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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 28th January 2024, 02:53 AM
Replies: 683
Views: 15,697
Posted By Shepherd
...and don't forget, she was also once "the new...

...and don't forget, she was also once "the new Eddie Van Halen" (RIP)!

Of course, the writer of that article was talking about how she inspired teenage girls to pick up the guitar like Eddie had...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 16th December 2023, 08:06 AM
Replies: 3,335
Views: 181,649
Posted By Shepherd
There was a thread about this when it first made...

There was a thread about this when it first made the news.

"Christian College in Florida cancels King's Singers concert due to homophobia"
...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 15th November 2023, 06:57 AM
Replies: 61
Views: 2,215
Posted By Shepherd
I watched a youtube video of someone discussing...

I watched a youtube video of someone discussing this incident and he found the school listed on some site that gave school stats including student demographics. It was apparently a majority Hispanic...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 10th November 2023, 11:51 AM
Replies: 1,069
Views: 41,185
Posted By Shepherd
Chuck Connors played a real piece of work in the...

Chuck Connors played a real piece of work in the television mini-series Roots in the 1970s - a slave raping slaveholder and thus the father of the character "Chicken" George. It was a rather stark...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 10th November 2023, 02:40 AM
Replies: 1,911
Views: 54,987
Posted By Shepherd
Darat, It's recently been reported that in...

Darat,

It's recently been reported that in the U.S. in 2022 the homicide victim rate for our black population was 29.8 per 100,000 people! This means that members of our minority black population...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 8th November 2023, 08:06 AM
Replies: 1,069
Views: 41,185
Posted By Shepherd
Warwoche, With what these mentally ill...

Warwoche,

With what these mentally ill people on the left are doing, you better believe I would go for the cellphone if I felt it was necessary.

You can, of course, "believe" whatever you wish.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 8th November 2023, 03:28 AM
Replies: 1,069
Views: 41,185
Posted By Shepherd
It seems to me that the one trying to take it...

It seems to me that the one trying to take it upon himself to enforce the leash law may have been the one behaving like the "Karen."

Why the double standard, people? Are you the "racists," maybe?...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 3rd November 2023, 06:25 AM
Replies: 1,911
Views: 54,987
Posted By Shepherd
Those gun ownership rates are actually per 100...

Those gun ownership rates are actually per 100 people - not per 100,000.
I thought they looked a little low. We have 120,000 guns per 100,000 people.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 3rd November 2023, 05:46 AM
Replies: 1,911
Views: 54,987
Posted By Shepherd
1200 gun homicides in a population of 2.8 million...

1200 gun homicides in a population of 2.8 million is about 43 per 100,000 and so would be around 140 times the rate for Europe - if Europe's rate is 0.3 per 100,000 as per erwinl's post.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 3rd November 2023, 03:45 AM
Replies: 1,911
Views: 54,987
Posted By Shepherd
erwinl, I've not checked your math or theirs, but...

erwinl, I've not checked your math or theirs, but your second link gives a rate of 6.7 gun murders per 100,000 people.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 1st November 2023, 11:00 AM
Replies: 1,911
Views: 54,987
Posted By Shepherd
Uh, and according to the Census Bureau, Lowndes...

Uh, and according to the Census Bureau, Lowndes County, Alabama only has a population of around 10,0000 people, give or take, 73% of whom are black.
...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 12th October 2023, 09:37 PM
Replies: 261
Views: 7,404
Posted By Shepherd
Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. I...

Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner.

I suspect that what Myriad said about his Walmart could possibly be the situation here. I certainly didn't go out of my way to use self checkout in the...
Forum: USA Politics 12th October 2023, 06:30 PM
Replies: 270
Moderated: ****libs taking Ls
Views: 9,100
Posted By Shepherd
If you get your information from mainstream media...

If you get your information from mainstream media who apparently don't know how to do math, you may have gotten some of that wrong.

From 2019 FBI murder data that had a racial breakdown (and...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 11th October 2023, 03:45 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 489
Posted By Shepherd
Thanks for posting that. I've seen several...

Thanks for posting that. I've seen several videos with a dropped slinky but that's the first I've seen with a slung and released slinky. It's certainly an interesting effect and I think a well done...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 11th October 2023, 06:53 AM
Replies: 261
Views: 7,404
Posted By Shepherd
Do I have to weigh the lotion?

Do I have to weigh the lotion?
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 11th October 2023, 05:58 AM
Replies: 261
Views: 7,404
Posted By Shepherd
From the descriptions others have given as to how...

From the descriptions others have given as to how these things work, if some of the local machines have the functionality, from my own experience I've not seen even a hint that it's being used.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 11th October 2023, 05:37 AM
Replies: 261
Views: 7,404
Posted By Shepherd
TurkeysGhost, Maybe you didn't see my...

TurkeysGhost,

Maybe you didn't see my followup post?
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 11th October 2023, 05:08 AM
Replies: 261
Views: 7,404
Posted By Shepherd
From what I've seen others say about how these...

From what I've seen others say about how these surreptitious scales supposedly function, I would certainly have to hold by my original statement.

I often roll up another cart to put my bags in as...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 11th October 2023, 02:37 AM
Replies: 261
Views: 7,404
Posted By Shepherd
I've seen the highlighted mentioned in this...

I've seen the highlighted mentioned in this thread multiple times now. Where I am in the U.S., I've never seen a self checkout system in which items were weighed other than those which were sold by...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 18th August 2023, 04:59 PM
Replies: 544
Views: 21,614
Posted By Shepherd
First they came for the blackface and I did not...

First they came for the blackface and I did not speak out for I did not have a black face.

Then they came for the womanface and I did not speak out for I did not have a woman face.

Then they...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 17th August 2023, 08:38 AM
Replies: 3,026
Views: 91,600
Posted By Shepherd
Here is a Richard Dawkins interview with Helen...

Here is a Richard Dawkins interview with Helen Joyce from his podcast "The Poetry of Reality".

'"Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality" - My conversation with Helen Joyce'
...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 12th August 2023, 01:43 AM
Replies: 148
Views: 4,086
Posted By Shepherd
I saw those contradictory numbers before making...

I saw those contradictory numbers before making my post, but the actual labeling guidelines do seem to use an RDI for potassium of 4700 mg for adults and children greater than or equal to 4 years of...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 12th August 2023, 12:55 AM
Replies: 148
Views: 4,086
Posted By Shepherd
In the U.S. it's recommended that people get 4700...

In the U.S. it's recommended that people get 4700 mg of potassium a day in their diet - at least that's the figure used to calculate the percentages on the food labels.

A couple of years ago,...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 11th August 2023, 04:43 AM
Replies: 148
Views: 4,086
Posted By Shepherd
The guy from the Youtube channel Veritasium...

The guy from the Youtube channel Veritasium recently did a documentary on vitamins call Vitamania: The sense and nonsense of vitamins with Dr Derek Muller. I've not seen it, but it might be worth...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 28th July 2023, 10:29 AM
Replies: 118
Views: 5,455
Posted By Shepherd
You're welcome. Here's an article about...

You're welcome.

Here's an article about Dias' patent claim that also mentions some of the controversy over his other claims.
...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 28th July 2023, 09:27 AM
Replies: 118
Views: 5,455
Posted By Shepherd
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showth...

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?p=14074734
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 28th July 2023, 08:14 AM
Replies: 118
Views: 5,455
Posted By Shepherd
Apparently in a recently published patent...

Apparently in a recently published patent application, Ranga Dias from the University of Rochester has also claimed to have a "room temperature, room pressure" superconductive material. People are,...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 26th July 2023, 07:20 PM
Replies: 3,026
Views: 91,600
Posted By Shepherd
Emily's Cat, from my understanding of things, I...

Emily's Cat, from my understanding of things, I believe I have to agree with TurkeysGhost on this one. These folks are using "trans" and "cis" as adjectives - like the words "fake" and "real" and...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 24th July 2023, 02:06 PM
Replies: 3,026
Views: 91,600
Posted By Shepherd
In that he died in his twenties, I could only...

In that he died in his twenties, I could only speculate.
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 22nd July 2023, 02:27 PM
Replies: 751
Views: 26,617
Posted By Shepherd
Wow, I didn't know he was a skeptic at heart.

Wow, I didn't know he was a skeptic at heart.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd July 2023, 02:13 PM
Replies: 3,026
Views: 91,600
Posted By Shepherd
I once put on a dress and wig for a middle school...

I once put on a dress and wig for a middle school dress-up day. I was normally rather quiet and shy, I guess, and so I thought that maybe I would do something that people wouldn't expect of me.
...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd July 2023, 09:58 AM
Replies: 3,026
Views: 91,600
Posted By Shepherd
From the numbers I'm finding it looks like the...

From the numbers I'm finding it looks like the NBA generates about 167 TIMES the revenue of the WNBA.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 21st July 2023, 09:48 PM
Replies: 3,026
Views: 91,600
Posted By Shepherd
Here is a good interview by the Triggernometry...

Here is a good interview by the Triggernometry guys with Sharron Davies. She's a former Olympian and silver medal winning swimmer from the UK.

She's speaking out against trans "women" in women's...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 19th July 2023, 10:13 PM
Replies: 751
Views: 26,617
Posted By Shepherd
...but there is also this: ...

...but there is also this:



https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/18/coutts-records-undermine-claim-exiting-farage-not-political/
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 17th July 2023, 09:35 AM
Replies: 48
Views: 1,651
Posted By Shepherd
If for some reason Tom Cruise isn't still doing...

If for some reason Tom Cruise isn't still doing action movies 30 years from now and so isn't available for Over The Top Gun and Mission Impossible 17, maybe at least Fake Tom Cruise Junior will be...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 16th July 2023, 09:29 PM
Replies: 1,236
Views: 47,724
Posted By Shepherd
I believe that any truly competent engineer would...

I believe that any truly competent engineer would have seen and proclaimed that composite materials were just not the right materials for the job and so would not have been involved in building this...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 13th July 2023, 07:02 PM
Replies: 3,026
Views: 91,600
Posted By Shepherd
JoeMorgue, Several years ago I saw a 60...

JoeMorgue,

Several years ago I saw a 60 Minutes segment about someone who did that - Schuyler Bailar. Bailar was a top women's swimming recruit at Harvard who then transitioned. "He" was then...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 12th July 2023, 02:33 AM
Replies: 1,236
Views: 47,724
Posted By Shepherd
I wouldn't have trusted this design no matter how...

I wouldn't have trusted this design no matter how well it was constructed, but it didn't appear to have been constructed well, either. Virgin Oceanic, of course, totally scrapped their plans with...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 29th June 2023, 06:25 PM
Replies: 1,236
Views: 47,724
Posted By Shepherd
Here's some information from the CompositesWorld...

Here's some information from the CompositesWorld link that I posted earlier in the thread:



That alone was so disturbing to read the first time, that I was kind of glad that the article didn't...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 27th June 2023, 03:15 AM
Replies: 1,236
Views: 47,724
Posted By Shepherd
When I think about how this thing was...

When I think about how this thing was constructed, I'm actually surprised it lasted as long as it did. Again, after Branson and company tested the one that they had acquired of a similar design and...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 25th June 2023, 04:22 PM
Replies: 119
Views: 4,121
Posted By Shepherd
My dad claimed that when he was young he was able...

My dad claimed that when he was young he was able to do pull-ups while holding to the bottom of 2" wide ceiling joists with an open grip. I can't imagine doing that with the weight of an adult body,...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 25th June 2023, 04:13 AM
Replies: 1,236
Views: 47,724
Posted By Shepherd
It seems the company that made the submersible...

It seems the company that made the submersible had also made one of a similar design for the adventurer Steve Fossett. It had apparently been a secret project of his. He died in a small plane crash...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 24th June 2023, 08:15 PM
Replies: 119
Views: 4,121
Posted By Shepherd
How do we know that Zuck wasn't just feeling all...

How do we know that Zuck wasn't just feeling all womanly that day and so was doing "her" girl push-ups and wearing the lighter woman's vest?! ...and then was feeling all manly afterwards and so...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 24th June 2023, 04:11 PM
Replies: 1,236
Views: 47,724
Posted By Shepherd
Reminds me of this: "The Infamous Eiffel...

Reminds me of this:

"The Infamous Eiffel Tower Death Jump of 1912"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDUYPrKKM5M

A Frenchman by the name of Franz Reichelt felt he needed to both test and...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 24th June 2023, 12:33 PM
Replies: 119
Views: 4,121
Posted By Shepherd
Zuckerberg may be in decent shape. He supposedly...

Zuckerberg may be in decent shape. He supposedly recently completed the "Murph Challenge," a CrossFit routine dedicated to a Navy Seal who died in Afghanistan in which one runs a mile, does 100...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd June 2023, 11:40 AM
Replies: 119
Views: 4,121
Posted By Shepherd
Elon Musk claimed to have some martial arts...

Elon Musk claimed to have some martial arts training on a fairly recent Joe Rogan podcast.



https://blackbeltmag.com/elon-musk-martial-arts
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 18th May 2023, 06:11 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 1,407
Posted By Shepherd
...but can we really trust a Nangingian over a...

...but can we really trust a Nangingian over a Rochesterian?!

Seriously, though, there are so many possibilities as to how an attempted replication might fail that a single failed attempt at a...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 17th May 2023, 08:35 AM
Replies: 27
Views: 1,085
Posted By Shepherd
That works when the bottom of the flag pole has a...

That works when the bottom of the flag pole has a support, but I can't say I've seen that sort of harness for a processional cross.

ETA: Well, the hold seems to work with my broom without a...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 16th May 2023, 04:44 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 1,586
Posted By Shepherd
Plus, they also had weighted drills, if you've...

Plus, they also had weighted drills, if you've not seen the depictions.

They even had some hieroglyphs derived from them. On this Wikipedia page you can see an image showing two hand drill...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 15th May 2023, 03:54 AM
Replies: 27
Views: 1,085
Posted By Shepherd
The upper hand is sometimes with a palm forward...

The upper hand is sometimes with a palm forward which would mean a thumb down. I think it may just be a matter of what is a more natural position for the arm when there is a bent elbow and a grip...
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