Located 902 results from search term 'facts'
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Commented in Flat-earthers are overconfident about their own scientific knowledge but exhibit low scientific literacy, study finds
Dunning-Kruger effect is a very long winded politically correct way to just call people willfully ignorant. Flat earthers, trump supporters, white nationalists, religious fundamentalists, etc. These people are attempting to live in a real world larping session where their fever dreams are real, and reality is a world of make believe. We literally used to institutionalize people that refused to learn actual facts and live 100% in their fantasy worlds. But now, we give them equal footing. All thoughts matter...Super cool. Super Cool.
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Commented in President Biden wants to know more about cryptocurrencies before creating a digital dollar
92 % of all the money in the world is already digital (and centralized).
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Commented in Wikipedia co-founder says site is now ‘propaganda’ for left-leaning ‘establishment’
Facts have a left-wing bias?
An article in the Murdoch press saying that if fox and sky can't be used as sources then it's left wing? Say it ain't so!
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Commented in Zuckerberg Says Conservatives Don't Rule Facebook. Data Says He's Wrong.
It's like far RWNJs think everyone else is left wing. Hell, even facts are left wing. If Zucks thinks that FB is fair and balanced, it would therefore by definition have a conservative bias.
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Commented in Naomi Klein: How big tech plans to profit from the pandemic
Naomi Klein
Unsurprisingly more-than-a-little alarmist in her views
something resembling a coherent pandemic shock doctrine is beginning to emerge. Call it the Screen New Deal. Far more hi-tech than anything we have seen during previous disasters, the future that is being rushed into being as the bodies still pile up treats our past weeks of physical isolation not as a painful necessity to save lives, but as a living laboratory for a permanent – and highly profitable – no-touch future
riiiiight. hyperbolic much?
im not saying that's not a risk. it is
however... this is one possible outcome, dependent on so many different sets of circumstances happening in an exact sequence of events that given those parameters a paragraph like the one above is far better suited to pages of a sophomore scifi novella than a serious journalistic publication for grown-ups
i mean the language choice is editorialized so fucking badly: disaster, shock doctrine, bodies pile up, physical isolation, no-touch future, laboratory, permanent
give it a rest would ya? liek we are all leik freaked out abuot it already or somethiiiing so leik why dont you leik do your fucking job by putting focus on the facts and leave the mass hysteria to the politicians and tin-foil-hat-wearers
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Commented in U.S. Signs Peace Deal With Taliban After Nearly 2 Decades Of War In Afghanistan
I was a young, unattached man when this war started; my oldest son is now almost as old as I was back then
there are generations of Afghans who grew up in the midst of this war; some born into it
after two decades of violent conflict, there’s nothing like a peace talks summit - organized and facilitated, mind you, by the withdrawing and occupying force - to heal all wounds, right all wrongs and solve all problems which caused the violence to erupt in the first place
I hope the best for the Afghans but given the much-disdained facts of the matter, I fear the worst for them
I suppose I’m just a cynical old person who should be grateful for and positive about everything
especially given how nobody could foresee any of the events of the last 20 years unfolding beforehand (it’s not like there were any historical presidents for western invasions into Afghanistan or indeed for US involvement in land wars in Asia)
so long as lessons are learned, progress is being made and whatever the cost may be is at least not in vain
and I suppose we might look at it from the POV that Afghanistan and the rest of the world owes a big debt of gratitude to US DoD for trying their goshdarn hardest to bring peace, justice and freedom to Afghanistan at a low, low price of a trillion dollars and mere hundreds of thousands of lives
and let’s not forget the American people: a big thanks to them for cheering their government on every step of the way on this road to prosperity, in the name of righteous retribution
mishun accomplished!
if, that is, the mission was to destabilize the region, lose international credibility, leave a gaping hole for China and Russia, and put the Taliban exactly where they were twenty years ago
call me pragmatic, but you could have instead done nothing, saved a trillion dollars in the process and landed up with the same, exact outcome (minus the death and destruction, of course)
on a side note - how’s everything in Syria? has anybody at the US DoD proposed leaving Assad right where he is and pulling out now?
could save a couple of trill and that’s where he will land up being in ten years in any case
just asking for a friend cuz - ya’know... y’all have a rep ‘s all im sayin’
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Commented in 13 Savage Jokes Roasting Vegans to a Leafy Crisp
Thanks, I'm not turning off my ad blocker. Personally,I hate vegans. They are so pushy,so condescending. I've explained to them that even if I wanted to be a vegan (I don't) I could not due to GI problems. They don't care and I've been told I should eat that way anyway...
I also think much of the push to go Vegan isin't based on facts but profit to companies making the vegan foods. They can't do much with meat they haven't already done but plants and promoting it to people looking for an easy way to go vegan they see a $$$$. Being Vegan is hard and those companies that thought up hamburger helper now see an in with vegan helpers. Some people will eat it and think wow I am doing vegan not realizing they are being used for profit. They won't be helping the planet because the more veggies grown on mass factory farms means more herbicides and pesticides to pollute the earth. More water usage to deplete that resource. The need for farmland to produce more per acre than now. More GMO franken food. This will help keep the increase in cancer rising. Life spans will keep declining. More children dying because of childhood cancers.
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Commented in Tougher Gun Laws Mean Fewer American Kids Die, Study Says
What? Where's the NRA counter propaganda? How could they let these kind of facts on the news. Anti-2nd amendment facts, awkward facts. Weren't they supposed to stop funding to all scientific studies about guns?
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Commented in American Airlines suspends flights to Venezuela over safety concerns
Let me nuance myself a bit: The people who are very consequently meddling in other nations' politics and affairs and who are either threatening with violence or acting upon their threats by bombing the living hell out of said countries, are American and a minority group for that matter, because that's what you have with democracy. It doesn't mean that all Americans are like that. Does it mean that the majority of Americans aren't acting tough enough on that minority of "leaders" who are perpetrating those heinous acts? Maybe so, maybe not. For now the facts of past century are piling up and pointing in the direction of Washington DC as starter, enforcer or sponsor of said heinous acts.
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Commented in Did Finland's free money experiment work?
I think it is a good idea, but that amount of money doesn't bring you far. I have had just one worry about UBI, namely, it gives government a lot of control over you. It should be in the law that government just cannot stop it on a whim, for instance, when you have a certain opinion or when you're not a native and they start to dislike those facts.
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Commented in BuzzFeed: Sources say Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about proposed Moscow project
CNN Reported that Mueller has confirmed that this is fake news, and a misrepresentation of facts https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/18/politics/mueller-statement-buzzfeed/index.html
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Commented in One third of Americans consider living abroad
Why would you imagine it? Just read your own slideshow and find the facts there. Unless you’re being coy for some reason, at which point I have to wonder why. There’s no way to convey tone or innuendo in text, so why not just be direct?
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Commented in Australian Gag Order Stokes Global Debate on Secrecy
These days, gag orders are usually imposed in order to prevent those involved from being informed of their pending doom before they've been caught. Alternatively, should prominent members of society appear to be involved, it's also prudent impose a gag order until the facts of the case have been firmly established.
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Commented in The Day Paradise Burned Down
The facts are true the results suck.
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Commented in Cigar-shaped interstellar object may have been an alien probe, Harvard paper claims
Not sure that I believe everything that those Harvard researchers say. There are multiple ways to interpret the facts, and that is just one of them. Not the most likely one, either, IMHO. The tumbling motion of the object argues against it being an alien probe, since its journey would then be harder to control or predict.
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Commented in Spotting Disinformation Online Before the Midterm Elections
I think that disinformation has been and will always be a problem, although certainly platforms like Facebook etc have made it more easy for it to be disseminated. The reason it will always be a problem is that many people believe what they want to believe, regardless of facts.
This does not really bother me. Maybe it should, but I just don't really see it as my problem.
I'm just saying that even without disinformation, some people will just believe what they want to without taking any of the facts into account (even in cases where the facts are accurately represented).
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Commented in California: man driving wife to hospital to give birth arrested by Ice agents
It’s a special kind of "warrant” that only exists in ass-covering media statements from ICE. You know, kind of like the great and/or monsoon weather that happened on the day of Trumplestilksin’s glorious and/or overcrowded inauguration as president despite the three million illegal votes that’d been cast against the Don by brown and/or black people. What’s so hard to understand?
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Commented in 'Major Victory for Public Health': Court Orders Trump EPA to Ban Pesticide That Harms Kids' Brains
Straight up, that's not how this went down. For one thing, the Trump Administration is clearly as hungry for checks as anyone else in this story, for a given definition of 'checks.'
While I get what you mean about the separation of powers, there're a few things you've got the wrong end of the stick about. I've worked on environmental law cases before the Ninth Circuit. You seem to think there are judges in that circuit aching to make new law. Take it from me, you'd have more luck finding a hooker that uses their real name, or a sheepdog you could tell to put two sheep in one pen and three in another. It's just not so. Nobody wants to be overturned. Nobody wants to be the squeaky wheel. Nobody wants to make new law. A few don't mind, but that's not how jurisprudence works.
It's refreshing to see the faith you have in the EPA. At my age, one can become cynical. I used to believe in 'watchdog' agencies looking out for the public. That was a sick joke before they were captured by the industries they were supposed to regulate. Now they're run by the gangsters they were supposed to be protecting us from, it's not any prettier a picture. My faith wouldn't've made it past the climate change denial, the go-fuck-yourself-if-you-don't-like-it corruption, or Hell, Scott Pruitt's desk.
Chlorpyrifos is objectively dangerous. The only confusion about that is the FUD you were throwing up a few comments ago. It's not safe. Are we agreed, there? Environmentalists sued EPA to ban it, because it's poison. As the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said in their August 10, 2015 writ of mandamus ordering EPA to essentially either show it was safe in food and agriculture or to ban it in accordance with the law:
The panel held that EPA’s delay in responding to the administrative petition warranted the extraordinary remedy of mandamus. The panel held that the issuance of a writ of mandamus was necessary to end the EPA’s cycle of incomplete responses, missed deadlines, and unreasonable delay.
Like I said, no circuit court was going to do this to fuck with Trump. This isn't a bunch of Marxists in black robes sitting around figuring out ways to piss you, in particular, off. This was in the Obama Administration. You remember him, the Kenyan usurper antichrist? This was about Obama's EPA, their regulatory capture, and their malfeasance of duty.
You say Trump's EPA had good reasons to ignore science, to defy a court order, and to make sure that the most common pesticide used today remained this particular toxic Dow Chemical product. Tell you what: I can't think of any reasons those may be that aren't better reasons why they should have banned that shit. Can you?
It's fairly obvious your animus toward that circuit has more to do with Trump's scapegoating Latin Americans and Muslims than it does this case. We're not going to make much progress on whether the most ignorant, racist, bigoted moron to occupy the White House since Wilson would be running concentration camps without his Jim Crow Roberts Court today, but we could at least get to seeing eye-to-eye on the facts of what's happened around him accepting bribes to keep chlorpyrifos in our food.
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Commented in Fearing climate change, experts in San Diego warn U.S. nuclear industry faces collapse
There are good reasons nuclear energy is going extinct. Including ALL the costs of mining, enrichment, transportation, building, operating decommissioning and radwaste storage it is by far the most expensive energy source. If the same amount of money and resources had been put into solar and other clean energies and energy storage, as has been wasted on nuclear, we would have more energy than we could use. The Tesla battery storage operations are proving that it could be done on a city/regional level. This propaganda piece by the nuclear industry and their apologists at the San Diego Union Tribune won't change any of those facts.
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Commented in Novichok nerve agent strikes two new victims in the UK
The term Novichok actually represents a collection of nerve agents developed by the Soviet Union
To be easily manufactured in the field from commonly-available agricultural pesticides.
as you might know USSR was de facto understood to be Russia
Really?. I think I heard something about that, but then I'm that old.
Of course, Novichok was actually made and stored in what is now Uzbekistan. All stocks were destroyed under the supervision of the U.S. and the U.K. after the end of the Cold War.
Baseball was invented in New York. Does that mean the Cubs are from New York?
former Russian spy was a victim of the last novichok attack in UK
So your theory is that after holding him in prison for several years, Russia waited for a spy swap, so they could infiltrate the U.K. in order to then be able to murder him, because they never, ever wanted another spy swap, but somehow bafflingly did want to commit various acts of war. Hmm. Not buying that.
two connecting facts
No, that's argumentum ad ignorantiam.
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Commented in Novichok nerve agent strikes two new victims in the UK
what does Russia have to do with anything?
From the article:
“The term Novichok actually represents a collection of nerve agents developed by the Soviet Union towards the end of the Cold War”
Now, as you might know USSR was de facto understood to be Russia before the 90s
Also, former Russian spy was a victim of the last novichok attack in UK
So there’s those two connecting facts
Why do you think Russia has got nothing to do with the story?
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Commented in Billionaire investor Tim Draper explains why Bitcoin will hit $250,000 in 2022
Well researched, but Tim Draper talks about his predictions as though they are actual facts, which is far from it. I would not base any of my own decisions on his predictions as I am not convinced they are correct. In particular, the volatility of Bitcoin is something which makes it very hard to predict what its future is.
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Commented in Couple lived with dead rapper for months, concealed his death, officials say
Let's consider another possibility: you don't like rap. This theory covers the facts, without requiring we pretend rappers are only performers not creators, that rap isn't a creative art, that talent is the same as skill, or that cringing always says more about who you're cringing at than it does you.
I'm right there with you. Not about hip hop. No, for me, it's thespians. [Shudders]
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Commented in It Is Amazing to Watch the President Lie in Public So Freely
There’s a hefty difference between omission, carefully constructed language and embellished promises as opposed to blatant, pathological, who-you-gonna-believe-me-or-your-lying-eyes fabrication of facts.
The former is a construct all adults resort to in order to get by without enraging or provoking other people.
The latter is gaslighting usually employed by narcissist sociopaths.
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Commented in Amazon shares slump as Trump goes after the retail giant
He's just bitter that Bezos also owns WaPo, which routinely trashes him by reporting facts that counter his constant lies.