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  1. olofscience
    So...Russia still occupies Izium, Lyman and Kherson? That chaotic retreat wasn't real?
  2. olofscience
    No need, he's just parroting russian propaganda. He even lags the Kremlin press releases a bit, so he really adds no value.
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    Because you're not the judge, or jury of this case. You only want to be.
  4. olofscience
    Burden of proof is on the accuser, innocent until proven guilty, that sort of thing. But as we've established here before, you're way too cowardly to ever make that step, so all you have are these snide implications-but-never-actually-saying-anything.
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    fixed
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    So I guess if someone tries to rape your wife, you'll just tell her to stop resisting to avoid needless injuries or death.
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    Go on then, show the footage of Ukrainians asking for negotiations. Oh and by the way, Ukraine retook Kherson just 2 days after your 30 day prediction.
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    I know our troll kept posting 'go woke, go broke' topics which had a pretty broad definition of 'woke', but here at least it's self-described. So apparently there was a bank that was founded to be anti-woke: ...and well, they went broke: https://www.wsj.com/articles/anti-woke-bank-glorifi-to-shut-down-11669051554
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    Man, brent really made a lot of posts about the midterms didn't he?
  10. olofscience
    It's now finally 30 days since this prediction, so let's check how it's going. Looks like Ukraine is about to score a major victory in Kherson. Russia is retreating from the only major city they've captured this year.
  11. olofscience
    Nobody's saying what you're supposed to believe. I'd just like to point out, that incompetence on the part of those monitoring him is a far simpler explanation than a detailed, planned shadowy assassination. Also, is losing sleep the only criterion for being desperate? I'd put mental gymnastics as a good indicator.
  12. olofscience
    Hmmm goes the sealion...do you actually have anything? Go on, make the accusation.
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    This is quite the irony, considering you're discarding a simple explanation (that it was just an attack of someone they didn't know) for a more detailed one, which you don't know what it is yet but are desperate to believe. You discarded the simple explanation (that Epstein killed himself) for a more detailed one (that a shadowy conspiracy assassinated him), so it's not a one-off. So either you're lying in the above, or you're just not self-aware. Or worse, you're lying to yourself.
  14. olofscience
    I think this is a trolling method called 'sealioning'. Definition at Merriam-Webster Being too cowardly to make actual accusations supported by evidence, but just continuously and repeatedly pointing out "something odd", or "just asking questions" to draw out a hostile response, then using that hostile response to continue supporting their original argument
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    But will people be happy that their local police dept. will now have to spend $8/month of their tax money to keep their verified status? Twitter made a loss of more than $300 million last year. Those verified accounts drive views, like ryoder's. Advertisers don't want them leaving twitter, and that's exactly what this fee will do. There are about 400,000 verified accounts there, so even if none of them left, it would only generate $38.4 million per year. Not really going to put a dent on a $300 million loss.
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    I've seen this somewhere else - the verified accounts are usually the ones putting the value in Twitter by bringing in the views which brings the ad revenue, which they currently do for free. ...and Musk's strategy is to make them pay for it. Twitch and Youtube, on the other hand, share their ad revenue with their creators, which is the opposite strategy. Let's see how it works out for him.
  17. olofscience
    Man, you must be terrible at poker. Go on, explain what varied in management practices from last year.
  18. olofscience
    I doubt it was gleeful, but I guess it's what you tell yourself.
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    I thought that something like recovering Arctic sea ice would be all in our favour, not just you. Right?
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    But how much of that 'signal' will be from actual facts and not from misinformation, like we've been seeing in this thread? Popularity is just that, popularity.
  21. olofscience
    I have limited time but sure: You're saying it's impossible, but you can use Bayes' Theorem to calculate the probability of dying if you're vaccinated and boosted, and if you're unvaccinated. The formula is P(A|B) = P(B|A)P(A)/P(B). There's no data that provides that info, not because it's not collected, but because you need to calculate it. Your focus on the percentage of people dying who are vaccinated and boosted shows that you really need to understand this section on the Bayes' theorem page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes'_theorem#Drug_testing So while accusing Biden of lying while not being able to process the data provided is quite expected of a conservative, what would surprise me is if you actually took the time to learn the principles I provided with the links above. As it is, I won't hold my breath.
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    Your entire post shows that you really need to take a course in statistics and probability...you're throwing around a lot of numbers without realising what they really mean.
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    Biodegradable too. (Although big chunks of PLA probably degrade too slowly to be considered biodegradable)
  24. olofscience
    Or catalytic cracking Actually no, you can pretty much make the entire range of materials from any hydrocarbon. Cracking to reduce hydrocarbon length, polymerisation to increase hydrocarbon length, then various other reactions for other structures (esters, alcohols, benzenes, etc) and then fractional distillation for purification. The only restriction is the energy needed to make a particular material, i.e. the cheapest way to make polyethylene is to start with ethane distilled directly from crude oil. But you can also make it from heavier naptha, or even without using crude oil at all - coconut oil, for example, but there will be a lot more steps (and energy used) in between.
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    No, rockets don't emit a lot of carbon, just because there are so few of them. They're a rounding error. well, in an enclosed space, you REALLY don't want to be running any gasoline or diesel engines. Electric is definitely the way to go.