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Started by ebuc

Coal - petroleum > released to atmosphere >AI...' An unprecedented early-season collapse and disruption of the Arctic polar vortex is unfolding in November 2026, marking the earliest sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) event ever recorded. [1, 2] '....' Record Timing: The stratospheric polar vo

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Started by ebuc

Wales remember the collapse of mountain of coal waste on local school in 1966. I remember seeing the movie about that before I new anything about it.AI... ' 1. The Crown (Season 3, Episode 3: "Aberfan")The most famous international dramatization of the event is an episode of the hit Netflix series

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Started by ebuc

Just saw on news that N. Korea responsible not only for bitcone Binance Theft, as well as years of hacking thefts.AI..' Key Facts and AttributionsState-Sponsored Operation: The U.S. government has linked North Korea's primary intelligence agency, the Reconnaissance General Bureau, to state-backed ha

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Started by Misterio

Everybody is talking about it.Plane Crash VideoYou can feel the terror in the communication between the pilot and the control tower.While it was a quick death, the moments before the crash must have been horrifying.RIP all the crew.

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Started by Sidewalker

The midterms are only a Zacharia away, and it is expected that there will be greater participation than ever before. In order to support the expected high volume of voters with strained resources, they have decided to spread the vote over a two-day period. It has been determined that Democrats wil

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Started by ebuc

The news said that China paid more than their fair share for construction. I dunno.Im all for a more sustain-ably connected world trade, over a world of war, destruction and death, when unnecessary.Iran war was has been unnecessary from day one. So much for peace on Earth goodwill toward all men an

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Started by Sidewalker

Broken by a HUGE margin too.Anthony Scaramucci's record was eleven days, that was a tremendous achievement, but Katie Zacharia has demolished the record by a full 6 days, she is out after only 5 days.Trump thought blonde, beautiful, the ability to lie, and able to suck a hard-boiled egg through a ga

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Started by Sidewalker

Where we can watch a firing squad execution, but we can't watch Stephen Colbert.Will you watch the execution? Why or why not?

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Started by Savant

I was thinking about how AI CEOs pushing for an AI slowdown is making people oppose it and say it's all a marketing scheme. Which makes me think that cigarette companies could have just said something like "cigarettes are dangerous and need to be banned," and suddenly everyone would support cigarett

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Started by Sidewalker

Trump has banned CNN, Politico and MS NOW from White House, secret service has confiscating or deactivating their press passes, reporters from these three news outlets are barred from entry to the White House. Trump said it's because their reporting is unfair, inaccurate, and "purposely negative" ab

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Started by fauxlaw

By my personal perspective, being a Boomer, the “existential crisis” we faced in the 50s was the end of access to petroleum by the 70s. Following shortly thereafter, still within the half-century mark, came our crisis of over-population. Within that 70s decade began a meme that has changed its monik

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Started by Savant

Much of my argument is based on Eliezer Yudkowsky's essay here, Paul Cristiano's essay here, and information elsewhere on LessWrong. Also, ironically, on asking Gemini AI to help make sense of their arguments. A lot of these essays were a bit confusing to me when I first read them, so I'll put my ar

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Started by fauxlaw

Bud Lite and Nike valuation now, compared to even just two years ago, is evidence that woke [either 1 or 2] is DOA.Both decided to premier woke values as advertsing camapaigns and have discovered, to their chagrin, that woke is not a money-maker. Conservatives buy beer and running shoesd in big numb

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Started by fauxlaw

On this day of the 25th anniversary of 9/11, I specifically remember that morning waking up from a dream of my father, who died the previous year in the week of Thanksgiving. My dream had him walking down a curved staircase we never had in any home I've ever lived, He stopped mid-way down and said t

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Started by Sidewalker

He has a mandate; he is the best man for the job.Go free speech!Remy, Remy, Remy.

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Started by fauxlaw

Democrats may have inadvertently handed Republicans an argument they [the Democrats] hardly needed at this juncture in their evolution. Democrats have owned the "murder by gun" argument as a justification since raising their 2A ban effort since almost forever, politically and socially. Now, mostly

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Started by fauxlaw

https://www.debatecraft.com/debates/d/bn/resolved-the-justices-of-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states-ought-to-be-term-limited#round-1This debate apparently ended with no votes. This may be one reason why: since 1900 [that's 126 years], 85% of Supreme Court Justices have retired, or otherwise lef

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A new cancer is upon us while SloJo, in his 2020 election campaign, promised to eliminate cancer, just as he promised to eliminate fossil fuels.Well, fossil fuel is alive and well [contrary to "green energy," it is organic, after all], while Joe's cancer condition [both personally and by eradication

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Started by fauxlaw

There are several disassociated current events to which social media is drawn by rabid attention: The Democrat sprint to socialism in their various House, Senate, and other elections coming up this Fall. The recently concluded Luigi Mangioni murder trial. The ongoing trial of Lindsay Clancy, accused

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Started by Misterio

Around 2010 somebody in youtube released a film supposedly of some gray aliens being examined by some agents of the Soviet Union, allegedly from the KGB.Now, this same youtuber has realeased an extended version of that film. The video shows more scenes of the gray aliens and also an alien craft flyi

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Started by fauxlaw

So, Mamdami decided to extend his communism to Staten Island. It is, after all, one of the five boroughs of NYC, but a politically conservative place. He lasted a minute before being booed from the stage. He'll likely avoid the 60% R-voter Southland of NYC for the remainder of his term. Bye-bye, ma'

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Started by ebuc

...' ‘DOGE’ slashed staff and services at Social Security—and took your personal data. They cut cancer treatments for kids and attacked veterans’ care. They may say they’re gone, but they’re still embedded in our agencies—and we’re still demanding answers and accountability. '..https://x.com/RepJohn

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Started by Sidewalker

The real reason Trump went to war, so Don Jr, and Eric can make a killing in the Prediction Market.

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Started by fauxlaw

Some of you have mentioned that you think the economy of the US is sinking, tanking, and otherwise in decline. As if it were better under SloJo. By the way, higher employment, stock market, 401K,. Gold and silver and most other commodity investment, etc, now than then. Sorry for you, guys. I don't s

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Mayor of NYC Mandami took his seat at the little-boy-desk, emulating Joe Biden in his dark basement, but in Mando's case, it was a mimic of the Oval, complete with a string of people standing beside the little-boy desk. It looked like Trump. Under the circumstances, that is hillarious.Mandami offere

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Started by SatanLucy

My hands are better than hands of a girl.Its because I care for my hands and I achieved this with my ultra alpha male intelligence.So yeah, show me a girl with better hands than I have. Hint: You cant.Its because I am an alpha male and that means I am also best at being a girl.My biggest fear is get

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