Comment Re:Dark Science (Score 1) 198
Have you ever seen gravity? Touched it? Or do we just infer it from how things act? The Big Bang is based on the same sort of evidence.
Have you ever seen gravity? Touched it? Or do we just infer it from how things act? The Big Bang is based on the same sort of evidence.
The problem with changing general relativity is that, while it's possible to account for some of the effects of dark matter, gravitational lensing and the like are relatively small-scale anomalies that occur in some places and not others. Something is causing uneven curvature of space.
Actually, most really weird assumptions turn out to be somewhere between wrong and stupid, heavily weighted toward the stupid end. You're just looking at the very, very few that actually work.
There's actually some truth in your sarcasm. Many of the old major and minor problems have been at least partly addressed, and so people looking to help out are finding things that might or might not help that haven't been considered problems before (at least not by the dominant group, and who cares about the others).
The right wing is very heavy on identity politics. If you don't match their identity, you're not welcome. The left is more diverse.
It's not taking anything away from other anti-racist efforts. It may do some good sometime. I'm not up on the psychology of linguistics, but consistently calling people something with negative connotations could well be harmful. We could probably accomplish much the same thing with not calling races based on arbitrary colors (I'm something of a brownish pink rather than white, for example), but that would be harder.
As opposed to...what time in the past?
What's the difference between "profit above all else" and "greed"? They're both the worship of money, and we all know what the love of money can do.
I'm not a Biden worshipper (I voted for Warren in the primary), but I do understand how the US Presidential election works. Do you have an actual cite for any Congressional statement saying Biden is not the President-Elect? All Congressional actions go on an easily accessible and reasonably easy to use website, so if you're correct you would find it easy to show us that.
You are obviously against the voice of the American people, since Trump lost the popular vote by millions in both his runs.
Fortunately, the Biden administration has no power to interfere with Trump being prosecuted, almost certainly convicted, and very likely imprisoned by the State of New York. Nor can a Presidential pardon be used for a civil lawsuit.
The 2000 Presidential election wasn't actually decided for a long time after the polls closed. The 2020 election has been decided for over a week now, arguably two weeks.
When I looked into it, it was better than I thought. For a project of that size, to have the final produce readily salvageable is pretty good. We do NOT know how to do software projects on that scale reliably.
The Electoral College does not meet in one place. As per the Constitution, the electors of each state cast their votes in the state they represent. You clearly do not understand the actual election process. See the Constitution, Article II, Section 1,first sentence of Paragraph 3.
In which states would these undetermined votes be? (I'm saying "states", plural, since switching one seriously contested state from Biden to Trump would not affect the outcome.) Georgia just certified the Biden win, maybe a few hours ago as I write this.
Without solid evidence of massive vote fraud in multiple states, there is no legal way for Trump to win.
The 2000 election was unusual in that the result depended on one state (Florida) that had an extremely small margin for one candidate or the other, and it took time to certify the election It was complicated by the voting machines in use, which could lead to ambiguous results (hence the discussion of "pregnant chad", "hanging chad", etc.) We literally did not know who was the President-Elect for some time after the election.
In this case, the winner was evident in the week of the voting. Even assuming that one battleground state's vote was reversed, Biden would still win. Face it: Biden won. Anyone trying to reverse that without evidence that will stand up in court is an enemy of the United States.
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