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ZZZzzzz. Wake me up when there's a doc about hunting the Cree.

I figured you probably meant that but I couldn't resist the urge to be a cunt.

Fat Cat wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 1:44 am According to his own numbers, Taiwan needs a few million more to equal the population of Los Angeles.

Taiwan has 23.5 million people. Los Angeles has around 4 million.

I have lived among old people. The more of them die, the sooner, the better.

Taiwan has 23,000,000 people, with travel to China and back since it is right next door. 7 people have died there from COVID as of today. Don't be so obtuse. If covid is as deadly as all that, it would be impossible for the ROC to have lost so few. Do the chinks have some special magic, or do they ...

Fast Company has a really leftist bias. If you want to cite a source, use one that isn't so biased.

Plus, how do we attribute deaths? There is no consistent standard for determining whether a death is attributed to covid or not.

Many people will regard this as callous but here's my view: Even if covid were a lot more lethal than it is, as a society we could survive it, but the harm to our society and economy by these draconian measures is not survivable. Maybe ND feels the same way. BTW, how many here have spent any time in...

We haven't seen that many suicides yet. This surprises me.

Thanks for those thoughts SS, I was hoping for something like that. I didn't want to say this in the original post, but here's my belief, and I don't see how it's wrong. If a person is reviled enough by anyone (omitting those who are just dishonest or evil, someone with credibility), to me that says...

A few weeks ago somebody did EU and US "states," and found the rankings for worse death rates were N Dakota, Czech Republic and South Dakota. N Dakota has been the least compliant US state in getting their shit together. What is this, putting states in quotes. Do you think that states are...

syaigh wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 12:45 pm
For the record, I did a year and a half of high protein macros for a figure prep and the thought of even chewing meat sometimes still strikes fear into my heart and these preparations soothe my soul.

I grind liver in my blender. Will try chicken next.

Human Smoke, by Nicholson Baker It'll change how you see World War II Looks interesting, based on the people who attacked it. The criticism of the book is similar to the criticism of Lincoln Unmasked. People don't like what the documentary evidence shows, so they attack the author. There is a narra...

I wonder how many of the people off grid are programmed for destruction, that they not only can't fit in, but actually seek bad situations. It seems so easy to at least make somewhat better choices and yet they often don't. I don't have a good hypothesis here. Maybe it's that people who are rejected...

Turdacious wrote: ↑Sun Nov 15, 2020 4:31 am Stereotypes are gross generalizations without any basis in truth.

Stereotypes are true, that's how they became such.

Re the nomad life: I don't buy for a second that it's a lifestyle. I have known a lot of people who lived in non-traditional ways, from communes to "intentional communities" (I think I've uncorked that rant already), you name it. I was also a fulltime RVer and have met a lot of people who ...

The eyepoke from CC looked intentional. It was at Final Conflict 2006.

I'm always sad to see a legend go out like Rua. This piece by Josh Wilker came to mind --

https://cardboardgods.net/category/team ... fred-lynn/

One thing that's left out of the narrative of WWII is that England and France (and the US as well) were extremely authoritarian countries before the war and remained so afterward. The wartime propaganda took hold and has been reinforced endlessly. But the war wasn't popular, it was forced upon a rel...

Agree 100% @ tapping being smart most often, and many times the corner should have stopped the fight.

I knew he was a shot fighter when I saw his wife on one of the countdown shows many years ago. Who a guy marries tells you a lot about who he is.But I repeat my assertion that there's no difference between tapping due to a choke or something, and tapping from strikes. It's the same thing, a guy admi...

This is oh so not scientific, but when I see a fighter who has way more power than it seems like he should have, most often it's someone who does not give a single fuck.

FC, I'm worried about you. The lockdown-induced IR porn binge has taken you in a bad direction.

Okay, that was click bait-y, but I do have an experiment and I wonder what you all think. Take a social group of 40-60 people, where everyone pretty much knows everybody. Ask each person to rank order the value of everyone in the group and to write a one line quick take on everyone. My thesis is: If...

I have lived long enough to observe all manner of insane depravity, but until this thread I had no idea that anyone would make BBQ sauce with mustard or mayo.

Ya my second try was a sweet little farm near Nelson, North Island, New Zealand, but as in life, no second chances . I wish someone had drilled this into me when I was a kid. I was criticized for everything but no one ever explained that you get one chance. Fail and it will destroy you and you'll r...

I got a rustic backwoods spot in rural Hungary. Looks so good I should move there anyway.