These pictorial essays are waning in popularity. Nevertheless, here’s one more …. just to keep things different. Actually, I believe these maps are very educational.
The areas in red have a greater population than the gray!
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The population (counties) of Middle America and Coastal America are the same.
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Greenland looks so HUGE on a map, or globe. In reality it’s 8 times smaller than South America.
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Texans love to brag about their size. But, they ain’t but a pea next to the Darky Continent.
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There’s a reason I can’t see any stars most nights in the shit-hole state of New Joisey ….. light pollution.
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3.8 million acres of land use.
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From Central and Eastern Europe … to the Sea of Japan … to the Arctic … westward to the Carpathian mountains … to Southeast Asia … to the Indian subcontinent, and the Iranian Plateau ……… the Mongolian Empire was the largest bordering land empire in the history of the world. An astounding 9,000,000 acres.
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Isn’t the USA special!! One of only three countries NOT on the metric system.
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Trees in America ….. we have 8% of the world’s total.
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Abandoned railroads …. a national disgrace!
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The USA has 8 million miles of highway.
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Hey, LLPOH, bite me!! America is 27% larger than Australia. USA!USA!USA!
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LA County has a population larger than each of these states. Also, LA County has 27 times the amount of shit on their sidewalks.
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The states sized by population density.
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China (3.6 million sq mi) is slightly larger than the USA (3.5 million sq mi). Now try to imagine the USA with ONE BILLION more people! That’s why those commie rat bastards eat bats, cats, dogs, insects, and anything else that moves, including dicks.
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Dotland is even worse …. 1.3 billion dots in an area one-third the size of the USA. On a windy day you can smell the stench in Kansas City. India will eventually collapse under its own weight …. and then most will come to the USA to work in the call centers.
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Ufookingbelievable!!
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Did you realize Antarctica was this HUGE?? Less than 5,000 people live there … or, about the number of Dots packed in one bus in Calcutta. None of the population are permanent residents … all researchers, scientists, etc.
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Countries the Brits invaded. Damned Brits! Aren’t you curious as to why the fuck they never invaded Sweden?
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Civilian Gun Ownership
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2016 Presidential Election
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This map of the brain cost about $300 million to produce. Obama lauched the “Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechologies” (BRAIN) Initiative, a research project with the ambitious goal of mapping every neuron in the human brain, with the long-term hope of unraveling the neurological causes of various diseases. If they only chose to map Joe Biden’s brain — it would have only cost about ten bucks.
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The Milky Way according to Star Trek. Looks like resisting the Borg really is futile.
THE END
We should be glad that were not on the metric system. It makes no sense. Common sense always triumphs over Euro weenies
I’ll bet you’d love the metric system if Elon Musk used it on his shit Tesla’s.
The metric system is based upon powers of ten.
You have your base units, such as kilogram, and then a system of prefixes, which may be used to change the base unit by factors of 10 … milli-, centi-, deci-, and kilo. For example, a liter is 10 times larger than a deciliter, and a centigram is 10 times larger than a milligram.
The beauty of this method is that in order to convert between units (i.e., from grams to kilograms) all you have to do is move the decimal point to the right or left.
This makes it MUCH EASIER to understand than the imperial system. Well, easier if you’re not a dumkopf.
“Euro weenies??” The whole world uses it ya moran.
Well, easier if you’re not a dumkopf.
I usually pass on these kind of inane comments. But this one irks me.
Any of those metric using countries ever put a man on the moon dumbkopf?
“Well, easier if you’re not a dumkopf.”
Awwww, poor widdle snowflake Charlie, all butthurt and triggered cuz mean old Stucky said ‘dumkopf’. (Which I said in jest … flash and I are pals who like to jab each other.)
And you think the USA put a man on the moon because we use the imperial system???? We also have another German word for people like you; dumfuck.
1.75L or 1/2 gal, It’s all just a handle to me…..
When they changed from qt to l for alcohol sales, my dad asked me how much liquor went up with the change. He had an old bottle with a price on it and a new one. I calculated and it seems it was around 5% increase. I guess they made the customers pay for the conversion and we are still paying for it with every handle we bring home.
Stuck, here are the basis points of our system. An inch is basically the width of a man’s thumb, foot, that’s kind of self-explanatory, and the yard is basically a man’s stride. What the fuck is a centimeter? Who knows, and who cares. So having a useful baseline means that American dudes can be getting stuff done, while euro weenies are sitting around waiting for somebody to lend them a ruler. It’s not a coincidence that we had to save that stupid continent twice.
Fine. But, whose thumb, yours or mine? Whose foot, yours or mine? Whose gait, yours or mine? I’m 6’7″. There’s a big difference between my foot and yours. Your example makes no sense.
You only need to see a centimeter ONCE to know what it is. But, Americans (according to you) need to look at their thumbs their entire lives to see an inch? That’s crazy. In your case, why don’t you just look at your pecker? 🙂
Jeebus, I didn’t think this thread would be mostly about the metric system. There were several other cool maps.
I like the one about our masters … the world’s billionaires. Jeez, there’s a lot. In conjunction with that, I liked the one about private gun ownership. Seems like we have enough in America to kill all of them.
You don’t have to explain to anyone in science or engineering. Actually the latter (poor fuckers) are constantly having to do weird conversion between the two.
Awesome article, dude. Just because you’re wrong about the metric system doesn’t mean you don’t produce outstanding content for the blog. Thumbs up?
Hey, your initial comment turned into 15 posts! That’s gooood!
Yeah, I could be wrong. I figure I’m batting around .500 when it comes to being right.
How ’bout that weenie that got triggered because I called you a ‘moran’. Da dummy doesn’t even realize that’s a term of endearment here!
Thanks for the compliment. Means a lot to me.
Star – a centimeter is 2/3 of a pinkie.
I’m from Miami. We know that an ounce is 28.35 grams. Unless you’re from out of state, in which case it’s 28 grams even.
Nope, and neither did the one using the avoirdupois system. And frankly most science is metric based, so I would question just what system was used by NASA as part of their pointless jobs program.
Ask the dipshits at Fuckweed.
http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/
Aaaaaaaaand …. AOC makes an appearance! Three hip hip hoorays and a hearty Heidi Heidi Ho Ho.
First Llpoh and now AOC…..Come on EC…. Say something. I/S should come on back too.
There are so many equations in physics and thermodynamics that can be understood by simply understanding the breakdown of units, but it only really works in metric. For instance, if you understand how force, energy and power break down and then can apply proper units, you get:
1 Newton = 1 kg*m/sec^2…then energy is force applied along a distance, so 1 Joule = 1 kg*m^2/sec^2. Then power is energy applied per unit time, so 1 Watt = 1kg*m^2/sec^3. And that is the same Watt, mechanically, as the electrical Watt = 1 Amp*Volt or 1 Watt = 1 (coulomb/sec)*(Joule/coulomb).
Metric units make it simple enough that I could ace engineering tests despite spending most of my college years in a drunken stupor.
Now, I can only think and design in English units, that make no sense. like 1 lbf = 1 slug*ft/sec^2. What the fuck is a slug of mass? That said, I have no intuitive idea about metric lengths. I know 1 Stucky’s Schlong = 19mm but what does that really mean?
So, that’s how you make a Fig Newton? Awesome.
Yup, right there in the “Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.”
3 semesters of pure physics and 2 of physical chemistry and I have never seen that explained so succinctly.
I’m genuinely glad and hope it helps.
An easy one with kilomerts goes like this:
A highschool track is 400 meters long. 4 laps is a mile or 1600 meters. Everything I work with is sub mm so I don’t have an intuitive grasp of mm vs inches. I just don’t use them.
Worked with a big tech company and we converted to metric units of length over about 4 years in the late ’80s-wasn’t too difficult, but it still takes a little time to visualize something like 47mm, though through experience a quick answer is “something a little less than 2 inches”. Therefore we know that Bill Clinton’s dick is about 76 mm (as Monica verified in her conversation with Linda).
I can’t think conceptualize well in metric either…but I wish I could.
The other one to think about is Fahrenheit vs Celsius.
Set the freezing point of water (STP) at 0, set the building point of water (STP) at 100 and you scale is set. It’s brilliant. Sure Absolute Zero is a round number, but at the time they had no idea that there was such a thing.
I honestly have no idea whatsoever where the Fahrenheit scale came from.
Oops. Absolute Zero is NOT a round number in Celsius. -273.15C
Is it compatible with Commie Core?
Elon does build the teslas using the metric system. I don’t think any car is built using english units.
Actually, most science is on the metric system worldwide. It is far easier to add, subtract, divide, and multiply by powers of ten. Don’t get me wrong. I prefer the avoirdupois system for the measurements I do on a regular basis, but the metric is a much simpler way to do the math.
There is a fun (at least for me) discussion of some of the practical and theoretical problems associated with various linked units of mass, energy etc. at Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Prototype_of_the_Kilogram
The stability of the IPK was crucial because the kilogram underpinned much of the SI system of measurement as it was defined and structured until 2019. For instance, the newton is defined as the force necessary to accelerate one kilogram at one metre per second squared. If the mass of the IPK were to change slightly then the newton would also change proportionally. In turn, the pascal, the SI unit of pressure, is defined in terms of the newton. This chain of dependency follows to many other SI units of measure. For instance, the joule, the SI unit of energy, is defined as that expended when a force of one newton acts through one metre. Next to be affected is the SI unit of power, the watt, which is one joule per second.
Until May 2019, the ampere was also defined relative to the newton. With the magnitude of the primary units of electricity thus determined by the kilogram, so followed many others, namely the coulomb, volt, tesla, and weber. Even units used in the measure of light would be affected; the candela—following the change in the watt—would in turn affect the lumen and lux.
Because the magnitude of many of the units comprising the SI system of measurement was until 2019 defined by its mass, the quality of the IPK was diligently protected to preserve the integrity of the SI system. However, the average mass of the worldwide ensemble of prototypes and the mass of the IPK have likely diverged another 7.4 μg since the third periodic verification 31 years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_redefinition_of_the_SI_base_units
And, of course, the less said about the dalton, the better.
Thanks for clarifying exactly where the Hirogen empire is located! Here’s some quotes from a good episode:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708999/characters/nm0381117
As a Star Trek Online player since Beta (and a Fleet Admiral), I can assure you that big patch of Borg ain’t gettin’ no bigger.
We don’t play with punkass Borg. We go all Jean-Luc on ’em: “NO FURTHER!”
Lily Sloane: Oh, excuse me! I didn’t mean to interrupt your little quest! Captain Ahab has to go hunt his whale.
Jean-Luc Picard: What did you say?
Lily Sloane: What? You don’t have books in the 24th century?
Jean-Luc Picard: This is not about revenge!
Lily Sloane: Liar!
Jean-Luc Picard: This is about saving the future of humanity!
Lily Sloane: Jean-Luc, blow up the damn ship!
Jean-Luc Picard: NO! Nooooooooo! [smashes a display case in anger] [both pause, shocked]
Jean-Luc Picard: I will not sacrifice the Enterprise. We’ve made too many compromises already, too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far and no further! And I will make them pay for what they’ve done!
Lily Sloane: [looking at the broken remains of the Enterprise-D model] You broke your little ships. [pause] See you around, Ahab.
Jean-Luc Picard: [softly, to himself] “And he piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the rage and hate felt by his whole race. If his chest had been a cannon he would have shot his heart upon it.”
Lily Sloane: What?
Jean-Luc Picard: Moby Dick.
Lily Sloane: Actually, I never read it.
Jean-Luc Picard: Ahab spent years hunting the white whale that crippled him; but in the end, it destroyed him and his ship.
Lily Sloane: I guess he didn’t know when to quit.
The early maps succinctly show why the Electoral College is a keeper.
Thanks for proving the founders had a really good reason for the electoral college.
Glad you’re back Stuck. I’ve missed your straight no-nonsense delivery. 😉
Could easily have been done without the overt racism.
And am I the only one who thinks that overpriced brain looks a lot like a few dollar play ball?
Hey … it was one of b h o’s projects. ‘Nuff said …
Diversity hire.
The hat doesn’t make him look insane, but, the ‘T’ shirt sure does.
Hahahahahahahaha! Hilarious, man.
Snowflake.
Nope, just makes good information less ideal to forward to others.
Very interesting. I love maps. But even the first one is deceptive. Unintentionally, of course, because county boundaries rule – even if they are in uninhabited areas.
Am in Tuscon now but live in Phoenix. Literally ALL of the population there lives in 5-10% of the red area shown. The rest you can die of thirst before finding someone.
And in the entire red southern California, all those people are in a “millimeter” wide strip along the coast. All of the right hand side may as well be the Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia.
Ever driven from San Bernardino to Vegas? Yuma to Palm Springs? Vegas to Reno? Don’t.
California’s Central Valley? Empty. Miami 7 miles in from the coast? Alligators!
I’m probably being obvious, but we live in an age of exaggerated overgeneralizing and stereotyping, witnessed in the media “culture”.
For me, the light pollution map best portrays population density. I would commend Stuck for his brilliance except for one thing: his admission to still living in NJ. Come out West and we’ll show you some fantastic places to set up your telescope.
https://nypost.com/2020/10/24/fuggedaboutit-new-jersey-is-the-most-hated-state-in-america/
(my contribution from the 2nd (possibly 3rd) most hated state in America.)
That WILL change by next June. Finished. Done. Bye bye. Fuck you NJ!! My mom is “all in” on the idea. Looking for a warm state.
Florida is out. Waaay too many retirement communities (who the hell wants to live with a bunch of old people??), and club communities (too many retard Boomers), and their god-dammned land-lease and/or HOA fees. Can you see me abiding be some fucken rules on what I can or can’t do on my OWN property?? Me neither.
Really truly liking Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia.
Search for a breeze Stucky or you’ll be moving again.
South Carolina is a good place to live if you stay away from the southern portion of the state (where the old plantations were). I’ve lived here all of my life and love it. You could get a nice place at Clark’s Hill next to the lake (now named after Strom Thurmond, but nobody calls it that.) Aiken and Edgefield counties are nice places to live. Greenville is nice is you like larger areas.
Buy the way, if you sell your house, you won’t have to spend all of that money for a house in S.C. The housing costs are much lower here. And our cost of living is drastically lower than New Jersey. The taxes aren’t as bad. And gas is cheap in this state.
Thanks for the tips, Vix.
I have not ruled out SC. I did check out Clark’s Hill. It must be nice …. there’s only ONE property for sale (on Zillow)! I haven’t ruled out Texas either.
I should say stay away from the southwest part of the state, south of the Savannah River Site, the nuclear plant. The southern coast line isn’t bad at all.
This is where my son’s finance lives, Seabrook Island.
Make the move AFTER the Farm Fiesta next year. You may rethink where you want to live and where you belong.
Georgia has a lot of Democrats, ahem, especially around the Atlanta area and Savannah.
Wonderful post. Love geography! I had no idea Antarctica was as populated as a dothead bus! Once upon a time (15 years ago), I was offered the “opportunity” of doing a 330 day stint (for tax purposes) in Antarctica. Great money, but no thanks said my fiance at that time!
FWIW, if someone here ever gets a job offer in Antarctica, seriously consider taking it. All living expenses and transport are covered, and there’s nowhere to spend that big paycheck. A friend did three years Down There, and is “set for life” financially.
Of course, you wife might object to your being gone for a few years….
I know a guy who was a crane operator there for a short while and yes, they got divorced.
Would that be Mickey from Wisconsin?
My only worry is, something would happen, and only Childs and I would survive.
Crazy Swedes. (They’re Norwegians, Mac!)
Just for a chuckle, I’m waiting for Moon landing pictures from all of those metric countries. 🙂 And I’m not holding my breath. Where’s my ROFL?
In my design education, we explored and studied all the “human-based” measurement systems of most cultures in history. Metric was not among them.
Enjoying your Liberal Arts degree? Learn anything of real value? Appears not.
What’s life without rods, cubits and arshins?
Rods were used to build the medieval cathedrals in England. A simple system but it worked splendidly for the purpose.
Fun and thought-provoking.
Still, on a GLOBE, Greenland appears to be exactly the right size.
Good stuff Stucky thanks for posting!
That map with the moon circle around southeast asia floors me. If the Jim Rogers of the world are right and the economic gods are swinging back in favor or China, I’d buy Alibaba — given amazon’s track record in the west. This all assumes Bill Gates doesn’t get his hands on those peeps first. Given gun ownership and population per land area, it almost feels like the USA is the place to be if the shit hits the fan! Who the f— knows though.
I’d much rather be in the place I know when the SHTF.
Outstanding Stucky. Outstanding.
The metric system should be used. Period.
The black hole on N. Central Fl.(satellite map of light) offers a delight to watch the Klingon empire flit around out here.
Moody AFB to the north of me sends out the A-10 Warthogs at 200 ft above the corporate farms to chase them away. (Gotta let Gates feed the world. Or maybe they’re looking for good deer stand locations).
Blogs NEED people like you (note I didn’t use that frickin term, “folks”?) Your foul-mouthed, biased Jersey defamations are a shining example of what got the shit off the field and into the gears of production.
Onward!
I got buzzed by a pair of A-10’s on a lonely stretch of highway outside Alexandria, LA. Scared the crap out of me, but glad I did not hear the brrrrrrrt.
Drop your jaw midstep kind of awesome!
You praise his foul mouthed vulgarity as a shining example?
Why are anonymous posters always cum gargling fudge packers? Some things never change.
Miss you, sir! Good to see you’re still throwing punches.
I praise him for being who he is. His region/area ruled the world at a point in time. It meant rising in the morn and slogging it out another day. This meant doing and saying what needed to be said at any given time. Stucky is merely an extension of that regions history. I appreciate that most especially when viewed from that correct context.
That was both informational and entertaining. What could be better than that? And don’t ever confuse a perceived dearth of comments as waning in popularity.
Thank you for both your words, and the graphic.
I stop by for the first time in ages and:
1) am delighted to see Stuck posting. Outstanding! Though the fact that asshats are downvoting him remind me of why I am not stopping by more often. Nice pictorial, Stuck. You are the man.
2) am dismayed that Stuck does not understand that nations need to be measured by the number of people per sq kilometre – the lower the better. By that measure Greenland and Oz rule!
Have you learned to speak Chinese yet?
Hell no, I am still trying to learn ‘Stralian.
Is that related to ‘Strine?
It is a Combo of American English and ‘Strine. Hell, not even native Aussies all understand ‘Strine. That is fair dinkum hard yakka even for natives except for the yobbos and bogans. I tried to learn ‘Strine but it had me running around like a mad woman pissin’ and people thought I was a tinnie short of a slab.
Do drop by again. Your perspectives on Oz Today are appreciated.
Oz today sucks ass. I have been battling the fucks in charge non-stop for a while now. The worm may have finally turned, and more and more people are waking up. The entire world has gone fucking nuts.
Similar to what Stuck shows – there are two Australias. There is city Oz, which sucks the big wazoo. And there is country Oz. Which is terrific. Same goes with the US – big shitties are shitholes, and the country/small town folk and areas are wonderful.
My life has been largely unchanged through all this shit – out in the bush away from the riffraff. But those in the cities are fucked.
Llpoh.
News of your demise were premature. I thought the children of the mask had come for you. We think BB may have passed away.
BB gone? That really sucks. Deciphering BB’s posts was a great joy for everyone. So many have left us too early.
Glad to see you, Llpoh. I was thinking the authoritarians down under raided your place and put you on the rack. But it’s nice to read that you are well and good in your rural abode.
So far, this week, Stuck has raised the ghost of Mags and, now, you. Hopefully EC isn’t far behind.
I sometimes wonder if TBP isn’t like smoking… no one really quits, they just stop for a while.?
Llpoh- Everyone misses Beebs.
Just wondering if you have to wear a mask around the local establishments? What you said about the country folk is SO true, that is why I spend most of my time in my country home.
It really is great to have you back!
I iz here. Type faster, dammit.
Hey Loopey! How are you? Please come back…. Stucky and I are friends now and I need someone to argue with. 🙂
Just kidding! Great to see you man.
BL – thanks. Hope you are well in this insane world.
So what you are saying is you miss me kicking your ass. I am touched.
I miss you as well, Llpoh. Especially your comments like the one above to BL.
haha. I gots fat fingers.
One moar thing.
I don’t give a flying fuck about down votes. Really and truly. I still love getting up-votes, that’s for sure!!
And, yeah, I know you recall how pissed off I got at down votes. People even called me a Vote Whore. However, been here waaaaay to long to let down-votes bother me anymore.
Stuck – it is not that down votes bother me, it is that folks do not 1) have respect for certain posters (you, Admin as examples) and 2) they do not evaluate comments on their merits but vote based on which club they believe you belong to, no matter what you post. That sucks and did not used to happen.
Stucky, you can buy a regular computer keyboard to plug into your laptop if your fingers don’t fit.
I learned how to type on a manual typewriter and used electric typewriters for many years, both with the keys tiered upwards. I have a hard time typing on straight laptop keyboards. I simply use an added keyboard that has little feet at the back that can angle it upwards. Works great. And they’re cheap.
Stucky – Generally the more down votes you’re getting the closer you are to the truth. The thicker the flak, the closer you are to the target.
Full speed ahead!
Stuck – thank you. You touched on the issues that saw me abandon ship. That you were MIA and that the Admin was commenting less frequently left me by myself fighting the fucktards and it grew tiresome. Hell, even when he commented, the Admin got booed. That was a final straw – that is simply unheard of by and large. And from what I am seeing, it is happening to you a bit, which is simply astonishing and reflective of the current clientele. It is a worry.
Re EC, I am so sorry to hear that. He is my friend, and we have an affinity for each other. I will keep him in my thoughts. That news really sucks.
Thanks again. I will reflect on what you have said.
Fantastic. That’s all I’m really asking. You have my respect no matter what you decide … always will.
Gotta run. It’s 8:15PM and I can hear mom calling me, and wanting her dinner. She usually wants her dinner at 7:30.
BTW – Stuck, I am so sorry for your losses and tribulations. I should have said that first and foremost. I admire your fortitude and resilience.
Thank You.
Losing dad was expected. Mom is with me … in-home hospice. Her journey soon to the great beyond is expected. But, Ms. Freud’s passing was beyond devastating. I still have days of great mourning, when I truly feel like this; “Hoka Hey”.
But, I must prevail. Life must go on. I have living souls in this world who care for me. These are all things I am newly learning, day by day, even moment by moment.
I gotta go, dammit!!
Gute Nacht, mein Freund.
Whoever down-voted that comment deserves a little rectal surgery sans anesthetic.
Haha! You’re right. But, so what.
I have very many incredible friends here, and many supporters over the past 10+ years. People like you.
But, I’ve also made several fucken enemies. People don’t like my potty mouth, or my posts — like that ‘did you get caught choking the chicken’ QOTD — my sarcasm, my twisted humor, and, of course, I am very quick to call out someone as a douche when they are being a dick.
A little while back I had a one word response — “Niiiice!” —- to a funny political cartoon. And I got THREE thumbs down! Ha!
It comes with the territory. I deserve what I get. I can take what I dish out.
So, thanks. I always love your posts … you are one smart dude. No bullshit.
I leave you with the same (unasked) advice I gave to Llpoh …. don’t let the fucken dicks on this site drive you away. Not permanently, anyways.
Right back at you, Stuck. You make this place better in a lot of ways and your absent is always felt.
In other words shut up and believe what we say you can. Don’t present any viewpoint or or links that challenge your received wisdom. So we basically have Fox and Friends. Got it.
Anonymous. Coward. Blow me. Thanks for playing.
It is one of the universe’s great truths – people that post anonymously are all brain damaged from having their heads bounced off the wall while being pounded from behind by Kentavious K’Shadrak all day.
What is more important-a writer’s thoughts/opinions/questions or their handle?
The fact they want to stay anonymous says more than their thoughts, opinions,questions. You have to wonder why the anonymity.
When people post without a handle, we cannot learn who they are, or what their positions are. Many people posting as anonymous means that they all remain anonymous, and their posts will be given little thought, and garner few responses.
How hard is it for those posting anonymously to create an appropriate name for themselves like “Imanarsehole” so we know who we are addressing?
I believe they are intertwined. To deliberately (versus accidentally, like when you’ve cleared cache) post anonymously demonstrates a lack of conviction. It’s worse than having a bad content of character. It’s fence sitting and deserves a swift kick in the nuts.
One caveat: If you’re bored enough and have the urge to play mind games with TBP trolls.
If you feel that way, why the hell are you still here?
All the reasons I have been commenting very little of late. There have always been few people here that I genuinely enjoy reading/engaging with, but the ratio seems to be getting worse and worse as more time passes.
Two thoughts occur…people like to think that they are above the fray when it comes to the Fourth Turning and the End of the American Empire, but no one is. I believe it is deep in everyone’s psyche at this point and the best we can do is to simply be aware of that fact and still try to maintain some sort of balance.
Also, I think something analogous to Gresham’s Law applies across a much broader spectrum than just money. I think Bad Faith Arguments drive out Good Faith Ones, and in our modern world, Low Quality Comments/Commenters drive our the Good.
Welcome back. I have basically become a lurker here as I have seen the downward trend. Also, I have been busier that a one-legged man at an ass-kicking contest of late.
DRUD- Nice to see you too. Maybe you could comment on a regular basis , time permitting, and raise the level of conversation along with Loopey. I would like to hear your thoughts on this COVID mess we are in .
Thanks BL. And since you asked here goes:
In short, as always of late, there is too much information in general, too much bad information, too much politicization and far too little nuance.
I learned about the Coronavirus first in January…HERE. This happens a lot that raciss, deplorable, conspiracy theory laden, alt-right cesspools get the info first.
I then got most of my information from my old college roommate through Facebook, who is a bio-chemist and serious scientist. He was invaluable at producing solid analysis of the data that was available and what to ignore. He realized very early on that it was useless to track the number of cases and instead follow the numbers of deaths…then take a roughly 1% fatality rate and use it as a two-week lagging indicator of cases. These were growing exponentially in March and it was actually scary. Where these data were taken and how and by whom…well that is always a valid skeptical question, but almost always useless because it can never be known.
Now, I was never really worried about getting seriously ill or dying from it myself…but more of transmitting it to others more vulnerable and of the ensuing panic collapsing the world economy.
And what of that? Well, the system has proven itself to be far more resilient that I would have imagined. It seems that the central banks of the world really do have the power to paper over all problems…at least for the time being. I can’t imagine them being able to do so for long, but again, the times we live in are MORE unique that any that have come before.
Along about May, I started listening to Bret Weinstein and his wife Heather Heying on their podcast Darkhorse. They are excellent scientists and thinkers and worth listening to for everyone. The concern they voiced is less about the absolute death rate of SARS-Cov-2 but of long-term consequences that many people have shown, what might be downstream of those (there could be repercussions 20-30 YEARS later for all we know) and what might happen if this thing is allowed to evolve in the Petrie Dish of the general population. These things are never discussed in the mainstream. Also, to balance the perspective, they mention things like Density Dependence of Viral Load and UV Susceptibility, things the MSM believes people are too stupid to comprehend.
This leads to masks. Masks work to slow the spread of viruses in SOME ways. Viruses are at best an edge-case of organisms…meaning they are and are not living things. They need living cells to exist and to procreate…period. What this means is that they do not travel alone. This makes the mosquito and chain-link fence analogy disingenuous. Try hocking a big ole loogey through a mask and tell me they. Also, in the analogy the fence would be hundreds of feet THICK with each layer offset…mosquitos would die in an endless maze of chain-link.
That said, the way most people wear masks and are told to wear them is idiotic. 1) YOU DO NOT NEED THEM OUTSIDE–especially in the sun. 2) You do not need to wear them in your car–I can’t believe this needs to be said. 3) They will do more harm than they cause fi worn for more that 20 minutes or so. 4) I personally hate wearing one and do so as little as possible, which is pretty fucking little really so it is not that big of deal and certainly no hill to die on. Rage against them all you want but it is silly and pointless. Maybe the Global Elite are really using them in some decades-ago designed scheme to be the final nail in the coffin of our enslavement…but no, its not that. It’s just an ancient story of too much bullsit and too much corruption, bureaucracy and rot in institutions that accompanies the fall of every empire…and of course more this one because it is in the “Information Age.”
That all said, talk of lockdowns no is absolutely ridiculous. Doing so in the month of April made a bit of sense…at least there was a position to argue. Now it is likely talking about amputating an arm to cure a hangnail.
There…some of my thoughts at least. A little nuance and an honest, but perhaps wrong, perspective.
Drud- Do you know anyone who actually died of the COVID? If so, please list their age and where they work/reside. Any thoughts on where the flu/coronary/stroke death rate wandered off to?
Nope. No one. I interact with very few people. However, even if I interacted with hundreds on a daily basis my knowing or not knowing people who have died from Covid would be evidence of precisely dick.
No idea. Haven’t looked into it and not much inclined to….I have better uses of time.
Drud
I have had several clients die from Covid. Elderly and in nursing homes or visited nursing home.
Other than that, one client 50ish who recovered slowly.
I will never believe this was more than a flu. They could loose a more deadly strain later IDK.
Drud – I hear you loud and clear. Take care. Still deciding if I am back, a once in a while, etc. I miss many here.
Stucky says:
— Jesus, Satan, God, Antichrist, humans marrying snakes, more Jesus, Edomites, Annunaki …. the sermonizing and witnessing and concomitant condemnations (should you even disagree slightly) are, at times, overwhelming.
Guilty as charged.
Death changed me twenty years ago with the passing of dad, and then the opportunity to bury a mother of a five yr. old boy and a six month old daughter (named Grace…how’s that for some ironic shit) There is not one single thing I’ve read from you so far, that I, or someone in our immediate family, have not experienced for myself; like just a few months ago when my sis in laws insurance had reached the lifetime max, so she was transferred out of state to a place that would take her (life support ventilator)
People round here think the cussin and rough talk is only to be found in NJ?
I do not downvote unless I take the time to state my reason for it, which is less and less because not many seemed to respond.
I will never apologize to you, llpoh, or anyone else, for discussing the Word and all the incredible aspects of it !
I often (almost nightly, but sometimes it’s cloudy) gaze up at the magnificence of the skies, and wonder how people could EVER live in a city…….the new LED street lamps put in a year ago are too much distraction for my likin……..
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <<——–===
It really doesn't matter if people believe God is retired and the bible is just a book on a shelf, because everything we're seeing, from Kansas to the Land of Oz itself, is the result of the beliefs held by those who worship the one name you missed-Lucifer, and they believe he is coming back.
I spent yesterday 40' up in an old cottonwood (on some one else's property) to save the electric line running to my 86 yr. old mother-in-law's house. The electric line running to the house where the tree sits, already had a couple tons of ice covered limbs straining it to the point of smoking/arching occurring…
I agree …. you shouldn’t. I did NOT have you in mind when I wrote that. I mostly enjoy and agree with your posts.
Do people actually live in Antarctica just because that’s where they wanted to live? Or do they just go there for a while to work and therefore are forced to live in a hostile environment? If you take a tour there do they let you go where ever you want? Is there really a Nazi UFO base there? Why is everybody else arguing about the metric system? If we become a One World Order, will we be forced into metric? I don’t know and who cares anyway?
There is no private property in Antarctica. All access is controled by a government.
Which government, Karl? And why?
I believe all the major countries are involved in Antarctica and have bases there – the U.S, Russia, China, the U.K., and a few others. I’ve read nobody is allowed to visit there unless approved by one of the governments. However, this past year, a lot of government types have been visiting, which makes you wonder what the hell is going on there.
VIC- They seem to know that Antarctica will be a green land mass by the late 2030’s. Wonder how they know this? Anywho, there are vast resources on Antarctica that the greedy bastards can’t wait to exploit.
It won’t be a green land mass if the predictions of global cooling are correct. (Based on the lack of sun spots, global cooling is more likely than global warming.)
BL, you’re right about the vast resources the greedy bastards are after. Byrd, in his interviews, mentions tons of coal and uranium. But it makes you wonder what they’re not reporting.
So, they are conspiring together, like they are on this CONvid thing. I’ve heard some really wild things about it. It’s something that rouses my curiosity but I never really looked into it. I wonder if the Operation Paperclip imports brought in information about it.
Antarctica is a curious subject. Admiral Byrd, who explored the region, made some observations that are out of this world in the 1940s, saying there are lands on the other side of the continent.
Part2: I had to use this because I can’t find the original video of Byrd talking about land beyond the Antarctic. I think YouTube has taken it down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1CPumIlybE
Interesting. I’ll check it out, Vic.
Vic- Admiral Byrd was a bloodline LARP. He has a pedigree longer than your arm.
King Edward I
King Henry III
King Louis IV
William the Conqueror
Charlemagne
These were his 18th-24th great grandfathers in his lineage. He is NOT a random. Just to drive home the acting end of this he was related to Ellen DeGeneres , Robin Williams, Lee Marvin and many others.
Do you follow Miles Mathis?
Lol! Are you asking BL that?
Yes, to BL. Follow Miles Mathis?
Look Vic, I took a look at MM many years ago and he was mostly in the weeds. It would benefit you to open your mind to the fact that the pirate class has used a bloodline acting force to entertain and control the human population for a great long time. I am serious as a heart attack. Byrd is bloodline….period.
I looked at MM a few years back. Someone else not on TBP was recommending him. I went back as far as I could into his archives and it was creepy. He advocated for marrying girls at onset of puberty at appx age 13. Gave me the creeps.
I do think there is something to bloodlines. I don’t delve into it because it’s just not my what I want my dog to hunt. I’ll let others go there and report back. There’s just not enough time in the day to look into all the weirdness going on and we have enough fires to try to put out right now as it is.
Oh, I do, indeed, believe they keep everything in the family, from marriage to riches.
And nobody thought it was weird that suddenly no one was allowed to explore there anymore.
Part 3: This is long. Skip to 47:00 to see the part on warm areas with fresh water lakes found in the Antarctic. Supposedly, there are several warm islands, but I can no longer find that video.
That old Neuschwabenland UFO base is strictly off-limits for tourists.
And if you ask, they’ll even tell you it never existed. Assholes!
The Civilian Gun Ownership map shows why in other countries they use knives, machetes, baseball bats, pipes, acid and bombs. They going to maim or kill whether they have guns or not.
Stucky, I liked the pictorial. Keep them coming.
“And you think the USA put a man on the moon because we use the imperial system???? We also have another German word for people like you; dumfuck.”
Hmmmmm. Who’s the dumfuk?
Stucky, this is the kind of information that should be on the internet. The readers learn something and find it very interesting. Factual beats made up BS any day.
Thanks for posting this pictorial.
Me neither. Excellent question. So, I did a quick search, for us. Here ya go.
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Fahrenheit: Facts, History & Conversion Formulas
Fahrenheit is a temperature scale that bases the boiling point of water at 212 and the freezing point at 32. It was developed by Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, a German-born scientist who lived and worked primarily in the Netherlands. Today, the scale is used primarily in the United States and some Caribbean countries. The rest of the world uses the Celsius scale.
In 1714, Fahrenheit developed the first modern thermometer — the mercury thermometer, with more refined measurements than previous temperature gauges. Fahrenheit’s thermometer was a take on an alcohol-based thermometer invented by Olaus Roemer, a Danish scientist. Roemer marked two points on his thermometer — 0 as the lowest point, 60 as the temperature of boiling water, 7.5 as the point where ice melted and 22.5 as body temperature.
Because the mercury thermometer was more accurate, Fahrenheit decided to expand the Roemer scale by multiplying its values by four. He made adjustments to those metrics based on further research, even putting the thermometer under his wife’s armpit to gain a body temperature.
In his initial scale, the zero point was determined by placing the thermometer in an equal mix of ice, water, and salt (ammonium chloride). This stable temperature was set as 0. The second point, at 32, was an equal mix of ice and water. The third point, 96, was approximately the human body temperature, referred to as “blood-heat.”
While Fahrenheit documented in an article that he used the boiling and freezing points of water to build his scale, there were some conspiracy theorists who thought he had other motives for using those numbers. Some believe that Fahrenheit was a Freemason, and because there are 32 degrees of enlightenment, he chose to use 32 as the melting temperature of water. However, there is no record that the scientist was a Freemason.
In yet another story, it is said that Fahrenheit believed that a person would freeze to death at 0 degrees and would succumb to a heat stroke at 100.
The scale was recalibrated after his death, marking 32 and 212 as the exact melting and boiling points of plain water, minus the salt. It also makes the normal body temperature 98.6, which is what has become the standard.
That change made Celsius-to-Fahrenheit conversions easier. The size of the Fahrenheit “degree” is five-ninths the size of the same unit on Celsius and Kelvin temperature scales. This makes it easier to provide more exact measurements without using fractions in the Fahrenheit scale.
The Fahrenheit and Celsius scales converge at minus 40 F, so that minus 40 F and minus 40 C represent the same temperature.
Supporters of the Fahrenheit scale note that a degree on the Fahrenheit scale is the temperature change that the average person can detect.
Conversion formulas
Fahrenheit to Celsius: Subtract 32, then multiply by 5, then divide by 9
Celsius to Fahrenheit: Multiply by 9, divide by 5, then add 32
Fahrenheit to Kelvin: Subtract 32, multiply by 5, divide by 9, then add 273.15
Kelvin to Fahrenheit: Subtract 273.15, multiply by 1.8, then add 32
Some dude named Fahrenheit came up wit it, it’s like everything else on this planet, made up systems of measurement adopted as the norm.
Nice info. Never head any of that history before.
Perhaps because it was green land mass once before? Before I get to that, ever wonder how Greenland got its name? Me too.
The name Greenland comes from Scandinavian settlers. In the Norse sagas, it is said that Erik the Red was exiled from Iceland for murder. … After going to that massive blob of snow and ice, he named the land Grfnland (Greenland), …. for the sole purpose of getting his peeps to move there! Fake news!!
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GREENLAND: “Ancient Greenland [actually] was green. New Danish research has shown that it was covered in conifer forest and had a relatively mild climate.”
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070705153019.htm#:~:text=07%2F070705153019.htm-,Ancient%20Greenland%20was%20green.,had%20a%20relatively%20mild%20climate.
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ANTARCTICA: “It may be hard to believe, but Antarctica was once covered in towering forests.” Amazing!
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-12378934
Is it because of natural earth cycles? Flipping poles? Both?
MC and Stucky- My quandary was the timeline. Do they have a time machine that they KNOW these things? Or do they have HAARP technology that can melt the ice cap?
I’ll take HAARP for 500 Chuck.
Not sure anyone REALLY knows.
1) One group of scientists from England
— “came to the conclusion that the formation of ice on top of the island had to have been caused by unusual changes within the area’s atmospheric carbon dioxide. Changes of this nature can cause a big difference in the climate of the afflicted region, so it is no wonder that a decline of atmospheric carbon dioxide could have caused the Greenland ice sheet to begin forming. ”
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https://oceanwide-expeditions.com/blog/how-and-when-did-greenland-become-covered-in-ice
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2) While another group says the change was due to what happens inside the earth;
—– “The ice on Greenland could only form due to processes in the deep Earth interior. Scientists now explain why the conditions for the glaciation of Greenland developed only so recently on a geological time scale..”
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150105112506.htm
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ABOVE the earth? INSIDE the earth? Take yer pick, dahling.