Scott Adams Thread (Garfield Cartoonist)

[freebeard]

Ah yes. My immediate concern when I heard that was about Elizabeth Parrish.

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BioViva - Wikipedia
BioViva was founded in 2015. [1] CEO Elizabeth Parrish appeared at WIRED Health 2017 in London to discuss BioViva's testing of gene therapies targeting hallmarks of the ageing process. She stated, "The company was built essentially to prove these therapies work or not. Remember, BioViva is not a research organisation.

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I wonder if CRISPR could solve the problem of the trade-off between anti-aging and anti-cancer?

[freebeard]

Yeah, and I could use a third set of teeth.

[freebeard]

In today's episode, Mr. Adams suggested that were it up to him, he might raise the age of consent for bodily mutilation to 25. And then suggested nobody should care about his opinion.

why am I listening again? Personally, I'd bend the mind to conform to the body, rather than bend the body to conform to the mind. He conflates dysphoria with hemaphroditism.

Then to make up for that he suggests a debate between the varsity team, RFK, Jr and Ramaswamy. They then debate who should be the moderator.

Personally, I'd like to see a non-presidential debate between Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon. Just to see if their persona persists without all that oversight.

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Originally Posted by freebeard

In today's episode, Mr. Adams suggested that were it up to him, he might raise the age of consent for bodily mutilation to 25. And then suggested nobody should care about his opinion.

It's an intractable problem where mental maturity rapidly develops in the beginning, and solidifies over time. That means setting age of consent to many things is somewhat arbitrary. The nation needs risk seeking males to defend her, which is why 18 is the legal age to engage in combat. They aren't really old enough to make great decisions for themselves.

From a legal perspective though, 18 it is. So long as parents are solely responsible for, and have authority over their children, the children have no say until 18.

Personally, I'd bend the mind to conform to the body, rather than bend the body to conform to the mind.

Agreed, but apparently that's hard too.

Then to make up for that he suggests a debate between the varsity team, RFK, Jr and Ramaswamy.

Ramaswamy would destroy absolutely anyone in debate. Too bad nobody cares about reason, or can pronounce his name.

Personally, I'd like to see a non-presidential debate between Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon.

I dislike fights between the sober and the impaired. Not very familiar with either of them, but I watched a video of Tucker from about 13 years ago, and he was pretty sharp. Don't know who would be his perfect rival.

[freebeard]

Don Lemon also said things back then, about fatherhood, etc.. I'd be interested in if either or both felt less under compulsion.

Look for the video where a guy confronted Tucker Carlson about fly fishing in Central Park.

Don Lemon sems a lot like Karime Juan-Pierre. An unselfaware fabulist.

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Originally Posted by freebeard

Don Lemon sems a lot like Karime Juan-Pierre. An unselfaware fabulist.

I've only seen the 1 video I mentioned about Tucker from 13 years ago, and a 20min clip of Don being a jerk with Vivek Ramaswamy where he simply states his facts are wrong and rhetorically asks what country he's from. Seemed a bit unhinged.

... the fishing video was pleasant.

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If Don Lemon said this today, will he still have a job at CNN?

Try the speech Mr. Carlson gave the friday before he was separated.

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Businesses have to make money or nobody has a job, so I don't care what the reasons anyone is fired are. The owners have to live with the decisions.

I'd like to think that idiocy fades away and truth persists. I think it does, but it's a messy process.

The fact that some people can say something and be praised, and someone else can say the same thing and be cancelled based on the amount of melanin in their skin is the definition of racist lunacy. Everyone that believes there's some magic amount of melanin that makes words empowering, and a threshold below which makes them cancellable, are profoundly stupid. They are so corrupted they can't be trusted with the most minor of responsibilities.

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And into the mix comes a cold, calculating intelligence with the power to persuade you to self-Darwinate.

I still think the Juan-Pierre malaprop was funny.