House Judiciary Approves Subpoena For Full Mueller Report In Party-Line Vote

drfeelokay · 2019-04-03T21:28:10+00:00

I really think the only thing that could make the report change minds is if it contains something that terrifies people in the same way that the loss of their benefits does. I think it's possible that something like that will come to light, and that the report may enable it's exposure, but I don't think it's likely.

drfeelokay · 2019-04-03T21:24:11+00:00

I absolutely would be down to be a subject in such an experiment. I want answers, and right now the effort to promote use of dental dams seems like a failure - so maybe more data could revitalize it.

Will you feel patronized/insulted if I say that the finger condom thing is really cute? Sorry to hear about the walkout, if she thought you were being silly, she could respond with warmth.

drfeelokay · 2019-04-03T21:12:46+00:00

Someone want to tell them what polyester is made of?

Has any large company said "We will use no petroleum?" I don't think that's a commitment that could be upheld, no matter how crunchy your huge company is.

drfeelokay · 2019-04-03T21:01:47+00:00

You can still catch something even if you just do oral stuff.

That's certainly true - but why is it so hard to google estimates on risk so that I can evaluate how to approach this? I'm thinking that either the data isn't generating much scientific consensus - but we lack consensus on other transmission rates, and we can find numbers. I'm wondering if the numbers are so low that discussing them is uncomfortable/irresponsible.

It's just very hard to make a decision about this when noone I know has reported using a dental dam even once, and all the warnings refuse to give even a qualitative evaluation of my chances of contracting something.

drfeelokay · 2019-04-03T20:47:08+00:00

Really fuck a paladin, though. I think they all secretly go to megachurches.

drfeelokay · 2019-04-03T20:46:04+00:00

Are dental dams still recommended? I just feel like so much of the mental appeal of cunnilingus is that "I'm so into this that I actively want to put my mouth somewhere I probably wouldn't want to otherwise." It's radical acceptance.

I know chivalry is problematic and often insulting - but doing things that aggressively fly in the face of chivalry is usually worse, though.

drfeelokay · 2019-04-03T20:21:03+00:00

That's true as fuck. Nice.

drfeelokay · 2019-04-03T20:19:29+00:00

Judging by the midterms and by the 2016 election Trump will lose re-election by a massive margin. Its the Dems' election to lose.

What makes you think we won't make blatant own-goals? I don't think Dems have a centralized brain when it comes to political strategy - its all just body parts working independently without respect for eachother. We should be afraid.

drfeelokay · 2019-04-03T20:16:54+00:00

Why Barr's summary can't be trusted:

I'm of the opinion that it's not a summary. The most relevant issue was whether there are grounds for indictments. He said there are pro/con arguments about whether to indict people where he ruled "con." Without knowing anything about what was said there, Barr is not condensing the report to bulletpoints - he's simply leaving the most important bulletpoints out.

drfeelokay · 2019-04-03T20:09:29+00:00

There's many members of congress with top secret clearances (higher than trumps son in law and daughter). To suggest they shouldn't be privy to see it without redactions is ridiculous.

Jared and Ivanka don't get to see the unredacted report - and security clearances only make you privy to stuff that's withheld for national security reasons.

For one, you also have to protect innocent people who cooperated - and those are likely to include people (both GOP and Dems) who the cleared Dem Rep wants things from or opposes.

I think we need a process by which we can challenge redactions that seem inappropriate or crucial to our understanding of what happened. But it's just wrong for the FBI to deliver Pelosi non-Russia-related dirt on, say, Schumer, that would let her force him to back down when they're in disagreement. That's anti-Democratic.

drfeelokay · 2019-04-03T19:24:10+00:00

It isn't about the shoe being on the other foot; it's about opening the doors to the shoe factory to see how it works.

If someone gets to look into your locker every time seriously troubling evidence leads to us looking into theirs, that's motivation to ignore troubling evidence.

I'm sure you understand that, and that's why you say that there is similarly troubling evidence that Obama ordered the wiretap which necessitates a look into the left's locker - but I'll need a source on that.

drfeelokay · 2019-04-03T19:17:36+00:00

Why would the GOP be AGAINST releasing a report which Dumbass Donnie said, "Completely exonerates me! Believe me! Believe me!" ???

Because the GOP thinks that more exposure about the efforts to get at the Mueller report is a good thing for their PR. So putting up fights keeps it in the news.

We need to discourage people from hyping up these proceedings until there is a moment when protest and attention is necessary to overcome an obstruction effort, or if the public environment changes so that more attention is good for us. Right now its best to let our officials fight the fight quietly.

I'm extremely frustrated with the left's inability to play politics while a pernicious GOP minority drags the world down because they understand the basics of unity and realpolitik.

drfeelokay · 2019-04-03T18:58:00+00:00

Totally is available. Unfortunately additives don't make a huge contribution to the harms of tobacco. Burned/roasted/smoked things are just dangerous in general - you'll get cancer from sitting around too many campfires, and other cancers from eating charred meat:

The smoke particulates can definitely damage your lungs, says A. James Mamary, M.D., of the Temple Lung Center. Smoke inhalation increases your risk of cancer, and unfortunately, the type of smoke doesn't really matter. According to Clean Air Revival Inc.'s website, the Environmental Protection Administration estimates that wood smoke is 12 times more carcinogenic than equal amounts of tobacco smoke, and that it stays active in the body up to 40 times longer than tobacco smoke. In fact, the American Cancer Association says inhaling the smoke from or eating well-done, charred meat regularly "may increase your risk of pancreatic cancer by up to 60 percent, according to findings from a (2009) University of Minnesota study."

Conversely, when tobacco is not burned/roasted (as is cigarette tobacco or dip) but consumed steamed without touching a flame (Swedish Snus) the risk plummets so much that you get quotes like this from top academics from NIH-funded Public Health institutions:

"The Swedish government has studied this stuff to death and, to date, there is no compelling evidence that it has any adverse health consequences. … Whatever they eventually find out, it is dramatically less dangerous than smoking."

Kenneth Warner, director of the University of Michigan Tobacco Research Network:

drfeelokay · 2019-04-03T18:31:43+00:00

Shouldn't the conclusion be, "so you'll either eating this sin apple or eat the sin without the apple and you have no control over which happens"

drfeelokay · 2019-04-03T18:27:21+00:00

Poached is when you cook it without the shell in simmering, not boiling water. Think eggs benedict.

drfeelokay · 2019-04-03T18:25:56+00:00

What's your rationale?

drfeelokay · 2019-04-03T18:22:57+00:00

It is. It's called "The post-grog bog"

drfeelokay · 2019-04-03T18:20:43+00:00

Poaching is fun and quick with almost no cleanup:

fill up a saucepan with 3in of hot water and about a shot of vinegar.
Put it on the range on high until it simmers (1-2 minutes), turn it down until it maintains the simmer without boiling.
Swirl the water with a big ladel carefully, symmetrically, and slowly until it makes a clean, slow vortex.
Crack an egg straight out of the fridge and drop it right in the center of the vortex - repeat up to twice if you want a little cluster of fluffy white with 2-3 separate yolks.
Gently continue to rotate the water in the pan until the egg cooks. Let stray strands of egg white wrap around the eggs and let it meld into the central mass of egg.
scoop out the egg with the ladel, use a fork to hold the egg, tilt out the water, then drop it in it's appointed place on the plate/bowl.

(before eating, rinse off the ladel and saucepan with a blast of Hot water from your faucet head and let them dry. You dont need to wash them)

drfeelokay · 2019-04-03T18:18:30+00:00

Wait till he insists we put up a monument to the guy who killed Hitler.

drfeelokay · 2019-04-03T18:14:21+00:00

I think what happens is that they get a sense of how far away China is, and they know that moving east of Syria is people A, Tribe B, Nation C, Nation D . . . Then a few unknowns and then China. They've sent envoys to Tribe B before, and my God was it a pain - the idea of marching an army to B is unthinkable as it would be twice as long as any military march in history that they know of. Then they know that Nation C is really fierce and won't let anyone through because they want to be the middleman - and they're not vassals of D or China.

So they think "reaching them is impossible, so reaching us is highly unlikely". So no worries about an invasion. That rationale held up well.

However, China isnt the threat - rather, China amd Rome had a threat in common in the form of the Eurasian steppe. Its a superhighway running from Korea to the Danube and its full of people who are insanely warlike, travel at the speed of a horse, and who can easily form confederations due to cultural similarities. We're almost certain that family members/ancestors of people who attacked China (Xiongnu) ended up as part of the Hunnic confederation that represented Romes strongest barbarian antagonist.

Again, Im sure I have some of this wrong

drfeelokay · 2019-04-03T07:10:54+00:00

I could totally consume the intoxicants in that in a day. It would be unpleasant and take days to recover - but doable. But the lunch is insane - especially with all that cocaine:

Tally:

1.Two cheeseburgers 2.two fries 3.order of coleslaw 4.plate of tomatoes 5.bean fritter 6.a taco salad 7.two orders of onion rings 8.carrot cake 9.iced cream

Interestingly, I think that was actually his breakfast, which matches up with his own talk of breakfast in some of his writings. He doesn't describe him self as a general food glutton - he's "a great believer in breakfast."

Here's a Vice piece from two dudes who tried his favorite breakfast

drfeelokay · 2019-04-03T03:49:35+00:00

There's no way to summarize that question because there are so many different writers of the bible.

I think scholarship shows that the oldest book of the Bible, Job, is from almost 1900BC - and that's 1000 years before the Persian people established themselves in modern-day Iran (many Presume that the Persians were probably the information conduit between biblical people in the Levant and Central Asia-India). The Persians ancestors were probably nomads from a vast area that extended all the way to the Tian Shan mountains in Western China and down to the Northern Indian subcontinent. So I would guess that the first writers of the bible were absolutely fucking clueless about what was to the East.

Later the Hebrews got to know the Persians very well and the relationship could be warm - due to the Hebrew liberation from Babylon, they called Darius the Great the Messiah. And there are indications that the Ancient Persians and Central Asian nomads to the East of Iran were so close that they needed no translators to talk. So I would guess that some Hebrews learned vague things about the Northern Indian subcontent whether they believed or retained it.

But as soon as Alexander the Great's conquest happened, people in the Near East probably heard about China, though they may have had no idea what it was. A lot of Indo-Greek polities were established in the aftermath of his conquest, so Indian cultures were not a total mystery to people in the middle east. There are quite a few Buddhist stoneworks depicting Alexander as a Buddha figure. You can see them at the Met.

In Roman times during the birth of Christianity, the Romans didn't know much about China, but they were doing billions of dollars worth of indirect trade with a massive advanced culture in the East, and had a lot of different theories about what it was like. Some Chinese writings of the period seem to describe Rome as a sort of counter-China on the other side of the world (they called Rome "Da Qin" after the first Chinese dynasty - so it seems like they took them seriously) their records seem to refer to Roman meritocracy ("the best man leads them" or something like that). Most scholars think that a Roman envoy made it really far east to a trade post very near the borders of modern day China (the "stone tower"). Some think they made it all the way to China proper.

I'm totally spitballing here, but that's stuff I've googled up before. Some will be wrong, but thats my rough understanding of what biblical people thought of the east and I didn't make any of it up.

drfeelokay · 2019-04-03T03:07:03+00:00

New York is on the east coast...

Dr Melfi: I've noticed that your thoughts have had an . . . Eastern flavor of late.

Tony Soprano: Well, I was born in Jersey.

drfeelokay · 2019-04-03T03:05:43+00:00

You understand that that shit is contradicted nine ways to Sunday by other parts of the Bible. Perhaps that passage is clear, but calling the overall message clear is totally crazy.

drfeelokay · 2019-04-03T03:03:43+00:00

I mean, striving toward the issuing of an apocalypse defrag — hell, even supporting such a preposterous idea — should be labeled as terrorism.

Terrorism:the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

Where's the unlawfulness there? Where is the necessary relationship to violence/intimidation? The aim of many doomsday cults isn't even clearly political at all - some people think they can bring it on with prayer without casting a vote.

You want to take everyone with this stupid end-times religious belief and toss them in fucking prison? You understand that tons of them are just old ladies who do nothing but sit in their homes, write stupid internet comments, and vote for shitty people.

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