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CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.
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CBS Bay Area says "dozens of mostly peaceful protestors" at Turning Point Event, Justice Department investigating violent riot
- By Valletta
On Monday night, dozens of mostly peaceful protestors gathered near the Turning Point event on the university's campus, and scuffles broke out between police and some protestors, videos of the demonstrations show. At one point, somebody threw smoke bombs, CBS News Bay Area reported
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They just don't seem able to help themselves. Did any news outlet report "mostly peaceful protestors" at J6?
Justice Department says it's investigating "violent riots" at UC Berkeley Turning Point USA event
The Justice Department is investigating protests outside of a Turning Point USA event on the University of California, Berkeley's campus, Attorney General Pam Bondi said, which she suggested was part of President Trump's crackdown on antifa.
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They just don't seem able to help themselves. Did any news outlet report "mostly peaceful protestors" at J6?
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Testing AI in Reading & Comprehension
- Recreation Room
- 55 Replies
You know who else talks back like a human? Humans. I get emotionally triggered by talking to humans on CF, but not by talking to AI.More on that in the next post...
Except apparently neither you nor AI can actually reliably tell the difference. I, on the other hand, as someone who uses AI all the time, can spot it; you’re missing the actual telltales that I’ve worked so hard to to eliminate from my custom GPTs (but without complete success; there are some embedded Turing-tell behaviors that I can’t get the model to avoid without crushing the beauty of its output.
By the way you have given this conversation the character of a Philip K. Dick novel for which I salute you. Have you considered that you might have been replaced by an AI without realizing it?
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The Venting Thread
- Friendship Court
- 684 Replies
One of the things I really loved about my Ex Husband was that he was not shallow.
He didn’t care about how I looked.
That is something I’ve never found in a Man before.
He didn’t care about how I looked.
That is something I’ve never found in a Man before.
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Conservative wins seat on Loudoun County school board, slams district's bathroom policy
- By Michie
As Democrats dominated statewide races in Virginia, one of the most high-profile school districts in the state and country elected a conservative school board candidate critical of the district's bathroom policies, the second election in a row that a seat in a blue district has been flipped.
Unofficial results compiled by the Virginia Public Access Project show Amy Riccardi winning 51.47% of the vote in the race for a seat on the Loudoun County Public Schools Board of Education representing the Sterling District.
Riccardi has defeated Democrat-endorsed incumbent Arben Istrefi, who captured 47.7% of the vote. Loudoun County Public Schools is a school district located in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., that has drawn national headlines in recent years amid debate over its policies related to trans-identifying students.
Continued below.
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Unofficial results compiled by the Virginia Public Access Project show Amy Riccardi winning 51.47% of the vote in the race for a seat on the Loudoun County Public Schools Board of Education representing the Sterling District.
Riccardi has defeated Democrat-endorsed incumbent Arben Istrefi, who captured 47.7% of the vote. Loudoun County Public Schools is a school district located in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., that has drawn national headlines in recent years amid debate over its policies related to trans-identifying students.
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Conservative wins seat on Loudoun County school board, slams district's bathroom policy
As Democrats dominated statewide races in Virginia, one of the most high-profile school districts in the state and country elected a conservative school board candidate critical of the district s
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There’s a Giant Flaw in Human History
- By sjastro
- Physical & Life Sciences
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Since this will not go away lets look at this forensically which I know a thing or two about in the automotive industry.
If however the casing was abrasion cut, stone pounded, chiselled with copper tools and abrasion smoothed it makes perfect sense, the front face underwent a final smoothing process with finer grit as it is the visible face to convey the aesthetic value of the pyramid, the side faces remained coarse as they are not visible.
The next point is the hydrochloric drop test which I mentioned in an off the cuff way in a previous post. It turns out to playing a major factor in refuting the moulded limestone concrete hypothesis.
Did the Egyptians cast the casing stones like concrete?
Joseph Davidovits (1970s–2000s) proposed that the outer casing blocks of the Great Pyramid were not quarried but cast in place from a kind of limestone geopolymer, a reconstituted “concrete” made by dissolving soft limestone with natron and lime, then moulding it into blocks.
That hypothesis has been tested many times by geologists, mineralogists, and Egyptologists.
1. HCl Reactivity Test – Direct Evidence for Natural Limestone
| Observation | Geopolymer Expectation | Actual Observation |
|---|---|---|
| Reaction with dilute HCl | Weak or uneven fizzing — geopolymers are bound by aluminosilicate gel, not pure CaCO₃ | Vigorous, uniform effervescence, identical to natural calcite-rich limestone |
| Result | Suggests synthetic binding matrix (if artificial) | Shows crystalline calcite structure, not amorphous binder |
Explanation:
If the casing stones were made from a chemically recombined limestone slurry, the calcium carbonate would not crystallize in the same interlocking matrix found in natural sedimentary limestone. Instead, it would have amorphous or microcrystalline binding phases, with much weaker and patchier HCl reaction.
Geologists have applied the HCl drop test on both casing fragments and core samples — all respond exactly like natural limestone from the nearby Tura quarries.
2. Petrographic and Mineralogical Studies
Independent geologists (notably Dietrich & Rosemarie Klemm, 1993, 2008) performed thin-section microscopy and X-ray diffraction:
- The grain structures, fossils, and cementation within the pyramid limestones match the stratigraphy of the Tura and Giza formations perfectly.
- They show biogenic microfossils, foraminifera, and oolitic textures typical of Eocene marine limestone — impossible to reproduce by chemical reconstitution.
- No evidence of amorphous aluminosilicate binder or reaction rims typical of geopolymers.
Thus, the stones are unmistakably natural.
⚗️ 3. Stable Isotope Analysis (δ¹³C and δ¹⁸O)
Geopolymer fabrication using dissolved limestone and natron would reset isotopic signatures due to recrystallization.
Yet isotope ratios of casing samples match those of unaltered natural limestone from Tura — showing no sign of chemical reformation.
4. Textural and Tool Evidence
- Quarry tool marks remain visible at the Tura quarry faces where casing stones were cut and removed.
- Some unfinished casing blocks at Giza show chisel dressing, wedge marks, and lever sockets, not mould seams.
- The Great Pyramid’s casing blocks are dimensionally consistent with quarry-cut blocks, not cast pours — each with bedding orientation consistent with quarry strata.
5. Conclusion: HCl Tests and Geology Refute the Geopolymer Claim
| Evidence Type | Prediction if Cast | Actual Result | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| HCl reactivity | Weak/non-uniform fizz | Strong, uniform | Natural limestone |
| Petrography | Amorphous binder, no fossils | Sedimentary fabric, fossils | Natural limestone |
| Isotopes | Reset by dissolution/reprecipitation | Unaltered natural ratios | Natural limestone |
| Quarry traces | Absent | Abundant | Quarried |
| Structural orientation | Random | Matches geological bedding | Quarried |
Scholarly Sources
- Klemm, D. & Klemm, R. The Stones of the Pyramids: Provenance of the Building Stones of the Old Kingdom Monuments in Egypt. (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2008) — detailed petrographic and isotopic data confirming Tura limestone origin.
- Harrell, J.A. “Archaeological Geology of the Giza Plateau.” Geoarchaeology (2004).
- Stocks, D.A. Experiments in Egyptian Archaeology (2003) — demonstrates quarrying and dressing with copper tools.
- Davidovits, J. (1990, 2009) — proposes the opposing geopolymer theory, but data inconsistent with observed mineralogy.
✅ Summary Statement:
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