If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

It looks like the Rise of Skywalker box office disappointed heavily despite catching a big break when its major competitor in new release, Cats, found itself euthanized at the box office. The $175 million in domestic receipts is far below the $230-250 being projected at the time initial trailers wer...

Keys was pretty dim when it came to statistics and he was way too much of a crusader than is seemly for a scientist, but maybe this shows he was corrupt as well, and refused to publish data that contradicted his pre-existing beliefs. That is fairly normal, there is some classic psychological litera...

Don't know. But there's little doubt the original ill-founded UDSA pyramid was developed based on shoddy, incomplete research under pressure from the agricultural lobbies. Which signaled to nutrition scientists that that was the result the government paymaster wanted, which likely seeded the groupt...

...... The first was a study which was actually based on 50 year old data that didn't get published at the time. Unlike most nutritional science studies, it was a clinical study rather than observational, and involved institutionalized patients. It showed a diet lower in saturated fat did indeed re...

Service Dog wrote: ↑ I've but a spoonful of MCT in coffee. With or without the spoonful Heavy Cream-- which adds up to 'Bulletproof Coffee'.

Me, too, but more than 1 tablespoon and my ass will be shooting bullets (sorry to ruin anyone's dinner).

And yes, I am a bit leery of all the saturated fats involved in the keto diet. It does fly in the face of the Standard American Diet (SAD). I'm not nearly well enough versed yet to give a substantive opinion, but when most everyone tells you that you're embarking on something that's going to give y...

Also, anyone here use MCT (medium chain triglyceride) oil? It's kind of the lazy man's route to achieving ketosis in a matter of hours. Not sure I would use the term 'lazy' since you still need to be in a very low-carb diet to have any chance of MCT oil causing ketosis. I think its main use is alon...

2. Realign with substantial natural ingredient fat/protein based meals which keep you satisfied. No bullshit “keto” sweet treats. Keto desserts are one of the things I've been wondering about since I started a keto diet about 3 weeks ago. I don't have a rampaging sweet tooth so don't have much of a...

So, I find myself fascinated with this upcoming conclusion to the Star Wars sequel trilogy. Not the movie itself, which I couldn't care less about and won't see until it's out on Blu-ray and I can illegally stream it. It's the meta business question of how a smart company like Disney let the brand t...

He seemed to become a libertarian awfully quickly and seemed to spout all of the basic libertarian talking points without much evidence that he had though about them or really understood them. I think he is influenced by whoever he is talking to at the time. It's actually pretty routine for someone...

Being a liberal is not the same thing as being a Democrat supporter or an apologist for the behaviour of the establishment media. Pool has clearly stated that the Republicans will probably take their cue from Schiff when the tables turn. He is not playing the "Dems bad/Republicans good" game. If he...

People are saying that Tim Pool is in an Asian first before an American and has his meth stash in his toque that he never takes off in public. /s He hates America and that is why he hates the rule of law being applied to the malignant narcissist grifter. Every time this bullshitter identifies as a ...

MarcusAu wrote: ↑ That's one great pile of Jung.

You might as well believe in alchemy.

Given that Williams hit his prime in the '70s and '80s when astrology and copious other New Age shit were standard beliefs among actors, his interest in Jung makes him a one eyed man in the land of the blind.

So that thing about Billy Dee Williams being gender fluid? Billy Dee Williams: "What the hell is 'gender fluid'?" He doesn't even know what it means. :lol: Also looks like Williams was just drunkenly riffing on Jungian male-female duality, and the author decided (perhaps because he's an idiot) to g...

I wonder if America has this level of creepy shit going on in schools, conference halls, sports fields and boardrooms ‪Australia’s Xinjiang re-education camps ....‬ ‪https://youtu.be/ksBoJT_gkVc‬ I think it is happening at the college level in North America. It seems to have started in Canada and i...

I think intersection thinking is also part of it. It used to be Democrats vs. Republicans (in the USA), but now it is women vs. men, minorities vs. whites, trans vs. cis, millennials vs. boomers, etc. There are more tribes and the tribes are based on mostly unchangeable characteristics. And there i...

Watch your back, Kirbmarc.

Former Twitter employees charged with spying for Saudi Arabia by digging into the accounts of kingdom critics

The question isn’t when did the culture war start. The issue is when and why did it accelerate into current form. It would probably be a mistake to look for a single magic bullet cause. Like most seemingly abrupt cultural changes, it was likely a confluence of factors in the loosely coupled dynamic...

Maybe the claim you recall was Hunter flying to China aboard the presidential jet, apparently just another blatant falsehood by pathological liar Trump. Nope, that's not a 'claim', it's an indisputable fact, as reported by NBC News from a reporter actually on Air Force Two with the Bidens on the tr...

No sane place wants to be a mini California, this is true, at least in terms of social policy. Wanting to do something about climate is not so crazy. I'm a bit concerned about the state of the discussion about the issue in Australia. Perhaps it's better than I think, but if the relentless stupidity...

He confirmed the "leak". It gave the second source that allowed Novak to publish her name and give it credibility by your own assessment. Assuming he had some briefing on security don't you think he should have known better than even giving it grudging agreement. That is assuming the he said "yeah ...

I don't understand how you chalk up the outcome of the investigation to partisanship. The investigation was done by Patrick Fitzgerald who was appointed by registered Republican James Comey. (Oh how history repeats itself) I see no liberal fingerprints on this turkey. The partisanship I was speakin...

Leaking covert agent Valerie Plame's identity is what got Scooter Libby into trouble. Except he didn't. The leaker was Richard Armitage. Libby was convicted of crimes related to lying to investigators about how he learned of Plame's CIA work, which had no known connection to the leak itself. But th...

While ostensibly an immigration issue, the timing of the crackdown on Canadians suggests that it may be more of a punitive response to Canada's retaliatory tariffs. It does seem extraordinary that a low-level official can initiate a five year ban on the basis of what amounts to little more than sus...

I do not know what to think of these horror stories published about Trump. I'm inclined to take them with a pinch of salt given all the other lies and hyperbole the liberal press is spewing. Having said that, Alison Tieman (HoneyBadger Radio) was stopped at the border trying to enter the US to atte...

Face to face with Maria Schriver, I only-vaguely recognized her as 'someone famous'. (Daughter of JFK, ex-wife of Schwarzenegger). Her deep-set eye sockets, coated in black make-up... I would have guessed daughter of Red Skull. Looks better on TV, tho. I recall a bit Norm MacDonald did in the '90s ...

She's an alcoholic; possibly mood or personality disorder, too. Race had nothing to do with it. Negligent homicide. Murder requires mens rea, which she did not possess, as she truly believed she was in her own apartment. From the reporting on the trial, the prosecutors did actually argue that Guyge...

I couldn't have been clearer in my post that I thought this was a bad shoot anyway, and Slager's actions certainly merited significant jail time. He's just not guilty of murder. That's what Matt "endorsed", not that gunning down a fleeing man was justified. He's not guilty of murder according to yo...

Also don't forget "Frame 394", produced by Fat Cracka and Cruella de Vil, an absurd attempt to justify gunning down a fleeing man. (You seemed to endorse it.) That's about as dishonest an interpretation as I can imagine, and I have to assume you didn't watch the doc and just assumed what its conten...

I don't have much time for children bitching about previous generations either. That's the entire point. Children aren't supposed to tell adults they're abject failures. Exactly why Thunberg has gotten attention and a thousand cerebral lectures have garnered a collective yawn. Adults talk down to c...

One of the earliest and most egregious Title IX kangaroo court cases has ended in a victorious lawsuit. The only problem is the size of the judgement: about $100K, kept low largely due to the Circuit Court Judge keeping out some of the most damning evidence, probably in contravention to the Appeals ...

Here's shoot til down: This MF wouldn't have served a day in prison if it weren't for the camera recording him. He feared for his life (surprise). As is, the first trial against him ending with a hung jury! The only reason he was handed a 20 year sentence was that the feds stepped in and charged hi...

Interesting autoethnographic essay regarding breaking out of the 'woke' dogma bubble: Nuance: a love story A sample: Words like “mansplaining” and “gaslighting” were suddenly in heavy rotation, often invoked with such elasticity as to render them nearly meaningless. Similarly, the term “woke,” which...

Rather, almost everyone gets the majority of their information from the major media unskeptically signal boosting press releases from climate change activist organizations,whose claims are falsely presented as science-based. So that's what organizations opposing them have to focus their fire on. Pe...

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑ ESPN's Body Issue is out.

http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/ ... body-issue#!

A few of the women are quite nice. The men are sure to please if that's your bag of tea.

Needs Russian female tennis players.

Whatever climate change activists claim has absolutely nothing to do with the science... I certainly agree with this. But the problem is, to a reasonable degree of approximation, the percentage of people whose primary source of climate change information is scientific papers is 0. Rather, almost ev...

Just like it's impossible to say man didn't go to the moon without a hoax being necessarily implied, it's also impossible to assert there's been no climate change without implying a hoax. Wow, talk about a ridiculous comparison. When you say the moon landing didn't actually happen despite all the r...

MarcusAu wrote: ↑ Speaking of movies...is anyone else looking forward to this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-TdAi4FW-Y

Tried, but sold out quickly at TIFF also.

Cato's Patrick Michaels is usually held up as one of those anti-alarmists just looking for truth, but it's obvious that his game is to discredit climate research and he doesn't care if he has to misrepresent research papers and scrub inconvenient data. One of his most notable examples is where he t...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kozkmhIyP0I Tried to get tickets to see it at the Toronto International Film Festival in a week and couldn't even though I'm a TIFF member and had early access to tickets. Apparently it entirely sold out from people who buy big multi-film ticket packages, who had the...

The Koch brothers have funded all sorts of climate change denialism, and as such bear significant responsibility for the US public's widespread refusal to accept that climate change is real. It's one thing to say that all of the proposals the progressives have made to combat climate change are poin...

The Koch brothers have funded all sorts of climate change denialism, and as such bear significant responsibility for the US public's widespread refusal to accept that climate change is real. It's one thing to say that all of the proposals the progressives have made to combat climate change are poin...

I think one should be careful to differentiate between the political ideologues whose stance on climate is informed by their anti-conservative views and those people who have an understanding of the issue and genuinely want to inform. Regarding progressive entitlement, in this video Robin Aitken ex...

She quite categorically states that she doesn't believe that the world is going to end. She also states that she was pissed off by the apparent inaction by leaders around climate change, so set up her one day a week protest. She did not expect to go viral (so it wasn't a Machiavellian plot by her p...

She’s slightly right of center on many key issues and to liberals, that makes her a Nazi. Libertarians, like Tucker Carlson, love her. She’s been on his show several times. That alone makes her persona non grata. To me, she seems to at least try to attack issues with common sense, which is rare in ...

An honest question for Merkins. Why is Gabbard getting so little support? While I disagree to a certain extent with her attitude toward military intervention, I think it is at least considered and probably amenable to argument. She is light years ahead of the Dem front-runners in terms of apparent ...

R.I.P. I enjoyed his work in all the usual chocies - Blade Runner, The Hitcher, Ladyhawk etc - but also latter efforts like 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind'. Ah well, 75 is not too bad - marginally better than the promised 3 Score & 10 anyway. He was also good in the HBO movie Fatherland, which ha...

The SJWs are misbehavin' at WEIT, and Coyne is swatting them: https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2019/07/14/ayaan-hirsi-ali-on-ilhan-omar-lobbying-and-hatred/#comment-1750749 It's all very interesting. Slate just published an article saying that the four congresswomen are "sensible, mainstrea...

Just binge-watched "Chernobyl" - cannot recommend it highly enough. Very strong cast, almost every face you see is well-known, the production value looks through the roof (it's HBO) and the whole thing is a gritty warts-and-all account of the circumstances surrounding the Chernobyl disaster. Seriou...

Just binge-watched "Chernobyl" - cannot recommend it highly enough. Very strong cast, almost every face you see is well-known, the production value looks through the roof (it's HBO) and the whole thing is a gritty warts-and-all account of the circumstances surrounding the Chernobyl disaster. Seriou...

Brynn Tannehill … graduated from the Naval Academy with a B.S. in computer science in 1997. In 2008 Brynn earned a M.S. in Operations Research from the Air Force Institute of Technology. Reminds me of an experience I had in the mid '90s while a lead software developer with a medium sized company. T...

Most accurate 2020 US Presidential election analysis I've seen so far.

Why does your graph stop at 2000? To avoid showing the marked decrease in solar activity since then? The data wasn't truncated, if that's what you're asking. The graph is from Wikipedia and is based on data from published papers from the '90s, hence nothing beyond 2000. As I mentioned, the reduced ...

What is known from GCR measurements, solar activity and possibly other established facts is that the warming we have been seeing over the last fifty years or so is definitely not due to GCR. The standard rebuttal to Shaviv's claim is that solar activity has declined since the mid-80's while tempera...

It's a pity any discussion about climate change policy inevitable degrades into whether it's human's fault and actually happening. One can agree it's happening and is human's fault and still disagree about the best course of action. Right. Multiple questions seem to get conflated: Is the climate wa...

The effect of cosmic rays on climate is through seeding of clouds by nucleation of particles. There are so many other sources of cloud seeding particles that the potential effect of ionisation by cosmic rays is probably negligible. Shaviv's recreation of the historical cosmic radiation record makes...

The evidence for the link between solar activity, cosmic rays, clouds, and temperature is primarily due to the published work of Nir Shaviv, Henrik Svensmark, Jan Veizer and others. Cosmic radiation incidence on earth does roughly follow the solar cycle, with times of greater solar activity corresp...

There's solid evidence that changing cosmic ray flux from the sun is responsible for some of the observed temperature increase over the last 40 years, there's no support for it being the primary driver, and at best it shares responsibility with anthropogenic CO2. And this solid evidence is? From wh...

This is a fascinating documentary, which presents a plausible case for why we ought not to worry about anthropogenic climate change. It seems to present a calm and reasonable argument (save for an overly dramatic intro) for solar activity causing temperature variations, with changes in CO2 followin...

If Trump were charged in federal court and somehow CFB was on the jury, Trump would have less of a chance of a fair trial than a black man accused of rape in 1950's Alabama. What a shitty and underhanded analogy. How's that? It was clearly an analogy regarding bias. No sane person could possibly re...

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