my time here at saidit has come to an end.

Zapped · 2021-09-17T10:22:48+00:00

I don't do that sort of stuff as much as I should. There is a certain balance that I have yet to figure out.

Zapped · 2021-09-16T15:12:34+00:00

Thank you for your kind words.

Zapped · 2021-09-16T12:04:17+00:00

I'm sorry to hear that and I apologize for making a joke without thinking about that implication.

Zapped · 2021-09-16T11:53:26+00:00

It doesn't matter where you hide the alcohol, a drunk will always find it.

Zapped · 2021-09-16T11:35:41+00:00

It's this site you're leaving us for, isn't it?

https://www.jw.org/en/

Zapped · 2021-09-15T22:42:13+00:00

But do they shower you with gifts and free food and drinks like this place does?

Zapped · 2021-09-15T12:27:22+00:00

Can't people "go deeper" in groups while still having a free and open arena for ideas to be tossed around and other viewpoints to be heard?

Zapped · 2021-09-14T21:46:46+00:00

I've heard of these types of stories. A friend was telling me about one of his former friends who drove to and broke into his workplace, jogged 6 miles back home and broke into his neighbors where he took a robe, and then went back home to bed. He woke in the morning and couldn't find his car, so his wife took him to work while she filed a police report. The police were waiting at his workplace to arrest him. The main thing that saved him was security camera footage half-way home that showed him standing still on the sidewalk for 15 minutes, with people walking past trying to talk to him unresponsive.

Zapped · 2021-09-13T20:11:21+00:00

What's the difference between a Nation of Islam mosque or congregation and a traditional Islamic mosque or congregation?

Zapped · 2021-09-13T20:02:36+00:00

Many of the local politicians I have known don't care which party they affiliate with, as long as they have the best chance to get elected.

Zapped · 2021-09-13T19:58:48+00:00

Without your suggestion, I probably would have tried to fix an unfixable post instead of this re-do.

What do you mean by going deeper?

Zapped · 2021-09-13T19:44:08+00:00

Damn, did I miss-read that or what? Thanks for correcting me.

Zapped · 2021-09-13T13:49:06+00:00

According their survey, 75% of Americans lean Democrat and 25% lean Republican. I think the poll is skewed.

Zapped · 2021-09-13T13:39:16+00:00

I agree. Without him, we wouldn't be having this conversation. A perfect example of not being very visible, but being very influential.

Zapped · 2021-09-13T12:08:55+00:00

Thank you so much for the info. I've been thinking about getting the family away for a week and a camping/hotel combo in your area would be nice. That way, I'd get the isolation from technology for a few days and the sightseeing for a few days. I think the train should be a separate trip on its own. What foods is the area known for? I was joking about buying any houses, although I am thinking of buying some land in the region close to a State or National Park after I get my finances in order. Nothing much: around 20 acres unless I run across a great deal. I have a business associate who lies in GA near the NC/SC lines and he is keeping an eye open, but everything in that area is so expensive right now.

Zapped · 2021-09-13T11:56:12+00:00

The more exposed you are, the more reaction you'll receive from both sides.

Zapped · 2021-09-13T11:54:45+00:00

Yeah. This did not go in the direction I thought it would. It was a poor choice of words on my end. Let's try this again.

https://saidit.net/s/AskSaidIt/comments/8dn6/most_influential_users_of_saidit/

And, yes, I can't work a crowd, especially if I don't really know the crowd. My mistake. I guess I was the one who stirred the pot yesterday.

Zapped · 2021-09-13T11:34:50+00:00

How high off the runway are those engines?

Zapped · 2021-09-13T01:41:18+00:00

I'm sorry if you took that negatively. It was meant to be a compliment. Without the "pot stirrers" this place would get stale and people, including myself, may drop out.

Zapped · 2021-09-13T01:31:58+00:00

Damnit. I was looking at that $1.25 million brick house on the river, too.

Seriously, I've been through Chattanooga several times but never had time to stop and visit. What do you recommend? I was thinking about riding the Tennessee Valley Railroad and visiting Chickamauga Battlefield.

Zapped · 2021-09-12T23:02:11+00:00

I have not seen the full evidence of like-vs-like between the two. Show me how the two are exactly alike with the same camera angles and other objects. Jet blast doesn't happen in a vacuum. There are differences in the spaces where the turbulence is and is not. Also, the Kabul video shows people under the engines, not behind them.

Zapped · 2021-09-12T21:58:34+00:00

Thank you. Good to know.

Zapped · 2021-09-12T21:57:15+00:00

I think this up-loader needs to do a little more "research" before making huge assumptions like this. I can understand a 4 year-old asking these questions, but not a grown adult.

Zapped · 2021-09-12T21:48:00+00:00

Oh, socks, you smarty pants!

Zapped · 2021-09-12T21:38:59+00:00

Yes it was. Are you my friend? Lol.

My friend is a Nephrologist, so I should have remembered that.

Zapped · 2021-09-12T21:35:04+00:00

I was talking with a friend the other day, who is a medical doctor, and I asked him about Ivermectin. He said that they know there are studies which it seems to help but they don't know if it's causation or correlation. I have read that somehow it acts as a protease inhibitor and keeps the virus from replicating, and my friend said that it doesn't make sense to him that an anti-parasitic drug would fight viral infection, but he is open minded to see what the research turns up. He also told me that the chloroquine that was promoted last year is actually linked to a larger mortality rate than non-consumption. His experience is that there are 3 main factors for getting really sick from this virus. The first and biggest risk being obesity. The second and third being diabetes and something else I can't remember.

Zapped · 2021-09-12T21:01:45+00:00

Yeah. We have to assume that everything said within 50 feet of a smart device's microphone is being recorded into a massive data database somewhere, either for marketing directly to the individual or for future access in case we end up on someone's radar.

I heard of a case a few years ago where the FBI or the like was tracking a suspected terrorist. He kept pretty much off the radar, using alternate ways to communicate with cohorts. They were able to use his utility bills/usage to determine where he was and with whom, or the other way around. If his power and water consumption went down but his friend's went up, they could assume he was staying with them. Likewise, if his utility usage went up, they would look to see which of his friend's were down. They can even tell how many people are visiting you and for how long. My assumption is that if you're on their list, it's pretty damn hard to stay off the radar.

Zapped · 2021-09-12T19:28:43+00:00

Oh, I have seen that first hand. It didn't happen to me until I upgraded to my last phone. I was with a friend and her customer, who was getting married soon in the Dominican Republic. They didn't share any social media or hang out together outside of work, but they both had Facebook running on their phones. By the end of the meeting, my friend had an advertisement pop up on Facebook for the resort in the Dominican Republic her customer was getting married at. Facebook knew they were pending time together by GPS and decided that they may share common interests or vacation spots or whatever. That's how they also know who to suggest as a "friend".

Back to the cameras:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eClVaKX7hlc

There are many more like this in other homes. I have heard that there are websites where you can watch "hacked", or unprotected cameras feeds all over the world.

Zapped · 2021-09-12T18:51:16+00:00

How indeed? I guess the same way I talk to him about other dangers. I just have to be careful about making him be aware without being paranoid. Oh, the days of the Sears catalog, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, and Victoria's Secret catalogs.

Zapped · 2021-09-12T18:36:44+00:00

What about Faraday bags? I know that cell phones and Windows based computers are still "on" even when turned off.

Zapped · 2021-09-12T18:15:50+00:00

As a computer tech-savvy individual, what is the best protection, short of unplugging all electronic devices?

Zapped · 2021-09-12T17:10:55+00:00

No. You do your thing. But, if you were to write out a memoir, I would take the time to read it.

Is this backdoor threat a threat for anyone surfing or only web-servers?

Zapped · 2021-09-12T16:48:00+00:00

I want you to write a memoir so badly. Even if you're making this stuff up, it would get me to start reading fiction again.

Zapped · 2021-09-12T02:50:16+00:00

Well, maybe I will and maybe I won't. I wasn't planning on it, but I'm not going to let someone tell me what to do or not do.

Zapped · 2021-09-12T01:15:09+00:00

I knew a guy who worked in China 20 or so years ago and he said that the Chinese are great at copying and making things cheaper, but they are not good innovators. Something in their culture steers them that way. Maybe they are trying to change.

Zapped · 2021-09-11T13:20:27+00:00

Thank you.

Zapped · 2021-09-11T02:38:36+00:00

Interesting. It appears to refer to fingerprints.

https://projects.nfstc.org/tech_transition/anthropology/downloads/NamUs_Fingerprints.pdf#:~:text=The%20Henry%20Fingerprint%20Classification%20System%20The%20Henry%20fingerprint,still%20be%20encountered%2C%20familiarity%20with%20it%20is%20prudent.

Zapped · 2021-09-09T14:58:41+00:00

It is true. Older homes have much denser wood and anyone who has to drill or cut on it knows how much harder it is. Also, both of those pieces of wood in the photo have been recently cut. The bottom piece has aged, as evident from its darker color. I have seen sap oozing out of woodwork that is 50 years old. Both of those pieces in the photo are fairly new, since the older studs are true 2x4's and not the 1.5" x 3.5" like today. The difference in ring size in newer lumber can be due to what part of the tree that piece came from. Those machines size up the tree at the mill and know what size pieces you can get from it before the saw does it's thing.

Zapped · 2021-09-09T02:57:06+00:00

I thought this may be some disinformation, so I did some digging around and it appears true. I can't find on the Pfizer website that the Ivermectin is in their pill, but lots of other reputable sources say it. Pfizer's press release on March 23, 2021 saying they were progressing from initial studies of single doses. What's the chance all the talking heads that are currently making fun of people for eating "horse paste" will apologize?

Zapped · 2021-09-09T02:40:54+00:00

When you create another life, or an embryo, in my opinion you certainly are obligated, unlike a person you had no part in creating. Again, you're arguing from a perspective that an embryo is not a human life. Without an agreement on that aspect, all of this other talk is moot.

Zapped · 2021-09-08T22:36:15+00:00

But not for not taking food to them?

A clump of cells will die if you don't pass nutrients and oxygen to it from your body, unless its about halfway through the pregnancy, and even then it's touch and go with the best tech available.

Which side are you arguing?

Zapped · 2021-09-08T20:43:40+00:00

Follow up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DfGSeylQ5o

Zapped · 2021-09-08T19:40:59+00:00

What happens when an artificial womb is perfected? Do all unwanted pregnancies get transplanted into those and then adopted out?

Zapped · 2021-09-08T19:39:03+00:00

9 million people due from hunger each year. Did those of us who have the resources to feed at least one of them murder them?

If we took food from them with the intent for them to starve to death, then yes.

Zapped · 2021-09-08T19:22:31+00:00

I think we'll have to disagree on this diluted tangent to the main discussion.

Zapped · 2021-09-08T15:11:31+00:00

Right. Engineered beams (LVL's) take care of this problem as well.

Zapped · 2021-09-08T13:41:47+00:00

A collection of cells with no brain is not a fraction of a human.

Another honest question: why do you think researchers have the 14-day rule when dealing with human embryos?

you want to torture a teenager for nine months while she gives her body to carrying someone who violated her?

No, but again, where does life begin and you allow a murder on top of someone committing a rape?

A bacteria is life.

I guess we should clarify that we are talking about a human life.

I think all of this comes down to the when we think that an embryo or infant or adult is a human life. No bad people in this debate.

Zapped · 2021-09-08T12:41:55+00:00

Put together a small collection of physical books and manuals on basic living techniques and identification guides. Be aware of any neighbors or friends who you can barter with and exchange help and knowledge.

Zapped · 2021-09-08T12:25:55+00:00

The analogy between a) Roe vs Wade is a law that separates Church and State and b) a legal ruling that separates Church and State.

Zapped · 2021-09-08T12:07:12+00:00

You made the analogy that Christian extremism was solely behind anti-abortion laws and that Roe vs Wade was to separate Church and State. Own it.

Zapped · 2021-09-08T12:01:49+00:00

Honest question here. Would you say that an embryo is 3/5 of a person? I don't know the answer, but I think the heart of this debate is where each person thinks life begins. I used to be totally pro-choice until I became a father. Now, I don't understand how anyone who is a parent can be pro-choice. I agree that a 2 month old embryo is not the same as a 2 month old baby, but it's still life, in my opinion, and I'm non-religious so that doesn't factor into my beliefs.

Zapped · 2021-09-07T23:53:32+00:00

Poor analogy. The Bible says "though shalt not murder" and we have laws against murder. These things are not mutually exclusive.

Zapped · 2021-09-07T22:12:42+00:00

Show me a milkman in high heels and I'll show you a Dairy Queen.

Zapped · 2021-09-07T19:42:22+00:00

Have you ever listened to the Phil Hendrie Show? I haven't in a long time, but I would laugh and laugh. Ok, maybe just chuckle a little, but it was a really funny satire, semi-fake call in show. Phil did the voice parts of his "guests". I remember one where Phil was "interviewing" a grocery store manager who weighed customers to catch them eating food while shopping and charging them by the increase in weight from enter to exit. People would think it was a real interview and call in to voice their disgust in what was being talked about and Phil would ham it up to get them even more worked up. I think he said that he made an old lady throw up to prove she hadn't eaten grapes while in the store. I'm not sure if he still does that format. You had mentioned something about doing a late night radio show. I think you could pull off some sort of internet radio show. Maybe a live-stream on one of those YouTube or Twitch sites. You could wear a mask if you didn't want your face shown.

Zapped · 2021-09-07T12:03:33+00:00

I think the older we get and the more we experience, the more the dark side of humanity can wound us. I have trouble with this sometimes. As I realize just how much power I have over my own life, I can get frustrated at that which I have none. Each of us lives in a separate universe, so to speak. I don't think I can ever fully understand the mind of another. I enjoy most of your comments as I did your audio posts. That's what I like most about this site: the exchange of ideas and perspectives. I would miss your views and experiences if you were to leave for any reason.

Zapped · 2021-09-07T02:17:31+00:00

But we have. Take "yellow journalism" that helped get the U.S. into war with Spain over Cuba. I agree that MSM is in bed with the government now, and instead of propaganda, they are actively colluding for censorship against any inconvenient truth.

Zapped · 2021-09-07T02:01:35+00:00

Here's a follow up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4aAIF-iW9U

This is a project of photographer Mark Laita. He pays people for these video interviews and even helps raise money to help with food, supplies, and even a place to live. Most of the interviews are prostitutes and the homeless.

Zapped · 2021-09-07T00:47:24+00:00

Damnit, Johnny! This is why we can't have nice things.

Zapped · 2021-09-07T00:23:20+00:00

For example, I don't hear alternative news concerning Covid-19 from most other forums. That's not to say that I believe everything I hear, but it does give me a more rounded picture to form my opinions. I also believe that this site has more potential for more perspectives to be shared.

Zapped · 2021-09-07T00:15:10+00:00

I don't think people are necessarily sheep, but people are social creatures and that gives con artists and power grabbers more room to maneuver.

Zapped · 2021-09-06T22:49:12+00:00

So treat these forums as such. Take everything with an open, but skeptical mind.

Zapped · 2021-09-06T22:35:52+00:00

Thanks for linking that story, but it's different from the one I posted. The U.S. military and State Department is gone. This is strictly a hostage situation by the Taliban, now. They are trying to get money from the charity that is chartering the airplanes getting people out of Afghanistan.

Zapped · 2021-09-06T18:02:07+00:00

wade thru

Isn't that real life sometimes?

Zapped · 2021-09-06T15:36:16+00:00

It has to be family of the girl his son killed in the boating accident, right? I am wondering now why the shooter didn't finish the job, unless this is a ruse to get the hitman or hitmen out in the open somehow.

Zapped · 2021-09-06T13:08:45+00:00

He's not hiding under any NEW username, though. One day, it will be like the Scooby Doo Mysteries. "It was old man Johnson all along".

Welcome to Saidit, new friend, I'm sure you'll fit right in.

Zapped · 2021-09-06T12:31:55+00:00

I have seen first hand how this kind of propaganda pushes people further into a fervor that they would not normally have fallen into. If this bot gets a few people worked up enough to talk to, and convince, their friends in real life, then it works even better.

Zapped · 2021-09-06T12:25:34+00:00

There's nothing I can think of to say that would prove your statement wrong.

Zapped · 2021-09-05T23:45:29+00:00

Oh, goodie! A new user name is coming.

Zapped · 2021-09-05T23:39:45+00:00

it's easy to focus on roadblocks rather than opportunities

I like this quote.

Zapped · 2021-09-05T19:25:44+00:00

It appears that someone got sloppy while doing their work.

Zapped · 2021-09-05T14:24:31+00:00

All coastal fishing on the East Coast of the U.S. is better this year. Probably the best that it's been in 20 to 30 years. The biggest part of the problem is commercial over-fishing.

Zapped · 2021-09-05T13:59:28+00:00

I think you are correct that sometimes we focus on the problems we want to solve so much that these problems consume much of our thinking. Problem solving is part of the human condition, but if we spend too much time worrying about the problems we can't directly change, we miss out on the problems that we can directly solve. The age of information is both a blessing and a curse in this way.

Zapped · 2021-09-05T13:33:11+00:00

This spokesman for the Taliban is doing what any spin doctor is paid to do. He is paid with power and control by his own admission, even if he is lying about not being paid with money. His job is to talk about the "poor Taliban being bullied by the West" while pretending that the Taliban doesn't kill and enslave people who don't follow THEIR orders.

Zapped · 2021-09-05T13:27:15+00:00

The Taliban "won" not because they cared more, but because they waited out the failure of any other group to come together to form a solid government or coalition. One can say that there was not an agreement on why America was over there so long or what America should have done while they were there, but to say that the Americans over there didn't give a shit is wrong.

Zapped · 2021-09-04T22:04:55+00:00

Stop it. You don't need to make people think about HOW one of them gave birth or the gestation process.

Zapped · 2021-09-04T21:58:18+00:00

I didn't learn how the Taliban beat America in this article.

Zapped · 2021-09-04T21:39:17+00:00

The Taliban changed the culture as they took over Afghanistan in the 1990's. They destroyed anything that didn't fit their culture, including ancient artifacts.

Zapped · 2021-09-04T21:32:45+00:00

That bot is designed to build dissent within the American populace. It is from a foreign actor; either directly or farmed out. They don't care about the message, as long as it increases political or social tension.

Zapped · 2021-09-04T21:27:45+00:00

That's ok. Bill didn't discriminate. He even, allegedly, had sex with those who weren't sluts.

Zapped · 2021-09-03T11:11:53+00:00

I don't think Republicans and Democrats hate each other. I think people look badly upon the political parties that most oppose their beliefs. It's become easy for the media to group people this way to sensationalize the news. When you are out in public, do you really think about politics while interacting with other people?

Zapped · 2021-09-01T13:28:40+00:00

Yes. This plan has been in the making since at least last year, if not earlier. I would even say that the U.S. has been working with the Taliban group that was released from Guantanamo for Qatar during the Obama administration. The U.S. knew that the Afghan government they helped install would fail. The Taliban represents a controlling group in Afghanistan to keep ISIS from taking over and I think the U.S. military will continue to help them clandestinely.

Zapped · 2021-08-31T17:36:00+00:00

u/d3rr

Zapped · 2021-08-29T14:16:14+00:00

That video from Gord Bacon sure did back up his claims of hateful actions by the crowd. /s

Zapped · 2021-08-26T18:39:02+00:00

Studying intelligence is a very broad and ambiguous statement.

Zapped · 2021-08-26T02:17:35+00:00

Then call it campaign fraud.

Zapped · 2021-08-26T02:07:37+00:00

Sugar "addiction" is an evolutionary trait. When mankind was hunter-gatherers, sugar was harder to come by. Our bodies react to sugar in a way to make us binge on it when we find it. Our bodies then store it as fat. That fat is burned when we go through periods of fasting, like when early humans went days or weeks without finding much food. It has also been suggested that some bacteria in our intestines release chemicals that cause sugar cravings.

Zapped · 2021-08-26T01:58:35+00:00

To me, that's not vote fraud, as the voters made the decision. It is subverting the system, in a way, though. How much different is it than hopium?

Zapped · 2021-08-25T10:26:15+00:00

I think the system is working. It is the system that has been manipulated to work in favor of the grifters. I have changed my mind over the years on things like term limits and making stronger laws against conflict-of-interest money. If people, who care, want to make a difference, they will the spend the majority of any election effort into the local scene. I think the U.S. government is like a pyramid. The bottom layers support or enable the top.

Zapped · 2021-08-25T09:53:29+00:00

Frank Artiles paid for a Alex Rodriguez, who ran as an independent, to run a "sham" candidacy for office to take votes away from the Democrat incumbent Jose Rodriguez. Republican Ileana Garcia, who won by 32 votes, claims to not be in on the plan.

I have seen this exact thing play out in local elections, but was not successful. I have seen it happen with both Democrats and Republicans.

Zapped · 2021-08-24T11:09:29+00:00

What's the purpose of vote manipulation on a small site like this?

Zapped · 2021-08-24T11:08:16+00:00

That's capitalism. If your profit margin can't absorb a few dollars an hour for increased wages, you need to raise prices on your products or services. No different when material, utilities, fuel, or maintenance costs increase.

Zapped · 2021-08-22T23:01:56+00:00

It sounds like word has gotten out that if you wear red and tell them you're Canadian, you may be able to sneak through.

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