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Comment Disingenuous (Score 4, Insightful) 87

MOND is a class of hypotheses.

This article is motivated reasoning committing unforgivable composition error.

What a scientist does is test each hypothesis separately and see how theory and data correlate.

What a propagandist looking for funding does is throw out the scientific method to favor his friends.

One MOND hypothesis being ruled out is /progress/.

Since Supersymmetric approaches are obviously not bearing fruit, all options should be on the table.

Even 'stretchy entanglement', non-Mach event horizons, and other odd non-DM, non-MOND hypothesis.

Dishonest tribal people should be excluded from science funding.

Comment Re:Uh oh, (Score 2) 52

Think it'll be a scapegoat?

It seems so unlikely that 'a misconfiguration' could be the cause and somewhat likely that a rogue/malicious/fooled employee did this, so we should assume a preponderance of odds until evidence is provided to the contrary.

At least they didn't get the Whole Parler treatment.

Comment Go to Church (Score -1, Flamebait) 63

Does Bumble have a filter for girls who can't keep their hands off you but when they don't get enough attention subsequently get 'feelings of regret' and then call the police to ex-post facto withdraw their consent?

It wouldn't even be a problem except the Judiciary is stacked with corrupt activist judges who won't dismiss the complaint with prejudice and award attorneys fees in the first six minutes.

Combine that with monkey-branching leavers who look for adventure after the kids are born (and weaponize the corrupt judiciary to indenture the man) and it's easy to see why the fertility rates are way down and escort services are way up.

AI won't fix this - unless somehow it replaces corrupt judges .

And even though millions of men are violated this way, I normally encounter people like me who haven't seen it personally so they dismiss the concerns.

Rome saw very similar corruption which led to total societal collapse.

Comment And Tesla will ...??? (Score 1) 170

Bejing can always use Tesla as a pawn and threaten to raise their "tariff," but then again, Tesla is the upper end of EVs in China and your average worker will never buy one.

So where is Tesla going? I don't see customers lining up to "RAT" (Rent a Tesla) even though Elon thinks that.

Where is a cheap EV that a 20 something will be able to buy, like when I was young & making low wages? I could still afford a full size Chevy Blazer. You can't do that today.

Comment Re:No, the cat does not "got my tongue". (Score 0) 100

Why would they fix it?

Their government contract says they delivered the software as required.

The beauty of fascism is everybody on corporate welfare can get rich being lazy while the taxpayers get poorer and poorer.

It used to be that the town had a guy with a router and a stack of boards and good paint to make the road signs. Now somebody's uncle gets 10x that to make them with no accountability.

Yeah, the apostrophe problem is probably in some other dumb software system but follow the premise.

Ain't the Public Commons grand?

Now watch me trigger the anticommunists: the towns could collectively develop open source software for their needs cheaper and better than their contractor.

The only losers there are the fascists. But thanks to corruption and kickbacks that will continue.

(and the antifa people are just marxist fascists - don't get me going)

Comment Re: Financial Priorities (Score 1) 72

Not that I don't agree with you in principle that the process itself is the punishment in the case of Darth Cheeto, but there is an important difference here, and it's highlighted by your use of the word "conviction." Darth Cheeto was not "convicted" of anything in that case, it was a civil judgement and the procedures and protections are quite different in those. The law doesn't care that the plaintiff in that case was the state rather than another private party, both plaintiff and defendant are treated as they would be in any other case. The appeals court also favored Darth Cheeto's claim (which I agree with) that having to firesale properties (especially in the current environment) would have caused him irreparable harm and reduced the appeal bond significantly.

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