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I'd like to recomend the graphic novel I'm reading from the library. 'Dictatorship, it's easier than you think' 2023, by Sarah Kendzior, Andrea Chalupa, Kasia Babis. (HA. The kid in me remembers when comics in the library was scanalious, and loving it.)

I am sitting here looking at the box fan in my window. I notice the blades are narrower at the ends than they are at the center hub. Years ago they were wider. Clover leaf shapes. I am wondering, why the change? I would think wider blades would push more air. Perhaps smaller blades encounter...

The easy way for AI to take over the world, sooner. In Narratives of computers/AI taking over the world, people and Sci-Fi talk about computers or AI becoming sentient and controling weapons or Infrastructure, Consider that it wouldn't need sentience or physical power. Feed an AI/chatbot all the...

End Times Fascism

I've been watching 'Atheist Experience' vids lately. Matt Dillahunty seems angrier than I remember. In almost every vid he asks an embarrassing question, and when the believer tries to wiggle out of it, he gets angry. Something like 'I've been at this for 20 years and I'm sick of you people's...

(1) Never vote for a Republican, ever again. (2) Register Republican and vote against the incumbents in the primary. I did, and Rump still got nominated. )-: So what CAN we do?

I'd like to explore the ethics of asking for payment for giving someone something of value, when they didn't ask for it . I'm gonna withhold my opinion for now, so I don't influence your comments.

R'men, Does anyone know if the church of FSM is recognized as a religion by the state of PA, or HUD? My apt building (subsidized by HUD) is allowing a 'bible study' every Monday. I want to challenge this by asking to hold a pastafairian meet on Fridays. I expect to be refused.

I heard a crazy idea from a rightwing neighbor yesterday: Since Covid 19 was created from scratch in a lab, it can't mutate. (WTF) So the yearly Covid variants must also come from a lab. So that big pharma can sell a new vaccine every year. I tried to explain that no mater where it came...

Is anybody here going to the NASFIC in Buffalo in July (2024)?

Neurology question: Signals moving along nerve cells. (if this is the wrong forum, please point me to a better one) First, I would like to clear-up my own understanding. (a) Within nerve cells - As I understand it, signals move from one end of the cell to the other via electric pulses. Is...