Blade-Less Swiss Army Knife Debuts As Weapon Laws Tighten

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T17:01:33+00:00

I thought it was a joke.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T15:52:57+00:00

Over the years, many idealists have tried to establish utopian societies but none have been able to make them work.

Well ...

For example,
the United Sates of America,
the first modern Democracy, was,
until it proved successful,
considered Utopic.

Imagine the vision required to,
before the creation of the USA,
actually seek to set up a government
by the people for the people,
based neither on oppression
nor on lies (e.g. elaborate religious bullshit)
but, rather, on reason and consent, ...

... this in a world where
only monarchies/dictatorships, oligarchies,
and/or assorted priesthoods
had been ruling over people ...

... how Great was that!?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T07:26:20+00:00

Well, there you go!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T07:09:29+00:00

Astroturf

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T06:51:17+00:00

You are being sarcastic, aren't you?

Well, yes, of course, but I'm also making a point:

Worshipping Mbombo/Bumba, the creator God
of the Central African Kuba people, must seem silly to you,
ostensibly because you're not Kuba.

But, worshipping Jesus and/or Yahweh,
a rather distasteful MiddleEastern tribal deity,
that seems perfectly reasonable to you.

It's not though.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T06:43:26+00:00

Yes, the very people who invented Democracy
did wonder if it was any good.

Plato, famously, didn't like it.

Now, I'm not saying that the author is arguing for totalitarianism,
which would be rather unusual for a Libertarian! :D

I'm saying that if/as we descend into totalitarianism
(which does seem to be happening), we'll start noticing that
Democracy as a system starts getting attacked more and more,
from all sides, both the right and the left, wittingly and unwittingly,
with both good and bad arguments.

And this guy does make good arguments, for example:

A major paradox of government is that
if the demos has all the de jure power,
an oligarchy of financial interests has all the de facto power,
which is the unfortunate situation in which we find ourselves.

This is perfectly put.

But, that having been said, it is also interesting that,
as the author sought to frame the issues
from his Libertarian perspective,
somehow(!), an attack on Democracy
seemed promising.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T05:54:14+00:00

I, among others I'm sure, predicted that in the descent into totalitarianism,
Democracy would at some point start getting attacked as a problem.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T04:32:35+00:00

Knowing there is one God, how does this challenge you?

Well, there's the antagonist ~~god~~ person(?),
then the saints and then the armies of angels and demons, etc.

There does seem to be lots of magical and invisible beings around that 'lone' dictator-deity.

In another religion, these might be called major or minor 'deities'.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T22:50:56+00:00

You Keep Using That Word ('truth'),
I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means,
Which seems to be ... 'Imaginary Deities and Magical Beings'.

And, by the way, why are you rejecting Mbombo, the Lord? :)

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T22:34:25+00:00

Wait, the deity has an adversary in a monotheism?

And let's just have a look at how it all works:

Jesus (who is God) sacrificed himself on the cross,
to appease ... well ... Himself (since monotheism),
so that He, Himself, would forgive us shitty humans for our sins.

And you're OK with that story.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T21:55:31+00:00

No biological processes, ancestors, DNA, evolution, etc?

Either I created myself or ... deities?

Oh, right, only one deity.

OK, which one?

Mbombo?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T21:20:23+00:00

It all seemed reasonable ... and then ... deities!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T17:56:18+00:00

What does that mean?

Let's, for the sake of argument,
grant you the (weird/masochistic) claim
that 'we are all shitty'.

Does that the Christ 'atones for EVERYONE'
suddenly make everyone ... 'not shitty'?

How does it all work?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T15:54:49+00:00

... holding a chainsaw and screaming 'A la Snackbar'!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T15:46:26+00:00

To be tautological, it will either be observed, in which case it'll be recognised as real, or the data will rule out its existence. :)

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T14:33:12+00:00

Intellectuals often think of themselves as secular priests/monks,
who eschew commercial concerns.

They may thus feel contempt for
both dogmatic materialist Capitalism
and dogmatic materialist Marxism ('Communism').

They imagine that they're here to do the work
of understanding what the human adventure is all about.

This is actually an essential societal function,
providing ethical direction, etc.

It's something that used to be thought of
as trying to figure out the Mind of the Gods, as it were.

Unfortunately, today, the intelligentsia may have been
infiltrated and corrupted by bad actors
manipulating the gullible into undermining/discrediting
(actual) thought/episteme/science
in order to return humanity to the dark ages of
top-down dogma-based authority, where sociopaths can thrive.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T14:29:31+00:00

So, let me get this straight:

The policy of the USA is to do everything
to aid and abet a criminal supremacist regime,
giving it money (lots!), 'intelligence' and weaponry,
helping it mass murder the legitimate inhabitants
of Palestine, and steal their ancestral land,
thus fully colluding in the ethnic-cleansing.

But that's ok ... cause the USA also build a pier for the victims.

Is this a joke?

How about simply not funding, arming and helping the perpetrators?

Did that ever occur to anyone?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T12:17:39+00:00

I'm reading along, not really disagreeing,
curious to where this is going,
and then this:

'And because America has rejected God, America will fall...' :/

Great! :/

You'd think that the medieval dark ages were a long time ago,
but nooo!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T07:25:23+00:00

Why?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-05T20:56:31+00:00

But why does the Christ need to atone for anyone or everyone?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-05T20:50:06+00:00

It's not your videos that are ... bit of a stretch. :/

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-05T16:58:37+00:00

Right, by witnessing and reporting on the ongoing genocide.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-05T13:57:21+00:00

Trying to gather visits to proselytising videos may be even sadder.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-05T13:49:33+00:00

He was preceded by many, including Albert II, who, on June 14, 1949, survived a sub-orbital V-2 flight into space (but died on impact after a parachute failure).

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-05T13:30:06+00:00

The Guardian’s Jason Burke asked some random people about their feelings outside a theater in Jerusalem, and then presented this weird nothing thing as relevant news reporting.

:D

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-05T13:20:00+00:00

Because it's simply absurd to claim that
a late translation (the King James Bible)
of Christian mythology into English
[not even Latin, never mind Greek]
might present 'Infallible Proof' of anything ...
except perhaps of the gullibility of some people.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-05T11:08:43+00:00

This is sad.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-04T22:31:34+00:00

Islamists should probably not have been allowed (certainly not en masse) into Europe,
which is almost defined by its fight and victory against the idiocy of Islamism.

This religious ideology has managed to make (close to two billion) humans
prostrate themselves daily, face to the ground, ass in the air,
several times a day, towards some black stones in Saudi Arabia,
fantasizing that this pleases some deity. :/

Now, whereas Christianity (which at some point was arguably no better than Islam)
has become rather civilised today, the Mohammedans appear unwilling to eschew barbarism.

So, chances are that they will probably never rise above their dark dogmatic nonsense.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-04T08:48:53+00:00

That's, of course, awful.

However, Cuba is sitting right next to and under embargo by a hostile military hyperpower, actually the most hostile, militarised and aggressive power in the world, which seems to be in the business of constantly (directly or by proxy) attacking some-or-other country. It is, and has been for a while, controlled by a permanent deep-state 'Neocon' regime, always looking for excuses for the next attack, bombing, invasion, regime-replacement, ... These Neocons would love to use 'just helping the poor Cuban protesters' to then install some Zelensky-type ('friendly to US interests') puppet-government in Cuba.

Under these circumstances, trying to widen through social media anti-government protests (even non-CIA-funded ones) may be argued to present a real national danger to an independent Cuba.

That's probably the calculus behind that terrible Cuban Law that restricts the use of information 'through telecommunication/ICT infrastructures, platforms or services, of content that threatens the constitutional, social, and economic precepts of the State.'

Let's just hope that this kind of law does not become a thing everywhere.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-01T13:45:17+00:00

Soon!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-01T11:16:18+00:00

Brilliant!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-01T09:13:49+00:00

The visit will 'inject new momentum to the peaceful development of the world', according to China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson.

Beijing says it is a neutral party in the Ukraine conflict.

It notes a provocative US policy of continued NATO expansion and interference in Ukraine, which gave Russia few choices.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-01T08:34:23+00:00

But they actually do, apparently.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-30T17:52:54+00:00

You seem to keep bringing this back to race.

That's ok too, I guess:

One can indeed, if sincere, discern differences between peoples.

Once you've been in Africa, that becomes clear, not just for sub-Saharan Africans in general, but also between the different tribes:

It is accurate to conclude that e.g. Pigmies are short and Dinkas are tall.

In Africa, you can also see Africans left to their own devices, and observe how they live, manage their affairs, and treat each other.

And in Africa, you can't blame white-on-black racism or anything like that, though some people still try nonetheless, but nobody believes it, not really.

In any case, Africa is educational ... as it may offer a preview for the future of Europe and its (American, etc.) former colonies.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-30T14:10:49+00:00

They certainly neither serve nor protect.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-30T06:01:57+00:00

The police in the USA seems to be becoming
less and less like an actual police,
i.e. there to 'protect and serve' the citizens,
and more and more like an occupation force,
i.e. there to subjugate, control and 'pacify' the population.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-28T15:30:26+00:00

Stay away from companies that charge by the minute.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-28T08:38:44+00:00

Sure.

On the other hand, laws are created/invented according to mentality/ideology.

And so, depending on the society/time, something that's harmful or even potentially catastrophic can be legal,
e.g. money in politics, lobbying, copyright trolls, Monsanto, mass immigration, health insurance companies, spying on citizens, corporate-police states, greed-driven ecosystem destruction, unjust wars, etc.

And something that's not harmful or even beneficial can be illegal,
e.g. freedom of speech, some political views, sharing information hidden by corrupt governments, using medicine paywalled by sociopaths, having a gun, etc.

Governments try to, or, rather, should try to, figure out how to make the minimum amount of laws required for a good/civilised world ...

but mentality does matter.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-27T09:51:27+00:00

It's supposed to work thus:
If you don't pay, you have to see ads.
If you do pay, you don't have to see ads.
However, now people unwittingly accept
both to pay and to be bombarded by ads.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-27T09:50:31+00:00

Yes.

Seeking a profit is, of course, understandable,
when it aims at people making a decent living
within a civilised society.

But unchecked greed-driven mentalities,
which can only think in terms of financial profit,
lead us on a dangerous path.

This is but a mild example of the apparent
stupidity/folly/sociopathy.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-26T17:16:46+00:00

Germany didn't attack England

England attacked Germany.

Germany counterattacked England.

And England attacked Germany
supposedly 'in defence of Poland',
or, actually, in order to continue propping up
some infamous 'Piłsudski's colonels' hunta regime,
which no-one seems to mention somehow.

Now, once Germany (and most of Europe) were destroyed by WWII,
the Polish people were promptly delivered to Stalin,
the main 'good guy' of WWII, and,
incidentally, the worst mass murderer of the 20th century,
you know the one that did e.g. this:

The Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by the Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD ("People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs", the Soviet secret police) in April and May 1940. Though the killings also occurred in the Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons and elsewhere, the massacre is named after the Katyn forest, where some of the mass graves were first discovered by German Nazi forces. The order to execute captive members of the Polish officer corps was secretly issued by the Soviet Politburo led by Joseph Stalin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre

WWII ended up costing ~80 million lives ...
in order to give Poland to Stalin.

Worth it, was it?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-23T13:48:07+00:00

As a general rule, the USA, starting out as a European colony, got most of its ideas from Europe.

However, after the WWII destruction of Europe,
its US and USSR occupiers (and their European stooges)
literally outlawed many of the competing ideas/ideals/ideologies in Europe.

Basically, the same thing that was done to European Art was done to European Ideas.

Ugliness, stupidity and primitivism were now the only allowed/promoted movements
and anything classical/European was to be despised.

To become a celebrated artist or thinker in occupied Europe,
you had to abide by the new rules ...
something that, unfortunately, is still going on.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-23T07:45:33+00:00

One might blame the USA for spreading its insanity/idiocy into Europe ...
but one should more rightly blame Europe for letting itself be influenced
by that insanity/idiocy.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-21T16:22:44+00:00

The war for decency and against sociopathy is timeless.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-20T07:04:45+00:00

You'd think that one of the benefits of saidit having relatively few visitors
would be that it would make it not worth the money spamming it.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-18T14:21:23+00:00

The key seems to be that this is about the most taboo 'topics', not the most taboo 'acts'.

I'm sure that talking about the genetic differences between races/subspecies
is only considered more taboo than 'talking' about incest and paedophilia,
not 'committing' them.

One can only hope.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-18T10:26:24+00:00

It's like 'believing' that 2+2=4.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-18T10:18:34+00:00

It's weird how rare it is to see/hear the speeches of
such a historically important figure.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-17T18:20:39+00:00

The NYT does not clumsily 'ban' Journalists
(to the extent that any remain at the NYT)
from using accurate words
('Genocide', 'Occupation' and 'Palestine').

As masters of lies and experts at doublespeak,
they merely instead imply that telling the truth
might be detrimental to your continued employment.

You see, they just want their 'journalists' to
~~keep spewing bullshit~~ ... errr ... use alternative terms,
you know, for 'better clarity and accuracy', of course. :/

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-17T12:36:57+00:00

That's fucking horrible!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-16T16:18:47+00:00

meh!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-16T15:24:25+00:00

Perhaps.

But the hopelessly corrupt 'Democratic' party in the USA is not 'left;
but rather controlled left-astroturf,
which considers 'we the people' to be 'them, the deplorables'.

'Left' and 'right' no longer, if they ever did, correspond to coherent political ideologies.

Those who fight for liberty and against totalitarianism/tyranny,
and/or those that fight for totalitarianism/tyranny and against liberty,
must not be categorized as ... 'right' vs 'left'.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-15T19:43:25+00:00

The issue is that Israelis don't realize
that their shocking behaviour
is going to eventually boomerang,
and when it does
and they scream and plead
for the world to save them,
the world might just go: 'meh!'

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-15T19:27:46+00:00

Item 12745 indicating that humans are currently decivilizing,
deleting the achievements of the past centuries,
sinking back into some kind of idiocratic neo-feudalistic dark ages
... but with cell phones.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-15T19:16:22+00:00

What a never ending shit show.
We seem to have misheard.
They had said 'the butt-hole-y land'! :)

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-15T19:05:03+00:00

He was arrested for posting political opinions.
Persecuting him over this kind of thing is oppressive and totalitarian.
And, unfortunately, you're right, this is also, shockingly,
the same path that Scotland is choosing.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-15T18:46:55+00:00

You probably meant to say that
'Palestine/Palestinians need to wake up and rid themselves of ...'
the genocidal occupation of their land by supremacist state-sponsored shitbag terrorists.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-15T17:36:05+00:00

Iran has long been a 'Neocon' target.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-15T09:27:08+00:00

The USA has finally gone full South-American pseudo-democracy,
weaponized government institutions, et al.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-15T09:19:18+00:00

No, no, the only way to halt the descent into violence and lawlessness
is to control, corrupt and weaponize government institutions,
certainly the media/information, and to brainwash away democracy,
turning 'we, the people' into 'mobs' of 'deplorables'.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-15T08:20:54+00:00

NATO has become a dangerous anachronism,
which should have been dismantled when the Warsaw Pact was disbanded.

Europe should of course remain allied with the USA,
a former European colony after all,
which still shares many values with European civilization.

However, Europe must extricate itself from the USA's 'leadership',
which usually involves pointlessly mass-murdering people by the tens of thousands.

European foreign policy must stop being directed
by the 'Neocons' and/or other corrupt/evil forces
currently in control of the USA.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-15T08:16:38+00:00

There are laws about immigration.

These were broken.

So much harm has been done by those (morons/cowards/criminals?)
that (unwittingly?) colluded with Europe-hating forces
to bypass these laws and enable/encourage illegal immigration into Europe,
basically to try to turn Europe into yet another shithole.

Every one of them should be found and indicted.
They should at the very least be fired.
They're either too stupid or too corrupt to be left in charge of anything.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-14T18:47:28+00:00

It's not just 'the left''s pro-war stance that's peculiar.

Did you ever imagine that it would e.g. push for corporate control of information,
wanting sociopathic greed-driven businesses deciding what people get to read or not?

The current 'left' seems to be marketing-agency astroturf
actually aiming at totalitarianism.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-14T18:24:32+00:00

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-14T18:09:38+00:00

WTF!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-14T10:30:02+00:00

*we're

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-14T09:46:52+00:00

You're, unfortunately, right.

And censorship is never used to defend the truth,
since the truth never needed censors/inquisitors.

Censorship is always used to protect some bullshit
(ideology/religion, e.g. Islamism)
from the truth.

And it's getting worse.
Sociopathic turds that claim
to 'protect' people from 'dis/misinformation'
control more and more what
you're allowed to see.

Most notably, in Europe,
if you want to reach RT for example
to get a Russian perspective on global affairs,
good luck, because ....

DAS IST VERBOTEN!!!

... for your own good, of course. :/

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-14T08:53:43+00:00

Exceptions must not be paraded as if the actual rule.

Our culture is absolutely right to say that

"Minors are so INNOCENT! They don't KNOW what they want! Anyone who touches them, under any circumstances, is taking advantage of them!"

That's almost always the case.

Incidentally, you're defending paedophilia, seriously!?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-14T08:37:37+00:00

I'm surprised that the reddit inquisition has allowed this to be posted.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-14T08:19:09+00:00

Future generations are going to make fun of us,

of ALL of us,

including those of us who,

by mere inaction,

allowed this grotesque situation to happen.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-13T18:13:19+00:00

A societal model is broken if and when greed-driven 'doctors'
are building clinics in order to serve extreme neurotic narcissists,
'treating' thus 'Body Integrity Dysphoria' or whatever,
providing them with surgery (to deal with mental issues!?),
while children with real (curable but 'expensive') medical issues
may be left to die if their parents are not rich enough to pay.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-11T22:13:37+00:00

Interesting

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-11T20:40:34+00:00

At this point,
not only should Assange be immediately released,
but everyone involved in his shameful persecution should be indicted.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-11T19:18:48+00:00

Fine, now, is Jesus Christ the same deity as the one worshipped by the Hebrews, or not?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-11T16:43:11+00:00

You're the one apparently confused about which deity you're worshipping (hint: Yahweh).

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-11T15:07:16+00:00

Should one not?

Christianity is a monotheism, is it not?

And monotheists prefer to worship only one deity, do they not?

Now, though, granted, Christianity is philosophically Hellenistic,
its mythology is that of Judaism, i.e. Yahweh-worship, is it not?

So, mythologically, the deity in Christianity must be conflated with Yahweh,
must it not?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-10T19:24:06+00:00

Again, excellent points.

So, I guess that, though you're right on every point,
my own is that citizens must ... somehow ... fight to regain a balance of power
between themselves and the regimes/governments/bureaucracies
that claim to represent them, but more and more disingenuously.

I seem to agree with the old 'I'd rather a government fear its citizens than the other way around'.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-10T18:43:45+00:00

These are excellent points.

An important aspect of the USA and French revolutions
is that mass-production allowed the people
to basically have the same weapons (guns) as governments
and there were far more people than government mercenaries (police/army, etc), so ...

Before that, the expense and widescale unavailability of armour and quality weaponry
meant that e.g. a team of ten armoured knights on horseback could decimate entire villages of villeins,
something that helped prop-up feudalism.

We do now seem to be moving back towards some neo-feudal (but high-tech) situation.

Nonetheless, I wouldn't say that revolutions, or resistance to tyranny, has zero to do with violence.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-10T17:49:33+00:00

It does seem so, doesn't it?

Nonetheless, there must be some hesitancy even towards saidit.
This is partly due to a certain lack of transparency about who owns/controls it.
Let's not forget that privatizing digital town squares
was done to bypass actual freedom of speech.

Eventually, a non-privately/corporately owned platform,
a publicly-owned platform, really analogous to a town square,
has to eventually be created,
where, by law and to the extent allowed by law,
e.g. freedom of speech, is implemented.

Sincere political views by actual people must be protected,
and only taken away if someone is caught shilling, spamming, advertising,
and/or committing other forms of lying for pay.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-10T17:13:01+00:00

Hollywood is in the business of making up bullshit.

In it, to be fake, to pretend, to lie, convincingly, is rewarded.

And so, children growing up in that environment
might consider a life of being fake, pretending and lying
as something to aspire to,
together with narcissism.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-10T17:09:48+00:00

They may need them ...
but even an armed citizenry will soon present no obstacle to tyranny,
as governments will increasingly transition to drones and other automated systems,
able to kill en masse, without courage or ability, from complete mechanized safety.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-10T16:15:47+00:00

Repeatable experiments are exactly what led to quantum physics.
Physics is indeed Philosophy, specifically 'Natural Philosophy'.
And WTF does Freud have to do with it?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-09T19:09:54+00:00

This is as funny, but ultimately sad, as a man asking: 'How do I explain that I’m a giraffe and not just mentally ill?'

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-09T16:59:56+00:00

Real conspiracies do exist, but quantum physics is not one.

Far from bullshit, quantum phenomena are an undeniable aspect of reality.
You can witness them yourself, with simple home experiments.
Furthermore, attempts by Physicists to explain quantum phenomena are unquestionably sincere.

Anyone that offers a new, better, simpler, more elegant explanation for these phenomena
than the best current attempts, leading to better predictions,
will undoubtedly be celebrated by the world of Physics.
In Physics, a statement can be challenged by anyone, and is always only temporary
until a more accurate theory emerges from the process of logic and experiment.
Now, compare this to the dogmata of any religion of your choice.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-09T12:51:19+00:00

They seem to be trying to turn sincere physics into somehow aligning with the primitive bullshit of Yahweh worship.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-09T12:43:03+00:00

When the corruption manages to overcome the senility.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-09T12:36:32+00:00

Yet another 'Swedish' issue.

Apparently, Europe, especially Nordic Europe,
must ... 'diversify'.

Gods forbid it should remain civilized.

More generally, current nations/ethnicities must all be turned into
a huge pile of (brown, 2-digit-IQ, etc.) monotypic, monocultural, generic, 'humans'.

Making all differences disappear is what 'diversity' should all be about, isn't it?

And there's no danger that this might allow some sociopathic 'elite' (so to speak)
to easily manipulate and eventually enslave humanity.

No, of course not! :/

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-09T09:10:21+00:00

Slavery is a bad system.

It creates unnecessary suffering.

It took civilized man a long time to get rid of it.

So ... no.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-09T08:59:56+00:00

Do not interfere, as in Star Trek's Prime Directive.

Trying to solve their problems for them is a bad idea.
It ends up, ironically, making them blame you for their problems,
entitled, child-like, throwing tantrums. That's not a good solution.

The Prime Directive is what should probably have been done for the whole of Africa.

The promiscuity of Africans might be related to a high infant mortality in Africa.
Europeans figured that they'd be kind and bring them actual/scientific medicine
(to replace voodoo/magic, etc.), thus lowering infant mortality.
But this led to overpopulation, famines, etc.
Well-meaning Europeans may arguably have done more harm than exploitative ones.

Of course, left to their own devices, the Africans of the USA may soon revert
to the state they were found in, back in Africa,
some of them literally in the Stone Age, enslaving each other, etc.

Nonetheless, trying to force civilization on primitive peoples doesn't seem to work.

They need to be left alone to eventually become civilized on their own.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-09T08:54:01+00:00

Woah, can you say absolute evil?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-08T19:03:46+00:00

Nonsense

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-08T13:32:00+00:00

That's not what ... all the (both natural and anthropogenic) sources of atmospheric CO2 by percentage per year, ... means.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-08T08:38:27+00:00

It's possible that Jones is referring to an estimated yearly anthropogenic contribution to the 0.04% of atmospheric CO2.

What Schmidt did, for his 33% number, was to refer to an estimated cumulative anthropogenic CO2, since 1850!

It'd be interesting, for clarity, to know what all the (both natural and anthropogenic) sources of atmospheric CO2 are, by percentage per year.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-08T08:35:28+00:00

This does indeed seem to be the case.
'Democrats', and some others calling themselves 'the Left' (which used to more or less mean those trying to protect the people from plutocrats), have been infiltrated and compromised.
Now they seem to instead work for the plutocrats and against the people.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-07T13:48:39+00:00

Sure, the oil industry must not get subsidized by taxpayers
(and they should furthermore pay for the disposal of plastics not to mention spills),
and leaks do harm sea life and more generally the environment, etc., etc., etc.,
but that's not was was being discussed, now, was it?

And the question was not 'ignore any and every point being made,
avoid understanding anything,
and mindlessly regurgitate some mantra'.

It was rather:

So, his concerns seem arguably valid, IF his numbers are correct.

Are they correct?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-07T09:09:01+00:00

I'm not the one pretending to challenge his arguments,
nor, certainly, spewing labels and insults,
including, ironically, about what a moron he is.

'The rest of the information' that you linked,
i.e. about gases other than CO2,
methane (CH4), at 0.01%, constitutes even (and much) less than CO2,
and as for Nitrous Oxide and/or CFCs, their percentages are even tinier, as in minuscule,
i.e parts per billion of the atmosphere.
The most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere seems to be ... water vapour.

And the CO2 part of the NASA thing you quote and link says

'carbon dioxide (CO2) is released through natural processes (like volcanic eruptions) and through human activities'.

Fine, so, what Mr Jones claims is that
the anthropogenic (human activities) portion
of the (0.04%) CO2 part of the atmosphere
constitutes merely 3% of that 0.04%,
meaning that natural processes contribute 97% of it,
i.e. of the 0.04% part of the atmosphere that is CO2.

Now, many/most policies currently being proposed
aim at curbing anthropogenic carbon production,
at great costs to societies/taxpayers/people
and great profits to the corporations positioned to 'solve the problem',
all the while ignoring that 97% of CO2 production is not anthropogenic.

So, his concerns seem arguably valid, IF his numbers are correct.

Are they correct?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-06T21:52:08+00:00

You lazily posted statements from and a link to some NASA vulgarization aimed at kids:

'Four Major Gases Contribute to the Greenhouse Effect, Number one: Carbon Dioxide.'

Have you, with this, addressed his argument, in any way?

The statements that you imagine you're somehow challenging thus
is his claims that Carbon Dioxide only constitutes 0.04 % of the Earth's atmosphere,
and that (of that 0.04 %), 3% is anthropogenic, etc.

That's what needs addressing.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-06T16:49:37+00:00

not the onion

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-05T09:22:19+00:00

The basic challenge of men pretending to be women may be their 'struggle against reality' (Monty Python).

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-04T18:04:28+00:00

No Refuge from Logic

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