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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: December 11, 2024, 04:15:43 PM »
The US does not have jurisdiction over illegal immigrants, but if you, as an illegal immigrant, commit a serious felony in the US, I would believe you are going to spend quite a bit of time in a US prison.
How can you put someone in prison if you don’t have jurisdiction over them? ???

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: December 10, 2024, 09:40:55 PM »
No other country on the flat earth would even consider something like "birthright citizenship." If you tried to pull this shit in Norway, or even Canada, and were caught, you will definitely get fucking deported.
Perhaps not on the flat earth, but on the round earth there are a number of countries, including Canada, with birthright citizenship.
Every Country with Unrestricted Birthright Citizenship (jus soli):

The following countries have unrestricted birthright citizenship: Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chad, Child, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Lesotho, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, the United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Terrible Political Memes
« on: December 09, 2024, 01:41:11 AM »

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: November 27, 2024, 08:58:07 PM »
The last time Trump tried tariffs on China, he wound up having to bail out American soy bean farmers.
After a series of tariff increases on Chinese imports, the government of China retaliated against U.S. exporters, as predicted by trade analysts outside of the administration. As a result, U.S. exports, particularly of agricultural goods, dropped significantly. “Losing the world’s most populous country as an export market has been a major blow to the [U.S.] agriculture industry,” reported the New York Times in August 2019. “Total American agricultural exports to China were $24 billion in 2014 and fell to $9.1 billion last year, according to the American Farm Bureau.” In 2018, U.S. farmers’ soybean exports to China declined by 75%, according to the U.S. International Trade Commission.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: November 27, 2024, 03:40:00 AM »
Could you at least post the "empirical evidence"?
How's this?
https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/section-232-tariffs-steel-aluminum-2024/
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Key Findings

    The Section 232 tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum raised the cost of production for manufacturers, reducing employment in those industries, raising prices for consumers, and hurting exports.

    The jobs “saved” in the steel-producing industries from the tariffs came at a high cost to consumers, at roughly $650,000 per job saved according to the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

    A recent report from the U.S. International Trade Commission found that the tariffs increased the average prices of steel and aluminum by 2.4 percent and 1.6 percent, respectively, disproportionately hurting “downstream” industries that use steel and aluminum in their production processes.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Now Playing
« on: November 25, 2024, 11:48:16 PM »

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: November 20, 2024, 10:10:38 PM »
A convicted felon won the election against a district attorney.  What could go wrong?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: November 13, 2024, 10:28:35 PM »
I'm wondering if children hitting puberty earlier and earlier has them trying to come to terms with their sexual and/or gender identities before they're really ready for it.
Summary: Study reveals 11-year-olds who question their gender identity or express a desire to change their gender enter puberty earlier than their peers.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024
« on: October 23, 2024, 09:37:57 PM »
Do you really expect a fast food franchise with a high employee turnover rate to keep employee records from 40 years ago?

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Nuclear Bombs Do Not Exist
« on: October 19, 2024, 02:49:22 AM »
https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/a-timeline-of-russias-nuclear-threats-against-the-west-947

Here's a big scary list of all the times Russia has brought up using weapons that don't exist and then, unsurprisingly, not using them.
Here is a big scary list of all the times Russia tested weapons that don't exist and then, unsurprisingly, tested them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests_of_the_Soviet_Union

Ah, yes, of course. The government of the Soviet Union. Well renowned for their trustworthiness and guile. How could I possibly claim they made something up? It's impossible.
Well, it was the Cold War.  They were obligated to keep up with all of the US tests of weapons that don't exist, weren't they?

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Nuclear Bombs Do Not Exist
« on: October 18, 2024, 09:28:21 PM »
https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/a-timeline-of-russias-nuclear-threats-against-the-west-947

Here's a big scary list of all the times Russia has brought up using weapons that don't exist and then, unsurprisingly, not using them.
Here is a big scary list of all the times Russia tested weapons that don't exist and then, unsurprisingly, tested them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests_of_the_Soviet_Union

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Now Playing
« on: October 07, 2024, 03:40:44 AM »

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We know that hundreds of people are trying to beat world records, and there are even yearly races around Antarctica (which we are often pointed to, but the details are rarely discussed). This represents the best boat, so your arguments are pretty invalid.
Most of also know that many world records, including circumnavigation records, have any number of categories based on the particular type of craft and crew size, so context matters.  Picking one record and saying that the rest don't matter is nothing more than cherry picking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_world_sailing_record

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Not only is the Antarctic circumnavigation a shorter distance on a RE than the distance circumnavigation around a RE (or 21,600 miles), but it is known that the winds are anomalously fast in the Southern Hemisphere. A number of quotes can be found which suggest that the winds in the South are of an anomalous nature as compared to the North. They become more anomalous as you travel Southward:
Not anomalous, just different.  Given the uneven heating mentioned in your BBC quote and the fact that, except for the southern  part of South America and New Zealand, there is little to no land mass between 40 degrees and 65 degrees south latitude to get in the way, one should expect the prevailing winds in the south to be significantly faster than in the north. 

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024
« on: October 01, 2024, 11:30:01 PM »
I mean, they can eat all the dogs and cats  they want, as far as I am concerned.
Would you be concerned if someone ate your favorite pet?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024
« on: September 30, 2024, 09:25:13 PM »
I have not either, but a friend of mine did go there. Surprise, he went to voodoo ritual and what did they do? Killed a cat, drank its blood.

A lot of cultures eat dogs. It is normal for them.
Even if that's true, that is not evidence that it occurred in Springfield.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024
« on: September 27, 2024, 12:22:54 AM »
Okay? "Trump did wrong thing, therefore they can do wrong thing too" is not a very rational thought process, markjo.
"Trump did the wrong thing" is why the nonprofit organization representing the Haitian immigrants who have legal status is filing criminal charges against Trump, even if the local authorities won't.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024
« on: September 26, 2024, 09:15:54 PM »
What personal profit?  It’s a criminal case being filed, not a civil one.

They're baiting donations for a cause they know has no chance of succeeding.
As if Trump hasn't been fund raising to pay his legal bills for years. ::)

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024
« on: September 26, 2024, 05:33:25 PM »
According to the article I linked…
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Trump and Vance, a U.S. senator from Ohio, are charged with disrupting public services, making false alarms, telecommunications harassment, aggravated menacing and complicity.

Yes, it’s doubtful that the case will go anywhere, but it’s yet another example of the number of fucks that Trump gives about the truth and the potential consequences of his words and actions.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024
« on: September 26, 2024, 02:43:47 PM »
I think it can be inferred that the prosecutor told them to get bent and they decided to scam gullible people like yourself into thinking they have a case when they obviously do not.
Take another look at the aftermath of them doubling and tripling down on their lies and tell me that they didn’t do anything wrong.

You should not be cheering on attempts to waste justice system resources in the pursuit of personal profit just because you don't like Trump.
What personal profit?  It’s a criminal case being filed, not a civil one.

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