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my perception is that your notion of "genuinely human" and Metabunk's main subject of "claims of evidence" have only a small area of intersection so you're looking for the "hymn book at skating rink" thing, even though the skaters may be avid church-goers (p.s. if anyone knows why @Woolery is...

the word is fine from the Skeptical Inquirer: What is Skepticism? The word “skepticism” comes from the ancient Greek skepsis, meaning “inquiry.” Skepticism is, therefore, not a cynical rejection of new ideas, as the popular stereotype goes, but rather an attitude of both open mind and...

I quoted all those dictionaries and you're ignoring it :p there are TWO meanings (or three), not one

in popular US parlance: • a "socialist" wants to give money to the poor • a "conservative" wants to give money to the rich AOC is a "democratic socialist" (in actuality and in European parlance; German Chancellor Scholz is one, too, as is French president Macron and the British Labour party)...

I haven't asked that. I have asked to be aware that normally, "democracy" and "elected by popular vote" do not imply proportional representation, and the negations sit better with me when that distinction is made. An election does not fail to be "by popular vote" if its effects are not...

re: "the agent behind", Germany was made to change in 1918. The message asking for an armistice went out on 4 October, hopefully to be accepted by President of the United States Woodrow Wilson. In late October, Wilson's third note seemed to imply that negotiations of an armistice would be...

The German government’s goal of filling the gas storage facilities to 95 percent by November 1 is now in jeopardy, Business Insider reported on Monday. According to a Deutsche Bank report published by the news site, German households have to reduce gas consumption by at least 20 percent to get...

I'd say it is, it's popular but not proportional. I'm seeing "popular vote" used in this discussion as if it implied proportional representation (everyone's vote has the same weight), but it doesn't.

third suggestion, voiced by the analyst from the Austrian military academy, is that Ukraine has time on their side in Kherson, because with the bridges destroyed, the Russian units weaken over time. This was not true for Kharkiv, where Russia would've been able to send reinforcements. The speed...

@Rory "Republic" is the form of government of a state. When Germany switched over from being a monarchy to a republic, the state did not change, its form of government did. "popular vote" indicates the votes by the citizens. In the US presidential elections, the distinction is between the...

P.S.: so the question is, would Russia have thought in June/September 2021, "we're going to want to blow up this pipeline some day"? Why? Why would they think this was a precaution and not an additional risk? If they wanted to be able to stop Germany from receiving gas, all they had to do is...

I've seen the claim before and commented on it here: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/baltic-pipeline-discussion.12685/post-280769 I think what the guy means is that the Danish section was finished last, not necessarily that exact spot; I tried to find the exact location where the pipeline was...

This swayed me into explaining why I've decided to disengage from debating @LilWabbit . Since this is meta-discussion and doesn't concern pipeline explosions, I'll spoiler it so that those not interested in drama or epistemology can pass it by.

Yes. You can see the Southern Cross from Recife and from Perth. If you cannot see it from Gibraltar, which is halfway between Recife and Perth, what does that mean for the shape of the Earth? (It means that Recife and Perth must be closer together than the AE map suggests.) Sending radio...

30⁰N is halfway up the globe. 45⁰N is halfway to the pole.

Big advance in Kherson oblast in the past few days:

The Russian State Duma approved the Kremlin’s illegal accession treaties on October 3 and laid out the administrative timeline for integrating illegally annexed Ukrainian territory into the Russian Federation. The draft legislation backdated all requirements to September 30, the date Putin...

I don't follow. You seem to be shifting the "fact" from "no weapons in Iraq" to "discovery of no weapons" to make your point. Intel on "Russia invades Ukraine" would be pre-fact before Feb 24 and post-fact afterwards. This is a usage I understand. "Iraq has no WMD" was always a fact, what you...

Thank you.