Mrebo

SilverWook said:

People still buy USA Today? It’s the complimentary paper hotels and Amtrak stick under your door.

Hotels and Amtrak buy it!

flametitan said:

WTF USA Today?

I mean, I guess they just wanted the ad revenue from having both the op-ed and the rebuttal. Or the Op-Ed process is looser than I thought. Still doesn’t sit right to have a sitting president write an op-ed to slam his political opponents.

USAToday tries to be non-partisan. They took lots of flak for an article suggesting Kabanaugh can’t be trusted around teen girls. Wouldn’t be surprised if running the editorial was done to try to make piece with done readers.

They took the unusual step of fact checking an opinion piece, which would seem to counterbalance the objection.

‘Say what you want…and then we’ll tell you why you’re a fool and/or liar,’ looks more objectionable from the standpoint of Trump’s supporters.

What’s your objection?

Warbler said:

Yo Apollo, how did you like fighting the Russian?

My favorite so far.

How was the lasagna, Mrs. Garfield?

And how was the speech, Mrs. Harrison?

Psh, as if a measly fall could seriously injure the Doctor!

LordZerome1080 said:

Tbh I think that a one hour episode is a tad much for a Doctor Who episode.

Why do you think so?

Possessed said:

Mrebo said:

You wouldn’t even try pecan pie?

I’d rather die.

Would you eat it with hippopotami?
Would you eat it in the sky?

You wouldn’t even try pecan pie?

The show has been so terribly flawed, repeatedly, and yet so many people, including myself, try to like it. Strange phenomenon.

CatBus said:

Mrebo said:

After being here for several years, it continues to feel that way. There are a few bright spots, mostly the museums.

In terms of self-obsessed naked careerism, I’ve heard DC described as LA for ugly people.

Maybe true. At any gathering of political types, the constant first question is “what do you do?” And either they think you can do something for them or they keep a smile frozen on their face until they can get away to ask it of someone else. As one might expect the low level Hill staffers are among the worst offenders. Little room is made for sincerity or sympathy, though I have known people of generous spirit, you just can’t trust how far it will go.

After being here for several years, it continues to feel that way. There are a few bright spots, mostly the museums.

Agree settling on a middle ground isn’t inherently virtuous, as reasonable as it may appear. There is some value though, else we fight to the death, politically speaking.

You know it’s funny, we started out like this, Helen and I. We had blank walls, we hung things, we picked out tile together. Then you know what happens? 6 years later, you find yourself singing Surrey with a Fringe on Top IN FRONT OF IRA!

I thought the episode boring, especially the first half. I watched this episode to see if it would renew my interest. I don’t know if she is frenetic, more serious, as we didn’t get too much screen time. The writing was too heavy on needless exposition. The Doctor’s appearance was fairly limited and seemed crafted to hit on the bullet points of the Doctor’s modern characterization more than anything.

I rolled my eyes at the Doctor’s knife PSA.

What I saw of this Doctor didn’t annoy me but I’d have to see more about what direction they’re going in.

There was something nice about the episode from a personal perspective. A friend died yesterday - she would have been 34 today - and I think she would have liked this episode. The Doctor’s speech at the end of the episode following the funeral felt almost by design.

Welcome to the club.

moviefreakedmind said:

Mrebo said:

Not a substantive/political matter but since mfm brought it up a couple of times, using someone’s rhetorical style against them is a potent and legitimate way of debating. Sure, the person against who it’s done doesn’t like it, but that is why it is so useful. They then need to engage in a more substantive and sincere way rather than relying on “schtick” to make their points.

In this case it just demonstrated a lack of creativity on his part, which is fine if he’s okay with that, but I was genuinely giving him good advice.

Creativity isn’t the issue. It’s too bad you didn’t rise to the occasion in your recent posts as I know you are capable of doing so.

suspiciouscoffee said:

I’ve never been happy with my hair, I just use it to distract people from how ugly my face is.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Hard as it may be to believe, you’re not ugly.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I think I’ve acquired a taste for coffee. Never saw that coming.

That developed quickly.

Not a substantive/political matter but since mfm brought it up a couple of times, using someone’s rhetorical style against them is a potent and legitimate way of debating. Sure, the person against who it’s done doesn’t like it, but that is why it is so useful. They then need to engage in a more substantive and sincere way rather than relying on “schtick” to make their points.

SilverWook said:

Do you think anyone noticed it before he went up and decided not to tell him?

They have to put that toilet paper into the national archives now. 😛

In his defense, he probably mistook it for the Constitution.

Frank your Majesty said:

Mrebo said:

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7x3ed9/darpa-is-researching-quantized-inertia-a-theory-of-physics-many-think-is-pseudoscience

Sounds promising to me. The dark matter theory has always seemed like make-believe science.

Proposing a too-good-to-be-true engine based on an effect that so far could not be proven to exist and violates some of the most well-tested scientific theories doesn’t sound like make-believe science to you?

Now, I don’t want to completely dismiss it, but I wouldn’t call it promising. Best case, it works and we have a cool new propulsion technology and some interesting physics to explore. Worst case, it doesn’t work and this hypothesis is discarded for good. At least noone can say that these kinds of outsider ideas are supressed by the Illuminati or some other BS, so that’s a good thing.

The engine is merely one possible implication. The fact that such an engine has appeared to work is something I’d call promising. I don’t see where a well-tested theory is violated. As I understand it, the theory reconceptualizes the relationship of gravitational and inertial mass which has been heretofore asserted.

Dark matter is a convenient and perhaps not falsifiable theory created out of whole cloth.

As for suppression of science, I think that’s very real if not 100% effective.

I hope so.

Agree; wish people would be more self aware.