Carborendum
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I posted this days ago. And as I read the responses, I'm highly troubled by the fact that no one seems bothered by the fact that women are going to be forced to share bedrooms and showers with men simply because they are mentally ill (or are simply faking it).
Instead of trying to work out a solution to protect the women, we're arguing about being compassionate to the guy who will be sexually assaulting the women.
(except JAG: but I don't think your solution will work. Sandra Fluke).
Sorry if I don't feel like I beling in this conversation I started.
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On 5/22/2021 at 8:16 AM, romans8 said:
I have talked to Jehovah's Witnesses. They told me I worship a false Christ if I believe he is God.
We, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, believe that judgment of a person's eternal destiny is left up to Jesus Christ alone. He is the Only eternal judge of both quick and dead.
I am disappointed that you have chosen a faith that tells you that you can judge another's fate by virtue of a single phrase spoken in a single conversation. Not only that, but you have judged the fate of one person by the words of another person.
I don't think I could ever subscribe to a philosophy of man that tells me to judge another like that.
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14 minutes ago, MrShorty said:
The problem with a drip irrigation system for agriculture is that the irrigation system really cannot be a permanent installation. So, it needs to be laid out every spring after planting, then gathered back up at harvest time (for something like alfalfa, that can be multiple times a year, for something like grain that would be once a year).
I don't know about those specific crops. What I can say is that I've used rip irrigation for various vegetable crops that are less than one year. And I've just left the drip lines in place for a few years now. I haven't had problems. But each type of crop has its own idiosyncracies. And I'm only versed in the plants that I grow.
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19 minutes ago, Vort said:
My opinion is that installing and maintaining a large-scale field-based drip irrigation system would be vastly more expensive than center-pivot irrigation. Drip irrigation requires hand placement, equal pressures to each drip point (which implies lots and lots of equal-length tubing), and constant checking for leaks and plugs. Center-pivot irrigation involves putting the system in place and letting it run. There's my argument.
Well, this is interesting. Since I've never actually installed or used a center-pivot system, I'm just not familiar enough with the details enough to say with authority. But I know that aluminum is expensive stuff. And even if it lasts a while, it will still be subject to calcification. And that will require either maintenance or replacement. That's the central point of my argument.
But perhaps they've already got a solution to that problem, nullifying my argument.
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1 minute ago, Vort said:
They could never know. HIPAA laws preclude their asking about your vaccination status.
Apparently, this is already being violated.
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Just now, Vort said:
Center-pivot irrigation sprinklers do not have buried pipes.
You are correct. And they are considered effective. But they are also very expensive (for both installation and operation). I would think they are more expensive than a drip irrigation system. Aluminum vs plastic? No contest.
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There is a lot of legalese going around exactly what the complaint was and what the ruling means. But the bottom line is that there would have been no court proceedings at all if the college were allowed to segregate biological males (identifying as females) from biological females in showers, bathrooms, and dormitories.
I am reminded of a proceeding decades ago about BYU housing rules. "Off campus housing" was inspected and approved by BYU standards office. You then got a special certification that you were "BYU approved housing."
Someone began a lawsuit because they weren't a student at BYU, so why should they have to live BYU standards? It was in the contract they signed when they moved in. But they had no intention of living the rules.
As a response, BYU changed the rules and said, "BYU approved housing shall ONLY rent to BYU students."
Knowing the pattern of things, my guess is that there will come a time when the law forces the Church's hand regarding transgenders. At some point, identifying as transgendered will be grounds for excommunication. And at the same time, BYU will only accept members in good standing as students or employees.
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On 5/20/2021 at 10:33 AM, Vort said:
For a garden, maybe. Not for five hundred acres. Labor = $$$$$.
I'm not certain what your point is here. If you had to bury a sprinkler system for 500 acres, it will still cost more than a drip irrigation system that does not need to be buried.
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1 hour ago, Vort said:
https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1113/jphysiol.1955.sp005324
Frozen, reanimated rats, anyone?
I didn't read the whole thing. I noted that it was from the 50s. I remember seeing a video on the topic in the 80s. And they showed a rat that had been frozen to near 0 deg C and then resuscitated.
It really is amazing what we can do with lab rats that we simply don't have the ability to do with human. And that includes curing cancer. If you're a lab rat and you have nearly any kind of cancer, we have the technology to cure you permanently. But try that same method on humans, we have maybe a 10% success rate that brings us within acceptable ranges of relapse.
Interesting stuff.
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39 minutes ago, Vort said:
All true. Just remember, "efficient" = "costly".
In the case of drip lines vs sprinklers, not really. I priced out a sprinkler system for my three garden areas. They ended up being about the same (the sprinklers just a tad more than the drip lines. But the sprinklers require a lot more labor. Sprinklers require a minimum depth of bury. Drip lines to not.
This is for fruit trees and vegetable beds, not lawns.
After that, the savings in water would certainly make it worth it.
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1 minute ago, NeuroTypical said:
Hang on there @Carborendum. I predict you will enjoy kim chee again at some point in the future!
So, you're saying my mouth will water again, doc?
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11 minutes ago, Just_A_Guy said:
I agree with everything you’ve written. I suppose that, as a Utahn, it just sticks in my craw a little bit to be hectored about how I have a moral duty to let my lawn go dormant so that someone else can make a little more money growing alfalfa in the middle of a desert. :shrug:
One thing is the method of watering. Sprinklers are notoriously inefficient. But they're easy. Drip lines are much more efficient. It is estimated that about 25% to 30% of all water usage is lost to evaporation, etc. from poor/inefficient watering methods. And sprinklers are one major culprit.
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5 minutes ago, LDSGator said:
Yeah, I see it differently. One good friend lost his father to it, and @LadyGators boss lost three people in her family to it. So it’s actually “quite scary”.
I think this speaks to @estradling75's point that this is a matter of having only one year of experience with this virus. You've had this experience as you outlined. I've personally known 100s (literally about 300 people or more) of people who have had it now. Not a single death that I've personally known. But as I mentioned, I've known three people who have had strokes.
I realize both of our experiences are anecdotal. But the collective experience of the society is what makes up the overall attitude towards the seriousness of the virus.
SIDENOTE: I found out why kim chee tastes bad to me. I've isolated the "sour/tart" flavor as the culprit. Anything with a sour/tart flavor has some strange flavor to me now. I still recognize it as tart. But instead of being the accent flavor among others that gives it the characteristic mouth-watering scent/flavor, it is like nothing I've ever sensed before. It's like a 6th flavor that just makes everything taste awful.
I can't eat any fruit because it makes me want to vomit. No pickles (including kim chee). It is amazing just how many foods depend on "just a little bit" of sour to provide the proper flavor. I'm having trouble finding foods I can eat. Some kinds of nuts are ok (thank heaven for peanuts). Bread and crackers are ok. Most vegetables.
It is amazing how fast milk sours in the mouth. I never noticed it before. But with this weirdness... I can taste it going sour within 30 minutes. So, I rinse my mouth frequently.
I've finally lost that last 5 lbs that I've been trying to lose.
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12 hours ago, LDSGator said:
It’s sad that science literacy has gotten so bad that we have to bribe people to get a life saving vaccine.
It would help if they didn't give mixed signals. Why get the vaccine if we are still so contagious that we still have to wear masks?
One way for virtually everyone to get the vaccine would be for a clear message from all authoritative parties: Get the vaccine and you're good to go. End of story. 90% of the population would rush to get the vaccine with that condition alone
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6 hours ago, Just_A_Guy said:
@Carborendum will probably need to correct some of this, but . . . My understanding is that acre-for-acre, suburban development uses far less water than agriculture does. Assuming that population growth/sprawl coincides with pulling an equivalent amount of land out of agriculture, development should actually be a good thing for water usage. I believe that in Utah, residential water use (including gardening/landscaping) is less than 20% of the state’s total water usage.
I like to think of myself as pro-farmer; but I’m evolving to the position that there are places and climates where large-scale agriculture in this day and age makes absolutely no sense.
I actually think 20% is a little high. Agriculture uses somewhere around 70% as I recall (worldwide). And commercial/industrial (which does NOT include agricultural) uses a big bunch. I thought the split was about 50/50 between residential vs commercial/industrial.
Even if we recognize the huge percentage of usage in agriculture, I don't get this idea of 'blaming the farmers." Farmers make food for us whether we live near them or not. Shipping of foodstuffs is nationwide and even worldwide.
It doesn't matter where people live. Farmers have to provide the food somewhere. And it would simply be wiser to have farms in locations where there is more water readily available.
It also doesn't matter the source of the water. Groundwater or surface water doesn't matter. Everyone uses whatever water is available. Even in Houston, a lot of the water comes from the same groundwater that farms use. Aquifers are H.U.G.E. And it doesn't matter how far they are from the city. Water pipeline networks are tremendously extensive in their reach.
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On 5/15/2021 at 7:43 PM, NeuroTypical said:
I don't know why, but I get a huge kick out of remixed classical pieces with heavy techno or bass tracks added.
Also, just about anything remixed as an orchestral piece.
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20 hours ago, Just_A_Guy said:
There are variant manuscripts that insert the phrase “the sins of each one of them” at the end of verse 6.
I've heard things to this effect. But I have never actually seen reliable source material. It sounds like a myth. It doesn't even fit in the flow of the passage.
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two possibilities that I can think of.
1) She was all ready to be stoned to death. It was only after she heard Jesus' question s that she even thought to look up.
2) She was aware that they left. But she was so filled with gratitude that she had to stare at Jesus in disbelief. Stunned that such a noble man would go through anything to save her, a sinner.
Would that we all would do so at the very thought of the Atonement.
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I just got some good news today. The brother in our ward who had the stroke (COVID related) was asked to speak today. Apparently he's been going through much therapy. His speech is almost normal.
Just a couple months ago, he sounded like a disabled person. But today it only showed up in a few difficult sounds. In a way he sounded like Matthew McConaughey.
It felt so good to see his progress.
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https://www.vcuhealth.org/news/covid-19/johnson-and-johnson-vaccine-how-is-it-different
Apparently, the J&J vaccine is a classic vaccine. But it is along the line of the cow pox to small pox thing. They use another, less harmful virus that still provides protection from the serious vurus.
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13 minutes ago, LDSGator said:
Wow! I had no idea.
I admire him as an artist but I have a vastly different taste in music. That said, my first slow dance was to one of his songs! Wherever Eileen Whatsherface is, I hope she’s happy!
I actually liked his music as a kid. Unfortunately, I was just interested in the hook and recognizable tunes and danceable beat rather than real musical genius.
But with the benefit of more age and musical training, yeah, he was talented. I still like Billy Joel better.
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6 hours ago, romans8 said:
He believed in a false Christ (Michael the Archangel).
Who are you to judge his faith?
- You worship the true Christ so you can sin any way you want as often as you want, and you're still going to be saved.
- Anyone who pleads Christ that doesn't sin the same way you do is just worshipping a "false Christ"?
So you get a pass. But anyone else is doomed to hell. How convenient. It must be nice to be able to judge other's eternal destiny with such certainty without ever having to worry about your own.
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The "sell" is that they are NOT straight, white males. They are trans women. And if you're a woman who wishes to exclude trans women from that movement, then you're a TERF and not worth listening to. Cancel culture at its best.
Feminists who wish to embrace the trans movement are ignorant of the loss of all the work of the past century for women's rights. At some point, those who truly are loyal to the idea of women's rights will awaken to their awful state and blame "certain other parties" for the loss of those rights, never realizing they gave them up all by themselves.