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1. 3 days ago on Over the Hedge

   funny, for some strange reason I’m not particularly interested in taking unsolicited advice about television sets from the comments sections of the Internet, funny pages.

2. 6 days ago on The Buckets

   Blame the republicans and Reagan. I grew up in the late 60s and 70s when being a scientist or engineer was girls and boys dreamed of becoming. When Reagan took office the gutted STEM funding, the “greed is good” culture came to the forefront with the early 80s corporate takeover madness and people majoring in business took off. Not me, I earned my STEM PhD and have been very successful in refusing to have anything to do with the “business side” of things. I am purely technical

3. 9 days ago on Scary Gary

   Sounds like me the last time I called my parents. “with love, support and understanding” snort yeah, rrrrriiiiigggghhhtttt.

4. 9 days ago on Over the Hedge

   Debunking a Myth: Plant Consciousness Protoplasma 2021; 258 (3): 459-476. “Claims that plants have conscious experiences have increased in recent years and have received wide coverage, from the popular media to scientific journals. Such claims are misleading and have the potential to misdirect funding and governmental policy decisions. After defining basic, primary consciousness, we provide new arguments against 12 core claims made by the proponents of plant consciousness. Three important new conclusions of our study are (1) plants have not been shown to perform the proactive, anticipatory behaviors associated with consciousness, but only to sense and follow stimulus trails reactively; (2) electrophysiological signaling in plants serves immediate physiological functions rather than integrative-information processing as in nervous systems of animals, giving no indication of plant consciousness; (3) the controversial claim of classical Pavlovian learning in plants, even if correct, is irrelevant because this type of learning does not require consciousness. Finally, we present our own hypothesis, based on two logical assumptions, concerning which organisms possess consciousness. Our first assumption is that affective (emotional) consciousness is marked by an advanced capacity for operant learning about rewards and punishments. Our second assumption is that image-based conscious experience is marked by demonstrably mapped representations of the external environment within the body. Certain animals fit both of these criteria, but plants fit neither. We conclude that claims for plant consciousness are highly speculative and lack sound scientific support.”.

5. 11 days ago on Eric Allie

   Allie, you are such a deranged evil little metal midget that the depth of your stupidity and hypocrisy is breathtaking. Talk about having everything wrong with poorly educated rural white trash rednecks all rolled up into one miniature roll of pure MAGA Sh*t.

6. 17 days ago on ViewsAfrica

   They have oil, so rest assured that the government is very interested in South Sudan.

7. 17 days ago on Non Sequitur

   They will have to change her name to Donald William Shimoda.

8. 20 days ago on Over the Hedge

   For $85 for a 4 month supply in the UK I would think everyone is using it.

9. 24 days ago on Clay Bennett

   since the 60’s. LOL. Dude pick up a history book. Does the homestead strike, the Pullman strike, Blair Mt, Matewan not ring a bell? They have been trying to do it since the mid 19th. century.

10. 27 days ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

    And it is my birthday as well Can we please refrain from reminding me of all the terrible things I have had to endure on it. The 420 BS is bad enough as it is.