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@Noflaps BTW, on a more positive note - I would like to recommend that you watch a recent Tucker Carlson interview with Senator Mike Lee of Utah, available on Tucker's Youtube channel. Before watching…

@Noflaps "Yes, one of my favorite NBA players of all time was .... quite short. But he could still dunk." Are you talking about Mugsy?

@Noflaps "Fortunately, when science is accurately described it can be demonstrated. We must take care never to toss baby with bathwater. Science itself is pretty splendid." Well, that's what happened …

@Noflaps The pattern I have noticed is that the people who either originate or spread the lies for their political gain often reap the benefit - and then when the lies have been finally generally acce…

@Noflaps "@spindriftdrinker -- at least in many of those cases the speakers really didn't know what was true and not true -- they were dealing with actual uncertainty." To be more precise here - the t…

@Noflaps "Think back to some of the things that, at the time, were "just fact, get over it -- everybody (who's anybody) knows it!" that we now know, for certain, were simply not true." So many COVID l…

@Noflaps Did you notice this last week when the mainstream media and their politicians decided that their narrative was gonna be the word "weird"? I saw a montage of about 30 politicians and media tal…

The Beatles may have invented sampling in the mid 60s, but I could be wrong about that. If anybody knows earlier musical artists to do this, I'd be curious to know. Certainly the first hip hop hit bas…

@Noflaps No intelligent person could see this as "Trump versus Harris". It is Trump versus the Machine. The Machine threw off the Old Joe mask and put on the Kamala mask, that is all.

@Noflaps Sometimes I see explanations of Eratosthenes measurement using trigonometry - other times, the explanation doesn't seem to require trig - like this one. Just something about the two shadows f…