Speaking of Charley Manson I really enjoyed the movie "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" - the last one I saw in a movie theater as far as I can remember. Like "Inglorious Bastards" (which I thought was a great movie), it's a strange, completely fictional re-telling of history by Qu...

Economic Club of NY today: "Trump rails on Fed, notes other countries have negative rates: ‘Give me some of that money’ What a d*ck. Negative interest rates are a tax on savers, a direct wealth transfer from regular people with money in the bank, elderly people relying on fixed incomes, pensio...

Mountaineer wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2019 12:44 pm Then there is the extra dose of suffering for being a Christian....you are expected in church.

Amen to that.

I'm putting this in the category of "okay, even if what you say is true, so what?" It's hard to believe that the process of natural selection favoring a reproductive benefit wouldn't have resulted in some difference between male and female brains. But even if both males and females ended ...

I'm putting this in the category of "okay, even if what you say is true, so what?" It's hard to believe that the process of natural selection favoring a reproductive benefit wouldn't have resulted in some difference between male and female brains. But even if both males and females ended u...

No. I was a volunteer, that led volunteers, who mostly did a good job, who mostly loved this country. I would guess close to 0% of modern fighting men (I'm early 30s) would carry that Zippo; they would feel disgraced by it. Vietnam 1969-70. I was going to comment on this but I've learned to keep my...

I observed that the book had 2 reviews on Amazon, one glowingly positive and the other negative. But there were 3 positive reviews to be found online in Slate, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. I've never thought of any of those entities as being go to sources for accurate science but the...

My 3 kids were born 1974-1977 and I can assure you they have seen plenty of hardship in their lives. So much so that my 23-year old adopted granddaughter just told me she has no intention of ever having kids. Had to tell her I didn't blame her at all, notwithstanding the fact that if I had felt the...

I just finished listening to this woman's presentation on her book: Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds She concluded by saying you are either in her camp or the "Men are from Mars; Women are from Venus" camp. When the latter book ca...

I believe this is an example of Trump quietly doing exactly what he was elected to do.....

https://vdare.com/articles/national-dat ... hing-right

Exactly, and likewise. These Millennials have no idea what having it rough is. Way too coddled. No Americans who were born Stateside after 1945 and who have never been in combat have any idea about hardship. I heard it second-hand from my immigrant parents. My 3 kids were born 1974-1977 and I can a...

I know she's saying "don't worry this will only affect the ultra-rich" now, but isn't that what they said about the AMT? Not just the AMT, but the income tax itself initially only affected a tiny portion of the population. Now look where we are. Same thing with taxes on SS benefits. Origi...

What has been your history? I've been off sugar since 1985 (but tons of fruit) yet I go for three cleanings per year so as to make the whole experience much less painful. I'm known as the model patient for the way I take care of my teeth (flossing and brushing). I seem to be prone to plaque buildup...

Maddy: Alzheimer's rate is increasing much faster than would be predicted if the age-adjusted rate were stable. Right away that tells you that whatever is driving it has little to do with genetics. Instead, there's a body of literature (epidemiology and physiological mechanism studies) linking Alzh...

Maddy: Alzheimer's rate is increasing much faster than would be predicted if the age-adjusted rate were stable. Right away that tells you that whatever is driving it has little to do with genetics. Instead, there's a body of literature (epidemiology and physiological mechanism studies) linking Alzh...

Anyone read/hear anything that's slamming gold and bonds today? Everyone will be putting 100% of their money in the stock market forever or something like that? No risk 25% a year investing? WSJ says In Europe, negative yields on some long-term government bonds—which had alarmed investors when they...

Maddy wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2019 8:20 am

WiseOne wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2019 8:14 am

ochotona wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2019 9:25 pm 58 and take 3. Mediocre genes.

. . . Alzheimer's (which has been rightly dubbed as type 3 diabetes).

Please explain! Sounds interesting.

I thought cancer was being dubbed as type 3 diabetes.

The average 30-year-old is on SEVEN (7) prescription medications?? And 70 is pretty old, I guess, but TWENTY-SIX drugs is the average?? I read that 90% of those over 65 are taking either blood pressure or cholesterol medications. But I'm as astounded as you are by each of the stats you cited. I've ...

The over-arching problem is Americans are incapable of critical thinking, especially as relates to anything quantitative. That's why most of the young scientists and engineers are of Asian (Sinitic or Indic) cultural backgrounds. Americans would rather teach their kids to be gender fluid strippers ...

I guess the only thing I would disagree with is the use of the word "crisis" for all these things. I can definitely see things I would call gathering storms but I don't recall any time in my life where you couldn't sense those if you looked hard enough. Just had a real family crisis over t...

To circle back and tie into what Vinny said, what happens when, for whatever reason, less companies decide to go public? Private equity, now that is truly immoral. O0 I have a lot of respect for the Amish as well (although I also understand why many don’t return after Rumspringa (sp?)) Kevin Kelly ...

Who's denying reality when they claim there are 312 different genders? Or that a boy is a girl? What percentage of non-Republicans do you think believe that? Vinny I believe it's officially 100% of the Democratic candidates for president. Or at least that's what they feel obligated to believe publi...

Since Steyer and Yang have virtually zero chance of becoming the eventual nominee, what cognitive dissonance will get you to vote for Biden or Warren considering the grade you have given them? The only other one with a prayer is Sanders, and I believe you said in another thread that you dislike him...

Watched the whole season of "Diagnosis" last night. Had to get past the fact that it was produced by the New York Times but I thought it was about as good as "reality TV" gets. It's basically a non-fiction version of "House" and the female doctor who wrote for the Times...