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Comment Re:A method to test if Robert Del Naja is Banksy (Score 2, Informative) 91

It's a loooong read, but it actually goes on to say that Robin Gunningham is Banksy and that he changed his name to David Jones before travelling to Ukraine. Del Naja was there, too, helping him, but ultimately the article pinpoints Gunningham as Banksy. It might say more after that, or even change its mind, but I got bored, lol.

Comment Re: A new model needed? (Score 1) 59

We should all spend more time studying the history of science. There have been many instances when, for good reasons and bad, scientists have dug in their heels. The greater opposition to Darwin in the 19th century came not from religion but from science, as without genetics there were too many holes left in the equation. In short, "never" is too strong a word. Perhaps it's less common than we presume, but a fantasy about the essential open-mindedness of scientists is just as bad as a myth about them being querulous oldtimers who hate change as much as they hate kids on their lawns.

Comment Re: Hopeless article is hopeless, here's a better (Score 1) 59

Now I am no physicist, but if expansion is slowing and could even reach 0, then it seems quite logical that the original expansion was always a result of the release of kinetic energy from the Big Bang. I get it that the data does not add up to what we would expect from a mere explosion with no dark energy, but still, if the expansion is not eternal then logically there is no fundamental or insurmountable reason why this expasion could not be caused by an event at the beginning rather than being continuously modified throughout the process by some unknown and invisible modifier. In other words, perhaps we need not scrap the standard model as a whole, but this really does seem to open the door for a major revision. Perhaps we might quibble about how to express the severity of such a revision, but I would at least argue that there could be a major philosophical difference between an ever-expanding cosmos and a was-once-expanding-but-may-even-collapse one.

Comment Re:Election Integrity FUD is fixable (Score 1) 421

Lol, why is it that liberals think that black people and other minorities are somehow constitutively incapable of getting ID cards? That's just... racist. The reality is that the vast majority of us already have IDs. I'm Mexican and I've had an ID for longer than I could even drive. The only reason to avoid voter IDs is to allow or encourage fraud.

Comment Re:ACP has not connected a single person (Score 1) 18

I agree. I even benefitted from the ACP, but I think it was just another example of Bidenomics spoofing money to try to buy votes. After the program ended, AT&T voluntarily gave me a discount for almost the full amount. Sure, there might be one or two people who were able to get Internet because of it, but I would wager that the majority of users already had Internet, and the subsidy only encouraged additional spending. Is that bad? Well, it all depends on our goal. The Democrats tend to claim that their goal is to connect unconnected households. If that was the goal, I would wager that it was a failure. If the goal was to boost the economy by expanding government spending, then I guess the ACP did something.... Does that mean we should bring it back? Personally, I'd rather invest in programs that ACTUALLY help the poor instead of making it slightly cheaper for me to whing about the government on Slashdot.

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