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Sunday School April 6th 2025 in the forum Sunday School 2 weeks, 6 days ago
If The Big Bang took place 13.8 Billion years ago, and the radius of the known Universe is around 46 Billion Light Years, wouldn’t the matter at the edge of that radius had to have travelled from The Big Bang at faster than the speed of light if the matter at the radius came from The Big Bang, an obvious violation o…
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Sunday School April 6th 2025 in the forum Sunday School 3 weeks, 1 day ago
In the article about the boycott of US goods, they show this photo, saying that US products are turned upside-down in protest:
This is standard practice for Hienz. They even print their label upside-down with extra wide caps. Hienz bottles have been upside-down in my local (Pennsylvania) store for years.
Genius of Heinz’s…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic When does a program become a person? The Artifice Girl in the forum Science 3 weeks, 1 day ago
How ’bout we just don’t program emotions into any robots.
In her case, she was programmed to learn in order improve her performance and her acquisition of emotion emerged as she improved.
An intelligent AI without emotions would lack empathy.
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Unseen started the topic When does a program become a person? The Artifice Girl in the forum Science 3 weeks, 1 day ago
The Artifice Girl does an even better job of laying out the ethical questions and risks posed by humanlike intelligent AI than the Blade Runner movies and Ex Machina, and those are great movies. This film was made on a budget that was probably less than just one scene in any of those films.
A man is brought in for questioning by Federal Agents…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic Political Parodies in the forum Small Talk 3 weeks, 2 days ago
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Unseen replied to the topic Political Parodies in the forum Small Talk 3 weeks, 2 days ago
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The new powers that be in the forum Politics 3 weeks, 2 days ago
Now that The Orange One is in office, he just doesn’t give a fuck. Honor fallen soldiers? Not when the golf course is beckoning. (BTW, he seems to think that everyone plays golf.)
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Unseen replied to the topic
The new powers that be in the forum Politics 3 weeks, 3 days ago
There are other ways.
He might withdraw days before the middle of his term, continuing to rule through his veep and then seek a second term again in the next election, which I think may be perfectly legal.
He might elect a proxy (Don Jr.?) to stand in for him while he rather blatantly is the true President, also probably…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic
The new powers that be in the forum Politics 3 weeks, 3 days ago
The tariff thing might be a way to gain control of taxation from congress for king tRump. Add tariffs as a tax, cause recession so billionares can buy up stocks, then be the hero calling for sweeping income tax reductions, stock market bounces back. Rich get richer.
There’s a strong argument that the new oligarchy can treat this…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic
The new powers that be in the forum Politics 3 weeks, 3 days ago
While the judge did the right thing in dismissing charges with prejudice, I’m sure prosecutors holding charges in abeyance to extort someone’s cooperation is pretty much standard practice, though I suspect most often it’s done to get an underling to rat on a more important target.
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Unseen replied to the topic
The new powers that be in the forum Politics 3 weeks, 4 days ago
A psychiatrist explains why Trump wanting a third term (and by extenstion of his logic, to never leave office) was inevitable from the start. And, amazingly, it has nothing to do with facing prison after leaving office.
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Unseen replied to the topic PBJ is Rocket Science When You're British in the forum Small Talk 4 weeks ago
Question for my UK friends here. At any given time, what percentage of men are wearing baseball csps backwards while indoors? And do they take their cap off to take a shower, go to bed, or to have sex?
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Unseen replied to the topic PBJ is Rocket Science When You're British in the forum Small Talk 4 weeks ago
I think you’re posting in the wrong thread. This one’s about two cuisines.
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Sunday School March 30th 2025 in the forum Sunday School 4 weeks ago
Trump is floating a third term. The thing is that that’s a practical impossibility without executing an illegal coup. Here’s the legal way of getting a third term by amending the Constitution:
An amendment can be proposed by a two-thirds vote of both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
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Unseen replied to the topic PBJ is Rocket Science When You're British in the forum Small Talk 4 weeks, 1 day ago
@Reg
Moving on, another word the two cultures share that actually refers to two wildly different things is the word “bacon.” Apparently, if you do find American-style bacon in the UK, it’s called something like “streaky bacon.” What’s the difference?
Yes, they come from different parts of the pig.…[Read more]
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Unseen started the topic PBJ is Rocket Science When You're British in the forum Small Talk 1 month ago
I’ve been exploring cooking videos lately, and watching non-Americans discover and even try making a simple peanut butter and jelly sandwich, which many of them turned into an adventure.
I think it was Churchill who described the linguistic difference between Americans and Brits as something like “Two peoples separated by a common language.”…[Read more]
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Unseen started the topic Greatest rock band of all time? in the forum Small Talk 1 month ago
What I mean by greatest rock band of all time is specific. It does not refer to how many records they sold, the size of crowds they could draw, or how long they were together other than that they needed to be together for a while, say at least two years to eliminate short-lived supergroups or super jam sessions. I also don’t mean individual…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic Canada the 51st State? Trump is actually serious. in the forum Politics 1 month, 1 week ago
If California followed up on Canada’s offer to join them, then “Califada’ would become the 3rd largest economy in the world, just behind the U.S. and China. The combined GDP of Canada + California ≈ $6.5 trillion USD. California 66% of the combined total.
Actually, you could throw in Oregon and Washington and maybe N…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic Canada the 51st State? Trump is actually serious. in the forum Politics 1 month, 1 week ago
If Canada became a state, it would dominate the United States. According to that crazy radical left-winger Steve Forbes:
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Unseen replied to the topic The Reality Distortion Field, Strong With Trump It Is in the forum Politics 1 month, 1 week ago
Trump is starting to test the courts by resisting or ignoring their orders.
These cases will be appealed up to the Supreme Court (good-bye summer recess!) and hopefully Amy Coney Barrett and John Roberts who are now the two “swing” justices will be telling him “No, you can’t do that!” for all of his unconstitutional moves and most of his…[Read more]
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