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computer parts posted:It literally took 150 years (the first major vaccination attempts were started around 1810) and it was a coordinated effort by a lot of major governments. Additionally, smallpox is a strictly human disease - there are no non-human vectors or reservoirs. We vaccinate enough people, smallpox can't spread, and once the last ones who had it are no longer infectious, problem over. (Neglecting, of course the teensy fact that there were some "captive" stocks in research facilities that could be a new source)
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Reveilled posted:Sensitivity to pain is variable though, some areas cause more pain if they are hurt than others. If an animal cannot do anything to fix problems in its mouth, then experiencing pain there will not make it more likely to survive and produce offspring, and in fact might make it harder to reproduce as creatures prefer not to procreate while in pain. So there would be a selection pressure in favour of animals which feel less pain in their mouths as a result, or at the very least no particular selection pressure one way or another. But since toothaches can indicate lethal probelms, once an animal develops the necessary intelligence to remove its own teeth, that selection pressure turns around in favour of more pain, as if you can make a toothache painful enough that the organism will remove its infected teeth, it is less likely to die from infections and therefore more likely to procreate than creatures which are less sensitive to oral pain. Mmmm... sorry, nope. Oral sensitivity is a result of the need to be very aware of what's in your mouth. Think about how even the teeniest change in your teeth (a chip or missing filling) feels enormous, or a very small piece of grit feels like it's a pebble. We can feel the jaw displacement of a thin piece of foil easily. The selective pressure on oral awareness is much higher than the counter pressure for not feeling a toothache as bad. Plus, there hasn't been enough generations to make such a change. Even people without the means to remove teeth (natives in many non-technological societies) feel toothache pain the way we would. They just wouldn't have it happen as much until huge amounts of sugar became available. Anyway, back to the show...
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Yeah, the bar code "6-6-6" thing goes back decades. I'm pretty sure I heard about it in the 80's, and it was assumed by the "The End Times is nigh!" crowd that they'd be given bar code tattoos for tracking and identification. Even Kyle in the Terminator had a bar code tat. That guy with the perfect hair and the "It's happening any day now!" show (gently caress - what is his name? His simpering wife is also on there agreeing with him) has been spending at least the past 35 years going on about all the signs. He has had the bar code meme on his show forever. Amusingly, he declared flat out that the EU was obviously the twelve-headed dragon, since there were twelve countries. Too bad they've added a few since then... So, yes. There are a significant group of people who think (I mean, seriously believe) that the bar code is a sign of the devil. Fake edit - Jack Van Impe - that's him. Google some pics of him and his wife for some truly evangelical hair!
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blowfish posted:It's the fault of Big Cocoa. It's Hershey's, all the way down.* *See the recent Cadbury fracas
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I definitely remember it being with an "A", because as a wee goonlet I thought it was Stan and Jan Berenstan - all their names rhymed. Must have missed the "i" in there.
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Don't forget, folks - we have always been at war with Eastasia!
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blowfish posted:giphy That was "V", from the 80's. Started out as a "Let's do a show on World War I I, but change it " (does a huge line of coke) "to ALIENS instead of Nazis!" (Admiring snorts all round). Having been a bit of a ufo nut as a goonlet (before my skepticism gland kicked in) I remember reading about reptilians back in the 70's. They were just another type of alien back then, along with grays, Nordics, regular humanoids, robots and probers. I guess they got into politics later, under Reagan.
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Luigi's Discount Porn Bin posted:He claims that he called Savile out as a paedophile way before it broke, but there's no record of him saying that - basically you have to take his word for it. It's not impossible, though. Icke thinks literally everyone in any position of power in Britain is a paedo, including the entire royal family. So... Delgonians. Sounds like somebody read the Lensman books!
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On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:The AK is the equivalent of a wet, frayed towel against a tank or a plane. Nuh-uh! Rambo took out a helicopter with a rock, so I, real-live person with delusions of adequacy can get jets with my AK. If I had one.
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Jebus - somebody needs to read his Dad's copy of Future Shock. (It's from 1970, btw)
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Holy crap. He read about the Delgonians in the Lensman series and thought it was real! Or maybe Doc Smith received telepathic signals about "the truth", and Icke was the only one to see it that way. I'm betting it's B.
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NLJP posted:This should be fun for future conspiracy and alien stuff: Asteroid collisions create 'forbidden' five fold symmetrical crystals For extra fun, here's the diffraction pattern:  
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Ummmm.... Nanu, nanu?
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Can't decide if the foil hat is too tight or too loose....
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And the fact that every time anyone suggested he might be dead he released another tape. Haven't seen any in, how long? Oh, right, since before the raid....
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Unless it's a Christmas party, and then: eggnog. But what's that code for?
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fishmech posted:There were plenty of those sure. But they get followed by idiots who think that flat earth is straight up true. Because if you say any dumb bullshit long enough, someone will see it and think a) you're serious b) you're telling the truth. See also: right wing propaganda.
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Not to mention the first person to make the CO2/warming connection did so in the 1890's...
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I read the Ancient Astronauts and the like when I was a young goonlet. Totally bought into it. Then the claims got even more extreme, I grew a skepticism gland and started seeing the "anti" evidence. Now all that (UFOs, USOs, rods, ghosts, cryptids, etc.) gets eyerolls from me due to lack of even reasonable evidence. Plus, I'm a little embarrassed about having bought into it even as a tad.
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"Fenians"??? For gently caress's sake, Ireland got it's independence almost 100 years ago! And the repetition of "great Russian state"... 
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:I got really really high once and thought I talked to Bigfoot but it was just a homeless man OR WAS HE!?!?!? 
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Illuminti posted:Do you not trust your own eyes! For the satellites or the flatness? Cuts both ways....
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2.5 miles across an 10 miles high? That's one stubby-assed tree.
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We're having a similar argument with light rail in my area. Norfolk put in a light rail line and neighboring Virginia Beach voted to block the extension to the beachfront. Ostensibly it was about money, but there is a strong undercurrent of "those
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It's a long way to go to get some zatku.
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And I'm pretty sure he paid some minimum wage hotel schlub to take his "cases" upstairs (on that modern wonder, Mr. Otis' miraculous Elevator, not step by step up 30 flights of stairs), and he didn't "remove" the window, he broke a hole in it, and it wasn't a secret snipers nest, it was his loving suite. But other than that and the aforementioned...
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So numb-nuts thinks his steam powered rocket will get him to the amazing altitude of 1800 feet. No, no missing zeroes, and God's own feet, not Satan's meters. Does he not realize he can go higher in a plane? By a lot? Even in a hot air balloon? Why the gently caress has this idiocy gotten so much traction of late?
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Of course Patton Oswald killed Kennedy alone. Everyone knows that.
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Did you find your shoes stacked in a sinister manner? THEM!
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