Despite an individual's propensity for math, the math that a society uses influences the way that ...

Hanno comments on Oct 1, 2020:

Great idea... am going to the bank today and tell them my huge home loan has a relationship with my neighbour’s fat savings account... and we should just let them be all in one account... down with numbers Apartheid! Lol!

Don't jump on me for the hat, it was added by some wag on /pol/, meme is still good though

Hanno comments on Sep 28, 2020:

Funally! A funny left wing meme!

Be smart stay apart.

Hanno comments on Sep 28, 2020:

Telling the black boys to leave the white girls alone? What were they thinking!

Why is it not known how many have been killed through atheism?

Hanno comments on Sep 28, 2020:

As was pointed out many times before... you are confusing non-belief with anti-religion. As a Christian you are anti-Islam, anti-Buddhism, anti-Hindoesm... the list goes on. Christians been killing these other religions for centuries, and visa versa. And what is worse, you believe these people are to spent eternity in hell. Communist regimes are anti-religion, however they did not kill people because they are Christians or Muslim etc... they do it because that is what caused them to rebel against the totalitarian rule. They killed agnostics and atheists with equal speed if they rebelled. Nothing to do with religion. The actual amount of people killed by atheism is minuscule... Mainly because atheists/agnostics are very poor at organising themselves if they are not part of something else such as socialism/communism.

i am sure you know how to add

Hanno comments on Sep 28, 2020:

You see! Lockdowns save lives!! LOL! A while back an elderly colleague told me that the drastic reduction in human population due to Covid at least is taking a huge burden of the shoulders of the planet. I could not hide my disbelief. However, that is what so many are thinking.

The oppression and enslavement of the African Boers.

Hanno comments on Sep 27, 2020:

The more important issue I have with this picture is the visualisation that the Boer is a victim. The Boer will NEVER be VICTIMS. No one has ever ruled us for a significant period of time. If you mistreat us we will leave and become even more successful than before. We have done this many times, first we left France in 1200-1500 when they forced Catholicism on us. We became very successful there, however when the Spanish wanted to rule us, we took our German and Viking wives and came to South Africa. Others went to the US... they became Americans (along with the British, Italians etc, ) and lost touch with the Boer, but we are the same people. We then left the Cape when the English treated us like second class citizens. We created very successful republics. We lost the war but won our country and ruled ourselves from 1910 to 1994. We lost it again, because we could not get Apartheid right and did more harm than good. For our punishment we had to give up our country. Now we are leaving again... Australia, New Zealand, The UK, back to the Netherlands/Belgium, and the US. We are always the top performers wherever we go. You can oppress us, however we will NEVER be victims and we will always come out on top because we are BOER!

The oppression and enslavement of the African Boers.

Hanno comments on Sep 27, 2020:

Thanks for posting. As a Boer myself, I do feel however a bit that I need to point out that the modern definition of a Boer is not what it used to be. An English speaker had to almost loose the ability to speak English before he would be considered a Boer. Very few English speakers were ever considered Boers. Originally the Boer was only the sub group of the Afrikaner who refused to accept British rule (like they refused Catholic rule between 1200 and 1500, and then Spanish rule between 1600 and 1700 AD. This led the larger Afrikaner group to leave Europe between 1650 and 1750.) They left the Afrikaner behind in the Cape and moved to Natalia and later created the Boer republics in 1820-1885 when the British tried to rule them after British defeated the Dutch in 1820. They fought the English through two wars of independence 1880s and 1899-1902. The Boer concept was diluted by the South African Party and later National Party between 1910 and 1960 to heal the wounds of the second war... the Afrikaner refused to come and help the Boer against the English. All white (and some coloured) Afrikaans speaker was purposefully grouped as Afrikaners, and it was forgotten who fought and who did not. The Modern idea of the Boer raised again when the country was lost to the ANC, and now suddenly everyone is a Boer. That annoys me a bit... but who cares.

Listen, 'ya snowflakes!

Hanno comments on Sep 26, 2020:

Sad, but it is true... the left can’t meme...

"The two goals of liberation and social justice are not obviously compatible, any more than were the...

Hanno comments on Sep 24, 2020:

Good post.

Saving the planet...yeah, sure...

Hanno comments on Sep 24, 2020:

Very interesting... do you have a comparable analyses for a fossil fueled vehicle?

Back in May, trump said he would use the military to disperse the COVID vaccine.

Hanno comments on Sep 24, 2020:

During the early 1980’s Demoina floods in Mozambique, white Souths African military in uniform on military helicopters flew and saved civilians from roof tops, distributed food and medical aid. None of those Mozambican people thought the Apartheid monsters are attacking. They were very great full. Now there were police and medical staff and helicopters available, however they could not possible deal with the scale of operation needed. The South African airforce at the time could and did. They did not force anyone to leave a roof, or take a food packet or medical help. Now why would you frame the question in such a way that your own military, that is the best suited to rapidly distribute and administer vaccines to your people, as a bad thing?

Trump Declines To Promise Peaceful Transfer Of Power : NPR

Hanno comments on Sep 24, 2020:

Context... so important. Then important words... suggested, probable, allegedly, arguably... whenever you see these words, generally it means whatever the person is saying has no proof and is opinion or hearsay or just made up. In this case, only half the story. Hillary advised Joe NOT to concede the election, does not matter the legality of it. This was stated long before Trump made any such statements. Then, there are actual issues with mail in ballots. That is why it is used in most countries for less important or non-binding referendums, but never for elections or important decisions. Even for the worlds poster-girl and government today - New Zealand. NZ will not use mail in voting next month... with very good reasons. Yet this article states “his baseless statements on mail in voting”. That tells you a lot of the context, does it not? Now if you read what he has actually said... he intends to contest the election only if he there is mail in voting that indicates large scale fraud etc... All indications are that he will not contest if he loses and it has been a fair election. Now compare that to what Hillary told Joe and what has been repeated by many on the left... reject outcome whatever the reason if Trump wins. Spot the difference? Would you concede the election if it is close and their is clear or at least very likely signs of fraud?

The man who posted this literally shot himself in the dick yesterday.

Hanno comments on Sep 23, 2020:

Where does he say that he wants to murder people? I Have needed the police on many occasions, however never for murder. Maybe a bit less putting up strawmen?

Intercept: Glenn Greenwald, As Joe Rogan's platform grows, so does the MSM and liberal backlash.

Hanno comments on Sep 23, 2020:

What I do find amazing is that Trump is very happy to go on Rohan’s show.

On February 10, 2020, President Donald Trump proposed an appropriation of $1.

Hanno comments on Sep 23, 2020:

Hahaha... now just post the headline: Trump endorses BLM with $1,2 Billion tax payers money. With a photos of a black ranger next to a fresh fire break... And then make the article text book very small. Lol!

Ask someone who believes or supports a trans person to define you what is a man or what is a woman ...

Hanno comments on Sep 22, 2020:

We allow religious people to have their fantasies. It makes them happy and allows them to deal with their lives. As an agnostic I also have my coping mechanisms However please don’t force me to believe your fantasy or make me say it’s true. And I won’t force you to be part of my coping mechanism. This way we are cool and live happily next to each other. Ditto for men who want to be woman, and women who want to be men. However, you are always male and female. You cannot change that. There is the small group that are neither/either, I am not talking about them. They are special cases and need to be dealt with case by case. If you want to be treated as a woman, by all means. If you are an adult (in age and development!), you can even have bits of you changed. And we will treat you as a woman. We might snigger sometimes just like we snigger at some religious people (and religious people snigger at atheists). Not nice but we are also human. However, don’t force your views on me (religious or sexual) or my children. If you want to share a bathroom with my daughters, chop of those two little balls first and you are welcome to do so. That is the only view of mine I would like to insist on. I wish you happiness whatever life route you choose.

Who is financing the Marxist takeover of the U.S.?

Hanno comments on Sep 22, 2020:

Crap, now I have to replace my IPhone with a Samsung...hate Samsung.

> "“You have good genes, you know that, right?

Hanno comments on Sep 21, 2020:

Considering that in the crowd there were whites, blacks, hispanics, asians... he meant they were good people with good ancestry and they should be proud of who they are. Proud to be Minnesotans, proud to be Americans. If he said this to an exclusive group of white kids... maybe you can argue.

Trump’s gene comments ‘indistinguishable from Nazi rhetoric’, expert on Holocaust says | The ...

Hanno comments on Sep 21, 2020:

Yet you cannot draw the same conclusions between Stalinism and any of the Democrat candidates? Both of course are ludicrous. The Democratic candidates are not Stalinists and Trump is not a Nazi. Even though the comments made by many Democrats are closer to Stalin than Trump is to Hitler. What makes this even more ridiculous is the mixture of different races in the audience. He was blowing smoke up their backsides so they would vote for him... like all politicians do just before and election... nothing to do with Nazism.

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Hanno comments on Sep 21, 2020:

Oh, but I was assured by the local school teacher (Middleway) that these videos does not exist? No photos, no videos of riots and BLM/Antifa are NOT involved. No evidence for this whatsoever.

INDOCTRINATING THE YOUTH “It is imperative that our classrooms be free of indoctrination.

Hanno comments on Sep 21, 2020:

The issue with teachers , and more so professors, is that they believe they are the most intelligent and their jobs the most important. And hence they should be revered, and earn the highest salaries. This is true of (almost) all academics. In truth, they are not and cannot get top jobs or start profitable businesses. They primarily have to communicate with children or the inexperienced and hence get an inflated view of their own opinions. When reality sets in that others are more successful than them, especially the “lower peoples” such as tradespeople and small business owners, envy sets in. The great equaliser is socialism and indeed in socialist states, academics and teachers are more revered and are more “fairly” remunerated. So teachers and academics find it easy to switch to a far left wing mindset they believe to be more fair to them. The solution is of course to focus more heavily on education and attract better teachers and reward them better and kick out the poor ones. Unfortunately teacher unions put a stop to that.

There is an epidemic of high ego children running around in Western Society and the adults are ...

Hanno comments on Sep 21, 2020:

Thank you, a well thought out and written piece. Ego is one of the great human failings. It is because it is so close to the great human virtue self belief. You see it here on this forum as well. Someone loose an argument... and rather than conceding and saying I was wrong and learning from it, they subtly change the argument to one where they are right and then proclaim victory. Nothing learnt in the process other than how to be a professional debater.

"Yes, I was hired because I was Black. But that’s not the only reason." [washingtonpost.com]

Hanno comments on Sep 21, 2020:

Everything else being equal... same skills, experience, education, potential... But white, or male, would she have been hired?

Mitch McConnell, on the passing of Justice Ginsburg

Hanno comments on Sep 20, 2020:

Don’t know much of American Judiciary. Does the previous judge have any say in his/her successor or the way they are chosen? I read a lot about her dying wish... however does it actually mean anything?

Can somebody explain to me why even though technology has been so good, why, why the fuck do we have...

Hanno comments on Sep 20, 2020:

Good point... it is the reason I argued against the concept that AI and machines will make human effort unnecessary and we can all just retire. Never gonna happen.

[thetablet.

Hanno comments on Sep 19, 2020:

The Bible is very clear on homosexuality. It is one of the sins neither Jesus or Paul pardoned in the New Testament. God HATES homosexuality according to the Old Testament and this was never rescinded by any of the saints or prophets. The pope has no power to overrule that. Homosexuals have suffer under this hatred for centuries.... now that the RC church is dying... they want to forget about it?

Garbage in, garbage out.

Hanno comments on Sep 19, 2020:

Thanks, it is a growing problem, and to me the bigger issue is the non necessity to remember things. And with that comes the “short term” of everything. Read today, gone tomorrow. No lessons learnt, no new understanding. And everyone is an expert... because you can sound so clever from a 3 minute google search... Not to mention believing anything your favourite celebrity just twittered.

Accused Killer Of California Cops Was Associated With Right-Wing 'Boogaloo Movement'

Hanno comments on Sep 18, 2020:

Funny what people hates cops... Extreme far right loonies... and also moderate Democrat supporters... Lol! That was my first attempt to troll!

BLM Riots Are Officially the Most Costly Manmade Damage to American Property in History ...

Hanno comments on Sep 16, 2020:

They ARE NOT BLM Riots!!! Get with the program! And that is not a photo of BLM riots. Those photos does not exist!

Climate Alarmism and Fakery.

Hanno comments on Sep 16, 2020:

The issue that is ignored that the uncertainty in the models are more than a factor 10. Which your best estimate may be 9% and then the “real” answer may be anything between 0.9 and 90%. It is not possible to state what fraction of climate change is due to humans with the current data and models we have. Now what happens is the media only report the upper level and climate scientists needs the funding so they don’t correct, or when they correct, they are ignored by media and politicians.

CBS News caught!!!

Hanno comments on Sep 16, 2020:

Nooo!! You are all wrong... it was the Trump campaign who stole the pictures to start with and photoshopped the MAGA hat in. Honest! I am not gaslighting you. LOL!!!

You may, or may not know that Remington declared bankruptcy.

Hanno comments on Sep 16, 2020:

Unbelievable that with the current demand and prices they still went bankrupt. I thought the munition manufacturers must be creaming it.

This post comes from a conversation I am having with Krunoslav.

Hanno comments on Sep 16, 2020:

You are grouping a very large group of people into one group. What about mental disability... or the disability to be born to abusive parents? Or the disability to have the wrong skin colour or sexual preference? Or to be born in the wrong country or religion? There are many disabilities other than the obvious physical ones. It becomes very complex and there are no simple solutions. The issue how you play off different disabilities and rewarding merit. If you stop rewarding actual merit you very quickly fall into mediocrity leading to failure of the whole system. You need to distinguish between equality of opportunity and equality of outcome goals you are setting. We are not all equal. However we all need a fair go at life. Now any additional support you give to disabled people necessarily discriminates against able people... whatever your definition of disabled/able is. It becomes a question of equality of opportunity and what you need to do to ensure we all have a fair go at being successful. That necessarily require you to discriminate against the able. Is being black a disability? Today is seen as such by many. Should governments reward companies for hiring disabled people? Should government give preference to disabled hires for its own staff. Or make legislation that allow disabled to compete more fairly? And who is to pay for all that... because it does come at a cost. If it was cheaper to hire disabled people we all would do it. Providing disability access cost money and has to be enforced by legislation, else no one would do it. Sad but true. What we can look forward is that technology is reducing the need to discriminate against able people all the time and hopefully this will become easier and easier to solve in the years to come.

I was brought up by agnostic parents.

Hanno comments on Sep 15, 2020:

I was raised by hardcore western christians... and it reads like you and I had very similar upbringings and I can relate very similar stories. It is interesting that successful European cultures based on Lutheran principles have so much in common with successful Asian cultures based on Buddhism. It is almost as if religion is just an artefact, a side effect, of the true reason for success: Personal responsibility, honesty, integrity and empathy.

Do people still support/follow Peterson?

Hanno comments on Sep 15, 2020:

It was never about Peterson... but what he stood for.

A simple issue that baffles me.

Hanno comments on Sep 13, 2020:

It is all they have... And the best evidence against Christianity is the Bible. All the proof that god (Jehova at least) does not exist is right there.

When I was beginning to understand the difference amongst theist, atheist, anti-theist and agnostic,...

Hanno comments on Sep 12, 2020:

Gnostics are the guys who make the stuff up as they go along. Theists are the ones who believes stuff others made up as they went along. Anti-theists are to theism a bit like antifa is to fascism. Atheist believe that they don’t believe. Agnostics just don’t believe.

Carbon Dioxide - here is something from science they don't tell you.

Hanno comments on Sep 12, 2020:

You are trying to solve an emotional argument with a logical solution...

A great idea, no?

Hanno comments on Sep 11, 2020:

Sorry this is bullshit. ALL modern paints use titanium dioxide as base. It is also uses in finer form as sunscreen. It does not break down pollutants into “harmless” nitrates and carbonates. Nitrates in any case is a fertiliser and a serious pollutant in water systems.

Anyone been to a Biden rally?

Hanno comments on Sep 11, 2020:

Funny, even though it is clearly photoshopped... Must say, I just love touching my wife in public... not THAT inappropriately... but still... after all these years still nice to touch her bottom.

Today (Thursday) we review the trend of "blackwashing" American culture.

Hanno comments on Sep 10, 2020:

The golden girls... what will they be called now? The bronze girls? We are All for black shows... we loved the Cosby show (yes you did... don’t deny it). We all watched Fresh Prince. Just come up with your own ideas and we will all watch it. Ditto for woman washing male roles.

Why don’t blacks help blacks

Hanno comments on Sep 10, 2020:

Do rich white athletes donate? I know of many rich blacks who donate heavily and have charities named after them. It may be that on average whites give more than blacks and blacks receive more than whites... I don’t know... However some blacks most definitely donate to charity.

Woman votes topless after getting stopped at polls wearing anti-Trump shirt

Hanno comments on Sep 10, 2020:

More interesting is that she thought an American flag was a pro-Trump symbol. Tells you a lot about this woman.

Experts be like.

Hanno comments on Sep 10, 2020:

Or consultants...

“We’ve added years to life, not life to years.” George Carlin

Hanno comments on Sep 8, 2020:

Argh... that is so true that it is sad. I work to hard... getting old... life passing by. Fuck this shit.

Judge Orders Detroit Police Not to Use Batons, Tear Gas Against Protesters for Two Weeks ...

Hanno comments on Sep 6, 2020:

This is really fake news... The court order specifically states “... without just cause”. The judgement means nothing... the police is not supposed to use any action on the public without just cause. And this does not stop them from doing any action appropriate if they have just cause. So the judge just told them to be doing what they should be doing anyway.

Over 30 farm murders in South Africa in June 2020 - YouTube

Hanno comments on Sep 6, 2020:

Even inside South Africa... this is not reported and only isolated and extreme cases are briefly noted. These are not criminal farmers... oppressors or racists... they are old defenceless people. Yet they kill one criminal in the US who resist arrest...

This would never happen because it makes sense.

Hanno comments on Sep 6, 2020:

Who killed those 464 people?

Truth in advertising!!! [youtu.be]

Hanno comments on Sep 6, 2020:

Why is this still up in YouTube and his whole channel not banned?

Cult Of Personality

Hanno comments on Sep 5, 2020:

Somehow missed this one. Thanks!

Diplomat: China moves to suppress Mongolian culture and language.

Hanno comments on Sep 5, 2020:

Every time you buy a super cheap Chinese made product you support this.

To all my Victoria Australia Friends, neighbours & family.

Hanno comments on Sep 4, 2020:

How is the Victorian outbreak different to the Auckland outbreak? Both times incompetent governments...

Is this group an echo chamber?

Hanno comments on Sep 4, 2020:

I believe Remi banned a troll once... I support free speech but when one has been ID’d as a troll... kick them out!

Riddle time! You walk in a room and on the bed there are 2 dogs, 4 cats, 1 giraffe, 5 cows and a ...

Hanno comments on Sep 3, 2020:

None. I am in a wheelchair. The bed is upside down and the chair is with the animals on the upturned bed.

Coronavirus PCR testing probably inaccurate & unreliable - straight out of both sides of the CDC's ...

Hanno comments on Sep 3, 2020:

I still need someone to please help me understand. Since February 2020 I was led to believe that all data indicated that Covid does not kill healthy people and only kills the very old who also have co morbid conditions. I selected my own staff according to these factors who was to be allowed to be essential staff and who was not. Why is the 31/8 CDC report controversial? Does it not confirm what we always understood?

It’s official; capitalism is a disease and 31 genders are science.

Hanno comments on Sep 3, 2020:

If shrinks worked they would all be out of work... It’s the repeat customers that keeps them going.

turn off the MSN and turn on the under ground news!

Hanno comments on Sep 3, 2020:

State of Fear...

Anyone else hiding their tax returns? I mean, why would you? [youtube.com]

Hanno comments on Sep 2, 2020:

Commercial confidentiality? You know that your tax records are worth gold to your competitors?

[nypost.

Hanno comments on Sep 2, 2020:

Why is this news? From the very start in February it was clear from Chinese data that it only kill “at risk” people... either very old or have a co-morbidity disease. In NZ we even selected people based on these risk factors on who may be essential workers and who not from March already. I believe the 6% is still too high... that is just the number of cases where the co-morbidity was not known or written on the death certificate. The actual number of “Covid only” deaths are much less.

The Truth about COVID Deaths & Comorbidity The actual CDC revised death percentages reporting ...

Hanno comments on Sep 1, 2020:

Sorry this is rubbish. Everyone has always known that Covid 19 deaths are primarily co-morbid deaths and the ~9800 Covid “only” deaths are most likely also co-morbid deaths... the co-morbid disease was just not recorded or known. The reported Covid-19 deaths always includes cold, flu and pneumonia deaths... this was know from the start and was criticised by everyone. Johns Hopkins reporter it as such since the difficulty in getting a clear answer at the beginning and the likelihood of false negatives with testing. The data reported was always “an upper limit” result. No one dies of AIDS... they die if tuberculosis, pneumonia and even the common cold. However, they would have survived those diseases if they did not had AIDS. So the big Question is how many of the ~180 000 deaths would have survived 2020 if it was not for Covid 19. It is impossible to answer.

“COVID-19 The Big Lie” by Brad Flutey [link.medium.com]

Hanno comments on Aug 31, 2020:

And yet, 53% of NZers are voting for her in October...

Beer glasses

Hanno comments on Aug 31, 2020:

I did not know you swing that way Haraldson... Lol!

Dr.

Hanno comments on Aug 30, 2020:

The question is how many of that 94% would have lived if they did not contract Covid as well. That is why they look at “excess” deaths - which CDC claim is between 180 and 240 000.

[theepochtimes.com] Jeff Bezos Is Now Worth a Whopping $200 Billion

Hanno comments on Aug 29, 2020:

So how many of you have used Amazon during the lockdown?

WHo's BLM? THEY HIJACKED MY SKIN COLOR!

Hanno comments on Aug 29, 2020:

I believe the main aim of the BLM is to destroy what we understand as western civilisation. The guardian of the W C today is the US. The mass immigration of refugees into Europe has the same goal. All these movements have nothing to do with actual black lives or refugees.

Franciscan Priest Likens Nun Who Spoke At RNC To Nazi Supporter | The Daily Caller

Hanno comments on Aug 28, 2020:

Me thinks this priest is more concerned that his buddies love for small boys will be exposed under Trump...

Woke hysteria.

Hanno comments on Aug 28, 2020:

NZ reporter... when are they going to expose Ardern as not being so nice and be kind as she claims.

Jordan Peterson was the inspiration for me to write this book that will be published on October ...

Hanno comments on Aug 25, 2020:

Well, the cover is cool. Will see about the content when I can get hold if it in NZ.

A Libertarian's Take On Equal Outcome Vs Equal Opportunity- [slug.com]

Hanno comments on Aug 25, 2020:

I struggle to see how this is still an argument. How could you NOT hire the best person for a job? NZ has its problems but I so happy we still hire on merit only...

Archeology News [youtu.be]

Hanno comments on Aug 24, 2020:

Which one is Adam and Eve?

Why Land CANNOT be Stolen: Land is WON or LOST - YouTube

Hanno comments on Aug 24, 2020:

What about bought? 95% of Maori land was bought in NZ and 5% taken as punishment. Almost all of the 5% were returned within massive compensation. Yet we have so many that still claim all land is stolen since the British paid a shilling an acre in 1840 and now it is work $100 000 a hectare 2020. Of course in the 1840 it was either swamps or inhabitable mountains at the wrong end of the world. Now it is world class farm land and orchards build with European and Asian technology. Yet the claims of all land stolen does not got away.

From a guy who knows a thing or two about forced equality..

Hanno comments on Aug 23, 2020:

1. The natural world is not fair.. and never will be... else there would never have been extinctions and no animal would eat another. 2. We as humans can attempt to make things fair by ensuring everyone gets an opportunity to be the best human they can be given their genetic potential and the physical world we live in. 3. Every individual does and needs to have the right to chose how they apply their own potential. 4. Any fair system will always lead to unequal outcomes. A system that attempts to have equitable outcomes necessarily needs to be unfair.

BLM activist threatens: You will comply or you can get ran over- [redstate.

Hanno comments on Aug 23, 2020:

Reading that I begin to understand where Wiley Ricky Wiles is coming from. The level you have lie to yourself in order to justify these action must create cognitive dissonance that must be unbearable. It reminds a bit of the story of the man who adopted a baby serpent as a pet and was then surprised when later it bit him.

Counting ballots: As the person in charge of a polling place on March 3rd for the California ...

Hanno comments on Aug 21, 2020:

Amazing... it is not that difficult to have simple voting system.Of course it excludes mail etc and only in person voting in very simple ballots.

What... Cows?

Hanno comments on Aug 20, 2020:

Only problem is... devil never made anything... Godditit! So it implies god purposefully placed things in the ground to make intelligent people not believe in her...

History to 'vindicate Swedish COVID-19 strategy' [youtube.com]

Hanno comments on Aug 16, 2020:

Rather look at Finland’s strategy.

does stuff like this carry any weight at all here? [politifact.com]

Hanno comments on Aug 16, 2020:

If true it carries weight of course. I never saw that before and read the first two fact-checks of Tucker. In both cases the “fact-checker” gets it wrong a bit and right a bit. In both cases they take Tucker either out of context or ignore actual facts. In the first case Tucker did exaggerate, however if you read the intent of Harris at the time, he did not. Harris intent was to discredit Biden and paint him as a sleazy old man. That is what Tucker is pointing out. In the second case, their is of course a tiny risk to students and teachers... it is not zero... however you must be daft to think he said that... their is very little to no additional risk compared to the common cold and flu (who both present similar or higher risk than covid to kids). Tucker was pointing out that schools stay open for colds and flues, however close for Covid which for kids and teachers present no additional risk they don’t already face. I did not look at others ( I have a life ) however it appears it is similar to other “fact-checkers”... only halve true or very vague themselves.

New Zealand Says It Will Put All New COVID Infectees & Their Family Members in “Quarantine ...

Hanno comments on Aug 16, 2020:

The sad part is that sheep NZers are clapping their hands... we have thousands of sheep standing to que to get tested who have no symptoms.... They have been scared so much by the media and government that they believe only Jacinda can save them. Idiots.

If you are White or Asian, and smart, do universities discriminate against you?

Hanno comments on Aug 13, 2020:

The differences between races are smaller than the differences inside races... In other words... there is bigger variation among white people intelligence... than the differences between white and black intelligence. This applies to all attributes... not just intelligence but athletic ability etc...etc... This is important to understand. You can claim that blackS ran faster that whites on average... however, the differences between Hussain Bolt and the average black is much larger than the difference between the average white and the average black. Hence you can use statistics to claim all kinds of differences between the races, however you cannot use it to justify discrimination on a case by case bases. Therefore, any race based preferential treatment is racist. And projecting the average attribute of a race to individuals are similarly racist.

When I think that way, yeah, it's kinda scary...

Hanno comments on Aug 12, 2020:

Why oh why did I ever get married! Lol!

Are private security militias the future of public safety?

Hanno comments on Aug 11, 2020:

We... vote in politicians who actually do what you want?

Make lying illegal. Hard.

Hanno comments on Aug 9, 2020:

And who will decide what is a lie. A good Christian can claim that his god exist. Of course that is not true since gods do not exist. However the Christian did not lie because he honestly believe that and he believes he has evidence for that. So even though he may be wrong, he still did not lie. Now at some point said Christian realise he is wrong, however it has financial advantage to perpetrate the lie... and now he becomes a liar. Now how are YOU going to determine when he went from making an honest mistake to outright lying for his own benefit? Above is just an example... however you can extrapolate that to any believe system or viewpoint... socialism vs capitalism... Gnosticism vs agnosticism... etc etc. Then you also need to address the fact that you lie to others and especially to yourself on a daily basis. So how are we to punish you?

Seems at least possible

Hanno comments on Aug 7, 2020:

That photo can’t be real!!!!

What have we NOT been paying attention to in 2020 but should?

Hanno comments on Aug 6, 2020:

Hong Kong.

This may seem like an odd question but what do you think a "Genuis" would look like?

Hanno comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Look at my profile picture!

Does anyone post on this site ?

Hanno comments on Aug 5, 2020:

No, no one does... all the contributors here are simply alter egos created by the Admin (who is an AI itself) to create the illusion that there are people posing here. You are the first human to post on the site. Congratulations.

Do you think some or all Public Toliets / Rest rooms Gender Neutral? If yes why?

Hanno comments on Aug 5, 2020:

I have been in several European public restrooms where there were only only one restroom for everyone. The men’s urinals and wash basins was in the common room with cubicled toilets. It was a bit strange to pee I front of woman washing their hands in the same room... however Europeans have a different view on nudity than the US and the UK with all her colonies. Also, no woman had to pee in view of anyone, they had cubicles for that. No one cared and no one died.

Trump doesn't take credit for low crime like he did low unemployment. Why?

Hanno comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Haha... look at that your y axis. It does not go through 0! The oldest propaganda trick in the book. Replot your data with starting at 0 and then also plot the crime rates in other US cities and then against other cities in the world. Crime incidents have been decreasing world wide over many decades. It is called progress... we all enjoyed it even though you deny it is happening. Chicago is nothing special and is exactly as what you would expect.

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most ...

Hanno comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Never been a fan of Lewis, however that is very well said!

1960s lunch counter or this message board?

Hanno comments on Aug 4, 2020:

The people you are aiming at will not even open your posts... Wasted jibe...

No investigation over why was Floyd asking to be put on the ground as he made sure he yelled that he...

Hanno comments on Aug 4, 2020:

Many people when they do not feel well just want to lie down. It is a natural reaction to reduce the potential harm when you eventually do fall. Fentanyl overdose main symptoms is reduced ability to breathe. The bodycams are consistent with the blood report. The cops are guilty of aggravated assault... and should be charge as such.

Does it matter that George Floyd contributed to his tragic death?

Hanno comments on Aug 4, 2020:

Why was this video suppressed so long and why even now is it not mainstream media covered?

Come on, gimme some love....

Hanno comments on Aug 3, 2020:

Must be them potatoes!

Dude took the whole mannequin! 😂 Joke aside, I wonder how many people out there think that ...

Hanno comments on Aug 3, 2020:

Must have thought it was a sex doll 😂! The videos I have seen showed black and white trash doing destruction and looting. Few hispanics here and there. Definitely not a black only thing. And of course hordes of feel-good-about-themselves white marchers. Interestingly no Indians, Asians or Amerindians. Anyone have footage of other races?

Is society moving back to segregation?

Hanno comments on Aug 3, 2020:

People will buy the cheapest goods and services in the long run. Buying everything Chinese hurt our own economies and jobs, however we would rather buy $5 t shirt and $100 shoes made by forced labour than support our local economy. People may support race based businesses for a short while, while it is trendy and then buy the cheapest when nobody is looking.

Why intellectuals are so upset by the “injustices” of capitalism — Institute of Economic ...

Hanno comments on Aug 3, 2020:

Thanks, very good article. Really fits with my experience of PhD’s I know who fail at life and are upset about it and strongly supports socialism / communism.

OAN; Studies show countries using hydroxychloroquine have far fewer COVID-19 deaths YOU Need to ...

Hanno comments on Aug 2, 2020:

HCQ may or may not work... more research needed. Correlation does not mean causation. Countries with high HCQ use are generally malaria areas (tropical) and do not suffer as heavily from colds-related deaths as others. Other things kill people there long before they are old enough to be at risk of colds. We are still scratching our heads why South Africa’s case fatality rate is so low. It is very good news, we just don’t know why yet.

Critical Thinking is a skill. Is this YOU?

Hanno comments on Aug 2, 2020:

Jordan Peterson described it very well. It is the ability to argue two opposite view points at the same time while accepting that both could be wrong. What you described is similar to the scientific process... Key is the acceptance that you could be completely wrong and being able to understand the opposing view point to the point that you are able to defend it to some extent. Or at least being able to explain the other viewpoint to someone else. If you cannot do that, how can you argue against that?

Have you heard the good news? [twitter.com]

Hanno comments on Aug 2, 2020:

Your link is bad... took me to some obscure boxer...

Strange thought, Imagine if all the religious experts over history had it all wrong.

Hanno comments on Aug 1, 2020:

Religious experts never looks for visual proof of god. Scripture is clear that it is a faith thing and if you need proof it is no longer faith. It was common sense from god to keep slaves and to kill anyone who does not believe like you. You should read the Bible a bit...