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Mole

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  1. It harkens back to our primal roots in using daylight to track the day. Plus, those long afternoon meetings in the winter just got a lot shorter. Instead of thinking of time as something fixed, think of it as a measure of a percentage of the sun’s movement across the sky in any given location.
  2. Like CFB playoffs, we spend too much time debating the details of the flawed system instead of putting the whole thing on trial. Rather than a variable sunrise and sunset time and a standardized rate of time, we should establish standardized sunrise and sunset times (6:30 am and 8:00 pm respectively) and use variable hour rates. Sunrise is henceforth 6:30 AM and sunset is 8:00 PM. This should be standardize regardless of your location and time of year. Make the day hours fit into this standard with a variable rate of time. It might make some things a little more complicated since time would move more quickly or slowly based on time of year and location, but it would forever solve the time change problem and give us consistent morning and evening daylight “hours.” It would also reinvigorate the watch industry since everyone’s current watches would be obsolete. Good for our health, good for our recreation, and good for the economy.
  3. If you gave me the transcript of that interaction and told me that one person worked professionally in politics/sort of journalism and the other was in 6th grade, I would have guessed wrong as to who was whom. Unless you told me it was Fox. It’s not just the absurdity of challenging such a thing, but Kilmeade sounds like a pathetic child in his response. Such insightful analysis.
  4. Just following up on that daily mail sack link, it’s comparing 2020 election results with jobs. Even if the jobs analysis was accurate, what conclusions should be drawn from such a chart? The implication is that “blue” states suffered greater losses due to “blue” policies and vice versa, but the partisan affiliation was based on 2020 presidential election results, not state leadership. Whoever made that chart studied How to Lie with Statistics well. Chapters 7 and 8 (The semi attached figure & post-how rides again) seem pretty relevant. Actually, if you dig into it, it looks like the whole book is covered. Such efficiency.
  5. Man the snowflake generation is the worst.
  6. News is dead. Print is dead. I only read post-modern fan fiction of Norse mythology. The ironic feminist critique of Snorri that proclaims that the gods are all dead really makes you think.
  7. That tweet is confusing. It sounds to me like he’s voicing support for Biden.
  8. In the unlikely event that an anti-mask Tuckerite accosts your child and you can’t disengage, I think the proper response is to point out some inane detail about their appearance (clothes, haircut, etc.) and loudly declare that you read a Facebook post calling that a sign of a sex trafficker and ask why a sex trafficker is harassing your child. The more confusing and irrational the better as long as you are loudly calling them a sex trafficker.
  9. Lavar Burton is really great in discussing those issues in that interview. Everything in our political culture seems so antagonist that it’s disarming the way he addresses things.
  10. BT’s posts on this page are stunning in their intellectual dishonesty. It’s art really.
  11. That poor soul is one of the great artists of our time. One day, when we can properly appreciate its brilliance through the lens of history, Atomic Cow Farts will hang in a gallery as the preeminent example of early-mid 21st aesthetic. It perfectly encapsulates our present cultural state.
  12. To quote Chuck Daly when talking about the Dream Team, “I know Michael’s the best player, but Pippen was the best player on that team.”
  13. Also, MJ and Magic are second team?
  14. I came here to post the senate resolution. https://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/hconres331.pdf I assume that the “American culture” in his quote was referring to self-absorbed ignorance.
  15. When the definitive book on this era of the NBA is written, this better be the opening line.
  16. To repeat my pie-in-the-sky plan, college football postseason is done backwards. We argue about the number of teams to include, pick a number, then force the teams into that number. Instead, there should be objective criteria for championship worthiness (some transparent formula of achievements like conference championships and ELO-like calculations). Every team that meets some established benchmark makes the playoffs. Anyone who doesn’t, stays at home or goes to whatever bowls are left over. If two teams make it, there’s your championship game. If 8 make it, you have a big tournament. A five-loss conference champion shouldn’t make the playoffs and an undefeated conference champion shouldn’t be left out. Establish criteria that will give you 4-8 worthy teams most years and then play it out. It would never work because of TV, but it’s the best way. Everyone would know the standards from day one and we’d always have playoffs of only championship caliber teams.
  17. Anecdotally, only a small subset of white America started crying about “mob rule.” It seems like the majority feel like justice was served. I’ve seen some victim-blaming “don’t break the law if you don’t want to get cop-murdered” garbage, but even those tend to think justice was served.
  18. For all of the complaining about the media, the trio of AP, Reuters, and the BBC seem to have been pretty responsible in their reporting. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ohio-police-kill-teenaged-black-girl-say-media-family-2021-04-21/ https://apnews.com/article/columbus-ohio-police-shooting-teenage-girl-0c04a74691f3f3fb3895d6220c729080 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56825871 For me, I read these three sources regularly (and listen to the PBS Newshour occasionally until you get bored), check out things that don't seem quite right, watch important events in real-time, and generally ignore most other media sources. My life has much less news-related existential angst and I have a much clearer picture of the world. If a news source regularly leaves you angry, worried, or generally worked up about something, that news source might be advocacy instead of news.
  19. Let’s go further with this line of thought. Trump won the 2016: a generally agreed upon, non-political statement of fact. The foreign interference issue is related, but not the same. It’s about politics, but it’s a basic fact. Obama won in 2012. Also a simple statement of fact. And so on for basically any election prior to 2020. You’ll get some pushback on Bush/Gore, but not even close to the extent of 2020 and still, the statement, “Bush won the 2000 election” would mostly be accepted as a statement of fact about politics rather than a political statement open to debate. Biden won the 2020 election. For a substantial portion of our population, this is a controversial, debatable, political statement rather than a simple factual statement. COVID killed 500,000+ Americans: another fact that is now politics. A pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol and tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power (insurrection), killing a number of people in the process. Cops were beaten with flags and crushed in doors; the mob claimed to want to execute leaders of government and were searching the halls of the Capitol looking for them; the paused in ransacking the Senate chambers to pray “in Jesus name;” they did all of this because the outgoing president repeatedly lied about the results of the election. This also somehow a debatable (hyperbolic) political statement rather than a simple recounting of facts. And on and on. When everything is political, there is no longer agreed upon reality. Growing up in conservative communities, I often heard about the dangers of post-modernism and moral relativism; how “my truth” is replacing objective facts with opinion. Even in recent years, we’ve heard that “facts don’t care about your feelings.” And yet the very same voices that decried the downfall of objective truth are tearing or limb from limb. There’s room for debate on taxes or abortion or immigration or whatever. There’s no room for debate on basic reality. Anyone who disagrees with me on taxes or abortion just disagrees, no big deal; the real problem is anyone that won’t engage in reality. Cry all you want about trans athletes suddenly dominating women’s sports or whatever latest fear I’m supposed to have, but anti-reality and right wing have become synonymous.
  20. If I were a "moderated" poster, I'd be tempted to start a "Current Look at Shaggy" thread and start posting screenshots of the more feculent posts.
  21. How far are we from a Republican politician calling for the working class to seize the means of production to save as all from communism?
  22. Belgium. Less offensive words have been created in the many languages of the galaxy, such as joojooflop, swut and Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish. The use of bad language can have unforseen circumstances. One example is the war between the G'gugvunts and the Vl'hurgs, caused by a casual remark made by Arthur Dent being mistaken as a terrible insult. Simultaneous Babel Fishtranslation also means that any being can be rude to any other being without the need for extensive explanations. This has also started many wars. The reason the Earth has been shunned for so long is also due to a language problem. On Earth, Belgium refers to a small country. Throughout the rest of the galaxy, Belgium is the most unspeakably rude word there is.
  23. Here’s a depiction of a bird telling Gregory that standardizing the Roman chants across the empire and attributing their composition to the Holy Spirit via the Pope would be a good political move. It was a good political choice and it eventually ended in our modern musical notation system. Smart bird.
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