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I spoke at the December 2024 Norman Public Schools meeting. Their yearly budget exceeds $200 million. The next day, NPS sent police to the place of my residence to ban me from a bo…

Holy Week might have been an occasion, but the sentiment is not so much about the Senate version that was introduced as it is about Oklahoma deliberating the wrong things the wrong…

See below for excerpts of law in the United States. The Supreme Court of the United States has opined that a letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to three men who were Baptists is a …

My experience: Even if you pay Google, they don't offer adequate phone support and they don't take customer support seriously. Google Ads sent me an email saying my ad was rejected…

> providence In this case, it seems the word you are looking for is "provenance."

What happens to the price of a laptop if China invades Taiwan?

Not if you have access to a dictionary, no. There are a few differences between eminence and extremism. One is measured by its fruits, and the other is detached from its fruits.

How do you propose that we maintain an all-volunteer military without recruitment? Returning veterans are going to carry military culture back into civilian life. That's just the r…

I'm not cheering the victory until I can buy a made-in-USA iPhone. China totally outclasses the USA when it comes to manufacturing. https://www.statista.com/chart/28031/manufacturi…

Meanwhile, Intel just confirmed more layoffs.

Journals operate in an information brokerage business and they are compensated to ensure reasonable review of what they publish. What you wrote would be applicable to something lik…

I don't agree with you. Comprise is a directional word, similar in that sense to surjective. If someone were to write injective when they mean surjective, I might be able to correc…

The pencil analogy is not particularly compelling. "Comprise" and "compose" are two different words with different meanings, and people often use the former when they ought to use …

You're assuming randomness among the US population. Might be a good assumption. However, there are externalities to this suicide that may affect others who work at Google or in NY,…

I think your take is spot on. Airbnb customer support isn't equipped to handle complicated cases. They pass the buck from one support person to the other and their staff doesn't un…

Half of the probability mass is below the average in a normal distribution so, yeah, it makes sense for the average to sit at a nonzero and nonunit number. The fact that it's a nic…

By your logic, user-replaceable filters create a waste stream of "used" filters, and user-replaceable light bulbs create a waste stream of "used" light bulbs. I personally like non…

I'm willing to bet that the additional mass of EVs has a marginal effect compared to the environmental impact of ICE fuel shipment and delivery.

The article makes no case about car tires and specifically addresses the limitations of certain filters used on diesel engine exhaust. If you can't get behind cleaner transportatio…

Hope should be reserved for good things. I hope the ones who truly had no idea what they were risking come out better and wiser.

You are under the mistaken impressions that: 1. All things created by artists are art, and 2. There is art in divisive and hurtful manipulation.

NB: There may be cases where a troll is also harassing others online.