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I'm with Tom Storm here - I hope you're right.
August 26, 2023 at 13:50
I wish I could be that optimistic - and I hope you're right. As it is, the last two presidential elections were decided by about 100K voters in swing ...
August 26, 2023 at 05:26
Sigh. I'll try one more time. The assumption is that the amount of biogenic methane remains constant. If biogenic methane stays constant over the next...
August 26, 2023 at 05:18
In pre-industrial times methane was at roughly 722 parts per billion (ppb). Methane is currently at 1900 ppb. This increase is due to human activity. ...
August 25, 2023 at 01:22
This is silly. Even if I had the time & energy (which I don't) I'm not going to take the bait and engage in this type of discussion. You asked a quest...
August 24, 2023 at 17:26
Thanks.
August 24, 2023 at 16:59
In 2019, global methane concentrations rose from 722 parts per billion (ppb) in pre-industrial times to 1866 ppb: https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicato...
August 24, 2023 at 16:37
It can be confusing trying to make sense of Agree's multiple claims & evasions. I have been narrow focusing on two of his (I assume that's his preferr...
August 23, 2023 at 20:36
You keep repeating yourself by quoting the same source (which I have already read) and ignoring my questions/responses. Two key questions that you nee...
August 23, 2023 at 15:33
Right - it will continue to contribute 14% of the global warning - which accumulates. To make the math simple, let's say that the current amount of me...
August 23, 2023 at 01:32
So first of all you should be aware that the Clear Center at UC Davis, receives almost all its funding from industry donations and coordinates with a ...
August 22, 2023 at 21:53
It is a zero sum game with respect to the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. But the methane from 1.5 billion cattle that hangs around for 12 years in t...
August 22, 2023 at 09:43
Firstly I should have looked a bit more closely at the source of these articles. While they are by University of CA, from what I can gather these stud...
August 21, 2023 at 21:55
In a previous post, @"Agree to Disagree" linked to an article from the University of California that supposedly showed that cattle farming is net-zero...
August 21, 2023 at 03:21
It appears that you have misinterpreted this source. The full impact of this article is that reducing methane is the best way to reduce global warming...
August 20, 2023 at 15:40
There are so many cows emitting atoms of carbon that there are not enough plants on the planet to consume those additional atoms of carbon.
August 19, 2023 at 16:59
You may be thinking about this episode of Twilight Zone
August 12, 2023 at 14:39
Of course - that's what I'm trying (in my own way) to get NOS to understand
August 09, 2023 at 15:29
Ah - I didn't pick that up
August 09, 2023 at 01:18
He was joking https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/828383
August 09, 2023 at 01:16
??? is this a mis-type? Or maybe I'm not following you. You're not seriously suggesting that someone could commit murder but unless they confess then ...
August 08, 2023 at 17:44
So if Pence testifies in court that Trump said to him “You’re too honest” - and assume for the moment that Trump does not testify - would that suffice...
August 08, 2023 at 14:35
Still hoping for a response on this: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/826970
August 07, 2023 at 18:09
I know that you're juggling a lot of different threads here, so it's understandable - but we appear to have lost track of our particular conversation....
August 04, 2023 at 19:44
Not quite following you here. Are you saying that the only thing to convince you would be if Trump himself acknowledged it he did so corruptly? Or wou...
August 04, 2023 at 18:36
Based on the evidence available to the public so far seems quite clear that Trump is guilty - but he is allowed his day in court - and if he can prese...
August 04, 2023 at 16:05
The Hawaii situation happened due to ineptitude (or incompetence or inexperience - take your pick) on the part of the Hawaiian electoral commission - ...
August 04, 2023 at 15:56
That is indeed the case - as the article NOS linked made clear: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/07/1960-electoral-college-certificates-false-tru...
August 04, 2023 at 13:39
Good article - well written & researched. I'm not an expert in these matters but as a lay person it seems that your article is making a pretty convinc...
August 04, 2023 at 00:50
You are half right. Contesting an election isn’t criminal and while technically not a crime in of itself, criminalizing political speech is unconstitu...
August 03, 2023 at 17:39
We may be mixing up speed & velocity. Speed is a scalar but velocity is a vector. In your example, both cars are traveling at a speed of 0.5v relative...
August 03, 2023 at 14:57
That will be trivially easy. The election was legit. His own people told him that - Pence, Barr, Wray, Krebs, etc, etc. They will testify as such in c...
August 03, 2023 at 01:03
Actually this is almost correct - at least from Trump's perspective. Of course things can and will likely change as events take place, but for the mom...
August 02, 2023 at 21:39
For the benefit of everyone in this discussion, here is the actual document in question. What I find fascinating about this document is that (for all ...
July 24, 2023 at 15:53
This one is pretty "clutter free" - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/07/five-ways-ai-might-destroy-the-world-everyone-on-earth-could-fa...
July 11, 2023 at 20:10
I wish this were so, but the Democrats have a unique ability to undermine their own chances. If there are 19 ways to win an election and 1 way to lose...
July 01, 2023 at 13:53
Thank you so much for this piece of information. Up to now I was convinced that Trump was a horrible person and the worst president we ever had, but y...
June 27, 2023 at 19:35
:lol:
June 20, 2023 at 00:52
2 days without a post on the Ukraine thread. What a relief. I like to keep up with the different viewpoints, but after a while it's wa-a-a-y too repet...
June 19, 2023 at 20:46
I asked the same question again and got no response. He (she?) has been studiously avoiding this whole topic. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt ...
June 16, 2023 at 16:39
So if I'm following you correctly, Trump (if he so choose to do so) could have 1) As Commander in Chief obtained the blueprints for building an H-Bomb...
June 15, 2023 at 14:29
So if I'm following you correctly, Trump (if he so choose to do so) could have 1) Rquested the blueprints for building an H-Bomb (or the nuclear codes...
June 14, 2023 at 02:09
Either Pence is lying or he is deeply ignorant of the law. OK maybe he misspoke in the heat of the moment. But either way Pence did not break any laws...
June 09, 2023 at 19:43
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I like xkcd's take on this: https://xkcd.com/718/
June 08, 2023 at 17:56
I personally know 3 trans people. 2 were born male, one was born female. Of the two who were born male, one has done full upper & lower surgery, the o...
May 09, 2023 at 18:12
As a plain language person I can't get past the word "greater". To my way of thinking, "greatness" implies some mechanism to measure some observable o...
May 04, 2023 at 16:53
Here is from a recent interview with Chomsky: "It was observed long ago that the U.S. is basically a one-party state: the business party, with two fac...
April 25, 2023 at 01:20
Not sure what country you're at, but here in US the Ukraine is for the most part a side show - it simply does not have any direct impact on people's l...
April 18, 2023 at 19:43
A naive (and very sketchy) outline for peace plan 1) Ceasefire 2) Russian military leaves all contested territories - to be replaced by UN Supervised ...
April 17, 2023 at 02:30
Bishop Whalon says No
March 23, 2023 at 18:05