Steven Meyer Addicted to cycling & science.
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“A truth that's told with bad intent.Beats all the lies you can invent.”.― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence.
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@Culture_Crit We won't. But they couldn't build an MRI. Different times, different engineering.
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@prageru In the 1950s it was whether various movies or books were "communistic". By the late 1990s we'd moved on to whether J. K. Rowling's books were "demonic.". Now is some video game "woke.":. Don't you people ever stop conjuring up bogeymen?.
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@hemantmehta OK, assuming this isn't some kind of spoof, what course was "youngest daughter" taking?. I'm pretty sure it wasn't astrophysics.
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@gunsnrosesgirl3 I'm not really interested in what job positions are overvalued and overpaid. I am interested in the myriad job positions - nurses, paramedics, teachers, scientists - that are UNDERvalued & UNDERpaid.
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@phalpern Watched Oppenheimer with daughter last night. Could quibble about some inaccuracies - eg Germans did not "split atom", Hahn & Meitner discovered fission, Joliot-Curie et all proved chain reaction a possibility, doubt Feynman played bongos after Trinity,. Still, terrific movie!.
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@TRHLofficial Econ: The real life version. I am CEO of a corporation that is part of an oligopoly. I offer farmers 80c/dozen for their eggs - just enough to keep them in business - barely. They have little choice. My fellow oligopolists are offering the same and collectively we're most of the.
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@MsMelChen When my daughter was 4 she preferred Lego to dolls. Children are individuals. Just leave them be to develop their own interests.
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@FrankMikeDavis1 Not American but I wouldn't be. The evidence clearly warrants indictment. Whatever the consequences of indicting him, failure to do so would be worse.
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@DrNeilStone Bit of overreach. They helped control it, reduced the death death toll, reduced the incidence of long COVID. But, in case you hadn't noticed, the pandemic is still with us. It hasn't ended.
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@realMaalouf Are "they" forcing people to learn about Muhammad?. Are "they" not teaching British culture? . Is this just another case of manufacturing outrage?.
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@PhillipAdams_1 I feel no nostalgia for Morrison. While I consider Albo a huge improvement on ScoMo I doubt I'll feel any nostalgia for him either once he's gone. And, for the record, I feel no nostalgia for Abbott either. I think I might feel nostalgia for Keating.
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@WallStreetSilv I think the idea here is to deter a conflict. The best war is the one that's never fought. For that you need deterrence. The ancient Roman adage of "If you want peace prepare for war" still holds.
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@realTrumpNewsX Donald Trump bilked poor and vulnerable people out of their life's saving with his fake "university" scam. If he was as wealthy as he claims, the scam would have added maybe 1% to his wealth. Get that?. He bilked people out of their life's saving to augment his wealth by 1%.
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@whatifalthist I got news for y'all. Nobody has a "right" to any slice of territory. If the residents have the will, determination and means to defend the territory they occupy, they get to keep it. If they lose any of the above they lose the territory.
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@jonathanstea @HislopMD You left out the one that probably saved more lives than any other. Smallpox.
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@bmay Nahh, it's just Christians being Christians. To quote Seneca:. Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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@DrNeilStone But I do. Two pupils at my elementary school contracted polio. One was in an iron lung. Of the two, one made a complete recovery and one was crippled for life. Sadly she died in her mid forties from post polio complications. But you know what? The polio vax is very effective.
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@lancearmstrong @lancearmstrong. Maybe hell hath no fury like a disillusioned fan. In my opinion you are not fit to initiate any debate. Even in cases where I agree with your pov. With friends like you do women need enemies?. Copy to @matthewjdowd.
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@TomiLahren Define "communist"?. Explain how it relates to "pride". In 1934 Stalin criminalised homosexuality.
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@nathaliejacoby1 I'd take the money and never tell him I'm not a US citizen and can't vote in US elections anyway. 😂.
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This is what really gets me. The anti-nuclear religion focuses on an easily manageable problem while ignoring the herd of elephants shitting on the carpet that is the chemical industry. The industry is poisoning our habitat.
people freaking out about nuclear waste which is little and -- if responsibly handled -- unproblematic (see video below) but chemical industry spills PFAS literally all over the planet and no one cares.
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@BklynP8triot @AOC She did. But it matters not. I suspect you will swallow the narrative that AOC is somehow responsible for the assassination attempt.
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@jordanbpeterson The enlightenment gave us "science, industry, and politics" as well as some freedom from religion. The technology that was developed made possible industrial scale "genocide, slavery, and colonialism." . Real history is messy. It does not lend itself to simple morality tales.
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@greider38 @GretaThunberg I hate euphemism. I am 75. I am now old. So are Trump & Biden. I think I "matured" around the age of 40. Respect is often confused with courtesy. You should always be courteous but respect must be earned. What has Trump done to earn my respect?.
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@skdh I think there's a bullshit black hole out there and if you fall through the event horizon there's no coming back.
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@OlgaNYC1211 @MedvedevRussiaE Is Russia on the "verge" of collapse?. Define "verge". If you mean some time in 2023 or 2024 I'm afraid it's unlikely. Things do not bode well for Ukraine in coming months. Russia can turn the lights off in Kyiv but the lights in Moscow remain on. 😣.
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@business Starbucks (Definition). An American retail business that sells a coffee-like substance to people who don't know any better.
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@engineers_feed Let's try moving the Great Pyramid of Giza further north and see whether light speeds up.
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@MonicaCrowley So your "last shot" is a grifter who set up a fake "university" and tricked vulnerable people of their life's savings?. As opposed to a prosecutor who put people like that in jail. OK. Got it.
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@LivingWatersPub I'd never heard of this film until a few seconds ago. But here's the thing. Existence of God is not the question. Maybe yes/maybe no. Nobody knows. But does Christian trinitarian God, or Allah exist?. Highly unlikely.
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@skdh Come to think of it, I had a German vacuum cleaner, a Wertheim. It broke down after 21 years . What are you going to do about it?.
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@EcoSenseNow I think I'll trust the laws of physics before a paid spin doctor erhh, oops, "consultant", for various industry groups.
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@MilaLovesJoe It does look as if governments on the whole are better at managing healthcare than America's "profit at any cost to consumers" system.
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@BeatTheCult In America & Australia "left" means anyone who does not buy into right-wing xenophobia, transphobia, homophobia, climate denialism or Christian flapdoodle. Does that answer your question?.
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@bruce_haigh I've been in Australia since 1996. During that time Sheridan has been recycling the same 4-5 basic themes. He has not had an original thought for 27 years!.
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@anumness Assuming this is real - which I frankly doubt - I'd schedule a meeting with principal and teacher. Then, very politely, I'd give them a maths lesson. Along following lines;. 10 /2 = 5 which means 5 X 2 = 10. So, if 1/0 = 0 it means 0 X 0 = 1. Take it from there.
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@michaelshermer @billprady @billprady . So it's a case of if you are not 100% in agreement with us you are evil, beyond the pale? . I find this purity culture on the left really irritating. And no, men who transitioned to women after puberty should not be allowed to compete in women's sports. .
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@StephenM I, for one, am not going to be lectured to about democracy from the representative of a party that gerrymanders and practises voter suppression under the camouflage of "making elections safer".
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@michaelshermer I've come to the conclusion that framing all society's ills as racism detracts from some real societal ills. For example, many measures that affect people of colour disproportionately are actually measures that affect ALL low-income people, regardless of race,.
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@WallStreetSilv Agreed. I do not think employers, be they in the public or private sector, should have so much control over an employee's private life. What next? Corporate CEOs forbidding employees coming out in support of the Dems?.
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@cb_doge I was 36 in 1981. What has surprised me most?. 1. How fat people have become. 2. Speed of decline in human fertility. 3. Extent to which Americans loathe & fear each other. What has nor surprised me: Relative decline of Europe, rise of Asia in general & China in particular,.
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@Drstevenhobbs @MorePerfectUS Never thought of it that way but you have a point. And it's true in another sense. To rephrase slightly, abnormally high returns on equity are money stolen from consumers.
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@ACTBrigitte Raise your daughter to be like. ?. I got news for you. Kids often have ideas of their own. --Love your children & show it - often. --Take them seriously. Do not regard your children as an extension of yourself. --If you offer guidance give reasons. Don't train them to regard.
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@highbrow_nobrow I do rather like Roman numerals. Quickly, what is the remainder if you divide:. MDCCCXLVII by XLVII ?.
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@Crossfadez @jordanbpeterson @Skrillex "Saving western culture"? Seriously?. Western culture is doing fine. Like all dynamic cultures, it is constantly evolving. Turmoil, dissent, etc - all signs of a vibrant culture. When it comes to culture, stagnation = death.
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@peterboghossian Nothing new here. I've been giving ridiculous answers to surveys for 60 years. Q: What newspapers do you read?.Me: Pyongyang Times. That would have been around 1964.
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@charliekirk11 "a Stanford instructor made Jewish students stand in a corner". How?. Serious question. Would you comply with an instruction like that?. I would have refused. On the one hand I am appalled. On the other I am really curious as to how exactly this played out.
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@GalenMicheal I think he may well be a parody. I blocked him a while ago. If you're fat you're not an alpha. If you need to proclaim you're an alpha on twitter you're not.
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@whatifalthist They were too far behind in technology to win. They didn't understand infectious diseases. Their best bet would have been to try make a coalition with rival powers. But it would have been a long shot,.
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@PeterSweden7 I'm sure everyone will sprout their evidence-free pet theories. I doubt there's a single cause. But I suspect the biggest factor is a s simple one:. People have discovered they don't have to have children if they don't want any.
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@IsomorphicPhi There's something deeply satisfying about getting yourself lost in something that deep. It's almost like a kind of fugue state . And when you figure something out and it all falls into place, it's a high like nothing else.
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@NikkiHaley Let Israel eliminate Hamas. Great. I'm all for it. Serious question:. How?. No, really, how?. Never seen an answer to that obvious question.
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@Sachinettiyil What does the oath of office of a judge who accepts gifts from billionaires with business before the court mean?.
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@RpsAgainstTrump It's his moment in the spotlight and he won't give it up lightly (pun intended).
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@BeatTheCult I don't care whether followers of some non-existent deity consider same sex relationships a "sin". I don't care whether anyone can change sexual orientation. If consenting adults have a same sex relationship that does not harm anyone else it's their business. Full stop!.
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@AdamBandt You're missing the point. In 1980s politicians decided they didn't like making hard choices so they outsourced management of economy to "independent" central banks. But central banks have only one tool, interest rates. We need fiscal as well as monetary measures.
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@JohannaNyman5 There is an easy way to end any war. Surrender. That's how Neville Chamberlain averted World War 2 in 1938. He sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler. "Peace in our time," he said.
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@JohnCleese This is the most fascinating, and hilarious, social science experiment in my lifetime and I'm almost as old as you. I hope we both live long enough to see the outcome. 😄😄😄😄.
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@14storiesCA I scored zero. Now, have you ever:. Listened to a WAX 78rpm record?. Changed the needles on a wind-up phonograph?. Sent or received a telegram?. Booked a trunk call to another city?. Used a party line?. Used a wall-mounted phone with a handle that you rotated to get the.
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@MuellerSheWrote @NikkiHaley She doesn't have much of a base. The last time Republicans paid attention to facts was in the Eisenhower era.
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@kangaroos991 If you are Jewish you should find the Confederate flag every bit as offensive as this one.
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@deusxalmighty It is impossible for us to falsify the God hypothesis . However that's not the point . Assuming God exists, which, if any, of humanity's 'God models' is the correct one?. My guess. None. The Christian trinitarian God, Allah, etc, all fairy tales.
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@LibertyCappy I've never heard anyone say Africa should be for African and AsiA for Asians. Both continents have such a diversity of tribes and demes that it's meaningless.
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@ReduxxMag If the account here is accurate the police officers concerned should be "unconditionally fired".
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@victorklineTNL I think you & I have a different fight in mind . I want to see a better deal for ALL not-powerful, not just a segment. The Voice struck me, no way to be polite about this, as feel good for comfortable people.
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@realTrumpNewsX I stand with heeding the lesson of Munich when Neville Chamberlain abandoned Czechoslovakia to Hitler in order to avert a war. A year later - World War 2.
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@phalpern Agree from what I've read about Bohr. Do you think the conversation between Einstein & Oppenheimer in the presence of Strauss happened the way it was presented in the movie?. Or was this a bit of poetic licence?.
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@NickAdamsinUSA Hmm. Not eating for a while might do you good. You look as if you could loose a few pounds.
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