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Comment Re:What do you expect? (Score 1) 283

They're being groomed by mouth breathing nitwits like Andrew Taint, Joe Rogan, 4/8chan, and Jordan Peterson. Emotions are for p*ssies, it's not r*pe if you paid for her meal, and "why is that woman talking?" is the curriculum they're being fed. They're not falling behind; they're experiencing evolutionary regression.

If you see a pattern in Andrew Tait, Joe Rogan, *Chan, and Jordan Peterson, there's another nitwit in the discussion.

Comment Re:United Healthcare shooter in custody (Score 1) 65

So do you think he was left-wing or right-wing? He seems anti-capitalist, but he used a gun. This presents a paradox and makes his actions difficult to understand.

What? Guns are the exclusive province of the right wing? Cf. Black Panthers, Patty Hearst and the SLA, Mao, et al. If only it were so.

Submission + - Pagers Explode Simultaneously in Lebanon Targeting Hezbollah

lsllll writes: There has been a coordinated explosion of pagers in Lebanon, killing at least 9 and injuring 2800, according to CNN. The explosions appear to target members of Hezbollah, the Shia Islamist political party and militant group in Lebanon which aligns itself with Iran. There have been no details as to how the paging devices could have been compromised to allow for such coordinated attack. Hezbollah has blamed Israel for the attack. The Iranian ambassador to Lebanon has also been hurt by the explosion of a nearby pager. According to Maha Yahya, the director of Carnegie Middle East in Beirut, Lebanon, how Hezbollah responds to this attack could depend on Israel's next move.

“Is this also a first step in a broader escalation that Israel is planning? Because we’ve also been hearing from the Israeli government that they would like to expand the conflict into Lebanon in a more significant way than what we’ve seen so far,” she said, referring to a string of bellicose statements by Israeli officials contemplating a wider confrontation with Hezbollah in Lebanon."

Submission + - Aviation Week Believes Secret SR-72 Plane is in Production at Lockheed Martin (substack.com) 1

schwit1 writes: “The SR72 is believed to be a Mach 6+ aircraft, this new platform was slated from the start as an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) asset with strike capabilities. This meant the aircraft would be capable of carrying a variety of payloads, including munitions to engage ground targets.”

Comment Re:What if Marcuse is right? (Score 1) 55

"Capitalism is the worst way of managing real world resource allocation, except for all the others that have been tried."

How come the native americans of the west left the gold in the hills and ate heartily enough from salmon runs that were so thick you could walk across the Columbia River on them?

Is the real tragedy of the commons that privatization enclosed it, taking away our freedom not to cooperate, nonviolently, with markets, as much as possible?

How come there was no tragedy of the commons in the american west before the privateering anglos got there? Is capitalism some kind of disease that destroys a natural spirit of sharing land?

Oh, please! https://allaboutbison.com/buff...

Comment Researcher finds water may be wet... (Score 1) 3

...and TFA gets some basic facts wrong. Examples include the following sentence:

Coyotes are making a comeback in the Bay Area and Northern California after decades of decimation by farmers and ranchers, who poisoned and hunted the feral canines.

Coyotes are not feral -- they were never domesticated, at least not to any extent -- and they are one of the most adaptable predator species on the North American continent. They have been locally pressured by eradication efforts, but they have never been in a serious decline.

Submission + - Plants may be absorbing 20% more CO2 than we thought, new models find (newatlas.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Using realistic ecological modeling, scientists led by Western Sydney University’s Jürgen Knauer found that the globe’s vegetation could actually be taking on about 20% more of the CO2 humans have pumped into the atmosphere and will continue to do so through to the end of the century.

“What we found is that a well-established climate model that is used to feed into global climate assessments by the likes of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) predicts stronger and sustained carbon uptake until the end of the 21st century when extended to account for the impact of some critical physiological processes that govern how plants conduct photosynthesis,” said Knauer.

Mathematical models of ecological systems are used to understand complex ecological processes and in turn attempt to predict how the real ecosystems they’re based on will change. The researchers found that the more complex their modeling, the more surprising the results – in the environment’s favor.

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