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babe said:
Life is like this thread. We all have our little streaks of meaninglessness mixed in with our serious efforts to have legitimate fun. . . well. . . .some fun, anyway.

Probably, it could be argued, most "fun" is illegitimate somehow.
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I could probably do a little cameo segment just right here on the subject of intellectual strivings to capture "truth", or even "beauty". . . . but here I digress, as "money" encompasses and defines every other human aspiration or dream, and has status as the measure of everything. . . . .

It's like that despairing day long ago when I realized that the Mormon Church was hiring Madison Avenue ad folks to re-shape the public image of what I had thought was the Gospel of Jesus Christ. . . . ..

It's not just the Gospel that depends on money for public acceptance, it's also Truth as well as Beauty.

I mean, look at Van Gogh for example. Nobody gave a damn until he was dead and gone, and couldn't splash color on canvas anymore. And ever since then, the only reason anyone ever hears of him is because some wealthy folks have bid up the price of canvas and chromate paint.

It never did mean anything, or convey any understanding of anything. . . . it always was just canvas and chromate pigments dissolved in oils. . . .and it doesn't mean anything now, except as a demonstration of how human beings attribute values to things in mockish imitation of the wealthy morons who preside over us.

We see the same thing on the "trending" directory on our email accounts, on TV glitzeratti, and the nightly news. . . . .
 
Nightmare said:
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Perfect.

It takes a lemming to show us the way.
 
hmmm. . . . was that a lemming?

lemmings are littler, and they're more like rats. And with some brown color. Maybe this is a polar bear cub?
 
So I'll withdraw the lemming tag on that pic.

That's not a lemming, just a cute little something or 'nuther.

Nightmare is finding something better to contribute than morbid hyperconcerns about ugliness.

And yes, there is Beauty in this world. . . . you just need to be able put gas in the tank and go look for it.
 
Nightmare said:
I brought it here because you were talking to yourself and I couldn't think of anything to say.
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It's called running up the post count, and you don't need to have anything to say. . . .

I also do it just to move on to a fresh page sometimes.

It's a fact of forum life that hardly anyone will make the effort to click back to a previous page.
 
It also puts you on the top of the list of recent posts. . . . .

It can annoy the hades outta some folks who already know how worthless the thread is. . . . . lol
 
nonsense codons

In genetics, I found. . . or was told. . . . , a lot of DNA is just noise, nonsense, doesn't have any known definite purpose. . . . .

Personally I doubt that, but let's run with it a bit.

I do some pretty heavy philosophy in here sometimes, and it's as good as starting a new thread to just add some spacer material, some nonsense.
 
Personally, I hold the opinion that the "nonsense" geneticists think has no function because it doesn't specify an actual product protein, is more important that nonsense. I think nonsense codons play a role in controlling expression of genes, and in aging processes, likely slowing down aging changes by dilution, so to speak.
 
babe said:
Personally, I hold the opinion that the "nonsense" geneticists think has no function because it doesn't specify an actual product protein, is more important that nonsense. I think nonsense codons play a role in controlling expression of genes, and in aging processes, likely slowing down aging changes by dilution, so to speak.
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The problem with having opinions like these in science is they're practically impossible to prove in a positive test.
 
babe said:
Personally, I hold the opinion that the "nonsense" geneticists think has no function because it doesn't specify an actual product protein, is more important that nonsense. I think nonsense codons play a role in controlling expression of genes, and in aging processes, likely slowing down aging changes by dilution, so to speak.
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Some of the non-coding DNA performs such functions.

However, much of it is noise. For example, viruses that embedded their DNA into a gamete and had it passed on, generation after generation. Some of it is formerly functional, but no longer works, like the gene for making Vitamin C.
 
That's just gross, Nightmare. This is a child-friendly thread. If you don't delete that one, I'll have to sink it into oblivion with about three pages of nonsense.
 
VINYLONE said:
A new device is not needed. The old firearm standby is enough of an equalizer.

https://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2014/11/edmonds-woman-shoots-home-intruder/

Happy Thanksgiving, indeed.
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She'd have been smarter to shoot him in the chest or head. Ordinary citizens are likely to be charged for ineffective deadly force. If it's your life at stake, you can't afford to be half-hearted or half-witted. I hope there is enough public outrage against the intruder to intimidate the police and keep them afraid to file charges against her.

Women have many options in our society so there is no need for sicko mutilation thoughts. Lawyers are more fearsome than guns, actually.
 
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