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Another record federal deficit adds $3.1T to the debt
olofscience replied to kallend's topic in Speakers Corner
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What, you mean downplaying it, lying about it, ignoring it, blaming others isn't the way to a landslide re-election? Quick, someone tell Trump!
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https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/15/politics/rudy-giuliani-russian-intelligence-misinformation-operation-trump/index.html You're living up to expectations, that's for sure
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Trick question - Trump NEVER owns any failure. It's always someone else's fault. I know you were addressing Phil1111 but I'll take you up on that - not the retraction because I haven't said anything, but I'll applaud if the stimulus passes. T as in turtlespeed?
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You're avoiding answering my question. So you're saying: Hiding facts about Covid-19 because people can't decide for themselves and will panic: OK Retweeting nutjob conspiracy theories because people can decide for themselves if it's true: OK You're being very contradictory. Can people decide for themselves, or not?
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Well, Trump didn't give the country that choice back in Feb/March when he knew covid-19 was more serious than the flu, now when it's a crazy conspiracy theory it's OK to leave it to the people to decide?
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I really hope you're not implying that the theory of evolution and the current scientific questions about dark matter are just conspiracies. Anyway, the Q nutcases have pretty much zero hard evidence. Like that pizzeria basement which was used for child trafficking.
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The first Tesla, the Roadster, was a converted Lotus. Elon Musk knew the value of having an electric design from scratch rather than a conversion - so while I think conversions would be how the transition happens, the REAL gains will be from a new design. The Model S to the original Roadster. NASA's X-47 Maxwell actually explores what's needed for new designs while using very cheap LFP cells rather than lithium-ion, so it's expected that they can achieve more than 50% reduction in required energy by reducing structural weight and using distributed propulsion. EDIT: LFP cells also have a higher discharge rate than lithium-ion, but a lower energy density. Elon and Tesla are already seriously trying to make them work for the Model 3 (it would increase their profit margins massively). LFP cells also happen to have twice the lifespan of lithium-ion in terms of cycles so it's even better for a jump plane with lots of cycles.
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If the batteries themselves really could take shear stress, my first question is, "how much?" and this holds the potential to reduce the weight of the wing structure, since you'll be able to reduce or even remove the wing ribs completely. If you reduce the weight, you increase payload/range. This will have to be a new-design electric for certification though. Wings usually need stiffening against shear stress (caused by bending) because they contain materials with zero shear stiffness.
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You REALLY don't know how journalism works (or rather, should work) No, I expect them to allow other journalists, fact checkers, and experts to confirm the story, like how a Fox News journalist confirmed the Atlantic's story about Trump calling dead soldiers "suckers" and "losers". Posts like Turtle's are actually banned on Facebook and Twitter. That dz.com allowed him to post it is already quite lenient.
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Do you have any other actual sources than nypost which posted the initial unverified story anyway? And no, please not the Daily Mail.
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Well a link would be helpful, I couldn't find any.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/us/politics/hunter-biden-ukraine.html You must be panicking now to miss something like this.
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One - I don't pray Two - I'm not even American, I am just watching with amusement as Trump's chances deteriorate. Three - this shows how little respect you have for actual journalism. They have to verify sources, anonymise them if necessary, and do a lot of work that can be cross-checked and verified. There are those that don't do it, but usually they are fired and go to work for the Daily Mail to make shit up. Four - it's actually getting painfully obvious that it's you who's getting worked up with this. I don't give a shit, I'll let people verify it or not before drawing any conclusions. You, on the other hand, are neck deep in it. Because you WANT to believe, desperately.
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Again, the burden of proof is on the accuser. It's not guilty until proven innocent - the so-called "evidence" needs to be verified independently, and it hasn't so far. So I don't have to prove or defend anything. But you're really committed to this, it's cute must be mourning the demise of the "unmasking" scandal...
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It wouldn't be a first. So you're an expert journalist/IT expert now? Tell us more about email forensics and how it was verified to be true from multiple verified sources edit: that Facebook and Twitter's independent fact checkers couldn't verify, that the campaign denied, but to you is overwhelming
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But but but...it's the NEW biggest political scandal in HISTORY! After this previous biggest scandal in history: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=933124643889385
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Right wing repeater is right on time Were your posts kicked off Facebook or Twitter? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/facebook-twitter-biden-trump-election-2020-b1041272.html
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They survived, but for at least one case the second infection was more severe than the first: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30764-7/fulltext
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Well, that was before I did my calculations. I told you, math is not intuitive. My intuition is like yours so I said that at the time. But when I actually did calculations a few days ago it turned out that number was pretty small. I didn't believe it at first (and thought my logarithms were getting rusty) so I checked it several times. Anyway - for my original assertion that you fell for Trump's BS, since I don't really have time to search your post history I'll concede and retract that statement. I must have mistaken you for Turtlespeed as you usually take his side. Now he's one to fall for pretty much everything.
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Yes, I'm actually saying that. After the cat was out of the bag with the virus entering through the useless travel bans, it made practically zero difference. What made the difference afterwards was the lockdowns. Contact tracing is also possible in the earliest stages, but after about 2 weeks it will be overwhelmed if growth is unchecked. That number would be around 6,000 people with my very best case scenario estimate (2.7%). More likely it's only a few hundred difference, and you already get that many dying in a single day. It's not intuitive, I know. It's hard to believe. But maths is not always intuitive. Even the Monty Hall problem still gets me. What ScottishJohn said. Within the EU the countries arrange to have an exchange system to cover costs, the cost to the end user citizen will vary but is minimal.
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You really don't get exponential growth then, I'll try to simplify further. Since it's so contagious, the outcome between letting one infected person in and 1000 infected people in (when you don't do any further controls like how Trump did) is almost indistinguishable. If he didn't do any travel bans at all, it would still be around 220,000 today. If the travel bans only let 1/1000th of the infected in then at worst it would have been 226,000 - a 2.7% difference in an unrealistically BEST CASE scenario. The real difference is probably way lower than 0.5%. That's pretty much the definition of completely useless. It's like using a sheet of paper to protect yourself against a .45 gunshot at close range. It will barely slow it down and you'll end up just as dead as with nothing at all.
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You're saying...you'd support something regardless of whether it's completely useless. Have you actually thought this through? I see you're still not familiar with the term "exponential growth". How about the term "going viral"? It is a virus after all. In the case of exponential growth, late is almost indistinguishable from never.
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This is spot on. There will always be majorities and minorities. The EC only converts a "tyranny of the majority" into "tyranny of the minority" but it's a problem that should really be solved by other methods - for example, homosexuality is a minority and is protected by law from discriminatory bakers for example (which right wingers still complain regularly about here).
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Nice deflection. That's the entire point, they weren't real measures to stop covid - Trump was just full of BS doing fake measures to stop covid. That's what we saw, and that's what you fell for, hook, line and sinker. And it's just one example - I could probably find another one regarding Trump's hyperbolic BS about crime-infested democrat run states. Maybe you believe that Portland is in complete anarchy and control of the antifa? Haven't spent time to look, but it's pretty common. I read something from the right-wing news one day, the next day I hear it almost verbatim from my "independent thinker" acquaintance at work. It's so predictable. Not you, but it's really common on your side. Even Turtle keeps saying he's centrist but he's pretty much a Fox news repeater here. You can predict his talking points by watching Fox (ugh) the previous evening. Brains on rails. Ron says it best - "where we go one we go all." Exactly what sheep do.
