Posts by Anony Mous

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Cain and Abel...Who recorded this tragic event?

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

3 the day came when cain brought a gift of the fruit of the ground to the lord.

4 but abel brought a gift of the first-born of his flocks and of the fat parts.

the lord showed favor to abel and his gift.

Anony Mous

There is an interesting story arc about Cain in the series Lucifer on Netflix. It’s quite interesting to hear the Devil and Cain’s side.

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Jehovah's witnesses believe in Tranys.

by mickbobcat in

so women who are of the anointed will be changed to male?

i know it says there are neither male nor female in heaven but they are never depicted as women always male gender.

so does the cult believe in the transgender crap?.

Anony Mous

The JW's sure believe in the male hierarchy. I think for a long time they actually held that women could not be anointed.

As far as the trans-stuff, they sure as hell don't believe that being gay is something that can't be suppressed or changed given that you can't have appointments if you feel gay. Given transgender is just the logical extension of LGBTQ gender-theory, I highly doubt they accept the notion that this is natural or normal.

Trans-genders are just people with severe mental illness, you can't honestly believe that people are born in "the wrong body", and that it's not their mind that is screwed up. That is such anti-scientific bullshit, these people simply need psychiatric help, not surgery.

Most of them aren't attracted to people of their opposite sex, so they have "no natural desires" as the JW's would say. I'm sure given the fact of the mental illness they'll say something about 'compassion' and then simply keep them at an arms length.

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Keystone XL Pipeline & Watchtower Research

by IWant2Leave in

you may know that president joe biden canceled the permits for the xl canadian pipeline on his first day in office.

this was a controversial move, and there has been discussion and videos floating around the office where i work.

one of my co-workers showed a video of all the jobs being lost.

Anony Mous

And here’s another strike against the notion that Indian tribes are against the pipelines:

The Uinthay (second largest reservation in the US) and Ouray blasted the Biden order saying it was illegal and says the order is a direct attack on their sovereignty. These and other tribes depend on the energy production throughout their lands and they say that such measures have to be discussed with their tribes first.

As I said, the President doesn’t have unilateral power to just cancel the pipeline or domestic oil production.

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Keystone XL Pipeline & Watchtower Research

by IWant2Leave in

you may know that president joe biden canceled the permits for the xl canadian pipeline on his first day in office.

this was a controversial move, and there has been discussion and videos floating around the office where i work.

one of my co-workers showed a video of all the jobs being lost.

Anony Mous

@hoser: For one, there are different types of oil. I think Ted Cruz did an interview on his podcast once with a small business oil producer but each type of oil has different products you can get from them and methods to refine them. It really gives you a better perspective on the oil industry to know it's not just ExxonMobil, but the majority of US oil is currently produced by small business owners.

On the other hand, Canada also doesn't have all their refineries in one place. It may be cheaper overall to supply areas around Toronto through the US because the transport from the North and the oceans where most of the Canadian oil is produced would be cost prohibitive.

So it may be more cost effective to ship oil from Canada to a Pennsylvania refinery and then sell it back to Toronto than shipping it from Prince Rupert to Vancouver to get refined and sell the final product in Toronto.

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Keystone XL Pipeline & Watchtower Research

by IWant2Leave in

you may know that president joe biden canceled the permits for the xl canadian pipeline on his first day in office.

this was a controversial move, and there has been discussion and videos floating around the office where i work.

one of my co-workers showed a video of all the jobs being lost.

Anony Mous

@Frozen it's the looped thinking of the ecological movement. According to them we should all be living off the land in grass huts cutting our own trees and finding berries (not meat) to eat.

They don't understand economics which demonstrate that if we had the number of people currently alive cutting trees for fuel, we'd have no forests left anywhere on earth and that we'd need 3 more planets just to grow more food. Every economic shortcut gives a much greater amplifying effect. It's very easy to say "well, about 80% of the Internet is not directly contributing any value related to economy" (and it is true YouTube videos are not directly economically productive) or nobody needs 3 computers, 2 tablets and 5 TV's at home or having more than one car per family is wasteful, but it's the consumer economy that has driven the cost and efficiency of computers and TV's down to the point where they are cheap enough for not just the largest corporations to afford them and become economic drivers.

And people in the 1950's understood this. So a lot of us older folks coming down from the Boomer generation should understand this as well. The government needed integrated circuits to go to space, so they asked private corporations to build it for them, which then turned around and marketed and sold the remainder of the production runs to researchers and hobbyists which some of them turned this computer thing into a small business (eg. Intel) which after selling a few units someone thought it would be great if we packaged these up for business (IBM) and then how about we can get this stuff at home to play games and do homework (Atari, Dell, ...)

Same goes for this pipeline, it drives an economic output of 1M jobs downstream, it is not directly employing 1M people, but it is generating an income equal to 1M people working by employing the jobs for a value of maybe 10% of 10M people or 1% of 100M people. The dozens of people that work at the pipeline, feed the needs of the refinery that employ hundreds of people that employ thousands of people in the gas stations it fills that fuel the millions of people in the area that need to go back and forth to work every day. The media and these Greenpeace hippies use false dichotomy and bend the narratives because explaining economics is really hard and the average person has no desire studying for a degree in economics just to understand their vote on a pipeline.

It's the same arguments the JW's use to justify their pictures of paradise, not understanding that you're interrupting entire economic and ecological and biological structures by turning carnivores into herbivores just to satisfy a single verse in a poem from the Bible.

A "planned economy" (1 car per family, defined number of electronics, equality through laws and procedure) was the prevailing theory of the Soviet Union, Pol Pot, North Korea and many other communist systems and they fail invariably because nobody is driving the economy with better and bigger projects.

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Keystone XL Pipeline & Watchtower Research

by IWant2Leave in

you may know that president joe biden canceled the permits for the xl canadian pipeline on his first day in office.

this was a controversial move, and there has been discussion and videos floating around the office where i work.

one of my co-workers showed a video of all the jobs being lost.

Anony Mous

Here is a completely non-partisan, logical consideration of your point

1) There is already a pipeline that runs from Canada to Port Arthur, Tx. - correct, but your own point 4 undercuts the notion that it is sufficient - running oil through train cars is significantly more pollution (you have to run the train after all) and the accelerant to the Keystone XL pipeline was that a train derailed and spilled all over a nature reservation. It was then found out that more pipeline would have avoided all that.

2) Farmers, ranchers, American Indians, all that would stand to make profit from the pipeline, most, do not support it. Environmentalists are against it. Underground water supply could be polluted. As much as we like and need oil, we can't drink it.

Farmers are always against taking their land under executive order as the land grab never ends. I concur with their issues but there is a balance to be struck somewhere. The history of the "American Indian representatives" is full of anti-government sentiment stoked by white people more interested in protecting the idea of 'the noble savage' which left their populations in the state they currently are in.

As far as the groundwater pollution, that is assuming the pipe leaks non-stop without anyone fixing it. Pipelines don't just leach things into the ground, everything going in the ground is waste and a potential for expensive cleanups. Hence what I said prior, engineers have figured out ways to build pipelines without leaks and plenty of backups.

3) Only 48% of Canadians support this 2nd pipeline(XL). This could mean that 52% are against or don't have an opinion on it.

Or it means the media has painted a bad picture of the thing. You could cut the same to say only 30% of Americans support Biden because the rest either voted Trump or didn't vote. It's a bad argument if you don't present all the pros-and-cons honestly.

4) Canada is on track to set record oil exports to the U.S via railcar and the existing Keystone pipeline that has been operational for years now.

See point 1 - there are seriously more issues with railcars than pipelines

5) Many of the jobs related to the construction of the pipeline are temporary.

That is a bit of a tautology, because the pipeline won't be endlessly constructed. So yes, those jobs are temporary, but there will be more jobs at the refineries and transportation of finished products, the trucks and boats and trains that it fuels that drive the economy etc.

6) The oil that would run through XL pipeline is a thicker corrosive crude that is extracted from the Canadian and Nebraska sands, that creates more pollution than normal oil operations.

According to whom? And yes, pollution happens when we extract and burn oil. Low-pressure collection of shale and fracked gas/oil is cheaper and thus less polluting than drilling high-pressure holes far off-shore and deep into the ocean floor (remember the BP leak a few years ago that took months to close and Exxon-Valdez for the transport of said oil). But the only true zero-emission (nuclear) has been paused indefinitely by the same environmentalist and wind/solar is both too unreliable and too expensive and very, very polluting (heavy metals, lead, rare earths - look at factories and mining in China that produce solar panels and large motors - they are slowly poisoning entire cities with all their major cities now covered in a fine yellow haze from the byproducts of heavy metals like lithium, which is worse than the smog we had in the 80s and 90s in the West). There is a balance between dumping the oil in the nature parks and using 100% of it without emission. A pipeline is the cleanest, least amount of energy required to transport oil, regular transport has major issues and is a lot more expensive, which is why they want a pipeline in the first place, to make cheaper and more profitable oil.

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Keystone XL Pipeline & Watchtower Research

by IWant2Leave in

you may know that president joe biden canceled the permits for the xl canadian pipeline on his first day in office.

this was a controversial move, and there has been discussion and videos floating around the office where i work.

one of my co-workers showed a video of all the jobs being lost.

Anony Mous

How was the research eye-opening? There are many partisan think thanks that give their opinion. This pipeline would've added 1M jobs to the US economy, obviously not directly employed (which is the media skimming over a LOT of details and economics) by the company but it is an effect it has.

Even today, there are 11,000 people working on the project and this project has been going on for years now and will for many more. That isn't a drop in the bucket.

Do research, but also understand what the research means and all its biases. Obviously everything has a side effect, both positive and negative, but these engineers involved have built pipelines across the world without major environmental disasters and this particular line is so over-engineered it's unlikely to fail even if it was totally neglected for a decade.

Even if you ignore everything, just think logically. This guy has been President for what, 24h and he suddenly has all the information to make a balanced decision? Even just the legal implications (Presidents, unlike what the media tells you don't have unlimited power) would've taken weeks if not months to research, the President does not have unilateral power to just cancel a permit that has been provided.

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Covid lung damage worse than from heavy smoking

by FatFreek 2005 in

we've probably all heard it, "i wish i could get the covid and that way it would be behind me", as if it were some annoying rite of passage.

"sure, i'll lose my senses of smell and taste for awhile, i'll lose my strength for awhile", etc.. what else could be the reasoning for ignoring the social distancing to attend maskless parties and similar large group gatherings?.

however, looking at the following xray images of certain lungs may help impress some folks into thinking that there are more serious happenings in the attack progression of this virus.

Anony Mous

@sherman: I don’t think the virus was created in a lab, we’ve seen these viruses coming from China for well over 100 years. Notoriously the Spanish Flu, originated from China, left 10M people dead.

I do think this virus is being used by various people in power to push through their agenda, business and politics. This goes from Bill Gates to the local mayor.

We had similar numbers in deaths in the past, notoriously Obama’s H1N1 outbreak took 2 years and left 12,000 people dead in the US alone, most died before the government even started implementing any measures, they responded 14 months after the first case, but we never locked down, never developed a vaccine. According to the NYT and WSJ, if H1N1 was as deadly as COVID and handled according to the Obama playbook they left behind, we’d have 2M people dead.

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Covid lung damage worse than from heavy smoking

by FatFreek 2005 in

we've probably all heard it, "i wish i could get the covid and that way it would be behind me", as if it were some annoying rite of passage.

"sure, i'll lose my senses of smell and taste for awhile, i'll lose my strength for awhile", etc.. what else could be the reasoning for ignoring the social distancing to attend maskless parties and similar large group gatherings?.

however, looking at the following xray images of certain lungs may help impress some folks into thinking that there are more serious happenings in the attack progression of this virus.

Anony Mous

1.2B grant vs a 100M loan, that is an order of magnitude difference. Also note that those are not the only vaccines, some vaccine developments failed, which were also funded. The US has funded through Operation Warpspeed close to $10B in COVID vaccine research in the first bill passed in Congress earlier 2020, not counting the recent budget they passed with billions more, not counting how much NSF and NIH allocated from existing budgets, while also historically (since WW2) funding about 80% of the entire world’s healthcare research, far away from the UK in second place and in recent years China. The CDC just budgeted $8B for vaccine distribution alone.

In comparison world leaders, including the EU, pledged only $8B for both the R&D and the distribution of vaccines when the US went at it alone in May 2020.

Either way, to make my point a bit easier to understand why testing has failed: here is a video that explains, watch before the woke scolds take it down. https://youtu.be/IZ_8b_Ydsv0

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Covid lung damage worse than from heavy smoking

by FatFreek 2005 in

we've probably all heard it, "i wish i could get the covid and that way it would be behind me", as if it were some annoying rite of passage.

"sure, i'll lose my senses of smell and taste for awhile, i'll lose my strength for awhile", etc.. what else could be the reasoning for ignoring the social distancing to attend maskless parties and similar large group gatherings?.

however, looking at the following xray images of certain lungs may help impress some folks into thinking that there are more serious happenings in the attack progression of this virus.

Anony Mous

@naja: can’t read what’s behind the paywall but I would suggest you look at the statistics. Look up Sweden COVID death rate.

Sweden had virtually zero deaths until early November. It started out at about 100 per day in the worst and then it tapered down.

They had lots of infections,their case rate statistics are almost the inverse of their death rates (as I said, they locked down their old age homes while letting young people work and be free). Then November 3rd they started implementing lockdowns similar to other countries because case rates had been “skyrocketing” for nearly 2 months and they implemented restrictions on bars and restaurants. Suddenly their deaths rose to 300 and now 400 per day.

Now everyone is saying that Sweden was right to begin with.

The Uk went through the same thing. Remember when Boris Johnson was going to kill everyone by not locking down enough last summer. During that time death rates plummeted from their initial surge. When they tightened the lockdown rules in early September to only groups of 6, there was a surge in deaths once again.

You may wonder why this is and it’s fairly simple. Let’s say you want to go to the pub or the movies, where are you not: with elderly family, indoors in tight spaces. Let’s say the government tells you you can’t go to the pub or the movies, where are you: visiting your elderly family, staying indoors, more often with family and friends.

The same happened in California. People were enjoying the summer, suddenly in the middle of a heat wave: no more outdoor dining, no more trips to the beach. Where did everyone go? They went indoors with recirculated air. What happened: deaths skyrocketed.

Again, not talking about cases. Talk about deaths. Nobody cares if you’re sick, people care if you’re dead.