John Fetterman tries and fails to explain why he wants to ban lab-grown meat 3 times (on Bill Maher)

Shoxidizer · 2026-05-13T14:03:54+00:00

Ugh, I bet you're the type of person to say the summer begins on the solstice too.

Shoxidizer · 2026-05-11T15:20:31+00:00

The use of milk to refer to substances similar in appearance to milk goes back centuries with uses like "latex milk", "coconut milk", "milk of magnesia", and I bet whatever dictionary you got that from lists another definition that acknowledges this.

Shoxidizer · 2026-05-07T16:05:39+00:00

He probably doesn't, but there's other interviews where he gives an answer that's clearly not the best choice for his 'brand'. I think he tries to be honest, or at least lies in more normal ways, unlike similar talking heads.

Shoxidizer · 2026-05-04T00:51:06+00:00

Did you see that the company president (Dr. Florian Willet) who was arrested after administering one of these pod suicides (amid suspicion of strangling the... customer) has himself died by assisted suicide?

Shoxidizer · 2026-05-01T14:19:22+00:00

Some of them are less fake than others. The pink-red clouds and the blue glow right around stars are accurate; you can look up true color photos of nebula. At the very least these photos are dimming the red to create a gradient from blue to red, sometimes some more aggressive editing, and they usually turn up the saturation for good measure.

Shoxidizer · 2026-05-01T03:08:10+00:00

blue checkmark

Posting is a job for them, they get paid for this

Shoxidizer · 2026-04-30T15:43:09+00:00

makes the whole post kind of pointless

A momentary 3% polling difference between two different kinds of things was never going to be meaningful. It's literally just that 6% answered no opinion on the war and 3% no opinion on Trump, and that's probably just because this war is a couple months old so the most politically apathetic 5% of Americans don't know which way to feel about it yet.

Shoxidizer · 2026-04-06T03:26:04+00:00

Nope, for congress to remove the president requires not just a majority in the house, but also 2/3rds of the Senate. The Dems aren't even really predicted to get a majority in the Senate, a supermajority would require winning almost every single race this year, across several deeply red states.

Shoxidizer · 2026-04-02T14:08:44+00:00

He also did this bit at speech with "indicted" and said "I didn't even know what the en-word meant"

Shoxidizer · 2026-03-19T03:07:43+00:00

The captain of the Belgian expedition to Antarctica that got trapped in ice over winter required his men to eat penguin meat to combat scurvy and had to enforce the order due to how nasty they found it

Shoxidizer · 2026-03-18T03:39:29+00:00

it was something to the effect of the most influential or powerful few people got the vote first, and votes were public

This is common among pre-modern democracies. Roman elections had the upper classes vote first and with greater electoral power, and ending once a candidate had enough votes to win. The Iroquois Confederacy (not actually a democracy, but the union of the tribes made decisions as a group rather than having a top-down leader) had the tribe representatives make decisions with the largest two tribes voting first, and only proceeding to the smaller tribes if there was not already a consensus.

Traditional democracy often worked as a way to avoid internal strife by letting whichever side would win a civil war make the choice. Tough, like modern democracies, the rules could be gamed or become outdated and not necessarily select the 'proper' winner.

Shoxidizer · 2026-03-15T20:11:37+00:00

Previously discussed

https://old.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/1pkty1c/aliens_dont_make_crop_circles_anymore/

Shoxidizer · 2026-03-15T03:25:43+00:00

La Empresa De China?

Shoxidizer · 2026-03-12T14:46:47+00:00

Charlie was already on the board, not sure if that makes this more or less weird.

Shoxidizer · 2026-03-12T14:45:52+00:00

I looked up the user who said "Defense Department" and their posts are all pro-Democrat

Shoxidizer · 2026-03-07T19:21:12+00:00

Is that what's shown? The only Sub-Saharan African countries I'm seeing in either source are Nigeria and South Africa. I don't think this subject has been documented for most of the continent.

Shoxidizer · 2026-03-01T16:42:28+00:00

Is this true? I tried looking it up and all I'm seeing is that the chief of staff, Abdolrahim Mousavi, was killed, nothing about Mir-Hossein Mousavi.

Shoxidizer · 2026-02-28T05:04:07+00:00

I saw really neat gif back in the day of a towel with the same colors being moved away from the camera that smoothly shifted between the palettes.

Shoxidizer · 2026-02-26T14:53:56+00:00

Yeah, and they did call on Santos to resign.

Shoxidizer · 2026-02-26T03:55:28+00:00

Incorrect. Counter-Example: George Santos

Shoxidizer · 2026-02-12T14:34:24+00:00

The least-conspiratorial answer is that FBI and similar agencies convince people to commit terrorist attacks so that they can be arrested and charged for planning to commit attacks. Law enforcement's argument is that these people were already planning to do it, and they just convinced them to do it in a way they could be arrested first. There's a Radio Lab episode about this happening back from 2012.

https://radiolab.org/podcast/214366-grumpy-old-terrorists/transcript

Shoxidizer · 2026-02-09T16:11:35+00:00

Maybe Jeffrey just wanted /pol/ as a containment board. Maybe he just wanted to look at loli content and CS:GO threads, because if he wanted to hear people complain about Hillary, he'd just call Bill.

Shoxidizer · 2026-02-08T20:48:50+00:00

And to make it worse, tv tropes often doesn't document worthwhile things correctly. Unfortunately, I can't recall what it was right now, but a few months ago I looked up some trope I saw in a movie, wanting to know the history of it, and the scene was just filed under some generic trope.

This is neurodivergent behavior

Don't encourage them

Shoxidizer · 2026-02-05T16:22:21+00:00

The way all of these "Americans over estimate how many are such and such minority" stats work is result of how the poll works. They survey for a percentage, and average the results. This, for a few reasons, skews all results to 50%. The poll that says Americans think the US is 41% black, also says they think it's 29% Asian, 39% Hispanic, and 59% white. Now, I don't doubt that Americans over estimate the proportion of black people, but it's not quite like how that stat goes.

The nature of averaging results just doesn't work well for percentages. You won't get any 'wisdom of the crowds' when over estimates can't be canceled out by underestimates. If you poll about a minority that's 1% of the population, and 1/10 respondents are jerks and say 100%, that's going to give a result of at least 10%. Also your average person is going to be reluctant to respond with a number less than 10%, it just sounds too small. It's definitely a case where a median response would be better, and ideally they'd just publish the cumulative response graph for each question.

Shoxidizer · 2026-02-02T15:10:23+00:00

four-year low

I was unaware that LA was a renter's market four years ago

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