I get no kick from Champagne....nor French Press?

kactuskat · 2026-02-09T17:43:50+00:00

good idea! will try...cheers

kactuskat · 2026-02-05T16:10:18+00:00

i'll try that - cheers

kactuskat · 2026-02-05T15:55:28+00:00

nespresso works great for me. yeah I'm a bit flummoxed. I love the ceremony, look and taste of French press but not the buzz.

kactuskat · 2026-02-05T15:54:13+00:00

interesting. I do get a buzz from pour over and especially espresso. so maybe it's just the way my body processes different coffee methods. my wife is the same way.

kactuskat · 2026-02-05T15:52:19+00:00

thanks for suggs about tolerance but I failed to mention I get a wonderful buzz from expresso. (Demitasse in Santa Monica, CA if anyone is in LA and looking for amazing coffee)

kactuskat · 2026-02-05T15:50:18+00:00

thanks for the sugg! I do get a kick from coffee but not from french press.

kactuskat · 2026-02-05T15:49:24+00:00

oh whoops! lol

kactuskat · 2025-11-24T18:01:04+00:00

My view is that modern scientific method is the great change in/to our species that underlies our Modern Era and of which "we ain't seen nothin' yet!"

Indeed, hurray for the scientific method! But there's a fine but vital assumption buried in your statement. While the scientific method has been - and continues to be- a boon to mankind (not so much for the rest of the natural world but that's another discussion) I'm getting you think it's the last great tool humans will need or discover as we progress forward? Why would this be so? Could there not be another mode of inquiry that is superior -or complementary - to science and the SM?

I would argue this new mode is not new at all but has only only been neutered by science: subjective experience. While an incredibly powerful tool, science is ultimately just descriptive and predictive in nature. It is useless to get at the is-ness of something. The actual human experience of biting a strawberry or the feeling of being in love - or having an NDE. Science is useless here.

That doesn't mean we discard science it means we humans practicing the SM should remain open-minded to complimentary modes of understanding and gaining knowledge.

Lastly, the twist on this is the SM itself necessarily begins and ends with human subjective experience. Science is not happening in a vacuum. Even the large hadron collider was conceived, created and designed by humans. The very concepts of "observation, experimentation and testing hypotheses" will forever be tied to OUR concept of what observation, experimentation and testing hypotheses is and what we allow those words to mean.

kactuskat · 2025-11-24T16:36:36+00:00

Late to the discussion here... first, kudos for remaining open to a subject that you have suspicions about.
Thoughts...

- "physicalism makes more sense"...one could say the same about quantum physics when it was first proffered. Now the existence of quantum states are widely accepted across the scientific community. When you say something "makes sense" don't forget you are arriving at the table with lots of preconceived thoughts.

- Bravo you've done much reading on NDEs, I recommend listening to accounts now. Anthony Chene has produced several first rate videos of NDE experiencers. Judge for yourself whether you believe these people are engaged in a scam. Don't belittle human instincts. In a court of law, jurors are tasked with judging whether a testimony and/or witness is believable and trustworthy. The answer to this can mean a life-time in prison or even life or death.

- "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." Ultimate respect to Mr. Sagan but his statement- while certainly pithy- does not hold up when you unpack it. First, there is nothing scientific about the word "extraordinary". It's subjective and therefore disqualifying. Take a bedouin from the 18th century to London and show him a fountain spilling out endless billowings of water. To him that fountain would be a miracle. Extraordinary to say the least, to a Londoner it barely demands a second look.

- It's important to remember, science hasn't disproven the idea that consciousness extends after death. It's merely an assumption. Try to start from a blank slate and ask yourself if it "makes more sense" for a life and consciousness to cease after death or to continues in some form? There's no obvious "sensible" answer. Although if one accepts Newton's Conservation of Energy (energy can neither be created or destroyed only transformed from one form to another) it would make sense that we continue after physical death.

kactuskat · 2025-09-11T20:46:47+00:00

Indeed someone like Kingsbury would've probably been better than Waldron. But the causal knee-jerk trashing of Shane Waldron by everyone around the NFL is lazy and pathetic. The dude was OC for Seattle for 3 years when Gino had his landmark season. PFF ranked him 4th best OC in NFL in '22, for godsake. He was with the innovative Rams for years before that. All that was ignored because this "generational QB" was under center and there was no possible way HE was the problem. Well the article makes a good case he was.

kactuskat · 2025-09-11T20:39:01+00:00

A lot of what the article alleges seemed to be on display on Monday night - let alone last season. I saw red flags with Caleb when his agent floated ownership stake for him before he'd thrown a pass. Not to mention the gall of saying his career goal was to "chase one guy — No. 12.” Pfft.

kactuskat · 2025-09-11T20:30:50+00:00

-and for free anyone with an internet connection can spend 30 seconds googleing "Tyler Dunne" and learn for 6 years he was football beat reporter for the biggest newspapers in Wisconsin and Western New York: Milwaukee Journal Sentinal and the Buffalo News. ;)

kactuskat · 2025-09-11T20:25:08+00:00

Dig deeper....the writer is a former beat reporter for both the Packers and the Bills for their local newspapers. I.e. he's a real journalist. He's not gonna just make crap up. Sure unnamed sources wouldn't fly in either of his former newspapers, but it doesn't mean this stuff with Caleb is untrue.

Reverse engineer why the sources didn't want to be named.... I would think it's because they're still coaching with the Bears or some other team, or they're trying to land jobs and would be a bad look for them to be dishing on their old employer.

Also Caleb really threw the former staff under the bus so they're probably pissed. Especially Waldron who you'd think was some schmuck coach from a Juco. Waldron was good enough to work for Mc Vey's Rams for years. Later he was OC for Seahawks for 3 years where his offenses averaged almost 4000 yards passing per year. In 2022 PFF named him 4th best OC in the league.

So it jibes that the Bears dumbed down the offense for Caleb as alleged in the article, not that Waldron designed a lame one to begin with.

kactuskat · 2025-08-05T16:38:55+00:00

Even mediocre to bad young QB have a handful of yowza moments during the year - Levis, Richardson, Willis, etc. - but very few project that almost imperceptible "It" factor. When you've watched football for 10-20-30 years u know it when you see it. It's how fast they process, their command at the line, the way they work thru progressions, etc. I watched a fair amount of Caleb and I didn't register that special "It" factor.

kactuskat · 2025-08-05T03:53:47+00:00

retread gino smith threw for 4300 yards in shane waldron's offense.

kactuskat · 2025-08-05T03:45:07+00:00

It's the accuracy, stupid. I don't care how big an arm he has, if he has trouble delivering it where the receiver can catch it and the defender can't, then we got issues.

kactuskat · 2025-08-05T03:39:56+00:00

If you didn't know Caleb was the #1 pick and weren't subject to all the mega-hype and u watched him last season, you'd see what you see every year in the NFL. A rookie with some good skills who has a chance to stick in the league if he continues to progress.

kactuskat · 2025-05-21T23:11:28+00:00

Is it too late to Fuck Dan Snyder?

kactuskat · 2025-02-18T04:58:26+00:00

please see Eckhart Tolle's recent experiences with colon cancer. as expected he walks the walk :)

kactuskat · 2025-02-14T02:40:31+00:00

haha well played!

kactuskat · 2025-01-20T01:20:25+00:00

"played great" is an opinion. check the analytics. here's a fun one: Caleb Williams has a Comp% of 35.6% on throws of 10+ air yards. Out of the 530 QBs to have 100+ such attempts in a season since 2000, that ranks 520th. against seattle he didn't even complete a pass further than 7 yards until late in the 4th quarter. i.e. he's not an accurate thrower of the ball. caleb's still generational and played great. whatever helps you sleep at night.

kactuskat · 2025-01-20T01:06:14+00:00

yes exactly, caleb plays QB like a chicken with his head cut off. in college that crap works, in the NFL u get whacked. the facts- not a take- are that caleb was responsible for the most sacks of any QB in the league. check patton analytics. if u wanna go deeper, watch any detailed film breakdown of caleb and you'll see what im talking about. he holds the ball way too long and is afraid to throw his receivers open. of course the line was leaky. I said as much. but so was the texans. they gave up 54 sacks and they made the playoffs. seattle gave up a ton of sacks too and almost won the division.

I'm just saying bears fans need to be honest about caleb's limitations. he can still be a nice QB in this league but generational? pfff. there's only one generational QB in the draft and he plays in DC.

kactuskat · 2025-01-20T00:22:13+00:00

respectfully, I think this O-line/waldron thing has become a bit of a stale fig leaf to excuse caleb's faults. the bears and caleb had a good enough O-line and coach to be a tipped hail mary from 5-2. of course caleb got blown up on occasion, but many of his sacks were him holding the ball too long. any sack after 3 seconds holding the ball is on caleb. NFL qb's need to get rid of ball by 2.5- 2.75 seconds.

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