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  1. Wow. I think I'd be afraid to put it in the water after all that. 😃
  2. I don't know how you manage to get through your day without someone getting hurt.
  3. In recent weeks, a host of political officials — including a dozen state attorneys generaland some members of Congress — have blamed hesitancy in part on Facebook (FB), saying the company has failed to combat the spread of vaccine-related misinformation. In a new interview, Carolyn Everson — vice president of Facebook's Global Business Group — responded to that line of criticism, saying the company is "taking very aggressive measures" to remove vaccine misinformation. The effort reflects a top priority for the company, she added. "We have fact checkers in dozens of countries around the world that are really working around the clock to look at not just misinformation about vaccines, but misinformation more more broadly," says Everson, an executive at Facebook since 2011. "We see it as an absolute imperative to try to get misinformation off the platform and redirect people to accurate information," she adds. Facebook began removing false information about COVID-19 vaccines in December, and expanded the list of offending vaccine-related claims two months later, the social media giant said on its blog in February. Since that month, Facebook took down 2 million pieces of anti-vaccine content, the company told Bloomberg Businessweek on April 1. https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/facebook-aggressive-measures-to-remove-vaccine-misinformation-carolyn-everson-141428270.html
  4. You said the Republicans use poor Republicans but not in the sacrificial sense that Democrats use the poor Democrats. I was trying to understand how the poor Democrats are sacrificed.
  5. How are the poor Democrats sacrificed?
  6. Do Republicans use those who are not rich Republicans as pawns?
  7. You use the term "mass" different ways in different threads?
  8. Are there people that the Democrats are NOT using as pawns?
  9. Now I'm really confused. You are saying mass and volume are the same thing?
  10. So if I weigh my popcorn before popping, it will weigh less than after I pop it?
  11. Why does mass increase just because it shrinks? Does mass decrease when a substance expands?
  12. Sorry, but I'm just a nube. Can you please explain how mass increases when it freezes?
  13. I have no doubt that Pelosi gives the benefit of the doubt and the "most favorable interpretation" to her friends and colleagues. I mean, I do it too. But I also believe that approach is near universal and generally expected amongst nearly everyone. On the other hand it wouldn't surprise me to learn that in private Pelosi spoke much differently to Waters on the comment she made. What this boils down to is that it seems to me that in this case, Pelosi's response fell within the norm and is deserving of no more derision than of every single Republican congressman who responded similarly to Pelosi, but of course on the other side of the coin. How is their collective condemnation any worse than the collective support of the Democrats? In my mind people show their true colors not when they speak out in support of their own regarding issues where the meaning behind one's words are open to interpretation, but when they choose to go against their own when it is clear their own have crossed the line. How did Pelosi and Democrats respond when fellow Democrat Al Franken was accused of sexual misconduct? Al Franken was forced to resign with the condemnation of his own party. And how did Republicans respond when Trump was accused of sexual misconduct? They dismissed his activities as locker room talk and helped elect him President. I'm sure I can be less than 100% equitable, but to me Pelosi was within normal behavior on this one, and the Democrats in general rise head and shoulders above the Republicans.
  14. No disrespect intended, but it seems to me you are making quite a stretch to say that statements such as: should earn Pelosi the description of: Are you really that confident that Waters did NOT mean confrontation in the manner of the civil rights movement, or that Pelosi KNOWS Waters intended violence and Pelosi is just covering for her?
  15. Would you please provide an example or two?
  16. What does it tell us?
  17. I'm not often thrilled with Rashida Tlaib either. I often hear how much people hate Pelosi but I'm not sure why. People may not like her policies but I find that she is professional and honest.
  18. Could be. Who integrity in particular seems overly disappointing do you think? I hate this one. From my perspective the officer really didn't have much of a choice, but I wish they'd come up with a weapon that was as sure as a gun but less lethal. Maybe a gun that shoots .22 instead of 9mm rounds? Whatever it is, we've got to come up with something that keeps so many Americans from being killed by other Americans.
  19. It's not just the admins, we are all in on it. Including your parents. We've been planning this for years!
  20. Not really. You could allow private companies to make their own decisions to allow or not allow certain content on their sites. That way you have to seek out the false information, which will be done disproportionately by those who already believe it.
  21. I agree. Everyone should get called out for such things.
  22. I don't think that is a fair assessment of my political parties. There is quite a bit of integrity and there is also quite a bit of political tit-for-tat. No. The idea of getting rid of Trump was that he was doing an unacceptable level of harm to the US and the world. I do demand better from my politicians. They don't seem to listen. I have noticed that Canadians often can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republican and that they often find the Republicans to have more integrity than Democrats in general, which I find kind of disturbing. While there is plenty of partisan politics going on, I don't find the parties to be equivalent.
  23. I don't think we are watching the same news broadcasts. House Republicans tried to censure her for her remarks.
  24. Haha. Kids must be the same everywhere. I used to have 45 rpm records of the Marine and Air Force songs.
  25. Just so I'm clear. Faster than light communication?
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