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Shanghai SSEC, which is Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, has successfully mastered the production of chips according to 7nm standards. https://www.asiafinancial.com/chinas-smic-beats-sanctions-to-make-7nm-chips-techinsights

This might be a science forum, but this is a politics thread. The words 'questionable' and 'evidenced' are obviously used differently in political language, compared to scientific papers. I peronally have no problem with the meaning, when they are used in the everyday parlance. The context makes it clear what's being said.

If it had been black or Hispanics doing it, kicking off there with a Capitol incursion in the same way, about Floyd say, it would have probably been a bloodbath.

I would say yes there is an effect but it is tiny. The gravity of the sun can can be modeled as a point source corresponding with the center of the sun. in a case where all the planets are more or less lined up on one side of the sun the point source for the combined gravity would be slightly offset from the center of the sun.

A significant strength of science is that it allows one to make predictions, often with astonishing precision and accuracy. You have yet to convey what the real problem is with this. No, I asked you to provide evidence that your description of time exists - that's it's something that requires a medium. The underlying concept you used to deny the existence of time. I want to know how time would require a medium, were it to exist. Because otherwise this is just the straw-man fallacy. Who is "we"? Mainstream physics has a perfectly good explanation for why someone would begin to orbit if they traveled fast enough, and it doesn't involve concluding that gravity is an illusion. Years are just part of a reference system. All measurements are made in reference to some standard. they are all human concepts, so this isn't a mark against time. There is a standard meter, there is a standard kilogram, a standard ampere, a standard Kelvin...

So - Liz Cheney the Deputy Chair of the Jan 6 Committee just used the very same Steve Bannon video clip posted by MotherJones - and cited at the start of this thread - as the centrepiece of her scathing peroration during her closing address to the eighth and final public hearing of the Jan 6 committee tonight. She made three powerful points in doing so - First she cited Bannon’s remarks as supporting evidence of Donald Trump’s own manifest premeditation in concocting the big lie about the election being ‘stolen’, and instigating the violent assault the Capitol of Jan 6th 2021. Second - Liz Cheney made a strong gender-mark contrast between the cowardice of “Sixty and seventy year-old men who hide behind executive privilege” - and the courage shown by a number of young women such as Cassidy Hutchinson and Sara Matthews who had the integrity to step forward and testifty under oath in front of a television audience of millions, and did so in spite of the certain knowledge that they would be viciously demeaned and attacked by followers of the Trump and Bannon cult for having done so. Her third and final point was that no-one who predicates their political agenda on mendacity of this magnitude should ever again be entrusted with any position of authority in the country.

The stars photons get more red-shifted as they travel through the expanding space. The longer they travel, the more RS they become.

I posted this for additional context. I always think it is useful to know to whom remarks of this type were being addressed, and what sort of political affiliations and backgrounds are involved. You say that "nothing about this is really new" - Well I'd say that unless you are unusually well informed about the involvement of Bannon and other right-wing US political extremists with Far Eastern disinformation networks like G News, then you almost certainly don't know the full extent of the pernicious role these groups have played (and continue to play) in US politics, especially their role in pushing scientific falsehoods about COVID-19 during the pandemic. My background is in Far Eastern Studies so I tend to take an interest in the activities of individuals like Guo Wengui.

And sadly not enough citizens have nut allergies nor the common sense to avoid the anaphylaxis it so often generates.

The Bannon Gambit On Tuesday, the Mother Jones website released a leaked audio clip of Steve Bannon discussing Trump’s post election strategy in private with some close associates on Saturday October 31 2020. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/07/leaked-audio-steve-bannon-trump-2020-election-declare-victory/ The audio clip discloses what some commentators have previously called the ‘Pigeon Gambit’ in chess - a term that was originally coined by Scott D. Weitzenhoffer in 2005 to describe the problem of trying to debate evolution with creationists: "it’s like playing chess with a pigeon. It knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, then flies back to its flock to claim victory”. The chilling part of the newly released audio clip - as Bannon gleefully makes clear - is that if Donald Trump had succeeded in his plot to corruptly seize power in November 2020, then there would have been no more elections in USA - ever.

Russia invaded another country. Are you saying they can be trusted?

Whilst I don't see how any of your response is on topic, it isn't even self coherent. I wasn't aware that Claudia Kempfert worked for the BBC propaganda department. Do you have any evidence for this claim ?

Yes, and the committee had already shared the clip in their hearings last week BEFORE you saw it on MotherJones and started this thread. When it got shared again tonight, it wasn’t the first time. MJ got it from the committee, not the other way around. So to repeat… so what? This isn’t a blog and you have yet to raise even a single discussion point… AND there’s already a thread dedicated to the Jan6 hearings.