Random Thought Thread

tinfoil hat timmy said:
sorry to hear sir. 🤝
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It's a lot of pain but it won't kill me. I feel sorry for people with serious problems with their internal organs and brain damage and stuff.
tinfoil hat timmy said:
Bushido Kai is the name I believe. We did ground transitions from bottom guard trapping the limbs on one side and rolling through to turtle then passing guard to work for an Americana.

pretty basic stuff. I'm a 3rd week white belt. 🤗😁😄
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Sounds good. Hang in there and you'll start making belts.
 
I trained in Shotokan for a couple of years in the middle to late 70's. Was invited to compete in the state championships (as a green belt) against opponents with commensurate experience. Lost to the guy that came in 3rd. All my other matches were AAU sanctioned inter-dojo competitions.

It was fun while it lasted.
 
tinfoil hat timmy said:
I just got Cayeanne pepper in my eye.

If you cant do an experiment to prove something yourself, are you just taking someone's word?

Anyhow... Cayeanne pepper. HOT STUFF.

Karate was fun tonight. We did ground transitions and arm bars. O fuck am I sore.
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Even if you do an experiment, how does that prove anything? How do you know it would turn out the same the next time? I mean, even if you do the experiment ten times and get the same result every time. For example, what if the experiment involved flipping a coin to see which side the coin lands on. What do ten straight heads actually prove?
 
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The Amazing Virginian said:
Even if you do an experiment, how does that prove anything? How do you know it would turn out the same the next time? I mean, even if you do the experiment ten times and get the same result every time. For example, what if the experiment involved flipping a coin to see which side the coin lands on. What do ten straight heads actually prove?
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You are using a rigged coin
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
If you have an old dog, and you also have carpet, you should just go ahead and buy a rug doctor....
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I'll always have one of these in the house.

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The Amazing Virginian said:
Even if you do an experiment, how does that prove anything? How do you know it would turn out the same the next time? I mean, even if you do the experiment ten times and get the same result every time. For example, what if the experiment involved flipping a coin to see which side the coin lands on. What do ten straight heads actually prove?
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Our local power plant in Cornelius is nuclear. Or so they claim. I asked if I could do some nuclear experiments to confirm that this was true because I can't just take their word for it and they told me I wasn't allowed to play with nuclear materials. So until I can prove to myself definitively that the power is actually nuclear, I'm going to just assume it's coal. A particularly high grade of coal.

The electricity is real. I can't see a electricity, but when I touch my tongue to it I can definitely taste it.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
If you have an old dog, and you also have carpet, you should just go ahead and buy a rug doctor....
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I have 5 dogs, only one of them an old man at this point, but we ripped up all of our carpet a couple of years ago. We also got rid of our cloth upholstered furniture. Hard floors and leather are way easier to clean and don't retain odors - one of the better investments I've made in recent years.

Sorry to hear about Sadie though, that's rough.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Our local power plant in Cornelius is nuclear. Or so they claim. I asked if I could do some nuclear experiments to confirm that this was true because I can't just take their word for it and they told me I wasn't allowed to play with nuclear materials. So until I can prove to myself definitively that the power is actually nuclear, I'm going to just assume it's coal. A particularly high grade of coal.

The electricity is real. I can't see a electricity, but when I touch my tongue to it I can definitely taste it.
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My brother works in a certain field doing certain things and he said “ McGuire nuclear station is near Charlotte, which looks like it's near that city”

For what that’s worth~
 
I have never been to Russia before. There are people who have, and have seen it with their own eyes (supposedly), but I have not and I'm not going to worry about a conflict with Russia when, as far as I know, it's all just made up.
 
NASA did put reflectors on the moon that you can fire a laser to and can get a reflection back from. People do that from Earth. And, knowing the speed of light and timing the time it takes to go to the moon and back, you can measure the distance to the moon. They do this.

I don't do this. Because I don't have a laser. So I have to take the word of someone who does have a laser and the necessary equipment to make this measurement and do this. And, at a certain point, people have to take the word of other people that things that are real exist. It seems to me like that's one of the important aspects of a developing civil society. Thus the importance of getting information from reputable sources. Specifically not whackers on YouTube.
 
My biggest problem with these theories is the reasons as to WHY the elusive "they" would perpetuate them. I don't see Copernicus' descendants benefiting much with people believing in a heliocentric model of the solar system. The Clintons couldn't keep a seaman stained dress off the eight o'clock news but we should believe that every government uses a spherical earth as a baseline is a huge conspiracy for us peasants? Naw man! It assumes a huge amount of competence in people that simply aren't competent enough to keep the secret--let alone having a solid reason for wanting people to believe it.
 
Honestly, if you spent the time and resources looking into all the proof and reasons that the earth is round and NASA did go to the moon that has been spent on disproving those things, I think you would find the overwhelming body of evidence reflects a reality as real and made up stuff is made up. I think a lot of flat earthers are tongue in cheek, but the ones who really believe it, I don't know if it's willful ignorance or something else, but it's baffling to me that an otherwise seemingly intelligent person would honestly believe the earth is flat and nobody has sent anything to the moon. The earth being round is something that people figured out a long time ago (there are a bunch of ways of determining this, and failing to look at and understand these things is just lazy thinking) and I think a lot of the people trying to say that it's flat are disingenuous and I think a lot of the people that really believe them are hopelessly gullible.
 
Here's a conspiracy theory. A real conspiracy to lie to gullible people and manipulate them into believing something ridiculous. What is the reasoning for this? Why don't you look into that conspiracy.
 
tinfoil hat timmy said:
If you think the kool aid aid tastes good who am I to argue?

😄🥳🤝🙄

I mean, if the power plant isnt charging you 57 million dollars a day to tell you things are what they say they are, do you have anything to question?
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And of course if the power plant charged the entire country of 330 million folks that 57 million dollars a day, then it would only be charging him about 17 cents a day. And if he just borrowed the seventeen pennies from the Chinese, it wouldn't cost him anything until/unless he paid them back. Which might be until forever. Is that worth questioning?
 
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