Comments on: “More than half your body is not human”

By: Julia

Julia — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 02:23:49 +0000

Snow – I always thought the towels would not keep looping, but rather come to an end when they were used up.

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 13:18:15 +0000

In the “olden days” some bathrooms used to have a machine with a continuous loop of cotton towel that you could pull out, use, and then the next person pulled out a little bit more to wipe his hands on, but these loops of cotton toweling, used over and over again, were usually pretty grimy.

In fact, I was astonished when I ran across one of these old timey machines in a public bathroom somewhere in the last year or so.

I can’t imagine these grimy communal towels were any more sanitary than the electric hand dryers of today.

By: om

om — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 01:53:42 +0000

Could be much worse; some countries and cultures practice open defecation (no indoor plumbing, no latrines,…), and then there is in San Francisco.

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 00:35:49 +0000

Speaking of bacteria, there is an article out today saying that Microbiologists have found that those bathroom hand dryers actually suck up bacteria floating around bathrooms–and guess where that bacteria comes from, with all those toilets flushing, throwing droplets containing fecal bacteria into the air–and then blow that bacteria all over your hands.

Time to head for the hand towels.

By: Faith2014

Faith2014 — Sat, 14 Apr 2018 15:31:19 +0000

From what I’ve read, they shape us (like the mice mentioned above). They influence our hormones, our hunger, etc. Kinda’ scary. Almost like we were all created from the same ‘dust of the ground’ as Genesis puts it.

By: om

om — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 16:45:44 +0000

No it’s about people making broad generalized statements of “fact” and when shown to be a poser, throwing up further distractions. A fun house mirror I suppose.

By: Ymar Sakar

Ymar Sakar — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 16:25:25 +0000

The experts have let down all of humanity, especially the self proclaimed ones. As a mirror, I can play that game too, better than they can even.

The problem of people with huge differences in verbal intelligence talking to each other is that they don’t make any sense to each other. It’s a foreign language problem.

If a red herring is raised and the response is “so what you are really saying is that you don’t know how to look at the internet”.

No, what I am really saying is that a red herring is a distraction people use to cover up their ignorance and problems, not that I have problems using the internet to look things up. This is like JordanP all over again.

By: Tatterdemalian

Tatterdemalian — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 15:16:40 +0000

Reality doesn’t change, no matter what the experts say, nor what the morons say. Actual experts are supposed to know this, but it’s ever so profitable for con artists posing as “experts” to pretend reality is subjective and will change for the better if morons just give the con artist enough money.

That exerts what Darwin called “selection pressure” upon the morons… not to learn “everything,” which is impossible even were the morons not restricted, by definition, from learning anything important, but instead to instantly start rejecting anything a supposed “expert’ says the moment he/she starts treating reality as subjective, usually by contradicting their own previous claims without any explanation beyond “because I’M THE EXPERT SO SHUT UP.”

Even morons adapt when preyed upon, with the savage hunger the modern left now has for political power.

By: om

om — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 03:59:43 +0000

Interwebs let you down? Confound those Doctors and scientists who know nothing, except when they do. Reality bites sometimes.

By: Ymar Sakar

Ymar Sakar — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 02:49:29 +0000

Good job with the red herring there. Dogs can bark at people, but it has nothing to do with the current status quo.