Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

Godzilla Vs Kong was 80% pap, last 10-20 mins was great though.

Dunno what pap is but before even seeing it I told you that would be the case lol

They used the humans well though. Sorta.

Sounds typical for a monster movie so at least they didn't make it any worse

pap = crap

Can't imagine watching it in the theater, needed skip too much. Someone will make a "best of" on youtube soon and that will be the ultimate version of the movie!

What are the chances of breaking something if I change the motherboard battery with the power on.

Physical damage, 0%, data damage 100%? Well "damage" not the best word. Erased, but replaceable.

Why would you do that though lol (I guess it won't crash, thought it would)

Didn't wanna redo all my bios settings, took a stupid gamble!

Worked out fine and didn't do any damage or lose any settings.

On restart is when you might have settings change, it won't be in the moment

Shouldnt lose anything. If power is on then the battery isnt doing anything to keep the CMOS in memory

Sad that people have such a negative opinion of GM foods, if embraced they could do so much good in the world.

WOOOOOO GOT FAR IN DRAGON QUARTER WITH JUST 1 GAME OVER RESTART NOICE, ALSO poor ninas she is F****

Every year it's gotten incrementally harder to tell April's Fools from reality.

Not because people are better at it, but reality has gotten so *** ridiculous that the lines blur on accident.

We're all fools every day anyway.

I'd say that is one way to start a day by seeing that, but at least it wasn't before bed.

Not just food. People in southern Florida are protesting the anti mosquito mosquito.

Useful idiots.

Most of them don't even understand what they are protesting about or the benefits of it, they just protest against anything you make fashionable to protest against. In real life and now, on Twitter.

Problem with that is corporations that benefit from things staying as they are can pay influencers to push a narrative that gets these people protesting against their best interests.

lol the other day I saw someone with a license plate that read "NO2GMO".[/spoiler]

Makes no sense to me because the benefits are massive, a near end to starvation across the world, far cheaper healthy food for the poor, helping farmers in 3rd world countries, far fewer chemicals being used to kill bugs that feed on the crops (I think this is where a lot of the anti GM food funding comes from).

People act like "modifying genes" is new. A Banana we eat now is "genetically modified", so is a carrot, so are seedless grapes. None of these things existed as we know them now before farmers messed with them in a greenhouse over mass years. A farmer is "genetically modifying" things when they select mutations of their crops to propagate forward to get better yields or preferred benefits. A person in a lab is doing the same thing, picking positive genes in a plant that benefit us.

Bigger harvests, bigger crops, crops that are less favorable to bugs. Most of the benefits here are to the poor, yet they don't get a say.

There are rules and regulations in place and testing is done on everything they make, this kneejerk anti GM movement is dumb and counter productive. I dunno how people think we are going to progress at all if people poopoo every advancement we make.

It also leads to extinction. GMO means no variety and no variety in the species means when a pest comes for it, it's completely wiped out.

It's also weirdly ironic. it's anti competitive. which is anti capitalist. which is communist.

You aren't a commie are you? No GMOs.

It's also socialist. food is good because it's rare. if people aren't starving then how do you make money from it? You aren't a socialist are you?

I thought we aren't doing P&R here?

GMOs don't have to turn political though, but throwing buzzwords like that will turn political in a heartbeat.

Also, most of what you are saying doesn't make any sense.

I've had conversations with Mayo Clinic doctors before about the relation between food consumed, digestion, digestion disruptions, and how that may correlate to the growing number of food intolerances we see in people these days. They have no idea how it works. Allergies are straight forward, but the immune system still has mysteries they're trying to solve in relation to intolerances. I personally think much of the problem stems from the use of certain (but many) preservatives by food processing companies. Just because a substance is FDA approved, doesn't mean it is without side effects, and the longer it takes for a side effect of a particular substance to manifest, the longer potentially dangerous substances will be on the market for before anyone finds out.

For those who've studied the law, "safe" rarely means perfectly safe. It often means only a handful of people died or developed apparent side effects from exposure to a substance per million people.

Even then, there are sometimes known concerns, like the cell phone radiation issues – if it takes a long time for a cancerous growth to form in response to consistent low doses of radiation, that gives companies an extended timeline to argue it was all the other choices that individual made that led to the cancer. This example isn't about food, but the concept is applicable to the things we eat.

Genetic modification of food is a tool. It does plenty of good, but there are lingering questions. Even if we know the entirety of something, a plant structure, for example, if we don't have a complete understanding of how substances effect the human body, then there could be problems. Does modifying an orange tree to better grow in poorer soil or a different climate make its fruit change in a way that has a negative impact on our bodies? It's hard to say. Even if it did, are the gains made by that change worth whatever the new detriment is? It's always a balancing act. It's just the more subtle a problem is, and the longer it takes to show symptoms we can detect with current medicine, the less likely it is there will ever be any accountability.

With processed foods, many of the preservative chemicals used to save companies money by increasing the shelf life of their products are now being found to cause or exacerbate auto-immune disorders. Longer shelf life helps the consumer too, to an extent, but the costs we pay for convenience aren't always clear. Most people assume the current state of their knowledge of the human body is the totality of the reality.

Even seemingly innocuous topics like, "the food we eat", can touch on market principles and economic frameworks. It shouldn't be inherently political, although I agree the words of our friend seem to have been structured in a way to be provocative on some level. Even things like capitalism and communism aren't "buzzwords" to me. Buzzword is more of a buzzword these days in that sense, as a way to minimize something without having to engage with it.

It would be possible to discuss the concepts that make up those frameworks in a civil, meaningful way, but I do recognize they are a quick path to make people lose their ***. If it's not a responsibility that can be handled, then it's best to avoid it. Sad as that may be. Also, there seem to be a lot of people who want "random thoughts" to not be a general, all-encompassing concept, but, rather something akin to "random thoughts about memes" or "random thoughts about cats". I don't really care either way, but if the space isn't specifically defined, then all the conversation topics just need to coexist.

Does that really surprise you though?

I mean, I think the whole idea of that is so no one visiting the forums has to worry about seeing something offensive or otherwise triggering. Not to mention keep arguments wherein all parties are dead set in their ways of thinking and aren't going to concede no matter what the argument is.

Therefore, whether something is political or religious is irrelevant. It's whether the discussion is stoking a fire. Just to play it safe, we'd probably be wise not to even pursue topics like GMO's.

This is lowkey pretty great.

Understood, Captain. /salute

Ultimately, everything has a benefit to risk calculation applied to it.

The benefits of GM foods to the poor vastly outweigh any potential downsides. In the same way a car has more benefits to the negatives, or preservatives in food are more beneficial than the downsides, or whatever else.

Digestive problems and intolerance I think are more to do with our lifestyle than anything else. We were never supposed to live our lives as clean as we do and we still have not properly acclimated to our new "germ" free lifestyle, we are supposed to have a good variation of bacteria in our gut to properly function and part of that is ingesting bacteria sometimes. Being hyper clean can do damage to yourself as much as being filthy SoB can (especially during childhood), this is going to be even more of a problem over the coming 5-10 years with the OTT cleaning rituals people are employing population wide with Covid now.

There is also evidence that an immune system that is starved of actual enemies to fight off can turn on simple irritants or harmless substances, causing these allergic reactions and inflammation.

Long *** article:

Also, when you take a single course of antibiotics it's like dropping a nuclear bomb on the bacteria in your gut. And they are incredibly important to your health (physical and mental), and very difficult to replace. It can take 6-12 months or more to repair the damage a course of antibiotics can do.

what a noob, gotta pay at least 100k for a gf

He said it's p2w lol