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I can't access your tass.com link to see the claims. Ukraine is not getting ballistic missiles, aircraft, battle tanks, or air defense systems. They have received portable anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons, drones, ammunition, light armored vehicles, and other gear, as well as military...

The Virality Project (2022). Memes, Magnets and Microchips: Narrative dynamics around COVID-19 vaccines. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/mx395xj8490 The global COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent vaccine rollout created unprecedented challenges in the online...

(Albert) Barrie Pittock worked at the Aspendale laboratory, CSIRO Marine And Atmospheric Research from 1965 until officially retiring on 1999. Since then he worked as a CSIRO honorary Fellow until 2017. Barrie did research in Meteorology, Geochemistry and Climatic change and impacts, and has...

judging by automated subtitles on youtube, speech-to-text isn't exactly perfect yet. best to only listen to podcasts that offer written transcripts...

Missile strikes on air bases and airports, and what looks like a separatist offensive. I've seen reports of the Russian fleet landing in Ukraine, but I don't trust them yet.

Language like this typically means that the sample sizes are not large enough (yet) to make statements with confidence. Statements based on that would likely need to be corrected later, a process that the public tends to hold against the CDC.

as long as you realize it's humor (obvious once you notice the missing party affiliation) "Alex Walker" is not an actual candidate.

It's almost as if all the "kooky" faiths got kicked out of Europe at some point in history... :p The spiritual truths could only be talked about allegorically before psychology was invented; that doesn't make them any less true. (And parts of psychology are still largely allegorical.)

yeah, that's exactly what Leifer said: disinformation begets misinformation as people who believe it repeat it. But Hany Farid doesn't care about misinformation, nobody does, the full transcript has it 6 times and disinfo 41 times. Farid's main point is that social media intentionally amplify...

that just shows where the UFO is suppised to be, and where the kite festival is

Do we know the observer position?

The bible isn't meant to be a science book. The first, orally transmitted part, contains answers to existential questions that people over generations have deemed important enough to pass on, and that have supported a culture over thousands of years that still exists.

President Biden announced what he called the "first tranche" in a series of stiff sanctions to punish Russia for invading Ukraine, targeting two Russian banks and the country's sovereign debt. https://liveuamap.com/ doesn't have news of Russian troops in Donbass yet.

Woolery already argued the point that Farid's definition of "misinformation" is not well chosen. I don't completely agree with that take, but at least he's addressing something Farid actually said, because he does define it that way (see the red bold in post #17). You're saying that...

Yes. But can you tell from the observations whether the aliens were friendly or not? I can't. They might be friendly because of a complete lack of stealth, and because they appeared in an area already surveilled by a spotter aircraft. They might be hostile because of the explosions, the...

5 key questions that could determine the shape of Russia's invasion 1. Will Putin's "peacekeeping force" deploy only to the territory already controlled by the separatists, or attempt to secure the much larger areas in Ukraine claimed by the two "republics"? Either scenario could spark a...

Humans are notoriously bad at estimating even medium distances without cues such as object size or observer motion. Stereoscopic vision works most effectively for distances up to 18 feet. Beyond this distance, your brain starts using relative size and motion to determine depth. If an...

In Arslan’s pictures, the mystifying object is observed putting immobile over the town’s rich DHA 1 district. Google maps supports this, DHA 1 is fairly close to Rwalpindi, and the perceived location could easily be off by a few km, depending on the observation angle, if the distance is...

You can tell from this alone that it's not a flying saucer. Islamabad is a city, with thousands of people closer to the UFO than this observer, yet we have no reports from anyone close enough to get a good look at it during the 2 hours it was up. The obvious explanation is that, from a distance...