| Author | Message | ||
     Aesquire |
https://www.space.com/pentagon-aaro-ufo-hearing-ap ril-2023 Of course the Lizard People told him to say that. The founder of Facebook was one of The First to reveal himself, though he denied it. But his creation is key to reducing the testosterone in human males, ( makes them too bitter ) and increasing it in human females. ( they're too sweet ) Like coffee, the Lizard People prefer a balanced taste. Actually I'm joking, but it's the most logical explanation for the current disphoria epidemic I know of. As to UFOs, military pilots and radar/CIC personnel have reported stuff flying around that they can't explain. I can say that there are real, normal, things, like Venus, or sundogs, that can appear to move & recede at incredible speed as you change altitude, and pass through density & ice crystal layers. Like a lens. But there's still stuff that's unexplained by any known phenomenon. Unfortunately all we have is really bad video. One possible explanation is holograms beyond today's known tech. Theoretically using UV intersecting lasers and/or ? can ionize a bit of air and create images in the electromagnetic spectrum, which includes the radio waves used in radar. Such a technology would be a paradigm shift like stealth. Thus be highly secret, if the military had it. Or suspected someone else, like China, had it. And if it's, say, a DARPA project, I'd test it on the U.S. Navy because ... A. They have some of the best sensors and sensor integration systems. & B. Tests out to sea where there are no civilians with cell/cameras would be easier to isolate the test. Feel free to speculate. I assume the Pentagon is lying but what the truth is? Mystery to me. I've seen weird stuff in the sky, myself, ( not drug related! And I fly sober, thank you ) but nothing that cannot be explained as weather balloons or natural phenomena. And the natural phenomena I've seen can be pretty spectacular. Sundogs & moondogs are real, and very pretty. I've seen The Glory on clouds beneath me, both on mountain tops near dawn, and in flight. That's a very nifty halo effect. Lenticular clouds are often seen in UFO books. Any glider pilot knows them well, and light gets weird near clouds. While soaring a cloud street, sudden color shifts and reflections have been a sign I should speed up to avoid being sucked into a cloud. ( a BAD THING without proper blind flying instruments ) And while flying on instruments, through "clouds" of ice crystals, at night, there are bizarre lensing effects. And there's a whole category of reflected & refracted headlights that figure prominently in UFO & ghost stories. But for all that, there's still the unknown. | ||
| Aesquire |
Btw, it's legal to fly a FAA pt103 craft, like a hang glider, half an hour before & after Sunrise/sunset. In winter, that's darn dark. You also should have strobe lights for safety, which reflect/refract off/through ice crystals and clouds. I have been a UFO. Mostly by accident, but I know some pilots that like to fly in formation at night in their "normal" airplanes to spook folk. Oh, if you saw one at Daytona beach near midnight on New year's eve in 1977... I deny everything.  (Message edited by Aesquire on April 21, 2023) | ||
| Ducbsa |
Food for thought here: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/04/w ould_i_receive_a_transplant.html I haven't decided which of his points I agree with. A friend lost his wife to a brain embolism, so she was dead, but it bothered him a bit that they kept her "on ice" while they took organs. I don't know how long that period was. | ||
| Ducbsa |
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/proje ct-paperclip-and-american-rocketry-after-world-war -ii | ||
| Ducbsa |
Now, I can take those bags off the rears of my cows with a clear conscience! https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/04/20/oops-tha t-climate-science-isnt-quite-as-settled-n545039 | ||
| Aesquire |
Re: transplants My choice is to donate the body when I'm done with it. To the closest medical school. If there's any good parts left, feel free to strip the chassis. I doubt my expressed desire that my corpse be used in a med school prank will be honored, but if the students want to prop me up in the dean's office or the cafeteria serving line, they won't get sued by my family. I also have left orders to unplug me, and plug me back in, just in case I reboot. Re: cow farts. Methane is a very powerful greenhouse gas. It also gets broken down fairly quickly by UV light, so it's probably not a real factor in anthropogenic global warming. That anthropogenic global warming is mostly a cult/con is pretty much settled science after 50+ years of hyped Armageddon that is disproved by reality. New York City isn't underwater, Al Gore & Barack Obama's beach mansions are still on the beach, and you still can't waterski to the North Pole. Also there's no measurable change in planetary temperature trends. It's still going to take a few centuries to get back to the nice warm days of the Viking age and the beginning of Christianity, 800 & 2000 odd years ago. So... unless you want to collect cow farts for fuel, and can avoid getting kicked putting on the collection bag, I'd focus on turning the solid waste into fuel and fertilizer in an economical way. ( which smart farmers do ) The future is more likely Thunderdome than Waterworld. | ||
| Crusty |
Actually; I think the future is 1984 | ||
| Aesquire |
https://reason.com/2022/04/22/after-53-earth-days- society-still-hasnt-collapsed/ | ||
| Aesquire |
https://bombardsbodylanguage.com/2023/04/19/body-l anguage-elon-muck-on-tucker/ "Teaching AI to lie" That's the main plot point for Arthur C. Clarke's 2001, A Space Odyssey. Spoiler! In case you're really limited in your reading and movie viewing for half a century. Telling the computer to lie makes it go insane and murder. Clarke & Kubrick created a realistic possible future to set it in, presenting the fantastic reality of space exploration as mundane and normal. But the Story could have been set in an undersea habitat or anytown office building, and been more Horror than Sci-fi. The idea that being forced to lie causes insanity is the fundamental concept behind Leftist/Marxist tactics. "Orwellian" is the term because he described it accurately, & honestly, first in popular culture. I found this in reference to this body language expert analysis of the Anheuser Busch marketing person https://redstate.com/kiradavis/2023/04/22/must-wat ch-body-language-expert-figures-out-exactly-what-b ud-light-vp-was-thinking-with-her-mulvaney-marketi ng-mess-n735266 I'm not involved in the Bud Light mess. I don't drink lousy beer, it's not an American company anymore, & I don't twit. All I know about the characters is what others complain about & I see no reason to believe or care, outside the Orwellian ESG & other alphabet soup violations of rights, truth and cultural devastation. Hey, you want to boycott for a culture reason, feel free. I'm not in the game. My choice was made long ago based on taste. I can't hurt Bud Light, the NFL, or The Gap by stopping buying their stuff since I didn't start. ( targets picked randomly from companies that already don't get my money, or care ) | ||
| Aesquire |
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/catherinesal gado/2023/04/22/happy-earth-day-green-energy-is-to xic-inefficient-and-unprofitable-n1689261 Greenies kill trees, birds and whales. English power plants burn American wood shipped across an ocean to call themselves green. I should write a fantasy story about how the Sahara Forest was cut down to build solar farms, but no one would believe it. Better to stick to Elves and dragons. | ||
| Ebutch |
happy earth day vald lenins birthday    | ||
| Aesquire |
https://the-pipeline.org/dont-cede-a-thing-to-the- climate-scaremongers/ The cultists who want to steal your money freedom and property in the Name Of Global Warming are also going to lie to you about the upcoming ice age. "It never snows in California, but girl don't they warn you, it drifts, man it drifts" | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/04/sav e-the-whales.php Wind power is good for billionaires and the politicians they pay to buy them with your money. It can be a nifty thing in the right location, and if you're going to build an off grid home. Wealthy folk toys, and nice. It's also a big sign that there's loot available you can see for miles. Theoretically it could be a loon like me whose riches are in a big library and some bicycles, but no gold or silver horde. But if you're a thug chased out of the burning cities, you'd bet that nice obvious off grid semi rich guy has lots of food and not much in survival skills. Just pointing out unpleasant facts you might not have considered. My house, btw, is a lousy place for wind power, mostly not enough, a lot of too much, and very little just right. I know, I'm a kite flying nut. I pay more attention to wind than temperature. ( I can add layers, I can't voodoo a good breeze ) Offshore in many places is great. Except for the corrosion, high maintenance costs, really really high building costs, losses in undersea cables, and all the critters they kill. It's mostly birds inland, but sea mammals that navigate by sonar get messed up by unnatural noise under water. Wind, like solar, takes huge amounts of area to collect diffuse energy and concentrate it into usable power. That's just physics. I really enjoy the engineering that goes into the wilder forms of wind power collection. Like giant teathered aircraft that use kite sailing techniques to increase airspeed, a buncha expensive motor generator sets on the leading edge of a big wing, that launch it and then fly figure eights sucking up a fraction of the energy being used to stay aloft. It's super nifty nerd stuff. I'm impressed they made it actually fly and send down juice! But I could write a Master's degree paper on why it's dumb. I admit several pages would be expounding personal experience on how utterly merciless the sky is to fragile flying machines. There's a reason I own a parachute for emergencies. ( as opposed to skydiving ) | ||
| Aesquire |
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosswind_kite_pow er Enjoy! | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.popsci.com/science/polynesia-seafaring -boats-history/ Over and over it turns out the European explorers were very wrong in discounting native accomplishments, especially in travel. Even in Europe itself, post medieval scholars disbelieve travel made by older cultures. I think it was mid 20th century before it was accepted the Norse colonized from the Urals to Canada. And they still argue about Canada. I point out one of the most famous graphiti in history is carved in the Hagia Sofia. "Halfdan was here". And it was centuries before the post Dark Age scholars translated it. That Polynesian sailors covered vast distance is obvious but Eurocentric idiots... There's some real archeological finds out there no one has seen in thousands of years. The Pacific has earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunami, and long habitation. When a stick house falls down from age and neglect, people pound it flat and build on top. Layer after layer for millennia. Most towns in the Old World are built on the ruins of older towns. Location, location! On the hill near the river has been a prime real estate location for Roman forts, medieval castles, Gunpowder era fortifications, and trading cities, in succession. All over the world, if you notice you have to climb a hill to get to the town, there's 2 reasons for the hill. The first people picked a good spot that flooded less, and subsequent folk built on top. Often generations apart with no knowledge of who was there before. Islands hit by tsunami, mega storms, plagues, wars. Long forgotten by the New folk. Heck, how many in Philadelphia know who started the town? | ||
| Aesquire |
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piraeus_Lion Some of my ancestors were pretty rude.  Too. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://xkcd.com/2765/ ENJOY! | ||
| Ebutch |
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| Aesquire |
https://www.msn.com/en-my/health/other/half-the-me n-i-know-are-using-ozempic-to-lose-weight-the-sign s-are-hard-to-miss/ar-AA19Ya0X There's an international shortage of Semiglutide injection drugs, because of this weight loss fad. Here's a side effect coming down the road. Dead diabetic men and women. Who can't get their prescribed drug, because wealthy people used it, instead. Feel free to insert a comment on the Uncaring Vain Elite. Many are cis white males, so their only immunity to criticism is wealth, power, and ruthlessness. | ||
| Hootowl |
Type two diabetes is reversible. Rather than being on drugs that increase both insulin production and insulin sensitivity, just stop eating carbohydrates. You will lose weight rapidly and your cells will start paying attention to insulin again. | ||
| Ratbuell |
I have much more fun exercising. I spent about six months back in 2008, not being able to walk. Old timers here will remember that accident saga. I still can't run; if I try to get across the street in a hurry I look like I should be wearing a helmet and a bib. So, I row. And cycle. And mountain bike. And stay active. I take every step I can, BECAUSE I can. Rowing - 1000m a day, interval sets, total time about 8 minutes, split times 1:47/500m, burns about 200-215 calories. Cycling - I'll do (indoors) 30 min, distance comes in around 10-10.3 miles, avg right around 20mph, and that burns about 370 calories. Mountain biking - I have a route near the house I do that's about 5.6 miles (love my Garmin watch and cycle app!). 800' elevation change. I'm ***SO CLOSE*** to breaking the 25 minute mark - I'm hovering right around 25:04 and can't get those last four goddamned seconds! But that one, burns around 425 calories. And, it all feels GREAT. For 50...I certainly can't complain! I still have a pudge, but that's my learned behavior - I like real food, and I boredom-snack at night while watching tv, when I know I shouldn't. But, I'm getting there. Looking at labels, eating less fats and less sugars, eating smaller portions, and during the day sticking basically to vitamin water instead of snacks. If you find a candy bar in my house, I'll give you a motorcycle. I just...don't. I've also quit buying potato chips and other crap snack foods - I stick mostly to tortilla chips, some salsa, wheat saltines (actually quite good), sometimes some American cheese on them (actual cheese, not "processed cheese food product"), and a cajun trail mix that I really like. I quit drinking, and I quit caffeine (courtesy of my cardiologist), and it honestly feels great too. But I won't do it with medication. I'd rather WORK for it. It builds value in the result. And in the end, proper food intake is *healthier*. YMMV...but to me medications for these things are shortcuts. And to quote the movie Road Trip - "if that shortcut was so great, it would just be The Way...". | ||
| Hootowl |
Fat does not make you fat, sugar makes you fat. Seriously, fat has a very low impact on insulin. Sugar on the other hand, spikes insulin. Your body turn the sugar to fat and stores it. Insulin is a fat storage hormone and inhibits glucagon, the hormone required to get energy back out of your fat cells. Do not want to lose weight? Eat carbs three meals per day. Keep insulin high and glucagon low. You will be obese before you know it. | ||
| Aesquire |
My personal bad habit is the midnight snack. Anything I eat less than a few hours before bed, goes directly into storage. Sleep cycle chemistry clears the system of sugar directly into famine reserves. What Hoot said about fat. Etc. I don't recommend a "keto diet" as the ketosis & acidosis beats up your liver and kidneys hard. And the weight loss is temporary. Everyone I know who tried it got dramatic results, then ballooned to even heavier when they quit. The halfway house of low carb works, but also fails the same way when you quit. The difference is low carb is sustainable, with thought, effort, and determined Habit change. Keto is not. Seriously, I had a doctor tell me how great Keto was, he did it! While the nurse behind him shook her head. He was a solid, square built guy, who had lost a ton and was happy with his diet. The nurse pointed out ( later ) that he hadn't crisis hammered his organs like I had, so his advice was bad for me, and the rest of the staff had a pool for when he'd snap and gain it all back. Evangelical dieters! I try hard not to be one, they're so annoying! **** Contrast that to the young athletes like bicycle distance racers that fuel with carbs in the fastest absorbed type, thousands of calories in sugar, caffeine, banana, honey, etc. They try to stay in carb burning mode for best power output over time. It's actually hard to pound enough sugar goo packs and power bars to keep up without getting sick. And If they can't, they bonk. The metabolic shift to fat and protein burning sends warning signals to the brain. If they pounded their during ride fueling while sitting down instead of while burning hundreds of watts, ( often double+ normal metabolic output ) they wouldn't be annoyingly skinny athletes. They'd be fat. On a no fat, high carb diet. And over time, diabetic and desperately ill. **** My Prime ADVICE for dieting is to Never bring the bag of chips to where you sit and watch tv. You'll eat it all. On autopilot. Put some in a bowl, & put the bag away. Feel free to go for seconds, but make it a conscious choice. It also really helps me, ymmv, to pause before getting more food. Once I'm on a roll, I can eat an entire large pizza, while breaking the autoloader cycle let's me be happy with 2 slices. The hospital diabetic diet uses carb counting, in 15 gram increments called, confusingly, Carbs. 5 Carbs per meal ( 75 grams ) 3 meals a day. Full Keto is 5 Carbs a day. https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/visual-guides So.. A slice of bread, or small pile of pasta, a tiny bowl of chips, and a few dark chocolate minibars are all 1 Carb. Each, btw, not together! Portion control works. But... Since this all is interrelated to psychology, you can make yourself miserable, or happy, with choices and changes. Some folk get off on proudly & loudly suffering, virtue signalling! Woke! Hectoring evangelical rants! Me, I say eat for fuel and pleasure, enjoy. Maybe just one sandwich at a meal, but pile the protein on! And if, like me, chocolate is your urge, have a dark mini bar for desert instead of the fries. Switch it up to keep from boredom. Only a long term lifestyle change works over time. Find one you can live with, vs. Or After, "Dieting" to lose weight. | ||
| Aesquire |
Unfortunately few people who are "pre-diabetic" make the lifestyle change to prevent the disease. I didn't. Few actually control their type 2 diabetes with diet, my doctor tells me. She tells everyone to try, but few actually do. I'm an example of someone who didn't treat his body like a temple. More like an amusement park. | ||
| Ratbuell |
Certainly not a temple here either. Kinda a cross between an amusement park (on good days), and a recycle center (most other days). Just trying to keep the ol' ticker going at the right pace, and keep the rest from falling apart too fast. And, prefer not to do so with chemicals or medication. My extended hospital stay in '08 turned me against meds in a big way - they had me on so much shit, I couldn't wait to flush all that stuff in the end! | ||
| Hootowl |
Ketoacidosis exclusively affects type 1 diabetics. Do you mean to tell me that when someone goes back to eating the food that made them fat, they regain all the weight they lost while eating healthy? Shocking. (Message edited by hootowl on April 26, 2023) | ||
| Ratbuell |
when someone goes back to eating the food that made them fat, they regain all the weight they lost while eating healthy I have a coworker like that. Bitches and moans about "I'm so fat; age is slowing down my metabolism (he's 30); this sucks; I can't stand being heavy like this"....in between mouthfuls of fast food burgers, fries, bags of chips, and cans of soda. Putz. | ||
| Aesquire |
Ketoacidosis exclusively affects type 1 diabetics. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324237#: ~:text=Nutritional%20ketosis%20occurs%20when%20the %20body%20starts%20burning,is%20often%20a%20compli cation%20of%20type%201%20diabetes. You can induce ketoacidosis in other ways than Type 1 diabetes, but you're right that it's a signature thing. I did specify ketosis, and acidosis as separate but related things. Acidosis is simply getting too acidic. For example, Drunks that do Sterno out of desperation. ( reference, Andromeda Strain ) The article says Ketosis in generally harmless, but so are NSAIDS, and both will beat your kidneys to death if overdone. The Keto/Adkins/fad diets work... Until you stop. A buddy is on the "Neanderthin" diet, no processed foods, just meat, raw veggies, stuff a cave man would eat, supposedly. That, not coincidentally, is a reasonable low carb diet. He's been on it For years now. So... Fast and easy is probably bad and temporary. ( except the permanent harm if that happens ) | ||
| Aesquire |
I also must point out the ironic humor of fat guys giving diet advice. Otoh, what do skinny folk know about losing weight?  | ||
| 1313 |
I also must point out the ironic humor of fat guys giving diet advice. We can always be used as a bad example... |
