Pons_Aelius @ Pons_Aelius @kbin.social

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As Carl Sagan said, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and is this case the evidence has been found to have a much simpler explanation.

He does for this in.

Yes, there is a definite similarity there.

I feel it is important to publicise refutations of extraordinary claims widely.

The media generally loves to publish the extraordinary claims. especially ALIENS!! but is silent when the results comeback as "Sorry, they were wrong."

I feel it is important to publicise refutations of extraordinary claims widely.

The media generally loves to publish the extraordinary claims. especially ALIENS!! but is silent when the results comeback as "Sorry, they were wrong."

For real shits and giggles:

You get dropped exactly where you are now, just 500 years ago. All the European descended people not living in Europe are (very likely) in for a bad time.

We have an idea what 1523 English sounded like.

In the early 2000s the Globe in London did productions of Shakespeare in the original pronunciation.

Here is how the opening of Romeo and Juliet would have sounded.

Scenario 2 is where you would be outed as a time traveller.

Scenario 1 is where you would be outed as a witch.

Not sure witch would happen first.

The headline could be shortened to: "Charlie Kirk defends Elon Musk" and that way you can run it repeatedly and still be accurate.

How long until we see knock off versions by Huyndai, Hyandui and of course...Amazon Basics?

The mind behind anthropomorphic thinking: attribution of mental states to other species

I read once that Al Gore campaigned in the 1980s with climate change as one of the action points.

I was taught climate change in earth science in high school in 1982. The was no controversy. It was taught as an accepted fact and settled science, which it was.

It has been heart breaking to see basically the worst case predictions come true.

Archive.org link to the removed letter

Cheers for the heads up.

beeper does look interesting but I am weary of sign up and we will tell you when you can join type apps.

And this rings a few alarm bells for me:

if you send a message from Beeper to a friend on WhatsApp, the message is encrypted on your Beeper client, sent to the Beeper web service, which decrypts and re-encrypts the message with WhatsApp's proprietary encryption protocol.

I would love for this to work but that alone has a host of issues around third party trust.

New European legislation is coming into effect in 2024 and will force iMessage and WhatsApp to expose an interoperable end-to-end-encrypted API. Our servers are located in Europe, and we will switch to this open interface as soon as it is ready.

Sadly, not being in the EU means I will likely pass on this but is sounds great for EU residents when the above is implemented.

Log in with your existing Apple ID username or create a new account to start sending and receiving blue bubbles.

So I need an apple ID to use this?

Pass.

If you’re a Phone (2) user in one of the select countries where Nothing Chats is available, you can download the messaging app from the Google Play Store.

So it only works in a few countries?

Pass.

And it only works on one OEM's phones?

Massive Pass.

Well, both of us are making assumptions without doing the research.

So. I respect your opinion but neither of us knows that we are actually correct.

average life expectancy

mean age of death?

To me mean = average, so the two statements are the same.

Are you talking about median age of death?

When child mortality was very high (pre- 20 century) that was definitely the case. I am not so sure that it is now. I feel that average life expectancy will be a lot closer to 50% survival rate (median age of death) than it was in the past.

The term radical (in a political context) has always implied “change at the root.”

The dictionary definition I supplied gave no indication of left or right.

Your unsourced assertion, which I assume you got from someone making a video sitting in their car, is what you want to word to mean rather than what it actually means.

Now forgetting word play, do you think attacking an elected official's family with a hammer is an acceptable political action in a democracy?

The saddest part of everything Salman Rushdie has gone through is that he is one of the best English novelists of the modern era but 90% of stories gloss over all his works except The Satanic Verses, which caused the problems.

My personal recommendations are Midnight's Children and The Moor's Last Sigh.

Check them out, they are great reads.

Radicalized

(v) to make radical especially in politics

radical actually has a meaning

Radical (adj)

advocating extreme measures to retain or restore a political state of affairs

Yep, it has a definite meaning and that meaning definitely applies here as I think anyone would class attacking someone with a hammer as extreme measures.

Norway: Stop collecting user data to sell and using it to serve adds!

FB: OK. You can now be add free for 10 euros a month.

Norway: Are you still collecting and selling user data with that plan?

FB: ...