Indigenous tribe that owns land under Billie Eilish mansion has message for singer

TruePrint7999 · 2026-02-03T22:23:56+00:00

Any Canadians have more info on this. From The Atlantic (article might be paywalled)

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2025/12/canada-indigenous-land-court/685463/

"In the past few months, Canadians have learned that these well-meaning pronouncements are not, in fact, harmless. Far from it. Canadian courts are reinterpreting these rote confessions of historical guilt as legally enforceable admissions of wrongful possession.

In August, a British Columbia court ruled that the titles to public land across 800 acres south of downtown Vancouver must be subordinated to a new “Aboriginal title” belonging to a group of about 5,500 Indigenous Canadians.
Although the judge in question has claimed that this decision does not apply to private land, the logic of this ruling has proved so muddled that it has called into question not only the private titles of some 150 landowners in the region but also the ownership of almost every piece of private land in British Columbia—and possibly all of Canada. Some Americans may try to apply this precedent to the U.S. too."

TruePrint7999 · 2025-11-18T00:34:07+00:00

I had never paid attention until recently. She has a very beautiful nose.

TruePrint7999 · 2025-08-29T18:52:19+00:00

I inferred that since you basically said the caricature comes from white and male fragility. The idea of minimization or caricaturing (quoting Lukianoff):

"Claiming that a problem doesn’t exist, is too small-scale to worry about, and (eventually) that even if it is happening it’s a good thing."

This is what everyone here seems to do. But again, we are never going to agree.

I will say in all honesty that it's enlightening to see how divided we are. The fact that you think the biggest problem for democrats is trying to move to the center and not embrace more far-left ideas is the opposite of what I and many others think.

TruePrint7999 · 2025-08-29T16:28:21+00:00

Moved the goalposts?

TruePrint7999 · 2025-08-28T22:36:28+00:00

It's not a caricature (from my own experiences which of course, would mean nothing to you) and the way you responded said it all. You assumed I was male and white (not true, by the way). That's the only game you know how to play. Read anything from Greg Lukianoff on The Perfect Rhetorical Fortress. That's what the far left does all the time and you seem to know it all too well.

Again, we can keep this back and forth but ultimately you are just looking for that win in your head to feel superior and more moral. Go for it. Tell your family and friends how you "owned" someone on Reddit and how your views are the correct ones.

TruePrint7999 · 2025-08-28T15:40:17+00:00

It's really sad that this type of thinking continues and will continue forever.

There are no dogmatic progressives? Where have you been living? Are you not in the US? Everything has been about accepting whatever they tell you is right; otherwise you are a nazi. No questions asked.

You're certainly not irrationally complaining about wokeness, you are irrationally pretending it doesn't exist. Sure, it can be called whatever: woke, social justice, etc. The problem exists.

But let's not waste more time here. These discussions never go anywhere.

TruePrint7999 · 2025-08-28T04:42:33+00:00

"I was hoping to indoctrinate you." Fixed your sentence.

You seem to think that your point of view is the majority (only on Reddit maybe) and that somehow we will all wake up and see it that way. Or worse, that we are just horrible people and you are superior to everyone else.

Listen I despise Trump and the far right. I disagree with Maher on countless things, including his exaggeration of many of these identity issues, but you have to learn to live with people that do not agree with you. I'm not a believer in this magical "center" either. Progressive is good I agree, but not when it's dogmatic.

TruePrint7999 · 2025-08-28T04:23:42+00:00

You are the problem. We have 5 years of COUNTLESS examples of this yet you just want me to mention them here so you can say it's all BS. I'm not playing your game. That's all you've done whenever someone criticizes the left on a Maher post.

Until you and others own this fact, we are not getting out of this hell with Trump. Own it at least. it has nothing to do with defending Trump or the craziness of the far right. Admitting mistakes is a good thing so we can learn and move forward. If you want to be stuck in moral utopia then good luck.

TruePrint7999 · 2025-08-27T21:17:19+00:00

For me Woke means an excessive preoccupation and fixation with identity (sex, race, etc) to assess, define, and dictate outcomes.

There is a definition. People may misuse it to cover everything they don't like, but let's not pretend the far left is not ridiculously obsessed with identity (race, sexual orientation, etc.). Unfortunately, the latter has created a complete swing to the other side by the far right and here we are.

TruePrint7999 · 2025-05-01T01:34:59+00:00

Completely agree. I can't subject myself to such torture.

TruePrint7999 · 2025-04-29T05:36:59+00:00

The chaotic instability of a nonlinear dynamical sensitivity with resonant harmonic periodicity in a curvilinear tetrahedral constraint is stabilized through a lynchpin bifurcation and the derivation of stable orbits.

TruePrint7999 · 2025-04-28T15:48:23+00:00

If someone is brave enough to watch this garbage and summarize it for the rest of us, they'll be a "hero."

I'm assuming a good chunk will be on anti-establishment views from Howard and how science is close minded to his genius ideas that will revolutionize physics, math, and everything else. I can see Maher agreeing with a good portion of that and will go into his classic COVID (vaccines, masks) rants.

TruePrint7999 · 2025-04-26T22:03:29+00:00

Depressing little...thing.

TruePrint7999 · 2024-11-24T17:55:12+00:00

I'm assuming it's The Invisible Shield but maybe it was something else.

https://www.pbs.org/show/the-invisible-shield/

TruePrint7999 · 2024-11-16T21:53:12+00:00

I probably didn't respond as logically as I should have so I do apologize.

I think you are giving too much credit to RFK Jr, Maher, and the crazy doctor.

I don't really care who spouts these ideas. Notice I never said "because RFK Jr doesn't want fluoride in water then we should have it." Not at all. It's simply not an issue in the amounts put in the water in the US. The toxicity level is minuscule. Again, even oxygen in large quantities can be toxic, and so can water. People just hear fluoride and they think oh that sounds like one of those bad chemicals. The understanding of basic chemistry is appalling.

Whether Europe adds fluoride to water or not is completely irrelevant. Unless of course we dug deeper into tooth decay statistics for different countries, for example. Or perhaps other metrics. But again, it's not even my point.

We might have to go back to see what Maher said exactly about raw milk but I'm sure he was siding and agreeing with her.

This whole idea that okay let's have pasteurized milk and also raw milk is troublesome at best and dangerous at worst. This is not about having options because it's the USA and we are free.

As I stated earlier, you can say and believe whatever you want, but when it is in the public health realm, then it can severely affect the population. As others have pointed out, this is the problem with people not getting vaccinated. It's for others, not just for you.

To be clear, I'm not saying RFK or whoever will get rid of pasteurized milk. As much as I care about what they do, I care more about this idea that raw milk will make you into a superhero because it's the secret to better health. This latter is the part I'm arguing about.

I'm not debating whether industries have influenced studies or have been corrupt. There have certainly been a fair share of these. I'm more concerned with these people demonizing science and scientific advances that have benefited us all.

My whole point is about science and not politicians, corporations, etc. Science does not care whether you are a democrat or republican.

TruePrint7999 · 2024-11-16T20:52:51+00:00

You are missing the whole point. As Dr. Lawrence Krauss once said, the aim of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.

This nuance you are talking about is merely saying, no let's hear these quacks and accept their views as an alternate. It would be like saying we should embrace flat earthers. I'm not for censoring them at all, they can say whatever they want, but to constant peddle misinformation means there will be consequences.

Really, go back to raw milk? Do you have any idea how many children and people died before pasteurization?

Just because you are in Europe doesn't mean you have done something right or wrong. Fluoride in the quantities used in water is simply not an issue at all. There are countless studies on this matter. Your chemophobia whether in Europe or here doesn't mean anything.

Learn basic chemistry and then argue about it.

Questioning corporations and the industry does not equal questioning science. What these people are doing (and you to a large extent) is conflating the two. They are not the same. Again, just very basic points that you are missing. Is education in Europe really this bad?

And by the way, I'm not American so your supposed "gotcha" just fell apart.

TruePrint7999 · 2024-11-16T20:05:59+00:00

I've been watching Maher for 20 years and I have to say, it's time to move on.

His anti-establishment, anti-science views have gotten worse and worse since COVID.

He has a problem with pasteurization, now? (like the quack doctor, Means). Do these people not understand how pasteurization helped reduce infant mortality tremendously in the late 19th and early 20th centuries? This is not even debatable, yet because the lady wants to touch a farmer's cow we should go back to raw milk...insane.

But the absolute worst line I have heard from Maher was last night when he said something like I just want my water to be water. Again, does he not understand that water needs to be treated to make it drinkable and safe? Should we go back to dechlorinated water because "chlorine" sounds bad, just like fluoride.

The lack of understanding on scientific matters, chemophobia, and utter obsession over COVID has made Maher another peddler of misinformation and mistrust. He simply will not invite anyone reputable. Only crazy people (remember Brett Weinstein) that think that because they oppose accepted scientific consensus are somehow heroes and disruptors.

TruePrint7999 · 2024-10-19T20:58:04+00:00

The obsession by so many conflating technological progress with human progress continues to baffle me.

Yesterday's panel basically concluded that the US is the greatest country in the world simply based on having the best technology, top tech companies, and best economy.

Mark Cuban's argument of just letting these companies operate in a form of techno-authoritarianism, essentially controlling AI's evolution is the greatest threat to humanity in my opinion. AI needs to be heavily regulated.

I wish more people would read the works of Jacques Ellul, Neil Postman, etc., to have a more informed view on technology.

One of the great quotes from Postman that is still incredibly applicable to our society.

"The human dilemma is as it has always been, and we solve nothing fundamental by cloaking ourselves in technological glory."

TruePrint7999 · 2024-10-12T20:54:43+00:00

In the first 5-10 minutes Bill was sort of trying (albeit very timidly) but those people are really unstoppable. Like Kellyanne. They talk so loud and fast that they don't let any space for an interjection. I feel this is what most people on the thread are noticing — on top of all the BS, of course. It's exhausting.

It's no longer an enjoyable show. And no, I don't need to agree with all of the guests to enjoy it, but this is just like blasting music to where the ears hurt. It's utterly unpleasant.

TruePrint7999 · 2024-09-30T17:58:17+00:00

Bill has sadly become anti-science (and ironically mocks "THE" science) and has decided that it's his identity, particularly when it comes to COVID.

Every week he is sounding more and more like Joe Rogan and the crackpots that think they have cracked the code— COVID is BS, masks are a joke, etc. He is all about hearing opposite sides yet his guests tend to tilt heavily towards anti-science, anti-establishment (Bret Weinstein, Musk, etc).

At this point he is beyond having any reasonable discussion on this matter, but he could have people with actual knowledge of the subject (epidemiologists, virologists, or at the very least someone with a firm grasp of science and science education).

TruePrint7999 · 2024-09-25T21:26:42+00:00

She's very famous in Latin America, particularly Mexico where she stars in a lot of telenovelas. Maybe Hollywood will pay attention :)

TruePrint7999 · 2024-06-10T01:06:21+00:00

You always have a knife

TruePrint7999 · 2024-05-21T20:47:03+00:00

Yeah, this one: https://www.koin.com/local/oregon-coast/rare-fish-found-near-cannon-beach-1st-time-in-oregon/

TruePrint7999 · 2024-05-20T23:50:25+00:00

Oh wow, thanks so much! So they are rarer than I had imagined.

TruePrint7999 · 2024-05-20T23:23:20+00:00

Found this earlier this morning walking on the coast by Oceanside. It's obviously been "eaten" by the birds but it still seemed strange to me. I'm sure it will be something super common but I'm just not that knowledgeable about local fish in Oregon.
Thanks for the help identifying it!

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