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:snippity: So much for eyewitness testimony. Or crack investigative work. There are too many cops who think a crime is solved if they manage to arrest and preferably convict someone, while forgetting that it's the actual perpetrator they should find and deal with. While it should never happen, it's...

It's not really about the eblidense in these arguments, is it? The birther or conspiracy theorist standpoint is that their wacko conjectures must be disproved to their satisfaction . Not disproved according to rational criteria, not according to expert consensus, not according to reality even, but d...

Yeah, the Rooskies and the country that had the swastika during WW2 were such good buds back then. From 1939 to 1941 they were… Partition of Poland The Baltic States USSR war supplies to Germany Etc Just dictators carving up the world till one turns on the other Call me cynical (optional) but I fel...

:fingerwag: Y'all aren't taking this seriously with your jests. Rondeau's legal experts, along with Mike Zullo's crack investigators, are poised to prevent Barack Obama from ever becoming president. All they need to complete their project is a working time machine (a small Tardis will suffice) and a...

Perhaps you folk overestimate how important news is to many people? As children we don't follow events outside our family and closer friends and life goes on. That didn't need to change when one grows older, goes to college, gets a job: as long as the job brings in some money and the stores have clo...

Thine cabbage shalt not wilt ;) :biggrin: :fingerwag: AAAAAGGHHHH!!! I'm surrounded by illiterates! :fingerwag: :biggrin: Thy , not thine ! "Thy" and "thine" behave like "a" and "an" still do: the extra "-n" is inserted if the following word has an ...

Also on F&F, the always vile Pete Hegseth pronounced the judge's name as merkahn, hard emphasis on the K. You would think a producer would be in his earpiece correcting him and apologize, but no... Ignorance is often excusable, but that is just racist lib-baiting. Given the amount of Spanish sp...

That's sad, although Dennett lived into his 80s, so not exactly cut short. I'm no great fan of philosophers, but Daniel Dennett, like John Searle, recognized that philosophers quibbling about definitions of abstract concepts was not the sort of activity that would endear them to the grittier folk in...

Idiot question from more peaceful shores: I get shotguns and rifles* for hunting, and I get handguns for (imagined) personal protection, but why are people buying these expensive assault** weapons? I don't ask that facetiously, I'm genuinely curious about their motivations, and what they actually do...

Yeah, we don't skip. We have dumpsters. Gracias jefe. I've seen enough dumpsters in movies to be aware of their integral nature to so many plots (live or dead people or McGuffin objects hidden, falen into, lost or found in or behind them), but I think the term is technically proprietary, isn't it? ...

I too was curious about the Neville Chamberlain comparison, and felt that was unfair on him. I do not recall any historian treating Chamberlain as a liar, a traitor or a fool. MTG is all of those. My recollection of historians' attitude was more of Chamberlain being gullible or naively optimistic in...

Dave from down under wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 5:07 am It would be irresponsible not to speculate that she bribed the investigators to throw the case against her..

No. That would imply a degree of competence in planning and executing a winning strategy. Not plausible!

That looks embarrassing for the Bar people!

When the professional body cannot correctly construct a submission to a court, even at the second attempt, the Bar people surely need to hand their heads in shame, crawl away, and practice their burger flipping technique for their next employment.

There was a stream of jokes in Europe in the 1980s about Škoda and Lada cars. I liked this simple one: What do you call a Škoda with a sun roof? … … A skip. Maybe similar Psycho Cybertruck jokes are already in play? :think: Out of an abundance of caution, for the linguistically confused, :shrug: a l...

Oh my, technology has moved on! So realistic! Does MyPillow also supply MyPumps for inflation?

Hankey the Christmas Pooh inspired one of my favorite mnemonics for Calculus. If you sub x=hi and y=ho into the equation for d(x/y), the solution is (ho d(hi) - hi d(ho))/(ho ho) Doesn't that come into the category of memory aids that are more difficult to remember than what they represent? F'rinst...

Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:57 am I luvs a tease!

straighten your petticoats, put on a nice bonnet, tie it with a taffeta ribbon, and go for a brisk walk!

Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:11 pm
But with all love and affection, truly.

Really? I suspect you envy some jerk*'s dexterity as he nimbly plucks Sharon's harp strings then slinks back into the shadows as onlookers gasp with mixed despair and delight. What a tease!

This discussion is fun! I feel like a lay onlooker at The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (by Rembrandt): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Rembrandt_-_The_Anatomy_Lesson_of_Dr_Nicolaes_Tulp.jpg/1280px-Rembrandt_-_The_Anatomy_Lesson_of_Dr_Nicolaes_Tulp.jpg I wonder if Jud...

Shizzle Popped wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 3:51 pm Top Investor Sounds the Alarm on Trump Media Stock

Compare it to other social media platforms and their value per MAU and it’s “not hard to imagine shares being worth well below $1.”

Damn typos! Surely the author mistyped $ for ¢?

Definitely better-looking than the cybertruck. That thing...yikes. :roll: :think: How important is the pick-up truck and similar market outside North America? It's certainly not a big sector in Europe outside the actual practical use by tradesmen, farmers, etc. Too big and expensive to run on small...

So. I’m trapped in no-man’s-land. I’m in the Delhi airport. I can’t leave the airport because I don’t have a visa. I can’t enter the main terminal because I don’t have a boarding pass. I can’t get a boarding pass until the United ticket agent shows up at five pm! It’s now 10:13 am, and I’ve been he...

Terri Kanefield has posted her take on the coming trial: https://terikanefield.com/sex-lies-and-falsified-documents/ Kanefield is a sober and reliable commentator on criminal law issues, as well as litigation generally. As usual, she's not nearly as sanguine as the members of what she calls the &qu...

bob, I love you, :lovestruck: I love your expertise, :lovestruck: I love your generosity in sharing that expertise, :lovestruck: but sometimes :( I wish that expertise wasn't continually deployed in delivering disappointment, dashing hopes, squashing fallacies and dismantling faulty reasoning! But b...

Wouldn't an equitable and practical solution be to suggest that the insurance company put appropriate funds into the court's escrow account? If the company does that, fine. If not, either unwilling or unable, then they were acting in bad faith. I appreciate that that is effectively skipping the whol...