Detournement Posted August 16, 2022 Share Posted August 16, 2022 Forget the bugs for a minute. The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman is (correctly) tweeting that 9/11 was an inside job. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted August 16, 2022 Share Posted August 16, 2022 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted August 16, 2022 Share Posted August 16, 2022 I don't know about eating bugs but I had a fly cemetery out a baker's once and it was nice 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted August 16, 2022 Share Posted August 16, 2022 On 14/08/2022 at 20:10, steve55 said: 2 hours ago, throbber said: "Oh my God, he's completely alive!" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 18 hours ago, BFTD said: I take it gulls must taste like absolute dugshite. People certainly don't avoid eating them due to lack of availability. I've only had pigeon once, but I remember it being surprisingly good, so maybe I'll start putting traps out for those wee buggers. Fewer birds means more insects too, so win-win. I remember reading in the Inverness Courier a snippet from ww2 where locals were collecting seagull eggs to feed to injured soldiers. Apparently you have to feed them wheat or meal or something like that for a week or so or the eggs taste really fishy. Boak. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 Surely anyone who has been in a car crash will be restrained from getting up? That's basic stuff. You don't want folk with potentially multiple breaks/fractures getting up and trying to walk and possibly doing more harm to themsves. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 Why do narcissists find conspiracy theories so appealing? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X22001051 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 25 minutes ago, ICTChris said: Why do narcissists find conspiracy theories so appealing? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X22001051 I like how they immediately admit that there is a weak link between the five common narcissitic personality and conspiracy beliefs then immediately shift to don't worry we found a shonky way to make it work and we did it twice. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 Most psychological research is very weak, the big five personality types and all that stuff. But this made me chuckle so I believe it wholeheartedly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 19 hours ago, Detournement said: Forget the bugs for a minute. The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman is (correctly) tweeting that 9/11 was an inside job. Nah. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 31 minutes ago, Detournement said: I like how they immediately admit that there is a weak link between the five common narcissitic personality and conspiracy beliefs then immediately shift to don't worry we found a shonky way to make it work and we did it twice. They don't though. They say there's a weak link with the big 5 personality traits. Narcissism is not one of them. I'm not vouching for the validity of the study but your reason for dismissing it doesn't hold up. I'm sure you can find another because you dislike the implications. That's how conspiracy nuts do evidence isn't it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 36 minutes ago, coprolite said: They don't though. They say there's a weak link with the big 5 personality traits. Narcissism is not one of them. I'm not vouching for the validity of the study but your reason for dismissing it doesn't hold up. I'm sure you can find another because you dislike the implications. That's how conspiracy nuts do evidence isn't it? Aye but they say that narcissism is derived from 3 of the 5 and there is no observable relationship between those 3 and conspiracy beliefs. They then go on to redefine narcissism in ways which allows them to make their conclusion (and in the future will allow centrist melts to cite it when they are struggling to make an argument). I'm not sure what a conspiracy nut is. The paper defines it as "accusing secret groups of colluding to achieve nefarious goals" which is obviously something that happens. It cites belief in climate change denial as an example which is fair enough on the one hand but falls apart if you have the knowledge that climate change denial exists because of the nefarious goals of a group of secretly conspiring oil executives. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 Forget the bugs again - today's twitter trends are normalising avoiding food altogether 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 8 minutes ago, Detournement said: Aye but they say that narcissism is derived from 3 of the 5 and there is no observable relationship between those 3 and conspiracy beliefs. They then go on to redefine narcissism in ways which allows them to make their conclusion (and in the future will allow centrist melts to cite it when they are struggling to make an argument). I'm not sure what a conspiracy nut is. The paper defines it as "accusing secret groups of colluding to achieve nefarious goals" which is obviously something that happens. It cites belief in climate change denial as an example which is fair enough on the one hand but falls apart if you have the knowledge that climate change denial exists because of the nefarious goals of a group of secretly conspiring oil executives. They haven't made the link though, they've taken that link from other studies and are just proposing an explanatory mechanism. A conspiracy nut is someone who believes 9/11 was an inside job, for example. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 (edited) 16 minutes ago, coprolite said: They haven't made the link though, they've taken that link from other studies and are just proposing an explanatory mechanism. A conspiracy nut is someone who believes 9/11 was an inside job, for example. It's difficult to explain why the Saudi Arabians who funded 9/11 faced no consequences unless their friends in US intelligence were also in on it. The Saudi Ambassador to the USA transferred money to the hijackers and was still hanging out with the head of the CIA and major figures from the Bush administration years later. Just believing Saudi Arabia had a hand in it is a conspiracy theory. There is also no way Building 7 wasn't a demolition. The 9/11 Commission report didn't even mention that it collapsed because it's impossible to come to another conclusion than demolition. Edited August 17, 2022 by Detournement 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AsimButtHitsASix Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 4 minutes ago, Detournement said: It's difficult to explain why the Saudi Arabians who funded 9/11 faced no consequences unless their friends in US intelligence were also in on it. Not really. Money and oil. That's a pretty easy explanation. As for the 9/11 demolition pish that's been debunked countless times. If you want to continue believing it go ahead but don't say it's impossible to come to another conclusion as the experts in the field who studied it did come to another conclusion. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 13 minutes ago, Detournement said: It's difficult to explain why the Saudi Arabians who funded 9/11 faced no consequences unless their friends in US intelligence were also in on it. The Saudi Ambassador to the USA transferred money to the hijackers and was still hanging out with the head of the CIA and major figures from the Bush administration years later. Just believing Saudi Arabia had a hand in it is a conspiracy theory. There is also no way Building 7 wasn't a demolition. The 9/11 Commission report didn't even mention that it collapsed because it's impossible to come to another conclusion than demolition. Not getting into a 9/11 debate. But the above is shite 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 1 minute ago, AsimButtHitsASix said: Not really. Money and oil. That's a pretty easy explanation. As for the 9/11 demolition pish that's been debunked countless times. If you want to continue believing it go ahead but don't say it's impossible to come to another conclusion as the experts in the field who studied it did come to another conclusion. Building 7 has never been debunked. As I said the fact that it collapsed isn't mentioned at all in the 9/11 Commission Report. The proven insider trading was never addressed by the government either. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 1 minute ago, coprolite said: Not getting into a 9/11 debate. But the above is shite Prince Bandar transferred money to the attackers in the months leading to 9/11. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AsimButtHitsASix Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 13 minutes ago, Detournement said: Building 7 has never been debunked. It has. You just dislike the fact that it has. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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