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After an asteroid wiped out much of life on Earth, mammals—responding to changes in plants—grew in size and diversity surprisingly quickly. ... Pea and bean species from the "protein bar period" provided protein-rich meals that further boosted mammalian size and diversity.
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@Greyparrot
Like humans, fish need oxygen to survive—but water contains far less oxygen than an equal volume of air. The oxygen that fish breathe is not the oxygen that is chemically combined with hydrogen to form water molecules, but oxygen from the air that is dissolved in the water.
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I use a KN95 mask. It filters down to .3 microns.
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NDE's come about because the brain has 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion connections.
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@badger
Stop telling people that your Grandmother is Goldie Hawn. (I don't want them to know)
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Ok,ok, my secret to longevity is the same as Ernest Borgnine's.
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@badger
Dang nabbit, I'm younger than Trump, well at least a couple of months younger.
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MOSCOW (The Borowitz Report)—Vladimir Putin is “very upset” that the Ukrainian people are far less obedient than Donald J. Trump, Kremlin sources have confirmed.
According to the sources, Trump’s four years of ardent toadying left the Russian President emotionally unprepared for the Ukrainians’ defiance.
“If I wanted Trump to do something, I’d just snap my fingers and consider it done,” Putin reportedly said. “It was wonderful.”
According to the sources, Trump’s four years of ardent toadying left the Russian President emotionally unprepared for the Ukrainians’ defiance.
“If I wanted Trump to do something, I’d just snap my fingers and consider it done,” Putin reportedly said. “It was wonderful.”
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Kenneth Copeland whose net worth is $780 million and who leads the "Believer’s Voice of Victory," TV show and network, is a giant within the Word of Faith branch of Pentecostalism. Kenneth Copeland Ministries operates on a 1,500-acre campus near Fort Worth, TX, equipped with a church, a private airstrip, and a hangar for the ministry’s $17.5 million jet and other aircraft. Copeland resides with his wife Gloria in a $6 million church-owned lakefront mansion. Copeland, who is of partial Native American descent, converted to Christianity in the 1960s. His first dream was to be a recording artist. His "Pledge of Love” made No. 12 in the Top 40 in 1957.
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@badger
Yes, I feel that way too. ( Do you think people know that you are my grandson?)
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@Greyparrot
LOL, what Comedy Club did you say you worked at?
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@TheUnderdog
Yes, a Unified Earth Government (UEG) doesn't sound too bad in theory. Countries could exist and operate pretty independently, but the UEG would be empowered to eliminate despots and ensure freedom for all. As a result, we could preserve the diversity of language and culture that we like, while ending war and poverty that we don't. Trade would flourish, and prosperity would abound. What's not to like?
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@n8nrgim
The people were not dead. What happens when a patient codes? Technically, there's no formal definition for a code, but doctors often use the term as slang for a cardiopulmonary arrest happening to a patient in a hospital or clinic, requiring a team of providers (sometimes called a code team) to rush to the specific location and begin immediate resuscitative efforts. What percentage of code blues survive? Overall survival was 26%. Survival in patients with cardiac arrests was 11.13%. Factors such as age, presenting rhythm, and duration of CPR were found to have a significant effect on survival. Problems encountered were personnel and equipment related.
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Once Trump got out of office, he wanted to destroy the Ukraine for working with Biden's son. He got Putin to invade by promising him a condo in the Moscow Trump Tower he will be building.
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@Stephen
I had an OBE when I was in college and had taken some psilocybin.
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@n8nrgim
The latest studies position OBEs squarely in the court of the temporoparietal junction of the brain (TPJ). So, what do we know about this region of the brain?
The TPJ is an area that collates a range of information. It is a hub of activity, with inputs from the thalamus (which relays sensory information) and the limbic system (which is important in emotion and memory). It also takes data from the visual, auditory, and somatosensory (bodily sensations) systems.
The TPJ integrates information from the external environment as well as from within the body. It is thought to play a part in the distinction between self and other, which makes the TPJ a prime contender for the seat of OBEs.
Why OBEs should happen to people who are otherwise healthy is still a mystery. But perhaps the illusion is, physiologically, no more significant than many other tricks of the mind that we take in our stride, such as déjà vu. The difference with OBEs is that they attack our sense of self, something that we hold dear yet take for granted.
For a moment, we feel ethereal – we feel as though we are not one, sensing our flimsy transient nature. Of course, our personalities, emotions, memories, and desires are all little more than peaks and troughs in energy levels and surges of chemicals. We know this, but our brains do not normally allow us to feel it.
We have all seen ourselves from outside, in mediums such as photos and mirrors. We have all seen rooms from above, and weaved fairytales in our minds. Therefore, it is not such a push to imagine that our brains could manufacture an OBE and present it to us as a fleeting reality.
Our brain does a mighty job of hiding the truth from us. We feel as though we are a solid, singular entity, with our mind and body combined and secure in their rightful places, a monolith in the cosmos. OBEs unravel this sense of self, proving that we are little more than a skillful neurological illusion after all.
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@n8nrgim
Your afterlife will be the same as your beforelife. Without a brain, you do not exist.
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@GnosticChristianBishop
WELL-THOUGHT-OUT !
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@n8nrgmi
I agree.
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@oromagi
Yes, I just bought my second Tesla. The power in my area is supplied by a nuclear power plant. The future of energy is Fusion Nuclear Power.
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When the USA declares bankruptcy after Don Jr. becomes President, I hope China buys it. I might
buy a place at the Beijing Trump Towers.
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@Stephen
Atheists are not constrained by bronze age superstition,
so thinking is clearer.Theists have to continually uphold abjectly ridiculous assertions as being factual.
This continual assault on cognitive reasoning, muddies the waters, and makes the path to a well reasoned conclusion difficult to follow.
so thinking is clearer.Theists have to continually uphold abjectly ridiculous assertions as being factual.
This continual assault on cognitive reasoning, muddies the waters, and makes the path to a well reasoned conclusion difficult to follow.
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@Stephen
From a study in 2013, The percent of people in federal prison which called themselves:
1. Religious 99.9%
2. Atheists .1%
The highest percentage of The Religious group was Protestant at 28.7 %.
The next was Catholic at 24.0 %
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Executive Compensation at Save The Children (2019)
- $618,111: Carolyn S Miles, President and CEO
- $451,471: Mark Shriver, SVP, US Programs
- $436,413: Summit Seam, VP and General Counsel
- $361,527: Debbie Pollack-Berry, VP and Chief of HR
- $354,046: Jennifer Roberti, VP, Marketing, Comm and FNDR
- $346,989: Phillip DiSanto, VP, IT and Building Ops
- $344,246: Michael Klosson, VP, Policy and Humanitarian Responsibility
- $306,211: Luciana Bonifacio, VP, Resource Development
- $297,984: David Barth, VP, International Programs
- $288,786: Brian White, AVP, Deputy General Counsel and CCO
- $286,212: Robert Clay, VP, Health and Nutrition
- $283,632: Daniel Abbott, Chief of PTY Nutrition, Int Program
- $278,562: Ann Cartlidge, AVP, Controller and ENT RM, FIN
- $277,151: Gregory A Ramm, VP, Humanitarian Response
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See: The Bible is Fiction: A Collection Of Evidence
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@Greyparrot
Are you still selling those I LOVE PUTIN T shirts online?
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I'll bet Greyparrot is glad that the deal fell through on the penthouse in TrumpTower Moscow he was going to buy.
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@ebuc
Putin should be very afraid of the country that has actually killed people with nuclear bombs.
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@Athias
Because Maury said, " God, you are not the FATHER"?
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On the centennial of the 19th amendment granting American women the vote, US President Donald Trump announced he would issue a posthumous pardon for Susan B. Anthony. A suffragette, Anthony was convicted of voting illegally as a woman in 1872. The response was mixed. Some applauded the president, others accused him of virtue signalling.
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@Athias
Sorry, I should have said that he let him be killed.
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@Athias
During his younger years, Putin was an atheist. He says he turned to the church after two major accidents in the 1990s—his wife’s car accident and a house fire. He now considers himself to be a devout member of the Russian Orthodox Church.
I guess God loves people that kill people. Oh, that's right, he killed his only son.
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@oromagi
Yes, a rally on the Washington Monument grounds Tuesday to support trucker convoys has drawn a minuscule crowd so far. About 20 people are in attendance, Washingtonian photographer Evy Mages reports from the scene, as well as a similar number of people who are there to cover the event.
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Oh, I forgot to add that we will be in WWIII in one year.
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@n8nrgmi
Since Bitcoin does not have any intrinsic value, its value is necessarily intersubjective, and I predict that in one year a bitcoin will be worth $30 US dollars.
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@cristo71
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@cristo71
From an article by Bess Levin:
As for the idea that Trump was so tough on Russia that Putin feared him, and wouldn’t have dared to attack Ukraine if the 45th president had gotten a second term, well, please enjoy this exchange between former Trump administration official John Bolton and Newsmax on Tuesday morning:
Newsmax: There is something to be said though, about the simple fact that there was not aggression during the four years. I mean, you were part of that administration as well, and there was not aggression from Russia and they waited him out, it seems, and made a move. I mean, we have a list of things, the Brookings Institution says that the “Trump administration implemented 52 policy actions against Russia,” was pretty tough on Russia in a lot of ways. Forcing NATO members to pay up; as we know, sanctioning Nord Stream 2; oligarchs close to Putin were sanctioned; selling anti-tank weapons to Ukraine, so arming Ukraine; withdrawing from the INF treaty; and expelling Russian officers from this country as well. In 2018, he looked NATO members in the eye and talked about the reliance on Russian energy by Europe and how horrible that was. I mean, he took a very tough stance against Russia. I’m surprised you don’t think that he would’ve handled this better than Joe Biden.
Bolton: No, he did not. He did not. We didn’t sanction Nord Stream 2…we should have, we should have brought the project to an end. We did impose sanctions on Russian oligarchs and several others because of their sales of S-400 antiaircraft systems to other countries. But in almost every case, the sanctions were imposed with Trump complaining about it saying we were being too hard. The fact is that he barely knew where Ukraine was. He once asked John Kelly, his second chief of staff, if Finland were a part of Russia. It is just not accurate to say that Trump’s behavior somehow deterred the Russians. I think the evidence is that Russia didn’t feel that their military was ready.
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Do you think Putin will be going to The Miss Universe Pageant in November in Moscow – if so, will he become my new best friend?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 19, 2013
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 19, 2013
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@zedvictor4
See, God: The Failed Hypothesis, where physicist Victor Stenger argues that science has advanced sufficiently to make a definitive statement on the existence or nonexistence of the traditional Judeo-Christian-Islamic God. He invites readers to put their minds—and the scientific method—to work to test this claim.
After evaluating all the scientific evidence—the studies done by reputable institutions on the power of prayer; the writings of philosophers who have puzzled over the problem of God and of good and evil; the efforts of biblical scholars to prove the accuracy of holy scriptures; and the work of biologists, geologists, and astronomers looking for clues to a creator on Earth and in the cosmos—Stenger concludes that beyond a reasonable doubt the universe and life appear exactly as we might expect if there were no God. He convincingly shows that not only is there no evidence for the existence of God, but scientific observations actually point to his nonexistence.
After evaluating all the scientific evidence—the studies done by reputable institutions on the power of prayer; the writings of philosophers who have puzzled over the problem of God and of good and evil; the efforts of biblical scholars to prove the accuracy of holy scriptures; and the work of biologists, geologists, and astronomers looking for clues to a creator on Earth and in the cosmos—Stenger concludes that beyond a reasonable doubt the universe and life appear exactly as we might expect if there were no God. He convincingly shows that not only is there no evidence for the existence of God, but scientific observations actually point to his nonexistence.
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@Polytheist-Witch
@badger
(Sounding just like Joey Tribbiani, FLRW says to Poly), "How you Doin'?"
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@badger
I think Russia will fire a nuclear missile into Chernobyl within a week.
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@badger
LOL, I didn't want to get banned by Poly.
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