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Comment Re:From what I can see... (Score 5, Informative) 79

"Gee gosh golly wiz. None of us can explain how the guy losing handily suddenly magically won the election during the historically unprecedented two hour extension that his own personal defense attorney gave him. Isn't democracy just so inexplicable sometimes?"

You know, if you had looked at media outlets such as ABC News you would have found that both candidates teams asked for extensions.

Comment Re:Lula won despite US interference (Score 1, Insightful) 79

Whatever it is, it is not the Guardian. I fail to see how Slashdot can quote the Guardian for anything. It is like quoting the National Enquirer.or the Onion

So you can't (or won't) give your opinion on which newspapers we should trust, not do you present any evidence as to why we should not trust the Guardian.

Given this, is there any reason that we should take your opinion seriously?

Comment Re:Following the Trump playbook (Score 3, Informative) 79

You don't find it a bit odd that Bolsonaro defeated Lula in the election, but didn't get 50% of the vote, and then loses in the runoff? That is unprecedented in Brasil.

As David Hume showed long ago, the fact that something happened regularly in the past is not a guarantee that it will happen in the future.

Perhaps it does warrant some scrutiny.

Lula secured 51.79% of the votes compared with Bolsonaro’s 48.21%, according to Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court – about 4.4m more votes. If, according to you, this warrants scrutiny then presumably if Lula had won 48.21% and Bolsanaro 51.79% then this too would warrant scruting...

Comment Re:Good, nothing of value to the public is lost. (Score 2) 34

The UK is already overcrowded and property punitively expensive.

Really? Got evidence?

I am baffled that they were going to build this centre in Essex, which is more crowded and expensive than other parts of the UK. We need to convince foreign businesses that other parts of the UK, apart from London and the SE of England exist. There are lots of places in the north of England, Scotland and Wales where connection to the National Grid is easier, and where other costs are substantially lower.

Comment Re:Who Benefits from a Belligerent Iran ??? (Score 0) 49

Former President Obama said that the Biden/Harris Administration was "continuing and building on" the Obama Administration

There was a deal between the US and Iran that was negotiated during Obama's presidency. You might argue that it wasn't the best of deals, but it did lower tensions, and constrained what Iran could do.

Trump didn't attempt to improve the deal, he just withdrew from it in 2018, which removed the constraints on Iran enriching uranium. He has done nothing to fix this in either of his terms in office.

But this war began with the war in Gaza, which started October 7, 2023 - during the Biden/Harris Administration.

Ah, so it took place during Biden's presidecy, therefore it was purely down to Biden, no other factors whatsoever.

Iran is a vile, authoritarian theocracy. So what success has Trump had reducing or eliminating the authoritarianism of the regime? How goes the negotiations to end the war and reopen shipping in the Middle East?

Comment Re:Prove it. (Score 2) 49

"Dark" Energy/Marketing

You have a theory, in this case General Relativity, that has been confirmed by testing for many decades. Experimental data shows anomalies that the theory cannot explain. So either:

- The theory is wrong (or incomplete)
- Our ontology is wrong
- Or both of the above

So, what do you do? Do you abandon the theory, in spite of the huge amount of evidential backing, or do you change the ontology while you investigate further?

rather large hole is getting known in the taxpayer community for gold digging.

Yeah, it's a well known fact that all astrophysicists are coining it, they are all as rich as Zuckerberg, if not Musk.

Oh and "Prove it"? As anyone who knows anything about science is aware, you don't prove things in science. Our theories are the best, current explanation for phenomena, but they are both tentative and provisional. Proof is for mathematics, logic and whisky, for science we have evidence.

Comment A "historically accurate" version. (Score 1) 66

Just wait until you try to download the bootleg video and end up with a copy of Musk's AI-generated "historically accurate" version instead. D'oh! :)

So, it's going to include all the Greek gods, Scylla and Charybdis, the Cyclops, Circe, Calypso, Sirens, man-eating giants etc. This should ensure it is "historically accurate". Oh, and all the actors will of course be white, not olive skinned.

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