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feralimal

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    Comment #27114992

    They don't show us the fragments of bone they have in that article. "Then they used digital images and specialized software to find similarities between the relics – and difference…

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    Comment #27042266

    "Both types are chemically and physically identical to mined diamonds." Maybe they've been laboratory made all along?! Lol

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    Comment #27028862

    It doesn't really do that though. Its like tracing servers back to North Korea or Russia. It certainly allows someone at a glance to think they know what they are doing, as if 3 le…

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    Comment #26992512

    A moral person (like most of us) was forced to make decision early - the unambiguously woeful options in front of him left no room for doubting that he was part of the problem. "Bu…

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    Comment #26967314

    "Let that sink in for a moment. The researchers, in the name of academia, decided to commit flawed code (that would, in turn, introduce other serious issues) into the Linux kernel,…

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    Comment #26932823

    Ever seen a plastic bag blow across the road? Or a cat cross the road? Or a roadworks barrier blow over in high wind? Or traffic lights be broken and stuck on red? Or a branch fall…

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    Comment #26912211

    That's white on white racism.

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    Comment #26881438

    Legitimate research and information is stifled by MSM, Twitter, etc. Billions of comments deleted from youtube, accounts struck off or suspended - how can we even observe the scale…

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    Comment #26743802

    Of course your eye is a sensor. As are all your senses. The difference is that the input it receives is unmediated by external sensors and software. Visualising atoms or DNA is fin…

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    Comment #26743591

    Yes, look at all that squashed DNA, lol. Seriously though, how do we know that is DNA? It just looks like wiggly worms. And the DNA pic is black and white, but the picture of graph…

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    Comment #26743479

    You don't think there's a difference between what you see with your naked eye, and what is visualised for you by sensors and software?

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    Comment #26743416

    Perhaps this is a water filter advert: "Using activated carbon filtration devices (like Brita filters) can help reduce TCE in drinking water" But really, how could they possibly na…

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    Comment #26743328

    I'm sure its a cool project. But its not showing things directly, is it? Its interpreting a frequency and converting that to an image. Is it really that different to a music visual…

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    Comment #26526777

    I've looked into this a bit more, specifically reading this essay: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2158244014542585 which seems a fair synopsis for me, of Hayden White's p…

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    Comment #26525631

    Nah! They're too busy using their charities to fund the guardian, NYT and WHO.

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    Comment #26523694

    And funding is the stealing of money (taxes) from individuals, being re-allocated to things bureaucrats like to foster. Hurrah!

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    Comment #26513240

    Metahistory! That's exactly what I'm talking about. I'll take a look and thanks for the recommendation :)

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    Comment #26508117

    That's a refreshingly honest reply! Thanks! This is why I said that history is an interpretative act. I don't have an issue with the making the best of a past that is hard (impossi…

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    Comment #26507628

    Thanks for the link. You also say "January 6, 1614". Very specific again! Where did you get that from? There are no dates that I can see, nevermind the 6th of January. Did you read…

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    Comment #26501632

    "A dance of “glorious and strange beauty” took place in a wintry garden in the south of England on January 6, 1614." So specific!! And that's just the first line! Is it just me, or…

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    Comment #26434217

    What helps, I find, is to think of governments as administrations. The civil service does implements whatever it has been told. Politicians are voted in - this is a slight of hand …