The AC compressor is out on my Wife’s car. I heard it, I RECORDED it and played it for the jeep guys. My BB Storm is very good at picking up sounds as you pass it over different parts of the engine.
My Wife heard it too, and while she knows nothing about cars, she pointed at it when she heard it. “It’s that”. It squeels like a banshe dipped in holy water.
It’s an intermitant sound. First they replaced the alternater. It wasn’t that. Now they have replaced the water pump.
There are significant, biologically-rooted psychological differences between men and women. These differences are often understated or denied by educated, intelligent Americans.
Religious beliefs are false.
Moderate or modernized religious beliefs are often totally irrational and indefensible, though they’re generally less dangerous.
One ought to identify one’s greatest areas of talent as early in life as possible.
Children cannot be shaped and molded by their parents in the way that some people think they can. For example, it makes no sense to attribute homosexuality to abuse by one’s opposite-sex parent. It makes no sense to attribute adult curiosity to childhood bedtime readings.
Mankind will continue, by and large, to ravage the planet in the 21st century - the environmental movement is not even remotely strong enough to prevent this.
Lots of beliefs are not merely right or wrong, but totally incoherent - they could not even be true in a hypothetical universe because they are conceptually confused.
The effects of colonialism and the Cold War still have a major impact on Africa today.
Development is almost always a crap shoot. Half the stuff you do will probably backfire completely and do more harm that good. But it’s still worth doing.
China is currently skating on thin ice, and is nowhere near as stable as we think. Things will probably get worse before they get better.
Evolutionary biology is 99% bullshit. The lines between modern cultures and our caveman ancestors are there, but they are nowhere near that easy to figure out.
Malaria is humanity’s biggest health problem right now, and we should be pulling out all the stops to fight it.
Psychoactive drugs are not as useful as they are touted and in some cases are harmful. Depression is not a simple chemical imbalance that can be simply fixed with pills. CBT is a better option for treating depression.
Being Gay is not a choice, nor something your parents did or did not do. You are either born Gay or not. Period.
Christianity, or all religions for that matter, should not be allowed anywhere near government or government policy - and that includes “In God We Trust” and “…one nation, under god…”
By no means are all Republicans right wing, bigoted, racist, homophobic, sexist assholes, but all right wing, bigoted, racist, homophobic, sexist assholes are indeed Republicans.
Genetically-based psychological and behavioral differences between men (in general) and women (in general) are smaller than differences from person to person. Significant behavioral divergences between the sexes are, by and large, a combination of sociological pressure and confirmation bias.
Religion is wrong. In fact, being wrong is much of the point; if someone is correct, they don’t need to defend their beliefs with the “religion” label.
There is no magic, there are no souls, there is no afterlife.
Slavery, rape and torture are wrong, always.
Evolutionary biology is true in principle, even if our ability to prove specific claims is limited at best; and the resistance to admitting it is largely driven by an irrational dislike of admitting evolution affects us like every other animal, as well as a misconception that such built in tendencies are automatically bad things. Claiming it is not true is claiming that humans are somehow special; that our evolutionary history was magically erased. Denial of evolutionary biology also directly contradicts the fact that people are not infinitely malleable.
The innate mental differences between men and women are not smaller than they appear, but larger; our brains don’t even work the same on a hardware level.
If conservatism is not universally evil, it is very close to it.
Being homo- or heterosexual isn’t a choice. Funny how it’s always homosexuality that is portrayed as a choice and not heterosexuality.
The “taxation is theft” position is, itself, an attempt at theft. An attempt to leach off of society and not pay for it.
A fetus isn’t a person and doesn’t deserve the rights of one.
An animal is neither a person nor an object and has rights that fall between the two.
