UCONN TO THE BIG EAST

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Poison

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Re: UCONN TO THE BIG EAST
« Reply #140 on: June 30, 2019, 08:42:03 PM »

Nice, further proof that politicians of any stripe will do anything for a vote (like Truman in his younger days although Im too lazy and disinterested to verify the Truman bit but I trust your research skills.)

These images are proof of nothing at all. They are fake.

Foad

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« Reply #141 on: June 30, 2019, 08:54:51 PM »
These images are proof of nothing at all. They are fake.

Of course they are dummy and you can buy them and prove it

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=bill+clinton+buttons

Or you can argue with the right wing Washington Post dummy, which wrote a long article explain why they're not racist

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/06/22/what-those-clinton-gore-confederate-flag-buttons-say-about-politics-in-2015/?utm_term=.ce31a584e460

Or argue with these guys dummy

"During the 1992 presidential election, Clinton-Gore campaign pins featured the Confederate flag with the heads of the presidential and vice presidential candidates atop Confederate soldiers with the slogan “Sons of the New South” emblazoned across the button."

http://www.theamericanmirror.com/trumps-racist-recent-presidential-candidate-confederate-pin-clinton/

I don't mind that you're a racist who supports racist politicians dummy, but I do mind you lying about it, dummy.


Poison

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Re: UCONN TO THE BIG EAST
« Reply #142 on: June 30, 2019, 10:22:46 PM »
Of course they are dummy and you can buy them and prove it

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=bill+clinton+buttons

Or you can argue with the right wing Washington Post dummy, which wrote a long article explain why they're not racist

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/06/22/what-those-clinton-gore-confederate-flag-buttons-say-about-politics-in-2015/?utm_term=.ce31a584e460

Or argue with these guys dummy

"During the 1992 presidential election, Clinton-Gore campaign pins featured the Confederate flag with the heads of the presidential and vice presidential candidates atop Confederate soldiers with the slogan “Sons of the New South” emblazoned across the button."

http://www.theamericanmirror.com/trumps-racist-recent-presidential-candidate-confederate-pin-clinton/

I don't mind that you're a racist who supports racist politicians dummy, but I do mind you lying about it, dummy.


Still no proof. Sorry. Nice try though. Get back at it. Hustle up.

cjfish

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Re: UCONN TO THE BIG EAST
« Reply #143 on: July 01, 2019, 09:23:01 AM »
Let's find common ground. The effect of what LBJ did in furthering JFK's legacy regarding the advancement of civil rights for minorities in the US furthered the common good to an indescribable degree. I don't know that it was de facto virtuous: I find horribly cynical the idea that minorities - and specifically black americans - cannot advance themselves without the help of white americans. But to the extent that the CRA codified things that should be self evident - that all men are created equal - kudos to LBJ for his role in advancing that notion. And that he was less charitable to other minority peoples - the yellow ones for example in Vietnam, millions of which he was responsible for murdering, we'll leave that for another day in the interest of comity.

In anticipation of my rapidly approaching death I've been bucket list reading the alleged classics that no one has ever read. Darwin eg: garbage. Finnegans Wake: incomprehensible garbage. Proust: boring incomprehensible garbage. Gibbon is the worst of the lot: that anyone spent 30 years rendering what was perhaps the most fascinating epoch in history into that sort of turgid leaden prose amplifies and confirms my complete contempt for human intelligence. I'd rather read Barbara Tuchman, and she's a broad, nearly.

cjfish

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Re: UCONN TO THE BIG EAST
« Reply #144 on: July 01, 2019, 09:30:37 AM »

   


Agree on Proust and Finnegans wake (didn’t get thru that,  pre translation programs). I think The man was quite mad when this was written. Disagree on Gibbon. Poorly written but a great history. Like many historians the man could not give us novellike prose

Ez_Uzi

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« Reply #145 on: July 01, 2019, 10:30:43 AM »
I’m actually well schooled on ancient humans and humanoid species. I’ve been fascinated by it since I was a child and have traveled the world visiting archeological sites and caves.  You are just doing loaded google searches for confirmation bias. I’m trying to dumb this down as much as possible for your, my liege.

Race is not a social construct, but rather a series of evolutionary changes that take place when groups of people (or other flora and fauna) are separated for long periods of time.

Neanderthals and modern humans were separated for so long that they were considered different species by most scholars yet they were still able to interbreed—which is a bone of contention among some in the field who insist the ability to produce viable offspring means they are part of the same species.

All modern day humans besides subsaharan Africans have between 2-5% of Neanderthal in their DNA. Additionally, as I mentioned earlier, other groups of humans in south Asia and south have traces of Denisovan DNA. SubSaharan Africans have genetic admixture from at least one now extinct humanoid species.

SubSaharan Africans were separated from the rest of the races by as much as 130,000 years. That explains the phenotypic differences and IQ scores (I am not Asian or and Ashkenazi Jew so I don’t have a horse in the race on this topic). As a reference, Neanderthals and modern humans were separated for approximately 200,000 years before coming back in contact and eventually interbreeding.  Given another 50,000-100,000 years SubSaharan Africans and other races would have evolved into completely different species incapable of producing viable offspring.

Race gets less clear when you look into the differences beteeen other groups who were in constant contact and among people with mixed genetic for obvious reasons. Isolation is what drives genetic differentiation.



What you've written is factual. When I referred to race as a human construct, I was referring to your last paragraph (ie mixing over long periods of time blurs racial distinctions). If we take race to mean lineage (which is what it originally meant), then IQ differences certainly arise and were significantly different due to environmental and climatic factors (they also gave rise to skin and eye color, hair, sweat pores, etc. differences). Although now with greater mixing IQ differences are narrowing.

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« Reply #146 on: July 01, 2019, 02:29:14 PM »
What you've written is factual.

Let’s be crystal clear...it’s factual that it was written. What was written is actually a hypothesis.
« Last Edit: July 01, 2019, 02:33:24 PM by SJUFAN »

Foad

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« Reply #147 on: July 01, 2019, 02:33:55 PM »
Still no proof

I can't begin to imagine the mountains of evidence it would take to get you to admit you're lying.

Foad

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« Reply #148 on: July 01, 2019, 02:37:52 PM »
Finnegans wake (didn’t get thru that,  pre translation programs). I think The man was quite mad when this was written.

I'm three quarters of the way through his biography. He was blind and a sot but evidently quite sane.

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« Reply #149 on: July 01, 2019, 02:54:57 PM »
Most but not all want to to make Socialism replace our American ideals.
It's already a Socialist country. Just relax and enjoy it.
« Last Edit: July 01, 2019, 02:56:01 PM by carmineabbatiello »

cjfish

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« Reply #150 on: July 01, 2019, 04:08:16 PM »
I'm three quarters of the way through his biography. He was blind and a sot but evidently quite sane.



Maybe not clinically mad but certainly a bit off. After Ulysses in my opinion he had to prove he was more intellectual than his contemporaries so he wrote a book that you have to have another book to read, which is where I dropped out.  For my money Anthony Burgess combined an intellectual bent with fine prose. Had the best and strangest opening line ever, “I was in bed with my catamite when the Archbishop came calling”

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« Reply #151 on: July 01, 2019, 04:35:52 PM »



Maybe not clinically mad but certainly a bit off. After Ulysses in my opinion he had to prove he was more intellectual than his contemporaries so he wrote a book that you have to have another book to read, which is where I dropped out.  For my money Anthony Burgess combined an intellectual bent with fine prose. Had the best and strangest opening line ever, “I was in bed with my catamite when the Archbishop came calling”

I don't know that he thought he had anything to prove: he thought himself (if the biography is to be believed) far above almost any and every of his contemporaries: he sneered eg at TS Eliot and even Ezra Pound who was his friend and champion and many of the writers he praised - Ford Maddox Ford for example, are garbage. I find Burgess uneven - his best books are good and his worst books awful (in the same way that Bob Dylan is both the best and worst song writer of his generation) but it was Burgess's Rejoyce that led me back to FW, which I'd attempted and failed on multiple occasions, being a huge fan of APOTAAATM and Ulysses. I ended up getting through it by reading ten pages or so aloud every afternoon, as a species of prayer or the latin mass, something I didn't understand either but found moving nonetheless.

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« Reply #152 on: July 02, 2019, 07:55:17 AM »
I can't begin to imagine the mountains of evidence it would take to get you to admit you're lying.

And now you’ve got a whole summer to work on it. So, you’re welcome.

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« Reply #153 on: July 02, 2019, 12:03:48 PM »
Record hot temperatures recently. Women were recently given the right to vote. Perhaps there is some correlation.
I think that you are the first human on the face of the earth to mention this possible correlation.

What I proposed as a possible correlation has been studied, written about and is believed by many. Including some individuals with actual Phd's in atmospheric science.

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Re: UCONN TO THE BIG EAST
« Reply #154 on: July 02, 2019, 12:26:39 PM »



Maybe not clinically mad but certainly a bit off. After Ulysses in my opinion he had to prove he was more intellectual than his contemporaries so he wrote a book that you have to have another book to read, which is where I dropped out.  For my money Anthony Burgess combined an intellectual bent with fine prose. Had the best and strangest opening line ever, “I was in bed with my catamite when the Archbishop came calling”

Joyce had nothing to prove after Ulysses. It was a masterpiece. Happy belated Bloomsday to all the fans on here.

Ez_Uzi

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« Reply #155 on: July 02, 2019, 12:40:30 PM »
I think that you are the first human on the face of the earth to mention this possible correlation.

What I proposed as a possible correlation has been studied, written about and is believed by many. Including some individuals with actual Phd's in atmospheric science.

What he means facetiously is that correlation does not imply causality. Correlation is when two or more variables move together but neither causes the other to change. For example, rise in US spending on space, science and technology correlates over the same time with rise is suicides and murder ...

However, one part of carbon emissions increase that gets the least attention is the beneficial effects as plant food ... https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth

If you listen to environmentalists and climate advocates from Malthus onwards, doomsday is always around the corner but this specie somehow finds a way to survive and thrive ... 

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« Reply #156 on: July 02, 2019, 04:50:09 PM »
If you listen to environmentalists and climate advocates from Malthus onwards, doomsday is always around the corner but this specie somehow finds a way to survive and thrive ... 

Man has sinned against the earth mother Gaia and we're all going to drown in a cataclysimic flood unless we atone by buying carbon offsets to save the polar bears. Me, I prefer the old testament version. But to recap: a barely sentient life form called homo sapiens on a speck of dust hurtling through an infinite universe of infinite universes is dying because of homo spaiens and homo sapiens can only save itself by ceding its freedoms to fascists via the tithing necessary to regulate of cow farts. So saith the prophetess AOC, until recently a bartender:

A flood once covered everything but the summit of Mount Wawom Pebato. Only a pregnant woman and a pregnant mouse escaped. After the waters had descended, the woman saw a sheaf of rice hanging from an uprooted tree. The mouse got it down for her, but demanded in recompense that mice should thereafter have the right to eat part of the harvest. The woman gave birth to a son, took him for her husband, and by him had a son and daughter who became mankind's ancestors.

Fornicate science: it's time to paint our faces, don loincloths and slay the fatted calf. Armageddon approacheth.


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« Reply #158 on: July 03, 2019, 12:55:31 AM »
What he means facetiously is that correlation does not imply causality.
I got that. I just wanted to point out that what I proposed is a prevalent school of thought in today's scientific community. Perhaps there is some basis for it.

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« Reply #159 on: July 03, 2019, 01:56:38 PM »
I got that. I just wanted to point out that what I proposed is a prevalent school of thought in today's scientific community. Perhaps there is some basis for it.

There was a basis but it has been largely debunked in academics although for some scientists they have a real stake in continuing to perpetuate the myth. The entire premise - which was originally the basis for global warming (note the term global warming term has now largely faded in our common parlance) - was based on the idea that increasing atmospheric concentrations of CO2 (from the industrial revolution onwards) play a key role in producing a greenhouse effect and this links to a gradual, long-term rise in temperatures measured over a time span of say 200 years and then extrapolated into the future using Climate models. That is, climate models (based on some killer assumptions) were predicting these results for an extremely complex, self-correcting system/mechanism we call planet Earth (as Foad would let know).

If you yourself want to test these climate model's credibility just look for actual measurements (up to 2019) and you'll see a relatively cooling trend ... but say if you extend your analysis when industrialization had not occurred you will find there were actually even higher temperatures in the Roman and Medieval eras because of the fossil fuel burning chariots and cart and buggy ... these findings were partly the reason that the climate community switched from pushing global warming to now "climate change" ... on the other side of the spectrum the very climate supporting PhDs had to finally recognize the beneficial impact of carbon fertilization and try to come to terms with the increasing greening, food production of the planet ... So while climate academics continue to predict torrential events and environmental academics continue to predict massive species extinctions because of big bad humans, we have reduced hunger, poverty, generated wealth and increased life expentancy in unprecedented scale. But if AOC is right, and it's all over in say 10 years, why not sit back and start a perpetual happy hour :) ...