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Ritchie Torres, a Democratic Congressional representative for New York's 15th District has tweeted his intention of introducing a new bill called the SANTOS Act - (Stop Another Non-Truthful Office Seeker) - which would require candidates to disclose their educational, employment, and military history under oath. 'Mr Ripley' could yet wind up being immortalised by an Act of Congress

Recently I read this story that sounds hard to believe but may be true. According to John Callahan and verified by the photographer on board in 1999 a boatload of surfers anchored off the notorious North Sentinel Island and had an encounter with the generally hostile natives. The following song was playing on the boat's sound system when the natives approached in their canoe, holding spears, bows and arrows. They paddled around their boat listening to the music for a while and then left them alone. Good thing the music was mellow, contemplative instrumental. Seems to me if it was heavy metal the surfers may have been murdered. Here was the music that was playing that may have saved their lives: "Suddenly, the warriors stopped paddling. Gliding towards the boat they looked transfixed. With no engine noise from their canoe, the captain said they could hear the music from the sound system on the boat." "They could throw spears or shoot poisoned arrows at any time, and we were scared shitless. But they did nothing, appearing to be listening to the music. After three slow circles around our boat, they paddled away, reached the sand, carried their canoe up past the tree line and disappeared into the forest" Escape from North Sentinel Island | Swellnet Dispatch | Swellnet

His interpretation was hidden variables. Bell came up with the test, after Einstein's death. The test refuted Einstein's interpretation.

Another answer is the attitude of my father-in-law, in his words, "Do it and it will be done."

The price of funerals has gone up a lot lately, adding to the general rise in the cost of living.

I think in my case I'm passionate about seeing my ideas becoming realized, but not about the work to do it lol. But I find some parts of the work exciting especially when it's about making some features becoming functional... I think it's the same for me Sometimes I ask myself : wouldn't I be happier if I give up all these crazy projects and go for a simple and "natural" life far from technologies... but I can't resist...

Hello! Um....I love trees and I hug them regularly. I love birds just as much, but they don't let me hug them. I'm a life-long learner and I've been crazy about nature ever since I was a little girl. And that immediately led to a love of science. I've attended a few universities for biology and environ. sci., but never got that degree, mostly because even though I'm approaching middle age, I still have no idea what I really want to do with myself! I thought I wanted to go into teaching, but the pandemic made me nope out of that program. So I'm here to talk all things science with y'all. I'm a lone nerd out here.

I've got some background in environmental sciences, and the very first thing you need to "green" anything is water retention and stable substrate. Shifting ground and water evaporation will greatly impede and plants trying to grow in an area. An oasis is a place where there is a large collection of protected water thanks to local geological structures. They're usually natural springs or wells from the water table below the desert sand. Plants require a place to root and annually reliable soil. Simply watering the sand isn't going to be enough. Wind erosion is also a major hurdle for plants. Some can withstand flat, open lands with full sun and arid temperatures, but not the kind that will create a forest. The Dust Bowl in the United States was a good example of this. Rich soil is created by lots of organic matter. The best way to create more forest against a desert is to start on the edge and keep building ecologically sustainable areas inwards. That might mean digging wells or creating large ponds and lakes to hold what little rainfall there may be. I know there are people that use something called 'swales' to do this. https://naturalbuildingblog.com/greening-us-deserts-80-year-old-swales-near-tucson-arizona/ If you want to create a lasting forest, it has to be able to survive after the initial human intervention. There are a lot of other factors, too, such as which plants to grow in that area (you want hardy, native, 'foundation' species to begin), but you definitely want to work with nature rather than against it.

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Interesting paper from back in July (how did I miss this?), co-authored by Giorgio Immirzi, one of the foremost experts on GR and quantum gravity: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.04279 This is just the latest paper within an increasingly large body of work that indicates that ‘dark matter’ as a separate phenomenon may be entirely superfluous. The basic idea here is that, under certain specific circumstances, even in the weak-field and low velocity regime, there may be non-negligible GR effects that aren’t found in Newtonian gravity. Hence, sometimes Newtonian gravity is not a valid approximation to GR in the weak field domain - which is the very assumption from which the idea of dark matter arises in the first place. What’s more, it turns out that under certain circumstances not even weak-field approximations of GR (such as GEM for example) are valid - specifically, this appears to be the case for rotating systems. In other words, within this paradigm, dark matter would neither be some new exotic form of particulate matter, nor is it a modification of the laws of gravity; it’s quite simply an artefact of us not having applied standard GR correctly, because the assumption “weak field”=“Newtonian” does not always hold. Small selection of other papers along the same lines: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.09736 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-08967-3 https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0218271808012140 https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0610370 https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/496/2/2107/5850386?redirectedFrom=fulltext https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.09288 https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04116 https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.13515 https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11282

What I see is young, strong, energetic people dropping the bullshit they've been force-fed like flies. They can see behind the curtain to where the uber-extreme wealth manipulators use "Democrat" and "Republican" as boogiemen for uninformed, fearful voters. They can see that worldwide there is an effort to prop up authoritarian governments and leaders in an effort to reduce the power of democracies. I see these people dropping the prejudices engineered into the system. I see them rejecting the hate and ignorance in favor of reason and clarity.

When I stopped believing in Christianity, I just stopped accepting that Jesus was a god. I never questioned whether he ever actually existed. But since then, I’m looked at the evidence for a real human that the gospels are based on, and it’s actually somewhere between very weak, and zero. Most people accept that there “must have been” a person that the gospel stories are based on, otherwise “why were they written?” But that’s looking at it from a 21st century point of view. Back in the first century, gospel writing was the youtube of the day. There were loads of gospels written, all wildly different. It was a far more religious/superstitious time, when there was little or no science, and there were mysteries everywhere you looked. Gods from different religions got copied and merged across borders all of the time. How could a religion about Jesus evolve, without a man called Jesus to start it? It’s actually quite a common thing. A sect starts off worshipping a heavenly, mythical figure, and the story gradually gets changed, and the god figure gets changed into a human. Often by a god breeding with a human woman, that’s actually a common religious story line. It's a recognised historical process called Euhemerism. It’s likely that Jesus started out as a “son-of-god” figure up in heaven, and the story morphed into a flesh and blood son-of-god figure on Earth. There were similar stories, going back hundreds, or even thousands of years BC. I’ve found that the best people to listen to on the subject are Richard Carrier, and David Fitzgerald, but there are many others. But the one who convinced me was actually St. Paul !! Even though he is responsible for Christianity as it is today, I think his writings are actually some of the best evidence for Jesus being a mythical figure. For someone who virtually created Christianity, he seems to have known virtually nothing about the man. That’s what did it for me. Paul was writing supposedly just a few decades after the cruxifiction. If he couldn’t give any info on a real-life Jesus, then he must have been a mythical figure. Of course, the gospels later gave loads of detail, but much of it was contradictory and obvious invention. They are religious stories, and can’t be taken as biographical material. And if you look elsewhere, for any non-gospel mention of a real Jesus, it’s either not there, or proven forgeries. ( which are actually very common ) Anyway, here are a few links : David Fitzgerald : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI72JNz0IC8&t=22s https://centerforinquiry.org/speakers/fitzgerald_david/ And Richard Carrier : https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=richard+carrier