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His and Pence's ends on the 20th. In the House their terms all end on the 3rd. In the Senate 12 Democrats and 23 Republicans have their terms ending o...
July 30, 2020 at 16:01
What do you mean?
July 30, 2020 at 15:57
Does he even know that his term ends 20th Jan even if there's no election?
July 30, 2020 at 13:56
Donald Trump suggests delay to 2020 US presidential election https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1288818160389558273
July 30, 2020 at 13:34
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I wasn't talking about a solitary life. Friends, family, flings, etc. By "love" I assumed you were talking about romantic love which I'm not looking f...
July 30, 2020 at 11:01
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I'm not interested in love but I like living. There are more reasons than love to live.
July 30, 2020 at 08:45
I think this is taking it too far. If I ask someone what a durian is and they point to a durian I'm going to understand that a durian is a fruit, not ...
July 30, 2020 at 08:37
I can talk about a painting without knowing anything about the chemistry of paint or canvasses, but paintings are just paint on canvasses.
July 30, 2020 at 07:30
Re-Tweeted by Trump: https://twitter.com/WashTimesOpEd/status/1286285701940682753
July 29, 2020 at 17:55
How will rescinding a rule that requires "cities and towns that receive federal funding to examine local housing patterns for racial bias and design a...
July 29, 2020 at 17:45
I'm going to take a wild stab in the (not so) dark and assume that it's code word for being against same-sex marriage and same-sex parents.
July 29, 2020 at 13:06
So what's the solution? @"MadWorld1", how would a President like Trump (rather than like Biden) help prevent single parenthood? Require single women t...
July 29, 2020 at 12:55
I grew up at a boarding school (from 7 years old) and alternating between two different homes on the weekends and holidays (divorced parents) and I th...
July 29, 2020 at 12:03
Detaining someone is making them stay where they are (e.g. stopping them in the street). Forcing someone into a car and driving them somewhere else is...
July 25, 2020 at 14:19
The problem is that they're arresting people without identifying themselves or explaining the reason for the arrest. By Oregon law they need to do tha...
July 24, 2020 at 20:42
He's actually very hard to understand. He says he opposes mail-in ballots but uses them himself, and has his campaign promote them to his supporters. ...
July 24, 2020 at 19:26
I was just addressing the wording of the theorem: there are statements of the language of F which can neither be proved nor disproved in F. Why does i...
July 24, 2020 at 19:16
Here's some citations. https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/133.005 https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/131.605 https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/131.615
July 24, 2020 at 14:49
https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/133.245 The alleged manner in which they are arresting protestors is illegal under Oregon law. They're not identifying ...
July 24, 2020 at 14:06
Because he wanted to show it to be true. He wanted to convince us of it and not just ask us to accept it on faith.
July 24, 2020 at 10:50
That's what we are doing. The outrage is against domestic politicians who let it happen, or even allegedly are willingly involved. The UK report made ...
July 23, 2020 at 07:52
Would you prefer it if I'd said "provable" contradiction? My point was only that I don't think we need a concept of truth to have as an axiom ¬(p ? ¬p...
July 22, 2020 at 16:42
I don't think it does. It just requires the axiom of non-contradiction, which some systems like dialetheism do away with (allowing "true" contradictio...
July 22, 2020 at 16:17
As another example, how about "there is a number greater than zero and smaller than every real number". Is it true or false? Does it even make sense t...
July 22, 2020 at 15:20
I think I'd do it on practical grounds. If the rules allow me to derive both 2 and 3 from adding 1 to 1 then I don't know how I'd go about using it. I...
July 22, 2020 at 14:59
I'm not sure what you mean by this. If we're doing Peano arithmetic then 1 + 1 = 2, whatever any other formal system says. If we're using a formal sys...
July 22, 2020 at 14:49
On a practical point, there's obviously a difference between developing second order arithmetic which can prove the Paris–Harrington theorem and devel...
July 22, 2020 at 14:31
I understand what you mean, but is there an example of a statement that is true but isn't provable in any system? Surely it's impossible to know that ...
July 22, 2020 at 14:24
Doesn't Gödel's incompleteness theorem only state that there are sentences about F that are true but that can't be proved in F? That's not quite the s...
July 22, 2020 at 13:34
Trump says he wishes accused sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell well and has 'met her numerous times' He accuses whistleblowers who report on inappropri...
July 22, 2020 at 08:31
His name is Boris, so obviously.
July 22, 2020 at 07:51
Coronavirus: Oxford vaccine can train immune system Go Oxford.
July 20, 2020 at 13:49
‘It was like being preyed upon’: Portland protesters say federal officers in unmarked vans are detaining them It's not just the people engaged in "cau...
July 17, 2020 at 15:00
I've heard that there are now unidentified federal officers in unmarked cars arresting protestors.
July 17, 2020 at 14:30
Donald Trump Poses With Goya Products One Day After Ivanka Tweets Support Always be grifting.
July 16, 2020 at 12:30
I don’t even know what that would mean. A psychic imprint by Mother Earth telling us to have fewer children?
July 16, 2020 at 11:14
Actually in woke PC culture non-binary is a big thing. ;)
July 15, 2020 at 12:24
Is "spokesperson" rather than "spokesman" political correctness? Is "Happy Holidays" rather than "Merry Christmas" political correctness? Is "Japanese...
July 15, 2020 at 12:19
Fertility rate: 'Jaw-dropping' global crash in children being born
July 15, 2020 at 05:21
I'm not defending the Page FISA warrants. But their failings do not mean the entire Crossfire Hurricane investigation and subsequent Mueller investiga...
July 13, 2020 at 18:49
And it's the wrong judgement. The investigations were opened for legitimate reasons, the search warrants and prosecution of Stone were lawful, and no ...
July 13, 2020 at 18:21
It was used to spy on Page. I'm not aware of it being used to spy on anyone else. We were talking about Roger Stone, remember? You were claiming that ...
July 13, 2020 at 17:41
And as I pointed out, it wasn't the Steele dossier that lead to the investigation, as the investigation started before the FBI knew about it. It may b...
July 13, 2020 at 17:05
I wasn't talking about Page's FISA order, as that's not what you were talking about. We were talking about the Mueller investigation, and so I assume ...
July 13, 2020 at 16:52
I don't understand why that matters. The Clinton campaign paid Fusion GPS to find real dirt on Trump, not to write a fiction. The Steele dossier wasn'...
July 13, 2020 at 15:58
Baden doesn't speak for the rest of us. I want all your money.
July 12, 2020 at 13:19
Robert Mueller: Roger Stone remains a convicted felon, and rightly so
July 12, 2020 at 06:33
The prosecution proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Stone was guilty of witness tampering, obstructing an official proceeding, and five counts of ma...
July 11, 2020 at 22:07
Why? Do you like it when criminals are spared punishment for their crimes?
July 11, 2020 at 18:33
A few hours before the commutation: https://twitter.com/howardfineman/status/1281681337351626752 (Twitter embed isn't working for some reason). How Tr...
July 11, 2020 at 08:18