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grokit

grokit

well-worn member
Talk about your rough sex:

"The male bed bug climbs onto his lover’s back, his head resting on the left side of her pronotum, the outside of the first segment of the thorax that is roughly equivalent to her neck. He grasps her with the claws of his feet and tucks his abdomen so that it curves around her body, holding her in a violent embrace. At the tip of his abdomen is a hypodermic appendage called a lanceolate paramere, which is essentially the bed bug’s penis. He swiftly stabs the female’s underside and ejaculates into her body cavity. It’s more like a shanking than a romantic coupling. To counteract the male’s stabs, the female bed bug has evolved a unique protective organ called a spermalege. On the outside, it appears as a small notch on the right side of her segmented abdomen, which physically guides the paramere to the correct spot—the male may stab anywhere, but the female subtly directs his aim. Entomologists have been trying to understand the bed bug’s strange mating ritual for nearly a century. The answer may lie in an evolutionary biology concept called sexual conflict, where one sex of a species evolves features that increase its chances of breeding, but at the other sex’s expense. Their partners co-evolve strategies to counteract these unwanted advances."

http://www.salon.com/2015/04/26/a_d...ms_and_took_over_the_world/?source=newsletter
 
t-dub

t-dub

Vapor Sloth
Albert Einstein regarding the laws of thermodynamics:

A theory is more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended is its area of applicability. Therefore the deep impression which classical thermodynamics made upon me. It is the only physical theory of universal content concerning which I am convinced that within the framework of the applicability of its basic concepts, it will never be overthrown.

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t-dub

t-dub

Vapor Sloth
Without going outside, you may know the whole world.

Without looking through the window, you may see the ways of heaven.
The farther you go, the less you know.

Thus the sage knows without traveling;
He sees without looking;
He works without doing.

TE TAO CHING

Lao Tsu, sixth century BC
 
grokit

grokit

well-worn member
In my search for the secret of life, I have ended up with atoms and electrons, which have no life at all. Somewhere along the line, life has run through my fingers. So, in my old age, I am retracing my steps...

~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobel Laureate
 
grokit

grokit

well-worn member
“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?”

~ George Orwell, 1984
 
grokit

grokit

well-worn member
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

~ Carl Sagan
 
CarolKing

CarolKing

Singer of songs and a vapor connoisseur
(CNN)As a former teacher, Pope Francis knows how to deliver a stern lecture. On Thursday, he gave one for the ages.

While slamming a slew of modern trends -- the heedless worship of technology, our addiction to fossil fuels and compulsive consumerism -- the Pope said humanity's "reckless" behavior has pushed the planet to a perilous "breaking point."

Sometimes it takes a Pope to get involved to change things.
 
His_Highness

His_Highness

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
I hadn't heard this quote when my Dad first told it to me....

'Fuck You Money' ..... Having enough money so you don't have to worry about telling anyone and everyone 'Fuck You'.

Fortunately I don't need that much money ..... I have access to the FC Fuck You thread.
 
Havelock Vetenari

Havelock Vetenari

Patrician
^That instantly reminded me of (relevant dialogue starts at around 1.45):
"Finally Big Ern is above the law!"
:D
“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”-Nathaniel Hawthorne
 
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