Posts by LoveUniHateExams

(I graduated from uni in 2015 with a biology degree. I could do a doctorate because my BSc grade was good enough to jump up to a PhD but it isn't easy and I just don't have that desire at the moment. I guess I'm lazy!)

PS - I don't like living on Job Seeker's Allowance. For one thing, I don't like being dependent on the government. Another thing, I should be earning my own money and being independent.

Hopefully I can get a nice little job in IT after I complete my college course.

Long-term, I would like to try and go for a PhD if possible.

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Party tunes

by jhine in

as usual there's a lot of serious shizzle being discussed on here .

i can only cope with so much serious , so here's something that's really not .

as some of you know l am getting married soon and organising the evening bash .

LoveUniHateExams

This tune's infectious, although it's a little wild.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yem_iEHiyJ0

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Canadian Residential School Deaths

by Simon in

in case you haven't heard, they just discovered the remains of some 215 dead children at a so called canadian residential school.

they couldn't call it a death-camp could they ... it would be too obvious.. these were where indigenous children were taken, forcibly, in order to "educate" them out of their native customs and languages and make them integrate with society.. unbelievably, this was still going on in the 60s to 90s.. of course the catholic church has their sticky fingers all over it.

what is it about those creepy bastards?

LoveUniHateExams

This is absolutely terrible.

A proper investigation is needed, with real bite and consequences. Anyone alive who was involved should be thrown in prison for ever.

These efforts to eliminate the native peoples can only be described as genocide - as bad as these actions were, I don't think they were actually genocide in most cases.

Maybe the German Empire's massacres in southern Africa amounted to genocide.

The Nazi's extermination of Jews was genocide.

The massacre and enforced slavery by ISIS on the Yazidis was attempted genocide.

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Party tunes

by jhine in

as usual there's a lot of serious shizzle being discussed on here .

i can only cope with so much serious , so here's something that's really not .

as some of you know l am getting married soon and organising the evening bash .

LoveUniHateExams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0fBHLfanzc

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The Queen's Gambit (2020) One of the most enjoyable miniseries I've seen in awhile

by TD in

the queen's gambit is a 7 episode netflix miniseries about a female chess prodigy in the 1950's and 60's.. the story chronicles the life of the fictitious character, elizabeth harmon (anja taylor-joy) from the time she learns the game as an orphan clear up to the point where she defeats russian grand master, vasily borgov (marcin dorociński) to become the world champion.. female grandmasters are a rarity, so i was afraid the series was going to morph into an anti-male screed.

(it easily could have).

nearly every male character in the series, from the gruff but kindly william shaibel, the custodian at the orphanage who taught her the basics of the game and fronted her the money for her first tournament to vasily borgov himself is gracious and clearly delighted to play against a woman so talented in a sport dominated by men.. two notable exceptions were her pos adopted father who didn't care about her or his wife and a russian player who got a little salty when she kicked his butt in 21 moves.

LoveUniHateExams

@Dropoffyourkey - yes, I was thinking something similar.

To be a top pro chess player, you have to basically live, breathe and sleep chess.

Men are more likely to go in for high risk/high reward behaviour.

Women typically tend to be more sensible and have different life balances, e.g. having children and child-rearing.

Feminists won't like to hear it but the average woman has XX chromosomes, is fertile, and wants children at some point.

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BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors Raised as JW

by JW_Researcher in

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"cullors, who originates from los angeles, came out as queer at age 16 and was kicked out from her home, where she was raised in the jehovah’s witness religion.

".

article here.

LoveUniHateExams

No real surprise, I guess.

She couldn't think independently when she was a JW; she can't think independently now.

She's gone from one cult to another, lol.

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The Queen's Gambit (2020) One of the most enjoyable miniseries I've seen in awhile

by TD in

the queen's gambit is a 7 episode netflix miniseries about a female chess prodigy in the 1950's and 60's.. the story chronicles the life of the fictitious character, elizabeth harmon (anja taylor-joy) from the time she learns the game as an orphan clear up to the point where she defeats russian grand master, vasily borgov (marcin dorociński) to become the world champion.. female grandmasters are a rarity, so i was afraid the series was going to morph into an anti-male screed.

(it easily could have).

nearly every male character in the series, from the gruff but kindly william shaibel, the custodian at the orphanage who taught her the basics of the game and fronted her the money for her first tournament to vasily borgov himself is gracious and clearly delighted to play against a woman so talented in a sport dominated by men.. two notable exceptions were her pos adopted father who didn't care about her or his wife and a russian player who got a little salty when she kicked his butt in 21 moves.

LoveUniHateExams

Good OP.

I haven't seen it yet, I'll have to wait for it to come out on DVD.

I liked Anya Taylor-Joy in The Witch (2015).

I used to play chess a little when I was younger, but I kinda stopped at 15 and have never wanted to start playing again.

I also think it's slightly weird that professional chess is so dominated by men because it's a non-physical sport in that men's natural advantages of strength and speed mean nothing.

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God vs ET`s ,why is one more probable than the other ?

by smiddy3 in

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billions of people around the world beleive in a god of some sort or other who exerts some power or influence to some degree or other in lifes affairs .. i don`t think there would be anywhere near that figure that would entertain the possability of extra terrestial life elsewhere in the universe.. and i find that curious .. the ancients didn`t know that their were other humans on other continents on this planet until they ventured out and found them .. we live somewhere in the milky way galaxy with millions of suns and planets that orbit them.. our galaxy is only one of trillions if not zillions of galaxys in the known universe.. look at the diversity of life on just this one planet earth ,what possabilitys could exist elsewhere ?

on alien worastronomers can use the hubble space telescope to view galaxies near the edge of the observable universe (the region of space from which light has had a chance to reach us within the last 13.77 billion years).

by examining a very tiny portion of the sky, counting up the number of visible galaxies in the universe in that specific region, and then multiplying that number to account for all the regions of the sky, astronomers estimate the number of galaxies in the universe.

LoveUniHateExams

Since there are approximately 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Planets in the universe - Exoplanets have been discovered but we have no hard evidence to support your claim. All we can go on at the moment is extrapolation/speculation.

BTW - I agree that ET life is more likely than 'God'.

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Do You Still Easily Believe Everything?

by minimus in

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to be a witness you had to accept whatever spiritual food was being dished out.

even if it didn’t make any sense, we were expected to believe.

now that we are out of the cult, do you find yourself a person who doesn’t just accept the status quo?

LoveUniHateExams

Do You Still Easily Believe Everything? - no.

I have my own BS detector, plus this site has helped me somewhat.

Uni also helped me. Studying Biology helped me because in science, you have to justify your statements, reference others , and support your statements with data.