Everything posted by geordief
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US DoD Security breach (split from What is DEI, and why is it dividing America?)
They are quite clearly being completely open and transparent.
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US DoD Security breach (split from What is DEI, and why is it dividing America?)
Are you sure it was after? I thought it was before.
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US DoD Security breach (split from What is DEI, and why is it dividing America?)
I was going to make an identical post but aborted it on reflexion(the Russians might be a little alarmed if they thought that they were now "allies")
- Pro’s and Con’s of Elon Musk
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Carney as Canadian leader
I think it was Hitler who said he wasn't a Nazi https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1089896776514260&set=a.502824405221503&type=3
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Carney as Canadian leader
Calling all sleuths (furrier and furrier) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Poilièvre "This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “is this poil(hair)+lièvre(hare), a rabbit farmer raising for rabbit fur, or rabbit trapper fur hunter, furrier?" plus "Perhaps from pois aux lièvres (“yellow pea (Lathyrus aphaca)”)" "
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Trump wants Greenland again - Oh, and the Panama Canal too.
That is just weird.(being polite)
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Trump wants Greenland again - Oh, and the Panama Canal too.
Have you misunderstood what the post you quoted was saying? I felt it was criticizing Trump's greedy eyes and likening his approach to that of Russia.
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Question to forum liberals
I think we need the OP to give us their own definition.(I usually ignore an OP if they don't field questions on their topic)
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Question to forum liberals
To repeat an earlier question ,what does the OP understand as "middle class"? Obvious not the billionaire class and obviously not those who cannot afford to put away any savings So a subset of those in between? What subset (subsets)? Edit: Who are the liberals?(if we are allowed to ask stupid questions)
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The Gaza Riviera ?
80 .They bring him onto Anderson Cooper from time to time. He is entertaining(and compos mentis) Here is his piece in NYT from last month https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/opinion/democrats-donald-trump-economy.html
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The Gaza Riviera ?
I see James Carville was just saying that the Dems should "play possum" as the "Repubs" are imploding in real time . (I thought he was being sarcastic but no he meant it) They do have to be careful not to provide the regime with an excuse to cancel elections . I wonder how much support they can lose and still remain in power. (For those of us non Americans I wonder if we actually care)
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New religion of Nothingness
The bag is with thee Blessed art thou who filter the allergens And blessed is the fruit sucked up in your attachment.
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Capitalization of the pronoun 'I'
Which it do be!
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Capitalization of the pronoun 'I'
"It was me whom they buried" or "It was I who(m?) they buried"? (Not disagreeing with you,though) That quote observing the swift changing of the language within a (then) presumanly short lifetime is so surprising when it feels that it should be a phenomenon much more typical of our fast moving information age. Plus ça change and all that.
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Capitalization of the pronoun 'I'
Mark Knopfler has written a song about this It is called Why Aye,Man? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KrwSDX95wCs (not one of my favourites) It feels strange when you question something I assume all native english speakers and readers just assume is part of the natural fabric of the language . ( these days I sometimes don't bother to correct myself when I write "i" instead of "I' but it feels very sloppy)
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Capitalization of the pronoun 'I'
https://www.thesaurus.com/e/grammar/whycapitali/#:~:text=For a long time%2C it,is intended to stand alone. " Reasons why I is always capitalized Hard to believe, but there were no rules for capitalization until the 1700s. For a long time, it was common to mix lowercase and capital letters within a word, the latter used to add emphasis. Historians now attribute the capitalization of I as a result of two factors: The lowercase i is difficult to read: By capitalizing I, it makes it more clear that the letter is intended to stand alone. An uppercase I symbolizes importance of the writer: The I has retained the capitalization because it also gives added weight to this pronoun used to describe the individual writer. Some languages do capitalize different pronouns,"
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Fog harvesting could provide water for arid cities
Does Ben Macdui** count.? I was stranded up there in the fog overnight with another 17 yr old friend in a small tent which wetted our clothes /sleeping blanket when we unavoidably touched the sides. The morning came and we walked down into the fog which cleared aftrr 5 minutes absolutely fortunately and undeservedly. ** next highest in Scotland after Ben Nevis
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The Official JOKES SECTION :)
Must be where I heard it.
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The Official JOKES SECTION :)
He's not laughing now.(great delivery that man) I liked Brendan Grace too.
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‘Gulf of America’ arrives on Google Maps
I heard that Google is moving its HQ to Cripplecreep Avenue.
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The Perfectly Boiled Egg
Can there be a problem with over cooking the white so that it is tough? I have always only paid attention to the yolk and am fairly expert at getting that right(some people like it hard -I like it half and half) but I have vaguely noticed that a "just nicely" set white would be preferable to a tough one but have never bothered trying to facilitate that. And juggling the two is something I doubt I could possibly attempt.
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Where Is The Science ?
No,on the other forum **discussing this someone (CC) said they can access the site but it is like a ghost town with the odd visitor who don't do anything (CC started an outage post which is still there without other contributions) and that is all there is -but CC can see it. ** scivillage
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Where Is The Science ?
So this ip address has an extension that includes our site owner's? Does Trump want to acquire the Domain now that he knows Greenland is not ICEland? Incidentally I have the old(2 years defunct) thescienceforum. DOT com site still bookmarked on my phone and I clicked on it today to see how it was doing and I got refreshed to a page (twice as I double checked) which was the login page for my mobile data provider (vodafone). I wondered was it trying to hack my (anybody's ) information in some clever scheme. The owner of that site was a crook I am fairly certain and the porn on it after it "folded" seemed clearly illegal to me.
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A new form of philosophy I came up with
Are the patterns x , x^2,x^3 all identical or all distinct? Is the pattern in 1,1,1 the same as the pattern in 2,4,8 and 3 ,9, 27? Would you describe them as "patterns"(or a "pattern") ?