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If you spend time on the dumb side of the internet, people seem to believe that the government/new world order is going to fake an alien invasion, have the “aliens” explain there is no God, which will usher in the anti-Christ and end times. Alternately, the “aliens” will really be demons pretending to be aliens to carry out the same scam. This has strong potential to be the new QAnon.
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Mountain Lion Struck by Vehicle in Longview
956 Worldwide replied to mininghorn88's topic in Daily Texan
Kind of proving my point. With lynx, no one was reporting sightings of melanistic animals and when this rare one did get reported, it was quickly documented. If these black panther stories were rare and isolated, I might believe that an odd one might be out there. But thousands and thousands are reported every year, mostly in Texas and the southeast and mostly in places where cougars are either really, really rare, transitory, or non-existent. At that scale one would absolutely either turn up— or it’s misidentification (see drone thread). There is even a blog on this, here’s a 2018 map of “Texas black panther” sightings. They pop up all over the eastern half of the state but almost none in the western counties where we know there are actually are lots of cougars. The same holds true in the southeast, people report black panthers everywhere the places in Florida where eastern panthers actually live. http://texascryptidhunter.blogspot.com/2018/04/black-panther-sightings-distribution.html?m=1 -
Mountain Lion Struck by Vehicle in Longview
956 Worldwide replied to mininghorn88's topic in Daily Texan
Exactly. And jaguars in Texas and the Southwest are extremely well documented in the historical record until around the turn of the last century. Some wandering individuals have popped up in the Arizona borderlands since the 1990s— and they’ve been captured photographically. I think a lot of this traces to being uncomfortable with how “un-wilded” we’ve made our world. When I was a kid, I went multiple times down to the Laguna Atascoa refuge and they had a mounted Mexican jaguar on display. It was part of their historical range. And the ranger would disappoint me and every kid by patiently explaining that they just weren’t there anymore and why they couldn’t be. If they were we’d know it. But every kid had a story about an uncle or grandad who had seen one lurking on the deer lease or down by the river. And every time I went down there I hoped I’d see one and prove the ranger wrong. The brush country is more fun and more wild with jaguars; and forests and hill country ranches are better if there’s a black panther stalking around. But there aren’t any. We know what’s out there. -
Andy Kim revisits his comments and determines he was in fact looking at airplanes. However he is big mad that the federal government is inadequately explaining to New Jerseyans that the airplanes that have been flying above them every day for decades and decades are still airplanes. Truly we are a tiresome people.
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He’s right about what the core issue and aims of expanding the war in 2022 were— political control over Ukraine and a veto over its integration into western structures and communities. Territory is secondary although it will be part of any negotiations; Russia annexed the four eastern oblasts but left their borders undefined for a reason. Putin will be loathe to finish the war with less than he had when it began; it is important to him at home and it’s important to Ukrainians. Significant losses will lead to dissatisfaction with the current Ukrainian government which he can exploit. But his real aim will be to drive a wedge between Ukraine and Europe and to leave it vulnerable to Russian manipulation. At any negotiations the Russians will dig in and become obstreperous and implacable over issues they don’t really care as much about because it’s the way they do business; the goal is to wear down interlocutors and make any small concession seem like a massive loss so they can be even more intransigent on core issues.
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I’m losing my fucking mind, this is a functioning person, a senator and Democrat. He describes perfectly the standard civil aviation lights on every aircraft and then announces that they are inexplainable. He cites a flight tracking app, which of course isn’t always right and more importantly, unless you track flights seriously and have experience you likely don’t realize how far away you can see airplanes on a clear night. Clinton Township is near some of the busiest airspace in the world and you should probably nearly always be able to spot a plane at night. Any footage of these things that don’t include time, exact location, and direction is useless to try and look at. Green and red lights: Aircraft flying toward you. Red light: Port wing facing you. Green light: Starboard wing facing you. White light: Aircraft flying away from you. We are so fucked as a country, just catastrophically stupid.
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Mountain Lion Struck by Vehicle in Longview
956 Worldwide replied to mininghorn88's topic in Daily Texan
Big cats are very elusive to spot for amateurs but not for biologists, they leave plenty of evidence of their existence. Field biologists manage to capture images and get a good count of incredibly secretive animals like snow leopards in some of the most remote and hostile terrain on earth. Texas and the southeast are highly populated, every country has game wardens, there are tons of biologists tracking what’s out there because it is there job, with game cameras all over the place. Most alleged sightings are not coming in the places a large predator can hide for long. If black panthers existed aside from maybe an isolated escaped exotic, there’d be one mounted, hit by a car, or on a game trail cam right now. And even most escaped exotics are found. -
Mountain Lion Struck by Vehicle in Longview
956 Worldwide replied to mininghorn88's topic in Daily Texan
It’s really hard for megafauna and especially apex predators to hide. If there were melanistic mountain lions or a similar species in North America one would have been shot, captured, or photographed. In some places “black panther” sightings are more frequent than regular mountain lion sightings! They are also often sighted on ranches, farms, smaller state parks, and backroads— all places where other big carnivores are regularly run over or shot or photographed. There’s no disputing that bears and mountain lions or coyotes or wolves or bobcats or wolves exist. If it did exist it would just be a different colored big cat and there’s no reason for it to be so much more elusive for the past centuries than its tawny cousin or sibling. -
Mountain Lion Struck by Vehicle in Longview
956 Worldwide replied to mininghorn88's topic in Daily Texan
There has never been a melanistic mountain lion confirmed, alive or dead. Other species that have melanistic variants are pretty common. “Black panthers” are either a melanistic jaguar or leopard. The only confirmed 21st century U.S. sightings of jaguars of any type are small, potentially transitory in AZ and New Mexico. Jagarundis are a different species that do not range into the U.S. and are much smaller species, maybe the size of a small bobcat at most. The black panther is a cryptid and every sighting has been something else in the U.S. -
McKinsey to Pay 650M To Defer Prosecution in Purdue Pharma Case
956 Worldwide replied to TwiceHorn's topic in Daily Texan
The for-profit model has “healthcare consumers” and not “patients” so it’s unclear why there shouldn’t be marketing for healthcare. There would be marketing under a different model but it would be the weird and limited kind, like ads for NGAD from Northrop Grumman that target like 40 people who all ride the Orange line in DC. -
McKinsey to Pay 650M To Defer Prosecution in Purdue Pharma Case
956 Worldwide replied to TwiceHorn's topic in Daily Texan
In the United CEO thread there is a sidebar discussion about how the for-profit health care model does or does not foster medical innovation. I think we need to accept that using consultants to better market legal optiates is a form of for-profit medical innovation. -
If you’re not on the Ukraine thread, Kofman is the best RUS military analyst and he thinks they are prepping to bail from Syria.
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Last night I went to a screening of Porcelain War, followed by a conversation with two of its subjects and Frodo the Yorkie. I’m still processing a lot of it, but I think what sticks with me the most is how well it captures the Ukraine that I know and love as Ukrainians see it and how the central couple are so exactly Ukrainian, right down to their casual switching between Russian and Ukrainian. I won’t dwell on the narrative but it follows an artist couple—ceramicists— and their dog in Kharkiv. Slava makes little animal figures for his wife to paint and doesn’t like guns but also trains riflemen for the armed forces and belongs to a drone and mortar unit that defends Kharkiv and later deploys to Bakhmut. Lots of switching between their life at home in Kharkiv under fire and excursions to nature when the can interspersed with GoPro and drone footage from Slava’s unit. It was a rough watch and had me sad and stewing after, and so I’ll make a list of people I hate. I used to have a kind of desultory dislike for people but Ukraine has made me, for the first time, truly loathe whole groups of them. - Russians who think this war is cool and makes their country better, obviously. - Americans and Westerners have the chance to see this beautiful and courageous and imperfect nation and want to demand they be perfect to deserve to defend themselves against Orcs. - The outhouse scum who have tried and largely succeeded in framing Ukrainians as our enemies who are stealing from us. - Most of all, the bone-dry, powdered ass big brains policy experts who have recently announced that Ukraine needs to feed their 18 year olds to Russians, and we will send body armor. But we’re not going to let them escalate, no! It’s fucking grotesque to call this a manpower problem when we won’t let them take the fight to the enemy and deny, delay, dissemble on every request for more strategic capabilities. Fuck them for asking Ukraine not just to sacrifice its today but also its tomorrow to ease our fears that Putin might get bit mad. Anyway, please go watch the movie if you can. It will be in Houston on 10 January. https://porcelainwar.url.film
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Those incidents were widely reported. I can’t help you man. You’re making your own narrative. https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/losangeles/news/los-angeles-man-arrested-for-flying-drone-over-taking-photos-of-vandenberg-space-force-base/ https://www.yahoo.com/news/chinese-national-sentenced-espionage-involving-154117672.html
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Clear statement from NSC today: NO corroborated drone sightings NO mothership NO foreign nexus to alleged sightings Most inquiry into reported sightings are just manned civilian aircraft Gap in authorities of who responds to stuff like this. Government communication has been disjointed to say the least. But what we have in NJ is textbook mass hysteria and social contagion. It’s truly alarming how many people walked outside and flipped their shit after seeing the airliners and biz jets and helicopters they see every day, flashing international standard civil aviation lights. This whole uproar has been driven by irresponsible and uninformed local elected officials, a stream of bullshit from the UFO media, and really bad communications from people who should do better.
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The IRS has piloted a free, easy to use direct online filing system that has gotten extremely great feedback from nearly everyone who has used it. So of course GOP reps want to kill it because they want to force people to use commercial tax preparers.
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No, that didn’t happen, classic case of social media laundering things into what people want it to say. Twitter is terrible for this because it’s all formerly UFO accounts now hyping drones. The original briefing is here. The Q&A starts at about 22:40 on the NJ stuff. The spokesperson is very particular with her words and says several times that the Pentagon is aware of “drone sightings that have been reported” and then also states more than once that “this ACTIVITY” or “these sightings” are not U.S. or adversary drones and refers to lawenforcement to investigate.
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Tracking Trump Administration and Cabinet picks
956 Worldwide replied to PenelopeWitherspoon's topic in Cloak Room
Tilman Fertitta as Ambassador to Italy and this is all going to be so much dumber than you thought. -
“Kayla was wearing a coho, did you see? I can’t believe she even bothered to show up in that.” “I know, I wouldn’t dream of showing my face unless I could at LEAST wear a fresh sockeye.” “Well, Josh gave Shannon the most GORGEOUS fresh chinook, I guess it’s been a really good year.0
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CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
956 Worldwide replied to Bevo's topic in Daily Texan
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