barneypiccolo
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- Comment on Alternatively 18 hours ago:
How many parents are going to have to get their kids to figure out how to open it?
How many more are just going to toss it aside, and say, “Pitter patter, let’s get at 'er!”
- Comment on Peak male form 22 hours ago:
Without a snappy stache, he’s got no shot at all.
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 23 hours ago:
They have “kit cars,” which are all the parts you need to build a fancy vehicle on the chassis and drive train of a normal car. When I was young, Ford Pintos were common chassis for kit cars.
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 3 days ago:
Police forces deliberately filter out intelligent people because A) the job is mostly really boring, and smart people don’t like boring jobs, and 2) Smart people won’t put up with the open racism, corruption, and general bullshit of cops.
Ever notice on the news, that the local police chief always sounds like a swaggering, arrogant dumbass? It’s because he was promoted from a professional gene pool that was compromised from the start. He’s was just the biggest arrogant swaggering dumbass out of big pool of arrogant swaggering dumbasses.
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 3 days ago:
I’m from a US state where we don’t pump our own gas.
New Jersey or Oregon?
- Comment on That's a good question 3 days ago:
I’m a musician, and I can explain music in such fine detail that it would sound like a foreign language to a civilian, the same as your physics analogy. Just because the advanced version of a real world concept is beyond the understanding of most people doesn’t mean it isn’t true.
But religion has to stay simple enough that the average rube can understand it well enough to buy into it, and even then, the leaders demand that at some point, you should stop asking questions and just believe based on FAITH, based on what they TELL you, with no evidence at all.
And the book always becomes the backstop - “Because the Bible tells me so” becomes the fallback defense to everything else, as if that simply closes the discussion. The Bible is nothing but a book of confirmation bias justifications for whatever religious leaders demand from us, usually money. The original accounts were written by barely civilized humans without the same demands for evidence, logic, historical accuracy, etc. that we demand from modern authors, and then compiled, edited, and promoted by people with an agenda to control the population. The Bible is not evidence, and has no place being cited as a source for religious veracity. Making up a religion, and then writing a book to explain it, is not evidence, it’s a con.
If religion can’t be proven based on actual evidence, without bringing the Bible or Faith into the discussion, then it’s nothing more than mythology, and mythology should not be a consideration when managing this country’s, and the world’s, current problems.
- Comment on That's a good question 3 days ago:
Yeah, that is absolutely crazy. Literally every word of it is fabricated by humans trying to figure out some way of justifying the control of others. Not one single concept is backed by any factual evidence. It’s all just a fairy tale, or mythology.
Even if you believe that this is all the work of “God,” how can any human claim to know what God actually thinks or wants? The entire concept of religion was created by humans who claim to know what God wants from us, and anyone who says that is automatically a conman.
- Comment on That's a good question 4 days ago:
Yeah, that doesn’t make sense either. How does dying by torture “absolve” (the word you were reaching for) humankind from their “sins,” and what sins are they talking about anyway? Sins are only religious rules, and if religion is a just a human construct, then they aren’t valid anyway.
I’ve never seen a religious message of any kind that made logical sense.
- Comment on That's a good question 4 days ago:
Most evenings, I sit on my front porch overlooking a quiet pond, and play my guitar for an hour or so, accompanied by birdsong. That’s my religion.
- Comment on That's a good question 4 days ago:
Exactly. ALL religion is a human construct to explain stuff that neolithic goatherders didn’t understand. Some of them were a talented storytellers, and made up all that stuff to entertain their bored colleagues.
- Comment on That's a good question 4 days ago:
Yeah, none of that makes sense. How much do you have to disengage your intelligence to somehow believe in that baloney enough to actually rule your life by it? Seriously weird.
- Comment on That's a good question 4 days ago:
Keeping God away from Earth is a good idea. The God that is described in the Bible is a monster.
- Comment on That's a good question 4 days ago:
Fairy tales
- Comment on That's a good question 4 days ago:
As an old guy, I still do not understand how Jesus being tortured to death somehow absolves all our “sins” (whatever that means), and keeps us from “unending death” (whatever that means). Nothing about religion, ANY religion, makes sense.
I am open-minded enough to acknowledge that we know almost nothing about the Universe, and there may be some entity beyond our puny human comprehension, but ALL religion is simply a clumsy human construct attempting to make the unexplainable understandable for humans that require protection from the scary mysteries of the Universe.
- Comment on That's a good question 4 days ago:
The government just declassified documents that describe the first time humans made contact with an alien race. We found out that not only do the aliens know about Jesus, he revisits them every year for a big celebration. "Every year?” the humans asked, “We’ve been waiting for him to come back for over 2000 years! How did you get him to return?”
“I don’t know, we’re just friends. The first time he visited, we gave him a big bag of our finest chocolates. What did you guys do?”
- Comment on That's a good question 4 days ago:
As a bored kid in church, this is a question I pondered many times. Why would we choose to honor the method of torture that caused his death?
- Comment on I guess they hate shoppers (context below) 6 days ago:
Which is why I specified AMERICAN politics. It was just an observation about the changing nature of Hanlon’s Razor.
It’s not the only logical argument that MAGA wrecked. Godwin’s Law has been watered down to the point where even Godwin himself says it doesn’t really apply anymore.
- Comment on I guess they hate shoppers (context below) 6 days ago:
Except in American MAGA politics, where an idea is usually conceived in malice, but carried out incompetently, then blamed on Democrats when it predictably goes wrong.
- Comment on My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so? 1 week ago:
Stick to your guns OP. People here are judging your Dad for cheating, but it sounds like your Mom has been actively alienating everyone around her for years. People who make life difficult for those around them will eventually find themselves alone. People eventually stop dealing with their bullshit, and move on in life. It sounds like you and your Dad decided to move in a less stressful, more fulfilling direction. He found love, and you found peace, while your Mom wants to continue sowing discord, drama, and chaos in your lives. I don’t blame you for rejecting her efforts, and choosing peace.
- Comment on Anon misses the classic design 1 week ago:
It’s called a Cesta.
- Comment on Anon misses the classic design 1 week ago:
The traditional hand grenade became the standard for the American military because American soldiers grew up playing baseball, and were extremely accurate throwing grenades the same way. American Baseball gave American soldiers an advantage that European and Asian militaries didn’t have.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’ve taken 3 polygraphs in my lifetime, and I lied on all three. None of the polygraphers caught the lies, but all three accused me of lying on other questions where I told the truth.
Polygraphs are voodoo. I might take one for a job, if it were required, but I would never agree to one for the police. I would NEVER trust my freedom to one.
- Comment on Brian Eno, creator of the Windows 95 startup sound, calls on Microsoft to sever ties with Israel 2 weeks ago:
When the guy who composed the song “Itsy Bitsy, Teeny Weenie, Yellow Polka Dot Bikini” died, I read that he called the song a “non-stop money making machine.”
- Comment on Brian Eno, creator of the Windows 95 startup sound, calls on Microsoft to sever ties with Israel 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been an Eno fan my entire life, but I had no idea that he invented that sound. I wonder if he gets a royalty for every sale?
It reminds me of the “DUN DUN” sound from Law & Order, composed by Mike Post. I read that he’s collected over $20 million in royalties from that sound alone.
- Comment on Why is it okay for shit to go down the drain but not food? 2 weeks ago:
I flush food down the toilet occasionally. Works great in places without garbage disposals.
- Comment on George R. R. Martin's New Announcement Has Finally Made Me Accept He's Never Finishing The Winds Of Winter 2 weeks ago:
He’s got “Concepts of a Plan.”
- Comment on New Posters for ‘Superman’ 2 weeks ago:
Why do they have to reboot the exact same stories every decade or so?
- Comment on 7 for me 3 weeks ago:
I get 5, I’ve known a lot of women who wear just a giant T-shirt to bed. 15 is the weird one. I’ve never known a woman to wear a bra to bed, and certainly nothing except a bra. Maybe they have giant, unruly breasts that need to be strapped down.
- Comment on Chris Parnell still doesn't know why he was fired and rehired at 'SNL' 3 weeks ago:
I was a fan from the beginning, I saw the very first episode. The cliche ”Its no good anymore," started in the second season, in response to Chevy Chase not returning, and it’s been repeated continuously ever since.
It’s had its ups and downs (the late 80s, oof), but it has still been basically the same throughout - every episode has good sketches, weak sketches, and hopefully at least one home run.
Lorne has said that everyone thinks that the best era of SNL were their high school years.
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 3 weeks ago:
Theil holds Vance’s leash, tightly. If Vance becomes president, Theil becomes president.