Warming trend? Save your climate fraud narrative for the less well informed, okay? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03ENOwIGjzE
Love it when it snows
Nothing quiets things down like a nice blanket of snow. The roof is muffled, and the forest too. But I think there may be even more going on. Doesn't snow often here, but every time it sure does seem like the power is cleaner. For sure the listening is better.
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This is long, but watch it, really watch and listen, not arguing, not tuning out, but actually listening to what the guy has been saying all along. Tell me its not damn near prescient. Tell me this is not a great man. Just please get the order straight- watch first, THEN tell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=305-erOr3jk |
Good Lord Miller. Trump is for real. DYODD. Please. The man is for real. Look into the Central Park skating rink, the lady living rent free in Trump tower, the mugging he jumped out of the limo to stop, the guy who stopped to help change a tire and got his mortgage paid off, on and on and on. Obama said those jobs are not coming back- now the economy is so good they won't even talk about it. That's how you know its all fake. They go on and on and on Trump is this Trump is that- where's the evidence behind any of the negative stories? I asked the rabid dem at work, why is he racist? What has he actually done? Give me one example! Nada. Plus- and this is the best part of all- go watch how consistent Trump has been over the years. Like he's been planning for this his whole life.I see YouTube is doing its usual thing making it impossible to find what you're looking for, which they always do when they don't want you finding it. So maybe tomorrow. But seriously= DYODD. Please. Trump is for real. |
Don't go lumping me in there. I know perfectly well Russia has been diversifying out of dollars and into gold, bypassing the normal global dollar exchange system in favor of direct currency exchange with trading partners. Same goes for China. Every time we foolishly use our dollar dominance to punish with sanctions we only encourage all the more strongly the move out of the dollar. Foolish, because it undermines confidence in the currency. Which being fiat, confidence is all. Not that any of this is reported in "the international news" here, any more than the truth about the fake climate crisis or the truth about the billions democrats like the Bidens and Clintons have siphoned out of Ukraine. But the truth is there, you just have to go looking for it. Which I do. And encourage everyone else to do as well. |
500 gallons of O2 a day Malarkey. O2 is a gas. Gallons are volume. The volume of a gas varies with temperature and pressure. Gallons of O2 is therefore meaningless. It only gets worse from there. Oh well. You will all be pleased to know the greatest president of all time is busy planting a trillion trees. So you must love him. |
One year at WSU, thought it would be fun to take Philosophy 210 Symbolic Logic. Fascinating course, it basically teaches you how to reason, rationally and impersonally, and gives you the tools to comprehend whether or not an argument is sound. Totally removes rhetoric, emotional appeals, all of that. Logic functions at this level are either, or, and, and if/then. So for example somebody says if this or that then the other, the statement will be true if this is true, and if that is true, and if both are true. Only if this and that are both false is the statement false. Read that one again, because this is literally how it works. This or that could be anything. That's where it gets depersonalized. That's where it becomes pure logic. Okay. So most of the tests consist of fairly simple statements just like the one above, only with this and that replaced with more contentious terms just to see if the students really understand and are able to reason and use the logic functions properly. Fine. Until this one test, midterm maybe, and its quite a bit harder and the last four questions are a couple paragraphs each. You're supposed to read them through, cross out all the flowery nonsense (which in the test as in real life is upwards of 90%) in order to restate the text in logic operands, and then work through them and conclude the argument is sound or not. There's four of these and I work through them and look around and nobody else seems anywhere near done. Well the last thing you want is a bad grade after walking out early. So I go through the whole test again. Still nobody done. Oh well. Not my problem. Its nice outside! Next class, glum glowering faces all around. WTF? I get my test back. 100%. But how can it be 100% when there's points taken off on one? Turns out the test was so hard nobody (except me) was even close to finishing. The prof gave them extra time, and let them all choose one of the four to skip. So the one I didn't get quite right didn't count anyway, and I got 100%. This was a junior/senior level class. So no freshmen. These were all college students. They signed up for the class. They wanted to get a good grade. They were in other words very capable, and highly motivated. They had everything going for them, and yet found the subject so hard most barely squeaked by with a passing grade. Its no wonder then that of a random selection of forum posters many will be incapable of anything even resembling rational thought. |
The length of time the earth has existed has nothing to do with what’s happening now. For most of the earth’s existence humans did not exist. This is really happening whether or not you believe it, also here is something I can never figure out. Stop misrepresenting my position. It only makes you appear as ideological and detached from reality as Adam Schiff. Of course the climate changes. Duh. Its changed a lot over the whole 3.5 billion years of its existence, and a lot over the shorter 3 billion year history of life. The vast majority of that time CO2 levels were much higher. Some of the highest CO2 levels in the history of life on Earth were during the Cambrian explosion when almost all genera of corals evolved, along with many plants and animals. These are all relevant scientific facts, so please do try and follow along. I know its hard. Thinking, I mean. Please try. CO2 is a required plant nutrient. Plants literally cannot live without it. Its a fact. You could look it up. PLEASE LOOK IT UP! Most of the plants on Earth evolved when CO2 levels were much higher. These plants today are near the lower range they are able to tolerate. Rising CO2 levels benefit these plants greatly. Higher CO2 benefits all plants, but these especially. What are these plants? Just corn, soy, you know, plants humans rely on for food. Billions and billions of dollars and billions and billions of people are riding on these CO2 reliant crops. No plants? No food. No people. I’m guessing they don’t tell you about this in the madrassa, or CNN, or wherever it is you go for programming. Oh well. True nonetheless. So the climate you’re so convinced will destroy all life on Earth is the one most life is adapted to. And the CO2 you want to eliminate is the one thing we absolutely cannot survive without. And you think I’m the one who’s nuts???! |
News flash, turns out according to modern science the Earth has been around a bit longer than 50 years. Longer even than you. Of course I know everyone will jump to your defense. I don't expect to change any minds. You go on believing in however long you think it is. This is what we are up against. It really is pathetic. But it is what it is. |
I and the Father are one. Well, of course you are. Thousands of years later and all of modern science has produced not one shred of evidence to the contrary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alRNbesfXXw&t=2s |
Meanwhile, back in the real world. Oh wait, the NYT is even more deluded... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KG-E6fsuvg |
More actual science https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VokewpSZYPM and them's the facts. We now return you to our regularly scheduled chatter. |
There used to be an affordable system in place for the downtrodden and mentally ill people. The great depression dictated the need. Right. Downtrodden and ill only came into existence with the Great Depression. Before that was all wine and roses. Paintings on cave walls in France from 50,000 years ago show people gathered around vast dinner tables as buffalo and lions peacefully offer themselves up for the feast. 3 million year old hominid fossils are often found with their fire building tools and universal health care cards. Sorry. I know that’s not very good. Trying to be equally nonsensical. Close as I can get without space aliens. |
You'd think they would do something to cure climate change, like outlawing plastic straws. Oh wait ...!!! Right. You really should use the full quote though..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DlYD6I7qBs |
If its so great, then why are so many leaving it for conservative states like Texas? The population would be declining if it weren't for illegals. The biggest population increase in California is in the homeless. If the economy is so great then why can't San Francisco afford to clean the poop off the sidewalks? Why is there even any in the first place??? |
millercarbon, I totally agree with you but you could put it in a nicer way. One of the pre-requisites for radiologic technologist is microbiology. Its a lot more detailed than it used to be. Everything is mapped out step by step right down to the atom. Photosynthesis, at one point it becomes painstakingly obviously in your face, clear and plain, if there isn't enough CO2 there isn't any photosynthesis. Which was a shock, having been told for years how bad CO2 is, to see so starkly black and white plants absolutely will die without it. So just to be clear I stick up my hand and say, "So CO2 is a limiting factor in plant growth?" Which clearly it is. The answer is yes. That's not what I got. What I got instead was a five minute diatribe that started, "This is what republicans say when they want you to think we can all drive SUVs and burn" blah blah yada yada for like 5 minutes. At the end of which he says, finally, "Yes." This was 15 years ago. Until then it was pretty easy to fall for the warmist narrative, even though by then the narrative had already been falsified by the mere passage of time, it being a good 10 years past the point we were told all the green Doug fir in Western Washington would be dead from forest fires. But let's just go with 15 years. That's a long time to be lied to, and know you're being lied to, and to have to suck it up and endure sanctimonious lectures from a guy you are actually paying to educate- not indoctrinate. Educate. Which is bad enough all by itself. But the lies are all being used to steal my money, and time, and make everyone's lives worse not better. Then on top of that they all preach and carry on with their sanctimonious we're the good people act when in reality they're Pod people, Stepford wives, Children of the Corn, Zombies. So, do I go off on them? Yes. Yes I do. Would I be better off being nice? Not so sure about that. For sure they do not deserve it. Nice is how you treat immature little kids who can't be expected to know any better. What's their excuse? |
Humans require CO2 as well we can’t live without it. Good Lord! This is the level of ignorance we are up against! NO! Humans do NOT require CO2! CO2 is in fact as far as humans are concerned the same as CO, carbon monoxide. Both odorless gases that can cause asphyxiation. That means you can suffocate and DIE breathing it. Exactly the OPPOSITE of plants which CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT IT. LIFE. DEATH. DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE????! The ignorance is staggering, and yet YOU feel comfortable making fun of ME! Why? The madness of crowds. Hate to break it to you guys, but every single one of you warmists are in your own way just as silly and flat out wrong and misinformed as this dude here. Who I would like to say is in a class of his own. But he’s not. Not by a long shot. He’s got plenty of company. What would be nice is if you would realize when it comes to science there is no safety in numbers. DYODD. Please. |
He won by a confluence of odd luck, Yes. With never having run for office he defeated the biggest and best republican field, Ever. With the most primary votes. Ever. Then with a tiny campaign staff, spending a fraction of the money, and with most of his own party against him, and the media, and Hollywood, he defeated the most experienced person ever to run for president. That’s some confluence of odd luck. Then again, it turned out the most experienced person ever to run for president had never heard of the electoral college, and thought it was California and New York, and CNN. So maybe the confluence of odd luck was going up against a bunch of deluded know-nothings. Who’d a thunk? |
nonoise- I just told you he’s abolished regulations and expanded liberty. You call him a despot. Impeachment got no republican votes, and not even all the democrats either, and a couple democrats even left the party and became republican over this sham. This you call an overwhelming majority. I guess when tens of thousands stand in line just to see him, and still more tens of thousands are turned away when the place is jammed, and a whole football stadium full of fans cheers and hollers and chants for him, well my guess is you have some equally delusional alternate universe version of that too. |
Which is the battle cry of the right wing, regardless of country. They believe the common man cannot decide for himself and must have some form of absolute power dictate his life. Which is why what we have today is so encouraging. Finally a leader not only talking but actually fulfilling the promise of returning more power to the people. Seven regulations abolished for every one added. Actually much more than that. That's what really has them all riled up. Democrat, republican, or whatever, they're all screaming their gravy train is being derailed. That's why massive crowds flock together and stand in line for hours- common people see they at last are getting theirs. Good. |
Its not just a river in Egypt, guys. Meanwhile, in Davos: "we must reject the perennial prophets of doom and their warnings about the apocalypse. They are the heirs of yesterday's foolish fortune tellers...they want to see us do badly, but we won't let that happen. They predicted an overpopulation crisis in the 1960s, mass starvation in the 70s and the end of oil in the 1990s. These alarmists always demand the same thing - absolute power to dominate transform and control every aspect of our lives." |
Tony Heller posts the actual raw data from NOAA and shows exactly how they manipulated (faked!) it in order to turn a cooling trend into heating. Its the actual raw data from NOAA. Then instead of talking about the objective, proven, obvious fraud, they attack the man himself. Or act like this fact doesn't actually exist. Who's the denier now? |
For anyone still interested in learning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9BY--i_xDk People should be up in arms over this fraud being perpetrated on us by our own government agencies. |
Yes the idea of a universe that is finite and unbounded is a bit hard to grasp. Its kind of like this. Look out in any direction, any direction at all, the view is exactly the same. We appear to be right smack dab in the middle of it all. Which we are. Always. Everyone everywhere is right smack dab in the middle. Dudes on some star way over in Andromeda? Yeah those dudes too. We have a hard time drawing this, and its even harder to visualize, I sure never can, but its kind of like this. Mass curves space time. Not a lot. Takes a lot of mass. Even so you have to be pretty close. But Einstein math'd it out and some years later when they observed the orbit of Mercury with great enough precision sure enough, the planet was exactly as much slower as relativistic physics said it should be. So math curves space time. Another way it has been observed to do this is with very distant galaxies. Yeah here ya go https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Gravitational-lensing-galaxyApril12_2010.jp... So now notice how the massive galaxy cluster curved space time around it? The light actually travels a straight line. Its the straight line that's curved. Well it only looks curved because of our frame of reference. Hey don't blame me! I didn't make the rules! Just telling it like it is. To the extent of our current understanding anyway. So obviously (its obvious, right?) the whole mass of the whole universe is doing exactly the same thing. Curving space-time. Curving it so much it wraps around on itself like a ball. Only it can only appear that way from outside. Same as the Earth can only appear spherical by leaving the surface and going out into space. Perspective. From here on Earth it appears quite flat. Or at any rate two dimensional. So it is with our finite, unbounded, universe. |
You misunderstand, MC. It is my area. I was being tactful. 🤗 I give you an A for enthusiasm, though. Okay. Fair enough. However since you’ve just cast aspersions its only fair you give us a reason. Tell you what. Help me get better. Find just one thing, worst most garbled or whatever, just quote it and show us how its wrong. Meanwhile we can all watch this and maybe begin at least to understand why I say Jordan Peterson is our greatest living intellectual. He’s like the Carl Sagan of intellectuals. Sagan didn’t give us equations. He brought science to the masses by making it cool and transcending. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7iHFjrwRCI |
Sorry, MC, I cannot vouch for that. Not your area. I understand. Fascinated me since childhood. Oh well. Easy enough for people to look it up and see. If they don’t want to take my word for it. Which they shouldn’t. Even though its all crazy true. to what did the universe expand from? I never studied astrophysics so I’m always fascinated by the subject so I’m being sincere here. Okay so now we got all the matter there is, expanding out making all the space there is bigger and bigger. This is like hours, days, something like that (look it up) past the big one. At which point - oh but wait, this is kinda cool. All that energy from the Big Bang? Its like a bell that’s been rung, its still slowly faintly ringing. Couple guys, Penzias and Wilson? whatever not gonna look it up their radio telescope had this noise and nothing they did would get rid of it, no matter which way they point the damn thing its there. Finally figure out its the remnant echo of the Big Bang. Won em a Nobel. So anyway this all happened. Multiple lines of evidence. Back to matter. Its almost all hydrogen. Because when the energy cooled and the matter formed it was electrons, protons, neutrons. They start pairing up and form hydrogen, one proton, one electron. Sometimes one neutron too. But usually one e, one p. This hydrogen is all there is. Its expanding. Really fast. And hot. But cooling. Slowly cooling. And slowing down. Because, gravity. The mass of the cloud itself is trying to draw it all back together. (Remember this for later, happens again!) So its expanding, but slower and slower. To this very day. Not uniformly. Some regions are a little more dense than others. What will later become local groups of galaxies separate out. Within those regions other clumps are drawn together by their mutual gravitational pull and will become galaxies. Same process happens within those and forms stars. But not ours. Not yet. The first stars are super massive. The way stars work, the more massive the faster they burn through their hydrogen. Now here’s where it gets interesting. Really freaking interesting. Because, think of it, there’s only hydrogen. Look around. Do you see any hydrogen? Ha! You see everything BUT hydrogen! Where’s all these other elements come from? Good question. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJQjjBR6PbY That’s right! When Carl Sagan said we are star stuff, he wasn’t just being poetic. We literally are. Cliff Notes for those who won’t put in the hour to watch the (totally worth it) video: stars fuse hydrogen into helium. Really massive stars then keep on going using up the helium and in the process creating more elements. Eventually if the star is massive enough it goes supernova. The star collapses, and in this cataclysmic collapse the pressures and temperatures at the core of the star are so immense all the other elements on the periodic table are formed. The release of all this energy then causes the star to explode, sending all these elements out into interstellar space. So that when new stars form they have around them planets with all these elements. Elements like carbon. On which we are all based. But seriously, watch the video. Coolest thing ever. |
to what did the universe expand from? I never studied astrophysics so I’m always fascinated by the subject so I’m being sincere here. What do astrophysicists teach in regards to before the bang. I recommend you read Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time. If you're in Redmond I'll lend you mine. Its actually pretty easy going until the end where he's explaining how matter can escape from a black hole. The answer to your question, what they teach, is conditions prior to the Big Bang are undefined. This is because as we run the calculations back further and further the closer we get to time zero the greater the density of energy. Not matter. Energy. Einstein showed energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. E=mc2. Go back far enough, it was pure energy. Matter only formed some moment after time zero. You can look up the details. I've long since forgotten. As you would know if the mods in their infinite wisdom hadn't decided to remove the post, this was all stuff I learned in grade school. Well a lot of it anyway. More than you would believe. So anyway yeah, undefined. Briefest of instants later, pure energy. Then matter. Which at first was almost exactly equal parts matter and anti-matter. Which they annihilate each other. Eventually this runs its course and turns out there's a bit more matter than anti-matter and so that's why its all matter now. Would be cool if GK would vouch for this. Being theoretical physicist he should know, or at least be able to follow and understand. I am of course leaving out a lot of details, including even details I know about, never mind all the other cool stuff. So the whole thing, all the matter there is, is expanding. You might well ask, expanding into what? Once again, undefined. But it can't be nothing. Nothing is literally "no thing", ie empty space. But there is no space. All the space there is is right here right now. Then too. The universe you see is what we call finite and unbounded. Its finite because we can see and measure its size. But its unbounded because you can never find the end, let alone cross over into somewhere else. Its kind of like the Earth. Its finite. But you can travel all over round and round, forever, never able to leave. You can leave of course, but only by going up, into another dimension. Literally. Got it? Okay so gonna post this, come back with more- cuz there's lots more. |
So in consequence of that, the complete annihilation in a timing fashion, in a timelike manner, the absolute disappearance of anything, makes absolutely no sense at all. Behold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMRrCYPxD0I |
I made a budget system for a friend with small 2-ways like that. $1200 altogether including power cords, speaker cables, interconnect, and Cones for everything. Because even at budget level its all about the tweaks. Then it was set up on one wall in my listening room. Originally just to break it in before delivery it sounded so good it was all I wanted to listen to for the few weeks it was there. Even dragged a few people from work. Because few will spend $12k but many will spend $1.2k. Everyone was impressed, and yet I'm sure it was tweaked out nowhere near as extensively or well as yours. Also this was components selected almost all from reviews and recommendations, no personal auditions or comparisons. Even so its many years later and I still think about that and how wonderful it was. So I have no doubt your system is wonderful. Way better than what I had, which was pretty darn good. And about the cost to upgrade, which probably people find hard to believe, but it sounds just about right to me. That little budget system, it didn't just sit there. It was played with. Crazy things no one would ever do, like put $1200 interconnect in a $1200 system, I did stuff just like that with this system. At first it was just out of curiosity. People always saying how good your system has to be to hear a difference, what its worth spending or not worth spending, its not worth it with those speakers, yada yada all that kind of thing. Basically proved all that stuff is just flat out wrong. Everything matters. The performance you can wring out of even the cheapest gear is way more than people think. Only hardly anyone ever tries. You actually are doing it. |
Yeah well 40 with everything else is pretty good. Lower is better but 3D is better still. A lot of the beauty really comes from subtle details like the character of the pipes and the way the immense acoustic space reverberates. You could get lost in that. Thinking of which, one genre of music it would be nice to have on my shelf. |
Of course there’s a common ancestor but if you’re going to use something to compare human behavior with at least stick with a vertebrate by going back half a billion years to a common ancestor Little late to be saying "of course" don't you think? You do know "of course" is reserved for things that are obvious. Having so recently demonstrated a total lack of understanding of evolutionary biology its a little late to be using "of course". But you know that, right? Of course you do. Try and understand, you are in way over your head here. Ordinarily I enjoy few things more than tearing apart a smugly pontificating liberal. In this case though for your own well being you might want to take a minute- well okay one minute eighteen seconds- and think about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPmMW5w-z-I |
When Pertson compares humans to lobsters he’s fallen of the deep end and clearly knows nothing of evolutionary biology. Oh, really? https://www.quora.com/Do-lobsters-and-humans-have-common-ancestors Clearly you know nothing of evolutionary biology. Nothing. Please. See this is what happens when you rely too long on other people doing your thinking for you. Its like a muscle, use it or lose it. |
Maybe once in a while try something original instead of pasting stuff other people said? I know its harder, having to come up with your own brilliance is hard work. But at least its your own. Peterson is an intellectual tour de force, courageous beyond belief in his willingness to ferret out the truth and speak it unapologetically. He’s been traveling the world for over a year now giving talks, none of which are planned. He has a book out, 12 Rules For Life, and he has talked about that at some of them but its not a book tour, most of his talks are completely unplanned, he just walks on stage, continues thinking deeply about whatever it is he’s been thinking deeply about, and tells you all about it. You have to see it to believe it. And it ain’t cheap. Cost as much as tickets to the Eagle’s. But Peterson is bigger star power than Henley. Bigger than Carl Sagan, another one I was glad to have had the chance to meet. Carl was equally erudite but nowhere near as defiant a truth seeker as Peterson. Take it to the bank. Which is what triggers liberals and why they hate him so. If there’s one thing liberals can’t stand its liberal thought. Thou Shalt Comply With Our PC Dogma is their one and only Commandment. Peterson shatters it. That is the one and the only reason he is hated on the left. He’s none of the things the liars, excuse me liberals, accuse him of, not one negative thing posted above has any merit to it whatsoever. Its just like I said before, when you can’t argue the facts you argue the man. The man in this case is so great you can’t even argue the man. So you lie. His 12 part series of talks on the Bible stories packed them in every night and now another 5 million or so have seen it on-line. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-wWBGo6a2w&t=575s Try watching a few minutes and see if you can stop. His approach is so far removed from "religion" he not only won’t say if he believes in God, he doesn’t even like the question! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUD3pE3ZsQI There’s literally hundreds of hours of Peterson on-line. Who knows maybe thousands. If Peterson harbored anything like the crap he’s accused of there’d be evidence of it. Hate the man if you like, but do it secure in the knowledge its pure unadulterated irrational hatred, without a shred of justification. Other than his not following the Liberals One Commandment. |
Virtually every hour Peterson has talked in class or on stage is up for viewing for free on YouTube. When the Canadian government began consideration of Bill C-16 Peterson rightly was concerned and made a video which brought to light the fact this is the first time in history a western government has made a law compelling speech. Not banning, compelling. With criminal penalties. They passed it into law but Peterson was right. If any of your unhinged claims was actually true no one would have listened. Not then. Not now. Its because every word out of his mouth is true that people listen. He is now uncontestably the foremost intellectual on the world stage today. No one else even comes close. |
You’re starting to sound like a lobster And you’re starting to sound like Cathy Griffin. And we all know how that turned out. So clueless. So utterly clueless. You got me! Priceless! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-rE03PGQfA&t=75s |