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This is their definition of progressive and conservative: All lawmakers are graded on a 100-point scale with a “0” representing an expansive government role (progressive) and a “100” representing a limited government role (conservative). That's so simplistic as to be moronic. Looking at the...

Tenpenny is a raging anti-vax conspiracy peddler, and has been for decades. She has been one of the most prominent spreaders of disinformation regarding vaccines (and health information in general) since the start of the millennium. Among her greatest hits: Bird flu is caused by vaccines...

He was musing - during a live, televised press conference - to reporters about possible COVID-19 treatments, and then referring back to science and technology advisor to the DHS Secretary, William N Bryan (who is not a doctor). Bryan had briefed him earlier on using UV and disinfectant on...

Kids have a Fourth Amendment right to privacy. I bet the bolded phrase is an insert by the writer, and doesn't bear anything close to the reality of educational experience. "Ideology" here is just added as a contextless fear word, an intellectual lazy way of saying "schools bad, woke bad...

The US constitution is really not in alignment with "biblical values". For instance: It explicitly enshrines freedom of religion, in opposition to the Bible. It explicitly enshrines freedom of speech, also in opposition to the Bible. It treats all on an equal legal footing, whereas the Bible...

There's a revolution new technology. I wonder if you've heard of it? It's called .... a long stick.

Does anyone in the FE community actually engage their brain before making these videos? Or while watching and commenting on them? The Roadster is spinning. On multiple axes. It is plainly visible in the video. As it's spinning, there's no constant solar radiation exposure. Which is what is...

Because they're actions that violated the law. That's what a crime is... In this case, they're violations of New York Penal Law §175.10. Specifically 'Falsifying business records in the first degree'

US vote on Ukraine-Israel-Taiwan foreign aid package from March ($60.8 billion for Ukraine): Senate vote - 79 for, 18 against House vote - 311 for, 112 against, 1 abstention EU vote on funding commitment from February (voluntary commitment to 0.25% of EU GDP per annum, roughly $45.5 billion)...

This, this paragraph here officer. This is the worst take I've read all week.

New York standards on 'Reasonable Doubt', from the New York State Unified Court System(citations omitted, available at link): Reasonable Doubt What does our law mean when it requires proof of guilt "beyond a reasonable doubt"? The law uses the term, "proof beyond a reasonable doubt," to tell...

Because of evolution, not in spite of it. The changes we've bred into (some) species are generally not conserved in the wild because there's no selection pressure to maintain them and no deep genetic conservation to maintain expression. The fact that some species have a tendency to revert to...

Why, because some numpty on Twitter does not know how to properly parse language? This post by Ms Thunberg was not forecasting (or repeating a forecast) that humanity would be wiped out in five years. Why is it that the most strident are generally the least perspicacious?

There was very low (>1%) fertility with some bird hybrids. Hybridization is exceptionally common in birds overall, with estimates that between 6% and 20% of bird species have hybridization on the species level. There were reports that the cross between an American paddlefish and Russian...

Humans are apes. Taxonomically speaking, we're a type of great ape. It doesn't matter how you break it down (morphologically, behaviourally or genetically), we're a part of the Hominidae family that includes all other great apes (gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, bonobos and us). The genetic...

China would need sufficient naval logistics assets to both launch and sustain any invasion of Taiwan. It currently lacks that sealift capacity, which means that it does not have the capability at present to invade Taiwan. It is building capacity up - but much more slowly than it was in the...

Bosi has the same reliability as a tissue paper raincoat and truthfulness of a 3 dollar note

According to the US BLS data, the average American worker. But sure, your anecdotal experience trumps a dataset drawn from a survey of 60,000 households. What's that saying about facts and feelings? Sure they can. But, wage growth running ahead of food price inflation is what the real world...

Wage growth (not seasonally adjusted), rolling 12 months: 2022: 5.1% 2023: 6.2% 12 months to March 2024: 4.7%. By indexing prices and wages at a baseline '100' at the start of 2022, I make it that food prices are at an index of 115.673 (to April) and wages are at index of 117.524 (to March)...

Per US BLS data, food prices are up 2.2% over the past 12 months (to the end of April 2024). That includes a 1.1% increase in 'food at home' and a 4.1% increase in 'food away from home'. For 2023, food prices were up 2.7%. For 2022, food prices were up 10.1%. For 2021, food prices were up...