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September 1, 2018 at 5:52 pm in reply to: What delayed humans from crossing the Bering Straight into North America #90276
wvParticipantWait 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
wvParticipantMonsanto is Satan
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….Did you just make a political post, blue-man?
Gasp.
I dont know what this means.
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vwvParticipantMSNBC version
wvParticipantWhat about Guam? Have we done Guam?
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vwvParticipantAaron Donald isnt signed yet.
Thats my reaction to the game.
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantwvParticipantThere’s little to fear from gluten unless you have celiac disease. But if you’ve found a diet you can be happy with then stick with it.
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Allz i know is my ‘brain fog’ lifted after I quit gluten. And i dont even believe in the whole gluten thing. But i gave up sugar at the same time, so maybe that was it, i dunno. Some articles say some folks are just ‘sensitive’ to gluten even though they dont have celiac disease.
Brady sold his soul to Satan. If you shaved his head u would see the 666.
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vwvParticipantthot this part was inter esting:
“….Flaherty doesn’t believe in the old theory that packing on a few more pounds of muscle will help quarterbacks take the pounding.
“It’s difficult for the young guys because, ‘The coaches want me at 230, my GM and everybody wants me at 235 because they want me to absorb hits,’ ” Flaherty said. “Well, the problem is the first two years, Marcus’s injuries have all been contact injuries, because he’s getting hit, he’s getting caught from behind. But if you’re fast enough and you’re agile enough, you’re not going to get hit.
“Russell, he came in at 230. He’s not going to be as agile and fluid and as fast as he is when he’s 220. Russell has to think, ‘I’ve got to be light, I’ve got to be fast, I’ve got to be agile.’ ”….Flaherty, who also works with Philip Rivers, Jared Goff, Carson Wentz, and most of the Arizona Cardinals”
wvParticipantAnyway actually that was a really interesting article I thought.
Rams don’t do vegan, they do sushi.
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Yeah, i think its interesting that fifteen NFL players on one team would go vegan. I mean i dont think thats ever happened before. Generally the NFL culture has always believed veganism would make players weaker. Ive also read about some NY Giants that have gone gluten free. Its interesting to me cause i have been experimenting with a gluten free, sugar-free diet. Fwiw.———————–
Around the NFL, QBs are training and eating the Tom Brady wayAaron Rodgers went almost-vegan in 2016, cutting dairy and most meats from his diet.
Russell Wilson dropped 10 pounds this offseason, avoiding all yeast, mold, dairy, and gluten.
And Marcus Mariota risked the ire of his coaches this summer by ignoring their recommendation of playing at 230 pounds and dropped his playing weight to 215-220.
Thin is definitely in this season for NFL quarterbacks, and it’s not by accident. It’s a movement being led by Tom Brady, who dominated the league in his late 30s and is still going strong at 40, thanks to his vegetable-based diet and flexibility training over muscle mass.
The rest of the league has noticed, and many quarterbacks are starting to follow Brady’s lead, cutting weight and working on flexibility to avoid injuries, improve recovery between games, and lengthen their careers.
“I just think it’s so the thing right now because Tom’s doing it,” said 18-year NFL quarterback Matt Hasselbeck, now with ESPN. “You’ve got the quarterback of the Green Bay Packers announcing he gave up dairy. That’s a hard thing to do. But he did, and he had an amazing year last year.
“And now you see guys around the league — whether it’s Aaron Rodgers, Matthew Stafford, Marcus Mariota, Andrew Luck — these guys are coming in lighter, and it’s not by accident. I think it’s because they’re seeing the success that Tom’s having and the longevity. He’s a trendsetter.”
Brady’s mission, outside of winning another Super Bowl, is spreading the gospel of proper diet, flexibility training, and rest. For 99 percent of football fans, the only way to learn Brady’s secrets is to buy a TB12 cookbook for $200, or his recovery pajamas ($79.99 each for the shirt and shorts on Under Armour’s website).
But NFL players get the education for free, and Brady has been more than happy to share his secrets with his fraternity members.
“I’ve talked to a lot of different players,” Brady said after a recent Patriots practice. “I think a lot of people ask me when you get to be my age. I feel like I know what to do. I don’t wake up with pain. I come out and play a game and keep working on things that I want to improve at every year, and it’s been a lot of fun for me.
“Hopefully I can share that with a lot of people. It’d be great to pass on that wisdom. I feel that’s part of my responsibility as a player to do that to other players who may want to seek the same thing, so it’s been a really enjoyable part of my career.”
‘If it works for Tom Brady . . .’Brady’s influence on teammates is obvious. Nearly every player in the Patriots locker room visits the TB12 facility at Patriot Place for massage work and stretching exercises with Brady’s body coach and business partner, Alex Guerrero.
Julian Edelman and Danny Amendola are devoted followers of the TB12 regimen. Rob Gronkowski, the epitome of whey protein shakes and power lifting, is a recent convert, saying he has focused more on flexibility this season to try to avoid injury, and is now eating many of the TB12 prepared meals.
“I look at him and he turns 40 tomorrow and he runs around like he’s younger than me,” Gronkowski said. “So it’s pretty obvious right there.”
Quarterbacks Jimmy Garoppolo and Jacoby Brissett can often be seen working with Guerrero after practices. Safety Duron Harmon said at last year’s Super Bowl that he wears the performance pajamas.
“I mean, if it works for Tom Brady . . . ” Harmon said.
Around the league, Rodgers, 33, directly credits Brady with helping him realize the importance of a plant-based diet. Rodgers used to play at 230 pounds, but since cutting dairy and most meats from his diet, he has reported to Packers camp at 220 the past two years. Now Rodgers talks about playing until 40, just like Brady.
“I can’t give up some of the nightshades, but I think Tom sets a good example, and we have been friends for a while and talk about a number of things,” Rodgers told People magazine earlier this year. “He has kind of set the standard for taking care of your body.”
Brady is not exactly revolutionary in his approach. Drew Brees, who for years has shared the same offseason quarterback coach as Brady, has devoted himself to a similar diet, though he hasn’t tried to market it like Brady.
Carson Palmer cut carbs out of his diet as he recovered from ACL surgery in 2015 and lost nearly 20 pounds. In the 1990s, Warren Moon cut meat out of his diet, focused his training on flexibility exercises, and went to a chiropractor twice a week. He dropped 5 pounds from his playing weight and played until he was 44 years old.
“You just didn’t want to play heavy,” he said.
Arizona’s Carson Palmer is one who found that lighter is better.rick scuteir/AP
Arizona’s Carson Palmer is one who found that lighter is better.
But Brady is the gold standard of today’s quarterbacks, the first to consistently dominate the NFL into his 40s. He’s also the most vocal about the importance of changing your diet and lifestyle. And if it’s working for Brady, many other NFL quarterbacks figure it can work for them, too.
“They’re all looking to Tom; he’s the pinnacle,” said Ryan Flaherty, senior director of performance at Nike who works with Mariota, Wilson, and nearly half of the NFL’s starting quarterbacks each offseason.
“He’s the guy that I think everybody wants to be, and even my young guys this year, [Mitchell] Trubisky and Deshaun Watson, both those guys are like, ‘Look, I want to be Tom Brady, but I want to be my own version of him.’ ”
Changing your bodyNot everyone takes the diet to the extremes that Brady does, of course. Brady has said that his diet is 80 percent alkaline, 20 percent acidic, and that he eats a mostly-vegan diet that cuts out foods that cause inflammation, like tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms, and eggplants.
When working with Mariota and Wilson this offseason, Flaherty emphasized a pescatarian diet replete with healthy fats — avocado, olive oil, fish — and eliminating carbs and sugar.
The goal wasn’t just for Mariota and Wilson to get thinner but to improve their speed. Wilson’s 2016 season was hampered by an ankle injury in Week 1 and a knee injury in Week 3. Mariota’s first two NFL seasons ended with injury — a torn MCL against the Patriots in December 2015 and a broken fibula in December 2016.
Flaherty doesn’t believe in the old theory that packing on a few more pounds of muscle will help quarterbacks take the pounding.
“It’s difficult for the young guys because, ‘The coaches want me at 230, my GM and everybody wants me at 235 because they want me to absorb hits,’ ” Flaherty said. “Well, the problem is the first two years, Marcus’s injuries have all been contact injuries, because he’s getting hit, he’s getting caught from behind. But if you’re fast enough and you’re agile enough, you’re not going to get hit.
“Russell, he came in at 230. He’s not going to be as agile and fluid and as fast as he is when he’s 220. Russell has to think, ‘I’ve got to be light, I’ve got to be fast, I’ve got to be agile.’ ”
Eluding tacklers could help prolong the career of Seattle’s Russell Wilson.mark j. terrill/AP
Eluding tacklers could help prolong the career of Seattle’s Russell Wilson.
Even rookies like Watson and Trubisky have taken notice of the benefits of a lean diet. It’s not a lesson Brady learned right away. When he entered the NFL, his favorite meal was a ham-and-cheese hoagie washed down with an orange soda.
“Deshaun Watson was a great example,” Flaherty said. “He had no idea how to eat healthy. Fried food was a staple of his diet. Showing him, ‘Look, you want to be like Tom Brady? This is what Tom Brady eats, this is why he’s able to stay healthy for so long, this is something you need to emulate, you need to put into practice.’
“You’re able to show him how he changes his diet, how he changes his body and how that makes him feel. He’s like, ‘Oh my gosh, I can’t believe I used to eat like that.’ ”
Flaherty, who also works with Philip Rivers, Jared Goff, Carson Wentz, and most of the Arizona Cardinals, said he’s grateful to have someone like Brady leading the charge about diet and flexibility.
“I think it’s amazing having guys like Tom Brady who are so vocal about it, and how the proof is in the pudding,” Flaherty said. “He’s kind of an awesome example for the younger guys to see that you don’t have to eat a super high protein [diet], take Creatine, and eat high carbs to be 240 [pounds] in order to play for a long time.
“It’s great for me because I’ve been preaching it for a long time, but it takes guys who are the best at what they do like Tom Brady for the guys to pay attention.”
Ben Volin can be reached at ben.volin@globe.com.wvParticipantamong other things, Jesse talks about the fact that MSNBC took his show away because he was against the Iraq war…
wvParticipantThe Republicans could end all this today if they would just pass a law against weeds, but they won’t because they are in the pocket of the herbicide industry. If we had Universal Crops Care for everybody, we wouldn’t have this problem.
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How bad can the republicans be?
wvParticipantA list and description of the more toxic herbicides that glyphosate replaced and would come back if glyphosate went away…
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What i hear u saying is, Hillary is glyphosate, and Trump is Fluazifop.
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vwvParticipantI’m going on a hunger strike until AD actually signs.
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