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In no particular order America's Test Kitchen https://www.youtube.com/@AmericasTestKitchen This is just a solid general purpose cooking show that is part of magazines and TV Aaron and Claire (Korean) https://www.youtube.com/@AaronandClaire I love this couple and how he cooks and she is the...

All the X people would disappear, would you do it? Possible examples: If you could press a button and all the murders would disappear would you do it? (and would you be one of them) Religious fanatics? Racists? People with their turn signal stuck on.... What is your favorite category...

I cannot remember who originally mentioned a list of criteria for a valid and fulfilled prophesy. It went something like... Specific (cannot be too vague) Timely (cannot have an open-ended time frame) Can only be fulfilled by the the claimed mechanism Must not be able to be brought about...

There was once a debate on IIDB about the effectiveness of using ridicule in debating absurd positions. * One side held the position that it is always wrong to use ridicule because that is not a valid debate strategy and is ultimately self-defeating because the opponents only dig-in if you...

While atheists in general have the unassailable neutral position of "I do not believe a god exists because of insufficient evidence", I think we can make significantly strong statements about gods. Some gods are so incoherently defined and logically inconsistent that they cannot logically exist...

There are people saying the Electoral College should be eliminated however that would require a constitutional amendment and that is a non-starter. The idea of making the Electoral College more proportional to the population is an OLD idea that I will analyze here. The Electoral College gives...

Much has been written about the insane economics of the wizarding world in the Harry Potter universe, but I have a different question. What is the economic benefit from being a wizard vs non-wizard, in dollars/yr? Obviously, it is impossible to put an upper limit on the personal value of being...

People are not being properly skeptical of Corona virus news. Shockingly neither are many skeptics.... The news thrives on drama and conflict and I believe much of the panic around the Corona virus is driven by the news cycle and not by facts. 1. We don’t really know the death rate of the...

I visited Trump country and I was struck by the levels of resentment from my family. Whether it was racial, political, economic, religion, education... you name it, they were in the mindset that they were victims and put-upon my undeserving hoards seeking to take money, labor, and destroy their...

I reinitialized my computer but I didn't save a copy of freecell.exe (XP version) and I cannot find a copy online from a reliable source. Any help?

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In this time of fake news, conspiracy theories and fact free bubbles, we need a way to fight back. In the past we have often debated if reasoned arguments or mockery was the best tools to fight the irrational. Here is some research from Frontiers in Psychology that will surprise no one... both...

We hear the phrase "We are a nation of immigrants", constantly and it is false. Currently about 13% of the population is foreign born and can rightfully be called 'immigrant' see data from Brookings Since this number is about the same as the AA population in the US, it makes about as much...

There are many issues in the world today that need to be discussed openly but are stifled by political correctness. The ubiquitous, conversation ending accusation of racism, sexism, what-ever-ism, for instance, can stop many conversations around race, violence, immigration, education and policy...

Besides the usual stuff that drives people nuts such as 1. Kirk making moves on EVERY SINGLE woman except Uhura 2. Kirk completely destroying civilizations every other episode 3. The ridiculous "glamorous" lighting and accompanying music 4. The heavy handed moralizing about current...

Claim: 1+2+3+4+...... = -1/12 This claim on the face of it is completely insane, there is no way you could add up an infinite number of positive integers and get a finite negative number. I encourage you to look up the Euler Riemann zeta function **** The proof: Start with a slightly easier...