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wvParticipantI only saw the highlights. But its pretty clear this team will be better than the 97 Rams.
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vwvParticipantOh I do blame the “system” for many things including our need to be at all cost “winners” and “better” than others.
But I don’t blame the “system” for our inherent racism and bigotry.
I don’t blame it for our lack of political critical thinking.
I don’t blame it for our need for simple and quick answers to difficult issues.
I don’t blame it for the rise of evangelical crusades in our country-hence Kavanaugh.
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Yes, we disagree. I do indeed blame the ‘system’ for those things. People ‘learn’ racism and bigotry. And in a different system I think they would learn the opposite of those things.
Same for the other things you listed.Other systems also have spawned racism, bigotry, “the need for simple answers,” superstition, and “lack of political critical thinking.” So I’m not saying the US system is the only pathological anti-biosphere system. There are and have been others. The US is just the most powerful anti-biosphere system in existence.
So yeah i blame pathological systems.
I guess your view is more dark than mine maybe? You blame evil human nature?
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vwvParticipantI saw the Patriots won. I believe they had 3 grade-school kids playing the WR positions.
How long can one team be this good?
Am i ever going to get to see them implode?
Their excellence gnaws at my soul.
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vwvParticipantthere are so many more people that I ever thought were like that. However, unlike you I don’t think the “system” has dumb downed these people -we’ve done it to ourselves w/o the help of government..
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Right. That is our big difference. I blame the system (not the government, but the ‘system’ which is essentially the marriage of the Mega-Corps and the Government) and you do not.
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vwvParticipantYes but then the question is, why do they see TRUMP as the lesser evil.
Because from any objective measure I can think of that accounts for working people (all classes including middle) and their interests, he is NOT the lesser evil.
He is the WORST of the evils.
He only ISN’T if you think the problem is people of color, immigration, and so on.
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Well my short-answer is because this, swamp-system, this dirty-rotten-system (to quote Dorothy Day) has dummed-down and damaged the voters so much that they dont have the ‘political IQ’ to evaluate corporate-capitalism or economics in general and the dirty-rotten-system has also reduced their compassion in general, and thus the racism, sexism, immigration-izm, etc.
The system has destroyed the people and they will probly now destroy the system. Or the Biosphere. Or both.
Have a nice day.
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vSeptember 7, 2018 at 9:09 pm in reply to: setting up the Raiders game, w/ PFF, & also what Raiders fans are saying #90501wvParticipantSeptember 3, 2018 at 6:54 pm in reply to: On Mack, Donald and the Value of a Franchise Defensive Player: By Albert Breer #90380wvParticipantWell i thot the writer should have explained why the Raiders didnt have cap room to make a Mack deal. Why was their cap so tied-up.
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vIt’s not cap room. They have the cap space. The extension would be on the cap in 2019 and the Raiders have enough cap space next year to sign 2 K.Macks.
It’s paying out bonuses and guaranteed money. According to league rules, any future guaranteed money means a team has to put an equivalent amount in escrow when the player signs. Combine that with the bonus, which has to be given to the player all at once in cash even though it counts differently against the cap.
Cash-rich SK can afford that. Cash poor Davis can’t.
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Ok, well “Cap”, “Cash”, “money” its all the same to me. So you are saying the owner didnt have enough ready cash to pay a player a huge contract?
Well why would i wanna play for Oakland?
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vSeptember 3, 2018 at 4:50 pm in reply to: On Mack, Donald and the Value of a Franchise Defensive Player: By Albert Breer #90378wvParticipantWell i thot the writer should have explained why the Raiders didnt have cap room to make a Mack deal. Why was their cap so tied-up.
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September 1, 2018 at 8:20 pm in reply to: What delayed humans from crossing the Bering Straight into North America #90284wvParticipantWait just a second, Mr Science. That chart makes it seem like the Wooly Mammoth was the same size or smaller than a regular ole Elephant.
thats gotta be fake mammoth news.
Nice try though.
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vThe woolly mammoth was only about the size of an African elephant. They are very closely related to the modern Asian elephant which is even smaller. The huge mammoths that were bigger than modern elephants were the Steppe and Colombian mammoths. There was also a cow-sized mammoth that survived on Wrangel Island above Siberia until the pyramids in Egypt were built. Scientists think that was most likely just a coincidence, though.
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What are the chances we can whip up support for nicknaming Aaron Donald “Megatherium.”
The whole Dline could be the “Big fearsome Immovable Sloths.”
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vSeptember 1, 2018 at 5:52 pm in reply to: What delayed humans from crossing the Bering Straight into North America #90276wvParticipantWait just a second, Mr Science. That chart makes it seem like the Wooly Mammoth was the same size or smaller than a regular ole Elephant.
thats gotta be fake mammoth news.
Nice try though.
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vSeptember 1, 2018 at 5:48 pm in reply to: tweets … 9/1 … including the (now official) Mack trade #90275wvParticipantInteresting.
Its also interesting how so many punditz can tell the future. Who knows how this trade ends up looking in three years.
Maybe it ends up being good for both teams. Maybe the Raiders win a ring without Mack and maybe Mack still plays at a high level with the Bears. Etc and so forth.
I’ve never thought Mack was in the same league as Donald, btw. There’s Donald, and then there’s the next tier. And Suh is in the next tier.
Carnage. Bring me my carnage.
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“….you have elected the way of pain.”
-Saruman
― J.R.R. TolkienSeptember 1, 2018 at 10:41 am in reply to: What delayed humans from crossing the Bering Straight into North America #90249wvParticipantI dont think those ancient big-mammals get enuff pub. I was recently at the NY Museum of Natural History and all the kids in the joint were crowding around the T.Rex’s. No-one was crowding around the Giant Sloths or Giant Ant-eaters.
A giant fucking Sloth didnt excite them.
Its a reflection of these dire times, when a giant sloth doesnt excite people.
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vAugust 31, 2018 at 10:41 pm in reply to: Rams, Aaron Donald Agree to Terms on Six-Year Extension #90212wvParticipantAaron Donald has a very big neck.
Kahlil Mack is a pencil-neck geek compared to Aaron Donald.
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vAugust 31, 2018 at 2:13 pm in reply to: Rams, Aaron Donald Agree to Terms on Six-Year Extension #90173wvParticipantLet the carnage begin.
The league will have to make new rules protecting the QB from this DLine.
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vAugust 31, 2018 at 7:59 am in reply to: all reactions to Saints game…us, tweets, articles, etc #90147wvParticipantDid the starters play at all this preseason? How much did they play?
Has any coach ever played starters less than McVay ?
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vwvParticipantYes, that would be fair to say.
Of course, in zooey’s obsession with the idea of inhaling fecal material, he overlooked one thing.
You hinted at it in a post earlier in the thread.
Fecal particles are going into his mouth too.
And if zooey’s the mouth breather we suspect him to be, then the amount entering his oral cavity is probably an order of magnitude higher than what he’s inhaling up nose every time he enters a restroom.
And it’s been going on for years – fecal bacteria coating his mucus membranes, combining with his own tissues, co-opting their function, altering more and more of zooey’s physiology to serve their own purposes….
I’m afraid Zooey’s more feces than man at this point.
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Exactly. And this is why i shit in the woods, myself.
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vwvParticipantAll I’m saying is that when he inhales deeply when entering a restroom after a stranger has had a bowel movement as he is wont to do, technically what he is smelling is not poop particles, but the gaseous eminations of coliform bacteria that live in and comprise the poop.
It’s a small but important distinction.
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Well again, Isnt the correct answer that Zooey is smelling gaseous eminations of coliform bacteria AND he is also inhaling airborne shit particles from various men?
Isnt it fair to say that after visits to mens rooms, zooey is full of shit particles and gaseous eminations?
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vwvParticipantWell, ok, but I took his question as being what’s causing the smell. That poop smell isn’t caused by inhaling the airborne bacteria from the toilet plume, it’s caused by the lingering metabolic gases released by the bacteria that are found in the poop. The sense of smell happens on the molecular level, and there is no poop molecule. What you smell is the gases produced by bacteria that are in the poop.
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Well i think you are focussing on zooey’s words and missing the spirit of his question. He wants to know if he’s inhaling shit particles.
And the answer to that is “possibly” i would think. Depends on how soon he entered the bathroom after the last flush. And what was in the toilet during the last flush. And how close to the toilet he moved. And whether shit particles were on the doorknob. And what the circumference of zooey’s mouth is.
We dont have all the facts.
And THAT has been my meta-narrative for the last year.
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vwvParticipantAs we have discussed before, there is a “toilet plume” effect when you flush. Shit and piss particles do get ejected from the toilet.
Despite all the evidence there are still many “toilet plume deniers” in the republican party. Though some of them admit that it exists but think its a natural effect, sent by God.
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vlink:https://www.self.com/story/toilet-plume-poop-spray
“…Toilet plume sounds like it should be the most popular DIY trend on Pinterest. Adorn that plain ol’ toilet with a collection of decorative feathers for an elevated pooping experience! Unfortunately, the actual definition of toilet plume is far less delightful.
Toilet plume is a term for what happens when the force of flushing sprays microscopic particles of pee, poop, and whatever else is in the bowl into the air. “‘[This plume] is easily transmitted in a wide range of air space when you flush the toilet,” Kelly Reynolds, Ph.D., an associate professor of environmental and occupational health at the University of Arizona who has studied toilet plume, tells SELF.
Unfortunately there’s not a wealth of research about exactly how far toilet plume can reach. One 2005 study in the Journal of Applied Microbiology found that microorganisms reached a vertical height of 2.7 feet after a toilet was flushed, but other information is scant. In general, Reynolds says the microbiology community’s consensus is that the spray can reach around six feet away from the toilet. That’s by no means a proven number, and a lot more research needs to be done to cement just how far toilet plume can go…
…So, what does science have to say about whether toilet plume can make you sick? A 2015 review published in the American Journal of Infection Control analyzed various small studies in which researchers purposefully put certain pathogens in a toilet, flushed, and then monitored how far they went and how long they lingered. The kinds of bacteria they included can often be found in the human intestines, then come out in poop or vomit and make you sick when ingested.
One study found that E. coli, which can cause diarrhea and vomiting, lingered in the air for up to four to six hours after flushing. Another determined that salmonella, which can cause similar symptoms, lingered in the toilet bowl for 50 days after it was put in there, got aerosolized every time people flushed, and contaminated surfaces like the toilet flusher and door handle. Still another found that Clostridium difficile, which can cause fever, diarrhea, stomach pain, or even a life-threatening infection, hung out in the air above the toilet for up to 90 minutes after flushing.
This all sounds disgusting and terrifying and…. “
wvParticipantDummed-down, distracted, propagandized, Americans dont have a problem with bombing ‘others,’ in general. As you know.
bombing vietnam:https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/public-opinion-approves-bombing-of-north-vietnam
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Public opinion approves bombing of North VietnamA Harris survey taken shortly after the bombing raids on the Hanoi-Haiphong area shows that 62 percent of those interviewed favored the raids, 11 percent were opposed, and 27 percent were undecided. Of those polled, 86 percent felt the raids would hasten the end of the war. The raids under discussion were part of the expansion of Operation Rolling Thunder, which had begun in March 1965.
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“…the Sunday television interview programs on five networks devoted the bulk of their coverage to McCain’s life and career and to fond reminiscences by well-heeled journalists and big-business politicians, Democratic and Republican. “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd noted that McCain was the single most-interviewed person on the program, appearing 73 times in his 36-year political career.
Speaking on ABC’s “This Week,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said, “Right now I’m just heartbroken. I think America’s in tears about the loss of this great man.” Senator Bernie Sanders tweeted, “John McCain was an American hero, a man of decency and honor and a friend of mine. He will be missed not just in the US Senate but by all Americans who respect integrity and independence.”
In yet another characteristic display of lickspittling subservience to the ruling elite, “socialist” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted: “John McCain’s legacy represents an unparalleled example of human decency and American service. As an intern, I learned a lot about the power of humanity in government through his deep friendship with Sen. Kennedy. He meant so much, to so many. My prayers are with his family.”
What does John McCain’s “legacy” consist of? How did he provide “an unparalleled example of human decency and American service”?
McCain spent four years in the House of Representatives and 32 years in the US Senate, but it would be impossible to cite a single piece of legislation with which he was associated that benefited the broad mass of the American people. As far as domestic affairs were concerned, he was best known for voting (in the House) against the bill that established a national holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In the Senate, he was the lone Republican among the “Keating Five,” senators who lobbied federal regulators on behalf of savings and loan swindler Charles Keating in 1987.
The political embarrassment caused by this episode, in which McCain narrowly avoided sanctions by the Senate Ethics Committee, led to his involvement in a decade-long effort to establish at least token limitations on corporate contributions to political campaigns…. McCain was a reliable vote for the Republican right—for the Gramm-Rudman Act to slash federal social spending… and for (with a few exceptions) measures to deregulate business and cut taxes for the wealthy.
The overriding feature of McCain’s career, however, was his reflexive hawkishness on foreign policy. He supported war after war, intervention after intervention, always promoting the use of force as the primary feature of American foreign policy, and always advocating the maximum allocation of resources to fuel the Pentagon. In his honor, after his diagnosis with brain cancer made it clear that he was unlikely to survive this year, his Senate colleagues named the 2018 version of the Pentagon budget bill the John McCain National Defense Authorization Act….”
wvParticipant“If you see me, weep.”
That is also carved on Aaron Donald’s helmet, btw.
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vwvParticipantrussia sows dicord…
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They’ve also spurred healthy “debate.” Not just “discord.”
On the other hand, What has the Mainstream AMERICAN corporate media sowed?
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vwvParticipantWell, to me he was a big part of the CIA-Pentagon-Death-machine. A dark lord in the empire.
I’m glad he’s gone.
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vwvParticipantTrump’s Military Drops a Bomb Every 12 Minutes, and No One Is Talking About It
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