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  1. Mendel

    Calvine UFO Photo - Reflection In Water Hypothesis

    The negation does: something that could not happen did not happen. Therefore, it's important to demonstrate that it could, even if it's not decisive.
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    The Global Cross-Hair Enigma that looks like Hair Dryer Burns

    There is no way that such discrete, round patterns could be produced by radiation from a distant object. The upshot of this whole thing is that as he stepped back from viewing this thing, it was very hot and very bright. The thing tilted, started swinging around in a counter-clockwise...
  3. Mendel

    Need debunking: Bike lanes are dangerous

    Note that this intersection has traffic lights. To make any intersection safer for cyclists, do two things: 1. prohibit "right turn on red" 2. have pedestrians and cyclists green-lit a few seconds before the cars, so that they're already moving and in the road when the cars start. The small...
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    Need debunking: Bike lanes are dangerous

    I'm certain that this problem has been known much longer than 2012. I learned about it in the 90s. The first edition of Forester's book came out in 1984, according to goodreads. John Forester is an American industrial engineer and a noted cycling activist known as "the father of vehicular...
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    Need debunking: Bike lanes are dangerous

    yes, and that's how you make cycling thoroughly inattractive in an urban environment why should a cyclist have to stop every 100m (in a European city) when they have the right of way? where many turn-offs into side streets don't even have traffic lights? also, the cyclist has to look back over...
  6. Mendel

    Can White Swans exist?

    "don't tell me what to do!" this'll come across as patronizing
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    Can White Swans exist?

    Because Oakley just told them. The general tactic is to strawman some claim about the globe, the listener agrees, then that claim is disproven. The other side is never heard; or if it is, in NO's video talks, he usually shouts over them.
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    2022 US elections

    arguing from incredulity https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-twitter-keep-fact-checking-trump-voting-mail-he-s-n1241339 Sep. 29, 2020, 1:20 PM EDT By David Ingram When President Donald Trump's Facebook account Monday posted an evidence-free assertion that mail-in ballots "cannot...
  9. Mendel

    Russia and Ukraine Current Events

    Source: https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1592709029360717824
  10. Mendel

    Claim: BRT/Buses has better capacity than rail

    No, why? they're not a very common solution you can investigate the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel, though its bus passenger volume seems to have been around 28 to 37 thousand per day—what a busy NYC metro line can transport in an hour.
  11. Mendel

    2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac UFO FLIR footage (FLIR1)

    the biggest problem with the "zip-down" is that the objects tracked at 100 mph at jet stream height, and then they're supposed to suddenly zip down at supersonic speed. I highly doubt that a supersonic aircraft can stay airborne at or above 80,000 ft. at a speed as slow as 100 mph.
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    Flight Tracking

    Yes, but a) the reach of FLARM is limited due to its low power, and b) I don't believe the FR24 volunteer receivers pick it up. That's why FLARM coverage may be limited. I don't know the rules for London CTR, if that's where it is. Note also that FR24 suppresses tracks of certain aircraft...
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    2022 US elections

    yes. that's what I quoted: "The company has long had an exception to its fact-checking policy for politicians." Nobody claims this is a general change. But Trump was neither a candidate nor held an office in the past 2 years, so it's a change with respect to him. “We define a ‘politician’ as...
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    Claim: BRT/Buses has better capacity than rail

    I disagree. Compare: Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit
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    Claim: BRT/Buses has better capacity than rail

    that's 360 buses per hour 360 buses × 60 passengers per bus = 21,800 passengers per hour that's less than the actual peak volume of many NYC metro lines listed in the table in the OP, and certainly less than what passes through any NYC multi-line station at rush hour a single bus, as shown in...
  16. Mendel

    Russia and Ukraine Current Events

    according to the NYT, the explosion was right in the middle of your picture, far away from the power line shown on the map I posted earlier. Poland’s president and the secretary general of NATO said Wednesday that it appears that a Ukrainian air defense missile most likely unintentionally...
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    Flight Tracking

    No. But I don't think they're in controlled airspace. FLARM is independent and not meant to be picked up by ground stations, so I don't think FR24 would show it.FLARM (an acronym based on 'flight alarm') is the proprietary name for an electronic device which is in use as a means of alerting...
  18. Mendel

    2022 US elections

    Facebook’s fact-checkers will need to stop fact-checking former President Donald Trump following the announcement that he is running for president, according to a company memo obtained by CNN. While Trump is currently banned from Facebook, the fact-check ban applies to anything Trump says and...
  19. Mendel

    2022 US elections

    If one calculates the vote for each major party candidate for the office at the top of the ballot in 2022, one finds that Republicans would have got the most popular votes. But applying those same results to the electoral vote for each state, Democrats would have won the electoral vote 280 to...
  20. Mendel

    Russia and Ukraine Current Events

    The green line is the active Dobrotvirska connection, the blue line is the old, possibly to be reactivated, Khmelnytska-Rzeszów connection. The power line runs several km/miles distant from Przewodów.
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