Kevin Van Horn
@KevinSVanHorn
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@skdh What is your problem? You just can't dump on Elon Musk enough, it seems. The guy has revolutionized two industries and, quite frankly, done more for the future of humanity than almost anyone else I can think of.
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@Andr3jH What sort of nonsense is this? There are plenty of software engineers over 40. At age 59 I was still doing software development at Adobe.
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@TheProjectUnity I've seen this trick before. It's what you get when you take video of a pinpoint light source with a badly focused camera on high zoom.
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@mathladyhazel Clever. Usually these things use a disguised division by zero. This one works by ignoring negative square roots.
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@eyeslasho What is it with Muslims praying in public and blocking traffic while doing so? Looks very performative to me, not to mention exhibiting a very entitled attitude. ("My religion says I'm supposed to pray now, and takes precedence over your right to use the street.).
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@HotRodd01 @davenewworld_2 Maybe you think it's OK to be every cop's dog, expected to kneel down and lick his boots when commanded, expected to carry out any and every command, no matter how arbitrary or illegal, but some of us have a bit more self-respect than that.
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@SpacePerspectiv @SpaceOffshore This is dishonest. Your craft is not a spaceship / spacecraft. It's a high-altitude balloon capsule. It only goes up 30 km; the Karman line (accepted definition of where space begins) is 100 km.
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@AaronBaileyArt The jarringly unrealistic thing here is not Superman himself, nor Batman. It's the idea that a super-smart guy like Bruce Wayne wouldn't realize that punching Superman is pointless.
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@SWENGDAD Men have greater ability to cause physical harm than women. Women have greater ability to cause emotional harm than men.
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@LibertyCappy Black women are the woke's ubermenschen. (If you don't know what that means, it's what the blonde-haired, blue-eyed Aryans were for the Nazis.).
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@JohnDSailer Fixing the universities will require shutting down every one of the departments devoted to fake scholarly disciplines, especially the grievance studies departments. If they can't explain what credible, objective process their discipline has for detecting erroneous claims and.
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@Universal_Robin We need to stop abusing the term "pedophile." Actual pedophilia -- raping pre-pubescent children -- is far, far worse than having sex with a 17-year-old girl.
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@GraduatedBen The light bars at the top of cop cars are worse. They completely blind you at night. Way, way too bright to be on the road.
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@opheliamoding I once dealt with a CS graduate who didn't understand recursion. He should never have received his degree.
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@skye_gary @LauraLoomer Not get the the US involved in any new wars. Something that his successor and four predecessors failed in doing.
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@Djryanblyth @KimDotcom It should be obvious to anyone paying attention that the risk of WWIII is steadily increasing.
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@uppityhobbit @SWENGDAD Do you think only men can hurt with their fists? Only men can lose their temper and commit an act of violence? Seriously?. Yes, both sexes can do both of these things. But each sex has certain advantages when it comes to causing one of these classes of harm.
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@AmandaLSmythers Sophistry. You want to excuse politicizing science. I would say, rather, that making government the main funder of science has seriously compromised science. You can't have the necessary diversity of hypotheses and approaches without a diversity of funding sources.
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@physicssux1234 @SemrauDylan That's sort of the technical definition of "transparent." The question is then *why* light doesn't interact with glass. @Siwelthelongboi gives a more useful answer (separation between electron energy levels in glass is larger than the energy of visible-frequency photons.).
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@dr_barrett It's data. Their qualifications here are that they themselves encountered it, and they can speak from prior experience that these things were not seen prior to 2021. Why the utter lack of curiosity on your part as to what is causing this?.
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@highbrow_nobrow This take is dishonest. Nearly every medicine out there has some negative side-effects. That's why you need a prescription: so that they're only used when the benefits outweigh the negatives. This is what RFK Jr. is referring to, and he even mentions live-virus vaccines as a case.
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@esrtweet @NancyMace I've been making similar comments for ages. The response is always complete silence.
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@WeimarPsycho @sashachapin There's been research on the combination of psilocybin and MDMA. I can tell you from personal experience that this combination can be incredibly healing, if you get your set and setting right, and follow up with proper integration.
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@FellaSnape @broom_kris The US invaded Iraq, remember? Around a million Iraqis died as a result.
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@DrNeilStone You're missing his point that a lot of studies you would expect to have been done, haven't actually been done.
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@MarkTwa80901648 @HumanProgress @elonmusk You misunderstand Musk. The problem is that in many parts of the world the birth rate is below replacement level. The concern is that we are headed for a population collapse because people aren't reproducing.
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@esrtweet @realTrumpNewsX So Ukrainians are just assets to be used to kill Russians? The US and UK talked them out of a peace agreement that would have left them far, far better off than they have any hope of now, so that they could be used as a tool to kill Russians. Now their country is destroyed and a.
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@fermatslibrary It's a shame that we only ever see the final, polished proof of a theorem or formula, and don't get to see the messy intuitive processes that led up to it.
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@bckyardprincess @GadSaad Teachers should not bring their politics and ideology into the classroom. Full stop.
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@qephatziel Passed through the Oort cloud, so quite possibly sent a number of comets raining down on the inner solar system. One or more of them may have hit the Earth.
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@javiervoncount @william_f_cody @theserfstv @elonmusk @StationCDRKelly Um, Musk founded SpaceX, he didn't buy it, and he is its Chief Engineer. He literally designs rockets. He came in as a co-founder of Tesla just a few months after the first two founders -- at a time when they had no product. Get a clue next time before you start typing.
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@SciGuySpace I think the biggest impact will be a cessation or at least muting of the lawfare attacks on Musk and SpaceX. The Left really, really wants to put Elon Musk in prison. Forget TDS, Musk Derangement Syndrome is at epidemic levels on the Left.
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@Thomas_Binder Be fair. His position changed over time as more information became publicly available, and he's been expressing concern for quite a while now.
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@CQuill97 Christopher Reeve was able to transform from Clark Kent into Superman just by changing his posture. Incredible performance.
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@JacquesAppleba1 @kitten_beloved Young woman: possibility of pregnancy, but contraceptives and abortion are widely available, even a day-after pill. Young man: can be liable for 18 years of child support payments if the teacher gets pregnant and wants to keep the child. Can't just say, "I don't want this kid.".
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@tbonier It is true that tariffs will raise prices, and that is a good reason to oppose them. But not every price rise is inflation. Inflation refers to inflation of the money supply leading to a GENERAL rise in prices and reduced purchasing power of the currency.
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@kareem_carr Physics is the most successful science, with the least debatable results. Its theories are tested billions of times per day in our society's technology. Physicists require a p-value 87,000 times smaller than what the social sciences or medical sciences accept for new results.
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@PoliticalDarjee @thevivafrei @elonmusk Show me where that exclusion is mentioned in the First Amendment. It's not there, and with good reason: what is "misinformation" is often a matter of opinion. Allowing gov't to decide what is "misinformation" is especially dangerous and conducive to corruption.
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@ax_angelo Since there's no link, I have to ask how they define "unattractive." Is it based solely on physical appearance? Or does unattractive mean "still lives in his parents' basement and has no job"?.
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@TheSpaceGal @owensfellowship Yet another example of "inclusivity" that is all about EXCLUDING certain people. Openly sexist, but that's OK, because it's targeting those nasty, subhuman men.
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@DocStrangelove2 Remember that, in this context, "insurgents" means "partisans fighting the people who invaded their country.".
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@MindExpanding1 @gunsnrosesgirl3 That would imply that the water is surprisingly deep very close to shore. Unless this video was taken with a telephoto lens that makes the berg look a lot closer to shore than it truly was.
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@Erdayastronaut @owensfellowship I'm disappointed in you for supporting an openly sexist program like this. Would you be promoting this if it said that one must "identify as a man"?. And don't try to tell me that men have all the advantages. Woman far outnumber men in college already.
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@heinzsight2020 Sure, let's just automatically choose the interpretation that is most prejudicial to men. Did you even consider the possibility that the man finishes fast, consciously or unconsciously, out of a desire to not cause further pain? Or at a minimum out of a sense that you are not.
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@golub The Russians have made it clear what sort of conditions would result in them launching nukes. A client state falling to rebels was never one of those conditions.
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@PlaneAndTruth Hundred years? Sorry, but 2400 years ago, when Aristotle wrote about it, that the Earth is spherical was already commonly accepted by educated Greeks.
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@eyeslasho The flip side is that the woke Left continually conflates "dark skin" with "sub-Saharan African" -- and Black Supremacists have made hay of those studies to claim that they were the original Swedes.
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@mushycrouton And is it on ALL women to make this planet a less threatening place for men? What happened to equality?.
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@0xAlaric I have watched over the decades how, the more barriers for women were removed, the more feminists got exactly what they demanded, the greater their vitriol against men has become.
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@aphrodisiaIy Because they weren't vastly overrepresented or put in grossly anachronistic roles in the past.
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@BCCarCounters There's something really warped about treating "hostile against vaccine" as being comparable to "want to remove the holocaust remember culture.".
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@waitbutwhy An education system biased against boys. Boys have been shown to do substantially better on purely objective tests than they do on subjective tests where a teacher's biases can affect the grade.
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@MakeGodCool @ElijahSchaffer What's wrong with the author and publication? They were clearly trying to make the reader think, "Oh, those savage white people." Because white people are the only people who do bad things.
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@000000jay @michaelshermer You need to learn the meaning of the word "fascist". Hint: it does NOT mean "someone who disagrees with progressive orthodoxy in any way whatsoever.".
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@intheblueyonder @DrPhiltill Where did we get the silly idea that nontechnical people were qualified to pass judgment on the merits of technical candidates?.
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@WilliamAleksan5 @benappel I can't believe I have to say this, but. heteronormativity is not a social construct, it stems from biology. How the hell do you think the next generation comes to be? (By "heteronormativity" I mean the prevalence of heterosexuality over homosexuality, NOT any moral judgment.).
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@Leah742 @RealJamesWoods 😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣. The most vile people I've ever met, who put the most energy into mistreating other people, were woke progressives.
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@bronder @sahouraxo The US has no jurisdiction over Assange. He is not a US citizen. And whatever he did, he did outside of the US. If Assange can be arrested for supposedly violating US law, then any random American citizen can be arrested for violating, say, North Korean law.
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@DavisonVideo @goddeketal No, there isn't. To be considered a true scholarly discipline, a field must have a robust mechanism for identifying and rooting out incorrect ideas. Any field that lacks this has no business issuing Ph.D.'s. And our universities are full of fake scholarly disciplines. "English".
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@zanderlex @PicturesFoIder Eric Dubay is the guy who, among other lies, claims that the moons of Jupiter -- which I saw as a 12-year-old kid from my back yard with my K-mart telescope -- can only be seen "with special NASA telescopes.".
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@esrtweet @realTrumpNewsX They had an initialed peace agreement one month after the start of the war. The US and UK pressured them into discarding it.
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@ninagol15 @goldenchild_bg @mary53739812 That's completely false. His Stalin photo was in response to someone who posted. "Just lost my job at google gemini (I was the first guy to stop clapping & sit down after a pre-launch tech demo)",. a satirical reference to the fact that during Stalin's reign people were afraid to.
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Too true, especially for mathematical definitions and proofs. Everything looks nice and neat at the end, with no hint of the messy process of getting there.
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@HenrySimon47 @HarleyShah Nonsense. That’s the long-discredited labor theory of value. But value is subjective, determined by supply and demand. If someone can’t earn a “living wage” then they’re going to need help from someone, but let’s not deny reality.
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@selentelechia A lot of kids get bullied just for being smart. A large percentage of STEM nerds went through hell in school, a hell they could not escape until college.
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@ChristineHillCo @monitoringbias If you're going to make a claim like this, you should tell us WHY you think it's the most plausible explanation. Nobody's going to say, "Oh, Christine Hill says it's the most plausible explanation? Well then, it must be. Case closed.".
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