I used to go to local Minor League baseball games a lot. But, with the Columbus Catfish and Savannah Sand Gnats leaving for other cities, there isn’t a local team for me.
I miss going to the games.
What’s on your mind? Anything you miss doing recently? Anything you did recently you want to admit to tell us about? Or anything else you want to talk about? Now’s the time, after all. It’s Friday Night Open Thread.
Who wants to start?
Bill Gates has called for a tax on robots to balance the Government’s income as jobs are lost to automation. He said the levy could help slow down the pace of change and provide money to hire additional employees in sectors that require people, such as health care.
Ah… the 21st century version of an automobile tax to save workers in the buggy whip industry.
[Submitted by my brother Tom (High Praise!)]
[Ghost House (A Horror Movie in Real Life)] (Viewer #576,869)
As a rule, horror movies go WAY too long in establishing setting & character, and wasting half the film with phony jump-scares.
This neatly condenses the perfect horror movie into its 6 essential minutes, (or 5:20, depending on how long before you can tear yourself away from the ending scene)
[High Praise! to Mental Floss]
20 Facts About Your Favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger Movies
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One scientist is now claiming that the average American needs MORE salt in his diet, not less.
That’s ridiculous! You should eat a balanced diet. Put the extra salt on some more red meat.
Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.
North Korea shouldn’t worry. The only reason Trump would ever use nukes…
I think the left needs to be more clear on what they consider religious views and thus are areas where they don’t care about the science. Like with this whole Google memo thing; the guy cited offensive science — not bad science, just offensive to their worldview — and they’ve freaked out and aren’t sure how to cope. The naive fool thought if he backed up what he said with science, he’d been in the clear, but he didn’t realize (and many of the left don’t realize) is that the left views on gender is actually a religious view and thus science is irrelevant.
Now, it’s okay to have religious views where you don’t care what the science has to say. Like I’m very clear my views on equality are a religious view. I think all people are equal because we all have souls (unprovable), and that is our true selves and a state where we are all equal a and what we see here in this world is just dross. I don’t care what science you might say to dispute that or arguments about how equality goes against evolution or what not. It’s a view far more important than silly science data.
The left also has many religious views, but they just won’t admit they are religious and thus get very confused and agitated when science goes against them — part of that is because one of their religious views is science is supposed to always back their ideology. But you don’t get to dictate what science says. A lot of Christians have run into this problem, and now it’s the “secular” left’s turn to have their religion in conflict with data. And the solution is usually to step out of it. You say this is my capital ‘T’ Truth, and it matters not to me what suppositions some silly people make with their data, I will always believe it.
If the left does this and are more clear on what they consider their religious truths, that will save future Damore’s from thinking he’s arguing a science question when in reality what we have is a religious debate.
President Trump warned North Korea that the US nuclear arsenal is “more powerful than ever“.
Not in a mechanical sense, just in the sense that there’s finally a US President willing to use it.
