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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Joe Biden is winning by a landslide

« on: January 06, 2021, 11:28:50 PM »

Your argument is just that a huge statistical anomaly is "possible". But the presence of an absurd statistical anomaly is indicative of fraud.



https://nationalfile.com/data-trump-won-95-of-bellwether-counties-making-biden-win-statistically-improbable/

" Out of 3,000 counties in this country, there are 19 that have a perfect track record since 1980 of voting for the successful presidential candidate,” Cortes noted. “Donald Trump, on November 3, won 18 out of these 19 counties. Could these bellwether counties really have gotten it wrong all at the same time?”

The corporate media has largely been unable to explain Trump’s dominant performance in bellwether counties, offering up only vague references to “more racially diverse populations” in response to the counties’ sharp contrast with a purported Biden victory. "

This is absolute bullshit. I could easily build a list of so-called "bellwether counties" that would equally "prove" the 2016 election was rigged.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: January 05, 2021, 07:38:55 AM »

Did you scream at your computer when you heard the audio?

No, giggled. Because it's all so absurd it should be a Python sketch.

Trump does kind of remind me of the Black Knight in Holy Grail...

Maybe he'll "call it a draw" on January 20 when Biden enters the White House.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Covid-19 vaccine two shots

« on: December 31, 2020, 07:30:04 AM »

Did she say asymptomatic transmission or did she say transmission? It would be appreciated if you did not try to insert fabrications into the words of others, thx.

Well. If people don't have symptoms, but can transmit the disease, it is asymptomatic transmission. Is it that hard to understand?

She didn't say anything about asymptomatic transmission. You did. Stop fibbing. Thank you.

Where did I say she said these exact words? I'm just trying to explain why, while we do know vaccines are effective against the disease, we don't know yet how effective they are against the transmission of the disease. That's not a bombshell: that's something pretty much everyone somewhat familiar with the subject knows. All it means is that people who got vaccinated shouldn't grab that "free hugs" sign yet, and they should still wear a face mask. At least until we get more data on that point.

Stop accusing me of things I haven't done. Thank you.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Covid-19 vaccine two shots

« on: December 30, 2020, 09:50:30 PM »

Did she say asymptomatic transmission or did she say transmission? It would be appreciated if you did not try to insert fabrications into the words of others, thx.

Well. If people don't have symptoms, but can transmit the disease, it is asymptomatic transmission. Is it that hard to understand?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Covid-19 vaccine two shots

« on: December 30, 2020, 05:32:09 PM »

WHO Chief Scientist says they have no evidence that the vaccine prevents viral transmission.

What's your point? We do have strong evidence it prevents the disease. Vaccinated people are much less likely to become ill and die. It's unknown yet if it's effective to prevent asymptomatic transmission. If it's effective, it will be easier to stop the virus from spreading and lift constraints. It it's not, or not as much as hoped, it will take longer, but the vaccines will still be very useful to mitigate the impact of the pandemic.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: December 13, 2020, 12:16:32 AM »

MAGA crowd chants "destroy the GOP" in Washington, DC

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Let's start with "Burden of Proof"

« on: December 05, 2020, 09:31:34 PM »

Illustrating a story about the damage caused by orbital debris with a picture showing the damage caused by orbital debris? That's much worse than lying, that's treason. He should be shot on the spot, no trial.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Let's start with "Burden of Proof"

« on: December 05, 2020, 08:11:38 PM »

It was a file image to illustrate the type of damage caused by micrometeorites.  It was taken in 1984 and published by NASA in 2006.  Remedy Drive subsequently used the image for their album artwork.  I don't know if they had the copyright holders permission. 

NASA content are generally not copyrighted. So as long as they didn't make it look like NASA endorsed their album, they're fine.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Terrible Political Memes

« on: December 05, 2020, 08:08:23 AM »

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: November 23, 2020, 08:08:18 PM »

Trump WILL win and by the landslide it was, when the truth is acknowledged. Of course guys or girls like Roundy will still hang on to their garters to try to convince us they know sooo much.

The elections have been compromised for decades. Get with the program and understand you are nothing but worker bees for the elite few who have rat packed and control 100's of TRILLIONS of cash and assets globally.

Sooo, the elections have been compromised for decades, and for some reason the "elite few" decided to let Trump win four years ago but not this time, but he's still going to win anyway? This isn't very clear to me.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: November 22, 2020, 11:44:36 AM »

Chuckle

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/21/federal-judge-tosses-trump-suit-over-pennsylvania-election-results-439010

It’s weird isn’t it? There’s so much evidence, if you include hearsay and ALL CAPS TWEETS

I don't think they expect to win these court cases and overturn the results. They just want to sow fear, uncertainty and doubt about the integrity of the election, as part of a larger strategy.

A long, but interesting read: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/what-if-trump-refuses-concede/616424/

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: November 22, 2020, 12:02:20 AM »

Trump Supporters in Georgia Threaten to Destroy GOP, Boycott Runoff Elections

If the GOP loses the Senate because of Trump's "stop the steal" campaign, that'd be even better than the "Four Seasons Total Landscaping" episode.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Why the round earth hoax?

« on: November 21, 2020, 08:31:36 PM »

There's a wiki page on the conspiracy: https://wiki.tfes.org/The_Conspiracy but it really doesn't say much. It focuses on a "space travel" conspiracy.

But the scientific knowledge of a spherical Earth predates NASA by centuries. We even had a pretty good estimation of its oblateness by the beginning of the 19th century.

Some flat Earthers seem to distance themselves from other conspiracy theorists and claim a global conspiracy isn't needed, but space travel is only a part of the equation. Faking the launch of several hundred people from about 45 different countries would already require some extraordinary global conspiracy (and you'd wonder why they don't keep it to a lower number if it's fake).

But then there are the mariners, aviators, astronomers, cartographers, geologists, all the people working with anything related to satellites, among others. All of them work with an oblate spheroid model of the Earth and would be supposed to notice if it didn't match reality. Yet they all seem to be happy with this model.

Of course, it doesn't tell us "why". But first, I can't see "how".

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: November 13, 2020, 07:45:59 AM »

Sky News: Supreme Court will decide next US President

Does an Australian senator get to decide how the American elections play out? Does he even have any particular insight?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: November 11, 2020, 07:51:37 PM »

I'm trying to find even a single other example, anywhere in the world, of a party in power accusing the opposition of rigging the elections. So far, no luck. Is it completely unprecedented?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: November 11, 2020, 02:31:58 PM »

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/georgia-mcconnell-trump-senate/2020/11/10/76bb80d6-2389-11eb-8672-c281c7a2c96e_story.html

Trump lost. He (probably) knows it, most likely everyone in the GOP knows it. But they need to keep the voters mobilized for the most important fight to come: Georgia's Senate runoff elections.

BTW, with a 5 million difference in the popular vote, there isn't a single other country in the world where this would be a "disputed" election.

Still, for some unfathomable reasons, both sides seem to believe the american democracy is the best thing ever, and the envy of the world. Go figure.

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Flat Earth Theory / Vendée Globe

« on: November 11, 2020, 10:36:24 AM »

Two days ago, 33 sailors have set sail from Les Sables d'Olonne, France. The Vendée Globe is a solo non-stop round-the-world race, along the Clipper route.



It's a tough race: typically, only half the sailors make it to the finish line.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tmullen/2020/11/09/the-insanity-and-elegance-of-the-vende-globe-sailing-race

https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/30249677/bubbles-separation-solitude-trying-cope-2020-let-examine-vendee-globe

Their progress can be tracked online : https://www.vendeeglobe.org/en/tracking-map

On a flat bipolar Earth, this kind of circumnavigation is not possible. On a flat monopole Earth, it could be possible, but the southern part along the roaring forties would be much longer.

Are these sailors and the race organization part of a conspiracy?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: November 07, 2020, 11:46:04 PM »

Instead of the Four Seasons hotel in Philadelphia, the Trump campaign team held their press conference in the parking lot of a landscaping firm called Four Seasons Total Landscaping, between a crematorium and an adult bookstore.

https://www.themarysue.com/trump-campaign-ends-with-saddest-press-conference-at-four-seasons-total-landscaping/

There are no words to express how hilarious this is. What a way to end this campaign.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Angular size of the Moon

« on: October 31, 2020, 10:24:01 AM »

That's not really the point. The point is: can EA explain why the Moon appears exactly the same (same size, same aspect) from England and Greece, but at a slightly different relative position with respect to a fixed star?

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Is there a flat Earth Jean Meeus?

« on: October 21, 2020, 09:10:14 PM »

Astronomical movements are cyclical/periodic.  We can "predict" them, only because they happened before (and are cyclical/periodic)!  There is no magic to it, and it doesn't involve the shape of the earth.  It is all based on simple charts and observations of things that occur like clockwork.  It is roughly as impressive and difficult as "predicting" it will be 12:00 at some point over the next day.

The cyclical part isn't true for every astronomical movement. Recently, astronomers predicted with great accuracy the path of comet C/2020 F3 (aka NEOWISE). There were no previously recorded passages. That's just an example: astronomers routinely predict the movements of bodies they've just discovered. Some do have a periodic orbit, some don't. There is no magic to it: it's science.