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4 minutes ago, Tiberius said:
Discussed in passing, but nothing at all in detail. I also asked a few young relatives, and they are good students but say human evolution is something that is barely gone over in schools.
Such an important topic, who we are and where we come from. But educational just barely touches on it.
I also know people who think it’s a lie. Hoax. Fake news, ya know
More than just in passing if you were paying attention. I remember biology which was taught sophomore year in high school. At least a week was discussed on Mendel and Darwin which was a lot given the ground that had to be covered. The definition of life had to be covered as to lower class organisms such as amoebas. Plant and animal kingdoms with subclasses including mammals. Reproduction for both plants and animals. There would not have been time to give evolution more than a week then. If you wanted more then you needed to proceed onto college to learn about it.
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7 minutes ago, Tiberius said:
And freedom from religion is important, too.
Did you get taught a lot about about human evolution in school? I didn’t, and I attended public school. That’s how pervasive religious indoctrination is.
I have been trying to avoid your nonsense but I can't let this go. I am probably as old as you if not older and evolution was most certainly discussed in high school biology. In fact we had a very strong local religious community and this was still discussed. Perhaps you were absent on the days evolution was discussed? The Scopes Trial was discussed in social studies along with Darwin. Even if you went to a parochial school those things would have been mentioned but with a warning not to believe them. But still you would have heard of them. Having talked to Mennonites I know that their education is extremely shallow. Are you or were you a Mennonite? Is your computer hidden out in the horse stable? You in the past were never around much on Sundays here? Are you being shunned at present?
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6 minutes ago, Tenhigh said:
No thank you, sir. I still haven't figured out Mullholland Drive.
The Straight Story is different from Lynch's other works by a considerable margin. It is about two older brothers that have a standing feud between them. Then the one brother who is starting to see his mortality goes to seek the other brother out to make amends. I won't give out any more spoilers about it.
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5 minutes ago, B-Man said:
Love me some Harry Dean Stanton.
Some of his best work was in a movie that most here never saw just for a few minutes of screen time. Check out David Lynch's The Straight Story sometime.
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6 minutes ago, Chef Jim said:
So wait a minute. You don't make your payment the company disables your vehicle. "HA! That'll show them not to pay their bills!!" The world is being run by children. I long for the good ole repo man days.
Yes, but not all auto manufacturers do this across their entire product line. It's far more extensive with things such as bulldozers, excavators, and loaders. Also, farm equipment but current edition products that have computer control over engine function that in turn can be disabled remotely. You can run your old tech equipment without this issue for now. But I would imagine that the government will force computers to track emissions on old tech for at the least to collect taxes. It's been talked about for a while now. Just been waiting on a left leaning administration like we have at present.
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1 hour ago, Chef Jim said:
A vast majority of his content is not relational. You'll get used to it.
So the gas tax is "not working" what makes you think a mileage tax will? How will this be monitored? Will we have to track our mileage from 1/1-12/31? How will this be audited. So many questions Pedro.
You will be forced to install tracking equipment which will send data to the government. Don't pay your tax then the government will not allow you to run your vehicle. It's already happening with off road equipment where if you are late on payment the company can remotely disable your machine from running. The government is just taking it the next step.
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19 hours ago, T&C said:
He will be lucky to be alive by then...no ill will here, but the dude is decaying.
Just another part of the sales pitch to keep the gullible pacified in terms of having "real" leadership in place.
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6 hours ago, All_Pro_Bills said:
All this coordinated and controlled from Trump's secret Moon base with support from aliens from the Orion constellation.
Those Orions were always meddlers. They sought to create mayhem and mistrust while the Federation was debating the admission of Corydon.
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22 hours ago, I am the egg man said:
Yup, and probably goes like this:
Eat meat you're destroying earth.
Be vegan you're saving the world.
A simple fact is that a sizable amount of the Earth's landmass is not suitable for crop production that can be fed directly to humans. One has to look no further than WNY to see that. WNY has a fair amount of area where the soil is too shallow or too steep to raise crops that can be fed directly to humans. Can humans be better stewards of the land and its animals? Absolutely. Unbiased education is the best manner to raise awareness. I don't listen to the beef council and I don't listen to PETA when making my daily food choices.
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1 hour ago, oldmanfan said:
I think all but the most twisted-minded would agree that slavery is a horrific stain on the history of the country. That said, I'm not sure how giving descendants trillions of dollars somehow would take away that stain. What we need to do is end any kind of racism once and for all in the country, and create a country where all citizens have truly equal rights and equal access to the American dream.
This is not 1950's America. Racism while not totally dead is very dormant. Any person can go to college and follow their dreams as long as it corresponds to talents that they have. Regardless of background it is impossible to make every person a scientist. Some people regardless of background will not grasp advanced mathematics and science. There are plenty of rewarding careers out there that do not require advanced degrees. We as a society have placed great shame on working with a person's hands even though there are well paying jobs out there that utilize basic skills.
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On 2/21/2021 at 8:39 AM, Doc said:
How much do they go after African nations for starting the slave trade, or Portugal for making it explode, or England for introducing it to the US? Do immigrants and their descendants have to pay since we had nothing to do with it?
They don't go after other entities because they know those parties will not being writing any checks concerning the matter.
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3 hours ago, All_Pro_Bills said:
Central governments and powerful monopolies do fade away or get removed or replaced. History is littered with such examples. Governments, empires, corporations, whole industries. I suspect citizens of Rome or Egypt or the Spanish and British empires, the Aztecs when the conquistadors arrived, or hundreds of Monarchs throughout history had expectations of power and control into the future forever. Then the Huns showed up at the city gates or the public lost faith and looked to other arrangements. Complex systems fail. Sometimes they fail because the cost of maintaining and running them exceeds the benefit. Sometimes they fail because people just lose faith in them. What is more inefficient and ineffective than the US government? How much faith do we have in the government to get anything right?
I completely agree with you regarding Electric Vehicles. But I don't see the issue of where all this power generation to "fuel" the EV fleet is going to come from being discussed a lot. Just by doing some simple math. The US consumes about 9.3 million barrels of gasoline daily. At 44 gallons per barrel. One gallon of gasoline produces 44Kw of energy output. A standard 2x4 solar panel produces 1.5Kw per day. Ignoring efficiency factors one way or the other it would take 29 solar panels to replace the output of one gallon of gasoline. If my math is right it would require 269.7 million solar panels to replace one days gasoline consumption operating at spec to 1.5Kw. And as I'm not an electrical engineer or an expert on the efficiencies or inefficiencies of EV or the internal combustion engine I'd leave it to those experts to derive an exact number. Whatever the specific number might be its a big one. As such I think the 100% EV fleet idea is a wild fantasy absent some massive amount of new uninterruptible generation capacity.
You know what Egypt, Rome, Spain, and the British lacked that governments have today? Rapid communication and surveillance. Plus today's governments have the benefit of learning history even if the population under them is ignorant of history. Had King John modern communication and surveillance he would never have agreed to the Magna Carta as he would know what most of his opponents were up to. Plus he would employ hot wenches as spies to gather information on what the various dukes and earls were complaining about relative to the king.
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2 hours ago, All_Pro_Bills said:
20 years is a long time. And I'm no futurist. But I don't share some bleak and grey vision that people will simply serve no purpose other than to exist. I expect there will be enough thinking and independent individuals that will choose to make a different type of society.
But in 20 years I don't think the Democratic or Republican parties will exist. I see the central government being and becoming more ineffective and losing a lot of its power so I don't see the "big brother" scenario playing out. Shopping malls will disappear. Some large scale war will have occurred or be in progress. We still won't have flying cars. Oil and gas will still be around. Green energy will be important but will not replace fossil fuel sources. A revival of nuclear power will present itself.
All the social issues of today will appear unimportant and trivial relative to the challenges of the time. "Hard" skills will be a must. Globalization will give way to localization. Technology in science and medicine will continue to make progress but technology will not be revered with any God-like qualities to replace human interaction or control.
20 years is not all that long a time and I am not all that old. I don't know how different that you could make society than what it is now versus what it was a couple of generations ago. There are only so many ways that you can derive food and only so many ways that you can have sex and we have explored the vast majority of them. Only so many ways to have altered conciouness.
There is too much money and power to be had for certain people for a central government to fade away. More power plants are going to be needed to be built if we are going to have battery power vehicles. And nobody is talking about what needs to be done when a battery reaches the end of its useful life.
Hard skills such as growing gardens and tending other plants? The trend is having very small space around most residences. Where is the land going to come from? Will people be driven off of their land so others may have use of it in the name of green revolution? Localization means a loss of power of globalists. They will not allow a long term trend to root down into the soil. Technology is god to many many people. I remember many years ago in my student residence that they could not do basic accounting in terms of charging rent and board without a computer to tabulate it on. We were talking at the most 20 people. The data entry into the computer was negligibly shorter than a paper based ledger accounting system.
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58 minutes ago, All_Pro_Bills said:
I would agree that's one potential future but I'd ask you to consider the concept that human history and evolution is not linear but rather cyclical. Civilizations rise and fall like the grandeur of Roman Empire was followed by the depths of Dark Ages and then the enlightenment of the Renaissance. Economic booms are proceeded by economic busts and so forth. War leads to destruction while the following peace leads to a rebuilding. Progress does not follow some straight line extrapolation. That's why most forecasts of the future are wrong. The forecasters are thinking in a linear fashion and their models reflect this thinking.
What you're describing is an evolution in not only technology but in the amount of energy that can be made available as more efficient and abundant sources become available. From brute force human labor all the way to petroleum and nuclear leading to the "green energy" movement of present day.
I'd recommend reading "The Long Emergency" by Kunstler. The premise behind most of the authors conclusions is the oil age presented the human race with a one time endowment of an abundance of energy and once that is gone none of the available alternatives will replace it much less provide more energy for future expansion. While I don't agree with all of his conclusions it does raise a lot of interesting questions.
Please give me a prediction as to how you see the next 20-25 years. It will impact most people who are here on this board. The way of life is going to change. Nobody will be immune to it. At what point will it be that the federal government decide that you do not need money. That a basic provision will be handed out for a person to have the very basics in life such as food, clothing, transportation, etc. in a very subsistent life style and nothing more?
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I see a fair amount of flawed thinking here. Let's leave politics out of it and just talk technology. I see a lot of assumptions here that while the unwashed rural folk will be swept away never to be seen again that the cul-de-sac crowd will go onward and upward. Not so fast. Technology is expanding exponentially which is invisible to most people who are not specifically looking for it. Will a law firm keep on or add lawyers when AI develops to a point where an entity can prepare and execute cases for the managing partners instead of a living being? Will hospitals need a myriad of specialists when AI entities can perform diagnosis and implement procedures to heal patients? Will a manufacturing firm need to keep hiring engineers fresh out of college when AI can do the same work with far less chance of error? What's the 30 year old cul-de-sac resident going to do in 20 years when technology gives him a hard push out of his career. Consolidation is not going away whether it be in business, law, or medicine. I remember studying the concept of the big box chain store at college decades ago while most Americans blissfully shopped the local lumber company, hardware store, mom and pop grocery, and banked at the local First National Bank in their community. There are going to be flat out fewer opportunities for an increasing amount of people living in this country. Our economy is rooted in most Americans bringing home a paycheck. What happens when the paychecks ran out 5 years ago and savings is just about exhausted. Go ahead and talk to me like the buggy whip maker in 1925 who said automobiles will never fully replace the horse. Or the candlestick maker who said that there will still be a healthy market for candles. Or the chimney sweep who said that most Americans will keep on burning wood. Whether it be 2000 BC, 1492 AD, or Carnegie in 19th Century America the desire by the ruling class has been to take as much of the human factor out of making money as possible.
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41 minutes ago, RoyBatty is alive said:
Our "nose tackle" back then Jeff Wright was 274 pounds, can you imagine a starting NFL NT on a super Bowl teams today weighing 274 pounds? I looked at the '92 roster, only 4 guys over 300?.
Not a Smerlas guy but we should have kept him for 1990 regardless of his big mouth. He would have held his position versus being pushed around in our first SB. Levy just lacked the vision to realize that he needed a few enforcers on the coaching staff as well as the roster. Oh well. Water under the bridge at this point in time.
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25 minutes ago, Nihilarian said:
Most of those Dolphin fans weren't around for the 1970's decade of Miami domination over Buffalo in which the Bills didn't win one game.
Don Shula owned Buffalo...much like the way Belichick has owned the Bills the last two decades. Marv Levy turned that Miami dominance around and it looks like McD is doing the same thing to the cheater.
There was a lot of built up frustration from Bills fans over that decade of the 70's, and now the 2000's.
I h8 the fish and am happy for every beatdown of Miami...same with the Patsies. The Jets are the clowns of the division and have been.
I think perhaps Philly is the worst. I've worn my colors everywhere and the only place where they pee on fellow fans from the upper decks...
Dolphin fans could be terrible back in the 1980's. One of the coolest guys I knew in college was a Jets fan. I could talk football with him instead of fan talk.
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22 minutes ago, SlimShady'sSpaceForce said:
there are drunkenassholes everywhere its not just a WNY thing.
It's a drunkenasshole thing
Yeah, I get that but I can't comment about what happens outside of my area where I live. But I can tell you about bars you don't even want to stop at if your car is broke down and your cell phone is dead. But given what has gone on in the bar business over the last 10 to 15 years I would bet a lot of them have closed permanently.
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9 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:
Here's my opinion.
Every adult should act like a responsible adult. But they don't, you have to deal with it especially in this type of setting.
So heckling that boy was wrong, I agree. But this happened a while back and you're an adult now....he's labeling and entire fan base based on a few idiots.
Get over it, he makes it sound traumatic.
I don't even wear any Bills gear inside our stadium unless it is a cap. Shirts and coats can get ruined by people who have no ill will towards me. People get excited over scores and big plays and spilt beer is a part of that there. No use getting into an altercation over it. I don't look at it as some devine right that all should bow to me because I wore a Bills jersey in. Even my wife gets that and also wears plain clothing while there. I used to laugh about a buddy that had a high maintenance girlfriend who wanted to wear expensive outfits there. He got through to her quick that she could anticipate stuff being spilt on her and unwanted sexual harassment as well if she did.
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8 minutes ago, SlimShady'sSpaceForce said:
IMO
There is nothing worse than a bunch of drunken idiots at a football game
Except drunken idiots who go out of their way at the neighborhood watering hole to harass someone not from the neighborhood or does not share DNA with them. Not a problem I have ever had but I have known many cops who have told me about it. There are plenty of places that a NYS trooper will not go without back up around WNY.
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1 minute ago, RoyBatty is alive said:
Fact is comparing athletes today versus 30 years ago is absurd. Players train almost all year round now, eat better, train smarter, better doctors and operations, much more sophisticated play called, bigger, fast, stronger. Most of those 90 Bills wouldnt make todays roster imo.
Shane Conlan lost his job here in part because even the run stoppers were getting faster than he was.
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1 minute ago, Royale with Cheese said:
Where is the needle at on your sensitivity meter? Has it blown up yet?I don't get the debate here at all. Anybody that has ever attended a NFL game knows that there are people from all over the spectrum in terms of behavior. The first priority whether a person likes it or not is to be preventative in terms of potential conflict.
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4 minutes ago, May Day 10 said:
It sux, but things happen everywhere. You get 70K people in one place, many drunken... over a tribalist thing like NFL football there will be lunatics. Especially back in the day when this guy was a kid.
It has toned down over the past 10-12 years to a great degree. I take pride in our unique gameday atmosphere and always go out of my way to make an opposing fan feel welcome. I sit in the rockpile which is the 'ghetto' and I rarely see opposing fans get any sort of 'business'. I want these people to go to their message boards and talk about how amazing it was to watch a game in Buffalo. My close friend is from Boston and a bus-full of his friends come in every year for the New England game and they love it (and Ill note that nobody has ever had an issue).
With that said, I hate to victim-blame... but NFL away games are not kid-friendly events.
I will also say that this type of story is the ultimate "I know a guy" anecdotal story to put down a fanbase. Should we stop and think/doubt that people were really throwing beer at a 13 year old? I have been to 100+ games over 4 decades and never saw anything close to that. Is it possible the Bills scored and people were going nuts and someone's beer splashed up and got on the kid's jacket and his dad made a giant deal out of it? Id say that is much more likely.
I agree with nearly all that you have said. But I will say that it is certainly possible that adult fans threw beer on a kid. What the circumstances were leading up to that who knows. Some people know how to handle themselves in a charged situation and some do not. Goes for both sides.
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2 minutes ago, SDS said:
which part do you love? Because the guy is right to complain. Going after kids is bush league.If it happened the way the guy claims it happened. There is plenty of blame to go around as to who starts something in most altercations. I am old enough to remember local WNY Dolphins fans rubbing it in as to the Dolphins' success during the 1970's and first half of the 1980's. I am far from knowing the crowd scene at Orchard Park but even I know the best way to avoid an altercation is to avoid the lower bowl and am happy with the nose bleed seats. My eyesight is good enough to take in the action from there. Usually, the people nearby are just happy to see the game and are not falling down drunk. If somebody is drunk and chippy then I just walk away from them and let the taunts fall to the ground. Harder to do at some bars but then again I don't go to any bars where I do not know the scene. Get out away from the city there are plenty of places where people are just aching to start fights. Brawls are not my thing and I can find other things to occupy my time. Even back during the 1980's I never got the idea of dropping 100 dollars plus per week at a bar when there are other things to do. Again, the Ontario Dolphins fan could be legit in his complaint or he did everything possible in his power to rile up Bills fans. Unless someone was there to see who knows who was telling the truth there.
New York State To End Pot Prohibition
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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The black market is going nowhere. By the time all the state and local taxes are thrown on (Hello Rochester, NY Mayor Warren) the pre-legaliztion dealer will have his work lessened for him. As long as an end user carries legal quantities he can't be hassled about the amount on him. Further, just like buying tobacco he will not be required to carry the purchase receipt on him. It will be very hard for any issues to blowback on a blackmarket dealer unless the state wants to engage in sting operations for the purpose of determining taxes owed to the state. I don't see it happening especially in the big cities where no doubt the cops will be told to stand down on MJ related issues. My pot smoking in law will be a larger burden on his family among others.