Sometimes very active discussions about peripheral issues overwhelm a thread, so this is a permanent home for those conversations.
I’ve opened a new “Sandbox” thread as a post as the new “ignore commenter” plug-in only works on threads started as posts.
https://nationalawakening.org/press-release-uyghur-genocide-and-crimes-against-humanity-credible-evidence-submitted-to-icc-for-the-first-time-asking-for-investigation-of-chinese-officials/
That’s what you are supporting.
If we want to go down that road, feel free:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_China
Some of the numbers on there are frankly unbelievable. Makes vietnam look like a scrap in a schoolyard. 365,000 Vietnamese civilians dead? Between 1755–1757 China managed almost double that alone!
The funny thing is the USA have a list as well
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_United_States
but it’s mostly deranged individuals then acts of the state.
And you want to talk about agent orange?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Alls_Policy
You live in a state that places zero value on human life.
Oh my goodness, holy shit you are dumb.
Oh, shit!
Just published in The Lancet: “Genomic evidence for reinfection with SARS-CoV-2: a case study”
Oh because I picked one that was not self inflicted? Shall I try again from the dozens on the list?
You are right, I am dumb. I should have chosen one of these instead to illustrate my point.
And you are a collaborator.
Now we know what everybody is.
OMagain,
If having a brain was a choice, would you choose to have one?
“Let’s see, I know what I will do, I will just type Chinese atrocities into this thing called gloople, and see what it spits out. Hum didde, dum, didd dum, I am so dum…. Oh look what I found, 2.7 million Chinese killed, Hehehehehe, this will get um, …says here something about an Emperor, ha! I didn’t know they had penguins in China, and that they could kill, but oh well…Life value has no human, or, wait, how does that go again, shit where is China anyway, is it upside down? ..Hmm…Anyways, I hate that Kameel Sung dude, and his sister Kim . I wished we nucleared them again. Dum diddlee dum, Whickapedial is so cool, I think I will get a subscription. …I think we should boycott manila envelopes”
I’m putting as much effort into this as you are.
Is parody something you teach at the school for paid informers and trolls? If so may I suggest you take a refresher course.
It’s also a good illustration of the m.o. of your standard creationist. Ignore all valid points until someone makes a mistake then gleefully pounce on that and spend more words on that they you have up until this entire time responding to the facts that disprove your claims.
Is that something that you teach?
Anyway, the fact remains that you have literally nothing to say against actual concentration camps operating in the country you call home. And you have nothing to say because we all know they’d take you away too were you to do so. Whereas I’m free to condemn such camps wherever they might be. And somehow you won’t admit that is the case.
Just saying.
I can admit when I make a mistake. I learn from mine. Do you? Can you?
Does this oh so important job of yours perhaps involves the letters PSI and FBI by any chance? Are you a double agent spying on the elites as they dream?
What arrogant twaddle. Nobody on the planet? Well, you are a big bag of ignorance on this forum mate so I doubt that you are a world authority on anything apart from the smell of your finger.
Tom English,
Hey ho! It’s concerning, but with 30 million+ confirmed cases, possibly 10x that in total, there are bound to be statistical outliers. Let’s hope that’s what it is! It does confound my hypothesis that repeat infection, where it occurs, will be milder, but it does depend on dosage.
Trump’s immune though, so there’s that …
As someone in the comments said, the American police would have shot her for her own safety.
Agreed.
Yeah, he’s going to be marketing his own line of monoclonal antibodies.
Whereas, collaborator, in China she would have been disappeared and her organs given to a high up in the party or a rich person.
https://thediplomat.com/2018/12/the-people-china-disappeared-in-2018/
https://www.businessinsider.com/china-coronavirus-whistleblowers-speak-out-vanish-2020-2
phoodoo, as a collaborator perhaps you can shine some light on what happened to Xu Zhangrun in the week he was taken? And the others not yet freed? Where are they?
You can criticize the USA all you like for their coronavirus response but are they disappearing scientists who disagree with the government line? Are they smearing them with fake accusations of prostitution?
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/10/chinas-war-on-uighur-culture/616513
On this day many years ago, October 14, 1947
Great dramatization:
stcordova,
Come on, no need to rub it in on Omagain.
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/06/02/how-france-dealt-with-those-who-collaborated-with-the-nazis-after-wars-end/
wjm has jumped the shark: https://uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/12-successful-predictions-of-mental-reality-theory/
3 disinterested comments.
This seems entirely consistent with the kind of thinking that I have come to expect from WJM.
I once caught Nonlin quoting an article in the Babylon Bee. “If gold rust what shall the iron do?”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/2020-election-live-updates-trump-biden-answer-to-voters-at-town-halls-trump-tweets-satirical-news-site/ar-BB1a63ie?ocid=Peregrine
Kind of random question for the smart people around here, if you don’t mind letting me know what you think, please. My dog broke his ACL a couple of weeks ago. He’s had it surgically replaced already, and the vet recommended physiotherapy. He had his first session today, but something about it seems fishy to me. Most of the time the therapy consisted on phototherapy and laser. For what I could gather, there’s zero scientific evidence that those treatments do anything at all. There were other red flags, like the fact that they didn’t even give me an invoice for my payment. What serious business does that?
I know it’s a bit weird to ask this here, but I thought maybe some of you might have some valuable insight about it. The last thing I want to do is to fall prey to the Dunning-Kruger effect, but right now I can’t help being extremely suspicious about these guys. Thoughts, please?
I just discovered this mini series of documentaries called Genius of the Modern World. It’s just a three episode series featuring Freud, Nietzche and Marx.
I’d love to here your opinions on it, especially KN’s and Walto’s
Seems to me you can’t be a good person and not a bit of a Marxist. That should ruffle some feathers, but hey.
how’s dogo doing?
Thanks for asking mate. He’s not making much progress unfortunately, still limping a lot. I don’t know what to think. The last two sessions of physio he’s had a lot more electro stimulation and hydrotherapy in the pool and some laser but no phototherapy with LEDs or whatever it’s called.
dazz,
Sorry to hear that. I have no first-hand advice to offer but googling suggests ligament healing can be a slow process, 8 weeks or more in humans.
Not a smart person. Sorry.
Thanks, Alan. I’m not overly concerned about the limping per se, the problem is that it increases the probability of the other ACL breaking too due to the added stress the limping puts on the healthy leg, and that would be catastrophic.
101 uses of a fat cat: number 29, paper weight!
Pfizer says their vaccine is 90 percent effective.
I wonder if it will cause autism.
dazz,
I hope your dog’s injury is still improving, Dazz.
The media are currently saying 95% but “Only eight had been given the vaccine, while the other 162 were in the placebo group” which seems a small sample to base the figures on.
Is there an expectation or is that just a reference to anti-vaxxers?
Dog borrowing with another neighbour’s dogs (well, puppies really at 5 months). Mrs F doing Barbara Woodhouse impression.
Challenge: identify the breed!
No takers on ID-ing the breed?
If one identifies the breed, they are denying the theory of evolution. Because if two dogs can be one breed, even though they have different DNA, then you have no basis for saying a dog with a little more different, or even a little more different DNA isn’t part of that breed. Thus a breed must consist of a certain DNA or not a certain DNA.
Any boundary you designate is artificial and subjective. When does one get to decide its a mutt or pure? Pure can have different DNA?
Well, any individual’s DNA will show their history.
Races of dogs generally developed through selective breeding where their human “partners” chose attributes they considered useful, guarding, herding, hunting and so on. Pedigree and fashion have tended to cause inbreeding which is unfortunate. At least DNA analysis helps in discouraging inbreeding and encouraging genetic diversity.
Depends on definition, I guess. Pure is undesirable, in most circumstances.
Not sure about this. What happens is gene pools are isolated by geography and what traits breeders decide to encourage. The dogs in the illustration are not pedigree but the offspring of a long line of working dogs.
Alan Fox,
Either DNA defines the breed or it doesn’t. Which is it?
In show dog breeding it is the look and the pedigree (parentage). DNA is passed from parent to offspring. So there’s no either-or. It’s both. A quick google indicates DNA profiling making an impact in dog breeding, especially to minimize inbreeding, as I said.
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Alan Fox,
If a dna sequence defines a dog breed, as soon as the next generation is born, there is a new dog breed.
I once got off a bus in Switzerland, and there was man at the bus stop that was a near exact double of my father who had passed away a few years before. My father isn’t Swiss. Are they the same breed?
Swiss is not a breed, it’s a nationality.
I would be fairly confident in claiming they were the same species.
Using “breed” in the sense of “ethnicity”, could we say there is a Chinese ethnicity? Are Tibetans ethnically Chinese?
Then so is Chinese.
phoodoo, Sure Chinese is a nationality and, de facto, Tibetans are Chinese nationals. Doesn’t stop Tibetans and Han Chinese being ethnically distinct.
Thanks mate. He has improved a bit indeed, still limping but at least he can put some weight on the injured leg now while walking. As long as the other ACL doesn’t break, he should be fine. Unfortunately another surgery is not an option since he’s rather old, and had one of his kidneys removed due to a tumor, so apparently there’s not much more we can do apart from making sure he doesn’t put too much stress on the good knee.
Those are two lucky puppies! Lovely
dazz,
My sister-in-law had a black Labrador that developed a heart condition. The vet advised she (the Lab, not my SIL) should be discouraged from running and always kept on a lead when out. She couldn’t do it; the dog was so miserable being restrained and just ran for joy when let off. She got to 18, which is a pretty good age for a Lab. Not advice – you just never know how things will turn out but if you’ve done your best…