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  • Devout isn't the right word there. Saying they are devout means that they have a deep commitment to their faith. That is clearly not true. These people may claim to read their holy book, but they clearly don't understand the slightest bit of it, well nothing in the new testament certainly. They love the old, first testament, fire-and-brimstone God that tells his followers to kill their enemies down to the last man, woman, or child. They have no interest in reading the woke Jesus stuff.

  • I know this is all blamed on his stroke, but I don't know. I can't help but wonder if Mossad has so much dirt on him that they have him completely under their control. Like the article says, “It seems like he’s more the ambassador to Israel than the senator from Pennsylvania.”

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  • You can learn to consciously control a lot of things that various 'lie detectors' monitor. I took a stress management/biofeedback class in college where we learned to raise and lower galvanic skin response, heart rate, and blood pressure. It was a fun class, and in learning to control them, you can also reduce the chance of getting a false positive by keeping any of those variables from drifting to far from the expected range.

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  • They don't work.

    “There’s no unique physiological sign of deception. And there’s no evidence whatsoever that the things the polygraph measures — heart rate, blood pressure, sweating, and breathing — are linked to whether you’re telling the truth or not,” says Leonard Saxe, a psychologist at Brandeis University who’s conducted research into polygraphs. In an exhaustive report, the National Research Council concluded, “Almost a century of research in scientific psychology and physiology provides little basis for the expectation that a polygraph test could have extremely high accuracy.”

    The real question is, why do people think that they work? Why do government agencies use them to grant clearances when there is no evidence that they can reliably detect falsehoods and ample evidence that they are known to give false positives when people are actually telling the truth?

    Go take some classes on stress management and biofeedback and learn to control all those things they are testing for. Then you won't need to worry about what the questioners mean when they ask you something.

  • For all we know time stops all the time and we just don’t know it.

    It could also speed up, slow down, or maybe even reverse. As part of the flow of time, how would we ever know?

  • Do you know who has to make that declaration? Per the 25th Amendment:

    Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

    In other words, the people who would have to invoke the 25th and declare him unfit, are the very Project 2025 graduates in his cabinet that are already pulling his strings and getting everything they want.

  • Wild. I swear when I read this article it said the pilot was suspected of falling asleep. I must have read a different article. This one says:

    The watch officer of a large container ship that ran aground and crashed into a garden in Norway has told police he was asleep at the time of the incident.

  • No, you're correct. Based on the names under the kid's faces in the meme, they are referring to the Moscow, ID killings.

    Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle were students at the University of Idaho who lived at a nearby off-campus residence in Moscow, a college town of about 25,000 people.

  • Reposting my comment from another thread.

    Trump's Golden Dome idea is impossible. The tech and resources to defend even the contiguous 48 states against even North Korea's level of ICBM capabilities does not exist.

    The truth is that the whole program is intended to pour federal money into the hands of the wealthy. In fact, Musk already has the lead in providing the system as of this April 17th article from Reuters. And the icing on the cake is this.

    In an unusual twist, SpaceX has proposed setting up its role in Golden Dome as a "subscription service" in which the government would pay for access to the technology, rather than own the system outright.