Scott Adams Thread (Garfield Cartoonist)

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Originally Posted by freebeard

It 'wasn't ready in time'. The best explainer I've seen is this one:

The decision to breathe pure oxygen was not made by the astronauts.

Perhaps it was the concrete itself damaging the rocket, and not acoustics?

I thought pure oxygen was used because they run half atmospheric pressure or something in space. The less pressure they can use, the lighter the pressure vessels can be. Also, EVAs are easier to maneuver when the suit isn't trying to balloon out so forcefully.

[freebeard]

That was the logic. We saw the result.

There were chunks of concrete a kilometer away. First two enignes out were adjacent, probably one chunk of concrete took out both. If it had been on the other side, it would have destroyed Mechazilla.

[freebeard]

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He went off on Bed Bath & Beyond about their coupons, then I find this:


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....and this: nypost.com/2023/04/23: Bed Bath & Beyond files for bankruptcy protection after long struggle

It's dog-pile on BB&B day?

[freebeard]

Good idea today at &t=3299

A viewer suggested that all AI-generated figures need to have six fingers.

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I heard that, then immediately thought of The Six Fingered Man. Maybe AI will subject us to The Machine.

[freebeard]

The five-finger discount suffers from inflation.

[freebeard]

Wholey McAreil!

Redacted is going on about the WHO gambit. Dr. John Campbell as well

That's a Trojan Horse if ever i saw one.

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I just finished listening to Viva, Barnes, and Brett W on Rumble. Lab leak hypothesis, telomeres, good stuff.

[freebeard]

Probably the one I watched, but I don't recall what they said about telomeres. Did you take notes?

Here's the Dr. John Campbell video. A reaction video done right. Instead of pausing it he sits in the upper left corner and makes faces.

WHO new treaty

Nice lapel pin.

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Brett started by pointing out that in the 40's, science discovered people age because telomeres (proteins in DNA) have a finite length and can therefore can only support so many cell divisions before wearing out, causing cellular degeneration.

Later it was found that telomere length is a balance between supporting cellular division (anti-aging) and susceptibility to cancer. One trades off with the other. Literature on mice in general said that they had long telomeres, and Brett suspected this might be incorrect because wild mice didn't get cancer at the rate lab mice did.

Turns out everyone gets lab mice from the same place, and they end up being selected for long telomeres, and therefore aren't representative of wild mice. The bigger problem is that drugs are tested on these lab mice, which have higher capability for cellular division than wild mice, and therefore aren't suitable proxies for humans. The drug companies buried these facts.

This experience is what informed Brett to be sceptical of research methodology and be suspicious of incentives related to research.