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It's Cat Saturday at the CHIVE: https://thechive.com/funny/cat-saturday-july-11-2026/?utm_postid=5261585&utm_editor=5261585_alex
The Rupert lowe & Joe Rogan interview from 2 days ago. Already posted but worth re-posting for those who missed it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipmFXJk1yGI
Haha, Trump trolls Iran with ''Praise be to Allah!"
Gen X knows
https://x.com/Cat5SMASHICANE/status/2075672588324344128/video/1?s=46
Is there a reputable service that helps clear out a large amount of emails quickly allowing you to keep the important ones? Gmail, yahoo, etc.
I use and have used Outlook for years, what I've done in mass deletions is sort emails by who they're from and often times can easily delete large chunks at a time. Not sure if web interface email can sort that way.
Granted, no where near 175k'ish, maybe a couple hundred at most I've dealt with.
Does that much email come in or has it been unmonitored for a while?
If it's been unmonitored whatever ones were important may not be so important now.
I'm not even sure you can select more emails than currently shown on the screen to delete.
How many we talking about
150k to 200k
Holy shit
Netanyahu’s son Yair adopts new name in latest family name change. Reported change comes as the Netanyahu name becomes toxic for a son seeking business ties in the US.
u/#ridetofreedom
God bless you frens.
A friend of mine passed away from Cancer. He did fenbendazole and ivermectin every day for 3 years. It didn't stop it, i can't say if it helped or not, extended his life or not.
In some cancers three years is considered a victory
The medical evidence for chemo is based on < 5 year survival rates.
No idea his personal case but it likely did keep him around a while longer
It was just over 5 years.
Oh then that is definitely a good result. Pretty much on par with chemo
If it was something super treatable like prostate cancer or leukemia then sure...he might have been better off going herbal or conventional chemo but for anything else I think five year no chemo is an overall win
You'll see him in the new Kingdom fren. Soon. Trust.
Condolences. As much as we know, and knowing more than others, we still know so little and must stay humble.
What kind of cancer? What organs were first attacked? Did it spread to other organs? Rapidly? These are questions that need to be asked to judge the effectiveness of this treatment. Also, were they vaccinated?
Prostate. Prostate > bone. Yes. If you consider 2-3 years rapid, then yes, but if not, then no.
My dad died of prostate cancer back in 1994. It spread to other organs and bones and he was gone 9 months after 1st diagnosis. Dr. Makis has reported that patients have recovered from stage 3 prostate cancer with his Ivermectin/Fenbendazole protocol. However, I have seen no reports of success vs. failure with the protocol though. The only possibilities are that your friend had other issues that made the protocol ineffective, or they didn’t get the real stuff from their pharmacy, or Dr. Makis doesn’t report the failures along with the successes. I can’t make any conclusions, but hopefully someone can make a good case study out of this.
No matter what, my condolences for the loss of your friend.
Last week, France declared war on air conditioners. Next week, the French army will surrender to Carrier.
T. rex Engineered with Small Arms to Balance Its Large Head BY TIM CLAREY, PH.D. *
https://www.icr.org/article/16013/
Conventional scientists have been baffled for many years by the small arms of Tyrannosaurus rex. To many, they just seem disproportionately small compared to other theropod dinosaur arms. The question is often asked: What use could these tiny arms be for such a large predator? A recent study claims to have solved this enduring enigma.1 And yet, a simple visit to a playground teeter-totter would have likely saved them a lot of time and effort.
Charlie Scherer, a Ph.D. student at University College London, and his colleagues examined the head dimensions and arm size of 85 theropod species (meat-eating dinosaurs).1 Skull-to-forelimb ratios were calculated for 61 of the 85 species. They also developed a new cranial robusticity score that included skull proportions, bite force, and dental morphology.1 Cranial robusticity—including components like bone thickness, size and shape of the skull, and teeth—helps researchers understand differences in how and what a dinosaur might have eaten.
It also may help explain T. rex’s little arms. The study’s results demonstrated a direct relationship between cranial robusticity and arm size, suggesting that the arms are small because they didn’t play as significant of a role in T. rex’s eating style.1 But dinosaur behavior is difficult to assess from bones alone. Nonetheless, the conventional team of paleontologists tried to tie the relative skull and arm size relationship to an unknown evolutionary process: “Results indicate that forelimb reduction is strongly correlated with cranial robusticity and gigantism. Reduced/vestigial forelimbs evolved in at least five theropod lineages in concert with increased cranial robusticity and gigantism.”1 So the authors believe that random evolution caused the arms to became smaller over time, even referring to them as vestigial.
Scherer added, “We sought to understand what was driving this change and found a strong relationship between short arms and large, powerfully built heads. The head took over from the arms as the method of attack.”2
They further attempted to connect the cranial robusticity to the general diet of the theropod:
Therefore, it is highly likely that a predator’s cranial robusticity was linked to the characteristics of the organisms it was preying upon. Larger prey items would have required a larger, more robust skull to resist the inevitably higher forces experienced when attacking/restraining heavier prey.1
Ultimately, the conventional scientists concluded that the larger body size of prey required larger skulls and a larger cranial capacity at the expense of arm size.1 Scherer said,
While our study identifies correlations and so cannot establish cause and effect, it is highly likely that strongly built skulls came before shorter forelimbs. It would not make evolutionary sense for it to occur the other way round, and for these predators to give up their attack mechanism without having a back-up.2
But does this evolutionary tale make sense? How could a larger head evolve first and then the arms somehow become smaller over vast amounts of time? Maybe there is a better explanation for this head and arm size relationship—one that points to a perfectly balanced design.
Bipedal (two-footed) dinosaurs, like theropods, balanced at their back hips. The tail balanced the head, arms, and upper torso. The engineering has to be just right to keep the weight distributed equally. Just like a teeter-totter has to balance with the same weight on either end for best performance, so did the bipedal dinosaurs. A larger head combined with large forelimbs would throw the balance off, making the dinosaur overly front-loaded. It would walk awkwardly out of balance, to say the least. To counterbalance that, the tail would have to grow even bigger.
Recognizing such engineering behind the skull and arm size relationship harkens back to the Creator and creation week rather than random mutations and deep time. The Lord Jesus engineered all animals to be perfect in all their dimensions, from the front of the skull to the tip of the tail. Head size was most likely based on what plant types each dinosaur was designed to eat. If they needed a large skull to eat large plants, then their arms would have been designed smaller to accommodate that. It’s also likely that larger-headed dinosaurs with small arms didn’t use their arms to feed.
In the end, it’s all about engineering and balance. Theropod dinosaurs never slowly evolved longer arms or shorter arms. The arms were always in perfect proportion to their skulls and their tails, no evolution required. And because the Lord always has a purpose, we can trust the small arms of the T. rex had a purpose, too, even if we don’t yet know exactly what that purpose might have been.
References
Scherer, C. R., E. Steell, and P. Upchurch. 2026. Drivers and Mechanisms of Convergent Forelimb Reduction in Non-Avian Theropod Dinosaurs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 293 (2071): 20260528. University College London. T. rex’s Tiny Arms May Have Evolved for a Surprisingly Brutal Reason. ScienceDaily. Posted on sciencedaily.com May 20, 2026, accessed June 2, 2026.
Well, whatever the reason was, they clearly didn't need longer arms. Otherwise they simply would have evolved them longer. Duh.
https://youtu.be/v7JaStGH-AQ?is=wp2G_cIuqUzr0rog
😂😂😂
T. rex Engineered with Small Arms''
https://youtu.be/aInONhdauU8?si=sOksqqCNxIQ12aij
Get right out of town, they had more than 1 song?!
😂😂
I'd never heard anything by them other than Get It On
Get right out of town, they had more than 1 song?!''
...their lead singer did ok...
Don't most creationists believe that dinosaurs are pure fabrications?
I find it strange that you are highlighting arguments for intelligent design of creatures on one day, and on another you highlight arguments that they may not have existed at all.
I don't remember any statement you mention can you show me that article.
I grew up with the A Beka curriculum, Pensacola Christian College (Baptist) grades 2-12. The teaching is that dinosaurs are real, and guest chapel speakers enthusiastically assert that humans actually lived with them for 1,656 years, from the creation of Adam approx. 4004 B.C to the Great Flood in Noah’s time in 2348 BC. There are some though who believe dinosaurs are a hoax, but they are not mainstream.
Some young earth creationists have asserted that a dinosaur still lives in a swamp in the Congo. This isn’t a creation science article, but it is about the alleged dinosaur / swamp creature (which most scientists dismiss) https://www.iflscience.com/sightings-of-the-legendary-mokele-mbembe-dinosaur-of-the-congo-are-increasing-what-is-going-on-78615
Then I taught for 6 years. At the Christian teachers conventions, booksellers sell books on dinosaurs & creation.
Sounds like they've got it figured out.
Interesting. Thanks for good background info.
I find it strange that you are highlighting arguments for intelligent design of creatures on one day, and on another you highlight arguments that they may not have existed at all.''
...I do it all of the time...
...posting an article should not be taken for an endorsement of its content, which could just be entertainment value...
,,,no more...
...no less...
We Are The Ne....umm Entertainment?
The Fox News defense.
The Fox News defense.''
...precisely...
Friday Poem...“A Field of Finches Without Sight Still Singing” by Grace Cavalieri
https://theamericanscholar.org/a-field-of-finches-without-sight-still-singing-by-grace-cavalieri/
VAN MORRISON/THEM Here Comes The Night {Stereo} 1965
https://youtu.be/9OW8jjSWquk?si=d-7xO79vndS9Ty4G