Guest2553 posted:

Guest2553 posted:

When it's idiot vs idiot, idiot always wins

Name not blocked because he seems like a lovely person anyways.

a travelling HEGEL posted:

It probably means the crunchy bits are rice, not wheat or barley or sweetened with malt. There's gluten in a lot of things that you wouldn't expect.

Guest2553 posted:

When it's idiot vs idiot, idiot always wins

Name not blocked because he seems like a lovely person anyways.

Soviet Commubot posted:

So dos he want the US to somehow forbid people from naturalizing in other countries and renouncing their citizenship? How would you even enforce that, go kidnap these newly minted foreigners and throw them in Gitmo?

e: Also, I'm not sure where people would be going for a lower tax rate anyway.

Mister Bates posted:

Yeah, 'No One Gets Out Of Here Alive' seems like a pretty hard immigration policy to enforce (although I suppose it would actually be an emigration policy).

Mister Bates posted:

Yeah, 'No One Gets Out Of Here Alive' seems like a pretty hard immigration policy to enforce (although I suppose it would actually be an emigration policy).

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I don't appreciate having my entire name linked in on a main public page like that. If you want to share a link with me in the future please do that either on my personal page or by private message. It is very much appreciated.

The breed of cow pictured is a meat cattle breed known as the Belgian blue. It's not exactly a new breed of cow nor new reality and not hidden from the public. You can read about here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_Blue

The Belgian blue has a gene which naturally makes the muscle double up. You can read about here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-muscling
and
http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/myostatin-related-muscle-hypertrophy

There is also a sheep breed known as the Caillpyge that also possesses the muscle doubling gene. The gene can also be found in a number of animals including humans and mice. Breeding for traits such as this one for double muscling takes many generations. It's not transgenic or genetically engineered as GMO tends to lead toward. According to the Cartagena Biosafety Protocol on Biosafety, GMO is defined as "any living organism that possesses a novel combination of genetic material obtained through the use of modern biotechnology". Belgian Blue doesn't meet this criteria because it wasn't created using modern biotechnology, but by traditional breeding.
This talks a bit more about genetic engineering much better than I could have.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/genetic/genetic-engineering-info1.htm

By the NatrualHealthWarriors definition, this cow is "GMO", which makes me laugh because if domestic animal breeds are going to be labeled GMO, then everything that you eat in the grocery store such as the hybrid strains of apples, oranges, berries, cherries, leaf lettuces fall under that too, including organic produce.

Following the criteria under the NHW definition, we might as well classify Pugs as GMO dogs due to being bred to the point where the traits being selected created adverse health effects. The most common problems stemming from this is the ability to breathe properly due to being brachycephalic, eye issues..as in eyes popping out and corneas getting scratched up, hip dysplasia as being some of the more common problems with the breed. They are not a very healthy breed which has been caused by issues of people breeding without taking in consideration of health but rather for show. Genetic testing for these conditions is much more common now than in the last 15-20 years or so we can at least try to reverse some of the more common problems associated with certain breeds by avoiding breeding animals who may have a history of lets say..collie eye anomaly in their pedigree. Reversing the politics set in stone when it comes to breed standards, that will take some time and I am hoping this will change for many breeds for their own welfare.

As far as the Belgian blue is concerned, it's not a breed that is not very common due to the amount of feed they require compared to other cattle breeds. This article seems to imply it's going to be trump over the more healthier Angus crossbreeds most commonly used (in the US) for beef. It won't. However I will say the Belgian Blue isn't a very healthy cattle breed to begin with, but it was most likely very useful for people living in the countrysides of Belgium in the 19th century...hence why it was developed during that time. I am sure they appreciated the extra food.

Again websites such as naturalhealthwarriors.com are using fear mongering (NEW GMO COW) and not being honest about the information they present. They may as well just state everything domesticated is GMO and encourage everyone to go live off of wild berries and bush meat.

I am not trying to start a debate. I am explaining why it's not good to jump to articles like that and post them without validating the information and where it originated from. That is my point and is still the same point I made about the previous study from a few weeks ago..

Baika posted:

She actually deleted my response on her page and didn't remove my name from the page. What a jerk. I sent her a message to take my name off but I have a feeling she won't respond or do it.

Baika posted:

Sister in law is at it this time, except she took my hand and made me touch the poop by linking my name on a stupid article posted on a stupid page she follows.

Edit: Posting a picture instead of linking. No hits for them.




My response aka now am an idiot on social media. I wrote it on the fly so please forgive any sloppiness.

Background: I looked at the study myself and pointed inconsistencies with the data and how the study was perceived as "groundbreaking research" when that was not reflected within the study itself and why it was flawed.

She actually deleted my response on her page and didn't remove my name from the page. What a jerk. I sent her a message to take my name off but I have a feeling she won't respond or do it. I admit I did hit under the belt by using the pug as an example since she owns one and has done backyard breeding contracts with her previous pug (she owns his son now), but I thought it was okay to use that example to help her relate and understand my point about 2 not so healthy breeds and how they would be classified as GMO by the site's misunderstanding of the term. Wanted to throw in there that I am not okay with the selective breeding practices of the Belgian Blue due to the problems associated with it. Food animals are kind of a different story and I don't want to...

Kimmalah posted:

He referenced the Prime Directive, so that's almost a certainty. (even Picard is embarrassed for him)

Wikipedia posted:

The Prime Directive dictates that there can be no interference with the internal development of alien civilizations.

Regalingualius posted:

All I can think of is them saying they're planning to be a doctorate kind of Doctor.

PUGGERNAUT posted:

I still don't understand why, when somebody wants to show you something on a public page, people just tag your name in the comments instead of posting it to your profile. Every time George Takei puts up something pug-related I get five or six people tagging my name in the comments. I ALREADY SAW IT stop making my phone go off

PUGGERNAUT posted:

I still don't understand why, when somebody wants to show you something on a public page, people just tag your name in the comments instead of posting it to your profile. Every time George Takei puts up something pug-related I get five or six people tagging my name in the comments. I ALREADY SAW IT stop making my phone go off

Lonely Virgil posted:

Kankakee County sounds like depressing place if it's possible to be fast food snob.

ol qwerty bastard posted:

Those dastardly hackers! What nefariously evil plot will they come up with next?

ol qwerty bastard posted:

ol qwerty bastard posted:

Those dastardly hackers! What nefariously evil plot will they come up with next?

Kimmalah posted:

I've gotten friend requests like that. But it's obviously not "hackers," just people who nab your profile pic and name.

deepshock posted:

Until recently, I've never heard of someone advocating belief in faeries, mermaids and that with the same dogmatic fervor that one normally associates with organized religion. My world has been changed. Facebook!

Elderbean posted:

Lefties HATE what THIS PROFESSOR has to say.

GAINING WEIGHT... posted:

I looked this up, and the article kept saying "Liberals can't stop hating this STORY! Even though it ISN'T TRUE liberals are getting SO MAD!!!" It's like...yeah, you made something up to illustrate a faulty point and people are upset, wow, you sure showed us.

I'd love for a professor of sociology or government or something to actually run an experiment like this with student's grades, except one student starts out with, like, a 7000.0 GPA, and a bunch of people start out with less than a 1.0, and there are opportunities to get other people's GPA points from them. And then see how long it takes for the 7000.0 to get beat up.

Elderbean posted:

Lefties HATE what THIS PROFESSOR has to say.

quote:

To get a more apt example, you need to limit the amount of possible points available to the entire class. We’ll set the student number at 100 for simplicity and the limit at 7,000 points per test so that if it was evenly distributed among all 100 students everyone would get a C on each 100 point test. Let’s assume that the distribution of all points follows the current U.S. distribution of income. Here’s how we end up:

Top 20: 4,137 points, average grade: A+ (206 points out of 100)
Second 20: 1,323 points, average grade: D (66 points out of 100)
Third 20: 812 points, average grade: F (41 points out of 100)
Fourth 20: 497 points, average grade: F (25 points out of 100)
Bottom 20: 245 points, average grade: F (12 points out of 100)

Congratulations, 3/5ths of the class flunked and 1/5th barely passed while 1/5th got more points than they will ever need to pass. None of this accounts for the amount of studying each quintile did by the way; some of the bottom 20 students worked their asses off doing 80 hours of studying just to scrape by with their 12 points each. Why did the top 20 do so well? They own the pencils and sharpeners and only agreed to let the other students use the pencils and sharpeners if they gave up some points to do so.

Welcome to American capitalism.

Amused to Death posted:

Hey post this


Share the response.

Rigged Death Trap posted:

ehhhhh I would seriously doubt them if they say no.
If concentrated fan self-wankery can amass loads of money for charity then why the hell not.
Go be freaky damaged people for charity.


So long as some turbo-nerds dont deem it charitable to just donate 1% of proceedings and pocket the rest/the entire thing.
I do remember that happening in some various themed cons.

Saagonsa posted:

I would love to hear someone try to speak Japanese from what they learned watching anime.

budgieinspector posted:

In response to this:

budgieinspector posted:

In response to this:

(NOTE: "Doug" and "Juan" are women and "Mary" is a dude.)

Elderbean posted:

You kids today need to stay together even though you both loving hate each other, like we did!