The Laschamp event and the demise of Neanderthals

[Dutch Uncle]

I can see why you had an affinity for psychology.

It also doesn't take long to ascertain if someone is just surreptitiously googling tidbits of historical or scientific info, or whether they actually put in the hard work to have some comprehensive knowledge.

I fell into it in college. Most undergrad psych majors take it to find out more about themselves. I was no different, plus it was easy. LOL All I needed was a four year degree and my plans to be an aeronautical engineer fell apart when my math skills proved to be lacking. I went through computer science and then philosophy before my Psych AA and transferring to a four-year university. After that, it was 40 years of evaluating people. The psych degree helped in identifying people who were fit for duty, those who couldn't hack it or were have problems, temporary or worse. Still, it was a major learning curve.

Agreed....at least for a normal, intelligent and educated person.

 

[Cypress]

I fell into it in college. Most undergrad psych majors take it to find out more about themselves. I was no different, plus it was easy. LOL All I needed was a four year degree and my plans to be an aeronautical engineer fell apart when my math skills proved to be lacking. I went through computer science and then philosophy before my Psych AA and transferring to a four-year university. After that, it was 40 years of evaluating people. The psych degree helped in identifying people who were fit for duty, those who couldn't hack it or were have problems, temporary or worse. Still, it was a major learning curve.

Agreed....at least for a normal, intelligent and educated person.

The important thing about picking a major is to gravitate towards something you think is interesting.

I would have eventually shot myself if I got into a business or accounting major!

The community college prep track is smart.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

The important thing about picking a major is to gravitate towards something you think is interesting.

I would have eventually shot myself if I got into a business or accounting major!

The community college prep track is smart.

True. Having good professors helps a lot with that. I had a great philosophy professor in community college but the ones at UNC killed it for me. Dry as dust.

LOL GMTA

It fit my budget and got the mission done. The training event I attended a couple weekends ago had a Q&A from the students to the pilot instructors. Most of them were all focused upon getting into a military academy. I emphasized thinking about a Plan B in everything they do. A hard lesson that took me awhile to learn. Most were middle-class kids, but a pay-as-you-go college program would be hard financially for some. Community College and living at home is a great way to save money and still work toward a college degree. It's a good Plan B.

 

[Cypress]

True. Having good professors helps a lot with that. I had a great philosophy professor in community college but the ones at UNC killed it for me. Dry as dust.

LOL GMTA

It fit my budget and got the mission done. The training event I attended a couple weekends ago had a Q&A from the students to the pilot instructors. Most of them were all focused upon getting into a military academy. I emphasized thinking about a Plan B in everything they do. A hard lesson that took me awhile to learn. Most were middle-class kids, but a pay-as-you-go college program would be hard financially for some. Community College and living at home is a great way to save money and still work toward a college degree. It's a good Plan B.

I think CC makes a lot of sense economically these days for a lot of young adults.

When I went to the University of California system, it was so heavily subsidized by the state, that the tuition was extremely reasonable and affordable, so there wasn't a huge economic incentive to do two years at a CC.

Good advice on Plan B, my brother was a Air Force officer by an alternative route, instead of attending the AF Academy.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

I think CC makes a lot of sense economically these days for a lot of young adults.

When I went to the University of California system, it was so heavily subsidized by the state, that the tuition was extremely reasonable and affordable, so there wasn't a huge economic incentive to do two years at a CC.

Good advice on Plan B, my brother was a Air Force officer by an alternative route, instead of attending the AF Academy.

MAGAts whine about the high cost of public education but the morons are looking at a national average not the spectrum itself. Only 8% of public education is federal. The rest is local. Rich families live in rich areas with good schools. Poor families live in poor areas with poor schools. The problem isn't the cost of education, but the equitable access to a good education.

IMO, the education and health of Americans is a national security issue. It affects the quality of our workers and our military and intelligence personnel. Making education more accessible should be a priority. Just throwing money at it with "free college" is stupid. People respect what they earn a lot more than what they are given. Better, IMO, to make school more accessible and let them work their way through it. Since the first two years of college are mostly core classes, a lot of it can be done online for minimal cost to the student. Those who complete an AA or AS degree online could be offered student loans to finish their education.

 

[Daylight63]

Nope Perry, the only thing I wrote in this thread was that I spent a month doing grunt field work for a professor who got some grant money from a State oil company,

There's nowhere in this thread I wrote that I "worked for an oil company" and had oil company expertise.

I have mentioned my careers so infrequently on this board - and never to this Daylight63 sock of yours - that you obviously can't keep track of which sock learned which little tidbit about me.

Dude, you said you were collecting rock samples for a state oil project. If that isn't a nice defintion of someone playing "geologist" I don't know what is.

Further you gilded the lily with geologic terms you found from googling. "mudstone" (I doubt you could identify a mudstone from a siltsone) "facies" (that's a good one, you had to dig a little deeper for that one, you even used it properly in a sentence).

Now, you and I both know I am much smarter than you are so it is no surprise that the word "geologist" came up in my mind.

The fact that you didn't follow that chain indicates your googling was insufficient.

Try again.


BTW: In the field how would you differentiate a siltstone from a mudstone? Just curious.

 

[Daylight63]

I can see why you had an affinity for psychology.

Because he believes he had a near death experience and flew up to the 3rd Heaven?

It also doesn't take long to ascertain if someone is just surreptitiously googling tidbits of historical or scientific info

The funniest part about this particular accusation is that I've been in this conversation and I've kept up with your "geo-babble" quite well. I must either be the BEST googler on the earth or I might actually know some of the stuff you are trying to fake your way through.

YOU wanted to do thermal maturation on a basin with "fission track data" rather than the about 10 BILLION regular means of assessing thermal maturity of a basin. You don't know what a basin is, nor do you understand what is meant by "thermal maturation" or any of that stuff. So stop faking it.

Just be honest for once.

, or whether they actually put in the hard work to acquire some comprehensive knowledge.

Every accusation is a confession with Cypress.

 

[Daylight63]

It's after 6PM central and no Perry. LOL

Because I have a "Life". You know, where I go out with other people in the REAL World.

Anyone want to guess he'll be back after 9AM tomorrow? @Daylight63

I am back from my trip. That is what you can do when you are an adult and have a drivers license and friends. You get to go out and DO OTHER THING other than whine on JPP.

Here's a clue: Businesses often aren't open on weekends, but facilities with a computer room are open 7 days a week.

It's 2025, there's almost no one who can't access a computer 24/7.



What kind of twisted world do you live in that you don't understand that? You are easily the most hilariously stupid "Detective" on JPP.

 

[Daylight63]

MAGAts whine about the high cost of public education but the morons are looking at a national average not the spectrum itself. Only 8% of public education is federal. The rest is local. Rich families live in rich areas with good schools. Poor families live in poor areas with poor schools. The problem isn't the cost of education, but the equitable access to a good education.

IMO, the education and health of Americans is a national security issue. It affects the quality of our workers and our military and intelligence personnel. Making education more accessible should be a priority. Just throwing money at it with "free college" is stupid. People respect what they earn a lot more than what they are given. Better, IMO, to make school more accessible and let them work their way through it. Since the first two years of college are mostly core classes, a lot of it can be done online for minimal cost to the student. Those who complete an AA or AS degree online could be offered student loans to finish their education.

It's funny to read your "opinion" on education. It must be kinda sad, though, given that you clearly have almost none. Are you ENVIOUS of people with education? Is that why the ONLY things you post on JPP are bitches about other people or knob polishing @Cypress?

 

[Daylight63]

What do you mean by "types of beefs"?

You know what I mean. If you don't then you are about as dumb as a box of hammers.

You should have seen me before the NDE

Wow. So you were a worse person? Interesting. Do you ever want to be a good person? You know, the kind of person that doesn't cause people to vomit in their mouths when you open your festering gob?

, Perry. LOL There's also 20 years of training courtesy of your parent's tax dollars, son. I say your parents because I strongly doubt you were capable of holding a 20 year career yourself.

One doesn't have to fly up to Heaven and visit Mr. Jesus to have a job, Dutch. Sorry if mommy told you that was the only way you could get on at the janitorial service.

BTW, why do you never post past 6PM CST? The only exception I could find was Easter Sunday with a single post. Do you have a curfew? Is the computer room locked up after 6PM and reopened at 9AM?

Wow. You and @Cypress keep CLOSE TABS on my posting. Cy even seems to have an excel spreadsheet of my posts so he can tell me what % are related to his posts and you keep track of when I am here an when I'm not.


Interesting.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

Because I have a "Life". You know, where I go out with other people in the REAL World.

I am back from my trip. That is what you can do when you are an adult and have a drivers license and friends. You get to go out and DO OTHER THING other than whine on JPP.

It's 2025, there's almost no one who can't access a computer 24/7.

What kind of twisted world do you live in that you don't understand that? You are easily the most hilariously stupid "Detective" on JPP.

Translation: My computer room has business hours.

I already figured that, Perry. LOL

Nice story but the one about you being a GeoChem PhD was funnier. At least this one is more believable than you graduating college.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

You know what I mean. If you don't then you are about as dumb as a box of hammers.

Wow. So you were a worse person? Interesting. Do you ever want to be a good person? You know, the kind of person that doesn't cause people to vomit in their mouths when you open your festering gob?

One doesn't have to fly up to Heaven and visit Mr. Jesus to have a job, Dutch. Sorry if mommy told you that was the only way you could get on at the janitorial service.

Wow. You and @Cypress keep CLOSE TABS on my posting. Cy even seems to have an excel spreadsheet of my posts so he can tell me what % are related to his posts and you keep track of when I am here an when I'm not.


Interesting.

I love that you are as obsessed with me as much as you are @Cypress. I was starting to get jealous. LOL

 

[Dutch Uncle]

It's funny to read your "opinion" on education. It must be kinda sad, though, given that you clearly have almost none. Are you ENVIOUS of people with education? Is that why the ONLY things you post on JPP are bitches about other people or knob polishing @Cypress?

QED on the OCD.

Are you claiming to have an education above a GED, Perry?

 

[Cypress]

Dude, you said you were collecting rock samples for a state oil project.

No Perry, I literally wrote that I did grunt field work for a month for a friend who had some grant money from a State oil company, on a scientific study that may have had tangential benefits to oil exploration.

I never wrote in this thread that I "worked for an oil company" or was an experienced oil company researcher.

I've literally mentioned about three times in 20 years here anything I did for a career.
And one time was very briefly to your sock puppet Perry about three years ago, lol

Even your boyfriend Anonymous says he has never seen me make any claims, boasts, or pretensions about my professional background . -->

Funny to find out @Cypress claims to have worked for a petroleum company

In reality Cypress is clearly not what he claims

To his credit I haven't seen him claim anything about himself.

 

[Daylight63]

I love that you are as obsessed with me as much as you are @Cypress. I was starting to get jealous. LOL

Wait a sec, there Cletus. YOU and CYPRESS carried on for a couple more hours musing about me on Friday. You were checking the time and inventing all sorts of detailed stories about what my access to a computer might or might not mean.

Seems like you are more obsessed with me than the other way 'round. I was just responding to your FLURRY of obsessed posts about me.

 

[Daylight63]

QED on the OCD.

What does what I posted have to do with OCD?????


Cy said you were drawn to psychology? So don't you know what OCD is?

Are you claiming to have an education above a GED, Perry?

Yes. I am. It's a pretty low fuckin' bar in 2025 in the USA. Don't YOU have a college degree of some sort???????

 

[Dutch Uncle]

No Perry, I literally wrote that I did grunt field work for a month for a friend who had some grant money from a State oil company, on a scientific study that may have had tangential benefits to oil exploration.

I never wrote in this thread that I "worked for an oil company" or was an experienced oil company researcher.

I've literally mentioned about three times in 20 years here anything I did for a career.
And one time was very briefly to your sock puppet Perry about three years ago, lol

Even your boyfriend Anonymous says he has never seen me make any claims, boasts, or pretensions about my professional background . -->

Perry is a bit "slow" when it comes to comprehending the written word. His mind is filled with emotion which makes it difficult for him to process new information.

 

[Trumpet]

What does what I posted have to do with OCD?????


Cy said you were drawn to psychology? So don't you know what OCD is?



Yes. I am. It's a pretty low fuckin' bar in 2025 in the USA. Don't YOU have a college degree of some sort???????

Speaking about OCD, why are you so obsessed with trolling???????

 

[Daylight63]

No Perry, I literally wrote that I did grunt field work for a month

Yes I know. I knew graduate students who did exactly the kind of work you are claiming you have done. I had friends who did field work. They called themselves GEOLOGISTS.

Now here you are on the board TRYING desperately to cover your own slip up. YOU explained a scenario that in my experience is something done by GEOLOGISTS.

for a friend who had some grant money from a State oil company,

A "friend"? It was a professor earlier. Seems you are distancing yourself further with each desperate post.



So if you don't fancy yourself a geologist why did your friend send you out in the field to collect rocks you couldn't possibly identify if you weren't a "geologist"?

on a scientific study that may have had tangential benefits to oil exploration.

"tangential"? Yet you were doing basin thermal evolution. That's not tangential to oil and gas, that's CRITICAL. That's kind of the first step.


Again, you keep slipping up and I can see the truth through the lies.

I've literally mentioned about three times in 20 years here anything I did for a career.

What was it? I honestly think you were a janitor who likes to have fantasies about being smarter than he is.

And one time was very briefly to your sock puppet Perry about three years ago, lol

Well, then, you'll be able to show me exactly where you did that!!!!!! I honestly want to see this.


So far all you EVER do is talk. You NEVER follow through. That's how I know your story about the Andes is about as real as Dutchs' story about an NDE.

Even your boyfriend Anonymous says he has never seen me make any claims about my professional background . -->

I posted the posts, Cy. You see, when I make a claim I CAN BACK IT UP.


you? Not so much. You are what we call a "big talker" or "all hat, no cattle".

You are a faker, and a loser. Your pathetic attempts to gain credit for things you have never done is pathetic.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

Wait a sec, there Cletus. YOU and CYPRESS carried on for a couple more hours musing about me on Friday. You were checking the time and inventing all sorts of detailed stories about what my access to a computer might or might not mean.

Seems like you are more obsessed with me than the other way 'round. I was just responding to your FLURRY of obsessed posts about me.

QED on "slow".