Opinion Dominion

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Monday, November 23, 2020

Potential cheaper workers for manicure shops

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This otter behaviour - nibbling down her owner's fingernail, without biting her finger - is pretty unexpected and remarkable.  Not to me...

Time for the Reverse Great Leap Forward/Cultural Revolution (which needs a better title)

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I was thinking about this article from the Brookings Institute over the weekend: Biden-voting counties equal 70% of America’s economy. What ...
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Friday, November 20, 2020

The chapter about schooling is over

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I'm feeling a bit...um...not exactly melancholic, but a touch of sadness about time passing.  Perhaps it's a twinge of foreboding of...
Thursday, November 19, 2020

The conspiracy theory problem, again

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This article at Vox about the terrible state of conspiracy theory belief in America is pretty good.   I'm not sure, however, that I agre...
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In other vegetarian news

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I see that McDonalds, which has badly fallen out of favour with me and my family, is bringing in a "McPlant" burger - presumably ...
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Nut roasts noted

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I don't know why - perhaps it's just my general fondness for nuts as a very filling form of vegetarian snack/food - but these recipe...
Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Exactly

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Yes. Given the state of scientific knowledge on global warming, and how they ("skeptics") have for years now clearly lost all of t...
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Stupid watch

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Some people who comment at Catallaxy are still betting on Trump: Actually, the fact that the betting markets are still taking money on a Tru...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Time for something more optimistic

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I don't know much about Dave Borlace, who makes educational videos on climate change and energy on his Youtube channel Just Have a Think...
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Just asking questions, Lindsay will say

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Allahpundit at Hot Air talks about the ridiculous corrupt stink around Lindsay Graham ringing his fellow Republican to chat about what he d...
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Oh, now that I see your jihad against ABC is based on a reasonable critique of the organisation, I see your point [sarcasm]

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Sinclair Davidson, having a tantrum about the ABC for the millionth time at his blog for fools today: We need to get away from this notion o...
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This seems correct

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Monday, November 16, 2020

How's the "let's humour him, and he'll go quietly" strategy of some of the GOP politicians going?

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Appallingly: Just what a country needs:  a President yelling to his (often religiously fundamentalist) cult-like base that the side which wo...
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The biggest Trump suck up tries to convince Trump he can leave and come back

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So, even Hugh Hewitt thinks Trump should leave "gracefully".  Fat chance. The final volume of his memoirs can only be imagined n...
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Sunday, November 15, 2020

While we're speaking physics...

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...I also liked this video from a French Youtube channel ScienceClic (of which there is also an English version), which has a different way ...
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Back to Maxwell's equations

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A few days ago, I was musing about the complexity of Maxwell's equations, and the lack of historical context in most attempts at explain...
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Saturday, November 14, 2020

He's like a poster child for government warnings against marijuana use

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Actually, I still reckon his hyped up comments read more (what I think) cocaine users are like, but he only admits to marijuana. And you mig...

On the upside, at least COVID 19 has killed libertarianism

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This question...  was about this...  and out of the many tweeted suggestions that follow, this:  Heh. 
Friday, November 13, 2020

What?

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Hey, have a read of this abstract for this recent arXiv paper entitled Kant & Hegel in Physics , which has a very surprising last line:...
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Wannabe dictator and his cult base working each other into a conspiracy frenzy

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Members of cults are - pretty much by definition, I guess - incredibly gullible.   And cult leaders, if not from the start, but eventually, ...
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