Haagel

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Haagel,

I’ve heard something to the effect that approximately 80% of all internet traffic passes through Facebook and Google. Unfortunately I can’t find anything to substantiate that claim but it’s sounds plausible.

I remember the early internet. It was a wild place but at least it was fair and balanced. Now every click on every page is designed to serve the for profit attention economy. Kinda sucks in comparison.

Haagel,

Cold water. Semen, like other animal proteins, coagulates when cooked.

Haagel,

Holy shit! My IP is 192.168.1.1!

What are the odds!?

Haagel,

It depends on so many factors. My local government is all boomers and older. My voice and lack of experience isn’t as influential as the others. Although we’ve discussed issues like preserving naturally occurring affordable housing, it’s clear that final decisions are at the whims of people who are unaffected by the housing crisis.

The real solution is for many, many, many younger people to get involved. We can’t sit on our asses, complaining on the internet, and expect anything to happen.

Not talking about you, of course. Just continuing on from your comment…

Haagel,

As someone who’s just joined the local government I can say that the trolley murder system is very much entrenched. I’m trying to slow down the trolley but it would probably be best to tear up the tracks, melt the iron and build a monument for posterity.

Michael Dukakis tanks his presidential campaign, 1988 (lemmy.world)

Michael Dukakis was a Democrat candidate running for President in 1988. He had previously been criticized as being soft on national defense, so in September of that year he orchestrated a photo op in an M1 Abrams tank meant to toughen up his image....

Haagel,

Mitt Romney also had a “binder full of women”

Haagel,

Yeah but they don’t derive any material benefit from the misery. Only the politicians are profiting from hate.

Haagel,

Only a select few people actually profit from hatred and division between us. Let’s not give them that twisted satisfaction. ✊🏼

Haagel,

Depends on who you ask. If I recall correctly, the lynchpin of the cow turned whale theory is the bone of a single foot digit.

Haagel,

Venter is one of the many quacks who promised that he’d find the “aging gene” and switch it off. People threw a lot of money at him about twenty years ago.

Haagel,

How would you define objective perception? If empiricism is equally problematic for all humans, then what could possibly qualify as objectivity in perception?

Haagel,

How can we be sure that those inferences are correct? Any appeal to empirical evidence would be circular reasoning.

Haagel,

Surely you can’t be serious

Haagel,

If the rationalist deduces what is logical based on their empirical experience then their reasoning is flawed. We have to accept the axiomatic truth that our senses are limited and cannot account for an absolute truth.

To separate valid perceptions from invalid ones, a person first must assume that the world can be known through the senses. They must also assume that the world is objectively real. These assumptions do not get along well with one other. To say the world is objectively real is to say it is independent of and indifferent to sense perception. Then what in the world can we know? We can know only the effects of the parmesan cheese upon our senses, not the cheese itself.

Haagel,

There’s more slavery now than at any time in human history, according to this UN task force.

It makes you wonder, of course, that if our capitalism depends on slave markets… is it really capitalism?

Someone please help me to understand…

Haagel,

We need a few more heroes and a lot more peas to solve some of these other problems:

Horizontal Gene Transfer upsets the conceptual “tree of life”, i.e. if genetics are not exclusively hereditary then it is impossible to determine a last universal common ancestor (LUCA).

Lack of a viable mechanism for producing the complex and specific information required to render the genetic code functional.

Failure of the fossil record to find support for Darwinian evolution (punctuated equilibrium, Cambrian explosion, etc).

Rampant examples of convergent evolution indicate extreme improbability.

Abiogenesis.

Biogeographical distribution irregularities.

Inaccurate predictions regarding so-called “junk DNA”, vestigial organs and endogenous retroviruses (ERV).

Epigenetics cannot be reduced to a mechanism, certainly not natural selection.

“Phenotypic Plasticity” - the correlation between genotypes and phenotypes are no longer 1:1.

Beneficial mutations are impossibly rare. In almost all cases, mutations are degenerative, as demonstrated by Richard Lenski’s bacteria experiment and Molly Burke’s fruit fly experiment - both published in Nature.

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