A washing machine that danced across the floor unplugged. I was told not go to antique stores because things could be demonized. A ouija board, a blanket, a set of dishes. The list goes on and on. its stupid.
mickbobcat
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Research question
by JeffT ini'm doing a little background research for a novel.
what is the craziest thing you heard a witness say was demonized, and what did they do about it?.
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What’s Your View On Self Defense?
by minimus inif someone comes to you with a knife or a gun, would you defend yourself if you could?
if someone tried to beat you up , would you physically engage, run away or just try to talk the person out of beating you up or robbing you?
if you did have a gun to defend yourself would you shoot to kill or would you simply aim for the ankle to incapacitate the person?
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A good way to practice at the range is at about 5 yards or closer and use the proper two handed hold push out not raise up and double tap. Two to the chest. The head is too easy under stress to miss. Two to the chest will knock down anyone.
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What’s Your View On Self Defense?
by minimus inif someone comes to you with a knife or a gun, would you defend yourself if you could?
if someone tried to beat you up , would you physically engage, run away or just try to talk the person out of beating you up or robbing you?
if you did have a gun to defend yourself would you shoot to kill or would you simply aim for the ankle to incapacitate the person?
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I carry a 9mm where ever I go. Even to town for bread run. I hope I don't need it but if I do and someone is trying to assault me I will shoot them in the chest. I don't care the color of their skin they get no woke break from me.
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Derek Chauvin - The Right to a Fair Trial
by Simon inanyone following the derek chauvin trial?.
if you are actually following it, not just listening to the media, you will likely realize that there is a huge gap between what is going on in court and what is being reported in the media.. if the trial was fair, i think he should be acquitted.
there is plenty of reasonable doubt about the cause of death (his dealer doesn't want to testify because he could be guilty of 3rd degree murder for selling him a fatal amount of fentanyl) and even doubt over whether the officer even had his knee on the guys neck or did anything counter to what they were meant to do as per policy.. but is it fair?
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I hope a good judge reverses this bad jury decision. It was a forced decision by fear of reprisal from the black lies murder crowd.
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Over population
by mickbobcat inso i see some very counter intuitive videos on how there is no over population issue.
that the world will grow to about 11 billion and stop.
well that would be the first time in human history that population just stopped.
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To say I see food being thrown out by stores and areas are sparse populated is just ignorant of the facts. Fist off there is only a small amount of land on earth that is habitable. Not only are we losing land to desertification each year but 33 percent is desert already and 24 percent is mountains or in the case of Antarctica just not able to support life for humans without a large effort of supply-lines that is not practical. That is 57 percent that is out of the range of use out of the gate. There are already cities that are in the desert like Vegas, LA and others, They are sucking up water at such a rate that the Colorado river does not go to the sea any more. They are so desperate for water there was talk of draining the great lakes to supply cities.
Divide the amount of land that is habitable by the current population and you get just over 2 acres per person. That does not allow for agriculture, stores, factories, schools, water treatment plants ect.
It has been estimated by scientists that for everyone to live like the average American we would need 10 earths to make it possible. It is just ignorant of facts to say I see a lot of empty land when I fly over New Mexico and think there is still a lot of land to use or habitation. Shows a huge lack of intelligence to say this.
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Over population
by mickbobcat inso i see some very counter intuitive videos on how there is no over population issue.
that the world will grow to about 11 billion and stop.
well that would be the first time in human history that population just stopped.
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Another thing people don't get is that the corn belt has lost 1/3 of its top soil. Humans are using up resources at such an astonishing rate it can not go on like this. People are used to living where every thing is relatively cheap. How people lived 125 years ago, 75 to 80 percent lived on small family farms where you farmed for food and did some side jobs be it lumber or other to make a few extra bucks for things you could not grow. WW2 changed the world in many ways. People poured into cities during the war to work in factories and never left. Farms went from family farms to corporate farms. Corporations went from old style of farming to a production line to keep up with ever growing demand. Using petro chemicals and gene modification to produce max yield's. People really do seem to or want to see that we are dancing on the razors edge on food production and many other things. Its really insane how close we all are to going to the store and having little on the shelf. Covid should have woken people up but as we see in the monetary policy after the crash nothing was learned and we are now doing the same shit that caused the housing bubble in 08 to pop. My wife works in loan banking and she said she is seeing the same sketchy crap that was going on in the pre crash times. My broker said the traunches and other things that caused the bubble are back. People don't learn.
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Over population
by mickbobcat inso i see some very counter intuitive videos on how there is no over population issue.
that the world will grow to about 11 billion and stop.
well that would be the first time in human history that population just stopped.
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Redvip, burning rain forests for cattle ect is a fools game, the soil is poor and it only lasts a few short years before its desert. In Asia its deforestation to plant palm oil trees. This is used in everything from shampoo to ice-cream, lipstick, chocolate, pizza, bread, detergent ect. We are dancing on a razors edge and most people don't see it or don't want to see it. How many think its going to as normal after Covid and maybe it will but not for ever. Inflation, and IMO Hyper Inflation is coming down the pike. The USA has been irresponsible with money for many years. Hell we bankrupted the USSR in the cold war and almost did it to our self and are still spending like a drunken sailor. We are set up for one hell of a crash in this world and I don't think anyone can do anything about it. Some well meaning eco nut eating only green no package foods is like trying to bail out the ocean with an Eye dropper. It may make you feel good but does nothing. In many cases it actually makes things worse. I.E Tesla and Wind generators, People think they are helping by buying a Tesla or some EV but the carbon foot print it takes to make one is huge and it still takes coal or NG to make the electricity. You can not have total green energy in electricity, You have to have a coal or NG plant idling in the back ground to run up once the sun is not shining and or the wind not blowing. Not to mention Wind cost more to manufacture and up keep and only lasts about 20 years or so before it needs maintenance. The only thing that could hold off things is to cut population. No one is going to volunteer for the disintegration chamber.
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Over population
by mickbobcat inso i see some very counter intuitive videos on how there is no over population issue.
that the world will grow to about 11 billion and stop.
well that would be the first time in human history that population just stopped.
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LMAO China has not eliminated poverty nor has or will they or India. That is one of the most stupid things I have every heard. That and GPing saying that covid was a US military leak. LOL. You have to be really dumb to buy that crap. People who go to china say even the wealthy live very very modestly and the poor live on factory floors ect. So what they Chinese have done is eliminate the wealthy. China is one of if not the biggest polluters in the world and seen no need to stop. Hell they can not. If they do then its all hell breaking loose. They are afraid of 1. some billion people with pitchforks.
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Over population
by mickbobcat inso i see some very counter intuitive videos on how there is no over population issue.
that the world will grow to about 11 billion and stop.
well that would be the first time in human history that population just stopped.
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Mous, its how the agriculture has changed. They are maxing yield's by petro chemicals and gene modifications. But at the same time run off from these chemicals are causing destruction with things such as Red Tide blooms and poisoning the oceans. This chart in the link shows that we are using today half of all habitable land for agriculture. https://ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture. Another thing with gene modification is lack of diversity leaving crops open to destructive disease and other damage. Crop agriculture land use is not where things have went down but its feel lots. Where ranches used large tracts of land for cows, sheep ect they now use feed lots that cram animals into extremely restrictive paddocks or corrals and kept feeding constantly t make them grow with the help of antibiotics and hormones as fast as possible. Chickens today you buy at the store would not be recognized 50 years ago. They are bread to grow breast meat as fast as possible. The chickens are not even able to walk when grown. The oceans have been over fished so that the stocks are collapsing. Cod a cheap good meat 50 years ago is not expensive compared to what it once was and limits have been put on fishing to try to restore numbers. Most of the fish you eat today is a lie as to wild caught, just as much of the imported honey is not even real honey. The Chinese keep trying to beat testing and coming up with god knows what to make it taste like real honey. Tilapia is raised mostly in Asia and the farms are so disgusting they fish get tumors all over the body. Soon it will be you are eating soylent green.
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Over population
by mickbobcat inso i see some very counter intuitive videos on how there is no over population issue.
that the world will grow to about 11 billion and stop.
well that would be the first time in human history that population just stopped.
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There is no issue on the planet but over population. We can burn all the fossil fuel we want and build what we want if there were only 3 billion people. But 8 billion and growing is killing the planet. No one wants to talk about it because the only way to stop it going to be very strict crack downs on peoples right to reproduce. Even China had a hard time pushing it with all the power the state has over its people. The religious nuts go so far as to say once an egg is fertilized its a human. This is of course hog wash. As population grows it stresses out nature. We are seeing long line nets strip the oceans of life. That is just a fact. Blue Fin Tuna and some Shark species are in danger. People keep pushing into the wild areas taking more and more land for urban expansion and its giving wild life less and less to survive on. Farming is only kept going to supply the world with food due to petrochemical and corporate farming tactics. We have about 20 to 50 years of the way we are going before its a disaster. When we were at even 2 billion people the difference between rich and poor nations was drastic. The third world at the time lived very sustainable life's. Now people in the most poor countries want and have cell phones Internet, and other things that would have been thought impossible 50 years ago. China was a backward nation now its growing leaps and bounds and its people all want cars and homes and all the trappings of modern life same with India ect.
Global warming I have my doubts about. If it is a thing or as bad as some say I think it has a lot to do with cycles of warming and cooling of the earth by nature and sun cycles. But that said over population is causing issues every where. Extinction, food is limited, even during covid we saw how fast food and supplies can be interrupted. To expand food production we see deforestation in places like South America and others. as we push into arable lands and build more and more homes and other things we are using up our land faster and faster. 90 percent of all water used by humans is used for food production. We have no unlimited water source. Some Aqua-firs are closed and when out they stay empty. Some are not closed but replenish very slow. Making water from sea water is possible but costs a lot of time and money and people are used to water that is cheap. Nestle is buying up water rights everywhere in the third world as they see this as a good investment.
The man who predicted the 08 crash moved to buying high water produced vegetables and fruit stocks. There is a saying that one day will will have to give up our 3000 mile salads. It costs a lot of time water ect to move vegetables from Mexico or over seas or even California to other states in winter.
In the early 18th century most people in temperate climates did not see fruits like bananas or oranges ect. Oil has allowed us to live like kings. Now even poor in first world countries have TV, AC, cars cell phones and all the food they could want. Its just not sustainable.