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AI progress RL February 14, 2026 1:59 pm (Space/Science)

A Rubicon of Sorts ER February 12, 2026 5:33 pm (Space/Science)

Somebody help me out with telephone games. ER February 12, 2026 5:00 pm (CurrentEvents)

"Trump in heels" leads America's surrender in the global information war. BuckGalaxy February 11, 2026 12:08 pm (Flame)

Why do I do this to myself? podrock February 11, 2026 9:49 am (CurrentEvents)

Bad Musk Moon Rising BuckGalaxy February 10, 2026 12:07 pm (Space/Science)

Latinexus DEE-Fense ER February 9, 2026 6:48 pm (CurrentEvents)

Did we detect an exploding primordial black hole? RL February 7, 2026 5:29 pm (Space/Science)

Is anybody paying attention? ER February 6, 2026 4:47 pm (CurrentEvents)

Did you think there was a limit to Trump's narcissism? BuckGalaxy February 6, 2026 1:33 am (CurrentEvents)

A funny (?) interaction with chatgpt RL February 4, 2026 9:05 pm (Space/Science)

Trump Has Overwhelmed Himself BuckGalaxy February 4, 2026 3:53 pm (Flame)

Debt Ceiling by TB July 7, 2011 2:33 pm

4th of July "flash mob" by TB July 7, 2011 1:09 pm

*cringes from kryptonite* by VelociraptorBlade 2011-07-07 23:32:39

Beverly Cleary interview by TB July 7, 2011 10:31 am

Math, chemistry, engineering? by Lee July 7, 2011 9:48 am

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First off, I am a gay rights activist. THAT being said...it should not be mandatory in the sense where everyone ... by Jody 2011-07-07 14:18:57
- I asked this of one of my Mom of three school age children friends: "Ok so I took sometime to think ... by Jody 2011-07-07 17:34:06
  - You know, you can have a lot of conversations with kids about relationships without getting into sex. It's not ... by TB 2011-07-07 19:46:37
    - "I do kind of wish there was some cultural space in between putting a minority group in the dog house ... by ER 2011-07-09 07:44:02
      - One of America's unique strengths has been many years of absorbing people from all over the world, filtering out most ... by TB 2011-07-09 08:44:13
    - "I do kind of wish there was some cultural space in between putting a minority group in the dog house ... by Jody 2011-07-08 07:22:58
  - Well, as long as parent's are okay with their kid's sexuality, everything's good and fine by me. I guess ... by VelociraptorBlade 2011-07-07 18:50:50
  - BTW...my Mom of three friend is gay. by Jody 2011-07-07 17:40:03
The lady doth protest too much, methinks. by mcfly 2011-07-07 09:57:03
- Learning about gays and their problems is more important than football, cheerleading, the prom, or any of the rest of ... by ER 2011-07-07 11:12:58
  - I prefer Morlock to Trog but you make a very unlikely Eloi ER One wonders sometimes if opinions sort out based ... by FrankC 2011-07-07 13:55:14
    - As I recall, (I only saw the 1st movie, never read the book)the Eloi were sort of wimpy pathetic victims, ... by ER 2011-07-07 15:01:32
      - Stereotyping: For conservatives you got John Wayne, Tom Selleck, and Bruce Willis. For Liberals there is Al Franken, Billy Crystal ... by FrankC 2011-07-07 18:20:09
        
        I'm a southern liberal, Frank. Did I say something to piss you off? I'm sorry if I did, I meant no disrespect. by ER 2011-07-07 18:53:23
        
        LOL, of course not ER, I don't lump all southern liberals together and I hardly think of you as an ... by FrankC 2011-07-07 20:09:11
        
        Thanks for the reassurance. Just for the record. I really don't believe there is any such thing as a ... by ER 2011-07-08 04:28:47
        
        That is exactly how I feel. Personally, I believe that in spite of the way we all use the terminology, anyone ... by FrankC 2011-07-08 12:40:17
        
        Well, they both did pretty well as cowboys. by TB 2011-07-08 12:44:04
        
        I assume you vote write-ins in national elections? by TB 2011-07-08 09:05:46
        
        I really don't understand what you're getting at. I vote for the individual whose victory I assess to be in the ... by ER 2011-07-08 11:37:51
  - No, it isn't. Those other things are what normal people do. They actually bring money into the school ... by Lee 2011-07-07 13:10:56
    - Let's not drift off into the ether, here. Extracurricular activities aren't exactly big income producers for most high schools, and are ... by TB 2011-07-07 13:30:57
      - Hell, let them go. California will continue to deteriorate as it rots from within. Those people who are ... by Lee 2011-07-07 13:39:43
  - Are those the only choices we get in public education? by TB 2011-07-07 11:13:46
    - Of course not. But I suspect that the choices are being framed that way for us. "Either we ... by ER 2011-07-07 11:40:24
      - The "good old days" in education seemed to work pretty well. I don't know what the real function of ... by TB 2011-07-07 12:00:29
        
        You're always going on about the Good 'Ol Days, as if the past were lined with gold leaf and the ... by mcfly 2011-07-07 13:03:33
        
        There are hard numbers behind much of what I say about schools and costs. I've posted them before. ... by TB 2011-07-07 13:15:45
        
        I'm not defending modern education. Personally, I think it sucks. My own high school had its problems, but I ... by ER 2011-07-07 12:12:31
        
        What happened was that the education system became more about the power and preservation of the education system than it ... by TB 2011-07-07 12:21:07
        
        You won't get any argument from me. As for the cultural part, I think my cousin from Cuba (he ... by ER 2011-07-07 13:10:16
        
        Just out of my own observation, if you want to see someone who gives a rip about their kids' education, ... by TB 2011-07-07 13:22:43
        
        It's not that immigrants care more about their kids' educations than Americans, its that Americans are more complacent and ambivalent ... by ER 2011-07-08 04:50:29
- Don't you mean drag queen? Schools should be about education, not re-education. by Lee 2011-07-07 10:01:08
  - Sure. Makes it a lot more difficult to round up the people you don't like when the public understands them as ... by mcfly 2011-07-07 10:10:00
    - Everyone's Human. What the hell does that have to do with anything? Teaching about and proselytizing for a deviant sexual ... by Lee 2011-07-07 13:09:15
      - So homosexuality's a mental disorder now? Or should I say, again? You were born way after your time. You could have ... by mcfly 2011-07-07 13:50:08
        
        You better hope it is a life style choice or behaviour disorder. If it's ever shown to be genetically ... by Lee 2011-07-07 14:33:05
        
        The modern Nazi, raging against human diversity in all its forms. How many 'Zoners know someone who's lived with physical ... by mcfly 2011-07-08 06:33:30
        
        Some polling on this kind of thing is discussed in this article. That's a lot of Nazis. by TB 2011-07-08 09:00:04
        
        The author sounds like she's full of it. She's absolutely mental. "While some may see this as progress, others recognize ... by Lee 2011-07-08 16:10:38
        
        That's a good article. Did you actually read it, or just scan for numbers? Consider passing it along to any ... by mcfly 2011-07-08 10:22:54
        
        The point was the poll numbers. 55 percent of Americans think abortion should be legal if the child will ... by TB 2011-07-08 12:28:12
        
        I worry about you sometimes, TB, I really do. If an issue hasn't been quantified, charted and graphed, you have ... by mcfly 2011-07-08 18:00:35
        
        You make a very good point that there's a big difference between the State commanding these actions and people choosing ... by TB 2011-07-08 18:45:00
        
        Free will has always been my view. I've said many times that the eugenic revolution will not be driven ... by Lee 2011-07-08 19:29:57
        
        And you don't want to remake society? I keep hearing liberals spout off about how America's population is changing, ... by Lee 2011-07-08 18:11:18
        
        If homosexuality is genetic, I'd think twice about messing with it. Any genetic code that is so obviously biased ... by TB 2011-07-07 14:37:31
        
        That could be said about any abnormality. by Lee 2011-07-07 15:11:29
California's leadership does have its priorities. My kids didn't get a decent look at American history until high school. by TB 2011-07-07 09:54:35
- I believe high school is the right time to teach American History. You need a certain degree of maturity ... by ER 2011-07-07 11:30:57
  - PS. I wrote my memoirs between February and April of 2001. It was one of the first things I ... by ER 2011-07-07 11:47:50
  - No American History until high school, and yet middle-school kids can apparently easily handle issues of homosexuality and transgenderism without ... by TB 2011-07-07 11:46:25
    - Perhaps transgender issues should be postponed til later, but there is also a practical side to be considered, too. ... by ER 2011-07-07 12:01:33

The mythical "revenue crisis" by TB July 7, 2011 9:28 am

What is your pots and pans of choice? by Jody July 7, 2011 8:58 am

I love cast iron but I can no longer handle it; it's too heavy for me with my arthritis. ... by Eri 2011-07-07 21:05:45
That's my first choice, but high quality Teflon is also okay. I have heard that cooking gurus swear by stainless steel ... by FrankC 2011-07-07 11:53:26
- I used cast iron twenty five years ago and when my carpel tunnel syndrome got progressively worse, I sold my ... by Jody 2011-07-07 18:20:10
  - Cast iron is ideal for conking burglars on the noggin. by Eri 2011-07-08 16:22:38
- Stainless steel is rugged, but doesn't conduct heat worth shit. Many stainless steel utensils involve a cladding somewhere of ... by TB 2011-07-07 12:05:10
  - I also have one of those confounded glass tops. What I thought was very cool when I got it turned ... by FrankC 2011-07-07 13:32:25
    - I like my glass cooktop, which is a lot more robust than I thought it would be, but I'm just ... by TB 2011-07-07 13:37:40
That's a tough one. I demand that anything I use can put up with a dishwasher, which eliminates many ... by TB 2011-07-07 09:16:04

How sad by Eri July 7, 2011 4:19 am

This just reflects the sorry fact by VelociraptorBlade 2011-07-10 00:05:03
- VRB, traditionally, we don't use words like that in subject lines on this board. Thanks. by podrock 2011-07-11 08:34:11
  - BTW, I used < p > < /p > to get that word into the next line, non-viewable as the ... by Eri 2011-07-14 21:51:06
The loss to science is definitely sad. Sounds like the project itself was out of control, though. If it's cancelled, ... by mcfly 2011-07-08 10:34:42

Obama doesn't want police asking about immigration status... by Lee July 6, 2011 6:52 pm

Oops, so sorry! It seems Gov. Perry didn't listen to the Anointed One. by Lee 2011-07-07 19:54:50

Spacefaring Nation by TB July 6, 2011 6:43 pm

Glory for Atlantis!! http://www.atoptics.co.uk/opod.htm by Raoul 2011-07-09 12:33:52
That's a mixed bag. I understand the melancholy, I feel it myself. But the shuttles represent an era that *had* ... by mcfly 2011-07-07 10:30:31

Drugs and the meaning of life by BuckGalaxy July 6, 2011 4:55 pm

"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has ... by podrock 2011-07-07 20:37:26
- I have never chosen that realm myself. From my perspective, as the door opens to all that is, it comes ... by Jody 2011-07-11 18:00:04
  - Ah, Blake... by podrock 2011-07-11 19:50:14
    - ...and his religion shall be called Podrock of Sages...and it was good. by Jody 2011-07-12 16:18:28
      - And lo, there was the Sermon on the podrock...and it was silly, man. by podrock 2011-07-12 17:22:10
        
        I will never take what you have to say for granite. by Jody 2011-07-12 18:39:53
        
        that's gneiss, by podrock 2011-07-12 18:49:37
        
        I am a gneiss person, but I am tuff too! by Jody 2011-07-12 19:14:06
        
        No schist. by podrock 2011-07-12 19:51:08
I don't like him. by Jody 2011-07-06 19:39:14
- I can't put my finger on it except to say he himself is not authentic. He is trying to make ... by Jody 2011-07-06 19:47:20
  - Well, agree with him or not, I checked him out enough to know that he's no dummy. by TB 2011-07-06 19:54:31
    - "As I will discuss in future essays, the form of transcendence that appears to link directly to ethical behavior and ... by Jody 2011-07-06 20:27:28
      - He is full of shit. And ego. Transcendence above all he says and we'd be transcended like Christ. We ... by Eri 2011-07-06 21:35:32
        
        Good one. I've heard of a number of people who have gotten out of their own personal funks by ... by TB 2011-07-07 08:57:15
        
        Yep. There's nothing like seeing someone who's worse off than you and helping them to make you feel better. Sometimes I'm ... by Eri 2011-07-08 02:58:02
        
        Transcend to me means to surpass. For me he is saying that if we *surpass* our egos...in essence, let go ... by Jody 2011-07-07 08:28:32
        
        In Leviticus, Matthew and Mark and elsewhere in the Bible, we are told to "Love they neighbor as thyself." ... by Eri 2011-07-08 03:10:32
        
        Just beautiful Eri! by Jody 2011-07-08 07:21:56
      - You can tell he has a Stanford degree in philosophy can't you? I'm not quite sure what this says, ... by TB 2011-07-06 20:31:16
        
        that is probably true. by Eri 2011-07-06 21:36:16
There are some experiences that profoundly change you, but you really can't explain why or how to someone who has ... by ER 2011-07-06 18:45:22
Doesn't matter if drug use is "explicitly protected by the Constitution." That's not how it was supposed to work. ... by TB 2011-07-06 18:15:15

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