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Does anyone have any thoughts on keeping deer out away from a bird feeder and out of my yard without also driving away squirrels and rabbits? I don't begrudge squirrels and rabbits, and like them somewhat, but despise deer. Deer eat bird food like a vacuum cleaner and poop in the yard.

How seriously should we take these political-religious groups? How strong of a role are they playing now in Right Wing politics and American politics in the Trump era? These people want to end the secular state as we have known it and replace it with a religious state and they plainly state...

How low can we go?

When I die, when we die, what happens to our so-called qualia, if such things exist? Do they disappear forever, and if not, then where do they go? Are qualia a philosophical equivalent of souls? Does even any God, if such a creature were to exist, have access to them, other than ourselves...

Shades of Joe McCarthy and the Red Scare. https://truthout.org/articles/report-ice-is-expanding-surveillance-of-its-critics-on-social-media/ I'm likely one of those to be on their list. Whatever happened to the 1st Amendment and freedom of political speech? Who gave these unelected people...

Will the Trumpian war on DEI backfire? His white base may not think so, but it easily could do so. It may be true that it will hurt African-Americans, but it might help Asian-Americans. Asian-Americans are already over-achieving in the academic arena., and have done so for a long time. If...

Writer, sexual predator. Will we now start hearing more and more and ore about what a monster he was? OTOH, the guy could write some really amusing fiction, and such people are few.

Doesn't the mere existence of the collapsed state of Haiti refute libertarianism, just in itself? Here we have a living example of what can happen to an area when all government fails.

A silly story Peano in the beginning there was aught which was perfection and aught was all and all was one and from one came all and from that came the great fall Into imperfection which was infinities

I have an old PC (4-5 years) with Windows 10. Since Microsoft is dropping coverage of 10, and the hardware on this this old PC will not support 11, I have to either toss it or move it to another operating system. I decided to try Linux Lite. I am lazy and old and not very energic, so I got a...

Will a spinning celestial object, such as Earth, ever stop rotating? After all, doesn't spinning do work, and take energy out of the system? In which case, doesn't the spin of electrons and protons also do work? The same goes for orbits, some of which decay. Although in the case of the...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080102222813.htm Quote: A team of Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists and cognitive neuroscientists, combining methods of machine learning and brain imaging, have found a way to identify where people's thoughts and perceptions of...

Light from distant galaxies is red-shifted, which is how the expansion of the universe is discovered. Red-shifted light has less energy than the originally emitted light, since longer wave lengths carry lower energy. Gamma rays and ultra-violent being more energetic than red and infra-red...

It smells wonderful. Sniffing it delights all the senses. When you drink it, though, it goes down rough. So Why even drink the stuff at all? Pour it into a glass, then sniff it 15-20 minutes, then pour it back into the bottle. If you want, have a small taste of it, then swill it around it...

What do we do about incels and femcels? We’ve got an unhappy group of people here. Why? Can it be fixed? Or at least ameliorated? For sure, the Jordan Petersons offer no real solution that most people can stomach. Are there better solutions? Many incels are unchurched, and introverts...