Recent content by Swammerdami

No sooner does Trump deploy the Military to DEFEND American cities from liberals but he changes the name. For a second I thought this was parody. Give the man credit for eloquence! "Department of War." How pithy. Wish I'd thought of that. And it is a cost-saving measure! The spendthrift...

You write "the theists" and "the atheists" as though these were homogeneous groups. I think they are not. I'm an atheist (with a small 'a') myself, but I daresay many or most of The™ Atheists here are unusually hostile and pretentious. Looking at thread title, I wonder if any definitions of...

There there. Trump is stupid but not quite as stupid as you think. He is very much aware that Rhode Island and Connecticut vote for sane leaders and sane Congresspeople, so it makes his limpy dicky tingle when he can hurt them. He wouldn't cancel such a program in a "Red" state. And this is...

You missed the point if you misconstrued my post as an attempt to exonerate the Black Panthers. What I sought to demonstrate was YOUR insistence on blaming ONLY the groups you hate: Blacks, Democrats, liberal women, etc. Law enforcement broke laws or even committed murders in the persecution...

It's telling that Derec admits he is too young to remember the 1970's. Obviously his prejudices warp his understanding. He worries about the Weather Underground. If Google is to be trusted, only three souls were killed by that group's violence and all three were Weathermen accidentally killed...

Laughter, anger, fear, sadness, disgust, and vomiting are all valid responses to the video. My point is just that David Rothkopf and Joanna Coles do an excellent job of concisely depicting the pathetic incompetence and childishness of this misbegotten Fascist Fuhrer. When future historians...

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A universal of speech timing: Intonation units form low-frequency rhythms may be an interesting paper. That is, IU's are commonly 1.6 seconds in duration. (That appears contrary to Figure 1 but I didn't pursue this poorly presented paper.) I only skimmed the paper. I wish they'd shown...

I heard recently from Michael Wolff that RFKJr's peculiar voice is probably due to his long-term addiction to crack cocaine: Crack burns the vocal cords. True? Or fake news?

Transfer the momentum to other objects using magnetic force. - - - - - - - - - - - On the topic of copying a human brain exactly for "teleportation", this might be quite difficult. Unlike duplicating a Flash memory cell, where either 100 electrons or 200 electrons encode '+1' and become...

Will this become a debate about what "society" should or should not mean? Wiktionary offers six definitions of this English word including A number of people joined by mutual consent to deliberate, determine and act toward a common goal. This definition may be compatible with bilby's, but this...

Wow. Spoiler alert: Social Security payroll TAXES are NOT a defined-contribution investment vehicle. Instead they are . The argument Loren offers could just as sensibly be applied to income taxes, which are also . After all, some of the taxes go to fund (at least in the olden pre-Trump...

Not this again. Haven't we been through this ground before? Billionaires pay approximately 0% in payroll taxes, while workers earning less than some $176,000 pay 15.3% in payroll taxes. 15.3%. That's not 24%, but it's close especially when you recall that taxes on gasoline and other sales tax...

Bigfield "hits the nail on the head" with this post. The clean focused morality of yesteryear has been replaced with ambiguity and worse. Contrast the stalwart heroes of 1960's TV series with the duplicitous, sarcastic and womanizing "heroes" of present-day TV. Society suffers from such poor...

I almost clicked Like on this ... till I realized Mr. credit cards is almost certainly being sarcastic. :realitycheck: