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Debunking Mark Zuckerberg has only neutral feelings toward Peppa Pig, who he understands is a fictional character, and he blames the coronavirus pandemic on other factors. Source: https://xkcd.com/2551

A genuine video still isn't guaranteed to show a genuine UFO.

From the same article, we find yet another definition of safe: Interim results on the 32,000-person trial showed the vaccine met Food and Drug Administration guidelines for safety and effectiveness. "safe" := "meets FDA safety guidelines". The FDA never approved it, and I don't know why. But...

At 46, and after many millions of words, I'm just now realising: I need to trim down my comma use, substantially. I'm not 100% certain that the last comma I put in there is grammatical, but it feels like it is?

When "safe" means "quite healthier than not getting vaccinated", then that didn't change. My contention is that they said "it's the tallest building" (and then 300 or 296 ft don't matter), while you claim they said "300 ft tall" (and then 296 does matter). So it comes down to what they actually...

Apropos butchering: In my opinion, AZ never said that "it [the vaccine] doesn't cause serious adverse effects". What they said is that they hadn't found any serious adverse effects. That was my intended meaning, directly referencing the quote I had included. In your recent reply, you edited...

Its scandalous history notwithstanding, Thalidomide is a drug you can currently use. "It was approved for use as a treatment for cancer in the United States in 1998. It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines. It is available as a generic medication." (Wikipedia) Is it...

2016, Mitsubishi cooperating with Hirotsugu Yamamoto, 'aerial display' technology combining "Pepper's ghost" (see above) with a holograph-like display. I didn't find more recent releases, so they may not have developed this further. The two key components for the new technology are a beam...

See https://www.metabunk.org/threads/plasma-laser-hologram-as-a-possible-ufo-sighting-explanation.11527/

Rory's definition of "safe" is pretty radical, though I expect it is shared by many. However, if we're evaluating what AZ means when they say that their vaccine is safe, we ought to use their definition (unless it is uncommon and misleading). And that probably means not taking "safe" as an...

Yes. In my opinion, AZ never said that; what they said is that they hadn't found any.

Resolving objects that are 6 miles/10 km away is difficult. 20 miles/30 km even more so. A fighter might be 5m high at best. And then we're not talking about the human eye, we have a low resolution smartphone video.

April 8, 2020, WHO press briefing: "The focus of all political parties should be to save their people," Tedros said. He added that politicizing the virus only exploits differences at the national level. "If you want to be exploited and if you want to have many more body bags, then you...

The meaning of an answer depends on the question. "NASA is looking for life on Mars" is a good answer to "who is looking for life on Mars" and a bad answer to "what is NASA doing on Mars". ;)

Lion Air 2725 crossed the South China Sea, but the last flight was in 2018, at night. (With some Asian speakers, L and R sound similar. ATC sounds Asian to me.) https://flightaware.com/live/flight/LNI2725

"Flight deck" is what airline pilots call their cockpit, so that fits the title of the video and of this thread.

That doesn't change what they actually said. "We found no evidence of Bigfoot" is different from "there is no Bigfoot".

Someone might be passing between the lights and the window.

No circuit breakers were tripping. You can imagine an electric generator like a brake: the more electrical power you draw from it, the stronger it brakes. The electric grid in the US is supposed to run at 60 cycles per second, which you can imagine as a genedator shaft rotating at 60 turns per...