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Why does anyone take dark matter seriously?
There are better models out there,

*cough* http://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com/ *cough*

and dark matter is CLEARLY a kludge!

Why do people hang onto insanity? (also, string theory? WTF is with that shit?)

Has science gone over to the dark matter side (ie, religion and magic and unicorns)?

EDIT: from a conversation i had with mpc755

Okay, for a second, forget you think I'm a dick/crazy/stupid/whatever,, and take an unbiased look at this:

Curved space time and GR have problems (this is why they came up with dark matter as well as all the fringe theories like MOND, QI, etc):
But if space ISN'T curved, then something ELSE would have to 'appear' to replace it.
QI acts LIKE gravity, except there is a PUSH instead of a pull.

Bear with the dick for another moment.

A planet blocks Unruh waves from one direction and objects are pushed towards the planet by the waves coming from all the other directions.
A beam of light approaches a star and the 'waves' are blocked from hitting the light by the star: the waves from all other directions push it towards the star.
If the light is approaching the star at an angle, as it is passing by the star, the waves that are not blocked push it towards the star JUST as if space was curved.

A planet orbits a sun because it TRIES to follow a straight course but the Unruh waves push on it from all directions EXCEPT where the sun blocks them: it is pushed on from all other directions except the blocked direction and so is pushed TOWARDS the blocked direction!

To me, this is fascinating.
Space not being curved, but matter acting LIKE it is curved without the problems brought in by the curving of space.

And if time does not exist as a part of space/time (Like Julian Barbour, Mach and Einstein suggests (expanding the work of Einstein (AND Mach) BEFORE he decided the math would be too hard and changed to time being a part of space), then there are no worries about the twin paradox and time travel.

To me, the problems introduced by space-time and dark matter are nullified by something like QI.

There are SO many problems solved just by thinking outside the box that I CAN'T HELP but go outside the box and look around: if QI can be proved, it solves SO MANY PROBLEMS.
Am I married to QI? Far more than dark matter, but I am always looking outside that box: give me something BETTER than dark matter or QI and I will take a look at it.
Dark matter, though: I looked at it and it just seems like a fake. A too easy fix.
I need better...we all need better.

I had my date with Annie last night. We live in the same community, so I took her to the local park for some skating. There is a park near where I live that has a lagoon for people to skate on in the winter. They have fireplaces and they put Christmas lights on the trees. It's beautiful to be there at night. There were maybe a dozen other skaters on the huge lagoon. Absolutely perfect.

Annie and I skated around and around while chatting. We talked about my relationship and she said that she has been learning about polyamory by watching youtube videos and such. It's really nice to hear that, as she isn't walking into things blind. We went down a narrow, dark part of the lagoon and reached a dead end. I brought her in close, went for the kiss, and DENIED.

She would later tell me that she would not let me kiss her before she talks to my wife to make sure everything is on the up and up. I was a little dissapointed, but I respect that.

We skated for a long time - a couple hours, then I took her to a restaurant nearby and we got some dessert and chatted some more. At the end, the bill comes and she refused to let me pay for it (which is super rare and always a good sign). I let her pay, but insisted that she let me pay for the next one.

I took her home, told her that normally after a date like this I would end it with a kiss, and she allowed me to kiss her cheek. I did, and with that, the date came to a close.

I learnt that Annie comes from a pretty Christian background and so is pretty inexperienced when it comes to sex. She also told me that she likes to move slowly.

It was a great night, and I feel something for her that I don't feel for Jasmine. I like Jasmine, but I don't get that electric feel like I did from Annie.

Tonight I'm seeing Jasmine. I'm kind of dreading it because I think I need to have a talk with her. I would like to see more of Annie, and because I don't have a lot of free time, my time with Annie will come at the expense of time with Jasmine. I also think that Jasmine wants more from me. I think she is falling in love with me and I just don't feel that way about her. It might be a tough night tonight.

That my terds turned yellow early this morning leads me to believe a have Hepatitis.

It’s definitely not C. C would totally suck.

I’m uncertain about B.

Most likely A. I am not at liberty to confirm or deny the reasons as to why I think it’s A.

LOL: I didn’t even see the triage nurse, they got me right in. I’m waiting to have my vital signs taken.

Get This:

Just a few days ago I posted that Real Soon Now I’d get the Hep A and B Vaccines and start taking PrEP, which greatly reduces but does not eliminate one’s likelihood of getting HIV.

Now they’ve taken my vitals. My temp is 97.1 F which is below the average normal buts it’s normal for me and was for my father as well; I wish I’d asked Grandpa Crawford.

BP is 150/86. To have had such high blood pressure for a year is a Problem as I now have but one kidney.

  I cannot reduce my sodium intake as my Psychogenic Pokydipsia a raging unquenchable thirst that is not Diabetes often gives me Hyponatremia, low Blood Sodium that could cause a heart attack.

For extra credit I’m fifty pounds overweight, I despise diet soda and Diabetes runs in me family.

Get This, Parte Deux:

Dark Chocolate is quite high in Iron; I’ve been eating lots of it as I’m also Anemic.

LOL: Olde Aygge.

Things I've noticed happen in the general vicinity of my posts:

- Fundie nutjobs reduced to curling up in a little ball, plugging their ears, and spewing either contentless religious copypasta (Freeman) or barely-coherent amateur apologia (Bot).
- The Shitey Uzzard degenerating into mudslinging and pretending (badly) not to care when defeated in arguments...every single one of them.
- Insecure manchildren accusing me of being a transsexual (some random AC) on one hand, and on the other, an actual transwoman accusing me of being a TERF (Kurenai).
- Creeps like VLM, KHallow, JMorris, Entropy, and all their kind simply giving the hell up and abandoning ship when faced with a proper down-smacking for their fallacious sociopathy.

When you have people on the fringes everywhere angry with you, each of them accusing you of the precise opposite on the spectrum they hate, you must be doing something right. In all my time here, I've never gone in for trolling, deception, or shitposting. I've always stood for what's right, and took the fight to those who would try to spread their noetic poisons, fighting it everywhere it appears for the sake of anyone unfortunate enough to encounter it, knowing full well the originators of such poison are by their own choice irredeemable, certainly so in this lifetime.

And my approach drives them nuttier than squirrel vomit.

Well boo fucking hoo. When someone on here tells me I'm bitchy or angry, I just laugh, because what they really mean is "you're making me uncomfortable by exposing my bullshit in such direct, uncompromising, profanity-laced ways." It's pretty obvious the accusations of being a transsexual come from sheltered, misogynist little manchildren who can't handle actual women speaking the plain, unvarnished truth to them, because they have so little truck with the opposite sex they've never seen it in the real world before. No, this insult to their manly honor cannot stand! ONLY another man could POSSIBLY have the balls, literal balls, to stand up to them! (And of course the kind of person who'd make this argument lumps MtFs under the heading of "man." I don't, though I do draw an important distinction between transwomen and cisgender women because, frankly, they are never going to know what it is to have a period or risk being pregnant).

Time to put on your big-boy undies and join the adult world! The toughest people I know are all women, including my own mother and some of the nurses at work. I'm a marshmallow compared to them.

And I don't regret anything, as painful as it's been sometimes. Am I a "nice girl?" No, and haven't been for several years, and you know what? It's better this way. "Nice girls" get used and taken advantage of and thrown away and never have their needs met. "Nice girls" are the permanent victims of tone trolling by people too frightened or too weak to deal with them as the full human beings they are. In this place, at this time, as this site sinks further and further into RWNJ decay, all it means is I'll fight all the harder.

What I hope this does is encourage the people on here who still seek the light to defend it. Hit back. We're seeing on a number of scales, from the President's capitulation on his stupid bullshit shutdown right down to the examples at the head of this post, that the sociopaths are like any bully: weak, cowardly, amoral types who don't expect and can't handle sustained, principled pushback. Part of it is that evil simply can't comprehend good, but mostly it comes down to how bullies work and have always worked. Anyone who wants to join me in fighting the good fight, please do: we've seen that it works.

If so, could you translate a few paragraphs from English to Français?

I'd use Google Translate but I know very well what it does to German and Russian.

My latest Romance Scammer - this one is new, as she is from Twitter; all the Facebook Romance Scammers seem to have clued in to that I'm on to them by now - early this afternoon sent me the most AMAZING picture, spent several hours swearing her undying love for me, then topped it all off with a request that I send her 250 Euros so she can buy food for her young son tomorrow.

Every last bit of that in French while I madly copypasted between Google Translate and the Google Hangouts iOS App.

If she's going to extract from me fifty times the money that I actually possess, then I'm going to make her read some of my writing first.

Look: there are worse fates. For example, I could be getting fucked to pieces by a supermodel heroin addict.

Oh, wait.

I'm listing Ankara and Istanbul Turkey as Soggy Jobs, despite having had only one listing at all, is going viral there.

ABB is hiring SCADA Engineers in Turkey - Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition. These often are combined with HMI: Human-Machine Interface.

Top-Notch HMI is _vital_ to prevent stuff like oil platforms from capsizing.

In other news, shortly I will sing for my bus ticket, then after that, a used copy of Horn Of The Moon Cookbook. I friend once lent me his copy; I was heavily into its Pumpkin Pie but no longer can recall the actual recipe.

Fuck MDC

I have three girlfriends now. One of them does not - yet - know about either of the two others. Those two others know about that first one but the two of them do not know about each other.

I regard this as quite a serious problem. While some are into dating more than one, and some are OK for their partner to actually do so, I am _not_ and never have been.

Sarah Is Insane.

"Cheri" - not her real name - is very French, very hot and very jealous of Sarah.

"Renata" - not her real name - has deep roots in the Philippines. She and I had a long distance relationship for a few months last year, after she threw her previous beau out for being unfaithful.

But he and Renata had been together for quite a long time, he helped put all four of her kids through college. Other than infidelity, I have every reason to believe Renata when she said he was a good man.

She took him in, then a while later, threw him back out, I expect for good this time.

Sarah and Cheri are young enough to have children. Cheri has a boy of two or maybe three; as far as I can tell from America, Cheri is quite a good mother to her son.

Sarah wants children but cannot have them until she has been in recovery from her Heroin and Benzodiazepine - Xanax, Ativan and the like - until in my own estimation she has gone three years without relapsing.

But there is absolutely no way to get Sarah into DeTox until we find some way to control her quite severe Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

OCD is driven by Anxiety; she also has Generalized Anxiety Disorder. That Sarah got hooked on Xanax is due to a pill-pusher having prescribed it every day. That did not have to happen as there are some Antidepressants that also work really well for Anxiety.

OCD develops when an otherwise anxious person finds some activity that comforts them; for me, it is writing. At one time but no longer it was playing the piano. That I continue to play is due to interest and pleasure as well as my hope to be a professional musician, but no longer due to anxiety.

This results in a death spiral until the only way the Obsessive can ever get any peace is to practice their chosen compulsion - and it is chosen, though perhaps subconsciously.

Sarah pinches.

And pinches and pinches and pinches. She will move to a new spot after she lacerates herself - she's got scars all over her body, even her lovely face that are not needle tracks.

Within seconds she is memorized. I tried taking her hand away, fearing I would upset her. But no she thanked me then asked that I do so every time I see her pinching. Simply to take her hand away did not prevent her from pinching again, so I suggested she squeeze my hand as tightly as she could. That gives her perhaps one minute of relief.

My good friend Chelsea Baumgartner has another friend with OCD; Chelsea suggested "Replacement Therapy". The experience of a lover with Borderline Personality Disorder was that Origami was completely effective at stopping her slashing of her own wrists - even with her fingernails when in a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit.

I showed Sarah how to fold a Peace Crane - a paper bird. It is said that to fold one thousand of them will bring about World Peace.

Sarah was delighted but the Peace Crane is far too difficult a fold for total newbies.

Chelsea offered to meet me that she may give me some Origami Paper, but since then I've been unable to so much as visit Sarah. In two weeks I've only seen her twenty minutes. When I offered to visit her, Sarah was quite pleased but that night she was working: whenever I got to where Sarah had agreed to meet, some new John had rung her up then drove her to a hotel somewhere far away. Finally Sarah advised me to go to NedSpace so I wouldn't miss the last train.

I need to chill for a while so I'll write more about Cheri and Renata in the comments.

Do Your Worst.

The citizens of Venezuela have suffered for too long at the hands of the illegitimate Maduro regime. He's not your President. He's a big phoney. He says he "won" the Election. He didn't win it. He only won because it was Rigged. And the United States will not stand a Rigged Election. Unless our guy wins. We stand with the Venezuelan people. That's 100%. And ALL OPTIONS are on the table. The nuclear and the everything else.

A big hand to @JGuaido of Venezuela, the President of the Venezuelan National Assembly, who I have officially recognized as the Interim President of Venezuela. twitter.com/VP/status/1088137453268013057

Thank you Mike. Vayan Con Dios! twitter.com/VP/status/1087734655804194819

Murders at the hand of extremists were up 35% in 2018, with right-wing extremists responsible for more deaths than any other year in more than two decades, the Anti-Defamation League reported Wednesday.

The ADL’s Center on Extremism tracked 50 extremism-related murders last year, according to the new edition of its Murder and Extremism Report. All of them were conducted by right-wing extremists (one perpetrator also had alleged ties to Islamist extremism). That number made 2018 the deadliest year for right-wing extremists since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, which killed 171.

Among the murders tracked in the ADL’s analysis were the mass shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which killed 17; Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh, which killed 11; and a Waffle House in Nashville. All of the suspects in those cases had expressed support online for far-right ideologies.

Right-Wing Extremist Murders Surged In 2018: ADL

Alright folks its that time of year again. This is the first year under the new tax plan so it will be interesting to see how everyone made out. Last year I ran into some problems because my work had my withholdings incorrect, evidently they failed to follow through with the corrections I asked them to for tax year 2018.

I was expecting that with the birth of another kid and my withholdings not being corrected that I would get a refund of around 1500, my refund ended up being 5500.

Thanks Trump! The additional amount that is being given back to me is enough to finish up saving for a downpayment and allow me to buy a home six months earlier. Thats six months I get to pay a mortgage for myself instead of paying a mortgage for someone else.