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Recent content by Gene2memE

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    My Little Pony clothing range released for adults

    Cool. My kids (now 9 and 7) both loved MLP:FiM. As an adult, I loved it as well. Great, character and personality driven story-telling, dispute/conflict resolution that almost never resorted to physical violence or power heirarchy and some really interesting structural elements. Best kids...
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    American Democracy Needs Reform

    Expand your Congress (and possibly Senate as well). The US has roughly 1 legislative representative per 600,000 head of population and about 1 per 300,000 voters. Those are among the lowest levels of representation in the world (I think only India is worse). If you want people to feel more...
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    Opinion - My family lived through socialism. Most Democrats are frighteningly wrong about it.

    Authoritarian statism =/= democratic socialism What a weird opinion piece to publish. It would be rather like publishing an article with the headline "My family lived through Nazism, therefore Republicans are wrong about capitalism".
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    God did not create from nothing

    Wrong from the get-go. Botlzmann was not driven to suicide by opposition to his ideas. When Boltzmann died, he was a renowned professor of theoretical physics (and statistics, and philosophy). He'd had multiple academic appointments and while his physics ideas were pushed back against in the...
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    Iran Negotiations

    Even Sky News views this as a strategic defeat for the US: "One of the greatest strategic blunders in US history" https://news.sky.com/story/trumps-iran-war-is-one-of-the-greatest-strategic-blunders-in-us-history-13554425
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    God did not create from nothing

    History doesn't go back 6,000 years though. If we understand 'History' to be 'the discipline of writing down accounts of the past', then history is ~5,200 years old, maybe as much as 5,500 years. If we understand 'History' to be 'the record of things that have occurred', then history is much...
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    Trump clashes with ‘Meet the Press’ interviewer, calls outlet ‘crooked’ before ending segment

    That's a reversal of the burden of proof. The absence of evidence in this case is the evidence of absence. When asked for evidence of election fraud, Mr Trump has failed on every single occasion to provide any substantiated evidence. He's provided lots of claims and assertions. He's...
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    Are We Getting to Those "Illegal Orders" People Have Been Talking About?

    What about anonymous, independent geolocators and open source intelligence researchers? https://geoconfirmed.org/map/iran#12.42/26.819/57.04925
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    World Cup in the US?

    Really? Tell me, what would you call a state that conducts extraterritorial executions for political reasons?
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    World Cup in the US?

    Bit harsh, banning your own team.
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    Old "cave art" in Wales brought to light

    17,000 years? No. We've known for about 20 or 30 years that humans have been in Wales for (at least) 60,000 years. Longer if you include archaic humans like Neanderthals. They reached and settled in Wales at least 200,000 years ago. The Red Lady of Paviland its one of the more famous Homo...
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    Trump clashes with ‘Meet the Press’ interviewer, calls outlet ‘crooked’ before ending segment

    His lack of moral fibre? His intellectual cowardice? His lack of integrity? His support for regressive and reactionary figures in US politics? His support for authoritarian dictators, up to and including white-washing their wars? The two-facedness of his public support for Trump, while...
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    Trump Signs Order Seeking Federal Control of Mail Voting as He Promotes False Claims

    What, exactly, is happening? What fraud, precisely? What evidence is being put forward to support the claim that voter fraud is happening in numbers that are significant enough to change electoral outcomes? All I see is claims. Claims of fraud. But, never any evidence. At this point...
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    "No More Wars" Trump Requesting a Record Defense Budget: $1.5 TRILLION in FY2026

    They already know. Iran has its own earth observing/imaging satellites in orbit. At least three are in service (and possibly up to six), although most are low resolution. The best only has a ~5 meter imaging resolution (against about a 1-2 meter resolution for most Western commercial satellites...