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Comments on: I Am Cursed https://whynow.dumka.us/2019/02/26/i-am-cursed/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:36:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2019/02/26/i-am-cursed/comment-page-1/#comment-88482 Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:36:59 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=42787#comment-88482 That was such a miscarriage of justice. Epstein and the prosecutors should all be rotting in prison along with George Pell and all of the other pedophiles. If the system can’t protect children what the f*ck good is it?

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By: Kryten42 https://whynow.dumka.us/2019/02/26/i-am-cursed/comment-page-1/#comment-88480 Thu, 21 Mar 2019 12:11:08 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=42787#comment-88480 I just got this tweet from a Journo @ the Miami Herald (Julie K. Brown) regarding Epstein. I retweeted it. Thought you may be interested:

https://twitter.com/Kryten_42/status/1108702343673995266

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By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2019/02/26/i-am-cursed/comment-page-1/#comment-88474 Sat, 16 Mar 2019 03:39:02 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=42787#comment-88474 When I got my degree, I wasn’t learning, I was remembering. In some subjects I had more real world experience than the professor. I would have been ashamed of myself if I hadn’t gotten top marks. What really matters is that we got paid for our work, and it was good enough to be useful for years.

Normally I use Badtux or BT, but here I assume that everyone knows who I talking about with ‘Tux, the apostrophe standing in for “Bad”. I check Skippy’s site every day but suspected he had jumped to the ‘blue bird’ as he was always a ‘roo of few words. 😉

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By: Kryten42 https://whynow.dumka.us/2019/02/26/i-am-cursed/comment-page-1/#comment-88471 Fri, 15 Mar 2019 07:24:41 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=42787#comment-88471 Summa is impressive. Top 5% (I only know all this from my time studying in the USA). We don’t use the “Laude” measure here, and GPA’s are not used below tertiary level. We call them Distinctions with an “average” High Distinction, Distinction, Credit) A High Distinction is the equivalent of “Summa cum Laude”, Distinction is Magna, Credit is Laude. For me, my first two years were a High Distinction average of 98% and 97%, final year was Distinction average of 94% (because I pissed off an arrogant SOB lecturer that graded me @ 91%, though all my other subjects were graded between 94-97%. Many years later, I showed my work to a retired Lecturer in that subject I met & he said I should have received 94-95%, not 91%. Also that I could take it up with the board and have it corrected, maybe (depending upon whether that a’hole was still @ that Uni). I didn’t bother. My work after speaks for itself and I never really cared about “academia” anyway, nor many “professional academics” (unless they’ve actually worked in the “Real World”(tm)!

Yeah, I see badtux now & then (did you know the guy that started Loaded Mouth was nicknamed Tux (he was from Rhode Island if memory serves)? That’s why I don’t use tux for badtux.) We like or comment on each others tweets now & then. First time I’ve seen skippy in years! Was some good memories. 😀

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By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2019/02/26/i-am-cursed/comment-page-1/#comment-88470 Thu, 14 Mar 2019 20:09:15 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=42787#comment-88470 In reply to Kryten42.

My brothers and I were banned from experiments inside, and had to take it outside. Our choice of venomous critters was more limited than yours, but we managed. We had a Gibson Chemistry Set and acquired “extras” if they were required. Hell, for one science project a vet helped out with with drugs and syringes to anesthetize hamsters for surgery [it grossed out the judges, but was interesting – locating a vein on a hamster is damn hard].

Yep, ‘Tux and Skippy are in the thrall of Twitter.

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By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2019/02/26/i-am-cursed/comment-page-1/#comment-88469 Thu, 14 Mar 2019 19:52:53 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=42787#comment-88469 In reply to Kryten42.

Could be, I don’t remember the specific source for that. Frankly I’m not sure what the break down is. Most of my schools just said “with Honors” except for Summa Cum Laud on my degree, but it was in Computer Science and I had decades in the field before I bothered with a degree.

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By: Kryten42 https://whynow.dumka.us/2019/02/26/i-am-cursed/comment-page-1/#comment-88466 Thu, 14 Mar 2019 15:22:52 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=42787#comment-88466 I think AOC graduated Cum Laude (top 15%) not Magna Cum Laude (top 10%). In any case, she worked for it & deserved it.

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By: Kryten42 https://whynow.dumka.us/2019/02/26/i-am-cursed/comment-page-1/#comment-88465 Thu, 14 Mar 2019 07:03:07 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=42787#comment-88465 👍🏾 AOC doesn't need anyone's help. She's proven she is more than capable. She has my admiration & respect. I do hope she has a capable security detail however! Though, she's a street fighter with street smarts. She knows "which way is up!" Oh my... I just *bumped* into Skippy the Bush Kangaroo on Twitter! @skippybkroo Wow... Flashback overload!! I asked if he remembered me from Loaded Mouth. That will be interesting (and surprising!) :lol:]]> 😆 Blame Mom and the Chem set Birthday gift @ 8 & the Sat. trips to the State Library & very helpful librarians! MY Chem experiments were banned from the house after discovering with joy how easy it was to create and aqueous solution of hydrogen sulfide & mix with ammonium nitrate! NO Bunsen Burner or dry ice required! But opening every door & window was! I kinda overlooked that part in my Scientific zeal!

OK! That “Tuck [brand name for a hemorrhoid wipe” made my day! It doesn’t get much more perfect than that! 🤣👍🏾

AOC doesn’t need anyone’s help. She’s proven she is more than capable. She has my admiration & respect. I do hope she has a capable security detail however! Though, she’s a street fighter with street smarts. She knows “which way is up!”

Oh my… I just *bumped* into Skippy the Bush Kangaroo on Twitter! @skippybkroo
Wow… Flashback overload!! I asked if he remembered me from Loaded Mouth. That will be interesting (and surprising!) 😆

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By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2019/02/26/i-am-cursed/comment-page-1/#comment-88462 Wed, 13 Mar 2019 02:27:33 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=42787#comment-88462 I’m lucky to make an aqueous solution of sodium bicarbonate or to add sodium chloride to protein sources. If I had access to a lab with a functional hood I might try it. Over-ripe tomatoes in Zip-lok® bags or Tupperware™ containers is more my speed these days.

Terry Pratchett wrote that humans seem to genetically presupposed to bend a knee. The US dumped a mad man at the end of the eighteenth century only to elect one at the beginning of the twenty-first.

In regard to Tuck [brand name for a hemorrhoid wipe, I kid you not] can’t seem to connect the act of gathering the harvest and eating. It’s as if he doesn’t know where food comes from. Obtaining food is somewhat more important physical beauty. He should be introduced to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs or be sent to a military survival school for a reality check. Farmers depend on foreign workers to harvest the crops. Without the workers the crops rot in the fields.

As for Sister Sarah, how about pulling babies from their mother’s breast to be put in cages. They really depend on distorting late term abortion rules. If conservatives supported prenatal care and child day care they would have more credibility in their antiabortion stance. The fact that they don’t want to help assist pregnancies or support children after they are born belies their claim of being pro-life.

AOC doesn’t need any help from me. A Boston University magna cum laud [first-class] graduate can handle those who buzz around her.

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By: Kryten42 https://whynow.dumka.us/2019/02/26/i-am-cursed/comment-page-1/#comment-88459 Tue, 12 Mar 2019 06:18:57 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=42787#comment-88459 🤷🏾‍♂️]]> Best stink is refine the rotten eggs (aqueous solution of hydrogen sulfide & mix with ammonium nitrate) in a small sealed glass bottle or balloon! Double the fun!

Religion is, and always has been, the root of all evil committed by Humans.

Oh please! You know as well as I do the Brit’s have NEVER had much foresight or planning abilities! Unless there is a major war and their Empire is at risk of destruction. Suddenly, they discover they are not half bad at it! Well, not so much the *foresight* part I suppose. Both the USA and Aus can thank their current stupidity to being descendants of that lack of British foresight & planning & a real will to continue the tradition! The irony of course is both claim to despise the old Empire & all it stood for! At least the Yank’s finally did something about it and gained their autonomy. So they can continue the old traditions, but pretend they are “new and improved”! “One day… It WILL work! DAMMIT!!”

We’ve been talking for decades about becoming a republic. It won’t happen, it’s a sham. Too many skeletons and secrets hidden under the “plausible deniability” cover courtesy of being part of the Commonwealth given to Politicians, especially the PM! Blame it all on the GG or Queen/King! And then use that as a reason to become a Republic (in public. In private, not a chance in hell). I asked a British Politician a couple weeks ago “Since it’s called “The Commonwealth”, doesn’t that mean that all Nations that are part of said Commonwealth should all equally share in the wealth part?” I didn’t get a reply. Funny that!

Conservatives suck. Period. Speaking of:

https://twitter.com/Kryten_42/status/1105300015101042688
and
https://twitter.com/Kryten_42/status/1105250089293950976
and
https://twitter.com/Kryten_42/status/1105254236399427585

And they are only the three I chose for today (I decided a while ago to limit myself to the typical GOP/LNP insanities in any given day, though on a really *good* (sic) day, I may choose 3 of each. Also maybe three UK ones, though I don’t usually. Everyone knows they are insane! Of course, that could also equally be said for USA and Aus.)🙄🤷🏾‍♂️

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