jerryskids

Very interesting, thanks. I don't know details about pancreatic cancer (other than it is nasty), but I'm intrigued by Fenbendazole's "inhibition of glucose uptake". My cancer was a squamous cell carcinoma, which feeds on glucose. In fact during chemo (and initial immuno), I did as low-carb of a diet as I've ever done. I'll always believe that this helped with my status.

This is what my wife uses, the 3-ply (I think they've maybe stopped making the 5-ply, not sure). She loves them. She does have a cast iron skillet for searing. She doesn't use soap to clean it; she rubs some salt and oil in it I think. I don't pay that much attention, I just know I'm not allowed to clean it. We also have a non-stick pan for things like fried eggs. She read somewhere that they are pretty much all the same and they need to be replaced after the non-stick starts to wear off, so we've got some cheap one from Bed Bath and Beyond. Also, one medium sized Le Creuset... whatever they are, dutch oven? She uses it for bread sometimes, not sure what else.

My favorite is rhythmic gymnastics, or whatever it is called. They are a little bit older (i.e., of legal age) and they have low self esteem because they couldn't cut it in mainstream gymnastics.

We use plastic bags from the grocery store to scoop our cat litter into. If they stopped providing them, I'd have to find a place online to buy them in bulk.

Dear lord are you stoopid.

Bruh? Trump said he'd be a dictator on day 1 only, here is the actual statement: Move along Slingblade, or get your shine box. You add nothin here.

He didn't get pushed into betting, read my post again. Reading is fundamental. The "cornered into losing" part is why this is being discussed. Otherwise, good post, good effort.

What you have incorrect is the following: - The bet is not that Biden will be the nom after the convention, but that he will be the nom come election day. That's a solid several months for the Dems to realize they are putting up a brain dead candidate, or for him to brain die. - Tim pushed for the bet to be settled, and got cornered into losing. Otherwise, good post, good effort.

If I may be so bold to provide some observations and advice... My observation is that you seem like a pretty upstanding guy, and I don't see evidence of the accusations from the FBG folks against you. You seem like a liberal in the traditional sense of the word, which I personally do not have an issue with. My advice is to provide some discussion. IMO most of your posts are links, which are good if providing data for a HS debate team, but don't in and of themselves help us get to know you. Or, your posts are responding to people trying to get your goat, successfully it would seem. Take this for what it is worth.

I appreciate your sticktoitiveness to continue to insult the one true religion handed down by Jesus to St. Peter. I promised though that I wouldn't insult your cult anymore, and I won't start now. I will suggest however that you consider a similar Christian vow as I have.

Let's get a few things straight. One, nobody knows you. Two, claiming in other threads that Trump wants to be a dictator$#@! almost led me to ask how your brain manages to keep your lungs breathing and heart pumping, it is so mind-numbingly stupid. But I got busy and moved on. I propose that you establish that you are not a 16 yr old Tumblr girl before you act like we think you are smart.

I mentioned it in other threads, but I saw Tool about a month ago, so that bucket list item is done. Also since this thread, I've seen Billy Joel (with Stevie Nicks), who was next on my bucket list. So I need a new bucket list.

This. By the way @The Real timschochet, I'm pretty confident I bet you $25 on the 4:1 Biden nominee bet. I'm too lazy to go back and try to find it, so if you don't recall it, I'm fine dropping it or you accepting it, either way. Also FWIW, I have both Venmo and Paypal.

I've said no such thing, and I can't recall ever saying anything to indicate I support the way we do immigration in this country. Don't be an idiot.

Yeah, I thought the link would be a map that draws out a route to a warmer state.

In case you never get around to those Freakonomics podcasts, one of the data points they make is that immigrants themselves are net negatives on the economy. Their children, and their children's children, are a positive, moreso than the original generation was a negative. So the net result is an economic positive, but it takes 3 generations to get there. They are currently discussing (I haven't quite finished) how the Feds unduly benefit from leaving the bulk of the integration cost for the first generation on the states, but gladly collect those sweet tax dollars later. This seems to conflict with your consistent assertion that immigrants are a positive to the economy. At least, my interpretation of your assertion is that you believe they are a positive from the get go.

Skating is one of the sports that impresses me in the olympics. Like gymnastics, it's mostly mental. You know your routine, you just need to go do it. That's it. Simple, right? Obviously not. Major head games. Looking forward to the Paris games (yes I know, skating is in them).

Wow, I know we're supposed to make fun of such athletes here, but that was freaking impressive!

I can see this argument. I think part of it is how you define "advancements." For instance, the raw increase in the number of transistors on an advanced computer chip in the past 25 years would dwarf the number in all years prior, because of Moore's Law and the way size increases in development. But is this a bigger development than the invention of the transistor? Of the integrated circuit? Of the basic semiconductor process still fundamental to manufacturing today? One could argue, and I'm inclined to do so, that going from zero to any number is an infinite increase, and more important than the subsequent improvements. It is a difference of revolutionary vs. evolutionary, or research vs. development. When I got my first engineering job in 1989, I worked on two different projects that came out of our research labs. These labs were funded to hire brilliant people to go explore new, revolutionary things, many (most) of which would never come to fruition, but some might. Large companies like IBM, Bell Labs, etc. attracted the best and brightest for such speculative work. Fast forward to today though, and you don't see this. Guys like Beach Guy, the finance expert, took over companies, and shareholders no longer would support "wasting" money on projects which couldn't be tied to improving the bottom line. As such, most pure research today is limited to academia and government, two institutions full of people with little to no real world experience. Of course, we do have AI creating revisionist history with black vikings, so we've got that going for us...

By the way, I just looked it up: Excel was introduced in 1985, which for the math challenged, is > 25 years ago.

Of course I'm happy we've developed immunotherapies. I wouldn't exactly put that in the same league as antibiotics and vaccines though, in the giant scheme of things. Sheesh, I can't believe I'm having this debate with a guy who thinks a significant tech advancement is a new suite of macros in Excel.

So you are a bean counter, gotcha. Uses technology? If at least you said you create technology, your credentials might have non-zero value in this discussion. Let's see, off the top of my head, prior to 25 years, we had... vaccines, antibiotics, pasteurization, printing press, planes trains and automobiles, Newton's laws, Maxwell's equations (define electromagnetism), special and general relativity, transistors, computers, nuclear fission, quantum theory, cell phones. In the past 25 years we've had... another iPhone, this one titanium!, and 46 different genders and growing. I'm good with my position.

Happy early birfday, old geezer!

Duly noted. Some of it might tho, depending on the competitiveness of the market. Also, the additional money could funnel into additional investment, new jobs, etc.

He's an engineer, as am I. Thanks for the technology lesson though. What is it you do again?