Many economists now see inequality increasing, and are predicting abject poverty
for most people. It's just the continuation of a trend that you'd have to be willfully blind
not to notice. Gary saw it happening, and made money betting on the collapse of society.
He is now feeling guilty, and he is doing what he is doing, because he is expecting
that future suffering people will ask him: “Did you try and do anything?”.

"I've seen the tsunami coming"
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If you don't agree with his prediction, why not?
- Are you OK with most people living in abject poverty again?
- Do you think he is wrong? If so, why? What are you seeing, that I don't?
- Do you think he is lying? Why? What's in it for him?

Screwworm In Texas Cattle Could Drive Up Beef Prices
— After DOGE Axed Prevention Efforts.
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The U.S. eradicated screwworm in 1966 through the sterile insect program, then spent decades maintaining a containment barrier in Mexico, Central America, and Panama.
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There are recent reports and political accusations that DOGE-related cuts or other Trump-administration reductions weakened monitoring, staffing, or parts of the prevention effort.

A screwworm case was confirmed in a Texas calf in 2026, the first such Texas case in decades. However, Mexico and Central America have already recorded more than 171,700 animal cases and over 2,070 human cases during the current northward-moving outbreak.
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Is your administration doing something or will they wait until it's a huge problem
and then throw some subsidies to the affected farmers?

And what is your horribly corrupt and stupid president doing?
- First he cancelled Offshore wind project, costing the tax-payer roughly $2 billion in total and robbing them of cheap electricity.
- Then he is investing about $700 million of your tax-dollars in coal, which is a bad investment (even ignoring climate damage).

1) Coal is more expensive than alternatives, because coal plants have high fuel, labor,
and operating costs, while wind, solar, and natural gas are now cheaper to build and run
in nearly every U.S. region.

2) Coal plants are aging and require costly upgrades, because most were built 40–60 years ago and need expensive maintenance, retrofits, and pollution‑control equipment,
just to stay operational.

3) Private investors have abandoned coal, because the sector has high bankruptcy rates, shrinking demand, and poor long‑term profitability, making coal a classic “stranded asset” risk.

4) Coal cannot compete with natural gas, because gas plants are cheaper to build,
more efficient, and far more flexible for modern grid needs.

5) Coal plants are slow and inflexible, because they are designed for steady baseload operation and cannot ramp up or down quickly, which makes them poorly suited for
today’s variable electricity demand.

6) Maintenance and safety costs are high, because coal mining and coal power require heavy machinery, complex safety systems, and expensive waste‑handling infrastructure that remain costly, even when plants run at low capacity.

Of course wildfires are adding to smog and unhealthy air.
Do you know what study you need to know that? Seeing the smoke.

And wildfires are indeed ALSO increasing the global CO₂ emissions
AND reducing natures capacity to ABSORB CO₂.

"Now if they would study volcano's impact..."
WHAT "IF"? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!?!
That you can still say something THIS IGNORANT, after so much discussion on this topic, that really baffles me.
Scientists are studying the effect of volcanoes DILIGENTLY.
A detailed atmospheric study of the 2021 Fagradalsfjall eruption found that fine particles and sulfur dioxide, SO₂, increased significantly even 300 km away from the volcano.
They did not create global smog.

Smog is mostly related to the burning of fossil fuels. Don't you remember the news during Covid lockdowns? Cities like Delhi, Los Angeles, and Beijing reported clear skies for the first time in decades. This happened because traffic and industrial activity collapsed, not because of changes in natural emissions.

Volcanoes are about 1% of the global CO₂ emissions, see below.

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Now what is causing all those wildfires?
How about forests turning to a extremely dry tinderbox regularly?
Wildfires are indeed adding to the global CO₂ emissions. The frequency of wildfires is increasing, BECAUSE of climate change. Over the past two to three decades, CO₂ emissions from forest wildfires have surged dramatically. Global CO₂ emissions from forest fires have increased by 60% since 2001. Emissions from vast northern boreal forests (spanning Eurasia and North America) nearly tripled between 2001 and 2023, largely due to increasingly hot and dry conditions.

Based on the most recent global wildfire CO₂ datasets, the year with the largest global CO₂ emissions from wildfires in the satellite era (2003–2025) is 2003, with global emissions peaking at roughly 4.6 billion tonnes of CO₂. Human activity emitted about 27.64 billion tonnes of CO₂ in 2003 from fossil‑fuel combustion and industrial processes.
From 2003–2025, global wildfire CO₂ emissions averaged about 2.1–2.3 billion tonnes CO₂ per year, while human activity averaged about 34–36 billion tonnes CO₂ per year. Wildfires therefore contributed roughly 6–7% of annual anthropogenic emissions over this period.

The International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI) is the primary global professional association for volcanologists. Under its umbrella operates WOVO (The World Organization of Volcano Observatories). WOVO links together all the localized volcano observatories on Earth (like the USGS, Italy's INGV, or Indonesia's PVMBG). They manage WOVOdat, a massive global database that compiles tracking data—such as seismic activity, gas emissions, and ground deformation from active volcanoes to help scientists spot patterns and forecast future eruptions.
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When looking at the graph, you will notice a massive spike in the number of recorded eruptions as you approach the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Volcanologists emphasize that this spike does NOT mean the Earth is experiencing more volcanic activity. Instead, it represents our dramatic improvement in OBSERVATION technology, including global satellite tracking, seismology networks, and global communication, which allows us to document smaller, remote eruptions that would have gone completely unnoticed in ancient history.

Volcanoes impact the climate by spewing sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere, which combines with water to form sulfate aerosols that reflect sunlight back into space. This causes short-term global COOLING (e.g., eruptions like Mount Pinatubo dropped global temperatures for a year or two). Volcanic eruptions spew out lava, carbon dioxide ( CO₂ ) ash and particles. The average volcanic CO₂ emissions are less than 1% of emissions from current human activities.

I have shown you the IPCC Assessment Reports before. It deals with volcano activity in multiple sections.
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They present their 'studies' of ALL the possible natural causes and ALL the possible human activity related with climate changes, as far back as there is evidence related to all of those causes. Of course, they don't have to assess the impact of human activity from periods that humans were basically living like animals. Human activity only became a factor at the earliest around 8000 years ago, when human populations started to clear forests for primitive agriculture. However, back then, the global human population was roughly 5–20 million people, we are now with about 8.30 billion people, and we have Energy production, Industry, Agriculture, Transportation and Land‑use change, which accumulate to about 90% of the global human emissions of greenhouse gasses. And that global effect of humans DWARFS ALL the natural effects on the climate. Only the sun and the orbit of Earth around the sun can have larger effects, but scientists can very accurately measure this, and they know 100% sure that this is NOT causing the current climate change.

Basically, the global average temperature of Earth is governed by a simple energy-balance equation: energy absorbed from the Sun vs. energy emitted back to space.
The energy that is produced by the sun is pretty damn stable in general. It is only changing over many millions to billions of years. Besides that, it has a cycle, which is has been studied for a very long time. It also has slight variations and outbursts, which are also studied and recorded in high accuracy. Then we have the orbit of Earth around the sun. Earth’s orbit has caused major climate changes in the past, including the pacing of the Ice Ages, through what scientists call Milankovitch cycles. These factors are one of the best‑measured and most accurately predictable components of the climate system. Scientists can both reconstruct them FAR into the past and predict them FAR into the future, with extraordinary precision because they are governed by celestial mechanics, the same physics that lets us predict eclipses centuries ahead. The last time that the orbit was significantly changed was 4.5 Billion years ago, when a Mars-sized protoplanet, commonly called Theia, collided with the young Earth, resulting in the formation of the Moon.

How much of the energy of the Sun, that has reached Earth, is absorbed by Earth vs emitted back into space is completely dependent on JUST TWO things:
1) Planetary albedo (how much sunlight is reflected)
2) Greenhouse effect (how difficult it is for infrared radiation to escape)

1) Earth's albedo is dependent on:
-1 Clouds (largest)
-2 Snow and ice
-3 Atmospheric aerosols
-4 Deserts and bright land surfaces
-5 Ocean reflection
-6 Vegetation
These are all factors that scientist have accurately measured. Human activity influences all major contributors to Earth’s albedo:
-1 Aerosol pollution can change cloud brightness, lifetime, and coverage.
-2 Human-driven warming reduces snow cover and melts glaciers and sea ice
-3 Human activity can affect ocean reflectivity indirectly through changes in sea ice, biological productivity, and surface conditions
-4 Industry, transportation, agriculture, biomass burning and deforestation by fire emit particles that can reflect sunlight directly and modify clouds indirectly.
-5 Deforestation, urbanization, agriculture, and desertification change surface reflectivity
-6 Deforestation, afforestation, agriculture, urbanization

2) The Greenhouse effect is dependent on:
-1 Water Vapor (H₂O)
-2 Carbon Dioxide (CO₂ )
-3 Methane (CH4)
-4 Nitrous Oxide (N₂O)
-5 Ozone (O3)
-6 Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)

There are well studied natural effects for all these factors, although several of them are affected by human activity:
-1 Water Vapor (H2O)
• Ocean evaporation
• Plant transpiration
• Volcanic eruptions
-2 Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
• Respiration by plants and animals
• Decay of organic matter
• Volcanic eruptions
• Ocean-atmosphere exchange
• Wildfires
-3 Methane (CH4)
• Wetlands and swamps (microbial decomposition)
• Termites and wild ruminants
• Wildfires
• Permafrost thaw and methane hydrates
-4 Nitrous Oxide (N2O)
• Microbial activity in natural soils
• Ocean nitrogen cycles
• Wildfires
-5 Ozone (O3)
• Chemical reactions of sunlight with natural volatile organic compounds (from plants/trees)
• Chemical reactions of sunlight with natural nitrogen oxides (from lightning/soils)
• Stratospheric air downwelling
-6 Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)
• No significant natural effects

AND there are also well studied HUMAN ACTIVITY effects for ALL these factors, although several of them have interactions with natural processes:
-1 Water Vapor (H2O)
• Anthropogenic climate warming (the positive feedback loop: human greenhouse emissions warm the air, causing more ocean evaporation)
• Large-scale crop irrigation
• Fossil fuel combustion (minor direct byproduct)
-2 Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
• Combustion of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas for energy, heat, and transport)
• Deforestation and land-use changes (clearing forests for timber or urban development)
• Industrial processes (primarily cement manufacturing and chemical production)
• Agricultural and biomass burning
-3 Methane (CH4)
• Livestock farming (enteric fermentation from ruminants like cattle and sheep)
• Fossil fuel operations (leaks from natural gas extraction, coal mining, and oil refining)
• Rice cultivation (flooded paddies creating oxygen-depleted soil conditions)
• Municipal solid waste landfills and wastewater treatment
-4 Nitrous Oxide (N2O)
• Agricultural soil management (overapplication of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers and animal manure)
• Chemical industry manufacturing (production of nitric and adipic acids for fertilizers and nylon)
• Commercial, industrial, and vehicular fuel combustion
• Domestic wastewater treatment
-5 Ozone (O3)
• Photochemical smog reactions (sunlight interacting with human-emitted pollutants like nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds from vehicles, power plants, and industrial solvents)
-6 Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)
• Refrigeration and air conditioning systems (coolant leaks and disposal)
• Industrial aerosol propellants
• Foam blowing agents used in insulation manufacturing
• Specialized electronic and industrial solvent cleaning systems

ALL of these effects have been studied by an army of scientists, in public service and in the private sector, all over the world, for decades.
The reality of human-caused climate change is backed by one of the most rigorously tested and cross-verified consensus positions in modern scientific history, built by thousands of experts across 195 countries who have reviewed tens of thousands of peer-reviewed studies. Rather than relying on a single theory, this conclusion is proven by independent lines of evidence that completely converge. From ice cores archiving 800,000 years of ancient air, to modern networks of satellites, ocean buoys, and ground thermometers that all paint the exact same warming picture. Scientists have even tracked this down to the atomic level, showing that the specific carbon isotopes clogging our air match fossil fuels perfectly, while satellites measure a direct drop in escaping heat at the exact wavelengths of greenhouse gases. Because even decades-old internal research from private oil companies independently arrived at these same results, the reality we observe today is not a matter of debate, but a directly measured fact verified across the fields of physics, chemistry, and geology.

"Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves." - James Talarico 2026

Good for you! I cannot say that I ace all of them. If my girlfriend wouldn't tell me that my clothes are fading or my shoes are falling apart, I would wear them way too long.
My negative outlook is fully dependent on the topic. In every day life, I only talk about how "the world is fucked", when it comes up. In my work and social life, I'm very much a positive guy. I am flexible enough to adjust to anything. When I'm raising concerns, it's not for me, because I will make sure that I'm alright, I'm just warning for the damage people are doing to themselves and humanity. When it comes to leisure time, I want to go to different restaurants, different recreational activities and different vacation destinations every time. I'm not an early adopter of all technology, but I'm the person who people ask for help if they get stuck with technology.

But, good tips! Most of them probably think that they don't need to be attractive to women anymore, because they already have one, but you want to keep making an effort for your wife or girlfriend of 25+ years, if you want her to keep making an effort for you too.

However, some women are comfortable with, or even encourage, their partner's lack of grooming or attention to appearance, because they see reduced attractiveness as a way to minimize romantic competition from other women.

Here is what ChatGPT created after some discussion on the topic:

People who become deeply committed to a political movement, religious group, ideology, or even a cult are usually not there because something is inherently wrong with them. Human beings are social creatures whose beliefs are influenced by identity, belonging, emotions, incentives, and social environments as much as by logic.

Whether someone becomes deeply attached to a movement is rarely explained by a single factor. It emerges from an interaction between circumstances, individual characteristics, group dynamics, and chance.

High-control groups and strongly identity-based movements often use mechanisms such as:
- Gradual escalation of commitment.
- Providing community, purpose, and belonging.
- Creating a strong distinction between insiders and outsiders.
- Encouraging loyalty to the group or leader.
- Framing criticism as hostile or illegitimate.
- Increasing the psychological cost of dissent.
- Normalizing ideas or behaviors that initially seemed extreme.
- Rewarding conformity and punishing deviation socially.

Personal addition:
Trump is using these mechanisms to perfection. He is probably not doing it all deliberately, the behavior may arise naturally from his personality, instincts, worldview, and interpersonal style, rather than from a calculated plan.

These mechanisms can produce behavior that outsiders find puzzling. Members may defend actions they once condemned, overlook contradictions, or reinterpret events in ways that protect the group. This is not necessarily because they are unintelligent. Similar tendencies appear in many human groups.

At the same time, susceptibility is not entirely random. Some factors can make a person more resistant:
- Comfort with disagreement.
- Strong independent social networks.
- Tolerance for uncertainty.
- Habitually questioning authority figures.
- Willingness to revise beliefs when evidence changes.

Yet even these traits do not create immunity. Highly intelligent, educated, skeptical, and independent-minded people have joined cults, political movements, ideological causes, and organizations that later proved harmful.

When people observe strong loyalty to a leader—whether in MAGA, a revolutionary movement, a religious sect, or another cause—they often conclude that supporters must possess some defective character trait. Usually the reality is more complicated. What often looks like a character flaw from the outside can emerge from ordinary psychological processes such as identity formation, social belonging, fear of exclusion, confirmation bias, motivated reasoning, and sunk-cost thinking.

That does not mean all movements are equally healthy or equally prone to these dynamics. Some organizations and movements encourage independent criticism more than others. But the existence of intense loyalty, rationalization, or hypocrisy by itself does not prove that members are fundamentally different kinds of people. More often, it shows how powerful group identity can become when personal identity and group identity start to merge.

So if a movement exhibits cult-like behavior, the most useful explanation is usually not that its members possess a special "cult member personality." Rather, it is that ordinary human tendencies—belonging, loyalty, conformity, identity protection, and motivated reasoning—have become unusually strong within a particular social and political environment.

The Manosphere Isn't About Men. Or Women
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The Manosphere Isn’t What You Think
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Oh, a LADY driver. Probably doesn't have a 12 inch dick then.
I didn't click on your link, I just imagined a guy steering with his dick.
I don't care much about anecdotes of stupid people doing stupid shit.
It's the whole world right now. Why would I care about one more?

I didn't expect a video from you showing a cop being an asshole
and refusing to admit a mistake. That's a pattern, not an anecdote.
There are countless stories and videos of that.

Better think about how and why this is happening.
The chance that he has to stand before a judge under oath and explain himself
is very slim. That's the system that your side of politics has created.
What do you expect if you take accountability away from people with power?

The solution isn't even to make them fear accountability again or more,
it is to teach them again what their purpose is; "To serve and protect" the public.

MAGA Candidate ADMITS TO M*RDER In TOTAL TRAINWRECK Interview!!
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So, you killed someone when you were 7 y.o.,
is that the only person you've ever killed?

Thinking long and hard....

"Well, I would say, as a child, yes!"
"Do you think you have killed people, as an adult?"
"Does it matter?"

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They are not collaborators, if they were never on your side.
They (CBS) are just big business, even if they act liberal.

Like a $1.8 billion slush-fund for your president's foot soldiers in the attempted coup?

There are at least 20 Democrats who represent the working class and can give
a great, coherent and motivational speech, communicating values, explaining exactly the problem with the corrupt Trump regime and who propose clear solutions to put the US on a path of recovery.

Trump has never been coherent and motivational, he has been chaotic and inflammatory. Besides the base, he only attracted the disillusioned working class voters with false promises. He has lost all of them, and only the cult remains.
There is no one who can fill the shoes of the cult leader, but there is certainly
no one who can win back the disillusioned working class voters.
Who do you have? JD Vance? He only fools the base, but he doesn't inspire it. Even Trump has had it with him. Do you think that Marco Rubio can pick up the cult? He has even less charisma than JD. You have no candidates left who can replace the "strong charismatic leader", all you have left are his minions.
Maybe one stands up after Trump finally kicks the bucket, but I think that people
aren't fooled by a new one anymore. They know the type now, and they learned
how useless and destructive they are.

I want consequences for criminals. Since when do you think that's wrong?

Did anyone see the Melania movie?
If you didn't, you must have already expected it to be shit.
These people did see it and can confirm your expectations.
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Can you only imagine the outrage from right-wingers,
if Amazon had spend $75 million on a Jill Biden movie?
And how much hateful joy would we have heard from them,
when it also only made $16.3 million?

It must suck to be MAGA, and be force so much COPE upon you.

Illegals don't get Medicare & Medicaid Services.
People don't trust your administration, for good reason.
The first thing it did, was letting a billionaire and his boys go through
everyone's private information unchecked.

This is why my country's House of Representatives has voted by a large majority
to block the purchase of Solvinity by the American company Kyndryl.
Solvinity provides a key role in our DigiD services. We don't trust THIS America
with our Digital Identity for government services.

And why would we? The American people don't even trust their own government
with their information, to have a Digital Identity for government services themselves.

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You cannot get Ebola from them walking around. Ebola doesn't spread through the air. The countries that are affected are doing a lot to contain it to their area themselves.
Calling them 'the ebola people' is damn racist.

Lots of Americans don't want to vaccinate for anything. How about Europe closes
the borders to Americans, unless they can prove that they got all their shots?

Did he have a 12 inch dick with strong muscles?

Oh, oh, let me try!
A white male of the age between 45 and 65, so you don't get to do your racist, sexist and agist hate-propaganda.
He should be very pro working class and pro SMALL business and solidly against the oligarchy. He should be a tough corruption fighter, and support solid anti-corruption laws on the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches, especially ALL the horribly corrupt politicians, judges and Supreme Court justices. They should be indicted, arrested, and prosecuted for their criminal offenses.
He should promise that Trump, Elon Musk and all of their Epstein class co-conspirators should never see another day outside of a jail cell, until justice has been served.

Names? There are so many strong fighters who are fed up with your bullshit, that it will be a big primary to pick the best one. The American people by a large majority are awake now. A strong anti-corruption, anti-oligarchy fighter will obliterate any of your goons.

Still, there are a lot of scammers who can play one convincingly and then turn like a top.
I hope the American people have finally learned to see through the bullshit.

It was a good challenge. At first, I thought, what the fuck is this too.
And I'm sure that it's not that hard to find some study that is legit stupid AF.

If you want to find people spending money on stupid studies, look for pseudoscience
or better yet creationist 'science'. Creationists spend between tens to hundreds of millions of dollars per year globally, and the only thing that they end up doing is giving evolution biologists topics to debunk, which they do at a 100% succes rate. Some might have taken a lot of time, but all their supposedly “irreducibly complex” claims have been decisively falsified.

This is not a real study, this is a parody written to poke gentle fun at the medical community's tendency to over-diagnose, label, and pathologize everyday human behaviors.

Winnie-the-Pooh: Diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) due to his severe fixation on honey and repetitive counting behaviors. The authors also suggest he may eventually present with Tourette's syndrome.

Piglet: Diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) because of his extreme, pervasive nervousness.

Eeyore: Diagnosed with severe, chronic depression (dysthymia) and "anhe(haw)donia"
(a clever play on anhedonia, the inability to feel pleasure).

Tigger: Exhibits classic hyperactive and risk-taking patterns, including impulsively ingesting unknown substances (like thistles and haycorns) when he first arrives in the forest.

Owl & Rabbit: Owl shows signs of dyslexia (jumbling his letters and spelling his name
"W-O-L"), while Rabbit is overly narcissistic and micro-managing.

Christopher Robin: Though not yet presenting a clear condition, the authors express concern over his lack of parental supervision and the fact that he spends all his time talking to animals.

The paper was written by a group of Canadian neurodevelopmental pediatricians;
Drs. Sarah Shea, Kevin Gordon, Ann Hawkins, Janet Kawchuk, and Donna Smith.
They were affiliated with the Developmental Clinic at the IWK Grace Health Centre and Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Despite being a joke, it was written so convincingly that it made global headlines and even won a Canadian gold prize for journalistic excellence in the "One-of-a-Kind" article category.

No one funded it, because it was a parody written for holiday entertainment rather than a clinical trial or real research project, it received zero financial backing or research grants.

This phenomenon is widely known in the academic world as satirical science or academic parody. It represents a unique tradition where serious, highly qualified scientists apply rigorous research methodologies, complex statistics, and flawless academic writing to completely absurd, fictional, or lighthearted topics.
It requires an immense amount of intelligence to pull off effectively. To write a successful academic parody, you must understand the rules of scientific research so perfectly that you can bend them to create humor without breaking the format.

Scientists generally do this for three main reasons:

- A Mental Safety Valve: High-level research (such as studying terminal illnesses or climate change) is emotionally heavy and highly stressful. Writing a satirical paper is a crucial creative outlet that allows academics to blow off steam and show their sense of humor.

- Critiquing the System: Many of these papers carry a hidden, sharp message. By using flawless statistics to "prove" something completely ridiculous, scientists subtly mock the academic publishing industry. They are showing that if you manipulate data or ask the wrong questions, you can make "official science" look like it proves anything.
(That's why independent peer review matters, because unconnected experts can catch both honest mistakes and deliberate attempts to mislead. When reviewers don’t share incentives or biases, weak logic and bad‑faith, claims are far less likely to slip through, which keeps scientific results trustworthy)

- The Ultimate Inside Joke: It is a celebration of wit within the community. Appearing in a prestigious journal's holiday edition (like The BMJ or CMAJ) with a brilliant piece of satire is a badge of honor. It proves to their peers that they are not just smart, but also clever enough to make the rigid world of science laugh.

I have seen several of these. The first one I saw was many years ago, although this was
a variation made by a lawmaker. It was a brilliant parody of Dutch laws and regulations.
It is written in the typical, bone-dry, and complicated legal language (official Dutch) full of articles, paragraphs, and formal exception clauses. It was called the "General Sinterklaas Ordinance", a legal paper which supposedly regulates the entire logistics and enforcement surrounding the Sinterklaas celebration (Dutch character based on Saint Nicolas of Myra, who is also the basis of Santa Claus). Some people write small stories for fun and others write fake science or legal papers for fun.

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The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company
Tied to Donald Trump Jr.
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After raging about the alleged corruption of Hunter Biden for years,
explain why you are not talking about this, please.

There is usually not much worth sharing on your liberal corporate news channels,
but this clip is pretty good.
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A 23 year old is destroying their talking points with facts and logic.
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Father Confront City Council Corruption
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So you think you are a centrist on immigration, economic equality, climate and environmental protection, preventing people from going homeless or helping them back on their feet, the separation of powers as the main goal of your Constitution, drugs policies, housing, and how the police behaves towards citizens and criminals?

What's your opinion on abortion, gay-marriage or LGTBQ-rights in general, religious freedom/secular government? Do you at least have the “leave me alone / I’ll leave you alone” philosophy for that? I think I've seen you support the MAGA idea on that as well. Maybe I've missed some of your centrist ideas, but if you
don't want to say...

You have supported the hard right-wing line on all these issues and I have NEVER seen you push back on extreme right-wing ideas of the MAGA loyalists.
If you don't have ANY differences of opinion with MAGA, then you are MAGA.

If you STILL like Trump more than Obama, than you are MAGA or just a racist.
The only thing Obama did was being half black, while Trump is telling and reposting KKK/NeoNazi propaganda. He is even using Hitler's retoric.
There is even en exodus from hard-line MAGA loyalists at this moment. He is bleeding his base. Only hardcore MAGA is still supporting and defending him.

You think of your own ideas as common sense, because you get fed them 24/7.
If you watch any other ideas, it's only for rage-bait. Face it, you're NOT a centrist.
If you cannot tell me anything concrete about your disagreements with the right and your agreements with the left, than you are NOT a centrist.

I indeed lean way left. I am an active member of the Socialist Party. I don't pretend to be anything else. I just don't have all the straw-man ideas that your side puts
on the left. The Socialist Party addressed tensions around immigration and multiculturalism before the issue became mainstream in Dutch politics, while center-right and right-wing parties supported large-scale labor migration during the postwar economic boom, because employers demanded additional low-wage labor. The SP is still the most anti-labor immigration party and proposes real policies to reduce it, while our populist right-wingers didn't get anything done,
in the year they dominated politics until they pulled the plug. They tried illegal policies together with CUTS on the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND), the agency that is needed to send back asylum seekers that don't have a legitimate claim for asylum. That only worsens the problems we face.
That's INTENTIONAL, because they need problems from asylum seekers for people to keep voting for them. They don't want solutions, they want problems.
In the meantime, they betrayed all the other promises they made to their voters.
The only difference between them and Trump is that Trump is doing everything that the law and Constitution should protect against, while our Rule of Law held.
On everything else, he is betraying his voters completely. If you don't see that,
or you keep defending it, than you are NOT a centrist. Or very stupid.

If I am wrong on any of your ideas, I'm here for it.

You are parroting the same lies and using the same false arguments.
You are not a centrist, you are far right.
If not, what is the difference between you and the right-wingers here?

if this was true, I would agree with deporting illegals in the way you describe.
It is however NOT true at all.

1. Immigration violations are NOT criminal offenses requiring jail before a judge.
Entering the U.S. without authorization is a CIVIL violation, not a criminal one. Immigration courts are administrative courts, NOT criminal courts.
So the claim “all illegal aliens are accused of committing a crime and must be held”
is LEGALLY FALSE.

2. Non‑citizens, including undocumented migrants, have constitutional due‑process rights.
The Fifth Amendment protects "all persons", not just citizens. Courts have repeatedly affirmed that non‑citizens are entitled to DUE PROCESS, including the right to challenge removal.
So the idea that they can be detained or deported without judicial review is UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

3. Trump’s policies explicitly reduced access to immigration judges.
Multiple legal organizations document that Trump’s administration has:
- Expanded expedited removal, which bypasses immigration judges entirely.
- Stripped access to attorneys, making fair hearings nearly impossible.
- Implemented “grant and deport” and similar policies, that remove people without proper hearings.
This directly contradicts the claim that “everyone gets seen by a judge.”

4. Trump has carried out mass deportations without normal asylum procedures.
Asylum is a LEGAL RIGHT under U.S. and international law.
But Trump has:
- Restricted or ended asylum access, even for people legally presenting at ports of entry.
- Deported people en masse, including those with valid claims.

This means people are being removed BEFORE they can make their legal case.

5. Deporting people to dangerous third countries without hearings violates due process.
The American Immigration Council documents that Trump has attempted to deport people under the 'Alien Enemies Act' without hearings, a practice that the Supreme Court rejected.
This directly disproves the claim that deportations only occur "after" a judge decides.

6. Immigration courts are overwhelmed; millions wait years for hearings.
There are 3.5 million pending cases, and DHS prioritizes only certain categories.
Claiming that “everyone is held until they see a judge” is impossible and factually untrue.

7. Trump’s policies have broken the immigration court system. Legal experts report:
- Massive “mega‑hearings” with 100+ people at once.
- Hearings appearing without notice.
- Structural changes undermining fairness.

This is the opposite of a system ensuring due process.

Joe Biden did NOT let them all in. They are also not all potential dem voters,
many of them are very conservative. How about the Cuban immigrants?

And don't be a fucking snowflake, this is not a MAGA safe space.
It's pretty damn humiliating that a foreigner has to correct you on your own laws.
Just vote for politicians who obey the law and don't lie to cover up for them.

There is no self-respecting Italian/Pizza restaurant that would ever use potassium bromide. It's only used for factory and fast-food slob. Banning it will probably improve the company valuation and therefore the traffic at New York Pizza.

It's like when Domino's famously overhauled its entire core recipe in the US around 2009 to 2010 after publicly admitting their crust "tasted like cardboard", their expansion into Europe required a completely different, long-term operational
and chemical shift.

Here's what Domino's had to do to get Europeans to eat their pizza:

1. Cleaner Ingredients (Regulatory Adjustments): American fast-food dough relies heavily on sugars, artificial dough conditioners, and preservatives to survive long shipping times. Because European Union regulations strictly restrict or ban many
of these chemicals, Domino's had to completely strip down its recipe to a much simpler, cleaner formula.

2. Less Sugar, Lighter Texture (Taste Preferences): European consumers overwhelmingly rejected the heavy, dense, and sweet "cake-like" crusts popular in the United States. To match local continental palates, the company formulated lighter, crispier, and more authentic "Italian-style" thin crusts.

3. Fresh, Local Supply Chains (Logistical Shift): In the U.S., dough is heavily chilled and shipped long distances from centralized factories. Because Europeans expect fresh bread, Domino's had to reinvent its logistics by building local regional hubs
in Europe to deliver fresh, unfrozen dough daily, or by shifting to mixing the dough directly inside the local stores.

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Maybe that's why religious nuts also breed like rabbits;
they have to, otherwise they would die out very quickly.

No, but it's a better bet than blindly trusting Trump.

I don't put faith ANYWHERE. The nice thing about specialists is that they provide arguments based on facts, evidence and logical reasoning, that I can CHECK.

I don't have to believe them, I am smart enough to check their facts, evidence and logical reasoning, to make up my own damn mind. It's the ignorant people who have the problem of who to trust. They either pick between a huge number of educated people who's goal is to understand reality, or the fail-son of a billionaire, who could not increase his wealth doing honest business so he turned conman and cult-leader, who lost track himself of when he's lying or trying to speak the truth, can be lied to just as easily as he lies himself, and doesn't have the patience to learn anything.

Scientists are defined by one thing: a relentless commitment to getting reality right. Their whole job is to challenge each other, break bad ideas, and let only the strongest evidence survive. You don’t trust them because they’re ‘smart’, you trust them because they’re disciplined. Their work has to withstand constant scrutiny, replication, and criticism. That’s why 'Scientific Theories' matter; they’re the last ideas standing, after everything else has been torn apart.

A 'specialist' is someone who has spent years mastering one specific slice of reality; climate, virology, geology, astrophysics, etc. Their credibility comes from depth: thousands of hours learning the methods, the data, the failures, and the limits
of that field.

That’s why you listen to the specialist who actually studies the topic you’re dealing with. Expertise doesn’t transfer like a coupon. A physicist doesn’t automatically understand virology, and a surgeon isn’t qualified to debunk atmospheric chemistry.

Scientists aren’t interchangeable. When media platforms parade a 'specialist' from one field to talk confidently about a completely different field, they’re not giving you ‘expert insight’, they’re giving you the illusion of authority. Real expertise is narrow, disciplined, and earned. If you want the truth, you go to the people who’ve dedicated their lives to answering that exact question.

El Niño has existed for at least 21,000 years, but horrible droughts, like you are seeing more often in the South and middle of the US, have not. Those regions are some of your country’s most important agricultural zones. They became agricultural powerhouses, because they were reliably wet enough, cool enough, and stable enough to grow food
at a massive scale. If droughts like the ones you’re seeing now had been normal, those regions never would’ve fed the nation in the first place.

As climate change accelerates, those same regions are losing the very conditions that made them productive. You don’t get to keep the crops while the climate that supports them disappears. If the warming continues, these won’t be America’s agricultural heartlands anymore, they’ll be cautionary tales about what happens when you bet
your food security against physics.

This is indeed very likely caused by El Niño and they are expecting a super El Niño this year, causing severe global disruptions, with the worst impacts concentrated in Southeast Asia, North and South America, and parts of Africa. Research shows that extreme El Niño events intensify atmospheric disturbances that propagate far beyond the Pacific, producing persistent droughts, floods, and heatwaves across these regions. The west coasts of North and South America, especially California and the Andean nations, are likely to experience extreme rainfall and flooding. Globally, a super El Niño also raises the likelihood of record‑breaking heat, because the event adds a powerful warming spike on top of human‑driven climate change, pushing temperatures toward unprecedented highs and amplifying heat‑related disasters.

A super El Niño becomes more likely in a warmer world because human‑driven climate change is altering the background conditions of the Pacific Ocean atmosphere system. The key mechanism is that a hotter planet loads the climate system with more heat, making it easier for El Niño events to reach extreme intensity and harder for the system to return to neutral conditions. At the same time, El Niño impacts become more destructive, because they occur on top of an already warmer, more energetic climate.

Why climate change makes super El Niño events more likely:

- Amplified ENSO variability — High‑resolution climate models project that greenhouse warming strengthens air–sea coupling in the tropical Pacific, increasing the amplitude of El Niño and La Niña swings. This can push the system toward more extreme oscillations.

- More frequent extreme El Niño precursors — Under greenhouse warming, the atmospheric patterns that trigger extreme El Niño events become more common,
raising the probability of “super” events.

- Record‑warm oceans — Global sea‑surface temperatures outside the Pacific have been persistently and unusually high, creating a warmer baseline that enhances El Niño’s warming effect.

- Potential climate tipping behavior — Some models suggest the tropical Pacific could shift from irregular ENSO cycles to stronger, more regular oscillations as warming continues, making extreme events more common.

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That sounds expensive. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to cancel planned offshore wind projects in exchange for government payments, bringing the total federal cost close to
~$2 billion in taxpayer funds, to favor fossil fuel companies, making the electricity of Americans more expensive, while the climate crisis is just starting.

When there is a health crisis, you don't encourage ignorant people (because that's
the only people who listen to that kind of nonsense) to "think outside the box",
you encourage them to listen to specialists. Trump doesn't just live a life of comfort,
he also lived a life of being shielded from consequences and having to solve problems, because he always let his lawyers solve the problems he created.
That's why you don't pick a stupid, narcissist nepo baby for president.

Thank you Texan Republican voters and thank you Trump, for endorsing one of the most corrupt politicians in your country, Ken Paxton, over incumbent Texas Senator John Cornyn, which puts Democrats in their best position to win the general election in Texas in decades, with James Talarico as the Democratic nominee.

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It will be very easy to attack Paxton on his record of rank corruption.
Exactly the type of opponent that a real populist can use to his advantage.
Even if Talarico loses, it will cost a fortune in attack ads, that takes away from others.

At some point, murderers are set free. I do not support life sentences for all murderers, so the consequence is that there will be some murderers in my neighborhood. I accept those consequences of liberal values. However, that's exactly the reason for why I support an incarceration system that prioritizes rehabilitation.

Your ideas created prisons in your country that turn anyone into a hardened criminal, even if they are there for a short time. You think that it is punishment or a deterrent
to have prisons feel like hell, but ALL the facts prove you wrong; you have one of
the highest incarceration rate in the world, only beaten by El Salvador, Cuba and Turkmenistan. You also have one of the worst recidivism rates.
You are literally supporting a system that does what you accuse me of; accepting potential murderers in your neighborhood, by giving everyone who broke the law and has to go to prison, an environment that traumatizes them, turns them into a hardened motherfucker from the struggle to survive, and fills them with resentment towards society for being treated like an animal instead of a human being.

Another way in which you promote living among countless potential murderers, is supporting a type of politics that is inciting people 24/7 with resentment, hate and fear. Then you support the unrestricted freedom to own guns, by voting for politicians who fight against taking away the guns from people with mental health issues, wife beaters and people who hurt their pets. That results in your ridiculously high murder rates.

I feel safe in my country. It's not just a feeling, I am truly significantly safer, everywhere I go, than you are. That is the result of the hard work of the people and politicians
who rebuilt my country after WWII on democratic socialist and liberal values.

It's the little things that put a smile on your face.

I just explained to him that some regulations are intended to protect consumers
from being poisoned, and he didn't get it. He's defending deregulation, by saying
that the poor 'small' business New York Pizza will be harmed, if the evil socialist
forces them to stop poisoning consumers. And it isn't even true.

No sign of understanding that this wasn't his best argument ever
and no sign that he will learn anything from being this wrong either.

The bankruptcy of KMart is probably not caused by private equity, but ESL Investments bought large amounts of Kmart’s debt during bankruptcy and emerged as the controlling owner when the company reorganized. In 2004–2005, ESL Investments merged Kmart with Sears to create Sears Holdings. Then Sears Holdings steadily declined for more than a decade and filed for bankruptcy in 2018.
Critics argued that:
- valuable real estate and brands were sold off,
- stores were underinvested,
- staffing and maintenance were cut heavily,
- and the company focused too much on extracting asset value instead of modernizing the retail business.

It's vulture capitalism and it's very bad for the economy.

The bromated flour ban is a New York STATE issue, not something being pushed by Zohran Mamdani. The legislation was passed by the state legislature and is awaiting action from Governor Kathy Hochul.

Potassium bromate is already banned in the EU, Canada, China, India, and California because of cancer concerns. This would be something that Robert F. Kennedy Jr would ban, if he actually believed in protecting the citizens from harmful chemicals in food.

I am perfectly fine with a representative who got voted in by a majority of voters,
fulfilling his campaign promises, while serving the Rule of Law and The Constitution.

People are not defined by their religion, but by their actions. If you cared about
The Constitution, you would understand that.

I am not fine with a traitor who attempted a coup, lying his ass off to fool the people into voting for him, while a billionaire is spending hundreds of millions in an illegal bribing campaign, then directly after getting elected starting to misuse his powers, abusing the immunity he got from his political pawns, and doing the exact opposite of everything
he promised and promised not to do.

Whatever you are arguing is irrelevant to the guy in your clip being there.
His claim "I was there, so I know that it's Pelosi's fault!" is BULLSHIT.
He is just parroting the lies of your corrupt partisan media.

But, yes, the calls of Pelosi and Schumer went unanswered for a long time.

According to the official Department of Defense (DoD) logs and congressional investigations, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer called the Pentagon at 3:19 p.m. to frantically demand immediate military backup.
The calls made by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senator Chuck Schumer, and other congressional leaders to the Pentagon were answered, and the Department of Defense (DoD) did eventually act on them. However, there was a 3.5-hour delay between the time the Capitol perimeter was breached and the time the National Guard actually arrived on the scene.

The delay was caused by the following chain of events:

Political Hesitation Over "Optics": Top Army generals delayed approval because they were intensely worried about the political appearance of sending heavily armed, uniform military forces into the U.S. Capitol, fearing it would look like a military coup or escalate the riot.

Paralyzing Bureaucracy: Rather than issuing an immediate command to move, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy forced the D.C. National Guard to stay on "standby" for over two hours while a rigid, formal tactical operational plan was drafted and routed through the Pentagon chain of command.

Logistical Re-Equipping: The 340 Guardsmen already on the streets of D.C. that morning had been strictly ordered by the Pentagon to remain completely unarmed and handle traffic control. When the crisis hit, these troops had to be recalled to the D.C. Armory, completely re-equipped with riot shields, armor, and gear, and briefed on an entirely new mission before they could deploy.

President Trump did NOT make any calls to order or accelerate the deployment during the attack. The final order to clear the Capitol was pushed forward by Vice President Mike Pence from his secure bunker, and Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller eventually signed the official deployment order at 4:32 p.m., leading to the Guard's arrival at 5:20 p.m.

Basically, it took the National Guard so long to react to an ongoing coup attempt,
because they were afraid that your side would accuse them of a military coup or
that they were forced to create a bloodbath to stop it. What the fuck is their job?

Sure, rules WILL make it harder to make a profit. If you eliminate those rules, it will be easier to make a profit, at least short-term. There is however a REASON for most regulation.

* Businesses must follow truth-in-advertising laws so they cannot deceive customers about what they are buying.
* Businesses must meet federal safety standards for products so they don't sell dangerous or defective items that hurt people.
* Businesses cannot collude with competitors to fix prices because it unfairly destroys competition and drives up costs for regular people.
* Businesses must pay licensing fees to use copyrighted music, software, or designs so they don't steal and profit from another person's work.
* Food and beverage businesses must pass regular health inspections to ensure they don't serve contaminated food that makes the public sick.
* Businesses must securely store customer credit cards and personal info so that hackers cannot steal identities and commit financial fraud.
* Businesses cannot discriminate based on race, gender, or religion when hiring or serving customers so everyone has equal access to jobs and services.
* Businesses must ensure their premises are physically accessible to people with disabilities so no one is excluded from public commerce.
* Businesses must clearly disclose all interest rates and hidden fees when offering customer financing so buyers aren't trapped in predatory debt.
* Skilled workers like barbers, plumbers, and mechanics must maintain state licenses to prove they won't endanger or defraud the public through bad work.

Major Zohran Mamdani is eliminating lots of regulation that is NOT designed to protect Consumers, Workers, Competitors, Innovators, Local communities or The public health, but has skewed to favor large corporations instead. Or they are indeed intended to protect the citizens, but their implementation was very inefficient. He manages to simplify or eliminate regulation, WITHOUT negative effects on the people who regulations should protect.

The Newsmax article focuses entirely on financial relief for supermarkets, failing to mention significant downsides for the environment, public health, workers, and industry innovators. By delaying the transition away from high-potency hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants from 2027 to 2032, the rule change allows super-pollutants that trap thousands of times more heat than carbon dioxide to leak into the atmosphere for an extra five years, worsening the long-term public health impacts of climate change.
Furthermore, the decision actively punishes domestic manufacturers and innovators who already spent billions of dollars to develop eco-friendly alternatives ahead of the original deadline, leaving their investments stranded while foreign competitors advance.
Finally, changing the rules mid-game creates confusion for HVAC technicians and workers trying to manage inconsistent standards, and because the legal supply of legacy chemicals is still shrinking, the delay could actually trigger severe supply shortages and higher repair bills for local businesses.

So, because he was there to speak, he knows that Nancy Pelosi declined security? Nonsense!

Trump had used the term "peacefully" or similar just ONE time.
Trump had used the term "Fight" or variations like "fighting" 20 times.

He is just a stupid parrot and him having been there is irrelevant.

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The Speaker of the House does not have the constitutional or statutory authority to command, deploy, or decline the National Guard. Because Washington, D.C. is not a state, the D.C. National Guard answers directly to the President, who delegates that command to the Secretary of the Army (Ryan McCarthy) and the Secretary of Defense (Christopher Miller).

Capitol security is managed by the Capitol Police Board, which on January 6th consisted of the Capitol Police Chief, the House Sergeant at Arms, and the Senate Sergeant at Arms. While the House Sergeant at Arms reported to Pelosi, the Senate Sergeant at Arms reported to Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. There is no evidence in the official DoD or Capitol Police logs that a formal request for 10,000 troops was ever submitted to or blocked by Pelosi or McConnell prior to the event.

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I hope you get to do it, anytime you are in the mood for it.

Of course it's out of your paycheck, although not on paper.
They have to pay for it somehow and it's not coming out of their profit.
The difference that you don't see, is the difference between you and me.

Using the latest KFF employer benefits data (2025):

Single coverage:
Total annual premium: $9,325
Employee pays ~$1,440 (about 16%)
Employer pays ~ $7,885/year per employee (about 84%)

Family coverage:
Total annual premium: $26,993
Employee pays ~$6,850 (about 25–26%)
Employer pays ~ $20,143/year per employee with family coverage (about 74–75%)

Netherlands (basic insurance):
Average 2025 monthly premium: about €156–€158/month per adult
Annual premium: about €1,870–€1,900/year

Our plan continues, if we switch employer or lose our job.
There are people in the US who are working while having stage 3 cancer,
because they fear getting fired and lose their health insurance.