Oct

Nobel Prize Winner claims Black people ‘less intelligent’

Posted by Catfish as BS, politics, rant, science, survival

James Watson, Nobel Prize winning scientist for discovering the DNA sequence is caught is a whirlwind of controversy after recent racial remarks describing Black people. In speaking about the state of affairs in Africa, that he was,”“inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa [because] all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really.”. He further elucidated his baffling point by saying “people who have to deal with black employees find this not true”.

It just boggles the mind…one of the men who helped discover the DNA sequence, someone who has had an intimate look into the the unique potentials that can arise through the interplay of one’s nature and one’s nurture, can come to such an ignorant conclusion. Further defending his stance, Watson states,“there are many people of colour who are very talented, but don’t promote them when they haven’t succeeded at the lower level”… “there is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so”.

Wowzerz. Maybe Kramer and Imus need a roommate?

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Oct

If everyone lived like I do we’d need 3.1 Earths to sustain us…

Posted by Catfish as USAUSAUSA, rant, survival

Take this test and find out how many Earths we’d need if everyone lived like you do.

Be honest, it is good to find this out…before taking this quiz, I usually felt (quite bitterly sometimes) like I live a meager life style, but the results of this test indicate that I am already using over 3x than what is my fair share of the planet’s resources!!! How can this be this be when my bank account is always under 100 bux? When some of my friends are going out to shows, getting new cars, buying ~~iphones~~…while the best I can muster up is that I sit at home and surf the internet and eat Papa John’s Pizza drinking cheap coors lite beer…how do I end up still using more than my fair share?!?! But as a co-worker of mine once said…”we’re not poor, we’re broke. There’s a big difference.” And seeing this stat about my ecological footprint wakes me up a bit to the wisdom in what my co-worker was trying to tell me then.

We just feel poor, because we’re not used to being denied things, we (and I am speaking for and to anyone truthful enough to own their share in the overuse and abuse of the planet’s resources) want what we want when we want it, and even more so in the internet age. I won’t lie, one of the things over the past year that has crept its way into my life is “the pizza button”. Wow, that sounds like it might be a good thing…I think…pizza button? Basically, I have it set up so that I can push a button on my computer and order pizza from Papajohns, and it’s hooked up to pay by my credit card. I order, it comes, tip prepaid for on the cc, minimal human interaction, and off to some mind numbing serotonin releasing gluttony while watching Simpson’s reruns…and to be honest I have probably pushed the pizza button 20-30 times this year! Each time in defiance of a meager life style. If I can’t live like the rich, I will eat pizza! I never intended to form such a loyal relationship to Papajohns Pizza…as a matter of fact, I usually feel sick after eating it. But somehow I’ve let myself become this sort of zombie lab rat that pushes a button to order pizza to feel better about not having the same lifestyle as my friends…or for whatever emotional reason…it’s all mute. We’re using too much, and people are suffering because of it.

It’s not feasible to go about making swooping changes because you feel guilty. You’ll just end up pushing the pizza button again after a few days of feeling bad for not being able to magically transform yourself into Captain Planet. The first thing I am going to do is to sever my relationship with Papa Johns starting now…cookie deleted…pizza button vanishing…let’s hope that having to re-enter in all my credit card and personal info to order a pizza will provide enough space, to remind me, that I don’t deserve that pizza, not really…not just because. Didn’t I at least used to have to win a little league game to get to have Pizza?

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