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PloverWing · Oct 22, 2025

When I hover over the link, I can see that the link is a Google Docs link. (In particular, it doesn't seem to be a link to a website.) I'm a little wary of clicking links to unknown documents. Can you tell me more about what's there? Is it a Word-type text document describing your ideas, or is it a program, or a database, or what is it?

wing2000 · Oct 22, 2025

Oompa Loompa said:
Obviously more than you. May I suggest looking for news elsewhere?

Oh, this is about you is it?

wing2000 · Oct 22, 2025

Hentenza said:
We use the coast guard for drug interdictions all the time. Last I heard the coast guard was part of the military.

Yes, the Coast Guard is interdicts and provides an opportunity for the suspects to surrender and face prosecution. The US Military is being ordered to summarily kill suspects.

Oompa Loompa · Oct 22, 2025

wing2000 said:
What evidence have you seen? And no, Hegseth or his spokesperson making a claim is not evidence.

Obviously more than you. May I suggest looking for news elsewhere?

wing2000 · Oct 22, 2025

Vambram said:
Should our military be killing terrorists?

They are suspected drug traffickers. They are not terrorist.

Hentenza · Oct 22, 2025

wing2000 said:
No. In any case, the point remains. The US Military should not be killing suspected criminals.

We have been using the coast guard for drug interdictions for a long time. Last I heard the coast guard was part of the military.

Tuur · Oct 22, 2025

Ophiolite said:
I do apologise. I hadn't realised that you were completely indifferent to the impact of AGW on humanity (and the rest of the biosphere) if we reach the tipping point.

I'm someone who has cut off electricity for non-payment. Appeals based on feelings don't work too well. I'm quite willing to discuss the possible end of humanity without smile or tear. Given the climate range humans live in, that's not likely, but I'm willing to discuss it. Given some outliers I've seen, I'm very skeptical of various claims, and subscribe to the use of paleoclimatology and examining the last time such and such conditions existed. Call it dial-a-projection. Thus my interest in the natural range of pecan trees overlayed a map of tropical system paths since such records have been kept. Mature pecan trees don't hold up to the winds that well.

I'm also cynical about breathless reporting of every wiggle of a temperature curve when that records barely go back 150 years, if that. Recorded temperature even by the 18th Century is spotty, and really non-existent. Note that this isn't how it's reported.

Vambram · Oct 22, 2025

wing2000 said:
No. In any case, the point remains. The US Military should not be killing suspected criminals.

Should our military be killing terrorists?

Belk · Oct 22, 2025

Chesterton said:
You said I had explained your experience. I said I didn't because I don't know your experience. Instead of explaining your experience as I asked you to, you repeat your claim. You okay?

And yet you did. You dismissed my experience as being a product of propaganda from "lamestream" media.

Chesterton said:
Yes.

I see. So what is my side? What do I believe. Do tell.

Chesterton said:
I don't recall seeing any. Remind me what they were.

<blink>

So you don't recall my objections that you literally started your response with?

Chesterton said:
You said I had explained your experience.

Chesterton said:
To correct me?

I have been trying, but it has been an uphill slog.

Chesterton said:
Do you always answer questions with questions? Usually you're supposed to answer with answers.

I generally find it useful in demonstrating my specific issues with a response. This time it certainly has proved fruitless.

Chesterton said:
I must be slow. What things are those?

Do you have evidence my news sources are simply propaganda? What is my understanding? Why do you dismiss my point of view and minimize it ?

sjastro · Oct 22, 2025

Here are some suspected tipping points in Earth's geological and prehistory.

Period / Event	Approx. Time	Tipping Mechanism	What Tipped	Consequence	How a New Stable Equilibrium Was Reached
Snowball Earth transitions	720–635 million years ago	Ice–albedo feedback	Global ice coverage	Planet froze, then abruptly deglaciated	Volcanic CO₂ built up over millions of years → intense greenhouse warming melted ice → climate stabilized at warmer, ice-free equilibrium
Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)	~56 million years ago	Carbon release (volcanic + methane hydrates)	Carbon cycle	Rapid 5–8 °C global warming, ocean acidification	Weathering and carbon burial slowly drew down CO₂ → radiative balance restored over ~200,000 years
Eocene–Oligocene transition	~34 million years ago	CO₂ decline + orbital cooling	Antarctic glaciation	Permanent ice sheets formed	New radiative–albedo balance established: reflective ice maintained colder global equilibrium
Younger Dryas (onset/termination)	~12,900–11,700 years ago	Meltwater disrupted AMOC	Ocean circulation	Abrupt cooling, then rapid warming	AMOC gradually re-established; radiative forcing and ocean–ice feedbacks stabilized modern Holocene climate
African Humid Period collapse	~5,500 years ago	Orbital precession reduced monsoons	Saharan vegetation and rainfall	Sahara turned from green to desert	New dry equilibrium formed where weak monsoons sustain desert albedo feedback
Dansgaard–Oeschger / Heinrich events	60,000–20,000 years ago	Ice–ocean–atmosphere coupling	N. Atlantic ice sheets / AMOC	Rapid glacial climate oscillations	Each event stabilized temporarily when ice-sheet geometry and circulation re-balanced heat transport

AMOC stands for the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation.
It’s one of the most important components of Earth’s climate system, acting like a giant heat conveyor belt in the Atlantic Ocean.

wing2000 · Oct 22, 2025

Oompa Loompa said:
Presented "zero evidence?" Or you have seen zero evidence from the liberal media?

What evidence have you seen? And no, Hegseth or his spokesperson making a claim is not evidence.

DragonFox91 · Oct 22, 2025

Today I was listening to hymns on violin or something. It was so good. It was almost trance-like. W/in a couple minutes. It was very strange. & they were old Christian hymns so I didn't understand but didn't really trust that b/c we have to be sober. So I ended up just going back to piano hymns.

wing2000 · Oct 22, 2025

Hentenza said:
Drug smuggling is a civil crime? Are you sure?

No. In any case, the point remains. The US Military should not be killing suspected criminals.

Chesterton · Oct 22, 2025

I'm not sure what's explosive here. Isn't it well known that everybody spies on everybody, and that Israel happens to be particularly good at it?

JohnEmmett · Oct 22, 2025

John Emmett

Artwork partially created using artificial intelligence.

DragonFox91 · Oct 22, 2025

I know, a lot of I wish's lately.

You'd think I'd be more grateful w/ what I have & what I know.

Here's something grateful: When I first started my job, I didn't think I'd make it. It came after a couple jobs I didn't make it at. I've been here a long time now. It wasn't worth the concern. But maybe it was a little bit, otherwise you wouldn't have tried as hard.

Chesterton · Oct 22, 2025

You had your zebra yodeling?!

OUHAD

Hentenza · Oct 22, 2025

wing2000 said:
Not this government. They lie every day.

To date, the government has presented zero evidence to back up their claims. And even if they did, the US military should never be used to murder civilians suspected of a civil crime.

We are not at war with Colombia or Venezeula.

These killings are illegal.

Drug smuggling is a civil crime? Are you sure?

DragonFox91 · Oct 22, 2025

I wish I was more an evangelist. It's hard being an evangelist when you're more introverted. I have the passion.

That is not me tho. I am more a discipler, I want someone to be deep, not shallow. The evangelists can help plant it, I will help water it so it doesn't stay a seed.

The Bible teaches we all have different talents & the Bible teaches we can all 'evangelize' in what we do.

But be ready to evangelize

Hazelelponi · Oct 22, 2025

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Valletta said:
Two “narco-terrorists” were killed in the strike off Colombia’s coast Tuesday, he said. The latest strike raises the death toll from the administration’s attacks to at least 34 people.

The ‘incredible’ friends who convinced Trump not to surge troops to San Francisco

The mercurial president said he’d received ‘four or five calls’ with some ‘very successful people’ who persuaded him to give San Francisco a chance

www.the-independent.com

There was a lot of money made in human trafficking during the Biden administration and the money the crime organizations now have to push drugs is going to make this a long war.

While we have problems I do pray this is moving towards the diplomatic solution of other countries enforcing their own laws.

I'm not big on this. It helps when we enforce our own borders also.

Maybe it shows my ignorance but I don't know if the cartels warrant this. I know they do a lot of bad, if it's illegal these cartels traffic in it, that's not the issue, but I do believe we have treated these people differently in the past.

And since we have treated them differently from the legal perspective in the past perhaps some leeway is in order to give adequate warning and see how much effect it is just having stepped up our own borders more.

Oompa Loompa · Oct 22, 2025

NxNW said:
Truman killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in Japan. Sometimes these things happen.

But shooting a random fishing boat doesn't help anyone.

Congress could put every drug dealer out of business by legalizing the stuff and directing the proceeds toward treatment. I don't endorse drug abuse, but at least we'd have a better grip on it.

What point did you think you were making?

I agree. Shooting a random fishing boat doesn’t help anything. But shooting a narco terrorist boat filled with narcotics helps the entire country.

Oompa Loompa · Oct 22, 2025

wing2000 said:
Not this government. They lie every day.

To date, the government has presented zero evidence to back up their claims. And even if they did, the US military should never be used to murder civilians suspected of a civil crime.

We are not at war with Colombia or Venezeula.

These killings are illegal.

Presented "zero evidence?" Or you have seen zero evidence from the liberal media?

Oompa Loompa · Oct 22, 2025

GoldenBoy89 said:
Do you think that was fine for Obama?

Nope.

GoldenBoy89 said:
Did Obama ever promote these strikes like they were something to be proud of and celebrated?

Nope. As far as I know. It was swept under the rug with Bengazi.

CoreyD · Oct 22, 2025

Aaron112 said:
No, Jesus never tried to get the crowds or assembly to understand. He specifically told His personal disciples that He spoke in parables so that they (the audiences) WOULD NOT UNDERSTAND.

Thanks Aaron.
Let me rephrase Jesus explained in a way that people could understand... at times.

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