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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:A Rick has hit the three Johns, I repeat, a Rick has hit the three Johns. So we're going from a turtle to a soul-eating lich. Great.
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Oh I doubt Scott has the juice for that, everyone's still mad at him for bankrupting the RNCC. He can make it nasty though, especially if Trump decides to back him.
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Does Rick Scott even have enough people in congress who
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As Mike Johnson proved, you don't need a lot of people to like you, you just need to be hated slightly less than everyone who flamed out
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haveblue posted:As Mike Johnson proved, you don't need a lot of people to like you, you just need to be hated slightly less than everyone who flamed out i mean he was picked because he was boring and no one had him in their book of grudges and was a nutjob but a less crazy one.
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Who among these putative candidates would be the most competent evil?
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Cornyn. But I am biased.
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zoux posted:Maybe the angels don't want USAF fighter jets shadowing them in the sky, seems risky. They might also be pissed about Blue Angels infringing their copyright
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Nenonen posted:They might also be pissed about Blue Angels infringing their copyright They were just disappointed when they showed up and it turned out to be the color not the verb
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this appears to be a decent dive on the border bill, particularly asylum provisions (you know, the main bad part) as it stands / was torpedoed by Trump: https://www.americanimmigrationcoun...ited%20removal. There are a few fiddly bits I recall that it doesn't cover (eg some amount of asylum seekers must be transported to legal entry points when encountered) but it's a decent summary by an org that doesn't like it all that much. For example, they note that changing the language in credible fear asylum interviews would reduce approvals for that part from about 65% to about 45%. As far as the part with the silly name of shutting down the border, I've noted before that it boils down to making people cool their heels on the Mexican side of the line until encounters drop low enough, which is something the Biden admin was rightly trying to mitigate and reduce in 2021 and 2022. There's not much in the way of clear provisions to make the resulting refugee campa there safer and more humane, although historically the administration has been able to shuffle money around from elsewhere for that, and the massive increase in processing staffing (the best part of the bill) would help the problem from that end.
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Jesus III posted:There is as much likelihood that UFOs are aliens or angels, probably zero. Two things: 1) “Likelihood…probably zero” means the likelihood is not zero. That’s how likelihood works. 2) Of course biological aliens are more likely than angels. Biological life exists in the universe, here at least. Exoplanets exist. However unlikely, the chances that intelligent life from elsewhere has found the time to visit earth (maybe starting hundreds of millions of years ago, they didn’t necessarily nip over from Alpha Centauri when our first radio signals arrived) are still higher than the chances that the bible is true and angels and demons are zooming through the sky having a secret war.
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The Artificial Kid posted:Two things: There is only proof of life on one planet. It's the same planet that made up angels and UFOs. Nerds just really want to believe Star Wars is real, just like Christians want to believe angels are.
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Jesus III posted:There is only proof of life on one planet. It's the same planet that made up angels and UFOs. Nerds just really want to believe Star Wars is real, just like Christians want to believe angels are. I mean, that's true, but how many have we been able to examine conclusively? Any how many are left to check as possibilities?
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Jesus III posted:There is only proof of life on one planet. That we currently know of as of this time on March 1, 2024 1,500 years ago, everybody knew that the Earth was the center of the universe. 500 years ago, everybody knew that the Earth was flat. And right now we know that we're alone in this universe. Imagine what we'll know tomorrow.
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Angry_Ed posted:500 years ago, everybody knew that the Earth was flat. The ancient Egyptians worked out the curvature of the Earth, Columbus was just an idiot which is why no one respectable would fund him.
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Morrow posted:The ancient Egyptians worked out the curvature of the Earth, Columbus was just an idiot which is why no one respectable would fund him. It's a quote from Men in Black.
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Morrow posted:The ancient Egyptians worked out the curvature of the Earth, Columbus was just an idiot which is why no one respectable would fund him. the ancient greeks calculated the earth's circumference and were only like 100 miles off which is pretty cool i think
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In general given the massive size of the universe, the number of planets, the sheer amount of time that the universe has been around and in a state "friendly" to carbon based life; it seems improbable for us to be the sole occurrence of intelligent life/technological civilization (i.e the Apes or Angels hypothesis). If we are, then either we're the first, or already dead, and haven't yet run into whatever it is that acts as a "filter" that prevents intelligent civilizations from spreading* across the stars. As even with rudimentary technology, a civilization sending exactly or at most 1 colony ship to a nearby star system, even if just once every 100 years would on galactic and geological timescales be enough for the entire galaxy to be fully colonized within a few million years; hence why the Apes or Angels or Great Filter thought experiments being popular.
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The problem with interstellar travel is that all civilizations that have learned space travel have also learned nuclear weapons, and thus will not live long enough to colonise other systems.
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Nenonen posted:The problem with interstellar travel is that all civilizations that have learned space travel have also learned nuclear weapons, and thus will not live long enough to colonise other systems. That could be one such "Great Filter" yeah. In reality it could just as easily be the step from dead matter to vibrant pond scum is actually insanely hard; or the time span in which the universe is friendly is actually much shorter than we think.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:It's a quote from Men in Black. The worst part is I knew someone would point that out and yet I didn't bother to correct it with something more accurate. Oh well 
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Raenir Salazar posted:That could be one such "Great Filter" yeah. Or there's the opposite of a great filter, where FTL tech or generation ships inherently enable races to either solve all their problems in their home system or with one or two neighbors, or they get access to, like, other galaxies and poo poo. Or all the hot races already found each other and are busy loving, but earth is cordoned off because its inhabitants are considered unfuckable.
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There are cameras almost literally everywhere that humans are now. We would almost certainly have caught aliens clearly on camera in HD if they had visited Earth. We haven't, and so there is no more reason to believe in alien visitation than angels.
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Fart Amplifier posted:There are cameras almost literally everywhere that humans are now. We would almost certainly have caught aliens clearly on camera in HD if they had visited Earth. We haven't, and so there is no more reason to believe in alien visitation than angels.
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Crows Turn Off posted:Aliens don't show up on cameras. Then they wouldn't show up in our eyes so you'd never have UFO sightings.
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The truth is out there.
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Crows Turn Off posted:Aliens don't show up on cameras. i think thats vampires...
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lobster shirt posted:i think thats vampires... Alien vampires only show up in mirrors
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Fart Amplifier posted:Then they wouldn't show up in our eyes so you'd never have UFO sightings. Eyes are the windows to the soul, and cameras don't have souls. This must mean aliens are spiritual beings only visible to those with a soul. Perhaps since you can't see them you might be an NPC...??? Makes you think.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Or there's the opposite of a great filter, where FTL tech or generation ships inherently enable races to either solve all their problems in their home system or with one or two neighbors, or they get access to, like, other galaxies and poo poo. Or all the hot races already found each other and are busy loving, but earth is cordoned off because its inhabitants are considered unfuckable. Other way around, Earth is under quarantine because we keep trying to probe everyone who visits.
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We are all angels  . However, there are alternative explanations that have so far gone unmentioned: Could aliens and UFOs be manifestations of demonic activity? Some say they are, and the US government is somewhat aware of this but also uses the popular idea of UFOs to cover things up. quote:As Orthodox Christians we know that some of the UFOs are actually demons. This reality will not have been overlooked by the many government investigations into the phenomenon, even if they do not fully understand the demonic nature. We can only guess at how those in power try to conform this knowledge to their own beliefs, but what we can be sure of is that they will be using the phenomenon in any way that favours their own agenda. The military invests unimaginable amounts of money developing and testing advanced aircraft, and maintaining the belief in UFOs creates a perfect cover story for when one of them is seen or photographed. With yet more footage of UFOs being released by the U.S. Navy in 2021, we see this second deception continuing, perpetuating the sense that something big is just around the corner. You can read more about Fr. Spyridon's ideas in his book, The UFO Deception (2021), available for free on the Internet Archive. 
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Given the sheer number of galaxies out there, I believe that the universe is teeming with life, much of it intelligent and technologically advanced. But the physical realities of long distance interstellar travel are so prohibitive that if UFOs were real I'd be more inclined to believe they are some sort of dimensional stranger rather than a visitor from another planet.
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https://x.com/byjackkelly/status/1763677400221581764?s=46 What… what the gently caress. What the gently caress?!?! (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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lobster shirt posted:the ancient greeks calculated the earth's circumference and were only like 100 miles off which is pretty cool i think Aristophanes I think? And yeah it was pretty close. Maybe not "100 miles" close but it was a good job by those folks.
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eratosthenes. most of his errors came from assuming the earth was perfectly spherical instead of an elliptiod
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Automata 10 Pack posted:https://x.com/byjackkelly/status/1763677400221581764?s=46 https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-redistricting-congress-republican-democrat-52488bd0331dd9f8815946623fb3246a I'm a bit confused myself. Does that mean the maps Evers signed in this February are still going into effect? EDIT: a more helpful piece... https://www.jsonline.com/story/news...ps/72810099007/ quote:Newly elected liberal Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz did not participate in a vote on the motion, writing Friday that she was not seated on the court when the underlying case was decided. Chief Justice Annette Ziegler joined Bradley in her concurring opinion rejecting the request to consider new maps. Pretty lame, but if you're a big believer in precedent and stare decisis, I can see why Protasiewicz sat out. If the GOP ever takes back the court, they won't return the favor, though. Eric Cantonese fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Mar 2, 2024 |
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https://www.al.com/news/2024/02/alabama-republican-urges-fertility-clinics-to-reopen-uab-says-its-not-so-simple.html Alabama's Attorney General pinky swore that he wouldn't prosecute any IVF practices so Bama GOP pols want the IVF practices to go back to business as usual. quote:“These clinics should start providing these services again. It is not fair to patients to have their embryos held hostage and procedures cancelled,” Rep. Susan DuBose, (R-Hoover), told AL.com Sunday. “My heart goes out to the families caught in IVF process.” The gall of these fuckers putting the blame on these clinics. Zwabu fucked around with this message at 02:38 on Mar 2, 2024 |
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lobster shirt posted:i think thats vampires...
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Zwabu posted:https://www.al.com/news/2024/02/alabama-republican-urges-fertility-clinics-to-reopen-uab-says-its-not-so-simple.html Sure it's the law of the land but I pinky swear we won't prosecute you for 20,000 cases of murder if you drop a tray of eggs
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DeeplyConcerned posted:Sure it's the law of the land but I pinky swear we won't prosecute you for 20,000 cases of murder if you drop a tray of eggs Promise only good until the next attorney General is elected
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