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yep PDF warning, but a facinating read.

Climate change is impacting shareholders which means we have to acknowledge its impacts now.

user-inactivated  ·  2036 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 293rd Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

40 years ago Today this was released.

user-inactivated  ·  2061 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Random quotes of the week

I was sent this from another forum. Not worth its own post either.

https://imgur.com/gallery/by391sN

user-inactivated  ·  2084 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Conservationists of Hubski. What are some small, but impactful things we can do to better take care of this world?

Don't have kids.

user-inactivated  ·  2086 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: July 11, 2018

Mars will be directly opposite the sun on July 27. This is going to be the closest Mars has been to the earth since 2003 hence it is brighter than normal.

Which makes the dust storm a pain in the ass for anyone wanting to take pictures of Mars; all we are getting right now is a featureless orange ball.

user-inactivated  ·  2113 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Aski Hubski: Botox

Growing old is a privilege denied to millions.

user-inactivated  ·  2156 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Richard Spencer Was Supposed to Lead the Alt-Right to Victory. Now He’s Begging for Money.

I want Richard Spencer to live a long and comfortable life. I want him to have a front-row seat to the Blue-Wave in November. I want him to watch the first female president. The first Hispanic president. 10s of thousands of successful gay and inter-racial marriages. I want him to watch his dreams of an ethno-state be mocked into nonsense.

Then, I want him to have a last thought: My whole life has been on the wrong side of history, I wasted my time on this earth, everything I've done is for naught.

Then, with that the last thought rattling in his dense, useless fucking racist head, die peacefully.

user-inactivated  ·  2166 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 275th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

user-inactivated  ·  2166 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: FDA Wants Medical Devices to Have Mandatory Built-In Update Mechanisms

There may be a more terrible IT sub-industry than health care IT. But that bar is very low to start with. And now the overworked, competent, people are looking at this and screaming into their alcoholism.

IoT is stupid. I am now of the mind that anything that is vital to care should never touch a network. And the next round of appliances I get will NOT have an internet connection.

user-inactivated  ·  2170 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why do young men worship Professor Jordan Peterson?

    I can see why young men who lack direction in life would follow a charismatic leader

Like the current Islamic terror movements, and any communist/fascist/nationalist movement in the past.

    I also kinda wonder if anyone's done a case study in why so many regressive alt-right types like Peterson or Harris self-identify as liberal.

Peterson is not at all "alt-right." Not at all. He is a traditional 1950's religious traditionalist that thinks if a lot of these young men go back to church all will be better. Harris is also not "alt-right" either. He is on the left of the US political spectrum, or was when I was following him before I got sick of the online atheist communities. I have been called "alt-right" because I did not vote for Clinton in the primary, and I am a Sanders-supporting borderline-socialist lefty. The word "alt-right" is being thrown around like the word racist, nazi, terrorist etc because we no longer have arguments over politics in the West any more. We have two fundamentalist radical religious groups vying for ideological purity being very loud and the people on either side being drug along with them. I want to go somewhere with this, but I have to go to work then teach an astronomy class today and don't want to get into an argument over who is the biggest shitheel in society right now (hint all sides are shit).

user-inactivated  ·  2175 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: “Is curing patients a sustainable business model?” Goldman Sachs analysts ask

Preventative medicine creates a steady stream of people that need to see your doctors 1-2 times a year for simple visits that are fully covered by the ACA. Doctors would make more but hospitals and surgery centers may, MAY make less over time in facility fees.

Interesting article.

user-inactivated  ·  2175 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Backpage.com Pleads Guilty to Human Trafficking in Texas

Yea, that is an eye-opener. Craigslist was working with law enforcement and helping them grab the kiddie stuff and traffickers. A guy I know that is still putting himself through the dating gauntlet has seen an uptick in outright prostitution-style profiles on sites like OKCupid.

I'm not going to be shocked when the law goes after Tinder, Grindr, Bumble et. al. for being venues for prostitution here in the next few months.

user-inactivated  ·  2176 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: “McConnell, in the last few days, has said, ‘The House is lost, we have to hold the Senate.’”

Dear Mitch, Eat a giant bag of cocks. I'm expecting him to run, and lose this year. I so can hope. The Teachers are in open revolt, the governor here is digging a hole deeper every day and I'm watching Trumpgret in real time.

Dem's don't get cocky. get out and vote, make calls and don't think this shit is in the bag, election day is SEVEN fucking months away.

user-inactivated  ·  2179 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Scientists discover the universe has much less phosphorus than we thought, potentially meaning there are fewer aliens

One of the solutions to the Fermi Paradox is the idea that we are the first civilization in this galaxy. With the need for stars to build up the heavier elements needed to create long carbon chains. I have an issue with this, in that time moves a lot faster than most people realize. We are only 100 human lifetimes from Stonehenge. We went from advanced hunter-gatherer societies to space flight in the geologic blink of an eye. If we are 10,000 years behind everyone else, they must be so advanced that we are but ants. 100 years ago electricity was a luxury, we barely had flying machines, and health care was just starting to come into its own (Vaccines are about 100 years old, mass vaccination programs are only 60 years old).

Space is big, very big. Other stars that can host planets like ours are far away and those planets are very hard to find. The James Webb Telescope will let us for the first time sample the atmospheres of exoplanets, and the TESS mission launching next week will find the targets to look at. I was listening to a telecast about TESS and they think that TESS will find 17K-20K exoplanets... we have verified just about 4K now.

The question about are we alone? We will be getting closer to confirming that within the next 20 years. If we land on Europa? I hope we find DNA and bacteria. It's an exciting time to be a space nerd.

user-inactivated  ·  2184 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 4, 2018

Forty pounds of books and study guides. FORTY FUCKING POUNDS. Here is where the other college and school people laugh at me, so per-emptive "go fuck yourselves." I'm getting some certs for the first time, like, ever. I now realize what I hated most about school. Shit was so easy I never learned how to study. Then they made me do homework at home, and not in the 10 minutes before class and I checked out of education and coasted on a 1470 SAT score, no scholarships, not smart enough to really dig in and go to school and within 10 years I was lost and barely living.

Now I an looking at a pile of IT cert books and then I look at the dude in the mirror and the fucker is laughing at my bitch ass. The goal is to have 3 of the 12(!) tests I want to take this year in the bag before the start of Summer, then work on the hard exams. And I get to pay for it to!

user-inactivated  ·  2186 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Oklahoma, Kentucky public schools close as thousands of teachers strike

Kentucky Schools had massive walk outs Friday and lots of schools closed today as well. Shit like this is giving me hope for a massive blue wave in November.

user-inactivated  ·  2187 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I pissed on Ted Nugent's driveway

Considering what he did to get out of the Vietnam draft? He's probably into that.

user-inactivated  ·  2189 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The problem of hyper-liberalism

One of the very last interactions I had on Reddit was someone talking about "otherkin." This was, 5-6 years ago now. I said that this sounds like a cry for help and mental illness manifesting itself, something along those lines, and that parents should step in and correct this behavior. The comment was not in anyway abusive or attacking an individual, yet SRS linked my post and started trolling me. The stated posting personal dox on me, threatened to talk to my boss (who would have loved to hear I pissed off a bunch of liberals to be honest) and stated to follow me on other forums. I then realized I don't need this shit, began deleting everything I had contributed to Reddit, said fuck the internet and nuked a ton of forum assets, and walked away. I joined Reddit and created an account in the first two-three months that they allowed logins (2007?), from a Fark link I believe. The guys in r/space and r/astronomy had already moved out by the time I was done, so nothing of real value was lost to me.

Want to see the pure toxic fuckery of the Left? Go to ShitRedditSays. Hell, if you feel like hating yourself for an hour or so go browse TumblrInAction. On the Right? TheDonald.

The Gish Gallop, done by a master of the craft, is a work of pure art. I'm talking a form of bullshittery that few can master and none can beat. Sam Harris debated William Lane Craig and won him by ignoring him on his gallops and stuck to the core arguments link to the debate if interested.

user-inactivated  ·  2190 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Distant galaxy with no dark matter suggests our understanding of the universe could be wrong

    Astronomy professors rave about how nutty it is that the only way we can measure it is through our understanding Newtonian mechanics alongside the implications.

Special Relativity, not Newton, but otherwise spot on. History is full of these "I have no idea on the why or how, but here is a bunch of math to describe and make predictions" when it comes to natural phenomena. Hell, speaking of Gravity, what is it? I mean Why is there Gravity? We understand DNA and evolution magnitudes more in depth than we do one of the four universal forces of the universe!

user-inactivated  ·  2193 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski, what's your favourite TV show that is more than 20 years old?

The problem I have with TV and movies is that video games have corrupted me. I just cannot sit there passively and absorb. I have to do something to interact, move the camera, do SOMETHING. A 90 minute movie is about all I can take. Watching a series, 22 hours a season, I'd have to have it on in the background and at that point I'd rather do podcasts while gaming.

If I was going to force myself to watch something it would probably be Deep Space 9. I'm told it is good, and it was the competition to Babylon 5, which I liked (granted the people I watched it with made it better). I don't have a streaming service other than my untouched Amazon Prime Video (seriously they flood me with movie suggestions daily now reminding me that I have never watched anything).

I just have too much going on right now to justify the time sink that I could rather spend reading with some Baroque era Classical on in the background.

user-inactivated  ·  2201 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 270th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

user-inactivated  ·  2206 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet

There are only 50-60 real, active users here. The morons come in, act like morons and their engagement falls to zero fairly quickly. Since these style of people feed on attention and drama, and since Hubski is really good at denying them this oxygen they desperately need to live, they go elsewhere.

If you want to post bestiality or other terrible stuff? There are multiple other sites where that style of content won't stick out and even some where that content would be encouraged because outrage and shock are 'funny' to some people. I'd list a few that I've run across but doing so helps them in the Google rankings, so no.

user-inactivated  ·  2206 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Labor 2030: The Collision of Demographics, Automation and Inequality

    You're adorable.

I've been called many things in my life, this is a first.

Red Robin. I had to look them up. (I don't go out to eat much, sue my adorable ass.) They look like a higher end Homerun Burger in a sit-down setting. Double Bacon and rings is my go-to about once a quarter-ish depending on if I am stuck in town or now. I like them better than 5-Guys.

Normally if I go out to eat I go to some of the Amish places where the food was herded into the back of the building slaughtered and shoved into an oven or onto a grill. Grizzled old women with gnarled hands stir pots of sometimes questionable ingredients that taste amazing. If I could find a way to make an Amish costume and recreate the "ambiance" I bet we could make the new hipster hangout in a place like L.A.

    ButterflyEffect lists some legit hipsterish joints up here but oh holy fuck dude you have no idea.

I'm kinda cool with that statement. I go out to eat something I don't want to/can't make at home. I'm not there for the "experience."

user-inactivated  ·  2210 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Mattel, Hasbro stocks sink after report of Toys 'R' Us store liquidation plans

Weird how we old fucks are now reminiscing on a functional government

Oracle and Sun

That was only 11 years ago.

user-inactivated  ·  2212 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 7, 2018

Find an Amish butcher, build a report with them. You will pay more, 10-20% a pound but every cent is worth it. The chickens I get from these people? THEY TASTE LIKE CHICKEN. It hurts to buy the $.77/lb stuff at the megamart after eating a real, flavorful, bird.

user-inactivated  ·  2214 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Christopher Steele, the Man Behind the Trump Dossier

    That kid's got a reason to be angry.

That "kid" ends up in Charlotte with a tiki torch because, why not? Not like there is any other way out, and blaming "the other" works short term until the war you start goes south and you end up in Nuremberg on the end of a rope.

Anyone who has ever read a history book is having a bit of a panic when they see shit like this.

user-inactivated  ·  2214 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Christopher Steele, the Man Behind the Trump Dossier

    If there's a silver lining to the Parkland shooting, hopefully it's that it motivates young people to vote.

There are two reasons I support Weed legalization. One, young people go vote for that shit, and young people tend to vote left which helps the candidates I like and support. Two, once the shit is legal the drug war ends and we can work on repairing the damage that 40 years of blanket incarceration has done, save some money, rebuild inner cities, lower crime, rainbows and fluffy kittens.

We also get the bonus of having this shit legal so the edgelords stop circle-jerking about weed. (Hey, a man can dream)

I do not think an anti-war candidate will win in a primary as there is too much money floating around to keep the gravy boat rolling along. But I've been wrong before and I hope I am wrong again this time.

user-inactivated  ·  2216 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Vote on bill to outlaw child marriage in Kentucky delayed after opposition from conservative Family Foundation

Oh dude. DUDE DUE DUDE. You are so fucking far off the mark here, I need to drop out of "Fuck-off the Internet Weekend" to come in and smash your faith in humanity with a hammer.

The reason child marriage is legal in Kentucky has very little to do with having sex with kids. We are talking way the hell more sinister. You see, these laws allowing parents to marry off a child have little to do with the child's welfare and everything to do with saving the honor and 'face' as it were of mom and dad. So your 11 year old gets raped, and Jesus don't have none of that abortion with our little miracle, so you marry off the kid to its rapist to raise the child Yup. That is why this law exists, and why it is so hard to change it.

    When she was a scrawny 11-year-old, Sherry Johnson found out one day that she was about to be married to a 20-year-old member of her church who had raped her.

    “It was forced on me,” she recalls. She had become pregnant, she says, and child welfare authorities were investigating — so her family and church officials decided the simplest way to avoid a messy criminal case was to organize a wedding.

Yup, that is a thing, in modern America, in the lifetime of most of the people on this website. Marrying off children is also an easy way to get rid of an extra mouth to feed in the poor parts of the world. They started dating shortly after she returned home to Laurel County, Kentucky. Her mother, Pollard recalled, was anxious to get her out of the house and would drive Pollard to meet her boyfriend. And with her mother’s permission, 16-year-old Pollard soon found herself at the county clerk’s office, marriage certificate in hand.

I cannot find it now, but there was a story 2-3 years ago where a 'pastor' in a small church used sex with his kids as a way to lure men to come to his congregation. When the kids got knocked up, he married them off. The one girl was 13.

This shit is foul, vile, evil. We don't let 16 year olds sign economic contracts for a reason; at 16 your window of "long term consequences" is a month. Maybe six weeks for the smart ones. Pregnant at 13? fuck it, let em sign a life altering contract that will define them for as long as they live.

user-inactivated  ·  2224 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The entirely unnecessary demise of Barnes & Noble

Kentucky has a fucked up County structure rooted in the far depths of time where everyone traveled on horseback. The state has more counties that all but Texas and Virginia. Some of the counties that I drive through daily are smaller than LA suburbs; I'm talking 200 square miles. Remember, Los Angeles County, CA has twice as many people as the whole state of Kentucky.

user-inactivated  ·  2225 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The entirely unnecessary demise of Barnes & Noble

In the 10 or so counties that I routinely drive through there are ZERO bookstores. No indies, no bog box, NONE. Each county has at least one WalMart, and there are magazine racks and paperbacks in the grocery stores, but zero book stores.

Amazon did not kill the bookstore, nor did B&N. An apathetic non-reading public killed the bookstore. They can only exist in major cities where people like us, who read, live.