tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post1601210070684246051..comments2024-03-28T10:56:52.861-07:00Comments on CONTRARY BRIN: More marvels from space -- starting with this UFO crap, then real wonders.David Brinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-24651787121487515272021-05-29T10:50:43.043-07:002021-05-29T10:50:43.043-07:00onward
onwardonward<br /><br />onwardDavid Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-1478882084718377002021-05-29T10:23:08.038-07:002021-05-29T10:23:08.038-07:00Robert, heh? Neigh!!!
LH yeah, it's called &...Robert, heh? Neigh!!!<br /><br />LH yeah, it's called "rolling coal" and the fact that many of them have wives and have reproduced is clearly the fault of a faminism that has not confronted the greatest service they can to for girls... teaching them to have high standards.David Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-18422865758132875022021-05-29T10:11:49.438-07:002021-05-29T10:11:49.438-07:00Dr Brin:
Dopes expressing politely troglodytic op...Dr Brin:<br /><i><br />Dopes expressing politely troglodytic opinions are eminently shruggable and I don't mind. Rug-shitters are handed over to the filter, which keeps getting better!<br /></i><br /><br />That's what the old Cerebus list was like too. The one and only banning ever on that list was not because of the guy's ideas, but because he posted hundreds of posts at a time--many of them personally threatening to other individuals--which basically made the list unreadable. And he did that intentionally so that he <b>would</b> be banned, I guess to make the list moderators into seeming-hypocrites. Even those who generally argued against banning in general--I was one of them--had to concede that this was a special case.<br /><br />And it didn't lead to a slippery slope of banning for increasingly-trivial excuses. It remained the singular exception which proved the rule of open dialogue.<br /><br />As a metaphor, this might be the kind of thing which ultimately convinces Senators Kristen Sinema and Joe Manchin that the McConnell Senate is singular exception which requires abandonment of the illusion of bipartisanship.Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-43664145696969441992021-05-29T10:04:26.178-07:002021-05-29T10:04:26.178-07:00Dr Brin:
The fact that Trumpists instead sabotage...Dr Brin:<br /><i><br />The fact that Trumpists instead sabotaged all efforts to track and stop egregious venting of kilotons of methane, wasting a resource while polluting the planet, just to save a few criminal assholes a few pennies here and these, is absolute proof that these guys aren't in it to negotiate pragmatic solutions for us all, but rather are a pack of drooling-evil, truly-treasonous and utterly insane-stupid horrors.<br /></i><br /><br />All true, but not quite far enough. "Wasting a resource while polluting the planet" is not <b>just</b> a price they're willing to pay to save money for their crime bosses. They actively <b>like</b> the fact that they cause damage and make liberals cry. They would be in favor of wasting resources and polluting the planet even if doing so <b>cost</b> them money.Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-39167322764862294082021-05-29T10:00:49.566-07:002021-05-29T10:00:49.566-07:00sure we can reduce CO2 emissions (but not methane!...<i> sure we can reduce CO2 emissions (but not methane!) by shifting to horse-power!</i><br /><br />When I was a wee lad my grandfather told me about how the motor car cleaned up London. Diseases and such used to be a much bigger problem before motor cars cleaned the streets!<br /><br />Today's problems were often yesterday's solutions — and it behooves* us to remember that.<br /><br /><br />*Pun fully intended. :-)Robertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-26385823757445106062021-05-29T09:45:46.659-07:002021-05-29T09:45:46.659-07:00Caught in fabulation, he retreats to implicit sarc...Caught in fabulation, he retreats to implicit sarcasm... sure we can reduce CO2 emissions (but not methane!) by shifting to horse-power! Blah, blah, blah. None of this, nor even zero-sum fixation, proves insanity as much as the inability to NEGOTIATE a balanced outcome, starting with low-hanging fruit.<br /><br />Biggest example. If they weren't insane and evil, the mad right would have wanted to continue and enhance enforcement of methane leak-prevention from wells and pipelines, since eliminating those sources of greenhouse gas could be done cheaply and win sincerity cred for them, while (maybe) slowing down a catastrophe that would lead to harsher measures.<br /><br />The fact that Trumpists instead sabotaged all efforts to track and stop egregious venting of kilotons of methane, wasting a resource while polluting the planet, just to save a few criminal assholes a few pennies here and these, is absolute proof that these guys aren't in it to negotiate pragmatic solutions for us all, but rather are a pack of drooling-evil, truly-treasonous and utterly insane-stupid horrors.<br /><br />---<br /><br />Much better stated this time, Matthew. I DO have a complete right to moderate and ban whomever I wish, and my standards are clear and reasonable. Dopes expressing politely troglodytic opinions are eminently shruggable and I don't mind. Rug-shitters are handed over to the filter, which keeps getting better! <br /><br />---<br />David Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-58790916274807581422021-05-29T09:21:26.266-07:002021-05-29T09:21:26.266-07:00Sorry about the bee sting reaction, David. I kept ...Sorry about the bee sting reaction, David. I kept bees when I was a kid and I have always loved the hobby. I have neighbors that insist on spraying or I would be considering them now. I have been doing some landscaping rehab to my property and planted crimson clover to fix some nitrogen in the soil. Bees this spring were *everywhere* and it was glorious. I've counted around 16 species on my property that I can differentiate between with my low knowledge base. <br /><br />Note that the ent does not have "free speech" here. This is a private blog on a commercial website. The first amendment says that the government cannot regulate speech. Nothing about blog owners or commercial businesses. Not saying that the ent should be barred - we've had that discussion before and I voiced my support for keeping them. <br />But there is no free speech here. This is a regulated environment. How it is regulated is the Doc and Blogger's business. The Doc decided that the ents past threats did not deserve a ban. If I disagreed with the DOc, then I'd leave if I felt unsafe. The kibble-ent doesn't scare me, so I stay and sometimes point and laugh at the pathetic neo-nazi pretending to be a deep thinker. Not feeding the trolls is one thing, allowing hate speech to go unchallenged is another. matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17757867868731829206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-35937734849831572222021-05-29T07:19:27.862-07:002021-05-29T07:19:27.862-07:00@Robert
One of my in-laws died just before New Ye...@Robert<br /><br />One of my in-laws died just before New Years Day. A few of my relatives caught COVID-19 in December and one of them still had the cough three months later. An acquaintance I just found out had been in the hospital with it back in October. I was surprised to learn he was down for a month recovering afterwards.He's an otherwise healthy middle aged male like me and had to receive antibody plasma injections.john fremonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06505620790054721035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-55303499460070190002021-05-29T00:44:21.608-07:002021-05-29T00:44:21.608-07:00Ah. Read about the bee that snuck through a trouse...Ah. Read about the bee that snuck through a trouser cuff on twitter, but not the result.<br />Bummer.<br /><br />In addition to the short, sharp shocks Shell and Chevron received, there were a couple of local wins on the environment front this week:<br />1. <a href="https://www.acf.org.au/acf-wins-court-case-on-adani-water-scheme" rel="nofollow">Australian Federal Court ruled that 'water triggers' were valid</a> and should be applied to Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine. (Central Qld has a lot more other uses for 15 billion litres of water). Mind you, it might require 15 billion litres of salt to be poured onto the zombie project before it finally dies!<br />2. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/may/27/australian-court-finds-government-has-duty-to-protect-young-people-from-climate-crisis" rel="nofollow">Environment minister has been found to have 'a duty of care' to protect younger people against future harm from climate change</a> in deciding mining approvals. What that duty entails has yet to be decided, but this is apparently the first time anywhere such a duty has been established.<br />Tony Fiskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14578160528746657971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-57981451570870166942021-05-28T22:44:40.559-07:002021-05-28T22:44:40.559-07:00https://www.nbcnews.com/business/energy/climate-ac...<br />https://www.nbcnews.com/business/energy/climate-activists-score-wins-against-exxon-shell-chevron-n1268705<br /><br />Quote<br /><i>"The question for oil companies is when and how much" do they reduce oil and gas production in response to investor and social concerns, said Charles Elson, a professor of corporate governance at the University of Delaware.</i><br />End quote<br /><br />As a horse owner, I'm well aware that it's theoretically possible to transition from fossil fuels to renewable non-polluting energy sources, just like it's theoretically possible for California to keep its electrical grid functional when a light breeze shorts out its aging infrastructure, it may happen eventually or some day, or maybe not, and maybe not soon.<br /><br />Not holding my breath, just not a big fan of auto-asphyxiation, no thank you. I nearly suffocated once in the 1990s while waiting on cold fusion. Never again, but feel free to call when cheap renewable non-polluting energy becomes a fait accompli.<br /><br /><br />Bestlocumranchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-6131401984936876182021-05-28T21:18:37.465-07:002021-05-28T21:18:37.465-07:00Moreover, if we replace fossil fuels where they CA...Moreover, if we replace fossil fuels where they CAN be replaced, then constinuing to use them in jet planes and rockets won't make a lick of difference or harm to the planet. Only idiots who deeply believe in zero-sum would even pose that dumb strawman.<br />David Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-81934814504097739202021-05-28T19:21:22.745-07:002021-05-28T19:21:22.745-07:00Wait. Somebody wants us to believe we can't tr...Wait. Somebody wants us to believe we can't travel without burning massive amounts of fossil fuels? In this age of bio-jet fuel, electric vehicles, and spacecraft (which don't fly to orbit on gasoline)?<br /><br />Some folks really are stuck in the past, I guess...Jon S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13585842845661267920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-35191758557199725342021-05-28T18:26:09.670-07:002021-05-28T18:26:09.670-07:00Sorry, I had to go back to: "Time will tell a...Sorry, I had to go back to: "Time will tell and, until then, I suggest that you travel while you still can, before an unidentified World Government shuts down Shell, Exxon & Chevron because *reasons*, aliens and climate change."<br /><br />Wheeeee! "Unidentified" because it is a pure fantasm with ZERO evidence it exists... while the combine of Putinist "ex" commies, and still-commie allies across their border, plus oil sheiks, mafiosi, casino moguls and inheritance brats is utterly real, documented, proved and actively uncaring whether they are seen or not.<br /><br />And this character tries to lecture us on perception?<br />David Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-62838473826808404592021-05-28T17:37:57.854-07:002021-05-28T17:37:57.854-07:00Robert:
how many people here know someone who die...Robert:<br /><i><br />how many people here know someone who died with Covid? I've lost a relative myself…<br /></i><br /><br />I lost one older relative who was in bad shape to begin with. <br /><br />His wife was also hospitalized, but survived.<br /><br />One of my cousins's sons brought COVID home to all of his siblings, parents, and grandmother. The grandmother was hospitalized, but also survived.<br /><br />While I don't know him personally, the proprietor of a famous rib joint in my home town of Evanston also died of COVID.Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-52279380267169545952021-05-28T17:04:35.599-07:002021-05-28T17:04:35.599-07:00Robert,
I do. At least two. No one real close to ...Robert,<br /><br />I do. At least two. No one real close to me, but within two degrees of separation through someone who is.<br /><br /><br />David,<br /><br />So much for arthritic toe relief.<br /><br />As a kid I wasn't allergic to much beyond penicillin. My first degree family was, but not me. My older-self reaction to pollen skipped over allergies and went straight to asthma after heavy exposure in CA's central valley.<br /><br />I know there are desensitization tricks, but I never felt like getting jabbed enough to find out if they'd work. It was simply easier for me to move to the coast for the on-shore (pollen-poor) breeze.Alfred Differhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01170159981105973192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-63197828876177348152021-05-28T16:57:12.544-07:002021-05-28T16:57:12.544-07:00Larry,
No, it's kind of like religion.
Heh. ...Larry,<br /><br /><i>No, it's kind of like religion.</i><br /><br />Heh. Could be... but I was pretty delusional when I was younger too. <br /><br />I think there might even be a mental defense in play. When asked how I was doing (after returning to work from the ICU) I used to tell people what happened and what was still happening. Many of them quickly decided they didn't want to know. I eventually learned to spot the "I'm trapped" look on their faces and let them go. 8)<br /><br />One guy I told early, though, turned white as a sheet. Turns out his mother suffered the same exact way. She beat it the first round using the nasty chemo-drug, but it returned later and she gave up. The look on his face was the kind you give to dead men walking. (I'm still alive and kicking, but he knew too much to think that highly likely.)<br /><br /><br />From all this, I've decided not to get too harsh on people who prefer to remain ignorant or delusion about health risks. It just doesn't seem to matter much or even very often.<br /><br />Alfred Differhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01170159981105973192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-49007500199636139812021-05-28T14:31:44.044-07:002021-05-28T14:31:44.044-07:00Alfred Differ:
I'm just not able to be ignora...Alfred Differ:<br /><i><br />I'm just not able to be ignorant or delusional about that. TB is and there is no ethical way to convince him and many others like him of their error.<br /></i><br /><br />No, it's kind of like religion. You know, when I tell someone I don't believe in Jesus, and she says all teary-eyed, "But <b>He</b> believes in <b>you</b>."<br /><br />It doesn't matter whether you believe in COVID. COVID believes in you.<br />Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-34997042117475571632021-05-28T14:27:01.611-07:002021-05-28T14:27:01.611-07:00Jon S:
I agree that the ent has his freedom of sp...Jon S:<br /><i><br />I agree that the ent has his freedom of speech.<br /><br />And I have my freedom to scroll right past and not pollute my attentions with his garbage. It's very nice.<br /></i><br /><br />Like Captain Renault in <i>Casablanca</i>:<br /><i><br />"It is a little game we play. They put it on the bill, I tear up the bill. It is very convenient."<br /></i>Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-85672600968203997582021-05-28T14:11:22.277-07:002021-05-28T14:11:22.277-07:00Owie owie on the bee sting!
I just got my first sa...Owie owie on the bee sting!<br />I just got my first sample of a new variety of carbonaceous chondrite, type CL (Loongana). I have to research what differentiates it from its brethren, but it looks like all the ones we have samples of right now have been substantially altered on their home planetoid before getting bounced into an Earth-crossing orbit. We have proposed a few other flavors of carbonaceous chondrites (see also CY et. al.) but this is the first new official classification in a while.TheMadLibrarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09103164355746196049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-19503396080931356932021-05-28T14:02:01.441-07:002021-05-28T14:02:01.441-07:00Just curious — how many people here know someone w...Just curious — how many people here know someone who died with Covid? I've lost a relative myself…Robertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-61618929510631038772021-05-28T14:00:42.240-07:002021-05-28T14:00:42.240-07:00Story idea:
UFOS are real, Aliens too. Yet, those ...Story idea:<br />UFOS are real, Aliens too. Yet, those aliens are neither saviors, conquerors, wise teachers or researchers - they are simply criminals who illegally enter the Sol System Primitive & Dangerous Species Reservation, to poach, to play with us, to provide an opportunity for an interstellar safari for well-paying clients. The jerk who was responsible for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_mutilation#Aliens_and_UFOs" rel="nofollow">event in Nebraska</a> now serves his time in a penal colony not far away, since the reptiloid undercover police agents were able to apprehend him shortly after.<br /><br /><i>I agree that the ent has his freedom of speech.<br /><br />And I have my freedom to scroll right past and not pollute my attentions with his garbage. It's very nice.</i><br /><br />I have made the experience to ignore them. Don't feed the troll, and so on. Saves time and life quality. Ignore them to death.<br /><br />Funny thing is (or a repeating pattern), they sound similar all over the world - those Reichsbürger and Neonazi loonies of ours utter the same crap about the press, as do rightwing politicians all over the world do.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Der Ogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00977602334642769985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-11196370124948618242021-05-28T11:45:20.733-07:002021-05-28T11:45:20.733-07:00
Hey Slim! No sweat, man.
“I agree that the ent ...<br />Hey Slim! No sweat, man.<br /><br />“I agree that the ent has his freedom of speech. And I have my freedom to scroll right past …”<br /><br />Yep. What gets nutters into the spam filter is screeching howls that attempt to force our community members to watch them shit on our rug. Treebeard – in contrast - is concise and skippable… though I tend to actually read his stuff! I always find it interesting… if not in ways he intended.<br /><br />Heh! Even locumranch was kinda fun, this time, with Mel Brooks references. His 1st half wasn’t even insane! Of course it couldn’t last and he went dopey. But a pat on the head, anyway.<br /><br />Oh, just for you guys, not even FB, I spent a couple hours in hospital from a bad bee sting reaction. So that’s one hobby I was hugely enjoying that I may have to give up. Crap.<br />David Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-77997691766693259742021-05-28T07:34:09.730-07:002021-05-28T07:34:09.730-07:00Looking at the calendar, I can't help but noti...Looking at the calendar, I can't help but notice the (44th) anniversary of the day I first saw the original <i>Star Wars</i>.<br /><br />That changed everything.<br /><br />Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-71096162308616964122021-05-28T06:18:21.548-07:002021-05-28T06:18:21.548-07:00@Senator Joe Manchin,
#ThereAreNotTenGoodRepublic...@Senator Joe Manchin,<br /><br />#ThereAreNotTenGoodRepublicans<br /><br />Just sayin'Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-47122383653570963652021-05-28T00:13:54.719-07:002021-05-28T00:13:54.719-07:00Slim Moldie,
From TB | Since all media is a consp...Slim Moldie,<br /><br />From TB | <i>Since all media is a conspiracy to manipulate people’s minds</i><br /><br />Heh. That got a chuckle from me and then I skipped the rest. I learned about Yellow Journalism in US History in HS, thus was inoculated against a belief in Objective Journalism. My teachers made sure to link the publisher's objectives to the publication's slant, though. "Media" isn't biased. People are.<br /><br /><br />From TB | <i>success of the engineered covid mass hysteria</i><br /><br />But you made the list of 'weird' easy enough to read that I went back to the original and ran into that gem. It has some wonderful, conspiratorial assumptions built in much like Creationism. If it's complex like a watch, it MUST be designed, no? Thus mass hysteria must be engineered. Never mind that it's not really hysteria when your parents and grandparents are getting sick and dying.<br /><br />I'm going to take a potentially rash step here and apply the broad brush to it all. This is just the behavior of a young mind that thinks it is invulnerable or of an older one that wishes to remain in that blissful state. Either ignorance or delusion.<br /><br /><br />Personally, I spent a little over a week in the ICU back in 2013 with my lungs half filled with fluid and RBC's escaping confinement in pretty much every direction. The only thing I didn't suffer that I saw some ventilated covid patients facing was that fluid in my lungs turned into a hydrogel. It was scary enough while I could cough it out, but they couldn't and that put a hell of a chill in my gut. Could help but deep-cough sympathetically. <br /><br />Hysteria? Nope. I'm just not able to be ignorant or delusional about that. TB is and there is no ethical way to convince him and many others like him of their error. However, they'll learn some day if they survive the experience they'll face.<br /><br />Alfred Differhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01170159981105973192noreply@blogger.com