Recent content by lostone

These tests are a fucking joke. Who validated them? Many fully cognizant people, at any age, and many demented would fail them, and some who, demented or not, pass them but who validated them? On the base of what studies? I do not like DJ Trump, and think that he is mentally failing., But...

The American public does not have the highest moral standards. It never did, even back in the 1800s.

It's not an IQ test. They give you this kind of test in hospitals, when they re trying to determine if you are still mentally competent to make your own medical decisions about your care, or to reject their opinions.

Why have sizes at all? Why not just measure them in cm or inches? Clothes sizes ought to be an obsolete thing of the past.

This chart of shoes sizes appears on Amazon as guidance in buying shoes. It doesn't help me much anyway, since my usual size is 7.5, but I thought since it is stated in inches, it could serve. Can You tell me who has a foot 28.6 inches long? I presume they meant centimeters in the 2nd chart.

Trumps thinks he is a mafia boss

An interesting article on life in Russia from a Feminist POV. https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/21/russia-through-a-feminist-lens

My main beef with AI is that it is apparently causing a large increase in the public's utility bills.

It might also be noted that Christians had promoted hatred of Jews for hundreds of years, and had a long history of exiling them (Spain and England) and mistreating them in other nations all over Europe.

In 1731, Spanish sailors boarded the British brig Rebecca off the coast of Cuba and sliced off the left ear of its captain, Robert Jenkins. This traumatic auriculectomy was used as a pretext by the British to declare war on Spain in 1739, a conflict that is now known as the War of Jenkins' Ear...

I like Dunkin but do not have any favorite on the donut wars. My favorites are the ones with powdered sugar on the outside and chocolate or vanilla sugar creme on the inside. As for the importance of this topic, nations have fought nations over less important topics...

Any so-called inferior donut can be saved if you pretend it is Baba au Rhum and pour a splash of rum on it. However, the office may not be viewed by management as the appropriate place to repair the shoddy donut.

I keep seeing this claim that communism or atheism has killed 100 million people, but no see no attempt to justify these numbers. Mao, Stalin, Pol Po, et al? And that religion and capitalism and killed far less. Can we see some backup for these numbers? Backup That does not lead to the...

Even if your family has lived here for 250 years. MAGATs have turned the idea of Law and order into a sour joke

Do we all now have to carry full ID everywhere we go? And keep extra copies at home in case in case some government agency seizes them and does not return them at once? Sounds a lot like the ID Conservatives want very black to carry to their polling place, too, doesn't it?