friends and family over god, YOU are the problem.
project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
i like to remind folks that given the choice between family, friends and god, christians will pick god everytime, they will not
defend YOU when you are being pushed into the lake of fire.
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@donaldkepple4927 2024: Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles settles sex abuse cases for $880 million
2007: cardinal Roger Mahony, leader of Los Angeles Catholics to pay $660 million settlement.
2019: Some 200,000 children, young people and vulnerable adults suffered abuse while in
state and faith-based care in New Zealand over the last 70 years, a landmark investigation
has found.
It means almost one in three children in care from 1950 to 2019 suffered some form of
abuse, including being subject to rape, electric shocks and forced labour, according
to the Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry.
i guess god isn't paying attention
i guess morality isn't written on priests hearts
i guess god makes no difference at all to the world.
admitting to being catholic is like admitting to being part of organized crime, has
the pope stopped apologising for all the abuse cases that are bankrupting god?
i have to say it's great that the pope has finally pointed out god's error about homosexuality
and okayed gay marriage, nice to see religion finally catching up with real morality, and good
of the religists to admit god was wrong. maybe in a few years it'll l be so watered down religion will
be invisible.
what did they do with the space left by limbo being abolished? ballroom? casino?
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impose tariffs, crash stock market, buy stock, oh, it was all a mistake, no tariffs, market recovers, make money, take credit for recovery. people say trump is stupid, he is not. insider trading.
this is all deliberate, he is making money, he is literally selling america, he has project 2025 well under way, everyone else will do the dirty work (homan and his concentration camps, hegseth and his invasions, musk with the eugenics program) nope, it's all going to plan.
he gave you a book "i intend to ruin america and take your rights" in nice clear print - and no one did a single thing to stop it. i thought you were in the new russia, but this germany 1939 with thieves.
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12:50 what he's saying might be true of quantum fields, our perception is a reconstruction of the quantum world, but if you can eat an apple and it keeps you alive, then it's real.
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well it may sound conspiracy theory but all the pieces are in place, the heritage foundation, a christian organisation that wants sharia law is backing everything trump and musk do (that's project 2025 to you and me) with the goal of a theocracy, but not a "jesus loves the little children" theocracy, one where you are the slave and they interpret the bible to mean whatever suits them - like they can take sex slaves cos the bible says it's okay (and it does, try actually reading it). musk is after world government, hence he wants his own planet, but he will finance that by making you go cashless so he can dip into your bank accounts whenever you step out of line. trump gets to play god over the western hemisphere (canada, mexico, panama and whatever else he can grab), putin gets "the middle bit" - europe and russia, and china can have the bit on the far right, cos, obvious. you better stop him cos there will be dead bodies lying about in any case.
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it's escaped your attention that jesus and maga share the same values apparently, god is the ultimate dictator who deports anyone who disagrees, he has no respect for MY human rights, jesus hates gays, hates trans, hates abortion - the heritage foundation - christians - are behind EVERYTHING trump is doing, so cut the hypocrisy - tell me is god LOVING trans or is god still HATING trans? i'm getting mixed messages from your schizo god.
and there is no god, believing humans are cursed for eating apples is INSANELY STUPID and the problem with america is 2/3 of you are that dumb. jesus didn't save anyone from the nazis last time, jesus won't save a SINGLE PERSON from the nazis this time, stop being ridiculous. and do something about the heritage foundation cos THEY are the real threat to democracy, god is the real threat, the HF want a christian theocracy - do you want that? to be FORCED to go to church? forget the constitution? are you a nazi too? for god?
a quick reminder that the first amendment conflicts with the first commandment: thou shalt worship whoever you want, so you can't really be christian AND american. your religion is DUMB.
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i don't see any difference between jesus and trump, both hate gays, both hate trans, both hate abortion, both will deport you if you dissent. the only thing
jesus and trump would fight over is who gets to sit on the dictators golden toilet. neither respects my human rights, both want to be worshiped.
all of trumps moves are backed by the heritage foundation who published project 2025, their ambition is to establish a christian theocracy, and
not a "jesus loves the little children" theocracy, a "you go to church or we burn you at the stake " sharia law iran style christian theocracy,
where of course HF gets to tell you what god wants. trump has achieved goal number one - get out of jail free - and is now practicing his revenge
plan, burn america to the ground while looking incompetent. musk has started his eugenics, get rid of humans that waste his money, especially if they
are not aryan, and all their pals get to play soldiers or sadists and whatever.
tell me cos god has me confused, are we loving trans or are we hating them?
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well i'm a hard atheist (lol) but the problem with things that can't be proved or disproved is if there is a god, my "opinion" doesn't matter. the only way to tell if we are in a simulation would be if it had mistakes, glitches that revealed that reality wasn't all it appeared to be, but, having said that, it's a bit like fine tuning - how would we be able to tell? the universe LOOKS perfectly natural, if any of the numbers in the fine tuning were anything else - they would look natural too. basically simulations are like god, it makes no difference to how i lead my life, it might be a good excuse for some to lie in bed all day every day, but for me, i need to pay the bills - they aren't simulated.
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idea - in future debates take a dictaphone and then play back what your oppo has said and dissect it phrase by phrase. i love the kermit the frog "tidy your room" of jordan peterson, is there an equivalent cartoon character for shapiro? he's crying out for mockery. and while i'm here, people like shapiro and turek and pals assert that brain fizz amounts to "us" being moist robots, but i fail to see how a soul is any different, surely a soul is just brain fizz in an immaterial form? and while i'm at it i've begun to wonder why, if satan rejects god, and i reject god, why would satan want to torment me? sure he would want to torment christians, we all do, but i'm his colleague ffs, he has zero reasons to be upset with an ally surely? hell will be a fun palace if satan is against god.
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if prayers worked we wouldn't still have to pray dummy.
it's escaped your attention that jesus and maga share the same values apparently, god is the ultimate dictator who deports anyone who disagrees, he has no respect for MY human rights, jesus hates gays, hates trans, hates abortion - the heritage foundation - christians - are behind EVERYTHING trump is doing, so cut the hypocrisy - tell me is god LOVING trans or is god still HATING trans? i'm getting mixed messages from your schizo god.
and there is no god, believing humans are cursed for eating apples is INSANELY STUPID and the problem with america is 2/3 of you are that dumb. jesus didn't save anyone from the nazis last time, jesus won't save a SINGLE PERSON from the nazis this time, stop being ridiculous. and do something about the heritage foundation cos THEY are the real threat to democracy, god is the real threat, the HF want a christian theocracy - do you want that? to be FORCED to go to church? forget the constitution? are you a nazi too? for god?
a quick reminder that the first amendment conflicts with the first commandment: thou shalt worship whoever you want, so you can't really be christian AND american. your religion is DUMB.
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@humboldthammer project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
i like to remind folks that given the choice between family, friends and god, christians will pick god everytime, they will not
defend YOU when you are being pushed into the lake of fire.
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@denisemayosky1955 project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
i like to remind folks that given the choice between family, friends and god, christians will pick god everytime, they will not
defend YOU when you are being pushed into the lake of fire.
i get sick of you god people pretending god is good when god is the ultimate in hate.
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i'd say the auditor carries most of the blame, the dog is just being a dog, whether it should be on a lead or not is irrelevant i think, the auditor should've picked a quieter spot, he should have landed in a more open space, he ought to have landed it in his hand rather than the path (which is quite narrow and a bit close to trees i would have thought) and he was doing his assertive auditor bit, only to the wrong person, she was apologising (which you should NEVER do, right or wrong) and clearly wasn't trying to be difficult, and as an auditor he should know better than to demand her details, especially as no actual damage was obvious.
the other people who chimed in weren't really helping anyone, just adding to the argument.
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project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
i like to remind folks that given the choice between family, friends and god, christians will pick god everytime, they will not
defend YOU when you are being pushed into the lake of fire.
god is imaginary, blasphemy doesn't exist.
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6:43 okay, hang on a minute, i've asked sean this question (in comments) and not got an answer, but, if harry potter is fictional in my universe, will he be fictional in every universe, or does "infinite" mean in some universe or other harry potter actually exists (i don't mean A harry potter, i mean one corresponding)?? cause i once also asked the question, if god does not exist in my universe, but he does in one or more of the infinite universes, does that mean he HAS to exist in every universe (cos he's god imean)??
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my overbearing memory of dairy farms is cow sht everywhere. i agree, get it pasteurised. where do people think science comes from? they seem to think it's a political opinion, when the reality is someone said "this thing is killing people, i wonder why?" and they do science and then it's "oh, no more polio, no more chicken pox, no more rubella, smallpox, diphtheria, no meningitis and on and on, but no, science is bad. it's kind of darwinian though cos a lot of people who thought covid was a hoax are under the ground pushing up daisies instead of being dumb. i suppose they will be denying glasses as a government control plant. and teeth fillings as subcutaneous mind control.
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project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
i like to remind folks that given the choice between family, friends and god, christians will pick god everytime, they will not defend YOU when you are being pushed into the lake of fire.
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i don't think it's very popular but i still like penrose CCC, just because (according to penrose) at the "end of the universe" size and time lose their meaning, and what was an infinitely "big" universe now is a "singularity" and off we go with another big bang, but as time starts here, it's still the first big bang. and to me it's intuitive that it's all a cycle, big bang, expand, lose size reference, singularity, big bang, rinse and repeat. and if the universe expanded "infinitely" couldn't that, in some way, result in other big bangs? anyway, it's fun to speculate as i'm not drawing a salary.
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lol, my ex wife of 20 years is japanese and if i asked her what a symbol meant i would usually get a different answer each day for at least a week, it all depends on context, even the weather sometimes. long thin things are counted differently to short fat things, they have no natural swear words, you get called a hippo as an insult, and things like table, chair, spoon tv are kinda japanified, but as they never had these things til they opened the borders they are all english (american) derived, even though the japanese do not understand what you mean when you use them.
they have english goods and slogans on all their tee shirts, but have little idea what they say or mean.
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don't be silly, it's still created by a human, until AI does stuff unasked, by itself, without a prompt, it is still human effort. i put it this way, we have no second thoughts about leaving ther planet to our children, we assume our kids will do a good job of life, but what is the difference between handing over the planet to our kids and handing over the planet to robots? it's kinda racist to think that robots aren't "as good" as humans, they will be built, designed, programmed by humans, and as long as they don't actively kill everyone, when there is no more biological life, who is to say they aren't just the next generation - unless you plan to live forever, what do you care?
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project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
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i tend to agree, i think terra-forming is going to be hard work, we can't even terraform earth, so it will be easier to modify humans - genetics, AI, robotics, prosthetics, we're right on the cusp of being able to 3d print people and implant AI brains, and if we want to colonise other planets, in and outside our solar system, and outside our galaxy, people will have to be able to live in space.
(my theory about aliens not being seen is that warping space will be the only way to get around and once we do that - we might as well live in space in between galaxies - if cold fusion becomes a reality we won't need a sun even.
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my story, i've had good health all my life until i hit 65, basically in 1974 i needed stitches in my thumb, in 1984 i had a shard of metal removed from my eye, my son was born (first baby in greenwich hospital 1999), and when he reached 8, he fractured a collar bone, i had a car crash, but just x-rays as i was only bruised, but when i hit 65 my eyes, teeth and hearing all started to fail, i've had various blood tests, x-rays, ct scans and now i take pills every day. i'm 70 now and only "national insurance" and tax have left my wallet.
i bought and paid for some cough medicine the other day, i get dentistry done privately to save waiting, but even then my dentist puts me on NHS when he can, and when my son was in A&E we had a four hour wait for his xray. of course when i go abroad i've had vaccinations - again i don't recall paying for them, and my doctors seem to have plenty of time to talk to me, i've never been hurried, and even the wait for blood tests was only half an hour or so. and the NHS has been in trouble for a long time, thanks to the conservatives trying to run it down in order to sell it cheap - or rather to buy it cheap and make us pay like you guys do. i think it's also true to say that my girlfriends (and ex wife) over the years didn't pay for contraception either.
the french are good at rioting, just saying.
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almost. a friend of mine has one and i joke that it comes over to my place late at night and we party. i also posed the question, if one day you need to get to the office, but the car wants to go to the beach, what're ya gonna do? it also begs the question, will one day see cars, with no drivers, whizzing about the place, and we wonder, what is it they are doing? and, what will they do at a busy junction, wait all day for a gap, or barge out?
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@carrerau7138 he will go, he is such an incompetent he will get himself kicked. i love that you're so full of confidence, it typifies fascism, you do realise that fascists and nazis have NEVER WON ANYTHING, right? you get to bully people but you always get kicked in the nuts and end up crying and hiding? it's not like there is a nazi country somewhere that is thriving and filled with happy people making a fortune from swastika flags and old knives and people are lazing on the beach, nazis are BORN LOSERS.
tell me ONE THING nazis and fat headed ignorant knuckle dragging fascists have ever won.
the problem fascists have is they put loyalty, or rather sycophants over expertise, you have suck ups like you running things they have no idea how to run. you all hate each other more than you hate me, cos you are all envious to begin with, and no one can trust anyone cos you are ALL dishonest and out for yourselves. and you are SO IGNORANT you can't accept any of this.
so go ahead, gloat, all that will happen is a lot of people will get hurt, you will lose, have to go back under that rock you've been living under and we do the same sht over again.
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never mind trump not being able to cite the bible, even if he could jesus and maga share the same values, god and trump would be fighting over who is the better dictator - god and trump hate gays, hate trans, hate abortion, they will both deport you you if you dissent, why people think god is a good influence when religion has changed NOTHING about human behaviour - priests still abuse children thinking they will be forgiven by god - that's what god was invented for, so hegseth can be a drunk, a drug addict, an adulterer and then he can claim "i'm saved" god is as big a problem as trump, and they are no different from one another. if the threat of eternal torture doesn't stop priests from abusing nothing will. and when did god intervene? never, it's MY fault apparently.
christians are not nice people, they will dump friends and family and YOU rather than offend their imaginary friend.
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5:43 lol.
on a serious note though it does, and always has as it happens, make me wonder about these exo planets we seem to have an abundance of, i don't look closely but i don't recall any of the reports of exo planets even mentioning magnetic fields, never mind surface temperatures, atmosphere content or pressure, or anything that might kill a human outright. it may sound like there are a ton of planets just waiting for us to put on our bathing suits and wallow under the waterfalls serenaded by parrots, but i suspect we will have to become really, really, really technologically advanced to live anywhere but on earth. i hope we do, i wanted to get off this planet when i was 5 years old, back i 1959, and i'm still waiting. but it ain't gonna be a walk in the rain forest.
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how would nancy "show me your junk" mace police this daft law about toilets, will she have police checking what's in my pants before i go in, and frankly i've had to use the ladies and the ladies in there were okay with it, "sure go ahead" was their reaction, and also i've been in a situation where the ladies had to use the mens, and everyone was confused and e3mbarresed but no one gave a damn - the french have been sharing since forever, and the japanese would make her hair fall out with their public baths - everyone in the pool together naked, men women, children, strangers.
mace is a paranoid schizophrenic, i think she will find herself in a straight jacket if she keeps up this behaviour that she showed with crockett. she literally needs help i think.
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@renep2220 atheists will disown him too, even the satanic temple has better morals than trump or christians, catholicism is organised crime, one big sex abuse ring.
2024: Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles settles sex abuse cases for $880 million
2007: cardinal Roger Mahony, leader of Los Angeles Catholics to pay $660 million settlement.
2019: Some 200,000 children, young people and vulnerable adults suffered abuse while in
state and faith-based care in New Zealand over the last 70 years, a landmark investigation
has found.
It means almost one in three children in care from 1950 to 2019 suffered some form of
abuse, including being subject to rape, electric shocks and forced labour, according
to the Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry.
i guess god isn't paying attention
i guess morality isn't written on priests hearts
i guess god makes no difference at all to the world.
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@krisstromgren8268 sorry but i despair of america, are you a christian? cos this is christianity at work, it's in the book, project 2025. americans really are fat lazy and dumb - sorry, but it's fact not insult. you INVITED a nazi into the whitehouse, he told you he was a nazi.
at the very LEAST you email your rep. PENSIONERS in russia have been BLOWING BANKS UP, burning down government buildings - you have to ASK what do i do?? 50501 - as far as i know is organising protest - in germany 160,000 people marched against the AfD, the german nazi party.
you DO whatever you can. ME, i've been doing NOTHING but - complain, pester people online, comment on youtube and be irritating - AND IT'S NOT EVEN MY COUNTRY. 🇬🇧
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project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
i like to remind folks that given the choice between family, friends and god, christians will pick god everytime, they will not
defend YOU when you are being pushed into the lake of fire.
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@annewandering well if you want to be part of the talking snake and donkey cult, if you love your voodoo and the book of spells doesn't your CEO tell you that you'll be mocked for being the ignorant dim wits that you are, and that we will all burn, so it all works out?
i love this god of yours who leaves YOU, the dim wit, to do his dirty work while he sits in his FAT ARSE watching you being made fools of, cos you are - dim witted fools who follow a dictator who is king of the haters, no different from MAGA - the ultimate deporter (to hell). you folks are sick nincompoops.
a quick reminder that the first amendment conflicts with the first commandment
"thou shalt worship whoever you want" technically you can't be christian AND american.
and that the declaration of human rights gives ME more rights than god.
and a history lesson cos the USA is a secular nation, not many people seem to know that,
and the founding fathers were at best deists and certainly not christian. hitchens - one of the most well known atheists - became
a naturalised american purely
because of the constitution. the UK is officially christian,
the US is officially secular.
is it annoying that the satanic temple has the SAME RIGHTS as the church?
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my girlfriend is schizophrenic, and the first video, when he wakes up and there is a lot of noise in his head, i don't think that's how it works, i'm at the 5:20 mark, so maybe there will be clarification, but the way i see it, i talk to myself, out loud and in my head, and i hold imaginary conversations with people, i think most people do something similar, as a way to play out scenarios and "predict" the future, what will happen at the job interview, or whatever, most of my imaginary conversations are with her - i want to say just the right thing in a way that won't be misinterpreted, i "try things out" in my head.
but (i imagine) with schizophrenia it's hard to remember the voices are imaginary, and the scenarios that get plaayed out in the head become "real", and the scenarios become more extravagent, i've been accused several times of trying to posion my girlfriend for instance, i asked her how she liked a new cup she'd bought, and immediately she asked if i had tampered with it in some way. it's like my thoughts are imaginary, but relate to reality fairly closely, but her thoughts get wound up to the 11 mark, and every detail of her day is exaggerated, until she has to explode but then has no clear agent to explode at - even that is a jumble in her head.
7:05 yes, i imagine it's not the tv talking direct to you, but your (her) interpretation of what the content is "it will be cloudy today" means you'll feel gloomy, not want to go out, you're trapped indoors, everyone wants you locked away, you hate everyone.
with phone calls, one day we were talking and she was triggered by something on the tv and she just started word salad for about an hour, the phone rang, it was a girlfriend of hers, they had a normal conversation "how are the kids, what have you been up to" then she put down the phone and went straight back into word salad, for another two hours at least. i have no idea how that works.
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he would be "demoted" but i don't think anyone accepts "demotion" unless you make racist jokes of course, and i would never do that. perhaps a locomotive running out of, whatever locomotives run out of these days would suffer from "demotion" but....
giving in is just plain stupid, trump, even project 2025 will not win, fascists have never won, this is why it is so crazy to back trump, you are backing a loser - all that will happen is thousands of people will die and you'll be back to the crummy democracy you started with - cos that's all there is, but to accept trump is to accept becoming a SLAVE, the regime intends to make slaves of anybody not a billionaire, seriously, musk and the billionaires club want to divide the world up between them so they can be pharaohs, and trump thinks he will be king of it all (he won't of course) so unless you want to live in russia, or liked the slave parts in the dystopian movies you have no choice but to resist and ACT - but no one is doing anything.
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just for the record, i'm rewatching heroes, and it's got to the episode where hiro nakamura has to ditch the princess and get back to work, and i was thinking, heck, he can stay with the princess for as long as he likes and still return to the point in time that he left - only he can't - he will be older. if he stays with the princess for an hour maybe that's okay, he can return to the point he left and no one the wiser, but if he stays with the princess a week, a month, a year, ten years, he is getting closer to his appointment with death, he is getting older. which requires the question, what happens to the time traveller while "in time"? if metabolism stops at the point of departure - he won't be able to move, he will be locked in that split second of leaving, if he gets older, the nwhat if he doesn't return to his own ime, he's extra material to the universe he visits, if he can't get back the the point of departure there will be no balance. just thinking out loud mr tube.
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i have said this many times before, the "logical" progression from going to the moon and mars is to deal with journey times, i think it will start with "designing humans" - prosthetics and genetic engineering and a whole bunch of other things are already available, we will not terraform, we will redesign humans.
then we have to deal with distance, and the way around that, in my mind at least, is to travel in other dimensions, to literally warp space. and once you've done that you might as well live in spaceships anyway - we don't see aliens cos they live in intergalactic space in ships that exist in other dimensions than ours.
for instance asteroid mining, we go to an asteroid, we stick rocket engines (or whatever) on it, drive it back to earth - then what? drop an asteroid on washington? no - we have to mine it in space and build stuff from it in space, there is no reason, other than a nature preserve or sentiment, to live on any planet ever again.
obvious really - lol.
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@shelandarobinson4108 i don't see any difference between jesus and trump, both hate gays, both hate trans, both hate abortion, both will deport you if you dissent. the only thing
jesus and trump would fight over is who gets to sit on the dictators golden toilet. neither respects my human rights, both want to be worshiped.
all of trumps moves are backed by the heritage foundation who published project 2025, their ambition is to establish a christian theocracy, and
not a "jesus loves the little children" theocracy, a "you go to church or we burn you at the stake " sharia law iran style christian theocracy,
where of course HF gets to tell you what god wants. trump has achieved goal number one - get out of jail free - and is now practicing his revenge
plan, burn america to the ground while looking incompetent. musk has started his eugenics, get rid of humans that waste his money, especially if they
are not aryan, and all their pals get to play soldiers or sadists and whatever.
tell me cos god has me confused, are we loving trans or are we hating them?
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all that money goes straight back into the economy, poor people live hand to mouth and as soon as my pension is in my bank it goes straight to utilities, service charges on my flat, council taxes, exorbitant credit card fees - government can give away those billions cos all that money goes out of the bank and back into government pockets. same as with UBI - no one SAVES this money, no one is putting it in offshore accounts and sitting on it, ALL OF THAT MONEY is used, food, heat, light.
elon musk lost $200 BILLION this week and he is STILL the richest man on earth, the super rich can be taxed to the hilt and they don't even know it's gone - they certainly are not inconvenienced are they? at the right hand side of the wealth inequality graph the bar has to be folded twice to fit back on, that's how much the rich have, while the other end has ALWAYS started at zero - no civilised country should let people live on AIR. a basic income, enough for rent and food. TAX THE RICH.
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i'm on elon's side, but the elevator is only going in one direction, there isn't an elevator coming at it from the other, it's usually in it's own lane, and it has a mechanical braking system that is pretty much foolproof, not killing your passengers is a lot more complicated in a car where a tree or a rock can fall on your head.
32:00 this is like the fine tuning argument, from inside there is no way to tell if it's just the way it is or if it is "designed", a competent designer who wanted us to think this is reality would make it so that any numbers would appear natural, any numbers would "work". as far as nature is concerned all the numbers are "1". the speed of light is "1", the speed of sound is "1", nature doesn't care about decimal places.
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project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
i like to remind folks that given the choice between family, friends and god, christians will pick god everytime, they will not
defend YOU when you are being pushed into the lake of fire.
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well trump is typically christian. hates gays, hates abortion, hates trans, deports people who dissent, the only thing jesus and trump would fight over is
who sits on the dictator's throne. i find it confusing that apparently bishop budde has told god that christians love trans people now, cos i'm pretty sure
that if you polled american christians 99.9% still want to stone them, so can someone get god to make his mind up, are christians loving trans or not? and
if god is being so liberal as to okay gays and trans folks, can atheists get into heaven now, or do they still get thrown on the fire, just because
they "want to sin"?
god was invented to enable bullies = "it's not ME persecuting trans people, my god wants me to" cowards, sniveling cowards who can't own their hate.
there is no god - he didn't stop the nazis last time, he ain't stopping the nazis this time.
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lol. it's taken five years to get her to admit to someone else, me, that there is something not right in the first place, it's taken five years to even be able to talk about her mental health issues, i have no idea what her diagnosis might be other than her father told me he is schizophrenic. she actually acts like she has everything except depression, PTSD, autism, bi-polar. i've had therapy myself in the past, and when i found out how "bad" she was i started getting counselling, but getting her to any kind of therapy seems impossible, her paranoia tells her doctors are bad. and it is unsustainable, if she was getting help then there isn't anything i wouldn't do for her, but she isn't and i'm nearly 70, she's wasted five years i can't afford to lose so i have to eject her from my life, i'm an artist and musician, i have better things to do than babysit.
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well trump is typically christian. hates gays, hates abortion, hates trans, deports people who dissent, the only thing jesus and trump would fight over is
who sits on the dictator's throne. i find it confusing that apparently bishop budde has told god that christians love trans people now, cos i'm pretty sure
that if you polled american christians 99.9% still want to stone them, so can someone get god to make his mind up, are christians loving trans or not? and
if god is being so liberal as to okay gays and trans folks, can atheists get into heaven now, or do they still get thrown on the fire, just because
they "want to sin"?
god was invented to enable bullies = "it's not ME persecuting trans people, my god wants me to" cowards, sniveling cowards who can't own their hate.
there is no god - he didn't stop the nazis last time, he ain't stopping the nazis this time.
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oh how i love the churches hypocrisy, trump and god share the same values, they hate abortion, they hate gays, they hate trans folks, god will deport you - does god recognise human rights? nope.
and despite what bishop budde says you poll christian americans and they will tell you they hate trans folks. the reason the pope allowed gay marriage is cos atheists forced him and the churches are empty - cos no one wants to sit next to bigots and racists and homophobes.
trump and homan and hegseth, all of them profess to be christian - to be christian you have to be a drunk, a rapist, a molester, a fraud. and top tip - there is no god, it's ALL a con. tell me christians are atheists welcome in heaven now?
do you all love trans people now?
you all stink of hypocrisy
a quick reminder that the first amendment conflicts with the first commandment: thou shalt worship whoever you want, so you can't really be christian AND american.
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the bible:
The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother. 3 They became prostitutes in Egypt, engaging in prostitution from their youth. In that land their breasts were fondled and their virgin bosoms caressed. 4 The older was named Oholah, and her sister was Oholibah. They were mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
5 “Oholah engaged in prostitution while she was still mine; and she lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors 6 clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all of them handsome young men, and mounted horsemen. 7 She gave herself as a prostitute to all the elite of the Assyrians and defiled herself with all the idols of everyone she lusted after. 8 She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when during her youth men slept with her, caressed her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her.
9 “Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, the Assyrians, for whom she lusted. 10 They stripped her naked, took away her sons and daughters and killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women, and punishment was inflicted on her.
11 “Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister. 12 She too lusted after the Assyrians—governors and commanders, warriors in full dress, mounted horsemen, all handsome young men. 13 I saw that she too defiled herself; both of them went the same way.
14 “But she carried her prostitution still further. She saw men portrayed on a wall, figures of Chaldeans[a] portrayed in red, 15 with belts around their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like Babylonian chariot officers, natives of Chaldea.[b] 16 As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. 17 Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust. 18 When she carried on her prostitution openly and exposed her naked body, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister. 19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. 21 So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.[c]
they let kids get hold of this tripe
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8:00 sorry, but this is misleading. i know everyone does this - i've only seen one video on the subject - but cones don't detect colour - there is no colour is objects or light, colour exists - is created - only in the image making part of the brain.
i came to this video because i am not clear how any information gets to the brain, that is, electro-chemical signals tell the brain about taste, smell, light, but how exactly is that information conveyed / encoded? it can't be digital (i imagine), and there certainly aren't tubes of paint snaking around the eye. i believe neurons work by transferring ionisation of sodium . potassium / chlorine, but how is the INFORMATION , the colour, the taste, encoded?
and please do a video explaining that objects and light have no colour, this is a big misconception that the vast majority of people can't get their heads around - i'm tired of arguing with people on this.
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impose tariffs, crash stock market, buy stock, oh, it was all a mistake, no tariffs, market recovers, make money, take credit for recovery. people say trump is stupid, he is not. insider trading.
this is all deliberate, he is making money, he is literally selling america, he has project 2025 well under way, everyone else will do the dirty work (homan and his concentration camps, hegseth and his invasions, musk with the eugenics program) nope, it's all going to plan.
he gave you a book "i intend to ruin america and take your rights" in nice clear print - and no one did a single thing to stop it. i thought you were in the new russia, but this germany 1939 with thieves.
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heritage foundation project 2025:
Targeting immigrant communities through mass deportations and raids, ending birthright citizenship, separating
families, and dismantling our nation’s asylum system.
no more loan forgiveness = slavery
eliminate the dept of education
Exploiting the executive branch’s vast and unprecedented powers to spy on Americans’ lives with
warrantless surveillance of our data.
Violating the First Amendment by using federal law enforcement to target journalists and protestors.
Abusing executive power to interfere in our elections by criminalizing the voting process and damaging fair representation.
Censoring academic discussions about race, gender, and systemic oppression, in violation of the First Amendment, and promising to
cut federal funding for schools with curricula that touch on these subjects.
Weaponizing federal law to require states and private actors to discriminate against transgender people by threatening to
sue schools that protect the rights of trans students or telling hospitals that they would lose their Medicaid funding
if they provide gender-affirming medical care to trans adolescents.
Severely limiting abortion access nationwide by reversing the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, a drug
used in medication abortion, and reviving a 19th century law, the Comstock Act, to ban any abortion
medications, equipment, or materials from being sent through the U.S. Postal Service.
there are 900 pages of this. i almost want trump to win so you will see first hand what a massive mistake you make. if trump gets in he is the heritage foundation puppet and ALL your rights and freedoms will be removed, project 2025 says it in clear terms - they will monitor everything you do and deport ANYONE, regardless of colour, if they dissent, you are LITERALLY electing another putin, the US will be another china
i hope you can prove that you are "pure american" (whatever that is?) don;t say i didn't tell you.
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i stopped using dope about 35 years ago, i wasn't actually "using it" before then but on this one and final ocassion i experienced severe enough paranoia to decide not to do it again, i don't have an addictive personality anyway, and as this was one occasion obviously i wasn't going to miss it. i stopped using LSD after several trips in my teens, again the final one resulting in not severe but really uncomfortable paranoia - no lasting effects from either occasion other than the desire not to think my friends were persecuting me.
i'm an artist and a reasonably successful animator / graphics designer / effects artist and my dabbling was in the hope my art my benefit (i really loved dali in my teens) sad to say LSD did nothing for my artistic abilities and just so you know it's possible, my hallucinations all had a basis and origin in reality and i never felt i had the ability to fly, my trips were mundane. but i'm quite a down to earth type, despite my artistic imagination.
i can't help but wonder why there isn't a drug that ACTUALLY does enhance the brain, all drugs seem to dull the brain, whatever people might report, why have we not found something that makes me as brainy as einstein? why is there no "limitless"?
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blimey. i know very, very little about philosophy, and even less about syllogisms (did i spell that right?) but even a dumbo like me can see you can't argue the case by starting out using the case. like he said "let's assume he's guilty, then have a trial" isn't going to work.
to my mind there is no such thing as "morality", what we have are rules that have been formulated because theft, rape and murder just don't work in society, no society will last if all or any of these things are tolerated, where someone might think stealing stuff is fine, they won't like being stolen from, etc. we don't need god for anything, least of all rules - or commandments (613 of them in fact).
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my overbearing memory of dairy farms is cow sht everywhere. i agree, get it pasteurised. where do people think science comes from? they seem to think it's a political opinion, when the reality is someone said "this thing is killing people, i wonder why?" and they do science and then it's "oh, no more polio, no more chicken pox, no more rubella, smallpox, diphtheria, no meningitis and on and on, but no, science is bad. it's kind of darwinian though cos a lot of people who thought covid was a hoax are under the ground pushing up daisies instead of being dumb. i suppose they will be denying glasses as a government control plant. and teeth fillings as subcutaneous mind control.
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well one thing, if the universe is 13 billion years old, and earth is 4 billion years old, that's a third of ALL time just to get one civilisation. and so far we've only lasted a few million of those years tops, and only a few hundred with tech to get to space.
second thing, it's taken quite a few DISASTERS to result in humans, there must be a list as long as my arm of things required for humans to appear and thrive, if this is true of most / all life, then i imagine it's quite rare. and as someone pointed out, dolphins are super intelligent, but they will never make anything electric, there must be factors like that to take into consideration, maybe there are incredibly intelligent aliens out there, who can't get into space, or even invent the radio....
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you'll probably get deported too, and if you don't i bet your experiences of racism increases. you voted your family deported.
heritage foundation project 2025:
Targeting immigrant communities through mass deportations and raids, ending birthright citizenship, separating
families, and dismantling our nation’s asylum system.
no more loan forgiveness = slavery
eliminate the dept of education
not just banned books but banned WORDS - diversity, gender, abortion.
Exploiting the executive branch’s vast and unprecedented powers to spy on Americans’ lives with
warrantless surveillance of our data.
Violating the First Amendment by using federal law enforcement to target journalists and protestors.
Abusing executive power to interfere in our elections by criminalizing the voting process and damaging fair representation.
Censoring academic discussions about race, gender, and systemic oppression, in violation of the First Amendment, and promising to
cut federal funding for schools with curricula that touch on these subjects.
Weaponizing federal law to require states and private actors to discriminate against transgender people by threatening to
sue schools that protect the rights of trans students or telling hospitals that they would lose their Medicaid funding
if they provide gender-affirming medical care to trans adolescents.
Severely limiting abortion access nationwide by reversing the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, a drug
used in medication abortion, and reviving a 19th century law, the Comstock Act, to ban any abortion
medications, equipment, or materials from being sent through the U.S. Postal Service.
there are 900 pages of this.
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project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
i like to remind folks that given the choice between family, friends and god, christians will pick god everytime, they will not
defend YOU when you are being pushed into the lake of fire.
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my pet theory goes like this.
it's going to be hard to terraform a planet, mars has no magnetic field for one thing, you generate atmosphere, it blows away. and we need to colonise now, not in a hundred years, and, we can't even terraform earth.
what we already have, and what we are already doing, is modifying humans, prosthetics, robotics, DNA and genetic engineering, AI - robots and cyborgs. it will be easier to make humans fit the environment (hmm, does that sound like evolution?) rather than fiddling with the environment.
which brings me to part two: speed of light. it may be that we can't get around space travel, other than manipulating space itself, if you're moving near the speed of light you're going to hit something, besides, i think it will be easier (relatively of course) to bend space - if aliens have done this then they have no further need of "regular" space, or planets even, i think advanced alien races are immaterial. we will never "see" or "hear" them.
what do you think? leave a comment below.
oops, sorry, thought i was at home there for a moment.
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in addition, and i say this often, we have no problem handing over the planet to our children, we expect to pass away and our kids take over, and very few people have a problem with that, but, as long as robots don't actively start removing us (!), why not hand over to robots? surely they will just be the next step in human evolution, i mean it's hard to define what "life" is in the first place, does it have to be totally biological?
the fly in the ointment is that we can expect at some stage to have very long lives, if not immortality, if david sinclair gets his "ten years younger" pill going, then that would be a step to demonstrating immortality is possible, then we might compete with AI and robots...
anyway, robots in factories meant i could do more art, and now AI is doing my art i can go back to the factory.....
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it's so good when people who know what they are talking about stop being polite and speak their mind, i'm more fed up with religion than climate change but having many of my heroes speak up - "you might as well pray to pixies as a god" - is so refreshing, i loath this "respect people's, what? feelings?" to me the climate change situation is a logic problem, it doesn't matter if it's real or not, if you treat it like it's real you get the benefits, clean air, clean water, new technologies, cheaper kit - even if it's all a mistake. if you do nothing and it's actual, you drown or burn or carry on living a lower and lower lifestyle.
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@sr2291 what we need to do is stop giving god respect, it's voodoo and witch craft, there is no god and god is bring used for rift of all sorts - it's DUMB giving religion NAY credibility.
project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
i like to remind folks that given the choice between family, friends and god, christians will pick god everytime, they will not
defend YOU when you are being pushed into the lake of fire.
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as a player it's taken me 50 years to find out there are better brands you've never heard of that make guitars for either 1/10th the price that are better or 100X the price that are better than gibson / fender / whatever. in fact some of the lower end mass produced makes are turning out mid price guitars at high end quality.
as an audience member, other than acoustic sets i've been to, floyd, elp, mayall, martyn, whoever i've gone to see brands have been really low on my priorities.
i play acoustics, i have 2 gibsons, i have a martin, but i also have a larrivee, a maton and i suppose framus aren't that widely known. but there are tons, and tons, of boutique guitars out there well, well worth the effort and if you have it, the money.
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gawd, really, we have to do this. oh well, *makes sandwich and gets coffee*
before he even starts, the "cosmos" that is "everything" has always been lying around, "our universe" the bit we can see is made from existing material. radioactive decay happens at ransom intervals and with no cause. next problem...
why do things not just pop into existence? maybe they can, but how does the universe "know" about them? beethoven and bicycles are human constructs - the universe has no idea about these things, of course they won't just pop into existence - humans had to MAKE these things in the first place - maybe they ARE popping into existence, as their base materials - virtual particles, dark matter......
sorry guys but i didn't listen to anything much after the first five minutes, but if you can forgive me, may i draw your attention to the paragraph above....
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@ianb9028 same the world over, cybertrucks are outlawed in GB not because of musk being a nazi, but because they fail BASIC safety checks, lights in fact as well as sharp edges
and no crumple zones. i counted nine teslas on the way to the shops today and none of them were the least vandalised, at least here in the UK we see musk as the problem,
not the owners of his cars, they probably bought them thinking about the environment, not politics, so, if anywhere in the UK was going to have vandalised cars it would
where i live, croydon, south london. 🇬🇧
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"when i was in geneva, working for the CIA"
he looks like someone you would cast as a whistle blowing computer nerd in a spy movie
15:56 i wish people would get this, student loans is the most obvious strategy banks have deployed as a method of control, personally i think putting kids into debt before they are making money is not only silly (would you give you 18 yer old a $30,000 credit card?) but immoral, but the point here is that reagonomics fooled everyone into a wage cut, wages have plateaued since him and thatcher in both out countries, money is now entirely debt, gold was phased out in the 20's, ALL money is debt, and more and more stuff in your possession actually belongs to someone else, usually a bank. the upside is you can have more stuff, the downside is not only does it not belong to you, but one slip and it can all be taken away - "you must keep up paymnts or else"
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fun fact: britain and france (22 miles apart) hold the record for wars - 2015 - not all with each other of course, we made friends and trade now. how about trying that? friends and trade?
i mean, putin has put a spoke in the works, but europe, people who have been fighting each other for hundreds of years have decided, no, no more destroying buildings and killing people, let's trade and be pals, it kinda makes sense. and here is trump trying to take us all back to people throwing friggin rocks at each other. it doesn't work like that anymore, the world has GROWN UP. we trade, we make money, we try to make life better. we don't want war - the only people who want war are the arms folks, and they can learn new skills too.
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project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
i like to remind folks that given the choice between family, friends and god, christians will pick god everytime, they will not
defend YOU when you are being pushed into the lake of fire.
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i'll have to put my comments into a file and just cut and paste them, cos, i was a doubter from the start, what made me atheist was that my prayer to stop my parents constantly fighting went unnoticed, and as i got older i realised christians tended to be hypocrites, liars and the bible was full of calls to burn people in hell while professing to love me. the only way to be a good christian was to be atheist. since then, and hundreds fo debates and videos and webpages later, no one has convinced me that that there is even the remotest possibility of a god, and if there is a god we should be exercising civil disobedience toward this despot. but the point is, i am my own atheist, i have my own beliefs, my own version of god and i want no part of any gang, especially an army or a cult that tells me what to think. i reckon most atheists are individuals, anyone who lumps me in with a gang is looking for a thick ear.
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britain and france hold the world record for wars, we love to hate each other, but by criminy, don't try to come between us, beating each other up is OUR job, no one else's. we might as well invade russia and liberate it, and while we're at it take america back, let's face it they are fat lazy bastards who are doing nothing about the coup going on already and after hegseth has fired 1/3 of the military, and homan has deported another 1/3, and musk has broken air traffic control, we can just stroll in and take it - americans will do nothing cos they are USELESS apparently.
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2024: Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles settles sex abuse cases for $880 million
2007: cardinal Roger Mahony, leader of Los Angeles Catholics to pay $660 million settlement.
2019: Some 200,000 children, young people and vulnerable adults suffered abuse while in
state and faith-based care in New Zealand over the last 70 years, a landmark investigation
has found.
It means almost one in three children in care from 1950 to 2019 suffered some form of
abuse, including being subject to rape, electric shocks and forced labour, according
to the Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry.
the church of england, the anglicans are in on this too.
i guess god isn't paying attention
i guess morality isn't written on priests hearts
i guess god makes no difference at all to the world.
admitting to being catholic is like admitting to being part of organized crime, has
the pope stopped apologising for all the abuse cases that are bankrupting god?
i have to say it's great that the pope has finally pointed out god's error about homosexuality
and okayed gay marriage, nice to see religion finally catching up with real morality, and good
of the religists to admit god was wrong. maybe in a few years it'll l be so watered down religion will
be invisible.
what did they do with the space left by limbo being abolished? ballroom? casino?
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it's pure envy that makes rich people want poor people to be even more poor, they can't understand what it is to be content, they have to try to ruin your day in any way they can. and for christs sake can we stop this "they waste it on booze" idea - they don't waste it all, UBI experiments have all shown the opposite, people "waste it" on child care, education, healthy living and a suit for a new job to make even MORE money - how many millionaires have given up work cos they "have enough" - none, same with UBI, free money is a bonus, you will still want MORE money, but now you have rent and food and clothing taken care of, you can relax and job hunt - and you're recycling that money into to the economy.
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project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
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youtube hasn't paid me a penny for any content i've been adding since 2006, maybe i get the benefit of their platform, but also maybe they get the benefit of my material - but they don't pay me, so complaining i don't pay them is petty. besides, i have NEVER bought a product through FB, insta, youtube or any kind of social media advertising. i don't need their advertising. they won't profit from showing me ads.
i got banned from twitter - i do not miss it. i got a number of bans from facebook, culminating in a 30 day ban, all that id was show me i didn't need facebook either, i just use facebook for photo storage anyway. so when youtube hit me with the "three videos thing" i just downloaded the videos and watched them that way instead. but much as i like to watch videos anytime on lots of subjects, it's not going to kill me to go elsewhere - or set up my own platform.
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i sympathise, here in the UK we have insanity like this, no one seems to learn from history - democracy will ALWAYS win, but do we have to go through all this bollocks AGAIN? fascists even hate each other, that's why they fail - those "loyal generals" trump said he wanted, he seems to forget that they plotted to kill hitler, and he should bear in mind who DID kill hitler....i'm no fan of germans, but i am a fan of my allies, we english fight with the scots, welsh and irish, until there is a worse threat, likewise i'd team up with the EU before trump or any of his stooges.
concentration camps - holman WANTS to be hitler.
fun fact though: britain and france hold the record for wars, 1025 between them, not all with each other of course, we learned to trade. anyone picks a fight with us, we've had experience.
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22:00 good point, if you've been doing nuts AND bolts then you'd never notice.
29:30 my dad was a mechanic, he maintained weighing machines from i'm guessing the 1940's all the way up to 1980's when i left home. he would bring his work home with him (including sheep's eyes from the butchers!) so i had the chance to tinker with all manner of scales, coal scales to butchers scales, those personal weighing machines in bus station, and i even got to help with weigh bridges for 10 ton lorries, all mechanical in those days, so learning how to put back together stuff i'd taken apart was a really good background for figuring out problems, my career has been in computer graphics and animation, and i never really saw it as art but problem solving - someone wants to visualise something, i have to work out how to do it. being systematic really helps.
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@timothyvenable3336 tour is a fraud, he's got all the time in the world to take dave to court for calling him a fraud to his face in front of witnesses. why won't it go to court? cos EVERYONE including tour, knows he is a fraud.
i'm really out of my depth on this subject, most things go in one ear and out of the other with me, and this stuff barely makes it to the lobe, but what i take away from tour is that on the one hand we have natural explanations for some parts of the process, that we understand and can use in say medical research, but then, poof, suddenly we need god to explain the parts that no one understands because it would take bzillions of years to happen upon them by chance.
this "fine tuning argument" really supports naturalism cos what religists are saying is god uses the MOST UNLIKELY ways to achieve the desired outcome. if god wants life it will be a CERTAINTY not something that needs careful guidance and can easily go wrong, or not happen at all. and one or the other please, saying nature is fine here but we need god over there is just saying "we have no idea how this bit works = god" which is argument from ignorance entirely.
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paulogia gave a great way to explain evolution as language, like, latin is the common ancestor to spanish, portugese and italian, but at no point did a roman give birth to a spaniard, words were added to latin and words became redundant until it evolved into spanish, italian and portugese, they are all cousins like the apes, and we still have latin - the apes - and the descendants, spanish, italian and portugese - the humans.
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can you tell me hat god actually does, cos as far as i'm aware god doen't work in space travel, energy production, he's not needed to get your car going, or to fly your aeroplanes, he's not even in a manual for a cooker or a microwave oven - tell me what does god actually do? and he can only heal one person a t a time - jesus healed a leper - humans cured leprosy, and polio, and measles, chicken pox, smallpox, hepatitis and on and on. god is crap even when he's healing folks.
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it doesn't matter, it really doesn't matter if you are republican or democrat, or here in the UK, labour or conservative, or even green, if you do a good job of looking after your people, then great, i don't care which side of the isle you are on, but if you're not doing a good job of managing the country, then you should get fired, or at worst moved to somewhere more appropriate, but trump has ZERO INTEREST in the welfare of the general population, that's why repubs are not too popular - they enabled this crap shoot.
i mean seriously, if you have decent healthcare, reasonable prices, policies that made sense - would you care who delivered it? it's shite politicians on both sides are the problem.
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sorry mate, no god, no jesus, no chance of heaven. anyway, when you get to heaven what will you be doing, cos eternity - well that's a long time to be doing anything isn't it? don't you think washing gods feet and sucking up 24/7 for a bzillion years is going to get a bit old? anyway, you can't actually get into heaven, cos well, if you believe in god then all you are doing is trying to keep him happy, which he sees as insincere, the only way to be a good human and get into the pearly gates is to be totally ignorant of, or not believe in a god, so, sorry chum.
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impose tariffs, crash stock market, buy stock, oh, it was all a mistake, no tariffs, market recovers, make money, take credit for recovery. people say trump is stupid, he is not. insider trading.
this is all deliberate, he is making money, he is literally selling america, he has project 2025 well under way, everyone else will do the dirty work (homan and his concentration camps, hegseth and his invasions, musk with the eugenics program) nope, it's all going to plan.
he gave you a book "i intend to ruin america and take your rights" in nice clear print - and no one did a single thing to stop it. i thought you were in the new russia, but this germany 1939 with thieves.
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i tell my friends that i have been spoiled, for the last ten years i've had good luck, but only enough good luck to maintain my status quo, when i lived at home i was a temp worker, i had numerous and various jobs, some dead end, some that contributed to my CV, but when i moved to london i could do no wrong, i landed my first job, which i got made redundant from within a month or so, but that led to a design job that lasted seven years, in which time i went to three art schools, when i got made redundant from the design job i got a place at university, mainly due to encouragement from my first girlfriend, but while i was studying design at uni i got swallowed up by the computer graphics industry (1984) and that was mainly down to being recommended by one of the countries leading designers. i worked for most of the top london computer graphics houses, got sent abroad on various projects, made enough money for my (ex)wife and i to get on the property ladder that meant i could reitire early. i like to boast that between 1974 and 2005 i got every job i was interviewed for. i out that down to a) knowing people in the industry b) being charming c) being lucky - i have very few illusions about my skills, in some ways i'm a genius (my producer would come to me with a problem that got my head scratching, but i always found a way to make things work) and on the other hand i'm a talented bullshitter, i can discuss stuff and make out i know what i'm talking about when i know full well i don't have a clue. when i hit 55 was the first time i applied for a post and was turned down, so i tell myself it's an age thing, but i rarely discount luck as a factor, and blaming @bad luck@ is comforting, isn't it. my thanks to all the women in my life, they have been the main inspiration and driving force behind everything i do - i'm a show off.
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19:00 no professional heroine tournaments. rofl.
1:07:00 i tend to agree, part one of my life was pretty mixed, tending toward not good, part two of my life i landed on my feet at every turn, part three of my life, now, is directly attributable to having made one ill-informed choice, at present i'm stuck in hell, all because i neglected to read the fine print in a document - my karma. the "traditional" view of karma is like religion, people think there is an adjudicator in the sky dealing out rewards and punishments. so i agree Dr K's version of karma makes sense, but really it's determinism by another name.
1:17:00 i went into therapy voluntarily to try to change some of my characteristics, and what i found was i was told "i had to make a commitment" but within weeks my therapist would quit to go to another job, lol. but the last guy kept harping on about "how did i feel about him leaving" until it actually made me quite angry, but then i realised that if i lost my temper and say slugged him his reaction would be, "right, now we're getting somewhere, let's talk about this", and what i mean is i realised that here was soemone who isn't judging me, but actually interested in why i behaved the way i used to. so, yes, if you can say to your therapist "i hate your guts" and they have a reasonable reaction to that, maybe they know their stuff.
1:23:12 "waddyou think" lol, typical psychiatrist answer. (i get it though, honest).
1:42:00 my favourite psychology book since i read it in the 70's has to be "games people play", DrK and destiny talked about transactional relationships, and similar to what DrK is saying eric berne poses that we carry with us "parent" "adult" and "child" states, that work along similar lines to what DrK is saying here, parent gives the orders, child like to create, adult processes information and acts upon it.
i don't do drugs anymore, seevere paraonia is no fun. i'd love for you to talk to sean carroll about hallucinogens.
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impose tariffs, crash stock market, buy stock, oh, it was all a mistake, no tariffs, market recovers, make money, take credit for recovery. people say trump is stupid, he is not. insider trading.
this is all deliberate, he is making money, he is literally selling america, he has project 2025 well under way, everyone else will do the dirty work (homan and his concentration camps, hegseth and his invasions, musk with the eugenics program) nope, it's all going to plan.
he gave you a book "i intend to ruin america and take your rights" in nice clear print - and no one did a single thing to stop it. i thought you were in the new russia, but this germany 1939 with thieves.
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all of the countries i have visited, turkey, morocco, greece, japan, america even, holland, france, belgium - too many, they ALL want to improve their english by speaking to english people. a lot of countries, like holland and turkey they learn american english, so meeting an actual english speaker is a bonus.
all nationalities appreciate you learning there language, the only time people have insisted i speak english is when they want to improve their english - turkey was the most insistent, but holland too - much as they like americans they want the real thing.
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hmm i enjoy having your logic drumming around in my head, i can't say that i grok logic, although i do think of myself as a logical person, or maybe reasoning is a better word, but, why do you bother arguing with these people, all you have to say is, if he can assume god is a cause, then what's to say anything can be the cause, even if "everything has a cause" is true, it might be the tooth fairy or a very young matt dilahunty is the cause of the universe. debunked, ha!
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musk would like to go cashless, just think if all you have is electronic money he can just take it, or refuse your credit, i worked for electronic arts, the games people, in their beautiful offices by a lake in south london, uk, they were cashless, i kept forgetting my card and i would have to go hungry cos we were in the middle of nowhere - but the idea musk has is, if you get a parking ticket gov just dips into your bank and takes it. he would control everyone's money - see the film elysium, but as a documentary.
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my first car was a 1973 BMW 2002, which i loved, but i spent more time behind the AA van than under my own power.
a friend of mine had an "arthur daley" series III JX and forced me to drive it, and i was immediately sold on it and traded the beamer for one of my own. it eventually fell apart, more mushrooms growing on the backseat than mechanical failure and i bought an XJ 300 style, i forget why they went but it was replaced by another. that one i wrote off (a rear tyre blew up and it did a 360 spin, took out six other cars and landed on top of someone's front garen wall - i have a letter from the police stating it wasn't my fault) and i then bought an XJR 300 series, which was like driving in a video game, i didn't know you could do burnouts in an automatic. i sold that when i noticed the front springs were rusted almost to nothing, and then i got my first x-type.
all of them were trouble free, except for electrical gremlins (for some reason jags hate summertime and the doors either won't open or won't close, which was another reason for getting rid of the XJR, my ex wife thought she was going to fall out of the car at every corner - she bought a s-series though) but my argument for jags is that they are generally looked after, as long as the tyres and battery are new (ish) and the service history has no blank spaces, you get a £70,000 car for £1500, covers the cost of petrol. and, electric everything, people seem to think they are special, and not only are they easy to drive but quiet and pokey.
seven minutes in and it looks like a nice car, although i'd go for the estate version these days, i hear they drive better in snowy conditions which after abandoning my XJ's in the snow more than once, i think might be an important feature. and manual - no way, i'm lazy.
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oh how i love the churches hypocrisy, trump and god share the same values, they hate abortion, they hate gays, they hate trans folks, god will deport you - does god recognise human rights? nope.
and despite what bishop budde says you poll christian americans and they will tell you they hate trans folks. the reason the pope allowed gay marriage is cos atheists forced him and the churches are empty - cos no one wants to sit next to bigots and racists and homophobes.
trump and homan and hegseth, all of them profess to be christian - to be christian you have to be a drunk, a rapist, a molester, a fraud. and top tio - there is no god, it's ALL a con. tell me christians are atheists welcome in heaven now?
do you all love trans people now?
you all stink of hypocrisy
a quick reminder that the first amendment conflicts with the first commandment: thou shalt worship whoever you want, so you can't really be christian AND american.
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that's funny cos the rest of the world has known americans are ignorant since forever - you're only just realising it? we invented free healthcare in 1948. there are 79 countries that have free healthcare of one kind or another. there are 29 countries that have female heads of state, 67 countries have legal abortion - you are a third world country. and your gun laws suck too. you're only a super power because we LET YOU be, now you've managed to piss of, let's see, mexico, honduras, panama, greenland, denmark, canada, NATO and the EU, not to mention scotland and the "windmills" - and even the french are having a moan cos they have to deal with musk giving money to nazis, let's see how you do when no one is your friend anymore. and you STILL think that communism is the same as socialism, how will you ever get healthcare with that? not to mention venezuela threatening to invade puerto rico, good god you people suck. "let's not watch it on tv" is not a protest.
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i think clapton would say hendrix too, but i think clapton is more popular and widely known by non guitar and non music-types. which gives me an opportunity i never miss, i went to kingston poly in the 80's and our illustration lecturer tells of his predecessor at kingston school of art saying "you'll never get anywhere until you put that guitar down, clapton".
again zep is probably more influential, but in the background, whereas i bet more people have a floyd album than a zep, although if you have a zep album you probably have more zep albums than people with floyd albums have floyd albums.
bowie has more range, jagger is good, but i'm sure bowie could do jagger, but jagger couldn't do bowie, bowie doesn't stand still.
damn, i wanted something to listen to while i work, not something i have to comment on every five seconds.
st pepper's has to be the more influential, it came out first, it had so many novel ideas for people, philosophy, art, music, instruments, lyrics, dark side of the moon is probably my favourite "play every track" album (i went to visit a friend when it first came out, i walked through the door to his place, he gave me a tab of acid, put headphones on me and put dark side on the turntable, it's the only way to listen to it) but sgt pepper's really changed everything, not just music. dark side came out of "pink floyd pink floyd" the album with the white cover. relics, that one, psychedelia, all of it.
money for nothing and satisfaction have pretty much the same guitar sound.
they are both underrated.
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@HenriettaHudson-we4wv project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
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2:55:00 thank goodness, if only einstein had lived a LOT longer. how amazing would it be to break the light barrier. i never thought we could be stuck on this grain of sand out in the middle of nowhere, it's a different kind of frontier, but we humans have always found a way. and it's so, so true, we need a substantial number of people living permanently somewhere else. the ideal would be to get everyone off the planet and make it a park, a huge reserve. we're getting used to living in a concrete jubgle, might as well be on mars, or the other side of the universe.
3:10:00 you can call it sarcastospeak. eric may indeed be a mad professor, but the bitchyness just says the article is hollow, it's like a tweet or a facebook comment about makeup.
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trump is typical christian, hates gays, hates abortion, hates trans, jesus and trump will deport anyone who disagrees, jesus will have you tortured on top of that. since when has god recognised my human rights? god and trump are both ruthless dictators who demand worship or you get killed.
there is no god, but there are plenty of sick individuals who follow that god who just HATE for the sake of it.
the heritage foundation is behind EVERYTHING trump is doing, they wrote project 2025 - they are christians. their aim is a christian theocracy where you will be deported if you don't do as god tells you, and they tell god what the rules are. HYPOCRISY is all you get from religion. they want america to be another iran, christian style sharia law. the talking snake and donkey cult, barbarism at it finest.
tell me, is god loving trans or is god hating trans?
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i would be interested in time scales for cosmic events, obviously animation runs at a speed that lets us see the action, real time could take weeks or be gone in a flash, but it's hard to get a grasp of cosmic events, some do take seconds, some take days and others take years, but black holes, galaxies, exploding stars, all these things are a bit hazy to me time-scale wise, stuff might be flying off a star near the speed of light, but it could still be years before a jet of gas, or a cloud of dust can be detected. i'll look, but are there any vids that talk about how long different cosmic events take? thanks.
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@isabeltome9762 damn right, religion has got a free pass for too long, voodoo and witch craft basically trying to dictate laws, trying to ruin science, infecting people with immorality - sorry but you have failed to notice that god is the ultimate dictator, god is the one who hates on abortion (but killing the first born of egypt is okay) god hates on gays, hates on trans folks, hates on drag queens, god and MAGA have shared values. god literally deports people just for disagreeing with him, no trial, no representation, ONE sentence, the gulag of hell, religion is the problem - i've been atheist all my 70 years and you know i PRAY EVERY DAY - that the rapture takes you lot away, cos the planet will be peaceful and pleasant when you hate mongers are gone.
just a quick reminder that the first amendment conflicts with the first commandment
"thou shalt worship whoever you want" so technically you can't be christian AND american.
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well two things, god and maga share the same values, despite what bishop budde may pretend to herself if you poll american christians, or muslims for that matter, they both hate gays, they both hate abortion, they both hate trans folks - god and trump are both dictators who deport dissenters - god tortures you into the bargain.
second, the catholic church not only backed hitler in the second world war, but helped nazis escape after.
if you think the nazi salute is harmless, tell your mates at work you love them and salute them in the same manner, or do it in the local town square - or better still try it in berlin, you can let me know how it turns out from the ER.
and he's right about one thing, when roe / wade was over turned christianity took a nose dive, people do not want to sit next to bigots and racists and homophobes, the majority of people are decent and caring, and they won't go to a church that preaches love but practices hate, i hope religion takes another nose dive after this cos trump and his pals are the fakest of the fake when it comes to religion. and there is no god, if there is he did nothing to stop the nazis last time, he will not stop the nazis this time, he just blames ME.
and a quick reminder that the first amendment conflicts with the first commandment: thou shalt worship whoever you want, so you can't be christian AND american.
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well trump is typically christian. hates gays, hates abortion, hates trans, deports people who dissent, the only thing jesus and trump would fight over is who sits on the dictator's throne.
i find it confusing that apparently bishop budde has told god that christians love trans people now, cos i'm pretty sure that if you polled american christians 99.9% dtill want to stone them, so can someone get god to make his mind up, are christians loving trans or not? and if god is being so liberal as to okay gays and trans folks, can atheists get into heaven now, or do they still get thrown on the fire, just because they "want to sin"?
god was invented to enable bullies "it's not ME persecuting trans people, mt god wants me to" cowards, sniveling cowards who can't own their hate. there is no god - he didn't stop the nazis last time, he ain't stopping the nazis this time.
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i tweeted that i had no idea of the issues, that i was entirely ignorant of any of the arguments, for, against, or whatever, and that the subject of gender (??) (brackets cos i have no idea if gender is the word even) but likely my tweeting my ignorance would result in some kind of indignant response, that i woud get accused of sitting on the fence or being ignorant -- and it did, i got pilloried for saying "i have no idea what is going on". whatever you say, whatever position you take, whether there is a right or wrong, someone will try to make out you are at fault.
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i'm always getting into arguments about this, so here we go again. objects and light have no intrinsic colour, colour is an invention of brains and ONLY exists in brains. along with sound, taste and smell, none of these things are out in the universe.
3, 2, 1....
the japanese have different numbering conventions for long thin things, like pencils, and short stubby things, like my mum.
talking of bananas, we cultivated wild bananas to be tame bananas, long thin ans easy to peel, why the flip aren't we doing that will ALL fruit? i'd by lots more oranges and kiwis if they were as easy to peel as bananas. what is wrong with this world?
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i was number 2 on twitter a couple of years ago with #DWPCrimes - it made not a whit of difference, and six months later the same people were making the same noises about the same problems, so i dropped everything to do with news and politics. i have friends with mental health issues, and although i don't know anyone personally with disablities i feel strongly that the vulnerable should get good, and i mean very good, healthcare for free. it's been a long time since i voiced my political opinion, but here goes, this current government is sht, it's comprised of people who are pieces of sht, and i will be glad when they are gone.
politics (probably) won't change, but it's always the case of the lesser of two evils, and evil is the the catchword here.
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there is no god mate, the bible can say whatever you want it to say.
tell me, do you love trans, or hate trans, cos on the one hand christians hate trans, but then again we have bishop budde loving trans, so what does god say on the matter? and the problem there is god isn't going to come and tell ME directly, YOU will make up some bullcrap YOU think god says, and there you have it, the bible says trans is an abomination to one person, but trans are to be loved according to budde.
religion is for dim wits and people who want someone else to sort their problems for them, and basically the reason religion is dying (pew polls, gallup and PRRI) is cos no one wants to join the bigots and racists and homophobes club anymore. you're the one with the un-truths chummy.
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@Belayet_says the proof is right there in the videos they make, hamzas den has had a variety of atheists - pinecreek, tjump, jack angstrietch and others and folks like suboor never listen to what has been said, never answer the question asked and all fail when it comes to science. even here all we get is a string of denials and personal attacks - no science at all and no actual invite, flight tickets, hotel booking - just the hot air of god as always.
and creationism has been proved false in court, it was a hoax set up to get another hour of god taught in schools that backfired, the dover school board all quit before the verdict was in, it was prosecuted by a catholic believer who was sick of lies about god and the ONLY people who keep creationism going are religists -when 3/4 of the religions in the world are okay with evolution anyway. it's a dumb thing to fight over, fought over by dumb people.
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you're in real trouble and if trump starts bombing allies - you will have no allies anymore to protect you, you will have mexico, honduras, panama, greenland, denmark, canada, NATO and the EU, not to mention scotland and france, and now ireland has made it clear where they stand, not to mention venezuela - AGAINST you. you are right up the creek. and don;t forget hegseth's first order of business is to sack 2/3 of your military - america the dumb-asses.
no military, no healthcare, no FBI, no education, no virulent disease control, no food standards, give donny a billion and you can pollute till the cows fall over - you guys let this go on just long enough you probably will never recover. get off your backsides and stop the regime, cos it's all of them, not just trump.
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"waste my time" typifies why although i do these tests, they are stupid in my estimation. waste by whose metric? if you're going to ask a question, maybe it ought to be somewhat ambiguous (i suppose) but what on earth do they, or whoever, mean by "waste my time"? this test is a waste of time. being on my PC is waste of my time. i ought (!) to be drawing or sculpting or finishing my book, or trying to connect with my friends and family, but i'm wasting my time on videos. or am i ? like "seldom feel depressed" - i feel depressed most of the time, but it never manifests itself cos i'm too busy doing things, anything. "the opposite of depression is occupation" is a favourite saying. i did do a depression test, it told me to go see my doctor immediately. lolly lol lol.
i saw a bloke walk into a lampost once cos he couldn't take his eyes off my girlfriend.
all joking aside i found the myers/briggs to be closest to my actual personality, and the comments made about traits to be (fairly) accurate, and most importantly, helpful to me as a person. my first girlfriend studied psychology at UClondon, (1970's) and although i'm an artist i read everything she read, i was in therapy (voluntarily) for five or six years, group and one-to-one, and as my last girlfriend was schizophrenic i have a carers certification for schizophrenia, so, whatever that counts for.
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at a time when trump has lied about EVERYTHING that came out of his mouth then fact checking should be a priority, not only that there needs tighter control on LYING - politicians should be held accountable for lying, for not delivering on their promises - and for criminal behaviour. america - you are a disgrace, you LET trump walk all over you, NO ONE has stood up to trump, NO ONE has had the guts to call him a liar out right to his face - someone should be giving trump a slap, instead you shake hands and say "here, go to war if you want, build concentration camps if you want"
come on america, where's the 2nd amendment NOW, when you're SUPPOSED to be using it???
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it's escaped your attention that jesus and maga share the same values apparently, god is the ultimate dictator who deports anyone who disagrees, he has no respect for MY human rights, jesus hates gays, hates trans, hates abortion - the heritage foundation - christians - are behind EVERYTHING trump is doing, so cut the hypocrisy - tell me is god LOVING trans or is god still HATING trans? i'm getting mixed messages from your schizo god.
and there is no god, believing humans are cursed for eating apples is INSANELY STUPID and the problem with america is 2/3 of you are that dumb. jesus didn't save anyone from the nazis last time, jesus won't save a SINGLE PERSON from the nazis this time, stop being ridiculous. and do something about the heritage foundation cos THEY are the real threat to democracy, god is the real threat, the HF want a christian theocracy - do you want that? to be FORCED to go to church? forget the constitution? are you a nazi too? for god?
a quick reminder that the first amendment conflicts with the first commandment: thou shalt worship whoever you want, so you can't really be christian AND american. your religion is DUMB.
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lol, dinesh is a great poster for christianity, grift, doesn't matter what lies you tell as long as it's for god eh. dinesh's god, the one dinesh made up. i'm so glad that religion is dying, pew, gallup and PRRI all show christians are irrelevant, the "nones" are second generation - they don't even know they are atheist god is so irrelevant to them. go check out the tenets of the satanic temple, even satan's followers have better morals than christians. and trump and god are no different, both into deporting people who dissent, both hate on gays and trans and abortions. i vote satan every day of the week, at least he trades your soul for a life skill - god threatens to burn you alive.
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trump is doing all this deliberately, it's not incompetence, it's not that he's a twat, he deliberately wants america to go down the toilet, this is all pure revenge on his part, he (thinks) he will be okay cos he is stealing as much as he can, but don't get the idea "he's messed up the economy" - this was the plan all along, stay out of jail, make america regret making him a loser.
and people forget the heritage foundation is behind everything trumps regime is doing, they are letting homan and musk and vance play their nazi games cos they aim to turn the US into a theocracy, and not a "jesus loves you" theocracy, a "we will burn you at the stake if you don't go to church on sunday" - sharia law - america = iran.
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project 2025:
Severely limiting abortion access nationwide by reversing the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, a drug
used in medication abortion, and reviving a 19th century law, the Comstock Act, to ban any abortion
medications, equipment, or materials from being sent through the U.S. Postal Service.
Targeting immigrant communities through mass deportations and raids, ending birthright citizenship, separating
families, and dismantling our nation’s asylum system.
no more loan forgiveness = slavery
Exploiting the executive branch’s vast and unprecedented powers to spy on Americans’ lives with
warrantless surveillance of our data.
Violating the First Amendment by using federal law enforcement to target journalists and protestors.
Abusing executive power to interfere in our elections by criminalizing the voting process and damaging fair representation.
Censoring academic discussions about race, gender, and systemic oppression, in violation of the First Amendment, and promising to
cut federal funding for schools with curricula that touch on these subjects.
Weaponizing federal law to require states and private actors to discriminate against transgender people by threatening to
sue schools that protect the rights of trans students or telling hospitals that they would lose their Medicaid funding
if they provide gender-affirming medical care to trans adolescents.
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1:32:00 i was listening to antonio padilla on sean's show, the episode called "big numbers" and he suggested that the universe is so big that if you were to travel far enough you would encounter another milky way, almost, if not totally, identical to our own - no need for parallel universes or "many worlds" scenarios, just the universe is so big everything and anything is possible just by chance.
when it comes to simulation one thing in it's favour is that when you run psychological experiments on people generally they have no idea what exactly is being tested or why - and that kinda describes the universe with live in, what the heck is it all about. another reason god is unlikely, if god wants us acting sincerely, we would surely have no clue a god existed. and i think one thing that points to this not being a simulation, that also points to it not being a god creation is - the higgs boson, the simulations we run don't need that much detail - i have to ask why would god, or the guy with the clip board who designed this simulation, require the higgs field? there is too much unnecessary detail in this universe for either a simulation or god to have done it.
unless it's like the movie "predestination" where ethan hawke is the time traveler, his mother AND his father - life created itself in some kind of penrose cyclic universes.
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i watched a couple of videos about autralia's incentives to go green and i seem to rcall that over the lifetime of an electric vehicle they not only save you money but they are indeed greener. it appears to have fallen by the wayside but for a time australia had really good incentives, and financial rewards, for green behaviour. governments for some reason want to ruin the planet though. i maintain that if you act as if climate change is real, even if it isn't, you get all the benefits, new tech, cheaper cleaner ebergy, cleaner water, more economical everything, but if you treat it as a hoax, and it's not, you drown or burn. to me it's a logic problem, not a political controversy. we need more scientists in government.
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the internet is the perfect place for confirmation bias. when i look something up i don't stop at the first available answer, if it's something i feel strongly about i'l branch off and look at as many versions as possible, not only looking at information from sources i trust (they can be cross referenced as reliable) but dipping into things i don't trust so much. i think the majority of fact checking that people do though is purely to confirm something they already believe, and one source, or two if they want to pretend they've @researched@ a subject is pure confirmation bias. i caught out neil de grasse tyson on his claim that a baseball sized earth would be perfectly smooth, much as i like NDT i couldn't see how something that casts shadows (of mountains) could be perfectly smooth, whatever size (pictures from space for instance still have shadows, but from space earth looks baseball sized) after two or three searches i found i was right - but even then, being a good skeptic - i wait for more information.
7:23 lies are easier to tell. i can make up crap about any crap, no research, no cross referencing, any idea i want. facts are hard though, and 50% of facts are going to be stuff we don't want to hear, lies are much easier to digest and back to confirmation bias, they don't need much effort. and anyone who lnows the millgram experiments will realise it's ever so easy for humans to do really appalling things with very little persuasion, tell big lies, appeal to the darkness in people, presto! you have murder and corruption.
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what i find odd about american pronounciation is the word aunt, because we english say "ant" and when my american friends talk about family, especially californians, they talk in what sounds like slang but then pronounce the aunt "ont" which sounds so weird, one incredibly posh word out of tons of slang.
Rhabdomyolysis is a condition in which skeletal muscle tissue dies, releasing substances into the blood that cause kidney failure. Rhabdomyolysis is usually caused by a specific event. This is most commonly injury, over-exertion, infection, drug use, or the use of certain medications.
hospital is natures way of tellling you if you keep this up you'll find yourself in hospital. i've always liked eddie izzard, hilariously funny shows, and a genuinely nice person, after a while i forget the gender part altogether, apart from those nails.
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20:30 well, technically, as sean carroll says, time wherever you are, passes at the rate of one second per second, it's only when you compare YOUR time with someone else - relatively - that time APPEARS to go at diffferent rates for different circumstances, but, whoever you are, wherever you are time passes at one second per second. time might dilate of you are moving very fast, but you don't notice if you are the traveller, your watch ticks at the same rate as before you started moving.
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@tremas3329 it's all very well but i like to remind people that we're dealing with folks, like shapiro, who would bring back the inquisition if they could, and folks like shapiro would make god laws if they could. never forget , to a man they will ALL defend god's right to kill whoever he feels like, they will justify the flood, and slavery of course, and they would happily stone folks too no doubt, cos god says it's okay. i don't care how "nice" religists are, they follow a barbaric and psychotic leader - who you can't disagree with. nah, never trust a christian is my motto, especially with your kids. shapiro and the apologist ilk are those deranged folks you're talking about.
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most scientists will tell you "nothing" can't exist. there are enough theories about what was "before the big bang" but i like roger penrose idea of aeons, essentially after the big bang the universe goes it's course until there are only black holes, the black holes evaporate leaving only photons and as photons travel at the speed of light the universe, however big, has no "size", and as we are moving at the speed of light time ceases to exist, which leaves a singularity, however "big" the universe is photons experience no time to cross it, so time has ceased to exist too, our singularity produces a big bang, but as time only starts at the moment of the big bang, it's the first big bang too.
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this was in the ask me anything in sean carroll's mindscape i watched just yesterday. there are two ways transporting can work. the original you gets streamed through somekind of interstallar doodad, or you do indeed cease to exist but get replicated. also i was listening to shannonQ and matt dilahunty talking about theseus ship, and the soul, and it strikes me that theseus ship is no longer theseus ship the instant it is finished, because it's already wearing out, and ANY alteration means it's not the original (although if you argue the contrary i do see what you mean, but change just ONE plank, it's not the original, same with one ATOM - to be pedantic). so in that case you cease to exist and a new you - a replica - appears. anyway, i better watch all of the video cos, u have a bigger brain than me.
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the bible is not a book, it is a collection of scraps of paper, some no bigger than my thumb, written
over hundreds of years by people who never met jesus, whose motives are dubious, and it has been translated, retranslated and edited
to leave out things the church didn't want to have to explain, like god being evil and jesus sent to fight
him in the gospel of judas. none of the manuscripts are originals. the first sentence in the bible has two words
omitted cause they didn't translate into english, and
hebrew has no punctuation. so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Books_of_the_Bible_and_the_Forgotten_Books_of_Eden
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"There are currently over 3,142 versions of the bible, in over 2,073 languages available
digitally on bible.com - of which 1,768 are available audibly. There are also versions in
nearly 2,033 languages at faithcomesbyhearing.com and a similar number on the American Bible
Society's bibles.org."
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i don't see any difference between jesus and trump, both hate gays, both hate trans, both hate abortion, both will deport you if you dissent. the only thing
jesus and trump would fight over is who gets to sit on the dictators golden toilet. neither respects my human rights, both want to be worshiped.
all of trumps moves are backed by the heritage foundation who published project 2025, their ambition is to establish a christian theocracy, and
not a "jesus loves the little children" theocracy, a "you go to church or we burn you at the stake " sharia law iran style christian theocracy,
where of course HF gets to tell you what god wants. trump has achieved goal number one - get out of jail free - and is now practicing his revenge
plan, burn america to the ground while looking incompetent. musk has started his eugenics, get rid of humans that waste his money, especially if they
are not aryan, and all their pals get to play soldiers or sadists and whatever.
tell me cos god has me confused, are we loving trans or are we hating them?
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@ReginaEarley oh how i love the churches hypocrisy, trump and god share the same values, they hate abortion, they hate gays, they hate trans folks, god will deport you - does god recognise human rights? nope.
and despite what bishop budde says you poll christian americans and they will tell you they hate trans folks. the reason the pope allowed gay marriage is cos atheists forced him and the churches are empty - cos no one wants to sit next to bigots and racists and homophobes.
trump and homan and hegseth, all of them profess to be christian - to be christian you have to be a drunk, a rapist, a molester, a fraud. and top tio - there is no god, it's ALL a con. tell me christians are atheists welcome in heaven now?
do you all love trans people now?
you all stink of hypocrisy
a quick reminder that the first amendment conflicts with the first commandment: thou shalt worship whoever you want, so you can't really be christian AND american.
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well done scotland. while everyone else is sucking up, cos they are "diplomats" it's a nice change for people to speak the truth, trump is a convicted felon awaiting sentencing, if the law worked he would be the first president to hold office from a prison cel, but nope, the law will work for the "elites" again. but at least one country has spoken out - remember this is also about women who have - and WILL - bleed to death in hospital car parks, yards from help because of barbaric and religious stupidity. never let them forget this, how many women will die in the future?
i've been all over europe, and both coasts of the states, and japan, i've never been to scotland but maybe i should move there, one place that has a modicum of integrity.
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my pet theory goes like this.
it's going to be hard to terraform a planet, mars has no magnetic field for one thing, you generate atmosphere, it blows away. and we need to colonise now, not in a hundred years, and, we can't even terraform earth.
what we already have, and what we are already doing, is modifying humans, prosthetics, robotics, DNA and genetic engineering, AI - robots and cyborgs. it will be easier to make humans fit the environment (hmm, does that sound like evolution?) rather than fiddling with the environment.
which brings me to part two: speed of light. it may be that we can't get around space travel, other than manipulating space itself, if you're moving near the speed of light you're going to hit something, besides, i think it will be easier (relatively of course) to bend space - if aliens have done this then they have no further need of "regular" space, or planets even, i think advanced alien races are immaterial. we will never "see" or "hear" them.
what do you think? leave a comment below.
oops, sorry, thought i was at home there for a moment.
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in addition, and i say this often, we have no problem handing over the planet to our children, we expect to pass away and our kids take over, and very few people have a problem with that, but, as long as robots don't actively start removing us (!), why not hand over to robots? surely they will just be the next step in human evolution, i mean it's hard to define what "life" is in the first place, does it have to be totally biological?
the fly in the ointment is that we can expect at some stage to have very long lives, if not immortality, if david sinclair gets his "ten years younger" pill going, then that would be a step to demonstrating immortality is possible, then we might compete with AI and robots...
anyway, robots in factories meant i could do more art, and now AI is doing my art i can go back to the factory.....
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religion is a big fat lie that's the problem, demonstrate god or stop trying to make laws and telling people what they can and cannot do, god, trump and MAGA all have the same values, god is the ultimate dictator who kills ANYONE who just disagrees with him, no trial, no representation, one sentence, to burn - he sets a fine example of how to be the planets worst enemy.
christians TALK about love and tolerance but hate on gays, hate on abortions, hate on trans folks - i've always been atheist but i pray every day - for the rapture - cos when religion is gone the rest of us will - just enjoy being alive and not hating.
god is imaginary, stop being stupid.
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well trump is typically christian. hates gays, hates abortion, hates trans, deports people who dissent, the only thing jesus and trump would fight over is
who sits on the dictator's throne. i find it confusing that apparently bishop budde has told god that christians love trans people now, cos i'm pretty sure
that if you polled american christians 99.9% still want to stone them, so can someone get god to make his mind up, are christians loving trans or not? and
if god is being so liberal as to okay gays and trans folks, can atheists get into heaven now, or do they still get thrown on the fire, just because
they "want to sin"? the reason the pope allowed gay marriage? he needs gays dollars for his empty churches. religion STINKS of hypocrisy. they would still be burning people at the stake if it weren't for secularism and atheists.
god was invented to enable bullies = "it's not ME persecuting trans people, my god wants me to" cowards, sniveling cowards who can't own their hate.
there is no god - he didn't stop the nazis last time, he ain't stopping the nazis this time.
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arthur c clarke said he thought the academy awards people must've thought they had used real apes, as the oscar for best costume and make up went to planet of the apes in 1968.
HAL had been programmed to do his best to fulfil the mission, he saw the humans as interfering and that might wreck the mission, unless he'd been programmed to believe that human life had some sanctity above the mission (asimovs laws for instance) he would've let them live, but he would have to be TOLD that, he assumed, as he was "the mission itself" that humans were secondary, just there to fix the AE35 unit and were just as expendable. it begs the question would AI see humans as things they could "switch off" with no moral questions.
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apparently the shots of discovery in space took hours to film, one frame at a time as to get the stars as pinpoints each frame took a long exposure, and, as i am an ardent admirer of the film, and i've built 3D computer models of the sets, i noticed in one scene where (pilot) is shadow boxing in the centrifuge the film has been flipped left to right, for an unknown reason.
another bit of trivia, there is a piano opposite the breakfast table.
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the only problem with AI is if they set out to eradicate humans in one generation. all the questions about AI taking over are a bit redundant really, unless you are planning to live forever - you aren't too worried about your children taking over, AI is much the same, if they have the same amount of intelligence as humans then they ARE human, just a new generation and a new species. the question that really needs addressing is, a machine can be scrapped, a person can't, when is a machine a person, topical what with the "all lives matter" frenzy at the moment.
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a quick reminder that the first amendment conflicts with the first commandment
"thou shalt worship whoever you want" technically you can't be christian AND american.
project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
i like to remind folks that given the choice between family, friends and god, christians will pick god everytime, they will not
defend YOU when you are being pushed into the lake of fire.
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@good7saint not all, i've waded through nearly all of DJAUDITS videos and it's disappointing the lack of conflict, he's really good at handling people, but he also takes a genuine interest in what he's filming, talks to as many people as possible, points out the good and the bad equally and 9 times out of 10 everyone is happy.
i think the MAJORITY of the "attention seekers" are doing a good job, however badly they go about it, the police (not all cases but TOO MANY) are god awful at their job, they are ignorant of laws they use to boss other people around, they think they can boss people around and make up reasons to boss people around and they deserve to be called out - they are meant to uphold the law, not make up their own rules and use the uniform to hassle people, even the worst of the auditors do not compare to public servants who are paid to know the law and uphold it, not use it for their own egos.
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as far as i know there aren't ANY white people in the bible, exodus would be middle eastern people running away from middle eastern slavers.
and christians aren;t nice people at all, god and maga share the same values, hate gays, hate trans, hate abortions, deport people (to hell) just for disagreeing - no trial, no representation, one sentence for all. christians will ditch friends and family rather than offend their imaginary friend, no, trump and god are identical.
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@LALadyGB trump is typical christian, hates gays, hates abortion, hates trans, jesus and trump will deport anyone who disagrees, jesus will have you tortured on top of that. since when has god recognised my human rights? god and trump are both ruthless dictators who demand worship or you get killed.
there is no god, but there are plenty of sick individuals who follow that god who just HATE for the sake of it.
the heritage foundation is behind EVERYTHING trump is doing, they wrote project 2025 - they are christians. their aim is a christian theocracy where you will be deported if you don't do as god tells you, and they tell god what the rules are. HYPOCRISY is all you get from religion. they want america to be another iran, christian style sharia law. the talking snake and donkey cult, barbarism at it finest.
tell me, is god loving trans or is god hating trans?
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@Cougelly1999 trump is typical christian, hates gays, hates abortion, hates trans, jesus and trump will deport anyone who disagrees, jesus will have you tortured on top of that. since when has god recognised my human rights? god and trump are both ruthless dictators who demand worship or you get killed.
there is no god, but there are plenty of sick individuals who follow that god who just HATE for the sake of it.
the heritage foundation is behind EVERYTHING trump is doing, they wrote project 2025 - they are christians. their aim is a christian theocracy where you will be deported if you don't do as god tells you, and they tell god what the rules are. HYPOCRISY is all you get from religion. they want america to be another iran, christian style sharia law. the talking snake and donkey cult, barbarism at it finest.
tell me, is god loving trans or is god hating trans?
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for the whole video i thought, marvelous, he left voodoo out of it, but plantinga, really? he has no respect.
creationism and ID have been PROVED false in court, prosecuted by a catholic, kenneth r miller, the diver trials lecture is on youtube for all to see. creationism is a pseudo science, it was a hoax designed (!) to get another hour of god into schools pretending to be science. the dover school board got sued, they all quit before the verdict was even announced and the subject should be dead and buried. 60% of religists of ALL faiths are okay with evolution, it's not even a question of religion - it's about dishonesty. plantinga is out of date and irrelevant, destin should know all this.
if you want to know why the churches are empty, it's promoting drivel about creation and sneaking your religion into science, as a scientist you ought to know that unless you can DEMONSTRATE a theory, you keep it to yourself until you can, you do not try to force the world to conform to your rules and make laws based on imaginary beings
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@donsspecialty3961 two things - the constitution, the very first law of the land says god takes second place to people, if you don't like that either get it changed or move. second, EVERYWHERE the church goes in schools the satanic temple is right behind, so if you want to promote the satanic temple, keep pushing your god on folks cos the satanists are much more likeable, don't have to make threats to get people signing up, and THEIR rules are a lot more reasonable and human than gods, and while christianity is shrinking (pew polls and gallup) islam is growing, so beware of what you wish for, cos islam will be right behind the satanic temple too
that's why you have the constitution you banana.
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One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.
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The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
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One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
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The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own.
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Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs.
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People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.
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Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
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i've had a 66 J45 since the 70's that's pretty good, i paid £350 at the time. the newest guitar i have i think is a maton ebg808TE from 2014, and, well, you can't go wrong with maton - that cost me £950 - a snap. i'd avoid paying more than 1k for a guitar, i'm strictly a bargain hunter.
thing about guitars is like anything, if something is tried and tested and you do your research and know what to look for - positives and negatives - then buying "an older model" makes sense, it's shrunk and expanded enough times, it's played in, any faults would've shown up by now, you should know what you're getting. new guitars - i doubt i'd buy a new guitar unless i had one made for me, i prefer older guitars anyway but at least if it's not fallen apart ten years after it was made, it will prolly last another ten at least. having said that, i'm tempted by those PRS santana models...
and there is the pleasure factor, if you're going to get a million bucks worth of pleasure, well. what i did was i wanted to find out how good certain makes actually were so i'd buy one as cheap as i could and that's how i've wound up with two gibsons (j45 and j35) the maton, a larrivee and a plastic martin - the plastic martin is the best of them all, and cost the least £350 with case.
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same the world over, cybertrucks are outlawed in GB not because of musk being a nazi, but because they fail BASIC safety checks, lights in fact as well as sharp edges
and no crumple zones. i counted nine teslas on the way to the shops today and none of them were the least vandalised, at least here in the UK we see musk as the problem,
not the owners of his cars, they probably bought them thinking about the environment, not politics, so, if anywhere in the UK was going to have vandalised cars it would
where i live, croydon, south london. 🇬🇧
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trump is typical christian, hates gays, hates abortion, hates trans, jesus and trump will deport anyone who disagrees, jesus will have you tortured on top of that. since when has god recognised my human rights? god and trump are both ruthless dictators who demand worship or you get killed.
there is no god, but there are plenty of sick individuals who follow that god who just HATE for the sake of it.
the heritage foundation is behind EVERYTHING trump is doing, they wrote project 2025 - they are christians. their aim is a christian theocracy where you will be deported if you don't do as god tells you, and they tell god what the rules are. HYPOCRISY is all you get from religion. they want america to be another iran, christian style sharia law. the talking snake and donkey cult, barbarism at it finest.
tell me, is god loving trans or is god hating trans?
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@balthazur6452
"Get over it, you lost, learn to deal with it."
democracy is not about winners and losers, democracy is about representing everyone, sure you get first dibs on policy, but asswipes
like trump have promoted this idea that "we won, now we will deport all of you who didn't vote for me" which of course is the action
of an asswipe, and an insane asswipe at that. you can talk history all you want but the reality is blacks have been royally oppressed
and whites have not been oppressed by blacks you think you're smart but you're just making excuses, like all racists do, for the way you behave.
don't be a COWARD - OWN your racism, don't PRETEND to be liberal or tolerant or whatever it is - own up to your hate. when biden won he
represented BOTH sides of the isle, trump is just a playground bully who need psychiatric help, and it sounds like you do to cos you're
view of the world is squiffy. if you don't like being reminded that whites have it over blacks then stop being a racist.
95% of this planet is foreigners, racism is the dumbest occupation imaginable.
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people are stupid.
i have various sayings i hope to be remembered by and one is "humans don't understand human nature"
i had a boyfriend when i was a teenager, so i've been there, i found it easier to be hetero cos i love women, i'm not fond of a lot of gays, i am not fond of a lot of trans folks, but if that's what you want to be, i am not fond of persecuting those people - i want to be me, to be left alone, to do my own thing - you should also be given space to do that too. regardless.
we'll have other people to hate on sooner or later, there is work, actual work to be done.
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well said king of crap, there is no god and having your head of state believe this crap is disturbing, god is the ultimate dictator, the king of hate, hates gays, hates trans, hates abortions, deports people (to hell) just for disagreeing with him, no trial, no representation, you worship a despot.
and for the yanks, remember the first amendment conflicts with the first commandment - thou shalt worship whoever you want to - you can't be christian AND american.
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god and maga share the same values if you missed it.
there is no god and having your head of state believe this crap is disturbing, god is the ultimate dictator, the king of hate, hates gays, hates trans, hates abortions, deports people (to hell) just for disagreeing with him, no trial, no representation, they worship a despot.
and for the yanks, remember the first amendment conflicts with the first commandment - thou shalt worship whoever you want to - you can't be christian AND american.
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who cares, no one has ever listened to anything god, jesus or the bible has said, in fact the god folks are the WORST, they hate on everyone, they dump their friends and family for god, they harbor abusers - christians are sick people.
2024: Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles settles sex abuse cases for $880 million
2007: cardinal Roger Mahony, leader of Los Angeles Catholics to pay $660 million settlement.
2019: Some 200,000 children, young people and vulnerable adults suffered abuse while in
state and faith-based care in New Zealand over the last 70 years, a landmark investigation
has found.
It means almost one in three children in care from 1950 to 2019 suffered some form of
abuse, including being subject to rape, electric shocks and forced labour, according
to the Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry.
i guess god isn't paying attention
i guess morality isn't written on priests hearts
i guess god makes no difference at all to the world.
admitting to being catholic is like admitting to being part of organized crime, has
the pope stopped apologising for all the abuse cases that are bankrupting god?
i have to say it's great that the pope has finally pointed out god's error about homosexuality
and okayed gay marriage, nice to see religion finally catching up with real morality, and good
of the religists to admit god was wrong. maybe in a few years it'll l be so watered down religion will
be invisible.
what did they do with the space left by limbo being abolished? ballroom? casino?
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2:20:00 lol "kow towing to china". i've been saying for as long as i can remember america and GB don't need to bomb people, load up bombers with the same weight in cash and throw that out on the enemy, much more effective. seems the chinese got the idea, you don't "win" hearts and minds, you buy them.
49:10:00 i know the feeling, i've been to japan twice and it's an amazingly polite country, and they take the service industries very seriously, my ex-wife and i wanted to book an excursion and it became obvious within seconds it was fully booked, but the agents were running around for half an hour trying to acoomodate us until i begged them to stop, then we get off the plane at gatwick and N ONE was helpful about ANYTHING, not even "what platform is out train on?" ugh.
1:05:00 for those who might not know, in a suffeciently large population of mammals and birds, and possibly other species, homosexuality is present, it's normal. "No species has been found in
which homosexual behaviour has not been shown to exist, with the exception of species that never have sex at all, such as and aphis. Moreover, a part of the animal is hermaphroditic, truly bisexual. For them, homosexuality is not an issue."
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the bible:
The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother. 3 They became prostitutes in Egypt, engaging in prostitution from their youth. In that land their breasts were fondled and their virgin bosoms caressed. 4 The older was named Oholah, and her sister was Oholibah. They were mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
5 “Oholah engaged in prostitution while she was still mine; and she lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors 6 clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all of them handsome young men, and mounted horsemen. 7 She gave herself as a prostitute to all the elite of the Assyrians and defiled herself with all the idols of everyone she lusted after. 8 She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when during her youth men slept with her, caressed her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her.
9 “Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, the Assyrians, for whom she lusted. 10 They stripped her naked, took away her sons and daughters and killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women, and punishment was inflicted on her.
11 “Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister. 12 She too lusted after the Assyrians—governors and commanders, warriors in full dress, mounted horsemen, all handsome young men. 13 I saw that she too defiled herself; both of them went the same way.
14 “But she carried her prostitution still further. She saw men portrayed on a wall, figures of Chaldeans[a] portrayed in red, 15 with belts around their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like Babylonian chariot officers, natives of Chaldea.[b] 16 As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. 17 Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust. 18 When she carried on her prostitution openly and exposed her naked body, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister. 19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. 21 So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.[c]
they give this crap to kids.
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no, he won't, he's going to get YOU involved in a war where hegseth has fired 2/3 of your military and the WHOLE WORLD is bombing you, so you can feel smug now, but get back to me after trump makes his first move, mexico, honduras, panama, greenland, denmark, canada, NATO and the EU (that's 26 countries right there) scotland, ireland, france and germany will kick your ass. you are not a super power, we LET YOU be a super power cos your mouths are so big and you'd cry if we didn't.
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no, he won't, he's going to get YOU involved in a war where hegseth has fired 2/3 of your military and the WHOLE WORLD is bombing you, so you can feel smug now, but get back to me after trump makes his first move, mexico, honduras, panama, greenland, denmark, canada, NATO and the EU (that's 26 countries right there) scotland, ireland, france and germany will kick your ass. you are not a super power, we LET YOU be a super power cos your mouths are so big and you'd cry if we didn't.
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okay i know this is a voice from the future talking to the past, but i'm here, so.
i was watching brian greene talking to eric weinstein about 100 year space ship journeys, communities rather than pilots, families expecting to spend 100 or 150 years on a journey to a colonisation program, and he was suggesting near light speed travel. now if you spend a hundred years travelling at a big percentage the speed of light, back on earth thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years will have passed, earthlings may well have died out altogether. firstly i thought this might be another explanation of the fermi paradox, that is there may be bzillions of expeditions out there but they are "out of sync" with us and their own home planets, long journeys in space mean T times a big number of "home planet" years. secondly massless particles travel at the speed of light, a photon from the sun takes eight minutes or so to reach earth, however, anything travelling at the speed off light experiences NO time at all, to the photon it's left the sun, bounced off earth and travelled for a bzillion years around the universe in NO time. we talk about time dilation, to earthlings a year passes for a spaceships journey, but if you get to the speed of light (somehow - see eric weinstein) then you arrive INSTANTLY.
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@nancymcgee4013 well, scotland led by saying if nothing else there would be protests, the president of the EU, a woman, has warned trump he is dealing with 27 countries in the EU, and canada and mexico both export (that is the US IMPORTS) oil, electricity and cheap labour to the US - all of which will cripple the US if they say, we'll hold out for six months and see how you feel.
ONE WEEK without electricity and you'll be begging them to come back.
ford, GM, martin, all the US companies who use cheap labour in mexico - how are they going to move back to the US?
the US is no more a super power than the UK. we ALL rely on cheap labour.
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actually if you believe in god YOUR life is meaningless, you're just another god robot, doing what you think HE wants, not what you might want, you should watch some of anthony magnaboscos street epistemology videos and watch what the believers say, cos what they say is nothing original, in fact we play "believer bingo" and tick off the items, you're all suffering a mass delusion taught to you by deluded people, i've spent enough time with schizophrenics to know when someone is living in an alternative, and imaginary, reality, and all atheists want is to live in a world dominated by TRUTH, not sky fairies and magic boxes of lovely promises.
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according to pew polls, gallup and the PRRI atheists and the "nones" are now for the first time equal in numbers, the "nones" have been growing
while christianity is shrinking, and each time pew takes a new poll the shrinking has become more rapid - the reason - no one wants to be part of
the hate, the bigotry, the abuse and the grift that the church always was, but is now being uncovered.
christians, islam, project 2025, christian nationalism, sharia law - they are INDISTINGUISHABLE from each other - people here in the comments
saying "i'm a christian and this offends me" sorry but god and trump are no different from one another, both dictators, both will deport you with
no trial or representation, both hate on the same folks, both have MAGA values.
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@appletree9974 you never were an empire, that's your problem, we LET YOU be a super power and now you've pissed off half the world you're going to find out just hoe "great" you really are. the rest of the world has known americans are ignorant since forever - you're only just realising it? we invented free healthcare
in 1948. there are 79 countries that have free healthcare of one kind or another. there are 29 countries that have female heads of state, 67 countries
have legal abortion - you are a third world country. and your gun laws suck too. you're only a super power because we LET YOU be, now you've managed
to piss of, let's see, mexico, honduras, panama, greenland, denmark, canada, NATO and the EU, not to mention scotland and the "windmills" - and
even the french are having a moan cos they have to deal with musk giving money to nazis, let's see how you do when no one is your friend anymore.
and you STILL think that communism is the same as socialism, how will you ever get healthcare with that? not to mention venezuela threatening to
invade puerto rico, good god you people suck. "let's not watch it on tv" is not a protest.
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@guysumpthin2974 where is the disaster, a lot of the issues trump left behind have been addressed, not all, but most, for instance on immigration MORE people have been arrested and MORE people have been sent back than ALL of trump's term. google it.
and it really doesn't matter where you are from, what colour you are, what language you speak, trump and his chronies will be deporting anyone who doesn't fall in line, and tell me, who in america is NOT an immigrant or from immigrant stock? YOU could find yourself on the receiving end of tumps policies mate, so get back to me in a year, if you're still in the country if he wins.
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if i can be light hearted about this for a moment, i say that my last IQ test score was 180, but that i cheated, but that surely cheating on an IQ test is a sign of intelligence.
likewise, you can't be all that ill if you can think clearly enough to talk your way out of a psych ward.
there are so many problems though with mental health issues, abuse by staff, abuse by patients, side effects of medication, diagnoses and mis-diagnoses, it's hard to tell if the doctors are helping or hindering, and it's nigh impossible to know if patients are helping or hindering. all i can say is that healthcare needs more money cos it appears to be a problem where the numbers are not falling. and people with mental health issues ideally need a whole team to deal with them, not just one doctor giving out aspirin. it's expensive.
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i have a theory of my own, that even though the human race might contain the sickest of criminal minds, the most perverse of psychotics, the meanest of people, this diversity means that even if we do decide to bring on the apocalypse, someone will crawl out of the rubble and a thousand years after we'd back sending rockets to mars.
i don't know who to believe when it comes to string theory, my absolute hero roger penrose is saying crazy things about the mind, eric here is fast becoming a conspiracy theorist, sabine is always telling me her colleagues are nutty, but - i think it's important to have all this nonsense in this field, it's always been the crazies who have turned up brilliance, just because we don't know who the crazy is at the moment doesn't mean they aren't all valuable.
i hope professor _________ is right, we just don't know their name yet or the theory they dreamed up.
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project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
i like to remind folks that given the choice between family, friends and god, christians will pick god everytime, they will not
defend YOU when you are being pushed into the lake of fire.
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@dd12345-j funny that cos the only reason god has decided to "love gays" is when church attendance dropped below financial viability. christians are the biggest bunch of hypocrites on the planet, i bet if you polled american christians NONE of them would say it's okay to be gay or trans, in fact god is the ultimate dictator, when god throws me into the pit will YOU stand up for MY human rights? no you will HELP HIM, if you dissent you are tortured, that's you stinking god - who doesn't even exist, voodoo and books of spells and barbarism.
maga and jesus are the same, hate gays, hates trans, hate abortions, deport people, torture people - hypocrites through and through.
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have you noticed that maga and jesus share the same values? both hate gays, hate abortion, hate trans, despite what bishop budde my say last time i looked if you polled american christians they still wanted gays gone and trans dead, the only thing god would fight trump over is who sits on the dictators throne. now christians are all loving trans do us atheists get into heaven now as well, now god has become a liberal?
nope.
god has no regard for human rights, he deports people same as trump, and christians will pretty much disown anyone as they get thrown into the fiery pit - you know why the churches are empty? (pew polls, gallup and PRRI) cos no one wants to sit next to bigots, racists and homophobes. god didn't stop the nazis last time, god won't stop the nazis this time - there is no god doing anything.
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lol god is the ultimate dictator, religion is part of the problem, god deports people to hell JUST for disagreeing with him, no trial, no representation, ONE crime - sin - one sentence to be BURNED ALIVE.
your god hates the same people as maga, hates gays, hates trans, hates people who need abortions, no your god is as bad as trump, worse. cos he doesn't even exist. christians will dump their friends and family rather than offend their imaginary friend - christians will stand by and watch as you get thrown into the lake of fire and not life a finger to defend YOU. sorry but christians are horrible people.
and show me how god is in control of anything?
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as far as pets go, i'm an artist and i've been an artist of many kinds since i left school, and frankly i'm an artist cos i'm lazy, i wanted to, and have, done as little as possible for the greatest reward and now i am retired i've reached my goal, to be a "pet" of government, i'm on a pension, and i have a private pension and i do whatever i feel like whenever i feel like it, we "pets" already exist and it's not bad, in the the ONLY downside is boredom, i need to travel more than i can afford is the only drawback to my situation.
i do hope that this bring UBI closer, we really shouldn't have poverty or involuntary homelessness in the 21st century.
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project 2025:
Severely limiting abortion access nationwide by reversing the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, a drug
used in medication abortion, and reviving a 19th century law, the Comstock Act, to ban any abortion
medications, equipment, or materials from being sent through the U.S. Postal Service.
Targeting immigrant communities through mass deportations and raids, ending birthright citizenship, separating
families, and dismantling our nation’s asylum system.
Exploiting the executive branch’s vast and unprecedented powers to spy on Americans’ lives with
warrantless surveillance of our data.
Violating the First Amendment by using federal law enforcement to target journalists and protestors.
Abusing executive power to interfere in our elections by criminalizing the voting process and damaging fair representation.
Censoring academic discussions about race, gender, and systemic oppression, in violation of the First Amendment, and promising to
cut federal funding for schools with curricula that touch on these subjects.
Weaponizing federal law to require states and private actors to discriminate against transgender people by threatening to
sue schools that protect the rights of trans students or telling hospitals that they would lose their Medicaid funding
if they provide gender-affirming medical care to trans adolescents.
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14:00 this is why the UK set up the NHS, because EVERYBODY sooner or later has a horror story related to illness, to NOT have free healthcare is basically to behave the same as cave people, to just let folks die cos you're helpless. the NHS was never meant to make money, it was always going to be a liability, but if everyone contributes, then the numbers balance out, we ALL pay NI, the only way it fails is if government becomes corrupt. but you put in safeguards. but it's the same with education, student debt is immoral - making people who have NO INCOME in debt is immoral, education is an investment - you get your money back through higher taxes, not by making kids slaves until they can pay off a loan. it's not communism, it's not even socialism, it's investment. sick people can't work. make them well.
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we just want to get on with life, no one admires billionaires in europe, no one is out to conquer anyone - fun fact: britain and france hold the record for wars, 2015 between them, not all with each other. we stopped wrecking each other's homes though, now we trade. we went through a devastating war (which is why we have free healthcare in the first place - the whole country was in shock) so we have no need to screw each other, sorry but the american dream makes people greedy, look at the graph of wealth distribution, and show it around, the billionaires column is LITERALLY off the chart, it now takes up three columns it's so big, while the other end still starts at ZERO -NOTHING -NADA. the EU promised to end poverty, it failed, but it DID halve it, we want a good life but not at our neighbours expense.
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i get into heated arguments about colour, it's counter intuitive but there is no colour in light or objects. light is made of photons, photons have wavelength and energy levels and when our brain reads the wavelength it assigns a colour to it, and likewise the energy level dictates the brightness, but the colour exists only in your head. it is quite possible (though unlikely) that the red strawberry you see, appears green in my brain, but as we both label strawberries as red, i will "say" it's red too, even though i see green.
the really weird thing, sound - "noise" - doesn't exist anywhere, even in your brain it is a simulation.
(an illustration of the colour paradox is red shift in stars, a white star will appear red when it is moving away from you at high enough speed, but the same start seen from the other side, coming toward you, will be blue shifted - this can't happen if the colour is in the light ray - the colour is only in your head.)
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it's escaped your attention that jesus and maga share the same values apparently, god is the ultimate dictator who deports anyone who disagrees, he has no respect for MY human rights, jesus hates gays, hates trans, hates abortion - the heritage foundation - christians - are behind EVERYTHING trump is doing, so cut the hypocrisy - tell me is god LOVING trans or is god still HATING trans? i'm getting mixed messages from your schizo god.
and there is no god, believing humans are cursed for eating apples is INSANELY STUPID and the problem with america is 2/3 of you are that dumb. jesus didn't save anyone from the nazis last time, jesus won't save a SINGLE PERSON from the nazis this time, stop being ridiculous. and do something about the heritage foundation cos THEY are the real threat to democracy, god is the real threat, the HF want a christian theocracy - do you want that? to be FORCED to go to church? forget the constitution? are you a nazi too? for god?
a quick reminder that the first amendment conflicts with the first commandment: thou shalt worship whoever you want, so you can't really be christian AND american. your religion is DUMB.
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there is no god, that's why people are not going to church, it's one huge con - the pope allowed gay marriage cos atheists - secularism - forced his hand, and because he needs gay dollars, the church is a crime syndicate, the number of abuse cases is crazy - the arch diocese of los angeles last year paid out $600 MILLION in abuse settlements - after paying out $800 MILLION in 2007, in new zealand last year it came to light that 200,000 people had been physically, mentally or sexually abused in catholic care homes over decades, and the rest of christianity is no better, angtlicans, presbyterians- they are all so afraid of god and hell they have to abuse kids. "they aren't real christians" is the weakest excuse, they use the same book, they hide behind the same voodoo.
there is no god, he didn't stop the nazis last time, he will not stop the nazis this time - the last time the nazis were SUPPORTED by the catholics.
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at the start of the lockdown i helped a friend ship his stuff from the other side of croydon, where i live, to australia, where he was stuck. i hadn't been out of the house for weeks when i first went over and on the way back i walked criss crossing streets to the bus stop. i work in computer graphics and a popular technique for "blowing stuff up" is called voronoi fractures, and on my walk i noticed the pavements had cracks in, and the cracks followed a particular pattern, the simplest being a "Y" shape and then more variations. also the roads had just been surfaced so the street marking were crisp and new, so i took a load of photos of cracks and road markings and they got a lot of attention on instagram, so for the last two years i've - got on the bus and each day gone one stop further and walked and taken photos, got on the tram and gone one stop further every day, got off and walked, and now i've exhausted the tram and buses i'm using the train, at the moment the suburban tracks and doing the same.
the point of all my rambling here though is to say it's surprising things like drains and paving, bricks and tiling are so similar to what we have in the UK, japan has more ornate manhole covers i believe, but looking and the roads the bricks and tiles could be interchangeable. i'd love to go and take pictures of japanese road markings! love the calligraphic stop signs!
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i think every generation goes through this, i remember when i was a kid
in the 60's my dad arguing with my brother about whether the beatles or
the dave clark five would last - they both did, but obviously the
beatles made the headlines. my beef with today's music is, most of it
isn't music, it's bass lines, most of it isn't lyrics it's two lines
repeated endlessly, and like rick said it lacks delight, that magic
that's hard to define, i've spent forty years trying to figure out how
arnold layne and pictures of lily got to be so popular, a song about a
guy who steals underwear and a song about soft porn posters, today it's
songs about rolex's and fake tits. there is very little "wonder". i
think the importance of a "group" should be emphasised, art is usually
about angst of some kind and the bands of the 60's and 70's typify that,
the beatles, stones, who, floyd - they fought with each other, and
fought cos they wanted to be honest about the music, lyrics and
themselves. today the goal seems to be chart position, and those
rolexes.
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impose tariffs, crash stock market, buy stock, oh, it was all a mistake, no tariffs, market recovers, make money, take credit for recovery. people say trump is stupid, he is not. insider trading.
this is all deliberate, he is making money, he is literally selling america, he has project 2025 well under way, everyone else will do the dirty work (homan and his concentration camps, hegseth and his invasions, musk with the eugenics program) nope, it's all going to plan.
he gave you a book "i intend to ruin america and take your rights" in nice clear print - and no one did a single thing to stop it. i thought you were in the new russia, but this germany 1939 with thieves.
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americans are dumb basically, we invented free healthcare in 1948, they've not only missed out on 70 years of health but they have dumb gun laws, they have a dumb legal system, they have a dumb government (where is the leadership?), and 2/3 of them think that humans are cursed for eating an apple and that snakes and donkeys talk - they believe in voodoo basically - what do you expect but ignorance all the way, AND they want ME to come ans save them, they have no idea they have to get themselves out of this crap - they can't tell the difference between communism, what they elected, and socialism, which is free stuff. dumb.
not to mention that the heritage foundation who are behind everything trump does - christians - the ultimate dictator who deports you to hell if you dissent - they WORSHIP a dictator ffs.
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i looked it up, the EU tariffed american goods at 1%
pretty much every country tariffs imports, but usually between 1-3% and the idea is to REGULATE trade rather than to punish traders, used by biden it discouraged
the import of cars, but didn't deter and biden had the infrastructure bill that provided for manufacturing at home, trump is not investing in home manufacture, and more
yo the point america imports because he doesn't have the natural resources, personnel of plant - so it buys in car parts. and cars, even if they are "made in america"
go back and forth across the canadian border before they are complete. trump wants to ruin america - he has no intention of leaving office.
other countries are inflicting tariffs on trump, not sucking up to him, this is pathetic.
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crikey, you're only putting this out now, ending loan forgiveness means slavery.
heritage foundation project 2025:
Targeting immigrant communities through mass deportations and raids, ending birthright citizenship, separating
families, and dismantling our nation’s asylum system.
no more loan forgiveness = slavery
eliminate the dept of education
not just banned books but banned WORDS - diversity, gender, abortion.
Exploiting the executive branch’s vast and unprecedented powers to spy on Americans’ lives with
warrantless surveillance of our data.
Violating the First Amendment by using federal law enforcement to target journalists and protestors.
Abusing executive power to interfere in our elections by criminalizing the voting process and damaging fair representation.
Censoring academic discussions about race, gender, and systemic oppression, in violation of the First Amendment, and promising to
cut federal funding for schools with curricula that touch on these subjects.
Weaponizing federal law to require states and private actors to discriminate against transgender people by threatening to
sue schools that protect the rights of trans students or telling hospitals that they would lose their Medicaid funding
if they provide gender-affirming medical care to trans adolescents.
Severely limiting abortion access nationwide by reversing the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, a drug
used in medication abortion, and reviving a 19th century law, the Comstock Act, to ban any abortion
medications, equipment, or materials from being sent through the U.S. Postal Service.
there are 900 pages of this.
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@katyelder.5 any idea who wrote matthew, cos it wasn't anyone called matthew.
the bible is not a book, it is a collection of scraps of paper, some no bigger than my thumb, written
over hundreds of years by people who never met jesus, whose motives are dubious, and it has been translated, retranslated and edited
to leave out things the church didn't want to have to explain, like god being evil and jesus sent to fight
him in the gospel of judas. none of the manuscripts are originals. the first sentence in the bible has two words
omitted cause they didn't translate into english, and hebrew has no punctuation. so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Books_of_the_Bible_and_the_Forgotten_Books_of_Eden
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"There are currently over 3,142 versions of the bible, in over 2,073 languages available
digitally on bible.com - of which 1,768 are available audibly. There are also versions in
nearly 2,033 languages at faithcomesbyhearing.com and a similar number on the American Bible
Society's bibles.org."
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actually if you believe in god YOUR life is meaningless, you're just another god robot, doing what you think HE wants, not what you might want, you should watch some of anthony magnaboscos street epistemology videos and watch what the believers say, cos what they say is nothing original, in fact we play "believer bingo" and tick off the items, you're all suffering a mass delusion taught to you by deluded people, i've spent enough time with schizophrenics to know when someone is living in an alternative, and imaginary, reality, and all atheists want is to live in a world dominated by TRUTH, not sky fairies and magic boxes of lovely promises.
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5:33 this is why we are stunned that trump won, in the UK in order to fool people into voting for you, you have to have a plan, a manifesto, even the dim wits know this and you won't get a vote unless your lies are convincing, it's taken 12 years but finally conservative voters have realised they have been shafted too and they have stopped voting cons - i voted green twice cos labour are full of crap too these days - if you want to fool the UK voter you have to at least have a plan you can pretend to stick to. i think the vast majority of brits will tell you trump is out of his gourd, and as for musk, we don't like billionaires, we don't like foreigners telling us how to run our country - like the irish, scottish and welsh, we all hate each other, until an outsider pokes their nose in, then you're in trouble.
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i've been trapped against my will where i am living for 11 years, i planned to be here for 3 years until my son went to uni, but the rep of the management company, their tardiness and lethargy when i was in conveyancing, has left me three firm offers down the road and still no sale. also the reform bill would have been god if anyone had bothered to MAKE IT HAPPEN, but now thanks very much, no one will touch leasehold for at least another three years, plus however long it takes for owners to extend, so at 70 years old it seems to me instead of having the world be mo oyster i'm going to die in flippin croydon.
it would help is you could stop management companies charging whatever they please, our monthly went from £300 which is bad enough direct to £425 when electricity went up, so our winter fuel went straight to the property company. we need to be able AT LEAST to say "no, i won't pay any more", and also we are expected to cough up (pensioners mind you) the MONTHLY amount IN ADVANCE.
labour - i voted green this time and last time cos you're as crap as the tories. do i sound annoyed?
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we aren't exactly puppets (other than to our own brain) we can aim for goals, as long as we are unable to see the future we can imagine we have free will, but whether we achieve that goal is already determined, not by "fate" but by our own abilities, i wanted a graphics degree, i had no idea if i could get it or not, but so i aimed for that.
or
you have a choice between A or B. for the choice to be valid, both A and B have to have equal value - you can't in fact make your mind up if they do. they are both equally appealing. once you decide (!) one has more value / appeal than the other, bang goes your free will, it's no longer a choice. if you prefer A you cannot prefer B and vice versa. it's not a choice, you're limited to ONE ACTION.
you either do things for reasons - determined, or you do things randomly - same thing. if you can provide a third way...
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project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself - same as god, needy and insecure and in need of constant attention.
god is spanner in the works of humanity.
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sorry but you have failed to notice that god is the ultimate dictator, god is the one who hates on abortion (but killing the first born of egypt is okay) god hates on gays, hates on trans folks, hates on drag queens, god and MAGA have shared values. god literally deports people just for disagreeing with him, no trial, no representation, ONE sentence, the gulag of hell, religion is the problem - i've been atheist all my 70 years and you know i PRAY EVERY DAY - that the rapture takes you lot away, cos the planet will be peaceful and pleasant when you hate mongers are gone.
and god isn't even real. just a figment of your poorly designed brain.
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i have some friend's i see very occasionally, we all started learning guitar around the same time, i have never played with other people in my fifty years of playing so i get GREAT pleasure from playing with my friends. we love the blues and as we're all fairly crappy players we love simple chord progressions.
now one of my friends is always trying to learn me (!) music theory, i cannot absorb it, it is dyslexic to me, EVERYTHING he says goes in one ear and then over my head. but, what is really weird, to me, is when i play "rhythm" and he takes lead, he can't follow my timing. i swear i;m not doing anything out of the ordinary, i don't know anything about music, but a twelve bar blues isn't that hard to grasp, but even then i get accused of having some weird timing he can't follow. but i find the same when he plays rhythm and i take lead - i can follow him but his timing is weird to me.
just sayin.
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there is an objective standard, we just can't hold it or see it. theists don't get this idea that we have to invent things, like laws and rules, the only reason you would want rules from an imaginary source is if you want to appeal to it as a higher authority to make your views the standard. anyone with any sense can see that you need to at least have representation in a court, that htere needs to be due process, and your side has to be heard too. you cannot argue with god, there is no appeal against his rulings. he is a danger to society. take god to court and see where it gets you. even christian judges will throw god out of court. it's why there are no religious political parties, why there is separation. god is literally partial, biased and disqualified from making judgements.
9:20 i was just arguing this, if religion wants to survive it's going to get rid of the things that conflict with science, xianity can shout all it wants that there was a resurrection, but the "feeling" that never happened is increasing, not decreasing. sorry religion, but you can't call einstein a liar while using his cell phone.
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and just a quick reminder that the first amendment conflicts with the first commandment
"thou shalt worship whoever you want" so technically you can't be christian AND american.
i first heard this story from the friendly atheist podcast.
according to pew polls, gallup and the PRRI atheists and the "nones" are now for the first time equal in numbers, the "nones" have been growing while christianity is shrinking, and each time pew takes a new poll the shrinking has become more rapid - the reason - no one wants to be part of the hate, the bigotry, the abuse and the grift that the church always was, but is now being uncovered.
christians, islam, project 2025, christian nationalism, sharia law - they are INDISTINGUISHABLE from each other - people here in the comments saying "i'm a christian and this offends me" sorry but god and trump are no different from one another, both dictators, both will deport you with no trial or representation, both hate on the same folks, both have MAGA values.
if you wanted your religion to thrive you should have kept it to yourself and not tried to interfere with human and civil rights - roe / wade was the turning point in the decline of christianity - watch it fade away. anyone know who bastet was?
this is exactly what christianity and islam are all about, it's been atheists and the seculars that have given people rights and
stopped the religious from burning people, witch hunts and slavery, not religion, and in fact considering god is the ultimate dictator
who will deport you to hell just for disagreeing with him, no trial, no representation and he hates gays, trans, abortion - god and
maga are no different are they.
when the ten commandments were put on display it was a waste of time because the poster contained the constitution and the bill of rights, but the type was so small it was unreadable, so the commandments had to use the same size illegible type too. religion is a joke.
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well trump has picked a fight with, let's see, honduras, panama, canada, mexico, NATO, the EU - and if hegseth gets his way that will see women out of the military, so that's 1/3 gone, then gays, then trans folks - that's 15,000 right there, then i guess minorities being deported, latinos, hispanics and blacks - so chine and or russia will just walk in and take the US.
but it wouldn't surprise me if that's what trump WANTS.
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"i used to be atheist" - i wouldn't accuse anyone of "not being a real" other than not being a real human.of course we change our minds about stuff all the time, but when it comes to god the only two things of importance are, do you think one exists, and do you think one worthy of your attention exists. i have always thought "no" to both questions, all my life, but if it turned out there is a god, then question 2 would still apply. so i've always been wary of people who jump ship, whether it's "i used to atheist but god is talking in my head nonstop" or "i used to be christian but i want to fornicate more", i can't imagine (!) anything changing my mind about god (that would actually occur in reality, obviously if god somehow revealed himself in a convincing way, but he won't will he.) so i see people who change their minds about god as somehow lacking in the thought process. to me it's like "does my bum look big in this belief" they were never REAL anything.
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@Dougvp112 so you're for concentration camps, deporting millions of people who work for peanuts picking peanuts that americans won;'t, you don't need social security, you don't need the right to holidays or weekends off, you don't need to be paid for overtime, you're happy that there will be no fire services that the police can arrest you and deport you with no representation and you like giving money to health insurance but don't qualify when you claim, have i got that right? and you look forward to wars with panama, canada, the EU, france and you want putin in the whitehouse? about it, did i miss something? oh and you want porn outlawed, you want pornhub to have ALL your personal details on file?
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the upside is now mexico, honduras, panama, greenland, denmark, canada, NATO and the EU, not to mention scotland and france, not to mention venezuela are united against the US. you guys better figure out how to get out of this before he starts WWIII cos no one is going to help you if he gets the military wound up.
fun fact: britain and france hold the record for wars, 2015 between them, not all with each other - we stopped fighting though, trade is better.
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i'ts good to know burr has been saying the same things i have, the nazi salute "thing" is not about politics, and it's not about free speech. the reason we don't tolerate nazis is because they DESIGNED - designed mind you - and build FACTORIES to GAS PEOPLE TO DEATH, cos is was cheaper than shooting them. they tortured and starved experimented on and made slaves of their fellow humans. and like burr said, when it came to facing the music hitler shot himself. not even a suicide from despair, but from cowardice.
and i don't get it, why would anyone WANT to be a nazi, it's not like there is a country in the south seas that is nazi and everyone is happy and lazing on the
beach all day, counting the profits they make from selling nazi flags n stuff. the fascists have NEVER won ANYTHING, and when they are in power EVERYONE
suffers - including the fascists, so what is the appeal
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so you can't even do god properly. you realise all this hate for trans folks and drag queens and deporting people is all god's idea right? i don't know what's worse, the bible thumpers who at least have no pretence that they hate folks, or the pretend "progressives" who haven't the guts to stone people to death.
project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
i like to remind folks that given the choice between family, friends and god, christians will pick god everytime, they will not
defend YOU when you are being pushed into the lake of fire.
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new zealand, japan and the UK all had ONE school shooting, they each changed the regulations right away and they, we, have had NONE since. americans are still claiming that a gun is defence - it is not - kevlar is defence - guns are designed to kill, and if you AND a shooter have a gun you're just going to double the deaths / injuries.
fun fact: in 2022 there were 18,000 plus armed response deployments in the UK, of those only 4 times
were weapons discharged, while in the US in 2022 the police shot over 1,000 people.
and no, we haven't had any mass knife killings is schools thank you very much.
meanwhile in new zealand:
"In 2021, Labour MP Willow-Jean Prime made headlines by breastfeeding her daughter Heeni in Parliament's debating chamber. She saw this
as a way to normalize breastfeeding and empower working mothers."
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i fail to see how christianity helps, unless you like to fantasise that everything will be alright and someone else is going to take care of you. shinto makes much more sense than the talking snake cult.the suicide rate seems to be high because the japanese tend to be overly conscientious, i think if you fail in the west you just deal with it cos everybody fails at something, but the japanese take failure way too seriously, and "ending it all" has been traditionalised as "honourable" when it clearly isn't the answer to any problem. and religion isn't going to help cos the emphasis is on the afterlife, xianity teaches this life isn't the main event. japan is similar to the UK in respect to religion, better to take religion with a large pinch of salt than to become dependent on a deity - who doesn't actually exist. if you fail, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start over, sod what anyone else thinks.
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sorry but you have failed to notice that god is the ultimate dictator, god is the one who hates on abortion (but killing the first born of egypt is okay) god hates on gays, hates on trans folks, hates on drag queens, god and MAGA have shared values. god literally deports people just for disagreeing with him, no trial, no representation, ONE sentence, the gulag of hell, religion is the problem - i've been atheist all my 70 years and you know i PRAY EVERY DAY - that the rapture takes you lot away, cos the planet will be peaceful and pleasant when you hate mongers are gone.
and god isn't even real. just a figment of your poorly designed brain.
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jesus cured a leper.
humans cured leprosy. and polio, and meningitis, whooping cough, measles, mumps, rubella, chicken
pox, smallpox, hepatitis, guinea worm, malaria, even aids - the list is long, not to mention
dentistry, fractures, eyesight. (by the way are these punishments inflicted by god, what excuse
do you have for us being able to work around these punishments?) in the meantime god MIGHT cure
ONE cancer patient PERHAPS if they are LUCKY - when we cure cancer we will cure ALL cancer.
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as with anything there is more than one way to look at this, let's get off this planet and make it a nature preserve, even then it will still have problems of species endangering each other.
on the other hand, do you lose much sleep over any of the thousands of creatures that are extinct? maybe this is the fate of humans, to become machines (through AI) and to replace biological creatures with robotic ones.
the thought might not be very appealing, but as i keep pointing out to people, we are all going to die sooner or later, and we don't lose much sleep over who is going to inhereit, does it matter if it's a natural, biological creature that came about by accident, or a machine that a human designed, a robot mofified, and will possible last forever?
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heritage foundation project 2025:
Targeting immigrant communities through mass deportations and raids, ending birthright citizenship, separating
families, and dismantling our nation’s asylum system.
no more loan forgiveness = slavery
eliminate the dept of education
Exploiting the executive branch’s vast and unprecedented powers to spy on Americans’ lives with
warrantless surveillance of our data.
Violating the First Amendment by using federal law enforcement to target journalists and protestors.
Abusing executive power to interfere in our elections by criminalizing the voting process and damaging fair representation.
Censoring academic discussions about race, gender, and systemic oppression, in violation of the First Amendment, and promising to
cut federal funding for schools with curricula that touch on these subjects.
Weaponizing federal law to require states and private actors to discriminate against transgender people by threatening to
sue schools that protect the rights of trans students or telling hospitals that they would lose their Medicaid funding
if they provide gender-affirming medical care to trans adolescents.
Severely limiting abortion access nationwide by reversing the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, a drug
used in medication abortion, and reviving a 19th century law, the Comstock Act, to ban any abortion
medications, equipment, or materials from being sent through the U.S. Postal Service.
there are 900 pages of this.
for people who hate communism for some reason you are VOTING it in.
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why are religists so afraid of atheists? we don't have any rules to follow,
we don't have a hell, we don't have a book you have to read, you don't have
to cut anything off your body, you aren't required to persecute anyone, we
don't consider people outside our group as "evil" or "sinners", secular non
religious countries are doing really well and in fact are least likely to
get involved in wars, we are only 3-4% of the population, i for one don't
even want you on my team, stay religist, cos on average your IQ is six points
lower than mine, you don't have to waer funny clothes, or chant silly songs,
humanists even advocate for all religions to have a
voice - i think religists are envious of our freedom, we aren't scared of
hell and we don't care what gods say and we decide on rules democratically,
not by dictator.
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@the_right_moment two things - the constitution, the very first law of the land says god takes second place to people, if you don't like that either get it changed or move. second, EVERYWHERE the church goes in schools the satanic temple is right behind, so if you want to promote the satanic temple, keep pushing your god on folks cos the satanists are much more likeable, don't have to make threats to get people signing up, and THEIR rules are a lot more reasonable and human than gods, and while christianity is shrinking (pew polls and gallup) islam is growing, so beware of what you wish for, cos islam will be right behind the satanic temple too
that's why you have the constitution you banana.
I
One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.
II
The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
III
One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
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The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own.
V
Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs.
VI
People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.
VII
Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
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well trump has picked a fight with, let's see, honduras, panama, canada, mexico, NATO, the EU - and if hegseth gets his way that will see women out of the military, so that's 1/3 gone, then gays, then trans folks - that's 15,000 right there, then i guess minorities being deported, latinos, hispanics and blacks - so chine and or russia will just walk in and take the US.
but it wouldn't surprise me if that's what trump WANTS.
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science just does it's thing, if religion doesn't aalign with science that's tough luck, religion should've done it's research. science works because it's open to updates, even einstein saw where he went wrong and updated his equations, religion is totally the opposite, god wrote a book, the religious claim the book can't be wrong, refuse to update it, then cry like babies when people god "talking snakes??" and quit religion. if god is so concerned about humanity, he ought to put in an appearance, update his book (his one book) and stop hiding.
anyone else wonder why no one wrote about jesus while he was alive? wandering about curing the sick and walking on water and no one thought to jot it down in a diary?
and jesus never wrote a word.
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hmmm. long story.
i left school at 16 in 1970, below average pupil - at school.
i did my first stint of graphics pasting the new logo for southern gas (UK) on their forms when they updated, using a golf ball typewriter.
i then went to a computer bureau where they printed up monthly statements and sent them out, i was tape librarian to a UNIVAC 9400 (i have photos on my face book) i also mowed the lawn and cleaned the coffee machine.
i moved to london mid 70's and there i worked laying out, designing and illustrating porn magazines, lots of money, great fun, great colleagues, and it financed going to st martin's school of art, chelsea school of art, london college of printing, and when i finally got made redundant (from porn?) i got my graphics degree at kingston poly in '84
i got head hunted into computer graphics and animation and i've worked on - everything - space, games, tv titles, commercials, surgeons training, ESA projects - the BBC "the planets" series - you name it. and i went freelance and diversified even more in 2000.
but i'm not very good at drawing.
i'm using AI to entertain myself, i can do the most amazing pictures, and variations, i could never do, or have time to do, on paper.
where AI leads i don't know, maybe, finally we'll meet our frankenstein's monster, but the camera was invented and here i am still using pencils and paper.
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when it comes to hand written texts, and especially when people claim the bible is error free, i like to point out when i moved to london my first job was working for plenum publishing, who translated russian science journals into american (i got made redundant inside two months when they realised this would be more effeciently done in russia or america, not the UK) anyway, there were four people in my department and we spent eight hours a day, five days a week, pasting corrections in, that's science journals, type set using electronic gadetry, and it was a full time job correcting the text. now tell me the bible is error free.
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because americans are ignorant. you ponce about boasting about how great you are when you couldn't find mexico to invade, you still don't know the difference between communism, where trump takes all your money, and possessions, and you starve to death in a gulag if you complain, and socialism, that brought us free healthcare, the 8 hour day and holidays.
you are dumb. a country of dumb people, who protest the day before they lose their rights, when you've known for years what's coming. trump told you years ago. he even gave you the play book - project 2025 "i will strip you of your rights" it actually says it right there on the page, and what do you do? you put luigi in prison and trump in the whitehouse.
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i see venezuela has designs on peurto rico, shame hegseth has fired all your military, supposing trump would want to save the PR's of course, cos probably he doesn't give a damn, but then again maybe even he won't like the idea of ICBM's in PR and empty US bases on honduras having chinese ICBM's parked. i think it's really smart of trump to have brought the world together though, we have canada, panama, honduras, france, NATO, the EU, mexico, china, canada, greenland, denmark - even scotland - all in agreement that the US has become a threat.
well done!
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we did all this, twice, musk really blew it for the trump regime.
why would anyone WANT to be a nazi, it's not like there is a country in the south seas that is nazi and everyone is happy and lazing on the
beach all day, counting the profits they make from selling nazi flags n stuff. the fascists have NEVER won ANYTHING, and when they are in power EVERYONE
suffers - including the fascists, so what is the appeal, is being enabled to beat people up really THAT important to some "humans"???
fun fact: britain and france hold the record for wars, 2015 between them, not all with each other. grown ups trade, you beat the enemy by being more moral than them, wars are for people with no imagination.
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you take life too seriously, if you die in debt you've literally "taken it with you" there is no virtue in not having debts, some people are frightened of debt, me, i just don't care, there are more important things in life than money. all money is debt anyway, you're in debt like it or not. i landed $40,000 of credit card debt a while back, and although normally i can pay it off, this time i couldn't, and you know what - i didn't have to, cos the banks cheat and debt collectors are incompetent, i've gone from a 966 credit score to a 0 and back to 750 and didn't pay a penny of my debt back. life is a game mate.
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13:35 yep, a squib was what you used to ignite a gun or cannon, hence not really wanting yer squib to be damp. and deserves, deserts derives from deserves - old english but still. i'm a bit of a grammar n@zi i have to say. i think it's a lazy mind that doesn't notice that some words and phrases are peculiar enough that you ought to look them up and see where they came from and what they really mean. psychology and english are two really useful subjects to have, i like to boast that i got every job i interviewed for between 1975 and 2015 when i retired - charm and a command of english.
i used to date a peruvian girl, whose family lived in spain and france, she was sort of fluent in english, spanish, french, probably belgian, and german and whatever they speak in peru, but consequently she got her words mixed up, i was just saying a favourite mistake of hers was to say "theorically" instead of theoretically, but one day driving around the normandy beaches of france i asked her "what does mange tout translate to?", cos to me it seems like "eat everybody" or "eat everything" and she said "oh, i though that was english"
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lol, these people ARE true christians, this is what christianity is - dictatorship, are you crazy? hates gays, hates abortion, hates trans, deports people who dissent, the only thing jesus and trump would fight over is
who sits on the dictator's throne. i find it confusing that apparently bishop budde has told god that christians love trans people now, cos i'm pretty sure
that if you polled american christians 99.9% still want to stone them, so can someone get god to make his mind up, are christians loving trans or not? and
if god is being so liberal as to okay gays and trans folks, can atheists get into heaven now, or do they still get thrown on the fire, just because
they "want to sin"?
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being part of a church that makes excuses for a figurehead who drowned the entire planet, including children, is inexcusable. "thou shalt not kill" followed by a book of instructions on who to kill and how to kill, for real estate and slaves, is not a book of morality. and people have to realise (take a look at abortion and what's happening in america) that you can't reason with god, if you can't say "wait, let's talk this over" while being pushed toward the stake and the fire, then god is a threat to humanity, all of them. if you want a pleasant and fun religion, have a go at shinto. if god is upset by something, he can come and sort it personally.
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i get into arguments about religion quite a lot and i see bias this way, believers have a clear bias, they are under orders to believe in god, or else. i am atheist, but that doesn't mean i don't believe a god exists, it mean, to me, that i am suspicious of religion, and i argue from a skeptical point of view, him, and me, go by the scientific method, how can i falsify his claim, so although it may look to you that he, and me, have a bias, we don't (within scientific bounds) the trick is to evaluate the truth from as many directions as possible, and particulalry to recognise any bias you might have and try to comepnsate. and if anyone is "tolerant" ie you give them space, then yes, we are on the high ground. and i know nothing about CNN or breibart, other than i don't trust ANY news source, but is it bias, or true, that one reports news while th other reposrts sensationalism?
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i did special effects work for thunderbirds the movie, anything with an after burner, bubbles or chaff floating in space, i did that, at 3:20 seeing bits of foil floating off reminded me of doing the camera matching pf the late Bill Paxton floating in the damaged thunderbird 5. (i was engines wrangler, hence the after burners, also a lot of scenes were "under the thames" shot dry in a studio and needed bubbles added to give it the underwater, thuderbird 4 look, and of course the sabotaged thunderbird 5 lost it's artificial gravity and debris, as well as crew, were floating about in free fall).
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30:00 i've just let fate take me wherever it feels like. i have done things to help it along, like i moved from my home town to london, i changed my "personality" when i went to uni, but all i knew when i left school at 16 in 1970 was i would like to do art of some sort. so i did manual work, carrying concrete around, loading rubber, unloading fridges, until i found myself in london, jobless and homeless. what really made the difference was accepting finding a job was a full time job in itself, and i still have my notebooks filled with addresses of flats and phone numbers of jobs now, and i just plodded away and bingo, the first job i got was sticking correction in science journals - paste up. since then i've been to five art schools, got my degree as a mature student, got head hunted into computer graphics in the early 80's and generally lived a blessed life doing what i love, and now since my ex wife made us move for schools every four years, the profit from house sales meant i can stay at home and play all day.
i wouldn't know how to plan any of that. the flipper table of life has just whacked me into the jackpot alley.
and to add i've always loved derren's shows, it's a shame we can't make a clear distinction between what the body and mind are capable of and separate the placebo effect from the faith healers, my parents were spiritualist, but neither were very fanatical, in fact i think my dad was actually atheist and my mum just thought that jesus was a nice bloke and we ought to be nice too, and all going to spiritualist church did for me was set me up for a life in film effects, i thought they were crazies. anyway, i enjoy derren's shows, i'm envious of his art, i hope he continues to thrive.
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38:50 hmmm. i don't do drugs, not since, ooh 1990, i get paranoia, but two things, i put it down to tiredness but i can get what "looks" like an arc of psychadelic colour intrude in my vision, it doesn't obscure everything, it's just a sliver, it grows over the space of half an hour or so, then slowly disappears, it's sickel shaped, there could be many possible explanations, it may even be related to the detritus that floats around in the aqueas part of the eye, literally "floaters". also when i rub my eyes, or i am lying awake in the dark with my eyes closed i can see patterns of colour, like fractal art, sometimes geometric, squares like a kaleidescope, sometimes dots and overlapping circles. anyway, the point being joe's isolation "hallucintaion" might only be in part down to drugs, it could be some artifact of sight itself.
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do you want to know what's stupid?
i fell into credit card debt, not really my fault, but the stars aligned in such a way that i couldn't pay any of the £40,000 "debt" i had. the stupid thing is my bank, who i had a £4300 overdraft with (debt) kicked me out, after 35 years of my money. anyway the stupid thing? i LITERALLY went next door an opened an account with another bank, and if my bank had given me time to pay they would be enjoying my money again.
even stupider thing, is, i let the card with the smallest amount take me to court (to see if i could win, i never expected to, but hey ho) but in the time it took to go to court they sent me ANOTHER card, despite my maxing out and defaulting on the first, and i joked with the judge "do you take plastic" and even she laughed.
banks don't actually loan you money, they allow you to create NEW money - there is no debt, there is nothing to "pay back". i got out of the £40,000 of debt this way.
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fun fact: in 2022 there were 18,000 plus armed response deployments in the UK, of those only 4 times
were weapons discharged, while in the US in 2022 the police shot over 1,000 people.
they think guns are defence. kevlar is defence. they think arming school teachers would stop school shooters, you might as well give the kids guns. the UK, japan and some other countries had ONE school shooting, changed the regulations overnight, and have had NONE since, but americans will argue against - they are insane. half of them voted for concentration camps and to have welfare and what crappy healthcare they do have TAKEN AWAY, that's the level of intelligence you're dealing with.
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arrgh.
i have only seen one video that explains colour correctly.
light has NO COLOUR in it, just wavelength information, energy levels of photons, colour doesn't exist until this information is transported to the BRAIN. cones don't detect colour, they detect the osccilations of the photons and translate that information into impulses that get sent to the brain - there is no colour in these impulses, it is electric and chemical information. it;s not until this information gets to the image making part of the brain that colour is ASSIGNED to a particular wavelength, hence there is no way to know if the strawberry i call "red" is red in YOUR brain, it might be blue.
ALL atoms are made from protons, neutrons and electrons, i know for fact all electrons are identical - what colour is a particle? it has no colour. photons have different energy levels and move in different wavelengths, but that don'r have any colour of their own. cones don't detect colour (how would they?) they detect the frequencies, wavelengths, the oscilations, of the photon, then that info goes through a neural network (where is the colour in that?) and then the brain makes an image and invents the colour.
see Color Only Exists In Your Brain! on the ThisIsPhysics channel.
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nice of you to out yourself for us. americans are a bit slow i know but from where i stand in the UK i see that in the coming months you are either nazi or you are not, so pick a side, but google "nuremberg trials" first, it didn't end well for the nazis.
trump is a genius at getting people to shoot themselves in the foot, all you magas think ending birthright citizenship is so great, not realising that it protects YOU, not just the descendants of immigrants, now any cop who takes a dislike to you (and i imagine a lot of people don't like you) they can call ICE, have you arrested without a warrant or miranda, bundled off to a concentration camp and if you miss the showers you'll be on a plane to timbuktu. you voted to have YOUR OWN RIGHTS taken from you.
i hope i didn't type that too fast for you, i know you have trouble reading.
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equally no one ever says eensteen
24:00 always an interesting show, always. carrying things fits into my personal theory as to why we walked on two feet, humans want possessions, if you have possessions you have to have hands to carry them, whether it's a magic rock, a bow and arrow or a child, if you have hands you can hold them and it says "this is mine and it's coming with me wherever i go"
it's fascinating listening to eric weinstein talking about the sexual habits of elephant seals after coming from "the portal" where he's talking with roger penrose about quantum physics, making all kinds of references to all kinds of people he knows or reads. some people just seem to know everything.
on the other hand i've been to hearst castle, i did my thesis at college about windsor mccay, the cartoon artist who worked for hearst, yes, he let all the animals in his zoo free, there are wild zebra in california.
i've been to the familia in barcelona too, they've been building this place for hundreds of years, from donations i believe, designed by gaudi, one of my favourite artists, you can walk up the spiral staircase into the spires, it gets naroower and narrower until you come out, into open air, and at that time no guard rail, nothing, i almost but not quite froze.
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trump is typical christian, hates gays, hates abortion, hates trans, jesus and trump will deport anyone who disagrees, jesus will have you tortured on top of that. since when has god recognised my human rights? god and trump are both ruthless dictators who demand worship or you get killed.
there is no god , but there are plenty of sick individuals who follow that god who just HATE for the sake of it.
the heritage foundation is behind EVERYTHING trump is doing, they wrote project 2025 - they are christians. their aim is a christian theocracy where you will be deported if you don't do as god tells you, and they tell god what the rules are. HYPOCRISY is all you get from religion. they want america to be another iran, christian style sharia law. the talking snake and donkey cult, barbarism at it finest.
tell me, is god loving trans or is god hating trans?
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just say "did you go bibbledy" 20:00 i have been saying for years that when we finally encounter little green men and we explain we light big fires under tin cans to get into space, they are going to be doing on hell of an eyeroll, there has to be a better way to get off planets than blowing stuff up.
i'm 66 and this is the first time i've heard the explanation for throwing up due to dizziness. of course once you hear it - perfect sense, but the idea your brain is going "dizzy alert, psychadelics, vomit" is novel to me.
personally i think we might well be alone in the universe, it's not arrogance, and i know the statistics, but as with all things it's a logic problem not an emotional one, we have to assume we are all there is and get out there colonizing, not just our solar system, but as much of the galaxy and universe possible, cos if there is nothing else, poor lonely cosmos if we go extinct.
51:00 if we found other beings we'd do waht we have always done in "new worlds" we go exploit and kill them. when have we not done that?
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@SWagner-x1m people seem to have missed the fact that jesus and maga share the same values - hate gays, hate trans, hate abortion, that jesus will deport you AND torture you just for DISAGREEING with him, the only thing trump and jesus would fight over is who gets to sit on the dictator's golden toilet. god has no respect for human rights, on judgement day i will be going to hell, no question, so tell me how donny and jesus differ please do?
the heritage foundation is behind everything trump and the nazis are doing, the heritage foundation are christians wanting a theocracy, and before you say "no true scotsman" they use the same book, the same god, the same hypocrisy.
christians are horrible people who will choose god over friends, family and their fellow humans every time. and the HF idea of theocracy is not "jesus loves the little children" but "you go to church every sunday and no more porn or you go to guantanamo" - it wasn't the catholics ended the inquisition was it.
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oh how i love the churches hypocrisy, trump and god share the same values, they hate abortion, they hate gays, they hate trans folks, god will deport you - does god recognise human rights? nope.
and despite what bishop budde says you poll christian americans and they will tell you they hate trans folks. the reason the pope allowed gay marriage is cos atheists forced him and the churches are empty - cos no one wants to sit next to bigots and racists and homophobes.
trump and homan and hegseth, all of them profess to be christian - to be christian you have to be a drunk, a rapist, a molester, a fraud. and top tip - there is no god, it's ALL a con. tell me christians are atheists welcome in heaven now?
do you all love trans people now?
you all stink of hypocrisy
a quick reminder that the first amendment conflicts with the first commandment: thou shalt worship whoever you want, so you can't really be christian AND american.
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1:30:00 i watched a talk with brian greene where he was suggesting life long journeys at light or near light speed, that the distances are that great that having families taking entire lifetimes to arrive at a destinantion would make some kind of sense. the interesting part about that is if they are travelling at near light speed, if they are gone for a hundred years ship time, thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of earth years will have elapsed, their original civilisation may no longer exist. it begs the question would it be more practical to have "moon size" ships that entire civilisations travel around on, but the point that occurred to me is if you have people moving around the universe for hundreds of "ship years" then civilisations are going to be way out of sync with each other, that is if there were two earths in the same orbit sending out two lots of light speed craft, one for a hundred years ship time, the other for a hundred and fifty years ship time, the two earths will likely have died out and those two ships will be thousands of earth years out of sync with each other when they reach their destinations. ship one may have colonised and died out by the time ship two sets up shop.
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i've been a graphic artist all my life, also i've worked in computer animation since the 80's and lately i've taken up sculpture. i dream in black and white, but i can label something as coloured if it's relevant. i have trouble picturing things in my mind, one way i get to sleep is to try to imagine three cubes next to each other, i find it very hard, but if i am walking i can "imagine" the whole map of london to help navigate, like i'm using google maps. i have a dialogue going on all the time too, i see it as rehearsing possiblilities, one example is my girlfriend who is schziophrenic, and it is easy to trigger her psychotic episodes, so i'm constantly vetting conversations to avoid certain things. i polled friends and work colleagues and most of them said they have imaginary conversations too.
don't get me started on empathy, if i'm watching skateboarding videos and someone lands on their testicles, i get electric shocks through my body, i have to turn away, not because of fear but it physically hurts to watch. but, i can watch (some not all) gore and not be moved at all.
i'm phantastic!
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@CosmoLogical-p6f i fell into to credit card debt through no particular fault of my own, and people i owed money to would have been paid if they had patience, but they didn't, but, through a loophole in debt collecting law i haven't paid A PENNY of the £40,000 i owed. you have to use the system. i wanted to, and i tried to find ways to pay, but the banks all kicked me out, by the time i had raised the money they all kicked me - my checking account i had for 35 years - they kicked me out. if they had waited - the money i now have would be going to them, as it is it goes to the bank NEXT DOOR, literally next door. if you treat me like a criminal i act like one.
statute of limitations has passed now.
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(cut and paste from comments)
if this is a way to sneak religion into science, sorry, it won't cut it. digital is just as satisfying as film, i use both. this is the "world's best buggy whip" argument.
"let's go into the darkroom and see what develops" old university joke.
"some day my prints will come" another.
i was at uni 1982-1984 when i did photography, all black and white, i then went on to work in computer animation, i've done a top of the pops titles and loads of BBC work - the planets series (2000) for instance.
when i started out the second company i worked for was CFX, in soho, london, UK, we used to shoot from a cathode ray screen with 4000 line reesolution, onto to film, we used coloured gels in front of a mitchell camera to make colour from the basically black and white screen, and you had to shoot one pass of say red, rewind the film, change the colour gel, say green, shoot the film again, and repeat for all colours, then you'd send it to the lab and find out ONE FRAME was wrong and have to do it all again.
we would load rolls of 300ft or 400 ft film inside black bags, doing it by feel. if you wanted to make it look like one thing passed in front of another (this was all wire frame graphics) you would have to shoot a matte film, like a black square that would block out some of the wire frame to look like it was solid, so you'd load two or even three rolls of film on top of each other and go through the process as above, called bi-pak, one frame at a time, click, advance, click, advance, and hope it was right.
night vision - cool, but we used red or yellow light at uni....
i've probably thrown them all out but once upon a time i had BOXES of test strips for colour tests, literally dozens of albums full of 35mm film with different colours clients could use to decide how their "wire frame graphics" would look. i worked with wireframe from about 1982 till i guess 2000 when full colour, 3D rendering became common. bernard lodge, who did wotk on blade runner, used to take the wire frame and do hand animation over the top of it, making wire frame look 3D and cartoony.
you can see my crappy photography on instagram, and if you scroll back far enough (i exceed at everything) computer graphics too - @harrynicholas1 i have a youtube channel of guitar and computer graphics i've done, both my own and some pro.
lol, in your summation - i miss cave painting, that was real hands on... :)
i'll tell you why you love film, it's beacuse someone else is processing it, if, like me, you've screwed up tons of film for whatever reason, you say to yourself, okay, enough. i'm 67, i'm a fan of old stuff, but i really like new stuff too. it's a case of picking what's appropriate, but if you had to process all your own film, you'd soon get over it.
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@eileendunkley4373 project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
i like to remind folks that given the choice between family, friends and god, christians will pick god everytime, they will not
defend YOU when you are being pushed into the lake of fire.
mate that empty threat - every knee shall bend - that's a threat, you can SHOVE your threat, and your "love" is showing - christians are HORRIBLE people.
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when i discovered ideogram i couldn't help myself, i generated a couple of thousand images in no time (i'm obsessive, i just posted my 14,000th the photo on instagram). what will i do with all these images, i thought?
well i got chat gtp to write me a fairy tale (this is eight months ago according to youtube) and it wasn't fantastic, but it was good enough to make a video and post. but then i had this notion of starting a channel dedicated to fairy stories, so i got chat gtp to do me two sequels to my fairy tale. they were crap. well, not totally crap, but incredibly derivative, it was glaringly obvious they were just variations of the initial story. so, that burst that bubble.
if you look at deviant art, and that genre of illustration, some AI generated images could be mistaken for human produced art, but there is a lot of AI art that is obviously AI, but also a lot of AI art that is incredibly "human" in feel, i did hundreds (if not thousands) of women;s faces, and some of them are staggeringly beautiful - "original by me: 'dusty struthers' - for my therapist" is my poor guitar playing, but AI generated faces.
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@katella americans live in a dream world, as carlin said, that's why it's called the american dream, you're all asleep. well now you've managed to piss of, let's see, mexico, honduras, panama, greenland, denmark, canada, NATO and the EU, not to mention scotland and the "windmills" - let's see how you do when no one is your friend anymore.
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project 2025, christian nationalism and sharia law are indistinguishable from one another, they hate gays, they hate trans, they hate
drag, they hate people who NEED abortions, god is the ultimate dictator, he will deport you to hell just for disagreeing, no trial,
no representation, one sentence, MAGA and god have the same barbaric values. trump is neither christian nor atheist, even the satanic
temple has better morals than trump, trump is narcissist, all he cares about is himself.
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on a nice sunny day one day i was coming out of the supermarket car park, the only thing you could say about my driving is that cos the exit is blind i came out pretty fast, if i match speed with traffic no one is going to hit me, but i have a letter from the police saying i wasn't at fault, so, when a tyre blew and i went into a 360 spin cos the road was wet but oily, and i took out six other cars, i wasn't to blame. i landed on top of some fellas front garden wall, he came out with a cup of tea for me and it turns out i'd taken the front off his brand new peugot "it's only money" he said to me as i waited for the cops and the fire service - my jag was leaking fluids all over the road and i was wondering if it would burst into flames any second. turns out the fluid was orange juice and milk, exploded in the trunk when it hit car number four. i was really lucky, i wasn't drunk, it wasn't my fault, the car was toast but i walked away.
if a mother with a stroller and twins had been standing in front of that wall though...
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@T00Nyce17 not wantig to put people in internment camps for one thing, i take it you haven't read project 2025? where you lose all your rights and freedoms? the germany 1939 thing isn't just making stuff up, trump wants you living in the same regime as his mate putin, or like china
heritage foundation project 2025:
Targeting immigrant communities through mass deportations and raids, ending birthright citizenship, separating
families, and dismantling our nation’s asylum system.
no more loan forgiveness = slavery
eliminate the dept of education
Exploiting the executive branch’s vast and unprecedented powers to spy on Americans’ lives with
warrantless surveillance of our data.
Violating the First Amendment by using federal law enforcement to target journalists and protestors.
Abusing executive power to interfere in our elections by criminalizing the voting process and damaging fair representation.
Censoring academic discussions about race, gender, and systemic oppression, in violation of the First Amendment, and promising to
cut federal funding for schools with curricula that touch on these subjects.
Weaponizing federal law to require states and private actors to discriminate against transgender people by threatening to
sue schools that protect the rights of trans students or telling hospitals that they would lose their Medicaid funding
if they provide gender-affirming medical care to trans adolescents.
Severely limiting abortion access nationwide by reversing the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, a drug
used in medication abortion, and reviving a 19th century law, the Comstock Act, to ban any abortion
medications, equipment, or materials from being sent through the U.S. Postal Service.
there are 900 pages of this.
i hope you can prove you are "pure american" - do you not listen to what maga have been saying? they don't hide anything. backing trump is the dumbest thing.
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