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dwise1 Member Posts: 5948 Joined: Member Rating: 5.5
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I wonder if all those truckers whose convoy crippled traffic in Toronto for two weeks and their American counterparts who are now traveling the US, all to protest government mask and isolation mandates, if they are obeying the government mandates to have working airbags in their vehicles and if they are obeying government mandates to buckle up their seat belts when on public roads. Or obey speed limits or other traffic signs and laws. Or refuse to have the government take away from their freedom to drive on whichever side of the road they feel like -- the red shine of those lane reflectors sure look pretty when you're driving against the traffic.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5948 Joined: Member Rating: 5.5 |
Meme writes: When you think you have COVID because everything you eat has no flavor but then you remember you live in England. Isn't that more indicative of Norwegian cuisine? I'm remembering particularly a new Mexican restaurant that opened in 1982 next to the Columbia Mall in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Now mind you that a lot of Norwegian immigrants had settled there. I had a wet burrito that was completely covered by a quarter-inch layer of green chili. Absolutely no flavor, completely bland! Similarly, for many years the town only had one Mexican restaurant. Rumor had it that early on they couldn't get any tortillas, so they would use lefse instead (Norwegian potato flatbread). -- it's no longer there, but it looks like they've moved so I'll not give the name.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5948 Joined: Member Rating: 5.5 |
Speaking of Italian food, Stanley Tucci has a show, Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, in which he visits different regions of Italy and samples the food of those regions.
Last night the show covered the Italian region of London. After WWI, a lot of Italians emigrated to England -- almost an entire village in Emilia-Romagna ended up in southern Wales. London's Little Italy was closed down during WWII with all military age Italian men being interned (like we did with our Japanese-Americans except we locked up entire families), but it has come back strong. England has certainly come a long way since the BBC's Spaghetti Tree Hoax of 01 April 1957. It makes one wonder how Italian food in London differs from Italian food in the US. Most Italian food in the US is modifications of what Italian dishes because a lot of basic ingredients could not be found; eg, no eggplant but meat was much more plentiful and cheaper so eggplant parmesan became chicken/veal parm. And spaghetti and meatballs? Mixing il primo con il secondo? What changes were needed in London? Or in Argentina? I forget where that is in Latin America, but one treat is ñoqui, which is Italian gnocchi. And FWIW, the most favorite German dish is supposed to be spaghetti alla Bolognese (though in Italy spaghetti is too narrow for such a meaty sauce).
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5948 Joined: Member Rating: 5.5 |
Doctor Who, "11th Hour": "You're Scottish. Fry something!"
In a tea shop in Inverary there were several fried items on display, including a large sausage looking thing. I didn't dare ask.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5948 Joined: Member Rating: 5.5
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Over a foot and a half long? Cross section with a diameter of at least 4 inches? One helluva Mars bar!
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5948 Joined: Member Rating: 5.5 |
And don't you just hate it when, like for decades with those urban legends, the teller claims to be reporting something that a close relative or close friend had actually seen.
Le plus ça change, le plus la même chose.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5948 Joined: Member Rating: 5.5
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I have two motives for studying evolution. Then why didn't you study evolution? Everything you have written tells us that you never learned anything about the subject. Or did you "learn" it from creationists? If so, then you must realize that creationists lie! They have to lie, because they believe that reality disproves their god, which forces their entire position to be disproving reality.
The second is to test whether the theory of evolution refutes my belief in God. Why would evolution refute your belief in God? Why would you even think that could be the case? For that matter, why would you think that evolution or any other scientific idea would have anything to do with any religion, let alone yours? You are making absolutely no sense there! The only explanations I can think of for your confusion would be that you hold false ideas; eg:
So then does your faith place such requirements on you such that you must misunderstand evolution?
Is it really possible that life started in some primordial soup and through a process of descent with modification, we arrived? Does that mean that you make the typical creationist mistake of confusing evolution and abiogenesis? Or mistakenly thinking that evolution depends on abiogenesis or, even worse, that abiogenesis depends on evolution? Evolution depends on replication/reproduction and therefore could play no role in abiogenesis until the candidates for proto-life could replicate. Similarly, evolution is an integral part of life and living populations, so regardless of how life got started it would evolve. Evolution still happens whether life arose through natural processes or by being poofed magically into existence.
Biologists are not doing their job. Doch! (German for negating a negative assertion; can be translated as "Oh yes they are!") Biologists are indeed doing their job. It's biology educators who had failing to properly educate their students in biology. That failure is due to a number of factors including:
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5948 Joined: Member Rating: 5.5
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Sadly, you demonstrate yet again your complete and utter ignorance and stupidity.
You cannot even begin to explain why you hold such stupid misconceptions about evolution, so you revert immediately into regurgitation mode. What a fucking idiot you are! But why restrict your moronic anger to evolution when so many other scientific ideas pose just as much danger to your silly religious ideas? You may as well question gravity since it eliminates the need to deploy angels to move the planets in their orbits? Gravity eliminates the angels! Or ballistics which eliminate the need to assign a demon to ride on each bullet and cannon ball in order to guide it to its target? Or that major offense against God, static electricity (especially static electricity!), which led to Ben Franklin inventing the infernal lightning rod which renders impotent the Finger of God and hence renders God Himself impotent to smite down sinners. In short, there is no inherent conflict between evolution and Creation, so there is no reason at all why evolution could possibly "refute" one's belief in God. None whatsoever. Unless one believes really stupid things about God. Which obviously you do. And which you are too afraid to even think about. How pathetic!
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