FlyingSquid

FlyingSquid , 24 days ago

And once again we see that there is no global situation that bigots can’t twist to their advantage.

FlyingSquid , 24 days ago

Don’t worry, I’m sure at least some of it is going to mine crypto.

FlyingSquid , 24 days ago

Didn’t they listen to the polling last time? They clearly should have run a lettuce.

FlyingSquid OP , 24 days ago

Except he left the real world again immediately and went back to being treated like he was Homo Superior. Oh well.

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

Unfortunately, it shouldn’t be shocking that a Junta that fomented a genocide doesn’t give much of a shit about anyone else either.

FlyingSquid OP , 24 days ago

Do independents? Because they’re who this election will rest on.

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

“Three things people in this world consume more than almost anyone else now poison you.”

Hooray.

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

Excuse my, but my only toxicity is in my attitude, thank you very much.

My ink is PFAS-free.

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

A lot of the world will die if they give up rice.

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

Are you suggesting we begin sharpening large blades?

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

No no, I’m just trying to make sure your kitchen is at its best. I do have some suggestions for how to build a knife block though…

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

Someone remind me of what happened after Johnson was replaced and how that worked out for the Democrats…

I don’t like Biden. None of us here appear to like Biden. The problem is that no one can agree on who would be best to replace him with. Unless that can be resolved right away, we’re stuck with Biden whether or not that means failure. Honestly, at this point, I’m seeing Trump’s presidency as a horrific inevitability.

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

It looks like Trump’s involvement with the Epstein docs has been completely blacklisted by the U.S.

This is where I found a story- timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…/111465121.cms

FlyingSquid , 24 days ago

I don’t think a black woman has much of a chance of being elected president in this climate, but even if that weren’t the case, it’s my understanding that she’s even more disliked than Biden.

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

https://media2.giphy.com/media/RlO3bvMJyz3L4vGKsx/200w.gif?cid=6c09b95247vmsu7syk3ju8bvf9fss1j1at6dokx5tl5ts3vl&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=200w.gif&ct=g

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

Yes.

FlyingSquid OP , 25 days ago

All I know is you chase a gazelle through my oats and you’re going to get a hollow-base arrowhead in your back.

And if you’re lucky, I won’t drag your ass up a mountain and freeze you there until some German hikers discover you 12,000 years later.

FlyingSquid OP , 24 days ago

If only this were CSI. “Enhance!”

FlyingSquid OP , 24 days ago

Take a new screenshot of what exactly? I’m sorry, I have no ability to uncensor an image that was censored before I even saw it. Those are beyond my elite hacker powers.

FlyingSquid OP , 25 days ago

Some do it for the clicks, some are genuinely insane. The former attracts the latter and eventually it becomes a feedback loop.

FlyingSquid OP , 25 days ago

The common ancestor of termites and ants is a lot more distant than you think.

Termites evolved from cockroaches and ants evolved from wasps.

www.uni-muenster.de/news/view.php?cmdid=9358

On the other hand, the answer is that the other termites all turn into crabs.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation

FlyingSquid OP , 24 days ago

I am guessing yes. And the formic acid stinger some ants have is a leftover too.

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

You do know what Germany did in the mid-20th century, right?

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

What Palestinian people? You mean the refugees who will have no homeland once Israel annexes it all?

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

I would say in every way. It was basically pointless. We even proved it only took a small force to get Bin Laden. And not in Afghanistan.

If the war had to happen, it should have ended once the coalition knew Bin Laden had left the country.

FlyingSquid , 24 days ago

The person you were berating agrees with you. I’m not sure why you aren’t clear on that.

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

He better keep a lot of changes of underwear in his car.

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

True, but he could have been next. Maybe “outlasted my predecessor who couldn’t outlast a lettuce?”

FlyingSquid OP , 25 days ago

In Old English, the two people married were known as ‘husband’ and ‘huswif,’ so maybe we need to go with heman and sheman from now on.

FlyingSquid OP , 25 days ago

Well I didn’t expect to see a Meg Cabot reference on Lemmy. (She’s actually a family friend believe it or not.)

FlyingSquid OP , 25 days ago

Probably cheap compared to that Kashi stuff.

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

Have police there never heard of a “letter opener”? 🤔

At this point, a significant number of them are young enough to have never opened a letter in their lives, so possibly. But this is still extremely stupid.

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/503841a4-2ec5-4843-9403-6abcec5029be.png

That old man lying motherfucker…

FlyingSquid OP , 25 days ago

I love Scarfolk Council stuff.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f25691b6-4a90-4300-9a26-311815c0685a.png

FlyingSquid OP , 25 days ago

As a general rule one shouldn’t believe in stuff that cant be proven.

Then why should I believe your suggestion that there were cultures that existed before the Younger Dryas with zero genetic evidence of domestication of plants or animals?

The point is to make you stop thinking in terms of what can’t and start thinking in terms of what can

There was someone who recently told me that one shouldn’t believe in stuff that can’t be proven.

FlyingSquid OP , 25 days ago

Re #1-

As a general rule one shouldn’t believe in stuff that cant be proven.

Re #2-

If there’s no evidence, there’s no knowledge to be derived. Also, theories have evidence and are testable. What you are talking about is a thought experiment. They’re not especially useful in archaeology.

Also-

you should and neither because dead archeologists #3 says you shouldn’t.

We’re talking about living genetic scientists, not dead archeologists. I realize that you’re part of the whole “you can’t trust scientists” crowd, but that doesn’t give you the right to pretend genetics doesn’t exist or is some outdated idea.

FlyingSquid OP , 24 days ago

People trow science around but they don’t actually commit to scientific thought of themselves.

Scientific thought as absolutely no genetic evidence of domesticated animals or plants before what we believe to be the advent of agriculture? For some reason you don’t think genetics tell us anything about the past.

FlyingSquid OP , 24 days ago

Scientific thought as having the intention to understand , using the 5+ senses to observe the beautiful cosmos around you without judgement or bias. Then coming up with your own intelligent conclusions.

That is not science.

Science uses the scientific method.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method

FlyingSquid OP , 24 days ago

Yes, if you take that sentence completely out of context from the rest of the sentences in that summary, you don’t need anything like testable hypotheses and falsifiable theories. But you do if you want to do science.

FlyingSquid OP , 24 days ago

That is a strange response to finding out you’re not understanding the basic concept of the scientific method wherein a hypothesis has to be testable and a theory falsifiable is the cornerstone of modern science.

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

You can’t tax me! I’m standing in a circle of salt!

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

That is not in any way the same. Either there are hierarchies of power and the people at the top get rich and corporations make profits or it’s a communist country. You can’t have it both ways no matter how much you want to take the concept of communality from communism.

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

And yet there were plenty of other communist countries in the 20th century that did not have any corporations making profits. Why is Cuba special in this regard?

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

Well I sure as hell know that corporations and profit don’t belong with whatever definition of communism you seem to be suggestion.

The very idea that allowing corporate profits are still communist as long as it’s not the primary mode of production is nonsense. If every single thing in Cuba was privatized apart from its tobacco industry, its largest export, would you say it was still a communist country?

I’m also curious how you’ll defend Cuba’s three largest exports being addictive, carcinogenic substances. And yes, to pre-empt the whataboutism, I know the U.S. exports a whole lot of toxic shit, but we’re not talking about the U.S.